Wild Dogs

After returning to the Pill Hall with Xiao Hei, Yang Fan first placed Xiao Hei on the back mountain before going back to his room.

"Only when your strength reaches the sixth level of Qi Refining can you use the Flying Needle Talisman. You must improve your strength as soon as possible."

For Yang Fan now, the Rejuvenation Pill is naturally the most suitable, but he has already finished consuming it.

There haven't been any useless pills for him to improve these past few days.

"Looks like I'll have to try alchemy."

Yang Fan took out the small alchemy furnace.

He already had the recipe for the Rejuvenation Pill, and the small cauldron contained a good amount of medicinal herbs.

As for controlling flames, that was naturally a piece of cake for Yang Fan.

He already possessed the art of fire control, and had been diligently practicing the Fireball and Fire Dragon techniques from the Nine Secrets of Spiritual Flame, so he naturally knew how to use spiritual energy to ignite a fire.

"By the way, I got a beast-taming bag in the mountains. I wonder how the snakes inside are doing."

Yang Fan obtained a beast-taming bag from the young man from the Black Fiend Sect; it contained some small snakes.

Yang Fan had put away the small snakes and the beast-taming bag back then, and now he could take a look at how the small snakes inside were doing.

Yang Fan took out the beast-taming bag, opened it, and glanced at it. He immediately felt nauseous.

No other reason than that all the little snakes in the beast-taming bag exploded, turning into clumps of minced meat.

"It seems we can't put any live animals in there."

Yang Fan put away the beast-taming bag, preparing to clean it up later.

He then carefully took out the medicinal herbs, lit a fire under the small alchemy furnace, and tried to refine the pills.

During his time at the Pill Hall, he had seen how others refined pills many times.

Following the instructions of the Heavenly Gang Alchemy Method, Yang Fan immediately controlled the flames to begin refining the elixir.

"Bang!"

A cloud of black gas emerged from the alchemy furnace, and Yang Fan hurriedly waved his hand to sweep it away.

"As expected, alchemy is not that simple."

Yang Fan shook his head slightly and cleaned up the ashes.

There was only ashes in the alchemy furnace; not even a half-finished pill.

"Seriously, if only I had a poison pill, at least I could improve using the small cauldron."

Yang Fan shook his head helplessly and could only continue refining pills.

This time, he was much more careful, taking every step with utmost caution.

"Bang!"

This time, he refined it better than before, but it still turned to ashes, without even a single waste pill.

"I refuse to believe I can't refine the elixir!"

Yang Fan secretly resolved to continue refining the medicinal herbs.

As dawn broke, Yang Fan looked at the dark, poisonous pill and almost cried.

After a night, he finally managed to refine a worthless pill.

Although the pills were not yet successfully refined, at least they were formed, and there were at least some unusable pills.

"It can still be used if you put it in the small cauldron."

Yang Fan carefully placed the pill into the small cauldron, and then felt dizzy and almost fainted.

"What happened?"

Yang Fan took out a bronze mirror and glanced at himself. When he saw his two large dark circles under his eyes, his expression changed immediately.

"This is erysipelas!"

Yang Fan spent the whole night refining pills, but all of them were ruined, turning into poisonous gas and poisonous pills.

After inhaling so much poisonous gas, Yang Fan was naturally affected.

"I need to take some antidote right away."

Yang Fan hurriedly swallowed the antidote pill, and only after his dark circles disappeared did he head towards the front hall.

Nothing major happened that day.

Since becoming Qingyang Zhenren's alchemy apprentice, Yang Fan has only helped him a few times.

After all, Master Qingyang himself was proficient in fire manipulation, and only needed Yang Fan's help when he needed to refine certain pills that were more difficult to refine.

Back in the cabin, Yang Fan continued refining pills.

With yesterday's experience, this time was much better than before.

However, after a night, Yang Fan still managed to refine a poison pill.

Fortunately, these poison pills can be disposed of by throwing them into a small cauldron.

After two days of effort, Yang Fan managed to obtain several Rejuvenation Pills.

