Junior sister, I really need to control you

As he spoke, he opened the Gathering Yuan Cauldron and threw in a few very common herbs.

He obtained these from Five Clouds Peak and Golden Stone Peak. Elder Yue, as an alchemist, did not have these lowest-grade roadside herbs on him.

For an alchemist of her caliber, even the worst herbs she could use would be considered top-grade by ordinary cultivators.

However, for Li Yinsheng, who had just begun to learn alchemy, he naturally had to start with common herbs.

One by one, herbs were thrown in, and the Three Yang Spiritual Fire, which he carefully controlled, ignited in the alchemy furnace.

Mu Xiaoyu stared at it with great curiosity, but after a while, all she could see with her naked eye was flames rising in the cauldron, which was quite boring.

She tried to probe with her divine sense, but her senior brother tapped her on the head.

Feeling increasingly bored, she pondered for a moment, then simply took out a few pieces of ore, sat cross-legged to the side, and began to refine magical artifacts.

After completely refining the Holy Son's Blood Egg, her cultivation level has now exceeded seventy years, and the Pure Profound True Scripture has reached the ninth level.

With improved cultivation, one will naturally have a greater advantage in refining magical artifacts.

She had a faint sense of confidence that, although she had failed before, she would definitely succeed in refining a mid-grade magic weapon this time!

Just as she was immersed in refining the weapon, Li Yinsheng removed the Three Yang Spiritual Fire from the Gathering Yuan Cauldron, raised his hand, and several pitch-black pills flew into his hand.

Looking at the pill in his hand and smelling the slightly pungent medicinal fragrance, he frowned slightly.

This is a very common and practical pill called the Qi-Returning Pill, which can slightly accelerate the recovery of mana and is quite useful in low-level cultivators' battles.

However, the quality of this elixir was really ordinary; even at Baoguang Temple, it would only be sold at a street stall.

Although he spent the entire month at Jinshi Peak cultivating in the Golden Crow Pool, he did not touch the medicine cauldron again.

All told, he hadn't actually been practicing alchemy for more than three days.

Even the most basic Qi-restoring pills were beyond his ability to refine into high-quality ones, which is enough to illustrate the difficulty of alchemy.

Of course, if it were an ordinary cultivator, it might not be possible to refine the first batch of pills even after three years.

Li Yinsheng put the Qi-restoring pills into a porcelain bottle and shook his head slightly.

It seems that alchemy is a long and arduous task.

As for my junior sister, her work on refining mid-grade magic weapons seems to be going well...

"Yes! It's finally done!" Mu Xiaoyu dispersed the Three Yang Spiritual Fire and took out a small black hammer from it.

This is very similar to the first low-grade magic weapon she successfully crafted, the little black hammer, only the material is better and the restrictions are much more ingenious.

"Senior brother, look! I've crafted a mid-grade magic weapon!" She looked at her senior brother with great excitement.

Then she saw her senior brother's expression seem slightly confused for a moment, then he nodded and smiled encouragingly: "Well done, junior sister."

"Hehehe!" Mu Xiaoyu put away the little black hammer and ran towards her senior brother. "Senior brother, senior brother, you've refined a mid-grade magic weapon. Is there any reward?"

Li Yinsheng patted her head, then took out his... with a kind expression.

Eight sparks.

Mu Xiaoyu's face froze.

She turned to run, but Li Yinsheng immediately grabbed her by the back of her collar and lifted her up.

“Perfect timing. The Dao Examination is about to begin. If you refine these fire seeds, Junior Sister, the Three Yang Spiritual Fire will be further enhanced, and your chances of winning will be even greater,” Li Yinsheng said with a smile.

"We won!" Mu Xiaoyu's eyes widened. "Senior brother, didn't you say that Grade A was already very good?"

"Yes, Grade A is indeed good, but winning the championship is a better way to demonstrate your talent and strength."

Li Yinsheng said with a smile, "Besides, has Junior Sister forgotten? Aunt Qin said that the winner of the Dao Examination can enter the first floor of the Dharma Lineage Treasury to choose treasures as a reward."

"But Elder Qin also said that my chances of winning are slim, since the disciples of the other two elders are even more powerful." Mu Xiaoyu scratched her head.

"Junior sister doesn't have confidence in herself?" Li Yinsheng asked.

"Hmm..." Mu Xiaoyu nodded honestly, looking completely unsure.

"After all, she is facing the elders' favorite disciple. It's normal that my junior sister isn't confident of winning. We can't be too demanding."

Hearing that her senior brother understood her, Mu Xiaoyu immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Yinsheng toyed with the eight embers, shaking his head and sighing, "It's a pity that the Dharma lineage's treasure trove contains many treasures, and there might be some ingredients that are no less valuable than that mother worm..."

Mu Xiaoyu straightened her back immediately.

"Senior brother? Are you serious?" Her eyes brightened considerably.

"That's for sure. Most of the treasures on the first floor of the vault are quite useful to real people."

"After all, those geniuses who can win the championship will not spend many years to become True Persons. Naturally, only treasures of this level can be of great use to them."

Li Yinsheng smiled and said, "There are many treasures in the treasure vault, and it is quite possible that some of them can be used as ingredients or are very delicious."

The flame he held in his palm was reflected in Mu Xiaoyu's eyes, like a blazing fighting spirit.

"Senior brother, I want to win the championship!" Mu Xiaoyu said with a determined look on her face.

