Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 163 Refining the Gold Condensing Pill

Gu Mo confronted the Red Sand Demon for a moment, and then the Red Sand Demon turned and left. Although she still had some trump cards that she had not used, she had indeed lost the fight just now.

This means that the young human master in front of her is not so easy to deal with. Even if she uses all her means to win, it will only be a miserable victory.

Being injured, especially those injuries that can affect combat effectiveness, is definitely something that many great monsters want to avoid at all costs. After all, once you become weak, you will become the target of other great monsters.

This is one of the cruel rules of this sea area. Even top-level monsters like the Red Sand Monster are not immune to it. Only the high and mighty monster kings can slightly escape this rule.

As for the Red Sand Demon, he still has hope of becoming the Demon King, so it is naturally impossible for him to fight to the death here, which would lead to injuries and damage his foundation, and would affect his future breakthroughs.

Compared with the impact on the bottleneck of the demon king, the death of Xuanshui Zhenren seemed not so important. The Red Sand Demon obviously knew how to make choices. If he didn't know how to make choices, he wouldn't have lived so long.

Seeing the Red Sand Demon retreat, the other demons that came to help also quickly dispersed after their initial surprise, fearing that if they walked too slowly, they would be caught up and killed by the great human from the Cancer Islands.

After a while, the evil clouds covering the Cancer Islands dissipated, and the bright sunshine shone again.

"As expected of a great master, he was able to force back the red sand monster!"

At this moment, several Jindan Zhenren who were watching from afar were filled with shock. The strength displayed by the great Zhenren Gu Mo, who was able to force back a thousand-year-old monster like the Red Sand Monster, was enough to show that his combat power was definitely at the same level as the opponent.

With such a great god in charge, the Cancer Islands should be able to remain peaceful for a long time in the future. For human monks who make a living in the sea, a safe place that is not attacked by sea monsters is very important.

"It seems that we need to improve our strength as soon as possible."

Compared to the joy of those Jindan Zhenren, Gu Mo was worried in his heart. He could feel that the Red Sand Demon had not used his full strength. Of course, Gu Mo was not afraid of the current Red Sand Demon.

What really worries Gu Mo is whether the continuous development of the Cancer Islands will attract the existence of demon king level in the future.

Forcing back the Red Sand Demon can only be considered a temporary peace. If one wants to truly gain a foothold in the sea, one must have the strength to face the Demon King head-on.

Only when the demon king is helpless against you can you have true peace.

To achieve this is a bit difficult for Gu Mo, whose real realm is only the foundation-building stage. Of course, if there is enough time and Gu Mo is willing to invest, he can create third-level top-grade cherry bombs, winding water plants and other plants. Even if he cannot defeat the Demon King, there is still hope that he can make the Demon King helpless.

The 3rd-grade spiritual land where Gu Mo is now located has no problem cultivating 3rd-grade top-grade plants. I just don't know when the Cancer Islands will be noticed by the demon king.

If the time is long enough, Gu Mo can prepare slowly, but he is afraid that the Demon King will come too quickly and not give Gu Mo enough time, so Gu Mo chooses a backup plan.

That is to improve one's own cultivation realm first. As long as one enters the Golden Core realm, then even if the Demon King comes, Gu Mo can still run away if he cannot defeat him.

Having practiced the wind escape technique, Gu Mo still has some confidence in his escape. With the help of the large formation around the island and the blocking of plants, it shouldn't be a problem for him to escape from the demon king.

In order to ensure that this breakthrough is foolproof, Gu Mo plans to refine the Golden Pill first. During this period, Gu Mo has refined a lot of Level 3 pills, especially after he got the Ice Flame Stump, Gu Mo's alchemy skills have skyrocketed. Now Gu Mo feels that he should be able to try refining the Golden Pill.

After the Golden Elixir is successfully refined and his cultivation has successfully entered the Golden Elixir realm, Gu Mo will upgrade a wave of tier-3 top-grade plants. Then he will be able to rest assured.

"Well, let's practice with this commission."

Returning to the spiritual field on the small island, Gu Mo took out an alchemy commission. This was an alchemy commission from Shi Yunjie from the Hongshan Islands. The elixir that the other party wanted to refine was the Ningjin Pill.

It’s just that the quality of the materials prepared by Shi Yunjie is a bit poor. It’s okay to use it for training, but it’s difficult to refine high-quality pills.

"If I fail this time, I'll give him another one then." Gu Mo threw Shi Yunjie's spiritual materials into the alchemy furnace. He was not sure if he could succeed the first time, but he had a lot of materials to refine the Golden Pill. In addition to the collection contributed by General Jin Zha, there was also the reward for the alchemy commission.

