“I’ve eaten the pills you’ve refined, and amongst the First Grade Human Pill Masters of the Traceless Sword Sect, no one has been able to refine a First Grade Human Spirit Pill of that grade. I think you’re already at the juncture where you’re about to break through to a second grade human pills master, as long as you advance just a little bit more, you’ll be able to become a second grade human pills master.” Yin Shanyin looked at Mo Wuji and said seriously.
Mo Wuji had no choice but to say, “Actually, I have already refined a Second Grade Human Spirit Pill a long time ago, I just didn’t succeed.”
With so many spirit medicines in this place, how could Mo Wuji not try to refine a second grade Human Spirit Pill after he had refined a first grade Human Spirit Pill? Not only had he attempted to refine it, but what he had refined was not just one or two furnaces. He had refined nearly sixty to seventy furnaces of Second Grade Human Spirit Pills, and without exception, they all failed.
It was fortunate that there were mountains of spirit medicines here, otherwise, even the most powerful sects wouldn’t be able to withstand this kind of tossing and turning.
When it came down to it, Mo Wuji believed that he was not capable of refining Second Grade Human Spirit Pills right now, mainly because his accumulation was too little. No longer refining second grade Human Spirit Pills, he had only refined a bunch of Spirit Gathering Pills, Rejuvenation Pills and Blood Moisturising Pills.
Yin Shanyin smiled faintly, ”The reason why you haven’t broken through to a Second Grade Human Spirit Pill Master is simple, it’s because of two reasons. The first is that deep down you have always felt that becoming a dan master is hard and difficult, you are satisfied with yourself becoming a first grade human dan master in a short period of time, so subconsciously you feel that it is impossible to become a second grade human dan master in a short period of time, which is a lack of confidence.
Secondly when you are refining second grade human elixir pills, your control over the pills in the furnace is still stuck on refining first grade human elixir pills. This is something that you will automatically correct once some time has passed. But now that I’m here, I’ll correct your mistake in the shortest possible time, allowing you to correctly refine a second grade Human Spirit Pill.”
Mo Wuji was dumbfounded as he listened, the first point Yin Shanyin said was not half wrong. He subconsciously really believed that it would be impossible for him to become a second grade human elixir master in a short period of time, as for the second point he rather didn’t experience it more.
“Don’t ask me how I know that, because I once came from the same place. Also don’t think that it’s impossible to become a Second Grade Human Dan Master in a short period of time. I heard from my master that it only took my master ancestor half a year to go from learning alchemy to becoming an Earthly Dan Master. In this world, there are just geniuses that exist, and these geniuses have talents in parts of the field that ordinary people cannot comprehend. For you to be able to become a First Grade Human Dan Master in half a month with the theoretical knowledge you have learnt over the years, you are also a dan dao genius.”
After hearing Yin Shanyin say that her master ancestor had become an Earth Dan Master in half a year’s time, even if he knew that Yin Shanyin was trying to boost his confidence, Mo Wuji still had to admit that Yin Shanyin’s words had worked. Among his senses, alchemy didn’t seem to be as tough as others had said. He had indeed been influenced by the rumours and neglected his own strengths.
His advantage was that he knew the characteristics of various plants very well when he was on Earth, and after coming into contact with the Wordless Dan Book, he also knew the characteristics of elixirs far better than the average dan master, and could even learn by example. Together with his hand techniques and Dan techniques, perhaps he could really advance another step.
Yin Shanyin continued, ”In addition to that, another important criterion for considering a dan master is how much purification of spirit herbs he can achieve. How much purification of ordinary spirit herbs can you achieve now?”
Mo Wuji honestly said, “It should be able to reach more than 80%.”
Even though he thought that he could reach 90% in terms of spirit herb purification, Mo Wuji hadn’t been exposed to this aspect. He didn’t know if his calculations were correct or if there were any other standards, so he simply said less.
When Yin Shanyin heard Mo Wuji say that he was able to reach 80% or even more on the purification of spirit medicines, she couldn’t help but secretly shake her head, while her opinion of Mo Wuji dropped drastically in her heart.
Even if it was her, her purification of spirit medicines was only a little more than 80% right now. A normal first grade human pills master’s purification of spirit pills that could reach 60 to 70% was already considered good. The higher the purification of the spirit pill, the harder it would be to achieve. It was as if a person had reached 89% in terms of spiritual pill purification, but if he wanted to reach 90%, he might not be able to surpass it even after decades.
It was because of this that she thought Mo Wuji was bragging. The reason why Mo Wuji dared to brag was because he thought she couldn’t see it. However, she didn’t know that with her alchemy realm, as long as Mo Wuji did the alchemy, she would be able to tell how much Mo Wuji had purified the spirit medicine for.
“Senior Sister Yin, then I’ll refine a second grade Human Spirit Pill to try it out, and if there are any mistakes in between, I’ll ask Senior Sister Yin to enlighten me.” Mo Wuji saw that Yin Shanyin didn’t say anything, so he simply clasped his fist and said sincerely.
