SWDnovel Chapter 89: Minor Success in Body Refinement
Chapter 89: Minor Success in Body Refinement
Seven more days passed.
Yang Jiuli went to the department store on Yunfang Street.
Li Sisi is quite resourceful; she managed to gather all four types of spiritual materials that Yang Jiuli needed.
There were twelve portions in total, priced at 26 low-grade spirit stones.
This kind of thing is extremely rare in the Great Wei Kingdom; it might take several years to collect so many portions.
However, it would be much easier to do so on the Heavenly Fortune Star.
With fewer body cultivators, the inventory naturally increased!
"Hey buddy... if you ever need anything, remember to come find Sisi next time!"
After accepting the spirit stones, Li Sisi smiled broadly and said charmingly to Yang Jiuli, who had already walked out of the shop.
After leaving the general store, Yang Jiuli went to the Weapon Hall and bought a first-grade low-level cauldron.
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Little Flame Island, second floor of the Pill Hall, alchemy room number 003 (B).
Yang Jiuli took the nine-foot-tall cauldron out of his storage bag and placed it on a fire platform.
The furnace was filled with spiritual spring water.
At the same time, he took out a portion of each of the silver star stone, purple gold sand, stone skin fruit, and red jade ginseng he had purchased and placed them into the cauldron.
Then, he activated the fire pit on the alchemy platform and used the earth fire to refine it.
Half an hour later.
The silver star stone gradually turned into a silvery liquid and dissolved in the water.
The purple sand gradually turned into liquid.
The stone skin fruit and the red jade ginseng were all boiled down into a medicinal liquid.
At this point, the fire beneath the cauldron was reduced to a gentler heat for refining.
The water was still boiling hot, and the aroma of medicine filled the air.
"Heavenly Fiend Body Refining, here I come!" Yang Jiuli looked at the scalding hot liquid and stepped into the cauldron after removing his clothes.
hot!
It's incredibly hot!
Even though Yang Jiuli had already begun cultivating the "Heavenly Fiend Body Refining Technique" at Piaoxue Mountain Villa, using medicine and stones to temper his meridians to the point of being as tough as iron.
Even now, my skin still feels like it's being burned.
In addition, a powerful medicinal force surged into those pores.
After feeling the medicinal power and the purple-gold and silver-star liquid entering his pores, Yang Jiuli immediately began to circulate the "Heavenly Fiend Body Refining Technique" and used a special breathing method to control the medicinal liquid to enter his meridians and begin to merge with his skin, muscles and bones.
Of course, at the same time, he also used his magic to protect his internal organs and blood vessels.
And the important eggs.
Otherwise, a slight mistake could harm oneself and cause irreversible consequences.
In severe cases, the metal will be directly turned to stone.
Therefore, the lower part of the first level of the "Heavenly Fiend Body Refining Technique" can only be cultivated after reaching the Grandmaster realm.
If you rashly attempt to cultivate, you will only die and your cultivation will be destroyed.
Yang Jiuli only dared to begin cultivating the first level (Volume 2) now that he had gathered his magical power.
As the cultivation technique was activated, Yang Jiuli's skin, muscles, and bones absorbed the medicinal power of the metals and stones.
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An hour later, Yang Jiuli emerged from the cauldron, his skin now shimmering with a purple-gold and silver-gold luster.
At first glance, he seemed to be cast in metal, and even his underlings exuded power and were awe-inspiring.
The gold liquid he refined gained a mysterious and subtle attribute after being fused with medicinal liquid, and could be contracted and expanded at will.
As long as Yang Jiuli controls it with his cultivation technique, his skin will be as smooth as gold and jade.
With a thought, he could return to normal, making it impossible for anyone to detect anything amiss.
"That's right. As long as all twelve medicinal stones are refined... the first level of my 'Heavenly Fiend Body Refining Technique' will be completed."
Yang Jiuli whispered.
Twelve doses of medicine.
I train three times a month.
It will take four months.
Yang Jiuli was not in a hurry about this.
This is just the first step:
The important thing is to find the evil energy and temper oneself.
That was a crucial step.
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Time flies by in the blink of an eye.
Nine months passed in the blink of an eye.
