Improving the Bloodburst Pill
The next day.
Song Wen arrived at the Alchemy Chamber early.
After receiving the ingredients for five Qi-Gathering Pills from Su Huayue, I entered the Alchemy room.
He first spent several hours refining three batches of Qi-Gathering Pill to deal with Su Huayue.
Then, he set up the <Qi-Sealing Spirit-Isolating Formation> and began to try to refine the improved 'Bloodburst Pill'.
He took out his Pill Furnace and, following the method for refining the Bloodburst Pill recorded on Rong Jingyun's jade Jade Slip, added various spirit medicine one by one.
The Yellow Essence Fungus he chose to refine the Bloodburst Pill was one of three fifty-year-old plants obtained from Su Liu, who had the eight-character mustache.
Of all the Yellow Essence Fungus he obtained from the Su Clan's spiritual field, Song Wen felt that their vitality was somewhat strange, so he did not touch them.
After he added the main ingredient, Yellow Essence Fungus, to the furnace and extracted the medicinal liquid, an explosion suddenly occurred when he was mixing the Yellow Essence Fungus medicinal liquid with other auxiliary medicinal liquids.
A plume of black smoke suddenly rose from the Pill Furnace, filling the Alchemy room.
Song Wen took out a jade bottle, collected the black smoke in the room into it, and then took out the Jade Slip containing his insights again, beginning to examine it carefully.
He understood that the explosion had occurred because of the conflict between the medicinal properties of Yellow Essence Fungus and other auxiliary drugs.
To solve this problem, it is necessary to find suitable adjuvants to harmonize the medicinal properties of Yellow Essence Fungus.
Yellow Essence Fungus is a commonly used second-tier spirit medicine. The Jade Slip contains five Pill Formulas, all of which use Yellow Essence Fungus.
These five Pill Formula share a common feature: they all contain an auxiliary ingredient called Earth Mushroom Flower (土菇花), which is clearly used to harmonize the medicinal properties of Yellow Essence Fungus).
As luck would have it, Song Wen happened to have Earth Mushroom Flower in his hand.
He then tried again.
Following the five Pill Formula recorded, Song Wen chose a proportion he considered suitable and added Yellow Essence Fungus and Earth Mushroom Flower.
After mixing the medicinal liquid from the Earth Mushroom Flower with the medicinal liquid from the Yellow Essence Fungus beforehand, and then mixing it with other spirit medicine liquids, the explosion in the furnace was finally prevented from happening again.
The subsequent steps in refining the elixir went very smoothly, so smoothly that Song Wen could hardly believe it.
Just as he began to condense the pill, the medicinal liquid in the Pill Furnace suddenly went out of control, and the medicinal power rapidly dissipated. In the blink of an eye, only a pool of sticky black liquid remained in the Pill Furnace, and the Spiritual Qi had almost completely dissipated.
Despite his failure to condense the elixir, Song Wen was not discouraged; instead, he remained enthusiastic.
The failure to condense the pill was due to an incorrect ratio of Yellow Essence Fungus to other auxiliary herbs. Once the correct ratio is found, the pill can be successfully condensed.
He did not attempt to Alchemy again. Two days had already passed, and staying in the Alchemy room for too long would easily attract attention.
After putting away the Pill Furnace and the <Qi-Sealing Spirit-Isolating Formation>, Song Wen turned and left the Alchemy room.
When he arrived at the main hall of the Alchemy Chamber and handed the Qi-Gathering Pill to Su Huayue, he found that many Alchemists were gathered in the hall.
Today is the last day of the month, the day when monthly salaries are paid out.
These Alchemist are all here to collect their monthly salary.
Song Wen also went to collect his monthly salary.
He has been at the Su Clan for half a month.
Before receiving his monthly salary, he had to take stock of the number of Qi-Gathering Pill he had submitted within the past half-month.
Song Wen submitted a total of fifty Qi-Gathering Pill, which met the monthly target of eighty. However, Su Huayue later forcibly increased the target by 50%, resulting in a shortage of Qi-Gathering Pill.
Perhaps influenced by the fact that many Alchemists were leaving the Su Clan, Su Huayue did not deduct Song Wen 'Song Wen monthly salary and instead gave him fifteen Spirit Stone.
