I have a proficiency panel for alchemy and immortality

Chapter 116: The Realm of the Great Dao, Eternal Beauty

"Pfft~"

Faintly, there seemed to be a sound of a barrier being broken.

Song Jie's aura suddenly began to rise, and the spiritual power in his body flowed through his meridians like a trickle of water.

After these spiritual powers travel through the meridians, they flow into the Dantian, strengthening the spiritual power in the Dantian.

About a quarter of an hour later, Song Jie's momentum, which had been rising continuously, slowly stopped, and his breath gradually stabilized.

After letting out a long breath, Song Jie suddenly opened his eyes.

In an instant, it seemed as if two rays of light burst out from his eyes.

"Finally reached the sixth level of Qi Refining Stage!"

A look of joy appeared on Song Jie's face.

It has been sixteen years and three months since I traveled to this world.

His cultivation level finally broke through to the sixth level of Qi Refining Stage...

Compared with those cultivators with fewer spiritual root attributes, this cultivation speed can be said to be quite slow.

Probably just slightly faster than an ordinary cultivator with four spiritual roots.

“It took me almost two years to go from the third to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

“It took me almost five years to go from the fourth to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

"It took me eight years to go from the fifth to the sixth level of Qi Refining...

“I don’t know how much time it will take for the next breakthrough.”

Song Jie sighed lightly, then his mind moved and he opened the attribute panel.

【Name: Song Jie】

【Shouyuan: 44/90】

[Spiritual roots: wood, fire, earth, metal, water]

[Realm: Qi Refining Stage Sixth Level (1/100)]

[Kung Fu: Changchun Gong (Da Dao 10000)]

【法术：一阳指（大成1793/2000），龙爪手（大成1793/2000），万剑诀（大成1854/2000），青冥幽火（化境5321/10000）】

[Animal Movement: Phantom Step (Perfect 2321/5000)]

[Supernatural power: none]

【技艺：炼丹（一阶）：回春丹（大成1564/2000），复灵丸（大成1589/2000），迷神丸（大成1546/2000），冲脉丹（大成1047/2000），玄阳丹（大成1974/2000），玄阴丹（大成1752/2000），元阳丹（娴熟124/300），辟谷丹（小成549/600）】

[Skill points: 14052 (can be used to improve the proficiency of skills, spells, body movements, magical powers, and techniques)]

"In the blink of an eye, I am already 44 years old. Time really is unforgiving.

“Fortunately, eight years ago, I used up my skill points to upgrade Changchun Gong to the highest level of the Great Dao.

"Otherwise, I would have been a greasy middle-aged uncle by now."

Because the Changchun Gong exercise itself has the effect of delaying aging, eight years ago, when Song Jie was 36 years old, he looked like a young man under 30 years old.

It was also in that year that Song Jie's proficiency in Changchun Gong reached the highest level, giving him the ability to keep his youthful appearance forever.

This discovery made Song Jie realize that by practicing martial arts to the highest level, one can gain a special ability.

In order to raise his proficiency in Changchun Gong to the highest level, Song Jie consumed more than 7,000 skill points.

At that time, his idea was to speed up the improvement of his cultivation.

Anyway, the skill points were just there and had no great use for the time being, so he kept some of them for emergencies and used the rest to improve his proficiency in Changchun Gong.

Just like that, unknowingly, he reached the highest level and unexpectedly gained the ability to keep his youthful appearance forever.

After his proficiency in Changchun Gong reached the highest level, Song Jie also figured out the proficiency division rules on the attribute panel.

From the beginning of practice, when your proficiency accumulates to 100 points, you can break through to proficiency.

After becoming proficient, continue to accumulate proficiency to 300 points, and then you can break through to minor success.

After achieving minor success, continue to accumulate proficiency to 600 points, and then you can break through to mastery.

After mastering it, continue to accumulate proficiency to one thousand points, and then you can break through to the great success.

After reaching great success, continue to accumulate proficiency to 2,000 points, and then you can break through to perfection.

After perfection, continue to accumulate proficiency to 5,000 points, then you can break through to the realm of perfection.

After reaching the state of transformation, if you continue to accumulate proficiency to 10,000 points, you can break through to the great way.

And the Tao is the highest realm.

After the proficiency reaches the great level, it will not increase further.

"Among spells and body movements, the Azure Nether Fire is the closest to the Great Dao.

“As for skills, they are much worse.

"From this perspective, the next person to break through to the Dao realm should be Qingming Youhuo.

“I wonder if the Azure Nether Fire will have any special abilities after its proficiency reaches the Great Dao.”

