Elder Mu was at his wit's end. The third-level alchemists in the Pill Hall were wasting most of the spiritual herbs while refining the Cleansing Pills, and he simply couldn't stand it.

"Could you ask your grandfather to come to our Pill Hall and see what went wrong?" Elder Mu had actually tried to refine the Cleansing Pill twice himself, but he failed. Fortunately, he was refining it secretly, otherwise he would have lost all face.

He couldn't think of any other way besides coming to learn from the scriptures.

Qi Zhiheng coughed lightly and said, "How about I go with you to the Pill Hall?"

Elder Mu was somewhat skeptical: "What can you possibly see?" He had even suspected that Qi Zhiheng might not understand pills and had mixed up the formulas, so he was a little uneasy about Qi Zhiheng saying he wanted to take a look.

Qi Zhiheng said, "It's alright, I can refine these pills too."

Elder Mu was speechless. He had initially felt better because he thought the pill was made by Qi Dong, but the fact that he couldn't make the same pill as Qi Zhiheng was rather embarrassing.

Elder Mu led Qi Zhiheng into the Pill Hall.

"Bang—" Someone else started banging the stove again.

At this rate, nobody knows when they will be able to produce one hundred high-grade pills!

Qi Zhiheng asked Elder Mu to find a few disciples so he could see the refining process.

After reviewing the alchemy steps of several disciples, Qi Zhiheng pointed out two differences: first, the method of refining the pills was incorrect; second, the concentration of soul power was insufficient.

Most people have similar soul power, but it's not condensed enough. It's not that their soul power is loose, but that they don't consciously try to condense it. Insufficient condensation of soul power leads to errors in the refining of pills, resulting in a furnace explosion.

Qi Zhiheng and Qi Dong had not encountered this problem before, mainly because they had mastered the alchemy techniques.

Spiritual patterns—all members of the Qi family possess cultivation techniques for the divine soul, making their divine souls far stronger than those of ordinary spiritual cultivators.

After listening to Qi Zhiheng's instructions, everyone tried to condense their soul power. At first, they were a little unaccustomed to it because they were too focused on condensing their soul power and easily overlooked the herbs, which led to the failure of the refining process.

Fortunately, people are gradually getting used to it.

Elder Mu tried it himself and, sure enough, immediately refined a mid-grade Cleansing Pill.

As expected, cultivation level and alchemist rank did have some effect, so he found some level four alchemists.

A level four alchemist has stronger soul power, so they should be able to refine pills faster.

Elder Mu's move was correct. After the fourth-level alchemist took over, the success rate of pill production was very high. Although it was impossible to produce high-grade pills in every batch, eight out of ten batches would produce high-grade pills.

After resolving the matter, Qi Zhiheng returned home.

He put the Cleansing Pills in the Qi family's pill shop for sale, but the quantity was not large, only one hundred high-grade pills a month. When others asked why the quantity had decreased so much, the pill shop explained that it was because the previous stock had been sold out.

He originally planned to sell 500 Cleansing Pills a month, but after learning how difficult it was for a fourth-level alchemist from the Source Academy to refine Cleansing Pills, he quietly reduced the number to 100 a month.

Moreover, it was publicly claimed that this was a pill refined by Qi Dong.

Once this was mentioned, everyone outside believed it. How could Qi Zhiheng, at such a young age, have the ability to refine so many level-three pills while only at the Spirit Realm?

The matter of the elixir was thus concluded.

With a little free time, Qi Zhiheng began collecting spiritual herbs to refine the Zhongfu Shen Dan. Yang Yitian's current condition seemed alright, but he still needed to take the Zhongfu Shen Dan to advance his cultivation to the late stage of Qi Refining.

Qi Zhiheng himself also has many problems. In addition to his terrible constitution, he also has a karmic burden to suppress.

He found some ways to deal with problems related to the soul and karmic obstacles in the books in the attic, but he also had to combine them with his own problems and the cultivation method of "Ten Thousand Yuan Mixed One Technique".

The "Ten Thousand Yuan Mixed One Technique" should be a more suitable cultivation method for those with unevenly distributed ten-elemental spiritual roots. Such a technique can absorb spiritual energy of all attributes in the air and make it their own.

However, his physique is special; it requires a balance of all ten elements. He cannot break through when the spiritual power of the ten elements is not in balance. The ability to absorb all attributes is still present, and it is true that he can also use spiritual energy of different attributes.

However, the distribution of spiritual energy in the air is not even. Although he can absorb spiritual energy of various attributes, he has to give up on gaseous spiritual energy because some of them are present in small amounts, which slows down his cultivation speed considerably.

Now, he has an additional source of dark-attribute spiritual energy as a reserve, which is essentially a good thing because dark-attribute energy is relatively scarce.

However! This reserve food cannot be consumed in advance, otherwise it will disrupt the balance between the ten spiritual roots.

The problem is that this food reserve can bite you if you're not careful. Keeping a "tiger" as food reserve is not a pleasant experience.

