Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 143: Entering the Dan Pavilion Again to Refine the Spiritual Pill

After seeing off Mo Jingchun and Yi Jin, Chen Yuan meditated all night and came to the Alchemy Pavilion the next morning.

He needs to take part in the alchemy test and refine a furnace of foundation-building pills before he can enjoy the treatment of an alchemy master.

In the Lingyun Sect, hundred-year-old spiritual herbs are extremely scarce. Only the alchemy masters can spend good deeds or spiritual stones to purchase spiritual herbs from the Alchemy Pavilion. Other foundation-building cultivators can only pay a high price to buy elixirs directly.

If Chen Yuan passes the alchemy test, he can purchase three hundred-year-old spiritual herbs every five years.

This may not seem like much, but there are more monks than porridge. The Lingyun Sect has at least twenty or so alchemy masters and more than two hundred cultivators in the early stages of foundation building, all of whom need hundred-year-old spiritual herbs. Being able to exchange three herbs every five years is already a lot.

In addition, he can also accept alchemy tasks and refine pills for the sect. As long as the success rate is above 40%, he can keep the excess pills for himself.

However, according to Yi Jin, these alchemy tasks were issued to the alchemy masters themselves, and Chen Yuan, an outsider, had no chance of getting one.

Chen Yuan didn't care about it. He took part in the alchemy test just to have an extra way to buy spiritual herbs. He didn't care about one or two pills.

After he arrived at the Alchemy Pavilion, he explained his purpose and was led to the second floor by the disciple on duty to receive the token for the alchemy assessment.

The person in charge of this matter is the white-faced monk that Chen Yuan met when he participated in the third-level alchemy assessment twelve years ago.

He still had an impression of Chen Yuan. When he saw him coming to take the alchemy master assessment, he was immediately surprised: "You are already an alchemy master? How is that possible?!"

But this time, Chen Yuan was not as respectful as before, and said calmly: "Why, can't Chen become a master of alchemy?"

He is already a foundation-building cultivator, so there is no need for him to act like a junior in front of this person.

The white-faced monk also knew that he had spoken out of turn. He felt ashamed and angry. He took out a storage bag and threw it over. He then turned to look at the disciple on duty next to him and said, "Tell the disciples guarding the Earth Fire Hall to check carefully and not miss anything."

The disciple on duty responded respectfully. Chen Yuan had a blank expression on his face, as if he did not hear these words that were directed at him.

According to Yi Jin, these alchemy masters are in charge of the Alchemy Pavilion and do not need to compete with others. On weekdays, many people come to them to ask for elixirs. They are arrogant and ignorant of the ways of the world and will not tolerate any disobedience.

Chen Yuan still needed to purchase spiritual herbs from the Alchemy Pavilion, and didn't want to fall out with him, so he could only endure it for the time being, but his attitude naturally wouldn't be very good.

He took the storage bag, turned around and left without saying a word. Accompanied by the disciples on duty, he came to the Earth Fire Hall. He handed the storage bag to the person guarding the Earth Fire Hall, entered a second-class Earth Fire room, and started to refine the elixir.

There is a spiritual herb for Zengyuan Pill in the storage bag. As long as Chen Yuan can refine three Zengyuan Pills, he will pass the alchemy test.

This was not difficult at all for Chen Yuan. Although he had never refined Zengyuan Pills, he was able to refine Foundation Building Pills that were equivalent to the late Foundation Building Pills. He was confident after just recalling the pill formula.

Twelve days later, Chen Yuan opened the alchemy furnace in front of him. Five white pills flew out of it, and a thick pill fragrance slowly dissipated.

Zengyuan Pill is only a pill for the early stage of foundation building. It is much simpler to refine and takes three days less time than refining the foundation building pill.

He walked out of the Earth Fire Room, took back his storage bag, and then went to the second floor of the Alchemy Pavilion. He handed the three Yuan Zeng Pills he had refined to the white-faced monk, and secretly kept the other two pills.

The white-faced monk stared at the Zengyuan Pill in his hand, checked it over and over again, and finally reluctantly took out a wooden sign symbolizing the master of alchemy and handed it to Chen Yuan.

He wanted to find some problems in the pills, but these three Zengyuan Pills were surrounded by a dense elixir aura, and it was obvious that they were pills that had just been produced within three days. They had just met this condition and were of excellent quality. Chen Yuan could only pass the alchemy test.

After Chen Yuan obtained the alchemy master's token, he immediately spent three hundred spirit stones in exchange for three hundred-year-old spirit herbs for refining Zengyuan Pills.

Afterwards, he received three Zengyuan Pills based on his status as a core disciple.

According to the rules of the Lingyun Sect, core disciples who are in the early stage of foundation building can receive three Zengyuan Pills from the Alchemy Pavilion every ten years for cultivation.

Once you become a deacon disciple, you will lose this benefit.

However, if your cultivation level increases, the number of pills you receive will gradually decrease.

According to Shen Danmei, she can only receive two mid-stage foundation-building pills every ten years, and Sun Congyao can only receive one.

As for the elders who have reached the stage of forming a golden elixir, the elixir they cultivate requires five hundred year old spiritual herbs, which are extremely rare. Even if one adds in the output from the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, it would be good enough to get one or two every ten years.

Moreover, this is the elixir made from all the spiritual herbs that Lingyun Sect has accumulated for 500 years. Disciples in the late foundation-building stage can exchange the elixir with spiritual stones and good deeds. If cultivators in the Jindan stage want to obtain more elixirs for cultivation, they can only look for them on their own.

That's why Ji Bin couldn't wait to accept Chen Yuan as his disciple. He could get ten eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs and dozens of five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs at once, which could save him decades of hard training, and was extremely important for a Jindan cultivator.