Yin Shanyin nodded, “Good, you will refine it now.”
She did not point out Mo Wuji, even if Mo Wuji’s alchemy purification was far less than 80% later.
Mo Wuji chose the Poison Cleansing Pill, which was none other than the Second Grade Human Spirit Pill, which could detoxify a wide range of poisons. Mo Wuji had previously refined dozens of Second Grade Human Spirit Dan without success, and the Poison Cleansing Dan took up half of the times.
Seeing that Mo Wuji chose the Poison Cleansing Pill, Yin Shanyin seemed to somewhat understand why Mo Wuji didn’t readily agree to go with her to deal with that Life Devouring Beast. It was obvious that Mo Wuji valued his own little life. Yin Shanyin sighed slightly in her heart, it was fortunate that Mo Wuji’s Spiritual Root Qualification was very poor. If Mo Wuji’s spiritual root qualification was very good, then he had really wasted this spiritual root qualification and alchemy talent.
In her opinion, a person who placed too much importance on his own little life and cowered in fear of death would find it hard to go far on the cultivation journey. How could a cultivator have smooth sailing? After all, there were times when they faced life and death.
However, Mo Wuji’s choice of the Poison Cleansing Dan was just right, as long as Mo Wuji could refine the Poison Cleansing Dan, then he should be able to refine the Vitality Blossom Dan.
Mo Wuji naturally didn’t know what Yin Shanyin was thinking, and even if he did, he wouldn’t care. He naturally cherished his little life, that was definitely not cowering in fear of death. Risking his life without meaning, that was not his character.
If what he was facing was more important than his little life in his opinion, even if he knew that he was going to die immediately, he wouldn’t take half a step back.
Refining the Poison Cleansing Pill was indeed a precautionary measure. Back when he was in Raozhou, he had almost been poisoned by the Poison Arrow Wood. Now that he had started cultivating, he was in contact with Immortal Masters in the eyes of mortals, and once he was poisoned, it was a toss-up as to whether or not he would still be able to smell it.
Since he had become an alchemist, what was wrong with refining some antidote pills for backup?
The herbs were all the freshest, Mo Wuji used the flame stone to light the dan furnace and started to clean it.
After the Dan Furnace was cleaned, Mo Wuji placed the spirit medicines into the middle of the Dan Furnace in order and began to purify the herbs.
After seeing the way Mo Wuji cleaned the Dan furnace, Yin Shanyin was just amazed. When she saw that Mo Wuji used his hand techniques in conjunction with his Yuan Power to purify the herbs, instead of interfering with the purification of the herbs with the help of external objects like other dan masters, Yin Shanyin stood up instantly.
She could be certain that the dan inheritance that Mo Wuji had obtained was not simple, in the Traceless Sword Sect, apart from her, she had yet to see a second human dan master who was able to use his hand techniques in conjunction with his Yuan Power to purify the herbs to make dan. The fact that she herself could do this at the Human Pill Master realm was because her alchemy inheritance was already very impressive. Moreover, when she was able to do this, she was already a Third Grade Human Pill Master.
Now that she saw that Mo Wuji was able to use his hand techniques with his Yuan Power to refine pills at the 1st Grade Human Pill Master realm, this was simply unbelievable to her, even she couldn’t do it. But the truth was right in front of her eyes, Mo Wuji did just that.
In fact, Mo Wuji had already begun to converge, after seeing Shi Jun use something like a ‘spatula’ to purify herbs, Mo Wuji knew that his alchemy hand techniques and dan techniques were very remarkable. It was precisely because it was very remarkable that he didn’t use his Dan Skill and purely used his hand techniques to refine pills.
He had a premonition that something like the Dan Recipe could not be casually taken out to be seen by others. Moreover, at his cultivation realm, it was still a bit of a stretch for him to completely use the Dan secret to control the alchemy. The Dan Recipe said that he had to use divine thoughts to control it, and he didn’t know what divine thoughts were, so he could only use his own will to forcefully control it. The pills refined in this way were sometimes good and sometimes bad, when they were good, they were much better than the pills refined by the hand technique, and when they were bad, they directly failed.
Being able to use his will to control it was still a skill that Mo Wuji had unintentionally learnt when he was trying to guide the lightning to bombard his veins. Now that he had the cultivation technique, he no longer needed to use his willpower to control the lightning arcs to bombard his meridians, and now that he was learning to refine pills, it was being brought back to be used in the Dan Skill.
The impurities of a spirit herb were removed by Mo Wuji with his hand techniques, before forming a residue that was thrown out of the Dan furnace by Mo Wuji.
The shock in Yin Shanyin’s eyes grew thicker and thicker as she realised that Mo Wuji’s words from before were not bragging anymore, but rather a little too modest.
Mo Wuji’s purified elixir was definitely 80% ……
No, it was more than 80%. When Mo Wuji once again tapped some of the residue out of the dan furnace, Yin Shanyin almost screamed out in surprise.
