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Chapter 234: Clearspring Marvelous Pill Art Minor Proficiency, Consuming Harmonious Qi Pill
Chapter 234: Clearspring Marvelous Pill Art Minor Proficiency, Consuming Harmonious Qi Pill
Time flies, and youth fades away.
In the blink of an eye, a year has passed.
In a warm yet serene meditation room, Luo Chen held his breath and focused intently, closely observing the vast Qi Sea within.
A vortex was spinning at an incredible speed.
As his Spirit Sense withdrew, the vortex's rotation gradually slowed down.
He carefully controlled the rhythm of his Spirit Sense withdrawal.
"If I want to achieve minor proficiency in the Clearspring Marvelous Pill Art, I must let it operate autonomously without the control of Spirit Sense."
"Only then can it suppress the production of Elixir Toxin."
"It has taken a year, and today is the day to see if it succeeds or not."
With this thought in mind, he no longer hesitated and completely withdrew his Spirit Sense.
In that instant, the vortex, which had weakened to the extreme and slowed down to the extreme, paused.
It seemed as if it was about to dissipate.
Buzz!
Perhaps it was accustomed to having this vortex in the Qi Sea, but as it was about to dissipate, a drop of pure Spirit Essence fell into it.
At this moment, the stagnant vortex began to rotate again.
It drew in the surrounding stray Spirit Energy and absorbed it.
Seeing this, Luo Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Success!"
"With the Clearspring Marvelous Pill Art reaching minor proficiency, I can now continue to consume medicinal pills for cultivation."
Without rushing to test the pills, he waited for this small vortex to fully form. At this moment, it was still in its infancy and very fragile.
With some free time, Luo Chen opened his attribute panel.
[Lifespan: 36/165]
[Spirit Root: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth]
[Realm: Foundation Establishment Second Layer 24/100]
[Cultivation Techniques: Yimu Medicine King Scripture Perfected 475/500, Divine Mind Demolishing Evil Master 500/1000, Ten Thousand Beasts Scripture 10/100]
[Spells: Second Rank: Mountain Collapse Proficient 150/200, Crystal Sky Curtain Proficient 102/200
First Rank: Healing Spell Master 700/500, Earth Mountain Spell Perfected 450/500, Wave Surge Spell Perfected 450/500, Soundproofing Spell Perfected 351/500, Mind Control Technique Proficient 270/300, Grand Mastery Spell (Click to view details)]
[Pill Techniques: Grand Mastery Folding Jade Hand, Pure Heart Hand Master 513/1000, Washing Stream Hand Proficient 170/200, Cloud Transformation Hand Proficient 141/200, Clearspring Marvelous Pill Art Proficient 201/300]
[Martial Arts: Mountain Cleaving Palm Grand Mastery, Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers Perfected 400/500, Wang Clan Secret Scroll Beginner 89/100]
[Skills: Second Rank Pill Master: Fasting Pill Grand Mastery, All Wonders Pill Grand Mastery, Jade Marrow Pill Grand Mastery, Blood Burning Pill Proficient 204/300, Spirit Gate Pill Proficient 107/200, Imperial Stream Plasma Beginner 3/100]
[Achievement Points: 10]
Glancing at his Lifespan, as expected, he was now thirty-six years old.
Luo Chen was about to look at the next attribute when his gaze paused.
"160 - 165"
"My Lifespan upper limit has increased by five years?"
"Strange, I haven't even broken through to the next realm?"
Amidst his confusion, Luo Chen suddenly realized something.
That's right!
It must be the result of the Clearspring Marvelous Pill Art reaching the Proficient level of mastery, which is the minor proficiency stage, triggering a chain reaction.
The Qi Sea is the foundation of cultivation, and it must be kept pure.
Whether early or late, the Clearspring Marvelous Pill Art can purify toxins.
This pill technique is not just about detoxifying Elixir Toxin.
Through long-term cultivation, it can actively eliminate impurities from the body, making the cultivator's physique purer and cleaner.
It subtly hints at the concept of "impurity-free."
With a healthier body, one can naturally live a few more years.
Luo Chen couldn't help but smile.
This pill technique is quite good; it detoxifies and nourishes the skin. Over the past year, his skin has improved significantly.
When he was younger, he spent every day refining pills, surrounded by the stove's fire pit, which made his skin slightly red.
Now, calling his complexion 'white as jade' and his skin 'fine and delicate' would not be an exaggeration.
But men don't pay much attention to their appearance.
Luo Chen smiled and shifted his attention to his realm.
The progress bar for the Foundation Establishment Second Layer had only moved 22 points in a year, reaching 24/100.
To be honest, this progress was incredibly slow.
