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Chapter 74: Multiple Pills in One Furnace
🕑 Added 2023-12-18 16:53:02 +0000 UTCImmortal Path Space : Table of Content/Chapter List
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Wang Hong hadn't even returned to his own courtyard when he spotted a Daoist Master standing at his doorstep from afar. As he approached, he realized it was Sun Er, the chatterbox who loved to boast.
"Brother Sun, what wind has blown you here?"
Both Wang Hong and Sun Er joined the sect at the same time, but Wang Hong found Sun Er, with his talkative nature, a bit daunting, so he rarely interacted with him.
Moreover, Sun Er showed little interest in male cultivators and often trailed behind female cultivators.
"Wang Brother, I've come today with a request," Sun Er said, bowing to Wang Hong.
"Oh, what is it? Tell me."
Wang Hong, unsure of the matter at hand, didn't immediately agree and had no intention of inviting Sun Er inside. He was a bit wary of Sun Er's talkative nature.
"Brother, recently, I've developed a good relationship with Xin'er, a junior sister from Tianxuan Peak. Xin'er likes to drink Spirit Honey tea. After inquiring around, I found out that you raise a group of Spirit Bees. So, I've come to request the purchase of some Spirit Honey. If there's Spirit Bee Royal Jelly, I'd like to buy some as well."
Upon hearing this, Wang Hong understood. Sun Er was indeed putting effort into pursuing a female cultivator. He couldn't fathom how Sun Er, who was always following female cultivators, managed to attain such a cultivation level.
Wang Hong did have some Spirit Honey stored. Qingxu Sect's Spirit Herb and Spirit Blossom were abundant, providing ample honey sources. Although he maintained ten thousand inactive male bees, he could still save a few pounds of Spirit Honey each month.
As for the Spirit Honey in the Space, he was cautious because there might be Red Beauty Flower poison in the previous batch, which could be harmful.
Although he had already ordered the Bee Queen not to collect nectar in that particular area, the stored honey from before should still be available.
"I have ten pounds of Spirit Honey and ten drops of Spirit Bee Royal Jelly. Spirit Honey is twenty-five Spirit Stones per pound, and Bee Queen's Royal Jelly is ten Spirit Stones per drop."
Since business had come to his doorstep, there was no reason to turn it away. Wang Hong invited Sun Er to sit on a stone bench under a jujube tree and picked some Spirit Jujube, placing them on the stone table for him to taste.
After eating two Spirit Jujube, Sun Er hesitated for a moment before making a decision. He said, "I'll take all of them."
"Let me tell you, Xin'er not only has an outstanding appearance, but her grandfather is also a Foundation Building cultivator from Tianxuan Peak. Anyone who wants to pursue her could line up from the peak to the foot of the mountain. Yet, she ignores everyone except me, treating me differently and enjoying our conversations."
Wang Hong speculated that what Sun Er referred to as enjoying conversations was probably him laughing desperately while others watched coldly.
Seeing that Sun Er was about to unleash his talkative talent again, Wang Hong regretted inviting him to sit down earlier.
Quickly preparing the Spirit Honey and Bee Queen's Royal Jelly, Wang Hong handed them over to Sun Er along with some Spirit Jujube, encouraging him to leave with the items.
Sun Er reluctantly counted out three hundred and fifty Spirit Stones, a considerable sum for him. This time, he had invested quite a bit.
He envied Wang Hong's bee colony. If he had such a group of bees, many female cultivators would actively seek him out.
Unfortunately, he didn't have Spirit Bees, and even if he did, he wouldn't know how to care for them.
After paying with Spirit Stones, Sun Er didn't immediately leave.
"Wang Brother, let me tell you, I happened to meet a Foundation Building senior from Tianji Peak last time. He praised me a lot, saying I'm clever and respectful to elders, blah blah blah..."
"..."
In the end, Wang Hong excused himself after listening to Sun Er's lengthy speech, suddenly feeling a need to seclude himself for a few days to gain insights.
