Cultivating Immortality Through a Hundred Lifetimes in Both Realms

"It's still a long way off." Jiang Yun shook his head.

He has only just refined one top-grade third-level pill. There is still a long way to go before he can advance to the third-level alchemist.

"You haven't yet formed your core, so you can't use the Golden Core True Fire to refine pills," Zhou Hongde couldn't help but sigh.

"With your talent in alchemy, if you successfully form a core and condense the Golden Core True Fire, you will definitely be able to advance to the third-level alchemist."

Jiang Yun nodded slightly; these words were indeed insightful.

When one breaks through from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment stage, one can condense the Foundation Establishment True Fire.

When one breaks through from the Foundation Establishment stage to the Core Formation stage, one can condense the Golden Core True Fire.

Both Foundation Establishment True Fire and Golden Core True Fire can be used for alchemy.

However, the power of Foundation Establishment True Fire is comparable to that of Earth Fire, and using Foundation Establishment True Fire for alchemy for a long time consumes a great deal of energy.

Therefore, after Jiang Yun broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, he never used the Foundation Establishment True Fire to refine pills, but only used Earth Fire.

Furthermore, the power of Earth Fire and Foundation Establishment True Fire is naturally inferior to that of Golden Core True Fire.

If Jiang Yun had the help of the Golden Core True Fire, he would probably have already become a near-third-level alchemist.

Unfortunately, the Golden Core True Fire can only be generated when one breaks through to the Core Formation stage.

Jiang Yun, with his Foundation Establishment stage cultivation, naturally needed more time to break through to the third-tier Alchemist level.

At this moment, Zhou Hongde mentioned the matter of breaking through to the third-level alchemist, and suddenly remembered something.

He quickly flashed away, retrieved two storage bags, and handed them to Jiang Yun.

Inside the storage bag was 320,000 yuan worth of stones.

Zhou Hongde handed the spirit stones to Jiang Yun and said in a deep voice, "After I leave, you will be the Supreme Elder of the clan, and you can draw on the clan's spirit stones at will."

Jiang Yun sighed inwardly, accepted the spirit stones, and understood Zhou Hongde's intention.

To advance to the third-tier alchemist level, one needs to spend a large amount of spirit stones to purchase medicinal herbs.

Zhou Hongde was about to leave the city to seek a Core Formation partner, and his fate was unknown. He would never be able to personally deliver the Yuan Stone to Jiang Yun again.

After that, Jiang Yun was promoted to the position of Supreme Elder of the family, with power greater than that of the clan leader, second only to the ancestor Zhou Ren.

This was to tell Jiang Yun that he could focus on his attempt to become a third-tier alchemist, and that if he didn't have enough spirit stones, he could go back to his family to get more.

Jiang Yun had mixed feelings. He couldn't help Zhou Hong with the matter of Core Formation, so he could only leave it to fate.

Three days later, Zhou Hongde left Maple Leaf City and headed to an unknown place to seek the formation of his core and a destined connection.

Jiang Yun saw him off, accompanying him for more than twenty miles outside the city before returning to Maple Leaf City.

That said, this was Jiang Yun's first time leaving the city to see Zhou Hong off.

After returning to Maple Leaf City, Jiang Yun went straight to the Pill Hall of the Purple Cloud Sect and entered the pill refining room to refine pills.

"With family matters settled, let's continue refining the Thousand-Refined Jade Bone Pill."

"There are still twenty-two portions of medicinal herbs left. I hope I can successfully advance to the third-level alchemist."

After sitting in meditation for several days and adjusting his mindset, Jiang Yun took out the medicinal herbs and began to refine the Thousand-Refined Jade Bone Pill.

Although the last time he successfully refined the top-grade Thousand-Refined Jade Bone Pill, it was mostly due to luck, but it also allowed Jiang Yun to absorb a lot of successful experience.

Following these successful experiences, he gradually became familiar with the refining of the Thousand-Refined Jade Bone Pill.

Day after day, they continued their alchemy, oblivious to the passage of time.

