Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 93: % Success Rate
"Going out on adventures and exploring secrets is still too troublesome and dangerous. It's far better to farm and refine a few furnaces of elixirs!"

Li Ye said with a smile and opened the panel casually.

[Name: Li Ye]

[Spiritual Roots: Low-grade Earth and Wood Spiritual Roots]

[Age: 26 years old]

【Lifespan: 82 years】

【技能：种植二阶下等（211/7000）、丹药一阶上等（927/8000）、炼器未入门（125/2000）、符箓二阶下等（277/8000）、蛊术一阶中等（312/4000）、阵法一阶中等（427/8000）】

[Plant Spiritual Essence: Blood Spiritual Essence*600, Fiery Sun Spiritual Essence*5, Evergreen Spiritual Essence*60]

[Spiritual Essence Entries: Vitality Level 1, Absorption Level 1]

【Experience: 4245】

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If there were no Sky Realm Tree, Li Ye might still hesitate whether to continue improving his formation realm.

But with the Sky Realm Tree as the center of the formation, the Green Vine and Green Wood Formation is now extremely stable and infinitely close to the second-level, which saves him a lot of trouble.

In order to master the skill of refining foundation-building pills, his primary goal was to upgrade his alchemy skills to the second level. He didn't have to worry about retaining experience points and could just invest directly.

Bits of inspiration emerged from his mind, giving him more insights and improving his skills.

Closing his eyes for a moment, Li Ye glanced at the accumulated proficiency of the elixir reaching 5172, and nodded.
"If we maintain this pace, we'll be able to achieve a breakthrough in the Dao of Alchemy within this year..."

As a magical rice, Xuelai rice can be grown twice a year, but Changqinghua rice needs at least one year of cultivation before it can reach maturity.

In the future, the experience points and the feedback of spiritual essence will most likely not be synchronized.

As for the second-level spiritual field, its growth cycle is longer and its scale has not yet been developed. It is a long-term cultivation plan and there is no need to consider the issue of returns for the time being.

"But sixty Evergreen Spirit Essences aren't that many... Refining the Green Wood Pill consumes about ten Evergreen Flowers. So, let's try using five auxiliary essences at once and see how effective they are. Then we can make adjustments..."

After all, unless you are willing to use spiritual essence to replace the corresponding main medicine like you do when refining Qi and Blood Pills, the more this thing is, the better.

Even if it can promote the integration of medicinal power, too much of it can easily destroy the balance of medicinal power in the pill formula and cause greater losses.

After the improvement just now, although his alchemy skills have not changed qualitatively, it is still a small improvement. Li Ye naturally has a better understanding of the experience he gained in refining Qingmu Dan in the past.

This judgment is almost certain!

He went straight to the underground fire cave on the mountainside. As soon as he opened the restriction, a rolling heat wave hit him in the face.

Li Ye's face lit up with delight. "The underground fire here is truly stable, and the temperature it reaches far exceeds that of a fire lit with spiritual wood. It truly is a place that can replace the innate true fire of a Foundation Establishment cultivator... It truly is a treasured place for alchemy!"

"Even the only initial drawback, the slightly flawed formation restriction for summoning the earth fire, has now been resolved by me, and is enough to sustain me all the way to foundation building..."

He was very adept at using the restrictions he had rearranged.

He sealed the cave and went straight into the depths as if he knew the way. He came to a fire pit where only a faint fire was flowing. He took out a red alchemy furnace and threw it into it.

As his alchemy level improved, the temperature of the furnace required for Li Ye's refining also increased. The low-grade alchemy furnace he bought in Baibaoju that year could not withstand such high temperatures, so he had replaced it long ago.

This alchemy furnace, purchased by chance in a market on the way to the Red Land Mountains, is already of top-grade quality, capable of withstanding the intense heat of the earth's fire and allowing for easier flame control. A spell was cast, activating the formation. The earth's fire in the fire pit surged, pouring into the alchemy furnace, raising its temperature to the desired level in just a few moments.

Although the evergreen flowers in the field had just been planted, it did not prevent Li Ye from purchasing some medicinal materials for the elixir.

One by one, processed elixirs were put into the pot to extract the essence, and the various medicinal liquids were blended little by little under high temperature.

In this way, most of the day had passed.

Li Ye was still full of energy. He mixed out five evergreen spiritual essences with long-lasting fragrance at the right time.

As soon as it was incorporated, the medicinal liquid instantly became harmonious, the blending progress increased rapidly, and a faint fragrance like flowers and wood leaked out of the furnace.

"Sure enough! Using the Changqing Spiritual Essence, which has a compatible medicinal property, to assist in refining, the effect far surpasses the Cuiya Spiritual Essence and Lingsang Spiritual Essence..."

"The medicinal power is so well-blended... the pill isn't even fully formed yet, yet there aren't even a few impurities left!"

This is different from Qixue Dan and Zimo San, which are recipes that require sufficient investment and have a good success rate as long as no mistakes are made.

The difficulty of refining Qingmu Dan is much higher. In the past, Li Ye tried it with first-level superior skills, but even with the help of spiritual essence, the success rate was not high.

But now it seems that the spiritual essence used before was not suitable enough!
If Qingmu Dan can reach this level, then he can directly use the spiritual essence of the main medicine to refine the foundation-building pill, and the effect will be no worse than this!

"No...it should also be the effect of the underground fire here, making the medicinal power more pure and reducing the invisible impurities..."

Li Ye's expression of surprise even showed a bit of fanaticism, forcing him to use the secret method of Qian Nian Yan Shen Jue to calm his mind and maintain control.

"open!"

As the fragrance of the elixir grew from light to strong, and then from strong to light, the medicinal power in the furnace was fully refined. The time had come, and Li Ye immediately ignited the fire in the furnace.

The alchemy furnace opened, heat waves surged out, and twelve elixirs flew into the jade plate in a line.

Then only one of them became dim in color.

The remaining six are light green, three have one line, two have two lines... and one has three levels of lines!
"Not only did we not waste any pills, but we also produced two extra pills. That's enough to make half of the pills have patterns... Does this count as a 120% success rate?"

Li Ye was stunned looking at the pills.

The optimization effect produced by the superposition of many conditions, can even this level of top-grade elixir achieve such an astonishing output?

The profit gained from refining one furnace is far beyond imagination!
"It seems that these five spiritual essences have indeed reached the optimal balance..."

He murmured, "If that's the case, these sixty spiritual essences should be enough for me to break through to the eighth level of Qi training and sustain me until the next maturity..."

"As for the many extra finished medicinal pills... Taoist Heimu can also distribute some of them to other markets from time to time to accumulate spirit stones for purchasing more foundation-building spiritual medicines..."

Thinking of this, Li Ye shook his head again.
"It's true that going out for adventure is not as good as staying at home and farming. The gains from ordinary cave dwellings are probably not as high as the returns from this furnace of pills!"

He stood up slowly, walked straight to the tree in the sky, sat cross-legged, took out a Green Wood Pill with a pattern, swallowed it, and then calmed his mind and began to practice.

The Sky Realm Tree swayed gently, and quietly, the spiritual energy here seemed to become a little more active, converging towards Li Ye.

Invisibly, the efficiency of practice is slightly improved.

(End of this chapter)