Chapter 63: The艱難 of Alchemy

losing. He couldn't see through Shen Xiang more as time passed.Teng Ying and Shen Xiang didn't know each other long, but Shen Xiang saved Teng Ying. When he was still at Taiwu Sect and mixed with Yun...The 63rd Chapter: The Difficulty of Alchemy

The martial arts factions numbered many and were all in opposition to each other, eager for the slightest mistake from their opponents and using it to their advantage. To his surprise, Shen Xiang found that even young martial artists of the Eighth Stage Firmamental Realm like Zhang Long were not being taken seriously. This could only mean that there must be many powerful martial artists within these factions, and those who were being taken seriously would surely have a bright future.Peace returned, allowing Shen Xiang to focus on learning alchemy without distraction. He did not take the True Energy Pill that Su Meiyao and Bai Yoyou recommended for when he reached a bottleneck. They believed that it would be of great benefit to him.After the Medicine Clan's pill business was taken over by Shen Clan, the prices dropped significantly. This made many martial artists very happy and supported Shen Clan wholeheartedly. From this aspect, the Shen Clan had won many hearts, which would greatly benefit their future development.In this world, the law of the jungle was normal. The Medicine Clan's accumulated wealth was now all under Shen Clan! This was also the Medicine Clan's own fault. If they hadn't opposed Shen Clan, things would still be fine for them.After merging with Medicine Clan, Shen Xiang was now not lacking in spirit herbs to refine pills. He was currently gathering some spirit herbs from Medicine Clan's garden, preparing to use them for refining Ordinary-grade Upper-class pills. The process of refining these Ordinary-grade Upper-class pills not only required a significant increase in difficulty, but the spirit herbs also needed to be more precious.The types of Ordinary-grade Upper-class pills were not numerous, and among them, only a few are commonly used. These are especially useful to martial artists, and the refinement difficulty is also very high. Such pills must be mastered by alchemists when learning to refine higher-level pills. When Shen Xiang started learning to refine more advanced pills, he chose these types of pills first."The status of Ordinary-grade Upper-class pills is somewhat awkward! How should I put it In the real martial arts world, there are usually more martial artists of the Firmamental Realm Ninth Stage and above, who are richer. These people have extremely high requirements for pills, so when they buy them, they generally do not choose Ordinary-grade pills. Instead, they prefer Spirit-grade Lower-class ones, and the amount purchased is very large. They also get great benefits from taking these pills," Su Meiyao said.Shen Xiang asked, "So in those martial arts factions, don't the Firmamental Realm Eighth Stage and Ninth Stage martial artists have a lot of money"Su Meiyao replied, "Of course. Therefore, they can only afford Ordinary-grade Upper-class pills. But you have to know that the effect of Ordinary-grade Upper-class pills on Firmamental Realm Ninth Stage and Eighth Stage martial artists is not very obvious.""So, all you need to do is master a few of those more expensive Ordinary-grade Upper-class pills. Mainly the Nourishing Qi Pill, Grand Unity Pill, and Transformation Essence Pill," Su Meiyao said.Shen Xiang was familiar with these pills. They were indeed among the more expensive Ordinary-grade Upper-class pills, and their effects after consumption were also very obvious, extremely useful. The Nourishing Qi Pill primarily improved the quality of true qi, allowing some martial artists to further refine their true qi purity.The Grand Unity Pill was a pill that improved cultivation. After taking it, one could obtain large quantities of spiritual energy and directly cultivate a significant amount of true qi without worrying about thin spiritual energy or the quality of the spirit veins.The Transformation Essence Pill could directly turn true qi into spiritual strength, which was mainly to strengthen the divine awareness for the purpose of cultivating and strengthening it.Shen Xiang had the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace, which could accelerate time inside the furnace. This allowed him to save a lot of time when refining these high-grade pills.It was known that some pills could take years, even decades to refine successfully. However, the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace could shorten this time for Shen Xiang.First, he refined the Grand Unity Pill because he was going to use it to increase his cultivation. He could only enter Firmamental Realm Ninth Stage before he could go to those major factions.The main ingredients for the Grand Unity Pill were three, although not many. But they needed to be five hundred years old or more. The auxiliary ingredients were twenty, with the oldest being a hundred years and the