The Path of Survivor begins with obtaining titles - Chapter 251:
Chapter 251: Chapter 154: Lin Yi’s Vigilance_l
Translator: 549690339
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed since Lin Yi returned from the Dan God Secret Realm.
Lin Yi strictly followed his plan, studying alchemy, increasing his cultivation levels, and aside from attending classes at Golden Core Peak, he hadn’t taken a single step out of the Inner Sect.
Of course, the results were quite remarkable. It had already been over half a year since Wu Tian Zhang came to report his successful Foundation Establishment.
During this period, apart from caring for the Spirit Grass and attending classes, he had devoted all of his remaining time to alchemy.
He had performed alchemy more than 160 times and was successful on more than 90 occasions, resulting in a success rate of about 55%.
Therefore, his Intermediate Alchemy Skills had progressed from a beginner level to a proficient level, gaining more than forty experience points in the process.
As for the experience of [Skilled Alchemist], one point of experience was added every three alchemy attempts. He now had more than ninety points of experience, and he was only a few points away from leveling up.
What he had been refining were still Foundation Building Pills. Their quality was now almost close to the middle grade.
Refining a mid-grade Foundation Building Pill wasn’t difficult. The difficulty lay in refining top-grade and supreme-grade Foundation Building Pills.
Lin Yi planned to switch to refining a relatively easy pill, such as Gathering Soul Pill which enhances cultivation in the Foundation Establishment Stage after he has successfully produced a mid-grade Foundation Building Pill.
Because his main goal now was to level up his alchemy skills, and the only way to gain experience in skills was through successful alchemy.
Refining a top-grade Foundation Building Pill was quite difficult, which would greatly reduce the success rate of alchemy and slow down the speed of gaining experience.
Therefore, he didn’t need to pursue the top-grade Foundation Building Pill for now. He would first increase his level, and it would be easier to refine it in the future.
More importantly, he needed to refine supreme-grade pills to acquire a pill furnace to prepare for the future Golden Core Realm.
In the past, Lin Yi had also refined the Supreme-grade Gathering Qi Pill, a pill that increases cultivation in the Qi Refining Realm, and he had achieved a 100% success rate.
Because the refining time of Gathering Qi Pills was relatively short, he specifically took two or three days to refine dozens of batches of Qi Gathering pills. However, he didn’t even see a hint of a furnace.
He even entered the Minor Blessing State to increase the chance of getting a furnace, but he still didn’t succeed.
Through this experiment, he also realized that since this was the effect of [Skilled Alchemist], it would require a middle-stage high-grade pill for a
chance to obtain a furnace.
Therefore, he chose to refine Gathering Soul pills to increase cultivation in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
During this past half a year, Lin Yi had attended more than 200 hours of classes, and his cultivation levels had increased from the second to the third level of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Under the circumstance where [Elite Survivor] had not leveled up and with the addition of a “+4” Realm Concealment, his current external cultivation level had reached the ninth level of the Qi Refining Realm.
He was now waiting to improve to the fourth level of the Foundation Building
Stage to see whether his external cultivation would still be at the ninth level of Qi Refining Realm or advance to the tenth level.
His [Slacker] title also earned over two hundred points of experience, successfully leveling up to the max of the third level, with no more room for advancement. He could only continue to attend classes, waiting for the arrival of the next stage of learning titles.
Just like the previous increase in cultivation, he was now at the third level of Foundation Establishment. After listening to one hour of lecture, he still got +1 cultivation, which was a considerable improvement.
With the progress of the third level of Foundation Establishment, it would only take 300 points or 300 hours of lectures to level up, and thirty lectures a month would mean that he could level up in less than a year, which was terrifyingly fast.
However, when he reached the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, he would be in the Midstage Foundation Building, and Lin Yi felt that attending the lectures of the late-stage Foundation Establishment teachers, he probably wouldn’t be able to gain one point of cultivation in an hour, as the amount of Spiritual Energy needed to absorb for a point in the mid-stage was much more than in the early stage.
Unless the [Slacker] title was upgraded, he might have a chance to gain more cultivation.
The Foundation Building Pills he’d refined during this period were also kept by him. He planned to sell them only after his exhibited cultivation reached Foundation Establishment to avoid attracting attention.
Even Wu Tian Zhang of Pill Hall won’t know that he could refine Foundation Building Pills even with his displayed Qi Refining Realm level.
After refining a batch of Foundation Building Pills, Lin Yi successfully obtained two low-grade Foundation Building Pills. He was still refining with the minimum materials required. If he increased the materials, the refining time would also increase. Consequently, this would indirectly slow down his leveling speed.
After resting for a short while, he left his Cave Mansion, stretched under the rising sun, then boarded a Flying Boat headed for Tian Yun Xian City, intending to exchange for some more lecture courses.
Over the past year or so, he had attended nearly 300 lectures. Besides the 100 or so lectures he attended for free from his own Golden Sword Lineage, the remaining nearly 200 lectures were all exchanged for Merit Points.
Even if it was one hundred points per lecture, he had spent twenty thousand Merit Points. If it hadn’t been for the tens of thousands of Merit Points he earned from handing in Precious Spiritual Grass before, he really wouldn’t have been able to afford the cost of so many courses.
However, he traded two levels of Realm improvement and the leveling up of his title for twenty thousand Merit Points, which was a worthwhile exchange.
Upon arriving in Tian Yun Xian City, Lin Yi went to the Lecture Hall, where almost all the disciples in charge recognized him.
But he wasn’t worried, as there were quite a few Qi Refining Cultivators like him who often attended classes, especially those in the Late Stage of Qi
Refining who often did Merit Tasks.
Lin Yi glanced at the large screen for a while and chose a magic course taught by a late-stage Foundation Building cultivator from Hua Yang Lineage an hour later, as well as a cultivation course taught by a Foundation Building cultivator from Green Jade Peak three hours later..
