MC Bookstore Chapter 322 - 268: Speed of Progress
Chapter 322 - 268: Speed of Progress
This was an excellent outcome for his first attempt at refining a Third Tier pill.
Fang Yun had only hoped to produce a single Lower Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pill, so he had clearly met his goal.
’I’ve used up seventy percent of my Spiritual Power.’
Compared to refining Second Tier pills, refining Third Tier pills consumed a great deal of his Spiritual Power.
Only thirty percent of the Spiritual Power in his Qi Sea remained. This had never happened before, not even when he was out on excursions.
’It would be great if Life Talents could reduce Spiritual Power consumption, just like Combat Talents do.’
If his Alchemy Talent could reduce the Spiritual Power consumed during the refining process, he would probably find Alchemy even easier.
The crucial part of refining a Third Tier pill wasn’t the Spiritual Power consumption, but the strain on one’s Divine Sense.
Now that he had finished refining a batch of Five Qi Chao Ling Pills, Fang Yun felt dizzy and his head was pounding—a side effect of expending so much Divine Sense.
He couldn’t start cultivating right away. He needed to rest properly before he could begin refining and absorbing the Upper Grade Spirit Ascension Pill.
Before resting, he also wanted to carefully review his experience refining the Five Qi Chao Ling Pills.
His Divine Sense would slowly recover while he reviewed the process.
The fastest and cheapest way to recover Divine Sense was simply to sleep.
Pills that restored Divine Sense were generally very expensive.
「Early in the second month.」
After finishing his cultivation, the first thing Fang Yun did was open the light screen to check last month’s Talent Point tally.
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Refined Lower Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pill x2, Talent Points +3,600
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Sect Influence: 73%
Talent Point Bonus: 399%
Total: Talent Points +143,699
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On the light screen, Fang Yun focused on the entry for the Lower Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pills.
A single Lower Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pill provided 1,800 Talent Points, which was decent.
If a single batch of Five Qi Chao Ling Pills yielded six Lower Grade pills, the base Talent Points would exceed 10,000.
’For Tier One pills of the same type, a Middle Grade one gives fifty percent more Talent Points than a Lower Grade one. For Second Tier pills, it’s an eighty percent increase. The gap for Third Tier pills should be even wider.’
Based on the pattern he observed with Tier One and Second Tier pills, Fang Yun speculated that the difference between Middle and Lower Grade for Third Tier pills should be at least double.
After a moment of thought, he quickly navigated to the Life Talent interface.
He began drawing for Life Talents.
Including the Talent Points left over from last month, he could draw for Life Talents a total of 1,437 times this month.
Alchemy Talent Fragment x485
Artifact Refining Talent Fragment x480
Planting Talent Fragment x472
Once the draws were complete, Fang Yun glanced at his accumulated Life Talent fragments.
Alchemy Talent ★★★★★★★ (57,291/362,880)
Artifact Refining Talent ★★★★★★★ (57,018/362,880)
Planting Talent ★★★★★★★ (56,911/362,880)
More than six years had passed since his Combat Talent had been upgraded.
During that time, he had accumulated over seventeen million Talent Points, but he was still a long way from upgrading his Life Talents.
His average of over one hundred thousand Talent Points per month was starting to seem insufficient.
"I’ll just have to take it slow," Fang Yun muttered to himself before closing the Life Talent interface.
After all, an eight-star Life Talent would be more than sufficient even in the Nascent Soul Stage. He could fully accept that it would take a long time to achieve.
His Alchemy plan for February was just to refine two batches of Five Qi Chao Ling Pills.
He couldn’t refine any more than that; three batches would take over half a month.
On the very first day of February, Fang Yun planned to refine a batch of Five Qi Chao Ling Pills.
This would be his second batch of Five Qi Chao Ling Pills.
With the experience from his first batch of Third Tier pills, he was more confident now as he prepared the second. He could at least estimate what the outcome would be.
This batch would surely yield more than just two Lower Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pills. If he only produced two, it would be an insult to his seven-star Alchemy Talent.
More than five days passed in a flash.
Fang Yun officially completed the refining of his second batch of Five Qi Chao Ling Pills.
"Four Lower Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pills. Not bad."
Producing four Lower Grade pills from this batch of Five Qi Chao Ling Pills was within Fang Yun’s expectations.
If he wanted to produce Middle Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pills, he would need at least four more batches’ worth of refining experience.
After finishing the pills and reviewing his process, Fang Yun left the Alchemy Room. He had just changed the sign outside his cave abode when he heard a knock at the entrance.
’Someone was waiting for me outside?’
For a moment, Fang Yun couldn’t imagine who it might be.
Soon, under his control, the stone door of the cave abode slowly swung open.
"Elder Bai."
Seeing Bai Heyan, Fang Yun was both surprised and not surprised. The surprising part was that Bai Heyan had told him to come find him only after he had finished refining all the Five Qi Chao Ling Pills.
According to Bai Heyan’s own instructions, he shouldn’t be appearing here right now.
"Fang Yun, how goes the refining of the Five Qi Chao Ling Pills?"
Bai Heyan smiled at Fang Yun. He had said that before, but he just couldn’t help himself.
Knowing Fang Yun, by the time he used up all ten sets of Spirit Medicine for the Five Qi Chao Ling Pills, it would likely be half a year later.
"I’ve refined two batches so far. The first yielded two Lower Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pills, and the second yielded four," Fang Yun replied.
"Six Five Qi Chao Ling Pills from just two batches? Excellent!"
Bai Heyan was beaming. This was even better than he had anticipated.
"Elder Bai, I have a question. If we were to have the Five Qi Chao Ling Pills refined by a Core Formation Alchemist from the Purple Mist Sect, what would the terms be? Would we pay a fee, or would they just guarantee us a certain number of Lower Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pills?"
When an Alchemy Master accepted a commission, there were generally two payment methods.
The first was a fixed fee, collected regardless of the outcome. The second was a promise to deliver a certain number of pills from a batch, with any surplus belonging to the Alchemy Master.