With no shortage of spiritual materials in hand, Gu Mo naturally did not have to worry about the failure of refining. At worst, he could wait for the next success and then supply another one to Shi Yunjie.

There is a probability of failure in alchemy, so it doesn't matter if Gu Mo doesn't make up for it, but alchemists will basically try their best to ensure that the client can get the required elixir.

After all, failure in alchemy will damage the reputation of the alchemist. If the number of failures increases, no one will come to place orders. If the alchemist cannot receive any alchemy commissions, he will be out of money.

Gu Mo's current success rate of alchemy commissions is 100%. Every cultivator who commissioned a commission received the required elixir. Of course, Gu Mo's alchemy success rate is still not 100%, and there are failures, but Gu Mo's alchemy cost is very low. Even if it fails, he can just refine one more furnace, which will not have much impact.

If it were an ordinary alchemist, the loss of a failed furnace would have to be borne by the client, and if he had to bear it himself, he would probably feel heartbroken for a long time.

As for the fact that this reduces the success rate of alchemy commissions, as long as the alchemist can guarantee a relatively high success rate, people will place orders. It is too difficult to guarantee a 100% success rate, and few alchemists can do this.

But Gu Mo can do it, with a 100% success rate in alchemy commissions. Such terrifying alchemy skills make the cultivators of the Cancer Islands come to ask Shi Yuwei every day when Gu Mo, the alchemy master, will accept commissions again.

But they were destined to be disappointed. After accumulating enough proficiency in refining tier-3 pills, Gu Mo no longer accepted new alchemy commissions.

Next, Gu Mo will concentrate on studying the refining of the Golden Pill to prepare for the breakthrough to the Golden Pill realm. He no longer has time to be distracted by refining the pill.

Therefore, those fake alchemy and external alchemy cultivators who had chosen to run away when they heard that the Red Sand Demon was coming, were now regretting it to the core.

I had finally queued up, but they cancelled my order. Now the master won’t accept my order again.

In addition to the return of those fake elixir and external elixir cultivators who had fled before, the news that Gu Mo had repelled the Red Sand Demon spread, attracting more human cultivators living in the sea area.

This makes the Cancer Islands change every day. As the number of monks increases, markets are established and various facilities to serve the monks appear one by one.

The Cancer Islands have now become a fairyland for the sea monks. The human monks in the sea used to live under the threat of sea monsters and lead a life of fear.

Even if they got any treasure, they would not be able to find anyone to trade with. After all, the most common creatures in the sea are mermaids, and they can't just go and trade with mermaids.

Now that the Cancer Islands are here, the pent-up buying and selling potential of the sea monks has been ignited, making the newly built market in the Cancer Islands very popular. It is not an exaggeration to say that they make a fortune every day. The rich output of the sea has a way to be converted into cash here, which allows many monks to collect spiritual materials and treasure mines in the sea to exchange for cultivation resources. Don't underestimate such a channel, it is absolutely of great significance to those casual cultivators without background, which gives them hope to go further.

Of course, Gu Mo’s share of the revenue from the market town of the Cancer Islands is inevitable. After all, without the great master Gu Mo in charge, there would be no peace in the Cancer Islands, and naturally there would be no market town.

Gu Mo did not refuse this extra income. Although Gu Mo did not need any elixirs to assist in his cultivation and could save a lot of money, it did not mean that he did not need to spend money in other places.

For example, Gu Mo is in urgent need of a good alchemy furnace now. Although the one in his hand is also a magic-level alchemy furnace, it is not enough now, especially after Gu Mo obtained the ice flame stump. Every time he uses the ice flame to make alchemy, Gu Mo needs to control the power of the ice flame to the minimum.

For fear that the ice flame would be too powerful and would directly freeze the alchemy furnace, the torch tree stump could control the power of the flame. After the torch tree stump was fused with the ice flame, it could also control the power of the ice flame.

Otherwise, it would not be so easy for Gu Mo to use the strange fire to make pills. Everyone knows that the strange fire is powerful, but taming the powerful strange fire to make pills and refine weapons is a big deal. Many alchemists and weapon refiners are lucky enough to get the strange fire.

It takes a lot of time to tame the strange fire, but Gu Mo used the torch stump to skip this step and could use it to make pills immediately.

However, the bottleneck that now restricts Gu Mo's alchemy skills from further improvement has become the alchemy furnace. Gu Mo also asked Shi Yuwei to explore the newly opened market, but no alchemy furnace was found. He thought that there was not even an alchemist in this sea area, let alone an alchemy furnace.

If Gu Mo wants an alchemy furnace, he can only save money and go to the world of immortal cultivation to buy one.

