Jidao Wusheng: I am invincible in my flesh and tear the weirdness apart with my bare hands

The Alchemy Pavilion, first floor.

Just like the first floor of the Weapon Refining Pavilion, there are only fire-tending boys here, no alchemists, and they do the same things as the first floor of the Weapon Refining Pavilion.

The difference is that the Weapon Refining Pavilion extracts molten materials, while the Alchemy Pavilion extracts medicinal herbs and liquids.

Zhang Lingshan adapted quickly here.

Firstly, he was an alchemist himself and had received training from Zhang Zixin.

Secondly, there are similarities between refining medicinal liquids and refining molten liquids.

Most importantly, through his efforts in the weapon refining pavilion, his control over flames and his divine sense have been greatly improved. Using them to refine these ordinary first-grade medicinal herbs is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

then.

Five months later, he successfully passed the test and walked out of the refining hall and onto the second floor amidst the shocked and envious gazes of the fire-tending boys on the first floor.

The reason it took so long was mainly because I had to help Huo Ran refine the Pure Lotus Pill every month.

In addition, there is the time needed for rest.

The actual time he spent refining the material at the first level was only two months.

We arrived at the second floor.

Because of Zhang Lingshan's special status, which was specifically instructed by Wei Chongqian, he went directly to the alchemy hall as an alchemist on the second floor.

The real test has finally arrived.

Whether he can stay in the alchemy hall will determine his future identity.

Was he officially recognized as an alchemist, or was he demoted to a fire-tending boy?

Many people are watching with bated breath.

Wei Chongqian naturally hoped that Zhang Lingshan would succeed, so that he would be considered to have a discerning eye and would surely be rewarded, possibly even promoted.

Huo Ran naturally hoped that Zhang Lingshan would fail, so that he would never be able to threaten him.

As for Zhang Lingshan...

He had already devoted a portion of his attention to communicating with Zhang Zixin, who was contained within the single page of paper.

As long as he consults Zhang Zixin for help with alchemy at all times, how could he possibly fail?
soon.

The first batch of pills is complete!

This pill is called the White Jade Pill. It is beneficial to alchemists as it can neutralize the heat generated in their bodies from years of activating flames.

As the first alchemist to do this, I'm also telling all alchemists that from today onwards, you can start refining pills like crazy. Don't worry about the long hours of pill refining affecting your health, because you can refine the White Jade Pill to recover.

'This alchemy pavilion is quite interesting. If you refine more than six pills, all the extras belong to you.'

Zhang Lingshan thought to himself.

This is a good thing.

The second floor of the weapon-refining pavilion does not have this rule; instead, excess weapons that have been refined can be exchanged for immortal pills.

In comparison, the Alchemy Pavilion is clearly better.

Moreover, this policy can encourage everyone to improve their alchemy skills, since who wouldn't want to refine a few more pills and put them in their own pocket?

Most importantly, these pills are useful to alchemists like them. The more pills they collect and consume, the better their cultivation and alchemy skills will become.

In contrast, the Refining Pavilion only provides Immortal Elixir and Spirit Rice, which is a much worse treatment.

At least in terms of cultivation, the Alchemy Pavilion has gained a great advantage.

Zhang Lingshan came here to improve his strength, so he became even more engrossed in alchemy.

Besides receiving guidance from Zhang Zixin, he also devoted a significant amount of his divine sense to secretly observing the alchemy techniques of everyone else in the Alchemy Pavilion.

Even when he was refining pills with Huo Ran, he recorded all of Huo Ran's techniques and handed them over to the countless little people in the Myriad Laws of Derivation to study and experiment with.

As time went by, his alchemy skills improved day by day, and it could be said that he came up with new tricks every day.

'The method of generating myriad laws is indeed defying the heavens.'

Zhang Lingshan was secretly amazed.

He suspected it wasn't just because of the Myriad Laws, but also because his own cultivation technique had evolved into the "True Scripture of Myriad Laws".

The Myriad Laws True Scripture can absorb the power of all martial arts techniques in the world and can deduce its own power.

The so-called alchemy techniques can probably be considered one of the world's martial arts methods.

Anyway, with Zhang Lingshan, seeing something is learning something, and learning something is never a loss. Even if you don't understand it for the time being, just write it down, and one day you will be able to comprehend your own unique method from it.

And amidst this frenzied progress...

In just ten months, Zhang Lingshan was promoted to bronze level and officially entered the third level of the Alchemy Pavilion.

Just like the third floor of the Weapon Refining Pavilion, this place now has a hall for exchanging merit points.

At this moment, in Zhang Lingshan's eyes, the real show had begun, and the clouds had parted to reveal the moon.

He followed the steps of refining and alchemy on the first and second floors, and what he received was only what the alchemy pavilion gave him according to the rules. He could not ask for more, nor could he obtain anything else that was more suitable for him.

