Mid-January.
More than four months had passed since Fang Yun returned to the sect from the Zeng Family’s ancestral land.
This January, the Inner Sect Competition was set to take place.
Naturally, Fang Yun had signed up for it.
He might not care for the prizes anymore, but placing in the Inner Sect Competition awarded Talent Points upon completion.
He still rembered the competition three years ago. Just for making it into the top eight, he had received 1,150 Talent Points before any bonuses.
This year, there was no doubt he would take first place.
His matches always ended quickly, after which he would disappear from Battle Peak.
During the competition, no disciple bothered to discuss who would win first place. The most heated debates were over who was most likely to contend for second.
In the last competition, the first-place prize was a Middle-grade Foundation Establishnt Pill, and second place received a Lower-grade Foundation Establishnt Pill. Those rewards had gone to Bai Qinying and Wu Junxin, respectively. This ti, the only prize was a single Lower-grade Foundation Establishnt Pill.
This ti, Yuan Yunfan took second place.
The first-place prize, the Lower-grade Foundation Establishnt Pill, was now in Fang Yun’s hands.
Since he already possessed a Top-grade Foundation Establishnt Pill, he had no use for this lower-grade one. He would deal with it later.
Breaking through a major Realm was different from advancing through minor realms. Multiple Foundation Establishnt Pills were useless to him, but different Foundation Establishnt Spirit dicines could be used together for a cumulative effect.
In these four months, Fang Yun had drawn for Life Talents a total of 1,185 tis.
The Talent Points he gained each month hovered around 30,000.
Dan Cloud Peak.
Inside Superior Alchemy Room Number One.
Fang Yun was refining Qi Enhancent Pills.
He now used good-quality Spirit dicine to refine Qi Enhancent Pills. Since he always produced six Upper-grade Qi Enhancent Pills anyway, giving him superior-quality Spirit dicine would be a waste, now that he could refine them perfectly.
As for inferior-quality Spirit dicine, he had yet to encounter any since he started taking on alchemy assignnts.
’This is the last batch.’
After collecting the six pills, Fang Yun didn’t even need to look to know they were all Upper-grade Qi Enhancent Pills.
Refining Qi Enhancent Pills was so easy for him now that he felt he could produce six upper-grade ones with his eyes closed.
Leaving the Superior Alchemy Room, Fang Yun went to Dan Cloud Pavilion to turn in his assignnt.
Wang Yourong rarely appeared at Dan Cloud Pavilion to perform her Steward duties anymore. Fang Yun knew that his Junior Sister Wang was now spending more ti on her own cultivation.
In Elder Bai Heyan’s cave residence.
After leaving Dan Cloud Pavilion, Fang Yun appeared here.
"Fang Yun, what can I do for you?" Bai Heyan asked as Fang Yun entered.
"Elder, it’s about the Qi Enhancent Pill refining assignnts. You can go back to assigning them to normally, like any other disciple."
This was the very reason Fang Yun had co to see Bai Heyan.
He now had enough Upper-grade Qi Enhancent Pills to cultivate to the peak of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer. Under these circumstances, there was no need to keep taking advantage of the special arrangent.
With his Qi Enhancent Pill refining assignnts returning to normal, it was also ti for him to contribute more to the sect.
"It seems you have enough Upper-grade Qi Enhancent Pills. Very good." Fang Yun’s actions made Bai Heyan think even more highly of him. "I’ll make so adjustnts to your future Tier One pill refining assignnts."
"By the way, Fang Yun, when do you think you’ll reach the peak of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer?"
"Probably by the end of this year," Fang Yun replied.
Reach the peak of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer by the end of the year, and then he could prepare for Foundation Establishnt.
That was Fang Yun’s current plan.
Once he successfully reached Foundation Establishnt and beca a Sect Elder, his monthly Talent Point bonus would increase significantly.
His current sect influence hadn’t changed in the last four months. The next change would likely co when he beca a Sect Elder.
"Are you confident?" Bai Heyan asked with a smile.
"Of course."