Yang Fan was not satisfied.

The effects of the Rejuvenation Pill are actually quite average; Yang Fan has several other very good pill formulas in his possession.

Yang Fan continued to refine the Rejuvenation Pill simply because the medicinal materials for it were relatively cheap and easy to find.

He wanted to take this opportunity to master alchemy and then refine those kinds of pills with better medicinal effects.

"It's done!"

Three days later, looking at the Rejuvenation Pill in his hand, Yang Fan was overjoyed.

He finally succeeded in refining the first Rejuvenation Pill!

Although the success rate was pitifully low, it was still quite an achievement for Yang Fan.

"With this Rejuvenation Pill, I can now try to refine several other types of pills."

"But let's see what changes this Rejuvenation Pill will produce first."

Yang Fan hurriedly placed the Rejuvenation Pill into the small cauldron.

Previously, he had only put waste pills into the small cauldron; this time, he wondered what the effect would be if he put in good pills.

After placing the pill into the small cauldron, Yang Fan quietly waited for the pill to change.

"I hope it won't disappoint me!"

After a while, a fragrance wafted out of the small cauldron, and Yang Fan hurriedly took out the pill.

Seeing the changes on the Rejuvenation Pill, Yang Fan's eyes widened in surprise.

"Is this a cinnabar pattern?"

There was a golden pattern on the Rejuvenation Pill, which looked beautiful.

"Pills are divided into three grades: superior, middle, and inferior. Pills with pill patterns are top-grade pills. Clearly, this Rejuvenation Pill has become a top-grade pill."

Just as he had guessed.

This small cauldron can turn waste pills into good pills, and improve the quality of good pills into top-grade pills.

"It's a pity that each pill can only be upgraded once, otherwise I could directly turn a waste pill into a top-grade pill."

Yang Fan pondered with some regret, then his expression changed.

"Something's wrong, something's happened."

The aroma of the top-grade pill was so strong that Yang Fan realized something was wrong after just one sip.

"If the aroma wafts out, even these lowly servants will know something's up!"

With that thought in mind, Yang Fan swallowed the pill whole and immediately began refining it.

The effects of the Supreme Rejuvenation Pill were much stronger than he had imagined, and Yang Fan absorbed its effects all night long.

When dawn broke, Yang Fan excitedly opened his eyes.

There was no other reason than that his cultivation level had already reached the fifth level of Qi Refining!

"I'm only one step away from the sixth level of Qi Refining. Once I reach the sixth level, I can activate the Flying Needle Talisman to try and eliminate the Gu worms!"

However, by this time, the medicinal herbs he had accumulated over a long period of time had been used up, and he needed to think of a solution.

"We can't take too many medicinal herbs from Dantang at once, so we need to find a way to buy some from somewhere else."

"It seems I still have to go to the market."

Anyway, he has plenty of self-defense items on him, so even if someone is foolish, he has a way to deal with them.

Thinking of this, Yang Fan gave an order to the Pill Hall and immediately headed down to the market town.

In addition to buying medicinal herbs, Yang Fan planned to buy more talismans and similar items.

In any case, he was determined to kill the old Taoist priest the next time he saw him.

The old Taoist's cultivation level should be around the eighth level of the Qi Refining stage.

Given Yang Fan's strength, he might not be a match for him in a head-on confrontation.

However, if one is prepared to catch the unsuspecting, and uses talismans or other magical artifacts to launch a surprise attack, the chances of killing the old Taoist priest are still quite high.

"As long as we can get rid of the Gu worms, even if we can't kill him, at least we can escape."

However, he wouldn't feel at ease even if he escaped, unless he got rid of this old Taoist priest.

"Little Black grew very fast after eating the monster meat. It's estimated that it will become a level one monster in another month. I'll buy more monster meat this time when I go down the mountain so that Little Black can also become a level one monster."

"By then, we'll be even more confident in dealing with the old Taoist priest!"

After giving instructions to Zhou, the squad leader, Yang Fan hurriedly went down the mountain.