Chapter 699: Golden Core Eighth Level

It has been 278 years since he went down the mountain to learn alchemy at the age of sixteen.

After nearly three hundred years of hard study, Zhang Zhixuan's alchemy skills have become quite extraordinary.

His alchemy skills are mainly inherited from the Qingxuan, Xuansu and Tianyuan sects. In recent years, he has reached the state of mastering them and forming his own school.

After breaking through to the fifth-level middle-grade alchemist, time has accumulated for sixty years.

After sixty years of solid foundation and hard study, his alchemy skills have far surpassed his predecessors. No one in Qingxuan, Huanshui, or even Xuansu Sect can match him.

He has refined hundreds of fifth-level elixirs, which is more experienced than the alchemists of ordinary Yuanying sects.

Refining a hundred furnaces of fifth-level elixirs seems nothing.

When Zhang Zhixuan was learning to be an alchemist, he could often refine more than a hundred furnaces of Jinya Dan at one time, accumulating rich experience.

However, the fifth-level elixir is extremely precious. It takes at least tens of thousands of spiritual stones to refine one furnace. Even Song Laozu, a sixth-level alchemist of Danyang Sect, cannot often open the furnace to refine high-level elixir.

The value of hundreds of furnaces of fifth-level elixir is at least several million. This price is simply not something that ordinary alchemists can afford.

Therefore, the higher the level of the alchemist, the narrower the path of upward development and the more difficult the path of cultivation.

It is precisely because of his rich experience that Zhang Zhixuan has the confidence to refine the purple ginseng pill.

After all, the purple ginseng pill is a fifth-level high-quality elixir that assists late-stage Jindan cultivators to break through, and the difficulty of refining is far beyond the ordinary.

Even with the situation of Tianyuan Sect at its peak, it took 120 years to refine each purple ginseng pill.

Although there are many fifth-level pill recipes in the Qingxuan Sect, there are only two fifth-level high-quality pill recipes.

Pill recipes above the fifth level are extremely rare on the market, and they are rarely circulated except for the ruined family sects.

If he fails to refine the Purple Ginseng Pill this time, Zhang Zhixuan will have to wait three hundred years to break through to the fifth-level upper-grade alchemist. It will take three hundred years for the Crimson Cloud Flower to mature and be able to refine the Crimson Palace Pill. Otherwise, he can only go down the mountain in advance to look for opportunities to see if he can find a new pill recipe and refine a new elixir.

The underground cave in Lingjing Mountain has long opened up the fire eye, and the Fire Stork Furnace used by Zhang Zhixuan is also a fifth-level middle-grade pill furnace, which is enough for him to refine the Purple Ginseng Pill.

The external objects are already complete, and Zhang Zhixuan has no hesitation and decides to open the furnace to refine the pill.

He stared at the Fire Stork Furnace with a sharp gaze, and his hands kept hitting the spiritual formula, and his spiritual consciousness also carefully penetrated into the elixir.

In the blazing fire, the Fire Stork Furnace rotated faster and faster in the air, and groups of elixir quickly swirled in the cauldron.

Even if Zhang Zhixuan tried his best to control it with his spiritual consciousness, he could only condense two elixirs.

Zhang Zhixuan carefully controlled the temperature, without any panic in his heart.

Although it was the first time to refine the fifth-grade high-quality elixir, his movements were still orderly and his self-confidence was extraordinary.

Seeing the medicinal fragrance slowly emanating from the fire stork furnace, Zhang Zhixuan could not care about anything else. He flipped his palm and a white chalcedony bottle appeared in his hand.

Zhang Zhixuan spit out a mouthful of elixir fire, the fire stork furnace shook slightly, and the furnace cover suddenly flew up.

A rich spiritual energy with a wave of fire spurted out from the furnace mouth, and two spiritual lights fell into the chalcedony bottle one after another.

Although it was the first time to refine the purple ginseng pill, Zhang Zhixuan's success rate still reached 20%, and he successfully refined the elixir.

The elixir of this level of purple ginseng pill is very rare on the market, and it is already a treasure with no market.

Even in a place like Huoshan City in the Great Zhou Dynasty, it may only appear once in a few hundred years.

It is difficult to exchange the fifth-grade high-quality elixir even if you use high-quality spiritual stones.

