102: Qingyan Fire Copper Furnace

Chapter 102: cyan rock fire copper furnace

Based on Zhang Sheng's understanding of Medicinal Pills,

he could confirm that the pill in his hand was indeed a peak grade spirit gathering pill.

It was Zhao Xue's masterpiece.

Her Talent was the SSS-grade Nine Revolutions True Flame; whether it was Alchemy, Artifact Refining, or combat, it was exceptionally powerful.

Currently, she could be considered a specialist in the path of Alchemy.

Staring at the pill in his hand, Zhang Sheng reacted immediately!

"Song Xian, you rascal!"

"It's one thing to have Clones, but you even tricked a young girl into refining pills for you. No wonder you cultivated the 'Primordial Chaos Heavenly Art' to the Transcendent stage so quickly!"

"Truly detestable! Utterly shameless!"

"How thick-skinned!"

"Pah!"

Zhao Xue's success rate and quality in refining pills far exceeded ordinary people, but refining a peak grade pill still relied on luck.

In a single batch of pills, there might only be one that was peak grade.

More often than not, the highest would be a High Grade pill, with not a single peak grade pill in sight.

She couldn't control the quality of the finished pills like Zhang Sheng could.

After carefully observing the pill,

Zhang Sheng brought the pill to his lips, but ultimately stopped and did not consume it.

Consuming pills refined by others always made him feel a bit uneasy.

Furthermore, a single peak grade spirit gathering pill wasn't of much use.

It would be better to refine them in batches himself... Just a few days ago,

Hou Wu had sent over a second-tier Spiritual Artifact Pill Furnace named the cyan rock fire copper furnace.

It had been traded from abroad using Cultivation Technique Jade Slips.

Knowing that Zhang Sheng was skilled in Alchemy—with a level even higher than Zhao Xue's—the Huaxia high-level officials gave priority to preparing the resources Zhang Sheng needed.

The Cultivation Technique Jade Slips were used not only to trade for the Pill Furnace, but also for the corpses of Divine Breath Realm Beasts and other second-tier cultivation Materials.

In just a few days, by relying on second-tier Jade Slips, Huaxia had gathered almost all the second-tier cultivation Materials produced in the Secret Realm into their hands.

The corpses of Divine Breath Realm Beasts were also one of the main Materials for refining spirit gathering pills.

The effect of a second-tier spirit gathering pill was similar to that of a first-tier qi gathering pill;

both were pills that increased the circulation speed of Cultivation Techniques.

The qi gathering pill acted on the minor circulation, while the spirit gathering pill acted on the great circulation.

Refining a spirit gathering pill required Materials from Divine Breath Realm creatures as well as three types of hundred-year Spiritual Plants: spirit harmony grass, Jade Blood Lingzhi, and red sun flower.

For the Divine Breath Realm creature Materials, the meat of a Divine Breath Realm Beast would suffice.

As for the three types of hundred-year spirit plants, there was no need to worry; Hou Wu had brought several tons in one go!

It was truly an exaggeration.

Everything was ready; it was time to open the furnace and refine pills!

Although he was mentally prepared, he was still startled by the complexity of refining second-tier pills once he actually started.

Just performing the Flame Manipulation Art to familiarize himself with the cyan rock fire copper furnace took several hours.

Then came processing the beast's corpse and the three types of Spiritual Plants.

Spirit Tempering!

Extract the essence, discard the dross!

Following the Pill Formula, Zhang Sheng threw nine hundred kilograms of the Yao Beast corpse into the Pill Furnace.

Although the second-tier Pill Furnace looked small on the outside, its interior had a volume of over a dozen cubic meters.

Fortunately, the Flame Manipulation Art at the Perfected State was incredibly powerful.

Even the bones of a Divine Breath Realm Beast could not withstand the high temperature of the flames and melted completely!

Under the scorching of the intense flames, the massive beast body continued to condense... Three hours later,

Zhang Sheng opened the Pill Furnace, and a pill fragrance wafted out, mixed with a faint fishy scent.

Nine pills the size of glass beads flew into Zhang Sheng's hand;

their surfaces were a cloudy cyan-jade color.

“The pills are formed!”

And he had refined second-tier Medium Grade pills on his first try!

