This time, the Red Beard Bandits left Mount Huiyan and went deep into Qingli County.
If they had attacked other families, the surrounding families could have helped and killed all of the Red Beard Bandits.
Since the Liang family was the one being attacked, everyone would just watch the show. Who would be so bored as to fight with the Red Beard Bandits?
After the battle, the northern part of Qingli County was peaceful.
Previously, the wandering cultivators had been bribed by the Liang family to attack the properties of the Wang, Yang, and Meng families, resulting in many casualties.
Especially those fugitives, they fought the most fiercely and suffered the most casualties.
Now, even the fighting between the wandering cultivators had decreased.
In the following days, Wang Daoyuan did not run around. He stayed at Jade Spring Peak to refine pills and make talismans.
Raising his alchemy skills as much as possible was the most important thing.
After seven years of peace, the True Essence Fruit in the space of the spirit pearl finally matured.
The seven first-generation Blood Jade Ginseng could have been harvested half a year ago.
He first informed Granduncle Jiu and the patriarch that he would be in seclusion for a long time. Before he came out, they should not look for him even if something big happened.
Although Granduncle Jiu and the patriarch did not understand what was going on, they agreed when they saw how serious he was.
He activated all of the cave abode's defensive restrictions and set up a soundproof array formation. Then, he began the preparations for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Currently, his success rate of refining the Soul Strengthening Pill had reached 50%. This was almost the limit of a Qi Refinement cultivator.
However, he had the Spiritual Fire of Life, so he could still increase the success rate.
For the next ten days, he used the Spiritual Fire of Life to refine a cauldron of Soul Strengthening Pills every day to get used to this method.
On the eleventh day, he adjusted his mental state to its peak and went through all the steps of refining the Foundation Establishment Pill in his mind.
When he could not find any mistakes, he officially started refining the Foundation Establishment Pill.
He drew out a wisp of the Spiritual Fire of Life from the space of the spirit pearl and used wood-attribute spiritual energy to burn it.
He took out a fresh Snow Ganoderma and used the Spiritual Fire of Life to refine its essence before refining the next spirit herb.
Soon, all the supplementary herbs were refined without any problems.
After all, the supplementary herbs for the Foundation Establishment Pill were very common among second-grade spirit herbs. There was not much difficulty in refining them.
Next up was the refinement of the three main ingredients. The Dragon Crouching Vine was only 200 years old, which meant that it was slightly more poisonous. He had to be careful, but the refinement wasn't too difficult.
Next was the most challenging Blood Jade Ginseng and Zhenyuan Fruit. These two 500-year-old spiritual herbs were known for their abundant spiritual energy and strong medicinal efficacy.
He first extracted the essence of the Blood Jade Ginseng. Although he was mentally prepared and increased the input of his Spiritual Sense, he still almost made a mistake.
There was too much Blood Jade Ginseng essence, and its spiritual energy was especially unstable. It almost couldn't suppress it, causing the essence to dissipate.
It would be a waste of a Blood Jade Ginseng.
Fortunately, his Divine Sense cultivation was high enough. He increased the input of his Divine Sense in time and saved the Blood Jade Ginseng.
With this experience, the extraction of the True Essence Fruit was safe and sound.
The essence of spiritual herbs was extremely unstable. Once it was extracted, it would continuously dissipate. Even if one used a special artifact to prevent it from dissipating, it would not be able to stop it.
He had to constantly suppress it with his Divine Sense to reduce its dissipation. He also had to start fusing it as soon as possible.
This was also one of the important reasons why the more types of spirit herbs one needed to refine a pill, the more difficult it was to refine.
Another important reason was to fuse the essence of the spirit herbs.
To refine the Building Foundation Dan, the power of Divine Sense needed to suppress thirteen groups of spirit herb essences at the same time. No wonder the Alchemist's Divine Sense cultivation was not low.
Thirteen kinds of spirit herbs, all extracted, and the next was the most difficult fusion.
First fuse the auxiliary herbs, then fuse the main herbs, so that if the auxiliary herbs failed to fuse, the essence of the main herbs could still be retained.
