Ying Huaixu fell silent.
He suddenly felt that, although he had transmigrated into a world on primordial difficulty, judging by the features he currently possessed... he really had no need to worry about survival.
First, his skills had no cooldowns, unlike in the game.
As long as he had the strength, he could keep using them.
Second, pills had no cooldowns either.
He only needed to keep eating them, and he might even make his health bar dance.
Most outrageous of all, his body seemed capable of absorbing pills instantly.
He just did not know whether that was an effect of the Blood-Coagulating Pill or something peculiar to his constitution.
Still, with these two seemingly bugged features and his exceptional gameplay instincts, he was absolutely unbeatable against anyone at the same cultivation level!
That was good news.
Of course, from the looks of things, he was definitely playing with cheats.
But this was not a game, and Ying Huaixu felt he needed to remember that at all times.
His gaming experience and knowledge of this world's map were his trump cards.
But now, he had to shake off his gamer mindset.
In a game, for example, he could jump around all he wanted, and it would not matter.
He could even stand on an NPC's head, and the NPC would be none the wiser.
Now, however, Ying Huaixu could guarantee that if he stood on an NPC's head, these NPCs would absolutely kill him.
As for how quickly he advanced in cultivation, no one cared about that during body tempering.
Even someone without a spiritual root could reach the ninth level of body tempering by relying on rare natural treasures. They would simply never be able to achieve meridian opening!
Still, Ying Huaixu was a little hesitant.
Now that the sect activity feature was unlocked, which activity should he choose?
After all, he could only complete one activity a day.
Ying Huaixu thought for a while before finally deciding to do an activity at the Pill Room first.
He needed to sell the Bone-Strengthening Pills he had on hand!
With that in mind, Ying Huaixu headed straight toward the Pill Room.
Along the way, though, Ying Huaixu still went looking for those three special spirit herbs.
When he reached the entrance to the Pill Room, Ying Huaixu tossed the spirit herbs down in front of the senior disciple.
The disciple froze.
"You're that junior disciple from yesterday!"
Ying Huaixu nodded. Seeing the 300 experience credited to him, he walked straight into the Pill Room.
The junior disciple was speechless.
If you don't want to make friends with me, you don't have to help me. Yet you help me and can't even be bothered to say a word.
What are you playing at?
The main problem was that, given Ying Huaixu's behavior, he had no idea what to make of his character.
In the end, the disciple shook his head and went back into the Pill Room to continue researching his creative approach to pill refining.
Meanwhile, Ying Huaixu stared at the Pill Room before him, a little dazed.
Back when he played the game, this place had been packed with players.
Players all crowded in to do the Pill Room quests. After all, there was an adventure quest here that unlocked the pill refining feature.
So there had never been a shortage of people here.
When it was crowded, even with the number of visible players limited, he could still see plenty of players jumping around out of boredom. Some even stood on other players' heads.
There had also been plenty of players wearing bizarre outfits.
But now, apart from disciples of the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, Ying Huaixu could no longer see a single player.
Without the players, the Pill Room even seemed unbearably empty!
Ying Huaixu stood lost in thought for quite a while before finally approaching the Pill Room steward and speaking.
"I'd like to do odd jobs in the Pill Room!"
The steward was just as laid-back as the steward at the Scripture Pavilion.
The difference was that this steward was very fat.
Hearing Ying Huaixu's voice, the steward rose languidly.
After taking Ying Huaixu's identity token, he swiftly registered him, then said, "Room 17!"
Once he returned the token to Ying Huaixu, the fat man lay back down and closed his eyes again!
Ying Huaixu bowed, then headed straight for Room 17.
When Ying Huaixu arrived at pill refining room seventeen, he knocked on the door.
Bang!
An explosion rang out.
Then he saw an old man glaring furiously at him.
Ying Huaixu felt a little awkward.
He had already been very polite.
After all, when he played the game, he would walk straight in without even greeting the NPC.
But who could have imagined that his knock would cause the old man's furnace to explode!
Ying Huaixu hurried to explain.
"Well, I'm an outer disciple who just joined the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. I wanted to come help with some work in the Pill Room!"
Hearing that he was a new disciple, the old man deflated helplessly.
"Give me your disciple token!"
Ying Huaixu quickly stepped forward and handed over his token.
The old man took it and pressed it against his own token.
A ray of light formed a connection between the two tokens, then vanished again.
Once that was done, the old man returned the disciple token to Ying Huaixu and said, "The work here is simple. Clean up the dust here and the medicinal residue inside the pill furnace every day. All I need is a pill furnace and a refining room that are kept clean at all times!"
"Your sect contribution will be settled daily!"
Ying Huaixu nodded. "Understood!"
With that, Ying Huaixu picked up the broom nearby and began sweeping.
Before long, Ying Huaixu finished cleaning and started getting bored.
The old man was still refining pills.
The problem was that the old man's pill refining skills were honestly absurd.
Over the course of the day, he attempted seven batches of pills. Three furnaces exploded, two batches failed, and the two successful batches were nothing but the lowest-grade Bone-Strengthening Pills.
Watching him, Ying Huaixu could barely resist shaking his head.
Doctor Li in Peaceful Town, on the other hand, had succeeded on his first batch, producing ten pills at once.
More importantly, Doctor Li did not even have a pill furnace. He had used a medicine pot.
And you're a disciple of the Divine Firmament Sword Sect...
Yet the old man was absolutely delighted to have successfully refined two batches today.
"Good, good, good! I feel like I've found the trick. Tomorrow, I'll refine three batches!"
Ying Huaixu was speechless.
All he could say was that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect really was a good place. Its willingness to support someone like this showed just how different it was from other sects.
After the old man left, Ying Huaixu began clearing away the residue.
He had to admit, this old man really was useless.
Looking at the residue piled up inside the pill furnace, Ying Huaixu could barely stop himself from cursing.
But there was nothing he could do. Ying Huaixu could only take a little scraper and dustpan, lean over the edge of the pill furnace, and laboriously clean it out.
Once he finished cleaning, the system's voice rang out.
"Ding! Today's sect activity completed. Reward: 1,500 experience!"
Ying Huaixu instantly felt fantastic.
At the same time, a number appeared on the back of his disciple token.
Ten!
This was sect contribution!
Today's work had ended perfectly.
In a good mood, Ying Huaixu returned to his Cave Abode.
Still, Ying Huaixu decided that if he watched the old man refine pills again tomorrow, he would try to see whether he could trigger an adventure quest.
At the same time, Ying Huaixu also wanted to see whether his pill refining system worked the same way it had in the game.
If it did, he would no longer have to worry about finding a way to accumulate spirit stones.
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