Getting Started

"Condense!"

Wei Zhong's fingertips formed a hand seal, and a pill flew out from the pill cauldron, landing in his palm.

The pill was cyan in color, with an uneven surface and poor quality, but its grade was undoubtedly First-Order Low-Grade.

Wei Zhong looked at the panel.

[Pill Refining Art · Water · First-Order (Entry 1%)]

As expected, I've reached the entry level.

After spending several days, Wei Zhong finally refined a Qi Nourishing Pill, reaching the entry level in this water refining pill technique.

Unlike the conventional fire refining method of extracting the essence of spiritual herbs, the water refining method uses the gentle nurturing and extraction of spiritual power water clusters.

It takes a long time, but it rarely leads to failure during the extraction process.

In the first step of extraction, it can be said that time is exchanged for success rate. The only problem is in the condensing step.

What proportion of various spiritual medicine essences should be condensed, and in what order should they be condensed? This is the major difficulty of pill refining.

Wei Zhong didn't know how many times he had failed in this step, but today he finally succeeded in refining a Low-Grade Qi Nourishing Pill, officially becoming a First-Order Pill Master.

He had reached the entry level in water refining pill techniques, but he had not yet had time to learn the fire refining method.

Wei Zhong had cultivated for many years, and his control over water spiritual power could be said to be effortless, so he reached the entry level with water refining pill techniques. As for the fire refining method, he would postpone it for a while.

After all, it's better not to be greedy. If he encounters a bottleneck in the future, he can learn from it.

Putting away the pill cauldron, Wei Zhong looked at the desk in the Cultivation Room, on which were large and small Jade Slips, all of which were the inheritances of hundreds of arts of cultivation that Wei Zhong had collected from the Li Family during this period.

Without exception, they were all First-Order inheritances, and some were even mostly incomplete.

The only one that could barely catch Wei Zhong's eye was a Talismans inheritance, which recorded the production methods of talisman paper and talisman ink, as well as the production methods of several First-Order Talismans.

There were household Talismans such as Dust Removal Talismans and House Guarding Talismans, as well as combat Talismans such as Qi Recovery Talismans and Wind Blade Talismans.

However, Wei Zhong, who had obtained this inheritance, did not immediately start drawing Talismans.

The use of First-Order Talismans was too small for him. Even if he raised it to the Grandmaster or even Grandmaster level, the power of the Talismans would be limited by the talisman ink and talisman paper.

Instead of spending time making Talismans, Wei Zhong might as well learn a few new Second-Order spells. Presumably, after the qualitative change of Second-Order spells, they would bring him unexpected surprises.

Wei Zhong formed a hand seal, and a layer of light black film immediately wrapped around his body. This was one of the matching spells recorded in the Spring Autumn Water Refining Art.

Second-Order defensive spell:

[Black Water Spirit Armor · Entry (17%)]

Wei Zhong had the Flying Throwing Art for attack, the Soaring Cloud Art for escape, and the Aura Concealment Technique and Invisibility Art for concealment, but his defense was lacking.

So he chose this technique from the Spring Autumn Water Refining Art to improve himself.

He no longer had to just use Magical Artifacts for defense, and he could also withstand some damage himself.

Wei Zhong condensed a water bullet with his fingertips and fired it at his chest. The two met and immediately stirred up a ripple on the water armor.

When used for blade attacks, the soft water armor seemed to transform into hard steel, blocking the intrusion of sharp edges.

This was the effect of the Black Water Spirit Armor: blunting force and turning sharp edges to steel, constantly changing its state to resist incoming attacks.

Wei Zhong satisfiedly dispelled it, walked out of the Cultivation Room, and looked at the newly planted Spirit Rice in the outside Grotto-heaven. Wei Zhong stretched lazily.

These were all Second-Order Spirit Rice that Wei Zhong had personally planted recently, after all, the secret of the Grotto-heaven could not be told to outsiders.

