Preparing to Refine Pills

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As the saying went, rob the Primordial Wilderness and Yuan Tian grew rich. Yuan Tian had more or less entered the "moderately prosperous" stage. After an experience of "the sky was scraped three feet clean," Yuan Tian had some "money" in his pockets. And with money, naturally he had to spend it. Yuan Tian began entertaining new ideas again.

Speaking of Yuan Tian's gains this time, they were mainly spiritual herbs. And what could spiritual herbs be used for? Naturally, pill refining.

Speaking of pill refining, Yuan Tian truly had never refined pills since his rebirth. He already had experience in artifact refining—and more than once—but he had no experience refining pills. To refine pills, apart from having pill formulas, one also had to practice.

And practice required a great quantity of spiritual herbs. Yuan Tian had spiritual herbs now. As for pill formulas, he had countless formulas from his previous ten lives, so there was nothing to worry about in that regard. All he lacked now was experience. Yuan Tian was preparing to build up his experience in pill refining.

Speaking of pills, one had to mention their types and grades. The mainstream functions of pills were divided into two categories: those used to break through cultivation and those used to heal injuries. Of course, there were also all sorts of other strange functions—calming the mind, poisoning enemies, preserving one's looks. In short, there were countless functions. So long as one could think of it, there was basically no kind that did not exist.

Pill grades were generally divided into ranks one through nine below the Immortal Level, and turns one through nine above the Immortal Level.

Pills of ranks one through nine were pills below the Immortal Level, also known as spirit pills. Rank-one pills had the weakest effects and relatively few functions. Things like Foundation Establishment Pills and fasting pills belonged to this category. This was the lowest grade of pills in the Primordial Wilderness, and few people refined them, because they were completely useless to the people of the current Primordial Wilderness. Why refine them at all? Rank-nine pills were the highest-grade pills below the Immortal Level, and their effects were comparatively better. A typical example was the Ascension-Breaking Pill. Using an Ascension-Breaking Pill gave cultivators below the Immortal Level a great chance of advancing to the Immortal Level. Of course, it only increased the odds; it was not guaranteed. It should be noted that spirit pills mainly targeted cultivators who had not yet become immortals. Their effects on Earth Immortals and above were not very obvious, or even nonexistent.

Pills of one through nine turns were pills above the Immortal Level, also known as Golden Pills. They were called First-Turn Golden Core, Second-Turn Golden Core... Nine-Turn Golden Pill. First-Turn Golden Cores had the fewest functions and the weakest effects among Golden Pills, though they were still far more effective than spirit pills below the Immortal Level. Nine-Turn Golden Pills were the highest-grade Golden Pills. Legend had it that only the great pill-refining master Taishang Laozi had successfully refined one; no one had heard of anyone else succeeding. Even Laozi had less than a thirty percent chance of success. The requirements for refining a Nine-Turn Golden Pill were simply too high. In the entire Primordial Wilderness, the one with the deepest understanding of the Dao of pill refining was likely Taishang Laozi. Not only had Laozi inherited the pill-refining Dao of Great God Pangu, he was also utterly obsessed with pill refining himself and had studied it extremely deeply. In terms of pill refining alone, even Dao Ancestor Hongjun was likely no match for Laozi.

As long as one prepared the necessary materials and had sufficiently high cultivation, spirit pills could basically be refined even by someone who did not know pill refining—one could simply pile up materials until a spirit pill came out, so long as one did not feel heartache over the waste. In other words, spirit pills did not place very high demands on their refiners. Whether one had experience or not, one could refine them as long as one was willing to use materials as fuel.

