Long Road to Stardom

"I really can't hide anything from you, Master Sultan. I do have something to ask of you."

Lin Xing glanced at Shopkeeper Qian and waited for him to continue.

Manager Qian did not keep the secret and continued, "Master Sultan, I just want you to refine the elixir for this month first. What do you think?"

Lin Xing thought for a moment and said, "Shopkeeper Qian, I'll be honest with you. I've had some urgent matters to attend to in the past few days, otherwise I wouldn't have come to your pavilion to ask for the 'Qingyuan Fruit'. But I have a lot of recently refined pills on me, which should be able to help your pavilion increase its pill sales for a while."

When Shopkeeper Qian heard this, his eyes lit up and he said anxiously, "Master Sultan, did you bring those pills with you? If they are of good quality, your shop will definitely charge a higher price than other shops."

"That's not necessary. Shopkeeper Qian can just charge you the normal price."

After Lin Xing finished speaking, she took out the alchemy tasks she had recently accepted at the exchange. She took one-third of the pills from each furnace, which added up to about a thousand pills.

Soon, the table was filled with bottles and jars of pills.

Shopkeeper Qian thought that at most he would have a dozen bottles of pills, but he didn't expect there would be so many.

He had just picked up the tea and was about to take a sip, but when he saw this situation, he gave up and quickly put down the teacup. He picked up a porcelain vase on the table and took a look. The more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.

After reading it, he let out a breath of foul air.

"I thought the rumor was false, but I didn't expect this to be even more outrageous than the rumor."

He had never seen so many fifth-grade and sixth-grade elixirs, and their quality was either top-grade or upper-grade. He had not seen even a single mid-grade one.

At this moment, Shopkeeper Qian looked at Lin Xing as if he were looking at a gold ingot, and said with a trembling voice, "Master Sultan, did you make all these pills?"

"Why, do you think I don't have the ability to refine these pills?"

"Or is there something wrong with these pills?"

"Of course not. On the contrary, the quality of these pills really makes me a little shocked."

When Lin Xing heard this, he thought to himself, "Every time she refines a furnace, the pills she extracts are of top quality and superior quality, so the quality is naturally good."

"If it wasn't an emergency, she wouldn't have taken it all out."

However, she only thought about these words in her mind for a moment, and said, "Since there is no problem, Shopkeeper Qian can just give me the spirit stones according to the market price. It is also OK if you want to exchange these pills for 'Qingyuan Fruit'."

"Master Sultan, you are joking. The conditions we just agreed on will not be changed. Otherwise, outsiders will think that your shop is a shop that goes back on its word."

"I will go and calculate the spirit stones right away. Master Sultan, please wait for a moment."

When Lin Xing heard this, he fiddled with the teacup in his hand and smiled without saying anything. He said helplessly in his heart, "It turns out that he is not that easy to fool!"

Not long after, Shopkeeper Qian handed over a storage bag.

She took the storage bag, glanced at it, and found that it was not much different from what she expected, so she put the spirit stones away. She signed a contract with Shopkeeper Qian before leaving Lingyuan Pavilion with the Qingyuan Fruit.

After getting what he wanted, Lin Xing rushed back to the cave without stopping.

As soon as I entered the cave, Zhizhi pounced on me.

Lin Xing took it and took the opportunity to scold it before letting it go.

"Zhizhi" also knew that he had just gone too far outside, causing his master to be laughed at all the way.

It was only after its owner sent it to the cave that it realized its mistake. Otherwise, it would not have obediently allowed its owner to scold it. Xiaobai next to it also had an attitude of admitting its mistake.

Seeing this, Lin Xing let them play aside. Thinking of the importance of refining the "True Source Pill", she repeatedly reminded "Zhizhi" and "Xiaobai" before walking towards the alchemy room.

When she arrived at the alchemy room, she simply set up a barrier, then sat cross-legged on the cushion in the alchemy room to adjust her state.

About an hour later, Lin Xing opened his eyes and began to prepare to refine the 'True Source Pill'.

She first took out the spiritual herbs needed to refine the 'True Source Pill' from the storage ring, combed them carefully, and then took out the 'Qingyuan Fruit' and placed it aside.

Then he took out the alchemy furnace, released the spiritual fire and started preheating.

During this time, Lin Xing was rehearsing the process of refining the 'True Source Pill' in his mind.

After the alchemy furnace reached a certain temperature, Lin Xing opened his eyes, grabbed the spiritual herbs beside him and put them into the alchemy furnace one by one for refining.

After all the spiritual herbs were extracted, she took out the 'Qingyuan Fruit' from the jade box and began to refine it.

The refining speed of the "Qingyuan Fruit" is extremely slow, and the temperature needs to be kept constant. The temperature cannot be too high, otherwise the source of heaven and earth in the "Qingyuan Fruit" will be burned dry. However, this temperature must be maintained for a long time in order to refine the "Qingyuan Fruit".

Originally, she had no use for this 'Qingyuan Fruit', but when she heard Lei Hongyu say that the senior brother's injuries were getting worse and perhaps more origin was needed, she went to the 'Lingyuan Pavilion' to get this 'Qingyuan Fruit' and used it to refine a 'Zhenyuan Pill' which was equivalent to a seventh-grade pill.

An hour later, the 'Qingyuan Fruit' was finally refined.

The time it takes to refine one 'Qingyuan Fruit' is equivalent to the time it takes to refine all the other spiritual herbs combined.

During this period, he had to ensure that the condensed liquid extracted from the spiritual herbs would not dissipate, while at the same time he had to maintain the temperature to refine the 'Qingyuan Fruit'.

Fortunately, her spiritual awareness was strong enough, otherwise she really couldn't have done it, but it also made her very tired.

However, this is only the first step.

After Lin Xing recovered a little, he was ready to start the second step, 'fusion'.

This is completely different from the previous fusion of alchemy. The main reason is that the temperature of the condensed liquid extracted from the spiritual herbs is different from that of the condensed liquid refined from the 'Qingyuan Fruit'. It is necessary to find a balance point to fuse them together.

Lin Xing has now released all his spiritual consciousness, concentrating on controlling the two balls of condensed liquid, waiting for the opportunity.

Time flies, and after an hour, the two liquid lumps were only half fused.

Another hour passed, and the two condensates finally merged together.

Lin Xing's forehead was covered with sweat, but she didn't dare to be distracted at all, because she knew that it was the most critical moment.

The fusion of the two condensed liquids can only last for half an hour. During this time, she needs to inject the essence in her body and complete the two steps of condensing the pill, otherwise all efforts will fail.

Lin Xing took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and began to draw the essence in his body and inject it into the condensed liquid in the alchemy furnace.

As the essence was extracted, her originally jet-black hair gradually began to dim.

When she had drawn a certain amount of essence, her beautiful and shiny hair had turned extremely dry and yellow, and her face was so pale that there was not a trace of blood left.

Lin Xing gritted his teeth and endured it, performing the Dan Ning hand gesture.

She breathed a sigh of relief when she smelled the medicinal fragrance coming from the alchemy furnace. After putting away the pill with trembling hands, she fainted.