Chapter 23: Mid-Stage Qi Refining

Spring passed and autumn came; in the blink of an eye, another year had gone by!

Ye Qingxuan, who was sitting in meditation in the small courtyard, slowly exhaled a wisp of white mist.

He took out his vibrating disciple token, infused it with spiritual power, and a voice entered Ye Qingxuan's mind:

"Junior Brother Ye, this senior brother has broken through to the peak of Qi Refining and has already left the Fuxiu Courtyard to select a blessed land and become a Fuxiu. You must work hard! Do not disappoint your senior brother!"

Hearing this voice, Ye Qingxuan was stunned, then reacted before speaking slowly:

"Is this Senior Brother Su Daobin? Time really flies! In the blink of an eye, another year has passed!"

After thinking for a moment, Ye Qingxuan also replied to Su Daobin:

"Junior Brother Ye Qingxuan wishes Senior Brother an eternal path to immortality!"

Then, putting away his disciple token, Ye Qingxuan began to tally his gains from the past year.

During this year, aided by a large quantity of Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs for cultivation, his cultivation speed was not slow but fast; in just one year, he broke through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining and entered the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

In one year, Ye Qingxuan not only made a breakthrough in his cultivation base but also made significant progress in his alchemy skills.

Now, he can stably control the yield of a batch of Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs to between eight and nine pills!

The reason why each batch of Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs did not break through to ten pills was not that Ye Qingxuan had hit a bottleneck, but the limitation of the alchemy furnace.

The higher the grade of the elixir, the more immense the energy required, and the more stringent the corresponding refining requirements.

For high-grade elixirs, not only are the requirements for the furnace's grade very high, but the number of pills produced is often extremely small.

The reason for this!

Is that the higher the elixir grade, the more spiritual energy must be infused during pill formation.

Even high-grade alchemists, to ensure the success of the elixir refining, must reduce the number of pills produced to increase the success rate.

For eighth and ninth-grade elixirs, in most cases, a single batch can produce only one pill.

Although the Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs Ye Qingxuan currently refines are merely first-grade supreme elixirs, his furnace is only of the medium-grade magic treasure level, limiting the amount of spiritual energy that can be gathered during pill formation.

This causes the number of pills produced in a single batch of Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs to be controlled at eight or nine!

But even so, for Ye Qingxuan, this could be called huge profit.

The medicinal herbs for one portion of Spirit-Enhancing Elixir sell for ten low-grade spirit stones at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, while the buyback price for one Spirit-Enhancing Elixir pill is nine low-grade spirit stones.

Ye Qingxuan can refine eight to nine Spirit-Enhancing Elixir pills from one portion of medicinal herbs, yielding a profit of seven or eight times!

Of course, if he sold them at his own stall, the profit would be slightly higher, but this would waste a lot of time, which would be a loss for Ye Qingxuan.

Over the past year, after deducting the consumption for his own cultivation, Ye Qingxuan had accumulated 2,365 Spirit-Enhancing Elixir pills.

He used the medicinal herbs for 389 portions of Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs, and currently has 2,911 portions of medicinal herbs remaining.

Except for the beginning when he needed to consume several portions of medicinal herbs daily to practice refining Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs, once he truly mastered the refining, Ye Qingxuan consumed only one portion of medicinal herbs per day.

The remaining medicinal herbs are enough for Ye Qingxuan to refine for nearly eight years!

But he did not plan to continue secluding himself for eight years; instead, he prepared to go out for a trip.

Before leaving, Ye Qingxuan thought for a moment and sent a message to Senior Sister Hong Miaomiao, whom he had met at the market:

"Senior Sister Hong, do you buy Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs?"

Just as he was about to put away his disciple token, he did not expect Hong Miaomiao on the other end to have already replied:

"Buy! Buy! Buy! How many Spirit-Enhancing Elixir pills does junior brother have? Senior sister will buy them all!"

"Not many. Let's meet near our last stall."

"Okay, junior brother!"

