Become Eternals

Pursuing Peak

Bai Xiaochun returned to the sect while humming a bit of a song and secretly feeling pleased. Upon reaching his courtyard, he sighed.

“I practice Immortal cultivation to live forever. Such people who always fight and kill are total madmen. ”

He sat down in his courtyard, and began to organize the various items he took from Chen Fei and his friends. They weren't rich at all, which meant that Bai Xiaochun wasn't really rich, even though he didn't really care much either. After he finished, he took out the medicinal plant he had just bought and examined it carefully for a while.

Although he had a solid foundation in plants and plants, he actually did not have much experience handling the plants themselves. Now that he could examine this plant directly, his observations mingled with the information he already had in mind. He even scratched the surfaces of some plants to check their internal structure.

After performing a few tests, a thoughtful expression appeared on Bai Xiaochun's face, and he took out two random formulas he had obtained. After taking a quick look at the formula to replenish spiritual energy, he focused on another formula, designed for humans who wanted to strengthen their physical bodies.

“Dupa Long Life...” she murmured. This particular medicinal formula does not require an awful lot of medicinal plants, only seven. There is nothing special about the way they interact. However, using the techniques of adding and pressing each other, it was possible to gather the strength of those seven medicinal herbs, crush them into powder, and then turn them into incense.

Two of the plants were even poisonous. If a cultivator consumed it, it would only cause diarrhea for two weeks. For humans, however, it would be fatal.

“There are many kinds of spirit plants in Heaven and Earth. Some can be directly ingested, whereas others need to be concocted into pills to get the optimal effect. There are many who, due to their toxicity, can only be used to make incense. ” Muttering to himself, Bai Xiaochun took out the medicinal herbs needed for Longevity Incense, then he began to study them in detail.

“I'm still not completely sure about this,” thought. “The most important thing to consider in concocting the drug is its success rate. Even the simplest level 1 spirit medicine still had a high potential for failure.

“I have ten sets for each medicinal plant. I can't waste it. ” Bai Xiaochun is a cautious person, and prefers confidence before doing anything. It was exactly like that he came back when he was engrossed in memorizing all kinds of plants and herbs, and his current situation was the same. Rather than directly trying to concoct the medicine, he preferred to research the medicinal formula first.

Seven days passed. After fully absorbing the information from the medicinal formula, he then closed his eyes and began to analyze the problem further. It was the night when he finally opened his eyes. Then, after thinking for longer, he produced a formula for spiritual energy recovery medicine and began to examine it.

Two more weeks passed. Bai Xiaochun's eyes were red, but now, he felt that he completely understood all the medicinal herbs that were part of this medicinal formula. After further thought, he got up and walked out of the courtyard.

Concocting medicine required a pill furnace, but it was quite expensive, more expensive than Bai Xiaochun could afford. Fortunately, in the Medicine Concocting Pavilion, there was a pill furnace available for use by the disciples in concocting their medicine, at the price of a few benefit points.

The Medicine Conferred Pavilion was on the eastern side of Fragrant Cloud Peak, not too far away from Bai Xiaochun's residence. It was unlike the 10,000 Medicinal Pavilion, which was always crowded with many people. The Medicine Conferred Pavilion was a relatively quiet and peaceful place. After all, even at Fragrant Cloud Peak, people qualified to concoct medicine were relatively few in number. Of that small amount, quite a number already had their own pill furnace, and there was no need to come here to rent.

Bai Xiaochun paid the right to use the Medicine Concocting Pavilion facilities for an entire month. He was given a personal workshop, complete with a protective spell formation that prevented outside interference during his work.

Holding the wooden key that had been given to him, Bai Xiaochun quickly found the #13 workshop and walked in. It was not very large, and was completely empty except for the pill furnace and the flames that lit up underneath.

After sitting cross-legged, Bai Xiaochun took a deep breath, then examined the pill furnace closely. When he tried to manipulate the fire with some spiritual energy, he discovered that he could cause the flame to become hotter, filling the entire room with intense heat. At the same time, the pill furnace itself began to glow bright red.

Taking the foundation of the Art of Violet Qi Control, he performed several tests, and quickly got used to the pungent heat. It didn't take long before he became accustomed to how to control the level of flames. Finally, he slapped his bag that was held to produce various kinds of plants and herbs.

“Dupa Longevity is too important to make first on the list. First I will familiarize myself with the general herb process, then I will try. I'll start with the Spirit Filling Pill. It was a tier 1 pill, useful for Qi Condensation of the fifth level and lower. ” Bai Xiaochun is now completely determined. His expression was very serious, he mentally reviewed the medicinal formula for the Spirit Refilling Pill, then started concocting.

He produced the first medicinal plant, then waved his hand, causing its leaves to fall out. Eyes sparkling with concentration, he sent out his internal spiritual energy, forming a powerful yet gentle force that crushed the leaves into nine sap beads, which he then dropped onto the pill furnace.

An explosive sound could be heard, and a green mist instantly appeared within the pill furnace. Xiaochun's bai eyes gleamed brightly, and as soon as the mist completely appeared, his hands flew through the air as he extracted the trunks and veins of the medicinal plants, which he then threw into the furnace as well. Occasionally, he adjusted his flames, ensuring that more and more mist formed inside the furnace.

