Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 118: Jade Jue Extraordinary Elixir is Difficult to Refine
Seven days later, Chen Yuan walked out of the small building and looked up. The sky was clear and the spiritual storm had stopped.

The spiritual energy storm is a manifestation of the rise and fall of the spiritual energy in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain. In the next ten years, the secret realm will be filled with spiritual energy, and the restrictions in the Tiantai Peak Spiritual Medicine Garden will be difficult to break.

One must wait ten years until the energy of the spiritual veins subsides and the power of the restriction weakens before one can break the restriction and escape.

This did not bother Chen Yuan. He smiled slightly, walked slowly, and carefully counted the spiritual herbs in the valley.

There are a total of 286 spiritual medicines in the spiritual medicine garden, including 28 Yin Yang Ganoderma, 51 Seven Star Grass, 61 Angelica dahurica, and the rest are eight or nine kinds of spiritual herbs, each with more than ten plants, all of which are 300-year-old spiritual herbs.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and picked two seven-star grasses, two white angelica flowers, and one Yin-Yang Ganoderma.

This is exactly the main ingredient needed to make a furnace of Foundation Building Pills. The spiritual herbs in the valley can be used to make a total of 28 furnaces of Foundation Building Pills.

However, he obtained more than a dozen spiritual herbs from Du Yu, Gu Zhaoshi and others, which together could be used to refine thirty-one furnaces of foundation-building pills.

In addition to these three spiritual medicines, the Foundation Establishment Pill still requires two auxiliary medicines, but they are only eighty-year-old spiritual herbs. Chen Yuan bought a lot of them from the Alchemy Pavilion before entering the secret realm, which are more than enough for refining the pill.

He returned to the small building, put the five spiritual herbs aside, stroked his storage bag, and took out the alchemy furnace and ten portions of Yuhua Dan spiritual herbs.

The foundation-building pill requires three hundred year old spiritual herbs as the main ingredient, and is extremely difficult to refine, not inferior to the pills from the late stage of foundation-building.

The highest-grade elixir Chen Yuan had previously refined was the Fuling Pill, which used the hundred-year-old purple-leaf lotus as the main ingredient, and was between the Qi Refining Stage elixir and the Foundation Building Stage elixir.

If he follows the right path, he should start by refining the elixir for the early stage of foundation building, then refine the elixir for the middle stage of foundation building, proceed step by step, and finally refine the foundation building elixir.

If one tries to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill right away without any experience in refining Foundation Establishment Pills, it will be extremely difficult to succeed, and most of the spiritual medicines in the valley will be wiped out.

But apart from the recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill, Chen Yuan only had a recipe for the Yuan Enhancement Pill. The hundred-year-old spiritual herbs required for the recipe were relatively common, but there were not many of them in the secret realm.

Therefore, he could only practice with the Yuhua Pill. If he could increase the success rate to 80%, and then start refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, the probability of success should increase significantly.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and the flames under the alchemy furnace rose. The lid of the furnace was lifted and a spiritual medicine flew into the furnace.

After seven days of recuperation, his damaged consciousness was completely restored and would not affect his alchemy.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, spread his spiritual awareness, carefully controlled the flame, purified the elixir, and began to refine the pill.

Before this, he had refined hundreds of furnaces of Yuhua Pills and knew them by heart. In less than seven days, he had refined a furnace of pills, a total of seven pills.

He immediately took one pill, closed his eyes and meditated. After his magic power was restored, he began to refine the second batch of Yuhua Pills.

Two months passed like this, and Chen Yuan refined eight furnaces of Yuhua Pills in a row, finally raising the success rate to 80%. His alchemy skills reached a new level.

Crossing this threshold would prove that he had the hope of becoming a master of alchemy in the future. Then, when he returned to Lingyun Sect, the Alchemy Pavilion would no longer dare to turn him away.

Chen Yuan put away the two spiritual herbs, swallowed a Yuhua Pill, closed his eyes, regulated his breathing, and restored his magic power.

Although his alchemy skills had improved, it was not yet time to refine the foundation-building pill.

Chen Yuan had thirty-one spiritual herbs in his hand, so it was not difficult to refine the foundation-building pill.

But he was a cultivator with five spiritual roots, and it was difficult for him to break through the bottleneck with just a few foundation-building pills.

