Chapter 180: Wonderful Use, Contemplation

He Pingsheng did not immediately refine the second batch of pills but sat down calmly after cleaning the alchemy furnace, carefully recalling the details of his alchemy process.

What was wrong!

What was different from what was recorded in the pill formula!

Also, what he hadn't controlled well.

Only by summarizing gains and losses could one make further progress.

Early the next morning, He Pingsheng began to refine pills again.

The second batch!

Because he had learned from the first time, He Pingsheng did not explode the furnace the second time.

This time, he didn't succeed in refining either, only refining twelve waste pills.

"Hoo..."

He Pingsheng breathed a sigh of relief.

For him, there was no difference between waste pills and high-tier or top-tier ones.

Putting them into the Ju Bao Pen to strengthen them, the end result was always doubled top-tier ones.

But since it was alchemy, who wouldn't want to truly refine it successfully?

"Continue!" He Pingsheng tossed the waste pills aside and continued to refine the third batch.

The third batch was still waste pills!

In the days that followed, three batches a day!

The fourth batch, waste pills!

The fifth batch, waste pills!

The sixth batch, success!

Finally, after failing five times in a row, He Pingsheng finally refined a batch of second-tier pills.

The quality of the finished pills was definitely the lowest; all twelve were low-tier.

Low-tier was fine too!

He Pingsheng smiled very happily.

After all, he had refined second-tier pills through his own efforts.

As long as one could refine second-tier pills, no matter the quality, one was a second-tier alchemist.

There were four batches of medicinal materials left.

He Pingsheng continued to refine!

The seventh batch, success again.

Twelve low-tier ones!

The eighth batch, waste pills.

The ninth batch, waste pills.

Only the last portion of materials remained.

Looking at the last remaining portion of materials, He Pingsheng suddenly had a whim.

When he refined pills, he always used water to boil out the medicinal juice from the herbs and then condensed the boiled juice into pills.

But the 【Thirty-Six Alchemy Formulas】 also said that it was best not to use water.

Water was a last resort.

What was best to use?

Spiritual liquid!

He Pingsheng had spiritual liquid; his gourd was filled with two large gourds of it.

Golden Bee Holy Paste was also a type of spiritual liquid between heaven and earth.

Of course, it was impossible to pour a whole pot of Golden Bee Holy Paste in; that would absolutely not refine pills.

He Pingsheng's idea was to use one drop.

One drop of Golden Bee Holy Paste fused into the water, and this water would become spiritual liquid.

Would the success rate of pills refined in this situation increase a bit?

He Pingsheng decided to give it a try.

For the last batch, after adding water, He Pingsheng added another drop of Golden Bee Holy Paste.

Then he continued to refine!

He didn't know if it was because of the addition of the Holy Paste, but this last batch of pills actually succeeded.

What made He Pingsheng dumbfounded was that among these twelve pills, there were actually two high-tier and ten mid-tier.

This...

He Pingsheng certainly wouldn't think that this was because his alchemy technique had improved to refine high-tier pills; it must be the credit of the spiritual liquid.

"Too great!" He Pingsheng was overjoyed: "I didn't expect this Golden Bee Holy Paste to have such a magical effect!"

"It can actually improve the quality of second-tier pills?"

After the joy, He Pingsheng curled his lips: A loss!

A real loss.

Adding Holy Paste when refining pills did improve the quality of the pills, but how many spirit stones could it sell for?

This batch of pills would not exceed ten thousand spirit stones at most.

And this drop of 【Golden Bee Holy Paste】 could instantly fill the dantian of a Foundation Establishment cultivator; the value was self-evident.

If this thing were taken to the chamber of commerce, it would definitely be auctioned for a sky-high price.

So it was a huge loss.

Can't waste it in the future.

He Pingsheng put away the alchemy furnace and took stock.

A total of ten portions of materials yielded three batches of pills.

Overall, it was not bad.

After all, the first five batches of pills were all waste.

"Strengthen it!"

He Pingsheng tossed the twelve waste pills into the Ju Bao Pen.

The full moon rose, and the moonlight was like snow.

Under the guidance of the Ju Bao Pen, the moonlight outside the window condensed bit by bit, flew into the Ju Bao Pen, and began to strengthen the pills.

Since He Pingsheng had the Ju Bao Pen, he had always strengthened them directly and had never seen the process of strengthening. Today, he had a whim and wanted to see what the process of strengthening was like.

So for the rest of the night, He Pingsheng's spiritual sense was focused on this pitch-black basin.

Of course, the basin was placed in his hundred-treasure bag.

At the beginning, countless moonlight entered the waste pills, and the waste pills didn't change much.

But at a certain time, these twelve waste pills suddenly became twenty-four.

Very abruptly.

He Pingsheng continued to observe.

Then he discovered that after a period of time, the quality of the pills also changed.

From waste pills, they became low-tier pills!

Twenty-four, all low-tier.

After another period of time, low-tier became mid-tier.

By analogy, mid-tier became high-tier!

High-tier became top-tier.

The key was that when all twenty-four pills became top-tier, it was still far from dawn.

That is to say, they could continue to be strengthened.

He Pingsheng reached out and took out the twenty-four top-tier 【Spirit-Gathering Pills】 and put twelve more waste pills in.

By dawn, these twelve waste pills became twenty-four top-tier pills.

Seeing this process, He Pingsheng took a deep breath.

This process of strengthening pills was too useful for He Pingsheng.

For example, if one day he needed to sell a type of pill to exchange for resources, taking Foundation Establishment pills as an example, naturally, higher quality meant more value.

But it wasn't that higher was always better.

If they were all top-tier, although they were worth more, they were also easy to cause trouble.

This thing, any one of them was equivalent to a guaranteed opportunity to reach Foundation Establishment.

Naturally, it was worth a fortune.

But if those big forces thought that he, a small Foundation Establishment cultivator with no background, could refine top-tier Foundation Establishment pills, one could imagine the result with their eyes closed.

Top-tier ones couldn't be taken out to sell, and the value of low-tier ones was too low.

What to do?

It was best to take out high-tier ones.

And after watching the process of the pills being strengthened, He Pingsheng felt that the quality of this high-tier pill could be controlled.

When the pills were strengthened to high-tier, suddenly taking them out, wouldn't that work?

Of course, this was just a vision for making money in the future and did not affect his current cultivation.

He Pingsheng put away the top-tier pills and continued to strengthen.

This time, he strengthened two batches of waste pills at the same time.

At the same time, he opened his mouth and swallowed half a top-tier 【Spirit-Gathering Pill】, and the spiritual energy in his body began to circulate crazily.

After all, he was only at the first layer of Foundation Establishment, and the medicinal power in the top-tier spirit-gathering pill was too thick; he was afraid that if he ate one, he wouldn't be able to handle it.

The result proved that even half was too much.

A large part of the energy in this half of the spirit-gathering pill dissipated into the air because he couldn't refine it in time. ===== CHAPTER 181 =====