This was the first time the alchemist had used a different alchemy technique to refine pills, and he was a little rusty. However, when the first batch of pills was produced, it yielded ten high-grade spirit stones.
He was fairly satisfied with his result, but then the notification sound rang out again: Failed to refine top-grade pills. Please choose to continue refining or leave midway.
The alchemist's confidence was immediately shaken. Indeed, as a level nine alchemist, it was quite shameful that he couldn't even refine a single top-grade first-level pill.
Without hesitation, he chose to continue refining the elixir.
To refine elixirs, one must purchase spiritual herbs...
Indeed, the medicinal herbs in the medicine cabinet of this alchemy room are of better quality than those sold outside, and are also much more expensive.
Most of these spiritual herbs are those that are abundant in Qi Zhiheng's space. They were cultivated by the Spirit Devouring Insects in the early years. Because Yu Xidu's alchemy room level improved too quickly, many of the spiritual herbs were not used in the end. Now there is just such an opportunity for him to sell his spiritual herbs at a high price!
One has to admire how well this elixir was created!
After obtaining the second batch of spiritual herbs, the level-nine alchemist began refining a second round of pills.
This time, he finally succeeded in refining a top-grade pill.
A prompt sounded: Please place the premium elixir in the corresponding medicine cabinet for testing.
Upon hearing the prompt, the alchemist took out the only top-grade pill inside, opened the medicine cabinet where he had just bought and sold spiritual herbs, and placed the top-grade pill inside.
In the blink of an eye, the pill disappeared from the medicine cabinet, and at the same time, a notification sound rang out: Congratulations on obtaining the qualification to enter the next level.
After the sound rang out, a door appeared inside the alchemy room. He opened the door, and outside was a spiral staircase leading upwards.
The alchemist was somewhat bewildered. He went to open the medicine cabinet again, but it was empty...
Wait! What happened to the top-grade pills he just refined?
"Where are my pills? Weren't they supposed to be taken for testing? Shouldn't they be returned after the testing?"
A silence fell over the air; the notification tone hadn't indicated any intention to answer him.
Okay, he roughly understood. The pills were probably swallowed by this pill shop. He hadn't expected that not only were the spirit herbs expensive, but they also had to consume pills. The owner of this pill shop seemed a bit greedy…
Qi Zhiheng was unaware of his complaints, but even if he knew, he would remain quite composed. In his words, renting an alchemy room costs spirit stones, so naturally they would also charge a rental fee! The top-grade pills would just cover the rent!
Knowing that the pills would never return to him, the ninth-level alchemist stopped dwelling on it and started walking up the stairs.
Going up the stairs, you'll find a large hall that's very similar to the first floor, with some reliefs still on the walls.
If there's anything different about this compared to the first floor, it's probably the people...
The first floor was crowded, and although the space was large, it did not feel crowded. However, compared to the scene before us, the second floor seemed much more spacious.
While he was still surveying the second floor, a cultivator who was also a level nine alchemist came up the stairs. The two exchanged a few pleasantries, but not wanting to waste any more time, they went their separate ways.
The alchemist stood in front of a relief sculpture based on his memories from the first level, and soon the knowledge of second-level pills appeared.
After answering the questions quickly, he received a book. After quickly flipping through it, he was transported to an alchemy room. The rest of the process was the same as on the first floor. After successfully refining a top-grade pill, he handed it over and then entered the next floor.
This alchemist reached the seventh level in one go, taking three months in total. There was no other way; some pills were indeed extremely time-consuming to refine.
After reaching the seventh level, the refining of seventh-grade top-quality pills reached a bottleneck.
He had successfully refined level seven top-grade pills before, but in very small quantities. Usually, he would only get one pill after successfully refining a hundred batches of pills, and those hundred batches didn't even include those that failed along the way.
Fortunately, he still had some level-seven spiritual herbs on hand, and he could still buy pills with spirit stones. However, spirit stones would only decrease as he used them. What if he ran out of spirit stones when he reached later levels? It was better to keep them for now, just in case.
After failing to refine sixty-six batches of pills without producing any top-grade pills, a notification sounded: "After assessment, your soul power flexibility is insufficient. Do you wish to choose to use a soul power training method?"
Is that even a question? Of course you should!
Right after the alchemist answered, a platform rose up in front of him and opened.
A notification sounded: "Seventh-level alchemist soul power training method, please submit ten million high-grade spirit stones."
Alchemist: ...
They're constantly sucking our blood.
He put in 10,000 high-grade spirit stones, closed the box that had been opened on the stone platform, and his 10 million high-grade spirit stones sank back into the ground.
Immediately afterwards, a cultivation technique for training soul power appeared in the air.
