Ling Cheng Refines Qi-Gathering Pills Again

Time passed by, and in the blink of an eye, a year and a half had gone by.

Ling Pengyun has been stationed in the Rock Scale Snake Den for two years, tending to the Spirit Plant in the thirty-five acres of Spirit Field he has cultivated there.

On this day, the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Immortal Spirit Crane King, who was stationed here with Ling Pengyun, carried a snake corpse about ten feet long in his mouth. He slowly walked along the entrance passage of the Snake Cave to Ling Pengyun, who was sitting cross-legged by the thirty-five acres of Spirit Field deep in the Snake Cave, and put the snake corpse down.

Then, the crane let out a soft cry to Ling Pengyun.

After a while, Ling Pengyun completed a Greater Celestial Circuit of circulation and opened his eyes.

When he saw that the snake corpse brought back by the Immortal Spirit Crane King exuded an aura that had reached the Qi Training Completion, he was overjoyed.

"This snake has many scales, enough to serve as the main material for at least two sets of First-Tier Superior-Grade Golden Scale Inner Armor."

For the past two years, Ling Pengyun has been stationed at this Snake Cave. He has always made sure that the Immortal Spirit Crane King, which needs to go out to find food every day, tries to hunt and kill snakes and Demon Beast.

Because the "king" of the Serpent Dragon Lake region is a Jiaolong (dragon), the snake and python-like Demon Beast within this region have also multiplied and grown extremely large thanks to this.

The Immortal Spirit Crane King finds it extremely easy to search for snake and python-like Demon Beast. In the past two years, he has killed at least a hundred snake and python-like Demon Beast at the Qi Training Middle Stage.

Ling Pengyun doesn't need the flesh and blood of these hundred snake and python Demon Beast Demon Beast at the Qi Training Middle Stage, but Ling Pengyun desperately needs their scales.

Using snake scales and some sturdy Demon Beast bones as raw materials, Ling Pengyun refined a full hundred times the first-grade mid-to-high-grade Golden Scale Inner Armor.

This also increased his success rate in refining First Rank Middle Grade Golden Scale Inner Armor to 40%, and his success rate in refining First-Tier Superior-Grade Golden Scale Inner Armor to a mere 20%.

After his initial joy, Ling Pengyun thanked the Immortal Spirit Crane King.

Thank you.

The Immortal Spirit Crane King had entered the Foundation Establishment, and its intelligence had greatly increased. Even though there was no Recognition of Ownership Restriction restriction between it and Ling Pengyun, it could still understand some human speech.

The Immortal Spirit Crane King was quite satisfied with Ling Pengyun's words of gratitude.

It nodded slightly, let out a crane cry, and urged Ling Pengyun to quickly clean the scales off the snake carcass, as it was fond of food.

Ling Pengyun had been in contact with the Immortal Spirit Crane King for more than two years and understood the Immortal Spirit Crane King's meaning.

He immediately did as instructed, patting the Storage Bag at his waist and summoning the Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords. Using these two sharp, Second Rank Low Grade flying swords, he completely cut off the snake skin from the snake corpse that the Immortal Spirit Crane King had brought back.

He then used the Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords to remove all the snake bones from the snake's corpse before signaling to the Immortal Spirit Crane King that he could eat the remaining snake body.

Upon receiving the signal, the Immortal Spirit Crane King immediately picked up the skinless snake body and began to gnaw on it.

Before long, the ten-foot-long snake corpse entered the belly of the Immortal Spirit Crane King.

After eating, it lay down on the ground and fell into a deep sleep, using this sleeping method to refine the Spiritual Qi energy contained within the snake body it had just swallowed and improve its cultivation.

On the other side, Ling Pengyun used the snake skin of the Qi Training Completion Snake Demon that he had left behind, as well as dozens of hard snake bones, to refine two First-Tier Superior-Grade Golden Scale Inner Armor.

He was lucky this time, succeeding once and failing once.

After finishing the refining process, Ling Pengyun looked at the First-Tier Superior-Grade Golden Scale Inner Armor he had just successfully crafted in his hand, and his expression lit up with joy.

"Although this Golden Scale Inner Armor is of the Lower Vehicle quality, and its market price is at most 70% of that of a medium-quality Golden Scale Inner Armor, it can still sell for at least 140 Spirit Stone, which is quite good."

After a moment of joy, Ling Pengyun put away the Golden Scale Inner Armor in his hand, closed his eyes again, and began to cultivate according to the plan.

Meanwhile, halfway up Lingxiao Mountain, in a quiet courtyard.

A young man closed his eyes and circulated his Cultivation Method to continuously absorb the rich Spiritual Qi around him and combine it with the spiritual power within his Dantian to break through the bottleneck of the Qi Training Third Layer.

After several hours, the bottleneck of the Qi Training Third Layer was broken, and the young man's cultivation level quickly rose to the Qi Training Third Layer.

