630,000 Silver Star Stones! As they carried the heavy 6,000 Gold Star Stones in their pockets, Uncle Sea and Old Cow's faces were slightly flushed. This was the entire wealth that they had worked hard for 10 years! Wang Zhong could earn this in a few days. Furthermore, this was just the beginning. An impressive alchemist's ability to earn money was something that ordinary people in the divine territory could only look up to.
Of course, his ability to spend money was also something that the two of them could only look up to. When Nini sent the letter, she had given them another explanation. Other than leaving around 100,000 Silver Star Stones for wolf goblin Basir to help find Earthlings and for the management of the Heavenly Treasures Street, they had to start purchasing a batch of relatively high-end fresh medicinal ingredients.
This was prepared for level-7 pills. Uncle Sea, who had immersed himself in pill shops for decades, had never heard of most of the things that were needed. Luckily, there were Allansians. However, when Old Cow went over to ask around, the price was rather terrifying. Putting aside the fact that they were going to buy top-grade ingredients, they would need at least 200,000 Silver Star Stones to gather a batch that could be used. However, one should not think that everyone had the qualifications to pick up trash from their friends like Jhonas did. Speaking of which, if the trash medicinal ingredients that Jhonas had given Wang Zhong were to be sold, they would also be sold for a high price …
Looking at the six hundred something thousand in his hands, after deducting the miscellaneous items, the remaining amount was only enough to gather two sets of ingredients. It was no wonder that alchemy burned money. It was no wonder that even those large sects couldn't even gather the money for the ingredients to refine a high-grade pill. It could only be said that the world of profound pill studies and the world of ordinary people were too far apart.
Furthermore, even if they were willing to spend money, they still needed time. However, the main ingredients that could be used in level-7 pills and above were basically rare. When it came to level-4 pills and above, most of the ingredients could only be found by chance and could not be sought after. It was simply impossible to buy them on the market. Old Cow had placed an order with the Allansians, but he still needed to wait for them to transfer the goods. He would have to wait for at least half a month.
Wang Zhong was not in a hurry. Firstly, he still had six batches of Yin and Yang Pills to refine. Furthermore, he had a batch of ingredients for the level-7 Glazed Crystal Life Extending Pill. It was the trash that Jhonas had brought over previously. To others, they were useless trash, but to Lao Wang … With the existence of the fragment world, turning trash into treasure was obviously a normal operation. It was just that he needed slightly more time. Previously, Lao Wang had used the fragment world to nurture that batch of trash medicinal ingredients, but he had spent more than half a month.
Recently, it had been peaceful in the Heavenly Gates. No one came to find trouble, and the supervisor continued to be on holiday. The Combat Cultivation Hall had arranged for him to learn how to use his spiritual power. To Lao Wang, there was obviously no need to waste his time.
Thus, he had been busy organizing and recalling everything he knew about the level-7 Glazed Crystal Life Extending Pill over the past few days. He had directly heard about the pill recipe from Elder Yimo in class. The Pill Refinery Hall did not avoid this. Furthermore, the pill recipes that could be made public in class were not precious and exclusive recipes. They were all recipes that were widely circulated among the various large Factions. Most Pill Refinery Hall disciples knew that Elder Yimo was only responsible for explaining.
As for the auditing students, if they could understand, that would depend on their abilities. They were all people from the Heavenly Gates, and they would not lose anything even if they listened in. Of course, the prerequisite was that they definitely could not spread this information. Since they dared to set up the auditing system, they naturally had ways to prevent this information from spreading. During the first lesson in the Pill Refinery Hall, the supervisor had warned them repeatedly after class.
Back then, when he heard Elder Yimo talk about the level-7 Glazed Crystal Life Extending Pill, honestly speaking, Wang Zhong felt as if he was listening to a heavenly book. He was able to grasp the realm and concept descriptions of pill studies that Elder Yimo gave during his lessons, but it was very difficult for him to understand many of the details and specialized terms. He could only memorize them while listening in class.
At that moment, he revised again. Now that he had practiced and tried the Vitality Supplement Pill and the Yin and Yang Pill, he had a certain level of understanding of pill refinery general knowledge. When he recalled Elder Yimo's lessons, his understanding became even deeper. Furthermore, Nini was beside him to help explain. In just four or five days, Lao Wang felt that he had confidence again.
