"By those calculations, I should have just enough time after the elixir refinement."
Luo Chen smiled faintly, he took out a jade bottle from his storage bag and poured out an elixir.
It had a greenish color, the smell was subtle yet elegant.
It was indeed the Spirit Pill from Miao Wen.
Just seeing the pill brought Miao Wen to mind.
Luo Chen couldn’t help but laugh.
The man was pretty unfortunate!
He had to step up to protect Crescent Valley, gave him the top-grade small five elements array technique, and even asked Luo Tianhong to help treat Qin Liangchen.
In the end, he didn’t even get a single monthly dividend from Luo Tian Creed.
If you add these five bottles of Spirit Pills, the man is totally in the hole!
If he’s in the hole, then I’ve scored big!
"However, this pill is second order, I need to use the Simplicity Hand to break it down."
Luo Chen centered his mind, made a sign with his right hand and a pale green Spirit Power emerged.
The blue elixir in the air began to spin upon being activated.
Suddenly, the outer layer of the pill cracked, and a trace of liquid medicine seeped out.
"Is this the semi-finished Spirit Fruit that Pang Renxiong mentioned?"
"I wonder what kind of peculiar Spirit Fruit is its main ingredient since it can integrate the medicinal power into the fruit."
Thoughts popped into his mind, Luo Chen opened his mouth and inhaled gently.
The liquid medicine flowed down like heavenly nectar and fell into Luo Chen’s mouth.
"One-tenth, that should do it!"
He made a sign with his hand again, the pale green spirit power thread wrapped around the remaining Spirit Pill, preventing unnecessary evaporation of its medicinal power.
This is the wonder of the Simplicity Hand.
It can break down various types of herbs and seal parts of the medicinal power.
It is extremely useful in Pill Refinement.
Surprisingly, it also works for semi-finished Spirit Fruit elixirs.
Putting the broken-down Spirit Pill aside.
Under the help of the Calming Incense and the Moonlight Grass, Luo Chen fell into a deep cultivation stage.
He was as motionless as a large tree.
About half an hour later, Luo Chen opened his eyes, a look of joy on his face.
"Mi Shuhua did not deceive me!"
Mi Shuhua once said that Spirit Pills produced by the Medicine King Sect has an exceptional auxiliary effect on purifying Spirit Power.
Its effect is no less than a full version Sect cultivation technique.
From the look of it now, he may have actually underestimated the effect of the Spirit Pill.
In just the one operation of the Longevity Technique, the Spirit Qi he absorbed, after being transformed into Spirit Power, was soon purified to the extreme by the power of the Spirit Pill.
The speed was so fast that even Luo Chen didn’t expect it.
If the purification speed of regular Rogue Cultivators was to be denoted as one, and the purification speed of the full Longevity Technique was about five, then, while under the power of the Spirit Pill, Luo Chen’s speed unexpectedly reached ten!
Moreover, this was not a simple doubling of speed.
The purification effect of the full Longevity Technique only occurs when the technique is operating.
However, a single operation of the Longevity Technique only lasts half an hour.
During this time, Luo Chen had to capture the Spirit Qi from the Outer World, guide it into his body, absorb and refine it, and only then could it be purified.
This means, the time Luo Chen had to purify was only seven or eight minutes.
This was not nearly enough time to purify all the Spirit Qi he captured.
He could only leave the excess Spirit Qi in his body to be passively compacted and transformed.
After multiple cultivating, loads of Spirit Power that had not been purified would accumulate in his body, only when he reached his limit would the Longevity Technique clean these up.
But now, his speed has doubled.
This means he can purify more Spirit Power in a limited time.
"In just one short session, all the Spirit Qi I absorbed was transformed, and I even had some ability left over!"
"This is just normal cultivation."
"If I take an elixir and use the Longevity Technique to refine it, can I not purify even more?"
He decided on it and got to work.
After a brief rest, Luo Chen took out a Dusting Pill and swallowed it.
With the remaining power of the Spirit Pill, Luo Chen resumed cultivation.
...
Dawn broke and the morning mist dissipated.
Luo Chen, radiant with joy, flew out of the Spirit Vein Cave.
His cultivation speed had almost doubled under the influence of the Spirit Pill!
If he had enough Spirit Pills, the five to six years he previously estimated to reach Qi Refinement Finalization could be further shortened.
The precondition is, he must have enough Spirit Pills!
Luo Chen’s joy gradually faded.
Spirit Pills were not as easy to obtain as ordinary pills.
Even during the time when the Spirit Medicine Hall existed, these pills were not available on the shelves.
They only appeared occasionally at auctions.
"I have four bottles of Spirit Pills on hand, forty in total. Using one-tenth at a time, that’s just enough for about four hundred days of cultivation."
"I still need a lot more Spirit Pills!"
"So, where can I find them?"
Wang Yuan has a bottle, it was a gift from him, it wouldn’t be polite to ask for it back.
Moreover, he won’t lack Spirit Pills in the short term.
In the long term, he won’t lack one or two bottles either.
So, he needs to find a relatively stable channel to purchase them.
"Stable?"
"When The Great River District was still in order, there was no such thing as a steady supply of Spirit Pills."
"So, it has to be a channel that carries these pills."
Luo Chen’s eyes shimmered, he had a plan in mind.
Now that he decided to fight and no longer drift along with the tide, he needed to make long-term considerations for some things.
Not only for Spirit Pills but also for other things.
...
In the Luo Tian Creed.
A conversation was unfolding quietly amidst the tinkling of the abacus.
"Currently, there are only a few Early Stage Qi Refinement Cultivators in the Creed, the monthly expenditure is no more than eighty Lower Grade Spirit Stones."