Chapter 40 Speed

After sending Mu Qing away, Lin Mu closed the gate.

Arriving in the courtyard and standing under the old tree, Lin Mu's thoughts were like a tide.

This competition was full of undercurrents. If what Mu Qing said was true, the situation would be very difficult.

All cultivators at the tenth level of Qi Refining had to work hard to build their foundations and escape this competition. It can be seen that the place Mu Qing mentioned must not be simple.

A life or death!

This was Mu Qing's evaluation of that dangerous place.

Those who were not strong enough would die if they went there.

If this was true, the arrangement made by the headmaster this time was a bit sinister. He did not tell everyone the reason in advance, and waited until the results of the top five came out before letting them go to collect herbs.

Under coercion and inducement, who would dare not obey?

Lin Mu was scared when he thought about it. In such a large sect, from the headmaster to the servants, there were deep schemes hidden. If you are not careful, you will be calculated by others, and jump into the trap set by others long ago, and you will never get tired of it.

But now, Lin Mu knew that this was a trap, but he still jumped in.

His desire for foundation building was too deep!

Of course, Lin Mu was not completely unsure. The reason why the head of the sect Shi Weihan selected the five most powerful disciples was naturally to hope that they would succeed in collecting herbs. He would definitely leave a backup plan, and someone would definitely come out of that dangerous place alive.

Otherwise, if there was no foundation building pill for fifty years, Qianyu Sword Sect would definitely have a fault, and there would be no successors, and it would not be far from the extinction of the sect.

Lin Mu did not want to get too much, as long as he came out alive, and getting the foundation building pill as soon as possible was his goal.

Lin Mu also had his own little calculations, which was to collect more spiritual medicines and refine the foundation building pill himself.

These days, it is better to be self-reliant than to rely on the sect to support him.

He worked as a chores in the sect for three years and made no achievements. But since he got the Xuanyue Pei, he planted and refined pills by himself, and his cultivation has made great progress.

If he wants to build a foundation, becoming one of the top five outer disciples is Lin Mu's next goal.

There is still more than a month before the competition begins. Lin Mu's current cultivation has reached the peak of the seventh level of Qi Refining, and he is only one step away from the eighth level of Qi Refining. In this month, Lin Mu can break through to the eighth level of Qi Refining at any time, but he doesn't want to be too ostentatious, so he decided to wait for a while, at least after refining this batch of Gathering Spirit Pills.

Wearing the storage ring on his hand, Lin Mu left the courtyard and headed straight for Danxia Peak.

Danxia Peak, steward's room.

Tai Ning greeted him with a smile on his face: "Junior brother is really hardworking. It's not long since the last time you refined the pill, and you come to refine the pill again."

Lin Mu smiled slightly: "Senior brother, you are too kind. I am just entrusted by others. How can I have so many spirit stones to buy materials."

Tai Ning teased: "Junior brother, don't cry poor in front of me. Your current wealth is rare in the sect." There was a lot of envy in his words.

Lin Mu was not in the mood to chat, so he forced a smile and said, "Then I'll use the alchemy room from last time. What do you think, senior brother?"

Tai Ning stood up and said with a smile, "That alchemy room has been reserved for you. You can go there without any worries."

Lin Mu smiled and said goodbye, left the deacon's room, and walked towards the alchemy room.

Arriving at the alchemy room, closing the stone door, Lin Mu began to make the elixir.

Putting a portion of material into the bronze furnace of the upper grade magic weapon, Lin Mu covered the furnace cover, held the golden round handle on the edge of the stone platform with one hand, and input spiritual power into it.

Red flames rose up and surrounded the entire bottom of the furnace.

Lin Mu hurriedly used his spiritual sense to check the situation in the alchemy furnace.

This time, he was pleasantly surprised!

The realm of God as Silk made him more meticulous in his investigation of things, and the situation in the furnace was clearly transmitted to his mind.

The refining of each spiritual herb and the flow of each trace of medicinal liquid were all presented in Lin Mu's mind.

