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Chapter 74 Fourth Floor
Huaying sniffed it lightly, and found that it smelled exactly like the Qi Gathering Pill sold at the stall in that square market. She immediately beamed with joy, and said cheerfully:
"This old man still has some family background. Three Qi Gathering Pills are worth five or six spirit stones."

After counting this bottle, she then opened another porcelain bottle.

However, there is only one elixir in this porcelain bottle, and the color is also different, it is light blue, but it smells more medicinal.

Huaying didn't recognize this elixir, so she twisted it curiously and smelled it, and immediately a rush of aura surged into her lungs, and she said in surprise, "This elixir must be top grade!"

Afterwards, she carefully put the pill back into the porcelain bottle, and planned to go to Fangshi to ask for it again tomorrow.

As for the remaining three Qi Gathering Pills, after a little thought, she put away two of them, and only kept one to take later in her training.

Huaying used to take medicinal herbs directly to assist her cultivation before, and she had never tasted such miraculous elixir, so she was looking forward to its efficacy.

As far as she knew, this kind of panacea belonged to a special group in the world of cultivating immortals—"alchemists", who refined several kinds of heaven and earth spirit herbs in a pill furnace according to their unique formula.

Such people are not only monks, but also alchemists. Correspondingly, there are also weapon refiners, talisman makers, beast masters and so on.Like the Taoist priest Huaying met in Fangshi just now, he is a talisman maker.

Alchemists are rare, even among the hundreds of monks, large and small, in Dongshanfang City, they are no more than ten fingers.The degree of its rarity is far above that of craftsmen and talisman craftsmen.

The reason for this is nothing more than because it is too difficult for ordinary monks to become alchemists.

In this Dongshanfang City, every alchemist has the full support of the cultivation family or the cultivation sect, otherwise, the high cost of alchemy cannot be supported by personal financial resources alone.

After all, all kinds of spirit herbs, pill recipes, pill furnaces, and even the fire for refining pills need a lot of spirit stones.

Needless to say, the spirit grass, although there are a lot of wild spirit grass in the Six Elements Mountain Range, there are many monsters and beasts in it, and there are many dangers. It is extremely difficult and dangerous to go into the mountain to pick the spirit grass. Every spirit grass is almost a cultivator. spelled.

In addition, for tens of thousands of years, countless monks went to the mountains to pick them, and the number of wild spirit grasses in the mountains has been declining. Compared with ancient times, the number of wild spirit grasses today is almost exhausted.

If some far-sighted family sects hadn't started cultivating elixir artificially a long time ago, relying solely on the number of wild elixir in the world of cultivating immortals would definitely not be able to support the daily consumption of today's growing cultivator group.

In addition to the spirit grass, the alchemy is also the most important thing. It is difficult to refine the spirit pill without the formula.

However, most of the alchemy recipes are in the hands of cultivation families and sects, so they will not be easily spread.The ones that are circulating in the market today are only extremely common ones, or those that have long since been eliminated. The truly valuable ones are firmly controlled by the great sects of big families.

After all, the research and development of each new prescription requires countless manpower and material resources, plus the accumulation of time to select the most suitable formula. Only those who have experienced it can understand the difficulty.Therefore, it is naturally impossible for those family sects that have invested a lot of resources in the research and development of Dan Fang to make Dan Fang public.

Therefore, if an ordinary casual cultivator needs a panacea, he must beg those family sects. Those with good aptitude may have the opportunity to join a family or join a sect. In the squares and cities all over the place, I practiced silently.

It can be said that alchemy is a profession that desperately needs family support, so there are very few alchemists among casual practitioners, and even if there are, they will be invited by those famous family sects to be guest ministers.

Compared with spirit herbs and elixir recipes, elixir furnace and elixir fire are insignificant, and they can be bought in the square market for just a few spirit stones.

In addition, there is still a problem of alchemy success rate in alchemy. Even an experienced and skilled alchemist will inevitably fail in the process of alchemy. After the failure, most of them can only get a batch of waste. Dan.

That's why the price of spirit pills on the market is so high. Even if ordinary casual cultivators live frugally, the spirit stones they save throughout the year may not be able to exchange for a few lowest-level Qi Gathering Pills.But in order not to stagnate their cultivation, most of these people can only venture into the mountains to pick spiritual grass, and many monks die at the mouth of monsters every year because of this.

The cruelty of the world of cultivating immortals can be seen.

As a novice monk, Huaying knew little about the way here, and she didn't know that the Qi Gathering Pill she just swallowed was a treasure that many monks would not be able to eat once in a few months.

Thinking about that righteous Taoist who practiced all his life, he only left behind a few pills until he died. One can imagine how difficult the road of cultivating immortality will be for other monks.

After taking the Qi Gathering Pill, Huaying quickly meditated and practiced the exercises, and began to refine the medicinal power in her body.

However, as soon as she felt it, she was overjoyed. The medicinal effect brought by the Qi Gathering Pill was far beyond her imagination. In just a moment, she felt that her meridians were already filled with medicinal power.

Stepping up the refinement, Huaying did not want to waste any of these medicinal powers.

As the medicinal power of the Qi Gathering Pill gradually dissolved in the meridians, several hours passed in a flash, and when she opened her eyes again, a gleam of light suddenly appeared in her eyes.

"How could this be."

Huaying never thought that she would break through that bottleneck so quickly, and with just one Qi Gathering Pill, the barrier that hindered her cultivation for a long time was easily broken by herself.

Following the breakthrough in cultivation, pain all over the body followed, and the meridians in the body twitched as if shrunken.

The facial features on Huaying's face wrinkled, and she clenched her teeth to endure the pain.

Perhaps it was because this breakthrough was from the small realm to the middle realm, the pain she felt was far more intense than the previous few times, and the pain in her body was unbearable until her lips were bleeding from biting.

"cough cough"

After enduring it, Huaying hurriedly stroked her undulating chest and began to cough, only to see that her pale face was covered with beads of sweat, and even the top of her head was still emitting smoke, which was enough to show that her body had been injured just now. What a suffering.

However, even though she had just endured physical torture, she still laughed because of her breakthrough in cultivation.

"Four levels of Qi training."

After entering this realm, Huaying could clearly feel new changes in her body, her hearing, eyesight, physical strength, and even her own mana had all greatly improved.

Thinking of this, she quickly scanned her body with spiritual eyes.

(End of this chapter)