Even without consuming any pills to increase cultivation, he had diligently cultivated the Yimu Medicine King Scripture every day.
As a result, he was close to mastering the Yimu Medicine King Scripture at the Master level.
In other words!
If he didn't have pills, it would take at least four more years to break through to the Foundation Establishment Third Layer.
And this is with the premise of possessing a Second Rank Spirit Vein Cave Mansion!
"This is just the initial stage of Foundation Establishment, the easiest and fastest stage to improve."
"If it's the later stages..."
Luo Chen clearly remembered that during his Qi Condensation Stage, the early and middle stages were calculated by months.
But in the later stages, it took ten times longer, calculated by years.
The amount of Spirit Energy required for the Foundation Establishment Stage would be even greater than the Qi Condensation Stage.
At that time, it won't just be ten times more.
It will be a hundred or even a thousand times more!
With a suppressed smile due to the increase in his Lifespan upper limit, Luo Chen gradually calmed down.
At least, everything was moving in the right direction!
Regarding cultivation techniques, there wasn't much to say.
He had already figured out that he needed to cultivate the Yimu Medicine King Scripture twenty times to barely increase his proficiency by one point.
He was only 25 points away from the Master level, which meant he needed to cultivate five hundred more times. He could cultivate the technique with full power five times a day.
"A hundred days?"
After murmuring to himself, Luo Chen focused on another cultivation technique.
Divine Mind Demolishing Evil!
Master level!
The Earth Fire Malevolence extracted from Xiao Huan Mountain had long been exhausted.
Later, he sent people to purchase a batch of Earth Fire Malevolence in Heavenly Wave Immortal City to continue his cultivation, and finally, through persistent effort, he reached the Master level.
The Master level Divine Mind Demolishing Evil gave him a great surprise.
With a thought, his Spirit Sense expanded and then suddenly retracted, forming a thin, film-like membrane that tightly wrapped around his Mind Sea.
It seemed to create a defensive mechanism.
Withdrawing his control, his spirit sense gradually returned to the Mind Sea.
Luo Chen let out a long sigh of relief.
The Divine Mind Demolishing Evil Mastery, at the Grandmaster level, was not an offensive technique but rather a defensive one.
He could feel that beneath this layer of spirit sense, a golden membrane could withstand attacks from external spirit senses.
"Could this change be related to the body-refining technique that Wang Yuan gave me?"
In the martial arts section, a new entry had appeared.
Wang Clan Secret Scroll.
Over the past year, Luo Chen had focused on cultivating the Clearspring Marvelous Pill Art.
But this didn't mean he had been idle.
Aside from his daily cultivation, he had also been practicing a set of boxing techniques from the secret scroll given to him by Wang Yuan.
It didn't take up much time; he would just practice it after prolonged meditation to stretch his body.
This set of boxing techniques was not known for body-refining or offensive capabilities.
Instead, it focused on health preservation and defense.
It incorporated some willpower and soul spirit, emphasizing that every move should extend one's will along with the body.
Over time, this had made Luo Chen feel more energized every day.
Unexpectedly, after reaching the Divine Mind Demolishing Evil Mastery, he had also formed a defensive golden membrane.
"Perhaps I should study it further and solidify this layer of spirit sense, completely enveloping it outside the Mind Sea."
Luo Chen was well aware that soul spirit attacks were the most dangerous and extreme form of attack.
One strike, and there would be casualties!
The example was when Gao Tingyuan used the Mind Control Technique on him and ended up harming himself.
Defending against soul spirit attacks was incredibly challenging, and one could often only withstand them.
There was no such thing as defeating a stronger opponent with a weaker soul spirit.
If your soul spirit foundation was deeper than theirs, you could withstand it.
Otherwise, you would be injured.
Moreover, even if you could withstand it, there might still be a moment of stiffness or hesitation.
This could create a huge opening in battle.
He decided that he couldn't stop cultivating the Divine Mind Demolishing Evil technique!
"I don't have much evil energy left, I need to buy some more."
His gaze moved down.
He arrived at the Spells section.
There was no need to look at the first-rank spells; the main focus was on the two second-rank spells.
Mountain Collapse and Crystal Sky Curtain had both reached the Proficient stage.
This was good news.
But Luo Chen wasn't concerned.
The drawbacks of these large-scale spells were always apparent.
The commonly discussed spirit energy consumption was one thing, and the casting time was another.
Unless it was like the Fireball Spell, cultivated to the instant-cast level, and the accompanying Blazing Sun Technique, which was also fast enough to use in combat.
Only then could they be used against enemies.
Luo Chen practiced these two spells only for their potential.
"Take it slow!"
He muttered to himself.
Luo Chen looked at the various attributes on the panel.
