Hermit in the Mountains

Half an hour later, the three pets had prepared the materials and started the competition to create their artwork.

Dahuang's artwork looks like a popsicle, Dahong's artwork looks like an ice cream cone, and Qingniu's artwork looks like jelly.

Their works are all very tasteful and warm.

After a 30-minute competition, the three pets completed their artworks, each with its own merits and equally impressive results.

Sitting on a tree branch, Gu Changsheng had his back to the three pets. He didn't want to appreciate their artwork; it was too much for his eyes.

He didn't use his divine sense, since it could see more clearly than his eyes. He used his perception to check on the three pets, and then the effects of the elixir wore off.

He didn't turn around, but muttered to himself, "Big Yellow, Big Red, and Blue Ox, hurry up and bathe in the stream, get ready to go home."

"Woof, woof... woof..." (Received, received by master!)

"Gurgle...gurgle...gurgle..." (Big Red obeys!)

"Moo—Moo—" (Yes, Master!)

The three pets' voices sounded weak, as if they had run a marathon and were exhausted.

The three pets, shaking their legs, slowly walked into the stream behind them for a bath.

Gu Changsheng still didn't turn around. He braced his right hand on the tree branch and fell straight down from the ten-meter-high branch, his feet hitting the ground heavily.

The instant he jumped, he activated the "Withering and Flourishing Armor" within his body, forming a layer of gray protective energy on his skin.

"Bang!!!"

Gu Changsheng landed steadily on the lush green grass and walked towards the wooden house.

A smooth, clear, five-centimeter-deep barefoot footprint was revealed on the grass. Because a layer of protective energy enveloped the feet, the footprint had no sole lines.

Gu Changsheng returned to the wooden house with his three pets. He resumed his daily routine of cultivating, refining pills, tending the medicinal fields, cultivating spiritual herbs, and every three to five days, he would go to the back mountain under the cover of night to use the "Rain Gathering Technique" to water the saplings.

Before breaking through to the seventh transformation, he perfected the Withering and Flourishing Alchemy Method. When making medicinal paste from herbs, he used his divine sense to control the injection of "Flourishing Power" to fully stimulate the medicinal properties of the herbs and make them more effective.

Wrap the herbs in plastic wrap and seal them for several days to allow the medicinal properties of each herb in the mud to ferment and blend as much as possible, thereby further enhancing the efficacy.

The improved method of alchemy has significantly increased efficiency. Unlike before, it no longer requires injecting "Power of Glory" into each pill to activate its medicinal properties. The "Power of Glory" is now fully utilized, greatly reducing its consumption.

Because Gu Changsheng activated the medicinal properties of the herbs from the raw materials, the efficacy of the semi-finished pills exceeded the upper limit of one time, reaching twice the efficacy.

He also developed the ability to separate his body from the "Power of Withering and Flourishing" during this alchemy process.

He uses his divine sense to control the "Power of Withering and Flourishing" to launch attacks outside his body. The range of his attacks cannot exceed the boundary of his divine sense's coverage, and the furthest or most effective attack distance is seven meters.

The attack method was so rudimentary that it couldn't be simpler: it was just using divine sense to control nine-inch-long threads of "withering and flourishing power" to attack, and it couldn't be shaped into any other form.

Even the simplest divine sense control attack, the "Power of Withering and Flourishing," consumes a huge amount of his divine sense power, even more than when he uses his divine sense power to manipulate objects. It seems as if there is a force of rules in the world suppressing him, or rather, a restriction imposed by the rules of his realm.

When he uses his divine sense to control hair of the same length and weight, the amount of divine sense he consumes is only one-tenth of the power of his divine sense when controlling the "Power of Withering and Flourishing".

Therefore, the "Power of Withering and Flourishing" should be used sparingly or not at all unless absolutely necessary.

Another gain was that his understanding of the cycle of growth and decay improved. He used thirty ordinary Qi-cultivating pills to refine nine first-grade Qi-cultivating pills, increasing the success rate from 20% to 30%, which was a small achievement.

