Chapter 18: The Pill Is Finished

Inside the brass furnace, the changes in the pills were very obvious.

The essence of the spiritual herbs, which had already thickened into a substance, was about to undergo a transformation under the scorching of the flames.

Lin Mu increased the output of his spiritual power, and the flames in the stone platform instantly increased by three points.

Half an hour later, there was a bang, and the furnace cover opened automatically.

A strong medicinal fragrance wafted out of the furnace, refreshing the heart.

Lin Mu hurried forward to watch. In the brass furnace, three orange-yellow pills were spinning in the furnace.

Regardless of his fatigue, Lin Mu happily put the three soul-gathering pills into a small white bottle.

A huge sense of achievement surrounded Lin Mu. After many failures, he finally succeeded in refining the soul-gathering pill.

This was a breakthrough from zero. For alchemy, he was no longer a newcomer with a dark vision.

Although this was only the first furnace of soul-gathering pills that had been successfully refined, it was of great significance to Lin Mu, who had already found a way.

After relaxing, Lin Mu felt waves of fatigue coming over him. He had been refining pills for a whole day, and he had reached his limit both mentally and physically.

Lin Mu's figure flashed, and he disappeared from the alchemy room and appeared in the Xuanyue space.

He spread a straw mat in the hut and fell asleep.

Eight hours later, Lin Mu left the Xuanyue space refreshed.

This sleep replenished all his lost energy. What surprised Lin Mu was that after a day of refining pills, his spiritual power actually increased a lot, which was more useful than his hard practice for a night.

This discovery made Lin Mu ecstatic.

Originally, he was worried that he would delay his practice because he was busy with alchemy. Unexpectedly, the effect of alchemy was better than practice, which was really a pleasant surprise.

Taking out a few materials from the Xuanyue space, Lin Mu began to refine again like yesterday.

After yesterday's painful lesson, Lin Mu learned from experience and refined pills more carefully.

At the end of the day, Lin Mu found that he had consumed a total of nine materials. Four of them were successfully refined into Gathering Spirit Pills, and the remaining five were scrapped.

This success rate was barely acceptable to Lin Mu. The success rate of ordinary alchemists was only 50%. He was new to alchemy, and it was not bad to have this result.

In order to prevent others from being suspicious, Lin Mu did not dare to stay in the alchemy room all the time. He took the five bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills he had refined and the three bottles returned by Ma Huayuan and went straight to the Baiwu Pavilion.

He sold these Gathering Spirit Pills at the price of four low-grade spirit stones per bottle, and then bought sixteen sets of materials for refining Gathering Spirit Pills. Each set of materials would be given a small white bottle for free.

After Gu Chen brought the materials to Lin Mu, he said with admiration: "Brother is really a genius in alchemy. The first time he made an alchemy, the success rate was 80%."

Lin Mu smiled and said: "It's not that exaggerated. Three of the bottles were compensated to me by Ma Huayuan, and the other five were made by me."

Gu Chen praised: "That's also amazing. The first time he made an alchemy, he could reach 50%. It's rare in the sect." After praising Lin Mu, Gu Chen asked tentatively: "I heard that Brother is going to fight a life-and-death battle with Ma Huayuan?"

Curiosity is indeed human nature.

The news that Lin Mu and Ma Huayuan were going to fight a life-and-death battle spread quickly in the sect, and many people were waiting to see this good show. Lin Mu felt that there was no need to hide Gu Chen's question.

He nodded with a heavy face and said: "That's true. Now I am in danger and it is difficult to escape this disaster."

Gu Chen heard Lin Mu say this news in person, and thought to himself that those guys were not talking nonsense. But he still smiled and comforted Lin Mu: "Brother, don't be discouraged. I heard that you severely injured Ma Huayuan last time, and you should be able to do it this time."

Lin Mu listened to Gu Chen's bland words, knowing that it was useless to say more, and sighed: "One step at a time, we'll see when the time comes."

After that, he walked out of the Baiwu Pavilion sadly.

Gu Chen looked at Lin Mu's desolate back with a complicated expression. After Lin Mu walked away, he let out a long sigh.

Lin Mu went back to the courtyard and found that everything was normal in the courtyard. He was relieved and returned to Danxia Peak to continue refining pills.

In the next few days, Lin Mu was busy refining pills in the alchemy room every day.

Almost four or five bottles could be refined every day, and the success rate barely reached 50%.

After a few days, Lin Mu found that his speed was too slow. The total number of Bigu Pills and Juling Pills was about 150 to 160. At the rate of 10 per day, it would take half a month to refine all the materials.

