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Chapter 345, Fourth-Rank Alchemist
Hua Changxi was attacked by a cultivator at the Spirit Platform Realm. The injuries she suffered were beyond the healing power of a Grade 3 pill. She could only use spirit needles to suppress the injuries, prevent them from worsening, and to treat the wounds on her back.

To heal the injuries, one must refine a fourth-grade elixir.

[Rank 3 Alchemist (Top-Grade Pill): 9900 batches of pills refined (9900/10000)]
Hua Changxi glanced at the alchemy data. Refining 9000 batches of top-grade third-rank pills was no easy task. She squeezed in time to refine pills whenever she could, and finally saw hope of upgrading to a fourth-rank alchemist.

However, before she began refining the pills, she first summoned the Shennong Cauldron, and then took out the luminous cup.

She was worried that the Soul River water would evaporate from the Fusang Divine Tree and wanted to quickly transfer the Soul River water out of the Shennong Cauldron.

Given the similar materials of the Night-Shining Cup and the Shennong Cauldron, and considering the Shennong Cauldron's experience of absorbing all the Soul Crystals upon its first contact with them, Hua Changxi only dared to pour the Soul River water into the Night-Shining Cup little by little.

If the luminous cup absorbed all the Soul River water she had painstakingly collected, she would cry her heart out.

Fortunately, the luminous cup didn't absorb as much water as the Shennong Cauldron. After absorbing about 1000m of Soul River water, it went from being rusty to looking brand new.

Although the cup does not possess the divine aura associated with the Shennong Cauldron, it is still quite extraordinary.

After that, when more Soul River water was poured into it, the Night-Shining Cup did not absorb any more.

Hua Changxi poured all the Soul River water from the Shennong Cauldron into the luminous cup, leaving only about half a cup. The entire luminous cup has an internal space of approximately 10000 cubic meters.

"How many soul crystals can be condensed from a 5000m deep Soul River?"

She needs to find some time to experiment with the Soul River water.

One soul crystal can replenish ten points of soul power, so she can calculate how much soul power these soul river waters can provide her.

After transferring the Soul River water, Hua Changxi began refining third-grade pills, but due to her injuries, the refining speed was much slower.

At her usual pace, she could refine a hundred batches of Grade 3 pills in just a few days, working day and night. But this time, it took her more than half a month to finish.

[Rank 4 Alchemist (Low-Grade Pill): 0 pills refined 0/10]
After the data transformation, Hua Changxi's mind was filled with countless fourth-grade pill formulas, including those for healing, repairing, enhancing strength, breaking through bottlenecks, and detoxifying.

Hua Changxi's injuries were mainly due to the tearing of her physical body. She selected a pill formula called "Mother's Breath Pill" from the fourth-grade pill formulas to refine.

The Mother's Breath Pill focuses on physical reshaping, as if returning to the womb, resulting in health, strength, and continuous vitality.

However, fourth-grade pills are even more difficult to refine than third-grade pills. At first, Hua Changxi almost always burned every batch he tried to refine. After another ten days of trial and error, Hua Changxi finally succeeded in refining a batch of mid-grade Mother Breath Pills.

[Rank 4 Alchemist (Mid-Grade Pills): 11 batches of pills refined, 11/100]
Hua Changxi looked at the mid-grade Mother Breath Pill in her hand. Although she was somewhat dissatisfied with the quality of the mid-grade pill, she still swallowed it in one gulp.

The toxicity of low-grade pills is too severe; mid-grade pills are slightly better. If she could, she really wouldn't want to take them.

However, she simply couldn't refine high-grade or top-grade pills in a short period of time.

After taking the Mother's Breath Pill, Hua Changxi's injuries began to improve. That same day, her back became smooth and new, without leaving a single scar.

The efficacy of a fourth-grade medicine is truly incomparable to that of a third-grade medicine.

After her injuries were treated, Hua Changxi did not leave Lingguang Palace immediately. Instead, she took out a bath tub, poured in the Soul River water, and began to soak in it.

Inside the Xuanyuan Mansion, her soul had not yet recovered to its peak, and she needed to quickly replenish her soul power.

As soon as his body was submerged in the River of Souls, Hua Changxi began to circulate the 'Vermilion Bird Divine Technique'.

Previously, she hadn't been able to clearly sense her soul power, but now, through the reduction of the Soul River water, she deeply felt that the Vermilion Bird Divine Technique was a dual cultivation method that increased both spiritual power and soul power simultaneously.

No wonder so many cultivators are willing to join the Vermilion Bird Army. Although the Vermilion Bird Army has certain responsibilities, it is still worthwhile just for the opportunity to cultivate the 'Vermilion Bird Divine Technique'.