During this time, Liu Yuelong and Huang Cheng were obsessed with refining elixirs.
Liu Yuelong finally succeeded in condensing the 'Azure Mystic Pill' in the fifth month of learning how to refine it.
After the seventh month, the success rate of the elixir reached 40%.
By the ninth month, the success rate had reached 60%.
He can be considered a qualified first-tier high-grade alchemist!
In order not to fall behind others, Yang Jiuli also successfully condensed his elixir in the fifth month.
Now, he has become a first-class high-grade alchemist.
However, in his opinion, this first-grade high-level alchemist was somewhat sham, and could only be considered a pseudo-first-grade high-level alchemist.
Because the ingredients for this elixir have been changed, its potency is weakened, making it much easier to refine.
Otherwise, the real "Azure Mystic Pill" is not so easy to refine.
Even if Liu Yuelong practiced diligently day and night, it wouldn't work.
How easy is it to break through the bottleneck of a mid-level first-tier alchemist?
Although Huang Cheng started late, he still managed to complete the elixir in the seventh month.
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It snowed on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.
The entire Yunmeng Lake was covered in snow, a silver-white world, with mist swirling around its surface, resembling a fairyland on earth.
On Earth Flame Island, however, the scene is quite different.
The sun shines brightly here, and it's as warm as spring.
At this moment, a banquet hall in the Li family's residence is filled with food and drink.
The feast consisted mainly of delicacies made from mythical beasts, as well as spirit fish and snake soup.
The entire banquet was vibrant and filled with laughter and conversation.
Yang Jiuli, Liu Yuelong, and Huang Cheng were prominently seated at the head of the banquet.
Seated beside him was Li Ruoyu, the patriarch of the family, who was in the late stage of Foundation Establishment.
Also present were Li Yourong and Xu Huaiyi, a second-tier alchemist.
This filled Liu Yuelong and Huang Cheng with immense fear.
This is a Foundation Establishment cultivator, yet he's sitting on the same table as a mere Qi Refining junior.
How could he not be filled with trepidation?
They initially wanted to decline.
Li Ruoyu, however, said that this was what they should do.
Such courtesy was naturally because Yang Jiuli, Liu Yuelong, and Huang Cheng had all successfully refined the "Azure Profound Pill" and advanced to become first-grade high-level alchemists. In order to commend the three of them and set an example for others, the Li family specially held a family banquet at the end of the year.
He wanted to show those small cultivation families how respectful and courteous the Li family was to scholars.
What a glorious future awaits the Li family!
In the banquet hall, there were also several early batches of promising talents who had successfully refined the "Azure Mystic Pill" into a first-grade high-level alchemist.
There are nine people in total.
Now, with the addition of Yang Jiuli and others, there are twelve people in total!
This number may seem small, but upon closer examination, it represents an extremely formidable force.
After all, if each person refines twenty "Azure Mystic Pills" per month, that's 240 pills per year.
Adding twelve more people, that makes 2880.
Moreover, there are also a few first-tier high-grade alchemists in the Li family themselves.
In total, the Li family's pills could be shipped out in quantities of over 3000.
At the current price, the profit is thirty low-grade spirit stones.
That's a profit of 90000 low-grade spirit stones.
No matter which aristocratic family it was placed in, it would be an enormous fortune, enough to move even a Nascent Soul ancestor.
Of course, to refine so many pills, a large supply of medicinal materials is also needed.
The Li family began planning as early as fifteen years ago, having already united with many families specializing in cultivating spiritual herbs.
At this time, the supply of medicinal herbs was more than enough to meet the needs of the Li family.
At this moment, there were representatives from sixteen prominent families who supplied medicinal herbs to the Li family in the banquet hall.
"Hehe, everyone, my Li family now has eighteen first-tier high-grade alchemists..."
Li Ruoyu rose, raised his cup to the crowd in the hall, and proclaimed loudly, "From now on, our Li family's 'Azure Profound Pill' will surely dominate the markets of the entire Chu Kingdom, and even other countries, becoming a household name in the cultivation world... You will all be famous throughout the world!"
"Occupy the entire Chu market!" Upon hearing this, Liu Yuelong felt his blood boil.
