The road is vague

Chapter 47 Qi Gathering Pill

After returning to his master's sect, Li Mo began to prepare for alchemy.

He did not plan to explore the mausoleum mentioned by the Jade Fox Wang Ying in the near future.

Firstly, according to Wang Ying, the mausoleum had been emptied, leaving only a mysterious altar, which did not sound like what he urgently needed. Secondly, he knew nothing about the way of runes, so he needed to at least prepare a little and understand the basic knowledge before going. Thirdly, for him now, refining the Qi Gathering Pill was undoubtedly more important.

After all, as long as you have the cultivation, everything will be easy.

Moreover, the summer thunderstorm season is coming, and he must be prepared for it.

A month later.

While Li Mo was improving his magical powers, he was also carefully preparing for alchemy to ensure that everything would be foolproof.

He felt that his current cultivation had reached the peak of the fourth level of Qi training. As long as he accumulated a few more days, he could try to break through to the fifth level of Qi training.

During the afternoon feeding, Li Mo met Yang Guang.

"What have you been busy with lately?"

When Yang Guang saw Li Mo, he walked over happily.

"Ma Ling and Niu Li, I haven't seen them for a while because they've been busy completing their assigned tasks. A few days ago, I heard something happened to Ma Ling's family. It seems the elders in her family chose the wrong side during the power transition within the Zhanghe faction and were suppressed. Niu Li, on the other hand, got lucky. He saved a wealthy businessman while carrying out his mission and I heard he made quite a bit of money..."

"what?"

Li Mo was surprised for a while.

He then explained to Yang Guang that he was in seclusion preparing for alchemy.

The vast majority of the second-year disciples in the Training Hall have begun to go out to perform various commissioned tasks. In the process, they will have various encounters, and may even make friends with senior teachers and gain more resources for cultivation. At the same time, their families will try their best to raise money and provide a certain degree of support. Therefore, the strength of the disciples in the Training Hall will improve rapidly during this period.

Although Li Mo earned a lot of money from the Jade Fox Wang Ying and the Black Wind Mountain bandits, he did not sit idly by.

Firstly, he had lived in the Eighteen Mountains for a period of time and was well aware of the dangers there.

The most terrifying thing about those bandits is not their force, but the fact that they have no moral constraints and can use all kinds of despicable means without any psychological burden. If a person goes deep into the Eighteen Mountains to suppress bandits, even a cultivator will have no way out. After all, once the cultivator's magic power is exhausted, there is not much difference between him and ordinary people. He also needs to eat, drink water, and breathe on a daily basis. He is not truly out of the mortal world.

As for the profits after suppressing the bandits, unless the leader is hunted down, it is not worth it to hunt down ordinary petty thieves.

But if this causes public outrage, being besieged would be a secondary concern.

If these bandits were forced to start looting nearby villages and towns, it would cause endless harm and he would lose the big picture for the small. By then, he might even become a thorn in the side of the Ministry of Destiny.

Secondly, as a disciple of the Lingmu Sect of the Daqian Kingdom, Li Mo's practice of "Eye of the True Spirit" also contains some mental methods of pure cultivation and few desires.

If your mind is always clouded by the desire to kill and get rich every day, it will be detrimental to long-term practice.

The most important thing for a monk's state of mind, whether he is a good person, a bad person, or a moderate person, is to have clear thoughts and a clear conscience.

in this way.

The first thing Li Mo did after returning to his master's sect was to adjust his mindset and practice meditation.

In the next few days, Li Mo continued to practice hard.

Seven days passed in a flash, and he finally broke through the fourth level of Qi training and reached the fifth level of Qi training.

"Um……"

The rapid increase in the magic power in his dantian made him unable to help but let out a long groan, and a happy arc appeared at the corner of his mouth. He could clearly feel the changes in himself. Now when he cast the basic and advanced spells to summon Lei Nu, he no longer felt almost exhausted.

But theoretically speaking, only when one reaches the seventh level of Qi training or above can one truly cast this kind of basic to advanced spell at will.

Li Mo was not complacent about this.