As buckets of Soul River water were absorbed, Hua Changxi clearly felt his soul becoming stronger.

At first, she counted the number of times the Soul River water replenished her soul power, but later, after the Soul River water was poured out too many times, she became too lazy to count and only stopped when she could no longer absorb the Soul River water.

[Realm: Nascent Soul Realm 99.99 billion/1 billion; Divine Sense: 10 million/1 million]
Seeing that her divine sense had skyrocketed from over two million points to one hundred million points, Hua Changxi was greatly surprised.

The amount of soul power her physical body could withstand had increased so much! Hua Changxi quickly figured out the reason, thinking it must be because her physical body had become stronger.

She refined the fifth chapter of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique. According to the cultivation realm, the physical strength corresponds to the Spirit Platform Realm. She also ate five Xuanhuang Fruits, so the limit of soul power that her body could withstand would reach 100 million points.

Besides that, what surprised her even more was how fast her spiritual cultivation was progressing.

She only soaked in the Soul River water for one night, which is about ten hours at most. By that calculation, her spiritual cultivation speed increased by as many as ten million soul power points per hour.

"How did you cultivate your divine sense so quickly?"

Having experience with increasing the speed of spiritual power cultivation, she didn't ponder this problem for long.

The patterns of 'the speed of spiritual consciousness cultivation' and 'the speed of spiritual power cultivation' should be the same. Each time her cultivation speed increased before, it was related to her doing things that were in line with the general trend of spiritual energy revival.

Recently, she has indeed facilitated some major events.

The discovery of the Star-Gazing Tower should be considered a significant event!
And then there's the present-day appearance of the Xuanyuan Mansion!

It must be because of these two things that her spiritual cultivation speed was so fast.

The surge in soul power that her physical body could withstand, coupled with the rapid pace of her spiritual cultivation, both made Hua Changxi extremely happy.

However, the thought that her opponent was already a cultivator at the Spirit Platform Realm quickly dissipated her joy.

Now, if she wants to continue to improve her strength, she needs to either raise her cultivation level or refine her body.

To advance one's cultivation level, one must resolve the stagnation in cultivation and open up the spiritual platform and sea of ​​consciousness.
Hua Changxi frowned. Was her inability to improve her cultivation level really due to a lack of mental fortitude?
How can I improve my state of mind?

Hua Changxi was having a lot of trouble with her mental state. She felt that mental state was too mysterious and ethereal, and completely beyond human control. All she could do now was continue to refine her body.

"Body Refinement".

The higher you go in body tempering, the more difficult it becomes.

She was able to master the fifth chapter of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique—the Blood Refining Chapter—so quickly because of two reasons: first, the drop of Vermilion Bird essence blood, and second, the consumption of five Xuanhuang Fruits.

The sixth chapter of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique—the Internal Organs Chapter—requires the coordinated function of the internal organs to achieve the effect of body refinement. Medicinal baths alone cannot strengthen the physical body; a suitable environment for body refinement is necessary, otherwise, this chapter cannot be practiced at all.

At this moment, Hua Changxi truly understood the saying, "The path of cultivation becomes increasingly difficult as you progress."

Cultivating the Dharma requires a certain state of mind; cultivating the body requires a rigorous training environment. No matter which path you choose, it is not easy.

Hua Changxi's head ached more and more as she thought about it, so she simply stopped thinking about it and turned her attention to Lingguang Hall. With a flick of her right hand, the Vermilion Bird Army roster appeared in her hand.

"25000 people!"

As cultivators from various regions flocked to the capital, the number of Vermilion Bird Army soldiers increased rapidly.

Hua Changxi sent out her divine sense and scanned the entire Lingguang Palace. Soon, her gaze fell on the Mission Hall.

She previously issued a mission to investigate the anomalies in Nanxiang County, and now many members of the Vermilion Bird Army have sent back messages.

"The area of ​​Nanxiang County has expanded, and the fire elemental energy in the air has increased significantly."

“In a valley in Nanxiang County, a spatial rift appeared. Any cultivator who approached it had their physical body immediately torn to pieces.”

"The topography of Nanxiang County is changing, with mountains rising abruptly from the ground and valleys sinking into the earth."

"In a flat and open area of ​​Nanxiang County, the sound of a waterfall could be heard. The roar was so loud that it seemed to fall from the sky, but it could not be seen with the naked eye."

Hua Changxi's eyes lit up as she looked at the feedback; she had thought of some suitable places for body tempering.

The Twelve Cave Paradise of Nanxiang City!
(End of this chapter)