’With the blessing of my Second Layer Origin Treasure Seed’s Enhanced Enlightennt Celestial Gift: Spiritual Light, I’ve thoroughly mastered the Pill Formula and Refining thod for this Burning Breath Pill. I know it by heart. Producing five pills per furnace is no longer an issue, but I’m still just shy of the finesse needed to refine a Masterpiece Pill.’
’All I need now is extensive practice to deepen my understanding and comprehension, to trigger that spark of Spiritual Light through Thought and Refinent Unity.’
Lin Changheng already had experience with this. The last ti he’d captured that Spiritual Light, it had brought about a wondrous state of enlightennt, allowing him to refine a Middle Grade Pill for the first ti.
Now, he just needed to follow the sa path.
This wasn’t sothing that could be achieved overnight, and Lin Changheng was quite patient.
As for the Middle Grade Red Dragon Pill formula he had acquired at the last Auction,
’During my previous few trips to the Ruins District, I purchased over one hundred and forty sets of dicinal Materials. The Elixirs I refined were not only enough for my own use, but I had a surplus to sell.’
But back then, he had always done it secretly. While completing his Lower Grade Pill assignnts, he would take two or three days, dismiss his apprentices under the pretext of testing new pills, and refine them in private, away from prying eyes.
He refined about one furnace a month, with each furnace yielding five pills.
He had obtained over one hundred and twenty Red Dragon Pills.
After consuming more than fifty pills over two years, he set aside an additional year’s supply for himself and sold the rest whenever he got the chance.
The price of a Middle Grade Elixir ranged from around six to nine Spirit Stones.
Six was the price for a Genuine Pill, while the top price of nine was for a Masterpiece Pill.
After deducting the cost of the dicinal Materials, he had earned nearly one hundred and ninety Spirit Stones.
As the land reclamation drew to a close, the various influences began to consolidate their gains instead of exploring further. The price of a Lower Grade Masterpiece Pill had also fallen back to three Lower Grade Spirit Stones.
Therefore, there wasn’t much difference between selling them in the Marketplace and having the Xu Family buy them back.
Besides, he had already demonstrated his Skill in refining Masterpiece Pills to the clan, so he had to turn in a portion of them for the clan’s buy-back program to avoid making the Xu Family think he was deliberately hoarding pills.
Lin Changheng wouldn’t make such a short-sighted mistake.
Thus, after deducting various expenses and social obligations, Lin Changheng’s net worth had already surpassed the two-thousand Spirit Stone mark.
For a Qi Cultivation Middle Stage Cultivator, or even a Late Stage Cultivator, this was an extrely handso fortune.
He could buy two Upper Grade Masterpiece Magical Artifacts and still have so left over!
’After I finish refining these two furnaces of Middle Grade Pills, the people from the Liu Family should be here. I’ll go and deal with them then.’
With his status as a Middle Grade Alchemist, he could openly seek to purchase Essence Blood without any issue.
He didn’t even need to think of a reason. The excuse "studying the Alchemy Dao to seek improvent" was more than enough.
The Xu Family would not only not refuse, but they would even support and encourage it.
If a Lower Grade Alchemist was soone who chanically followed recipes, then a Middle Grade Alchemist already possessed a certain degree of creativity and had their own understanding of the Alchemy Dao.
It wasn’t much, but it was there.
Since Lin Changheng was willing to delve into his craft, the Xu Family would only support him wholeheartedly. After all, nurturing another Upper Grade Alchemist was sothing the Xu Family had always strived for.
For that, it was worth waiting another thirty or forty years.
After all, Lin Changheng’s sudden success after a long period of quiet accumulation—tending furnaces for twelve years before breaking through to Entry Tier, then reaching Middle Grade eight years later—gave the Xu Family a basis for their expectations.
’What if?’
Those two words were the fundantal reason Patriarch Xu had brought his direct daughter and a group of high-ranking mbers to watch Lin Changheng’s assessnt a few days ago.
Cultivation Clans were like this. On one hand, they needed steady, step-by-step developnt without making any major mistakes; on the other hand, they relied on lucky draws!
