To avoid spiritual changes caused by individual differences in spiritual medicines, a large amount of refining is needed to accumulate experience and use experience to reduce the impact of such errors.
If the person in front of him was an alchemist who had been immersed in alchemy for decades, Uncle Ma would at most praise him for his good talent.
However, Li Shiming had only inherited the alchemy for a few months and he had already reached such a level. His potential in alchemy was unimaginable.
Master Ma could see even more clearly that every step Li Shiming took was based on the knowledge from his alchemy inheritance. However, Li Shiming brought the alchemy inheritance to its extreme, using a basic alchemy inheritance to refine a perfect pill.
As the 'Seven Finger Pill Collecting Technique' was performed, ten 'Mingxin Nine Palace Pills' flew out of the pill furnace and fell into the jade bottle that had been prepared long ago.
"Please check it, Master!" Li Shiming handed the jade bottle to Master Ma and bowed.
"Don't look at it anymore. It's unfair to you to be a junior alchemist. Besides, your alchemy furnace is really not suitable for your status. I have an alchemy furnace here, which I used when I was in the foundation-building stage!" Uncle Ma waved his hand and took out an alchemy furnace and said.
Li Shiming's eyes lit up. The alchemy furnace that Master Ma took out was a spiritual alchemy furnace. He felt the shortcomings of the alchemy furnace when he was using a top-grade magic alchemy furnace.
As a foundation-building cultivator, high-quality magic tools can no longer meet the needs of his realm.
However, the more benefits he received from Master Ma, the more favors he felt he owed him, and these favors had to be repaid.
"Take it. Xiao Su and I have been friends for many years. His disciple is half my disciple. You have inherited my alchemy and become an alchemist. Why do you still care about these external things?" Uncle Ma glared and saw Li Shiming's hesitation.
"Uncle-master, I want to refine elixirs for the foundation-building stage, but I don't know how to start?" Li Shiming bowed and asked for advice after putting away the spiritual artifact cauldron.
This is the biggest purpose of his coming here this time. Whether it is the foundation-building pill formula or the second-grade spiritual medicine, they are all things he needs to consider.
Although there were some spiritual medicines among his spoils, those spiritual medicines also required matching pill recipes to be refined. At present, he was not able to develop his own pill recipes.
"Wait a minute, I'll call Xiao Su over. I can't teach you everything for nothing!" Master Ma did not answer Li Shiming immediately. He smiled and uttered a spell and said.
Not long after waiting, Elder Su walked in from outside the Danding Hall.
Judging from Elder Su’s posture, he is probably very familiar with this place.
"Old Ma, has Shiming caused any trouble to you? As his uncle, you should be more tolerant!" Elder Su looked at Li Shiming who was standing with his hands behind his back, turned around and joked to Uncle Ma.
"Xiao Su, I want to accept Li Shiming as my registered disciple!" Uncle Ma said seriously.
Elder Su put away his smile, looked at Master Ma and then at Li Shiming, with doubt in his eyes.
If Master Ma said this in public, he would probably mean it as a joke, but in a private setting like this, he was extremely serious, which meant he really wanted to accept Li Shiming as his registered disciple.
Given Master Ma’s status, no Jindan cultivator in the sect dares to offend him, and even the Yuanying ancestor has to give him face.
Because he is a master alchemist, a master alchemist who can refine elixirs for Jindan cultivators and Yuanying ancestors.
This identity is enough to run rampant in the sect. If you don't give face, there is no need to consider alchemy. No one dares to give precious elixirs to the alchemy master for alchemy after offending him. A single word of failure can make the other party lose all their money.
"Shiming is a kid you like. I agree that you can accept him as your registered disciple. But please tell me what you like about him. I'm also very curious!" Elder Su nodded in agreement without much hesitation.
This is a good thing. Li Shiming has become Master Ma's registered disciple, and he won't have to worry about elixirs in the future.
"When this kid was looking for the Muyang clover for you, he also stole the Red Sun Spirit Fire from the Red Sun Bear. Now look at the spiritual medicine he just refined!" When Master Ma heard Elder Su's agreement, he smiled and took the jade bottle from Li Shiming and threw it over.
Elder Su is not like Li Shiming, an ignorant cultivator. He naturally knows what the Red Sun Spirit Fire is.
After hearing that the Muyang clover was snatched from the Red Sun Bear, his eyes softened as he looked at Li Shiming. The more he looked at this disciple, the more satisfied he was.
"High-grade first-class elixir, produced in one furnace?" He opened the jade bottle in his hand, took a quick look, then looked at Li Shiming in surprise and asked.
