Chapter 46 – 45: Crazy Alchemy_1
Ye Pinghai, cloaked in a grey robe within his cave abode, pinched a series of hand seals and cast spells onto the Pill Furnace, filling the entire secret chamber with scorching air.

Lin Tianming and Ye Pinghai were each seated in their own secret chamber, fervently concocting elixirs.

While Ye Pinghai was refining the Minor Foundation Building Pill, Lin Tianming was also busy at work in the adjacent Alchemy Room, crafting the Lingshen Pill.

Lin Tianming engaged in alchemy non-stop for seven to eight days, refining pills by day and meditating at night to recover his expended spiritual power and Divine Sense. His daily schedule was full and arduous.

As his cultivation rose, Lin Tianming mastered the creation of First Order Medium Grade Lingshen Pills, and both the success rate and quantity of pills increased substantially.

The success rate of First Order Medium Grade Lingshen Pills could reach 60%, and the quantity was remarkably stable, always above seven per batch. Even more efficiently, after refining five batches of pills each day, Lin Tianming still had a small reserve of spiritual power. Such is the advantage of profound cultivation—it was no longer like before, when refining three batches would leave him completely drained.

In the process of refining Lingshen Pills, Lin Tianming, with an experimental mindset, activated his Eye of Five Colors to see if it would aid in alchemy, and was pleasantly surprised. The Eye of Five Colors easily allowed him to discern the internal structure and impurities of each Spiritual Medicine.

In truth, it wasn’t really a surprise. The Eye of Five Colors, capable of penetrating even restrictive formations, would naturally view lower-tier Spiritual Medicines with ease.

Leveraging this special ability, Lin Tianming could handle purification, breakdown, and even Solidifying Pill with incredible precision, substantially improving the success rate and pill count—a near perfect 80% success rate and nine pills per batch, almost reaching the limits of Pill Refining.

Moreover, the Lingshen Pills he refined had an efficacy 10% higher than regular Lingshen Pills; they were truly superior among Superior Spirit Essence Pills.

With the help of the Eye of Five Colors, Lin Tianming completed refining more than forty batches of Lingshen Pills without much effort, yielding a large stockpile of over three hundred Lingshen Pills.

In the Cultivation World, a First Order Medium Grade Lingshen Pill typically sells for eight Low-Grade Spirit Stones, while in some places it fetches nine. Even calculating by the lower price, three hundred pills amounted to two thousand four hundred Spirit Stones—a considerable fortune indeed.

With so many Lingshen Pills on hand, they would undoubtedly exceed his own needs during the Qi Refinement Realm. Once he returned to the clan, he planned to sell the majority through the clan’s market shops. Such superior quality Lingshen Pills would not lack for buyers, or he could choose to keep them within the clan, offering them to fellow clan members, as it was rare to encounter such fine quality.

Gathering his thoughts, Lin Tianming considered his next steps.

He had nearly finished refining all the materials for the clan’s rewarded Lingshen Pills. What remained were materials for twenty-five batches of Body Strengthening Pill and Strong Spirit Pill, as well as three batches for the Pozhang Pill, signaling the time to attempt a large-scale refinement of First Order High-Quality elixirs.

Additionally, he needed to refine the Beast Spirit Pill as soon as possible, utilizing the two Demon Cores in his possession. One was the Spotted Crocodile Inner Pill obtained while defending Qingfeng Town, and the other was an inner core of the Spirit-Connecting Python. Both were suitable for concocting the Beast Spirit Pill.

The two Demon Cores on hand, from the Spotted Crocodile at Medium Stage and the Spirit-Connecting Python at Late First Order, were more than sufficient for the refinement of the Beast Spirit Pills.

Lin Tianming decided to first refine the Beast Spirit Pills before tackling the more advanced Strong Spirit and Body Strengthening Pills.

Falling into a rhythm, Lin Tianming worked deftly. There was not a significant difference between the Beast Spirit Pill and the Lingshen Pill, except that disassembling a Demon Core was much more challenging than work with Spiritual Medicine. The Demon Core was far more volatile, making it easier for the pill to explode during the process, which could potentially cause severe damage to the Pill Furnace.

