Mo Wuji had indeed guessed correctly, his exchange of spirit herbs for spirit herbs was originally permitted, plus that disciple from the dispensary was scared to see him, so it was easy for him to exchange the spirit herbs that he needed. Together with the ones he already had, he had put together a total of eleven furnaces of spirit herbs for the God Strengthening Pill.
With the eleven furnaces of Spirit Grass for the God Strengthening Pill in hand, Mo Wuji didn’t rush to refine the pills but instead picked up a large number of Second Grade Human Spirit Pill refining tasks in the sect. He was only a second grade Human Pill Master right now, and even the second grade Human Spirit Pills he had refined were not many. Even if he was more desperate to become a Third Grade Human Spirit Pill Master, he had to take it one step at a time. Only by refining more second grade human spirit pills would he be able to improve his alchemy ability in the shortest amount of time.
Yin Shanyin had told him that the Dan Competition of the Five Elements Wilderness Region was half a year later. As long as he could advance to become a Third Grade Human Elixir Master within these half a year, then he would have the chance to go to the Five Elements Desolate Region’s Dan Competition and then meet Granny Linglong.
Previously, Mo Wuji was preoccupied with cultivating and developing his meridians, and even though he had an obligation to refine pills for the clan, he was not active towards such an obligation.
Now after taking on numerous alchemy tasks, he realised how popular alchemists were. There was no risk at all in refining pills for the clan, and the clan’s contribution points were high instead. This wasn’t the most surprising thing to him, the most surprising thing to him was that for ten furnaces of dan for the sect, he could receive thirteen furnaces of herbs, and at the same time, he only had to pay eighty per cent of the dan that he gave to the sect for full dan.
The general dan full dan is twelve, nine, six several kinds of dan, there are also very few dan full dan is eighteen.
Regardless of how many pills, it was hard to not be rich when refining pills under this kind of treatment.
If he had known that there were so many benefits of refining pills for the sect, Mo Wuji might have come over to refine pills a long time ago. Not only would he be able to obtain various pills this way, he would also be able to obtain a bunch of spirit herbs and sect contribution points. At this point in time, Mo Wuji realised why Yin Shanyin wanted him to take on some sect alchemy tasks when he was free. It turned out that the underlying reason was for his good.
Especially the Sect Contribution Points, their usefulness was too great and could be exchanged for all sorts of things. It was the large amount of Third Grade Spirit Grass that Mo Wuji needed that could also be exchanged with Sect Contribution Points.
In fact, this was Mo Wuji’s misunderstanding, a general dan master’s success rate of 80% in alchemy was already considered very high, and it was not possible for all of the pills that were formed to be 100% full of pills. Therefore, the sect’s regulations would not leave much pills and spiritual herbs for the guest dan masters.
Mo Wuji didn’t know ah, he possessed the Wordless Dan Book, and he used hand and dan techniques for alchemy. When he was in the Traceless Sword Mountain, he was 100% successful in refining first grade human spirit pills. How many dan masters, in fact, refined pills with a success rate like his?
After receiving the many alchemy tasks, Mo Wuji still went to the Nineteenth Alchemy Room. It was rumoured that the number nineteen alchemy room had a low success rate of pills, but Mo Wuji didn’t care. He was now refining the Second Grade Human Spirit Dan first, he could already refine the Second Grade Human Spirit Dan, and using a harder furnace could raise the level.
Mo Wuji didn’t go and call Fei Bingzhu, instead, he asked Wu Kai to arrange a dispensing boy for him.
For a whole month, apart from going back to see Smokey every day, the rest of the time was used by Mo Wuji to refine pills.
In a month’s time Mo Wuji didn’t know how many second grade human spirit pills he had refined, the pills he had accumulated on him were in heaps. At the back, Mo Wuji didn’t even need to clean the dan furnace, when he was purifying the spirit herbs, he directly cleaned out the dregs of the pills and the residue of the dan furnace. Each furnace of pills was like a flowing stream without any half stagnation. Not only that, the pills that were refined were all of top quality.
The extra spirit herbs and the rich pills were all replaced by Mo Wuji with third grade spirit herbs as he prepared to start refining the third grade Human Spirit Pill.
He only had eleven furnaces of Spirit Grass for the Spirit Strengthening Pill, there was no way he could exchange more Spirit Grass for the Spirit Strengthening Pill even if he wanted to do so, the clan’s Spirit Grass for the Spirit Strengthening Pill was almost all exchanged by him alone. Going out to exchange was too time consuming again, this was not what Mo Wuji wanted, time was important to him now.