When Uncle Sea's batch of ingredients for the Yin and Yang Pill arrived, Wang Zhong immediately entered the pill house as his final practice item.
This time, he did not choose the most inferior pill house. Firstly, he did not lack money. Other than six portions of ingredients for the Yin and Yang Pill, Old Cow had also sent him 100,000 Silver Star Stones from buying ingredients for the level-7 pill. There was no pressure at all in renting the B-class pill recipe. Secondly, it was because the Glazed Crystal Life Extending Pill was a divine item that could forcefully prolong one's life in times of danger. It contained a rather high vitality. Using the Abstruse Ice Copper Furnace, which was extremely stable but lacked vitality, to refine it was obviously not suitable. When it came to pill refinery, it was not necessarily better to use a higher level pill furnace. However, choosing a suitable pill furnace based on the pill that one wanted to refine was the most basic knowledge.
The Jiuli Heaven and Earth Furnace.
This was a wooden pill furnace that could withstand extremely powerful fire and had extremely high heat transfer properties. Even in the entire divine territory, there were only a few of them, and the Jiuli Wood was undoubtedly one of them.
It was said that this was a mystical ancient tree from the Netherworld. It could grow roots and germinate in the Netherworld River, which lacked vitality. Furthermore, it could soar into the sky and pierce through the thick barrier between the Netherworld and the Land. The ancient Jiuli Tree was definitely one of the most mystical substances in the divine territory. Its powerful vitality was unimaginable. The Jiuli Heaven and Earth Furnace was made from the branches of the Jiuli Wood. The word "heaven and earth" did not refer to the addition of other metallic substances. Instead, it referred to the arrangement of the Universe Holes in the Jiuli Heaven and Earth Furnace. There were a total of 72 Universe Holes and 36 Universe Holes. Compared to the Abstruse Ice Copper Furnace with 36 Universe Holes that Lao Wang had used before, there was no doubt that the operation was much more complicated.
He first used the Jiuli Heaven and Earth Furnace to refine the Yin and Yang Pill as a form of adaptation.
Without the Abstruse Ice Copper Furnace's natural adjustment of the Yin and Yang Fire, the difficulty immediately increased significantly. However, the Jiuli Heaven and Earth Furnace's stability and conductivity were indeed above the Abstruse Ice Copper Furnace's. Thus, there was an obvious increase in his basic control over the medicinal properties.
The six batches of pills were daunting but not dangerous. Other than the first two batches of pills, which resulted in a slightly lower efficiency due to his lack of familiarity with the pill furnace, the subsequent batches maintained an average standard. A total of 221 Yin and Yang Pills were all around level-7.
He warmed up for almost three days. Fortunately, this was a second-class pill refinery room, and there was a wooden bed made of Jiuli Wood inside. He sat cross-legged on the bed and meditated for a while. This was extremely effective in recovering his spirit. If not, after refining six batches of Yin and Yang Pills, it would be impressive if he was not half-dead from exhaustion, let alone being in a perfect state.
"Pills are divided into high, medium, and low grades. Among them, level-1, level-2, and level-3 are high-grade, level-4, level-5 are middle-grade, and level-7, level-8, and level-9 are low-grade. Every three grades is a boundary. Level-7 pills seem to be categorized as low-leveled pills, but they can be considered the first symbolic dividing line in pill refinery. " Elder Yimo had said this, but he had only mentioned it briefly. Lao Wang could only understand the specific reason after listening to Nini's detailed analysis.
"This is because high, medium, and low grades not only represent the effects of the pill, but also the meaning of dividing the pill according to its refinery techniques."
"Low-leveled pills emphasize techniques and basic operations. Level-7 is the limit. Meanwhile, medium and high-leveled pills have more requirements in pill refinery in other aspects. For example, they require more mysterious things like pill fusion. However, in terms of basic operations, they do not have higher requirements than level-7 pills. Thus, level-7 pills are called the first dividing line as they represent the limit of basic operations in pill refinery. "
The level-7 Glazed Crystal Life Extending Pill should be the overall test that Elder Yimo from the Pill Refinery Hall had given to this batch of new pupils. Frankly speaking, the Pill Refinery Hall only taught elites. Only alchemists who had trained their foundational techniques to the extreme had the right to continue staying in Elder Yimo's class.
