Chapter 357 Refining Foundation-Building Pills

After leaving Yuzhang City, the two deliberately wandered around Yuzhang City for more than ten days, taking a long detour. When they found that no one was following them, they flew eastward along Wuning County towards the direction of Yu State.

Just after arriving at the border between Song State and Yu State, Zhang Zhixuan suddenly felt a little nervous. He immediately said hello to Qingchan and put away the floating cloud boat.

Forty years ago, in the wilderness not far from here, Zhang Zhixuan and his two companions were ambushed by the Purple Mansion cultivators. If it weren't for Qingchan's Purple Sun Sky Fire, the three would have almost died here.

Coming here again, Zhang Zhixuan suddenly had a whim and sensed that bad luck was coming.

Zhang Zhixuan knew in his heart that most of the cultivators who had this feeling for no reason were not good signs. He looked at Qingchan and turned away without even looking back.

Thirty miles away from Zhang Zhixuan and his companions, Yan Yingzhou, the ancestor of the Yan family, closely monitored their every move.

The Demon Sealing Cave lost the Xuanying Jadeite. Only six or seven people killed the demon cultivator Zifu in the cave. Excluding the cultivators in Danyang Sect, there were only four parties left. Yan Yingzhou did not succeed. The only ones who got the Xuanying Jadeite were Shang Muyang, Niu Jiru and the Zhang couple.

Shang Muyang had a high level of cultivation and was already at the sixth level of the Golden Core. Yan Yingzhou naturally did not dare to make any plans. He had to secretly guard against this person to prevent him from attacking him. Niu Jiru was accompanied by a large group of cultivators and returned to the mountain gate with Danyang Sect Zifu. He did not have the opportunity to force him to attack.

Only Zhang Zhixuan and the other two were left. They had no foundation in Song State, so Yan Yingzhou had been secretly monitoring them after the war and was ready to attack in the wilderness.

Unexpectedly, before he took action, Zhang Zhixuan and the other two noticed something unusual. Yan Yingzhou was about to chase him, and a panic suddenly came over his heart, as if a disaster was about to happen.

He immediately stopped and thought to himself: "The heaven warned me, could it be that these two people are of great origin? Never mind, Xuanying Jade Marrow is good, but it is not worth it to sacrifice the road for it."

Yan Yingzhou was also a man who acted decisively. He immediately set up the escape light, gave up the plan to embarrass Zhang Zhixuan and the others, and returned to his family.

The higher the cultivation level of a cultivator, the stronger the soul, and the more he can sense his own disaster in advance.

Although Yan Yingzhou's cultivation level is the third level of Jindan, if he dares to attack Qingchan, he will definitely trigger the protection of Ziyang Tianhuo. Qingchan still has two Ziyang Tianhuo on his body. Once this powerful magical power is triggered, it is basically equivalent to Liu Lingjun attacking him personally.

Under this blow, Yan Yingzhou, although his cultivation level is high, could not survive.

He was able to cultivate to the Jindan stage, and he went through a lot of hardships along the way. He is also a cautious old fox in character. With a warning sign in his heart, Yan Yingzhou immediately chose to stop.

As soon as Yan Yingzhou left, Zhang Zhixuan's spirit suddenly calmed down, and the feeling of impending disaster was much relieved.

Yan Yingzhou ambushed, once he attacked Zhang Zhixuan first, he would never be able to resist. Zhang Zhixuan had practiced purple qi magic for many years. Although his soul was far less powerful than Yan Yingzhou's, he also had a trace of the supernatural power of a golden elixir cultivator and could sense the disaster in advance.

The two opened up a simple cave in the barren mountains and hid for more than ten days. When the wind and the sea were calm, they left Song State and returned to Qingxuan Sect.

After returning to the sect, Zhang Zhixuan first found Wei Bohan and handed him Xuanying Jade Marrow. As for the 100,000 spirit stones that Wei Bohan entrusted to buy Xuanying Jade Marrow, he took them into his pocket.

Zhang Zhixuan's words were unclear, and he did not explain the origin of Xuanying Jade Marrow. Wei Bohan naturally did not dare to ask, and immediately handed Xuanying Jade Marrow to Kang Duhe, asking him to use the Jade Marrow to break through the Purple Mansion as soon as possible.

With the gratitude of Wei Bohan and his fellow apprentice, Zhang Zhixuan and his companion hurried back to Black Mountain. As soon as they returned to Black Mountain, they stored the 100,000 spiritual stones in the Black Mountain Cave.

