I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world.

Chapter 77 Planning
However, after a cultivator's Qi Refining level, there are two more levels: Qi Refining Level 8 and Qi Refining Level 9, and only after that is Foundation Establishment.

But wizards can skip directly from a level three wizard apprentice to a level one full wizard!
This means that the gap between a wizarding apprentice and a fully-fledged wizard is extremely wide.

The so-called "promotion potion" is probably a necessity to complete this huge leap. Its potency must be extremely domineering, and it may even carry a forced elevation of some life level, which is why it has side effects.

"If the difference is that big, then the damage that advancement potion caused to the body is probably much greater than I expected..." Jemin said thoughtfully.

Most importantly, there is a success rate to becoming a formal wizard.

If you're unlucky and don't get promoted in one go, the damage caused by drinking the potion won't heal.

He didn't want to damage his foundation for advancing, as it would be a loss if it also damaged his Qi cultivation.

Jemin began to think about whether there was a way to reduce the damage or find an alternative.

"At this stage, the best approach is to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage before becoming a formal wizard."

With the life essence and physical strength of the Foundation Establishment stage, the damage caused by the advancement potion is negligible.

Furthermore, their similar life essence can significantly reduce the dangers he faces when advancing to become a formal wizard, increasing his success rate.

"So... I still need to find a way to get a Foundation Establishment Pill?"

Jemin was quite confident in his talent for cultivating immortality.

Although it took him quite a while to reach the first level of Qi Refining, his cultivation progressed rapidly after he discovered a method to mobilize elemental power to replenish himself.

In just five years, he progressed from the first level of Qi Refining to the seventh level, and he continues to rise without ever noticing any bottlenecks.

Jemin was confident he could successfully establish his foundation without Foundation Establishment Pills, but the primary function of Foundation Establishment Pills was to stabilize a cultivator's state during advancement. Having a Foundation Establishment Pill to protect one during the advancement process was always beneficial.
"In that case, I'm afraid I'll have to start learning potion-making and alchemy now."

To refine the Foundation Establishment Pill in the Wizarding World, you definitely can't find the original materials; you can only try to find substitutes.

To achieve this, one needs to learn both alchemy and potion-making.

If his understanding of both kinds of knowledge was deep enough, Jemin wanted to see if he could come up with a way to reduce the damage to the body caused by the advancement potion through cultivation methods.

Of course, there's another, more important reason for studying potions.

"That's good. This way, it can be considered as laying the foundation for my future advancement to a formal wizard."

The third key to becoming a formal wizard is to construct a ring of truth within one's spiritual sea.

This is the mark of a formal wizard, condensing the nine runes of truth in the mind into a ring with a special structure, giving it greater power and binding it to the wizard's core soul.

Furthermore, when constructing the Ring of Truth, the Magic Network mentions a trick: if the Truth Runes chosen within the Ring of Truth can form a complete sorcery model, then the difficulty of constructing the Ring of Truth can be greatly reduced.

This is because the sorcery model itself is a complete conceptual system. Integrating it into the Ring of Truth can make the structure of the Ring of Truth more stable and coordinated, thereby reducing the risk and difficulty of advancement.

Of the Truth Runes that Jemin initially chose, the Alchemy and Rune Analysis spells of Alchemy have been successfully constructed, but the basic magic of Potions, Extraction, has yet to be developed.

After all, Jemin had mainly focused on studying runes, magical artifacts, and magical treasures over the years, and had indeed neglected the study of potions. Taking this opportunity, Jemin decided it was time to expand his studies into the fields of potions and alchemy.

Having made up his mind, Jemin wasted no time and immediately took action.

He started by examining the academy's magic network, gathering a wealth of knowledge about potion-making.

From the most basic material identification and medicinal property classification to the formulation and refining techniques of medicines.

Because of his financial resources, Jieming never hesitates to put his learning into practice.

Basically, every time he was learning about potion-making, he would try to concoct some basic potions to deepen his understanding and improve his learning progress.

Learning by applying what you've learned is indeed very efficient.

This results in a terrifyingly high failure rate for Jemin's potion-making; if an ordinary apprentice dared to try this, they would probably go bankrupt very quickly.

However, given Jieming's current points reserves, these expenditures are a drop in the ocean and not worth mentioning at all.

While studying potion-making, Jemin also studied alchemy every day in the Great Dao Library.

Unlike potion-making, which emphasizes external tools and precise proportions, alchemy in the cultivation system places greater emphasis on the alchemist's control of true fire, guidance of divine sense, and a deep understanding of pharmacology.

This technique doesn't provide fixed recipes and refining methods like potions; instead, it details the growth environment, energy composition, yin-yang and five-element attributes, and the laws governing their interactions among various spiritual herbs, medicines, and minerals.

It sounds similar to traditional Chinese medicine from my previous life, but it includes many more tests that only cultivators can perform.

Even after each alchemy technique was introduced, various books on the pharmacology of herbs and the medicinal properties of minerals were recommended.

Compared to potion-making, alchemy is more like a philosophy, an art about life, nature, and rules.

Although this greatly increases the difficulty of practicing alchemy, for Jemin, this type of alchemy is actually a good thing.

He studied these things in order to understand the deeper principles of interaction between materials, the essential laws of energy transformation, and how to reconcile the conflicts between substances with different properties at the microscopic level.

And the alchemy techniques he was now using helped him fill in this gap in his knowledge.

If it's potion-making, you need to be at least a high-ranking wizard to be qualified to learn this kind of knowledge.

The study of potion-making and alchemy is like two rivers, converging and blending within Jemin's knowledge system.

Through studying both, he gained a completely new and deeper understanding of elements, energy, vitality, and the nature of materials.

This understanding, in turn, helped Jemin improve his talismanic artifacts.

He discovered that when refining talismanic artifacts, if one can more accurately grasp the "medicinal properties" of the materials themselves—that is, their inherent energy flow patterns and activity—one can better integrate the rune array with them, making the talismanic artifact more stable, the energy conduction smoother, and even slightly reducing consumption.

The results of these practices, in turn, enhanced his understanding of knowledge, and for a time, Jemin was immersed in a sea of ​​knowledge.

(End of this chapter)