bookbashuk Chapter 318 - 266: Easily Meeting the Target
Chapter 318 - 266: Easily Meeting the Target
「Half a month later.」
In the Alchemy Room of Fang Yun’s estate.
At this moment, Fang Yun had two sets of Spirit Medicines for refining Primordial Spirit Pills.
Pills that aided cultivation, like the Primordial Spirit Pill and Spirit Ascension Pill, were considered simple to refine compared to others of the same tier.
They only required a single main Spirit Medicine.
Cultivators had the highest demand for these types of pills, so they were refined more often, which led to their pill formulas being improved more frequently.
One common improvement to a Pill Formula was to make it simpler and easier to refine.
This was another key reason why pills that aided cultivation were less difficult to refine.
Having fully prepared himself, Fang Yun quickly began the refining process.
The refining process for the Primordial Spirit Pill involved twenty-eight major steps, two fewer than the Cyan Clarity Pill.
Although the Cyan Clarity Pill was only meant to help cultivators break through from the early to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment and used only Second Tier, Middle Grade Spirit Medicines as its main ingredients, it required two main Spirit Medicines.
Pills with multiple main Spirit Medicines often had far more processing steps, which increased the refining difficulty.
Two days and seven two-hour periods.
That was the time required to refine a batch of Primordial Spirit Pills.
The first batch of Primordial Spirit Pills was complete, and Fang Yun immediately checked the results.
Before starting, he had set a goal for himself. ’For my first time refining Primordial Spirit Pills, I should produce at least five Lower Grade ones.’
That was the absolute minimum he expected.
’One Middle Grade Primordial Spirit Pill, four Lower Grade Primordial Spirit Pills, and two Wasted Pills.’
The outcome surpassed his minimum goal, and Fang Yun was quite satisfied.
Even though he had extensive experience refining Second Tier pills, this was still his first attempt at the Primordial Spirit Pill. Moreover, the main Spirit Medicine he used was of good quality, not superior.
A result like this was worthy of his seven-star Alchemy Talent.
He still had one more set of Spirit Medicines for the Primordial Spirit Pill, so he would continue refining.
It was time to review what he’d learned from the first batch.
With the experience from the first batch, refining the second would be much smoother.
His goals for the second batch were, first, to avoid producing any Wasted Pills, and second, to create two Middle Grade Primordial Spirit Pills.
These were not just goals, but requirements Fang Yun set for himself.
Another two-odd days passed in a flash.
Fang Yun finished refining the second batch of Primordial Spirit Pills.
’I hit my target exactly.’
Two Middle Grade Primordial Spirit Pills and five Lower Grade Primordial Spirit Pills.
If he were rewarded according to the same method used for the Spirit Ascension Pills, his prize for these two batches would have been three Middle Grade Primordial Spirit Pills and one Lower Grade Primordial Spirit Pill.
That was what Fang Yun and Bai Heyan had originally agreed upon.
But the reward method was later changed at Fang Yun’s own suggestion.
He had proposed that if he failed to produce any Upper Grade Primordial Spirit Pills and only created Lower and Middle Grade ones, he should just receive the standard reward for Alchemy.
The reason was simple: he was still a long way from reaching Late-stage Foundation Establishment. It made sense to save any Upper Grade Primordial Spirit Pills he might get, but there was no need to keep the Middle and Lower Grade ones.
If he only took Spirit Stones and Contribution Points as his reward, then the sect’s Late-stage Foundation Establishment and Peak of Foundation Establishment Elders could exchange for more Primordial Spirit Pills at the Dan Cloud Pavilion.
The door to the Alchemy Room opened.
Outside, a wisp of spiritual light floated in the air.
It was a message for him.
Whether he was in his Alchemy or Artifact Refining chambers, the rooms were shielded from ordinary messages to prevent him from being disturbed. Urgent messages, however, would appear directly before him.
Fang Yun quickly received the wisp of spiritual light.
’It’s a message about a support mission.’
The message was already three days old.
When a support mission notification arrived, if he didn’t reply immediately, the mission would be passed on to another Elder.
Clearly, he had missed this one.
It couldn’t be helped, as he had been in the middle of refining Primordial Spirit Pills.
He wasn’t always available just because the Battle Peak sent a support mission his way.
’I’ll just have to wait for the next support mission. Hopefully, I’ll only be cultivating then.’ The spiritual light dissipated. Fang Yun decided to head to the Dan Cloud Pavilion to turn in his alchemy results.
When it came to support missions, Elder Miao looked out for him.
As far as Fang Yun knew, there were still some Elders on the Battle Peak who had never even been assigned a support mission.
Of course, Elder Miao’s consideration was also a recognition of his strength. Without that power to back him up, an Elder from the Artifact Casting Peak like him would never have received any support missions in the first place.
Fang Yun had just arrived at Dan Cloud Peak when he saw Elder Bai Heyan.
Seeing Bai Heyan here, Fang Yun knew exactly what he was going to ask.
Whenever he refined a new type of pill, Bai Heyan was always particularly interested in the results.
This was especially true when he was refining the Foundation Establishment Pills; Bai Heyan had come directly to the entrance of his estate and waited for him to emerge.
"Fang Yun, you should know what I’m going to ask," Bai Heyan said with a smile.
"I do." Fang Yun nodded, then reported his results. "For the first batch of Primordial Spirit Pills: one Middle Grade and four Lower Grade. For the second batch: two Middle Grade and five Lower Grade."
"Excellent. Your Alchemy skills have reached a new level."
"Yes. With so much experience refining Second Tier pills, the Primordial Spirit Pills were quite easy."
"Hahaha, that’s only true for you."
Bai Heyan laughed and shook his head. No other Alchemy Master in the sect could achieve what Fang Yun had.