Chen Yuan also didn't know how many foundation-building pills he had to take in order to successfully build his foundation, so the more pills he made, the better, and no spiritual herb should be wasted.

Two hours later, Chen Yuan walked out of the small building and looked up.

It was already midnight, and the sky was full of dazzling stars.

He reached into his arms and took out the jade pendant hanging on his chest, with a hint of nervousness in his eyes.

Under the shining starlight, the jade beads emitted a faint green light. The stars in the sky shone together, converging into a ray of starlight, passing through the forbidden light curtain and falling on Chen Yuan.

A cool and numbing feeling came, and after twenty breaths, the starlight dissipated, and all the magic power in Chen Yuan's body was consumed.

He immediately released his spiritual sense, feeling the spiritual sense expanding by an inch, he was determined in his heart and a smile appeared on his face.

The jade beads were indeed extraordinary. Even in the secret realm, they could still draw starlight into their bodies and strengthen their spiritual awareness.

The success rate of refining the foundation-building pill has increased a bit.

……

Five years passed in a flash.

On this day, Chen Yuan sat on a cushion, his eyes like a deep pool in a calm lake, deep and unfathomable. He was calm and composed, and maintained his unity of purpose.

In the past five years, he has drawn starlight into his body six hundred and thirteen times, and his spiritual consciousness has expanded to sixty feet, and it is difficult to advance any further.

During this period, he carefully studied the recipe for the Foundation Building Pill and became familiar with the alchemy process by heart. It was time to start refining the pill.

He waved his sleeves, and two angelica flowers flew into the alchemy furnace. Flames rose and wrapped around the furnace.

Chen Yuan spread out his spiritual sense and controlled the flame. The temperature in the alchemy furnace rose, and spiritual liquid slowly seeped out from the surface of the two angelica flowers.

A quarter of an hour later, the two angelica flowers each exuded a drop of turbid spiritual liquid. Chen Yuan frowned slightly, his expression solemn.

It is worthy of being a three hundred year old spiritual herb, but it is so difficult to purify it.

Three days later, the two angelica flowers turned into a ball of pure spiritual liquid, flew out of the furnace, and fell into a jade bottle. Chen Yuan raised his hand and waved, and two seven-star grasses flew into the furnace and began to purify the second spiritual herb.

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Seven days later, Chen Yuan opened his eyes, raised his hand and waved it. The furnace cover rose up and a ball of spiritual liquid in black and white colors flew out.

During these seven days, he purified the Seven Star Grass, Yin Yang Ganoderma, and two auxiliary medicines, leaving only the final step of condensing the pill.

The five three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs are full of spirituality, and purifying them takes a lot of effort.

Especially the Yin-Yang Ganoderma, which contains a trace of Yin-Yang energy formed by a mixture of Qian Yang essence and Kun Yin turbid energy. Although it is a three hundred year old spiritual herb, its spirituality is comparable to that of a five hundred year old spiritual herb, and it is extremely difficult to purify.

Even though Chen Yuan had extraordinary spiritual awareness, he was mentally exhausted after these ten days.

The difficulty of refining elixirs for the late stage of foundation building with Qi training was beyond his imagination.

Fortunately, purifying spiritual herbs is a simple process, and Chen Yuan is experienced in alchemy, so he will not make mistakes in this step.

The most difficult stage is the Dan Ning stage.

The process of refining elixirs for the Foundation Establishment Stage is different from that for the Qi Refining Stage. When refining the elixir, a trace of spirituality needs to be injected into the elixir before it can become a elixir.

At this time, the alchemist spends a lot of energy, and the opportunity to inject spirituality is fleeting and extremely difficult to grasp. If it is too early, the spirituality will be weak and insufficient to condense the pill; if it is too late, the spirituality will be too strong and will deprive the pill of its medicinal power, thus destroying the pill. Therefore, it is extremely difficult.

Chen Yuan's mind was circulating the method of condensing the elixir, his expression was solemn, he raised his hand and waved it, five jade bottles flew up, pouring five kinds of spiritual liquids into the furnace, flames rose slowly and wrapped around the furnace body.

Five days later, the five kinds of spiritual liquids mixed into a fist-sized ball, black and white in color, which slowly rotated in the furnace.

