The Path to Immortality

Fang Ping had a hunch that if he went back to refine the lower-grade basic pills such as the Bigu Pill and the Qi-Restoring Pill, he would not be sure to succeed, but at least he could say that he was almost certain to succeed!

Even the middle-grade Ningyuan Pill, without relying on the Yuan Ding, could have a 50% success rate!

"Unfortunately, it does not really involve the first-level alchemy!"

After pondering it over and over again, Fang Ping felt a little unsatisfied.

With a little emotion, he recalled the four top-grade basic pill recipes that came with this inheritance.

In addition to the Peiyuan Pill recipe that Fang Ping wanted the most, the other three recipes were: Blood Coagulation Pill, Giant Strength Pill, and Qi-Replenishing Pill.

Blood Coagulation Pill is a top-grade healing pill, and its effect is far better than the lower-grade Huoxue Pill.

After taking one, no matter how serious the injury is, you can be alive and kicking in an instant. In the secular world, it is a holy medicine that can revive the dead and heal the bones.

The Qi-boosting pill is an upgraded version of the Qi-recovering pill. It can help cultivators recover more mana and recover faster.

The Juli pill can temporarily enhance the physical strength of cultivators and is deeply loved by many physical cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi training.

Among them, the Peiyuan pill, which can improve cultivation, is undoubtedly the most difficult to refine.

Considering that the Ningyuan pill is still effective for Fang Ping now, it is not urgent for the time being. He decided to follow the principle of starting from easy to difficult and figure out the blood-clotting pill. He was ready to start with this relatively easy-to-refine top-grade basic elixir as a stepping stone to become a senior apprentice of the alchemy!

The materials needed for low-grade and medium-grade basic elixirs are relatively common and easy to gather. Stores related to the alchemy basically provide one-stop service, directly matching them for buyers, and they can be purchased in portions.

But the top-grade basic elixir is not so worry-free. In many cases, the alchemist needs to purchase and match them himself.

For this reason, Fang Ping had to go to the market again.

………

The difficulty of refining top-grade elixirs is higher than Fang Ping expected.

Take the Blood Coagulation Pill as an example. Although the types of spiritual medicine used in the pill formula are only slightly more than those of the Condensation Pill, the grades of the spiritual herbs and spiritual medicines used are much higher.

The medicinal properties, pharmacology, and requirements for spiritual fire and temperature changes involved during the process are far higher than the latter.

Even though Fang Ping specially learned the Fiery Sun True Fire to refine the Condensation Pill, and the control of the temperature was even more meticulous, he still experienced failures again and again when refining the Blood Coagulation Pill.

This is still the case when the content of the alchemy inheritance obtained by Fang Ping is rich and detailed, which is of great help to him.

Relying on nine times of backtracking every day, after more than forty furnaces failed, Fang Ping finally found some clues and gradually saw the hope of success.

You know, the cost of refining a high-grade spiritual pill is very high. Just one furnace of blood coagulation pill materials is worth ten spiritual stones.

In other words, if it weren't for the help of the Yuan Ding's ability, Fang Ping would have spent more than four hundred spiritual stones on pure material costs alone!

This is just the beginning.

From finding the clue, to occasional success, to being able to stabilize the success rate of refining to 20% to 30%, there is a gradual process in between.

"No wonder the status of alchemists is so high in the Liang Kingdom's immortal cultivation world. No wonder elixirs such as the Bigu Pill are sold by the bottle, and starting from the top-grade elixir, they are often sold by the pill."

The cost of the emotional pill is here, and ordinary cultivators really can't afford it!

………

The sixty-eighth furnace!

Fang Ping sat on the cushion in front of the Yuan Ding, concentrating on controlling the scorching sun fire, and occasionally fine-tuning the fire in the Yuan Ding.

At this moment, the refining of the blood coagulation pill has entered the last critical link.

The previous process has been completely understood by him in the repeated attempts in the past. But in this last link, the firepower of the Yuan Ding needs to change continuously and many times in a very short period of time to make the blood coagulation pill condense smoothly.

This puts extremely high demands on the alchemist's attainments in the way of alchemy.

In the last ten refinings, Fang Ping almost failed at this link and was unable to break through.

Fortunately, the Yuan Ding's retrospection can accurately locate the time, and there is no need to start from the beginning every time after retrospection, which helps him save a lot of time and energy costs.

"Here it comes!"

As the cauldron vibrated slightly, Fang Ping's eyes narrowed slightly, and he immediately pinched the magic formula of the Fiery Sun True Fire, quickly changing the temperature and heat of the Yuan Ding.

In less than ten breaths, seven changes!

Even though Fang Ping already had a lot of experience, he was still a little flustered.

The first six changes were finally completed without any danger.

By the last seventh turn, Fang Ping's strength at the fifth level of Qi training was already a little unsustainable.

Just when he was a little doubtful whether he would fail again this time, the changes in the medicinal properties and heat of the last turn were just completed at the limit in the last breath.

The slightly vibrating Yuan Ding quickly became stable, and Fang Ping seemed to have smelled the fragrance of the elixir in the cauldron.

"Is it going to work?"

Fang Ping's eyes flashed with a little surprise.

Although he knew that the final seventh transformation was not perfect, even if it succeeded this time, the quality of the pill would certainly not be high, but it was the first time for him to personally refine a top-grade basic elixir!

"Next, it's time to divide the pill!"

As the true fire extinguished, the invisible restrictions in the Yuan Ding automatically dissipated.

Without waiting for the medicinal power inside to dissipate with the white smoke and the rich pill fragrance, Fang Ping quickly stretched out his hands and used a high-level pill-dividing technique mentioned in the newly purchased alchemy inheritance to divide the liquid medicine into uniform dark red pills.

"Five blood coagulation pills!"

Looking at the finished product in front of him, Fang Ping's heart was filled with uncontrollable joy.

Even though there were three defective pills among them, he could still proudly announce that from today on, he was a senior apprentice of the alchemy.

He could even see the threshold of a first-level alchemist in the distance!

The next step was to strike while the iron was hot, consolidate experience, and thoroughly understand the method of refining this kind of elixir.

………

Just as Fang Ping was concentrating on studying the alchemy, the new year came again unknowingly.

This was Fang Ping's tenth year in Luoyang Sect, and it was also the year when the sect opened the mountain gate to recruit disciples every five years and cleared out the outer disciples who did not meet the requirements.

Just like five years ago, before the summer came, the atmosphere of the outer courtyard became impetuous and depressed again.

Those disciples who joined the sect five years ago and failed to reach the third level of Qi training began to seize the time to practice, or try other ways.

At the same time, the disciples who went up the mountain with Fang Ping at the same time and have not given up on the inner sect are also making the final efforts for the fifth level of Qi training.

After Zhou Yang entered the fourth level of Qi training, his strength improved slowly, and he had completely lost the possibility of being promoted to the inner sect.

As for Su Lingyun, after he attached himself to a senior brother in the inner sect five years ago, he also drifted away from Zhou Yang and Fang Ping. Except for occasionally meeting each other during lectures, they would greet each other indifferently, and they had no contact on weekdays.

If nothing unexpected happened, none of the friends Fang Ping made in the outer sect could enter the inner sect with him.