Chapter 373: 233 Request

Next to Ten Thousand Sword Peak, Li Yuanba was setting up a formation on a mountain.

This mountain peak was something he had asked for from his master, Elder Jian. Many of the peaks around Ten Thousand Sword Peak belonged to Elder Jian, but since he had no disciples and did not engage in growing spirit plants, most of the mountains were abandoned.

When Li Yuanba requested a mountaintop for his personal use, Elder Jian agreed without a second thought.

It wasn’t a big deal, and Elder Jian had no intention of probing into his secrets.

With the strength of someone like Elder Jian, what he needed to do was accumulate resources and wait for the breakthrough to Nascent Soul.

Elder Jian didn’t believe there was a cultivation technique stronger than the “Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique.” He was loyal to his flying sword throughout his life, practicing the strongest techniques. Even when wandering in the Demon Sect, he remained a pure sword cultivator.

His demand for worldly possessions was very low; any resources he had were used to strengthen his flying sword.

Once Li Yuanba obtained the mountain, he began setting up the formation. He also did not engage in developing Water Cloud Peak for spirit planting.

The environment on Water Cloud Peak was nice, with a waterfall flowing down from halfway up the mountain and forming a pool at the base. It was a pity that the spirit veins in this mountain were only of superior quality; otherwise, it would make a good cave dwelling.

He wanted this place not for anything else but to cultivate “Purple Qi Eastward”; his cave dwelling was still on Ten Thousand Sword Peak, a Golden Core level dwelling where the spiritual energy and sword intent greatly helped him cultivate the “Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique.”

After setting up the formation on Water Cloud Peak, his daily cultivation routine was established.

Every two days, he consumed one top-tier “Shushan Hunyuan Pill,” and together with his natural spirit root talent and the spirit veins inside the cave dwelling, his cultivation speed was not any slower than his original body, Li Shiming, who had strengthened his Taoist Body with a year of “Purple Qi Eastward.”

The speed of cultivating the “Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique” increased many times over, especially after consuming the top-tier “Shushan Hunyuan Pill,” which made one cultivation session equivalent to the effects of twenty.

Every morning, he would go to Water Cloud Peak, and at the rise of the early sun, absorb the violet aura through 1,500 Fresnel reflectors.

Additionally, he also retrieved the resources for making pills given by Ancestor Lu, and Ancestor Lu’s nameplate was taken back.

When he requested the resources for making pills, what was delivered to his hands were the spiritual medicines required for Vessel Protecting Pills, Soul Stabilizing Pills, Resurrection Pills, and Mountain-breaking Pills, along with a jade scroll from Senluo Sect which contained pill-making knowledge and secret techniques related to the pills.

The reason why he was given the necessary spiritual medicines for the pill recipes was because these four types of spirit pills required Third-grade Spiritual Medicine as the main ingredient, and needed an Alchemy Master to be refined.

The Alchemy Masters of Senluo Sect rarely took action; it was said they were pushing towards the Nascent Soul Stage and had been in seclusion for more than ten years.

A new Alchemy Master hadn’t been trained yet, and the high failure rate of high-level alchemists attempting to refine Third-grade Spiritual Medicine into spirit pills was likely too much for any cultivator to want their services.

This was not without a solution; one could ask an Alchemy Master from another power to take action, but this had to be handled by the cultivator personally, rather than being a matter for the sect to intervene.

Li Yuanba didn’t mind; in fact, he preferred having the spiritual medicines.

Given the situation on his original body’s side, by the time he reached late-stage Foundation Establishment, Li Shiming was likely to have become an Alchemy Master.

Li Yuanba’s situation had stabilized. Although there were still some minor conflicts between Senluo Sect and the Righteous Path sects, and the troubles with Qianye Temple were unresolved, conflicts between major sects in the Cultivation World were not short-term matters.

The struggles of major sects could continue for many years, which also provided time for sect cultivators to practice.

In Shushan Sect, after Li Shiming learned to refine the “Shushan Yellow Spirit Pill,” he began mass production of the “Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills.”

The “Shushan Yellow Spirit Pill” was not the same as the “Shushan Hunyuan Pill”; the five types of Second Grade Spirit Medicine in the pill recipe made its output not very high.

Fortunately, there was an accumulation over the years. In the past, the four high-level alchemists in the sect couldn’t simultaneously refine ten furnaces of spirit pills, which not only requires Divine Thought but also a strong enough spirit and most importantly, talent.

The four high-level alchemists barely managed to ensure the success of each furnace of spirit pills, so it was impossible for them to match Li Shiming’s feat of simultaneously refining ten furnaces of spirit pills, a capability usually reserved for Alchemy Masters.

Therefore, over the years, the sect’s stockpile of the five types of Second Grade Spirit Medicine for the “Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills” had become quite substantial. Since the yearly production couldn’t be consumed by the high-level alchemists, more and more were stored in the warehouse year after year.

But this changed after Li Shiming took action.

Every time he refined ten furnaces of “Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills,” they were all high-grade, and using the “Hundred One-point Pill Technique,” the yield of “Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills” was double the full amount.

Of course, Li Shiming couldn’t possibly reveal that he could achieve a one hundred percent success rate with the “Hundred One-point Pill Technique.” If his capabilities were exposed, he feared he would run into big trouble.

On one hand, it was truly impossible to explain, especially to Elder Ma, who was deeply knowledgeable about the “Hundred One-point Pill Technique.” Unless he revealed his own private space, any excuse would fail to convince Elder Ma.

On the other hand, revealing a one hundred percent success rate with the “Hundred One-point Pill Technique” would mean he’d no longer need to do anything else. There was a very high probability that the sect would confine him to do nothing but refine pills day after day.

Being forced to refine pills by others compared to willingly refining them were two different matters.

So although he kept using the “Hundred One-point Pill Technique” to refine the “Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills,” he stored away all the extra ones.