Cultivating Immortality Through a Hundred Lifetimes in Both Realms

At the age of forty-four, Jiang Yun experienced his first blood moon in this world.

He is now 141 years old.

If you calculate the time, there are only three years left until the next blood moon.

In other words, the blood moon will descend in the year Jiang Yun turns 144.

At that time, all cultivators in Maple Leaf City will need to work together once again to survive the Blood Moon.

"The blood moon will arrive in three years."

"Let's put aside the matter of breaking through to the Core Formation stage and becoming a third-tier alchemist for now."

"These three years are perfect for consolidating my cultivation and refining Qi-restoring pills for the Zixiao Sect."

Jiang Yun thought for a moment.

With the blood moon approaching, everything else can wait; let's get through this blood moon safely first.

Otherwise, it's all just empty talk.

After all, the Blood Moon is a calamity for the world of gods and immortals.

This calamity occurs only once every hundred years. If the city cannot survive the blood moon, the entire Maple Leaf City will cease to exist.

In order to get through this blood moon, the Pill Hall of the Purple Cloud Sect began preparations twenty years ago.

This applies to both disciples and worshippers of the Pill Hall.

Every second-tier mid-grade alchemist must begin refining Qi-Condensing and Qi-Returning Pills.

For the past twenty years, and for the next three years, Jiang Yun may not need to refine second-grade high-quality pills, but he must refine the Qi Condensation and Recovery Pill.

"In that case, then focus on consolidating your cultivation and refining the Qi Condensation and Recovery Pill."

"We'll plan our attempt to become a third-tier alchemist and achieve the Core Formation stage three years from now."

Having made up his mind, Jiang Yun got up and walked out of the cave, then flew out of the Zixiao Sect and arrived at the Zixiao Mountain Range.

"After reaching the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, one's magical power increases dramatically, and one's physical body is also greatly enhanced."

"I wonder how much my spiritual sense has increased this time."

With a thought, Jiang Yun unleashed his full divine sense.

Within the Zixiao Sect, there are array formations everywhere, and even the cave dwellings of Golden Core cultivators.

Any spiritual sense attempting to pass through these formations and caves would be blocked from entering in an instant.

Therefore, it is impossible to accurately estimate the strength of the spiritual consciousness of someone who has reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

Jiang Yun had no choice but to go to the Zixiao Mountains to test it.

At this moment, a powerful divine sense spread outwards.

One hundred zhang, two hundred zhang, three hundred zhang.

They still hadn't stopped after reaching three hundred feet.

Jiang Yun could see everything clearly as his divine sense continued to spread forward.

It didn't stop until it had spread to 395 zhang.

"A spiritual intensity of 395 zhang?"

Jiang Yun was somewhat surprised.

Unexpectedly, upon breaking through to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, the intensity of his divine sense increased so much, now approaching four hundred feet.

"When I first broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, my spiritual sense strength was 232 zhang."

"As the liquid mana condensed, the strength of the divine sense increased to 330 zhang when there were 98 drops of liquid mana."

"Now that I have condensed ninety-nine liters of liquid mana and broken through to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, my divine sense has actually increased by sixty-five zhang."

Jiang Yun was very satisfied with this.

"The spiritual strength of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator at the Great Perfection stage is generally around 280 zhang."

"If one reaches three hundred feet, one can be considered an elite disciple of the sect."

"I'm 395 zhang tall, so I should be considered a prodigy of the sect, right?"

Without cultivating the methods of spiritual sense, if one breaks through to the Core Formation stage, the strength of one's spiritual sense will reach over 500 zhang.

Jiang Yun, who had not yet formed his core, already possessed a spiritual strength of 395 zhang, making him one of the best among Foundation Establishment cultivators at the Great Perfection stage.

After assessing the strength of his divine sense, he did not linger in the Purple Cloud Mountain Range, but returned to his cave to consolidate his cultivation.

Besides consolidating his cultivation, his other daily task was to refine Qi-Condensing and Qi-Returning Pills.

The Pill Hall requires that the furnace be opened once a month to refine the Qi Condensation and Rejuvenation Pill, and twenty-four pills be submitted at the end of the year.

