Alchemy (Part 1)

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To judge someone's alchemy skills, one generally looked at two aspects. One was the success rate of the pills; the other was the quality of the pills. Taken together, these two aspects usually reflected a person's alchemy skill.

Alchemy was more difficult than artifact refining. Its success rate was also lower than that of artifact refining, so alchemists were much more sought-after than artifact refiners. Of course, that was a matter for the future. In the current Primordial Wilderness, there were not yet so many professional distinctions.

If someone refined pills corresponding to their cultivation and realm, and could maintain a pill-refining success rate above fifty percent, they could basically be called an Alchemical Grandmaster. Naturally, this was no easy matter. Ordinary alchemists had success rates below thirty percent, which was why alchemy consumed more wealth than martial training. An Alchemical Grandmaster was trained with "money."

Pills of the same kind were often distinguished by their quality. A pill's quality was determined according to the impurities within it, and could be divided into one through ten grades. A first-grade pill contained the most impurities, so its effects were naturally the worst. A second-grade pill was naturally more effective than a first-grade pill, and so on. Tenth-grade pills had the best effects. Tenth-grade pills were also called perfect pills, because they contained not even the slightest impurity and could be absorbed one hundred percent, without wasting any of their medicinal effect. Under the same circumstances, a tenth-grade pill was several times more potent than a first-grade pill, nearly comparable to a first-grade pill of the next higher tier. Of course, refining tenth-grade pills was no easy task—rather, it was extraordinarily difficult. Take Taishang Laojun's most famous Nine-Turn Golden Pill, for example. He had only about a thirty percent chance of successfully refining it. Even after the Nine-Turn Golden Pill was successfully refined, one still had to examine its quality. Pills from the same furnace could differ in quality as well. If Taishang Laozi successfully refined ten batches of Nine-Turn Golden Pills and one pill among them was tenth-grade, that would already be extremely good luck. In truth, it was already quite good if most of those ten batches reached fifth or sixth grade. With luck, perhaps a seventh- or eighth-grade pill might emerge.

After saying so much, it all came down to one sentence: tenth-grade pills were difficult to refine, exceedingly difficult to refine. So no one should insist on producing tenth-grade pills in great quantities—that was impossible. Being able to refine fifth- or sixth-grade pills was already quite impressive.

Since this was Yuan Tian's first time refining pills, he did not expect to produce tenth-grade pills. Refining fifth-grade pills would be enough. Of course, refining tenth-grade pills was Yuan Tian's goal. A person had to have a goal. The pills mentioned here were spirit pills; as for Golden Cores, Yuan Tian did not expect to refine them right from the start. All things were difficult at the beginning. Yuan Tian needed to lay a solid foundation. It was better not to reach for the stars.

Yuan Tian slowly extended his hand again, and a great number of items emerged from his palm. This time, they were not artifact-refining materials, but an enormous amount of alchemy materials—truly an enormous amount, enough to be described as a sea of materials. Piled together, they formed a small mountain. When Yuan Tian saw that he had actually collected so many alchemy materials, even he was startled. Truly, one never knew until one looked; one look was enough to make one jump.

A sea of alchemy materials was wonderful. This gave Yuan Tian plenty of opportunities to practice, allowing him to train without restraint. He would not be left halfway through refining, just when he was enjoying himself, only to suddenly run out of materials,

leaving him hanging by a thread. That feeling was far too unpleasant. At any rate, Yuan Tian deeply disliked it. Whether pill refining was good or bad, successful or unsuccessful, depended not only on the alchemist's understanding of the Dao of alchemy and on the alchemy materials, but also on another important factor: the prescription, or rather, the pill formula. A pill formula played a crucial role in alchemy.

In the current world of the Primordial Wilderness, there might not be much of anything else, but medicinal herbs were absolutely countless. To formulate pills with different effects, one had to select, from among these innumerable materials, herbs that fit together perfectly. One had to find the necessary amounts for every kind of herb and achieve the pill effect one wanted—whether it was to increase cultivation, restore magical power, or heal injuries. Only then could one successfully refine the pills one needed. If one simply threw ingredients together at random, a ruined furnace and destroyed pills would be a minor matter. If a backlash occurred, the consequences would be too dreadful to contemplate. This was no scare tactic. Not only could this happen in alchemy; it could also happen in artifact refining.

As a reborn man with cultivation experience from his previous life, Yuan Tian did not lack pill formulas. After all, the countless pill formulas compiled by innumerable people in his previous life were all stored in his mind. This gave him an overwhelming advantage over the current cultivators of the Primordial Wilderness. Given the present state of development in the Primordial Wilderness, even their own cultivation methods were incomplete. How could they possibly possess good pill formulas? If the Primordial Wilderness were ranked solely by the number of pill formulas, Yuan Tian would absolutely rank first. Even Taishang Laozi could not compare. There was no helping it—the advantage of a reborn man was simply too obvious. Of course, this ranking only concerned the number of pill formulas.

Yuan Tian planned to refine the "Creation Pill" first. Do not assume that, because the Creation Pill contained the words "creation," it was anything remarkable. In truth, the Creation Pill was merely a fifth-grade spirit pill below the immortal grade. Its main function was only to transform one's physique and cleanse the tendons and marrow.

The Creation Pill had been a relatively common pill in the cultivation world during Yuan Tian's previous life. In that world, it was mainly used to alter the physiques of junior disciples, making them more suited for cultivation. Naturally, refining such a pill required no particularly precious materials. Even if he ruined a batch, Yuan Tian would not feel heartache. The Primordial Wilderness had an abundance of these materials, so there was no need to worry about running out. He could squander them however he pleased. He would just treat it as playing the prodigal for once. He had not had the chance in his previous life, so now he would make up for it properly.

Of course, the Creation Pill had no real use in the current Primordial Wilderness. Which living being here was not among the first generations born after the opening of heaven? Not every one of them was extraordinarily gifted, but none possessed truly poor talent. Even the worst of them would be a genius rarely seen once in a hundred years in later generations, while even more were exceptional talents rarely seen once in a thousand years. The Creation Pill had no "market" at all in the Primordial Wilderness. Who would have nothing better to do than refine such a thing? Even passing the time was not done like that.

The main ingredient for refining the Creation Pill was hundred-year-old ginseng, supplemented with other materials. Hundred-year-old ginseng might have been precious on Earth in Yuan Tian's previous life, but in the world of the Primordial Wilderness, what was it worth?

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