The Years of Failed Alchemy, Willow Immortal is Blessed, Willow Immortal: You Truly Deserve to Die, It's Been Successfully Refined?

The Kunlun Mountain range.

Qingyuan roamed this land.

From time to time, he would dive into the cloud-shrouded mountain ranges to pick up treasures.

He had to admit, Yun Zhongzi's fortune was heaven-defying.

In the days Qingyuan had spent traversing the Kunlun Mountains, he had seen hardly any of the ferocious ancient beasts or creatures that usually lurked there. Instead, all kinds of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Immortal Gold Divine Materials, lay exposed on the ground for him to gather.

Not every single one was an Innate Spiritual Root or a precious medicine.

But they were still rare spiritual herbs, materials, and the like.

Under normal circumstances, even if he combed the ground like a carpet for hundreds or thousands of years, he might not find such things.

But now.

He merely glanced at the ground, and saw spiritual light flickering in the mountains. When he found a place to rest, the rock he sat on was a vein of Immortal Gold Divine Materials formed over millions of years. It was like walking around with a cheat code.

After searching outside for about a thousand years.

And simultaneously converting his Three Million Years of Cultivation Level to cultivate the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, pushing his physical body into the early Mystic Immortal Realm.

Qingyuan chose to return to his dojo.

As for why he didn't keep searching for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures?

It was because he deeply remembered a saying from later generations: Luck is something—whoever uses it up first, leaves first.

Coincidentally, he possessed a Myriad Creation Cauldron, which had a chance to increase the probability of successfully forging pills and artifacts, as well as the chance for their origin to advance, or even a one-in-ten-million chance of returning to the primordial state or advancing in grade.

With that in mind.

He wanted to go back and see how his pill refining and artifact forging talents were.

Qingyuan rode clouds and drove mist back to his dojo, the mountains and rivers beneath his feet rolling backward.

When he neared the dojo.

He saw Wuzhiqi moving a section of a river, and asked curiously, "Disciple, what are you doing?"

"Master, I felt my Water Mansion was too cramped and stifling, so I wanted to move some water in to widen it. That's why I traveled so far to fetch it."

Seeing Qingyuan, Wuzhiqi quickly knelt and bowed.

"I see. Moving water doesn't need to be this troublesome. Put that section of river back, and your master will help you."

"Thank you, Master!"

Wuzhiqi was overjoyed. He put away the section of river in his hand and happily followed Qingyuan back to the dojo.

"Greetings, Master!"

Yun Zhongzi, who had been chatting with the Willow Immortal in the dojo, saw the two return and went to greet them with a joyful expression.

"Long time no see, Disciple. Your cultivation has improved quite a bit."

Seeing that Yun Zhongzi had already reached the mid True Immortal Realm, Qingyuan felt a little embarrassed.

He had been out wandering for nearly a thousand years, and had only managed to cultivate his Primordial Spirit to the peak of the Mystic Immortal Realm and his physical body to the early Mystic Immortal Realm. And this disciple was already at mid True Immortal?

"I gained a little insight during Secluded Cultivation."

Yun Zhongzi looked ashamed.

Ever since he discovered that 'there is always someone better,' he had returned to the dojo and devoted himself to cultivation. With no bottlenecks in his realm, that was why he had broken through so quickly.

"It seems your master needs to cultivate harder too, or I'll be surpassed by you all."

Qingyuan smiled and exchanged a few pleasantries with his two disciples.

Then he came to the front of Wuzhiqi's dojo. It was a section of river that Qingyuan had previously planned within the dojo. Although it was several hundred meters wide, compared to the former Moon River Bay, it was truly an insignificant ditch.

"How do you want to widen this river?"

"Just make it wider, longer, and deeper," Wuzhiqi said.

"Wider, longer, deeper? Good!"

Qingyuan pondered silently, then activated his talent, Flood of Calamity!

Rumble!

In an instant, the Sun and Moon Lost Light, and a fierce wind howled.

Layers of dark clouds piled up like mountain ranges in the sky. The air grew heavy with moisture, and in no time, it turned into a torrential downpour.

The rain fell densely.

Each drop the size of a coin, striking the ground, the forests, and the water with urgency.

Countless ripples spread.

When the rain passed and the sky cleared.

The heavens were a bright, clear blue, the forests lush and verdant, and the air was filled with the fresh scent of rain-soaked earth.

What pleased Wuzhiqi even more was...