Of course, all the medicinal materials used to refine this Qi-Condensing Pill were provided by the Pill Hall.

For the past twenty years, and for the next three, the Pill Palace has provided Jiang Yun with eighteen portions of ingredients for the Qi Condensation and Qi Returning Pill every year.

Eighteen portions of medicinal herbs, based on the alchemist's 70% success rate standard, are enough to successfully refine twelve batches of Qi-Condensing and Qi-Returning Pills.

However, this is only the success rate of ordinary alchemists.

They usually use up eighteen portions of medicinal herbs every year, leaving almost nothing behind.

Jiang Yun, however, is different; his success rate in refining the Qi Condensation Pill is far higher than 70%.

"It is less difficult for a second-tier high-grade alchemist to refine a second-tier mid-grade pill."

"In addition, my alchemy skills have improved over the years, and my success rate in refining the Qi Condensation Pill is close to 90%."

"Over the past twenty years, I have managed to save four portions of medicinal herbs each year. These herbs are then used to refine Qi-Condensing Pills, which has earned me quite a bit of spirit stones."

The Pill Palace provided eighteen portions of medicinal herbs, requiring only that Jiang Yun submit twenty-four Qi-Condensing Pills annually.

Twenty-four pills and twelve portions of medicinal herbs are sufficient.

With a 90% success rate, a 10% failure rate means wasting two portions of medicinal herbs.

Twelve portions of medicinal herbs were successfully refined, two were wasted, and four remain.

Therefore, Jiang Yun can save four portions of medicinal herbs every year.

"This Qi Condensation and Qi Restoration Pill is not expensive among second-grade mid-level pills, costing only 470 yuan stones per serving."

"Therefore, the utilization rate of medicinal materials is not high. Each portion of medicinal materials can only produce a maximum of three pills, and most of the time it can only produce two pills."

"Over the past twenty years, we have saved eighty portions of medicinal materials and achieved a 90% success rate in refining seventy-two batches of pills."

"Seventy-two batches of pills were produced, and three pills were successfully formed twenty times, so I have a total of one hundred and sixty-four Qi Condensation and Qi Returning Pills."

In his cave, Jiang Yun took stock of his gains from alchemy over the years.

Three mid-grade spirit stones a year are naturally consumed entirely by cultivation.

The greatest fortune he accumulated in the past twenty years was 164 Qi-Condensing Pills.

"Each Qi Condensation Pill can be bought for 1,500 Yuan Stones."

"One hundred and sixty-four stones is two hundred and forty-six thousand yuan stones."

"There's no time to lose; we need to sell these pills before the blood moon."

The Blood Moon will arrive in three years, and the Zixiao Sect is currently purchasing large quantities of Qi-Condensing Pills.

The pill shops in Maple Leaf City's 49th Ward are also acquiring these pills.

This was Jiang Yun's secret income, essentially the extra money he made in the Pill Hall through his own abilities.

If they wanted to sell these pills, they naturally couldn't sell them directly to the Purple Cloud Sect.

Therefore, it still needs to be sold to the elixir shops in the Forty-Nine Wards.

"Sell the pills you have first, and we'll talk about the rest in three years."

With that thought in mind, Jiang Yun quietly left the Zixiao Sect and went to the 49th Market of Maple Leaf City to sell pills.

To be on the safe side, Jiang Yun would change his voice and appearance every time he entered a workshop, and then sell pills.

In half a month, he left his mark on all forty-nine wards of Maple Leaf City, selling approximately four pills in each ward.

Of course, in addition to the 164 Qi Condensation Pills, we also sold the second-grade high-quality pills Yin Yang Cloud Rain Pill and Myriad Spirit Pill.

A total of 170,000 stones of second-grade superior pills were sold.

Auctions were originally held in some markets and neighborhoods.

Jiang Yun could have sold the pills at an auction, but he thought it would be a waste of time, so he didn't.

After a month, he sold all the pills except for four Qingxin Mingwu Pills.

Jiang Yun now possesses over 410,000 spirit stones.