Chapter 149

In a cave on the south bank of Lingyun Peak of Taihe Mountain, Su Fan sat in front of a pill furnace, looking at the pill furnace with a somewhat nervous expression. After waiting for half an hour, he pinched the magic formula and opened the pill furnace, only to see a pale yellow pill spinning in it.

"Phew!"

With a smile on his face, he slowly let out a breath.

"Finally succeeded. I didn't expect this Tier 1 mid-grade Bigu Pill to be so difficult to refine."

After the Su family's group left, Su Fan rented a cave and started his alchemy career.

Because the family has an alchemy inheritance, Su Fan also copied a copy before.

So for these two or three months, Su Fan has been trying to refine pills. Tier 1 low-grade pills are not difficult. Su Fan only tried a few times and refined a few furnaces, but Tier 1 low-grade pills are not worth any money.

Generally, those who can refine Tier 1 low-grade spirit pills can only be considered alchemy apprentices. The market does not accept Tier 1 low-grade spirit pills at all.

What Su Fan is trying now is the Tier 1 mid-grade spirit pill, the Bigu Pill.

As a Tier 1 mid-grade spirit pill, the Bigu Pill has a great demand in the market. Some cultivators like to eat spirit rice and spirit fruits to satisfy their hunger.

But more cultivators do not like trouble. One Bigu Pill can avoid several days of hunger.

It is very suitable for some cultivators who like to go into seclusion.

And the value of this Bigu Pill is also good, one pill is worth one spirit stone.

Su Fan now refines one Bigu Pill per furnace. In terms of success rate, it is only ten percent, which is definitely a loss. After all, the cost of refining one furnace of Bigu Pills is at least more than two spirit stones.

To not lose money, the success rate generally needs to reach at least thirty percent.

Cultivators refine pills generally ten pills per furnace. Some special alchemy masters can use special pill formulas to refine the materials that were originally used to refine ten pills into twelve pills, and the efficacy of the medicine will not decrease.

Of course, Su Fan does not have this ability for the time being. He now barely refines one Bigu Pill.

However, even if he loses money, he has already become a Tier 1 mid-grade alchemist.

A Tier 1 mid-grade alchemist, although he can only refine the Bigu Pill, this kind of Tier 1 mid-grade spirit pill, is also a Tier 1 mid-grade alchemist.

Ordinary alchemists who want to reach this step often need nearly ten years. His ability to improve his alchemy to Tier 1 mid-grade in just half a year goes without saying.

Of course, the greater effect is that Su Fan has a cheat. He has abilities that others do not have. In the evolution space of the Universe Mirror's sea of consciousness, he can try to refine pills constantly.

Although it is illusory, it also strengthens his hands-on ability.

It is also because of this that he was able to shorten this process.

Of course, this is also thanks to the fact that in the previous Datang world, he also did more hands-on work and refined some spirit pills. Although most of them were mundane pills in the previous world, they were almost comparable to the low-grade spirit pills of this world.

Soul-transmigrating to those worlds can also be considered as strengthening his alchemy ability.

Now that he has refined the Bigu Pill, he only needs to improve the success rate, and then the Bigu Pill can earn him spirit stones.

Of course, Su Fan is naturally not satisfied with just this kind of Bigu Pill.

The Bigu Pill belongs to the simplest of Tier 1 mid-grade spirit pills, and the price is quite ordinary.

According to his estimation, before his alchemy reaches the Tier 1 high-grade level, his success rate will be at most about sixty or seventy percent.

As for one hundred percent, that is very difficult.

So in order to increase profits, he wants to refine some other Tier 1 mid-grade spirit pills, such as the Yellow Sprout Pill.

The Yellow Sprout Pill is refined from Yellow Sprout grass as the main medicine, and four kinds of Tier 1 spirit herbs are used as auxiliary medicines. It is suitable for cultivators in the mid and late stages of Qi Refining to take and can improve the cultivator's magic power.

It is the most popular among loose cultivators.

Taking one Yellow Sprout Pill, the refined spiritual energy is equivalent to one or two months of meditation and cultivation for mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators, so many mid and late-stage Qi Refining cultivators are flocking to it.

One Yellow Sprout Pill needs about five spirit stones.

As long as Su Fan's success rate can reach forty percent, then one furnace of Yellow Sprout Pills can earn him five or six spirit stones.

The higher the success rate, the greater the profit he earns.

However, the Yellow Sprout Pill and the Grain-Avoiding Pill are both Tier 1 mid-grade spirit pills, but the difficulty of refining them is different.

"Better to refine a batch of Grain-Avoiding Pills first, otherwise I'm afraid I won't even be able to afford Yellow Sprout grass by then."

Su Fan thought a lot, but reality made him understand that he cannot reach the sky in one step. In these two or three months of alchemy, Su Fan's expenses were not small.

Without the support provided by the family, the materials for Su Fan's alchemy attempts all relied on himself.

Those are also spirit stones.

Especially since he refined Tier 1 low-grade spirit pills, he could not convert them into profits. As for refining Bigu Pills, he wasted many furnaces. These are all spirit stones, always paying out, with no harvest.

It is also thanks to the fact that he had more than one hundred spirit stones in his hand, and the previous spirit herbs were not very valuable, otherwise, he really might not have been able to persist.

Of course, now that he has become a Tier 1 mid-grade alchemist, as long as the success rate is improved, he can earn spirit stones immediately.

"Looks like I need to go out and acquire a batch of Qian-sui rice."

Thousand-Year rice is a kind of spirit rice, which is more precious than Jade Essence rice and is also the main medicine for refining Grain-Avoiding Pills.

Next, he needs to refine a large batch of Bigu Pills, so naturally, he needs to continue to acquire some.

Now he still has about fifty spirit stones in his hand, which is enough to refine about twenty furnaces.

He must improve his success rate to thirty percent within ten furnaces.

Fortunately, being able to refine Bigu Pills makes it easier to improve the success rate next.

As for controlling the spirit fire, he was originally very good at it. After all, in his previous life, he also often refined pills, and his control over the flame was no worse than those alchemists of decades.

This is also one of the reasons why he progressed so quickly.

And before, so many failures were because in the last step of alchemy, the pill control formula and the pill collection formula, he was not very familiar with them, so he failed.

But now he is getting more and more familiar.

Qian-sui rice is easy to buy in the Taihe Market. Su Fan can buy it from a spirit rice shop. This shop specializes in selling various spirit rice, and there are Tier 1 and even Tier 2 spirit rice.

It is said that the owner behind this Qian-sui shop is not ordinary; it seems to be the Li family of Guangyuan County.

Having been at Taihe Mountain for so long, Su Fan also learned more information about the Zheng State and even the countries around the Zheng State from many loose cultivators.

Guangyuan County is one of the three northern counties of the Zheng State, located thirty thousand miles southwest of Taihe Mountain.

The Li family of Guangyuan County is one of the eight major Purple Mansion families in the Zheng State. There is currently a cultivator at the fourth layer of Purple Mansion in the clan, and there seem to be more than ten Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Among the immortal cultivation families in the Zheng State, it is also ranked at the forefront.

It is far from being comparable to the current Su family.

Of course, the Li family is powerful, but for Su Fan, there is no threat. He is not buying things without paying.

On the contrary, the bigger the Li family, the more at ease he is buying spirit rice, and he will not be investigated for messy things, because such a force simply does not look down on a small 'loose cultivator' like him, nor will they ask why he buys Qian-sui rice.

This is one of the reasons why Su Fan chose this shop.