He skimmed through the list, stopping at the Medicinal Pills section.
The Blood Burning Pill and Spirit Gate Pill had also reached the Proficient level.
This was due to him taking the time to refine several batches of pills over the past year.
Currently, he had no use for these two pills.
However, the Blood Burning Pill could indeed enhance a cultivator's combat abilities.
In the fiercely competitive Heavenly Wave Immortal City, battles could break out at any moment.
These Blood Burning Pills were Luo Chen's trump card for the Luo Tianhui's high-ranking members and even the late-stage Qi Cultivators.
In fact, the Blood Burning Pill had proven to be highly effective in low-rank cultivator battles.
During the battle at Xiao Huan Mountain, Luo Tianhui managed to keep casualties to a minimum with the help of the Blood Burning Pill.
After that, Luo Chen had stopped refining pills to prepare for his Foundation Establishment breakthrough.
As a result, during the battle at Gaolingyuan, Luo Tianhui suffered its largest casualty since its establishment, with only about 150 survivors out of over 300 people.
Even his good friend Ceng Wen had perished there.
If they had had a batch of Blood Burning Pills at that time, at least a few dozen more people might have survived!
With this lesson learned, Luo Chen was willing to take the time.
As for the Spirit Gate Pill, it was what Luo Chen had prepared for the few cultivators in Luo Tianhui who were close to the Grand Mastery stage of Qi Condensation.
Moreover, he also wanted to know if the ordinary Spirit Gate Pill would still be effective after his Foundation Establishment.
If the low-grade one didn't work, then what about the middle-grade, high-grade, or even supreme-grade Spirit Gate Pill?
Compared to the supreme-grade All Wonders Pill and Jade Marrow Pill, these two pills were not very appealing to Luo Chen.
But if the supreme-grade Spirit Gate Pill was effective, Luo Chen was willing to pay a high price to refine it.
Spirit herbs that could enhance one's soul spirit foundation were extremely rare!
During the process of refining the supreme-grade Spirit Gate Pill, he wouldn't waste the lower-grade ones that were produced.
Luo Chen was well aware that a strong soul spirit foundation was crucial for breaking through the Foundation Establishment stage.
He wouldn't need too many Spirit Gate Pills.
A small batch of pills could increase the chances of Duan Feng and the others successfully establishing their foundation.
"Achievement points have reached ten again."
Looking at the ten achievement points, ripples formed in Luo Chen's heart.
After reaching Foundation Establishment, he could use normal achievement points to learn second-rank techniques, spells, and pill formulas.
He didn't need to learn any new techniques.
In terms of spells, he had an extremely high talent.
In other words, all his achievement points were reserved for pill formulas.
Pill formulas? With a thought, two pill formulas appeared in his hand.
One was on beast hide, recording the Blood Malevolence Pill.
The other was on a bamboo slip, recording the Jade Dew Pill.
"Originally, I should have used the achievement points to learn the Blood Malevolence Pill. This was my promise to Wang Yuan."
"But I've been studying this pill formula for many years, and I even developed the Blood Burning Pill based on it."
"I don't need achievement points; give me some more time, and I'll figure it out."
Luo Chen was now quite confident in his pill refinement skills.
If it were an unfamiliar pill formula, he would be at a loss and unable to learn it quickly.
But he had been studying the Blood Malevolence Pill for many years and had already figured out most of it.
Moreover, the difficulty in refining this pill didn't lie in the refinement process itself.
The problem was in obtaining the main ingredient.
So, he wanted to save up these Achievement Points.
"Jade Dew Pill..."
As he muttered, Luo Chen's mind was flooded with the effects of the Jade Dew Pill.
For female cultivators, especially those cultivating water-based and ice-based techniques, it had remarkable effects on their cultivation.
The effects were far superior to those of orthodox cultivation pills.
This wasn't just a record in the pill formula!
The Jade Dew Pill was a popular pill in another large domain.
Its effects were already well-known to the world.
It was just that due to the great distance and the difficulty in refining the Jade Dew Pill, it was rarely heard of in the Jade Cauldron Domain.
"If I can refine it, it will definitely be a huge source of wealth!"
"However, this will easily attract the covetousness of major powers, so I must be cautious."
"If the Jade Marrow Pill can bring in wealth, there's no rush to refine the Jade Dew Pill."
As he thought about these matters, Luo Chen gradually made a decision.
He planned to exit seclusion tomorrow and make a trip to Luo Tianhui to check on the market research progress on Gu Caiyi's side.
It had been a year!
That batch of Jade Marrow Pills should have been enough to gather all the market feedback.
Time gradually passed.
After taking stock of his current attributes, Luo Chen realized it was already morning.
