Chapter 75: The Phased-Out Elixir

After the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, had left.

Ye Qingxuan sent a list to Zhu Dafu, asking him to help collect some spiritual herbs.

The method he mentioned for rapidly increasing the cultivation bases of the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, involved elixirs that had already been phased out by the Xuantian Sect.

These were elixirs that, once consumed, could forcibly fuse the medicinal power with a cultivator's spiritual power, thereby increasing their cultivation base.

Unlike elixirs containing the source of the world, these elixirs, which rely solely on medicinal power to rapidly boost cultivation, carry numerous side effects.

Reduced control over spiritual power and a decline in combat strength were not even the most critical issues.

Once one consumes elixirs that rapidly increase cultivation, the resulting impurity in spiritual power will also affect the efficiency of spiritual root transformation.

It is as if, originally, the purity levels were identical, allowing spiritual power to merge naturally and quickly.

However, when the purity of one's own spiritual power differs from the initial spiritual power transformed by the spiritual root, the fusion speed slows down, thereby affecting one's normal cultivation speed.

Secondly, breakthroughs become difficult.

After consuming elixirs that directly boost cultivation through medicinal power, the difficulty of breaking through bottlenecks increases significantly; to break through a major realm, one must consume various breakthrough elixirs as assistance.

Without the corresponding breakthrough elixirs, the success rate for such cultivators to break through directly will plummet.

Therefore, consuming such elixirs, while causing a temporary rapid increase in cultivation, drastically reduces the success rate of breaking through bottlenecks if one cannot obtain the corresponding breakthrough elixirs, making it nearly equivalent to a slow, semi-suicide.

Conversely, if one does not consume elixirs that directly boost cultivation through medicinal power, and instead relies solely on spiritual root transformation or various source forces to increase spiritual power, one's spiritual power will be extremely pure and entirely under one's control.

This creates an irreplaceable advantage.

That is, as long as spiritual power accumulation is sufficient and the peak of the current realm is reached, there is a high probability of breaking through to the next major realm.

This point holds immense appeal for cultivators.

Nowadays, within the Xuantian Sect, such elixirs have long been banned; generally, unless absolutely necessary, no one is willing to consume elixirs that increase cultivation through medicinal power. Anyone who consumes such elixirs is unworthy of being a disciple of the Xuantian Sect.

Those who have consumed such elixirs cannot fully control their spiritual power, making them impossible to hide in the eyes of high-level cultivators. Thus, no one in the Xuantian Sect dares to use such elixirs, and there is no circulation of them.

Over time, most alchemists within the Xuantian Sect have also stopped wasting effort learning to refine such elixirs.

Not only the Xuantian Sect, a dominant sect, but even slightly stronger sects in the Di Xuan Realm and talented independent cultivators have long ceased consuming such elixirs.

It can be said that this elixir, nearly phased out of the Di Xuan Realm, is estimated by Ye Qingxuan to be chosen by only a very few cultivators.

Moreover, among these very few cultivators, the vast majority are certainly not short of money, possessing sufficient funds to purchase such elixirs and access channels for various corresponding breakthrough elixirs.

Because the medicinal materials required for these cultivation-boosting elixirs are precious, the refinement difficulty is high, and the contained energy is great, the selling price is extremely expensive.

Not to mention the breakthrough elixirs used during major realm breakthroughs.

Cultivating a disciple with no hope who consumes vast resources is meaningless for all major powers.

And for individuals, very few can continuously afford the cost of consuming such expensive elixirs to boost their cultivation.

Only direct descendants from wealthy families with low talent can afford such expenses.

Therefore, over time, most cultivators with no hope of breaking through to Soul Transformation or Void Penetration, hindered by their lack of funds and inability to afford breakthrough elixirs, have gradually given up consuming such elixirs to boost their cultivation.

It is precisely due to these various reasons that elixirs directly boosting cultivation through medicinal power have been gradually phased out in the Dao of Immortality within the Di Xuan Realm.

At least, this is the case across the five regions of the Di Xuan Realm.

Of course, nothing is absolute; there are ways to resolve the side effects of such elixirs, but the difficulty is simply too great.

To the best of Ye Qingxuan's current knowledge, there are two methods to resolve these side effects.

One is to consume the Ninth-Grade Nirvana Elixir, which can reshape one's foundation and allow a cultivator to be reborn through Nirvana.

