Blood Qi Powder

Biodata

Power Progression

The recorded ranks below measure Fu Shaoping’s proficiency in refining Blood Qi Powder, rather than the powder’s own cultivation level.

Appearance

• Ordinary powder: Scarlet, with a pungent smell of blood; stored in paper packets, including kraft-paper wrappers 16.
• Special Grade: Gives off a faint wheat fragrance instead of the usual bloody odor. Zhou Pan’er also notices its finer color when comparing it with Grade A powder 27 28 33.

Effects and Limitations

Blood Qi Replenishment

• Swallowing the powder releases energy that transforms into blood qi and repeatedly washes through the user’s flesh, increasing strength 5.
• Fu Shaoping’s first packet raises his first-level Body Tempering progress from 16/100 to 20/100, a gain of four points 5.
• Four self-refined packets, together with his previously accumulated cultivation, bring his second-level progress to 20/100 15.
• A later session consuming eight packets brings his second-level progress to 65/100 19.
• Access to the recipe allows Fu Shaoping to support early cultivation with medicine and reserve the Codex’s points for martial skills 9.

Cultivation Ceiling and Resistance

• Ordinary Blood Qi Powder is intended for the first three Body Tempering levels; Fu Shaoping stops relying on it after reaching the fourth level 12 19 27.
• Special Grade powder retains a faint, limited effect on Fu Shaoping at the fourth level 28.
• Repeated consumption can produce resistance. Junior Banner Liu’s son takes so much that Grade C powder becomes nearly ineffective, prompting Liu to seek Grade A instead 19.

Special Grade

• Exceptional refining mastery can surpass the medicine’s inherent first-tier low-grade limit, producing a quasi first-tier mid-grade preparation 29.
• Granny Tang explains that this normally requires refining hundreds or thousands of batches. Even higher-ranked alchemists seldom devote that much time to such a basic medicine 29.
• Fu Shaoping attributes his unusually rapid attainment of Perfection partly to the Treasure Mirror’s point allocation 29.

Recipe and Refinement

Ingredients and Equipment

Documented Method

• Preheat the furnace over burning clearwood before adding clear-sky grass 12.
• Adjust the heat as the grass melts into green liquid, then add sunflower; the mixture develops a pink outer layer 12.
• Add supplementary herbs and continue controlling the heat until the ingredients coagulate into powder 12 33.
• Withdraw the furnace from the heat when the preparation is complete. Fu Shaoping initially uses the Earthfire Chamber’s suspended furnace and wall mechanism 12.

Learning the Craft

• Zhou Pan’er receives the recipe from Granny Xue and shares its yellowed paper copy with Fu Shaoping without withholding information 9 29.
• Successfully producing the medicine barely qualifies Fu Shaoping as a Pill-Refining Apprentice, according to Junior Banner Liu 13.
• Zhou Pan’er learns by observing, taking notes, and assisting Fu Shaoping. Her first independent batch is Grade C; her final five batches in the teaching sequence reach Grade B 33.

Availability and Trade

• The Hall of Myriad Treasures offers one month of free storage for purchased or exchanged supplies; Fu Shaoping initially leaves four of his five packets there 5.
• The Hall normally distributes Grade C powder. Junior banners can obtain Grade B through their authority, but Grade A is not required by the Alchemy Hall’s monthly production assignments 19 32.
• Alchemy Hall members are forbidden from accepting private commissions. Fu Shaoping, who declines membership, can supply higher-quality powder privately 13 32.
• Junior Banner Liu pays thirty Low-Grade Essence Stones for ten Grade A portions, five stones above their stated total price, and promises access to an earth-class alchemy room 28.
• Junior Banner Zhuo commissions ten Grade A batches for his daughter at ten percent above market rate 32.

Story Role

Early Cultivation and Income

Fu Shaoping initially spends his ten Low-Grade Essence Stones on five packets. After Zhou Pan’er shares the recipe, the pair gather clearwood and purchase herbs to begin refining their own supply 5 9 11.

His first ten attempts yield nine usable portions, which he estimates could sell for forty Low-Grade Essence Stones against ten stones spent on ingredients. He gives Zhou Pan’er three packets and begins exchanging finished powder for further ingredients, making alchemy a source of both cultivation resources and income 13 16.

Financing a Home Furnace

After reaching the fourth Body Tempering level, Fu Shaoping continues refining primarily to fund an alchemy furnace. His Special Grade powder proves far more valuable than expected: he exchanges five packets for fifty sets of ingredients and returns home with 230 Low-Grade Essence Stones 27 29.

The earnings enable him to purchase a Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace for Zhou Pan’er, allowing her to learn and practice at home 29 30.

Zhou Pan’er’s Training

Granny Xue makes Zhou Pan’er’s ability to refine Blood Qi Powder, together with reaching the fourth Body Tempering level, a condition for learning more about her birth parents. Zhou Pan’er fulfills the alchemy requirement during Fu Shaoping’s instruction 29 33.

Later, she continues making Blood Qi Powder to improve her alchemy before attempting Origin-Consolidating Pills; Fu Shaoping purchases another batch of ingredients for her from Granny Tang 48.