Lin Mu could adjust the size of the flame in time with the changes in the furnace.

In this way, the efficiency was immediately improved.

In more than half an hour, a furnace of pills was refined.

Because of the clearer grasp of Rune, Lin Mu's spiritual power was also saved a lot. Each time he spent half of the spiritual power before, he could achieve the same effect as before.

During the process of refining pills, Lin Mu kept trying the method of saving spiritual power recorded on the jade slip, and found that it was indeed feasible.

At the end of the day, Lin Mu was surprised to find that he had refined 23 bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills.

This speed was shocking.

Normally, it takes more than an hour to refine a furnace of Gathering Spirit Pills, and it takes a lot of time to rest. If you add the low success rate and the time wasted on refining waste pills, ordinary alchemists can only refine about five bottles a day.

Lin Mu now refines 23 bottles a day, which is more than four times that of ordinary alchemists.

Joy is spreading. On the second day, Lin Mu found that he had made progress again and could refine 24 bottles a day.

On the fifth day, the speed increased again, reaching 25 bottles a day!

Lin Mu spent a little more than ten days to refine three hundred ingredients.

Perhaps because his consciousness became more acute, even the success rate increased slightly.

In ten days, a total of 256 bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills were refined.

The success rate reached 85%!

This is absolutely amazing!

But Lin Mu could not and dared not share this joy with others. Lin Mu stayed in the alchemy room for another five days, took out his 500 materials and continued to refine, and refined more than 120 bottles in total.

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

Tai Ning handed Lin Mu a cup of tea and said with a smile: "Junior brother, you have gained a lot in the past half month."

Lin Mu smiled and said: "They are all other people's. I don't have any. This is the rent for this half month, a total of twelve bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills."

Lin Mu took out twelve bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills from the storage ring and placed them on the table.

Tai Ning thanked: "Thank you very much, junior brother."

This thank you is sincere. Originally, Lin Mu did not have spirit stones on him, so he used Gathering Spirit Pills instead. One bottle of Gathering Spirit Pills counted as four low-grade spirit stones. If he bought it in the Hundred Things Pavilion, it would cost five low-grade spirit stones per bottle. Now that Lin Mu already has spirit stones on him, he still uses Gathering Spirit Pills as rent, which is obviously to take care of him.

Lin Mu smiled, exchanged a few words, and walked out of Danxia Peak.

Back in the courtyard, Lin Mu took off his clothes, jumped into the fish pond, took a nice bath, changed into clean clothes, took the ring and headed towards the East Peak without taking a rest.

Along the way, Lin Mu had no intention of looking at the beautiful flowers and trees along the way, and was in a hurry.

He wanted to quickly hand over the Juling Pill to Mu Qing, put an end to the matter, and practice as soon as possible to reach the eighth level of Qi Refining.

When he came to Qunfang Courtyard and reported it, the female disciple who received him did not deliberately make things difficult like Han Xue did last time. Hearing that Lin Mu was looking for Mu Qing, she let him go directly.

In fact, Lin Mu didn't know that Mu Qing had already quietly greeted him before he came.

Otherwise, even if he was famous now, he couldn't just break into Qunfang Courtyard at will.

When he came to Mu Qing's courtyard, Lin Mu knocked on the door gently.

Before long, Mu Qing opened the door and came out, presumably waiting for him.

Lin Mu handed over the ring and said with a smile: "Junior brother, I am not talented. I have made these 244 bottles of Julingdan with 300 materials."

Mu Qing happily took the ring and said with a smile: "Junior brother, you have worked hard. Please come in for tea. I have a few taels of good spring tea here."

Lin Mu shook his head: "No need to bother. I have to go back to practice after finishing my work here. I hope Senior Sister will forgive me."

After that, he said goodbye and left.

Mu Qing said goodbye with a smile, closed the door and went back to the courtyard.

Lin Mu had just walked a few steps away when a voice stopped him.

"Senior brother!" The voice was crisp and pleasant, full of joy.

Lin Mu turned around, and not far behind him, Yun Meng was smiling like a flower.