In reality, the Pill Refinery Hall had already put up a notice. In two months, even though they were still allowed to listen in on the Pill Refinery Hall's classes, this was only for the classes of ordinary supervisors. What about Elder Yimo's classes? Only those who had successfully refined the level-7 Glazed Crystal Life Extending Pill this time could attend. After all, in the future, the classes would definitely involve prescriptions for pills that were above level-6. No matter how generous the Heavenly Gates was, they would not let people who did not know pill refinery casually listen in on their classes and waste resources.
He had experimented with six batches of Yin and Yang Pills and adapted to the Jiuli Heaven and Earth Furnace. Now, regardless of whether it was his condition, confidence, or the supporting facilities, he was at a perfect standard.
He had dealt with the ingredients for the level-7 pill, calmed himself, and started the furnace. Nini was still the one teaching the techniques. In advance, she had given a verbal explanation and rehearsal of the theory. She wanted the furnace temperature to be divided into seven parts, which meant that it was colorful and auspicious. This was in line with the principles of the Glazed Crystal Life Extending Pill. This was an advancement of the furnace fire control technique.
Previously, when he had refined the Yin and Yang Pill, he had learned the Divided Control Technique. Furthermore, with the theoretical support, he felt that this should not be too difficult. However, when Lao Wang started, he immediately encountered countless failures.
It was easy to control the Yin and Yang Fires separately, but controlling the seven-colored fire was extremely difficult and abnormal. Doing two things at the same time and seven things at the same time were two completely different concepts.
He would fail the moment he started. He would either divide the fire into five parts or eight or nine parts. Furthermore, the fire would constantly change and could not be stabilized. His best result was to stabilize his control of four fires. This seemed to be the limit of Lao Wang's current control. To be honest, he could not underestimate the foundation of the divine territory. This was just a level-7 pill.
After an entire day of experiments, Lao Wang was completely stumped by the steps of preparing the furnace, let alone arranging the ingredients and refining the pill.
To be honest, Wang Zhong had always been rather confident in his methods of controlling spiritual power. However, controlling spiritual power and controlling the furnace fire were not the same thing. He had tried various methods. For example, he had felt that he could divide his soul into hundreds of millions of divine cells and still maintain their independence. With this method, it should not be difficult for him to control the seven fires. However, in reality, dividing his soul into divine cells was a completely synchronized action. Even if he divided it into hundreds of millions of cells, it could only be considered one action. However, these seven fires were seven completely different flames and seven different temperatures. If he wanted to stabilize and control them, allow them to exist in completely different ways and complement each other, he would need seven completely unrelated souls that would not interfere with each other.
"Your consciousness has to be independent. Your spirit cannot be too focused, but it cannot be too scattered either. You have to maintain a subtle balance at that moment …" Nini was acting like a teacher again. She tirelessly repeated various basic techniques over and over again, but the results were minimal. Compared to Lao Wang's heaven-defying performance some time ago, the difference was rather large.
Nini was not surprised. After all, she was a true pill expert. Even though Lao Wang's heaven-defying performance had proven his natural endowments in pill refinery, pill refinery was not that simple. Regardless of whether it was the Vitality Supplement Pill or the Yin and Yang Pill, they were related to what Wang Zhong had learned in the past. They were "compatible" in pill refinery terms. Thus, it was naturally slightly easier to refine them, causing others to overlook their difficulty.
Now, he had suddenly switched to a completely different refinery method, and the difficulty had increased by several times. The shortcomings of Lao Wang's lack of basic skills were slowly and completely exposed.
It was okay. He could slowly learn. There was no need to doubt Master's natural endowments in pill refinery and fire control. In the future, it would be natural for him to control the seven-colored fire. However, this obviously required time …
After being busy for a full two days, Wang Zhong was exhausted from controlling the fire. He even felt like his nerves were splitting. However, his level of fire control was still firmly at the level of controlling four fires. Occasionally, he would control five fires, but it was very difficult for him to maintain this for a long period of time. Lao Wang was determined. Perhaps it was because his spirit was gradually becoming numb, or perhaps it was because he was eager to win. In his last attempt, he unexpectedly controlled the seven-colored fire. However, before Nini could even cheer …
Boom ~ ~ ~
There was a massive explosion, and a terrifying energy wave spread from the Jiuli Heaven and Earth Furnace. It sent Lao Wang, who was holding the handle of the furnace, and Nini, who was floating beside him, flying. They violently crashed into the wall of the pill house, causing the entire room to rumble. The bottles and jars around them exploded and fell to the ground.
