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After taking out the Alchemy Furnace and arranging the corresponding spiritual medicines, Li Qianqing began refining the Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pill.

Two years ago, the clan had already replaced his furnace with a better one.

His current Alchemy Furnace was a Mid-Grade Magic Tool.

As the clan's alchemist, he never had to worry about the Alchemy Furnace he used for refining. Once his alchemy skills were about ready, the clan would prepare a better one for him. This was also part of the clan's nurturing.

Moreover, in the eyes of the Patriarch and the others, he was an alchemist with astonishing talent.

The stalks left after White Corn was harvested were one of the common fuel materials used to refine Rank 1 pills.

When Li Qianqing refined pills, aside from the White Corn stalks he actually consumed, he would burn some extra as well. This was to cover up the fact that he was refining two portions in one furnace.

Refining Rank 1 Mid-Grade Pills took quite a bit more time than refining Rank 1 Low-Grade Pills. One furnace a day was the limit for an alchemist at the Qi Refining stage.

For sixty portions of spiritual medicine for refining Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills, under normal circumstances, Li Qianqing would need two months to finish refining them.

The clan's mission for him to refine pills was more to quickly increase his alchemy experience. If his talent had been about the same as an ordinary alchemist's, it would already have been good if Li Qianqing could be assigned twenty portions of spiritual medicine for refining Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills right now.

Of course, because of the talent he had displayed, handing these pills to him to refine would definitely be profitable. It was just not as profitable as having Li Ditu refine Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills.

From daytime until dusk, Li Qianqing finally completed one furnace of Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills.

"Thirteen Qi Replenishing Pills. A little pity."

Refining two portions of spiritual medicine for Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills together could save him the time of the next month.

The next furnace of Qi Replenishing Pills could only be refined tomorrow.

For the time that followed, after Li Qianqing briefly recovered the spiritual power he had just consumed, he would begin his daily cultivation.

After he finished refining this batch of Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills, once the clan's Contribution Points were issued, he could continue exchanging for Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Gathering Pills to use in cultivation.

There were not many Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Gathering Pills left in the Clan Treasury either. Li Qianqing did not know whether the clan shop had finished selling its Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Gathering Pills. If they had sold out, then the next replenishment of Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Gathering Pills in the Clan Treasury would have to wait until three years later.

Two months later.

Li Qianqing came to find Li Ditu with the Qi Replenishing Pills he had refined.

During the period when he was refining Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills, Li Qianqing had also come to find Second Grandfather before, asking him to explain some difficult points in refining Qi Replenishing Pills. The earlier questions were fine, but the final question stumped Li Ditu; it already involved areas he did not know.

In this kind of situation, Li Qianqing discussed the refining difficulties with him, rather than one learning and one teaching.

"Second Grandfather, I've finished refining all sixty portions of spiritual medicine for Qi Replenishing Pills."

"How many did you refine?" Li Ditu immediately asked.

They had exchanged before, so he knew that the number of Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills Li Qianqing had refined this time definitely would not be small.

In the second half of the refining, Li Qianqing had certainly become even more at ease, with room to spare.

"Three hundred and twenty-one in total. Second Grandfather, please inspect them." As Li Qianqing spoke, he took out the Storage Bag and handed it to Li Ditu.

This Storage Bag had previously held the spiritual medicines for refining Qi Replenishing Pills. Now, all that remained inside were Qi Replenishing Pills.

"Very good!" Li Ditu was simply too satisfied. He had thought that Li Qianqing might refine more than three hundred and ten Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills this time, but he had not expected the number to climb another story higher and exceed three hundred and twenty. "An average pill formation rate of over seventy percent. Qianqing, your pill formation rate for the last three furnaces of Qi Replenishing Pills should be close to ninety percent, right?"

An alchemist with astonishing talent not only had a decent pill formation rate from the very start of refining, but also grew at an especially astonishing speed.

"About that," Li Qianqing answered.

"Originally, I thought that after you finished refining sixty furnaces of Qi Replenishing Pills, your pill formation rate would reach eighty percent."

"It was all thanks to Second Grandfather helping me break through that refining difficulty half a month ago," Li Qianqing gave the reason.

Li Ditu nodded. "At first, I thought it would be very hard for my pill formation rate when refining Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills to rise any further. It was thanks to you."

Li Ditu was very clear that it mainly depended on Li Qianqing. At most, he had only played an assisting role.

"A pity you didn't reach three hundred and thirty. Otherwise, you could have obtained five thousand clan Contribution Points."

"Second Grandfather, I'm already very content. Being able to refine three hundred and twenty-one Qi Replenishing Pills is already more than what I estimated at the very beginning."

"Hahaha, it seems I was a bit greedy." Li Ditu lightly stroked his beard and laughed.

Compared with Li Qianqing's refining results, he, an experienced alchemist who had already refined several hundred furnaces of Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills, naturally harvested even more Qi Replenishing Pills.

Like Li Qianqing, he had also refined sixty portions of spiritual medicine for Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills this time.

He refined sixty-seven more Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills than Li Qianqing, for a total of three hundred and eighty-eight.

At the very beginning, when Li Ditu refined each furnace of Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills, succeeding with six pills was a little more common, and seven pills a little less. Later, after he and Li Qianqing broke through one refining difficulty, his success rate in refining Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills became seven pills a little more common, and six pills a little less.

If Li Qianqing kept growing like this, then in the future, the clan's heavy responsibility of refining Rank 1 High-Grade Pills would definitely be handed to him.

Of the three kinds of Rank 1 Mid-Grade Pills that Li Ditu refined, if he performed well, all of them had a chance of reaching a ten-out-of-ten pill formation rate. After all, at seventy years old, he had already refined many Rank 1 Mid-Grade Pills, and his Alchemy Talent was passable as well. But the situation was different when refining Rank 1 High-Grade Pills.

The Main Spiritual Medicines for refining Rank 1 High-Grade Pills were all of Rank 1 High-Grade quality.

Compared with Rank 1 Mid-Grade Spiritual Medicines, Rank 1 High-Grade Spiritual Medicines took longer to grow. In the same amount of time, the number of pill furnaces that could be refined was much lower, and it was certain that the refining difficulty was higher as well.

The Main Spiritual Medicine for refining Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills, Three-Leaf Starflower, had a maximum growth period of twelve years. Its medicinal power reached its peak between eleven and a half years and twelve years, so the Li Family refined Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills once every eleven and a half years.

For Rank 1 High-Grade Spiritual Medicines, the maximum growth period was at least twenty years. Most Rank 1 High-Grade Spiritual Medicines had to be cultivated for more than twenty-five years before they could be used to refine pills.

With Li Qianqing's Alchemy Talent, the next time the Li Family refined Rank 1 High-Grade Pills, if they were all handed to him, perhaps the final successful quantity would be even better than if Li Ditu refined them.

Of course, this was only Li Ditu's thought. The specifics would still depend on the allocation at that time.

To cultivate an alchemist's experience, if only a single factor was considered, then naturally the more pills given to him to refine, the better. But once multiple factors were combined, the situation became different.

Time was precious to every cultivator. Refining pills consumed time, especially the higher the grade of pill.

Aside from alchemy, Li Qianqing had to have sufficient time for cultivation.

Compared with an alchemist who was only at the Qi Refining stage, an alchemist in the Foundation Establishment Realm would have a much more far-reaching influence on the current Li Family.

Therefore, regarding Li Qianqing hiring Li Xingxin to take care of matters now, the Li Family simply did not interfere.

According to the Li Family's rules, Li Qianqing would only be reassigned duties once he reached Late-Stage Qi Refining. At that time, he would no longer need to take care of the Spiritual Field.