Best Ascension

Chapter 193 Two Years Alchemist
After Jin Ming finished teaching, he didn't stay in the ground fire room. He only left six servings of fish marrow elixir to Zhao Sheng, and then left here under the pretext of having something to do.

When Zhao Sheng was the only one left in the local fire room, Zhao Sheng's eyes flashed, and an uncontrollable excitement appeared on his face.

He turned back and sat cross-legged on the futon, and began to refine fish marrow pill for the third time.

This time, he will go all out.

Half an hour later, black smoke billowed from the alchemy furnace, Zhao Sheng's eyes blazed brightly, two blue lights shot out of his eye sockets more than three inches long, and afterimages flashed from the alchemy formula in his hand.

"Congeal!"

With a low shout, the three fish marrow pills suddenly rushed out of the pill furnace, flew to Zhao Sheng, and stopped in the air.

Looking at the panacea exuding a strong alchemy fragrance in front of him, Zhao Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly.

Alchemy is really not as simple as imagined.

Even with the blessing of talent, Zhao Sheng still underestimated the complexity of refining the elixir. The other several elixirs either failed to condense the elixir due to the fusion of medicinal properties or insufficient elixir reaction.

"Come again!"

Zhao Sheng put away the fish marrow pill, and with a wave of his hand, he moved away the silver-white pill furnace that Jin Ming had left on purpose.

In the next second, the Nine Dragons Alchemy Cauldron flew out, soared to the height of one person, and landed steadily on the alchemy platform.

boom!
As the eight red clams sprayed out the hot pure green ground fire, the Jiulong cauldron quickly became hot.

The Nine Dragon Cauldron is worthy of being a spirit-level alchemy cauldron, and Zhao Sheng can manipulate it like swinging his arms, ten times smoother than the silver-white alchemy furnace.

With the help of Jiulongding for the fourth refinement of Yusui Pill, Zhao Sheng clearly felt that the refining of the elixir was faster this time, and the properties of the medicine were more thoroughly and more balanced.

When it comes to the step of smelting medicine, it becomes more obvious. The bubbles on the pill liquid are finer and denser, and the volume shrinks faster by three points, and the temperature change of alchemy is easier to control than the silver white pill furnace, and the precision and accuracy are an order of magnitude higher.

This fourth alchemy immediately gave Zhao Sheng a big surprise
This time there were as many as five pills, four of which were of high quality, and only one was slightly flawed, but it was still of good quality.

Zhao Sheng was very excited and took the opportunity to start refining the fifth furnace.

Half an hour later, the refining failed, and the reason for the failure is unknown.

……

In the sixth furnace, three pills were produced, because the quality of the medicinal materials was not good.

In the seventh furnace, seven pills were produced!

After the seven furnaces were refined, all the medicinal materials left by Jin Ming were exhausted, and the number of fish marrow pills had reached seven, and the most important thing was that he only failed to refine it once!
If other alchemists knew his alchemy success rate, they would be dumbfounded immediately.

This guy is simply not human!

Zhao Sheng is also satisfied with this result, but it is not good enough.He feels that he still has a lot of room for improvement.

When Zhao Sheng came out of the ground fire room and left Wanxia Peak, it was already late and the sun was setting to the west.

When the dim yellow sun shines on the Wanxia Peak, the large white clouds and smoke floating above the peak are immediately reflected into a blood red, like blossoming red clouds hanging in the sky.

At this moment, the plume of smoke rising from the top of Wanxia Peak is dyed pink, and it looks like a red silk falling down nine days from a distance, which is extremely beautiful.

But such beautiful scenery could not attract Zhao Sheng's attention.

As soon as he left Wanxia Peak, he went straight to Danhuofang City.

When he arrived in Fangshi, he didn't go directly into the Precious Medicine Pavilion, and bought many elixir materials for refining water elixir and fish marrow elixir.

Not only that, he also bought several other elixirs for refining first-level elixir, and planned to let Jin Ming teach him alchemy in the future.

The next day, in the ground fire room, there was a dull cracking sound from the Nine Dragon Cauldron. Although the sound was not loud, Zhao Sheng's heart sank and his face turned ugly.

After hesitating for a while, Zhao Sheng sighed and stopped the ground fire.Then he stepped forward, waved the cauldron cover and flew up, stretched his head to look inside, and sure enough there was only a pile of danza left in the furnace.

Zhao Sheng shook his head, flicked his fingers, a water dragon condensed out of thin air, and flew into the alchemy furnace, quickly and repeatedly washing the inner wall.

This is the fifth time he has refined the water elixir, and it is also the second time he has failed!

In terms of success rate, the water spirit pill is indeed more difficult than the fish marrow pill.

After rinsing the alchemy furnace, Zhao Sheng had escaped from the shadow of failure, and his mood returned to calm.

He returned to the futon and sat down expressionlessly, pondered a lot, and after summing up the experience and lessons of failure, he began to refine the sixth pot of water elixir.

Refining elixir sometimes pays attention to a practice that makes perfect, just like playing a game to level up, the more you play, the more proficient you become.
……

Seven days later, Jin Ming and Zhao Sheng met again.

Without waiting for Jin Ming to ask, Zhao Sheng immediately showed the results of the seven-day alchemy special training.

A furnace of fish marrow pills yields three pills.

A furnace of water panacea, out of two pills.

The best part is that I didn't fail both times!

Looking at Zhao Sheng's humble and longing expression, Jin Ming took a deep breath, unable to utter any words of criticism.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Sheng took the opportunity to suggest: "Fellow Daoist Jin, I heard that you are also proficient in refining Yuhuang Pill. It just so happens that I have also prepared twenty medicinal materials. Why don't you teach me how to refine Yuhuang Pill today?"