He then spent several more days stabilizing his cultivation before finally opening his eyes.

Feeling the improvement brought about by this breakthrough, the young man was overjoyed.

"My Divine Sense and spiritual power are both 30% stronger than those at the Qi Training Second Layer, which is a good thing."

"By relying on my breakthrough in cultivation, perhaps the bottleneck in Pill Refining that has been holding me back for half a year can be resolved and I can improve."

With this thought, his expression shifted slightly, and he patted the Storage Bag at his waist.

He summoned the last three portions of spiritual materials for refining Qi Refining Pill from his Storage Bag.

Looking at the spirit medicine on the ground in front of him, the young man was quite expectant and muttered to himself.

"I wonder if the last three spiritual materials I have on me can be used to refine a batch of Qi Refining Pill Qi Refining Pill. If they can, my success rate in refining this pill will reach 30%."

This young man was Ling Chengxin, the only one with Spirit Root that Ling Pengyun discovered five years ago when he was stationed at Lingyun Mountain.

Ling Chengxin is the fourth in the Cheng Generation, and his Spirit Root are fire, wood, and earth.

When he used the Spirit Measurement Array to test his Spirit Root, the strength of his two opposing Spirit Root, fire and wood, was extremely rare, reaching "nine feet," while his earth Spirit Root was only two feet. The wood spiritual root, which was opposed to his earth Spirit Root, could directly crush the earth Spirit Root without being affected.

The Ling Clan's top management specially selected Cultivation Method for him that uses wood to fuel fire, called "Bing Fire Burning Wood Art".

The Bing Fire Burning Wood Art) was obtained several years ago by Ling Yunhong, the Clan Head of the Ling Clan, when he and the Peace Cloud Yang Clan jointly attacked and destroyed the Red Leaf Ridge Ye Family.

Although the Bing Fire Burning Wood Art obtained by the Ling Clan only has the Qi Refining chapter, the complete version of this Cultivation Method can be cultivated to the Foundation Establishment Completion. The Hundred Spirits Sect possesses the complete version of this Cultivation Method.

When this Cultivation Method is cultivated to the Foundation Establishment Realm, one can develop the Bing Fire Secret Method, which is several times more powerful than the flames that ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivator can conjure.

Relying on the Cultivation Method of this technique to ignite wood and fuel fire, Ling Chengxin, despite having Three Spirit Roots, could cultivate much faster than ordinary Dual Spirit Root Cultivator.

Moreover, this Cultivation Method greatly enhanced Ling Chengxin's control over flames.

It was precisely for this reason that, after Ling Chengxin discovered his Spirit Root, he was arranged by the Ling Clan's higher-ups to learn the knowledge of "Pill Refining and weapon crafting," the two main arts that the Lineage would develop in the future.

Two years ago, when he reached the Qi Training Second Layer and gained some spiritual power, he began to refine ordinary ironware and ordinary pills under the instruction of the Ling Clan Head to test his talent in these two different arts.

This went on for six months before a conclusion was reached.

Ling Chengxin's talent in Pill Refining far surpasses his talent in weapon crafting, at least in his performance when refining ordinary pills and ordinary ironware.

When Ling Chengxin Pill Refining's talent for alchemy became apparent, Ling Yunhong, Alchemist capable of refining Second Rank Low Grade Spirit Gathering Pill, began to formally teach him how to refine pills.

To date, I have been formally engaged in Pill Refining for a year and a half.

In the past year and a half, he has focused on Pill Refining Qi Refining Pill, and his success rate in refining this pill had increased to 20% six months ago.

However, he has been stuck at this bottleneck, making it difficult to improve the success rate of refining Qi Refining Pill.

Coming to his senses, Ling Chengxin waved his hand and patted the Storage Bag at his waist, summoning a small pile of Blazing Firewood and a blue Pill Furnace about a foot in size.

As soon as he took out the two items, Ling Chengxin used his spiritual power to conjure a wisp of flame and threw it onto the small pile of Blazing Firewood Blazing Firewood, instantly igniting it.

The Blazing Firewood was extremely flammable, and in no time, a raging fire broke out on the pile of Blazing Firewood, and it grew bigger and bigger.

Upon Ling Chengxin, Ling Chengxin frowned, made hand Hand Seals, and used his Fire Control Method to condense a red Law Seals, which he then cast into the Blazing Firewood.

As soon as the Law Seals merged with the great fire, the burning flames began to glow with a red light.

"Small."

Ling Chengxin then changed his finger technique and pondered for a moment.

The Blazing Firewood was like Ling Chengxin's arm, and it was brought under control in an instant, shrinking considerably and stabilizing.

Seeing this, Ling Chengxin waved his hand and used his Object Manipulation Technique to strike the cyan Pill Furnace he had taken out earlier above the small pile of burning Blazing Firewood.

