Supreme-grade Qi Condensation Pills, Foundation Establishment Pills Refined, Official Appointment as Master of the Alchemy Hall

The Evergreen Sect, Alchemy Hall.

This hall of the Evergreen Sect had lain sealed beneath dust for a long time. Today, it finally opened, and someone stepped inside for the first time.

And with the Evergreen Sect's promotion to a Golden Core Sect...

Lin Feng had upgraded the Evergreen Sect's main hall, External Affairs Hall, Artifact Hall, and Alchemy Hall from C-rank to B-rank, spending a total of 20,000 low-grade spirit stones-the equivalent of just two high-grade spirit stones.

After the upgrade to B-rank, the sect's attraction to disciples increased to 40%, while the speed of handling sect affairs, alchemy success rate, and artifact-refining success rate all received an additional 40% boost.

And with its promotion to a Golden Core Sect, the Evergreen Sect also unlocked a new hall-the Beast Taming Hall.

Lin Feng spent another 7,600 low-grade spirit stones, upgrading the Beast Taming Hall straight to B-rank in one go, granting an additional 40% boost to beast-taming success rates.

The sect's spirit beasts also officially entered the Evergreen Sect's ranks, placed at the Beast Taming Hall's disposal.

Carrying the spirit herbs she had just harvested without damaging their roots, Li Jishi slowly stepped into the solemn, imposing Alchemy Hall.

The Alchemy Hall was grand and spacious, its bluestone floor polished like a mirror.

Rows of antique pill furnaces stood neatly arranged, while a faint medicinal fragrance and the aura of spiritual energy lingered in the air.

In the past, she could only gaze at such a top-tier alchemy hall from afar, her heart long filled with yearning.

Unfortunately, without orthodox pill formulas, she had possessed spirit herbs but no way to begin, never having the chance to enter this place and refine pills.

But today, everything was completely different.

Ever since acquiring the top-tier rainbow trait, Pill Ancestor Descends to the Mortal World, she needed only to touch different spirit herbs with her fingertips for dozens of complete ancient pill formulas to instantly become clear in her mind.

Medicinal principles and proportions, control of heat, forbidden combinations and minute details-she understood them all by heart. Without study or contemplation, she had already grasped the very source of the Dao of Alchemy.

Her goal today was clear: to refine the two kinds of pills the sect's disciples needed most urgently.

Qi Condensation Pills for the daily cultivation of Qi Refining cultivators, and Foundation Establishment Pills, the essential sacred medicine for cultivators breaking through to Foundation Establishment.

Li Jishi chose a high-grade pill furnace near the center and took out the spirit herbs she had brought, arranging them one by one.

The Pill Ancestor Descends to the Mortal World trait came with the ability to see through myriad medicinal herbs.

With a sweep of her gaze, every spirit herb's age, medicinal potency, quantity of impurities, and damage to its spiritual essence became clear at a glance.

Without needing to identify or sort them, she automatically pinpointed the best plants to use.

She began with the most basic Qi Condensation Pills.

Following the formula's proportions, she took four stalks of excellent Condensed Dew Grass, two stalks of golden spike grass, and one stalk of root-fortifying grass, supplemented by a trace of powdered low-grade spirit stone as the medicinal catalyst.

Ordinary alchemists had to carefully remove stray weeds and impurities, washing and grinding the herbs repeatedly. The slightest carelessness could introduce conflicting medicinal properties, affecting the pills' quality or even ruining the herbs outright.

But Li Jishi had no need for such tedious procedures.

The power of Pill Ancestor Descends to the Mortal World circulated through her body, and spiritual light swept gently from her fingertips.

All the dust, impure energies, and medicinal toxins in the spirit herbs were instantly stripped away, leaving only their pure, original medicinal power.

She placed the spirit herbs in the pill furnace and lit the fire.

Without any deliberate adjustment, the heat automatically settled at the most perfect gentle flame.

The furnace temperature remained constant, without the slightest deviation, completely eliminating the problems of excessive heat scorching the herbs or insufficient heat failing to retain their medicinal power.

The medicinal liquids slowly blended inside the furnace. Ordinary cultivators refining pills had to monitor them constantly with their spiritual sense and stir without pause, guarding against clashing medicinal properties and separation of the liquids.

But under the blessing of the Pill Ancestor's Dao resonance, the different herbs' medicinal properties merged and complemented one another on their own. Threads of spiritual energy intertwined without the slightest rejection or resistance.

The instant the spirit stone powder merged into the medicinal liquid, the originally ordinary mixture suddenly shone with a soft, lustrous white light, its spiritual energy growing increasingly rich and concentrated.

In just half an hour, without any need for nurturing or focused control, the furnace lid began to tremble slightly on its own, and wisps of pill fragrance drifted out.

The moment the furnace opened, thirty plump, rounded, milky-white pills rose into the air.

Every pill had an even color and restrained spiritual radiance, with faint, moonlight-like fine markings lingering over its surface. They were all high-grade Qi Condensation Pills, and nearly ten had even reached supreme-grade quality.

Their medicinal power was pure and free of impurities, their absorption rate far exceeding pills refined by ordinary alchemists, without the slightest risk of residue clogging the meridians.

