The Path to Immortality

The theory of the Dan Yun technique is very complicated. To put it simply, it can improve the overall quality of the finished pills by reducing the number of finished pills in each furnace.

Because it will cause a lot of waste of medicinal power and the total benefit will decrease instead of increase, this Dan Dao technique is not practical in the eyes of the Sun family.

It is only used in some special cases when the total benefit does not need to be considered and one or two fine pills are specially refined.

For Fang Ping, he only needs to consider his own foundation building. Even if one fine foundation building pill is not safe, adding one or two more as a backup is enough anyway.

In this case, he can indeed consider the Dan Yun technique.

However, the foundation building pill is invaluable after all, and in many cases it is not just measured by spirit stones. Every extra pill is an extra bargaining chip that can be traded with other cultivators and forces.

Because of this, Fang Ping still has a little bit of luck in his heart.

Anyway, he has not yet reached the great perfection of the twelfth level of Qi training, so he can try it again.

If he really can't do it, it's not too late to use this technique at the end!

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A few months have passed in a flash.

Fang Ping had successfully refined the foundation-building pill more than a thousand times.

Even the second-level alchemists, who were rare in the Liang Kingdom's cultivation world, might not be able to surpass him in understanding the foundation-building pill.

But the fine foundation-building pill with pill patterns has not yet been produced.

It was as if this world did not want such an amazing elixir to be produced.

"It seems that due to my own level, this pill-incubation technique must be used!"

Having made up his mind, Fang Ping deliberately stopped refining the foundation-building pill for the next period of time, trying to adjust his mentality and strive to restore his best condition.

It was not until a few days later that his mind was completely calm. Fang Ping lit three Qingxin incense sticks and released the Yuan Ding again.

Although it was a few days apart, Fang Ping did not feel any unfamiliarity in this refining. Instead, he felt that his condition was surprisingly good, as if he was assisted by God!

In front of the Yuan Ding, he controlled the changes in the temperature smoothly.

Almost every detail was done to a near-perfect level.

When six hours had passed and Fang Ping woke up from that state of confusion, the refining of this furnace of foundation-building pills had reached the final stage.

"This time!"

Fang Ping had a feeling in his heart and seized the best opportunity to start the furnace and divide the pills!

Just as the dense medicinal fragrance and the hot white gas poured out from the Yuan Ding, Fang Ping's hands were as fast as flying, and he first separated a foundation-building pill from the center where the medicinal liquid gathered.

But he did not continue to divide the pills.

On the contrary, after the first foundation-building pill was formed, he immediately wrapped it with magic power and placed it back in the center of the remaining medicinal liquid.

After completing this step, Fang Ping fell back to the original place, rekindled the true fire, and roasted it with the minimum scorching sun true fire, and officially began to nourish the pill.

During this process, Fang Ping also cast a series of magic formulas from time to time, actively pulling with magic power, so that the remaining medicinal liquid essence in the Yuan Ding could continuously nourish the only foundation-building pill.

Under his meticulous control, the already finalized foundation-building pill was actually undergoing very subtle changes.

Not only was the pill more round and flawless, but mysterious patterns gradually condensed on its surface.

After an incense stick of time.

With the continuous incorporation of medicinal power, the foundation-building pill in the center of the Yuan Ding had become a circle larger than when the furnace was first opened, and the mysterious patterns on the surface were even more clearly audible, and finally formed a pill pattern that symbolized the ultimate quality!

"The exquisite foundation-building pill is done!"

Fang Ping no longer hesitated, stopped the pill-incubation process, and opened the furnace for the second time to divide the pill.

The scorching white air waves overflowed from the Yuan Ding, filling the cave with fragrance.

After a moment of time, three azure foundation-building pills, one large and two small, quietly appeared in front of Fang Ping.

If it was a normal refining, with Fang Ping's perfect state this time, he would definitely be able to make four pills.

But because of the second furnace opening and the waste of pill-incubation skills, one pill was missing out of thin air.

But compared with the final harvest, this price is absolutely worth it.

Ordinary foundation-building pills can increase the success rate of foundation-building by 30%.

Fine foundation-building pills... Liangguo's cultivation world has never produced such a thing, at least not on the surface.

Fang Ping can only judge based on its unusually strong medicinal power, and estimate that it should be able to increase the success rate by about 40%!

In addition to this fine foundation-building pill that must be kept for personal use, one of the other two foundation-building pills is also of superior quality.

Only the third foundation-building pill is of mediocre quality, but it is still enough to make countless Qi-cultivating cultivators crazy!

"For a long time in the future, this should be the limit of my alchemy."

Fang Ping stared at the three foundation-building pills in the Yuan Ding for a while, and then sighed.

He had a hunch that even if he went back a thousand times, it would be difficult to get a better result than this.

Without any more extravagant expectations, he chose to take out the three foundation-building pills from the Yuan Ding, completely ending this long refining.

As for if one fine foundation-building pill plus two ordinary foundation-building pills still cannot help him achieve foundation-building...

With Fang Ping's strong foundation, the probability of this happening is too low, almost impossible.

But even so, Fang Ping is not without a backup plan.

He can show his identity as a first-level alchemist in exchange for the attention of the sect.

Or go to a gathering place for casual cultivators such as Bailu Immortal City, secretly announce that he has met a first-level alchemist who can refine foundation-building pills, and promise to repay the equivalent of spirit stones if the refining fails, and wait for other cultivators with the main materials for foundation-building pills to come to him!

If it really doesn't work, wait another ten or eight years, wait for the forbidden area of ​​Liyuan Palace to open, and then go in and give it a try.

Of course, these methods have their own drawbacks, and they are just the last resort.

He has enough confidence and doesn't need these ways.

"The foundation-building pill is ready, and the next step is to wait for the cultivation to take this last step."

Fang Ping's eyes are bright, as if he has seen the arrival of that moment.

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The second year.

It's midsummer.

Fang Ping is sitting in the cave, continuing to practice the Ziyang Sutra.

This year, he is already fifty-four years old.

If it weren't for this immortal world, or if he was unfortunate enough to not be able to embark on the path, then at this age, most of his children and grandchildren would have been full of children and grandchildren, and he could rest assured and enjoy his old age.

But the existence of spiritual energy and cultivation made his fate turn to a different intersection.

After an unknown number of weeks, Fang Ping suddenly realized that after reaching the perfection of Qi training ten years ago, his magic power once again touched a bottleneck and could no longer be improved.

However, the inability to improve back then was just the "perfection" of a normal Qi training cultivator.

For cultivators with a solid foundation and great opportunities, it is not impossible to continue to break through.

But this time, Fang Ping can confirm that he has already entered the twelfth level of Qi training and has reached the realm of true great perfection.

Unless he launches a breakthrough towards foundation building, there is no way he can improve even a little bit.

"This day has finally come!"

Fang Ping's excitement is really hard to describe in words.

For this great perfection, he has really paid too much.

He didn't want to wait for a moment, so he immediately began to make the final preparations for the retreat to build the foundation.