39: Mysterious Fire Alchemy Furnace

Zhang Sheng returned to the Alchemy room once again.

While practicing the Fireball Technique, Zhang Sheng could not continue cultivating "Primordial Chaos Qi Refining." He could only continue refining top-grade essence food pills and using the spiritual power generated from Refining Essence into Qi to practice the Fireball Technique.

Soon, the Fireball Technique reached the Proficient level.

At this moment, Zhang Sheng could control the size of the fireballs just like his previous Spells. By releasing small fireballs, he used a "cheat-like" method to increase his proficiency in the Fireball Technique.

It wasn't until the next day that Zhang Sheng finally cultivated this Spell to the Perfected State.

"Spell: Fireball Technique (Perfected State)"

A vast amount of casting techniques flooded into Zhang Sheng's mind. His understanding of this Spell had now reached an astonishing level.

Not only did he no longer need to perform hand seals, reaching the level of instant casting, but he could also freely control the shape and size of the flames.

It was no longer limited to just fireballs.

"I can finally try refining qi gathering pills!"

Zhang Sheng fell into a deep sleep right there in the Alchemy room, waking up three hours later.

Zhang Sheng began his next move—earning spirit beads!

Although he had about twenty thousand spirit beads left from his previous savings, it was nowhere near enough to buy a Spiritual Artifact Pill Furnace.

There were only three Spiritual Artifact Pill Furnaces for sale on Myriad Treasures Net, with prices starting at fifty thousand spirit beads, several times the cost of ordinary Spiritual Artifacts.

After a day and a night of hard work!

Zhang Sheng finally drew two thousand vajra talismans.

To become stronger, Zhang Sheng could be said to have utilized his time to the absolute limit.

The two thousand vajra talismans were sold for a total of seventy thousand spirit beads.

"Place order!"

...Inside an office at the First Cultivation University.

"What? You're saying someone bought the mysterious fire alchemy furnace? Who is it? Have you investigated?"

"Dean Yan, the one who bought the furnace is none other than a student from our school's War God Academy named Zhang Sheng. He successfully participated in a suppression of a Yellow-rank Secret Realm."

"Oh? Interesting! Send me his files!"

Ma Chengming immediately sent Zhang Sheng's files to the middle-aged man sitting in the head seat.

"So it's him. I thought it was just someone with the same name."

"He has quite the Talent for planting gold spirit rice... sold several thousand vajra talismans and several thousand essence food pills... bought several spirit tool flying daggers, suspected of Awakening a telekinesis Talent, and now he's buying a Spiritual Artifact Pill Furnace!"

Looking at the description of Zhang Sheng in the file, the middle-aged man's expression became increasingly intrigued.

Then he saw Zhang Sheng's Talent column: B-rank Talent: Body Strengthening.

"Who is this kid kidding? Is it an awakened Talent or an innate cultivation Talent? Xiao Ma, what do you think?"

"Dean Yan, perhaps it's both. Haven't we also discovered Talents who didn't awaken a Talent but possess innate cultivation Talent? The key question now is how to arrange things for this student?"

Dean Yan gave a long sigh.

"Arrange? Back then, seeing his good performance in the Stone Snake Secret Realm, I recommended him to the War God Academy. He's no longer part of our Spiritual Plant College."

"Furthermore, even if he awakened an SSS-level Talent, so what? The spirit gathering Formation Plate can only supply nine people at most, which means the 9 Sequences. There's no place for him."

"A few days ago, an SSS-level Talent awakener was discovered in Yanjing. We can only provide some protection, but they cannot enter the Sequences. Zhang Sheng is no exception."

"But one thing is certain: the confidentiality level of all his information will be raised to SSS-level. I will report this to the Principal!" Dean Yan closed his eyes in thought.

"Then I'll deliver the furnace to him as usual. I'm wondering if I should release spirit plants for refining spirit gathering pills into the market. Perhaps he wants to try refining spirit gathering pills," Ma Chengming asked.

"Absolutely not! Currently, our spirit plants are barely enough for Xiao Xue to refine spirit gathering pills. Besides, once the Materials for spirit gathering pills are released, I'm afraid others with ulterior motives will buy them up before Zhang Sheng even gets a chance."

