Willow Immortal Was Blessed by Those Years of Failed Pill Refinement, Willow Immortal: You Really Deserve to Die-It Succeeded?

Kunlun Mountain Range.

Qingyuan traveled through this place.

From time to time, he slipped beneath the clouds into the mountain ranges to pick up treasures.

It had to be said that Yun Zhongzi's fortune was truly heaven-defying.

As Qingyuan roamed the Kunlun Mountain Range these past days, he scarcely encountered any of the ferocious Ancient Beasts or other living creatures he usually saw. Instead, all manner of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and Immortal Gold Divine Materials lay exposed upon the earth for him to gather.

Though not all of them were Innate Spiritual Roots or precious herbs,

they were still rare spiritual medicines and materials.

Under normal circumstances, even if he searched the mountains inch by inch for hundreds or thousands of years, he might not find them.

But now,

he only needed to glance at the ground to see spiritual light flickering among the Mountain Peaks. Even the stone he sat on when stopping to rest was an Immortal Gold Divine Materials ore vein formed over millions of years. It was practically like walking around with cheats enabled.

After searching outside for roughly a thousand years,

and converting his Three Million Years of Cultivation Level into the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, allowing his physical realm to enter the Early Mystic Immortal Realm,

Qingyuan chose to return to his dojo.

As for why he did not continue searching for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures,

it was because he deeply remembered a saying from later generations: whoever used up their luck first would be the first to leave.

It just so happened that he possessed the Myriad Creation Cauldron, which could increase the chances of successfully forging Pills and magical treasures, as well as the probability of their origins advancing. It even had a one-in-a-hundred-million chance of returning something to the innate state or raising its grade.

With that in mind,

he wanted to return and see whether he had any talent for pill refinement and artifact forging.

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

When he neared the dojo,

Qingyuan saw Wuzhiqi carrying a section of river and could not help asking curiously, "Disciple, what are you doing?"

"Master, I feel that there is too little water in my Water Mansion, and it is too dull. I wanted to bring some water back to expand it, so I crossed mountains and rivers to transport water."

When Wuzhiqi saw Qingyuan, he hurriedly knelt and paid his respects.

"I see. Carrying water need not be so troublesome. Put that section of river back. Your master will help you."

"Thank you, Master!"

Overjoyed, Wuzhiqi dismissed the section of river in his hands and eagerly followed Qingyuan back to the dojo.

"Greetings, Master!"

Yun Zhongzi, who had been chatting with Willow Immortal in the dojo, beamed with delight when he saw the two return and went forward to welcome them.

"It has been a long time. Your cultivation has improved quite a bit again, disciple."

Seeing that Yun Zhongzi had already reached the Mid-Stage True Immortal Realm, Qingyuan felt somewhat ashamed.

He had wandered around outside for nearly a thousand years, yet had only cultivated his primordial spirit to the Peak Mystic Immortal Realm and his body to the Early Mystic Immortal Realm. His disciple had already reached the Mid-Stage True Immortal Realm?

"I merely gained a small insight during secluded cultivation."

Yun Zhongzi looked embarrassed.

Ever since discovering that there were always others beyond oneself, he had returned to the dojo and devoted himself to cultivation. Coupled with having no major bottlenecks, his breakthroughs had naturally come quickly.

"It seems your master must work hard at cultivation too, lest all of you surpass me."

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

Afterward, he arrived before Wuzhiqi's dojo. It was a section of the Jiang River that Qingyuan had previously designated within the dojo. Though it was several hundred meters wide, compared to the former Moon River Bay, it truly was no more than a tiny ditch.

"How do you wish to expand this river?"

"As long as it becomes wider, longer, and deeper, that will be enough," Wuzhiqi said.

"Wider, longer, deeper? Fine!"

Qingyuan pondered in secret, then activated his innate talent, Flood of Calamity!

Rumble!

In an instant, the sun and moon lost their light as fierce winds arose.

Layers of dark clouds piled across the heavens like mountain ranges.

The air grew thick with moisture, and in mere moments, it turned into a torrential downpour.

The rain fell densely.

The drops were as large as coins, striking the ground, forests, and water in rapid succession.

They created countless ripples.