If it were normal, Lin Mu would naturally not care about this half month. Even if it wasted a month, as long as he could refine the pill, he would be willing.

But the situation was special now. After three months, the life-and-death battle would come. The more time he spent on this, the more unfavorable the situation would be for him.

Lin Mu decided to speed up the refining process.

It took two hours to refine a furnace of pills, and then more than an hour to rest. In this way, he couldn't even refine ten materials in a day.

This was not the case. The materials that failed to be refined did not take that long.

Therefore, if you want to increase the speed, you can only start from two aspects. One is to try to increase the success rate of alchemy, so that you can do less useless work. The other is to try to speed up the recovery of spiritual power. Lin Mu has already noticed this. Xuanyue Space is the best place for recovery, and the rest time can be shortened by more than half.

In the next few days, Lin Mu intends to increase the speed in these two aspects.

The effect is remarkable!

The success rate of Juling Pill and Bigu Pill has increased a lot.

Lin Mu stayed in the alchemy room all day, and took Bigu Pill when he was hungry, and his physical strength was always maintained very well.

With Lin Mu's efforts, the effect is obvious.

On the fifth day, Lin Mu could refine four bottles of Bigu Pill in one day.

On the seventh day, he could refine five bottles of Juling Pill in one day.

On the ninth day, he could refine six bottles of Bigu Pill in one day.

On the twelfth day, he could refine seven bottles of Juling Pill in one day.

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Half a month later, Lin Mu walked out of the alchemy room.

In the past half month, Lin Mu went out three times, all of which were to go to Baiwu Pavilion to exchange the Gathering Spirit Pill for alchemy materials.

Gu Chen was already accustomed to it, but he also admired it from the bottom of his heart, because Lin Mu's success rate in alchemy has been gradually increasing. When Lin Mu went to buy materials for the last time, Gu Chen estimated that Lin Mu's success rate in alchemy had reached 70%.

70%! This success rate is already the top level among outer disciples.

Of course, Gu Chen's guess was wrong. He didn't expect that Lin Mu himself had 80 sets of materials, and going to him to buy materials was just to cover up.

But Lin Mu's real success rate in alchemy was not bad, reaching 60%.

For Lin Mu, it was very worthwhile to work hard for half a month.

In half a month, he gained a lot.

Now, Lin Mu's spiritual power recovery speed is much faster than before. Even if the spiritual power is exhausted, it can be fully restored within an hour. In addition, after half a month of hard work in alchemy, Lin Mu has made great progress in the use of spiritual power.

With his cultivation and spiritual awareness growing a lot, Lin Mu felt that he was only one step away from the sixth level of Qi Refining.

The biggest gain was in the pills!

After a thorough inventory, Lin Mu found that he had refined a total of 48 bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills.

He successfully refined 35 bottles of the materials for 65 Bigu Pills!

This was a good harvest!

48 bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills exceeded his total income in the past three years. Lin Mu couldn't imagine what level these Gathering Spirit Pills would raise his cultivation to.

35 bottles of Bigu Pills, one bottle can be used by Lin Mu for a month. 35 bottles can almost sustain Lin Mu for three years without eating or drinking.

In this way, Lin Mu can practice in seclusion without having to go to the Spiritual Food Hall frequently for meals.

Lin Mu suppressed his joy, calmly opened the stone door, and walked out of the pill room.

In the deacon's room of Danxia Peak, Lin Mu found Tai Ning.

"Brother, I rented that alchemy room for half a month. I should pay you thirty low-grade spirit stones. But I don't have spirit stones at the moment, so I'll use pills instead. Here are eight bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills." Lin Mu got straight to the point and took out eight bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills and placed them in front of Tai Ning.

Tai Ning smiled and said, "You're too polite, I'll take them."

Tai Ning certainly had a reason to be happy. If you buy this Gathering Spirit Pill in Baiwu Pavilion, you need five low-grade spirit stones, but if you sell it to Baiwu Pavilion, you can only sell it for four high-grade spirit stones.

Tai Ning naturally knew that the Gathering Spirit Pill was scarce. He needed the Gathering Spirit Pill to improve his cultivation, so he wouldn't be stupid enough to sell it to Baiwu Pavilion.

Lin Mu didn't pay spirit stones, but used pills instead. Of course, he was happy. He indirectly earned ten low-grade spirit stones from it.

Lin Mu didn't care about Tai Ning's thoughts. He said goodbye and headed towards Xifeng.

He wanted to go back and practice quickly, as a life-and-death battle was imminent!