After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Chapter 73 Foundation Establishment Pill? Refining Failed

Mo Yu: I've hesitated for a long time, I know. I can't be presumptuous as to bother you, but I still want to ask, how are you doing lately, Fairy?

Lin Yan didn't actually want to reply. She knew how the other person felt about her, and judging from his posture, he hadn't given up on those feelings. If she replied, it would give him hope and make it seem like she was playing hard to get.

But not replying would be impolite. After thinking about it, I decided to give a brief reply.

An anonymous monk: Pretty good, rather busy.

A brief reply, without a trace of ambiguity, is best left unsaid to avoid giving the other person unnecessary cues.

Exiting the chat with Mo Yu, and seeing that Mu Feng hadn't replied yet, I went to Jade Disc Plaza and entered the keyword "Richeng Auction House" to search. I actually found some messages.

There was no specific information revealed about the mysterious auction item; most of it was just speculation among the cultivators. The post from the auction house only included the time for sending the item for testing.

Auctioneers must release all information about the items up to two weeks before the auction begins. If you want to consign your items to auction, you must have them appraised and tested before then.

Lin Yan wondered if she could refine a box of Heaven-grade Foundation Establishment Pills and send it to auction.

The Heavenly Grade Foundation Establishment Pill is not sold by the Chamber of Commerce. Even if it were available, it would be monopolized by major sects and powerful families, and would usually be given to the most talented members of the new generation.

In the market, the price of the Heavenly Foundation Building Pill is very high, and the profit margin is extremely high!
But could she really refine a Heaven-grade pill, given its high difficulty and low success rate? Lin Yan was quite unsure...

The reason she could refine basic pills so well was because she had precise control over spiritual energy, allowing her to produce high-quality basic pills. However, refining intermediate pills was more than a hundred times more difficult than refining basic ones.

Alchemy requires not only precise control of spiritual energy, but also a thorough understanding of the properties and medicinal effects of the materials in order to better integrate them.

No matter how much theoretical knowledge you read, it's not as good as hands-on practice. Summarize any problems you encounter during the refining process and ask Mu Feng. If he doesn't know either, wait until the Alchemy Conference to learn it yourself; if that doesn't work, try learning from him!

She didn't know how long she stayed in the alchemy room, so she moved the spiritual fruit and mystic herbs into a storage bag without any spiritual imprint and placed it on the coffee table.

He waved his hand, called the two little ones out and gave them some instructions, before going downstairs to rent a pill-refining room. He rented it for about ten days.

Upon entering the alchemy room, the newly purchased alchemy furnace was placed on the platform. This was a fourth-grade alchemy furnace, which needed to be opened the first time it was used. After that, it would not need to be opened. Of course, if a cultivator had the leisure, opening the furnace every time they refined pills would not have any impact.

Lin Yan moved all the materials out, sorted them by batch, and then used her spiritual power to remove impurities. The process went quite smoothly, except when processing the third-tier beast cores, she could clearly feel the unstable power inside the beast cores.

Even before starting the alchemy process, one could clearly sense that the beast core was difficult to control. If the power suddenly became unstable and the beast core exploded during the alchemy process, one couldn't imagine what would happen inside the furnace with its blazing fire...

Suddenly, he understood Mu Feng's suggestion to buy a better alchemy furnace, saying that it was more reliable to refine high-grade pills using a good furnace. Low-quality furnaces are not sturdy, and when they explode, fragments and flames fly everywhere, easily injuring the alchemist.

A high-quality alchemy furnace is different. It is more robust and stable. Even if it explodes, only the internal explosion will occur, and fragments and alchemical fire will not scatter! The alchemist's safety is also guaranteed to a certain extent.

After processing the first batch of materials, Lin Yan conjured a flame in her hand and sent it flying towards the alchemy furnace. The furnace heated up, its walls glowing red-hot. With a flick of her sleeve, the processed materials flew into the furnace, and the lid closed. The materials for the Foundation Establishment Pill were all thrown in at once. Once the materials were in, the first thing to address was the fluctuation of the beast core's power. The power contained within the beast core needed to be stabilized and able to fuse with the other materials.

Furthermore, this power will not dissipate or fluctuate after the beast core dissolves.

Foundation Establishment Pills can assist cultivators in establishing their foundation, and the power refined from the beast core plays a very important role.

She had previously used her control over spiritual energy to directly dissolve the power within a first-tier beast core, which was simpler than refining it. And this was the power of a third-tier beast core, making it far more difficult!

After a short while, Lin Yan began to feel overwhelmed. The loss of spiritual energy and the concentration of mental energy caused her to show signs of fatigue.

That was too reckless. I should have practiced with first-tier beast cores first to get a feel for it. The success of refining basic pills gave me a strange sense of confidence. Pride comes before a fall!

Barely suppressing the restless power of the beast core, she quickly decomposed the other materials and quenched them with high temperatures.

After finishing the alchemy, Lin Yan was utterly exhausted, as if she had lost all her strength, with no spiritual energy left in her body. She hadn't expected the Foundation Establishment Pill to be so difficult to refine; just one batch had drained her spiritual energy. Even when she had fought fiercely against powerful demonic beasts, she had never felt so tired.

Lin Yan did not immediately pay attention to the pills in the furnace. Instead, she took out spirit stones to replenish her spiritual power, and then meditated to regulate her body and promote the circulation of spiritual power to eliminate the feeling of fatigue.

She let out a long breath before picking up the box containing the pills. With a flick of her fingers, the lid of the alchemy furnace opened, and the pills flew out, arranging themselves neatly in the box. The moment the lid opened, the fragrance of Foundation Establishment Pills wafted out, filling the entire alchemy room with a medicinal aroma.

Lin Yan did not feel happy at the pleasant aroma of the medicine. After the pill was condensed, she opened the furnace lid to take out the pill. The stronger the aroma that escaped, the more it meant that most of the essence of the materials had been refined into qi and was not locked in the pill, which meant that the quality of the pill was not very good.

The pills in the box weren't as smooth as the Qi-replenishing and healing pills I'd refined before. They were like the peel of a dried orange, wrinkled and crisscrossed with grooves. Even just rolling mud into a ball would be smoother.

It failed in every aspect—color, appearance, and shape. When the box was placed on the testing artifact in the alchemy room, the pointer seemed to move, yet also appeared not to...

Good heavens, not even a first-grade?

Lin Yan wasn't discouraged. To succeed in refining a Foundation Establishment Pill on the first try required an exceptionally gifted cultivator. She knew her own limitations; how could she possibly refine a Foundation Establishment Pill without accumulating experience through multiple attempts?

Seeing perfectly good materials turned into waste is like a huge waste of spirit stones; it pains me to the core!

Fortunately, the Foundation Establishment Pill was successfully refined, so the current losses can be recovered! Thinking this way, I felt a little comforted.

She hurriedly took out her communication jade disc, summarized the entire process of the alchemy, meticulously recorded every step that was not done well and every problem that arose, and attached corresponding solutions.

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