"It's done!"

Gu Mo's first attempt at refining the Golden Pill came to an end quickly. The fact that the furnace did not explode showed that the refining was quite good. There was a hint of medicinal fragrance in the furnace, indicating that the pill was successful, but its quality was questionable.

After casting a spell, the alchemy furnace opened, and Gu Mo saw a somewhat deformed pill in the furnace. It was obviously an inferior pill.

Inferior pills are flawed pills. Although they have some of the effects of genuine pills, they also have significant shortcomings.

But for those cultivators who have reached the great perfection of foundation building and are unable to break through to the golden elixir realm, even inferior elixirs are quite attractive. After all, using inferior elixirs is better than using no elixir at all.

Some monks who have reached the great perfection of foundation building are well aware that if they do not use elixirs to break through, they have almost no hope of breaking through. If they force their way to the golden elixir stage, they will fail and die. If they do not try to break through the golden elixir stage, they will die slowly as their lifespan decreases.

At this time, if there is a gold-condensing elixir, even if it is of inferior quality, they will take a gamble. As long as they succeed by chance, without expecting a gold elixir, as long as they can achieve a fake elixir, they can prolong their lifespan for hundreds of years.

Theoretically, this inferior pill could be used to complete Shi Yunjie's alchemy commission, but Gu Mo didn't want to ruin his reputation, so he had to at least hand over a genuine Ningjin Pill.

The first time Gu Mo tried to refine the Golden Pill, he produced a poor quality pill. This was enough to prove his current attainments in alchemy. Of course, the powerful assistance of the ice flame and the torch stump was also indispensable.

With experience, Gu Mo did not hesitate. He adjusted his state slightly and immediately started the second refining. This time, Gu Mo used spiritual materials of extremely high quality.

a roundabout.

Shi Yunjie stood outside the island with some excitement. Just now he received a notice from Shi Yuwei, asking him to come over to get the elixir. Shi Yunjie only had one kind of elixir that he was entrusted with, and that was the Ningjin Pill.

At this moment, Shi Yuwei asked him to come and get the pills, which meant that the commission was successful. With the Jindan, he could strive for the Jindan realm.

Shi Yunjieka has been in the state of foundation building perfection for a long time. If Gu Mo had not appeared, he would have tried to force a breakthrough before his lifespan affected his condition.

Now that he has condensed the golden elixir, Shi Yunjie feels that he has a better chance of reaching the golden elixir realm.

"Alliance Master Shi, this is your elixir!"

Shi Yuwei handed a jade bottle to Shi Yunjie. At this moment, Shi Yuwei's aura was no longer at the Qi Refining Stage, but a real Foundation Building Stage.

In just a few years, Shi Yuwei went from being a mortal with spiritual roots to a foundation-building cultivator, and all of this was thanks to Gu Mo.

Shi Yunjie knew this best. Originally, Shi Yuwei was just a sacrifice sent to the giant lizard monster, but now she has become a big shot in the Cancer Islands. Everyone who sees her has to nod and greet her, even those Jindan cultivators.

Because Shi Yuwei represents that great immortal.

"Hu~~"

Suppressing his wild thoughts caused by excitement, Shi Yunjie carefully opened the jade bottle. The next moment, a strong elixir fragrance overflowed. Then, Shi Yunjie saw a round pill with golden elixir patterns.

"Ningjindan, it's a genuine Ningjindan!"

Shi Yunjie held the jade bottle tightly. At this moment, Shi Yunjie had already seen the Golden Elixir Avenue waving at him.

"Miss Yuwei, may I make a breakthrough here?" Shi Yunjie looked around vigilantly. Holding the treasure in his hand, Shi Yunjie was very worried that someone would come to snatch it after he left the island.

Moreover, a safe place is needed to break through a higher realm, and there is no place in the Cancer Islands that is safer than here, and the spiritual energy here is also the most abundant.

"Alliance Leader Shi, aren't you going to make some preparations? It is unwise to make a breakthrough in a hurry." Shi Yuwei reminded.

"It doesn't matter. I've been preparing for this day for many years." Shi Yunjie waved his hand.

"Then I'll ask for your advice, Senior."

When Shi Yuwei returned to the mist, she naturally reported the matter to Gu Mo. Upon learning that Shi Yunjie wanted to break through here, Gu Mo agreed directly. After the golden elixir was successfully refined, Gu Mo also had to prepare to break through to the golden elixir. Now he could observe how other cultivators broke through the golden elixir realm, which was naturally excellent.

To this end, Gu Mo directly marked out a 3rd-level spiritual vein for Shi Yunjie to use for breakthrough.

(End of this chapter)