For example, those damned White Jade Pills were completely useless to him. Refining so many was pointless. They were not as good as the Immortal Spirit Pills given by the Refining Pavilion. He couldn't exchange them for merit points, and he couldn't sell them to others because they didn't have anything better to exchange for them. So they could only stay in his arms and get moldy.

But things are different on the third floor.

Here, there are plenty of things to exchange, and among them, there will surely be something more suitable for Zhang Lingshan.

'Why are there still no Immortal Elixir?'

Zhang Lingshan quickly arrived at the exchange hall, looking rather dejected.

Ever since he took the Immortal Elixir given to him by Huo Ran, he has been obsessed with it.

Now, after refining the Pure Lotus Pill with Huo Ran for so long, after exchanging it for the Clear Spring Pill and absorbing the rest, there is still a full 100 million left.

I originally planned to exchange for the Immortal Spirit Pill, absorb it frantically, and raise my strength to the True Immortal realm in one go.

Unexpectedly, there were no elixirs available for sale at all.

Yes.

The exchange hall where the gold-medal alchemist on the fifth floor is located also doesn't sell Immortal Elixir.

Zhang Lingshan suddenly realized something.

It turns out that the alchemy pavilion doesn't sell pills. If you want to take any pills, you have to refine them yourself or exchange them with other alchemists.

The purpose of the Alchemy Pavilion is to provide pills to the entire Anning Army.

If you can exchange pills here, it's like your Alchemy Pavilion is producing and selling its own pills. If all the pills are consumed here, what's the point of taking them from the Anning Army?

Therefore, you can only take away the excess pills that have been refined at the Alchemy Pavilion, and there are no more pills available for exchange.

Fortunately, just like on the second floor, as long as you refine more than six pills in one batch, the extra ones belong to you.

However, if there are fewer than six, the corresponding merit points will be deducted, which is the same penalty mechanism as the failure of the weapon refining pavilion.

In this respect, the Alchemy Pavilion is actually more stringent. After all, if there are less than six pills, it is considered a successful alchemy, so how can it be directly considered a failure?

However, compared to the treatment at the Alchemy Pavilion, their punishment mechanism is a bit stricter, but it's still acceptable.

Since everyone in the Alchemy Pavilion has their own pills to refine, their strength improves relatively faster, and their merit points increase daily, so they are not afraid of failure.

'Since that's the case, let's begin refining Immortal Elixirs! We can also exchange for a large batch of Divine Sense Crystals.'

Zhang Lingshan had also exchanged for Divine Sense Crystals on the fifth floor after his merit points exploded, spending a full 20 merit points.

In terms of quality, it is indeed quite good. There is much less resentment in it, the divine sense is purer and easier to absorb, and the overall quantity has also increased.

However, just as Zhang Lingshan had guessed, the overall increase was too small, far less than a hundred times that of the third-layer divine sense crystal.

But its price is a hundred times that of a three-layered divine sense crystal.

For others, they don't look at the total amount, but rather the amount that can be absorbed, which is the pure divine thought that remains after removing resentment.

Looking only at the pure divine thought, because the proportion has increased, the total amount has also increased, so it can be roughly considered to have increased to a hundred times the amount, so it's not a loss.

but.

Zhang Lingshan only cared about the total amount; resentment was equally important to him, so he suffered a huge loss.

Therefore.

After refining the divine sense crystals he had on hand, he refrained from exchanging them for divine sense crystals on the fifth floor.

Now that I can finally exchange for three layers of Divine Sense Crystals, it would be a waste of time if I didn't spend several thousand at once.
So, for the rest of the time, Zhang Lingshan was completely immersed in refining the Divine Sense Crystal, and he lost interest in even the Immortal Spirit Pill.

If anyone wants to monopolize a pill-refining room, they'll have to refine pills every day to accumulate merit points.

But Zhang Lingshan has few other achievements, only many merits.

Refining a batch of mid-grade Pure Lotus Pills at Huo Ran's place will earn you 500,000 merit points. Let's see if I can accumulate 500,000 merit points by refining pills on the third floor for a year.

With over 100 million merit points at hand, I can't possibly spend them all. Wouldn't it be a waste not to treat myself?

Unfortunately, Zhang Lingshan still had a mission to complete, and he had to go back every three days to help Huo Ran refine the Pure Lotus Pill. He couldn't absorb it all at once, which was truly regrettable.

Fortunately, the progress of the immortal consciousness is gratifying.

Thus, with Zhang Lingshan's efforts in refining the Pure Lotus Pill and hiding in the alchemy room to absorb the divine sense crystals, he was able to achieve his goal.

at last.

The section on the panel showing "Immortal Divine Sense" has changed.

[Spirit: Celestial Divine Sense (Level 5: 0/100)]

It's done!

Zhang Lingshan was overjoyed.

It's finally done.

After so much effort, the Immortal Divine Sense has finally broken through to the fifth level.

The moment he broke through, Zhang Lingshan felt that his perception of the world had improved, and he could even see the energy of the elixir.

The entire alchemy pavilion was filled with the aura of pills.