Before we knew it, twelve years had passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the alchemy room where Jiang Yun was located was still filled with the fragrance of pills, which clearly indicated that some pills had been successfully refined.

After the pills were successfully refined, Jiang Yun immediately began collecting them.

He then placed the pill into the jade bottle and couldn't help but smile knowingly.

"After twelve years, I've finally advanced to a near-third-tier alchemist!"

For the past twelve years, Jiang Yun has been operating the furnace approximately twice a year.

After consuming half of the twenty-two medicinal herbs, he finally increased the success rate of refining the Thousand-Refined Jade Bone Pill to over 70%, and officially advanced to the quasi-third-level alchemist.

"It's a pity I don't have the Golden Core True Fire, otherwise refining a batch of third-grade low-level pills would save at least half the time."

Jiang Yun shook his head and put all the pills into his storage bag.

Afterwards, he stood up and walked out of the alchemy room, standing in the empty square outside the alchemy hall to ponder.

"To become a true third-tier alchemist, one still needs to master the refining of two types of low-grade third-tier pills."

"I need to exchange for two more low-grade third-tier pill formulas before I can continue my attempt to become a third-tier alchemist."

"However, it seems we don't have enough contribution points."

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun patted his storage bag, and his identity token transformed into a stream of light and flew into his hand.

He steadily caught the identity token and checked it, discovering that his contribution points were less than 10,000.

Zhou Yun, Contribution Points: 9423

The last time I exchanged for the recipe for the Thousand-Refined Jade Bone Pill, it cost a full 20,000 contribution points.

Jiang Yun currently only has 9,400 contribution points, far from enough to exchange for two third-tier pill formulas.

"By the way, disciples of the Pill Hall are also inner disciples of the Purple Cloud Sect, so they can exchange pill formulas for cheaper prices, and they also receive a stipend of 500 contribution points plus 3 mid-grade spirit stones every year."

"The mid-grade spirit stones will be delivered to my cave by the Pill Hall manager, but I need to collect the contribution points myself."

"Over these twelve years, I can also collect six thousand contribution points."

Since refining that top-grade pill, Jiang Yun has been promoted to a disciple of the Pill Hall, which is also an inner disciple of the Zixiao Sect.

Now he can exchange for a third-grade low-level pill formula without needing 20,000 contribution points.

The salary received over the past twelve years, plus the original 9,400 contribution points, might be enough to exchange for a third-tier pill formula.

So, Jiang Yun flashed and flew towards Merit Peak.

The Merit Peak of the Zixiao Sect houses the Merit Hall.

The so-called Hall of Merit is actually the headquarters of the Mission Hall.

Normally, both inner and outer disciples of the Zixiao Sect accept and submit tasks at the Merit Hall.

At the same time, the Hall of Merit is also where disciples from each peak receive their contribution points.

That's why a large number of cultivators come and go here every day.

Jiang Yun didn't linger; he went straight to collect his contribution points.

The steward in charge of distributing contribution points has late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation.

When Jiang Yun took out his identity token and stated that he wanted to collect his contribution points, the steward was taken aback.

"Senior brother."

The steward quickly bowed and asked cautiously:

"My twelve-year salary is 6,000 contribution points. Do I still need to collect another 72,330 contribution points?"

Jiang Yun was also taken aback upon hearing this.

Where did these 72,300 contribution points come from?

"Junior brother, where did these 72,330 contribution points come from?" Jiang Yun couldn't help but ask.

"Senior brother," the steward said respectfully, "the jade slip records that these contribution points are all obtained from selling the formulas for Qi Nourishing Pills and Qi Condensation Pills."

"Oh?" Jiang Yun was delighted and asked, "Did anyone else exchange for these two pill formulas later?"

"Senior brother, you may not know this, but both of the pill formulas you developed are pills that restore mana, and the demand for them is enormous during the Blood Moon Night."

"So later, many people in Maple Leaf City's 49th Ward exchanged for these two pill formulas," the steward patiently explained.

"I see, that's a pleasant surprise."

Upon learning of this, Jiang Yun was overjoyed and immediately instructed the steward to distribute all the contribution points to him.

"Collect them all!"