Fantasy: I'm in a discarded alchemy room, but I can turn trash into treasure!

Qin Mo settled down inside the Remnant Pill Valley.

His residence was a two-story wooden building inside the valley.

As soon as he pushed open the door, he immediately noticed that the concentration of erysipelas in the air had suddenly decreased.

A simple array was set up around the wooden building to isolate it from most of the poisonous substances outside.

Since his body tempering, his perception of the surrounding spiritual energy and poisonous gas has become much more acute.

On the first floor, there are several rows of bookshelves against the wall, all filled with account books.

Every day, the amount of waste pills delivered, who delivered them, and when they were delivered all had to be recorded one by one.

The second floor is the bedroom, with a few stools, a wooden table with a missing corner, and a bare bed.

Qin Mo carried the bedding upstairs and looked at the dilapidated room. He finally understood why Meng Dahai had become skin and bones in just six months.

The formation can only weaken the poison, not completely block it.

Whether inside or outside the building, toxic gases remain in the air; the only difference is the concentration.

Over time, even a mere Qi Refining Level 1 disciple could not survive here for more than half a month.

The duty roster for guarding the Remnant Pill Pavilion is for six months at a time.

Therefore, in Manager Ma's eyes, Qin Mo, who was only at the first level of Qi Refining, would die within ten days to half a month if he entered the Remnant Pill Valley.

"You think you can kill me by dumping me here?"

Qin Mo sneered, "Keep dreaming."

He couldn't wait to settle down here.

As long as you survive, you can use the Qiankun Transformation Furnace to turn waste into treasure and continuously improve your cultivation.

He needed to increase his strength before those who wanted to kill him could react.

Qin Mo made the bed, sat cross-legged, and began to practice his cultivation technique.

He was practicing the "Five Elements Gathering Qi Technique," one of the countless basic cultivation methods collected by the Cloud Rain Palace.

Disciples who perform menial tasks are only fit to learn these low-level skills.

Don't even think about magic or supernatural powers.

Cultivation techniques are divided into four levels, from lowest to highest: Yellow, Mysterious, Earth, and Heaven.

Above the Heavenly Rank is the Divine Rank, and above the Divine Rank is the Immortal Rank, but those only exist in legends.

Whether it's spiritual energy or internal energy, both must be refined into one's own vital energy through cultivation techniques.

The higher the level of the cultivation technique, the faster the refining speed, the better the conversion efficiency, the purer the vital energy, and the more rapid the improvement of cultivation.

His second-rate "Five Elements Gathering Qi Technique" had a pitifully low refining efficiency.

"We need to get a high-level cultivation technique."

Qin Mo stopped cultivating.

It was the middle of the night.

He walked out of the wooden building and went straight to the No. 1 Remnant Pill Pavilion.

They pushed open the iron gate, closed it, and began selecting from the small mountain of discarded pills.

The more severe the erysipelas in the waste pills, the better the quality after reconstitution.

He carefully selected thirty-three poisonous, worthless pills, took out the Qiankun Transformation Furnace, and put them all into the furnace.

"Reshape".

A burst of cosmic energy was consumed, and spiritual light flowed around the furnace.

After a moment of calm, he lifted the stove lid and took stock of the results.

Four Body Tempering Pills.

Twelve Qi-Gathering Pills.

Nine pills of the Marrow Cleansing Pill.

Five pills of Peiyuan Dan.

All of them were elixir of the highest or middle grade of the ninth rank; there wasn't a single useless pill for maintaining youth or abstaining from grains.

The Body Tempering Pill tempers the muscles, bones, and flesh; the Qi Gathering Pill enhances cultivation; the Marrow Cleansing Pill purifies the spiritual root; and the Yuan Nourishing Pill consolidates the foundation.

With all four types of elixirs available, a complete cultivation cycle can be formed.

He stored the elixir into the Transformation Furnace.

Without the aid of elixirs, his cultivation speed was so slow that he made no progress at all, given his mixed spiritual roots.

While others can advance their cultivation with just one pill, he needs to consume ten or even more.

"We'll go down the mountain tomorrow night."

He wanted to exchange the excess pills for cultivation resources.

There's also the Drunken Flower Pavilion, which I absolutely must visit.

The Qi of Heaven and Earth is the key to unlocking the treasure vault, and currently it seems that the only way to obtain it is through dual cultivation.

But he had a feeling that there should be more than one method.

But right now, he needs to fill his stomach first.

A simple kitchen was built next to the wooden building.

Qin Mo opened the rice jar, only to find it empty.

The water tank still contained more than half a tank of spring water.

"Did Meng Dahai even take the rice with him?"

With no other option, he had to leave the valley and head to the Spirit Food Hall.