When ordinary alchemists refined Qi Condensation Pills, even ten batches rarely yielded a single high-grade pill, while ruined and defective pills were too numerous to count.

Yet with the Pill Ancestor Descends to the Mortal World trait, Li Jishi succeeded in a single attempt, producing zero ruined pills and an entire batch of high-grade pills, fully displaying her Dao Ancestor-level foundation in alchemy.

Putting away the Qi Condensation Pills, Li Jishi remained calm as she turned to refining the relatively more difficult Foundation Establishment Pills.

As profound-tier pills, Foundation Establishment Pills were worlds apart in refining difficulty.

Their requirements for ingredient quality, heat control, and the fusion of medicinal properties were extremely stringent.

The slightest mistake would destroy the ingredients and ruin the pills. Even veteran alchemists from some ancient sects had success rates below thirty percent.

The primary ingredient for this pill was red-patterned lingzhi. The older it was, the more powerful its medicinal strength and the higher the chance of successful Foundation Establishment.

Li Jishi took out three high-quality red-patterned lingzhi, supplemented them with golden spike grass, purple whisker vine, and root-fortifying grass, then added pure spirit spring water and mid-grade spirit stone fragments, assembling all the supplementary ingredients.

Although the red-patterned lingzhi native to the Evergreen Sect were still young, the place where they grew was rich in spiritual essence, making one year equivalent to ten years in the outside world.

Following the ancient method, she soaked the red-patterned lingzhi to extract its liquid, ground the other supplementary herbs into powder, and placed everything in the furnace.

This differed from ordinary alchemists' rigid procedure of first boiling the liquid over a fierce flame, then finishing the pills over a gentle one.

Pill Ancestor Descends to the Mortal World came with optimal alchemical deduction, automatically adapting the refining method to best suit this batch of spirit herbs.

The heat increased gradually, activating the medicinal properties layer by layer and completely extracting the red-patterned lingzhi's power to fortify foundations and expand meridians, without the slightest waste.

During the refining process, faint black wisps of medicinal toxins appeared several times above the furnace. These were the impure baleful energies naturally present in red-patterned lingzhi, a hurdle countless alchemists struggled to overcome.

But as the Pill Ancestor's Dao resonance circulated, the black energy was instantly purified and dissolved, stripping away every negative medicinal property and pill toxin.

Only pure medicinal power remained, nourishing the dantian, widening the meridians, and stabilizing the foundation for Foundation Establishment.

After two hours of nurturing and condensing, a soft rumble came from the pill furnace.

A rich, mellow pill fragrance swept through the entire Alchemy Hall. Wisps of golden-red spiritual mist curled around the furnace, wondrous phenomena arising on their own.

The furnace lid opened, revealing twelve crimson Foundation Establishment Pills covered in fine golden markings, hovering quietly. Every one was round and flawless, brimming with spiritual energy.

Not one was defective, not one was low-grade-all were high-grade or supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills.

Supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills possessed medicinal power far beyond ordinary finished pills.

Not only could they greatly increase a Qi Refining cultivator's chances of reaching Foundation Establishment, they could also expand the dantian's capacity and stabilize the Dao foundation, eliminating the risks of an unstable foundation after Foundation Establishment and sluggish cultivation thereafter.

They could even help avert inner demons during Foundation Establishment to a slight degree, making them top-tier sacred medicines for Foundation Establishment that could only be encountered, not sought.

Li Jishi raised her hand and collected all the pills. The Pill Ancestor's Dao resonance around her slowly withdrew into her body, her expression calm and composed.

Alchemy that others could master only after years of arduous practice and repeated trial and error was now no more than a wave of her hand.

The rainbow trait, Pill Ancestor Descends to the Mortal World, had granted her more than knowledge of myriad pills.

It had also granted her the supremely perfect source of pill refinement, looking down upon the Dao of Alchemy.

From now on, no matter what kind of pill it was, as long as she gathered all the materials, she could casually refine it to the highest quality, with no more failed pills.

The B-rank Alchemy Hall's own additional bonus to alchemy success rates seemed rather like chicken ribs to Li Jishi now.

After Li Jishi finished refining a batch each of Qi Condensation Pills and Foundation Establishment Pills, Lin Feng's figure appeared in the Alchemy Hall at just the right moment.

He accepted the two jade bottles of pills Li Jishi handed him, opened them in succession, and swept them with his spiritual sense. A trace of pleasant surprise appeared on his face.

There was not a single ruined pill, nor any wasted ingredients, and even the lowest-quality pills produced were high-grade.

According to Lin Feng's knowledge, most Foundation Establishment Pills circulating in other Sect Worlds were low-grade or mid-grade profound-tier pills.

Yet the Foundation Establishment Pills produced by their Evergreen Sect were all high-grade, or even supreme-grade!

He had already figured out how to harvest the other sects in the future.

This rainbow trait, Pill Ancestor Descends to the Mortal World, was a little too heaven-defying.

Lin Feng put the pills away, his voice simultaneously carrying throughout the entire sect. "From this day forward, direct disciple Li Jishi will officially take charge of the spirit herb garden and serve as master of the Alchemy Hall, responsible for cultivating spiritual plants and herbs and refining pills for the sect."

"Effective immediately, sect contribution points can be exchanged for Qi Condensation Pills and Foundation Establishment Pills."