Whether it was a cultivation seed with an excellent Spirit Root or an Immortal Seed Honored Guest with profound skills, drawing just one could accelerate the clan’s leap forward!
And the Xu Family was pursuing both avenues, waiting patiently.
As for the task of processing Wasted Pills from Middle Grade Elixirs, Lin Changheng had already registered for it with Xu Xuzhong. He just needed the Pill Master who currently held the contract to give it up, and it would fall into his hands.
The task of processing Lower Grade Waste pills was still under his na.
However, since the Treasure Seed Spirit Stealing of both his Treasure Seeds had reached Perfection, he no longer needed to handle it personally.
He simply taught the relevant thods to his two apprentices and let them handle it, allowing them to keep all the profits.
For the two apprentices, this was a considerable side inco.
Originally, they weren’t qualified to accept such a task, so they were extrely grateful to Master Lin.
...
「Three days later.」
Lin Changheng waited about three hours before performing the Pill Collection Technique on the two Alchemy Furnaces, one after the other.
He looked at the ten red-and-white mottled pills resting in the specially made Jade Box, their dicinal fragrance filling his nostrils, and felt quite satisfied.
He closed the box and affixed a Spirit Locking Talisman to it, and instantly, no trace of the scent could escape.
When he walked out of the hall, Lin Changheng found even the light of the setting sun a bit blinding.
He went straight back to his small courtyard. Even after casting several Cleaning Skills on himself, he still felt uncomfortable. It wasn’t until he had doused himself with several buckets of cold water that he finally felt the lingering sll of the furnace fire wash away.
He was just about to rest for a mont when he recalled the details of Tantai Feiyue’s expression the last ti he saw her...
’Sothing’s not right.’
He imdiately rolled out of bed, threw on his robes, and went to Tantai Feiyue’s new small courtyard at the Guanxia Daoist School.
She had moved in a few months before him.
Furthermore, Talisman Making was different from Alchemy. It didn’t require long hours by a furnace; the drawing process was shorter but extrely draining on one’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
The recovery ti was much longer than the refining ti.
Therefore, she was most likely at ho right now.
After he knocked for a bit, Tantai Feiyue opened the door. Seeing Lin Changheng, she gave him a half-smile. "Well now, a rare guest has arrived. Your presence brings light to my humble ho. Please, co in."
Lin Changheng entered the courtyard, and after drinking so tea and chatting for a mont, he got to the point and asked about the Pan Mountain Essence Blood Talismanic Ink.
Then he saw Tantai Feiyue walk into the house, bring out a sizable Wooden Box, push it in front of him, and lift her snow-white chin.
She was clearly gesturing for him to open it.
’Hm? Could it be...’
Lin Changheng opened the box and saw that it was filled to the brim with small vials.
There were fifty of them in total.
He had assud they were all filled with Talismanic Ink, but upon closer inspection, he noticed a difference.
Only the fifteen vials on the left contained Talismanic Ink.
The thirty-five vials on the right were actually filled with pure Pan Mountain Essence Blood.
He subconsciously used his Spirit Detecting Skill, and a strange light flashed in his eyes, instantly confirming it.
"Thank you for your trouble, Feiyue. You’ve solved a pressing problem for ."
Lin Changheng looked at Tantai Feiyue’s pretty face, unable to suppress the curve of his lips.
Tantai Feiyue rarely saw such an expression on Lin Changheng’s face. Her curiosity piqued, she thought to herself that this Essence Blood must be of great use to him. However, she didn’t press the matter, instead smiling with pursed lips. "Brother Lin, why not open the compartnt below? You can thank after you’ve seen everything."
"I wouldn’t want to receive only half the credit I deserve, you know."
Hm?
Only then did Lin Changheng notice the box’s unusual thickness. He carefully removed the false bottom and saw another layer of Essence Blood vials.
It was Pan Mountain Turtle, still filled to the brim—fifty vials.
This ant he could directly advance his Pan Mountain Turtle Treasure Species to the Third Layer!
He couldn’t help but look up at Princess Tantai, exclaiming in astonishnt, "This many... Feiyue, did you find a Pan Mountain Turtle nest?"
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