The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 418: Three Refinements to Build the Foundation, the Pill Produces Purple Light (Second Update)
Li Qing shook his head and turned his thoughts away from the past: "Oh, now that I have talked this out with Daoist Liu He and he has apologized, there is no need to bear a grudge."

After all, he not only has built the foundation of Heavenly Dao, but also has practiced to become a fifth-level wizard. As the master of the blessed land, his performance is much higher than previously expected.

He and Liu He are no longer on the same level.

Li Qing's mind was determined, and his consciousness became clearer and clearer, like glass.

Taihao Palace turned slightly, emitting a cyan-gold light. Although it did not transform, it became clearer.

Li Qing put the matter out of his mind and heard the sound of hot steam rising from the alchemy furnace.

He looked carefully and saw that the yin and yang and five elements were already present in the furnace. The prototype of the foundation-building pill was already appearing from time to time.

When the heat dissipated a little, two round pills and one uneven pill floated up and down in the Nirvana Fire.

"In this case, there is only one last step left." Li Qing recalled the recipe and finally threw the black snake skin into the furnace.

The spiritual fire burned fiercely and flowed slowly on the black snake's skin.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss..." A faint snake sound was heard in the furnace. The snake skin suddenly came to life, opened its mouth wide, and swallowed all three pills.

Then, the black snake began to coil itself, slowly wrapping its body around itself in circles, with its scales rubbing against each other making a creepy sound.

The Foundation Establishment Pill, after all, goes against the will of Heaven, artificially reducing the difficulty of cultivators' foundation establishment, so there is a risk of being envied by Heaven.

The purpose of this black snake shedding is to simulate the black snake shedding its skin and transform it into the catastrophe of pill formation, so that the birth of the foundation-building pill will conform to the rules of heaven and earth.

A material with the same efficacy, the one chosen in Gu Changsheng's foundation-building pill recipe is golden cicada shell.

Li Qing deduced by analogy that materials such as jade silkworm molts and butterfly pupae could also be used.

It was just a pill recipe, but one move could affect the whole body. Without systematic testing, Li Qing would not make any changes to the pill recipe for the time being.

In the fire, the black snake kept coiling and turning around and around.

Li Qing stared intently for a while, and suddenly heard a crisp "click" sound.

The next moment, the black snake in the furnace suddenly straightened its body, raised its head, opened its mouth, and began to spit violently.

"Puff..." A golden foundation-building pill flew out. It was a genuine pill.

Li Qing quickly used the elixir-collecting technique to put it into the jade bottle.

Then there was another muffled sound, and a gray foundation-building pill with a slight halo flew out.

Li Qing took it, glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, and found that it was an inferior product.

His brows moved and he stared at the black snake, waiting for it to "spit out" the last foundation-building pill.

However, after a quarter of an hour, the black snake held its neck tight for a while, and suddenly its whole body burst into flames, and then it burned to ashes.

With a few muffled "patter" sounds, several irregular lumps of earth fell directly from the Nirvana Fire Furnace and hit the floor tiles of the quiet room.

Li Qing rolled up the scroll with his true essence, held it in his hand and carefully felt it, and found that there was not a trace of spiritual energy, which obviously meant that the pill refining had failed.

"Heh, the first batch of foundation-building pills, one genuine one and one inferior one. Although the result is not ideal, it is a good start after all."

He comforted himself, sealed the two foundation-building pills with magic to prevent the medicinal power from dissipating, and then sealed the jade bottle completely.

According to the provisions of the legal contract, if the number of successful pills is less than three, all of them will belong to Tanyuan Fairy City.

But Li Qing didn't feel sad at all. After all, someone gave him precious foundation-building materials to practice with, which was a huge benefit in itself.

He closed his eyes slightly and repeatedly reviewed the process of refining the first batch of Foundation Establishment Pills in his mind.

Which steps are redundant, which processes can be optimized, which elixirs are interference factors, and which elixirs' ratios can be further optimized.

"The most important thing is, the last time Liu He refined the Foundation Establishment Pill, he had five prototypes, but today I only have three. What's the problem?"