After hearing this, Jin Ming couldn't help taking a deep breath. He didn't know why, but felt a pain in his lungs, and he was very aggrieved.

He covered his chest, and agreed in pain: ".Okay!"

Zhao Sheng was overjoyed when he heard the words, turned a blind eye to Jin Ming's pain, held his hand with one hand, and thanked him: "Fellow Daoist is really generous, Zhao admires it very much!"

As he said that, Jin Ming felt that there was something hard in his hand, and when he looked down, he saw a medium-grade pure Yin spirit stone leaking a little halo from his fingers.

Seeing this, Jin Ming immediately felt much better, and said loudly, "You are welcome, fellow daoist! Since you are sincere, I will give you all I can to ensure you are satisfied!"

Zhao Sheng clapped his hands knowingly, and said with a smile: "Don't dare to say anything else, fellow daoists will see my sincerity in the future."

"Okay, Jin will start refining a furnace of Jade Yellow Pill." Jin Ming said very straightforwardly.

……

Two years passed in a flash.

On Chunqiu Island, the core of Jiuzhen Island, Lingdao, there is a large three-story palace-shaped building in the east of the island. On the gate of the main hall on the first floor, there are three gilded characters of "Gongde Hall".

The interior of this building is very spacious. The main hall on the first floor has an area of ​​fifty or sixty feet wide. The hall is divided into many areas, and the areas are separated by jade counters.

A huge white wall of light stands in the center of each area. Rows of black, red, yellow, green, and white characters appear on the surface of the light wall, corresponding to the five mission levels.

The Hall of Merit is the place where the Spring and Autumn League issued various missions to its allies, casual cultivators on the island, and a group of guest elders.

Due to different functions, the corresponding tasks can be said to be varied. There are common tasks such as hunting monsters, looking for spiritual herbs, medicinal materials, etc., as well as professional tasks related to refining alchemy and talisman, as well as hiring, assassination, guarding, etc. Special tasks, and even recruiting sons-in-law and apprentices.

It can be said that as long as you dare to take on the task, Gongdetang will dare to undertake it, provided that you can afford the reward and commission for the task.

In the world of cultivating immortals, special places like Gongde Hall are actually very common. Any larger sect and family of cultivating immortals will have similar places, such as the Guiyuanzong where Zhao Sheng stayed in his previous life. The hall is very similar to the function of the merit hall, but there is no task like the merit hall that dares to put it on the bright side.

At this moment, in front of a huge wall of light
Zhao Sheng, who was dressed in black, was standing still, his eyes flickering with the changes of the text on the light wall.

A moment later, with a sudden movement of consciousness, he raised his hand to reveal a jade tablet.

"Class C NO.11 Mission"

Following his low shout, a white light suddenly shot out from the surface of the light wall, and the white light flashed into the jade tablet in his hand.

After a burst of white light appeared on the surface of the jade plaque, a row of small characters suddenly appeared:
"Twenty water-dispelling pills, one thousand points of merit!" Zhao Sheng knew the situation of this mission clearly with a sweep.

It turns out that this Pishui pill is a special kind of panacea that is quite difficult to refine among the first-order panacea.

Immortal cultivators can breathe freely underwater for up to three days after taking a Pishui Pill.

Alchemy is really an expensive skill, even if Zhao Sheng has a lot of money, he can't afford it.

Especially when he was trying to learn how to refine the second-order panacea in "The Essence of Alchemy: Baidan Fang", the cost of any refining failure was more than three-digit spirit stones.

It wasn't that he was restless in refining the first-order elixir, it was that his progress was too fast, and Jin Ming had already been exhausted half a year ago.

The 21 refining methods of the first-order panacea he mastered were all learned by Zhao Sheng.

As for the second-order panacea?

I'm very sorry, but Jin Ming can only refine one kind of Tier [-] Golden Cloud Pill, and the success rate is pitifully low.

Only one or two times of success in refining ten times, and each time there are at most two pills, not to mention the quality.

It's not that Zhao Sheng has never thought about worshiping other alchemists as his teachers, but since he occasionally heard rumors that he was a "genius in alchemy", and was visited by some fellow foundation builders many times.

In order to avoid more troubles, Zhao Sheng had no choice but to temporarily dismiss this idea.

At the same time, Zhao Sheng also secretly reduced the number of times he went to the fire room, as well as the number and frequency of selling elixir.

For the Gongde Hall, Zhao Sheng has been working a little bit more in the past two months.

One is to take a few alchemy tasks by the way, and earn some spiritual money to get back the capital.

But he mainly came for the spiritual fire of heaven and earth.

It's a pity that the spiritual fire of heaven and earth suitable for alchemy can be encountered but not sought.

In the past few months, Zhao Sheng visited Daofang City and Gongde Hall, and saw several kinds of Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires, but none of them met his requirements.

Finally saw a golden flame in the center of the earth, suitable for alchemy.

However, before he could make a move, the Earth Core Golden Flame was bought by the upper echelons of the alchemy guild.

Zhao Sheng is just an alchemy apprentice, not in the eyes of others at all.

Although in the entire Jiuzhen Island, apart from Jin Ming's faint guess, no one at all knew that he was already a Tier [-] alchemist.

……

After Zhao Sheng took over the task of alchemy, he looked at the other tasks of Light Wall, but found no clues for the task of Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.

After a little thought, he immediately stepped out of the merit hall, threw the golden flying sword and turned around his body at the same time, his whole body suddenly turned into a rainbow of swords and flew straight to the cave by the island.

(End of this chapter)