Mo Wuji secretly muttered in his heart, how smart does this woman’s nose have to be?
“The pills you gave me earlier were refined by yourself, right? If you’re an alchemist, why did you go and become a handyman disciple? If you had to hide your alchemy skills to be an odd-job disciple, then why did you go to help Master Shi Dan?” Yin Shanyin asked nonchalantly.
It wasn’t surprising that Mo Wuji could think of adding the Water Velvet Vine to the Condensation Dan to reduce the difficulty of alchemy and increase the chances of completing the Dan. This was because there were several Dan formulas for the Condensation Dan, and one of them was the one that added the Water Velvet Vine. The medicinal properties of the Condensation Pill made from this formula were slightly weaker, but the refining process was much simpler. Perhaps Mo Wuji happened to see this Dan formula while Shi Jun was unaware of it.
As for what Mo Wuji wanted to obtain from Shi Jun through this means, she did not care. The Dan formula that she had obtained herself was not willing to take it out, and obtaining some benefits through other means, this would have been a natural thing to do.
But now that Mo Wuji was able to independently concoct pills, then it was definitely not a matter of obtaining one of the Condensation Locus Pill’s Dan Formulas, which meant that Mo Wuji had learnt to concoct pills a long time ago. Since he had learnt alchemy and was still able to become a dan, then there was no need to nestle in the Traceless Sword Sect as an errand boy disciple.
Mo Wuji instantly had a headache, he doubted if he should have saved this Yin Shanyin. He knew the story of the farmer and the snake better than anyone else. This Yin Shanyin didn’t look like a snake, right?
Thinking of this, Mo Wuji said stiffly, ”My alchemy means are family heirlooms, my family was originally a county king family. Because the county king was stripped away and the family fell, I learnt a lot about alchemy but had no way to verify it. This time, I want to make use of Shi Dan Shi’s opportunity to enter Sword Mountain to come here to systematically verify the alchemy knowledge I learnt before.”
Mo Wuji still considered a lot when he said this, firstly my family is a county king family, it’s not like I don’t have the opportunity to learn alchemy. Secondly the Mo family are all basically extinct, even if you were to check, you wouldn’t necessarily be able to do so.
Mo Wuji didn’t know that his grandfather was once an alchemist, if he did, he definitely wouldn’t be so trembling. In the face of Yin Shanyin’s questioning, he would have justifiably said that my grandfather was an alchemist, I learnt it from my grandfather.
As for the matter of him being born after his grandfather Mo Tiancheng was gone, who could care so much? Can’t you just leave your ancestral dan books behind?
Yin Shanyin asked with as much amazement, “Are you saying that all you learnt before was alchemy theory, and then this time you met many spirit herbs here, and were able to refine a first grade Human Spirit Pill after only a month of practice?”
It wasn’t that Yin Shanyin didn’t believe Mo Wuji’s words, but Mo Wuji’s words were a little too outrageous. Even if a person was a genius and had studied various alchemy theories for several consecutive years, it would be difficult for them to refine a first grade Human Spirit Pill in just a month’s time.
The reason why there were so few alchemists was because alchemy required great talent, and it also required constant and repeated practice, which was the reason why alchemists were very difficult to cultivate. Firstly, you don’t know if you have a talent for alchemy, secondly you need a large amount of spirit herb resources. Thirdly, you also need guidance from a famous master.
Regardless of that one, it was not easy to attain. Not to mention, the quality of the first grade Human Spirit Dan that Mo Wuji had refined was already extremely high, and with a little more progress then he would be able to refine a second grade Human Spirit Dan.
Mo Wuji listened to Yin Shanyin’s words and suddenly thought of his Dan Skill and Hand Skill. For him to be able to successfully refine pills in a short period of time, apart from the Wordless Heavenly Book’s thorough dissection of the characteristics of the herbs, the Dan Recipe and Hand Technique were the deciding elements. On top of that, there was another point that was equally important. That was the fact that he was originally a top tier Pharmacist, pharmacy was simpler than alchemy, and that was only relatively speaking.
Pharmaceuticals used ordinary herbs, there were no spirit medicines. But pharmaceutical makers were also mostly ordinary mortals who hadn’t cultivated, and wouldn’t use any Yuan Qi to assist them.
Most of the ones used in alchemy were spirit medicines, which required ensuring the spirituality in the medicinal herbs. That would be almost impossible for ordinary mortals who hadn’t cultivated. However, to cultivators who had cultivated, it wasn’t much different from a pharmacist concocting ordinary medicinal herbs.