“Skill: spirit gathering pill Refining: (Proficient: 18/1000)”

However, Zhang Sheng couldn't feel happy at all!

“Three hours!”

“Refining one batch of second-tier pills actually takes three hours!”

“Currently, to refine a peak grade spirit gathering pill, it doesn't just require a lot of time. The corpses of Divine Breath Realm Beasts might not even be enough!”

The path of Alchemy was not easy to walk.

At least for now, it wasn't suitable to spend a vast amount of time on it.

Because,

Zhang Sheng thought of another path—Body Refining!

A spirit gathering pill was like a catalyst that could speed up the great circulation of spiritual energy through the Meridians of the entire body.

If he strengthened his own Meridians,

he could achieve the same effect of accelerating cultivation, and that would just be a side effect of Body Refining.

Song Xian's cultivation speed was far faster than ordinary people precisely because he had the 'All Meridians Open' Talent.

Regarding the 'Nine Tribulations Secret Codex' Cultivation Technique,

previously, he had only cultivated the Foundation Establishment Realm's 'Nine Lives and Nine Deaths' to Perfection.

Zhang Sheng's genes had then evolved, and his life level became ten times what it was originally.

His physical body improved across the board, and the speed of running Primordial Chaos Qi Refining increased several-fold.

It was as if a bolt of lightning flashed through Zhang Sheng's Sea of Consciousness.

Zhang Sheng finally realized what he had forgotten when creating the Cultivation Technique Jade Slips!

He had actually forgotten to create a Jade Slip for the 'Nine Tribulations Secret Codex'.

Something seemed wrong;

when creating the Jade Slips, he had automatically ignored this technique.

Zhang Sheng took out a second-tier supreme-grade blank Jade Slip,

preparing to inject the Divine Sense information containing the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex into it,

but he made a startling discovery:

The Divine Sense information regarding the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex simply could not be copied or separated from his Sea of Consciousness!

It was as if the contents of this technique had taken root within his Soul.

“Too strange!”

Zhang Sheng remembered

the description of this technique was: a supreme method of Body Refining.

Perhaps

this technique was somewhat special and could only be cultivated by himself.

In any case, there was another Body Refining technique called 'Hundred Refined Steel Bones' that had already been widely spread!

With a technique as powerful as the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex,

even if he could make a Jade Slip, he wouldn't give it to others.

Spreading such a Heaven-Defying technique wouldn't be selfless; it would be the act of a total fool!

Zhang Sheng checked the information about the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex on his talent panel.

“Cultivation Technique: Nine Tribulations Secret Codex — Foundation Establishment Realm (Transcendent: 9627/100000)”

Unlike other Body Refining techniques,

the Foundation Establishment Stage was separated out as its own Realm; this might be related to the cultivation method of this technique.

The cultivation of each Realm was independent.

Currently, Zhang Sheng only possessed the cultivation methods for three Realms: Foundation Establishment Realm, Qi Sea Realm, and Divine Breath Realm.

Before proceeding with the cultivation of the Qi Sea Realm,

Zhang Sheng decided to first raise the content of the Foundation Establishment Realm to Perfected State.

He swallowed several spirit food pills at once,

and continuously spurred the flames to scorch his flesh!

Then he operated the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex to allow the vanished or damaged cells to be reborn!

Zhang Sheng was no longer the same as before;

his Realm advancement speed had increased dozens of times.

In less than two hours,

“Cultivation Technique: Nine Tribulations Secret Codex - Foundation Establishment Realm (Perfected State)”

Numerous insights flooded into his Sea of Consciousness.

Zhang Sheng suddenly understood and felt deep regret!

If he had raised this technique to the Perfected State first, not only would it have reduced consumption,

but more importantly, he wouldn't have had to endure that kind of flesh-scraping and bone-shaving pain when his body was being destroyed and reborn!

The sensation of pain would have been greatly lessened.

Next was the cultivation of the Qi Sea Realm.

The content regarding the Qi Sea Realm within this technique included a top-tier first-tier Pill Formula.

“blood essence pill!”

“This was also the reason why he had previously deliberately collected the blood of some powerful Qi Sea Realm Yao Beasts!”

The main material for the blood essence pill was the blood of first-tier Qi Sea Realm blood-and-flesh creatures,

followed by a rare Spiritual Plant—solid origin flower root!