Chapter 497 Alchemy Talent

February, the 93rd year of the Qing calendar.

It has been more than a year since Li Qianqing summoned the forces of the Qing Kingdom to form a Dan. The time to go to Fanyang Kingdom has been determined, which is set for May next year.

Li Qianqing looked at the overall information of the current clan members.

The policy adjustment he determined before has also achieved certain results.

After the three-year period, the number of family cultivators trying four arts among the hundred arts has increased significantly, and there are also many family cultivators who want to specialize in spiritual planting. Although many family cultivators are planting and taking care of spiritual fields, they will no longer take care of spiritual fields when they reach the late stage of Qi Refining.

When the family cultivators reach the late stage of Qi Refining, they can have a transformation.

Only those who continue to take the path of spiritual planting will stay. They also change from taking care of the spiritual medicine of the first-level spiritual field to taking care of the spiritual medicine of the second-level spiritual field.

"Oh, there is another one who wants to be a puppeteer in the future, or a foundation-building seed."

The family's puppeteer is currently only Li Qingqing. After this message, he will inform Li Qingqing and let her see if the family's foundation-building seed has the talent to become a puppeteer.

Puppet master is a relatively unpopular art of cultivation. It is difficult and not popular. Unlike array master, although it is also difficult, it is very popular. Many forces hope to cultivate their own array master. If not, they also hope to make friends with one.

The most powerful array master in the family is undoubtedly Li Changgui. He has cultivated to the peak of foundation building and has tried to form a pill once, but unfortunately failed. Fortunately, he did not suffer serious injuries when he failed to form a pill. He still has a second chance to form a pill.

After reading all the information, a sound transmission note appeared in front of Li Qianqing.

"Tingting's sound transmission note." At this time, Li Xunting sent a sound transmission note to him, and Li Qianqing was curious about what it was about.

Receive the content of the sound transmission note.

The information Li Xunting sent to him mainly talked about Li Yiqing.

Li Yiqing seemed to have the talent of an alchemist, and now she is coming back from Huangmin County.

When Li Qianqing received this news, he was a little surprised at first, but then he thought it was normal. After testing that Li Yiqing was a cultivator with a single fire spirit root, he was just about to go into seclusion to form a pill, so the cultivator with a heavenly spirit root, who was originally trained by him, was handed over to Li Xunting.

If he did not cultivate to the peak of forming a pill at that time, he would be responsible for the training of Li Yiqing. He was not sure whether he could discover other talents in the process of training, but he had rich experience in discovering talents in alchemy.

After Li Yiqing established his foundation more than ten years ago, he went to Changting Mountain in Huangmin County guarded by Li Xunting. After he adjusted some of the training and guidance policies over the years, Li Xunting should have thought that Li Yiqing, the only one she trained and guided, might have a talent in cultivating the hundred arts.

Then the current situation appeared.

Among the spiritual roots, cultivators with only fire spiritual roots and only wood spiritual roots are more likely to have the talent for alchemy. For cultivators with only fire spiritual roots, the same is true for the talent for refining tools. For cultivators with only wood spiritual roots, in addition to the talent for alchemy, they also have a relatively large talent for spiritual plants.

The first spiritual root cultivator of the Li family was a single earth spiritual root, and he might also have the talent for planting. When he was still in the third year, Li Qianqing did not measure that Li Zhonghao performed well in that aspect, which led to him taking a similar battle route as Li Xunting and Li Xunming.

Li Qianqing put down the news in his hand and practiced for a long time, and then heard a knock on the stone door.

It should be Li Yiqing who came back.

The stone door of the clan leader's cave opened, and as Li Qianqing thought, it was Li Yiqing who came in.

"Clan leader." Li Yiqing bowed after entering.

"Grandma said you have the talent of an alchemist. Tell me about the specific circumstances of your grandma's test for you in recent years. It is much easier for a foundation-building cultivator to refine first-grade elixirs. In many cases, they will not judge..."

Li Qianqing briefly talked about some contents of alchemy. When it was still in the Qi Refining Stage, it was much easier to judge that one had the talent of alchemy. This is why after the foundation is built, few cultivators will change and develop in a certain direction.

"Yes, clan leader, I have already refined first-grade high-quality elixirs without any guidance..."

Li Yiqing said a lot. Just after the family policy was adjusted, Li Xunting found her and asked her to try more alchemy and other cultivation arts when she had time, and to pick the ones she was interested in first.

