Cultivating Immortality Through a Hundred Lifetimes in Both Realms

Chapter 135 Pill Recipe

If Jiang Yun successfully refines the Concentration Pill in this cultivation plan, he will be able to become a near-third-level alchemist.

During this period, all thirty-six flying swords should have been tempered to the third-tier low-grade level.

At that time, one can immediately take the Mind-Concentrating Pill, cultivate the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique, and attempt to break through to the third level of the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique.

If the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique successfully breaks through to the third level.

Then Jiang Yun has almost completed more than half of his cultivation goals in Canglan Immortal City.

He possessed a physical body at the mid-grade level of the third rank, the third level of the Thousand Machine Divine Control Technique, and all thirty-six flying swords were tempered to the low-grade level of the third rank.

All of these combined are enough to bring about a dramatic change in Jiang Yun's strength.

With his early Core Formation cultivation, he would be able to easily defeat mid-Core Formation cultivators, and even use the Zhou Tian Star Sword Formation to easily kill mid-level third-tier demonic beasts.

Jiang Yun sat cross-legged in front of the alchemy furnace, his eyes darting around.

He quickly regained his composure and banished all distracting thoughts.

"Begin refining the elixir."

He muttered something to himself, took out the medicinal herbs from his storage bag, and began to refine the elixir.

"First, refine the pills to sell at Zhou's Pill Shop, then try to refine a batch of Mind-Concentrating Pills."

Having made up his mind, Jiang Yun quickly immersed himself in alchemy.

This time, the pills being refined do not contain one hundred Foundation Establishment Pills, thus saving three months of time.

Jiang Yun relied on a third-tier alchemy furnace, the Golden Elixir True Fire, and his superb alchemy skills.

In just two months, he refined all the pills that he had sent to Zhou's Pill Shop for sale.

These elixirs include the Golden Essence Elixir, the Purple Gold Barrier-Breaking Elixir, the Myriad Spirits Elixir, the Yin-Yang Cloud and Rain Elixir, and the Myriad Spirits Jade Dew Elixir.

Among them, the Golden Essence Pill and the Purple Gold Barrier-Breaking Pill were the most numerous.

"Ten batches of the Myriad Spirits Jade Dew Pill were refined, yielding twenty-four pills."

"When breaking the core and forming the core, you need to use the Myriad Spirit Jade Dew Pills, so take ten Myriad Spirit Jade Dew Pills to the shop as a storefront."

"When the core is shattered, the meridians will need the Glazed Meridian Protection Pill to protect them. Let's refine them now."

After refining the batch of pills sold by Zhou's Pill Shop, Jiang Yun thought for a moment.

Anyway, when it comes to breaking through the core and forming the core in the future, the Myriad Spirits Jade Dew Pill and the Glazed Vein Protecting Pill will definitely be useful.

Therefore, it's not a problem to refine the Glazed Vein Protecting Pill in advance; it will make things easier later.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun took out the ingredients for the Glazed Vein Protector Pill and put them into the alchemy furnace to refine it.

Jiang Yun now possesses the cultivation level of the Golden Core stage, even without a third-tier alchemy inheritance.

It only takes ten days to refine a batch of low-grade third-level pills.

If one possesses a third-tier alchemy inheritance, it would likely only take six or seven days to refine a batch of third-tier pills.

This time, the attempt to refine ten batches of Glazed Vein-Protecting Pills failed once.

It took three months to obtain twenty Glazed Vein Protecting Pills.

"The success rate of refining third-grade low-level pills has reached 90%, but it's a pity that we couldn't refine the pill patterns of third-grade pills."

Jiang Yun sealed the twenty Glazed Vein-Protecting Pills and put them into his storage bag.

These twenty Glazed Pulse Protection Pills, plus more than ten Myriad Spirit Jade Dew Pills, were more than enough to support him in completing three Pill Shattering processes.

Any extra pills can be auctioned off or exchanged for treasures.

After refining the Glazed Vein Protector Pill, Jiang Yun did not leave the alchemy furnace.

