Chapter 208: Refining the Pill and Returning to Chaos Star Sea
In Nangong Wan's cave, she sat quietly with a serene expression, while a baby girl was crawling around above her head.
After a while, when the baby turned into a ray of spiritual light and entered her body, Nangong Wan suddenly opened her eyes.
She stood up lightly, a look of joy on her face.
Breakthrough to Nascent Soul!
"Wan'er, congratulations!" With a flash of light, Ye Changsheng appeared in front of her and said softly.
"Husband!" Nangong Wan jumped over excitedly and snuggled into Ye Changsheng's arms.
She now can't wait to share her joy with her loved ones.
"Go and deal with your fellow disciples first. I'll be waiting for you here!" Ye Changsheng said as he touched her hair.
"Okay, I'll be back soon, wait for me!" Nangong Wan raised her head and said with a pretty smile.
After tidying up her appearance, she transformed into the cold and aloof fairy she used to be and walked out of the cave.
Ye Changsheng's figure gradually faded away.
Over the years, he has stayed in Nangong Wan's cave and has never been discovered by anyone.
With his powerful spiritual sense, it is impossible for anyone in the entire Yanyue Sect to discover him.
Therefore, no one in the Yanyue Sect knew that the fairy Nangong, who was so pure and innocent in their eyes, actually had a man hidden in her cave.
Moreover, her purity and chastity would only turn into a pool of spring water in front of this man.
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After Nangong Wan gave birth to her infant, she was able to call upon more resources from the Yanyue Sect and the Tiandao Alliance.
With the help of these resources, the medicinal materials Ye Changsheng needed were gradually found.
Most years were not enough, but with the ripening of Ye Changsheng Green Liquid, the age of these elixirs quickly increased.
The main ingredients of Yuanhedan are several kinds of precious elixirs with a history of more than 3,000 years.
It would cost about 30,000 spirit stones just to ripen one plant of this elixir using green liquid.
And to copy one plant, the amount of spirit stones needed is more than five thousand.
It is much more expensive than the elixirs that Ye Changsheng had copied before.
For common spiritual medicines like scutellaria baicalensis and polygonatum sibiricum, it may only take about a thousand spirit stones to replicate a three thousand year old herb.
However, of the several main ingredients used to refine this elixir, the minimum cost of replicating one of the three thousand year old herbs is five thousand spirit stones.
The most expensive one cost 20,000 spirit stones.
This is naturally because this spiritual medicine contains too much energy, and more spiritual stones must be consumed to copy it.
In order to prepare to refine such a batch of pills, Ye Changsheng paid a large amount of spirit stones as cost.
And before that, he also spent a lot of spirit stones to copy various spiritual medicines to refine low-level pills.
After all, he hasn't refined any pills since he broke through the Jindan stage.
There are enough kinds of elixirs in the Chaos Star Sea for Jindan cultivators to use to improve their magic power.
There is no need for him to refine it himself.
But now that I have reached the Nascent Soul Stage, everything is different. According to the recipe of the Chaos Star Sea, if I want to refine pills that can be used in the Nascent Soul Stage, I must use at least the demon pill of an eighth-level demon beast.
There are not many demon pills of this level in the entire Chaos Star Sea.
Level eight monsters cannot be killed casually. Killing one could accidentally provoke a war between humans and monsters.
Therefore, the number of level eight demon pills circulating in the Chaos Star Sea is very small, and they may only occasionally appear at some large auctions.
It is for this reason that the corresponding pill recipes are extremely rare.
Ye Changsheng has lived in Tianxing City for decades, but has never come across a pill recipe that can be used in the Nascent Soul stage.
On the contrary, for the Jindan stage and foundation building stage below the Yuanying stage, the pill recipes are in a state of flooding.
All of this is determined by the unique ecology of the Chaos Star Sea.
"In fact, by comparison, those below the Nascent Soul stage are more suitable for cultivation in the Chaos Star Sea, but above the Nascent Soul stage, the Chaos Star Sea is not so suitable!"
"Places like Tiannan, where there are more spiritual medicines, are much friendlier to Nascent Soul cultivators than Chaos Star Sea!"
Ye Changsheng sighed and began to refine pills to improve his alchemy skills.
In the previous few years, he started with the elixirs for the Foundation Establishment Stage, mastered the techniques, and then began to challenge the elixirs for the Core Formation Stage.
By now, the success rate of refining pills for the Jindan stage has been getting higher and higher. It is time to challenge refining pills for the Yuanying stage.