However, no mist escaped to the outside. It froze together, circling around as Bai Xiaochun plucked out a second medicinal plant. After catalyzing it for a while, the medicinal plant bloomed with flowers, the petals he picked up and put into the pill furnace.

Time pass. Bai Xiaochun was completely focused on what he was doing as he whipped out one medicinal plant after another. Soon he was in the eighth factory, and his eyes shone brightly as he stared at the pill furnace. As he continued to adjust the temperature of the flame, sweat dripped down his face.

Two hours later, a muffled roar sounded from within the pill furnace. Black smoke shot out, to be absorbed by the room's spell formation. Bai Xiaochun choked and coughed, and a frown could be seen on his face as he stared at the charred slag inside the pill furnace.

“Failure...” he murmured. Sitting down and putting his chin on his hand, he began to think. After reviewing everything he had done, he did not immediately start another group. After all, he was a cautious person, and whether it was memorizing plants and herbs or concocting medicine, he had always wanted to do it in the wisest manner.

He pondered the matter for three whole days. During that time, he revisited what he remembered about his first attempt at least a thousand times. It helped him identify at least fifty problem areas. Finally, he took a deep breath, rested for a moment, and once again heated the furnace.

The actual time it took to produce the pill was not too long. Four hours later, the pill furnace let out a rumbling sound once again, and as the smoke dissipated, the broken pill remnants once again became visible.

At this point, his stubborn determination once again rose. Taking out the slag from the pill furnace, he examined it closely, then compared it to the information he had obtained so far about concocting medicine. He then spent another ten days examining the medicinal formula, as well as the plants and herbs involved. Finally, his eyes were red, he started to try for the third time.

This time, he spent almost half a month. His time in the Medicine Concocting Pavilion was running out. Finally, his eyes opened, and he gritted his teeth as he started the fourth wave.

Eventually, the time ran out, and the latest batch failed.

If there was a day-worker apothecary who could observe what was happening, he would find it hard to believe it. Almost everyone will try at least dozens of batches of drugs within a month, and will succeed at least some of them.

Even if they only came up with one pill in the end, it was still considered a success.

After all, most people viewed concocting medicine as something very difficult. If that wasn't the case, then there would be more than two major apothecaries in the entire Eastwood Continent.

Even daily worker pharmacists were not very common, and most of them had no hope of becoming expert pharmacists.

Of course, the real reason for that is that most people do not have access to the resources needed to truly thrive as a day-worker pharmacist.

In the end, if anyone worked long enough, their chances of becoming an apothecary expert would be much greater. Therefore, most people believe that the best way to increase one's success rate in concocting medicine is to practice a lot!

And that's why most people just do the exercises.

Once you get used to the process enough, your confidence in success will increase. Of course, simultaneously, the day worker pharmacist began to view failure as commonplace. After the failure, one could start again, and thus slowly increase. That was especially true for the more ordinary medicinal pills. The ingredients for such pills were not very expensive, and could be used as fuel for that hard work and practice.

However, Bai Xiaochun walked on a different path from the others. He went much slower, and after each failure, he would spend more time analyzing why he failed than he did in the actual concocting process.

It has something to do with his caution. It would even be appropriate to call it meticulous. Only a little bit of precision came about during his study of plants and plants. Now that he had first plunged into the world of concocting medicine, his meticulous nature increased dramatically, becoming the most outstanding aspect.

Because of that thoroughness, he was able to identify more problem areas than the average person. In fact, the number of problems that others might identify cannot even be compared. He thought about and pondered over the matter in a way that even others would not consider, and thus identified various suspicious areas.

Due to his prudence, even the slightest problem was something he wanted to control before he proceeded with concocting. It was for this reason that he spent so much time thinking.

Months had passed; bai Xiaochun's hair was disheveled and his face was covered in ashes. Tired, he left the Medicine Concocting Pavilion and returned to his courtyard, where he sat there thinking and reviewing.

“There are still nine problem areas. After I resolved the matter, I should be able to continue manufacturing the medicine. ” While gritting his teeth, he sat there in his yard, eyes closed, analyzing the problem, occasionally taking medicinal plants to observe and study.

Half a month passed before he suddenly rushed out, exhausted his merit points, and entered the Medicine Conferred Pavilion again.

Fifth wave...failed!

After analyzing the problem for another seven days, he discovered more problems, solved them, and then tried again.

Sixth wave..failed!

His eyes are red. He spent twenty days pondering over the matter before attempting the seventh wave.

Two hours after the process, no rumbling sounds were heard. Instead, a medicinal fragrance spread out, and Bai Xiaochun's face twinkled. Inside the pill furnace were two green medicinal pills. The seventh wave is a success!

He tried again, and the eighth wave succeeded, producing three pills!

The ninth wave was successful, producing five pills!

The tenth group also succeeded, However, in the end, only one pill appeared. It is not green, but black. Furthermore, it did not emit any medicinal fragrance, but rather, a distinct strange scent.

Even as Bai Xiaochun pondered the matter curiously, the entire Medicine Conferred Pavilion was thrown into a fuss.