Fairy, return my flying sword to me

Chapter 27: Third-grade Pill
The Spiritual Enlightenment Pill is a third-grade pill and is actually very difficult to refine.

Cultivators are divided into different realms, and alchemists are naturally divided into different professional grades according to the difficulty of refining pills.

A first-grade alchemist can skillfully refine first-grade elixirs, and a third-grade alchemist can skillfully refine third-grade elixirs.

The Spiritual Enlightenment Pill is of the third grade, while the original Five Elements Golden Spirit Pill was only of the first grade.

In the field of alchemy, the difference between the first and third grades is like the difference between refining Qi and refining the golden elixir, the gap is huge.

If a normal alchemist wants to be promoted from the first grade to the third grade, he needs to practice slowly with a large amount of medicinal materials and gradually improve his success rate to ensure that he can master several medicinal recipes of the corresponding grades. Only then will he be qualified to be called an alchemist of the corresponding grade.

For example, the eldest senior brother in the forest, although he is now busy making a lot of money in the name of the sect, he is just a second-grade alchemist.

Although he was still practicing making third-grade elixirs, the production rate and the quality rate were not satisfactory, and he was still a long way from officially obtaining the title of third-grade alchemist.

But what about the forest?

He is not even of the first rank.

His only experience in alchemy was that time when he hurriedly refined a few improved versions of the Five Elements Golden Spirit Pill under Chunxue's guidance.

and so……

"Want to try?"

Lin Jian scratched his head, "Is there any hope?"

"You'll need to work hard." Chunxue's distinct black and white eyes stared straight at the forest, appearing a bit dazed due to her concentration. "If we're refining the Spirit Root Fortune Pills we need normally, you only need to follow my instructions. For pills below the third grade, you won't need to put in any effort. Even if the second grade is more complicated than the first, a little familiarity with the process won't be a big problem. But the third grade..."

First-grade elixirs purely require control over the temperature of the fire, second-grade elixirs involve detailed processing of the elixir materials, and third-grade elixirs... require the alchemist to have truly keen and subtle control over the different ingredients of the elixir materials.

"If I hadn't trained you to control your Qi during this period, I wouldn't have even suggested this. But right now, your Qi control is still pretty good, so we have a chance to fight for these 100,000 high-grade spirit stones."

During the period of planting spiritual herbs, Lin Jian made significant progress in refining his own true Qi.

Threading the needle is no problem.

"If you want to give it a try, I'll leave some time for you to control the process. Only if you take care of the details I've left, will we have a chance to refine a third-grade Spiritual Enlightenment Pill. But the price is that during this attempt, our production of the Spiritual Root Fortune Pill we need may suffer a certain loss."

Leaving free space means that Lin Jian can make more independent progress, but this freedom and learning will also lead to a certain degree of waste of Dan materials.

By completely obeying Haruyuki's orders, one can achieve the maximum possible output of pills for their own advancement.

But...how can't the learned alchemy skills be considered progress in another sense?

The Sword Immortal must leave eventually.

The current difficulties are important, but the future prospects also need to be considered.

After the Sword Immortal left, how could he obtain the Spirit Root Creation Pill that no sect could obtain?

"I will learn!" Lin Jian said firmly, "Even if there is no reward from this conference, I will still learn."

"Very good." Chunxue smiled, somewhat pleased. "Then let's begin. Let me see how your understanding of the Fine Stream Condensed Silk Power has progressed over this period of time."

Before officially starting the refining process, Haruyuki's expression was unusually serious.

"The Five Elements Golden Spirit Pill is a first-grade pill. As long as the ratio of the ingredients is controlled within a certain range, and then the ingredients are refined one by one according to the steps and mixed together, it will be perfect. Even if the ratio occasionally changes slightly, it will at most affect the final efficacy, but will not affect the pill's success. Whether it's my improved Golden Spirit Pill or the Golden Spirit Pill refined by your senior brother, the essence is the same." "But the Spirit Root Creation Pill we are about to refine is different. Unlike the Five Elements Golden Spirit Pill, which simply purifies and deepens spiritual roots of the same attributes, it completely twists and shapes your spiritual roots into any desired form. This is a second-grade pill."

"The biggest difference between a second-grade elixir and a first-grade one lies in the ratio. The ratio must be precise, but even the same weight of raw materials will produce different essences. This cannot be achieved in advance outside the furnace, and can only be controlled by your Qi control after refining in the furnace."

"I have a way to help you, but if you want to master this ability yourself, you have to try to control it yourself. I will only control the furnace temperature for you, the rest is up to you."

"No problem." Lin Jian also calmed down and made all preparations.

As the ingredients for the elixir were placed in the furnace, Chunxue's voice rang out steadily and quickly.

"Increase the temperature, increase... increase... stop!"

"First throw the Star Flower... then the Spiritual Essence Grass... and finally the Azure Cloud Grass."

"Pick away the essence of the star flower bit by bit, pick it out little by little. I'll stop when I say so."

"Okay! Stop! Remember this feeling. Without any measuring tools, use your true Qi to remember this feeling. One pill is this amount, no more, no less."

"The same applies to Lingyuan Grass and Qingyun Grass. Remember the amount I assigned to you. There can't be any mistakes!"

"Alright, turn up the heat. Add the secret formula to help the pill form."

……

After repeating this several times, and after Lin Jian had made a deep enough impression, Haruyuki released the dominance of the essence.

"Next, take control of it yourself."

Lin Jian carefully controlled the amount of the essence of the elixir.

The essence of the medicinal liquid extracted from the star flower in his consciousness was cut into a trace that was barely noticeable to the naked eye under the sharp true qi, and fell into the raging fire under the alchemy furnace, evaporating instantly.

A trace... and a trace...

It was eliminated and slowly approached the amount in my impression.

Beside my ears, I heard the female sword fairy's reminder as if it were from the horizon, "The furnace temperature is fluctuating too much. Don't forget to stabilize the furnace temperature while multitasking."

Under the sudden drop in temperature, the entire ball of star flower essence liquid instantly changed from dark purple to pitch black.

"Throw it away. It's no longer useful."

Haruyuki once again added fresh star flower petals that had undergone basic processing.

"We need to be faster. If we wait too long, the ingredients will be burnt to ashes."

In the flames, the green Qingyun herbal liquid that had been roasted for a long time instantly caught fire, leaving behind a few wisps of green smoke.

Once...twice...three times...

Self-attempts are always so difficult, but Lin Jian’s eyes gradually brightened.

He always felt that he was getting closer and closer to completely mastering it...

(End of this chapter)