The alchemist immediately opened the book, and found a method for training soul power that he had never heard of before. He immediately began to cultivate according to the method in the book. Because he already had a foundation of soul power, this technique was much easier to master. After a month of training, he began to refine pills.
This time, the top-grade elixir has finally been successfully refined!
Before he could even feel happy for long, his smile froze on his face when the medicine cabinet took away the pills he had worked so hard to obtain.
But looking at the stairs leading to the next floor, he gritted his teeth and endured it!
These cultivators are working hard to pass the trials here, while the people outside are going crazy waiting for him...
Since this is the first time the Pill Pavilion has been opened, apart from the invited level nine alchemists, the remaining alchemists are all level eight alchemists.
Because of their high level, they could clear many more levels. Clearing more levels meant that it would take a long time. The cultivators outside were all waiting for them to come out so they could find out what was going on inside the Pill Tower. But after they went in, they never heard from them again.
With no further news, the alchemists who were waiting for news had no choice but to stay in Ascension City.
Qi Zhiheng was very fortunate that while he was refining the pill tower, he also built a lot of houses suitable for alchemists to live in nearby. At this time, they were basically all rented out by alchemists who came to watch the excitement.
Qi Zhi was very satisfied with the profits generated from this.
His efforts were worthwhile; he buried quite a few spiritual veins in the vicinity. These were all initial investments, so how could he not recoup his losses?
But it wouldn't be good to leave these alchemists waiting idly, so Qi Zhiheng simply organized an alchemy competition! The winner would receive five days of guidance from him in alchemy, and in addition, they would receive some pills and spiritual herbs as rewards. The top ten would receive different rewards.
Of course, the registration fee also requires spirit stones...
Although there is a registration fee, it is not expensive. The competition is divided into low-level alchemists, mid-level alchemists, and high-level alchemists.
Alchemists at all three stages cannot be grouped together, as that would be unfair.
This alchemist competition has attracted the attention of most alchemists, who are no longer limited to waiting anxiously at the entrance of the alchemy building for the participants to come out.
However, some people questioned Qi Zhiheng's alchemy pavilion, and some even suspected that he might be practicing some kind of evil magic, such as throwing people in and refining them into pills, and then taking the pills to ascend to immortality.
Qi Zhiheng found the rumors unbelievable and asked Yang Yitian, who was standing next to him, "Do I look like a man-eating monster?"
Yang Yitian said calmly, "You don't seem like a man-eating monster, you seem like a monster that sucks people's life force." As he spoke, he clutched his chest.
Qi Zhiheng looked at him with a puzzled expression: "What's wrong? Why are you clutching your chest?"
Yang Yitian winked at him: "I'm about to have my life force drained by you."
Qi Zhiheng laughed and said, "If anyone should be a demon, it should be you who absorbs my life essence. If we're talking about demons, then it should be you."
The two were flirting and teasing each other when Chu Huaifeng interrupted them.
"City Lord, the alchemy competition for low-level alchemists is about to begin. Would you like to go and make an appearance?" Chu Huaifeng didn't want to disturb the two's sweet moment and directly stated his purpose.
Qi Zhiheng thought about it and decided that he should at least show his face, since it was the competition he had proposed and organized.
So he and Yang Yitian went to watch the alchemy competition.
The competition for low-level alchemists was naturally rather boring, which made Qi Zhiheng's thoughts wander as he wondered when the cultivators in the Pill Pavilion would finally come out.
Soon, his prayers came true.
After the low-level alchemist competition ended, someone rushed in to report: "City Lord! An alchemist has come out from the Pill Pavilion!"
Upon hearing this, Qi Zhiheng immediately stood up and said to Yang Yitian beside him, "Let's go, let's go and see what's going on?"
Yang Yitian nodded, and the two walked together toward the Pill Tower, followed by a group of cultivators who wanted to watch the excitement!
Qi Zhiheng arrived outside the Pill Tower and saw the cultivator who had just come out from afar. He did not look well and looked very haggard.
Qi Zhiheng found it somewhat unbelievable, and the other cultivators were also discussing it.
"Why does this alchemist look so haggard? Could there really be something wrong with the True Pill Pavilion? Is it absorbing people's cultivation?"
"Hey, you know what, it actually looks pretty convincing."
"He's out! He's out! The alchemist has come out!"
"Master Qi went to greet him. Could it be that he's going to kill him to silence him?"
Upon hearing these words, Qi Zhiheng was speechless. How could he be so ruthless?
The person who came out was an eighth-level alchemist. The reason he came out so quickly was because he had run out of spirit stones inside, which made it impossible for him to continue refining pills!
The Danlou will save the information of each entrant. If the entrant enters the Danlou again, he will be teleported to the original location to continue the task that was not completed last time.
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