Although Song Jie has more than 14,000 skill points, he still did not choose to consume skill points to improve his proficiency in Qingming Youhuo.

For him, whether his proficiency in Qingming Youhuo is improved to the Great Dao will not bring about any qualitative changes to him.

Even if one's proficiency in Qingming Youhuo is raised to the Great Dao, one will gain some special abilities, but this ability is probably related to alchemy.

At present, Song Jie has not encountered any bottleneck in alchemy, so he is not in a hurry to improve his proficiency in the Qingming Youhuo.

The same goes for those pills. Even if the proficiency in making pills is raised to a higher level, it is nothing more than refining pills of higher quality and selling them at a higher price.

But at present, Song Jie's demand for spirit stones is not that great, and the current income from spirit stones is enough for his daily expenses.

So, after careful consideration, he decided to accumulate these skill points and use them in critical areas.

He had a hunch that when he reached the seventh level of Qi Refining and went to Yunmiao City to seek development, he might need to use a large number of skill points.

"My proficiency in refining Xuan Yang Dan is about to break through to the next stage. Once my proficiency in refining Xuan Yang Dan reaches perfection, I should be able to steadily refine high-quality pills."

At present, Song Jie has reached a high level of proficiency in making the pills that he sells on a daily basis. The pills he refines are mostly of top quality, and he can occasionally refine some high-quality pills.

However, not all of the first-grade elixirs that Song Jie sells on a daily basis are of superior and high-quality quality.

Superior and high-quality elixirs are certainly more effective and can be sold at higher prices, but not all cultivators need such high-quality elixirs.

Most cultivators only need low- or medium-quality elixirs to meet their needs.

Song Jie has counted the sales of elixirs of different qualities and found that elixirs of low and medium quality are the most popular among monks.

On the contrary, not many monks buy high-quality and premium elixirs.

Especially for high-quality elixirs, because of their relatively high prices, the number of monks who buy them is the least.

Usually, cultivators who are at the seventh level or above of the Qi Refining Stage will choose to purchase pills of higher quality.

However, these cultivators who are above the seventh level of Qi Refining are rare in the Crescent Moon Market.

Therefore, when Song Jie usually refines the first-grade elixir, he will deliberately control the quality of the elixir to meet the market demand.

Although he could sell high-quality pills at a low price, doing so would disrupt the market price and would not benefit him much, but would offend his peers. Song Jie would naturally not do such a thing.

"My proficiency in making Yuanyang Pills is still at a proficient level. I don't know what Daoist Huangfu has been busy with for the past ten years. There is no news at all."

At the beginning, Huangfu Shen entrusted him to refine the first-grade Yuanyang Pill. He refined a total of fifty pills for Huangfu Shen.

Later, the remaining forty-five glands of the Fire-Bath Pig were all refined into first-grade Yuan Yang Pills. Since then, no first-grade Yuan Yang Pills have been refined again.

The main reason was that the effect of this grade of Yuanyang Pill was too amazing, so Song Jie did not dare to put it on the market, and did not continue to refine this pill.

Moreover, Huangfu Shen has not appeared once in the past ten years, and no one has helped him to go to the Shiwandashan Mountains to obtain the glands of the Fire-Bathed Pig.

Even if Song Jie wanted to refine it, he lacked the raw materials.

Now in Song Jie's storage bag, there are still forty-five first-grade Yuanyang Pills that he refined that year.

Over the years, through running the shop, Song Jie earned nearly 150,000 spirit stones.

Of course, this is the gross income, before deducting various costs.

If the cost of medicinal materials and labor costs are deducted, there will be about 100,000 spirit stones left.

Adding in the shop rent, house rent, weekly spiritual food, and some daily expenses, all these various things add up to almost 50,000 spiritual stones.

Especially spiritual food, which is the biggest expense.

Ever since the store's business got on track, Song Jie went to Lingshan Pavilion almost every week to eat spiritual food, spending at least sixty spiritual stones each time.

Over the years, Song Jie has consumed more than 40,000 yuan worth of spiritual food at Lingshan Pavilion, becoming a VIP customer of Lingshan Pavilion.

It was precisely because of the uninterrupted spiritual food every week and the Changchun Gong that broke through to the Dao realm that Song Jie was able to break through from the third level of the Qi Refining Stage to the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage within these fifteen years.

From this we can see how difficult it is for a cultivator with five-attribute spiritual roots to improve his cultivation level.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, he would have chosen to lie down and die, just like the original owner.

In short, over the years, after deducting daily costs, Song Jie earned less than 50,000 spirit stones.

For an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator, this amount of spirit stones is definitely a huge number.