At this moment, the tiny vortex in his Qi Sea had finally taken shape.
Even though it didn't have the same power as when actively channeled, it was still actively running.
With this, he could take pills and have the medicine power enter the vortex first, and then be decomposed.
Luo Chen's mind moved, and two bottles of pills appeared in his hand.
One was called the Ascending Dragon Pill, refined by Qingdan Valley, with a three-turn level and a grade of Inferior.
The other was called the Harmonious Qi Pill, refined by the Medicine King Sect and exclusively sold in the Spirit Herb Pavilion.
The quality didn't need to be mentioned; it was naturally of Inferior grade.
These major sects seemed to only sell Inferior grade pills to outsiders, and the prices were extremely high.
Middle and Superior grade pills were rarely sold to solitary cultivators, except during auctions.
The name of the Harmonious Qi Pill was simple and natural, sharing the same style as the Nourishing Qi Pill and the Dust Refining Pill.
"Next, I'll test the effects of Foundation Establishment Pills."
"Spirit Energy transformation, number of times taken, and the cleansing and suppressing power of the Clearspring Marvelous Pill on elixir toxins."
"Finally, through experimentation, I'll determine the main direction of my cultivation."
Luo Chen first chose the Harmonious Qi Pill.
Being a specialty of the Medicine King Sect, its quality was guaranteed.
He had a standard bottle of ten pills.
The current market price at the Spirit Herb Pavilion was six hundred Inferior grade Spirit Stones per bottle.
It was indeed ridiculously expensive.
Although it was expensive before, it was still within a reasonable range at four to five hundred Spirit Stones per bottle.
"The war has been going on like this, not only keeping the prices of magical tools high, but also making various cultivation resources increasingly expensive."
"Sigh, I wonder when it will end."
Luo Chen sighed and swallowed the Harmonious Qi Pill.
The moment it entered his mouth, the Yimu Medicine King Scripture began to operate at full power.
Spirit Energy flowed through specific meridians and acupoints, guiding the Harmonious Qi Pill into his stomach.
In the past, at this moment, the pill would burst open, and the massive medicine power, driven by the technique, would merge into the Qi Sea, becoming a part of the cultivator's spirit energy.
In the middle, there was a process of digestion, release, transformation, purification, and finally absorption for personal use.
But this time, the enormous medicine power,
while being driven by the Yimu Medicine King Scripture and entering the Qi Sea, did not merge immediately.
Instead, it was guided to the vortex formed by the Clearspring Marvelous Pill.
"No wonder it must reach Minor Proficiency to take effect."
"Cultivators can usually only operate one technique at a time. When taking pills, most choose their primary technique. In this situation, it's difficult to divert attention to another technique to neutralize the elixir toxins."
"Over time, the elixir toxins remain."
"But after the Clearspring Marvelous Pill reaches Minor Proficiency, it can operate autonomously."
With Luo Chen's full concentration, the massive medicine power from the Harmonious Qi Pill entered the vortex.
For a moment, the vortex almost collapsed.
However, with the help of the surrounding pure spirit energy that had turned into a liquid, it stabilized.
The medicine power entered the vortex and spun rapidly.
One surge of medicine power after another was transformed into spirit energy and then flung out in a spiral, merging into Luo Chen's own spirit energy.
It was during this process.
Above, there were invisible threads of gray and black substances that were flung out of the Qi Sea.
Luo Chen kept a close eye on the pill's refinement process.
Until it was over.
He opened his eyes.
Luo Chen lifted his clothes and touched his navel.
There was a slight feeling of perspiration.
"Is this the manifestation of suppressing elixir toxins?"
He casually cast a Cleansing Spell to keep himself clean and refreshed.
Luo Chen heaved a sigh of relief.
Now, he could finally cultivate with the help of pills, albeit with the vortex formed by the Clearspring Marvelous Pill not as effective as when actively channeled, but it was already able to suppress the generation of a large amount of new elixir toxins.
The remaining toxins could still be eliminated over time.
"It's just that I'm outstanding in the path of spells, if it were someone else, they would need at least several years to achieve this."
"And if one wants to reach Grand Mastery, it's even more distant."
After the sigh, Luo Chen began to estimate the increase in spirit energy from one Harmonious Qi Pill.
For others, they might only get a rough estimate.
But he had the system.
The attribute panel could quantify it well.
He brought up the attribute panel again, and his gaze fell on the Realm column.
【Foundation Establishment Second Layer 24/100】
"No change?"
"Is the medicine power of one Harmonious Qi Pill not enough to increase the spirit energy by one progress point?"
Luo Chen's eyes flickered, and he had an idea.
Next, he'll spend more time experimenting and figuring it out!
(End of Chapter)
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