On a mountain next to Wanjian Peak, Li Yuanba was setting up his formation.
He requested this mountain from his master, Elder Jian. Many mountains near Wanjian Peak belonged to Elder Jian, but he had no disciples and did not grow any spiritual plants, so most of the mountains were abandoned.
When Li Yuanba proposed to Elder Jian that he needed a mountaintop for his own use, Elder Jian agreed to his request without a second thought.
This was not a big deal, and Elder Jian had no intention of finding out his secrets.
Having reached Elder Jian’s strength, all he had to do was accumulate resources and wait for the Nascent Soul breakthrough.
Elder Jian does not believe that there is any martial art in the world that is stronger than the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky'. He has been loyal to his flying sword all his life and practiced the strongest martial art. Even though he is wandering outside and in the Demon Sect, he is still a pure sword practitioner.
His demand for external objects was extremely low, and he used any resources he had to strengthen his flying sword.
After Li Yuanba got the mountain, he started to make arrangements. He also did not plant any spiritual plants to develop the Shuiyun Peak.
The environment of Shuiyun Peak is good. There is a waterfall flowing down from the mountainside, forming a pool of water at the foot of the mountain. It's a pity that the spiritual vein of this mountain is only of top grade, otherwise it would be nice as a cave dwelling.
He wanted to be here for no other reason than to practice 'Purple Qi Coming from the East'. His cave was still at Wanjian Peak. The cave at Wanjian Peak was of Jindan level. The spiritual energy and sword intent there were of great help to him in practicing 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky'.
After setting up the formation for Shuiyun Peak, his daily practice became fixed.
He took a top-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' every two days. Combined with his own spiritual root talent and the spiritual veins in the cave, his cultivation speed was no worse than that of Li Shiming, whose body had been strengthened by a year of 'Purple Qi Coming from the East'.
The speed of practicing "Sword Intent Soaring into the Sky" increased many times at once, especially after taking the top-level "Shushan Hunyuan Pill", which made one practice equal to twenty practices.
Every morning, he would go to Shuiyun Peak and absorb the purple air through 1,500 Fresnel reflectors when the sun rose.
In addition, he also took back the elixir-making resources given by Patriarch Lu, and Patriarch Lu's nameplate was also taken away.
When he asked for resources to make elixirs, what was delivered to him were the necessary spiritual herbs for the four elixirs: the Veins Protecting Pill, the Soul Stabilizing Pill, the Resurrection Pill, and the Mountain Breaking Pill, as well as a jade slip of the Senluo Sect that contained knowledge and secret methods related to elixir making.
The reason why the spiritual medicines required for the pill recipes are given is that these four kinds of spiritual medicines all have third-grade spiritual medicines as the main ingredients, and they require the help of a master alchemist to refine them.
The alchemy master of the Senluo Sect rarely takes action. It is said that he is trying to reach the Nascent Soul stage and has been in seclusion for more than ten years.
New alchemy masters have not yet been trained, and the failure rate of senior alchemists in refining elixirs of third-grade spiritual medicines is so high that it is estimated that no cultivators would be willing to hire them.
It's not that there is no solution, that is to ask the alchemy masters of other forces for help, but this cannot be solved by the sect and the cultivators need to solve it themselves.
Li Yuanba didn't care. He would rather do so after getting the elixir.
Judging from the situation on the original body's side, by the time he reaches the late stage of foundation building, the original body Li Shiming will probably have become a master of alchemy.
Li Yuanba's side has been stabilized. Although the Senluo Sect still has some minor conflicts with the orthodox sects and the trouble with Qianye Temple has not been resolved, the conflict between the major sects in the world of immortal cultivation is not a short-term thing.
The fighting among the major sects would last for many years, which also gave the monks of each sect time to practice.
In Shushan Sect, after Li Shiming learned how to refine the 'Shushan Huangling Pill', he began to refine it in large quantities.
'Shushan Huangling Pill' is not 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'. The five second-grade spiritual medicines in the pill formula make its output not large.
Fortunately, with years of accumulation, the four senior alchemists in the sect in the past were not able to refine ten furnaces of elixir at the same time. That not only requires divine thoughts, but also a strong enough spirit and, most importantly, talent.
It was a struggle for four senior alchemists to guarantee the success of every batch of elixirs. How could it be possible for them to do what Li Shiming did and refine ten batches of elixirs at the same time? This was the ability of most alchemy masters.
Therefore, the sect has accumulated a lot of the five-flavor second-grade spiritual medicine of "Shushan Huanglingdan" over the years. The annual output cannot be consumed by senior alchemists, so naturally the five-flavor second-grade spiritual medicine in the warehouse accumulates more and more.