youngest at least fifty to sixty years old. This showed how precious the Grand Unity Pill was. If it failed, the pill master would cry for a long time."This fruit-like fruit really is hard to deal with!" Shen Xiang began refining, using Medicine Clan's original herbs. There were only four portions, each worth tens of thousand Daolin coins.Although the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace could make flames more suitable for refining pills and allowed him to control temperature more freely, he didn't know how much heat the spirit herbs could withstand. Nothing would work without any godly furnace.Shen Xiang divided his divine consciousness into twenty several, controlling twenty groups of flames to burn twenty types of spirit herbs simultaneously. These herbs needed to be ground into powder at the same time, and it couldn't vary too much. Shen Xiang also had to use his heart's mightiest efforts to gather various medicinal energy from the spirit herbs. It was very exhausting, but the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace could save him divine consciousness, as he didn't have to refine pills and restore his divine consciousness at the same time.Shen Xiang's divine consciousness seemed to have passed a whole day inside the furnace, but outside had only passed a few minutes because time flowed faster inside the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace than outside!"My ass! It's all over!" Shen Xiang was sweating, cursing as he stared at the colorful vapor rising from the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace.This was tens of thousand Daolin coins, all turning into smoke. Shen Xiang was lucky that he didn't cry."Sure enough, the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace. It didn't explode," Su Meiyao giggled and said."Mei-yaoyao Senior Sister, stop teasing me!" Shen Xiang grumbled.It was because he burned the spirit herb called Iron Core Fruit, causing him to fail. The Iron Core Fruit was so tough that he couldn't imagine how unbreakable it was, not burning even when he increased the flames. This made him immediately increase the flame's intensity, but to his surprise, the Iron Core Fruit exploded in an instant, and the spiritual energy that gushed out mixed with other powder from spirit herbs and medicinal energies inside, causing various reactions. It finally exploded and spewed out of the exit of the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace."I told you that fruit was hard to deal with. I fell into the trap of that dull fruit many times back then," Su Meiyao stuck her tongue out at him, still laughing as she spoke.Every time Shen Xiang refined pills, Su Meiyao would come over and stay with him. Sometimes she would wipe Shen Xiang's sweat, sometimes gloat when someone else failed, and sometimes encourage him. Occasionally she would flirt or tease Shen Xiang, a pure young man.Shen Xiang pouted and said, "You can afford to fail, but I can't. There are only three materials now."He admired Su Meiyao's rich resources when she learned alchemy, being able to fail so many times."Good brother, don't lose heart. I was just remembering the old days and feeling nostalgic," Su Meiyao walked over with a silk towel, wiping away his sweat with a sweet smile.Shen Xiang sucked in Su Meiyao's refreshing body fragrance, feeling her delicate jade hands lightly touching his face from time to time. This made him feel something indescribably wonderful.After resting, Shen Xiang continued to refine pills…The second time he tried, he failed again, still failing during the handling of Iron Core Fruit.The third time, he successfully solved Iron Core Fruit but failed in controlling the powder and medicinal energies of multiple herbs when condensing pills. This resulted in a small explosion inside the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace!"My god, I am such a wastrel. Within two hours, almost four hundred thousand Daolin coins have evaporated," Shen Xiang lay on the floor as he watched the light vapor floating in the secret chamber, feeling heart pain."Surely you're the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace. It didn't explode in just two hours," Su Meiyao giggled."Mei-yaoyao Senior Sister, don't tease me," Shen Xiang grumbled.It was because he burned the Iron Core Fruit again during refines that caused him to fail. After failing, he managed to solve the Iron Core Fruit problem but couldn't control the fusion of powder and medicinal energies from multiple herbs when condensing pills. This led to a small explosion inside the Inflamed Dragon Treasure Furnace!"My god, I'm such a wastrel. Within two hours, almost four hundred thousand Daolin coins have evaporated," Shen Xiang lay on the floor as he watched the light vapor floating in the secret chamber, feeling heart pain.paring large-scale Pill refinement in the future.Long Xueyi said, "Qili big sister, if we sell the new four sacred Pills, how will it be"Lyu Qili smiled and said, "Our shop will definitely become famo...