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That formation was a fourth grade Spirit Gathering formation.
After the ranking challenge ended, Su Lie paid the price of fifty thousand primeval stone to help Feng Yan.
Fifty thousand primeval stone, seemed like a lot, but to the disciples of the Inner Sect, it was really too little, and was just equivalent to five achievement points.
"Whooosh."
Su Lie sat cross-legged in silence. Within the Spirit Convergence Array, dense amounts of the world's spirit energy continuously poured into his body. Su Lie sat cross-legged in silence, within the Spirit Convergence Array, the dense world's spirit energy continuously poured into his body.
"A fourth grade Spirit Convergence Array is indeed extraordinary!"
A full four hours later, Su Lie slowly opened his eyes and a hint of excitement surged out from his face.
The Jiumai Peak already had nine Spiritual Veins, and the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was dense. With the help of the Rank 4 Spirit Convergence Array, he was able to recover all of the elemental energy that was used in the ranking challenges in just three days.
Within the 3000 star charts, two hundred and eighty hidden Acupoints lit up all at once. Inside his body, the Acupoints glittered like bright stars.
When his elemental energy recovered to its peak, his entire being's essence, energy, and divine were completely different. That was the confidence his strength gave him.
"I've been delayed for so long. It's time to try concocting pills."
After resting for a while, Su Lie's eyes turned and landed on the huge Pill Cauldron not far in front of him.
The Pill Cauldron was enormous, and was around three feet tall. It had three legs and two ears, and on the cauldron, there were carvings of some ancient patterns of flowers, birds, fish and bugs. It gave off an ancient aura.
This Pill Cauldron was not worse than the one Yuan Yi used before, it was at least at the eighth stage. Unfortunately, this was something from the sect, he couldn't take it away with him, and once he lost his position as the Peak Disciple, this cauldron would belong to someone else.
"No matter what, I must protect the identity of the Peak Disciple!"
Glimmers of light gathered in Su Lie's eyes.
Above the Pill Cauldron, there was a seal formation, which was the Earth Fire that was sealed below the Pill Cauldron. Once the formation was undone, the Earth Fire would follow the Pill Cauldron's fire outlet and pour into the Pill Cauldron, it was extremely convenient.
He took out all of the spiritual medicines in his Cosmic Bag. While recalling the pill formulas that Yuan Yi gave him, he carefully examined the spiritual medicines.
When concocting pills, every spiritual herb needed to be paired with extreme precision. There was no room for mistakes, and even the age of each spiritual herb had to be taken into account. It was extremely complicated.
"I can at most forge two grade-3 pills and a grade-4 pill!"
Su Lie could not help but shake his head.
He had never intentionally collected spiritual medicines before. The amount of spiritual medicines he had was simply too few. There weren't even many spiritual medicines for him to practice with.
For an alchemist to refine pills of the same level, a sixty to seventy percent success rate was already an incredible feat. However, with all the elixirs he had added together, he was only able to refine three pills.
"Let's give it a try first!"
After collecting the spiritual medicines he did not need, Su Lie gathered the remaining spiritual medicines and muttered between clenched teeth.
This time, he wanted to try out the alchemy method that he had learned from the eighth elder, to see if it was useful. Although he could only produce three pellets, it should be enough just to verify it.
He turned around and sat in front of the Pill Cauldron, and placed all of the spirit medicines on a jade table in front of him. With a wave of his hand, the seal array underneath the Pill Cauldron was immediately activated, and then slowly opened.
Boom!
Flames with a faint, incandescent color suddenly rose from the ground.
The flame poured into the mouth of the fire and followed the path of the Pill Cauldron. The road of fire that was as complex as the meridians of a human body extended within the Pill Cauldron.
How could the hidden path of fire within the Pill Cauldron prove that the temperature within the Pill Cauldron was always in a balanced state? The higher the grade of the Pill Cauldron, the more perfect the path of fire within the Pill Cauldron. The temperature of the medicinal cauldron was more balanced, and refining the medicinal pellet was also easier, which was beneficial to the quality and success rate of the medicinal pellet.
Following the pouring in of the flames, a faint buzzing sound came from within the gigantic Pill Cauldron. The air within the Pill Cauldron distorted, and a terrifying feeling suddenly spread throughout the Pill Refining Room.
"Begin!"
Su Lie flicked his finger and the cover of the Pill Cauldron suddenly opened. Immediately after, he threw a stalk of spirit medicine into the Pill Cauldron and began to carefully temper it. He carefully refined the spirit medicine's medicinal essence out.
Very quickly, there was a ball of green liquid rolling and squirming within the Pill Cauldron and the spirit medicine had turned into powder and disappeared.
No matter what, Su Lie was Grade Three Alchemist. Just by refining the essence of the spirit medicine, he was naturally able to do it with ease. One stalk of spirit medicine after another was tossed into the Pill Cauldron and refined.