But this situation changed after Li Shiming took action.
Each time ten furnaces of 'Shushan Huangling Pills' are refined, all of them are high-level 'Shushan Huangling Pills', and through the use of the 'One Hundred and One Points Pill Jue', the produced 'Shushan Huangling Pills' are double the amount of full pills.
Of course, it was impossible for Li Shiming to reveal that he could increase the success rate of the 'One Hundred and One Points Alchemy Technique' to 100%. If he really revealed this ability, he was afraid that he would be in big trouble.
On the one hand, it is really impossible to explain, especially to Elder Ma. Elder Ma is very knowledgeable about the 'One Hundred and One Points Alchemy Technique'. Either you expose your computer room space, or no explanation will convince Elder Ma.
On the other hand, if the 'One Hundred and One Point Alchemy Technique' with a 100% success rate is exposed, he won't have to do anything else. He will most likely be locked up by the sect, where he will just have to make pills every day.
Being forced to make elixirs and making elixirs willingly are two different things.
So even though he had been using the 'One Hundred and One Points of Alchemy' to refine the 'Shushan Huangling Pill', all the extra 'Shushan Huangling Pill' were collected by him.
The resources in the middle stage of foundation building are extremely precious, which is a harder currency than spirit stones. When you really need to exchange some spiritual objects, taking out the high-level "Shushan Huangling Pill" is more popular than buying it with spirit stones.
Li Shiming maintained the frequency of refining five times a day, which was equivalent to accumulating ten top-level "Shushan Huanglingdan" for himself every day.
Unfortunately, such happy days did not last long. After more than thirty days, he had used up all the materials for the "Shushan Huangling Pill" in the sect. The materials that the sect had accumulated for many years were simply not enough to meet the speed at which he could refine them.
It can be seen how important a powerful alchemist is to the sect. In more than thirty days, he refined 1,600 bottles of high-level "Shushan Huangling Pills" for the sect. Of course, there are also 1,600 bottles of high-level "Shushan Huangling Pills" in his own computer room.
Not to mention that he still had 324 top-grade "Shushan Huangling Pills". According to his estimation, these were enough for him to practice for a year. There would not be another cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building who could take a top-grade elixir every day in the entire world of immortal cultivation.
Many monks in the sect who knew about his alchemy were also shocked by his alchemy behavior. Fortunately, Elder Ma blocked the outside prying eyes for him, so he could practice alchemy in peace.
"Junior brother!" One day, Li Shiming had just finished practicing 'Purple Qi Coming from the East' and was about to continue practicing two body-building exercises when he received news that his senior sister Ye Jingxian and two senior brothers were visiting him.
"Big Sister, Second Brother, Third Brother!" He activated the formation and invited the three to the cave hall. He asked curiously, "Big Sister, aren't you in seclusion? How come you have time to come to my place?"
"I heard that my junior brother has become a high-level alchemist, and his skills are far superior to those of several high-level alchemists in the sect. You also know why I was in seclusion. I just happened to need your help with something, so I came here!" The eldest sister said without beating around the bush.
"Senior sister, please tell me if you have anything to say!" Li Shiming replied with a smile.
"It's not my business, senior sister. It's their business!" The eldest sister said, pointing at the second senior brother Wan Zheng and the third senior brother Lu Shi next to them.
"Brothers, if you have any questions, just come to me directly. No need to trouble you, Senior Sister!" Li Shiming couldn't help but shook his head and said to the two senior brothers with a smile.
The eldest senior sister and her two senior brothers looked at each other and smiled helplessly.
Originally, everyone was a disciple of Elder Su, so the relationship developed naturally, and over time, they became close.
This is the case with the eldest senior sister and two senior brothers. Except for the days when they visit the master in the sect, they don't interact much with each other.
But Li Shiming's growth rate is a bit too fast. Now he is already a high-level alchemist, and he is also a high-level alchemist who can continuously refine high-level second-grade elixirs. This makes them have to think about strengthening communication with Li Shiming.
On the one hand, the two senior brothers came here to refine a batch of elixirs, and on the other hand, they also wanted to take this opportunity to meet with Li Shiming and strengthen their relationship.
The eldest sister was in seclusion, but it was not a real seclusion, she still paid attention to the news outside.
The two junior fellow apprentices found her and told her about Li Shiming's situation, which led to this joint visit.
"Junior brother, this is a pill recipe. Can you see if you can refine it? What's the quality and success rate?" Second senior brother Wan Zheng took out a pill recipe and handed it to Li Shiming and asked.