Wang Daoyuan was not low among the second-tier upper grade Alchemists. It was not difficult to fuse the auxiliary herbs and the essence of the Crouching Dragon Vine.
After that, it was to fuse the essence of the Red Blood Ginseng. A small group of blood-red spirit herb essence was fused into a large group of colorful spirit herb essence.
After the fusion, the spirit herb essence trembled. Under the suppression of his Divine Sense, it stabilized, and the whole group of spirit herb essence was dyed blood-red.
Finally, it was to integrate the essence of the True Essence Fruit, which was very smooth.
All the spirit herb essences were fused, and he used the power of Divine Sense to mix the various spirit herb essences evenly.
In the process of mixing, there was suddenly a violent spiritual power fluctuation inside the spirit herb essences. This was going to explode.
He suppressed it with all his strength, but he couldn't control it. In the end, he had to transfer the spirit herb essences out of the alchemy furnace. Otherwise, the alchemy furnace would directly shatter.
The spirit herb essences exploded in the Immortal's cave. Fortunately, the defensive restrictions were still good, and the aftermath of the explosion was suppressed.
Otherwise, with so much spiritual power, it was enough to blow a hole in the Immortal's cave.
The first refining failed, and the consumption of Divine Sense and spiritual power was great. He couldn't continue today.
The key was that all the previous steps had no problems, but he still failed.
If he couldn't find the reason and continued refining, the result would be the same.
There was absolutely no problem with the auxiliary herbs. They were all just right, and they had just been dug out of the soil.
There was no problem with the True Essence Fruit. After this thing matured, its medicinal properties would no longer increase. The fruit tree had not evolved to the third-tier, so there should be no problem with its medicinal properties.
The remaining two were the Crouching Dragon Vine and the Blood Jade Ginseng.
The Crouching Dragon Vine was also exactly two hundred years old, but it had been picked for a long time, and it was placed in the space of the spirit bead.
The Blood Jade Ginseng was more than five hundred years old. Although it wasn't much, its medicinal properties had more or less increased.
Moreover, it had just been dug out and was still very fresh. In addition, it had been extracted with the Life Spirit Fire, so its medicinal properties had been retained too much.
Thinking of this, he could be sure that the medicinal effects of the Crouching Dragon Vine and the Blood Jade Ginseng were unbalanced.
After resting for a night, he began refining again.
This time, he increased the amount of the Crouching Dragon Vine. During the fusion, he reduced some of the Blood Jade Ginseng's essence. There were no problems with the extraction and fusion.
After the fusion of the spirit herb essences was completed, he used the power of Divine Sense to divide them into ten equal portions. Each portion was the size of an adult's fist.
Next was the pill formation step. He used a large fire to continuously roast the pill furnace, evaporating all the water in the spirit herb essences, and condensing the remaining portion into a solid.
The fist-sized spirit herb essences gradually shrank.
The control of the fire directly determined the success rate of the pill formation.
If the fire was too strong, it would directly burn the spirit herb essences.
If the fire was insufficient, the time taken to roast the pill would be too long, and the spirit herb essences would lose too much. Part of the medicinal properties would change, causing the spirit herb essences to clash again and explode.
Fortunately, his Divine Sense was strong enough, and controlling the fire was not a problem.
There were no obvious mistakes. In the end, he refined a longan-sized Foundation Establishment Pill.
Different spirit herb essences were in different positions in the pill furnace, so the heat they received was also different. If the heat was just right, he would succeed. If the heat was off, he would fail.
He learned from his experience and adjusted the positions of the ten spirit herb essences, as well as the strength of the fire.
The third furnace produced two Foundation Establishment Pills. It was the same for the fourth and fifth furnaces.
After that, practice made perfect, and the success rate of the pill formation increased slightly. The sixth furnace produced three pills, and the seventh furnace produced four pills.
The seven 500-year-old Blood Jade Ginseng were all used up, and 14 pills were produced. Because he was unfamiliar with it, the success rate was only 20%.
However, this did not matter. 14 Foundation Establishment Pills were enough for him to build his foundation.
Failing to build his foundation would at most damage his meridians and dantian. With the protection of the Foundation Establishment Pills, he could try again after a few months of recuperation.
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