Sun Er left reluctantly, likely adding another skill to his repertoire for boasting when chatting with others, which would help him in his breakthroughs.
Wang Hong couldn't wait to enter his courtyard and closed the door behind him. He retrieved the newly purchased Three-Unlike Elixir Furnace from his Space. This elixir furnace was enormous, even larger than some Storage Bags.
Grasping the ear-like handles on one side of the furnace, he lifted it high above his head and began swirling it around in the courtyard.
After playing for a while, he felt a slight strain from the movements, but since his strength could still grow, it wasn't a significant issue.
After placing the elixir furnace in the Alchemy room, he calmed his mind for a moment.
He took out several pieces of spirit charcoal, ignited them, and after warming the furnace, he successively added Spiritual Medicine. This time, he only used one set of materials. With the new elixir furnace, he needed to familiarize himself as each furnace was unique.
Soon, one batch of elixir was successfully refined. Opening the lid of the massive furnace, he found eight elixirs the size of fingertips lying quietly in the room-sized furnace.
He then refined two more batches, mastering the performance characteristics of the new elixir furnace. The success rate reached ninety percent.
The new elixir furnace also had a faster Alchemy speed, saving about fifteen minutes for each Condensing Qi Pill.
Every eight furnaces saved him an hour, and for this reason alone, he considered it a profit.
For the next batch, Wang Hong directly threw in five sets of materials. Even in this enormous elixir furnace, the five sets were still inconspicuous.
His spiritual awareness saw the essence refined from the Spiritual Medicine rapidly flowing at the bottom of the furnace. Wang Hong quickly lowered the firepower and performed a set of Pill Condensation techniques.
With the assistance of the Pill Condensation techniques and spiritual awareness, the liquid medicine solidified into round elixirs. However, a significant portion turned into a mist and dispersed into the air due to the boiling heat.
Counting them, Wang Hong had successfully produced eighteen elixirs, with a success rate just above thirty percent.
He knew that the main issue this time was with the final stage of spiritual awareness assistance, where he made some mistakes due to lack of proficiency.
After cleaning the residue in the furnace, he persevered and started Alchemy again. This time, there was progress, and he ended up with twenty-four elixirs, just a hair away from a fifty percent success rate.
Three months later, Wang Hong could simultaneously refine twelve sets of materials in one furnace, with a success rate around sixty percent. Increasing the number of materials further made the control with spiritual awareness significantly more challenging.
Nevertheless, he was satisfied with reaching this level. In the future, he only needed to refine two furnaces of elixirs per day, more than enough to supply the stores in Azure Void City.
In addition to Zhang Chunfeng's contributions and the Ma Brothers also refining some elixirs, there should be a surplus.
Refining only two elixirs a day left him with plenty of time for cultivation and to continue studying the basics of Spiritual Medicine.
Since he was fortunate enough to enter the sect and had access to the Book Tower with accumulated wisdom from predecessors, not learning would be a waste of his life.
Entering the Space, Wang Hong found that the swarm of Spirit Bees he used for experiments had already been cultivated. He had intentionally let the new Bee Queen bring out forty thousand Spirit Bees from the swarm.
He then placed the new bee colony in the three-acre plot where he conducted experiments. The poisonous flowers he had planted hadn't bloomed yet, so he transplanted the original Red Beauty Flower over.
However, with just one poisonous flower, after a month in the Space, more than half of the bee colony was poisoned to death. The remaining half was barely alive, with Spirit Bees continuously dying.
Using his pharmacological knowledge, Wang Hong prepared some body-enhancing elixirs and mixed them into Spirit Honey for the Spirit Bees to consume.
While the symptoms eased, Spirit Bees continued to die, prompting Wang Hong to feed them body-enhancing Spiritual Medicine regularly.
Until now, this group of Spirit Bees had endured severe poisoning in the Space for several years, yet more than a thousand Spirit Bees were still stubbornly alive.
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