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Chapter 1041: Chapter 989_2
Before retreating for a century, Li Zhirui not only restored his cultivation to the Mid Nascent Soul stage, but also preliminarily solved the relationship between Cave Heaven and space.
He planned to regard Cave Heaven as the fundamental world, while space is similar to a realm membrane. Their relationship isn’t one of life-and-death conflict but mutual promotion and collective progress.
As Li Zhirui’s fundamental basis for cultivation, Cave Heaven is of utmost importance and cannot be replaced; however, the ability of space acceleration to nurture Spiritual Objects is also highly beneficial for his cultivation and likewise cannot be abandoned.
And this idea of Li Zhirui’s is not unattainable!
Because the Personal Space will expand as his cultivation level increases, Cave Heaven on the other hand is more like a special, more perfected Spirit Realm that exists within the gaps of space.
He previously planned to let Cave Heaven devour space, which was a mistaken approach.
In addition to resolving this cultivation problem, Li Zhirui thoroughly comprehended several grade-six Pill Recipes. He now plans to exchange Spirit Stones to hasten the maturation of Spiritual Objects before he begins practical implementation.
This time in Alchemy, Li Zhirui is full of confidence, estimating that he can successfully refine a Precious Pill within ten attempts!
Not only because he fully mastered the Pill Recipes, but also because he has sufficient confidence in his own level of Alchemy Dao.
A large amount of Spirit Stones are buried beside the roots of the Spiritual Objects, and under the mysterious effects of space, the mighty Spiritual Energy nourishes them quickly; in just a moment, a grade-six Spiritual Medicine thoroughly matures!
In a little more than an hour, Li Zhirui obtained materials for about twenty batches. This time he prepared to refine Purple Qi Pills obtained from a mysterious old woman, and also the Bright Jade Pills for healing.
The former to accelerate his cultivation speed and the latter to mend the cultivation techniques of his clan members, both required urgently, hence he chose these two out of dozens of grade-six Pill Recipes.
He had consumed Yang-Nourishing Pills for many years, and it was time for a change.
Indeed!
Li Zhirui had several dozen grade-six Pill Recipes, not only those exchanged using the Lotus Seed Skill, but also several grade-six Pill Recipes from that mysterious old woman.
Moreover, there are many high-grade Pill Recipes in the heritage of the Taoist Temple of Jiang Fengwu.
Besides the grade-six Pill Recipes, he also mastered a grade-seven Cultivation Pill Technique, Soul Blood Pill, and a grade-eight Cultivation Pill Recipe, Zhenhua Buque Dan.
And for the former, Li Zhirui possessed all the Spirit Seeds required for the recipe, while for Buque Dan, he only had the main herb’s grade-eight Spirit Seed, Zhenhuazi.
The moment he obtained the Spirit Seeds, he planted them in his space and used all the Spirit Stones he had to hasten the growth of Zhenhuazi, allowing more Spirit Seeds to mature naturally.
That is to say, from the Void Refinement Realm to the Great Vehicle Realm, he won’t lack any Precious Pills to assist in his cultivation!
Back to the topic!
For this Alchemy session, Li Zhirui was fully prepared, clearing his mind of any distractions, focusing his thoughts, and slowly opening his eyes.
Calmly, he poured purified Spirit Water into the Pill Furnace, then tempered various Spiritual Objects, placing their essence into the Pill Furnace to begin the hand seals and spells, carefully merging the essences...
Boom!
There were no issues with the previous steps, but during the pill formation, it suddenly failed.
Li Zhirui frowned, recalling the situation and looking for the cause of failure.
"Is it because the medicinal properties weren’t fully merged?"
After identifying the problem, Li Zhirui cleaned the Pill Furnace and immediately started the second attempt at Alchemy.
Failure...
Failure...
Still a failure!
After several consecutive failures, but with Li Zhirui’s relentless perseverance, he succeeded on the seventh attempt in refining the Purple Qi Pill!
A round pill, its entire body showing a light purple hue, emitting an enchanting fragrance, quietly lay inside a jade bottle.
"The grade is not bad."
Although there was only one Purple Qi Pill, it was of middle grade, not the low grade most common among beginners.
Energized, Li Zhirui used up all the remaining materials and eventually obtained fourteen Precious Pills!
At night, it was used for cultivation, so the production of Bright Jade Pill could only be postponed until the next day.