"The cost of this furnace of pills alone is about 50,000 spirit stones. If it fails once, it will be equivalent to my loss of 50,000 spirit stones!" Ye Changsheng sighed as he looked at the furnace.
If he wasn't wealthy, he really couldn't afford such a loss.
From this we can see how difficult it is to improve one’s cultivation in the Nascent Soul Stage.
For an alchemist, refining a new grade of elixir is basically impossible to succeed without three or four failures, even if the alchemy skills are very advanced.
No Nascent Soul cultivator could afford such a loss. More importantly, it was almost impossible for them to find so many elixirs for experimentation.
Therefore, most Nascent Soul cultivators improve their cultivation through meditation and hard practice.
It takes a hundred years to raise the magic power to its peak, and then be stuck at the mid-term bottleneck for several hundred years.
If one forms an infant at the age of four or five hundred, then it will be almost impossible to break through that bottleneck in one's lifetime.
Therefore, most Nascent Soul cultivators are in the early stages.
Only those who can conceive a fetus in about two hundred years have hope of reaching the later stage.
There are not many cultivators in the entire human world who can advance to the late stage in about 500 years like the Twin Saints of Tianxing.
"Fortunately, the three people from Haoran Pavilion added a lot of spirit stones to my storage bag, otherwise I would not be able to withstand such consumption!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
This time when he came out of the dark land, he had 2.7 million spirit stones in his hand.
It took some spirit stones to copy materials such as the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and refine the Green Spirit Armor.
It took some spirit stones to copy various alchemy materials and improve alchemy techniques.
As a result, he only had 2.5 million spirit stones left.
Later, 400,000 spirit stones were found from the storage bags of the three cultivators from Haoran Pavilion.
But afterwards, it cost about 200,000 spirit stones to cultivate and copy these spiritual medicines.
As a result, the number of spirit stones left in his hand was still around 2.7 million.
No more, no less!
Now, a furnace of pills like this costs 50,000 spirit stones, and he had to be extremely careful in refining it.
Ye Changsheng sat in meditation in Nangong Wan's cave for several days before he began to refine the elixir.
The first furnace failed!
Second furnace, failure!
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It took until the seventh batch of refining before I finally succeeded.
"It seems that I still can't compare with Han Li in alchemy!" Ye Changsheng sighed as he looked at the alchemy furnace.
If it was Han Li who was refining the elixir, he probably wouldn't have failed so many times.
This is not surprising. His previous way of practicing was that after he had refined a batch of a certain kind of elixir with good quality, he would stop refining it and directly start practicing by copying it.
But Han Li was different. Every pill he took was made by himself with great effort.
This resulted in him needing to refine the elixir many more times than Ye Changsheng.
No wonder his alchemy skills are so high.
Ye Changsheng shook his head and continued refining.
The quality of this batch of pills did not satisfy him.
It was not until he had refined sixteen furnaces that he finally produced a furnace of pills of excellent quality.
Ye Changsheng immediately stopped refining the elixir, picked out the best pill among the ten pills in the furnace, and began to copy it.
It takes five thousand spirit stones to copy a pill!
It took him fifteen days to completely refine this pill.
"So, I can refine 24 pills a year, which is equivalent to 120,000 spirit stones!"
"If I were to practice meditation normally, the amount of spiritual energy I could absorb and exhale in a year would be equivalent to 20,000 spiritual stones at most!"
"That means the cultivation speed is six times faster!"
"This kind of elixir is still not very good. I remember that the Crimson Cloud Pill refined by Han Li in the original novel was made from spiritual herbs that are tens of thousands of years old. That kind of elixir will definitely improve cultivation faster!"
"However, the main ingredients of that kind of spiritual medicine are basically in Lingmiao Garden, and it is not easy to obtain..."
After refining a pill, Ye Changsheng opened his eyes and fell into deep thought.
In order to refine a suitable Yuanhe Pill, he spent 800,000 spirit stones.
Now there are only 1.9 million spirit stones left.
Based on the calculation that one needs 120,000 spirit stones as cultivation resources per year, one can still cultivate for 15 or 16 years.
And in fifteen or sixteen years, the opening of Xutian Palace will not be far away!
"If Miaoyin Sect helps me sell the magic weapon, I should be able to earn more than two million spirit stones!"
"If we sell the magic weapons of the three Haoran Pavilion monks we killed earlier, we can also exchange them for millions of spirit stones!"
"This way, I will have enough spiritual stones to cultivate to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage!"
"Thanks to Haoran Pavilion, this sect is really my benefactor!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
If resources are sufficient, it should take about fifty years to advance the magic power to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage.
