"Why such a hurry?" Mi Shuhua frowned.
"How can I not be? The gang needs me to refine pills, and everyone in the Pill Hall is working hard, even risking their lives."
"Xiao Luo only regrets his low realm and can’t contribute more to the gang."
"I hate it!"
"Therefore, last night, in deep distress, I forced the breakthrough with the help of the whole bottle of Qi Nurturing Pills you gave me."
Luo Chen said heartbrokenly, then his face became gloomy.
"Unfortunately, my potential is not high. I tried only once and ended up hurt all over. Alas...the Great Dao Path is hopeless, the Great Dao Path is hopeless!"
As he spoke, his tone turned melancholy and he looked weary, as if he had lost interest in everything.
At first, Mi Shuhua listened and felt these words sounded familiar, as if he had heard them somewhere before.
But then seeing Luo Chen’s heartbroken appearance, he became anxious instead.
"You’re so young. Yet with a little setback, you’re disheartened!"
"Besides, haven’t you succeeded? You should be proud of yourself!"
"Chin up, I won’t allow you to fall!"
Luo Chen opened his eyes wide, "Gang Leader, can the Five Spirit Roots really build a foundation?"
With a heavy heart, Mi Shuhua said: "As long as there are enough resources, even a pig can become a Demon Beast King. You...of course, I’m not calling you a pig."
Then he thought about it and said seriously, "Now you can refine medium-grade Jade Marrow Pills. In the future, the income from the Pill Hall will be better and the dividends will be more. You have a chance to establish a foundation."
"Then I am reassured!"
Luo Chen sat down on the bed, looking quite alright.
Not a hint of weakness was visible.
After all, his realm had improved and so had his strength. A minor internal injury would not affect his movements.
Actually, what he wanted was exactly what Mi Shuhua had just said.
With Mi Shuhua’s words, as for the future dividends from the Jade Marrow Pill, others would not have a foothold against him.
If he grinned at Mi Shuhua, Luo Chen held out his hand, "I heard you are here to reward everyone today. Do I have a share?"
Mi Shuhua’s face twitched. This guy was waiting for him here!
He flicked his right hand, and a piece of paper fell in front of Luo Chen.
"Here, have a good look. It should be very helpful for your Dao of Alchemy."
Luo Chen curiously unfolded the paper. Why did the paper look so familiar?
Wait, isn’t this the paper from the "Qingyuan Pill Explanation"?
Good grief! You kept something hidden from me previously!
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Mi Shuhua went to reward the internal monks of the Pill Hall.
As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, his personal presence for such an activity could uplift the morale that had been slightly affected.
Luo Chen, on the other hand, started to study the paper he was holding.
He was sure that this was a page from the "Qingyuan Pill Explanation".
The only reason he didn’t notice it missing before was because the information on this page had nothing to do with the previous content.
It rather seemed that the author, Qing Yuanzi, had added a Pill Technique separately in the end.
Yes, Pill Technique!
Just like a Spirit Plant Cultivator has specific techniques that are useless in a fight but are very beneficial for regular cultivation of spirit plants.
Such as the Little Cloud Rain Mantra, Fire Scorched Wilderness Technique, Tai Yin Yi Mu Swamp Gas Technique, and so forth.
They, the Pill refiners, have auxiliary techniques as well, known to common folk as Pill Techniques.
For example, the Breaking Jade Hand and Simplicity Hand, Luo Chen had learned before were the most basic Pill Techniques.
They were really useful when dealing with mineral materials, plants, and fruits.
However, this individual piece of paper recorded a Pill Technique known as the "Qingyuan Pill Nourishing Technique".
This technique had no use in processing raw materials or pill refinement and had no benefit at all in a fight between cultivators.
However, if one practiced this technique, one could even take an elixir that had a fixed grade and force it to ascend another grade.
"There’s such a Pill Technique in the world?"
Luo Chen’s gaze fell on the Pill Room, where several Pill Cultivation Experts he had trained were working.
Although the term "cultivation" was in their title, their daily work was merely to store and look after pills to prevent loss of potency due to improper storage.
However, this Qingyuan Pill Nourishing Technique was different.
Paired with specific methods and environments, there was a chance to raise the fixed grade of an elixir to a higher grade.
Back then, Qing Yuanzi made a third-order elixir during the Foundation Establishment Stage by using this technique.
This technique wasn’t difficult to learn. After reading, Luo Chen felt quite confident that he could master it in a short time.
However, those"specific" methods listed on the paper got him worried.
"At least a first-order ascendant grade pill furnace, top-grade even better, magic item pill furnace the best!"
"The chosen elixir must be a top-grade pill."
"At least maintain ten raw materials in the furnace at all times to supplement the pill’s potency."
"The location for the Pill Room should be in a Spirit Vein Land; at the very least, it should be a special environment beneficial to the elixir."
"The cultivator must always temper the quality of the elixir with Foundation Establishment True Fire. If there is no True Fire, then he can substitute it with various Heavenly Fires, Earth Fires, or Strange Fires."
"The time limit for Pill Nourishing Technique is, at the very least, half a year and can go up to one hundred years."
That’s daunting!
When he finished reading those"specific" methods, Luo Chen just felt numb.
None of this stuff seemed feasible for him.
The seemingly simplest requirement of at least ten raw materials was, in fact, based on the premise of "at least".