The flames from the burning Blazing Firewood scorched the bottom of the Pill Furnace, thus heating Pill Furnace.

After a short while, once the temperature inside the Pill Furnace reached a certain level, Ling Chengxin once again used his Object Manipulation Technique to open the Pill Furnace lid and systematically toss one of the three sets of materials for refining Qi Refining Pill placed in front of him into the Pill Furnace.

The next moment, Ling Chengxin changed his finger techniques and used the Pill Refining method to refine the impurities in the various spirit medicine that had been thrown into the Pill Furnace Pill Furnace using the high temperature inside.

This step took a very long time, a full half hour to complete.

The spirit medicine that had been refined to remove impurities were also transformed into spirit medicine liquid under the high temperature Alchemy Furnace.

Upon seeing Ling Chengxin's face gradually became serious.

Refining spirit medicine into medicinal liquid is the simplest step in Pill Refining, and it is also the beginning.

To raise the temperature inside the Pill Furnace, Ling Chengxin his hand and released a stream of spiritual energy onto the flames of the Blazing Firewood pile.

That spiritual energy acted like a catalyst; the moment it touched the flames burning in the Blazing Firewood, the flames rapidly grew larger, transforming into a raging inferno.

Ling Chengxin's expression hardened, and he once again used his Fire Control Method to stabilize the Blazing Firewood, preventing the fire from rising and falling erratically.

As the fire continued to scorch the bottom of the Pill Furnace that was suspended in mid-air, the temperature inside the Pill Furnace rose higher and higher.

Only after the temperature inside the Pill Furnace had nearly doubled did Ling Chengxin make a move.

He began to manipulate his fingers again, conjuring several Method Formula which he then channeled into the Pill Furnace Pill Furnace, enhancing the various spirit medicine liquids inside.

"Combine." Ling Chengxin changed his finger technique and pondered for a moment.

Inside the Pill Furnace, the various medicinal liquids suddenly and simultaneously flashed with green spiritual light.

Subsequently, the various medicinal liquids mixed together and transformed into five spheres the size of fingernails.

"If we succeed, we'll achieve our goal once again," Ling Chengxin mused.

The next moment, Ling Chengxin made a hand seal and used the "Method Formula of Pill Fusion Method Pill Refining," the most important technique in alchemy.

"Melting Elixir".

Pill Furnace, the five spherical medicinal liquids flashed with a bright green light.

Under the combined influence of the Pill Fusion Method and the high temperature inside the Alchemy Furnace, the five spherical medicinal liquids emitted a "sizzling" sound and gradually solidified into pills.

However, after only a few breaths, due to the limitation of his Divine Sense, Ling Chengxin was unable to maintain the transformation of five pills at the same time. He had no choice but to reluctantly give up the other three spherical medicinal liquids and focus all his efforts on condensing two medicinal liquids.

As soon as the Divine Sense withdrew from the other three spherical medicinal liquids, the shimmering spiritual light of those three spherical medicinal liquids immediately dimmed, and they were burned into three wisps of smoke by the high temperature inside the Alchemy Furnace.

Seeing this, Ling Chengxin felt extremely distressed.

If those three medicinal liquids could be condensed into pills, they would be three valuable First Rank Low Grade Qi Refining Pill.

However, while Pill Refining, Ling Chengxin dared not be distracted. After suppressing the chaos in his mind, he focused all his attention on the last two spherical medicinal liquids in the pill-forming Pill Furnace.

After half an incense stick's time, the two medicinal liquids finally solidified.

Ling Chengxin hurriedly activated his spiritual power and used his Object Manipulation Technique to lift the lid of the Pill Furnace Alchemy Furnace and take out the two shimmering blue pills inside.

Looking at the two freshly made pills in his hand, still slightly warm, Ling Chengxin was overjoyed.

"Improving one's cultivation level is indeed of great help in Pill Refining."

"The first batch of pills I refined today has been completed, and two pills have been successfully made. Even if the last two batches of Qi Refining Pill fail, my success rate of refining this pill is still 30%."

"In the future, when I refine this Qi Refining Pill, I will finally be able to achieve a balance between input and output, and I will no longer need to use Spirit Stone to refine this pill myself."

"Thinking about it this way, I am really grateful for the fifty Spirit Stone that my Eighth Uncle Eighth Uncle sponsored me five years ago, and the thirty Spirit Stone that the Lineage should have rewarded him with after he discovered Eighth Uncle Spirit Root, for a total of eighty Spirit Stone."

"Without the help of these eighty Spirit Stone, my success rate in refining Qi Refining Pill would probably still be hovering around ten percent."

"In the future, when I achieve success in Pill Refining, I will definitely thank my Eighth Uncle for his kindness."

The Eighth Uncle"that Ling Chengxin mentioned was Ling Pengyun, who helped him determine his Spirit Root.

