Learning Alchemy in the Daoist Sanctuary

"Congratulations, Senior Disciple Brother, on proving the Great Luo Dao!"

Without the three Saints—his Master and the others—the Jie Sect disciples once again congratulated Senior Disciple Brother.

Standing atop the high platform and watching the number of junior brothers and sisters grow, Xian Junyu was not happy in the slightest. Instead, he grew increasingly worried.

Judging from the situation between Second Martial Uncle Yuanshi and his Master today, their relationship had already become somewhat delicate.

Even without thinking about it, he knew that the sect had probably caused trouble again on Mount Kunlun over the past two thousand years, and Second Martial Uncle had discovered it.

If this continued, leaving Mount Kunlun was only a matter of time. Xian Junyu was certainly reluctant to leave this first home of his.

He had too many memories here.

"What's there to congratulate? Everyone, disperse. Go back and cultivate properly!"

After saying this with slight displeasure, Xian Junyu walked into his Master's Daoist Sanctuary.

Seeing that Senior Disciple Brother seemed to be in a terrible mood, everyone was puzzled. In the end, they came to the same conclusion: Senior Disciple Brother's personality was strange and changeable...

Duobao and the others did not think much of it. Senior Disciple Brother had already broken through to the Great Luo realm, so as personal disciples, they could not fall too far behind. They immediately returned to seclusion.

Xian Junyu went straight to his Master's Scripture Pavilion in the Daoist Sanctuary. His Upper Clarity Sword Art had been found there.

A Saint's Scripture Pavilion could not be entered freely without the Saint's permission, including by Jie Sect disciples.

Of course, Xian Junyu was the exception.

As for the battle techniques, cultivation methods, Body Refinement Art, Divine Powers and Spells, and so on inside, he had copied quite a few of them. As for what he intended to do with those copies, only he knew.

After arriving at the Scripture Pavilion, Xian Junyu did not forget that he still had cultivation returned by the system waiting to be claimed.

"Come on, System Bro. Return the cultivation to me!"

In an instant, the system's notification sounds rang out one after another.

[Ding! Jin Ling's cultivation has broken through to the Late-stage Grand Unity Heavenly Immortal!]

[Ding! Wu Dang's cultivation has broken through to the mid-stage Grand Unity Heavenly Immortal!]

[Ding! Duobao's cultivation has broken through to the mid-stage Grand Unity Heavenly Immortal!]

[Ding! Gui Ling's cultivation has broken through to the Initial Stage Grand Unity Heavenly Immortal!]

[..., Random multiplier returned the host's Initial Stage Seventh Layer Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal cultivation!]

All Four Personal Disciples of the Jie Sect had broken through to the Taiyi Realm, and Duobao had even directly caught up with Jin Ling.

"Initial Stage Seventh Layer Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. That's an increase of six minor cultivation layers. Not bad!"

Feeling the cultivation within his body, Xian Junyu was not dissatisfied.

Six minor cultivation layers might not seem like much, but compared with the sect's disciples, it was a tremendous amount. The gap between a Great Luo Golden Immortal and the Taiyi Realm was simply too vast.

If the cultivation improvements of the sect's disciples were compared to a small stream, then his was an ocean.

Considering the enormous disparity, being able to raise his cultivation by six minor layers meant that the system's random multiplier was already very high.

"Looks like it'll be impossible to improve my cultivation by a large margin for some time. Oh well, it's still faster than cultivating on my own!"

Unlike him, who was completely unhurried, as long as his junior brothers and sisters improved their cultivation, the cultivation returned to him would still be substantial.

He merely had to wait a little longer.

After receiving the cultivation returned by the system, Xian Junyu began wandering around the Scripture Pavilion.

"Alchemy, alchemy... Let me see where the Jade Slips about alchemy are..."

The interior of the Scripture Pavilion was like a tall building, with enormous floors stacked one above another. Finding something was no easy task.

Xian Junyu floated through the air, searching floor after floor.

His Artifact Refining was already sufficient for now, so he planned to study alchemy properly. Originally, he had intended to go straight to First Senior Uncle Laozi to learn.