The time for pill condensation has come. Chen Yuan changed the spell in his hand and shouted softly:
"Congeal!"

The flames outside the furnace turned from red to white, and the spiritual liquid in the furnace trembled gently, dividing into ten balls about the size of a thumb, gradually condensing.

Just when the ten balls of spiritual liquid were about to turn into pills, a gleam of light flashed in Chen Yuan's eyes. He raised his hand and a ray of bright spiritual light passed through the pill furnace, split into ten rays, and was injected into the ten balls of spiritual liquid.

The spiritual light entered the body, and the ten pills paused slightly. Suddenly, a brilliant spiritual light burst out, and turned into ten elixir qi, which disappeared into smoke.

Seeing this, Chen Yuan sighed lightly, withdrew his magic power, swallowed a Yuhua Pill, closed his eyes and regulated his breathing.

After fifteen days of refining the elixir, he had consumed too much of his consciousness and magic power, and he was a minute late in injecting spirituality into the elixir. As a result, the spirituality in the elixir was too strong, which robbed it of its medicinal power, and he failed to condense the elixir.

The flames slowly went out, and the alchemy furnace fell back to the ground. The mist surrounding the furnace became noticeably thicker.

The elixir energy nourishes the furnace. Every time Chen Yuan refines the elixir, he is warming up the elixir furnace.

Chen Yuan has carried this furnace with him for many years and has refined elixirs hundreds of times, with both success and failure. Every time, more or less elixir energy is emitted, which makes the quality of the furnace more and more outstanding, and it has become a rare treasure furnace.

I don’t know how much elixir energy will be released when refining the foundation-building pill this time. The quality of this furnace needs to be improved a lot.

Three hours later, Chen Yuan's magic power was restored. He walked out of the small building, picked five spiritual herbs, and began to refine the second batch of pills.

After he took the Yuhua Pill, he only practiced martial arts for two hours before all his magic power was restored.

For the remaining hour, he silently reviewed the first alchemy process in his mind, especially the last step of condensing the pill. He thought about it carefully, summed up his experience, and only started the alchemy furnace again when he felt he had gained something.

Fifteen days later, the second batch of foundation-building pills reached the final stage of solidification.

When the ten pills were about to solidify, Chen Yuan saw the right opportunity, raised his hand and released a ray of spiritual light, which flew into the furnace, split into ten rays, and injected into the ten black and white pills.

The pill trembled slightly, and the light on its surface suddenly dimmed. It silently turned into ten streams of Dan Qi and dispersed into the wall of the Dan furnace.

Chen Yuan frowned, withdrew his magic power, the flame went out, and the alchemy furnace fell to the ground.

He stroked his storage bag, took out a Yuhua Pill, swallowed it, closed his eyes and regulated his breathing.

Chen Yuan learned from his last experience and deliberately injected spirituality in advance, but the timing was a bit too early, and the spirituality of the pill was weak and not enough to condense the pill, so it failed again.

Two hours later, Chen Yuan's magic power was fully restored. He silently reviewed the second pill-condensing process several times, went to the valley to pick five spiritual herbs, and began to refine the third batch of foundation-building pills.

This time, the timing for injecting spirituality was a little late again.

Chen Yuan was not discouraged. After recovering his magic power, he began to refine the fourth batch of pills.

Then came the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth... all the way up to the twenty-second furnace, all failed.

The difficulty of refining the foundation-building pill far exceeded his imagination.

When each furnace of elixir is condensed, the timing of injecting spirituality is different, and it must be just right, neither too early nor too late, neither too strong nor too weak.

Chen Yuan's spiritual awareness is not as good as that of a foundation-building cultivator, nor is it solid enough. It is extremely difficult for him to accurately grasp the opportunity when he is refining the elixir for more than ten days and consuming a lot of energy.

But he was not an ordinary Qi-refining cultivator after all. His spiritual awareness was twice that of his peers. After refining twenty-two furnaces of elixirs, he had accumulated rich experience and vaguely understood the key to infusing spirituality.

Chen Yuan waved his sleeves, and a Yin-Yang Ganoderma flew into the alchemy furnace. The flames rose and wrapped around the furnace body, and he began to refine the twenty-third furnace of Foundation Building Pills.

(End of this chapter)