Soul Awakening: Planting Green Lotus in the Infinite Abyss

Chapter 38: Alchemy and Dan

There is a huge price difference between the top-grade foundation-building pill and the perfect foundation-building pill.

In the God of Wealth Mall, a perfect foundation-building pill costs 270 soul coins, but a top-grade foundation-building pill costs only 150.

Pills of the same level but different qualities will naturally have different prices.

Non-top-grade elixirs are cheaper, with low-grade foundation-building pills costing sixty, mid-grade pills costing eighty, and high-grade pills costing ninety.

No matter what kind of second-level elixir, as long as it is of inferior quality, the price is fixed at only sixty. Most people will not eat it because it contains elixir poison.

"Only seven came out, I didn't catch them!"

Qin Shu reviewed the previous alchemy process and felt that there was some delay in mixing the medicine liquid, which caused a lot of spiritual power to evaporate.

After learning the reason, he adjusted himself and continued.

Repeat the steps, but more skillfully.

And the rhythm is well controlled.

The furnace was opened again, and ten purple-red foundation-building pills flew into the jade bottle, all of them were still top quality.

"Almost there, come on!"

The third time, ten pills, top quality.

The fourth time, a perfect one finally appeared, and the elixir pattern manifested a mysterious Taoist platform.

This continued until the third day, when he refined the tenth furnace of Foundation Establishment Pills, finally reaching a full furnace of perfect grade.

"Hahaha! Success."

For a moment, my heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment.

Ten furnaces of pills, ninety-seven pills, twenty-one of which are perfect, and the remaining seventy-six are top quality.

Let's do the math. For ten furnaces of elixirs, the purchase price of a perfect grade elixir is the same as the selling price. A top grade elixir can be sold for 150, but the purchase price can only be 130.

In more than two days, after deducting the cost of 560 Soul Coins, the net profit was 14,090 Soul Coins.

If they were all perfect-grade Foundation Establishment Pills, and the furnace was full of one hundred, the profit would be twenty-seven thousand minus five hundred and sixty, or twenty-six thousand four hundred and forty soul coins.

But even so, Qin Shu still felt slow.

It would take decades to collect 900 million soul coins.

"Improve your cultivation first."

Without thinking, he swallowed three perfect-grade foundation-building pills in one gulp, circulated his true energy, and refined it with all his strength.

At the same time, spiritual energy from the outside world was also gathering towards him.

In addition to its own spiritual power, the Foundation Establishment Pill also has the effect of speeding up the circulation of true essence and accelerating the gathering of spiritual energy.

The higher the grade of the foundation-building pill, the stronger its spirit-gathering effect.

Qin Shu only took half a day to refine the three foundation-building pills.

Not only was there no residual poison in his body, but the purity of his true essence also did not decrease at all, which saved him a month of hard training.

Within the Dantian Qi Sea, the virtual image of the lotus stem has condensed by two-thirds.

"The effect is quite strong. If it were an ordinary foundation building, it would probably be equivalent to half a year of hard training."

Obviously, he was very satisfied with the effect of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, although the perfect-grade foundation-building pill has no residual poison, is very effective and has no drug resistance, the cultivation level is increasing too fast and still needs to settle down.

Qin Shu's method of precipitation is alchemy.

The materials for the foundation-building pill have been used up, so I'll change to another type of pill to refine.

Second-level elixir, pure essence elixir.

Pure Yuan Dan is used to refine one's own true essence and achieve the purpose of pure true essence so as to better break through the realm.

With the experience of refining foundation-building pills, Qin Shu's first furnace of pure Yuan pills was full, and a perfect pill appeared, with pill patterns like burning flames.

He observed it and it looked very much like the burning true fire of creation.

The pure Yuan Dan appears in the shape of orange-yellow jade beads with a warm color.

After taking one pill, the true energy in your body will start to circulate.

The medicinal power of one perfect-grade Pure Yuan Pill can last in the body for a month, continuously refining the awakener's true essence, and it will not stop even during the process of cultivation.

The value is lower than the perfect foundation-building pill, two hundred and thirty soul coins.

After he took one, he felt that it was useless. The spiritual power of the Pure Yuan Pill could not help him refine his true essence, but could only be transformed into ordinary spiritual power to help him improve his cultivation.

