Another two days passed, and Li Shiming refined ten furnaces of "Shushan Hunyuan Pills", all of which were still high-level "Shushan Hunyuan Pills".
His consciousness carefully separated the "essence of medicine" in the three-turn Tianbao furnace from the rest of the substances. This operation was extremely mentally exhausting, as it required sorting out the particle-state essence of medicine one by one.
'Essence of Medicine' is the name he gave to the special substance he discovered. He did not find any description of this special substance in any existing alchemy knowledge. It is very likely that he is the first alchemist to discover the existence of this substance, and naturally he is qualified to name this special substance.
The name of Medicine Essence was only used by himself, and the method he used to obtain Medicine Essence could not be demonstrated in front of any cultivator.
There is no need to worry about this, as the alchemist will not make pills in front of other cultivators.
There is no need to worry about learning his special methods, not to mention that he is not even going to tell anyone about his discovery of the essence of medicine, including Master Ma, mainly because it is inexplicable.
With a solemn look, he began to refine a new batch of 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills'. He was extremely careful in every step, fearing that an unexpected mistake would affect the quality of the pill.
When he was about to produce the last pill, he pulled the essence of the medicine that was wrapped in his consciousness above the Third Revolution Tianbao Furnace into the Third Revolution Tianbao Furnace, and chose a 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' that was about to be made into a pill to fuse with it.
A smile appeared on his face as the purple light flashed.
He stored the top-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' separately in a jade bottle, which already contained three top-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills'.
Although he only had three top-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills', after finding the method to refine top-grade elixirs, he could almost mass-produce top-grade elixirs.
Of course, the prerequisite is that he needs to refine a large amount of a certain elixir, and the "Shushan Hunyuan Pill" is the elixir that the sect can produce in batches.
Li Shiming came to the practice room, he put a top-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' into his mouth, and began to practice the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art'. The surging spiritual energy flowed out from the top-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill', turning into a torrent of spiritual energy that circulated along the route of his practice.
He felt the accelerating effect brought by the elixir. The speed of cultivation was twenty times faster than when the elixir was not used. No wonder the cultivators were so eager for the elixir.
Funny enough, this top-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' that he personally refined was the first pill he actually took since he started cultivating immortality.
Coming from another world, he knew the horror of drug resistance.
In the past, a drug could cure the disease when it was first introduced with just a few milligrams. However, many years later, the same disease could not be cured even with dozens of times the dose.
It was the fear of drug resistance that made him instinctively resist taking pills.
If he had not refined the top-grade elixir himself, he would still be in this state of hesitation, not knowing when to take the elixir and practice.
The biggest advantage of top-grade elixirs is that there is no drug resistance, and there is no need to consider the risk of the drug's effectiveness decreasing after repeated use.
When a round of 'Nine Days Thunder Strike Art' practice was over, Li Shiming confirmed the effect of taking the top-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill', which allowed his practice to achieve the equivalent of twenty days of practice.
The twenty-fold cultivation speed made him have a great demand for the top-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'.
With his physique, one day is enough for his body to completely digest the medicinal effects of the top-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'.
It was a pity that he could not produce one top-grade Shushan Hunyuan Pill every day. With his daily refining of five furnaces of Shushan Hunyuan Pill, he could only produce one top-grade Shushan Hunyuan Pill every two days.
Twenty-one days after he brought back one hundred sets of materials for the "Shushan Hunyuan Pill", he went to Danding Peak with eight hundred high-level "Shushan Hunyuan Pills".
"Shiming is here!" Master Ma was refining the elixir. When he saw Li Shiming coming in, he turned around and nodded with a smile.
Li Shiming was surprised to see that there was not just one alchemy furnace in front of Master Ma, but ten of them, and all of them were spiritual weapon level.
Master Ma was refining ten furnaces of pills at the same time. Li Shiming, who was already an intermediate alchemist, was extremely shocked when he saw this scene.
He knew better than non-alchemists how difficult it was. It was unimaginable for him to control ten alchemy furnaces at the same time and still be able to talk to him.
"The sect needs to refine a batch of emergency pills. I rarely refine such low-level pills!" Master Ma saw Li Shiming's surprise and explained with a smile.
"Master, how are you able to refine ten furnaces of elixirs at the same time?" Li Shiming's eyes were shining. If he had this method, wouldn't he be able to refine five top-level elixirs every day?
By then, he would not only be able to take the top-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' for cultivation every day, but he could also save a batch for use when needed.
