Chapter 48: Pill Refinement Trait Critical Strike Quality

Lin An witnessed this scene and couldn't help but sigh lightly, shaking his head, saying no more. After all, everyone has their own path. Too many words would only seem meddlesome.

"Qin Yu's talent is truly astonishing; perhaps he really can succeed on the path of dual cultivation," someone whispered.

"He's like a miracle. When Elder Qi initially took us to the outer gate to watch the grand competition, who could have imagined Qin Yu could contend for first place, even face the opponent head-on?"

"When the beast tide surged, who could have anticipated that he could drive away a hundred beasts with a single shout, causing them to crawl on the ground like birds?"

"During the Chu Yuzhen Transmission Challenge, Qin Yu accepted it, crossing two major realms; who could have thought he could win unscathed?"

"I think Qin Yu is a miracle; he constantly displays a light unlike anyone else, surpassing people's imagination."

"Dual cultivation of pills and martial arts may be difficult for others, but for him I feel it might exceed our expectations, even achieve twice the result with half the effort." At this moment, a disciple behind Lin An murmured, a flash of firm trust in his eyes.

Those present who had witnessed Qin Yu fell into silence. These words were deafening and invigorating, making them feel their blood boil. Since knowing Qin Yu, when could he ever be described by ordinary logic? Lei Fa Gu Lu is the same—breaking through four stages of the body-tempering realm, setting the first record, and even the legendary Lei Dao Stele appeared. The greatest reward in history is Qin Yu! So, could he really have such a chance? Even Lin An, who previously advised him, found his eyes dazed, sinking into thought. This… indeed is possible.

Afterwards, Lin An led the crowd away to purchase pills on the second floor. Just as Qin Yu departed, a prompt appeared in his mind: "You have received ordinary advice: dual cultivation of pills and martial arts—while refining pills, cultivate martial arts, neither hindering the other, and activate the trait of twice the result with half the effort, advancing in tandem. Do you accept this advice?" Qin Yu blinked slightly, not expecting any benefit? "Accept advice."

Immediately, Qin Yu began searching for basic pill-refining books in the Dan Scripture Pavilion, then read them seriously. "First chapter, Medicinal Materials." This chapter mainly discusses the placement of medicinal materials; the sequence of each material must not be wrong, otherwise the pill is ruined at best, the furnace explodes at worst. Unless one can control the dispersion of the medicinal herbs' energy precisely to a percentage, immunity is impossible. Yellow-rank and Profound-rank pill refiners must strictly observe this.

"Second chapter, Pill Refining." This focuses more on how to blend medicinal effects, bit by bit, with great attention to each ratio; otherwise a slight mistake will cause the pill to explode. Qin Yu sat cross-legged, began to simulate, as if dozens of spiritual herbs were continuously merging in his mind, their spiritual energy slowly fusing. He comprehended it extremely quickly; the sense of ratio seemed to be mastered soon. "You accepted Senior Sister Lin Xue's advice, studied the basics of pill refining, gained profound insight into the Pill Refining chapter; ten refinements will trigger an ultimate fusion trait, after which the medicinal effect doubles compared to before. Each refinement will gain the perfect fusion trait, with no medicinal effect leaking out, yielding twenty percent more pills than ordinary refinement."

After half an hour, Qin Yu slowly opened his eyes. Perfect fusion… this rate seems not bad. If added to the ultimate fusion trait, the medicinal effect doubles and the pill yield increases. One furnace of his equals two furnaces of others. He then continued reading downward. "Third chapter, Fire Control." This chapter mainly discusses controlling the flame during pill refining; this is the most important. Only cultivators with ultimate fire control can reach the peak on the pill path; if they cannot do this, even a Yellow-rank pill refiner is already at the limit and cannot proceed further.

Qin Yu fell into deep thought again, automatically simulating the fire control scene in his mind. Countless spiritual qi gathered at his dantian, transforming into flames, fine control down to a thread. After another full half hour, Qin Yu finally opened his eyes, sweat pouring from his forehead. "Because of Senior Sister Lin Xue's advice, you are diligently learning the basics of pill refining; your insight into fire control is profound, gaining the Focus trait—while controlling fire, you will not leak any medicinal effect, each pill's quality being the finest. Among ten furnaces, one will have perfect quality, a hundred percent critical strike, far surpassing peers, yielding transcendent works." Qin Yu's eyes lit up. His furnace of Yellow-rank medium-grade pills would equal Yellow-rank high-grade, even Profound-rank low-grade, and would critically strike. This is too awesome.

Then he turned to the final chapter of the basic pill-refining book. "Fourth chapter, Pill Condensation." After a brief flip-through, Qin Yu instantly understood—for example, if the combined medicinal effect of these herbs is one hundred, after several processes of loss only eighty remains, which is excellent; sixty remains, which is passing. Every pill refiner, during condensation, must turn the remaining medicinal effect into pill after pill. Also during condensation, there will be loss of medicinal effect; the greater the loss, the poorer the quality, concerning pill yield and quality. "You have gained the Medicine Control Master trait—during each condensation, no medicinal effect is lost, yielding top-quality pills, and pill yield increases again by twenty percent."

Qin Yu slowly closed the book, exhaled a long breath. This is still thanks to Senior Sister. Without her advice, I would have directly skipped the basic pill-refining book and jumped straight into practice, likely ending in disaster. Even with netizens' pill-refining advice, … but correct steps and correct refinement are needed, yet each step would lose medicinal effect. Even obtaining the utmost supreme pill would still be based on the retained medicinal effect as foundation. Not much better. But with these traits, whether pill yield, pill quality, or the degree of medicinal effect loss, I will reach the highest level.

Immediately, Qin Yu felt eager to try. He closed the basic pill-refining book and put it back in place. "Next, we can directly attempt hands-on pill refining." Qin Yu's eyes glimmered with a faint brilliance. Then he headed straight for the second floor; at that moment, the person who had previously fetched his inner-door token for him was waiting downstairs on the first floor. "Qin Yu… Qin Yu Senior Brother, this is your inner-door token." Lin Sheng pondered a moment, still calling him Senior Brother, anyway Qin Yu would soon leave the inner door and become a true successor. "Thank you." Qin Yu's eyes showed surprise, not expecting him to wait here? "Where are you headed? Why not go together?" Lin Sheng's eyes lit up, hearing his cousin say that within the sect one must make many friends to go far, so he said: "I plan to try pill refining; I'll take Senior Brother along." Thus the two set off together for the second floor.