The cultivation level brought by this one pill, which is also at the perfect level, is not even half of the effect of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

The price/performance ratio is quite low.

Qin Shu looked disgusted and said, "Continue to refine it, and then sell it to the God of Wealth Mall."

It is easier to make than the Foundation Establishment Pill. With ten furnaces of Pure Yuan Pill, the fifth furnace is already full of perfect quality.

For the next five furnaces, he did not make any mistakes at all, and they were exactly seventy perfect and twenty-nine top quality.

The profit was close to twenty thousand.

In this way, he spent three days refining pills, half a day practicing, and another half a day feeding Xiaoyan. He fed her perfect-grade foundation-building pills, three pills at a time.

This went on for nearly a month, and he had more than 400 pills in his hands.

All the perfect grade foundation-building pills were eaten.

The rest are top-grade foundation-building pills, some perfect and some top-grade pure Yuan pills, recovery pills, detoxification pills and Ju Yuan pills.

Qin Shu kept five of each of these perfect-grade pills and planned to sell the rest.

Come to the God of Wealth Mall, go up to the second floor, and you will see the elixir purchasing area.

When he took out these pills, the pharmacist in charge of the appraisal was dumbfounded and asked, "Did you make all of these? The rate of producing perfect-grade pills is actually over 50%."

Qin Shu was in a hurry to get the money, so he didn't hide his skills at all. He nodded and said, "Not bad, calculate how much it costs."

"Okay, wait a moment." The pharmacist's attitude instantly became humble. After a calculation, he said, "Perfect Pure Yuan Pills are seventy, sixteen thousand one hundred soul coins, and top grade ones are twenty-nine, three thousand four hundred and eighty soul coins... A total of seventy-three thousand two hundred and sixty soul coins."

"Okay, transfer the money." Qin Shu handed over the Soul Card.

After integrating the Soul Card that Luo Qingning had given him before, this Soul Card also became a Golden Soul Card, with which he could travel freely on the sixth floor and below.

The pharmacist took it respectfully with both hands and put the soul coin in it.

Afterwards, Qin Shu left here without any delay, came to the medicinal materials area, and purchased one hundred furnaces of medicinal materials for foundation-building pills.

During the next three months, he practiced by refining medicine and taking pills.

Soon the foundation will be established and it will be ready to form the elixir.

The elixir formed is the virtual elixir, which can be regarded as the transition from foundation building to golden elixir.

This process was also a natural progression for him.

But he did not break through immediately. Instead, he took three days to adjust his condition to the best before activating the formation in the villa and officially going into seclusion.

In the Dantian Qi Sea, a green lotus is completely condensed by the true essence of creation.

Inside the lotus pod, there is nothing in the holes.

Beneath the green lotus, the sea of ​​qi is vast and boundless.

Qin Shu closed his eyes and concentrated, his qi sea churning and his true energy circulating, flowing endlessly within his body.

The surrounding spiritual energy began to gather towards him, condensing at his side, turning into spiritual mist, and pouring into his seven orifices and all the major acupoints throughout his body.

After completing one big cycle, it transforms into the true essence of creation and merges into the qi sea.

The true essence of creation in the sea of ​​​​qi is continuously transported to the true essence green lotus until it reaches the hole in the lotus pod.

Inside the lotus pod hole, the essence of creation condenses, just like refining an elixir. The liquid essence transforms into a solid state under strong pressure.

This process takes a very long time, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is a very slow process.

For a whole month, Qin Shu didn't come out of the secret room.

The true energy in the lotus pod hole transforms from liquid into round beads the size of rice grains, and then continues to grow larger.

The spiritual energy around him was also constantly condensing, wrapping his entire body.

The Qi sea in Dantian is constantly expanding, and the virtual Dan in the lotus hole is continuously growing.

When it reached the size of an adult's thumb, a green light flashed, and it began to spin, flying out from the hole in the lotus pod, hovering above the Zhenyuan Green Lotus, bursting out with enormous spiritual power.

Qin Shu only felt a bang in his sea of ​​consciousness, and the divine thoughts transformed from his spiritual consciousness spread in all directions.

One hundred meters, two hundred meters... one kilometer, two kilometers, and only stopped at five kilometers.

Immediately afterwards, the chapter on refining qi and transforming into spirit from the Creation Hunyuan Sutra was passed down.

The Jindan stage has been achieved.

(End of this chapter)