Chapter 21: 【Buying a Pill Cauldron, First Steps into Alchemy】 (Seeking recommendation votes)

His cultivation had advanced to the Qi Refining mid-stage, and it could be considered stable now.

The spirit fruit was ripened, and with the addition of the White Ape, more time was saved.

The White Ape didn't use its divine sense much in daily life; except for consuming a little when learning sword techniques, it wouldn't consume it at other times.

So it could cast a spell on the Baiyuan Fruit tree once every ten days.

Casting spells three times a month, accelerating it by sixty days.

Then, calculated this way, the growth years of this Baiyuan Fruit tree could be amplified to four hundred and fifteen days a month, and it could be harvested once every twenty-five days.

Lu Chengtong felt that it was time for him to learn alchemy and convert the Baiyuan Fruit into Gathering Qi Pills, so that he could maximize his benefits.

The Gathering Qi Pill had a very wide circulation; it was not only used for cultivation but could also be used as currency, that is, spirit stones.

The market price was usually one low-grade spirit stone for ten Gathering Qi Pills.

The Gathering Qi Pill was a one-time use; after eating and refining it, one immediately gained a bit of cultivation improvement or recovered some spirit power consumption.

But one low-grade spirit stone was enough for a Qi Refining mid-stage cultivator to hold and cultivate for three days.

The cultivation speed of these three days could reach many times the usual; the specific effect depended on the quality of each person's spirit root.

The higher the quality of the spirit root, the higher the refining efficiency, and the greater the role a single spirit stone played.

If he wanted to refine pills, he had to obtain a pill cauldron first.

There wasn't one in this mining area, and there wasn't one in the entire Huashi County.

There were no cultivation families here, just a mining area; if he wanted to obtain a pill cauldron, he still needed to go to the market in the prefecture city to buy one.

Within the Wushi Prefecture, the great cultivation families were all in the prefecture city, which was close to the hinterland of the Ziyao Immortal Sect and far from the Shuize Mountain Range, so the safety was very high.

With Lu Chengtong's current cultivation, flying with a sword would take a day to go back and forth, so he had to ask for leave.

He found an excuse, left early in the morning, and headed to Wushi City.

This was his first time coming to Wushi City.

The time limit for a task of guarding the mining area was twenty years, and every year he would receive a task reward, but if he wanted to end the task before twenty years, and his contribution to the sect was not enough, not only would he not get the subsequent task rewards, but he would also have to compensate the sect with spirit stones.

Otherwise, his status as an Outer Sect Disciple would be stripped, and he would be demoted to a laborer disciple.

Although he had been in this prefecture for twelve years, for the first eleven years, he had been working diligently, trying his best to complete his work to keep his status as an Outer Sect Disciple, while working hard to cultivate, looking forward to reaching Foundation Establishment as soon as possible.

Therefore, he had always stayed in the mining area and had no time to come out.

Moreover, traveling to and from Wushi City alone was actually very dangerous.

The more remote the place, the more robbery cultivators there were; these cultivators specifically chose to kill lone Immortal Sect disciples, because only sect disciples had money, while loose cultivators of the same realm were as poor as church mice.

Fortunately, at least on the way into the city, he didn't encounter any robbers and entered the city safely.

Hmm, he didn't come by flying with a sword, but used the 【Submerged Abyss Earth Escape】 supernatural power.

Unleashing this supernatural power with the soul power of a Foundation Establishment mid-stage, he arrived at Wushi City in less than an hour and a half.

Lu Chengtong didn't wander around, but asked directly where to buy Dharma artifacts.

Golden Source Pavilion.

This was a place for selling Dharma artifacts directly controlled by the City Lord's Mansion, monopolizing the sale of Dharma artifacts within the Wushi Prefecture; at the same time, it also monopolized the sale of pills.

This was because there were no other powerful cultivation families in the Wushi Prefecture, so they could only submit to the City Lord's family.

However, there must be a black market in private, but the quality of the goods could not be guaranteed, so even though the Golden Source Pavilion might be a bit more expensive, Lu Chengtong still bought the pill cauldron here.

He spent two hundred and forty low-grade spirit stones to buy a pill cauldron at the low-grade Dharma artifact level, the Purple Pattern Cauldron.

The price of a low-grade Dharma artifact was about two hundred spirit stones; special Dharma artifacts like pill cauldrons were more expensive, and the price in the Golden Source Pavilion was even more expensive; comprehensively, it was this number.

Counting the spirit stones given by the family before he left, as well as the sect subsidies and task gains over the years, after years of accumulation, he had less than three hundred in total.

The family gave the bulk of it.

This was also one of the reasons why Lu Chengtong had a deeper affection for the family.

Excluding the influence of his parents and relatives, looking at it from the perspective of the family alone, the Lu family's education and care for its disciples were excellent.

He originally had such a good growth environment, but now it had all been destroyed by that person.

This feud must be avenged.

With the pill cauldron in hand, he bought some auxiliary medicinal herbs.

Because it was very close to the Shuize Mountain Range, the price of this kind of low-grade medicinal herb was very cheap, costing only five spirit stones in total.

After completing the procurement, he still used his supernatural power to travel, avoiding possible trouble.

Although he might be able to kill the robbery cultivators in reverse, battles between cultivators were unpredictable, and if he wasn't careful, he might capsize in the gutter.

With a great feud on his back and treasures in his hands, it was better to be safe in everything.

Comprehensively looking at the family development history, the Lu family was too conspicuous at the beginning, which aroused the covetousness of the strong, which led to the series of tragedies that followed.

In the cultivation world where the strong prey on the weak, weakness was the original sin.

After returning to the mining area, Lu Chengtong couldn't wait to start refining pills.

Although he hadn't refined pills in the past year, he had practiced the spells needed for alchemy for a period of time.

But for the first refining, it failed without exception.

He was not discouraged.

The materials were almost equal to free for him; he didn't care how many materials he burned, as long as he could quickly improve his alchemy level.

Without a teacher's guidance, he could only keep trying while looking at the information in the Treasure Mirror.

Failure was not terrible, as long as he could learn lessons.

Lu Chengtong remembered one thing.

Since the Treasure Mirror could record pictures, could it also record the entire process of alchemy?

He tried to communicate with the Treasure Mirror, and then let it reflect his alchemy process; after refining once, he found that it had indeed left a video.

He hurriedly recorded this ability in the Treasure Mirror; the previous heads of the family hadn't developed this "image recording" ability yet.

Yan Zhe felt that he was becoming more and more like a smartphone now.

Before, it only recorded text, later he discovered it could take pictures, and now it could even save videos.

He didn't discover this ability at the beginning; it should be because his soul level wasn't high enough and the storage space wasn't enough.

This was a good discovery; this way, he could leave the "death replay" of the host.

Image recording had two perspectives: one was through the host's eyes, recording what he saw, and the other was the Treasure Mirror's own perspective, recording the direction and range the mirror was facing.

After Lu Chengtong confirmed this function, he applied it immediately.

After refining failed, he watched the video, checked his mistakes, summarized the lessons from the failure, and then improved his ability.

Five days later, after wasting a total of fifteen Baiyuan Fruits, he finally succeeded once!

Four pills were formed, the lowest number, and most of the medicinal power had flowed away.

But he was very happy.

With the video of success for comparison, the probability of success would be rapidly improved later.

The great path of alchemy had a bright future!

In the blink of an eye, half a year passed.

On this day, Lu Chengtong had a sorrowful face, standing under the Baiyuan Fruit tree, appearing somewhat lonely.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 22 =====