In the Ling family's Earth Fire Pill Room, the surrounding Dragon Breaking Stones reflected a faint green light, shining on the face of Ling Dong, who was sitting cross-legged in cultivation.
Beside Ling Dong, there were more than ten jade boxes of various sizes. Most of the jade boxes were covered, and the elixir chamber was filled with a faint medicinal fragrance. Behind Ling Dong, there were also some boxes that contained medicinal herbs. The most eye-catching ones were two square jade boxes that were tightly shut, each four inches tall.
Suddenly, Ling Dong opened his eyes. The light in his eyes flashed and disappeared. A smile suddenly appeared on his face!
"Who would have thought that concentrating on refining pills would allow my cultivation to improve so much faster than usual! I'm afraid that after this round of refining pills, I'll be able to break through to Houtian Realm Level Eight! "
As Ling Dong muttered to himself, he stood up and began to practice the Forging Bone Fist in the Earth Fire Alchemy Room. As the heavy punches were executed in a methodical manner, the joints in Ling Dong's body began to creak and crack!
"I seem to have grown taller!" After finishing a set of Bone Forging Fist, Ling Dong rubbed his head and laughed out loud. Following which, he walked straight towards an extremely large jade box in the corner of the room.
There were four rows of jade boxes, and each row had three compartments. In most of the compartments, there was a piece of light green low-grade crystal. This was the low-grade crystal that Ling Dong had specially bought from the Kuixing Pavilion for this round of refining pills.
During the previous round of refining pills, they were caught off guard. They didn't believe that Ling Dong could really refine any pills. Therefore, the low-grade crystal that Ling Zhengshan had provided for Master Shui to refine pills was left untouched!
This time, Ling Dong came to refine pills, but before he even arrived, it was already cleaned up. In fact, Ling Zhengshan still didn't believe that Ling Dong could refine pills. How could a kid like Ling Dong know how to refine pills when others couldn't even do it after decades of practice? Ling Zhengshan even thought that Ling Dong had pocketed the few low-grade crystals that were consumed in the alchemy room because of his greed!
Therefore, this time, Ling Dong had no choice but to go to Kuixing Pavilion to buy these expensive consumables — low-grade crystal stones!
In the entire South Mountain County, although there were not many places that could provide large quantities of low-grade crystals, there were still a few. Their prices were about the same, one thousand taels of silver or one hundred taels of gold!
In front of these universal treasures that could increase one's cultivation speed, common things like gold and silver were not worth much! In Ling Dong's memories, a small portion of Earth Realm martial artists would rarely use gold or silver to trade for elixirs, battle artifacts, and other treasures. Instead, they would use crystal stones as their currency!
And the elixirs, weapons, and talismans needed by Heaven-dipper Realm powerhouses were almost all traded with crystal stones, or the more primitive barter! At that level, gold and silver were just numbers to them. What they needed the most were things that could help them with their cultivation.
This was where the importance and value of crystals lay! In the Heavenly Dipper Continent, only low-grade crystals were sold openly! The slightly better mid-grade crystals could not be bought by ordinary people. If one wanted to buy them, they would have to attend the Kuixing Pavilion's auction. As for the better high-grade crystals, they were even rarer. In a small place like South Mountain County, they had never appeared even in the Kuixing Pavilion's auction!
Ling Dong bought a total of four boxes of forty-eight low-grade crystals for this alchemy. This was an expenditure of fifty thousand taels of silver. If it wasn't for the fact that Ling Dong had just earned a huge sum from selling the storage talisman, the amount of low-grade crystals needed for alchemy would be enough to give him a headache.
He skillfully took out eight low-grade crystals and used four of them to replace the four crystals on the Earth Fire Array and the alchemy furnace that had almost depleted their energy. The next step of alchemy was extremely important. Even if it was a waste, Ling Dong had to replace them with new low-grade crystals!
In fact, mid-grade crystals were the best choice, but unfortunately, they could not be bought! Moreover, the price of mid-grade crystals was not suitable for alchemy!
As for the other four low-grade crystals, Ling Dong placed them on his right side as a backup. Then, Ling Dong began to clean the impurities that were left at the bottom of the alchemy furnace. He cleaned them very carefully!
Do not underestimate this step. Sometimes, a little bit of ash at the bottom of the furnace could affect the temperature of the alchemy furnace, and thus affect the success or failure of the alchemy furnace.
Ling Dong had been in the Earth Fire Alchemy Room for ten days. In these ten days, Ling Dong had extracted the essence of the main ingredients for the Three Flower Demonic Aura Pill. Now, there was only the last step left, which was to melt the pills and combine the ingredients!
Alchemy that could directly increase the cultivation of an Innate Realm master was not something that could be achieved by using some precious ingredients! In order to increase the cultivation, one had to add a heavenly treasure that could increase the cultivation of the alchemy furnace!
However, heavenly treasures not only grew for a very long time, but also grew in very special environments. Some of the more valuable heavenly treasures were also protected by demonic beasts and spiritual creatures. They grew in the depths of mountains and rivers, and were extremely difficult to obtain!
More than a thousand years ago, a heaven-ranked alchemist named Cang Mu had invented a method of using demonic beasts' bloodline essence to absorb heavenly and earthly energy to replace heavenly treasures. This was the reason why there were so many alchemy pills that could increase the cultivation of the alchemy furnace! But even so, because it was not easy to refine and alchemists were scarce, the price had always been high.
The two demonic beasts that Ling Dong wanted to obtain a few days ago were to be used as the main ingredients for the Three Flower Demonic Aura Pill. What Ling Dong wanted to do now was to refine the demonic beasts and combine the ingredients into a pill!
