Chapter 127: Limitation
s indeed clear that Shen Xiang’s flames were very powerful.“Yuan Lan, don’t think that you’re the only one improving. I won’t be slower than you!” Shen Xiang smiled and said, “Your Ice Cold Force is i...Chapter 127: Bottleneck
When refining Foundation Establishment pills for the first time, Shen Xiang failed, but he discovered that the difficulty of refining Foundation Establishment pills was indeed the same as Spirit Grade High-grade pills. Before, he refined True Qi pills and White Jade Powder pills ten times each, although all failed, but accumulated experience in dealing with high-grade Spirit Medicine. Otherwise, he could not refine for more than an hour using the Flame Dragon Treasure Pot, which equaled half of the refining process.
Others would not try to refine Foundation Establishment pills without having refined Spirit Grade High-grade pills first. Even if they were going to refine Foundation Establishment pills, they would first refine Spirit Grade Low-grade pills. If those alchemists knew that Shen Xiang started to use so many Foundation Establishment pills ingredients, they would curse him.
For these materials, Shen Xiang said that he never lacked them. As long as given time, they had unlimited quantities. If he planted a seed, he could plant them into a large area through Dragon Resonance Secret Art. For example, within less than one month, he had planted more than twenty Qingxuan fruits!
Along with learning how to refine Foundation Establishment pills, Shen Xiang also condensed Dragon Resonance Secret Art. He was worried that his materials were insufficient to refine Foundation Establishment pills.
Time passed, and after more than twenty days, Shen Xiang had already failed fifty times refining Foundation Establishment pills. He only had eight ingredients remaining.
"Foundation Establishment pills are harder than White Jade Powder and True Qi pills. I feel like I am about to succeed!" Shen Xiang was somewhat excited at this moment, after many failures, he finally grasped a little of that subtle feeling.
Before this, Su Meiyao had passed on her experience to Shen Xiang, letting him pay attention to some crucial aspects that could save him from many roundabout ways!
In this situation, Shen Xiang was getting closer to success. He only needed the final step of condensing pills, and he was confident that if he succeeded in refining Foundation Establishment pills, it would be much easier for him to refine True Qi pills and White Jade Powder pills.
The Flame Dragon Treasure Pot shone with red blood light, sometimes releasing hot air. Shen Xiang placed his hands on the designated places for alchemists to pour in flames, True Qi, and spirit consciousness.
In Shen Xiang’s mind was a sea of flames. Various Spirit Medicine were being burned with different temperatures inside, slowly turning into powder and releasing colorful Spiritual Energy. The Spiritual Energy floated above, violent and turbid, being squeezed together by Shen Xiang’s spirit consciousness to mix and purify them!
Meanwhile, he also had to integrate those powdery ingredients in the sea of flames together. He couldn’t allow even a tiny bit being burned, otherwise, all his efforts would be in vain. This was an examination of the alchemist’s spirit consciousness.
After ten days and nights of burning in the Flame Dragon Treasure Pot, just half an hour had passed outside. Even though it didn’t completely blend together, the ingredients were still not fully mixed!
With time passing by, Shen Xiang was already sweating profusely and his body was soaked. His True Qi was very thick, so he didn’t have to worry about the consumption of True Qi. However, his spirit consciousness was exhausted because he had to deal with many small powdery ingredients and calm the violent medicinal Spiritual Energy together!
Finally, all the powdery ingredients were squeezed together using Shen Xiang’s spirit consciousness. The violent Spiritual Energy of Medicine calmed down slowly and gradually blended together, this was the most critical step. He had to do it in one go, making Spiritual Energy and medicinal powder blend together before condensing pills. He couldn’t make a single mistake, if there wasn’t enough Spiritual Energy or let even a tiny bit of medicinal powder disperse, it would be a failure.
Shen Xiang failed many times on this step!
The Spiritual Energy and medicinal powder blended together, Shen Xiang slowly condensed the powder into a pill using spirit consciousness. During this time, he added one drop of Dragon Resonance Secret Art at the end and started entering the final step. He had failed many times during this critical moment earlier.
