Seeking the Way of Immortality

Wu Zheng stopped talking and put the herbs into the Hun Tian Ding to extract the essence of the herbs. Wu Zheng first refined the ‘Lian Jing Dan’. Wu Zheng refined the most of this kind of elixir and was most familiar with it.

After a short while, a furnace of elixirs was refined. Wu Zheng clapped his hand on the Hun Tian Ding, and ten elixirs jumped out of it. All of them were round and full, all of which were top-grade elixirs. Wu Zheng could also refine one herb into ten elixirs before, but most of them were of medium quality at that time, and never reached top quality.

Unexpectedly, after more than two years, the first time he refined elixirs, the first furnace was actually top-grade elixirs. There is only one explanation for such a phenomenon, which is the Hun Tian Ding.

A good alchemy cauldron can increase the quality of elixirs and the chance of success. This is a well-known fact in the alchemy world, but Wu Zheng really didn’t know it. He was originally a wild person and had not received formal training. If he hadn’t had an amazing talent in alchemy, he wouldn’t be here today.

Pills are divided into four grades: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. Top-grade pills are rare, and top-grade pills are also extremely rare. For each type of pill, low-grade pills can exert 50% of the essence of the herbs, medium-grade pills are 80%, and top-grade pills are 100%. Top-grade pills are said to be able to exert 120% of the efficacy. That is why top-grade pills have basically never appeared in the world of cultivation. Even if there are, no one will take them out.

Wu Zheng was happy and threw a few pills to Lao Ba. Lao Ba opened his mouth and swallowed them, thinking: "It's good to learn to make pills, and there are pills to eat."

Wu Zheng ignored Lao Ba and made pills by himself. He would make pills for several months. He was obsessed with making pills, even a little crazy. Perhaps it was because of this that he had such a high talent for making pills!

Wu Zheng also refined a batch of ‘Peking Yuan Pills’, and the result was also ten top-grade ‘Peking Yuan Pills’, which made Wu Zheng more certain of the extraordinary nature of the Hun Tian Ding.

Wu Zheng referred to the formulas of ‘Bai Hua Niang’ and ‘Xian Ren Zui’, and after many experiments, he finally refined a new spirit wine, the ‘Han Bing Lie’, which has the attribute of ice. After preliminary refining, then trying, then making up for the deficiencies, and then correcting them, after many refinements, the quality of ‘Han Bing Lie’ was finally higher than that of ‘Xian Ren Zui’.

‘Bai Hua Niang’ is a first-level middle-grade spirit wine, ‘Xian Ren Zui’ is a first-level top-grade spirit wine, and the ‘Han Bing Lie’ refined by Wu Zheng is completely out of the scope of the first level, and has the attribute of ice. For practitioners with ice spirit roots, it is definitely a great blessing. According to Wu Zheng’s estimation, ‘Han Bing Lie’ should be at the level of second-level middle-grade, and it can only be higher, not lower.

After finally determining the formula of ‘Han Bing Lie’, Wu Zheng began to refine the spiritual liquid of ‘Han Bing Lie’. It took three days for Wu Zheng to blend the cold spring water from the ‘Qing Jiao Snake’ cave. Once the time is up, it can be drunk.

Next, Wu Zheng took out all the herbs for refining Qi training period pills in the storage ring. They were all first- and second-level spiritual herbs, and there was no third-level spiritual herbs at all.

It took more than four months to refine all the low-level herbs. A lot of space was freed up in the storage ring. It can be imagined that Wu Zheng’s nearly three years of storage has already reached an astonishing level of spiritual herbs.

Although they are all low-level medicinal materials, Wu Zheng’s alchemy skills are not low, and he has a lot of experience in refining low-level pills. With the bonus of the Hun Tian Ding, all the high-quality pills can definitely be sold at a good price.

Wu Zheng counted the number of bottles, including 360 bottles of ‘Qi Hui Dan’, 320 bottles of ‘Yuan Yuan Dan’, 612 bottles of ‘Shen Ding Dan’, and 800 bottles of ‘Jing Jing Dan’. Each bottle contained 10 pills, which was a huge sum of money. According to the price of ‘Zhen Bao Pavilion’, Wu Zheng roughly calculated that each bottle of top-grade pills like this cost at least 80 low-grade spirit stones, each bottle of ‘Yuan Yuan Dan’ cost 200 low-grade spirit stones, each bottle of ‘Yuan Yuan Dan’ cost 420 low-grade spirit stones, and each bottle of ‘Jing Jing Dan’ cost 450 low-grade spirit stones, which was about 70 high-grade spirit stones.

Wu Zheng did not leave any low-grade medicinal materials for Lao Ba, because he could pick them up on the way, and Lao Ba still had a long time to transform, so there was no need at all.