He continued to sit cross-legged in front of the alchemy furnace and took out a portion of the ingredients for a mid-grade third-level Concentration Pill.

"I'm maintaining a good state of alchemy right now, so I'll take this opportunity to try refining a batch of mid-grade third-tier Spirit Condensation Pills."

With a thought, Jiang Yun quickly put the medicinal materials for refining the Mind-Concentrating Pill into the furnace one by one.

According to the formula for Ning Shen Dan, none of these medicinal materials actually meet the required age.

However, when these medicinal herbs are combined, the resulting pill is indeed a mid-grade third-level pill, but its medicinal effects are similar to those of a second-level pill.

Therefore, the difficulty for Jiang Yun in refining the Concentration Pill is now comparable to that in refining a mid-grade third-tier pill.

He methodically refined the Mind-Concentrating Pill following the familiar alchemy steps.

Purifying the essence of medicinal herbs, controlling the heat, condensing the elixir, forming the elixir, and collecting the elixir —

After half a month of hard work, a batch of Concentration Pills was successfully refined.

"receive!"

Jiang Yun made a pill-collecting incantation, and a dark, irregularly shaped object flew out of the pill furnace and landed in his hand.

"As expected, it failed again. The medicinal materials were not purified properly, and it was clearly difficult during the purification process. In the end, we were unable to form the pill."

"This situation is exactly the same as when I first refined a second-tier pill."

"Now, the second-tier high-grade pill refining method, the Myriad Spirit Pill Manual, is no longer sufficient for refining mid-grade third-tier pills."

"We need to obtain the third-tier alchemy inheritance as soon as possible, as well as two other third-tier mid-grade pill formulas."

Back in the world of immortal cultivation, Jiang Yun used a first-grade high-level alchemy technique to refine second-grade pills.

At that time, the purification of medicinal materials was very difficult, and in the end, the pill could not be made because the purification of the medicinal materials was not refined enough.

This made Jiang Yun realize very quickly that the second-tier superior alchemy inheritance, the Myriad Spirits Pill Manual, which he was familiar with, was no longer sufficient for refining third-tier mid-grade pills.

"Third-Order Alchemy Inheritance —"

"In that case, let's temper the flying sword first."

"While refining your flying sword, keep an eye on the auctions; there might be a third-grade low-level alchemy inheritance up for auction."

Without a three-tiered lineage of alchemy, it is very difficult to refine a mid-grade third-tier pill.

Even if Jiang Yun has the talent of "Heavenly God Pill Vein", it's still the same.

If we force the process, it would be a waste of medicinal herbs and spirit stones.

Therefore, Jiang Yun quickly changed his plan, switching the order of refining the Concentration Pill and tempering the flying sword.

The tempering of flying swords is not the same as the forging of magical artifacts, and can be stopped at any time.

During the tempering of the flying sword, keep a close eye on auctions and try to obtain third-tier alchemy inheritance and third-grade mid-level pill formulas.

"First, go to the alchemy shop, change the storefront to a larger one, and then recruit a few alchemy apprentices."

"If the Zhou family's pill shop starts selling the Myriad Spirits Jade Dew Pill after it was auctioned off, the cultivators of Canglan Immortal City will know that I refined this pill."

"At that time, I might have guests come to my door, offering me a third-grade pill formula as payment for refining pills."

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun stood up, waved his robe, packed away everything including the alchemy furnace, and then left the cave.

After leaving the cave, Jiang Yun strolled around the bustling area of ​​Qixingfang, looking for shops that were up for sale or rent.

However, in the most prosperous area of ​​the central district, all the shopfronts are occupied by the seven major sects and families that cultivate to the Core Formation stage.

"Go and take a look at the streets below the airspace."

"Although those streets are not as bustling as the central area of ​​Qixingfang, there are still quite a few cultivators coming and going every day."

Jiang Yun thought for a moment.

According to the jade slip on the map of Canglan Immortal City, there are eight flight zones in all directions starting from the center of Seven Star Workshop.