The Flame Dragon Treasure Pot was trembling. The sweat flowed down Shen Xiang’s face like rain, his eyebrows were tightly knit and his face was somewhat pale. At this moment, he could clearly see that the almost formed Foundation Establishment pill in the Flame Dragon Treasure Pot was vigorously shaking, ready to explode at any second.
Su Meiyao’s jade hand tightly tore apart a silk scarf while pursing her lips, watching Shen Xiang anxiously. Bai Youyou also stared at him with her cold but bright beautiful eyes, full of encouragement!
"Is it going to fail again This kind of situation has happened more than ten times. Could this be my bottleneck, a mental bottleneck My spirit consciousness isn’t enough, I need to break through!" Shen Xiang thought in his heart. At this moment, his spirit consciousness was almost dry, but he had to continue.
Even though the spirit consciousness also played an important role in normal situations, for example, some martial arts required extremely high requirements on spirit consciousness and needed to condense the released True Qi together, otherwise, True Qi would disperse. But in this situation, his spirit consciousness was sufficient enough, but when refining weapons and pills, alchemists would fail if their spirit consciousness wasn’t sufficient enough, especially when refining High-grade pills or Spiritual Patterns in Spiritual Tools.
The exhaustion of the spirit consciousness was like a person who didn’t have energy, unable to fully utilize his strength. He would even fall into a state of drowsiness, Shen Xiang’s spirit consciousness was at the limit now and he didn’t know how to support himself.
When feeling like collapsing, Shen Xiang circulated Taiji Dragon Suppressing Secret Art, controlling the thick True Qi in his body to vigorously impact his meridians. This made him suffer severe pain, keeping him awake while merging True Qi and spirit consciousness to quickly form spirit consciousness!
Shen Xiang’s body was being tortured by himself, his skin oozed blood mixed with sweat emitting a strange smell. Su Meiyao and Bai Youyou knew why he did that.
"Don’t force yourself! Give up!" Su Meiyao sighed softly, unwilling to see Shen Xiang continue self-torture.
Give up Shen Xiang knew that he wouldn’t succeed, not only in refining Foundation Establishment pills but also unable to break through his bottleneck!
He thought of how the Pill Elder used unparalleled strength, making him powerless to resist, and how Lei Xiaoyun humiliated him and trampled his dignity. He told himself that he had to persevere no matter what, he wanted to get stronger! He wanted to refine Foundation Establishment pills, this was the only way for him to advance temporarily to True Martial Realm!
Now, Shen Xiang was sweating and bleeding for staying awake! He continuously stabbed his body to keep himself conscious!
Shen Xiang gradually became aware of consciousness, but in his subconscious mind, spirit consciousness was constantly condensed and suppressed the restless Foundation Establishment pill inside the Flame Dragon Treasure Pot.
Unknowingly, Shen Xiang suddenly felt that his body lost sensation. No matter how he tortured himself, he couldn’t feel pain anymore. Shen Xiang suddenly woke up and found himself in a white light space, amazed that he saw a baby in the space. It was so small, like an infant just from birth. The baby was tightly closed its eyes and looked very cute.
Then, the baby opened his eyes abruptly. Shen Xiang trembled suddenly because he could see what the baby saw!
The baby smiled at him, Shen Xiang left this strange space and returned to refining pills again. He was surprised by the discovery that his spirit consciousness was very abundant, much more powerful than before and seemed never to be exhausted!
Both Su Meiyao and Bai Youyou felt somewhat strange. They originally thought that Shen Xiang was going to give up, but saw him smiling confidently!
Only moments later, Shen Xiang opened his eyes and said crazily: "Haha… I refined Foundation Establishment pill!"refine a Super Spirit Qi Pill and carve spiritual patterns on it! It can assist me in absorbing the Celestial Qi here. I intend to devour this Chaos Mountain."Shen Xiang had quietly collected Mythic G...