Many low-level cultivators may not be able to earn so many spirit stones in their entire lives.

After Song Jie had so many spirit stones, the first thing he did was to buy a storage bag.

But storage bags are only sold in big cities like Yunmiao City. Ordinary markets don’t sell such high-end goods.

Since most Qi Refining cultivators cannot afford it and there is no market for it, it is naturally not sold.

In order to buy a storage bag, Song Jie used some connections a while ago and asked someone to buy one from Yunmiao City.

This storage bag cost him a total of 33,000 spirit stones. The storage bag itself was worth 30,000 spirit stones, and the remaining 3,000 spirit stones were equivalent to the errand purchasing fee.

In Yunmiao City, the cheapest storage bag costs ten thousand spirit stones, which is the price of one spirit crystal.

The storage bag, which costs the same as a spirit crystal, has the smallest storage space, with a capacity of only about three hu.

The storage bag that costs three spirit crystals has a capacity of ten hu.

If we use the measurement units before Song Jie traveled through time, ten hu would be one cubic meter.

With just a simple comparison, you can find that buying a storage bag with three spirit crystals is obviously more cost-effective.

It just so happened that Song Jie also had that many spirit stones, so he directly chose a storage bag with a capacity of ten hu.

With this storage bag, Song Jie immediately put all his personal belongings into the storage bag and immediately felt much more relaxed and convenient.

The price of convenience and ease was that Song Jie's spirit stones instantly decreased a lot, leaving only more than 15,000 spirit stones.

“There are still about thirty-five years until the Tongtian Secret Realm opens.

"That is to say, I want to break through to the tenth level of Qi Refining within thirty-five years...

“It took me eight years to break through from the fifth level of Qi Refining to the sixth level.

“It is estimated that the time required to break through from the sixth level of Qi Refining Stage to the seventh level will not be shorter than eight years.

“As you progress further, the time it takes to break through your cultivation realm will also increase.

“At this rate, I probably won’t be able to reach the tenth level of Qi Refining Stage in thirty-five years.

“It seems that I need to think of a way to speed up the improvement of my cultivation.

"If you continue to practice at this slow pace, you won't be able to catch up with the Tongtian Secret Realm.

"Heavenly Path Foundation Building...Alas~"

Song Jie sighed lightly, put away the attribute panel, and looked at the sky outside which was already getting bright.

He immediately got up, washed, had a simple breakfast, and then went to the yard to practice spells and body movements for a while.

After practicing magic and body techniques, he sat cross-legged and practiced Changchun Gong for a while.

After Changchun Gong broke through to the Dao realm, Song Jie not only increased his cultivation speed, but also increased his spiritual energy recovery speed.

In addition, over the years, the Chongmai Dan has been used to widen the meridians a little bit, making the flow of spiritual energy smoother.

Not long after, Song Jie's spiritual power returned to its best condition.

He immediately took Jinjiao, who had only grown a little bit but still looked cute, out.

After so many years of living together, Song Jie had long since taken off the beast-taming ring on Jinjiao's neck.

Now even if Song Jie asked Jin Jiao to leave him, Jin Jiao would not be willing to do so.

After all, every time Song Jie went to Lingshan Pavilion to eat spiritual food, he would bring Jinjiao with him.

He did not treat Jinjiao badly just because it was his pet.

Moreover, Song Jie practiced alchemy almost every day. As a one-horned alchemy beast, Jinjiao could absorb the impurities produced in the alchemy furnace when the alchemist was making the elixir, and practice accordingly.

Following Song Jie, eating and drinking well, and enjoying a suitable environment for cultivation, Jinjiao naturally didn't want to leave.

After these years of practice, Jinjiao's cultivation has reached the fifth level of Qi Refining Stage.

Under normal circumstances, the speed at which a monster's cultivation level improves will be slower than that of a cultivator.

Even though the Golden Horn is a beast of luck and has the blessing of luck, its cultivation speed will not be too fast.

But even so, Jinjiao's cultivation is almost catching up with Song Jie.

This also gave Song Jie a sense of urgency.

How embarrassing it would be if my cultivation was surpassed by the pet I had raised since childhood.

Especially this pet, it doesn't seem to have grown much.

……

Familiar with the route, Song Jie soon brought Jin Jiao to the entrance of the Danqi Pavilion.

Before he could even enter, he saw two young men with almost identical looks walking out of the Alchemy Pavilion.

When the two young men saw Song Jie, their eyes lit up, their faces were filled with joyful smiles, and they said in unison:

"Good morning, godfather~"

Song Jie nodded with a smile, then asked in confusion: "The store has just opened for a while, what are you going out for?"

(End of this chapter)