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

Sudden.

The mist that Zhang Lingshan had condensed began to dissipate.

Breakthrough failed!

Of course, this is only what outsiders see, because outsiders can only see the breakthrough of the Profound Sea Condensing Wave Technique.

Zhang Lingshan had already successfully broken through to the Myriad Laws True Scripture.

The reason why the Xuanhai Ningbo Technique failed to break through was because he had only practiced this technique for a short time, only half a year.

Who wouldn't be astonished to learn that someone could break through to the True Immortal realm in just six months after obtaining a True Immortal cultivation technique?
Therefore, Zhang Lingshan deliberately created the illusion of a failed breakthrough, which made it seem more normal.

With a sigh, he returned to the alchemy furnace and began refining pills, his heart filled with extreme excitement.

I've finally broken through to the True Immortal realm!
The Myriad Laws True Scripture is indeed extraordinary; it can not only absorb the power of all martial arts techniques in the world, but also simulate the cultivation realm of the Profound Sea Condensing Waves Technique.

As expected of a top-tier divine skill that incorporates the Mysterious Heaven Limitless Transformation, this Myriad Laws True Scripture will be my greatest asset in the Immortal Realm.

Without this method, even if I truly broke through to the True Immortal realm with the Profound Sea Condensing Wave Technique, I would still be just an ordinary person.

After all, it's just a cultivation technique from a small place like the Anning Army's Alchemy Pavilion. What good would it do to cultivate it to the highest level?

It's better to have even a single hair from the true scriptures of the myriad methods.

However, although he broke through to the True Immortal realm, the improvement in realm did not bring about much change, and he could be said to have no use for his skills.

The only advantage is that I have more energy, so I can work even harder to refine pills.

However, the maximum speed for refining low-grade immortal pills has been reached, and no matter how hard one tries, there's no way to go any further.

Simply wasting time without improving efficiency is not a very interesting thing.

then.

Zhang Lingshan then began working on his promotion to Gold Medal Alchemist.

Similar to advancing to the silver medal level, advancing to the gold medal level also requires mastering all the pills on the entire floor and successfully refining more than ten pills in one batch.

The pills at the fourth level are all on the same level as the low-grade immortal pills, and learning to refine them from scratch is much more difficult than at the third level.

According to Zhang Lingshan's estimate, even if he were full of energy now and worked without sleep, it would still take at least three years.

If you include the time it takes to refine the Divine Sense Crystal, Flame Crystal, and Low-Grade Immortal Spirit Pill, then the time spent is even longer.

This level of skill and speed was only achieved because Zhang Zixin provided guidance and targeted instruction for intensive practice.

If it were someone else, would they expect to become a gold medalist in three or five years?

Daydreaming!

Without spending decades or even centuries to advance to the gold medal level, one probably wouldn't even be able to refine a complete set of pills for the fourth level.

Many people spend several months or even a year refining a single batch of pills. For example, Pei Daoming from the Weapon Refining Pavilion spent three months refining the top-grade magic weapon, the Longquan Sword.

Refining pills requires more effort than refining weapons, and is therefore much more difficult.

'So my progress was still too fast.'

Zhang Lingshan thought to himself.

It's time to slow down.

He has now broken through to the True Immortal realm, and it is impossible for him to advance to the Profound Immortal realm in a short time.

Furthermore, since he could join forces with Huo Ran to refine the Pure Lotus Pill, he wouldn't be lacking in merit points.

Huo Ran has recently changed his habits and is now extremely nice to Zhang Lingshan, making him feel comfortable when refining pills.

Moreover, there has been no danger at the Alchemy Pavilion in recent years, and life has settled into a peaceful routine.

If that's the case, there's no need to work so hard to improve.

No matter how hard you try, with the resources in the Alchemy Pavilion, you won't improve much. It's better to just take it slow and proceed step by step.
Moreover, rapid advancement can be surprising and raise suspicions, which is not a good thing.

His own water-based spiritual root was already astonishing enough; if he did anything unusual, he would inevitably get into trouble sooner or later.

and so.

In the time that followed, Zhang Lingshan calmed down and focused on refining pills to improve his alchemy skills.

Meanwhile, on the fifth floor, he exchanged for Divine Sense Crystals and Flame Crystals, as well as a new treasure he discovered: Water Jade Crystals.

This stuff is very helpful for the growth of my Xuanbing Tree. It's like an enhanced version of the Clear Spring Pill. It's perfect except for being a bit expensive. One piece costs 400,000 merit points, which is more expensive than a level 5 Divine Sense Crystal.

Five layers of flame crystals are worth 100,000 merit points.

The Divine Sense Crystal is 200,000.

Zhang Lingshan only earns one million merit points for refining a batch of mid-grade Pure Lotus Pills. It takes Huo Ran three days to refine one batch, and they need to rest during that time. In addition, Huo Ran's skill level is limited, which slows down the process.

Therefore, you can earn about ten million merit points in three days.

It seems like a lot.

However, it is not worth spending money to exchange for Water Jade Crystals.