When the rain passed and the sky cleared,

the heavens were azure and bright, the forests lush and verdant, and the air carried the fragrant scent of rain-soaked earth.

What pleased Wuzhiqi even more was that

the river, once only a few hundred meters wide, now stretched several thousand meters across. It was incomparably deep and connected to countless mountain springs and waterways among the peaks and ravines. It contained spiritual charm and Dao essence, flowing from east to west rather than becoming stagnant water.

The only flaw was that

the buildings that had once stood upon the ground were all submerged beneath the floodwaters.

"Thank you, Master, for bestowing this dojo upon me!"

Wuzhiqi was overjoyed. After offering his thanks, he dove into the water to put his dojo in order.

"Master, I will help Junior Brother arrange his dojo." Yun Zhongzi was bored, so he also ran into the water. He wanted to set up some underwater formations for Wuzhiqi to gather the spiritual energy and Dao essence of heaven and earth, turning the Water Mansion into a Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

Once everyone had left,

Qingyuan flew back to the plaza.

He sat down on the ground.

Closing his eyes and focusing his mind, he restored his depleted mana and nurtured his essence, qi, and spirit back to their peak.

Then,

he brought out the Myriad Creation Cauldron, a Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, and laid out the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and spiritual-root herbs he had gathered over the years in the Kunlun Mountains.

He took out the Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Profound Elixir Record that Sect Master Tongtian had taught him and began reading through it.

Then he began refining Pills.

Unfortunately, Qingyuan's talent for pill refinement did not seem especially high.

Batch after batch of Pills either exploded, became ruined furnaces, or produced inferior medicinal pills. More than a hundred years passed, yet he still failed to refine any truly high-quality Pills. Instead, the vast amounts of ruined and inferior pills made Willow Immortal grow taller and larger. Every day, it would beam and shout, "Thank you, Qing Dad, for the pills!" Hearing that made Qingyuan want to chop down a tree.

Qingyuan: Experience +1 from inferior pills~

Willow Immortal: Growth +999 from inferior pills~ (ecstatic.gif)

He refined Pills for several more decades.

Although the rate of inferior pills was no longer so high, his success rate at refining high-grade Pills remained far too low.

For one thing, Qingyuan's realm was too low for him to refine them. For another, he lacked experience in pill refinement.

Then one day,

Qingyuan finally came to his senses. He directly called Yun Zhongzi over and got straight to the point. "Disciple, I see that you have considerable affinity with pill refinement and formations. Today, I bestow upon you the Saint's methods, the Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Profound Elixir Record and the Shangqing Void-Spirit Treasure Formation Manual. I hope you will not disappoint your master's expectations and will study these methods diligently."

Yun Zhongzi actually wanted to say that he had not yet fully comprehended the Killing Sword Dao.

He was afraid of biting off more than he could chew.

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

Then he left to enter secluded cultivation.

And Qingyuan received what he wanted.

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Afterward,

vast, majestic information surged into Qingyuan's mind like a mountain flood and a raging sea.

It left Qingyuan dazed for half a day.

Only then did an enlightened expression appear on his face.

"No wonder I found pill refinement so difficult before. Heat control, discernment, timing, medicinal effects, functions, fusion... I had not thoroughly understood a single one of them, yet I dared to refine Pills. If I did not fail, who would?"

"Moreover, all things in the Primordial Wilderness are constantly changing, and medicinal ingredients differ as well. How could I rigidly follow a book?"

"Besides using spiritual herbs and immortal roots as pill-refinement materials, the hours of heaven and earth, the Essence of Sun and Moon, and all kinds of seemingly intangible things—such as fortune, greater trends, celestial phenomena, terrain, the River of Time, illusory visions, and the cosmos of the Primordial Wilderness—can all be refined into pill materials. At the ultimate realm, one can even cultivate a Primordial Golden Core within the body and nurture an entire great world!"

"So this is how pill refinement is done?"

Afterward,

Qingyuan immersed himself in pill refinement.

Seeing her master continue refining Pills, Willow Immortal beamed with delight. Very soon, however, it could no longer smile.

Damn, what is going on?

How is every single batch succeeding?

Damn it, and why do they smell so good?!!

Wasn't he supposed to be a pill-refinement novice? Willow Immortal's expression changed drastically as it muttered inwardly, You really deserve to die...