The Path of Survivor begins with obtaining titles - Chapter 248

Chapter 248: Chapter 152: Refining the Foundation Building Pill_2

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Now, the effect of his third-level title allowed him to accumulate

Enlightenment opportunities for six days. Before entering the Secret Realm, he had saved up some Enlightenment opportunities from failed attempts at crafting Foundation Building Pills.

After sorting out various materials, Lin Yi began crafting the Foundation Building Pill. He did not use his Enlightenment opportunities right away, but planned to continue accumulating them instead.

This time, he carried ten sets of materials for the Foundation Building Pill, each set contained the minimum quantity required for alchemy, capable of producing three pills. Of course, this could only be achieved under perfect conditions to produce three Foundation Building Pills.

The reason he did not bring more was simple – the process of crafting Foundation Building Pills was time-consuming. Even with these ten sets of materials, under normal circumstances, he wouldn’t be able to finish within five days unless he failed midway.

A lower-grade Foundation Building Pill costs five hundred Spirit Stones, while the materials for one Foundation Building Pill set cost up to eight hundred Spirit Stones. This is the price when purchased at the Pill Hall. It is estimated to be around a thousand Spirit Stones in the outside world.

Based on this price, to break even, at least two lower-grade Foundation Building Pills needed to be produced per batch, so there could be a small profit. If middle-grade or even top-grade elixirs are produced from the materials, the profit would be much more substantial.

He spent eight thousand Spirit Stones on these ten sets of materials. To break even, he must produce sixteen lower-grade Foundation Building Pills. However, Lin Yi was not concerned about turning a profit. He was only interested in successfully producing the Foundation Building Pill and then upgrading all his skills and titles to the new level. That would be the greatest success.

As long as he could level up, crafting the Foundation Building Pill in the future would be easier.

Lin Yi used the Object Manipulation Spell and followed the crafting process of the Foundation Building Pill, putting in various materials one by one. He used his alchemy techniques to fully combine these materials.

Even though his primary alchemy skills were at the Great Perfect Level, even the most difficult pills at the beginner level weren’t as complex as crafting one-tenth of an intermediate pill.

Even for the lower-grade Foundation Building Pill, there are very few Pill

Masters who can craft them successfully and consistently. Otherwise,

Foundation Building Pills wouldn’t be so precious. Once a Qi Refinement Cultivator obtains a single lower-grade Foundation Building Pill, they will treat it like a treasure.

At the start of the alchemy process, he did not enter the Minor Blessing State, instead, he tried to craft it on his own. Not everything can rely on the Minor Blessing State; some things need to be perceived and broken through on their own.

If he really couldn’t succeed in the end, using the Minor Blessing State would not be too late. Moreover, after putting in effort, the consumption of the Blessing Value might also be reduced a little.

With the advancement of the pill grade, the crafting time will also increase. The Foundation Building Pill that he was making now took more than ten times longer than the Spirit Fire Pill he wrote down during the alchemy challenge.

The Foundation Building Pill can greatly increase the success rate of a cultivator in breaking through their bottleneck. The crafting process is very complicated. Some materials need to be slowly warmed and combined, and no impatience could be tolerated.

A normal novice pill master would take more than a day to craft a Foundation Building Pill, requiring constant vigilance at the Pill Furnace.

Lin Yi had the speed-enhancing effects brought by his Alchemy title, which can save 30% of the time, Under normal circumstances, he could craft one batch in one day.

This was only for the Foundation Building Pill. To craft the Golden Elixir, which can help cultivators break through to the Golden Core stage, the crafting process requires at least ten days. The higher the pill’s grade, the longer the crafting time becomes. Sometimes a batch of elixirs could take dozens of days to craft.

For instance, the Longevity Pills and Heaven Pills that could be crafted using the Longevity Grass and Sky Herb he brought back, they would require at least a few dozen days of crafting to fully release their medicinal properties inside the alchemy furnace.

During the alchemy process, Lin Yi was totally absorbed, which caused a massive strain on his mental strength. However, during the slow nourishing and combining phase, he didn’t need to remain fully alert, but only to guide it at critical moments.

However, that was a process only the experienced Alchemists could perform. As of now, Lin Yi, who had not successfully crafted even a single Foundation Building Pill, dared not let his guard down.

Unfortunately, in the final stage of alchemy, an accident occurred while integrating a major ingredient. All the materials in the furnace turned into a charred mess, wasting eight hundred Spirit Stones.