By then, he will find some means to break through the bottleneck. After breaking through the mid-term bottleneck, he should be able to advance to the mid-stage Nascent Soul in more than a hundred years.
"The mid-term bottleneck is a big problem. I don't have any particularly good way to break through it, unless I go back to the old ways!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
The old way naturally refers to using the female cultivator's yin energy to break through.
After killing Wen Tianren, he obtained the dual cultivation method "Dianfeng Peiyuan Gong".
As long as a female cultivator practices this technique after forming a pill, she will be able to help him break through the bottleneck of the middle stage in one fell swoop.
However, it is really difficult to choose this cultivator...
After thinking for a while, Ye Changsheng closed his eyes and continued to practice.
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Near Kuixing Island, when Ye Changsheng appeared here again, everything had changed!
There are actually a lot of monks living on that small island!
In the past, because the spiritual vein there was too poor, everyone disliked it and few people were willing to go there.
Now, there are actually three or four foundation-building cultivators living there.
"Could it be that you chose to live here because you heard the rumor that I formed the elixir there?" Ye Changsheng couldn't help but have guesses in his mind.
With a sweep of his spiritual sense, he saw that the master of Kuixing Island was still the Master Mulong.
Nearly a hundred years have passed, and this gentleman has become a cultivator in the late Jindan stage.
In the core area of Tiandu Street, Liulian Hall has disappeared and has been replaced by other shops.
After he killed the leader of this commercial sect and several Jindan elders, its power completely declined.
Ye Changsheng shook his head, turned into a beam of light, and quickly disappeared.
At this moment, more than 20 years have passed since he signed the agreement with the three great cultivators of Tiannan.
There were only a few years left before the opening of the Xutian Palace, so Ye Changsheng left Tiannan and came to the Chaos Star Sea through the teleportation array.
He flew all the way to the outside of Tianxing City, put on the Thousand Illusions Mask, and entered Tianxing City.
After walking around Tianxing City, he found a shop called Qingzhu Xiaoxuan in a corner.
On the store shelves, there were several magical instruments, some talismans, and even some extremely crude formations.
The owner of the shop is an elderly man with dark skin and plain looks.
His temples are gray and his face has a few wrinkles.
Ye Changsheng could tell at a glance that this person's appearance was an illusion.
His real identity is naturally Han Li.
After arriving in Tianxing City, Han Li opened this Qingzhu Pavilion, where he refined magical instruments and improved his refining skills.
Looking at the glittering top-grade magic weapons on the shelves, Ye Changsheng thought to himself that Han Li should be able to refine a magic weapon soon!
However, I wonder if Han Li would dare to show it in front of him after he has refined the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword made from the Ten Thousand Year Old Sky Thunder Bamboo!
Ye Changsheng was speculating secretly in his heart.
After all, what he gave Han Li was a thousand-year-old Sky Thunder Bamboo, which only produced white lightning.
If Han Li revealed the golden lightning, it would reveal something to some extent.
I don’t know if he dares!
"In the original novel, Han Li didn't care about this problem. He took out the Golden Lightning Bamboo magic weapon to fight against the group of people from the Miaoyin Sect without any hesitation!"
"Even in front of Ji Yin, it's still the same. Ji Yin should know the details of Tian Lei Bamboo!"
"I just don't know if he dares to do this in front of me now!" Ye Changsheng thought with some anticipation in his heart.
He wanted to see if Han Li had the courage.
When he saw Ye Changsheng staying here, Han Li put down the book in his hand, walked up to him and asked, "Is there anything you want to buy?"
"No, I just happened to pass by here. I didn't expect to see a cultivator like you who lives in seclusion in the city. I'm afraid those people around you still think you are a mortal?" Ye Changsheng said with a smile.
Hearing this, Han Li's heart trembled. He looked at the person in front of him carefully, but he couldn't see through him at all.
His heart skipped a beat and he became a little alert.
With his spiritual awareness after practicing the third level of Dayan Jue, he couldn't see through this person's true cultivation level. Could this be a Nascent Soul cultivator?
Han Li's mind was filled with speculations and he became uneasy.
Being targeted by a Nascent Soul cultivator is not good news!
"I'm just here to experience the worldly life. This is something many of my fellow practitioners do. It's nothing special!" Han Li said calmly.
"Haha, indeed. I also opened a shop here in the past..." A look of reminiscence appeared on Ye Changsheng's face.
This made Han Li secretly complain in his heart, could it be that the other party was really an old monster?
"Forget it, I won't disturb your business anymore!" Ye Changsheng waved his hand, said goodbye to Han Li's shop, and walked towards Miaoyin Gate.