What a wonderful way of cultivation that would be, improving one's cultivation base at a twenty-fold speed. Even a cultivator with a natural spiritual root would not be able to compare with one's own.
"If you have divine consciousness, I will teach you this secret method!" Master Ma said to Li Shiming with a smile.
Li Shiming immediately thought of a technique called 'Thousand Hammers to Forge the Soul', which was a technique that could strengthen the spiritual thoughts to divine thoughts during the foundation-building period. However, his current spiritual thoughts were still somewhat insufficient. He felt that he would have to wait until he reached the middle stage of foundation-building before his spiritual thoughts could reach the requirements for practicing 'Thousand Hammers to Forge the Soul'.
"You don't have any skills to cultivate your spiritual power, do you?" Master Ma asked when he saw Li Shiming's daze.
"I accidentally obtained a mysterious technique for refining the soul called 'Thousand Hammers Forging the Gods'. Currently, my spiritual power is insufficient and I am unable to practice it!" Li Shiming had no intention of hiding anything. After all, this technique was only for those cultivators who had no spiritual power.
When a cultivator reaches the Jindan stage, he already has his own spiritual thoughts, and the value of this technique is greatly reduced.
"No wonder Xiao Su always talks about your good fortune. There is only one copy of this mysterious method in the sect, and it is a secret passed down by an old ancestor. It is extremely difficult for anyone other than that old ancestor to obtain it!" Master Ma couldn't help but shook his head and said with a smile.
Good fortune is something that cannot be seen or touched, but we must acknowledge its existence.
Li Shiming has the qualification of three spiritual roots. Look at his cultivation and the skills he has learned. Which one is worse than the true disciples of the big sects? This is blessing.
"I'll talk to you after I finish refining this batch of pills!" Master Ma's mind returned to refining the pills.
Li Shiming sat aside and watched Master Ma making the elixir. He would not miss the opportunity to collect elixir making data.
Even though Master Ma looks down on these pills, they are all healing pills for the initial stage of foundation building. For Li Shiming, they are a very valuable reference for the alchemy process.
In addition, Master Ma did not restrict Li Shiming from using his spiritual thoughts, which made the data that could be collected more comprehensive.
This means that by collecting the data on this elixir this time, he can then refine it 100% with high quality.
He was not a beginner in refining second-grade spiritual medicine. He had some experience with second-grade spiritual medicine. This experience was enough for him to at least avoid failure when refining the same grade of elixir. If he refined a few more furnaces, he would be able to reach high-grade quality.
In the future, as long as he refines more second-grade spiritual medicines and collects enough second-grade spiritual medicine refining data, he will be able to directly refine high-level spiritual medicines as soon as he gets the pills.
"Master, why do you need to refine so many healing pills?" Although Li Shiming did not know the name of this elixir, he knew its medicinal properties, so he asked curiously.
"What else could it be? The demonic cultivators have been active recently, and the conflict between good and evil is likely to break out again. The sect needs to prepare a large amount of healing and detoxifying pills. Don't tell anyone about this, as it may cause unnecessary chaos!" Master Ma said casually, and after thinking for a moment, he gave another instruction.
Li Shiming's heart trembled. He thought of the scene of Mingxin Sect's invasion of Tianhai Island. Although there was no bloodshed, it forced the seven sects to leave their homes and abandon the mountain gates they had managed for countless years.
"Don't worry, alchemists like us won't participate in the battle. If we really need alchemists to fight, then there is no need to fight anymore!" Master Ma smiled and comforted.
As Master Ma spoke, his spiritual thoughts lightly touched the ten spiritual artifact furnaces. The ten spiritual artifact furnaces opened at the same time, and a hundred spiritual pills flew out of the furnaces. The scene was spectacular.
He stored all the elixirs in a jade bottle and handed it to the alchemy boy next to him, then he put away the spiritual artifact elixir furnace.
"Shiming, my 'Dividing the Spirit and Transforming the Mind' is indeed useful to you. Your spiritual foundation is very solid. You must have cultivated spiritual thoughts during the Qi Refining Stage. I have a Soul-Nourishing Jade here, which was used by me to nourish my spirit back then. You should be able to improve your spiritual thoughts drastically with the Soul-Nourishing Jade soon. Once you are able to cultivate spiritual thoughts, I will teach you the 'Dividing the Spirit and Transforming the Mind'!" Master Ma took out a piece of jade and handed it to Li Shiming.
Li Shiming took over the Yangshen Jue. This was not a man-made magic weapon, but a natural spiritual object.