The other is Ascension; during Ascension, one undergoes a joint baptism by the heavenly and earthly forces of both realms, which is also the best opportunity for a cultivator to reshape their foundation.

However, neither of these methods can be easily achieved in the Di Xuan Realm. Setting aside Ascension, even the Ninth-Grade Nirvana Elixir requires Phoenix Grass as its main ingredient, which has long since become extinct in the Di Xuan Realm; thus, refining a Ninth-Grade Nirvana Elixir is almost impossible.

Ye Qingxuan had the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, consume such elixirs to boost their cultivation.

First, because their talent was indeed too low, with no hope of breaking through to the Soul Transformation realm.

Second, because Ye Qingxuan was not short of money at present and could fully supply Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu with a series of elixirs to aid their cultivation.

Of course, Ye Qingxuan also had his own ulterior motives.

As his attendants, once the cultivation bases of Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu were raised, it would be much more convenient to have them leave the Xuantian Sect to handle certain matters for him.

After obtaining the spiritual herbs, Ye Qingxuan began refining elixirs for Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu.

Since the two were currently in the Foundation Establishment realm, Ye Qingxuan refined Second-Grade Small Spirit Elixirs for them.

Refining Second-Grade Small Spirit Elixirs required three types of Second-Grade spiritual herbs: Second-Grade Spirit-Containing Grass, Second-Grade Earth Spirit Flower, and Second-Grade Wood Spirit Ganoderma.

In addition, more than ten types of First-Grade spiritual herbs were needed as auxiliary ingredients.

The refinement of Second-Grade Small Spirit Elixirs was not only complicated but also extremely costly.

The spiritual herbs for a single batch of Second-Grade Small Spirit Elixirs cost Ye Qingxuan 750 Low-Grade Spirit Stones, with the cost nearly matching that of Second-Grade Spirit-Cleansing Elixirs.

With the medicinal power of the Small Spirit Elixir, one pill could increase the cultivation speed of the two by an amount equivalent to three months of cultivation.

However, the aftereffects of such elixirs that directly boost cultivation through medicinal power are immense; after consuming one pill, ten days must be spent tempering the cultivation before the next Small Spirit Elixir can be consumed.

Even so, cultivating by consuming Small Spirit Elixirs could boost the two's cultivation speed to about nine times the original rate.

As for the toxicity and resistance issues of the Small Spirit Elixir, Ye Qingxuan naturally had corresponding elixirs to resolve them.

When they encountered bottlenecks, Ye Qingxuan also had corresponding elixirs to assist the two in breaking through; with his current alchemy skills, guaranteeing their breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm was not difficult.

As for the Soul Transformation realm, that could be discussed later! Once his own cultivation broke through and his alchemy skills improved, the Soul Transformation realm would not be a major problem.

As for the Void Penetration realm, it was far too difficult; Ye Qingxuan had no such plans and currently lacked the capability.

Even so, regarding the cultivation of his two attendants, Ye Qingxuan had done his utmost.

Ten days later.

Ye Qingxuan handed the refined Second-Grade Small Spirit Elixirs to Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu and sent them into seclusion to cultivate.

During this period, Ye Qingxuan used his disciple token to contact Ye Qingxiao, informing him of his emergence from seclusion and asking him to come over when free.

After finishing all this, Ye Qingxuan returned to his previous cultivation rhythm.

Occasionally, Ye Qingxuan would ponder in his mind, seeking a suitable opportunity to promote his Nuclear Bomb Elixir series and harvest cultivation resources.

Besides that, there was also the issue of production volume, which Ye Qingxuan urgently needed to solve.

Once the Nuclear Bomb Pill series became popular, relying solely on himself would be impossible to supply such a massive market.

The Nuclear Bomb Pill was researched by Ye Qingxuan using the combined methods of the four paths: Alchemy, Artifact, Talisman, and Formation; ordinary Alchemists might not be able to refine it.

Moreover, Ye Qingxuan could not simply give the formula away to others for nothing.

Time passed; Ye Qingxuan cultivated, drank tea, and pondered solutions to the problem every day.

Gradually, a plan to solve the production volume issue had taken shape in Ye Qingxuan's mind.

As for promoting the Nuclear Bomb Pill series, it still lacked an opportunity, and this opportunity lay with Ye Qingxiao.

(End of this chapter)