"As for Zhang Sheng himself, let nature take its course. Don't give him too much help openly," Dean Yan added.

"I understand."

...After spending a huge sum, Zhang Sheng successfully obtained the "mysterious fire alchemy furnace."

The furnace had an external diameter of about forty centimeters, was black-gold in color, and was engraved with several flame patterns.

"Is this a Spiritual Artifact Pill Furnace?"

As a trace of spiritual power entered the furnace, Zhang Sheng instantly felt a connection with the furnace before him.

To his surprise, the Spiritual Artifact Pill Furnace actually contained its own space within.

While the exterior was only forty centimeters, the interior was over ten cubic meters in size!

"Now I can try refining qi gathering pills!"

"spirit harmony grass (10-year): 0 in stock"

"red sun flower (10-year): 0 in stock"

...Zhang Sheng looked at the Myriad Treasures Net page, feeling a surge of frustration in his chest.

"No way? To refine qi gathering pills, I overcame the most expensive furnace and the most difficult flame, only to be tripped up by the unexpected Materials!"

"Then what was all my hard work over the last two days for?"

Zhang Sheng collapsed onto his bed and opened his phone to search for other First-Tier Pills on Myriad Treasures Net.

With a glimmer of hope, Zhang Sheng wanted to see if there were any other pills that could accelerate his cultivation of "Primordial Chaos Qi Refining."

Heh!

I'm overthinking it!

There were only a few types of First-Tier Pills, and most of those for sale were healing pills. While valuable, they weren't the most urgent for Zhang Sheng.

Wait! Zhang Sheng saw a familiar word.

"spirit food pill?"

Only one character different from the essence food pill. Could it be?

Refining Essence into Qi converts the body's essence into spiritual power. To Cultivate the "Heavenly Circulation Method" to the Perfected State, Zhang Sheng needed to digest and absorb a large amount of spiritual essence. Now, the spiritual essence provided by essence food pills could no longer satisfy Zhang Sheng's cultivation.

But this spirit food pill?

Zhang Sheng opened the introduction and was delighted to find it was exactly as he had guessed.

The spirit food pill is a First-Tier Pill that provides physical essence, nourishes qi and blood, and strengthens the physique. It is commonly used by those in long-term seclusion and can also be used to feed low-Rank Spirit Beasts.

It was practically an upgraded version of the essence food pill. In comparison, the essence food pill was just an unranked pill, so the effects of this spirit food pill would surely far exceed it.

Zhang Sheng hesitated about whether to try refining spirit food pills.

Let's look at the Pill Formula first.

He bought the spirit food pill formula for a hundred spirit beads.

The Pill Formula was surprisingly simple. Like other First-Tier Pills, it required a Spiritual Artifact Pill Furnace and pill fire, but the raw Materials were very broad.

Any non-toxic Rank 1 spirit plant or Rank 1 Yao Beast meat would do.

Since Zhang Sheng had cultivated the Heavenly Circulation Method to the Transcendent level where it could run on its own, he had new ideas for improving his sustained combat capability.

First was cultivating "Primordial Chaos Qi Refining" to expand his Dantian; second was continuously taking top-grade essence food pills. Through autonomous Refining Essence into Qi, he could also continuously recover spiritual power and enhance his sustained combat ability.

It was like having an automatically running engine inside his body, and the essence food pills providing flesh and blood essence were like fuel.

However, top-grade essence food pills could no longer effectively support the engine's operation, and the Rank 1 spirit food pill was just the thing to make up for this.

This way, the engine could work continuously, converting the Medicinal Pills into a steady stream of spiritual power!

Of course, this was just a theory. Everything would only be known after the spirit food pill was actually refined.

Zhang Sheng bought 9 kilograms of Rank 1 Low Grade frozen Yao Beast meat, costing him 18 spirit beads. As for why he didn't use Rank 1 spirit plants...

It was because Rank 1 spirit plants were equivalent to Qi Sea Realm spirit plants, at least ten years old. There weren't many Rank 1 spirit plants cultivated in Huaxia today, and their price was ten times more expensive than Yao Beast meat.

Whereas Qi Sea Realm Yao Beasts could be found in every Yellow-rank Secret Realm, and most were massive with high meat yields.