For the next few days, Su Zimo was not in a hurry to leave his cave abode. Instead, he chose to continue his seclusion and practice this spirit gathering technique that he had created.
Just as he had expected, after removing the Weapon Tripod, he could indeed achieve a 100% success rate in spirit gathering.
However, it was a pity that he could only condense a single spirit pattern at a time.
When it came to condensing a second spirit pattern, he had not succeeded even once.
Initially, Su Zimo thought that it was because of the materials. However, after changing to pure gold crystals, there was still no effect.
Su Zimo could not figure it out and decided not to spend any more time and effort on weapon refinement for the time being.
With a 100% success rate of creating inferior-grade spirit weapons, Su Zimo was definitely going to win at the year end face-off.
There was still half a year left. Not only did Su Zimo have to raise his cultivation realm and learn sword wielding to kill, he also had to learn elixir refinement.
However, Su Zimo knew nothing about elixir refinement.
Su Zimo did not intend to spread the news either.
It was way too shocking that he could create an inferior-grade spirit weapon after just three months of learning weapon refinement.
Furthermore, Su Zimo intended to defeat Feng Haoyu completely at the year end face-off. If the news were to spread now, Feng Haoyu might choose to avoid the battle.
This day, Su Zimo walked out of his cave abode and headed for Elixir Peak on his flying sword.
He intended to focus on learning elixir refinement for the time being.
The five peaks were not far from each other and before long, Su Zimo arrived at Elixir Peak.
Every day at noon, Elixir Refinement Masters from the inner sect disciples would come and explain elixir refinement techniques. All disciples of the five peaks could come and listen.
Elixir Peak and Weapon Peak were similar in strength and were the two weakest peaks of Misty Peak.
However, there were more disciples of Elixir Peak than Weapon Peak.
The reason was simple. After becoming an Elixir Refinement Master, one could refine their own elixirs and it would be of great help to raise one's cultivation realm.
However, even if Weapon Refinement Masters could create spirit weapons, it would only increase their strength and not their cultivation realm.
There were many cultivators who were extremely talented in weapon refinement. However, they did not form a core and died of old age after a hundred years.
More importantly, Alchemy was much simpler than Artifact Refining, as there was no Spirit Gathering step.
Since ancient times, other than Su Zimo, no other Weapon Refiner dared to say that it was a 100% success rate in spirit gathering.
Su Zimo's arrival at Elixir Peak attracted a lot of attention.
After the incident in the Spirit Arena, there were very few trial disciples who did not recognize Su Zimo.
Everyone knew about the competition between Su Zimo and Feng Haoyu.
The disciples of Elixir Peak were not surprised to see Su Zimo here.
Noon.
The inner sect alchemist standing at the front of the Elixir Peak Square pressed his hands in the air, and the slightly noisy crowd gradually quieted down.
"Before you start concocting pills, there are a few things that you must know."
The inner sect alchemist said slowly, "There are nine levels of elixirs. Generally speaking, level one elixirs are suitable for Qi Refinement Warriors, level two for Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and level three for Perfected Jin Dan. If a Qi Refinement Warrior were to consume a level three elixir, there would be no benefits and they might even die on the spot! "
When he heard that, Su Zimo nodded to himself.
The logic was simple. It was just like the Scarlet Flame Fruit that he had devoured previously. The energy was too immense and his body could not withstand it, resulting in him exploding and dying.
"Those who can refine level one elixirs can be called Elementary Alchemists. Those who can refine level two elixirs can be called Intermediate Alchemists. Those who can refine level three elixirs can be called Advanced Alchemists. I am Bu Xuezhen and I am an Intermediate Alchemist. "
The many disciples below revealed looks of envy and respect.
"Everyone, you've all heard of the saying that any medicine is 30% poisonous."
Bu Xuezhen continued, "It's the same for elixirs in the cultivation world. However, the so-called poison refers to the impurities in the elixir. The lesser the impurities in the elixir, the better the quality of the elixir. If the impurities in the elixir are more than 80%, it would truly be a poisonous elixir for cultivators. "
The crowd chuckled softly.
"Senior Brother Bu, how do you differentiate the quality of an elixir?" The Array Peak disciple who asked the question was clearly new to elixir refinement as well.
Bu Xuezhen's gaze paused on Su Zimo for a moment as he smiled. "I see that there are disciples of Weapon Peak below. Actually, the quality of an elixir is similar to the grade of a spirit weapon – there are obvious patterns. However, for elixirs, they are known as elixir patterns while for weapon refinement, they are known as spirit patterns. "
"Every grade of elixir has five types of quality. The lowest-grade elixir will have an elixir pattern. Of course, Elixir Refinement Masters don't have to condense it – it merely represents the amount of impurities in the elixir. An inferior-grade elixir with a single elixir pattern will have 40% impurities. "
"A middle-grade elixir with two elixir patterns will have 30% impurities. Similarly, three elixir patterns will be superior-grade and four will be supreme-grade. If one can condense five elixir patterns with zero impurities and all medicinal energy, it will be called a perfect elixir! "
When he heard that, Su Zimo's heart skipped a beat.
It was as Bu Xuezhen had said, there were spirit patterns in the grades of spirit weapons as well. A spirit weapon that could condense four spirit patterns would be called a supreme-grade spirit weapon.
If one could condense five spirit patterns, it would naturally be stronger and would be called a perfect spirit weapon as well?
In reality, as Su Zimo had expected, there were indeed perfect spirit weapons above supreme-grade spirit weapons.
The reason why the Weapon Refinement Masters of the sect had never mentioned it was because spirit gathering was way too difficult. Even in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, there were only a handful of people who could condense four spirit patterns and refine supreme-grade spirit weapons, let alone five spirit patterns.
If one were to say that spirit gathering relied on one's intuition over a long period of time, condensing five spirit patterns and refining a perfect spirit weapon would require a huge amount of luck.
Luck, opportunity, state, timing, geography, people, environment, mentality … the perfect combination of all these factors was the only way to refine a perfect spirit weapon.
Furthermore, this was something that could only be achieved at the peak of a Weapon Refinement Master's standard.
Bu Xuezhen's voice sounded once more. "There are six steps to elixir refinement. The first step is material selection, which includes spirit herbs and elixir formulas. The elixir formulas for every type of elixir are different. In the sect, contribution points are required to exchange for elixir formulas. Outside, spirit stones are required to purchase them. Of course, the more precious the elixir formula, the more expensive it is. "
Even for Grade 1 elixirs, there were many types of elixirs with different functions.
There were Essence Nurturing Elixirs that consolidated one's foundation and Spirit Recovery Elixirs that recovered spirit qi.
For example, the most common and ordinary elixir such as the Spirit Gathering Elixir could help cultivators condense spirit qi better and was relatively simple to refine.
Among Grade 1 elixirs, the Foundation Establishment Elixir required the most complex types of herbs and was the most difficult to refine.
As the name suggested, the Foundation Establishment Elixir could help Perfected Qi Refinement Warriors cross the threshold of Foundation Establishment more easily.
The difference between Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment was a major realm and was relatively difficult. With the help of the Foundation Establishment Elixir, one could achieve twice the results with half the effort.
Su Zimo listened attentively until Bu Xuezhen left. He sat on the spot for a long time and memorized everything he had learned today before standing up.
Su Zimo arrived at the Elixir Pavilion and used his contribution points to exchange for an Elixir Furnace and an elixir formula for the Spirit Gathering Elixir before returning to his cave abode on Weapon Peak.
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