After receiving his monthly salary, Song Wen left the Alchemy Chamber.
When he returned to his residence, he noticed that more than half of the visiting Alchemist, weapon refiners, talisman masters, and array masters had begun to leave the Su Clan in groups of three or five after receiving their monthly salaries.
The Su Clan did not take any drastic action in response and let these people leave.
This made Song Wen realize once again that something was wrong; the Su Clan's behavior was too abnormal.
It was noon that day.
When Song Wen arrived at the canteen, he encountered Qi Xiong.
Over the past two days, Qi Xiong has likely taken the Realm-Breaking Pill and been in seclusion, attempting to break through his cultivation bottleneck.
At this point, he had already Qi Refining Seventh Layer of Qi Refining.
Qi Xiong was quite surprised to see Song Wen.
"Master Alchemist, didn't you leave with them?"
"Deacon Su gave me a five- Spirit Stone raise in my monthly salary, so I've decided to stay with the Su Clan for the time being. I'm almost sixty years old, and it's already a great fortune that I can stay with the Su Clan. I dare not ask for too much," Song Wen replied, full of lies.
In fact, he never went to Su Huayue to resign.
As for the increase in monthly salary, Su Huayue had promised that all the Alchemist who remained would receive an increase of five Spirit Stone per month.
Qi Xiong nodded in agreement.
"The Su Clan is a long-established Golden Core Lineage that dominates the region. They are powerful and have a deep foundation. Apart from a few major righteous sects, who would dare to provoke them easily? Duan Jie and the others are worrying unnecessarily and are short-sighted."
"Our decision to stay with the Su Clan was the right one. Duan Jie and the others will regret it sooner or later."
Qi Xiong's words were more directed at himself than at Song Wen.
He seemed to be trying to convince himself that staying with the Su Clan was the best option.
"What you say makes sense, fellow Daoist," Song Wen agreed.
After parting ways with Qi Xiong, Song Wen realized that the Su Clan was preparing to take action.
However, to date, Song Wen has no idea why the Su Clan wants to capture cultivators of the Longevity Art Technique.
"We must find a way to obtain information about this matter!"
Song Wen pondered this carefully in his heart.
The matter that the Su Clan is planning must be extremely important to the Su Clan. Destroying it would be a huge blow to the Su Clan.
Based on his current understanding of the Su Clan, he was certain that several of the Su Clan's elders in charge knew the reason for this matter. It was also possible that some of the core Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators in the Su Clan knew, but Song Wen couldn't determine exactly who they were, so he had no way to target them.
Last time, the soul search attempt on Su Jingtong, the third elder of the Su Clan, failed because his Divine Sense was insufficient at the time.
Now, his Divine Sense is comparable to that of Foundation Establishment Peak Stage cultivator, greatly increasing his success rate in using Soul Search Technique on Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator.
After comparing the five remaining core elders of the Su Clan in his mind, Song Wen concluded that Su Xiuyong, the fifth elder stationed in Northern Lands Market, was the easiest to catch.
However, this person is overly cautious in his actions.
Last time, he used Su Xiaoliu as bait to ambush Su Xiuyong, but he failed.
The Northern Lands Market is only about fifty miles away from Clearpeace Mountain. Moreover, most of the time, Su Xiuyong stays in the Su Clan's spirit medicine shop, which is protected by an array.
Using force to break into the spirit medicine and kill Su Xiuyong is certainly not the best course of action.
Northern Lands Market is too close to Clearpeace Mountain, and the Su Clan may go to provide support at any time.
We must find a way to lure it out of the building with the array in the backyard of the spirit medicine, or even out of the market, to make it easier to succeed.
Song Wen began to recall information about Su Xiuyong.
Su Xiuyong, 153 years old, once had a dao companion, but his dao companion failed to successfully Foundation Establishment and died thirty years ago after exhausting his lifespan.
His parents had long since passed away, and his dao companion had not borne him any children during her lifetime.
He is cautious in his actions, has no immediate blood relatives, and spends most of his time in ascetic training in the spirit medicine shop.
From this perspective, Su Xiuyong seemed to have no weaknesses, leaving Song Wen at a loss for where to begin.
"Perhaps this time, we'll have to take a bit of a risk."
Song Wen murmured softly.