Planting Second-Order Spirit Rice in the Grotto-heaven, besides it being one of the raw materials for the Second-Order Green Vine Intoxication, Wei Zhong also wanted to see if the Second-Order Spirit Rice planted on the Third-Order Spirit Vein would be of better quality than that planted on Black Lake Island.

If it was better, he could use it for Spirit Wine brewing in the future, and also use it as a staple food.

Although Foundation Establishment cultivators had already achieved Grain Avoidance, Wei Zhong always missed the desires of the palate.

Arriving at a small corner of the Spirit Field, there was a patch of low Spirit Ganoderma.

This Spirit Ganoderma was the Flesh-Eating Ganoderma given by Luo Mingyan. According to Luo Mingyan, Wei Zhong chose to plant it in the Grotto-heaven where the spiritual Qi was more concentrated.

Parting the Ganoderma patch, one could still see fish remains underneath. These were Spirit Fish that Wei Zhong had caught from the lake, for the Flesh-Eating Ganoderma to reproduce.

After letting it grow for a while longer, he could start picking the Ganoderma and try brewing Azure Ganoderma Wine.

Compared to advancing his Pill Master skills to the Second-Order to refine Harmony Qi Pill, Wei Zhong still believed that brewing Azure Ganoderma Wine would be successful faster.

Exiting the Grotto-heaven, Wei Zhong tidied up his appearance, transmitted a message to Xie Linghua, informing her that he was about to go to the Azurewood Sect to offer congratulations, and instructed her to take care of the affairs of Black Lake Island.

Then he flew to the edge of the cliff, and put away Da Jin and the Yuan Water Pearl.

At this moment, the Yuan Water Pearl had become heavier after several days of condensation.

'After all, it is condensing on its own, the effect is still a bit lacking. If I could control it from the side, the condensation speed would be much faster.'

'But that would be a bit of a loss, I still have to cultivate, including practicing spells and Pill techniques, I really don't have the energy to spare for this treasure.'

'Slow is slow, anyway, this thing won't come in handy for a while.'

Putting it away, Wei Zhong raised his hand and released an Azure Boat. This was a Second-Order Flying Artifact that Wei Zhong had acquired from the Li Family, which could use the cultivator's own spiritual power or Spirit Stones.

It was a higher grade than the Flying Artifact that Luo Mingyan had used back then.

Wei Zhong rode the Azure Boat towards the Azurewood Sect. In just one day, he arrived at his destination.

Looking at the bustling market in front of him, Wei Zhong seemed to have returned to the scene when he had come here when he was still at the Qi Refining stage.

'When did this Bright Moon Market become so lively?'

Wei Zhong entered and found a place to stay, then visited Ning CanKun.

He learned that this Core Formation Grand Ceremony not only attracted various forces around the Azurewood Sect, but also many cultivators fighting in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range had returned, all to join in the fun of this Core Formation Grand Ceremony.

"There will be an auction in three days."

After learning of this, Wei Zhong was extremely excited. The auction that served as a prelude to the Core Formation Grand Ceremony must have many good things.

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, Wei Zhong finally had the opportunity to show his skills at the auction.

Taking advantage of the liveliness of Bright Moon Market, Wei Zhong patrolled the surrounding stalls and found that there were indeed many good things.

He saw quite a few of the three important Spirit Herbs needed for the Foundation Establishment Pill here.

'These are probably all from the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.'

Walking to a stall, Wei Zhong was a little surprised to see the Azure Bamboo Swords on it.

Each Azure Bamboo Sword seemed to be carved from the same mold, arranged together. It was the first time Wei Zhong had seen such similar and almost identical Magic Swords.

"Senior, are you looking to buy a Magic Sword? My Azure Bamboo Swords are personally refined by Grandmaster Jiang of Hanzhu City and his disciples, good quality and low price..."

Wei Zhong looked at the young-faced stall owner and asked:

"You're from Hanzhu City?"

The latter nodded.

Then Wei Zhong asked a few more questions and learned that he was indeed one of Grandmaster Jiang's disciples, and that these Magic Swords were all refined by him personally.

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