After activating the Earth Fire Array and seeing the dark red flames rising, Ling Dong's hand grasped the Gang Fusing Stone that controlled the alchemy array. Without waiting for the furnace to reach a high temperature, he grabbed one of the two especially eye-catching square jade boxes behind him, opened it, and threw a demonic beasts' core the size of a longan that contained a blood-colored brilliance into the furnace!
The hand holding the Gang Fusing Stone tightened, and the alchemy array was activated. A force instantly lifted the demonic beasts' core into the air above the furnace. Under Ling Dong's control, it began to slowly rotate!
What Ling Dong wanted to do now was to refine the demonic beasts' essence! Refining the demonic beasts' essence was not the same as refining the essence of medicinal herbs, because demonic beasts' essence was originally made up of essence!
Refining the demonic beasts' essence was actually refining the demonic beasts' bloodline essence contained within the demonic beasts' instincts such as killing, cruelty, and bloodthirst, leaving only the demonic beasts' essence and heavenly and earthly energy that could be used to make medicinal herbs.
Ling Dong had done this kind of thing no less than hundreds or thousands of times in his previous life. It could be said that he could do it even with his eyes closed! The only thing he needed to pay attention to was whether or not the earth energy in his body could support the entire alchemy process, and whether or not the energy in the low-grade crystals embedded in the furnace was enough!
However, there was no need to worry about refining the demonic beasts' essence. After holding on for two hours, the demonic beasts' essence that carried traces of blood-colored demonic beasts' essence turned into a pool of green jade liquid. As the radiance flowed, there was no trace of blood!
Seeing that the demonic beasts' essence had turned into liquid, Ling Dong's expression suddenly froze, and the lid of the furnace suddenly slid down. Ling Dong's right hand picked up a jade box, and he poured the medicinal liquid into the furnace. Immediately, a force caught the medicinal liquid!
Under the heat of the furnace, the medicinal liquid began to slowly fuse with the demonic beasts' essence. When the fusion was complete, Ling Dong transformed into a gourd again, and the third medicinal essence was also thrown into the furnace! However, this was only the beginning, because this Three Flowered Demonic Aura Pill was made up of eleven different medicinal ingredients.
In a situation where he had sufficient earth energy, refining a small Upper Level Innate Pill was not a problem for Ling Dong at all. However, following a slight explosion, the crystal embedded in the furnace exploded into powder. Ling Dong's expression became incomparably ugly!
When the large ball of medicinal liquid in the furnace suddenly sank, and was about to fall to the bottom of the furnace and turn into ashes, the miniature earth energy in Ling Dong's body suddenly spun at high speed. Pure earth energy began to be sent directly into the alchemy array through the handle of the secondary earth energy stone!
"Chi!"
The ball of medicinal liquid at the bottom of the furnace, which was about the size of a fingernail, turned into ashes. The alchemy array on the furnace suddenly lit up, and the falling medicinal liquid was abruptly lifted to the center of the furnace.
Ling Dong let out a long sigh of relief. The loss of the medicinal liquid just now meant that he had lost one or two pills!
Compared to this kind of Upper Level Innate Tri-Flowered Demonic Aura Pill that could only be refined by an upper-level alchemist, Ling Dong's earth energy, which was at Houtian Realm Level Seven, was not enough. By the time he reached the tenth medicinal essence, he was almost at the bottom. Even if the miniature earth energy in his body spun crazily, the replenishment was extremely limited.
However, this time, Ling Dong was prepared! His right hand gently pinched a piece of low-grade crystal. As he activated his mental cultivation technique, a wisp of pure earth energy was transferred from the low-grade crystal into Ling Dong's body, replenishing Ling Dong's depleted energy!
Waves of burning pain traveled from Ling Dong's meridians. His meridians were injured! Ling Dong laughed bitterly. Finally, he had to pay a price! Low-grade crystals could only be absorbed by Xiantian Realm warriors without any injuries. Ling Dong, who was at Houtian Realm Level Seven, absorbed them directly. It would be strange if he didn't get injured!
However, when the eleventh medicinal essence completely merged into the medicinal liquid in the furnace, Ling Dong smiled! With these pills, his father's cultivation would be able to take a huge step forward. This injury was worth it!
After an hour, a medicinal fragrance that could intoxicate one's internal organs wafted out. Ling Dong decisively stopped the Earth Fire Spell. Then, the lid of the furnace slid open. The medicinal liquid inside floated into the furnace, but didn't fly out!
Ling Dong's hands weren't idle. Streaks of earth energy were injected into the Pill Refining Spell through the Gang Dissolving Stone. One by one, the spells of the Pill Refining Spell were activated. The medicinal liquid at the top of the furnace was suddenly divided into more than ten lumps as if someone was using a knife to cut it!
After spinning around in the furnace, the perfectly round pills that had been cut by the invisible earth energy suddenly flew out of the furnace. The jade bottle that had been prepared beforehand had already been caught!
When the tinkling sound of the jade bottle rang out, Ling Dong started counting!
"One … two … three … eleven pills. As expected, one pill is missing!" After sighing, Ling Dong, whose face was already as pale as paper, carefully kept the jade bottle containing the Three Flowered Demonic Aura Pills into his storage talisman. Then, he sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes!
He needed to circulate his energy to heal his injuries. This bottle of Three Flowered Demonic Aura Pills was only the beginning …
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PS: The electricity is finally here. Finally, finally, I don't have to carry my laptop around anymore. I don't have to light a candle in the dark at night! Speaking of which, using a laptop to write in someone else's house doesn't seem to be in the right state of mind!
Recommending a friend's new book!
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