Then Zhang Zhixuan issued an imperial decree, asking Sihong, Sidao, Sijin and other foundation-building cultivators to collect auxiliary spiritual medicines and prepare to refine foundation-building pills.

On this trip to Song State, Zhang Zhixuan had already collected 70% to 80% of the auxiliary spiritual medicines, and the remaining spiritual medicines were not rare.

Sihong and other foundation-building cultivators searched for three months from Qingxuan Sect, Taicheng County, and Jiangkou County, and collected all the foundation-building spiritual medicines.

Although the foundation-building pill is a third-level upper-grade spiritual pill, it is extremely difficult to refine, equivalent to a fourth-level lower-grade spiritual pill.

Even if Zhang Zhixuan breaks through to the fourth-level alchemist, there is a great risk of failure in refining.

Even if he refines the spiritual pill by chance, if the success rate is not satisfactory, he will lose a lot of capital.

In order to maximize the effect of the spiritual medicine, it is better to entrust Luo Ziyan to do it.

Luo Ziyan's success rate in refining foundation-building pills has reached 60%, and occasionally even around 70%.

Even if he refines a spiritual pill and gives it to her as a good thing, it is much more cost-effective than asking Zhang Zhixuan to do it.

But in order to improve his alchemy skills, Zhang Zhixuan has prepared to make pills himself.

There are not many opportunities to refine fourth-level spiritual pills within Qingxuan Sect.

Limited by his alchemy skills, Zhang Zhixuan can't compete with Luo Ziyan for these opportunities, and it is almost difficult to intervene. If he wants to make further progress in alchemy, Zhang Zhixuan can't miss every opportunity to refine pills, especially refining high-level spiritual pills, which is very helpful for his alchemy skills.

After adjusting his state, Zhang Zhixuan returned to the alchemy room, asked Liang Hanyang to borrow the fourth-level alchemy furnace, and then began to refine the foundation-building pill.

Zhang Zhixuan first refined a furnace of third-level Guiyuan pills, warmed the furnace and adjusted his state.

After breaking through the fourth-level alchemist, Zhang Zhixuan was very confident in refining the third-level lower-grade elixir. It was impossible for him to fail, and the success rate was more than 70%. Even if he was refining the third-level upper-grade elixir, the success rate was about half.

However, the difficulty of refining the foundation-building elixir was extremely high. In order to make the elixir smooth, Zhang Zhixuan calmed down and began to pour the cold and quiet true water into the elixir furnace, and then put in the demon elixir, preparing to dissolve the demon beast's inner elixir and complete the first step of elixir refining.

Refining the foundation-building elixir is very time-consuming. Dissolving the demon elixir takes a long time, especially since this demon elixir comes from a fourth-level upper-grade demon beast. According to Zhang Zhixuan's calculation, it actually takes half a year of effort.

It is difficult for even a purple mansion cultivator to sustain half a year of sleepless elixir refining. To refine this kind of elixir, even Zhang Zhixuan has to rely on the help of the earth fire.

The blazing earth fire constantly forged the elixir furnace. During this half year, Zhang Zhixuan continuously put in auxiliary elixir plants in order to neutralize the medicinal power of the demon elixir.

After half a year, he finally turned all the spiritual herbs into liquid elixir, and finally reached the last step.

At the last moment of condensing the elixir, Zhang Zhixuan first took a fourth-level fairy dew pill to replenish his mana. The elixir immediately turned into a trickle, replenishing about 40% to 50% of Zhang Zhixuan's consumed mana, and then he continued to use his mana to control the crazy rotation of the alchemy furnace.

The Bagua furnace continuously absorbed streams of spiritual energy and discharged the excess residue. The elixir liquid inside became less and less, and finally condensed into three thumb-sized round beads.

Zhang Zhixuan quickly performed the pill collection method, and a spiritual light was emitted from the three foundation-building pills, breaking through the top cover of the alchemy furnace and falling into the jade bottle that had been prepared long ago.

Looking at the three elixirs he had made, Zhang Zhixuan pushed open the door of the alchemy room and laughed to the crowd, "I finally lived up to everyone's expectations and made three foundation-building pills."

I received a message from the station yesterday. I will post the big promotion tomorrow. The extra chapters on Sunday will be moved forward to Saturday. During the promotion period, there will be five chapters a day. If there are extra chapters, I will post three chapters a day during the event. Anyway, I have twelve chapters in reserve. I will just post them this month.