Mo Wuji didn’t care, he wanted the God Strengthening Pill for just one purpose. There was also a more important purpose, which was to become a Third Grade Human Pill Master.
The first thing Mo Wuji practiced was the Third Grade Human Spirit Pill Devoid of Mortality Pill, a pill that could increase the chances of a Spirit Building Realm cultivator crossing over into the Devoid of Mortality Realm. The means of refining it was considered to be a relatively ordinary and not low value Third Grade Human Spirit Pill.
Starting to refine the Third Grade Human Spirit Dan, Mo Wuji did not have the same casualness that he had when he was refining the Second Grade Human Spirit Dan, as he carefully lit the ground fire and first cleaned the furnace.
The furnace was cleaned three times before he fed in the spirit herbs to begin purification. There were a total of twenty types of spirit herbs for the Degradation Dan, eight types of third grade spirit herbs, which was more than the Strong Spirit Dan, and the rest were first grade spirit herbs and second grade spirit herbs.
Mo Wuji had spent nearly two hours before he was able to purify the spirit herbs, with the main part of that time being spent on purifying the third grade spirit herbs. The third grade spirit grass looked like it was only one grade higher than the second grade spirit grass, in which the difficulty had risen a few times.
Just a few third grade spirit grasses took a huge amount of effort, Mo Wuji could imagine how difficult it was to advance to Earth Dan Master.
After refining the spirit grass was only the first step of alchemy, the real highlight of alchemy was on fusing the medicinal liquid, splitting the dan and condensing the dan.
When Mo Wuji had just started fusing the medicinal liquid, he felt a tumbling in the dan furnace, followed by a burning smell.
Mo Wuji’s heart sank, he knew that the fusion of the medicinal liquid had failed. The first furnace of the Third Grade Human Spirit Dan had only just begun when it directly failed.
Mo Wuji didn’t continue to refine the second furnace, he knew very well that it wasn’t a problem with his alchemy techniques, but rather, his Yuan Qi wasn’t enough to control the fusion of the medicinal liquid of the Third Grade Spirit Pill.
Perhaps if he refined a few more furnaces, the medicinal liquid fusion would take longer, but in the end, it would still fail. If he didn’t raise his cultivation and only relied on constant alchemy to advance to Third Grade Human Pill Master, perhaps it would be many years from now. This would also require him to have countless third grade elixirs to practice with.
Yin Shanyin hadn’t lied to him, if he couldn’t raise his cultivation, he would indeed only be able to stop at Second Grade Human Pill Master. Even if his alchemy qualifications were strong, it would still be the same.
The only way for him to become a Third Grade Human Pill Master in the shortest possible time was to raise his cultivation. To raise his cultivation, he would have to continue opening up his veins.
Mo Wuji sighed somewhat dejectedly, packed up his spirit herbs, and decided to pause his alchemy.
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“Big Sister Xiong, where is Bingzhu?” After returning to the Lotus Root Sword Peak, the first thing Mo Wuji did was to look for Fei Bingzhu. When he came back earlier, because he was preoccupied with alchemy, he didn’t care about the progress of Fei Bingzhu’s search for the Precious Blood Lotus Root for a while.
Now that his cultivation level could not be raised, he had to first ask Fei Bingzhu about the chances of finding the precious blood lotus root at the Lotus Sword Peak. If he really couldn’t find the Treasure Blood Lotus Root at the Lotus Sword Peak, he couldn’t continue to waste time here.
“Deacon Fei has gone to the Blood Lotus Root Lake, he told me to go to the Blood Lotus Root Lake to look for him as soon as you return.” Xiong Xiuzhu hurriedly replied.
Mo Wuji’s spirit was lifted as soon as he heard this, and he couldn’t even respond in time as he hurriedly rushed towards the Blood Lotus Root Lake.
“Dan Master Meng, Brother Fei is a friend of the Lotus Root Sword Peak Master, Dan Master Mo, and you’ve already got the lotus root, so let him off the hook for once.” Before he even reached the Bloodroot Lake, Mo Wuji heard Wu Kai’s pleading voice from afar.
“What’s going on with Bingzhu?” Mo Wuji landed beside Fei Bingzhu who was collapsed in a pool of blood in a few steps.