Li Shiming nodded, indicating that it was indeed the case.
Elder Su looked at Uncle Ma again, and Uncle Ma nodded with a proud look on his face.
"On the day he became my disciple, I gave him an alchemy inheritance. He relied on this inheritance to learn alchemy on his own. I was also surprised when he came to see me today!" Uncle Ma emphasized the alchemy inheritance he gave, which is a confirmed inheritance.
Even if Li Shiming did not become his registered disciple, this alchemy inheritance could not be erased.
"Shiming, you have to study alchemy with Master Ma carefully!" Elder Su told Li Shiming, then he gave Li Shiming a look and said, "Hurry up and serve tea to Master Ma!"
Li Shiming then realized that Elder Su had already handed him a cup of tea.
"Master, have some tea!" Since he was a registered disciple, there was no need to announce his apprenticeship to the master, so the ceremony was very simple.
Uncle Ma took the teacup with a smile, took a sip, and helped Li Shiming up.
“Shi Ming, you just asked me how to get the foundation-building elixir. There are two options. One is to accept the sect’s alchemy mission. The sect’s alchemy mission is a mandatory task for alchemists. Each alchemist has a corresponding number of pills to refine.
The sect's alchemy mission, with my consent you can accept the mission of refining elixirs for the initial stage of foundation building. The sect's alchemy mission requires stability. For every batch of elixirs, the sect must take away 80% of the elixirs regardless of whether the alchemist is successful or not.
Of course, if your alchemy skills are not good enough and your success rate is less than 80%, then you can refine lower-level pills. Therefore, the sect's alchemy tasks require stability and no failure is allowed.
The second is to accept private alchemy tasks from cultivators. You can accept them from the sect's tasks, or you can do it privately.
Generally speaking, alchemists will get one third of the finished pills. This is the rule of alchemists, and even the best of friends cannot break it!" At this point, Master Ma glanced at Elder Su.
"Old Ma refined the 'San Yang Hui Tian Dan' but he took one of them from me!" Elder Su said helplessly.
"For Jindan-stage pills, the number of pills in a furnace depends on the number of spiritual medicines. No matter what, as long as there is more than one, one spiritual pill must be charged as a reward. If it reaches four, two will be charged as a reward!" Uncle Ma explained complacently.
Li Shiming secretly clicked his tongue, this alchemist was really evil.
But then he thought, he had become an alchemist himself, and if he was slandering other cultivators, he would be fine.
"Master, what if I fail in refining the elixir privately?" Li Shiming asked again.
"Even if the monk is unlucky for failing, we alchemists will have worked in vain. What else can we do?" Uncle Ma asked, spreading his hands.
Li Shiming truly felt the specialness of the alchemist, which is a profession that is guaranteed to win.
Of course, if the failure rate is really very high, I am afraid no cultivator would dare to ask the alchemist to take action.
"Shiming, you should come here every day recently and use the second-grade spiritual medicine I have to refine a furnace of second-grade spiritual pills. Once you have produced the finished product, I will directly make you an intermediate alchemist. Then you can take on the task of making foundation-building pills. This is my entry gift to you!" Uncle Ma thought for a while and made the arrangement.
"Yes!" Li Shiming knew that it was Master Ma who was taking care of him, so he bowed and responded.
This is the first time he refines a second-grade elixir, and he doesn’t know how much second-grade elixir it will consume. Uncle Ma, no, now he should be called Master Ma, his work is not small.
Master Ma also had his own ideas. Based on his judgment of Li Shiming's current level of alchemy, he only needed to familiarize himself with the second-grade elixir and he would be able to refine it quickly.
Besides, investing in a disciple with potential is never a loss.
"You go back first!" Master Ma waved his hand.
After Li Shiming left, Master Ma smiled and took out the jade box that Li Shiming had brought, took out some spiritual tea from it, and brewed two cups of spiritual tea, one for himself and one for Elder Su.
"Did you make this spiritual tea? You put your alchemy skills into making spiritual tea. It is indeed extraordinary!" Elder Su took a sip of the spiritual tea, immediately tasted its flavor, and praised with a smile.
"It's not made by me, but given to me by my registered disciple!" Master Ma also picked up the cup. The spiritual tea that Elder Su took out for Li Shiming to become his disciple was also of the second grade, but compared with the spiritual tea in the cup, the quality was much worse.
"Did Shi Ming stir-fry it? You don't even know how to honor me with such good spiritual tea, but are thinking about outsiders!" Elder Su snorted coldly.
Master Ma choked on his tea because of this sentence and almost sprayed the tea on Elder Su's face.
