The Path to Immortality

"Sometimes, there are too many things to do, which is also a happy trouble."

To the extent that Fang Ping occasionally had the thought that although he had made some choices, he still didn't give up enough and was too greedy.

If he gave up one or two more, it might be better and easier.

However, after estimating his own cultivation progress and the approximate time required for foundation building, and making sure that he would not be dragged down, he gritted his teeth and chose to persist.

If you want to go further on the path of Taoism, or even become an immortal and live forever, you have to be tougher on yourself!

Don't be afraid of too many things, just list them in order of importance and urgency, and do them one by one.

In this way, Fang Ping encouraged himself, put aside the extra distractions, let his mind settle, took out the alchemy inheritance of the Sun family, and slowly comprehended it.

In the quiet cave, only the occasional movement of Dahei turning over in his sleep and the faint tea fragrance from a pot of Kongming Lingcha on the stone table accompanied him.

The passing of time seemed to become particularly boring and long at this moment.

………

Two years later.

For Fang Ping, these two years were the busiest and most fulfilling time since he joined the inner sect. Just digesting the various gains from the looting of the Black Water Sect has left him no time to care about anything else.

But God rewards hard work, and this effort has finally paid off.

In terms of cultivation, although he is still at the eighth level of Qi training, his magic power has increased a lot compared to when he first entered the eighth level of Qi training.

In terms of body training, although the Thick Earth Golden Body Technique is still at the first level of the initial entry, the progress of the first level of the True Fire Body Training Technique has exceeded more than half.

It will take at most another year to break through to the second level.

Of course, the most important improvement is in the alchemy.

After two years of repeated research and speculation, Fang Ping's understanding of the theory of alchemy has made great progress.

If it is said that he was only one step away from the first-level alchemist before. Now, Fang Ping has also stepped over it.

As long as he personally refines a real first-level elixir, he can become a real alchemist!

But which kind of elixir should be chosen as the target for the first attempt?

Today, Fang Ping has mastered quite a few first-level elixir recipes, totaling more than twenty, most of which are from the Sun family's inheritance.

After weighing the pros and cons, Fang Ping chose to use the [Jade Breaking Barrier Pill], an elixir that assists in breaking through the realm, as his first attempt to refine a first-level low-grade elixir!

On the one hand, it was because Fang Ping bought the realm-breaking elixir he used to break through the late stage of Qi training at an auction with spirit stones.

As an apprentice of the alchemy, he was somewhat concerned about this matter, so he simply refined one by himself this time.

Secondly, it was naturally because this kind of barrier-breaking elixir was expensive and difficult to refine, and there were not many alchemists who could refine it, so it was easy to sell it at a high price.

Just think about it, Fang Ping spent more than 800 spirit stones to bid for a Jade Breaking Barrier Pill, and you can know how profitable it is to refine this kind of elixir.

After reading the Sun family's alchemy inheritance to the end, Fang Ping found the recipe of [Jade Breaking Barrier Pill].

The first material at the beginning is a piece of Huangjingzhi that has grown for 60 years, and this is the minimum requirement!

In addition, the other spiritual herbs and medicines required are also not cheap.

Added together, the cost of refining a furnace of Jade Breaking Barrier Pills is at least one or two hundred spiritual stones!

The number of successful pills per furnace of first-level spiritual pills is generally less than that of basic pills.

For example, the number of pills of the Bigu Pill can be produced by an apprentice of the alchemy.

But for this Jade Breaking Barrier Pill, even if a first-level alchemist with superb alchemy attainments takes action, only three or four successful pills can be refined in one furnace! The success rate is roughly the same!

Therefore, it is not without reason that a pill costs 800 spiritual stones to some extent.

"Normally, just to gather the materials for this Jade Breaking Barrier Pill, you need to spend some time in the market. But I took away the entire Black Water Sect's spiritual storehouse before, and it seems that... these materials are in stock?"

Opening his top-grade storage bag, Fang Ping searched inside for a while and found all the materials he needed.

"Really!"

Looking at the materials on the table, Fang Ping couldn't help but smile knowingly. This was convenient.

Since it takes longer and the labor cost is higher to refine a first-level spiritual pill, even if there is a Yuan Ding, Fang Ping did not start rashly this time.

It took half a month to carefully figure out the recipe of the Jade Breaking Barrier Pill, and found the tricks and some notes for refining this pill from the alchemy inheritance of the Sun family.

After having a relatively detailed understanding, he officially started the furnace.

Throw various spiritual materials including Huang Jingzhi into the cauldron one by one.

Start the fire and start the furnace!

After so many years of alchemy, the basic process in the early stage has long reached the point where practice makes perfect.

Soon, the Fiery Sun True Fire burned steadily, providing an amazing temperature inside the cauldron.

But even so, it still takes a long process to extract all the medicinal properties of Huang Jingzhi.

Under the burning of the true fire, the rich medicinal properties slowly merged together, and there was no possibility of insufficient fire as mentioned in the recipe.

"I was thinking that if the second stage of the Fiery Sun True Fire was not enough, I would borrow the sect's earth fire. Now it seems that it is temporarily useless."

This made Fang Ping admire his foresight in practicing a true fire spell.

With many years of experience, he concentrated on observing and judging the changes in the medicinal properties in the cauldron.

Before he knew it, an hour had passed.

Just when the last bit of Huang Jingzhi's medicinal power was about to be incorporated into the liquid medicine, Fang Ping made a slight mistake in grasping the timing due to his long-term concentration, which led to a delay in the timing of the medicinal power integration.

It was this slight time difference that caused the refining of the Jade Breaking Barrier Pill to encounter a mistake that was not serious, but enough to lead to failure.

"The first failure in refining a first-level elixir!"

Faced with this result, Fang Ping was not only not frustrated, but even a little surprised.

The first attempt to refine a first-level elixir failed only when the progress was more than half, which was enough to prove that his self-contemplation and repeated refining during the years when his attainments in the alchemy were stagnant were not useless.

At this moment, once he obtained the true first-level inheritance and made up for the deficiencies in pharmacology, medicinal properties and techniques, he immediately showed the effect of accumulating strength and then bursting out.

"Perhaps, the time for me to become a true first-level alchemist will be earlier than expected!"

Waving his hand to look back at the medicinal materials in the alchemy furnace, he meditated for a while and then started a new round of attempts.

………

The cost of refining a furnace of Jade Barrier Breaking Pill is at least one or two hundred spirit stones.

Not to mention too many failures, even if there are only more than ten failures, the initial cost is as high as thousands of spirit stones.

If you are unlucky and fail dozens of times before succeeding, the final cost will be terrifyingly high.

In order to minimize this loss, other alchemy apprentices who try to refine the first-level spirit pill can only repeatedly ponder and ponder every detail. Try to find the most critical point from all the factors that may lead to failure, and make the right adjustments in the next attempt.

Use five or ten times the time to replace the resource cost to a certain extent.

However, this inefficient method forced by reality is completely unsuitable for Fang Ping.