He pondered over it for a while, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind: "It must be that the Nirvana Fire was too strong! Some of the herbs evaporated in the process of refining them."

"But this also has its advantages. If I become proficient in refining, perhaps every foundation-building pill will be genuine, and there will be no inferior ones."

"Furthermore, the legendary top-grade foundation-building pill may be able to be refined. If so, this foundation-building pill business can really be done."

He sat quietly on the cushion, thinking seriously for three days and three nights, and then took out the second batch of foundation-building materials.

This time, the Xuanyang ginseng was soaked in ointment, and the medicinal effect of the concoction was relatively stronger. Following the same pattern, Li Qing first refined the Xuanyang ginseng and Yin Lingzhi together and turned them into light yellow medicinal powder.

This time, he did not follow the recipe and add the powder to harmonize yin and yang.

After all, the ginseng and ginseng powder he refined already had a very harmonious yin and yang energy, so there was no need to add anything extra.

So, he calmly put the essence of the mysterious water in together with other medicinal materials, evaporated the essence of the five elements, and melted it into one with the ginseng and ginseng powder that was a combination of yin and yang.

Afterwards, Chongming Grass was put in, and the pills turned nine times in the furnace, and gradually the prototypes of three pills appeared.

Li Qing took a closer look and saw that they were all round and golden, and were the seeds of genuine foundation-building pills.

He paused for a moment, activated Taihao Palace, cleared all distracting thoughts in his mind, and then threw the second Black Snake Sheath in.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss..." The black snake came to life, swallowed the three pills into its stomach with a hiss, and began to coil around over and over again.

Li Qing listened carefully, but this time, he did not hear the "click" sound.

He was certain in his heart and waited for a moment, and finally saw the black snake start to spit out elixirs.

"Puff... Puff... Puff..." This time, this guy opened his mouth three times in a row, and three round foundation-building pills flew out.

Li Qing was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He pinched out an afterimage with the elixir-collecting technique, then put the three pills into the jade bottle and admired them carefully.

"Hey, they are indeed three genuine foundation-building pills. I can draw one."

He remained calm and put the best one in a jade box, sealed it tightly, and placed it at the bottom of the storage bag.

The other two were placed together with the Foundation Establishment Pills refined in the first round, waiting to be handed over to Master Cao after he came out of seclusion.

With two chances of success, Li Qing did not become complacent. Instead, he meditated again for three days and three nights to thoroughly understand the refining experience.

This time, he put the Xuanyang ginseng soaked in sweet spring water into the furnace, and also put in the Yin Lingzhi, which was of the best quality.

The refining process is basically the same.

This time, Li Qing not only removed the excess medicinal powder while harmonizing yin and yang.

All the subsequent steps that he felt were inappropriate were deleted or made easier.

The main theme is "Do whatever you want without breaking the rules".

But this time, he only got two pill prototypes.

"Sure enough, although the recipe handed down is messy and contains many errors, it is not easy to revise it."

Li Qing shook his head and put the third black snake skin into the alchemy furnace.

This black snake skin is also of the best quality among the three, and it emits a faint fluorescence all over.

When it swallows the young pill, the sound is not frown-inducing, but rather a very rhythmic beat.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss..."

Li Qing waited quietly for the third batch of foundation-building pills to come out.

But this time, the wait was particularly long.

The coiled posture of the black snake revealed a bit of elegance and calmness.

It was clearly just a snake skin, but it seemed to be spiritual and as if it were coming alive.

Finally, after two hours, the black snake lazily raised its head, spit out a foundation-building pill, and then coiled up again.

Li Qing frowned and took the genuine foundation-building pill. "It seems that this time, there is only one successful pill?"

He waited quietly for the black snake skin to turn into ashes, but after half a while, the snake skin was still there, but it no longer had the spirituality that it had when it just "came back to life".

Li Qing thought about it and stopped waiting. He directly scanned with his spiritual sense. Before he had time to investigate clearly, the black snake's skin suddenly cracked.

A faint purple light was particularly eye-catching among the incomplete snake skin.

(End of this chapter)