Chapter 457: Chapter 218: Refining Elixirs Again, Astonishing the Golden Core

Chu Ning emerged from the cave mansion after a month.

During this month, he meticulously refined and finalized the refining technique for the pill formula.

Additionally, the transplanted spirit medicines were growing normally.

After giving some instructions to Ling Xiaobai, he headed straight to the Alchemy Pavilion.

The theoretical research was complete, and now it was time to put it into practice.

Since all the spirit medicines were already prepared, Chu Ning went straight to the Alchemy Room upon arriving at the Alchemy Pavilion.

When Ling Cang received the information and rushed over, Chu Ning had already activated the restriction within the Alchemy Room.

This made the Golden Core Elder of the Alchemy Pavilion miss him once again.

However, Ling Cang was not displeased at all; instead, he left with a look of joy on his face.

"Without distractions, very good!"

Chu Ning was, of course, unaware that the few Golden Core Elders in the sect had been waiting to see him for a month.

Upon entering the Alchemy Room, Chu Ning began experimenting with the pill refining.

This time, Chu Ning aimed to attempt refining three types of pills.

Two were self-created spiritual sense elixirs based on an ancient pill formula, and one was a self-created body refining elixir adapted from the Essentials of Spirit Pill.

Armed with previous experience, he knew failure was inevitable, so he started by focusing on identifying problems.

With each failure, Chu Ning would spend half a day to a whole day re-researching and improving the process.

The pill refining time was not long, but combined with the time for organization and improvement.

He ended up spending another two months inside the Alchemy Room.

Two months later, a row of jade bottles was laid out before Chu Ning.

"Concentrating Iron Soul Pill, Earth Store Soul Spirit Pill, Dragon Saliva Black Flood Dragon Pill."

Chu Ning softly recited the names of the three pills, each name derived from two key ingredients of each pill.

"They are all advanced lower grade elixirs, and in terms of quality, they are definitely superior among advanced lower grade elixirs!"

Saying this softly, Chu Ning’s tone carried an unmistakable sense of pride.

Even though these three pills only reached the advanced lower grade tier after refining spirit.

The fact that he self-developed four intermediate upper grade pills would be enough to astonish many alchemists if word got out.

At this moment, Chu Ning put away a bottle containing the Earth Store Soul Spirit Pill.

This pill was developed based on the Jiuhua Sect’s pill formula and did not use the Iron Soul Flower.

Although the spirit medicines used in alchemy were precious, most could still be found within Jiuhua Mountain.

During his alchemical attempts, Chu Ning did not add the Deer Horn Powder from the Yin Yang Deer, yet it still reached the intermediate upper grade elixir tier.

It’s just that without the Deer Horn Powder, the pill’s grade wasn’t as high.

Therefore, Chu Ning planned to find an opportunity to offer this pill formula to the sect, accumulating some contribution points to facilitate future alchemy.

Also fulfilling the promise he initially made to Ling Cang.

As for the other pills, Chu Ning did not plan to present them for the time being.

Moderation is key; he believed that offering the Earth Store Soul Spirit Pill alone was enough to astound everyone.

Claiming to have developed four intermediate upper grade spirit pills within half a year might be too sensational.

Furthermore, with materials like Iron Soul Flower and Flame Wood Twin Fruit being hard to find, even Jiuhua Sect might not be able to make use of them.

"Now, it’s time to see the efficacy of these pills I refined."

Saying this, Chu Ning glanced at his cultivation proficiency, then took out a pill and began cultivating.

[Flame Divine Wood Technique (Profound Tier Upper Grade), Third Layer (3450/20000)]

[Nine Derivations Body Refining Technique, Volume One, Undying Golden Body (445/10000)]

[Refining Spirit Technique, Fourth Layer (92/64000)]

Over nearly four months, apart from having ample and secure time for studying the pill formula and cultivation in the cave mansion,

the rest of the time, he would indeed practice the Flame Divine Wood Technique and Refining Spirit Technique daily, but overall progress was not fast.

After all, he had not dedicated time to medicinal cultivation for enhancement.

Of course, this issue won’t exist going forward.

After continually testing three types of pills, Chu Ning’s cultivation lasted for nearly a month once again.

Ten days later, Chu Ning checked his cultivation proficiency, nodding with satisfaction.

[Flame Divine Wood Technique (Profound Tier Upper Grade), Third Layer (3450/20000)]

[Nine Derivations Body Refining Technique, Volume One, Undying Golden Body (495/10000)]

[Refining Spirit Technique, Fourth Layer (192/64000)]

The increase in proficiency for Refining Spirit Technique’s fourth layer was 50 points for both the Concentrating Iron Soul Pill and the Earth Store Soul Spirit Pill.

This didn’t surprise Chu Ning too much, given that his current spiritual sense strength already matched that of a Golden Core Cultivator.

An increase in proficiency of 50 points per pill was enough to delight him.

Even with his current spiritual sense strength, completely refining a single pill required intense daily practice for five days.

Under normal circumstances, it might take about ten days. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

On average, it amounted to a 5-point proficiency increase each day.

Chu Ning was still quite content overall, as cultivation becomes increasingly difficult the further one progresses.

Naturally, it’s impossible to break through a realm in just a few years as before.

As for the Dragon Saliva Black Flood Dragon Pill, it too provided a 50-point increase in proficiency towards the Jiuhua Body Refining Technique’s Undying Golden Body.

For Chu Ning, refining it required about ten days under normal cultivation.

Each day could similarly bring about a 5-point increase in proficiency, leaving Chu Ning undoubtedly pleased.

Before this, even a 1-point increase per day in the Undying Golden Body’s proficiency during cultivation proved challenging.

Of course, the most crucial aspect of this method of cultivation remains the bottleneck issue later on.