Lonely Immortal

Zhang Zhiwen met Zhao Tieqing again. Seeing that Zhang Zhiwen came empty-handed, Zhao Tieqing was not surprised. Instead, he happily took a bunch of medicinal materials for Zhang Zhiwen.

"Brother Zhiwen, thank you very much. By the way, it is not easy for senior to refine the elixir. We understand very well. I have also tried to refine the Peiling Pill, but now the recipe of the Peiling Pill is rarely circulated in the market. We just figured it out based on the prescription provided by the thief Lin Wei. We have been tinkering with it for more than a month, but it still doesn't work in the end. So please don't worry, just concentrate on refining the elixir."

Zhao Tieqing's words made Zhang Zhiwen a little embarrassed, but at this point, Zhang Zhiwen accepted the medicinal materials first.

After saying goodbye to Zhao Tieqing, Zhang Zhiwen returned to his residence. This time, he still agreed to meet Zhao Tieqing ten days later, and Zhang Zhiwen simply refined all these medicinal materials into Peiling Pill.

This time, the amount of medicinal materials Zhao Tieqing gave was doubled, a full twenty portions. Zhang Zhiwen only refined three spiritual cultivation pills with the previous ten portions of medicinal materials, but this time, he was sure that he could refine fifty or sixty spiritual cultivation pills with twenty portions of medicinal materials, and these fifty or sixty spiritual cultivation pills should be enough for Zhang Zhiwen to improve his cultivation to the seventh level of Qi Refining?

Zhang Zhiwen was not sure about this, but it would definitely not be a big problem to improve his cultivation to the sixth level of Qi Refining. After all, from the fourth level of Qi Refining to the fifth level of Qi Refining, he only needed ten spiritual cultivation pills, and from the fifth level of Qi Refining to the sixth level of Qi Refining, even if it was doubled, it would only take twenty spiritual cultivation pills. Even if twenty pills were not enough, what about forty or fifty spiritual cultivation pills? If that was still not enough, Zhang Zhiwen felt that he might not need to cultivate immortals in this life, and just wait for death. This spiritual root was definitely extremely rotten. His spiritual root was just ordinary, not extremely rotten.

So, Zhang Zhiwen immersed himself in refining pills. He could only refine ten furnaces a day. With the time limit here, it was impossible to complete it in one go. Therefore, after ten days, he only refined 56 spiritual cultivation pills, and he failed several times. This was normal, but his proficiency in refining spiritual cultivation pills was greatly improved, and this proficiency also gave Zhang Zhiwen a very good understanding of alchemy. At least Zhang Zhiwen felt that if he refined other pills, the success rate would not be too bad, and he would not fail almost every time like he did when he first refined spiritual cultivation pills.

If he was a half-baked alchemist before, then he was now considered to have entered the door. This experience was quite valuable, and this time was completely a coincidence. If it weren't for Old Li and the others who gave him so many materials to refine pills at all costs, he would not have been able to take the opportunity to improve his proficiency in alchemy.

But Zhang Zhiwen didn't quite understand. The spiritual cultivation pill that Lin Wei took should be genuine, right? But why was Lin Wei only at the third level of Qi Refining? Could it be that Lin Wei's spiritual roots are worse? Perhaps, this is also a possibility, otherwise he would have to be at least at the fifth level of Qi Refining to be justified, and even the sixth level of Qi Refining would not be a problem.

But Zhang Zhiwen felt vaguely that perhaps this was related to his practice of the Changsheng Sutra. The Changsheng Sutra targets the physical body. He himself was not sure whether his physical body was strong or not, but he felt that it was definitely better than that of ordinary casual cultivators. Maybe it was because of his good physical body that he could withstand the pills?

Anyway, there was no big problem for Zhang Zhiwen to take pills all the time. He always felt that the pills should have no side effects, but Zhang Zhiwen certainly didn't know what other people were like, so Zhang Zhiwen could only make some vague guesses.

If the guess was right, it would be difficult for ordinary cultivators to compare with Zhang Zhiwen, because Zhang Zhiwen's effect after taking the pills was relatively good, and there were no side effects, but others probably couldn't. If he took too much, it might be useless, and there might even be great side effects. In this way, although the Changsheng Sutra was not very useful, it was also a new way.

Zhang Zhiwen could only guess these for the time being, but he didn't plan to improve his cultivation now. At least he had to finish Zhao Tieqing's business first. It wouldn't be too late for him to improve his cultivation later. Otherwise, wouldn't Zhao Tieqing be scared? It was less than a month, and Zhang Zhiwen had improved from the fourth level of Qi Refining to the fifth level and even the sixth level of Qi Refining. The speed of improvement was too amazing. Anyone would seriously doubt what was going on with Zhang Zhiwen.

Zhang Zhiwen didn't want people to think about him, so he simply waited until the bet between Old Li and Old Chen was over before improving.

So, Zhang Zhiwen went to see Zhao Tieqing again, but this time Zhang Zhiwen planned to give him a little sweetness. He planned to get a fake common Peiling Pill for Zhao Tieqing. Zhang Zhiwen thought this was almost enough, and then he should be able to make a lot of medicinal materials, which would be really fun.

But when they met, Zhang Zhiwen was a little disappointed. This time, Zhao Tieqing didn't bring many medicinal materials, only ten medicinal materials.

"Brother Zhiwen, it's not that we don't provide herbs to the seniors, but you know that it's hard to get too many herbs in a short time. But don't worry, we will definitely collect more herbs." Zhao Tieqing was not so firm this time, and there was some ambiguity.

