Alas, Takeoff!

The expert now standing within the Opportunity Realm of "Alchemist Qin Wu" was once a Fifth Grade High-Level Alchemist!

In his previous life, Yang Shan had originally chosen the Fire Attribute as his main path.

For a time, he had been obsessed with alchemy, even becoming part of the upper ranks of the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Guild.

Later, after stumbling upon a special opportunity and passing its trial, he obtained the legendary "Wash Point Water"! It transformed his Fire Spirit Root into a Thunder Spirit Root, leaving only a basic amount of Fire Spirit Root and Wood Spirit Root for alchemy.

What level had Yang Shan's alchemy been at in his previous life?

The top alchemists cultivated with vast resources by major elite guilds were generally Sixth Grade.

Yang Shan had been Fifth Grade, and not all that far from Sixth Grade.

With the alchemical knowledge and techniques Yang Shan had learned in Battle Through the Heavens—

If he were given a decent Beast Flame and raised his level to Dou Wang, he could even go challenge this old man Fa Ma, the president of the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Guild! Qin Wu was merely a Tier-4 Alchemist, and the highest-level recipe in his trial was only Second Grade.

If that could stump Yang Shan, then something truly would be wrong!

Of course, Tian Yao Company would not let Players spend several days seriously refining medicine like they did in the original novel.

A game had to return to being a game in the end.

Alchemy and weapon forging were both secondary profession gameplay.

Tian Yao Company had put a great deal of thought into its alchemy and weapon-forging systems.

First came the materials.

The difficulty of obtaining materials had not necessarily been lowered, but the required quantities had been reduced considerably.

A First Grade Medicinal Pill usually required only one main ingredient and one supplementary ingredient.

A Second-Grade Medicinal Pill required one main ingredient and two supplementary ingredients.

"Qing Hua Fruit, Bai Ye Hong, Lv Ping."

It had to be said that Yang Shan was still extremely cautious.

Even though he recognized all these herbs, he still cross-checked them in the Medicinal Herb Atlas.

Very soon, Yang Shan had gathered all the herbs needed for the Qi Return Pill and Blood Recovery Pill.

Ding! Congratulations, Player, on passing the first stage.

Ding! Trial, second stage: Extraction.

The alchemy process was divided into three steps: extraction, fusion, and nurturing.

But for Players who entered Battle Through the Heavens, those three steps became rather interesting.

The scene before Yang Shan changed.

The next moment, a table appeared before him.

A monitor, keyboard, and mouse sat atop it.

An incredibly addictive tune began playing by his ears:

"Oh, the sight of you walking toward me makes my heart stir."

Yang Shan's face instantly froze. "Fuck, what a disastrous start!"

Yang Shan had no time to adjust.

Icons for the up, down, left, and right keys, along with the spacebar, had already appeared on the monitor.

In the original novel, the straightforward process of alchemy was actually very tedious and tested one's patience greatly.

Players played games for fun, not to suffer.

Thus, Tian Yao had specifically embedded more than eighty minigames into systems such as alchemy and weapon forging, with more to be added later.

There were parkour, Crazy Bicycle, Snake, Tetris, If You're a Woman, Climb 300 Floors, Fall Guys, and even Gold Miner. What appeared before Yang Shan now was a common mode from the classic keyboard dance games.

Yang Shan's fingers tapped rhythmically across the keyboard.

Smack! He slammed the spacebar.

"One more look and I'll explode."

Smack! He slammed the spacebar again.

"Chicken."

The minigame for extracting a Second-Grade Medicinal Pill was not actually very difficult.

Yet Yang Shan was already drenched in sweat!

Even his heartbeat was speeding up.

Yang Shan endured the discomfort and finally completed the song.

It was just that he pressed the spacebar harder and harder.

Yang Shan finally understood why the Player who had entered this Opportunity Realm before had failed.

Identifying herbs required experience and sharp eyes.

The second stage, extracting medicinal herbs, was an even greater trial for one's eardrums.

Even with Yang Shan's experience as a Fifth Grade Alchemist, his accuracy in a minigame of Second Grade difficulty was only 95%.

For a random Player who had merely been a Newbie at the time, it would have been a miracle if they passed! Ding! Extraction complete. Congratulations, Player, on passing the trial.

Yang Shan's vision returned to the cave.

Three wooden boxes had appeared beneath the painting directly ahead.

These were the opportunity rewards within "Alchemist Qin Wu."

Yang Shan had assumed that the opportunity reward would only be the Gathering Yuan Pill Recipe, a Second-Grade Medicinal Pill formula.

He had not expected there to be three of them.

It seemed the Player from back then had failed the trial, so the information they received had been incomplete.