……

"Qin Mo, what are you doing here instead of guarding the Remnant Pill Valley? Have you abandoned your post?"

As soon as Qin Mo stepped into Ling Shan Tang, he bumped into Qian Dalong.

The guy shouted at the top of his lungs, attracting the attention of the surrounding servants and disciples.

"You've come to collect your rations, is that not allowed?"

Qin Mo's tone was indifferent.

"What kind of food rations will we receive?"

"What else do you think I can get from the Spirit Catering Hall?"

Qin Mo ignored him and walked straight into the warehouse.

"Hmph, deserting his post! I'll tell Steward Ma right now!"

With a sinister grin, Qian Dalong hoisted the things he had just received and hurriedly ran away.

Qin Mo found Manager Chen, who was in charge of the warehouse.

"So you're the new disciple guarding the Remnant Pill Pavilion?"

Manager Chen looked him up and down, his eyes showing surprise.

"You're only at the first level of Qi Refining, yet you're guarding the Remnant Pill Pavilion? Young brother, who have you offended?"

Qin Mo only revealed the aura of the first level of Qi Refining, the rest was completely concealed by the Transformation Furnace.

"Manager Chen, please give me my rations."

He sighed, looking helpless.

Manager Chen had ten days' worth of rations prepared and sent two handymen disciples to help deliver them to the Remnant Pill Valley.

"What a pity."

Manager Chen shook his head as he watched Qin Mo's departing figure.

"Manager, what's the pity?"

A disciple standing nearby asked curiously.

"He won't live much longer."

……

Qian Dalong found Manager Ma and embellished the story of Qin Mo's appearance at Ling Shan Tang.

Manager Ma didn't take it to heart at all.

"Get back to your work! If you delay, I'll beat you!"

Manager Ma directly cursed Qian Dalong out.

All he needs to do now is quietly wait for Qin Mo to die in the Valley of Broken Pills, and then collect the body.

Why complicate matters further?

……

The two disciples from Ling Shan Tang only agreed to deliver the food to the entrance of the valley and refused to go inside.

Qin Mo had no choice but to move the wooden house himself.

The days that followed were simple and monotonous.

I cook my own rice and make my own bone broth.

One pot of rice and one pot of soup are enough to eat for a whole day.

After breakfast, he began cultivating using elixirs.

First, temper the body; then refine the qi; finally, cleanse the marrow.

After refining three Body Tempering Pills and five Qi Gathering Pills, the vital energy in his body suddenly broke through the barrier, and his cultivation level entered the fourth level of Qi Refining.

My strength has increased, my vital energy is more abundant, and my senses have become more acute.

At this rate, it won't be long before I break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

……

In the afternoon, servant disciples began to bring over discarded pills.

The Cloud and Rain Palace has four major alchemy areas: Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow.

Qin Mo discovered that almost all the defective pills sent over came from the Yellow-Character Pill Room, and were all low-grade goods.

After a whole day, not a single high-level waste pill was found.

He made a simple record in the ledger and put more than thirty low-grade waste pills into the No. 1 Residual Pill Pavilion.

Just when everyone thought no one else would come today, a woman in purple appeared outside the valley entrance.

"An inner sect senior sister?"

Qin Mo hurriedly went out to greet him.

The newcomer was young, with exquisite and beautiful features and an extremely aloof demeanor.

"You're Qin Mo?"

The girl in purple fixed her gaze on him, her tone icy.

"Does my senior sister know me?"

Qin Mo was slightly taken aback.

"I don't know him."

The girl in purple flipped her right hand, and a jade box appeared out of thin air in her palm.

Qin Mo noticed that she was wearing a storage ring on her finger.

"Store this box in the Eighteenth Residual Pill Pavilion, and do not open it."

She handed over the jade box, glanced at the misty valley behind Qin Mo, frowned slightly, and was about to turn and leave.

"Senior sister, please wait!"

Qin Mo called out to her.

"Is there anything else?"

"Please sign your name in the ledger, senior sister."

Qin Mo took out the ledger, opened to a blank page, and handed over a brush. "This is the rule of the Remnant Pill Pavilion. Everyone who brings waste pills must register."

The girl in purple gave him a deep look, took the pen, wrote her name in the ledger, then returned the pen and turned to leave.

"Take care, senior sister."

Qin Mo bowed as he saw him off.

In his previous life, he was a laborer, and he is still a laborer at the bottom of society after transmigrating.

But there are ways to be a beast of burden, and the ways of human relationships and social skills work in any world.

After the purple-clad girl's figure disappeared at the end of the mountain path, Qin Mo looked down at the jade box in his hand.

What kind of useless pill is this that needs to be sealed in a jade box and specifically placed in the deepest, number eighteen, Residual Pill Pavilion?

More importantly, how did this senior sister know his name was Qin Mo?