[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-180":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Treasure Immortal Basin",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2355363,4608,"Chapter 180: Skillful Application, Observational Insight","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-180",180,"\u003Cp>He Pingsheng did not immediately proceed to refine the second batch of pills; after cleaning the cauldron, he sat calmly, carefully recalling every detail of his pill-refining process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What differed from the recorded formula?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what did I fail to control?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only by summarizing gains and losses can one advance further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early the next morning, He Pingsheng began refining pills again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second batch!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having learned from his first failure, he did not explode the cauldron this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he still failed to produce a successful pill—only twelve duds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Phew…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng exhaled in relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To him, duds were no different from superior or Jipin  pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Placed in the Treasure Basin for enhancement, all would ultimately become doubled Jipin  pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who, when refining pills, does not wish to truly succeed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Continue!” He Pingsheng tossed the duds aside and began the third batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third batch—still duds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the days that followed, three batches daily!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fourth batch—duds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifth batch—duds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sixth batch—successful pills!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, after five consecutive failures, He Pingsheng successfully refined a batch of second-rank pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The quality was certainly the lowest—all twelve were inferior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inferior was fine!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng smiled broadly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he had refined second-rank pills through his own effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as one could refine second-rank pills, regardless of quality, one was a second-rank pill-refiner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still had four batches of herbs left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng continued refining!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seventh batch—successful again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twelve inferior pills!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eighth batch—duds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninth batch—duds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one batch of material remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng stared at the last remaining batch and suddenly had a novel idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When refining pills, he always boiled the herbs in water to extract their medicinal juices, then condensed the juice into pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the “Thirty-Six Pill Formulas” also stated that water should be avoided if possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Water was a last resort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What should be used instead?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit liquid!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng had spirit liquid—two large gourds filled with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden Bee Sacred Juice was also a type of spirit liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he could not simply pour a whole pot of Golden Bee Sacred Juice in—that would never produce pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His idea was to use just one drop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One drop of Golden Bee Sacred Juice blended into the water would turn the water into spirit liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would this improve the success rate of pill refinement?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng decided to try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the final batch, after adding water, he dropped in one drop of Golden Bee Sacred Juice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he continued refining!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether because of the Sacred Juice or not, this final batch succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To He Pingsheng’s astonishment, of the twelve pills, two were superior and ten were middle-grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng knew this was not due to improved refining skill—it was the spirit liquid’s doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excellent!” He Pingsheng was overjoyed: “I never expected Golden Bee Sacred Juice to have such a miraculous effect!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It can enhance the quality of second-rank pills?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his joy, he frowned: What a waste!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truly a waste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adding Sacred Juice improved pill quality, but how much spirit stone could he sell them for?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This batch wouldn’t fetch more than ten thousand spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet one drop of Golden Bee Sacred Juice could instantly refill a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s dantian—its value was obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If taken to a trading society, it would surely fetch a sky-high price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it was a massive loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Must not waste it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng put away the cauldron and took inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of ten batches of material, he obtained three batches of pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overall, not bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the first five batches had been complete failures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enhance them!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng tossed the twelve duds into the Treasure Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The full moon rose, moonlight like snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the Treasure Basin’s pull, moonlight outside the window slowly gathered and flowed into the basin, enhancing the pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since acquiring the Treasure Basin, He Pingsheng had always enhanced pills directly—he had never witnessed the enhancement process. Today, he suddenly wished to observe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So for the rest of the night, his spiritual sense remained fixed on the dark basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the basin was inside the Hundred Treasures Bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, countless strands of moonlight entered the duds, but the duds showed no change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, at some moment, the twelve duds suddenly became twenty-four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng continued observing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He soon noticed that after a while, the pills’ quality changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From duds, they became inferior pills!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All twenty-four were inferior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After more time, inferior became middle-grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so on—middle-grade became superior!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Superior became Jipin .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crucially, when all twenty-four pills became Jipin , it was still far from dawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning, enhancement could continue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng reached in, took out the twenty-four Jipin  Spirit Gathering Pills, and placed twelve more duds inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By dawn, the twelve duds had become twenty-four Jipin  pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this process, He Pingsheng drew a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This pill-enhancement process was immensely useful to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, if one day he needed to sell pills for resources—take Foundation Establishment Pills, for instance—higher quality meant greater value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not higher was always better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If all were Jipin , selling them might bring higher value, but also invite disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each such pill was equivalent to a guaranteed path to Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, they were priceless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet if major factions believed a lowly Foundation Establishment cultivator with no background could refine Jipin  Foundation Establishment Pills, the consequences were obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jipin  pills couldn’t be sold; inferior pills were too low in value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What to do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Best to sell superior pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having seen this enhancement process, He Pingsheng realized he could now control the quality of the pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the pills reached superior grade, simply retrieve them—wouldn’t that be perfect?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this is merely a future money-making idea—it doesn’t affect current cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng put away the supreme-grade elixir and continued strengthening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he strengthened two batches of waste elixirs at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he opened his mouth and swallowed half a pill of the supreme-grade [Soul-Returning Pill]; the spiritual energy within his body began to surge wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he had only just reached Foundation Establishment Level One, and the medicinal power within the supreme-grade Soul-Returning Pill was too potent—he feared that swallowing a full pill would overwhelm him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result proved that even half a pill was too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the energy from that half-pill of Soul-Returning Pill escaped into the air before he could fully refine it.\u003C\u002Fp>",1066,"2026-06-21T04:08:57.694Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","86b658e17384f55576ffba9aa28b0b56f44c822faa6f34b80324d683f250af4b","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-181","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-179",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]