Because Zhang Lingshan is a well-known water-type spiritual root genius, he needs to keep a low profile when refining the Divine Sense Crystal and the Flame Crystal to avoid attracting attention, but he doesn't need to keep a low profile at all when refining the Water Jade Crystal.

Therefore, he can exchange for large quantities of Water Jade Crystals and absorb them to his heart's content.

Ten million merit points can only be exchanged for twenty-five water jade crystals, not even counting the flame crystals and divine sense crystals he needs to exchange for.

In addition, the five-layered spirit rice is also very expensive, costing 30,000 merit points per bowl. If you eat three bowls a day for three days, that's 270,000 merit points.

However, although this spirit rice is expensive, its quality is completely different from the three merit points for a bowl of rice from the Weapon Refining Pavilion.

According to Huo Ran, the spirit rice on the fifth floor was finally a graded spirit rice, a genuine low-grade spirit rice.

In other words.

The spirit rice that Zhang Lingshan ate at the weapon-refining pavilion before was garbage, the dregs of rice, a discarded variety.

'No wonder Song Yi said that he was rewarded with an opportunity to enter the Weapon Refining Pavilion by a noble person after growing mid-grade spirit rice. If low-grade spirit rice has such powerful effects, wouldn't mid-grade spirit rice be able to purify one's soul?'

Zhang Lingshan thought to himself.

Having eaten low-grade spiritual rice from the fifth level for so long, the soul tree has become increasingly lush. Not only are there many divine senses that have been separated, but each one is also extremely agile, many times stronger than the rigid divine senses that were initially separated.

The first part of the consciousness that was separated was simply to see.

Later, the divine consciousness gained the ability to observe.

Later, the ability to record things was acquired.

Now, the divine consciousness has acquired the ability to learn on its own.

Conversely, the efficiency of generating myriad methods is greatly improved.

Because of the ability to learn on one's own, one's own divided spirit is equivalent to the individual figures within the myriad methods of creation. In this way, one can enjoy the special effects of the myriad methods of creation without having to deliberately enter the Gate of Myriad Wonders.

It's a pity I can't observe others refining pills, otherwise my own pill-refining skills would have combined the strengths of many schools and improved much faster.

Now, at most, we can only observe Huo Ran, then learn from him, study him, and eventually surpass him.

This was the only consolation.

'Now that the Soul Tree has been enhanced to this point, focusing solely on alchemy would be a huge waste of its power.'

Zhang Lingshan couldn't help but think to himself.

Currently, all my advancements are on track and progressing steadily. There's no need to cause trouble, but I also can't waste my talents.

Then.

How about this?

On a sudden inspiration, Zhang Lingshan began to send out his divine sense to penetrate into the wall and observe and study the monitoring array patterns on it.

If one could expose their Xuanjin body, they could directly make a copy, which would be much faster than learning it themselves now.

But there's no other way, is there?

Moreover, the imprint of the Xuanjin Body is only recorded within the body; one still needs to comprehend it afterward.

Besides, these monitoring array patterns must be of a very high level. Even with my current Xuanjin body, I dare not improve it, so I probably can't even copy these monitoring array patterns.

Therefore, relying on one's own divided consciousness to comprehend it is not only safe, but also does not affect any of one's actions.

This operation is perfect!
"Brother Lingshan, haven't you exchanged for a storage ring yet?"

One day, during a break from alchemy, he suddenly asked.

Zhang Lingshan said, "Not yet. I think this storage ring is too expensive, requiring 100 million merit points, and I've used all my merit points to improve my strength, so I really don't have the money to exchange for it. Besides, this thing is useless; I've directly eaten and refined everything else, so why would I exchange it for something?"

"Hehe, Brother Lingshan, it seems you haven't started exchanging pills with anyone yet. Did you consume all the pills yourself? You couldn't possibly consume them all, and some of them are useless to you."

Huo Ran laughed and said, "So, at this time, you need to find other alchemists to exchange pills. I recently set up a small exchange meeting where everyone exchanges pills. Do you want to join? The prerequisite for joining is, of course, having a storage ring, because the pills that everyone exchanges are a large number of pills accumulated over several years. You can't just grab big bags and small bags from your pocket, can you?"

"Me, participate?"

Zhang Lingshan shook his head: "My pills are all three or four layers of shoddy stuff, while you are all top-tier alchemists. Who would want my pills?"

"otherwise."

Huo Ran said, "On the third and fourth floors, there are some pills that are useful to us, such as the White Jade Pill. Although a gold-level alchemist can refine them himself, it is not cost-effective at all. It is a waste of time and a great use of a high-level alchemist's talents to refine low-level pills. It is better to find someone to exchange them with."

He was right.

Because, according to the furnace in the alchemy furnace, there is a limit to the time it takes to refine each pill.

Once the limit is reached, even the most skilled alchemist cannot increase the speed, making it too cost-effective for a high-level alchemist to refine this pill.

No one wants to waste time refining garbage unless absolutely necessary.

