Chapter 349 - Difficulty of the Pill Recipe

  In the spiritual field.

  The last four remaining Zangyuan grasses were fully mature, and Lu Xuan picked them one by one.

  [Harvest one third-grade Zangyuan grass, and obtain a third-grade foundation-building pill. ]*2

  [Harvest one third-grade Zangyuan grass, and obtain a third-grade foundation-building pill recipe. ]

  [Harvest one third-grade Zangyuan grass, and obtain a third-grade treasure, Nalingcaozhu. ]

  The rewards from the four light balls appeared in Lu Xuan's hands or mind one after another.

  So far, the Zangyuan grasses entrusted to him by the Alchemy Palace have all matured.

  None of the twenty Zangyuan grasses were damaged, and the survival rate was 100%. Among them, thirteen were of ordinary quality, and six were of good quality. What surprised him was that he also harvested a high-quality Zangyuan grass.

  Lu Xuan speculated that it might be the result of careful cultivation in the early and late stages of the growth of the spiritual plant.

  Twelve third-grade foundation-building pills, five experience packs for the foundation-building pill recipe, and three third-grade Nalingcaozhu were opened from the twenty white light balls.

  Five experience packs for the foundation-building pill recipes enabled him to reach the mastery level in refining foundation-building pills, which was equivalent to the experience of other ordinary alchemists who had been immersed in this for decades. He

  had three spiritual grass beads, one of which was fed to the grass puppet, and the other two were kept. After the green wood source energy in the elixir field was consumed, the spiritual beads were used to replenish the spiritual energy of the plants.

  "It will take a long time for the five-element fruit to mature. These twenty hidden essence grasses can barely be handed over to the Alchemy Palace."

  When he was teaching the outer disciples the experience of cultivating spiritual plants, an alchemist who was taking classes at the same time became interested in his level of spiritual plants and entrusted him to cultivate hidden essence grass and five-element fruit for the Alchemy Palace. The spiritual seeds were provided by the Alchemy Palace.

  Lu Xuan naturally accepted the spiritual seeds for free and the light ball reward.

  He took out a communication talisman and contacted the alchemist named Guan Wan in the Alchemy Palace. They agreed on a time and place.

  After confirming, Lu Xuan estimated the time and rode the wind falcon to the Alchemy Palace.

  "Junior Brother Lu, you are here."

  A yellow-shirted woman in the middle stage of foundation building was quietly waiting at the gate. When she saw Lu Xuan, she floated over and said softly.

  "It's been a long time since we last met. Senior Sister Guan is still as elegant as ever."

  Lu Xuan smiled and returned the greeting.

  The two entered the Alchemy Hall.

  Under the guidance of Guan Wan, Lu Xuan entered an ancient and elegant room.

  Unknown incense was burning in the room, with a strong fragrance. There was also a huge and strange alchemy furnace in the middle.

  "Senior Sister Guan, these are the twenty Tibetan Yuan grasses you entrusted me to cultivate before. Please take a look."

  After the two chatted for a while, Lu Xuan took out all the Tibetan Yuan grasses from the storage bag and floated in front of Guan Wan.

  Guan Wan's spiritual consciousness swept over and immediately understood.

  "All twenty Tibetan Yuan grasses are mature, and it seems that the quality is pretty good. Junior Brother Lu has worked hard during this period."

  She said softly, picked up a Tibetan Yuan grass and examined it carefully.

  "Good quality Zangyuan grass, Junior Brother Lu is indeed a top-ranking spiritual plant master in the sect."

  Guan Wan exclaimed.

  "Huh? There is another top-quality one!"

  She opened her mouth slightly and exclaimed.

  She was able to go out and teach the outer disciples about alchemy experience, so she naturally had a very high status in alchemy, and she also knew how difficult it was to obtain a top-quality third-grade spiritual plant.

  Many alchemists in the Alchemy Hall personally cultivated the spiritual medicine for refining the foundation-building pill, but they focused on cultivation and alchemy, so they naturally didn't spend too much time cultivating spiritual plants.

  When it came time to harvest, there were often inferior spiritual plants, and even if there was a slight accident, the spiritual plants would wither and die.

  It was difficult to achieve a 100% survival rate, and the inferior spiritual plants planted would also reduce the success rate of alchemy.