Below each of these eight airspaces lies a bustling street.

Its prosperity is second only to the central area of ​​Qixingfang.

Jiang Yun quickly soared into the sky, flew along the airspace, and then landed on the street below.

After wandering around the streets, he finally found a weapon-refining shop that was for sale.

This weapon-refining shop has a very large storefront; its building scale is almost comparable to that of a restaurant.

Jiang Yun walked to the door and looked inside.

A sign was displayed in front of the shop that read: "Prime location for sale. Interested parties may directly contact the General Affairs Department to rent."

Seeing this, Jiang Yun noted down the name of the weapon-refining shop, and then, without any hesitation, immediately set off for the General Affairs Pavilion of Canglan Immortal City.

After meeting the manager in charge of renting shops at the General Affairs Office, Jiang Yun directly stated his purpose.

After explaining that he wanted to take over the shop for sale, the manager immediately got busy.

"That shop has a large storefront, with an annual rent of six thousand spirit stones and a minimum lease term of ten years."

The manager took out a jade slip and examined it, quickly learning about the shop that Jiang Yun had chosen.

Jiang Yun was somewhat surprised upon hearing this.

Unexpectedly, the annual rent for that shop was six thousand spirit stones, the same level as the cave dwelling he rented.

"With so many shops in Canglan Immortal City, the three forces of Qingyang Sect, Qianduan Mountain, and Yuxuan Sect can make a fortune just by collecting rent."

Jiang Yun shook his head and didn't try to negotiate the price with the manager.

The rent is 6,000 spirit stones a year, so it would only be 60,000 spirit stones in ten years.

For him, 60,000 spirit stones was just the cost of two Foundation Establishment Pills.

"Here are 60,000 spirit stones. Ten years' rent for now." Jiang Yun took out 60,000 spirit stones and handed them to the manager, asking, "If I'm not renting the original shop anymore, can the rent be refunded?"

"Of course you can return it. Just give me the token from that shop," the manager said with a smile as he accepted the spirit stones.

Jiang Yun nodded and took out the original shop's token.

After checking the token, the steward took out a number of spirit stones and handed them to Jiang Yun.

"Refund of five years' rent, totaling 7,500 spirit stones."

Jiang Yun's original shop rent was only 1,500 spirit stones per year, and there was still a five-year term left, so 7,500 spirit stones were refunded.

He accepted the spirit stones and waited for the manager to hand him the token for the new shop.

A moment later, the manager handed Jiang Yun a token. "This is the token for the new shop. We have already notified the original owner of the shop."

"That shop will be available in three days. Go there again in three days."

Jiang Yun nodded, accepted the token, and went to Zhou's Pill Shop to inform Chi Kehuan about the matter.

"You've changed your shop's location?" Chi Kehuan congratulated with a smile, "Congratulations, senior."

"Let's pack our things and go," Jiang Yun said. "We'll go to the new shop in three days."

"Yes, ma'am."

Chi Kehuan began to tidy up.

He put all the items, such as pills, signs, and plaques, into his storage bag.

"Senior, shall we go and say hello to Sister Wen?"

After packing everything up and closing the shop door, Chi Kehuan looked at the Wenjiabao Talisman Shop across the street and spoke.

"I just went there, but they weren't in the shop." Jiang Yun shook her head. "I'll take you to see the location of the new shop."

After saying that, Jiang Yun walked ahead, leading Chi Kehuan to the new shop.

After letting Chi Kehuan know the location of the new shop, Jiang Yun returned to his cave.

As for Chi Kehuan, she rented an alchemy room by herself to refine the Golden Essence Pill.

She wanted to hurry up and refine the Golden Essence Pill so she could obtain the high-quality Foundation Establishment Pill.

Three days later, Jiang Yun and Chi Kehuan moved into the new shop.

This shop was originally a weapon-refining shop.

Therefore, its layout and decorations were completely different from those of a traditional medicine shop and were out of place.