Five years ago, after Ling Pengyun determined Ling Chengxin's Spirit Root, he considered that Ling Chengxin was born into a mortal family and thus provided him with a batch of spiritual items, including fifty Spirit Stone.

"My Third Grandfather would be extremely happy to hear this news."

"At that time, I will ask my Third Grandfather for a batch of spiritual materials for refining Qi Refining Pill Qi Refining Pill. Perhaps those materials can help me get to the next level in refining this pill."

Ling Chengxin could sense that the great improvement brought about by this breakthrough in cultivation would have benefits for Pill Refining that went beyond just being able to produce two pills at the moment.

Refine the Qi Refining Pill several times; you might be able to get at least three pills.

In the art of Pill Refining, a single batch of pills can produce a maximum of five pills, and the success rate depends on the Alchemist's Pill Refining level.

The success rate of Pill Refining is determined by failures and successes, and has nothing to do with the probability of successfully forming the pill.

Having adjusted his mindset, Ling Chengxin used the remaining two portions of spiritual materials to refine two more batches of Qi Refining Pill.

Although the last two batches of Qi Refining Pill failed, Ling Chengxin was not saddened at all.

After all, he successfully refined the first batch of Qi Refining Pill.

After cleaning up the mess from the Pill Refining, Ling Chengxin closed his eyes and began to circulate his cultivation Cultivation Method to absorb the scattered Spiritual Qi around him, recovering the spiritual power he had consumed while Pill Refining.

Several hours later, once Ling Chengxin's dantian spiritual energy had recovered, he stood up, left his residence, and headed towards the mountaintop along a main road.

Before long, he was blocked by the defensive light barrier protecting the mountaintop.

However, thanks to a token given to him by Ling Yunhong a year and a half ago when he officially began following Ling Yunhong in refining pills, he successfully broke through the defensive light barrier at the top of the mountain and entered the mountain.

Using the token, he forced back the large cloud of mist that could obscure his Divine Sense from the mountaintop and arrived at the entrance of the only Cultivation Abode on the Lingxiao Mountain.

He knocked on the cave abode door, and after a short while, Ling Yunhong opened the door and walked out.

Upon seeing that it was Ling Chengxin had just arrived, Ling Yunhong asked him.

"Cheng Xin, today isn't the last day of the month. What brings you here today?"

Since Ling Chengxin began learning Pill Refining from Ling Yunhong a year and a half ago, Ling Yunhong had made an agreement with him that on the last day of each month, he could teach Ling Chengxin how to refine pills.

Today is still in the middle of the month.

Ling Chengxin heard Ling Yunhong's question, he carefully told Ling Yunhong how he had increased the success rate of refining Qi Refining Pill to 30% due to his breakthrough in cultivation.

Upon hearing this, Ling Yunhong was overjoyed and quickly pulled Ling Chengxin into the cave abode. He gave Ling Chengxin three sets of spiritual materials for refining Qi Refining Pill and asked him to refine three more batches of Qi Refining Pill.

Ling Chengxin did as instructed, restoring his condition to its best after a period of meditation. He then took out a small pile of Blazing Firewood and Alchemy Furnace, and used the three portions of spiritual materials given to him by Ling Yunhong to refine Qi Refining Pill.

The furnace was opened three times, with one success and two failures.

However, on the one successful attempt, as many as three pills were formed.

Ling Yunhong looked at the three Qi Refining Pill that Ling Chengxin had just successfully refined in his hand, his eyes filled with joy, and he thought to himself.

"In just a year and a half, Cheng Xin has increased the success rate of refining Qi Refining Pill to 30%. His talent for Pill Refining is quite impressive. Judging from this talent, he will at least become a First Rank Middle Grade Alchemist in the future."

Coming to his senses, Ling Yunhong offered his comments.

"One of the three batches of Qi Refining Pill has been successfully refined, and three pills have been produced. Not bad."

"While your pill-forming rate may not be profitable, it at least guarantees you won't lose money."

"Once you achieve a 40% success rate in refining this pill, come find me again. At that time, the Lineage can entrust you with refining this pill."

"As for these ten portions of Qi Refining Pill materials, they are my own contribution to you. Make good use of these ten portions of Qi Refining Pill materials."

After speaking, Ling Yunhong handed the three Qi Refining Pill back to Ling Chengxin, and then took out ten portions of spiritual materials for refining Qi Refining Pill from his Storage Bag and handed them to Ling Chengxin.

"Thank you very much, Third Grandfather." Upon seeing Ling Chengxin was overjoyed and thanked him first before putting the ten portions of Qi Refining Pill spirit medicine that Ling Yunhong handed over into his Storage Bag.

Then, Ling Yunhong began to point out the mistakes that Ling Chengxin had made when he was refining the three batches of Qi Refining Pill.