As for the price of the elixir, it is also difficult to estimate. In order to refine these two elixirs, Zhang Zhixuan spent 200,000 spiritual stones on medicinal materials alone.

It took five purple mansions and sixteen foundation-building cultivators three years to collect the elixir.

Even if someone took out twenty high-quality spiritual stones, Zhang Zhixuan would not exchange a purple ginseng pill with him.

The purple ginseng pill is extremely powerful. You can only take one pill when you break through. If you want to take it for the second time, you have to wait for thirty years.

After taking six purple ginseng pills, you will have serious drug resistance, and the effect of this elixir will be reduced by half.

The most critical point is that the purple ginseng pill can only be preserved for twelve years. Because the preservation period is too short, the remaining purple ginseng pill cannot be left to Hanyan.

Qingchan and Liu Guyan have reached the peak of the golden elixir stage and can't use the purple ginseng pill at all.

The only ones who can use this thing are Zhang Zhixuan and Jin Laozu.

Ancestor Jin is already 780 years old, and there are only 20 to 30 years left before the Golden Elixir deadline. Even if he can use this item to break through to the ninth level of the Golden Elixir, he will not have the opportunity to form a fetus.

Unless he is extremely lucky and the sect can find a high-level life-extending item, which can extend his life for a decade, it is possible to cultivate to the edge of forming a fetus.

After refining the Purple Ginseng Pill, Zhang Zhixuan asked Ancestor Jin for his opinion.

Although the road is difficult, Ancestor Jin is still unwilling to give up a tiny chance and redeems the Purple Ginseng Pill with a refreshed spirit.

After refining the Purple Ginseng Pill, Zhang Zhixuan immediately chose to retreat and entrusted the power of the sect to Qing Chan.

After taking the Purple Ginseng Pill, Zhang Zhixuan raced against time to refine the medicinal power of the elixir. The Dantian seemed like a surging wave, and the abundant mana instantly filled the three Dantians.

Driven by the Dantian, waves of mana permeated out and rushed to the acupoints in all directions.

Waves of spiritual energy began to flow into the cave, and the spiritual energy on the mountain was even somewhat exhausted.

The well-informed Purple Mansion and Foundation Building cultivators immediately noticed the abnormality and stopped practicing immediately, giving the spiritual energy to the sect ancestor to break through the realm.

In order to ensure that Zhang Zhixuan successfully broke through, Qingchan also ordered the closure of 113 spiritual springs to make the spiritual energy of Lingjing Mountain completely restrained.

Some low-level cultivators who were isolated from the news and used spiritual springs for retreat were unlucky and lost their abundant spiritual energy. Not only could they not break through, but they also injured their Dantian and needed to recuperate for a period of time.

The seven or eight unlucky ones who were in the worst situation also caused the true qi to reverse, and the Dantian was shattered and the path was cut off.

When you sit at home, disasters come from the sky. If a cultivator has bad luck, the path will be ruined at the least, and the soul will be destroyed at the worst. The Yuanying cultivator of Tianyuan Sect caught up with the ancient cultivator war, and the whole sect was caught in the jar and the soul was destroyed.

Qingchan presided over the overall situation of the sect outside, and only Hanyan was there to protect Zhang Zhixuan.

Seeing that the strength of the spiritual energy was slightly insufficient, Han Yan immediately melted nine high-grade spiritual stones, and a stream of pure spiritual energy instantly filled Zhang Zhixuan's eyes.

Zhang Zhixuan opened his mouth wide, and sucked streams of spiritual energy into the Jiang Palace Qi Mansion like a whale sucking water. With this pure spiritual energy supplement, Zhang Zhixuan broke through the bottleneck in one go and cultivated to the eighth level of the Golden Core.

Since he broke through the seventh level of the Golden Core, he has been practicing for sixteen years, and with the help of the Purple Ginseng Pill, he broke through a level.

After practicing to this point, Zhang Zhixuan is not too far away from the Nascent Soul Stage.

Not long after Zhang Zhixuan broke through, the Jin Patriarch also successfully came out of seclusion. With the help of the Purple Ginseng Pill, the Jin Patriarch finally cultivated to the ninth level of the Golden Core when his life was about to end.