Journey to the West: The Eighty-One Tribulations of Being Hairless

"Brother, I'm not trying to discourage you, but alchemy really requires a lot of talent and comprehension. Not everyone can do it!"

If you want to refine pills to earn merit, you must at least refine pills of grade four or higher!

After all, the majority of people in the Heavenly Court are immortals.

Refining elixirs is no simple matter!

Ordinary immortals might learn alchemy, mastering the basics in a year and refining a first-grade elixir, but they might not be able to refine an immortal elixir even after ten years!

And the amount of rare and precious materials required for this process is countless!

Without a certain level of expertise, no one dares to learn alchemy or weapon crafting!

Don't laugh at me, brother, but I used to study alchemy. I used up a lot of rare and precious materials, and to this day, I can only refine sixth-order immortal pills. As for seventh-order divine pills...

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Wang Lingguan shook his head.

His cultivation level is not low; he is already at the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. However, he still cannot refine divine pills, which shows that he really does not have the talent for alchemy!

Some talented individuals, even Golden Immortals, can refine divine pills!

Therefore, Wang Lingguan had to give up his alchemy side job and only use it for occasional amusement.

Upon hearing Wang Lingguan's words, Zhou Yi agreed in his heart!

If it weren't for the cheat code that is the Great Dao Tree, Zhou Yi would never have tried alchemy, a side business with a high trial-and-error rate and high resource consumption!

However, it's different with the Primordial Dao Tree!

The techniques and fruits of the Great Dao Tree do not specifically refer to supernatural powers!

The term "techniques" actually encompasses all skills, including even the skills of ordinary people such as painting, blacksmithing, and woodcutting.

The flying knife technique that Zhou Yi possessed was actually developed from a flying knife technique he learned when he was still an ordinary person in the world of Liaozhai.

But as long as it is nurtured to the point of attaining enlightenment!

After consuming the Dao Fruit, Zhou Yi no longer needs to learn or comprehend any difficult skills or supernatural powers; he directly surpasses the stages of initial glimpse, entry, minor achievement, major achievement, and perfection, reaching the level of mastery.

The merit required to cultivate the fruits of magic and Dao is ten times less than that required to cultivate the fruits of Dao!

A quasi-saintly path requires five million merits and the support of the Great Dao's information to be conceived.

However, a supreme divine power can be successfully cultivated with only six or seven hundred thousand merits. Of course, it also requires other advanced skill information or profound knowledge of the Great Dao.

In other words, if Zhou Yi wanted to learn alchemy, he only needed to find an alchemy book, nurture it with merit to make it a Dao fruit, and then consume it.

Then Zhou Yi could directly reach a level of mastery over this alchemy technique.

Having complete mastery of an alchemy technique, one could easily obtain divine pills, let alone elixirs of immortality.

"I still want to give it a try, otherwise I won't be satisfied."

The Book of Changes still adheres to the Way.

"Fine, since that's how it is, I won't try to stop you anymore!"

Since you want to learn alchemy, I have a few good alchemy techniques here. You can take them and study them; they're just gathering dust here anyway. If you master them, remember to leave some for your old brother to refine a few divine pills for you to eat!"

Having said that, he casually took out five jade slips!

Wang Lingguan didn't expect to learn the Book of Changes; he just mentioned it casually. After all, he had already decided to befriend the other party, and this insignificant thing was just a way of doing him a favor.

Zhou Yi didn't stand on ceremony and directly took the jade slip. He scanned it with his divine sense and immediately understood.

The five jade slips represent five different alchemy techniques.

These are the "One Qi Elixir Manual," which records the alchemy technique of refining elixirs with true fire. This technique is mastered by Qi cultivators below the Immortal Path.

There are three methods for refining elixirs!

These are the "Southern Bright Fire Golden Elixir Technique", the "Wind and Fire Golden Elixir Technique", and the "Samadhi True Fire Golden Elixir Formula". These three are all secret techniques for refining immortal elixirs, and they record more than ten formulas for making immortal elixirs.