After making arrangements with Hong Miaomiao, Ye Qingxuan also sent a message to Senior Brother Bai Wenyang of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion:

"Senior Brother Bai, my Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs have been successfully refined. I will come to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to find you shortly."

With his Qi Refining realm cultivation base, the sheer number of Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs he produced was truly too high and too abnormal.

To avoid drawing attention, Ye Qingxuan decided to sell the Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs in batches to reduce the risk of exposing himself.

Since he chose to become a Fuxiu, he must honestly hide in the shadows and develop, trying not to attract outside attention and reducing the risk of exposing his uniqueness.

This was the path Ye Qingxuan had planned when he joined the Xuantian Sect.

Want to stand out? He should wait until he later finds a method to create a clone or refine a puppet, and then create a new alias unrelated to his main body!

In any case, his main body absolutely cannot be reckless!

Honestly hiding in seclusion behind the scenes, cultivating within the Xuantian Sect, how safe is that? Going out and being reckless might accidentally get him washed away by the waves.

After daily self-reflection and further consolidating his Dao heart!

Ye Qingxuan put away his disciple token, summoned his flying sword, and flew toward the teleportation array near the Fuxiu Courtyard.

Passing a mountain peak, Ye Qingxuan could not help but casually cast the Spring Breeze and Nourishing Rain Technique!

After Ye Qingxuan left, spiritual clouds began to gather above that mountain peak, and a nourishing spiritual rain slowly began to fall.

As time passed, the spiritual rain grew heavier, lasting for a full two hours.

This spiritual rain significantly increased the spiritual vitality of the vegetation on the mountain below, and a few ordinary plants on the verge of breakthrough directly underwent transformation, evolving into spiritual plants.

A year had passed, and Ye Qingxuan's Spring Breeze and Nourishing Rain Technique had long since reached perfection, which is why it had such an effect.

Ye Qingxuan had never forgotten his path; the blessed land he would control after becoming a Fuxiu was his true foundation.

Before that, besides striving to improve his cultivation base, the most important thing was to lay the groundwork for the future development of his blessed land.

Now that he had entered the path of alchemy and mastered the variations of pill refining, Ye Qingxuan had become a true alchemist!

But this was not enough; becoming an alchemist could only guarantee Ye Qingxuan's cultivation resources after becoming a Fuxiu, with little direct impact on the blessed land.

To accelerate the advancement speed of the blessed land, the cultivation of various spiritual plants was indispensable.

And the Spring Breeze and Nourishing Rain Technique was one of the means he would use in the future to assist the growth of spiritual plants.

But this was still not enough; his understanding of various spiritual plants was too shallow, especially regarding their growing environments and their auxiliary effects on the advancement of the blessed land, about which he knew almost nothing!

Therefore, during this outing, Ye Qingxuan mainly sought knowledge related to spiritual plants and blessed lands to study, preparing for the future development of his blessed land.

Next came dealing with the accumulated Spirit-Boosting Elixirs he had on hand.

Inside the Hundred Treasures Pavilion of the Xuantian Sect's market!

After serving a customer, Bai Wenyang took out the disciple token from his chest that was vibrating slightly.

He extended his spiritual sense into it, saw the message Ye Qingxuan had sent, and said with some surprise:

"It's already successfully refined? That's a Grade One supreme elixir?"

"It seems my junior brother Ye has a good talent for alchemy? At the early stage of Qi Refining, he managed to refine Spirit-Boosting Elixirs in just one year?"

However, he was only slightly interested in Ye Qingxuan's alchemical talent and cared little about the quantity of Spirit-Boosting Elixirs in his possession!

A Qi Refining early-stage cultivator who had just started learning to refine Spirit-Boosting Elixirs could produce at most a hundred or so elixirs in a year, after accounting for the time spent experimenting and failures.

Such a small amount of elixirs would be quite sufficient to meet one's daily cultivation needs.

He guessed that his junior brother Ye simply wanted to sell some elixirs to replenish his spirit stones.