The river, originally only a few hundred meters wide, now stretched thousands of meters across, immeasurably deep, and connected to the mountain springs and water veins of the myriad peaks and valleys. It contained spiritual charm and Dao resonance, flowing from east to west—not a stagnant pool.

The only flaw was...

The buildings that had once stood on the ground were all submerged by the floodwaters.

"Many thanks, Master, for bestowing this Dojo!"

Wuzhiqi was overjoyed. After offering his thanks, he dove into the water to organize the Dojo.

"Master, I'll go help my junior brother tidy up the Dojo." Yun Zhongzi, bored with nothing to do, also went into the water, intending to arrange some water-formation arrays for Wuzhiqi to gather the spiritual energy and Dao resonance of Heaven and Earth, transforming the Water Mansion into a blessed cave-heaven.

Seeing that everyone had left, Qingyuan flew back to the square.

He sat cross-legged on the ground.

Closed his eyes and concentrated, replenishing his depleted mana and nurturing his essence, energy, and spirit to their peak.

Then, He summoned the Myriad Creation Cauldron, a Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, and took out the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures he had collected over the years in the Kunlun Mountains, along with spiritual roots and great medicines, laying them out on the ground.

He took out the <Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Profound Elixir Record> that Sect Master Tongtian had taught him, and flipped through it.

He began to refine pills.

Unfortunately, Qingyuan's talent for alchemy did not seem to be very high.

Batch after batch of pills either exploded, turned into waste, or were of inferior quality. A hundred years passed in this way, and he still hadn't managed to refine any high-quality pills. Instead, the large piles of waste and inferior pills fattened up the Willow Immortal, who called out joyfully every day, "Thank you, Father Qing, for the pills!" Hearing this made Qingyuan want to chop the tree down.

Qingyuan: Among inferior pills, experience +1~

Willow Immortal: From inferior pills, growth +999~ (Ecstatic.gif)

After another few decades of pill refining, Although the rate of inferior pills was no longer so high, the success rate for refining high-grade pills was still too low.

First, because Qingyuan's realm was too low to refine them; second, because his alchemy experience was lacking.

Suddenly, one day, Qingyuan came to his senses. He directly called Yun Zhongzi over and got straight to the point: "Disciple, I see that you have a certain affinity with the paths of alchemy and formations. Today, I bestow upon you the Sage methods <Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Profound Elixir Record> and the <Supreme Clarity Cave Void Spiritual Treasure Formation Treasure Compendium>. Do not disappoint your master's expectations; be sure to study these methods earnestly."

Yun Zhongzi actually wanted to say that he hadn't yet fully comprehended the Killing Sword Dao, And feared that biting off more than he could chew would lead to indigestion.

But seeing Qingyuan's serious expression, he accepted the two methods.

Then he left to go into Secluded Cultivation.

And Qingyuan, as he had wished, received his reward.

[Ding! Host has bestowed upon disciple Yun Zhongzi the <Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Profound Elixir Record> and the <Supreme Clarity Cave Void Spiritual Treasure Formation Treasure Compendium>. Feedback critical strike activated! Rewarding Host with the <Primordial Myriad Phenomena Yin-Yang Mysterious Alchemy General Outline> and the <Primordial Heaven and Earth Meridians Grand Formation Manual>. Host, keep up the good work!!]

Then, A vast and boundless flood of information surged into his mind like a mountain torrent or a tidal wave.

It left Qingyuan dazed for half a day.

Only then did a look of sudden realization dawn on his face.

"No wonder I couldn't succeed in alchemy before. Heat control, visual judgment, timing, medicinal efficacy, effects, blending... I didn't have a firm grasp on a single one of these, yet I dared to start refining. If I didn't fail, who would?"

"Besides using spiritual medicines and immortal roots as alchemy materials, the hours of Heaven and Earth, the essence of the sun and moon, and all kinds of seemingly intangible things—such as luck, the grand trend, celestial phenomena and terrestrial forces, the River of Time, illusory visions, and the cosmos itself—can all be refined into pills. Even at the highest level of cultivation, one can refine a Hongmeng Golden Pill within the body and gestate a great world within!"

"So this is how alchemy is really done?"

After that, Qingyuan immersed himself in alchemy.

Seeing the master continue to refine pills, the Willow Immortal was overjoyed.

But soon, It couldn't smile anymore.

Damn, what's going on?

How is every batch succeeding?

And dammit, why does it smell so good?!!

Weren't you supposed to be a novice alchemist?

The Willow Immortal's expression changed drastically, muttering quietly in its heart: You really deserve to die...