The last of the first batch of spirit pills, the Nourishing Essence Spirit Pill, was used by Gu Changsheng to try to advance to the second rank. As expected, it failed immediately. When he injected the Power of Glory into the spirit pill, the internal pill patterns collapsed and instantly lost their spirituality, triggering the phenomenon of extreme glory turning into decay.

The phenomenon of extreme prosperity turning into decay occurred far too quickly, so quickly that Gu Changsheng had no time to prepare or react.

After that failure, Gu Changsheng gave up the idea of ​​trying second-grade spirit pills and decided to focus on mastering first-grade spirit pills instead of being overly ambitious.

In just five days, Gu Changsheng used up all the medicinal materials (excluding ginseng) needed to refine the Peiyuan Pill, but reaped a great harvest.

Nine First-Grade Qi-Nourishing Elixir;

Eighteen Grade Two Qi-Nourishing Small Spirit Pills;

Thirty-six Grade One Nourishing Essence Pills.

The Lesser Elixir is a semi-finished pill used by Gu Changsheng to distinguish between a true elixir and an ordinary pill. It is graded according to different levels of efficacy.

The first grade pill has one times the efficacy of a regular pill, and the second grade pill has twice the efficacy of a regular pill.

The purpose of using the Lesser Elixir is to differentiate it from ordinary pills. Although the Lesser Elixir is a semi-finished product, it is still far superior to ordinary pills.

Although no "pill patterns" have formed inside the small elixir, it contains incomplete spiritual energy particles. Incomplete spiritual energy is still spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which is something that ordinary pills cannot compare to.

The "Yang-Boosting Pill" gave Gu Changsheng an even bigger surprise. Perhaps it was because the "Yang-Boosting Pill" had a simpler medicinal effect and a more obvious purification effect, and contained four times the amount of incomplete spiritual energy as the Grade One Qi-Nourishing Small Spirit Pill.

Therefore, the upper limit of the grade of "Yang-Boosting Pill" has reached the fourth grade of Yang-Boosting Minor Spirit Pill.

Gu Changsheng did not refine the first-grade Yang-replenishing pill. When asked, he said he didn't need it. If he didn't need it, why refine it?

He doesn't plan to further upgrade the grade of the Yang-Boosting Pill. He'll keep it at grade four for now and wait for feedback on sales before considering whether to raise the grade cap.

Nine First-Grade Yang-Boosting Elixir;

Nine Grade Two Yang-Boosting Pills;

Nine Grade Three Yang-Boosting Pills;

Nine Grade Four Yang-Boosting Pills. (Giveaway: Readers, please claim yours upon request, first come, first served!)

Besides his mastery of alchemy, the art of separating life and death from the body for attack, and his gains in elixirs, Gu Changsheng also achieved a breakthrough in his cultivation.

As the sun rises and the moon sets, and the yin and yang of heaven and earth converge, the primordial yang energy, known as "purple aura," is born and falls upon the earth.

Inside the wooden cabin bedroom, Gu Changsheng sat cross-legged, closed his eyes to meditate, and finished refining the six strands of 'purple qi' in an instant.

The 'Withered and Flourishing Dao Tree' suspended in the hazy sea of ​​consciousness began to collapse, eventually transforming into a grayish-white halo that merged into the physical body. The 'Dao Fruit' transitioned from flourishing to withering and entered the 'Dao Seed' power-accumulating state.

As the grayish-white halo merged into his body, Gu Changsheng's blood transformed into a surging river, as if each drop of blood was enveloped in a thin gray membrane, and each drop of blood contained a vital energy.

The 'Withering and Flourishing Armor' wrapped in blood resonated with the six 'Withering and Flourishing Armors' within his body, and the special shockwave power tempered his physical body.

An hour passed, the breakthrough ended, and Gu Changsheng then spent another hour stabilizing his cultivation and comprehending the changes within himself.

His physical strength alone reached 7,000 jin, which is equivalent to 3.5 tons of force.

His divine sense covers an area of ​​eight meters in radius, and his perception covers an area of ​​eighty meters in radius.

In the virtual and real life space, twenty emerald green annual rings emerged from the center of the glass life plate, and the lifespan exceeded two hundred years, with a remaining lifespan of one hundred and seventy years.