What Qi Zhiheng needs to do is find a shackle before this "tiger" breaks free.

The shackles are items with the attribute of light, just like his recitation of Buddhist scriptures.

As for where to find the medicinal herbs and light-attribute materials that Yang Yitian needed, the first person he thought of was Sheng Mingyue.

Although Sheng Mingyue was also in the Yuansheng Academy, they seemed to have a circle that the students and disciples of the Yuansheng Academy could not reach.

Qi Zhiheng hasn't explored this circle yet, but if he wants to get more information, he'll need to get in touch with it in the future.

Qi Zhiheng himself didn't have anything good to offer, so after thinking it over, he brewed a vat of level three spirit wine, intending to bring it to Sheng Mingyue when they met.

After brewing the spirit wine, he asked Yang Yitian to add a time flow array to it.

Yang Yitian's skills have improved, and he has drawn a level three talisman array, which has greatly increased the flow of time. As a result, Qi Zhiheng was unable to leave the space for three consecutive days and used the Returning Spirit Technique more than ten times.

The busy work was not without results; the third-grade spirit wine was successfully brewed.

If it's a gift, a jar of spirit wine alone probably won't be enough, so Qi Zhiheng also refined a few pills. Each batch of pills contains ten pills, four of which are top-grade pills.

Qi Zhiheng put one into Yang Yitian's mouth, and put the remaining three away to give to Sheng Mingyue as a gift.

The Yuansheng Academy already has high-grade Qinghui Dan, but the top-grade one has never appeared before.

Qi Zhiheng had refined some top-grade pills before, but most of them were only of medium grade. He and Yang Yitian consumed some of these top-grade pills, while he sent the rest to the Qi family at the foot of the mountain for his family to eat.

Although its effectiveness is a little small, it's better than nothing, isn't it?

The three-monthly Inner Court Class A competition is about to begin again.

Yang Yitian said somewhat impatiently, "This competition is really annoying. Why do they have to come out and make their presence felt all the time?"

Qi Zhiheng also felt it was a bit troublesome: "After the competition ends, we can ask Senior Brother Sheng Mingyue when the Heroes Ranking will be up for the final showdown. Once you break into the Heroes Ranking, you won't have to participate in these three-monthly competitions for the next three years."

Another round of competition.

Yang Yitian once used a talisman to blast away several disciples who challenged him, which directly led to the spread of his reputation as a "pretty face".

"A vase that only knows how to use talismans will eventually be rejected by Qi Zhiheng."

"More than that, his cultivation level was also increased by taking pills. I'll see how arrogant he is then!"

The two women who had been shoved off the stage by Yang Yitian were loudly discussing him, as if they wanted everyone to hear.

Yang Yitian heard it too, but he didn't care. Instead, he puffed out his chest even more proudly, plopped down next to Qi Zhiheng, and winked at him.

"Don't be angry," Qi Zhiheng said cooperatively.

Yang Yitian looked completely unconcerned: "Why would I get angry just because I defeated a few annoying flies? You're really joking. I'm not one of those gossipy old women who have no pills, no spirit stones, no talismans, and all they do is spout nonsense all day." As he finished speaking, his gaze swept over the two women who had been gossiping about him.

The two women's expressions changed, but Yang Yitian hadn't named them by name. If they refuted him, wouldn't they be admitting that they were just gossipy old women?

Seeing that the other party could not refute him, Yang Yitian became even more smug.

Qi Zhiheng patted his head, and the two continued watching the game.

After the competition, those who failed to make it into Class A under Jin Yu last time also made it into Class A this time.

After the challenge ended, Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian prepared to visit Sheng Mingyue.

Once everything was ready, Qi Zhiheng sent a message to Sheng Mingyue. When the time came, he brought Yang Yitian to pay a visit.

Sheng Mingyue hadn't been out on missions for a long time recently, and after seeing Qi Zhiheng, she asked the two of them to sit down.

Qi Zhiheng took out the gift directly: "Thinking that I would be visiting soon, I specially brewed some spirit wine. I would like to invite Senior Brother Sheng to taste it."

He took out the spirit wine, and a rich aroma wafted out after he opened it. Before even taking a sip, one was already intoxicated.

"Your wine is very fragrant!" Sheng Mingyue was very satisfied with the taste of the wine. "If Xue Linfeng were here, he would probably try to steal the wine from me."

Qi Zhiheng then handed over another gift.

"What is this?" Sheng Mingyue opened the box and found a bottle of pills.

Sheng Mingyue opened the bottle and immediately smelled the aroma of medicine.

Qi Zhiheng said, "A top-grade Cleansing Pill."

Sheng Mingyue's previously indifferent expression turned serious. He could buy ordinary Cleansing Pills, but he had never heard of top-grade ones.

Even level four and five alchemists couldn't refine it.

"Then I will accept it without being polite." Sheng Mingyue's aptitude was good, but when it comes to aptitude, one always wants to improve, especially since he wanted to surpass that person!

His eyes gleamed with an air of unwavering determination.