My path to immortality began with my posting to guard Dawancun.

Chapter 343 Half-Year Results
It's time.

Just as Shen Changchuan was raising his first-order alchemy skill to 60% progress,
The 100,000 spirit stones he earned from his mission have already been exchanged for a large quantity of corresponding spirit herbs through the channels of Dawan Village.

The timing and location are both perfect.

The best approach would be to start directly.

The first-tier alchemy skill obtained as a reward for completing the mission comes with three pill recipes.

They are Qi-Inducing Pill, Spirit-Gathering Pill, and Jade Pill.

just,

These three elixirs,
Shen Changchuan had taken it when he was in the Qi Refining stage.

Among them, the Qi-Inducing Pill is the mainstream elixir used for cultivation when one reaches the fourth or fifth level of the Qi-Inducing Realm.

The Concentration and Gathering Qi Pill is a pill that helps cultivators advance from the peak of the sixth level of Qi Induction to the seventh level of Qi Induction, and helps them complete the breakthrough from the middle to the late stage of Qi Induction.

As for Qingyu Dan...
These are the mainstream pills used by cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining.

Speaking of this elixir,

Shen Changchuan even made a special trip to Qingcheng to purchase it.

Three kinds of pill formulas,

Shen Changchuan ultimately chose the Qi-Inducing Pill as the first elixir he practiced.

no way,
A 60% progress rate in first-tier alchemy is still too low.

Although he has a certain foundation

Back when I was in the Qi Refining stage, I received basic alchemy techniques and several low-level pill formulas from Nangong Cheng.

But from those past experiences
The most difficult pill Shen Changchuan could refine was only the Qi Harmony Pill.

In other words, it is an auxiliary pill for breaking through from the peak of the third level of the Qi Refining Realm to the fourth level of the Qi Refining Realm.

"Let's start with the difficult ones and move on to the easy ones. Anyway, with the progress bar panel, we can gradually build it up little by little!"

Once you understand this,
Shen Changchuan then directly began his alchemy career through hands-on practice.

Time flies by,

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Within these six months,
Through painstaking alchemy practice, Shen Changchuan successfully advanced his first-order alchemy skills to 85%.

Simultaneously,

In the progress bar panel, the Alchemy skill column is on a separate line.

The refining of Qi-Inducing Pill, Qi-Gathering Pill, and Azure Jade Pill has reached approximately 90%, 81%, and 70% respectively.

And for this reason,
Shen Changchuan has already spent 100,000 spirit stones to buy that large batch of rare and precious materials!
"The cost of training an alchemist is simply outrageous!"

Looking at the progress bar on the panel, at the few lines of progress related to alchemy that he had been working on for half a year without achieving perfection,

I did another mental calculation of the expenses incurred over this period.

Shen Changchuan was also speechless with astonishment.

In half a year,
The 100,000 spirit stones were spent, and this was all the reward.

If you invest in the cultivation of magic,
He probably already has two or three hundred more perfect-level spells!
Perhaps this experience can be used to hone one's skills and naturally advance to the second level of the Nascent Soul stage!
And the progress of this alchemy technique,

It's really hard to be satisfied.

The success rate of refining pills = progress of first-level alchemy x progress of the corresponding pill.

That is,

Currently, Shen Changchuan's success rates in refining Qi-Inducing Pills, Spirit-Gathering Pills, and Azure Jade Pills are 75%, 68%, and 60%, respectively.

This shows that

How difficult is it to improve one's alchemy skills!

and,

This is still under the condition that his progress bar panel shows a permanent certificate!
Unimaginable,

How expensive would it be for an ordinary cultivator to learn this alchemy technique!

"No wonder the price of pills is so high, ultimately becoming an 'exclusive cheat code' for rich kids."

"Training an alchemist is practically a matter of spending mountains of gold and silver!"

"If it succeeds, that's good. Even if the success rate is only 20% or 30%, with the nearly tenfold price difference between the raw materials and the finished product, we can still make a profit."

"If it doesn't work out, then that huge investment of gold and silver will have been completely wasted!" "Without the progress bar, most ordinary people wouldn't be able to succeed."

Shen Changchuan couldn't help but shake his head.

In the past, when he spent a lot of spirit stones to buy expensive pills, he also cursed the alchemists and the related merchant guilds for being shady.

Now that I've actually started using it and understand the difficulty, I do understand.

of course,

This was definitely not because he was about to make a lot of money through alchemy that his opinion changed!

"A success rate of 60-70% is enough for me to earn a lot of spirit stones!"

"Then, we can start making plans now!"

"Time is of the essence, and there's no time to grind my alchemy skills to 100%!"

Shen Changchuan turned his gaze back to what was in front of him.

Reflecting on the current situation, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.

Over the years, I've repeatedly used the interface to grind spells to 100% perfection.

This gave Shen Changchuan a somewhat perfectionist feel to him.

But at this moment,
He could no longer afford to spend too much time and energy on alchemy, and had to perfect his alchemy skills to 100%.

During these six months of arduous practice in alchemy,

He's not one to be oblivious to what's going on around him.

Just a month ago,

The rulers of the twelve cultivation cities in the Tiannan Region, including Tiannan City, all sent their representatives as envoys to gather at the Longxiao Sect.

among them,

The Shen family patriarch of Tiannan City, the Nangong family patriarch of Luoshui City, and the Supreme Patriarch of the Ancient Sword Sect in Yangshan City—these three beings from the Tiannan Region possessed the Divine Travel Realm.
They also personally visited the Longxiao Sect's mountain gate.

Master Youlongzi held a closed-door meeting to discuss matters!

A tense atmosphere, as if a storm was brewing, seemed to envelop the entire Tiannan Region in a short period of time!

Countless cultivators in the Southern Region vaguely sensed that a layer of oppressive dark clouds seemed to be shrouding the sky above them.

An oppressive atmosphere
Enveloping the world.

There is much discussion from all sides.

Sensing something was amiss, Shen Changchuan naturally went to inquire about the situation.

It was only later that I learned from Senior Brother Hongyang that...

It turns out that several months ago,

An order came from the Jade Purity Immortal Sect.

Prepare all forces in the Southern Region to launch a campaign against the Southern Yue Kingdom!

This news,

This undoubtedly stunned Shen Changchuan on the spot.

He didn't know why the Jade Purity Immortal Sect would issue such an order, or why there would be such a big change. Senior Brother Hongyang also didn't explain.

But Shen Changchuan knew that

When the great war broke out,
Then life and death are beyond one's control!

Although Senior Brother Hongyang comforted him and told him not to worry, he would not let him easily step onto the battlefield before he died.

But Shen Changchuan's worries did not diminish in the slightest.

His cultivation level was merely at the late stage of the first level of the Nascent Soul realm.

Despite being able to fight against a cultivator at the third level of the Nascent Soul realm thanks to his divine seed and perfected second-tier spells,
On the war zone,

Their situation is much better than that of cannon fodder at the bottom of the Qi Refining Realm.

but,
He is still the weak one!
On the battlefield, one could face the constant danger of death!

Putting aside other things,

This led him to encounter Deng Xin, the Nascent Soul Stage 4 demonic cultivator, again from the depths of the Demon Beast Mountain Forest six months prior.

He might not even be confident that he could survive against the other side!
(End of this chapter)