Two hours later, within the Pill Cauldron, there were balls of medicine of all sizes floating within. Some big and small, some blue, some dark green, and some purple black … The temperature of the Pill Cauldron was astonishing, but it could not evaporate the medicinal liquid.
"Phew …"
Su Lie let out a long exhale and his expression became grave.
After completing the refining process, the next step was to fuse them together. This was the most important and difficult step in pill refining. If the pill refinement failed, then 99% of the failure occurred at this step.
The fusion of spiritual medicine essence was not an act of piling all of it up in one go.
This step was extremely meticulous. The two spiritual medicine essences first fused together, and then the fusion between the two was completely different. When the two spiritual medicine essences were merged, the effects were completely different and there could not be the slightest mistake.
Su Lie followed the steps described in the formula and carefully controlled the fusion of the medicinal properties. It was two of three levels … As the spirit medicine essence increased, so did the mass of medicine in the center.
As the medicinal essence fused together, Su Lie also started to channel his mind energy into the medicinal pills. He began to carefully sense the balance that the eighth elder was talking about.
After trying a few times, Su Lie finally succeeded. He felt as if he had entered a wonderful and balanced world where there was an extremely complicated balance.
All sides were supported by different weights, from different directions and angles. As more and more people joined in, the balance between them became harder and harder to grasp.
As the medicinal essence fused with his body, Tian Ping became more and more complicated. He would tilt to one side and then fall to the other. He appeared to be in danger and could topple over at any moment.
"Is this the kind of balance that eighth elder talked about?"
Su Lie was faintly excited in his heart.
Although he had not used the Innate Dan Qi s to prove that the art of alchemy passed down by the Eighth Elder was not practical, just mastering this balance was already a great gain for him.
He could control the balance and the fusion of the medicinal properties in a much more precise manner.
The balance between the various spirit medicine essences became more and more complex and difficult to grasp. Su Lie's mind was completely immersed in that wondrous balance, and he was in complete happiness as he continuously adjusted the fusion process of the medicinal essence.
After a full two to three hours, dozens of spiritual medicines had all fused together. However, Su Lie was stunned.
All the spirit medicines had fused together, and because of his meticulous control, the balance between the medicinal ingredients had become extremely stable after all the spirit medicine essences had been fused. He didn't even need to activate the Innate Dan Qi, he was able to completely fuse all the spirit medicine essences.
"This... It's really unbelievable! "
Su Lie was somewhat absent-minded.
It was only his first try, but it was already extremely useful for him. Once he completely mastered it, his success rate would reach a terrifying level.
Once the medicinal properties were completely fused, one could forge a pill with 99% success rate. Next, it was time to extract impurities and slowly nurture them. Even a 1-star apothecary would be able to do this step with ease.
As expected, two hours later, a pill that still emitted a warm aura was dropped into Su Lie's hands.
The pill was crimson, and it seemed to be surrounded by circular patterns of cloud.
"Pill pattern?"
Su Lie's eyes widened involuntarily.
According to his knowledge, an apothecary had to be at least two levels above him to be able to forge an apothecary pill with pill patterns on it.
Pills with a pill pattern would have at least twice the effect of normal pills.
"He was able to forge a pill that possesses a Pill Mark so easily?"
Su Lie felt that this was somewhat unbelievable.
"It's worth it!"
Su Lie nodded excitedly.
He thought about how it would cost 1000 contribution points to go to the Eighth Elder to learn the art of alchemy, but he felt that it was worth it to spend these 1000 contribution points on it. The art of alchemy passed down by the Eighth Elder was definitely worth it.
"Try again!"
After staring at the pill for a while, Su Lie couldn't help but want to try again.
He wanted to see if this method of forging pills would work on every single pill.
Then, he activated the fire and threw all the pellets into the Pill Cauldron.
In pill refining, although fusing the elixir essence was the most difficult, refining the elixir essence was the most time-consuming. Moreover, it was continuously mechanized and was rather boring.
Only after a full two hours did Su Lie finish refining all of the spirit herbs and begin to integrate the medicinal properties. The originally slightly exhausted Su Lie's mind shook and his spirit energy surged. Once again, he began to carefully feel the balance.
He had already experienced it once before, and now that he had experienced it, Su Lie was once again able to find the balance of this pill in a short period of time.
Due to the three main ingredients, the pill could roughly maintain a triangular balance. Compared to the previous pill, it was merely maintaining the same balance, making it slightly more complicated.
Su Lie was very interested in maintaining the wonderful balance within the pills. His mind was full of energy and he made small adjustments time and time again to try his best to maintain the balance within the pills and to accurately measure the quantity of the elixirs.
After a few hours, all the spirit medicine essences had been fused together once again. The balance was stable, and there was still no use of Innate Dan Qi.