Huo Ran said that it was perfectly reasonable for a top-tier alchemist to exchange for a lower-grade white jade pill, which was in line with everyone's own interests and considerations.

But the problem is...

Zhang Lingshan couldn't help but ask, "Before I came along, how did you exchange for low-level pills like the White Jade Pill?"

"Then we'll have to ask the steward for help. But the steward takes a cut, but this time you're involved, so there's no cut. Do you think everyone will welcome you?"

Huo Ran laughed and said, "I suggest you sell all those useless pills you refined before, and then stay on the fourth floor for a few years instead of rushing to advance. You'll find that the benefits you gain are much greater than the benefits you'd get if you advanced early!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Lingshan thought to himself, "You've finally revealed your true intentions. You're afraid that if I advance to the Gold Rank early, it will affect your status as the only Pure Lotus Alchemist, so you came up with this plan."

However, it just so happens that I, Zhang Lingshan, also plan to slowly refine pills on the fourth floor and study the monitoring array patterns at the same time.

So Zhang Lingshan nodded and said, "In that case, I'll refine more pills on the fourth floor so I can bring them up to exchange for them. Haha, I can make a fortune again. But I don't have a storage ring, so how can I participate? All my pills are stored in the alchemy room I booked on the fourth floor."

"It's okay, I can lend you some merit points."

Huo Ran asked again, "How many merit points do you have left?"

"Twenty million."

Zhang Lingshan took out his identity token and showed Huo Ran the numbers on it.

Huo Ran was taken aback: "How can you spend so much? What have you exchanged for? It's unbelievable."

"It's just that water jade crystals are too expensive, and I also exchanged for a water-based True Immortal cultivation technique. And this is a cheap True Immortal cultivation technique; I can't afford to exchange for anything more expensive."

Zhang Lingshan said.

Huo Ran said, "Oh my, how come you secretly exchanged for a True Immortal cultivation technique? Why didn't you ask me? What kind of cultivation technique did you exchange for?"

"The Profound Sea Condensing Waves Technique," Zhang Lingshan said.

Suddenly, he slapped his thigh, looking heartbroken: "How did I end up exchanging for this? This is a fourth-level True Immortal cultivation technique, a very low grade! You should have asked me if I had enough merit points to lend you some so you could exchange for something on the fifth level, like the Taiyi True Water Technique. Although it's worth a billion merit points, I could have gritted my teeth and saved some time to lend it to you."

As he spoke, he sighed, seemingly feeling extremely sorry for Zhang Lingshan.

The choice of a true immortal cultivation method affects the speed of cultivation and may even affect future cultivation.

'This Zhang Lingshan is truly foolish. He didn't even consult anyone on such an important matter as choosing a cultivation technique. Even if he didn't ask me, he should have asked Wei Chongqian. Wei Chongqian treats you like a prized possession and would definitely recommend the best to you. I never imagined you, an idiot, would choose the Profound Sea Condensing Wave Technique on the fourth floor yourself. Do you really like to take advantage of others? What a fool!'

Huo Ran chuckled inwardly.

He was initially worried that Zhang Lingshan's early promotion to gold medal would threaten his position as the only Pure Lotus Alchemist.

But unexpectedly, this idiot actually tripped up his own fodder.

If I had known this would happen, why would I have introduced him to the small exchange meeting? It was completely unnecessary.

In fact, it is impossible for ordinary people to accumulate immortal spiritual energy to perfection at the fourth level. It is also extremely difficult to accumulate 50 million merit points. They earn little and are reluctant to spend it, so they will not exchange it for the Profound Sea Condensing Wave Technique.

'But this kid benefited from me refining the Pure Lotus Pill, and that's how he accumulated so many merit points.'

Moreover, his water-based spiritual root was indeed powerful, and he absorbed immortal spiritual energy quickly, which made him feel that he was ready and eager to break through.

'So, we let him choose such a trashy cultivation method.'

Haha, Wei Chongqian probably never expected that he would choose such a fool who only cares about immediate gains.

'Although I chose the Profound Sea Condensing Wave Technique, I can switch to other techniques later, but I will lose the merit points. Fifty million merit points, what can't I do with them?'
Moreover, changing cultivation methods is not so easy; it takes time. This kid has the task of refining the Pure Lotus Pill with me, so where would he find the extra time?
'So this Profound Sea Condensing Waves Technique will probably accompany him for at least a hundred years, hehe.'

Huo Ran put on a look of pity for Zhang Lingshan, but in reality, he was extremely gloating.

The more regretful he appeared, the more it affected Zhang Lingshan's mentality.

This was also Huo Ran's purpose.

He wanted to make Zhang Lingshan realize that he had chosen a trash cultivation method, wasted his water-type spiritual root, and that his future cultivation speed would be far slower than others, causing Zhang Lingshan to regret it deeply and his Dao heart to become unstable.

In that case, this kid will definitely become passive, and his cultivation speed will slow down even more, which is a good thing for Huo Ran, hahaha. (End of this chapter)