TBIP: Chapter 26 Part 3

After having a certain understanding of the low-level spiritual plants, he started to prepare for alchemy.

For the first time, Lou Xingyao wasn’t greedy. He directly chose the most simple and practical fasting pill from among the many pills.

This was the first pill he came into contact with after coming to this world.

If he had the pill recipe and had seen the real thing, it was naturally better than trying something else.

The most important thing was that the four first-grade spiritual plants required for the fasting pill happened to be in Lou Xingyao’s space. There was a tendency for the number of plants to overflow.

Now he could take the opportunity to practice, and it was just right to consume it.

Lou Xingyao originally thought that he had the foundation of his previous life, plus a lot of information to aid him. Refining an introductory pill was just a matter of trying it.

As a result, he encountered a failure in the first step of removing the impurities from the spiritual plant.

According to the book, in the process of growth, the spiritual plant would inevitably be affected by the outside world, containing certain unnecessary impurities.

In order to ensure that the alchemy process in the later stage could be carried out smoothly, the alchemist first needed to infuse the wood spiritual power into the spiritual plant veins and remove the impurities one by one.

However, as soon as Lou Xingyao injected a stream of spiritual power into the plant, the spiritual plant directly turned into ashes in his hands.

This was obviously the input of too much spiritual power, which was beyond the scope of the spiritual plant.

After learning a lesson, Lou Xingyao’s actions for the second time could be described as cautious and careful.

This time, the spiritual plant was indeed not damaged but he didn’t perceive the impurities mentioned in the book at all.

In order to find out, he involuntarily injected more spiritual power into the plant again. Then the next moment, the spiritual plant once again let out a familiar sound.

That’s right. This spiritual plant followed in the footsteps of the previous one and was completely destroyed.

Staring at the gray-green embers for a long time, Lou Xingyao gritted his teeth and took out a spiritual plant from the space again.

He was originally unwilling to admit defeat. Now he had repeated failures, and the desire to win was aroused in his heart.

Since one or two plants wouldn’t work, then he would try three or four. If it didn’t work out, he would try 30 or 40. The spiritual plants in his space were growing one after another. He had a large number of spiritual plants backing him up, so he didn’t believe that he couldn’t succeed!

However, since Lou Xingyao was able to become the youngest professor of forensic science in his previous life, his comprehension wasn’t low. It wasn’t as exaggerated as he imagined at the beginning, which required the consumption of hundreds of spiritual plants.

After destroying the fifth spiritual plant, Lou Xingyao gradually mastered the upper limit of spiritual power that a first-grade spiritual plant could withstand. He also gradually perceived what the impurities in the spiritual plant were.

This feeling was somewhat similar to the small points of light that Lou Xingyao saw gathered together after entering meditation.

It was just that the impurities in the spiritual plants were inky black dots like black sesame seeds.

At the same time, Lou Xingyao found that the impurities contained in the spiritual plant in his hand didn’t seem to be as dense as described in the book. It could even be called sparse.

Soon, Lou Xingyao figured out the reason.

Just as pills were divided into four grades, the spiritual plants were also divided into four grades: low, medium, top, and best.

Most of the spiritual plants that were commonly circulated on the market were low and middle-grade. There were naturally a lot of impurities contained in them.

The spiritual plants in his hands were all from the portable space.

No matter whether it was the spiritual field or spiritual spring in the space, they were all rare treasures. The spiritual plants nourished and grown by such items were naturally of extraordinary quality.

It was like the spiritual plant explored by Lou Xingyao now. It had reached the top-grade quality.

It was no wonder that every time he sold the spiritual plant, the price given by the shopkeeper was a bit higher.

He thought he was good at bargaining. Who knew that he became a victim of his own cleverness!

Thinking of this, Lou Xingyao couldn’t help feeling that the smiling face of the shopkeeper of the spiritual plants store had become extremely hateful!

However, the next moment, Lou Xingyao’s ears heard a nightmarish sound again.

Obviously, another spiritual plant had been destroyed due to his distraction just now.

Lou Xingyao gritted his teeth and remembered the account of the shopkeeper of the spiritual plants store.

He took a deep breath, and focused his attention again as he picked up another spiritual plant.

Thanks to the successful experience last time, Lou Xingyao’s movements became much smoother.

Not long after, the impurities inside the spiritual plant resurfaced in front of Lou Xingyao.

Then, according to what was said in the book, the wood spiritual power slowly probed. Like tweezers, the impurities were slowly removed from the veins of the spiritual plants.

After being busy for a long time, Lou Xingyao finally dealt with all the impurities in the four spiritual plants that the fasting pill required.

However, he didn’t rush toward the next step. Instead, he picked up a spiritual plant again. He slowly injected wood spiritual power into it and started to repeat the steps he had just taken.

Gradually, Lou Xingyao went from failing every three to five plants to maintaining a 100% success rate with a dozen spiritual plants.

His speed had improved from half an hour to process the spiritual plant to only half a cup of tea to succeed.

During this period, the spiritual power was exhausted several times. After recovering from meditation, he continued to practice.

But—

“Huh?”

After putting down the spiritual plant in his hand, Lou Xingyao subconsciously raised his hand and took out a new spiritual plant from the medicine chest.

Unexpectedly, it was empty.

He finally realized that the thousands of plants in the medicine cabinet for refining the fasting pill had been completely consumed by him.

Looking at the empty medicine chest, the expression on Lou Xingyao’s face froze for a moment.