  If the spiritual plants were handed over to the sect's spiritual plant for cultivation, the survival rate would be greatly improved, but after all, they were third-grade spiritual plants, and the difficulty of cultivation was high. After maturity, the quality was mostly ordinary, with occasional good quality or inferior quality.

  Guan Wan had never seen anything of superior quality.

  The higher the quality of the spiritual plant, the higher the success rate of refining the elixir, and the better the quality of the elixir.

  Not only were all the twenty Zang Yuan grasses of Lu Xuan mature, but none of them were inferior, and there were even several that were good or above.

  How could Guan Wan not be satisfied with this!

  She smiled even more, and her eyes looking at Lu Xuan were a little softer.   

  "According to the previous agreement, if you successfully cultivate a Cangyuan grass, you will be rewarded with ten sword seals."

  "High-quality ones will be rewarded separately, twenty sword seals for each good quality one, and ten sword seals for each superior quality one."

  "Twenty Cangyuan grasses, a total of two hundred and eighty sword seals, Junior Brother Lu, please check the number of sword seals."

  Guan Wan said, and a small pile of sword seals floated in front of Lu Xuan.

  "The number is correct."

  Lu Xuan's spiritual sense scanned and confirmed.

  Guan Wan smiled as she watched Lu Xuan

  put away the sword seals. Although the reward for twenty Cangyuan grasses was more than before, she was eager for it.

  After all, more sword seals meant better quality Cangyuan grass, which was an extremely precious thing for alchemists.

  Lu Xuan took the sword seals and was also satisfied.

  Two hundred and eighty sword seals were worth the equivalent of a fourth-grade spirit seed, which was worth his hard work in cultivating during this period.

  Not to mention the many foundation-building pills, pill formula experience packs and soul-gathering grass beads that were opened in the light group.

  The Alchemy Palace won, and Lu Xuan won a lot.

  "Excuse me, Junior Brother Lu, are you willing to continue this cooperative relationship with the Dan Palace?"

  Guan Wan put away the Cangyuan Grass and asked tentatively.

  "Of course I am willing!"

  Lu Xuan did not hesitate at all.

  "I am a person who likes to deal with flowers, plants, animals, birds, insects and fish."

  "If Senior Sister asked me to explore a secret realm or hunt some monsters and evil spirits, I might still have trouble, but if you want me to cultivate spiritual plants, that's a piece of cake."

  Lu Xuan continued to consolidate his image as an ordinary spiritual plant master.

  "Okay, in view of your good cultivation results this time, I will apply to the elders of the Dan Palace for more varieties of spiritual plants to give to you, Junior Brother."

  "However, the spiritual plants and spiritual seeds still need to be prepared and coordinated by the Sinong Palace. The spiritual seeds will be delivered to Junior Brother's house soon."

  "Thank you, Senior Sister Guan."

  Lu Xuan said with sincere gratitude.

  "By the way, Senior Sister, are the newly provided spiritual seeds or materials for refining foundation-building pills?"

  "Yes, the demand for foundation-building pills is huge, and the difficulty of refining is high, so there is a greater demand for corresponding high-grade spiritual plants."

  "If the relevant spiritual medicines for refining are leaked, will the formula of the foundation-building pill be studied by other cultivators?"

  "It's not that simple."

  A hint of pride appeared on Guan Wan's face.

  "Many cultivators, families, and small sects in the world know the materials needed to refine foundation-building pills, but they can't refine them."

  "The first hurdle is that it is impossible to quantitatively cultivate the corresponding spiritual medicines. After all, there are many third-grade spiritual plants in the refining materials, and they can't be cultivated casually."

  "After that, there are various hurdles, the most important of which is that we can't know the specific formula."

  "We don't know how to handle the spiritual medicines, the amount of spiritual medicines to put in, the main and auxiliary spiritual medicines, the control of the pill fire, the timing of taking the pill, etc."

  "The formula is the most difficult part for other cultivators to refine foundation-building pills."

  Guan Wan said solemnly.

  Lu Xuan nodded in agreement, secretly complaining in his heart.

  "Is the recipe difficult? Isn't it just planting some spiritual plants and consecrating them to obtain it?"

  (End of this chapter)