Lin Tianming carefully dissected the Striped Crocodile’s Demon Core. Fortunately, everything went smoothly, no explosion occurred, and within fifteen minutes, the Demon Core was successfully refined. What followed was familiar territory, and in less than half an hour, the first batch of Beast Spirit Pills emerged from the furnace.

Five green-yellow elixirs hovered inside the furnace, each one slightly larger than a Lingshen Pill, with a potency that was certainly more violent.

In less than half a day, another First Order Late Stage Demon Core was transformed into Beast Spirit Pills. Seven pills solidified, and along with those from the first batch, there were twelve Beast Spirit Pills in total—enough to last the Purple Gold Eagle for a while.

He took out the Spiritual Medicine Materials needed for the Body Strengthening Pill and neatly arranged them on the stone platform next door.

Lin Tianming quickly got into the swing of things. The difficulty of refining the Body Strengthening Pill and Strong Spirit Pill should be about the same as that of the Xisui Pill, so there was definitely no problem in refining them. He just didn’t know what the pill success rate and yield would be.

Previously, without the Eye of Five Colors, when refining the Xisui Pill, the success rate had reached thirty percent. With the Eye of Five Colors, it should improve somewhat.

Time flew by, and more than twenty days had passed. Lin Tianming had been staying in the Alchemy Room for nearly a month now.

In the Alchemy Room next door, Ye Pinghai was still refining pills. Each batch of Minor Foundation Building Pills took him seven days to refine. After resting for three days, he would resume his alchemy. He hadn’t completed his seclusion yet.

Lin Tianming had refined almost all of his Alchemy Materials, leaving only a small amount of Spiritual Medicine Materials in his storage bag.

In this one month, Lin Tianming had made significant progress. When refining First Order Superior Grade Strong Spirit Pill and Body Strengthening Pill with the help of the Eye of Five Colors, his success rate remained above sixty percent, while the number of pills yielded hovered around six per batch.

After a month of hard work, he obtained ninety Body Strengthening Pills and eighty-five Strong Spirit Pills. There was no longer a shortage of elixirs for the Qi Refinement Realm. He planned to focus all his energy on cultivation from now on. It had been nearly half a year since he had engaged in serious cultivation or consumed many elixirs, as he had been allowing his progress to consolidate.

Now, not only had he solved the shortage of elixirs needed for his cultivation, but he had also managed to refine two batches of his three sets of Pozhang Pill Spiritual Medicine Materials, resulting in eleven pills.

The Pozhang Pill was extremely expensive and had great effects. After consumption, it could remove bottlenecks and induce a breakthrough in one’s realm, which was extraordinary. Initially, just buying three main ingredients had cost him over two hundred Spirit Stones. A single Pozhang Pill could sell for at least one hundred Spirit Stones in the market, and it was hardly available for purchase. Only a very few were auctioned at exorbitant prices, and each time they did, they sold for sky-high amounts.

At this moment, Lin Tianming felt quite emotional. Two years ago, using a Spirit Stone would cause him immense heartache. Now, his total worth added up was no less than ten thousand Spirit Stones. Among Qi Refining Cultivators, he was truly a tycoon. Perhaps only the core descendants of major families could compare with him.

He put all the elixirs into his storage bag, tidied up the mess in the secret chamber, and walked out of the Alchemy Room.

Outside the room, it was dusk. After a month of relentless alchemy, he was extremely exhausted. Lin Tianming walked through the streets, heading toward his dwelling in the North District.

Lying on his stone bed, Lin Tianming fell into contemplation.

“I wonder if Fifteenth Grandfather has taken the Minor Foundation Building Pills back to the family. By the timeline, they should have already reached the family. Even if he didn’t stay, and came straight back to Qianchuan Market, a round trip would take forty days. Now, all I can do is wait patiently and hope everything goes smoothly. After all, the medicine is too precious, and I can’t help but worry.”

Unknowingly, the tired Lin Tianming fell into a deep sleep. In less than fifteen minutes, he was sound asleep.