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Chapter 11 Refining Immortal Herbs
"I just don't know if this soul bone can be used for weapon forging."

The prerequisite for crafting magical artifacts is that the materials must possess spiritual energy. This soul bone is formed from condensed energy; after nurturing it with spiritual energy again, it might be suitable for crafting artifacts.

Moreover, the petrification ability of this Medusa head soul bone is quite strong.

If he could forge a mirror-like magical artifact, it would definitely be his trump card.

"Alright, let's not think about these things anymore. The most urgent thing is to cultivate medicinal herbs and prepare pills to improve our cultivation. We can talk about other things later."

Putting away the Beast-Trapping Ring, Qin Sheng casually unleashed a fireball. Without the protection of soul power, Medusa's corpse was easily burned to ashes. As for the soul ring, his current physique couldn't absorb it yet; it would dissipate on its own after an hour, so there was no need to worry about it.

Then, Qin Sheng released another skull to probe the bottom of the valley. After confirming that there were no other soul beasts, he jumped into it with peace of mind.

A short while later, the full view of the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire appeared before his eyes.

The oval-shaped pool is divided into two distinct sections, one milky white and the other vermilion. They do not encroach on each other and always remain on their own side. The water vapor seen from the edge of the mountain valley is formed from this pool.

Various exotic flowers and herbs grew in that pool. Qin Sheng was surprised to find that, in addition to the immortal herbs described in the original work, there were many that he was familiar with, and each of them was quite old, some at least a thousand years old, and some even several thousand or tens of thousands of years old.

Not to mention those magical herbs.

Suppressing his excitement, Qin Sheng, based on the growth characteristics of the spiritual herb seeds he brought from the mortal world, planted the hot-natured spiritual herbs on the vermilion end of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, and the cold-natured herbs on the milky-white end. The milder herbs were planted in between.

Only then did he refocus his attention on the herbs. Perhaps due to the emergence of divine consciousness, memories from his previous life, which had been gradually fading in his mind, resurfaced. Based on the characteristics described in the original Douluo Continent novel, he easily recognized the following immortal herbs: Acacia Heartbreak Red, Extraordinary Sky-Reaching Chrysanthemum, Exquisite Tulip, Fragrant Exquisite Immortal Herb, Narcissus Jade Skin and Bone, Phoenix Cockscomb Sunflower, Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, Longing for Autumn Dew, Eight-Cornered Mysterious Ice Grass, and Fiery Apricot Delicate Sparse Grass.

Among them, the ones that Qin Sheng valued most were undoubtedly the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and the Dew of Longing.

The former is fatally attractive to a cultivator like him who practices fire-attribute techniques, while the latter can enhance spiritual power. If he uses the Blazing Sun Technique to refine the medicinal power, it might even enhance his divine sense.

As for using them to refine elixirs? These two medicinal materials don't even exist in the mortal world, so where would the elixir recipe come from?

Besides, even if he had them, he couldn't refine them. After all, apart from Qi Refining stage pills, the others all require the true fire within the body of a Foundation Establishment cultivator or above, or the borrowing of the earth's core fire, to refine. This is only if his alchemy skills are extremely superb; otherwise, it would be a waste of this immortal herb.

Rather than doing that, it would be more cost-effective to refine them directly. Besides, there are plenty of immortal herbs here. The most urgent task is to improve our strength first.

Without hesitation, Qin Sheng carefully picked the two immortal herbs, but he didn't rush to refine them.

Instead, he stored it in his waist storage soul tool belt. Then, he summoned the Beast-Trapping Ring and began to carve out a cave on the vermilion side of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Although the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye is located in an inverted cone-shaped mountain valley that is 500 meters high, it is difficult to detect.

But now that he has killed the soul beast that lived here, in order to prevent anyone from breaking in while he is refining the immortal herbs, it is still necessary to open up a cave dwelling. Just to be on the safe side.

Several hours later, a simple cave dwelling was successfully created.

Standing in the simple cave, Qin Sheng frowned. "This beast-trapping ring is only suitable for trapping enemies. It's really useless for opening up a cave. It seems I'll have to find a way to get some flying knives and swords in the future. I also need to prepare some formations. I can't let anyone discover this place."

As he spoke, Qin Sheng used his magic to manipulate objects, capturing a whole boulder to block the cave entrance.

Sitting cross-legged by the ventilation shaft of his makeshift cave, Qin Sheng took out the manual of the Blazing Sun Skill, the contents of which he had already memorized perfectly. However, he still checked it over several times and scrutinized it carefully to ensure there were no problems.

Only then did he take out the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and begin circulating the Blazing Sun Technique to absorb its essence.

As soon as he swallowed it, Qin Sheng immediately felt an immense medicinal power instantly fill his limbs and bones. If he didn't refine it immediately, he was afraid that this immense medicinal power would burst his body.

So he immediately activated the Blazing Sun Technique, and in just one day, he easily broke through the fourth level and reached the fifth level of the Blazing Sun Technique.

He began to continue refining according to the incantation of the fifth level.

Ten days passed, twenty days passed, a month passed, two months passed. By the time Qin Sheng had completely refined the medicinal power of the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, more than a year had passed without him realizing it.

His cultivation technique also advanced to the tenth level in one go.

"This magical herb has really been ruined by those Shrek bastards."

This was the first thing Qin Sheng said after opening his eyes.

With just one herb, he raised his basic cultivation technique from the fourth level to the tenth level in just one year.

However, in the original work, Ma Hongjun, who was at the Soul Master stage, was only given a five-level increase in soul power, and then helped him cultivate to level fifty-seven over five years.

I don't know how much of the medicine's potency was wasted during this period.

That's why Qin Sheng said those words.

After reaching the tenth level of the Qi Refining Basic Technique, Qin Sheng's divine sense improved significantly and was now able to cover the entire valley.

Seeing that no one had entered, and that the spiritual herbs he had planted in the valley had sprouted again, all of them over ten years old, he felt a surge of joy and took out the "Looking-Through-Autumn-Water Dew" to continue refining it.

Unlike the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, the Dew of Longing for Autumn Water cannot enhance cultivation. Furthermore, Qin Sheng has already raised the Blazing Sun Technique to the tenth level. The speed at which he refines the medicinal power has increased considerably.

Therefore, it only took three months to refine all the medicinal power of the "Longing for Autumn Dew".

Under the influence of divine sense, just as he had predicted, he experienced a leap in improvement.

If his previous divine sense range was only about one li in radius, it has now reached one kun li, or two and a half li. Keep in mind that an ordinary early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator's range is only two or three li.

For example, Han Paopao, also known as Han Li, the protagonist of our mortal cultivation story, is called Han Laomo. His divine sense is quite outstanding among cultivators of the same level. Before cultivating the Great Evolution Technique, the range of his divine sense was three miles.

He now possesses a level of spiritual consciousness equivalent to that of an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, even before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage. And this isn't achieved through any spiritual cultivation techniques.

We'll find a way to get our hands on the Great Evolution Technique someday. Then our divine sense will take flight immediately!

In addition, Qin Sheng also felt that his eyesight had improved considerably. Even without using his divine sense, he could clearly see the spider silk that had grown inside the cave over the past year.

(End of this chapter)