As soon as he took it in his hand, he felt the faint energy emanating from the Yangshen Jue, which made his soul feel cool.
"Master, this is so precious!" Although he didn't know what kind of treasure the Yangshen Jue was, there was no ordinary treasure that could nourish the soul. In fact, the value of this Yangshen Jue was not lower than that of a magic weapon.
"Once you've been an alchemist for a long time, you'll know how easy it is for an alchemist to make money!" Master Ma said with a smile and a wave of his hand.
The Yangshen Jue is indeed a treasure, but it is not very effective for Jindan cultivators.
Li Shiming's talent for alchemy made Master Ma decide to train him with all his strength.
Although Li Shiming was only a nominal disciple, given the friendship between Master Ma and Elder Su, there was not much difference between him and a direct disciple.
"Master, I want to take on more tasks of refining 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'!" Li Shiming no longer refused, he thought about the purpose of this visit and said.
"The 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills' you refined are all of high-quality. This has increased the number of monks in the sect who have recently exchanged for 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills'. It's just when there is a shortage of 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills' that the sect can guarantee that you will devote all your energy to refining the materials for 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills'!" Master Ma decided indifferently.
He was the one who presided over the alchemy matter. In addition, the elixirs refined by Li Shiming were of high quality and were naturally very popular. This was equivalent to enhancing the strength of the sect.
In addition, this would allow some alchemists to switch to refining war-preparation elixirs, as the demand for them is too great. Otherwise, there would be no need for him, the master alchemist, to refine them.
"Thank you, Master!" Li Shiming got Master Ma's consent and thanked him happily.
In the days that followed, his spiritual power continued to grow stronger as he wore the Yangshen Jue, especially when combined with the 'Purple Air Coming from the East', which caused his soul to undergo a strange transformation.
It was the beginning of the month again, and Li Shiming came to Tianmu Peak. This was the time of the month to pay a visit to Elder Su.
"Junior brother, how have you been learning alchemy recently?" While waiting for the master to arrive in the pavilion, Senior Sister Ye Jingxian asked Li Shiming with a smile.
She was still very surprised after hearing that Li Shiming had a talent for alchemy and was accepted as a registered disciple by Master Ma.
The profession of alchemist is highly respected by monks, but that is only for alchemists with extremely high success rates. Alchemists in the growth stage do not have an easy life.
Senior Sister Ye Jingxian is concerned about whether Li Shiming needs help. Her family can provide Li Shiming with a lot of elixirs for practice.
"I have passed the assessment for intermediate alchemist!" Li Shiming felt the kindness of Senior Sister Ye Jingxian and replied with a smile.
"Is he already an intermediate alchemist?" Xu Chuan on the side exclaimed.
It has only been a short time since Li Shiming joined the sect, and even shorter time since he became Master Ma's disciple and learned alchemy, but he has already become an intermediate alchemist. This is hard to believe.
"By the way, this bottle of medicine is just right for you, senior brother!" Li Shiming took out a jade bottle and handed it over.
The jade bottle contained 20% of the elixir he extracted when refining the Shushan Hunyuan Pill. This was still a small amount when refining for the sect. If he was refining for a cultivator, he would have to extract one third of the elixir.
"Brother, the elixirs I use are all high-quality products, which you refined..." Xu Chuan and Li Shiming had a life-and-death friendship, so there was no need for him to be polite. He opened the jade bottle while speaking, and after seeing the elixirs in the jade bottle, he paused.
He took out a high-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' and placed it in front of his eyes to observe it carefully. The purple air lingering on it did not look fake.
"Recently, the sect has produced a batch of high-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills' with excellent effects, which seem to be exactly the same as this one!" As he spoke, he took out another jade bottle and poured out a high-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' for comparison.
He found that the auras of the two high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills' were exactly the same, and he was sure that the two high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills' were made by the same person.
"Good Junior Brother, from now on, my cultivation elixirs will all depend on you! You know that even a true disciple like me has to rob to get this high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'. The true disciples in the Merit Hall are all hoarding this high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'. Its effect is 20% higher than other high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills'. It turns out that it was made by Junior Brother. Now I don't have to worry about cultivation elixirs anymore!"
Xu Chuan spoke quickly and hastily, which showed how excited he was.
The effect of cultivation is improved by 20%. This little bit of improvement alone makes the cultivators in the early stage of foundation building crazy. This is a pill that is taken daily, and the extra effect is the increase in strength compared to other cultivators.