Thinking of his more skillful movements when dealing with spiritual plants, he no longer continued to entangle with this and started to prepare for the next step.

The spiritual plants were put into the furnace and calcined by a flame to extract the medicinal liquid.

The difficulty of this step was much higher than removing impurities from the spiritual plants.

It was because in the calcined medicinal liquid, there would still be some impurities in the depths of the spiritual plant. The alchemist needed to remove them during the extraction process, or it would affect the next melting process.

Thinking of the situation he encountered when he destroyed the first spiritual plant, Lou Xingyao was ready to fight for a long time

But perhaps due to a lot of practice, he only failed twice before succeeding.

Next, the process of melting, separation, and pill formation was even smoother.

Lou Xingyao felt unreal as he looked at the four round red-brown pills in the furnace.

Was it so easy to succeed?

Still, it was his first time trying to refine alchemy. The quantity and quality of the alchemy wasn’t good.

Among the four pills, only one pill was a medium-grade pill. The remaining three pills were low-grade.

After seeing the quality of the pills, the little pride that originally rose in Lou Xingyao’s heart suddenly disappeared.

It must be known that in the description of the original novel, a furnace of pills could produce up to nine pills. He hadn’t even reached half.

Moreover, the pill was divided into four grades, but now he only obtained one medium-grade pill. If he was in school, such a result wasn’t even qualified.

Thinking of this, Lou Xingyao took out the four fasting pills from the furnace. He calmed down again and started the sound attempt.

Just like the beginning of the practice of removing impurities from the spiritual plants, he meditated and recovered after his spiritual power was exhausted. At the same time, he reviewed his performance in his own mind and checked what could be improved.

Once the spiritual power in his dantian was full, he once again devoted himself to practicing.

God would never disappoint a person who worked hard, not to mention that the person who worked hard had a talent beyond ordinary people.

Gradually, Lou Xingyao went from a furnace that could only produce four pills at the beginning to the point where it was a full furnace. Even the grade of his pills changed from being mostly low-grade to being mostly top-grade.

By the last furnace, it had even reached the results of three best-grade pills and six top-grade pills in one furnace. There was no trace of low or middle-grade pills.

The moment the hand that was about to grab the spiritual plants only reached air again, Lou Xingyao even felt a trace of loss in his heart.

He had always pursued perfection. According to his standards, a first-grade pill like the fasting pill must at least have two best-grade pills before it could be qualified.

It was a pity that the spiritual plants had been exhausted. Even if he wanted to continue practicing, it was difficult without materials.

Thinking of the feeling of just warming up, Lou Xingyao was unwilling to stop here.

He scanned the space again and really found a few more spiritual plants.

It was just that these few spiritual plants weren’t used to refine the fasting pill. They were needed for several other first-grade pills.

This didn’t stump Lou Xingyao. After recalling these few pill recipes, he started to move his hands.

This time, Lou Xingyao chose the first-grade rejuvenation pill.

As the name suggested, this was a healing pill that greatly alleviated pain and promoted wound healing after an injury.

Perhaps due to all the skills and a lot of practice with the fasting pill, but Lou Xingyao’s movements could be described as smooth and familiar.

The removal of impurities, the extraction of liquid medicine, the melting of the liquid…

A series of smooth operations seemed to be completing some type of artistic performance with considerable ornamental value. If others saw it, they wouldn’t believe that Lou Xingyao was refining a new pill.

Not long after, there was a crashing sound in the furnace that Lou Xingyao was very familiar with.

Knock knock knock.

Looking down, he could see nine round pills slowly sliding to the bottom of the furnace.

Different from the stumbling around when he first refined the fasting pill, Lou Xingyao refined the rejuvenation pill for the first time and got a full furnace.

He only got seven top-grade pills and two medium-grade pills, but this was enough to make Lou Xingyao feel very satisfied.

He struck while the iron was hot. Lou Xingyao refined several medicinal materials in his hand in one go, and once again the results of three full furnaces before calling it quits.

At this time, Lou Xingyao was finally in the mood to start sorting out his achievements since starting alchemy.

In addition to the last few furnaces of the rejuvenation pill, the qi replenishing pill, and the yuan nourishing pill, the most abundant was still the fasting pill that Lou Xingyao had practiced a lot.

He took an overall look and found that he had 350 low-grade pills, 720 medium-grade pills, 740 top-grade pills, and 180 best-grade pills in his hands.

Together, there were more than 2,000!

Lou Xingyao couldn’t help gasping when he came up with a specific number.

The fasting pill was a common item used by cultivators. Even if it was low-grade, it was extremely popular on the market.

In other words, these fasting pills were all money!

Lou Xingyao calculated it a bit in his heart. Soon, he found that if he sold all these fasting pills, the profit would be more than ten times that of directly selling the spiritual plants!

For a while, Lou Xingyao’s eyes changed a lot as he looked at these fasting pills.

How were these fasting pills?

They were clearly shining gold!

Then it was inevitable that he felt sorry for the spiritual plants he had sold. The price wasn’t high and he was deceived by the unscrupulous storekeeper…

Fortunately, in the process of getting along with Wen Hanshan, Lou Xingyao also learned a bit about the other person’s immovable temperament.

The emotions in his heart came and went as quickly as they came.

He calmed down a bit and didn’t think much of it any longer.

He waved his hand and directly put away the fasting pills on the table, which were going to be sold for a lot of money in the future. Then he got up and opened the door that had been closed for a long time.