Li Shiming returned to Chijian Peak and saw the three female attendants who were busy. He thought about how he had not expressed anything in these days.
"Ye Lingyun, come here!" He waved to Ye Lingyun.
"Greetings, sir!" Ye Lingyun came up to Li Shiming and saluted respectfully.
"Thank you for your hard work these days. Here are three bottles of elixir. One for each of you. You can distribute them!" Li Shiming handed over three bottles of 'Mingxin Jiugongdan' and instructed.
"Thank you for the reward, sir!" Ye Lingyun stretched out his hand to take the elixir and expressed his gratitude.
In fact, after the three monks entered the Chijian Peak, their respective families still provided them with cultivation resources.
Cultivators like them who have no chance to join a sect are able to enter a large sect like the Shushan Sect. Although they enter as followers, what they can enjoy is far beyond what a casual cultivator can enjoy.
In addition, due to Li Shiming's identity, the family still supplies cultivation resources, so their cultivation is not affected much.
Li Shiming looked at their work. All the spiritual fields and spiritual plants were growing very well, which showed that they put a lot of effort into it.
He didn't say anything, thinking that he would use elixirs as rewards in the future. He still had a lot of elixirs for the Qi Refining Stage, which he could easily refine to meet the needs of the three female followers in their cultivation.
"What did the master tell me to do?" Wan Qian asked curiously.
"The master gave each of us a bottle of elixir as a reward for our recent work!" Ye Lingyun replied with a smile.
The elixir is secondary. The key is Li Shiming’s recognition of them, which is the most important thing.
They can be said to be tied to Li Shiming, and Li Shiming's recognition is extremely important to them.
Before, Li Shiming almost ignored them, which made them worried in private.
Ye Lingyun gave the jade bottle in his hand to Wan Qian and Lu Yingtong. They came from relatively good families and were not surprised by elixirs.
However, when they each opened the jade bottle and saw the elixir inside, they all looked surprised.
"They are all high-level first-grade elixirs, ten in total, enough for me to practice for a month!" Ye Lingyun said excitedly with his eyes wide open.
The reason why they wanted to enter Shushan Sect was because of the spiritual energy and environment here, which was their hope for cultivation.
If Li Shiming is willing to help them, they can also obtain the sect's foundation-building pill through Li Shiming and fulfill their dream of building a foundation.
However, they did not expect that Li Shiming would give them such a precious elixir, a high-level first-grade elixir, which only the cultivators who were trained as key practitioners in the clan could enjoy.
They felt that they had followed the right master and worked even harder at Chijian Peak.
Li Shiming didn't think too much about it. After returning to the cave, he immediately began to check the Red Sun Spirit Fire in the Spirit Lake.
In the past, he had never cared about the Red Sun Spirit Fire. Every day, the Red Sun Spirit Fire would devour a little bit of Fire Thunder Spirit Power, but the amount was small and he didn't care.
After listening to Master Ma’s introduction, he realized that he needed to actively inject fire spiritual power into the Red Sun Spirit Fire in order to make it grow.
The Red Sun Spirit Fire consumes fire and thunder spiritual power on a daily basis in order to maintain its own energy.
Li Shiming's mind moved slightly, and he sent a stream of fire thunder spiritual power into the Chiyang Spiritual Fire, and issued an order to the Chiyang Spiritual Fire to devour it in his heart.
The Red Sun Spirit Fire swallowed up the Fire Thunder Spiritual Power, and as the flames swayed, they seemed to grow slightly larger.
He drew another stream of fire and thunder spiritual power for the Red Sun Spiritual Fire to devour. After swallowing ten streams of fire and thunder spiritual powers in succession, the Red Sun Spiritual Fire finally gave the feedback that it could not devour.
Li Shiming breathed a sigh of relief. This time the swallowing used up almost one-tenth of the spiritual power in his body.
That is to say, under the effect of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array', the five elements of thunder spiritual power in his body have always maintained a balanced state of mutual conversion. It only takes a period of time for him to use other thunder spiritual power to replenish the consumption of fire thunder spiritual power, so there is no need to worry about the lack of fire thunder spiritual power.
Feeling the Red Sun Spirit Fire grow bigger, he used the secret method given to him by Master Ma to restrain the aura of the spiritual fire.
The secret method is not difficult, it mainly involves the use of spiritual power skills. A spiritual power barrier is set up around the Red Sun Spirit Fire in the body to block the breath of the Red Sun Spirit Fire inside the spiritual power barrier.
It took him about an hour to put the secret technique into operation in his spirit lake. The aura of the Red Sun Spirit Fire was as if it did not exist unless he sensed it with his mind. This showed that the secret technique was indeed effective.