After he had stabilized his current magical power, he came to the market at the foot of the mountain and spent spirit stones to buy many auxiliary spiritual medicines needed to refine the Qi Gathering Pill. He immediately spent most of the spirit stones he had earned from the previous commissioned tasks.

"Thirty-year-old Chunning Grass, thirty-year-old Warm Sun Flower, thirty-year-old Ding Chunlan... I've gathered all twelve auxiliary spiritual herbs. Add to that the hundred-year-old Red Essence Ganoderma, and I'm finally going to refine the Qi Gathering Pill!"

To be on the safe side, Li Mo did not choose to refine the elixir in his own light-proof secret room.

He came to the Alchemy Hall.

There are many alchemy rooms specially prepared for alchemists. They are not only secluded and safe, but also protected by the sect's restrictions. This is a benefit for the disciples of the Alchemy Hall.

"Li Mo, good morning."

When Tao Ran saw Li Mo, he took the initiative to greet him.

After the last alchemy assessment, the two had met several times at the alchemist experience exchange meeting and were already quite familiar with each other.

Li Mo could feel that Tao Ran had a very good character. Not only did he not resent Li Mo because of the hundred-year-old red essence ganoderma, but he seemed to regard Li Mo as a target to pursue. This made Li Mo give him a very high evaluation in his heart.

Now the two of them have a half-competitive, half-friend relationship.

"Good morning, Tao Ran, have you been to the spiritual fields?"

"Well, because of my master's relationship, I applied for the spiritual farm in advance and have already received formal approval. After all, my master is not good at refining pills, but is good at cultivating spiritual plants, so the master gave me a break."

Hearing this, Li Mo couldn't help but feel a little envious.

It’s really good to have a master. I can even enjoy the treatment of an inner disciple in advance. Unfortunately, I don’t have a special spiritual body. I can only work hard or look for another opportunity to find a master.

However, Li Mo was not discouraged by this. His ideal was to become an inspector.

If he applied for a spiritual field in the Alchemy Hall, he would need to run around in the fields for a long time, which conflicted with his ideal. After all, it was impossible for the inspector to always look after the medicine fields in his master's sect, so he did not care too much about it.

After saying goodbye to Tao Ran, Li Mo found a disciple of the Alchemy Hall named Nie Zhen and successfully applied for an alchemy room.

It was a spacious chamber, surrounded by solid stone.

As Li Mo pressed the mechanism, the huge stone door slowly closed, and the secret room suddenly became quiet. The forbidden light shone on the stone platform, making people feel extremely peaceful.

He came to the stone platform and took out the alchemy furnace, the hundred-year-old red essence ganoderma, twelve auxiliary herbs, morning dew and water, and spirit stones of water and wood attributes from his storage bag and placed them in order.

"The thunder refining method is about to begin again."

It is said that the last time he used the thunder refining method, if he did not have a foundation in martial arts, if it were any other thunder-attribute cultivator, he might have damaged his own magic power, and the feeling of blood and qi disorder would be really unpleasant.

After placing the water and wood attribute spirit stones, Li Mo used a special luck method to activate the thunder refining method.

Crackling.

As a lightning arc emerged, Li Mo set up the alchemy furnace and began to put various elixirs into the furnace in an orderly manner, adding some morning dew and water from time to time to neutralize the medicinal properties in the furnace, and sometimes restraining the thunder to avoid rushing.

Time passes slowly.

About an hour and a half later, the lightning arc gradually went out under Li Mo's control.

Regardless of the discomfort in his body, he smelled the medicinal fragrance rising from the furnace, knowing that this batch of pills must be ready, and immediately revealed an unconcealable joy.

Next it’s just a matter of the success rate of the pill.

He didn't care about the damage to his body caused by the disorder of qi and blood, and slowly opened the lid of the furnace with a feeling of nervousness, anticipation and excitement.

"Wow!"

Li Mo exclaimed, and an expression of uncontrollable joy suddenly appeared on his face.

I saw that on the little residue in the alchemy furnace, there was a full layer of elixirs, each of them was round and plump, and full of medicinal properties.