Golden Pill refinement was different from spirit pill refinement. Golden Pills imposed clearly higher requirements on the refiner. They were not something one could force out simply by having high cultivation and good materials. To refine a Golden Pill, one first had to possess a certain understanding of the Dao of pill refining. Under equal circumstances, the deeper one's understanding of the Dao of pill refining, the better the quality of the pills one refined and the higher the success rate. If one did not possess even the slightest understanding of the Dao of pill refining, then sorry, go play somewhere else—we're not playing with you. No matter how high your cultivation or how good your materials were, do not even dream of successfully refining a First-Turn Golden Core. If you still refused to give up, then fine: for every few batches of pills you refined, I would make a few furnaces explode for you.

Fortunately, Yuan Tian had extremely deep knowledge of pills. Although it came from his previous lives, who told him to be a reborn man? What was the advantage of a reborn man? This was the advantage of rebirth—especially for someone reborn after having cultivated before. The advantage was even more obvious.

Yuan Tian had basically prepared all the materials needed to refine pills. As for his understanding of the Dao of pill refining, while it was not high, he still possessed some. Refining the most basic spirit pills would not be a problem. Yuan Tian had never planned to refine Golden Pills right from the start. That was far too unrealistic. He had to lay a solid foundation.

Although the materials were basically ready, he was still missing one thing: a pill furnace. Yuan Tian had always used Heart Refining for artifact refinement and had never used a furnace. But pill refining would not do without one; he had to use a pill furnace. Yet Yuan Tian did not have one.

Heart Refining and furnace refining each had their own advantages. Heart Refining could improve one's spiritual cultivation and was even more beneficial for training one's control over spiritual energy, but it placed higher demands on the refining process and consumed a great deal of mental energy. Compared with Heart Refining, furnace refining consumed far less mental energy when refining artifacts or pills, and it also made it easier for the refiner to maintain control.

Yuan Tian's pill-refining level simply could not be compared with his artifact-refining level. When refining an artifact for the first time, he had dared to—and could—use Heart Refining. But he could not do so for his first attempt at pill refining. He needed the aid of a pill cauldron to complete it. That was the difference between the two. If Yuan Tian wanted to refine pills now, he first had to refine a pill cauldron.

Originally, Yuan Tian had not wanted to refine a pill cauldron. He wanted to see whether he could find Innate Spirit Treasures such as the Heaven-Earth Cauldron or the Creation Cauldron in the future. Such Innate Spirit Treasures were far superior to ordinary cauldrons, whether for pill refining or artifact refining. But since he wanted to refine pills first, there was no helping it. He could only refine a pill cauldron for now. If he found something better later, he could replace it.

Yuan Tian was truly lazy enough. How much time could refining a pill cauldron possibly take? Why was he so unwilling to "work"? Too lazy to even talk about him.

The cauldron Yuan Tian planned to refine this time would not only have pill-refining capabilities, but artifact-refining capabilities as well. This was called putting one cauldron to many uses. It could "cook rice" and also "make soup"—countless benefits. It would save him from needing to refine a separate furnace specifically for artifact refining next time. How troublesome would that be? In the end, it still came down to his laziness.

Doing what he thought of had always been Yuan Tian's standard for living. Since he had decided to refine a cauldron, then he would begin. Wasting time was shameful, though time in the Primordial Wilderness truly was a little too worthless. Why was time in the Primordial Wilderness so worthless?

Uh, it seemed he had wandered off-topic again. Let's return to the main subject.

Along the way, aside from gathering a large quantity of spiritual herbs, Yuan Tian had also collected no small number of artifact-refining materials. Perfect—this time, they could finally be put to use.

Yuan Tian stretched out his palm, and a large quantity of artifact-refining materials began falling from it. It turned out that Yuan Tian had stored all these materials in the Five Elements Space using the Five-Elements Heaven-Seizing Hand. Now, he was merely taking out this great mass of materials from his hand. Let's see what artifact-refining materials there were: Geng Metal, Gold Sand, Star Iron, Purple Cloud Crystal, Galaxy Purple Sand, and other top-grade artifact-refining materials. It seemed Yuan Tian was not merely playing around this time—he was getting serious. One could not help looking forward to what fine cauldron he might refine.

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