The difficulty of refining Bright Jade Pill was relatively low, and the success rate had increased significantly. After using all the materials, he actually obtained thirty-one Precious Pills!
In addition, Li Zhirui also prepared materials for Flower Skin Pill and Beauty Pill, two types of sixth-grade Precious Pills that he planned to use to earn a large amount of Spirit Stones.
However, due to various distractions over the years, he had no time to ponder and refine these.
Li Zhirui planned to pass on these two Pill Recipes to other sixth-grade Alchemists in the family after learning them and then try to deduce lower-grade versions of the same pills. n𝚘vp𝚞𝚋.com
Indeed, higher-grade Precious Pills were more valuable, but due to the limitations of Spiritual Medicine maturity, refining difficulty, and other conditions, they couldn’t be sold on a large scale. From the perspective of earning Spirit Stones, the lower-grade pill formulas might even be more profitable.
It can be said that in the next few years, besides routine cultivation, Li Zhirui spent most of his time on Alchemy.
Pills like Flower Skin Pill and Beauty Pill, especially those of the fourth and fifth grade, brought a very considerable income to the family!
These regressed pill formulas were deduced by Li Zhirui and several other sixth and fifth-grade Alchemists and were much easier to develop than higher-grade formulas.
And just these two types of Precious Pills alone accounted for one-fifth of the Li family’s income last year!
You must know that with the scale of the Li family’s development today, its income could not be compared to the past. Yet, even so, the dazzling performance of the Flower Skin Pills and Beauty Pills still shocked all the Elders.
It can be said that whether worldly women or female cultivators, all have a fervent pursuit of beauty.
Due to the excellent performance of the Flower Skin Pill and Beauty Pill, the Li family plans to start planting related Spiritual Objects on a large scale from this year.
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"Jiu! I’m back!"
After years of journey, Da Qing finally returned to Wanling Island.
He had stayed in the Northern Domain for decades. After encountering a fortuitous event, he obtained the desired Spirit Seed. But the reason he hadn’t returned earlier was that Da Qing went to gather other materials.
For example, the evil cultivators and Robbing Cultivators used in experiments, as well as corresponding lower-grade Spirit Seeds.
So it wasn’t until today that he finally returned.
"Seeing the joy on your face, I assume you found the Spirit Seed?" Li Zhirui’s eyes showed a hint of anticipation.
Da Qing nodded: "That’s right! Moreover, I obtained the higher-grade Spirit Seed first before managing to collect the lower-grade Spirit Seeds needed for experiments."
"Oh?"
This order was a bit reversed.
Then Da Qing shared in detail the fortuitous event he encountered in the Northern Domain.
"Cangyuan Wood Turtle Bloodline?"
Li Zhirui pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that the other party mistook you for a descendant of a now-extinct race and likely wanted to repay a favor."
"I thought the same, so I collected some relevant information in the Northern Domain." As he spoke, Da Qing took out several Jade Slips and handed them over.
Li Zhirui’s powerful Divine Sense quickly finished reading the content and frowned, saying, "This bloodline you carry may not be a good thing."
Because almost all Ancient Remnant Races received favors from the Cangyuan Wood Turtle!
This was a huge karmic responsibility!
Li Zhirui suspected that the surviving turtles died in a relatively stable environment, eventually leading to their extinction, and this could be one of the reasons.
Some remnant races didn’t want to pay back their debts, preferring to kill and silence others; once dead, those karmic ties naturally cleared, leaving nothing to be paid off.
"The karmic ties have already been cleared, surely I wouldn’t inherit the Cangyuan Wood Turtle’s bloodline and suddenly restore those past karmic debts?" Da Qing wasn’t foolish, he had considered this over the years but felt it unlikely.
Li Zhirui shook his head and said, "Perhaps, karmic force, karmic justice, meritorious deeds; we’re not exposed enough to these concepts, our understanding of these is also shallow. In any case, be cautious!"
"After all, in the coming years, you will be supervising the implementation of experiments and Cultivation Techniques, and you won’t need to go to the Northern Domain, which should help you avoid these dangers."
Da Qing didn’t really care about this matter; his mind was filled with thoughts about the experiments, and if there were no issues, he would integrate the highest-grade eighth-grade Spirit Seed as the foundation for his future cultivation.