These elixirs varied in color, but black was the most common, clearly indicating the presence of elixirs' poison.

Because everyone who refines elixirs will expel these elixir toxins and impurities into the world, over time, elixir toxins will be everywhere.

Once one's divine sense breaks through to the fifth level, one can see through these poisonous pills and avoid them, absorbing only the beneficial medicinal energy permeating the world.

Although one's physical body is strong enough to purify the poison absorbed by the pills, it is still a good thing to avoid absorbing them and save the effort of purification.

Moreover, once you can clearly see these beneficial elixir energies, you can absorb them more smoothly, thereby improving your cultivation level and greatly benefiting the increase of experience points for the Myriad Laws True Scripture.

all in all.

The breakthrough in the divine consciousness is a great joy, as it elevates one's strength to another level.

'Let's see if, with our current divine sense, we can see through the wall and observe the person next door refining elixirs.'

Zhang Lingshan thought to himself.

Back in the weapon-refining pavilion, he had considered using this method to spy and improve his weapon-refining skills, but his divine sense was insufficient, so he had to give up.

Now that the divine consciousness has finally broken through, how can I be content if I don't give it a try?

'These walls are made of a special material, with various patterns within them—are they array patterns?'

Zhang Lingshan's heart skipped a beat.

It is a monitoring array pattern.

really.

Every move they made was under the control of the Alchemy Pavilion. No matter how many secrets they hid, it was useless.

You think you're safe hiding in the alchemy room, and the private space makes you subconsciously believe that your secrets won't be discovered.

but.

These surveillance array patterns in the walls are watching you all the time.

'I knew long ago that once you enter someone else's place, you can't keep a secret unless you can communicate with their inner space using divine sense like I can. Otherwise, your every move here will be discovered. But I never knew what method they used; I never imagined they integrated surveillance arrays into the walls.'

Zhang Lingshan thought to himself.

This method was so sophisticated that it would have been impossible to detect it if one's divine sense had not been raised to the fifth level.

This was only because he possessed the Soul Tree, which allowed him to focus his attention and collect these array patterns. Combined with his expertise in array formations, he discovered that these were monitoring array patterns.

Otherwise, if I were missing even one of my abilities, I wouldn't know what these patterns were, and would just think they were the brick seams in the wall itself.

'With these monitoring arrays in place, my divine sense can't penetrate them; it would be easily detected, allowing the people in the Alchemy Pavilion to discover my great secret of splitting my soul tree.'

Zhang Lingshan thought to himself.

It seems that this method of spying through the wall will have to be put on hold for the time being.

But it doesn't matter.

As long as one's divine sense continues to improve and breaks through to the sixth level, then one will definitely be able to bypass their monitoring array and thus spy on the neighbors next door.

If he has the chance to return to the Weapon Forging Pavilion, he can take a look at everything and improve his weapon forging skills at an alarming rate.

The saying goes, "It's never a bad thing to have many skills."

Although he was doing much better in the Alchemy Pavilion than in the Weapon Forging Pavilion, and was gaining more and more merit points faster.

However, the skill of weapon crafting should not be abandoned; one should continue to improve it whenever possible.

'So what if they can monitor my frantic refining of the Divine Sense Crystal? Water-type spiritual roots inherently possess purifying abilities. My water-type spiritual root is special; it can purify the resentment within the Divine Sense Crystal. Is there anything strange about that?'

Zhang Lingshan thought to himself.

When refining the Divine Sense Crystal, consuming more Clear Spring Pills can perfectly explain this problem using a water-based spiritual root.

These surveillance arrays are not invincible either.

Even if the master of the Alchemy Pavilion were in person, as long as he didn't use his divine sense to pressure him, he wouldn't be able to judge what level his divine sense had reached.

Therefore, there is absolutely no need to worry about the other party discovering your secret of being able to devour resentment.

He could only use his water-based spiritual root to purify resentment and absorb a little more divine thought than others.

This explains why I absorbed the third level of Divine Sense Crystals instead of exchanging them for higher-level ones.

"However, I'll gradually need to transition to fourth-level Divine Sense Crystals to better conceal myself. My Immortal Divine Sense has just broken through, and the experience gained from a single upgrade with third-level Divine Sense Crystals is relatively less. To break through faster, I'd need to absorb a much larger amount at once, which would be too astonishing and attract attention. Therefore, switching to fourth-level Divine Sense Crystals is just right."

Zhang Lingshan thought to himself.

The ultimate goal is to exchange it for a five-layered divine sense crystal.

Although it is expensive and has a low cost-performance ratio, it contains a higher total amount of divine consciousness, so one piece can enhance more immortal divine consciousness, thus saving time without attracting attention.

Of course, the premise is that you have enough merit points.

So next, we need to start formally refining the elixir.

'Third-tier Immortal Spirit Pills are called Pseudo-Immortal Spirit Pills. I wonder how effective they are, and how they compare to the Immortal Spirit Pills in the Refining Pavilion. If they're on the same level, that would be a huge rip-off.' (End of Chapter)