“It’s like this, but before I actually started alchemising pills, I had studied over ten years of alchemy pharmacology knowledge.” Mo Wuji simply stopped hiding, it was useless to hide any further when his details could be found out. As long as he insisted on not revealing the matter of the Wordless Dan Book, then it would have little impact.
“That means that you have an extremely strong alchemy talent, with your kind of alchemy talent, if you can become the sect’s dan master and obtain more alchemy resources, your future achievements will be even greater ……,” Yin Shanyin suddenly paused when she said this.
She thought of one of Mo Wuji’s most insurmountable obstacles, and that was Mo Wuji’s poor spiritual root. According to Mo Wuji, he should have a lower grade spiritual root.
Apart from alchemy talent, an alchemist’s cultivation talent was just as important.
As the grade of the pills being refined increased, the cultivation level of the alchemist was just as demanding. If the alchemist’s cultivation was too low, it would also be difficult to refine pills of higher grades.
Mo Wuji, however, didn’t think about the issue of cultivation talent because his cultivation speed was too fast, and that was what made him not think about it. What he thought of was what Yin Shanyin had just said, that if he really joined the sect and became a sect elixir master, he would be given the opportunity to enter the sect’s library. There might even be a chance to listen to a lesson from a Transmission Immortal Master.
Thinking of this, Mo Wuji hurriedly said, “If I can become the sect’s Dan Master, I’m naturally willing to do so, but I’m just afraid that it won’t be easy, right?”
Yin Shanyin said with certainty after a slight contemplation, “As a First Grade Human Dan Master, you are definitely of great use to the sect. I can introduce you to join the sect and become a Sect Dan Master. It’s just that your cultivation qualifications are limited, and I can’t guarantee you alchemy resources.”
Alchemy resources and what not, Mo Wuji didn’t want it at all. The month that he had been at the Traceless Sword Mountain was equal to obtaining a great deal of benefits from the sect.
“Senior Sister Yin, I’m satisfied as long as I’m able to enter the Book Depository to read books and then listen to some of the elders’ lectures. As for cultivation resources and alchemy resources and whatnot, I don’t really care.” Mo Wuji said.
Yin Shanyin was not as arrogant as a 4th Grade Earthly Dan Master, so Mo Wuji simply changed his words to increase the relationship between him and Yin Shanyin.
Hearing that Mo Wuji’s requirements were not too high, Yin Shanyin smiled faintly, “Don’t worry, as a Sect Dan Master, even if it’s a 1st Grade Human Dan Master, the status in the Sect is much higher than the average disciple. These requirements you mentioned are all requirements of some disciples, so naturally, there won’t be any problems.”
“Senior sister Yin, what happened to you before? It seemed like all the vitality was sucked out of you?” With Yin Shanyin’s assurance, Mo Wuji was finally a little more relieved and thought of Yin Shanyin’s condition earlier.
When Yin Shanyin, who was originally calm, heard Mo Wuji’s words, the expression on her face suddenly became grave as she stood up at the same time.
It was only after several minutes of contemplation that she looked at Mo Wuji and asked, “Senior Brother Mo, there is a great chance here. But to obtain this chance is just as very dangerous. If you’re not careful, you’ll be like me before, your vitality will be sucked empty and disorganised, do you dare to join me in the boondoggle?”
“Senior sister, you were because of this chance before and then almost had your vitality sucked empty?” Mo Wuji understood.
Yin Shanyin nodded her head and said, “That’s right, I suspect that the place I’ve been to has supreme sword techniques and sword skills left behind by one of my Traceless Sword Sect’s Patriarchs, and perhaps even more than that. But you can’t even go near there, once you do, your vitality will be sucked away.”
“Does Senior Sister Yin still have the Primary Vitality Pill on her?” Mo Wuji subconsciously winced as he thought of Yin Shanyin’s appearance earlier, his scalp tingling a little.
Yin Shanyin shook her head, “No. Since my generation has chosen the path of cultivation, if we don’t put up a fight, where can we achieve something?”
Mo Wuji however didn’t want to go, he had ways to keep progressing on the cultivation path. It wasn’t that he was afraid of death, if he was shooting for death, he wouldn’t have desperately used the lightning arc to quench his veins. He didn’t want to go because the place Yin Shanyin said was too risky and didn’t have anything that could truly attract him. This kind of risk was not worth it at all.