There was almost no excess medicinal residue in the furnace. This showed that Li Mo had fully purified and brought out the medicinal properties through the thunder refining method, which was why he was able to refine so many Qi Gathering Pills.

So Li Mo quickly took out the jade bottles that had been prepared long ago from the storage bag, took out the elixirs in the furnace one by one, and carefully placed ten elixirs in a bottle into different jade bottles, while also checking whether these elixirs had any flaws.

“There are actually twenty-two!”

Except for three Qi Gathering Pills with cracks and flaws, whose spiritual power and medicinal properties would slowly dissipate over time and needed to be swallowed in time, otherwise they would be wasted, the rest of the Qi Gathering Pills were full in shape, smooth in color, and fragrant, and were perfect. They could be kept in the jade bottle for a long time, and he was quite satisfied with it.

As for why these pills come in bottles of ten, Chen Rong mentioned this during her sermon.

Li Mo just did it out of habit without thinking much about it.

"The average cost of each Qi Gathering Pill in this furnace is about fourteen to fifteen Spiritual Stones. However, in the market at the foot of the mountain, a Qi Gathering Pill is priced at thirty-eight Spiritual Stones. Even if I buy the whole bottle, it will cost three hundred and fifty Spiritual Stones. The price per pill is more than doubled. It seems I can try to make a living from this!"

After a brief moment of excitement, the pain in Li Mo's body came like a tide.

He endured all the discomforts in his body, put away the alchemy furnace and jade bottle on the stone table, and began to breathe heavily. Although he could not see his specific image, he knew that he must be in a very miserable state.

"Master Chen Rong is right. It's time to think carefully about how to resolve the negative effects of the Thunder Refining Technique."

There are two solutions that Li Mo can think of.

One is to strengthen the body and enhance resistance to lightning, and the other is to refine pills to regulate qi and blood.

In addition to practicing martial arts, he also has a recipe for the Creation Pill, which can be used to improve his physical fitness, but this cannot avoid the limitations of the Piaomiao Demon Pill.

As for the elixir for regulating qi and blood...

Just when Li Mo was thinking about whether he should spend some money to exchange a corresponding pill recipe with other alchemists during the next experience exchange in the Alchemy Hall, he suddenly remembered something and slapped his head regardless of the pain.

"How could I be so stupid? I'm a doctor!"

He shook his head, his face full of helplessness.

"Whether it's herbal remedies or acupuncture, they all have the ability to regulate qi and blood. I'm really too stupid."

This is not Li Mo’s fault.

As he became more and more proficient in alchemy, he gradually became accustomed to the alchemist's way of thinking, or the monk's way of thinking, and gradually deviated from medical skills.

After returning to the dormitory, Li Mo couldn't wait to take out a cracked and flawed Qi Gathering Pill and swallow it into his stomach.

hum!
Li Mo only felt a surge of pure spiritual power surging out from his abdomen, first filling up the eight extraordinary meridians, and then flowing to the meridians of his limbs.

He hurriedly circulated the small circulation, trying his best to convert it into magic power.

This feeling is so wonderful that it even dispelled a lot of the pain in my body.

But Li Mo also felt a little regretful.

If you practice the Great Circulation, you will undoubtedly be able to absorb the spiritual power of the elixir more fully and convert it into your own magic power.

However, this is too dangerous. During the Enlightenment Hall period, many people suffered from the backlash of their magic power because of this. He did not intend to take risks in the room.

"correct."

Li Mo was stunned for a moment, then slowly opened his eyes.

"Maybe... I can go to the alchemy room and practice the Great Circulation of Heaven?"

He was quite assured about the safety of the alchemy room and did not have to worry about being disturbed by the outside world while practicing the Great Circulation in it.

The next few days.

Li Mo's body recovered quickly through the dual treatment of boiling medicine and acupuncture with golden needles. At the same time, the Qi Gathering Pill he swallowed was also refined almost to the point that after refining it for another two days, he could take a new Qi Gathering Pill and refine it.

The effect of the Qi Gathering Pill is indeed extraordinary.

According to Li Mo's estimation, the effect of his practice in the past few days is almost equivalent to that of the previous month, at least four or five times higher.

