Taking the Pill, Falling Unconscious! Preparing to Administer Acupuncture!

Seven days later, several hundred pills had appeared before Li Bufan. He sorted them by type and stored them in jade bottles.

Half of the spirit herbs in Yun Ting's cave dwelling had already been refined. At this rate, in another seven or eight days, he would be able to refine nearly all of the medicinal herbs.

However, as Li Bufan looked at several of the spirit herbs, he found himself troubled. These few spirit herbs had already reached the fourth rank.

With his current abilities as a Third-Rank Alchemist, he was not yet confident he could refine them into pills. Though fourth-rank pills were only one rank above third-rank pills, the difficulty grew exponentially. If he tried rashly, he would likely waste these precious spirit herbs.

Forget it. He would deal with it when the time came. First, he would refine the spirit herbs he could handle now.

Li Bufan carefully put away those few fourth-rank spirit herbs, placing them into his storage ring to refine only after his alchemy had improved further.

Soon, another seven days passed. Li Bufan removed the final batch of pills from the furnace and let out a long breath of stale air. After this period of frenzied pill refinement, his alchemy had improved considerably once more.

[Heaven Rewards Diligence Third-Rank Alchemist Minor Mastery (1111/2000)]

Though going from proficiency to Minor Mastery was only a small realm, it meant that his refinement of third-rank pills was becoming more and more effortless.

Just then, a rustling sound came from deep within the cave dwelling. Yun Ting slowly slithered out from the depths of the cave. It was now full of vigor, its newly grown scales gleaming brightly.

It sniffed the medicinal fragrance in the air, surprise flashing through its eyes. "Brother Li, how's it going?