Legend of the Transcendent

Chapter 48: First Alchemy Attempt

When Mi Xiaojing said the name and function of the eighth material, Hong Qing's face turned red and green.

Chen Shouyi laughed loudly and said, "There are eight kinds, you passed the assessment. Alright, you can step back and wait on the side!"

The waiting disciples were in an uproar. It was too exaggerated. A low-level cultivator actually knew so much about alchemy. It was unbelievable.

Hong Qing was really angry and wanted to retaliate against Chen Shouyi, but he did not expect Mi Xiaojing's knowledge to be so profound. He ended up being laughed at by Chen Shouyi. Not only did he hate Chen Shouyi even more, he also hated Mi Xiaojing.

Mi Xiaojing bowed and did not say a word, quickly retreating to the side.

After everyone finished the assessment, only seven people passed. Even the ten spots were not filled. It was evident how lacking and failed the Grass-Benevolence Hall was in cultivating disciples for alchemy.

Mi Xiaojing was the best of the seven. Among Chen Shouyi's assessments, one person did not pass. Among Hong Qing's assessments, only Mi Xiaojing passed. The other people did not pass. At Guan Shangli's assessment, four people passed and the other two were passed by the alchemist Li Huai.

When Guan Shangli and Li Huai set the assessment, it was relatively easy. If it was Chen Shouyi and Hong Qing assessing, these six people would not have passed either.

Guan Shangli's face did not look good, but the sect's missions always had to be completed. He said, "The real assessment is next. You have already come into contact with alchemy, so this test is to refine a pill within three days. Even if it is the lowest-level Qi Refining Pill, three days' time and three portions of spirit herbs. As long as you succeed once, you will pass. You can then enter the pill room to refine pills. All materials will be provided by the sect."

In fact, there was only Mi Xiaojing who had not really refined pills. He had the knowledge passed down by Wang Weijun but had not actually done it. Other disciples, including many eliminated disciples, had attempted to refine pills and even succeeded in refining spirit pills.

Therefore, even if the sect leader spoke and the sect needed a large number of spirit pills, the high-level members of the Grass-Benevolence Hall still did not want to bring out more alchemists. Except for the unexpected Mi Xiaojing, the qualifications of the others were all average.

During the assessment, Wang Weijun had already appeared in Mi Xiaojing's mind. Actually, Mi Xiaojing did not recognize the spirit insect Green Night Dance, but was recognized by Wang Weijun and taught how to answer. After all, Mi Xiaojing was only ten years old and did not have such rich knowledge.

But this kind of difficulty was nothing to Wang Weijun. It was too simple.

Qi Refining Pill.

It was a low-level pill. Over 90% of people who wanted to learn alchemy chose to refine the Qi Refining Pill as their first pill. It was easy to form the pill and the heat control was good. It was the simplest pill. If one could not refine this pill, then there was basically no hope for alchemy.

Mi Xiaojing was assigned to a pill room, a small cave with a fire pit, a junior pill furnace, three portions of Qi Refining Pill herbs, and three days to refine the pill. There was also a recipe for refining the Qi Refining Pill, which recorded how to refine it. However, the method in this recipe was quite rudimentary.

Mi Xiaojing looked at it once, and Wang Weijun told him to throw away the recipe directly. According to Wang Weijun, this thing was full of loopholes. The method was not wrong, but the possibility of forming the pill using this method was reduced by half. If one was a beginner, then failure was almost 100%.Mi Xiaojing has a ready-made method for refining pills, which is the extremely advanced pill refining method taught by Wang Weijun. Refining Qi-gathering Pills is really a small task.

Wang Weijun only reminded him a few words, then disappeared. He was too lazy to watch Mi Xiaojing refine pills. He had no interest in this level of pill refining.

However, Mi Xiaojing was full of enthusiasm. This was his first time refining pills, his first time coming into contact with the pill furnace, the fire, and the pill formula.

He had a strange feeling. When his hand touched the pill furnace, a familiar feeling arose, as if he had touched it a thousand times before. The extremely familiar feeling and the extremely unfamiliar feeling intertwined, making him a little confused.

He was the only one in the pill room, and the door of the pill room was closed. It would only open on the third day to let him out, to prevent cheating.

During the assessment period, each disciple wore a disciple's robe, and was not allowed to carry storage items, pill refining materials, or even Qi-gathering Pills. Each disciple was searched.

Mi Xiaojing began to check the pill furnace, the fire, and the three herbs.

The pill furnace was an extremely ordinary green gold furnace, the simplest pill furnace. The fire control restriction at the mouth of the furnace was very simple, and the temperature of the fire could only be used to refine low-level pills, which were used by Qi-gathering stage cultivators. The Ling Pills used by Foundation Building stage cultivators could not be refined with this fire and furnace, even if his pill refining level was higher.

Mi Xiaojing began to preheat the pill furnace. At first, he felt unfamiliar, but soon he became proficient.

In primary pill refining, preheating the pill furnace was generally the first step, followed by controlling the fire spirit pattern on the pill furnace, feeding, coarse refining, fine refining, until pill condensation, and finally pill formation. Advanced pill refining also had a step called pill nurturing, but Qi-gathering Pills did not require this.

Each step was like carved in his mind. Pill refining with inheritance and without inheritance were two different things. Without inheritance, one had to explore step by step, and the possibility of failure was extremely high. With inheritance, as long as one was proficient, pill condensation and pill formation were not a big problem.

Having inheritance and not having inheritance in pill refining each had advantages and disadvantages. With inheritance, one could simply follow the steps without any surprises, and there would be no new discoveries. However, pill refining that one explored oneself often had unexpected surprises, and it was very likely that strange pills would be produced, and new pills might appear.

Mi Xiaojing had no innovative ideas, he just needed to refine pills according to his memory. He needed pills, not anything else.

The first furnace of pills was successful!

Three Qi-gathering Pills were condensed in total.

It was a very ordinary Qi-gathering Pill, with no surprises. It was a low-grade Qi-gathering Pill with many impurities. However, Mi Xiaojing was already very satisfied to be able to condense and form pills for the first time.

After carefully thinking about the pill refining process, Mi Xiaojing found that he had made many mistakes. After pondering for a day, he finally started to refine the second furnace of pills.

Pill condensation!

Seven Qi-gathering Pills were condensed, and the quality of this batch reached medium-grade.

There was still one furnace of pills left. Mi Xiaojing basically figured out the process, and after pondering for a day, he found some shortcomings. He was looking forward to the third furnace of pills.

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