Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 837 Moonlight's Request, Illusion God Pill

A few days later.

Huanyue Sect, Wangyue Mountain.

Yang Zhengshan welcomed an expected guest, Elder Yueming.

Yang Minghao had already mentioned to him that Yueming was coming to visit, so he had been waiting for Elder Yueming to come over for the past few days.

In the small courtyard, under the lush willow trees, Yang Zhengshan personally brewed and prepared tea.

"Elder Yueming, please!" Yang Zhengshan poured Yueming a cup of tea and said with a smile.

"Hehe, then I won't stand on ceremony!" Yueming picked up the tea and savored it carefully.

"Hmm, this tea?"

He paused slightly as the tea entered his throat.

"This is Jingyuchun, which has the effect of calming the mind and nourishing the spirit!" Yang Zhengshan said casually.

Jingyuchun comes from the land of spiritual origin, and is a wild tea tree from that land. No one knows where the seeds of this tea tree came from.

Last year, a spiritual farmer at the spiritual plant center accidentally discovered this tea tree. Feeling that this tea tree was somewhat special, he tried processing some of it and discovered that this tea tree could actually calm the mind and focus the spirit.

Then this tea tree came into the view of the Spirit Plants Department. The department arranged for several experienced spirit farmers to take special care of this tea tree and planned to cultivate more of them.

At the beginning of this year, Yang Mingcheng specially brought some newly roasted tea for Yang Zhengshan to taste. After tasting it, Yang Zhengshan found that the tea not only had the effect of calming the mind and focusing the spirit, but also nourished the soul and calmed the mind, just like a light drizzle soaking the heart. Therefore, Yang Zhengshan named it Jingyuchun (Quiet Rain Spring).

Yang Zhengshan estimated that the quality of Jingyuchun tea should have reached the level of second-tier spiritual tea, which is a grade higher than Linglu tea.

Currently, the yield of Jingyuchun is still very low, and Yang Zhengshan only has one jin (500 grams) of it.

However, the Lingzhi Department is already vigorously cultivating Jingyuchun tea trees, and it is believed that the yield of Jingyuchun will increase in a few years.

“Good tea!”

Yueming felt his mind had become much calmer, and at the same time, he vaguely felt that his soul had grown a little. Although it was only a little, it was still a significant improvement for him.

Martial artists are not immortal cultivators. Immortal cultivators' spiritual souls grow much faster, while martial artists' spiritual souls improve extremely slowly. Moreover, because they do not have spiritual apertures, they cannot cultivate techniques to enhance their spiritual souls.

"Elder Yueming, is there something you need from me?" Yang Zhengshan didn't say much over the tea, mainly because he didn't have many Jingyuchun teas on hand, and he would be embarrassed if Yueming wanted to ask him for some.

If I give him some, he doesn't have much; if I don't, I'll seem stingy.

Yueming's expression turned serious, and he said, "I do indeed have something that I need Elder Yang's help with!"

Yang Zhengshan adopted a posture of listening attentively.

Yueming didn't hide anything, took out a jade slip and handed it to him, saying, "This old man would like to ask Elder Yang to refine a kind of pill!"

"Elixir!"

Yang Zhengshan took the jade slip and channeled his spiritual consciousness into it.

Since Yueming sought him out to refine pills, they must not be ordinary pills. If they were pills for martial artists, there would be no need to seek him out, as there are many martial artist alchemists within the Illusion Moon Sect.

The Illusionary God Pill is a second-tier elixir. Its main ingredient is a 300-year-old Nine Netherworld Ghost Orchid, and its auxiliary ingredients include Concentration Fruit, Yin Moon Stone Powder, Hundred-Year-Old Soul Grass, and the essence blood of ice-attribute exotic beasts.

It has the effects of stabilizing the soul, repairing soul trauma, enhancing the soul, and strengthening spiritual awareness.

For cultivators, this is an excellent elixir.

For martial artists, this is an indispensable elixir.

As mentioned before, martial artists cannot cultivate techniques related to the soul because they lack spiritual apertures, but the key to advancing from the Golden Body Realm to the Soul Realm lies in the soul.

If a martial artist cannot find a way to enhance their divine soul, they will be unable to advance to the Divine Soul Realm.

For immortal cultivators, this Illusionary God Pill is at most an added bonus, but for martial artists, it is a lifeline.

The purpose of Yueming asking him to refine this kind of pill is obvious: he hopes to use the Illusion God Pill to break through to the Divine Soul Realm, which is the Martial Immortal Realm.

"Can Elder Yang refine this Illusion God Pill?"