Lin Yi was not disheartened. After summarizing the lessons from his failure, he started alchemy again. Meanwhile, the opportunity for Enlightenment brought by the [Grain Wisdom from One’s Mistakes] was still accumulating without being used.

After the third failure, he was infinitely close to the successful pill stage. Of the five days of time in the Secret Realm, three days had already passed.

He felt it was time to use a chance for enlightenment, as he had accumulated three days’ worth of opportunity in the Jin Xiu Peak Cave House, and if he didn’t use it soon, one day’s opportunity for enlightenment would expire.

Before his fourth attempt at refining pills, Lin Yi took a short break and then used his six days of enlightenment opportunities. The intertwining experiences of his six failed alchemy attempts flooded his mind, bringing forth a wealth of knowledge about the Foundation Building Pill.

He closed his eyes, slowly digesting these insights, and after more than an hour, he opened his eyes, put the ingredients into the alchemy furnace, and started the fourth refinement in the Secret Realm.

With enlightenment from [Grain Wisdom from One’s Mistakes], Lin Yi had a deeper understanding of the process of refining the Foundation Building Pill, and the movements involved in the alchemy process were much smoother than before.

Finally, after a day had passed, at the final condensation stage, he focused his mind and control, pushing alchemy laws one after another into the alchemy furnace.

Then, the furnace cover flew up, and a pill emanating a strong medicinal scent flew out.

A look of delight appeared on Lin Yi’s face; he had finally succeeded at refining. He reached out and summoned the pill into his hand, feeling its medicinal characteristics. It was natural that his first successful concoction would be a lower-grade pill.

However, thanks to his title’s quality enhancement, this pill was 15% higher in potency than a regular, lower-grade Foundation Building Pill. At this moment, a pop-up window appeared in front of him.

“[Intermediate Pill Crafting] Experience +1.”

Lin Yi waited for a moment but no other pop-up window appeared, causing a hint of confusion to rise on his face.

Based on his previous speculation, he thought that the successful refinement of the Foundation Building Pill should lead to the upgrade of both title and skills.

But now, only his alchemy skill had been upgraded, and his [Alchemy Novice] title had not leveled up. He found this strange.

Suddenly, Lin Yi recalled when he was leveling up his title. After his cultivation level was upgraded to the Foundation Establishment stage, his title didn’t immediately upgrade. It was only later, after a spell upgrade, that the title upgrade was activated.

Could it be that the successful refinement of the Foundation Building Pill on his first attempt wouldn’t lead to an upgrade of his Alchemy Title?

Lin Yi shook his head. He had only succeeded at refining pills on his fourth try, an endeavor that had taken four days. Moreover, he had also rested for a while in between. There was now less than a day left, so there would be no time to refine another batch of pills.

It seemed he could only try to refine pills once again after returning to Jin Xiu Peak Cave House, to see if he could level up his title.

He put this Foundation Building Pill into his Storage Bag, neatly packed up the remaining materials, casted the Teleportation Mantra, and reached the Giant Spirit Tree Herb Garden.

Just as Lin Yi left the alchemy room, a figure slowly emerged, with a hint of surprise on its face, and then it disappeared without a trace.

At this moment, in the Giant Spirit Tree Herb Garden, Lin Yi saw the tail end of the Green Giant Python entering into the medicine garden to absorb the spiritual energy there, and Zhi Ling was sitting on the part of the python’s body outside the garden, absorbing the spiritual energy radiating from the python for her own cultivation.

After Zhi Ling and the Green Giant Python had grown familiar with each other, they started cultivating together in this way.

This confirmed Lin Yi t s belief that, beside the Guardian Beast, the Giant Spirit

Tree Herb Garden rejects the entry of all other living beings. Otherwise, the Green Giant Python would have taken Zhi Ling directly into the garden for cultivation, rather than using this method of transferring spiritual energy.

Seeing Lin Yi’s return, the Green Giant Python swam out from the Herb Garden, and Zhi Ling also withdrew from her cultivation, waving her little claw cheerfully at him.

Following this, Lin Yi prepared a sumptuous feast and spent the remaining time outside the Medicine Garden with Zhi Ling and the Green Giant Python.

After returning to the Jin Xiu Peak Garden, Lin Yi rested for two days, then prepared to refine the Foundation Building Pills once again. The sooner he could level up his alchemy title, the greater the benefits he could reap..