Upon opening the first wooden box, Yang Shan found the Gathering Yuan Pill Recipe inside.

Gathering Yuan Pill Recipe

Medicinal pill grade: Second Grade

Main ingredient: Containing Spirit Grass

Supplementary ingredient: Qing Hua Fruit

Pill effect: Increases AFK Cultivation speed for 8 hours of real time.

Restrictions: Dou Zhe -100%, Dou Shi -70%; ineffective for Da Dou Shi and above.

Standard success rate: 80%

This was it!

Similar medicinal pills were also sold in major commercial shops throughout the Jia Ma Empire.

They were called "Guiding Yuan Pills."

Both were Second-Grade Medicinal Pills, but the Guiding Yuan Pill increased cultivation speed by only 50% for Dou Zhe-level Players, and merely 30% for Dou Shi-level Players!

For Players, AFK farming was also one of the key ways to gain experience.

Guiding Yuan Pills were practically daily consumables.

But at the current rate Players obtained Spirit Stones, they might not even be able to afford the Spirit Stone costs of AFK farming! So this was a luxury only wealthy Players could afford!

With the only Gathering Yuan Pill Recipe on the entire server currently in his hands, Yang Shan could exchange these pills not only for Spirit Stones, but also for RMB! No matter how he traded them, he would make a killing! Yang Shan immediately opened the second wooden box.

Alchemy Insights - Qin Wu

Description: A record of a Tier-4 Alchemist's lifetime of experience.

Effect upon use: Gain 1,200 Alchemist experience points.

Yang Shan's eyes widened.

What did 1,200 Alchemist experience points mean? Advancing from Apprentice Alchemist to First Grade required 200 points.

Advancing from First Grade to Second Grade required 1,000 points, while Second Grade to Third Grade required 3,000 points.

Of course, becoming a Second Grade Alchemist was not difficult.

Tian Yao Company's secondary profession gameplay generally progressed from easy to difficult.

Take any Player and give them a certain amount of resources, and they could become a Second Grade Alchemist in just twenty days of real time.

But the game had only been open for seven days.

Yang Shan immediately clicked to use it.

From this moment on, this game character that had never refined a single pill was now a genuine Second Grade Alchemist!

There was still one more wooden box.

By this point, Yang Shan had already been extremely satisfied with the rewards from this Opportunity Realm.

But when he saw what was inside the third wooden box, his eyes did not simply widen.

They nearly popped out of their sockets! "Body Tempering Pill Recipe."

Body Tempering Pill Recipe

Medicinal pill grade: Second Grade

Main ingredient: Bauhinia Vine

Supplementary ingredients: Second-tier metal-attribute Magic Core, Bai Ye Hong.

Pill effect: Gain 4 Free Attributes.

Restrictions: Can only be consumed once; ineffective for Dou Ling and above.
Standard success rate: 20%

Note: Using a metal-attribute Magic Core from a second-tier King of Beasts gives the pill a certain chance of achieving perfection.

Yang Shan's heart began pounding uncontrollably.

An Attribute Pill! It was actually an Attribute Pill, the kind that would cause an enormous uproar whenever it appeared in his previous life! "I've struck it rich. This time, I've really struck it rich. Rich!"

Yang Shan could not be blamed for losing his composure.

In his previous life, even as a Four Star Dou Huang and Fifth Grade High-Level Alchemist, he had never obtained a single Attribute Pill recipe.

Even Attribute Pills themselves had been purchased at a massive price.

During the three years the game had been running in his previous life, Attribute Pills in Players' hands had been as scarce as clothing styles for middle-aged and elderly men.

How could this not be takeoff? Without another word, Yang Shan immediately clicked to learn it.

A Second Grade Alchemist refining a Second-Grade Medicinal Pill—wasn't that effortless? Besides, Yang Shan noticed there was also a Jade Bottle in the wooden box.

Yang Shan opened the Jade Bottle. Inside was—

Body Tempering Pill - Perfect

Grade: Second Grade

Effect: Gain 6 Free Attributes after consumption.

Restrictions: Can only be consumed once; ineffective for Dou Ling and above.

Note: Pills with the Perfect suffix possess the maximum possible effect for that pill. They have a 1% chance of being refined when the refinement stage is cleared perfectly.

Yang Shan hurriedly packed up his things.

Alchemy!

Alchemy!

Mountains of gold and silver were already beckoning to him!

Alchemy was ultimately a secondary profession, and Tian Yao had designed it as minigames mainly because the original novel already contained so much alchemy content.

So it was changed into a method that better suited the game itself while still making for entertaining writing.

They could not seriously follow the original novel and spend several chapters refining one pill.