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After Chen Yuan received the elixir, he came to the Earth Fire Palace and spent 150 spirit stones to rent a second-class Earth Fire Room for three months.

He came to take part in the alchemy test not only to exchange spiritual herbs, but also because only the master of alchemy could rent a second-class earth fire room.

The earth fire in the second-class earth fire chamber is more refined and stable, and more suitable for refining foundation-building pills.

Chen Yuan promised Sun Congyao and Yi Jin that he would refine the pills for them as soon as possible.

He followed the order of easy first and difficult later, refining Yi Jin's Qingning Pill first. Qingning Pill was more difficult to refine than Zengyuan Pill, but Chen Yuan still maintained a 50% success rate.

He had previously told Yi Jin that maintaining a 40% success rate in making pills was still a bit conservative.

When Chen Yuan was refining the foundation-building pill, he was not yet a foundation-building cultivator, his magic power was weak, and his spiritual awareness was not solid enough.

Now that he has successfully established his foundation, refining elixirs for the foundation-building stage has become much easier.

The pure and stable underground fire reduced Chen Yuan's consumption of mana and spiritual consciousness a lot, and also increased the success rate of pill success.

A month later, the two furnaces of Qingning Pills were refined. Chen Yuan put eight of the pills into a jade bottle and put the other two pills away separately.

After that, he did not immediately start refining the Yuliang Pill. Instead, he took out three furnaces of spiritual herbs for the Nanguan Pill, carefully studied the pill formula several times, and then started refining the pill.

Like the Qingning Pill, the Nanguan Pill is a mid-stage foundation-building pill, and is much easier to refine than the Yuliang Pill.

Chen Yuan planned to practice with the Nanguan Dan first, and then refine the Yuliang Dan.

When they first met, Sun Congyao gave him a piece of black iron essence. Regardless of their friendship as fellow disciples, he really owed him this favor.

He wanted to refine as many Yuliang Pills as possible from this furnace to repay Sun Congyao's favor.

With the experience of refining Qingning Dan, Chen Yuan became much more skilled when refining Nanguang Dan.

It took him only twenty-six days to refine the first two batches of pills, with a success rate of 50% each.

When refining the third batch of Nanguan Dan, Chen Yuan became more proficient and the success rate increased to 60%.

After refining three furnaces of pills, he obtained a total of sixteen Nanguan Pills. Together with the three bottles of Zengyuan Pills he had obtained before, they were enough to support his practice for several years.

Chen Yuan showed a hint of smile, put away the Nanguang Pill, closed his eyes and regulated his breathing for a day, constantly pondering the recipe of the Yuliang Pill in his mind. After his condition recovered to its peak, he took out the spiritual herbs and started to refine the pill.

He refined thirty-one furnaces of foundation-building pills in a row in the secret realm, which was an experience that could not be replicated. It would be impossible for him to have hundreds of three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs to squander in the future.

Every time you refine a late-stage foundation-building elixir, it is a valuable experience that should not be taken lightly.

What's more, this furnace of elixirs was requested by Sun Congyao, so we have to treat it with more care.

During the alchemy process, Chen Yuan was fully focused and took every step with extreme caution. After fifteen days of sleepless nights, he finally reached the stage of condensing the elixir.

He suddenly opened his eyes and pointed a point. A ray of bright light flew into the alchemy furnace, split into ten rays, and was injected into the pill.

The six pills trembled slightly and turned into pill energy that dissipated.

But the remaining four pills were shining brightly and slowly solidified into shape.

A smile appeared on Chen Yuan's lips. He raised his hand and raised the lid of the furnace. Four pills flew out and landed in Chen Yuan's hands.

The four pills are the size of a thumb, bright yellow in color, with strange patterns on them, and a misty gas is floating around, with a lingering fragrance and a compelling aura.

Chen Yuan's success rate in refining elixirs for the late stage of foundation building has increased to 40%!
He was in a good mood and took out three of the Yuliang Pills and put them into a jade bottle. He put the last pill away separately.

It was worth it for him to practice with three furnaces of Nanguan Dan first. The extra Yuliang Dan could at least save Sun Yaocong several years of hard training, which was enough to repay the favor of Xuantiejing.

It happened that the lease of the Underground Fire Room had expired. Chen Yuan left the Underground Fire Hall, returned to the cave, and sent a sound transmission message to Sun Congyao.

It just so happened that Sun Congyao was inside the mountain gate, and in less than quarter of an hour, he arrived at Yunyin Peak.

Chen Yuan took out the jade bottle, handed it to Sun Congyao, and said with a smile: "Brother Sun, I am glad to have fulfilled your mission. Please take a look at these three Yuliang Pills."

"Three?"

Sun Congyao's expression changed slightly. He took the jade bottle, opened the stopper, poured out three bright yellow pills, looked at them carefully, and couldn't help but show joy on his face.

He had previously asked an alchemy master to refine the Yuliang Pill, but the pill refined by Chen Yuan this time was much better than the one refined by the alchemy master, which exceeded Sun Congyao's expectations.

But he immediately remembered the agreement he had made with Chen Yuan, and frowned, "Brother Chen, I made an agreement with you that after refining the Jade Beam Pill, you could keep one for yourself. Why did you give all three pills to me?"

According to the rules of alchemists, they will not make pills for others in vain. Usually, they will leave a pill behind as a resource for alchemy.

Sun Congyao has an upright character. Even though it is not easy to collect spiritual herbs, he does not want to let his fellow junior brothers suffer.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly, stroked his storage bag, took out a jade bottle, poured out a bright yellow pill, and said, "Brother Sun, please look, I have refined four Jade Beam Pills this time, and I have kept one. These three pills should belong to you."

(End of this chapter)