Chapter 96: Zengyuan Pill

In his spiritual sense, Wang Yu saw a crimson flame hidden in the crimson scale, and within the flame, there were faint spirit patterns.

Each of these spirit patterns was blurry, and with more than ten entangled together, it actually made him unable to distinguish them clearly for a time.

Wang Yu tried to barely lock onto one of them, but after staring with his spiritual sense for a moment, he felt dizzy and his eyes went dim.

"Overclocking!"

The next moment, crystal light flickered in his eyes, his five senses began to magnify rapidly, surrounding things became slow, and his thinking entered a wonderful state.

The spirit pattern that had no rules to study in his spiritual sense just now immediately decomposed rapidly, turning into strands of crimson silk...

The next morning, Wang Yu went to the Scripture Pavilion again.

This time, not only did he spend dozens of spirit stones at the 'Art' book storage area to exchange for a few notebooks on introductory knowledge of artifact refining, but he also went to the 'Mortal' book storage area, spent one spirit stone, stayed for a full hour, and browsed through all the books in six or seven stone rooms.

Whenever he encountered books that felt useful, especially those related to the human body, martial arts, and medicine, he directly activated overclocking and used his super-strong memory to record the content word for word in his mind.

At noon, Wang Yu returned to his residence, memorized the few artifact refining notebooks, and then, amidst a sound of "Enter login interface", returned to the silver-white hall and appeared directly on the black metal chair.

After waiting for the red light verification above his head to pass and the keyboard light shadow to appear in front of him, the giant screen in front lit up, and a golden mechanical funnel pattern appeared on it.

"Deduce the body refining method of the Qi Refinement stage, add a deduction strengthening direction, strengthen physical explosive power."

Wang Yu ordered the screen.

"Insufficient reserve information data for deduction, unable to deduce the body refining cultivation technique of the Qi Refinement stage, strengthening direction, strengthening physical explosive power." The mechanical voice echoed in the hall without emotion.

At this moment, the symbol on the golden mechanical funnel on the giant screen showed 29%.

Wang Yu looked at the 29% symbol on the funnel, his eyes flickering.

Yesterday, when he input a medical book titled "Insights into Human Meridians" that he recorded in the mortal book storage area of the Scripture Pavilion, it unexpectedly caused the 28% symbol on the funnel pattern to directly increase by 1%, becoming 29%.

Now he was going to verify his idea again.

Wang Yu then pressed one hand on the keyboard light shadow and input all the book contents he recorded in his mind, whether it was artifact refining or mortal book contents, into the giant screen in one go.

After a full quarter of an hour, when the last line of light text disappeared from the screen, the golden funnel symbol on the screen blurred and changed from 29% to 31%.

It increased by 2%. Sure enough, it doesn't necessarily have to be cultivation techniques; it should be that any data information in this world related to body refining can increase Taiyuan's deduction effect.

In that case, all the mortal book contents in the Scripture Pavilion are worth collecting, and all can increase Taiyuan's ability to deduce matters of the Cultivation World.

Wang Yu thought of the books in the dozens of stone rooms in the mortal book storage area of the Scripture Pavilion and couldn't help but be overjoyed. Following a sound of "Exit login", his consciousness returned to reality.

He suppressed the urge to go to the Scripture Pavilion immediately and began to close his eyes, silently comprehending the contents of those few artifact refining notebooks.

By evening, Wang Yu opened his eyes, reached into his bosom, and took out a small bottle, pouring out a green pill.

This pill had a silver pattern on its surface and emitted a pungent, spicy smell. It was exactly the 'Zengyuan Pill' he received from the General Affairs Hall initially.

He swallowed the pill and began to meditate on the fourth level of the Fire Spirit Technique.

The Zengyuan Pill, a ranked pill that can increase mana in the mid-to-late stages, is completely different from previous ordinary auxiliary drugs like Gathering Spirit Liquid. It is a spiritual medicine that can truly be converted into pure mana, and according to individual aptitude, the effect varies greatly.

He doesn't know much about others, but taking one pill is equivalent to two months of bitter cultivation, and he can take one every three days.

As an inner sect disciple, he can receive twelve Zengyuan Pills for free in the first year, and he would use them all up in a little over a month, directly saving two years of bitter cultivation time. But in the following years, it will decrease by half year by year.

Outer sect disciples only have six pills in the first year, and it will similarly decrease year by year.

After experiencing the amazing effect of the Zengyuan Pill, and then switching to cultivating slowly by himself, anyone would feel that the cultivation speed is as slow as a turtle crawling.

But this kind of pill is often out of stock even in the Pill Hall of the General Affairs Hall, and even if there are some for sale, the quantity is small, and the selling price is as high as fifty or sixty spirit stones each.

As for among sect disciples, their own cultivation is not enough, so no one would go to resell them.

It is said that in the markets outside the Four Symbols Sect, a few pills occasionally leak out, and the price directly doubles.

When Wang Yu first learned the price of the Zengyuan Pill, the first thing he wanted to become was an alchemist, not an artifact refiner.

But unfortunately, he only found out after inquiring carefully later that pill formulas involving the sect's foundation, like the Zengyuan Pill, must be contacted by alchemists cultivated by the sect from childhood, and every such sect alchemist has basically signed a soul contract with the sect and left a split soul in the sect's Ancestor Hall, never to leave the Four Symbols Sect in this life.

Wang Yu then dismissed the idea of learning alchemy and turned to plan to learn the way of artifact refining.

After entering the fourth level of Qi Refinement, he already felt that the bottleneck of the fifth level of Qi Refinement was far off. If there were no pill assistance, it would probably take at least six or seven years.

This is still the effect after his Star Mind Power has been cultivated to the first level, making his cultivation time increase by nearly double.

If it were an ordinary four-spirit-root disciple, it would take fourteen or fifteen years to cultivate from the fourth level of Qi Refinement to the fifth level, and if one adds the unsmooth breakthrough of the bottleneck, this time would be even longer.

No wonder the Four Symbols Sect is fundamentally unwilling to recruit four-spirit-root disciples; without massive resource assistance, this cultivation speed is probably truly hopeless for the later stages.

As for those rogue cultivators, without aptitude and resources, most of them reach the end of their cultivation at the mid-stage of Qi Refinement in their lifetime.

In the following six or seven days.

Every morning, Wang Yu would first comprehend the Flame Shield spirit pattern diagram, then go to the mortal book storage area of the Scripture Pavilion to browse and record various mortal books.

At noon, he would study artifact refining, in the afternoon, he would close his eyes to rest, and only after recovering his energy at night would he meditate on the Fire Spirit Technique.

At dawn, he would begin to cultivate the second level of Star Mind Power with the help of the few remaining Star Stones in his hand.

This morning, just as he finished comprehending the spell and was about to set off for the Scripture Pavilion, a buzzing sound suddenly came from outside the house.

Wang Yu was stunned, got up to open the door, and saw a talisman hovering in the low air outside the door. As soon as someone came out, it immediately burned in the wind, turning into a small mass of flame.

A stern man's voice came from the flame.

"Wang Yu, you have been hired as a temporary disciple of the Artifact Refining Hall. You are limited to reporting to the Artifact Refining Hall within three quarters of an hour; otherwise, it will be regarded as an automatic abandonment." ===== CHAPTER 97 =====