However, after what happened last time, his Master Tongtian had said that he had some knowledge in this area as well. Xian Junyu decided to study on his own within the sect first.

If searching by book title didn't work, you could try searching by the author. Maybe it had simply been renamed!

Once he had learned enough, he would go to First Senior Uncle to study. By then, he would definitely be able to make rapid progress.

After finding a large pile of Jade Slips concerning alchemy, Xian Junyu immediately began reading them. Just as before, he first mastered the theoretical knowledge before putting it into practice.

Originally, he had planned to do it the same way as with Artifact Refining and memorize most of it within a hundred years. However, Xian Junyu discovered that he had been wrong.

What effects Spiritual Materials had, whether they belonged to fire or water, how to combine them, how much of each to use, when to use high heat and when to use low heat—he could not afford to be careless about any of it.

This was several times more troublesome than Artifact Refining.

If the difficulty and trouble of Artifact Refining were five, then alchemy was fifteen—fully three times more troublesome.

Xian Junyu spent a full three hundred years completing the basic theoretical knowledge.

With the basic theory in hand, he asked the Water-Fire Daoist Children for an Alchemy Furnace and began refining pills directly in his Master's Daoist Sanctuary.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

"Damn! Why did the furnace explode again? Where exactly did I go wrong?" Xian Junyu once again examined the book in his hands.

He had already mastered everything below Seven Grades. Although he had not reached the supreme grade, he had achieved the mid-grade. However, as soon as he began refining Eight Grades pills, the furnace kept exploding, leaving him completely baffled.

"The formula, dosage, and heat are all fine. Why did it still explode? Where exactly did I make a mistake?"

"Again! I refuse to believe I can't find the problem!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

He continued testing and continued exploding furnaces. The entire Daoist Sanctuary was like a festival filled with firecrackers, with explosions ringing out without pause.

Finally, after this continued for several days, Tongtian could not take it anymore.

"What the hell is that brat doing? He's only refining pills, so how has he managed to make such a huge commotion? It's been several days!"

His quiet cultivation had been completely disrupted by this fellow. Tongtian immediately went to the Alchemy Chamber and kicked open the door.

He shouted angrily:

"Xian Junyu, you little brat, what exactly are you doing? Are you planning to keep this up forever..."

Before he could finish, Tongtian stared at the smoke-filled Alchemy Chamber in shock. Black smoke filled the room, making it impossible to see anyone clearly.

Was this my clean Alchemy Chamber?

Everything was blackened and filthy. Where was its former clean and orderly appearance?

With a wave of his hand, he dispersed the black smoke. Seeing Xian Junyu, who looked like a piece of charcoal, Tongtian was rendered utterly speechless.

If he knew Xian Junyu was refining pills, then that was one thing. If he did not, he would have thought Xian Junyu was developing some powerful spirit artifact.

"Huh? Master, why are you here?"

"Your disciple pays respects to Master!"

Putting down the Jade Slip in his hand, Xian Junyu hurriedly stood up and bowed with his little blackened hands.

Tongtian looked at Xian Junyu, who had been turned into charcoal, then at the ruined Alchemy Furnace beside him. His entire face darkened.

Wasting his Spiritual Materials was one thing, but now he was even ruining his Alchemy Furnaces. What kind of pill was so wasteful of furnaces? Was this really alchemy?

This was clearly just wasting his resources.

Tongtian opened the Alchemy Furnace. Looking at the black lumps inside, he immediately discovered the problem.

He turned to Xian Junyu and said:

"Don't you know that ordinary flames can no longer satisfy the fusion of medicinal properties for pills above Eight Grades? You've wasted my Spiritual Materials and Alchemy Furnaces. Did you do this on purpose?"

Hearing this, Xian Junyu immediately looked puzzled.

"Pills above Eight Grades can't be refined with ordinary flames? But this Jade Slip didn't mention that!"

Picking up the Jade Slip, Xian Junyu read through it once more, but still found no mention of this point.

He knew this Jade Slip by heart. He was certain that it had absolutely not mentioned this. If it had, there was no way he could have missed it.