The Legend of the Immortal Cauldron

After waiting for a while, Liu Kang brought a woman to run over here quickly.

The woman Liu Kang came to see was very young, just a little older than Matthew, and looked about 17 or 18 years old.

The woman was wearing a light yellow long skirt, with a fair and tender face and two ponytails, looking very cute.

"Sorry for the long wait, Chen Xiaoyou. This is my sister, Liu Yuening." After the two ran to Matthew, Liu Kang introduced the woman next to him.

"There are many people here, is there a quiet place?" Matthew nodded slightly to Liu Yuening as a greeting, and then looked at Liu Kang and asked.

"Yes, it's not far away, Yuening, take Xiaoyou there, I still have to watch the stall." Liu Kang knew that what Matthew said was good for both parties, so he immediately said to Liu Yuening next to him.

Liu Yuening responded softly and walked to the side with Matthew.

After walking for a while, the two came to a simple house.

After asking Matthew to sit down, Liu Yuening spoke first: "My brother said you need the materials for the Qi Gathering Pill, 20 spirit stones for one portion, how much do you need?"

"20 spirit stones for one portion, this price is too high." Upon hearing the price, Matthew frowned and said.

"The materials for the Qi Gathering Pill are not the same as other pills, the materials usually used are 20 to 30 years old. And all of mine are at least 50 years old, so the price is naturally more expensive than outside. But the quality of the spirit medicine will definitely not disappoint you, you can take a look first." After Liu Yuening finished speaking slowly, she took out a wooden box from the storage bag and handed it to Matthew.

He scanned the wooden box with his spiritual sense, and after confirming that there was no danger, he stretched out his hand to open the wooden box.

As soon as the wooden box was opened, Matthew immediately smelled the fragrance of herbs.

In the past six months, he made up for the ancient books he bought, and with the long-term alchemy, he also had a rough judgment of the medicinal materials.

He reached out and picked up a spiritual medicine and put it in front of him to sniff it. After checking it for a while, he was able to conclude that Liu Yuening was right. This was indeed a spiritual medicine of about fifty years old.

If it was just for practice, such a spiritual medicine of this age would definitely be a bit of a waste.

But Matthew wanted to refine it into a Qi-gathering Pill for himself, so the older the spiritual medicine was, the better.

The older the spiritual medicine was, the better the quality of the pill it was made from.

He had also seen in ancient books that a thousand-year-old spiritual medicine was used as a medicine, and there was a 20% chance that the quality of the pill could be improved by one level.

"They are indeed spiritual medicines of about fifty years old, but twenty spiritual stones are still a bit expensive. How about this, eighteen spiritual stones per piece, I'll buy fifty first, how about that?" After putting the spiritual medicine back into the wooden box and closing the lid, Matthew said slowly.

Liu Yuening did not refute Matthew's offer, but scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said, "Fifty copies... I can't get this amount for the time being, it will take half a month. I only have 20 copies now."

"Then buy 20 copies first, and I'll come back in half a month." Matthew took out enough spirit stones from the storage bag and put them on the table.

After the two completed the transaction, Matthew left first.

He did not go home immediately, but continued to walk around the shops in the city.

"It seems that Liu Yuening is right. The spirit medicines sold in other shops are all 20 to 30 years old, and the price is 15 spirit stones per piece." After coming out of the last shop, Matthew muttered in his heart.

He just bought some materials in each shop in order to practice with these materials.

By the way, he also bought some low-grade Qi Gathering Pills, so that even if he can't refine them for the time being, he can still take them.

He knew that if he wanted to refine a new pill, he had to try it out.

Each type of elixir has different properties, and the time required to invest in medicinal materials and the control of the temperature are also different, so the same method cannot be used to refine elixirs.

After returning home and taking a short rest, Matthew immediately began to try to refine the Qi Gathering Pill.

Master Wang was so old that he could only refine the Qi-nourishing Pill, so he naturally had no experience with the Qi Gathering Pill.

First, put some spirit stones into the purple cauldron to make the gas mass thick, and then put the purchased Qi Gathering Pills in for purification.

While purifying, Matthew read the pill formula carefully again.

After all the things on hand were done, he began to refine the Qi Gathering Pill.

As expected, the first few furnaces all failed.

According to habit, Matthew recorded the entire process of refining the elixir, and continued to refine the elixir after careful consideration.

As his elixir refining skills were slightly improved, sometimes even if the refining failed, he would get some waste pills.

These waste pills would definitely be useless in the eyes of others, but Matthew had the purple cauldron.

After throwing some waste pills in, you will soon get a low-grade Qi-Gathering Pill.

During the break, Matthew tried to take a purified low-grade Qi-Gathering Pill.

He found that even though it was low-grade, the effect of the Qi-Gathering Pill was still stronger than that of the middle-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill.

"It is worthy of being a pill made from spiritual medicine. The effect is really strong. If I use spiritual medicine that is a hundred years old to make pills, maybe I can make pills of higher quality." After refining the medicinal power, Matthew said to himself with satisfaction.

After knowing the effect of the low-grade Qi-Gathering Pill, Matthew worked harder to make pills.

Soon, all the spiritual medicines purchased in the store were consumed by him.

Although there was a purple small tripod to back it up, he would not get nothing, but Matthew still kept his full concentration when refining pills.

After consuming so many spiritual medicines, he finally found some experience.

Although most of the time, the pills produced were useless, occasionally there would be one or two furnaces of low-grade Qi-Gathering Pills.

Calculating the time, it has only been a few days since he started refining pills, and there are still ten days before the transaction with Liu Yuening.

Therefore, Matthew decided to take the middle-grade Qi-Gathering Pill to break through the bottleneck.

After repeated thinking for half a year, Matthew knew that even if he got those spiritual medicines and successfully joined one of the four major sects.

With his qualifications, he would definitely be a marginal person even if he entered the sect.

Another point that made him hesitate to join the sect was that with his qualifications, he could only reach the first or second level of Qi Refining in his lifetime.

There must be many old monsters in the sect who have lived for hundreds of years. If they knew his situation, the secret of the purple cauldron would definitely be exposed.

The purple cauldron is his greatest support on the road to immortal cultivation, and this secret must not be known to others.

In the end, Matthew decided to give up joining the sect and be an independent cultivator honestly.

In addition, he never forgot the revenge for the old man. If he joined the sect, he would definitely have to stay away from Wangxian City, and he might never be able to avenge the old man.

When Matthew reached the fourth level of Qi Refining, he had already secretly inquired about Liu Xingjian's news. After knowing that the other party was in seclusion to break through the seventh level of Qi Refining, Matthew practiced even harder, hoping to surpass the other party as soon as possible and avenge the old man.