Chapter 254: The Biggest Winner? Core Formation Achieved! "Monthly Votes, Please!"
Beyond the stone door marked "Pill" lay a long, narrow passageway.
Lights shone on both walls, keeping the passageway from becoming too dim.
After walking several dozen yards, Xu Chuan reached a room. It was an alchemy chamber, with a bronze Alchemy Furnace standing at its center.
A meditation cushion lay before the furnace, and a stone table stood to its left. Aside from those, the room was empty.
Xu Chuan had only just entered.
The mechanical voice from earlier sounded again.
[First stage of the pill dao assessment: choose one of the following pill formulas and refine it. You have six hours. Those who pass may proceed to the second stage. Note: the difficulty of the pill and your assessment rating will both affect the items awarded. Now, challenger, please select the pill you wish to refine. You have sixty breaths to choose.]
As the voice sounded, three pill formulas suddenly appeared in midair.
Xu Chuan immediately looked at them.
The first was a Spirit-Gathering Pill Formula. Its effects were actually thirty percent stronger than those of a Qi-Gathering Pill.
The second was a Realm-Breaking Pill Formula—the complete version of the fragmentary formula the Zhou Household had obtained back then.
The third was a Spirit-Concentrating Pill Formula, whose effect was to purify the magic power of Qi Refining Realm cultivators.
Without question, the Spirit-Concentrating Pill was the hardest to refine.
After a cursory look, Xu Chuan saw that its ingredients cost several times more than those of a True Essence Pill, while its refining difficulty was thirty percent greater.
"I choose the third formula."
As his words fell, the Spirit-Concentrating Pill Formula descended into Xu Chuan's hand, while the other two vanished.
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