"With Junior Sister's current cultivation level and three quasi-magic treasures, she still has a chance to win the championship."

Li Yinsheng said leisurely, "Of course, if the Three Yang Spiritual Fire could be even stronger, the chances would be even greater..."

The struggle on Mu Xiaoyu's face lasted only a moment before she opened her mouth wide at Li Yinsheng.

"Senior brother! I want to refine the fire seed!"

……

Looking at his junior sister sitting cross-legged on the ground, enduring the burning pain with her eyes closed, refining the fire seed, Li Yinsheng nodded with satisfaction.

Now, my junior sister's resistance to the fire seed has weakened considerably.

This is a good thing, because starting today, his efficiency in refining the fire seed will greatly increase.

After his junior sister crafted a mid-grade magic weapon, completing the corresponding cultivation goal, he was pulled into the cave and received forty years of cultivation.

But unlike before, this time he also began practicing the Five Poisons Scripture.

Because he was practicing the Five Poisons in reverse by eliminating all poisonous thoughts, even at the beginner stage, his cultivation was very slow, greatly extending his seclusion time.

The time it takes him to cultivate forty years is only enough to condense four fire seeds.

But this time, when he continued to cultivate with all his might and received all the rewards from the past forty years, he condensed as many as eight fire seeds, a full doubling of the previous number.

Not only the fire, but the condensed moon dew also nearly doubled.

Furthermore, the amount of withered and flourishing spiritual energy restored by the Six Rejuvenations of Withered and Flourishing, as well as the effect of refining magical treasures, are all greatly increased.

However, the Breath Soil truly lived up to its reputation as a product of the divine mountain. A grain the size of a soybean, after such a long time, still had a tiny bit the size of a millet grain remaining that hadn't been refined.

In addition, significant progress has been made in strengthening the body's solar essence with true blood and in refining the Ink Scale Sword transformed from the outer elixir of the Dragon Pearl.

Moreover, after this period of refinement, the Void Cauldron has become much more solid, completely different from its previous appearance, which resembled a wisp of green smoke.

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in the room.

While his junior sister was still refining the fire seed, Li Yinsheng threw a few herbs into the Gathering Yuan Cauldron and began refining again.

In a short while, he extinguished the Three Yang Spiritual Fire and took out several Qi-restoring pills from the cauldron.

Although this Qi-restoring pill was still pitch black, its surface was smooth and glossy, emitting a soft and fragrant medicinal aroma.

Li Yinsheng nodded in satisfaction.

The Qi-restoring pills refined this time are of extremely high quality.

Although it is just an ordinary elixir, its quality is good enough to be sold in the shops of Baoguang Temple.

It's not even in the same league as those cheap, substandard goods sold at street stalls.

However, alchemists who can refine Qi-restoring pills of this quality would have already moved on to refining higher-grade pills and wouldn't waste time on ordinary pills.

Li Yinsheng refined this Qi-replenishing pill again purely to compare his previous level.

Afterwards, he also planned to try some higher-level pills. Elder Yue gave him quite a few pill formulas. Although none of them were particularly precious, there were still quite a few that were two or three levels higher than the Qi-restoring pill.

He casually tossed a Qi-restoring pill into his mouth, and the sweet taste mixed with the fragrant medicinal aroma spread throughout the air.

"Although this Qi-restoring pill is of no practical use to me, it tastes pretty good," he said with satisfaction.

Of course, the good taste only applies to Qi-restoring pills of this quality. The previous batch of pills smelled rather pungent, so how good could they taste?

Actually, a large part of the reason for this is that the Five Poisons Scripture is exerting its power.

Although he only received forty years of cultivation, he did not start cultivating from scratch.

With his profound cultivation as a foundation, this period of time has been enough for him to develop his greed and poison skills to a certain degree.

Although it's still some distance from the point where, when one achieves the level of "greed for poison," one can extract an extra 30% to 50% of the medicinal power from most herbs.

However, when he was refining it, he also extracted nearly 20% more of the medicinal power from the ingredients of the Qi-restoring pill, which indirectly reduced the content of impurities.

The improved taste of this Qi Pill is probably related to the fact that the Five Poisons Scripture has indirectly reduced the content of impurities.

Just as he was about to strike while the iron was hot and try his hand at making another batch of higher-grade, more difficult-to-refine pills, the restrictions outside the door were triggered.

Then a familiar voice rang out from outside.

"Yinsheng! Yinsheng! Are you there? This young lady has come to find you... cough, to find you and Xiaoyu!"

Li Yinsheng's eyes lit up, and he waved his hand to release the restriction: "Miss Shangguan, you've emerged from seclusion?"

A beautiful woman dressed in colorful clothes pushed open the door and entered, her bright face radiating undisguised joy and pride.

"Hmph!" Shangguan Ling'er raised her face slightly. "I worked much harder than usual so that I could finish my seclusion before the Dao Examination in order to watch you and Xiaoyu take it."

"That would be my honor!" Li Yinsheng greeted him with a smile.

Shangguan Ling'er wanted to say "Of course," but when her gaze fell on Li Yinsheng's face, she paused for a moment.

Strange, it's only been a few months, but he seems to have grown even more handsome.

Is it just my imagination?

"What's wrong, Miss Shangguan? Why are you staring at me like that?" Li Yinsheng asked.

Shangguan Ling'er's ears burned slightly: "It's nothing, I just feel that you...you...you seem to have improved your cultivation a bit?"