Long Road to Stardom

Lin Xing accepted so many alchemy tasks issued by cultivators. He did not stay outside for long and went straight to the cave he rented.

As soon as she entered the cave, she immediately realized that something was wrong. The cave was too messy.

She always felt that this scene was somewhat familiar.

"Or did I enter the wrong cave?"

Lin Xing looked at the token in his hand that opened the cave and found that there was nothing wrong with it and the location was also correct.

"That means something has entered the rented cave!"

"But no one has touched the restrictions and formations set up in her cave!"

Lin Xing slapped a defensive talisman on himself and prepared to search.

Suddenly, a rustling sound was heard coming from the southeast corner.

She immediately walked over there.

Before she reached the place, a dark shadow pounced towards her.

After Lin Xing saw clearly that it was Zhizhi, he quickly opened his arms to catch Zhizhi who was flying towards him.

Before she could speak, Zhizhi said impatiently, "Master. Master. I'm so hungry. Bring me something to eat."

"'Zhizhi', can you speak human language now?" Lin Xing said with some surprise.

"Master, don't worry about this for now. Take care of my stomach first."

After saying "squeak", he patted his flat belly.

Lin Xing found it a little funny and didn't ask any more questions. He took out a bottle of fifth-grade "Spirit Feeding Pill" from his storage bag and handed it to "Zhizhi".

Zhizhi took the porcelain bottle, quickly opened the cap, and sniffed it with some intoxication.

Then, he poured the entire bottle into his mouth.

Lin Xing watched it finish eating with a smile in his eyes before saying, "Are you full? Do you want another bottle?"

Zhizhi burped slightly before responding, "Master, I am full for now."

"I'll ask you for it when I'm hungry."

After saying "squeak", he burped again.

"What?"

"'Squeak', isn't there a space inside you?"

“You can keep it by yourself first.”

Lin Xing asked with some surprise.

"Master, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to control my mouth and will eat too much again."

"It's better to put it on you."

"Oh, is the sun rising from the west?"

"'Zhizhi' is afraid of eating too much..."

Lin Xing deliberately dragged out the ending tone.

"Master, you are making fun of me again."

"I'm a little older now, so I have to pay more attention to my image."

"Image?"

"'Squeak', what kind of image do you need with all your black hair?"

"No one will notice it!"

After Lin Xing finished speaking, he rubbed Zhizhi's body intentionally.

I have to say, the feel seems to be much better than before.

"Hey, why did she see a glimmer of gold on it?"

"After a closer look, I found nothing."

Lin Xing could only think that he was having an illusion.

Just about to continue stroking the fur on Zhizhi's body.

Who would have thought that Zhizhi would slip away from her hand, and said indignantly, "Master, you are so annoying. I don't want to play with you anymore. I'm going to go play with my friends."

"Friends? What friends?"

"'Squeak', you just woke up, where did your friend come from?"

"'Squeak.' Squeak.'"

"Master, I'll just walk around nearby, don't worry about me."

After saying "squeak", he disappeared in a flash.

Lin Xing sighed slightly. She wanted to ask about Zhizhi's physical condition, but she didn't expect him to slip away so quickly. She didn't know which friend he had gone to meet.

After taking a look at the messy cave, she was too lazy to tidy it up and walked directly to the alchemy room in the cave.

However, Zhizhi's waking up instantly added a lot of fun to her life, but her temperament seemed to have become a little more mischievous, and she didn't know where she learned it from.

When she arrived at the alchemy room, she was surprised to see the underground fire inside.

Suddenly I felt that renting this cave was worth it.

She has not tried to use earth fire to refine pills.

"How about giving it a try?"

Lin Xing did what he thought. He took out the only alchemy furnace he had and also found a set of medicine that could be used to refine a fourth-grade elixir from his storage ring.

Guide the earth fire into the alchemy furnace, and when the temperature is right, start putting the spiritual herbs in and refining them one by one.

After a while, the fourth-grade elixir was ready, but the quality of the elixir was somewhat uneven.

The key point is that there is not even a top-grade pill, let alone a top-grade pill.

Lin Xing now understood the advantages and disadvantages of underground fire.

The temperature of the underground fire is relatively stable. It can be used to refine some low-level elixirs and can be refined in batches. However, the quality of higher-level elixirs will be somewhat unstable. After all, high-level elixirs use spiritual herbs, and if the temperature of the underground fire is not high enough, it will affect the condensed liquid extracted from the spiritual herbs, resulting in the quality of the elixir being poor.

Using spiritual fire can effectively control the temperature of the fire, and the quality of the pills refined will be much higher.

It would be even better if there was a strange fire, but unfortunately I have only heard of it and never seen it.

But there are exceptions to everything. There are cultivators who have no fire spiritual roots or strange fire, but can still become a master of alchemy using only earth fire.

Anyway, she can't do that now, so she might as well just use the spiritual fire to refine it!

The tasks she took on were all about refining elixirs of grade five or above, and she couldn't be careless at all.

If one batch of spiritual herbs fails, she will have to pay for two batches. She should not save this spiritual energy and use the earth fire to refine them.

After figuring it out, Lin Xing meditated to restore his spiritual power, then took out a jade slip from his storage ring.

The jade slips contain the requirements for the monks who are issuing the tasks, as well as the recipes for refining elixirs. There is also a red rope on each jade slip, with a storage ring tied to it. Inside the storage ring are the spiritual herbs needed for the recipe.

When issuing tasks, the shopkeeper at the exchange counter will check whether there are any missing spiritual herbs, to prevent alchemists from taking the task and finding out that the number of spiritual herbs is not right when refining the elixir, which would cause confusion on both sides.

After looking at the jade tablet, she knew that the medicine she was refining was a sixth-grade "Rejuvenation Pill" for healing injuries. She had refined this pill many times and was already very familiar with it.

Seeing that there was the right amount of spiritual herbs in the storage ring, she immediately started refining them.

The first furnace produced a total of 18 pills, including two top-grade "Huiling Pills", six high-grade ones, and the rest were mid-grade.

After refining, she took out eight pills and kept them, including the two top-grade pills. She put the remaining ten into another porcelain bottle and placed it into the storage ring on the jade slip. The message on it stated that the minimum requirement was at least five mid-grade pills, so she still had a lot more.

As for why so much money is withheld, it is of course an unwritten rule among alchemists that every time they help someone refine a pill, they will take one third of it.

Normally, only sixteen pills would be produced from one furnace of alchemy. However, the special hand gestures she learned to condense the pills allowed her to produce two more each time. She did not want others to know this, so she simply calculated the number as sixteen.

In this way, she could obtain several pills every time she refined a furnace, and could also earn spirit stones by completing tasks. The alchemy tasks issued by this cultivator were simply tailor-made for her.