If so.

If he swallows four more Qi Gathering Pills at most, he will be able to break through to the sixth level of Qi training.

But at this moment, he still had twenty-one Qi Gathering Pills in his hand. In addition, he would be able to enter the ethereal dreamland during the upcoming summer flood season. In theory, this was enough to support him in raising his cultivation to the eighth level of Qi training, or even the ninth level!

“But something seems a little off.”

After a brief moment of excitement, Li Mo felt something unusual again.

Since the Qi Gathering Pill is so effective in improving magical power, why don’t those disciples from aristocratic families improve their skills quickly and are still practicing hard?

He didn't know about others, but at least with Wang Feng's financial resources, he couldn't afford the Qi Gathering Pill.

Even if their spiritual roots are not so good, if five Qi Gathering Pills are not enough, they will take eight or ten. They all look so stingy.

"No, I must ask for your advice on this matter sometime."

Two days later.

Li Mo found Wang Feng, and his questions were quickly answered by Wang Feng.

"That's because after taking more than ten of a particular medicinal pill, the body will gradually develop a resistance to it, and the effectiveness of the medicinal spiritual power will rapidly decrease. Therefore, unless you are a disciple who has been nurtured by a sect or family at all costs and has a variety of medicinal pills to support you, you don't need to worry about drug resistance. Otherwise, you should just sit in meditation and practice diligently, and save the opportunity to take medicinal pills for when you need to break through bottlenecks."

Wang Feng said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Not to mention the huge bottlenecks at the fourth, seventh, and tenth levels of Qi training, after the tenth level, unless a cultivator is extremely gifted, a bottleneck will appear almost every time they break through a level. In addition, the spiritual energy required to accumulate mana will become increasingly enormous. The true gap between disciples from aristocratic families and independent disciples is actually truly reflected during this period."

Say it.

Wang Feng looked at Li Mo meaningfully.

"Because of the guidance of their family elders, disciples from aristocratic families rarely swallow pills carelessly in the early stages. This way, when they reach the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth levels of Qi training, they will have more opportunities to break through bottlenecks, accumulate the necessary mana, and eventually attempt to build their foundation, or accumulate more cultivation resources for building their foundation. However, independent disciples often do not have long-term plans. In the early stages, the difference in their cultivation levels may not be too big. But after reaching the tenth level of Qi training, unless the independent disciples have better qualifications or have great opportunities, under the same circumstances, the disciples from aristocratic families will definitely have a higher probability of building their foundation."

Li Mo was shocked.

He didn't expect that such a thing would happen!

However, according to what the other party said, the fourth level of Qi training is already a big bottleneck.

Although he encountered some setbacks at that time, he finally broke through independently. From this, it seems that his aptitude should be quite good. This can also be seen from his aura in the Enlightenment Hall, so the difficulty of breaking through the bottleneck should be much lower.

Furthermore.

He had a vague feeling that his understanding of the thunder tribulation in the ethereal dream seemed to have the miraculous effect of improving his qualifications and weakening bottlenecks. This might very well be the so-called enlightenment.

In addition, as an alchemist, he has heard that there are several alchemists in the Alchemy Hall who have exclusive recipes for pills that can improve the cultivation level of the Qi training stage. If necessary, he can consider refining new pills. However, the process of gathering the materials needed to refine these pills is much more difficult and will inevitably consume more energy and spirit stones.

The most important thing.

According to the convention of previous year-end assessments, the top three disciples, if they do not have a master, will be accepted as registered disciples by a Jindan-stage hall master. Once they have established their foundation in the future, they will automatically become formal disciples, and the hall master will also receive special rewards and compensation from the master, so both parties are mutually beneficial.

This way.

It cannot be said that the independent disciples who chose to swallow the pills in the early stage were wrong. The circumstances of both parties were different, and their views on things were naturally different. Many independent disciples were helpless and had no foundation, and they all belonged to the type who had to fight for a chance of survival.

"Thank you very much."

Li Mo sincerely thanked Wang Feng and turned to leave.

(End of this chapter)