Seeing Yang Zhengshan withdraw his spiritual consciousness from the jade slip, Yueming couldn't help but ask nervously.

The Illusion God Pill is a pill for immortal cultivators, and it is very difficult for martial arts alchemists to refine it. If he wants to find someone to refine the Illusion God Pill, he must find a second-level immortal cultivator alchemist.

But where are these immortal alchemists so easy to find?

Although Master Jingshui is a cultivator, he is not an alchemist, and the other cultivators in the Illusion Moon Sect are not outstanding alchemists either.

As for outsiders, even if someone is willing to help him, he still has to worry about whether that person will take advantage of him.

Pills are not something you can just take casually. If the other party tampers with the pills, they could make him wish he were dead.

Yang Zhengshan considered for a moment and said, "Although I can refine second-tier pills, my pill refining skills are only barely at the second tier!"

"The Illusion God Pill is very difficult to refine. To be honest, if I were to refine it, I might not be able to succeed even once out of ten attempts!"

"Perhaps it will take dozens of batches to improve the success rate of pill refining!"

He was actually hiding his true abilities. With the help of the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, he was confident that he could increase the success rate of pills to 40% within ten furnaces.

Even the Illusionary God Pill is not as difficult to refine as the Foundation Establishment Pill.

The reason he said that was because he was going to refine pills for someone else.

When it comes to refining pills for oneself, anything goes, but when it comes to refining pills for others, one cannot let others have too high expectations, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to them if something goes wrong.

Moreover, the medicinal materials used in this Illusionary God Pill are not simple. Although the Nine Nether Ghost Orchid is only a second-tier spiritual herb, it is extremely rare due to its special requirements for the growing environment.

The Nine Netherworld Orchid has the effect of enhancing the soul. Yang Zhengshan remembered that in Lotus Heart Valley, a single Nine Netherworld Orchid cost more than 800 spirit stones.

If Yueming only had two or three Nine Netherworld Orchids, Yang Zhengshan really wouldn't be confident in refining them.

Yueming hesitated for a moment, but he quickly made up his mind because he had no other choice.

He is not old yet, only 180 years old, and his cultivation has reached the mid-stage of the Golden Body Realm. If he had the help of the Illusion God Pill, he might have a chance to break through to the Divine Soul Realm. But without the Illusion God Pill, he would never be able to glimpse the mysteries of the Divine Soul Realm in his lifetime.

Moreover, he had already waited twenty years, and now that he had finally encountered Yang Zhengshan, a celestial alchemist who might be able to refine the Illusionary God Pill, he didn't want to wait any longer. He took out a storage bag and said, "These are twenty portions of medicinal herbs. Please take good care of them, Elder Yang!"

"If we can successfully refine it, we'll each take half!"

When hiring someone to refine elixirs, each party takes half; this is the rule of immortal alchemists.

This applies to both formulas that alchemists are familiar with and those that they are just beginning to learn.

Few alchemists are willing to lose money refining pills for others unless the pill formula provided by the other party is extremely valuable.

"Alright, Elder Yueming, rest assured, I will do my best to refine this Illusion God Pill!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile as he took the storage bag.

The Illusionary God Pill wasn't of much help to him. He already had the "Penetrating Void Refining Nerve Technique," so there was no need to use pills to enhance his soul. Moreover, more pills weren't necessarily better; consuming too many would leave behind pill toxins, and accumulating too much pill toxins could even form a pill barrier. Once a pill barrier was formed, breaking through would become extremely difficult.

Compared to pills that enhance the soul, he actually needs pills that enhance mana, such as the Spirit Gathering Pill, which is specifically designed to assist Foundation Establishment cultivators in their cultivation.

The formula for the pill that Yang Zhengshan is currently researching is the formula for the Gathering Spirit Pill.

However, although he doesn't need the Illusion God Pill, Yu Qingyi and the others do.

"How long will it take to complete the refining?" Yueming asked.

Yang Zhengshan thought for a moment and said, "It will take at least a year!"

Familiarizing oneself with the formula, attempting to refine it, and then gradually identifying and supplementing deficiencies and summarizing experience is a very time-consuming and energy-intensive process.

Yang Zhengshan couldn't possibly put aside his cultivation to focus on researching the formula for the Illusion God Pill; he could only refine it slowly in his spare time.

Fortunately, he had already started refining the Spirit Gathering Pill; otherwise, this process would have been delayed even further.

"Very well, I await Elder Yang's good news!"

Yueming understood the principle of trusting those you employ and not employing those you don't trust, so he didn't urge Yang Zhengshan.

