Chapter 77

But after the Qi Condensation level of a cultivator, there are still two levels: Qi Condensation Stage 8 and Qi Condensation Stage 9, and only then is Foundation Establishment.

But wizards have to jump directly from Tier 3 wizard apprentice to Tier 1 formal wizard!

This means that the span between wizard apprentice and formal wizard is extremely exaggerated.

That so-called "advancement potion" is probably an essential item to complete this huge span; its medicinal power must be extremely overbearing, and even carries a certain forced elevation of the level of life, which is why it has side effects.

"If the gap is this big, I'm afraid the damage of that advancement potion to the body is much greater than I expected..." Jie Ming was thoughtful.

Most importantly, the advancement of a formal wizard also has a success rate.

If you are unlucky and don't advance once, the damage caused by the potion will not recover.

He doesn't want to damage his foundation for the sake of leveling up, and if he damages his Qi Condensation cultivation because of this, it would be a bit of a loss.

Jie Ming started to think about whether there is a way to reduce this damage or find an alternative solution.

"From the current stage, the best way is to advance to the Foundation Establishment Stage before advancing to a formal wizard."

Relying on the life essence and physical strength of the Foundation Establishment Stage, the damage caused by the advancement potion is not worth mentioning.

And similar life essence can also greatly reduce his danger when advancing to a formal wizard and increase the success rate.

"Speaking of this... I have to find a way to get a Foundation Establishment Pill?"

Jie Ming is quite confident in his talent for cultivating immortality.

Although it took a short time to cultivate to Qi Condensation Stage 1 at the beginning, after having a method to mobilize elemental power to replenish himself, his cultivation can be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.

In just five years, he went from Qi Condensation Stage 1 to Qi Condensation Stage 7, and is still rising continuously, almost without noticing any bottlenecks.

Jie Ming is confident that he can successfully establish his foundation without a Foundation Establishment Pill, but the main role of the Foundation Establishment Pill is to help the cultivator stabilize their state when advancing; it is good to have a Foundation Establishment Pill to escort him when advancing.

"If this is the case, I'm afraid I have to start learning alchemy and alchemy from now on."

To refine a Foundation Establishment Pill in the Wizarding World, one definitely won't find the original materials and can only try to find substitutes.

And to do this, both alchemy and potion knowledge need to be learned.

If the understanding of the two types of knowledge is deep enough, Jie Ming wants to see if he can think of ways to reduce the damage of the advancement potion to the body through immortal cultivation means.

Of course, learning potion knowledge is not just for this point; there is another more important reason.

"Anyway, in this way, it can be considered as laying the foundation for my future advancement to a formal wizard."

The third key point to becoming a formal wizard is to construct the Ring of Truth in the spiritual sea.

This is the symbol of a formal wizard, condensing the nine major truth runes in the spiritual sea into a ring with a special structure, making it possess more powerful power, and binding it to the core soul of the wizard.

And when constructing the Ring of Truth, a trick is mentioned on the Magic Network: if the truth runes chosen inside the Ring of Truth can form a complete wizardry model with each other, then the difficulty of constructing the Ring of Truth can be significantly slowed down.

This is because the wizardry model itself is a complete conceptual system; integrating it into the Ring of Truth can make the structure of the Ring of Truth more stable and coordinated, thereby reducing the risk and difficulty of advancement.

Among the truth runes Jie Ming chose back then, the alchemy of alchemy and the analysis of talisman studies have been successfully constructed, leaving only the basic wizardry of potion studies: extraction technique, which has not made any progress.

After all, Jie Ming has mainly been researching talisman wizarding tools and magic treasures these years, and has indeed somewhat neglected the study of potion studies.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jie Ming decided that it was time to expand his learning direction to the two fields of potion studies and alchemy.

Since he decided on this idea, Jie Ming didn't delay time and immediately took action.

He first started from the Magic Network of the academy and collected a large amount of knowledge about potion studies.

From basic material identification and drug classification to potion ratio and refining techniques.

Because of the blessing of "money" power, Jie Ming never skimps on practice during the learning process.

Basically, every time he learns potion knowledge, he will try to refine some basic potions to deepen his impression and improve his learning progress.

Learning and applying like this, the learning efficiency is indeed very fast.

Although the result is that Jie Ming's potion refining failure rate is terrifyingly high, if ordinary apprentices dared to play like this, they would probably go bankrupt soon.

But with Jie Ming's existing point reserves, these consumptions are just a drop in the bucket and are not worth mentioning at all.

While learning potion studies, Jie Ming also studies alchemy in the Great Dao Book Pavilion every day.

Unlike potion studies which focus on external equipment and fine ratios, the alchemy of the cultivation system focuses more on the alchemist's own true fire control, spiritual sense guidance, and deep understanding of pharmacology.

This skill does not give fixed formulas and refining methods like potions, but describes in detail the growth environment, energy composition, Yin-Yang and Five Elements attributes of various spiritual herbs, spiritual medicines, and spiritual minerals, as well as the laws of their interaction.

It sounds similar to traditional Chinese medicine in the previous life, but there are many items inside that only cultivators can detect.

Even every type of alchemy will recommend various books on herbal pharmacology and mineral medicinal properties.

Compared with potion studies, alchemy is more like a philosophy, an art about life, nature, and rules.

Although this greatly increases the difficulty of practicing alchemy, for Jie Ming, this type of alchemy is actually a good thing.

He learned these originally to understand the deeper interaction principles between materials, the essential laws of energy transformation, and how to reconcile the conflicts of substances with different attributes at the microscopic level.

And the current alchemy just helped him make up for this part of the knowledge.

If it were potion studies, wanting to learn this type of knowledge would at least require being a high-tier wizard to be qualified.

The learning of potion studies and alchemy are like two rivers, converging and blending in Jie Ming's knowledge system.

Through the study of both, he has produced a brand new and deeper understanding of elements, energy, vitality, and the essence of materials.

This cognition also helped Jie Ming improve his talisman wizarding tools in turn.

He discovered that when refining talisman wizarding tools, if one can more accurately grasp the "medicinal properties" of the materials themselves—that is, their internal energy flow laws and activity—one can better integrate the rune array with them, making the stability of talisman wizarding tools higher, energy conduction smoother, and even slightly reducing consumption.

And the results of these practices can in turn promote his understanding of knowledge; for a time, Jie Ming was immersed in the ocean of knowledge.