The last one is alchemy, which can be used to refine divine pills!

The alchemy technique is called "The Golden Elixir of Creation Qi". To cultivate this golden elixir, one must enter the body with the Creation Green Lotus and condense the Creation Qi!

As for the Creation Lotus, it's actually not hard to find!

Back then, the fourteenth-grade innate creation lotus was divided into three parts, which became the three Pure Ones' treasures for attaining enlightenment. However, some roots of the creation lotus remained, so they were collected by the three Pure Ones.

It has become a unique and precious natural treasure of the Sanqing Sect!

For any disciple of the Sanqing Sect, obtaining the Creation Lotus is quite simple; all it takes is reporting it!

The "Golden Elixir of Creation" is rumored to be a secret alchemy technique created by the Grand Master Xuandu. It is unknown why it was later spread to the Three Realms, but the Grand Master Xuandu did not care about it.

This secret technique is one of the few alchemy techniques in the Three Realms that can refine divine pills and are still circulating in the market.

However, although it circulates in the Three Realms Market, not just anyone can possess it!

Its value is extraordinary, especially for those with good talent in alchemy, it is simply a treasure.

After organizing all the information, Zhou Yi took a deep breath. "This is exactly what I needed. Thank you, brother!"

Don't worry, brother. Once I've refined the divine pill, I'll definitely send you a few bottles for free.

The Book of Changes spoke with great seriousness, but Wang Lingguan paid little attention to it.

Then, after receiving two peaches from Zhou Yi, he transferred 500,000 merits to Zhou Yi!

With the merits and alchemy secrets, Zhou Yi couldn't wait any longer and returned to the Azure Lotus Dao Palace to begin feeding the Great Dao Tree with the five alchemy secrets.

It consumed a full 350,000 merit points!

Only then did it successfully give birth to a Dao Fruit.

The Primordial Qi Furnace!

With the nourishment of 350,000 merits, the five alchemy secret techniques were actually promoted to a supreme divine power level alchemy secret technique because of the twelfth-grade Chaos Green Lotus in Zhou Yi's body.

The Primordial Qi Furnace is considered to have barely entered the threshold of supreme supernatural powers!

This supernatural power involves condensing chaotic alchemical fire to steal the essence of heaven and earth to aid in alchemy.

The original five alchemy formulas have evolved and have been reduced to just five.

These five pill formulas are all divine pill formulas.

Three seventh-order divine pills, one eighth-order divine pill, and one ninth-order divine pill.

"It's a pity there's no recipe for the Dao Pill!"

According to Wang Lingguan, so far, only the Taiqing Sage in the Three Realms can refine Dao Pills, and the most famous Dao Pill in his possession is the Nine-Turn Golden Pill, which can directly promote mortals to become Great Luo Golden Immortals.

This elixir is not merely an accumulation of power, but also possesses unparalleled potential.

The Nine-Turn Golden Elixir is something that even Great Luo Golden Immortal cultivators dream of!

Back then, the twelve Great Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect had their three flowers on their heads and five qi in their chests swept away by the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation, leaving them only with the bodies of immortals and the realm of Great Golden Immortals.

It was a Nine-Turn Golden Pill from the Supreme Saint that restored their cultivation and magical power.

It can be said that a single Nine-Turn Golden Elixir can recreate a Great Luo Golden Immortal!

"And the materials needed for this divine elixir..."

Upon seeing the ingredients listed in the recipe, Zhou Yi was speechless. Every single ingredient was of divine quality, yet he still tried to purchase them...

The fact that Zhou Yi purchased rare and precious materials for alchemy could not be kept secret from others. After all, Zhou Yi held the rank of True Lord, a descendant of Pangu, and his status was undeniable, yet he only possessed the cultivation level of a Celestial Immortal...

So, before long, many people in the Heavenly Court were waiting to see Zhou Yi make a fool of himself!

Don't think you're something special just because you got a True Lord position by benefiting from Pangu's influence. You actually want to learn alchemy? That's not something the natives of this small world can learn!

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