Lao Wang was a little speechless that an empty furnace could explode when he was trying to create fire.
The people outside seemed to have heard the sounds of the furnace exploding inside. A hurried alarm sounded, and someone came in to check. Even though no one made any sarcastic remarks because of Lao Wang's experience of beating up the goblin outside the pill house, after checking and tallying up the losses, they had to compensate over 20,000 Silver Star Stones for the items in the pill house from the explosion. Fortunately, the pill furnace was fine. If not, if any damage to the pill furnace was involved, the compensation would easily be in the millions or tens of millions of Silver Star Stones.
This could not be helped. Previously, when he controlled the seven-colored fire, he felt that hope had descended and that his luck had exploded. However, from the looks of it now, it was purely his heaven-defying misfortune that had been triggered.
Over the past two months, this was the first time that Lao Wang had felt an obstacle that was difficult to overcome after coming into contact with pill refinery.
"Rookie's Wall, bottleneck period." Nini was very professional when she spoke. When it came to pill refinery, no one would be able to achieve success in one go or reach the peak without any obstacles. Wang Zhong had advanced bravely and diligently as soon as he started and only encountered a bottleneck when he was refining a level-7 pill. This was already a heaven-defying achievement in history. If he was able to overcome a level-7 pill in one go, Nini would really suspect whether her master was the reincarnation of a super pill refinery god. "Master, this is very normal. It's alright. Let's get used to it. This kind of thing requires the accumulation and precipitation of time. With Master's natural endowments, I believe that you will definitely be able to overcome this in one or two years."
Lao Wang was sweating profusely. One or two years did not sound long, but the problem was that he did not have the time. If he could not hand over the level-7 Glazed Crystal Life Extending Pill in two months, he would not be able to listen to Elder Yimo's lessons in the future. Elder Yimo was a true almighty. There were various reasons why Lao Wang could have such a high starting point in pill refinery. However, Elder Yimo's explanations in class had definitely inspired him in pill refinery. This was definitely the most important reason among all the reasons.
Of all the things he could lose, he couldn't lose this.
He asked Nini to return to the Spirit Flower Garden. When Lao Wang returned to the mushroom house, Jhonas happened to be there as well. It was said that Jhonas had been busy starting to learn how to refine equipment and was extremely busy. He was the type who would not be in the dormitory most of the time. It was not easy for them to coincidentally bump into each other.
It was said that Jhonas's recent progress in equipment refinery was not bad. After all, he was from the Illusion race and relied on equipment refinery to make a fortune. His natural endowments were definitely not weak. When this little fellow boasted, he was always radiant with joy and was extremely proud of himself. However, when he saw Lao Wang's dejected and depressed appearance, Jhonas instantly guessed the result.
Damn it, his furnace had definitely exploded. He might have even lost a lot of money.
"Ahem, Boss, I'm not saying this." It was rare for Jhonas to be serious. He spoke sincerely and earnestly, "Pill refinery has to be done slowly. You said that refining the Vitality Supplement Pill was rather smooth, so you should accumulate more experience. You directly jumped to refining a level-8 pill. This is simply too big of a leap. It would be strange if your furnace did not explode. When it comes to pill refinery, furnaces will explode. No matter how smooth it was previously, accidents are unavoidable. An alchemist who has never exploded his furnace is not a good alchemist … "
"In any case, Boss, I think that you shouldn't be anxious. My friend has already helped you ask for the prescription for another level-9 pill, the Nothingness Pill. It is slightly unpopular, but as long as you can refine it, you will definitely profit. The prescription is not expensive either. It only costs 300,000. Why don't you try it? I'll lend you the money for the prescription. In any case, Boss, you can just sell the pill and return it to me after refining it. "
"Okay." Lao Wang did not explain and simply asked, "Speaking of which, you also need to control fire in equipment refinery, right? How are your fire control standards? "
"You've asked the right person!" Jhonas was instantly energized. He instantly turned from a nagging auntie to a super man. "Speaking of fire control, the Babi family is definitely …"
After continuously boasting for close to 20 minutes, to the point that Lao Wang was almost petrified, Jhonas reluctantly returned to the main topic. "In short, those from the Babi family can only be described with one word in terms of fire control — impressive! There is no technique that we do not know! "
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