After seeing Yueming off, Yang Zhengshan studied the formula for the Illusion God Pill for a while, and then looked at the medicinal herbs that Yueming had given him.

After a careful inspection, it was found that Yueming had made thorough preparations, with every kind of medicinal herb readily available.

Afterwards, Yang Zhengshan deactivated the formation and returned to the Spirit Source Land.

He cultivated while also pondering the art of alchemy.

However, he is still refining the Spirit Gathering Pill.

The Spirit Gathering Pill is one of the easier-to-refine second-tier pills, and the required medicinal materials are also relatively common. After all, this is the pill that Foundation Establishment cultivators consume the most. If its medicinal materials were rare and the refining difficulty were too great, it would not be the pill that Foundation Establishment cultivators consume the most.

The value of a pill depends on its efficacy. If its efficacy is special, its value will be higher, such as the Foundation Building Pill.

As for whether the medicinal materials needed for refining are precious, it depends on their efficacy. If their efficacy does not match the preciousness of the medicinal materials, then no one will refine them, because it is better to consume the medicinal materials directly than to refine them into a pill with little efficacy.

Generally speaking, the more common a pill is, the more common the medicinal materials required to refine it are, such as Jade Marrow Pill and Spirit Gathering Pill.

The formula for this elixir has evolved over countless years, undergoing numerous trials and modifications by our predecessors. Some of the precious medicinal materials in the formula have been replaced with more common, even cultivable, herbs.

This is how the elixir formula we know today came to be.

The Illusionary God Pill is different from the Spirit Gathering Pill. The main ingredient of the Illusionary God Pill is the Nine Nether Ghost Orchid, which is a special herb and it is difficult to find a substitute.

Therefore, the Illusionary God Pill is far more precious and difficult to refine than the Spirit Gathering Pill.

Yang Zhengshan successfully refined a batch of Spirit Gathering Pills after only three attempts.

However, when he began to try to refine the Illusion God Pill, he failed five times in a row.

When he first tried to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, he failed three times in a row. This doesn't mean that the Illusion God Pill was more difficult to refine than the Foundation Establishment Pill, but rather that Yang Zhengshan's understanding of the Illusion God Pill's formula was not thorough enough.

Before refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, Yang Zhengshan had carefully studied the formula for several years before attempting to refine it. Now, he had only obtained the formula for the Illusion God Pill for two or three months, and he still did not have a deep understanding of many aspects of the formula.

His attempt to refine the Illusion God Pill was also a process of gaining a deeper understanding of the pill formula.

"This Illusion God Pill is really hard to come by!"

Inside the Pill Hall, Yang Zhengshan looked at the few dull, worthless pills in the jade plate and sighed with some frustration.

More than three months have passed since he obtained the pill formula. He first refined the Spirit Gathering Pill, and then spent a month familiarizing himself with the formula for the Illusion God Pill. In the last half month, he refined five batches of Illusion God Pills in a row, all of which ended in failure.

"The Nine Netherworld Ghost Orchid requires a special refining technique. The technique itself isn't difficult to learn, but mastering it is extremely challenging!"

"If you want to refine the Illusion God Pill, you must first master this technique!"

Yang Zhengshan took out the formula for the Illusionary God Pill and examined it carefully once more.

The Nine Netherworld Orchid is special because it grows in cold, yin places and is an extremely yin-attribute herb. To refine such a yin-attribute herb in a furnace with rising flames, a special method must be used to protect the medicinal properties of the Nine Netherworld Orchid.

The formula records this technique, called the Pure Heart Hand. This technique is extremely special; it is a set of techniques for controlling the power of the soul.

At first, Yang Zhengshan thought it was just a common method for processing medicinal herbs, but now it seems that this method contains a deep secret.

Its value may even surpass the formula for the Illusionary God Pill.

Yang Zhengshan was naturally no stranger to controlling the power of the soul. He had cultivated the Soul Raven Dividing Technique and the Soul Capturing Technique, which were also techniques for controlling the power of the soul. At the same time, he had been practicing the Soul-Shaking Bell and the Soul-Breaking Cone, which also involved the control of the soul.

In short, Yang Zhengshan can now be considered a Foundation Establishment cultivator specializing in spirit and soul.

Logically speaking, he should have been able to master this kind of technique involving the control of the soul easily, but he actually felt awkward when facing the Pure Heart Hand.

"What's wrong?"

Yang Zhengshan frowned and fell into deep thought.

The technique looks simple, but it's actually quite difficult to execute.

Just then, Yang Zhengshan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a possibility.

He reached out and took a jade slip, probed it with his divine sense, and after a moment, a faint smile appeared on his face.

(End of this chapter)