Because clan leader Li Qianqing was an alchemist, she started to refine first-grade low-grade elixirs at the beginning, and found that it was very easy for her to refine elixirs, and many of them seemed to be self-taught.

Li Yiqing said a lot in detail. To Li Qianqing, many of them were normal. After all, Li Yiqing was already a foundation-building cultivator, and was not far from the peak of the initial stage of foundation-building. It was relatively easy for cultivators of this level to learn to refine pills.

Without good alchemy talent, they would hit a wall when refining the more difficult first-level high-quality pills.

After listening to the narration, Li Qianqing was sure that Li Yiqing had alchemy talent as Li Xunting said, but there was still a big difference between ordinary alchemy talent and excellent alchemy talent.

Even if it was ordinary alchemy talent, Li Yiqing, who had a natural spiritual root, would definitely be able to successfully form a pill in the future. She was interested in taking this path, and Li Qianqing would definitely support her. For cultivators engaged in any of the hundred arts of cultivation, it was also very important to know what realm they could best cultivate to.

For example, if a very talented alchemist does not reach the Jindan stage, he will eventually stop at the peak of the foundation building stage. Refining the second-level elixir may be as simple as eating and drinking water for him, but refining the third-level elixir is different. If he has a very good talent, he may be better at refining the third-level lower-grade and third-level middle-grade elixir, but it will be very difficult to refine the third-level upper-grade elixir.

An alchemist with ordinary talent at the peak of the Jindan stage will be much better, and compared with the foundation building cultivator, a Jindan stage cultivator can live hundreds of years longer, and the gap between them is widened.

If Li Yiqing had ordinary talent, it would not be difficult to train her with his experience in alchemy and the resources of the Li family.

Of course, for him, the stronger Li Yiqing's alchemy talent must be, the better.

"Try to refine a furnace of elixir." Through Li Yiqing's narration, even he could only make a rough judgment on Li Yiqing's talent.

In his mind, he had given Li Yiqing a range of alchemy talent. Further testing of her was to narrow the range. As for the very specific alchemy talent, it would take Li Yiqing some time to make a judgment.

"What level should I refine, clan leader?"

"First-grade superior, wait a minute."

"Yes."

"Just refine this Qingyun Pill." Li Qianqing took out a pill recipe, which was a first-grade superior pill that Li Yiqing had never refined before.

Li Qianqing first gave the pill recipe to Li Yiqing to think carefully, and he prepared the spiritual medicine needed for refining pills for Li Yiqing.

He not only asked Li Yiqing to refine one furnace, but asked her to refine ten furnaces at a time.

This would help him better judge Li Yiqing's alchemy talent, and also help him formulate the most appropriate training plan for how to train Li Yiqing in the future.

Li Yiqing, who was in the foundation-building period, refined ten furnaces of first-grade superior pills in one breath, which were pills that she had never refined before, which was also a test for her.

When Li Qianqing returned to the clan leader's cave, he had already prepared ten materials for refining Qingyuan Pill for Li Yiqing.

"Yiqing, this is the spiritual medicine you will use to refine Qingyun Pill. You can start refining after it is ready. During the refining process, I will just watch and not say anything. I will not give you any guidance. When you are ready, you can start refining."

"Yes, clan leader!"

Li Yiqing nodded. She knew that the clan leader did this to test her better.

While Li Qianqing was out, she felt that she had completely absorbed the content of the Qingyun Pill recipe and could start refining now.

She took out a crimson alchemy furnace, which was of the first-grade upper grade.

Even if Li Yiqing was a foundation-building cultivator, it would be better to master the alchemy furnace from low to high. Until now, he has not used the second-grade alchemy furnace. Li Qianqing is quite satisfied with this situation.

After all, it has not been many years since Li Yiqing started to refine pills.

Among the first-grade upper-grade pills, the difficulty of refining Qingyun Pill is considered medium.

The first batch was also the first time that Li Yiqing refined Qingyun Pills. He produced only one Qingyun Pill out of ten.

If Li Yiqing was a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining, this first batch of Qingyun Pills would be a good indicator of her talent in alchemy, but he was in the foundation-building stage, so even if he produced one Qingyun Pill in the first batch, it would only be a vague judgment.

As time went on, the number of Qingyun Pills refined by Li Yiqing continued to increase.

The second batch was able to produce two, and the next three batches were all three. The sixth batch produced three, but the seventh batch returned to two.