On this day, Wu Zheng specifically asked Xiao Hua to find some food, but Xiao Hua brought back a third-level peak fire-attributed monster ‘Chimang Jinniu’.

Unfortunately, the golden elixir did not contain the beast soul, which shows how rare the beast soul is. What Wu Zheng did not know was that it was not that there was no beast soul, but that the beast soul was swallowed by Xiaohua, but he did not know that Xiaohua had this ability!

Wu Zheng threw the golden elixir to Lao Ba, and the fur and two golden horns of the ‘Red Mang Golden Bull’ were collected by Wu Zheng.

One person and ten beasts, drinking Wu Zheng’s newly brewed ‘Han Bing Lie’ spirit wine and eating the third-level peak beef, were really happy. Wu Zheng slept well without saying a word all night.

The next day, he adjusted his cultivation and consciousness to the best state. He was going to start refining the second-level initial elixir ‘Yang Jing Dan’, an upgraded version of ‘Lian Jing Dan’.

This was Wu Zheng’s first time refining a second-level elixir. In a sense, this was a new challenge, and Wu Zheng had to be cautious.

Wu Zheng has seven second-level pill recipes, including the second-level primary ‘Yangjing Pill’, ‘Liangu Pill’, ‘Peiyuan Pill’, the second-level intermediate ‘Xuanyuan Pill’, the second-level advanced ‘Baoyuan Pill’, and two second-level top-level ‘Hanbing Pill’ and ‘Dingyan Pill’. With these seven pill recipes, Wu Zheng can be invincible during the foundation-building period. You can imagine what a second-level alchemist is like, not to mention those above the second level!

The reason why Wu Zheng chose to refine the ‘Yangjing Pill’ is because the ‘Yangjing Pill’ is an upgraded version of the ‘Lianjing Pill’. Wu Zheng is very familiar with the ‘Lianjing Pill’. In this way, he will have a good chance of refining the second-level pill.

After all, there is only one portion of the herb in the ‘Hanbing Pill’, while there are as many as 200 portions of the herb in the ‘Yangjing Pill’, so Wu Zheng cannot afford to be careless.

Wu Zheng studied the recipe of the ‘Yangjing Pill’ over and over again. When he felt that he had fully understood it, he began to refine the ‘Yangjing Pill’. After all, it is very important for a first-level alchemist to challenge the second-level alchemist.

The first time failed.

The second time failed.

Finally, on the seventh time, Wu Zheng finally refined a furnace of ‘Yangjing Pill’, but only six pills were made, all of which were low-grade pills.

This was the result of Wu Zheng sitting quietly and thinking, finding the shortcomings, and then correcting them after each failure, otherwise it would never be so smooth.

Fortunately, after the seventh time, Wu Zheng seemed to have grasped the rhythm of the ‘Yangjing Pill’, and the number of pills was slowly increasing, and the quality of the pills was getting better and better.

From the initial six pills, to ten pills, and then to the improvement of the pill quality, from low-grade to medium-grade and then to high-grade, it took Wu Zheng two months, and there were only more than ten medicinal materials left for the ‘Yangjing Pill’.

‘Huh’, Wu Zheng let out a long breath, and finally raised the refining level of ‘Yangjing Dan’ to the same level as ‘Lianjing Dan’!

During this period, Wu Zheng has been refining pills. Xiaohua and other spirit beasts go out early and come back late every day, hunting monsters, all of which are fire-attributed monsters. Whenever they return at night, they will bring back the materials from the monsters, because they know that Wu Zheng needs these things.

The most excited one is Lao Ba, who has now firmly occupied the second position of Wu Zheng’s ten spirit beasts. A sufficient amount of beast pills is the basis for its advancement. Now it has reached the late stage of the third level, and is only one step away from the fourth level. The other eight golden pythons have also made breakthroughs, all of which are in the middle stage of the third level, but Xiaohua has not broken through the early stage of the fourth level, because the spiritual power it needs is too huge.

After dealing with the fire element for a long time, absorbing and refining it unconsciously, Wu Zheng's fire attribute cyclone in his body gradually approached perfection. Compared with the ice attribute cyclone, there is still a big gap, and even a little worse than the wind attribute cyclone. After all, he has just absorbed it for two months, but it is not over yet.

The last twelve furnaces of "Yangjing Pills" all produced ten pills, all of which were top-grade pills. The two hundred and twenty-eight herbs were exchanged for a rich reward.

There were six hundred and thirty-two low-grade "Yangjing Pills", seven hundred and nineteen medium-grade "Yangjing Pills", and three hundred and eighty high-grade "Yangjing Pills". The main reason was that there were no medicinal materials, so there were so few high-grade "Yangjing Pills".

Wu Zheng's alchemy skills have been steadily at the early stage of the second level.