Li Shiming took the pill recipe, which was a recipe made of seven second-grade spiritual medicines and more than fifty first-grade spiritual medicines. Its complexity was slightly higher than that of the "Shushan Huangling Pill", but it was still within his ability.
This pill recipe has a detailed refining method. With his experience in refining more than 1,600 furnaces of second-grade elixirs, although it is a new pill recipe, he can guarantee the refining effect.
Because no senior alchemist's alchemy process can be viewed through a micron-level perspective, the experience in this state can be said to be comparable to the alchemy experience of other senior alchemists ten or a hundred times.
It's not like he hasn't refined other elixirs before. It was precisely because of his many successful experiences that he had great confidence in refining the 'Qingli Wuyun Pill'.
"It's a good elixir. I can refine it. I have an 80% chance of it being of high quality!" Li Shiming thought for a while and replied.
Hearing him say this, Wan Zheng and Lu Shi were both delighted.
'Qingli Wuyun Pill' is an elixir that can be taken in the middle and late stages of foundation building to assist in cultivation. After the two of them got the recipe for the pill, they have been collecting elixirs.
They had been taking the sect's elixirs for a long time, and the drug resistance in their bodies made the effects of the elixirs less and less effective.
Not only them, many cultivators in the middle and late stages of foundation building will look for elixir recipes and ask senior alchemists to make them themselves. After taking an elixir for one or two years, the effect is basically unable to meet the needs of cultivation, so it is necessary to replace it with other elixirs.
As for asking Master Elder Su to come forward and ask Elder Ma to refine pills for them, unless it was a matter of life and death or affecting the most critical breakthrough, Elder Su would be embarrassed to ask Elder Ma to refine the pills.
Although Elder Su and Elder Ma are old friends, it is better to avoid owing favors to others when you reach the Jindan level.
"Junior brother, this is a magical medicine, please help me!" Wan Zheng took out a storage bag and placed it in front of Li Shiming, and said with Lu Shi, bowing.
"Thank you for being so polite, senior brothers. Let me take a look at the elixir first!" Li Shiming's spiritual sense entered the storage bag and checked the condition of the elixir. He found that they were well preserved. He nodded involuntarily.
But there were a lot of spiritual medicines. He counted and there were as many as fifty of them.
"Junior brother, we must not break the rules of the alchemists. The reward should be handled as normal!" Wan Zheng continued.
It was the first time for Li Shiming to make private pills outside of sect missions. He was still a little uncomfortable with the issue of compensation, especially since the person in front of him was his own senior brother.
"Junior brother, don't be polite with them. They can find you directly. Many cultivators in the sect wanted to ask you for help, but they were stopped by Elder Ma. They said that you are still in the learning stage. If you take less reward, you will be blamed by Elder Ma and will also be resented by other alchemists!" The eldest sister knew that Li Shiming was a little embarrassed, and explained with a smile.
Be it Wan Zheng, Lu Shi, or senior sister Ye Jingxian, none of them want Li Shiming to make pills for free. If that were the case, how would they ask Li Shiming for help in the future?
Judging from Li Shiming's current talent in alchemy, he will surely become a master alchemist in the future. The benefit of being able to ask an alchemy master to help at any time is much greater than the benefit of making the alchemy for free one or two times.
They are all smart people, how could they give up greater benefits for a little profit?
"Since Senior Sister has said so, then I will take it!" Li Shiming finally nodded in response.
Although they knew that Li Shiming would definitely help, Wan Zheng and Lu Shi still showed excitement.
Li Shiming did not communicate much with the cultivators in the middle and late stages of foundation building in the sect, so he did not know the mood of this group of cultivators in the middle and late stages of foundation building.
After learning that a new high-level alchemist had appeared in the sect, many cultivators in the middle and late stages of foundation building were happy and expectant, thinking that once this new high-level alchemist grew up, they would have one more option for alchemy.
But as batches of high-level "Shushan Huangling Pills" were delivered to the sect's warehouse, the matter could no longer be concealed from the sect's cultivators. Everyone knew that the new high-level alchemist had refined large quantities of high-level "Shushan Huangling Pills" and had never failed.
This made most of the cultivators in the sect who were in the middle stage of foundation building and had taken an overdose of 'Shushan Huangling Pill' regret so much that they banged their heads against the wall. The effect of high-level 'Shushan Huangling Pill' was not comparable to that of medium- and low-level 'Shushan Huangling Pill'.
Similarly, the sect re-established the contribution points for exchanging high-level 'Shushan Huangling Pills', and this batch of high-level 'Shushan Huangling Pills' were all marked with Li Shiming's unique mark.