There were a total of ten batches of Qingyun Pills, and no four Qingyun Pills appeared at the same time, but three Qingyun Pills appeared three times in the next five batches.

"Clan leader, what do you think?"

"Very good, your alchemy talent is not bad."

Through this test, Li Qianqing has locked Li Yiqing's alchemy talent in the small range of above-average and superior.

With such a result, Li Qianqing must be very satisfied.

There is no doubt that Li Yiqing is very worthy of cultivation.

After he cultivates to the middle stage of Yuanying, he should not be required to refine the family's elixir below the third-grade middle-grade.

Li Qianqing thought in his heart, and at the same time began to make a detailed plan for Li Yiqing's cultivation of alchemy.

With such alchemy talent and Li Yiqing still in the foundation-building stage, he must start refining second-grade elixir within the next year. If Li Yiqing's alchemy talent is only average, or even below average, he will have to refine first-grade high-grade elixir in the next two or three years before trying second-grade elixir.

According to different talents, many trainings are different. If the talent is poor, you must accumulate more experience to prepare for the next stage of elixir refining. Otherwise, it is a pure waste of materials. Without talent and experience, quickly entering the next stage will only stop at this stage.

"Next, you stay in the ancestral land, and you don't need to go to Changting Mountain."

Li Yiqing nodded when she heard it. She was ready. Grandma told her that if her alchemy talent can pass the test, the clan leader will personally guide her. What a wonderful thing it is.

"Come back here in three days. I will guide you in the process of refining the elixir. Be mentally prepared these days. There will be a big difference between refining with concentration and refining while listening."

"I understand." Li Yiqing responded quickly.

In the first year of training, Li Qianqing prepared a lot of things.

For Li Yiqing, apart from cultivation, the rest of the time was almost spent on refining elixirs, and of course communicating with the clan leader.

This year, Li Yiqing clearly felt that her alchemy skills had improved rapidly.

During the process, she also changed her first-grade alchemy furnace to a second-grade low-grade alchemy furnace, and also began to refine second-grade pills.

The first time she refined second-grade low-grade pills, Li Yiqing was amazed at her success rate. She successfully refined two out of eight pills, which is a 25% success rate.

If she continues like this, she will be able to become an alchemy master like the clan leader in the future.

Now Li Qianqing has narrowed down the area of ​​Li Yiqing's alchemy talent again. From the perspective of comprehension, fire control ability, spiritual medicine perception and other aspects, Li Yiqing's alchemy talent is undoubtedly top-notch.

If the top-level alchemy talent is to be distinguished, it can be distinguished into many levels. This is the same as the spiritual root talent. After it is roughly determined, it is not necessary to further subdivide it. For Li Qianqing, it is enough that Li Yiqing's alchemy talent is top-level.

"There are still three months." Li Qianqing calculated the time. It won't be long before he will go to the Five Mountains Palace of Fanyang Kingdom.

Because they had to wait for their arrival and for a better attack later, the Five Mountains Palace rarely took the initiative to attack in the past few years, and there were not many kills of the monks from Zishan City.

So far, the Jindan monks who went to Fanyang Country have been completely determined. Among the sixteen Jindan monks, there are a total of four Jindan late stage monks. In addition to Li Xunting and Li Xunming from their Li family, and one Jindan late stage monk from the Lu Kingdom royal family, the rest are the Grand Elder of Qingfeng Valley, who is also the former Valley Master of Qingfeng Valley.

"Clan leader, I'm here." Li Yiqing happily entered Li Qianqing's cave.

As he spent more time with Li Qianqing, Li Yiqing's original sense of restraint was much less.

"Yiqing, when can you practice to the middle stage of foundation building?"

"By the end of next year." Li Yiqing roughly estimated in his mind and gave Li Qianqing the answer.

"Well, then we will try to start refining the second-level middle-grade elixir by the end of next year. Three months later, I will take your great-aunt and great-uncle to Fanyang Country. I will come back at the beginning of the year after next to check your refining results. You must not relax during my absence."

"Yes!" Li Yiqing promised.

Li Yiqing knew something about the clan leader going to Fanyang Country, and taking his great-aunt Li Xunting and great-uncle Li Xunming with him.

They went to Fanyang Country as if to join the struggle between the two major forces.

If they succeeded, their Li family would not only have a certain influence in the three small countries, but also in Fanyang Country. When her alchemy skills improve, maybe she can help the Fanyang Country forces refine elixirs and charge sea miles. (End of this chapter)