Zhang Zhiwen knew what was going on. It should be that Old Li was not satisfied. Last time, he gave ten portions of herbs, but Zhang Zhiwen couldn't produce a single pill. Old Li began to waver. After all, Old Li was the boss. He gave away so many herbs, but he couldn't get a single spiritual pill. He was naturally distressed by this loss-making business. These herbs were all money, and it was not a small amount of money.

So, Zhang Zhiwen took out a fake common Peiling Pill and handed it to Zhao Tieqing: "Brother Zhao, this is what the senior asked me to bring you. Take a look. Is it okay?"

Zhao Tieqing thought that Zhang Zhiwen came empty-handed again, but he didn't expect that he actually took out a Peiling Pill. He was overjoyed and hurriedly took the Peiling Pill. After looking at it for a while, he nodded repeatedly: "Yes, this is the Peiling Pill. Oh, it's great, it's great, brother Zhiwen, thanks to you. Look, I said that the senior must be reliable. That old Li is really good. I will take it back to show him."

Zhao Tieqing left in a hurry, and Zhang Zhiwen didn't say much. Since he gave the other party something, it should be of some use, so he also returned to his residence.

As soon as he returned to his residence, Zhao Tieqing sent him a message.

The general meaning of this message was that Old Li was very happy to see the Peiling Pill and asked Zhao Tieqing to thank the senior on his behalf, and so on.

Zhang Zhiwen smiled faintly and did not respond. He still had to continue refining the pill. It would be a pity if he did not refine all the medicinal materials.

So, Zhang Zhiwen began to refine the Peiling Pill day and night again. Practice makes perfect. He can now refine the Peiling Pill almost with his eyes closed. It is almost impossible to make a mistake. Of course, the success rate has not improved much, which is also something that cannot be solved.

Three days later, Zhang Zhiwen basically used up all the medicinal materials in his hand. His proficiency in refining the Peiling Pill has improved by leaps and bounds. Zhao Tieqing sent news again, saying that the Peiling Pill Zhang Zhiwen gave before was sold. The buyer was very satisfied and even planned to continue to increase the price to buy, asking Zhang Zhiwen to help again.

Zhang Zhiwen thought about it. He planned to give Zhao Tieqing a few more adulterated common goods this time. Otherwise, if the long line is released, how can the fish be willing to take the bait without tasting the sweetness?

Besides, it was just a few adulterated common Peiling Pills. One common Peiling Pill could make up five adulterated Peiling Pills. However, it required Spiritual Qi Powder. It didn't take up much time to refine Spiritual Qi Powder. Anyway, we had both the medicine furnace and the Solitary Immortal Fruit. We could refine them together. There was a furnace on each side, which didn't take up much space. We could do it in two ways without wasting time.

Sure enough, when Zhang Zhiwen replied to Zhao Tieqing, Zhao Tieqing was overjoyed and promised to send more medicinal materials.

So, Zhang Zhiwen met Zhao Tieqing again. This time, Zhao Tieqing brought thirty portions of medicinal materials. These thirty portions of medicinal materials were enough for Zhang Zhiwen to refine nearly one hundred Peiling Pills. Zhang Zhiwen felt that he could sell all the extra Peiling Pills wholesale.

However, Zhang Zhiwen didn't mind at all. The more medicinal materials, the better. On the one hand, he could improve his proficiency in alchemy, and on the other hand, he could stockpile more spiritual pills. Of course, Zhang Zhiwen also knew that Old Li and his men had limited financial resources and could not provide unlimited supplies. He estimated that after a few more times, that would be enough.

This time, not only Old Li was fighting hard, but Zhang Zhiwen felt that Old Chen would definitely fight hard, but this would probably only benefit Lin Wei, but that was not what Zhang Zhiwen cared about, as he got the benefit anyway.

So, Zhang Zhiwen continued to refine spiritual pills, and now it was not just a matter of refining. He had to find a way to improve some things, integrate the experience of alchemy, and make the refined spiritual pills have better effects.

However, this is easier said than done. Without the guidance of a famous teacher, relying on one's own understanding and thinking, the improvement is still limited, but Zhang Zhiwen doesn't care. It's a good thing to improve a little bit.

Three days later, Zhao Tieqing sent another message. This time, Zhao Tieqing and his team were obviously happier, and even their tone of confidence was self-evident.

It turned out that the fake common spiritual pills that Zhang Zhiwen gave them were much more effective than those from Lin Wei. The word had spread among the casual cultivators, so in the past few days, many casual cultivators came to Old Li to place orders, and all the customers from Old Chen were snatched away. After all, there were only a few casual cultivators who came to buy pills in the black market every day. With so many people coming and going, Old Chen's pills could not be sold.

Zhang Zhiwen really didn't expect things to turn out like this. He thought the two sides should have a tug-of-war, and it would take more time, but he didn't expect that Lin Wei was so vulnerable, and the fake common pills he made casually actually made the other party lose business.

But Zhang Zhiwen thought about it and it seemed to make sense. Although his Soul-cultivating Pill was also a common product, he used the Seven-aperture Linglong Fire Thunder Cauldron, so the medicinal power must be stronger than that of Lin Wei's. And the independent cultivator buyers were not fools. They would definitely buy from the one with the best products. As for why these people didn't buy from Zhao's, Zhang Zhiwen didn't understand. Logically, Zhao's Soul-cultivating Pill was not bad, right? And the price was not expensive, only 20 low-grade spirit stones. Could it be that there was something unknown about Zhao's pills?