"The pills I refine will be sold to neighboring countries..." Huang Cheng's heart was pounding wildly.
Yang Jiuli remained calm and composed.
"Hehe, under Patriarch Li's leadership, the Li family will surely become the number one family in alchemy!"
"The Li family is full of talented people; their future is limitless!"
Representatives from the minor cultivation clans that supplied the medicinal herbs raised their glasses, stood up, and offered their compliments.
"In the future, our Li family will produce four thousand 'Azure Mystic Pills' every year... In five years, we will increase that to eight thousand... Hehe, fellow Daoists, our Li family's pills will all depend on you!" Li Ruoyu raised his cup and laughed.
His gaze fell upon the alchemists, including Yang Jiuli.
And it swept over those suppliers.
These words were clearly directed at both groups of people.
"It is our honor to contribute to the Li family's grand ambitions!"
"Haha, thanks to Patriarch Li's patronage, we will certainly do our utmost to cultivate spiritual herbs... and serve the Li family to the best of our ability!"
Many suppliers raised their glasses in celebration.
These people have been dealing with businessmen for years and have long since learned to speak politely and politely.
"We will certainly live up to the patriarch's expectations!" The earlier batches of alchemists who had cultivated immortal seedlings also stood up and raised their cups.
"We will certainly live up to the patriarch's expectations!" Liu Yuelong and Huang Cheng immediately stood up and raised their glasses.
Yang Jiuli also stood up and raised his glass.
"Four thousand or more a year?" Yang Jiuli said in a low voice. "If it really works, it could earn a considerable amount of spirit stones."
He muttered to himself.
Seeing that everyone was full of ambition and looked ready to fight the Li family, Li Ruoyu narrowed his eyes, stroked his beard and smiled, nodding with satisfaction. If he didn't paint a bright future for these people, how could they work hard for the Li family day after day!
Li Ruoyu had a thorough understanding of these people's psychology.
Afterwards, everyone began to eat.
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Li Ruoyu clapped his hands.
Several women immediately pushed up a jade platform covered with a red cloth from the wide platform above the banquet.
"Gentlemen, today my Li family has specially prepared some prizes..." Li Ruoyu said with a smile.
"What's the prize?" Everyone wondered, looking at the wide platform in front of them.
But then the woman lifted the red cloth, revealing a wooden lattice that was nine feet high and three zhang long.
The grid is divided into three layers.
Each stack of boxes contained exquisite jade boxes, inside which lay gleaming beast eggs.
"Could this be a spirit beast egg?" someone exclaimed upon seeing this.
Li Ruoyu stood up and said, "These are spirit beast eggs gifted to my Li family by the Fu family, a renowned beast-taming family in the Yue Kingdom... There are even second-tier beast eggs among them... Each of you may choose one, and whether you choose a first-tier or second-tier beast egg depends entirely on your luck!"
"Beast eggs...there are even eggs of second-tier spirit beasts!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Yuelong and the others in the banquet hall widened their eyes and couldn't help but stand up to look at the wooden grid on the jade.
Representatives from those families that supplied medicinal herbs also stood up abruptly.
If a first-tier spirit beast egg is successfully cultivated, it has the potential to grow into a first-tier spirit beast comparable to the ninth level of Qi Refining.
Second-tier spirit beast eggs have the potential to be nurtured into second-tier spirit beasts comparable to Foundation Establishment cultivators.
First-tier spirit beast eggs are occasionally sold in the market, costing around ten to twenty low-grade spirit stones depending on their quality and attributes.
As for the second-tier spirit beast eggs...
They are rarely seen, and each one is worth more than two hundred low-grade spirit stones.
Often, the eggs are of average quality and have a chance of failing to hatch.
It's astonishing that the Li family is now offering a second-tier spirit beast egg as a prize.
Everyone immediately focused their senses on the beast eggs.
After a brief moment of realization, many people understood, and their excitement gradually subsided.
Among these dozens of beast eggs, quite a few showed extremely weak signs of life, clearly indicating that they were difficult to hatch.
However, some of the first-tier beast eggs have a strong life force and have a certain probability of successfully hatching.
Therefore, everyone was eagerly waiting for Patriarch Li to give the order to send people to select spirit beast eggs!