Fang Yun answered confidently. He had a Top-grade Foundation Establishnt Pill, supplented by the Foundation Establishnt Spiritual Object, the Celestial Wood Spirit Leaf.
If he still said he wasn’t confident with all that, he would be selling himself far too short.
Of course, if he could obtain another good Foundation Establishnt Spiritual Object to stack the effects, that would be for the best.
Bai Heyan only touched on the matter of Foundation Establishnt briefly before returning to the topic of alchemy assignnts.
"Once your Qi Enhancent Pill assignnts are the sa as the other disciples’, I’ll figure out a way for you to refine a few more batches of Spirit Ascension Pills."
Hearing this, Fang Yun imdiately thanked him, "Thank you, Elder!"
Currently, when refining Spirit Ascension Pills, he could still only produce one Upper-grade pill per batch. However, alongside that one upper-grade pill, he could now consistently produce four or more Middle-grade ones.
The more he refined Spirit Ascension Pills, the slower his progress beca.
This wasn’t due to his Alchemy Talent, but the limitations of his Realm.
Second Tier pills were normally refined by Foundation Establishnt Cultivators. Lacking the aid of a Divine Sense put Fang Yun at a great disadvantage when refining Second Tier pills.
But even so, with the boost from his five-star Alchemy Talent, no Elder of Alchemy besides Bai Heyan himself could consistently achieve better results than him when refining Spirit Ascension Pills.
This visit to Elder Bai Heyan had yielded an unexpected reward.
As far as Fang Yun was concerned, he could never have too many Second Tier pills like the Spirit Ascension Pill. Even when he reached the mid-Foundation Establishnt Stage in the future, Spirit Ascension Pills would still be quite effective in aiding his cultivation.
Spring passed and autumn ca.
「Six months went by in the blink of an eye.」
During March and May,
in each of those two months, Fang Yun took on three Spirit Ascension Pill refining assignnts. Previously, the most he had ever gotten in one month was two, and in more than half the months, he only got one.
The increase in Spirit Ascension Pill assignnts, and thus the number of tis he refined them, also advanced his current skill level.
Due to the limitations of his Realm, his personal assessnt was that his overall progress wasn’t significant.
His best batch of Spirit Ascension Pills yet had yielded two Upper-grade, one Middle-grade, and four Lower-grade pills.
That was his own evaluation. In the eyes of the Elders of Alchemy, however—especially Song Qiaoqiao and Bai Heyan—it was a completely different story.
He hadn’t even reached the Foundation Establishnt Stage, yet he could refine two upper-grade pills from a single batch of Spirit Ascension Pills without producing a single Wasted Pill.
This achievent made him the second person in the history of the Celestial Cloud Sect to do so.
The first had been born a thousand years ago and had later succeeded in Core Formation, becoming a Supre Elder of the sect. At that ti, the Celestial Cloud Sect had considerable growth potential, but it also faced great external pressure.
June was not a good month for Fang Yun.
He had accepted a Guardian mission that month, and it passed peacefully, resulting in a particularly low Talent Point settlent.
Compared to the average number of Talent Points he usually earned each month, the amount he got this month was negligible.
For Fang Yun, the lack of any Demon attacks was a stroke of bad luck.
The reason he had taken the Guardian mission last month was that the conflict between the Stone Demon Sect and the Shen Family had intensified. With support from the Celestial Demon Sect, the flas of war were threatening to spread beyond the Shen Family’s territory.
Currently, Fang Yun’s primary source of firsthand information about the outside world was Bai Qinying; the Elders on Battle Peak received such news the fastest.
His secondary source was Yang Yingjie. It was worth ntioning that Yang Yingjie had already reached the Qi Refining Tenth Layer late last year.
With the conflict escalating, Fang Yun had wanted to test his luck and see if he could earn more Talent Points from combat.
Because of his bad luck this ti, Fang Yun had no desire to go out on another mission after returning.
In just over five more months, he would reach the peak of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.
All that was left to do was cultivate diligently, accumulate Talent Points normally each month, and strive to break through to the Foundation Establishnt Stage early next year.
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