Jiang Yun spent some spirit stones to change the layout of the shop and completely renovated the shop from top to bottom.

It took about half a month to complete all of this.

Half a month later, the newly renovated Zhou's Pill Shop reopened.

Jiang Yun took out the pills he had previously refined and put them all in the shop for sale.

Among them, Jin Yuan Dan and Zi Jin Po Zhang Dan were the most numerous.

In addition, there are premium Foundation Building Pills and Myriad Spirit Jade Dew Pills.

After opening, Jiang Yun carved a notice on a signboard and placed it in front of the shop, so that anyone passing by on the sidewalk could easily see the signboard.

The notice included the types and grades of pills sold in the shop, with a special mention of the Wanling Jade Dew Pill.

Of course, the most important thing is to undertake the refining of third-tier pills and to purchase various treasures and pill formulas at high prices.

Besides this sign, there is another sign.

The sign on this sign is a notice recruiting alchemy apprentices.

"Zhou's Alchemy Shop is sincerely recruiting several alchemy apprentices, regardless of gender, who can provide guidance on the art of alchemy."

"Requirements: First-grade high-level alchemist, under thirty years old."

This time, Jiang Yun plans to recruit more alchemy apprentices to manage the shop.

"This is the recipe for a first-grade high-quality Earth Essence Pill. If anyone wants to become an apprentice at my Zhou Family Pill Shop, give them this recipe to refine as an entry test."

"Once you recruit new alchemy apprentices, you should focus on refining Golden Essence Pills and strive to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage as soon as possible."

Jiang Yun took out a jade slip and handed it to Chi Kehuan, explaining some things to her.

"Thank you for your guidance, senior!"

Chi Kehuan quickly accepted the jade slip and bowed deeply to Jiang Yun.

Jiang Yun waved his hand.

The matter of recruiting alchemy apprentices will take some time, so Jiang Yun prepares to return to his cave to temper his flying sword.

However, the new shop now has a larger storefront, with a total of three floors and many empty rooms.

These rooms, if set up with some formations, would be suitable for meditation and cultivation, but not for alchemy or weapon crafting.

Jiang Yun then returned to his cave and began to temper his flying sword with Gengjin scales.

Although tempering a flying sword takes time, it can be stopped at any time.

Ten days later, the cave's warning barriers were triggered, clearly indicating that a guest had arrived.

Jiang Yun stopped tempering his flying sword and went out to greet him.

The people who came were the Wen siblings.

"I asked them to help me get the prescription for the pills six months ago, I wonder how it is now."

Jiang Yun had an idea and quickly went to greet the Wen siblings, inviting them into the cave and offering them hospitality.

"Senior, why is your alchemy shop closed?" Wen Ruyu asked curiously. "Is it no longer open?"

"We've moved to a new location, a bigger storefront," Jiang Yun said with a smile, informing the Wen siblings of the location of their new shop.

"I see. We'll go check out the new shop another day," Wen Changqing said with a smile.

Jiang Yun poured tea for the Wen siblings and asked, "You two came recently, is there any news regarding the pill formula?"

The day of the business meeting was not the agreed-upon day for exchanging Foundation Establishment Pills, but the Wen siblings suddenly arrived at the door, leading Jiang Yun to guess that it might be related to the pill formula.

After all, half a year had passed since Jiang Yun had asked the Wen siblings to compete with the family for the pill formula.

Regardless of whether we can obtain the elixir formula, this matter should be settled now.

Upon hearing this, Wen Changqing composed himself and said solemnly, "My sister and I have already tried our best to persuade the family to grant us the pill formula."

"How is it?" Jiang Yun asked hurriedly.

"Our clan leader is willing to offer two pill formulas: one high-grade third-rank pill formula and one low-grade third-rank pill formula," Wen Changqing said in a deep voice. "However, there are certain conditions."

"What are the conditions?"

Jiang Yun put down her teacup and looked up at Wen Changqing.

Unexpectedly, the Wen family was willing to offer him a high-grade third-level pill formula in exchange for a deal.