Chapter 80 - 73: Great Success Alchemy Skill, Perfect Elixir

Chapter 80: Chapter 73: Great Success Alchemy Skill, Perfect Elixir

On the way to Danyang Peak via Sword Flight, the endlessly talkative Xue Youqing could not help but speak up again.

"Brother Yi, once we find Junior Lu and report his situation to those True Inheritances of the Main Peak, what do you think they’ll do?

"Even though I’m a bit upset that Junior Lu screwed me over, we are still fellow disciples of the same Sect. I don’t want anything bad to happen to him."

Hearing this, Yi Hanqing turned to Xue Youqing and smiled. "Junior Xue, it seems you have a deep misunderstanding of the Main Peak’s True Inheritances."

"Huh? Why do you say that, Brother Yi?"

"Junior Xue, why do you think Ancestor Cyan Cloud specifically established the rule that only direct descendants within the Sect could become True Inheritances of the Main Peak?"

Xue Youqing scratched the back of his head and said uncertainly, "Is it because the Ancestor didn’t want the position of Sect Leader to fall into the hands of disciples without a clean Cyan Cloud background?"

Yi Hanqing shook his head. "That might be part of it, but it’s not the main reason."

"Then what is it?"

Xue Youqing always asked when he didn’t understand, driven entirely by his thirst for knowledge.

Looking at the approaching Danyang Peak, Yi Hanqing said calmly, "It’s because these Main Peak True Inheritances are the least likely to betray the Sect. This place is their home."

"But what does that have to do with how they will deal with Junior Lu?"

Yi Hanqing shot him a helpless look. "Junior Xue, if you were them, would you want your home to get better or worse?

"Junior Lu’s Purple Mist Health Cultivation Technique certainly made them suffer miserably, but it has also significantly improved the overall potential of our Sect’s disciples. It’s not an exaggeration to say he has done a great service to the Sect.

"Therefore, you can rest completely easy regarding how they will treat Junior Lu.

"The Main Peak True Inheritances who asked me to investigate simply want Junior Lu to taste the bitterness they are currently experiencing. They won’t actually do anything harmful to him."

"Make Junior Lu taste their current bitterness? Brother Yi, could you explain that a bit more clearly? My brain isn’t quite processing it."

"Alright, but don’t spread this around. After all, I only found out about it recently myself."

Xue Youqing immediately patted his chest and promised, "Don’t worry, Brother! I’ll let everything you said today go in one ear and out the other. No third person will ever know!"

Using sound transmission, Yi Hanqing quickly explained the petty trick the Main Peak True Inheritances had come up with, detailing it in full to Xue Youqing.

After hearing the details of this petty trick, Xue Youqing stared at Yi Hanqing in sheer shock.

"No way, they can actually play it like that?" he asked in astonishment.

Yi Hanqing chuckled. "Indeed. This move is harmless overall, and it perfectly allows Junior Lu to shoot himself in the foot. He’ll get to experience the pain of cultivating this Purple Mist Health Cultivation Technique. It’s the best of both worlds."

"Hahaha, that’s so true!"

Xue Youqing laughed heartily for a moment. Then, as he maintained his Sword Flight, he looked toward Danyang Peak with immense interest.

Arranging blind dates for Junior Lu ahead of time and deliberately finding him several Dao companions from the Mortal World, just so he could look but not touch.

These Second Generation Immortals of the Main Peak... were way too devious, hahaha!

After all, as the person who brought out the Purple Mist Health Cultivation Technique, Junior Lu was definitely cultivating it himself.

Even if he had Dao companions, the unique nature of the Purple Mist Health Cultivation Technique would force him to just stare helplessly, completely unable to do anything else.

Wouldn’t such a ’venomous’ plan make Junior Lu understand the suffering of his fellow disciples who had cultivated the Purple Mist Health Cultivation Technique?

Hahahaha!

That was, unless Junior Lu had no interest in women, or had already cultivated the Purple Mist Health Cultivation Technique to Great Success early on.

Otherwise, this plan would definitely have an exceptionally great Effect on him.

However, Xue Youqing did not think Junior Lu possessed such immense perseverance and great talent.

After all, the Sect Leader had specifically studied this Cultivation Technique and concluded that while it appeared simple, it contained a trace of the universe’s ultimate truth.

Thus, while the entry-level for this Cultivation Technique was not difficult, cultivating it to Great Success was by no means an easy task.

Judging from the fact that Junior Lu had only recently joined the Sect, he was at most thirty years old.

At such an age, even if Junior Lu had started cultivating the Purple Mist Health Cultivation Technique from childhood, it was absolutely impossible for him to have reached Great Success.

As a result, this blind date ceremony specifically prepared for him by the Main Peak True Inheritances would absolutely achieve an unimaginably great Effect!

At this thought, the corners of Xue Youqing’s mouth curled up uncontrollably, perfectly demonstrating what it meant to build one’s happiness on the suffering of others.

He thought, "Very well, you’re the brat who forced the majority of the Sect’s disciples to become ascetic monks, right?

"Just you wait! This time... we’re going to make you taste what it’s like to be an ascetic monk too!"

...

One hundred days later in the game. Inside the main hall of Danyang Peak.

BANG!

As a ray of golden light flashed from within the Pill Furnace, Lu Chen stood up in surprise and waved his hand, opening the Pill Furnace from a distance.

A second later, ten perfectly round Elixirs glowing with radiant light flew out of the Pill Furnace and landed steadily into the Medicine Box that Lu Chen had prepared beforehand.

A Danyang Peak disciple standing nearby witnessed this scene and could not help but exclaim in awe, "Perfect Quality Elixirs! Junior Lu, your Luck is pretty good today."

As the saying went, all medicines were one-third poison.

This saying applied equally to Elixirs.

Therefore, based on the amount of impurities inside, the Quality of Elixirs was divided into inferior, common, excellent, and perfect.

Perfect Quality Elixirs meant there were almost no impurities within. One could consume them without worrying about any side effects whatsoever, making them Top Grade among Elixirs.

Despite having performed Alchemy so many times, this was Lu Chen’s first time refining perfect Quality Qi Gathering Pills.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen could not help but smile. "My Luck today truly is quite good. Perhaps some other good things will come knocking on my door in a bit."

Hearing this, the nearby Danyang Peak disciple immediately laughed. "Hahaha, who’s to say otherwise? After all, being able to refine perfect Quality Elixirs is certainly a great omen."

After chatting idly for another moment, the two went back to their respective tasks without further conversation.

Lu Chen, meanwhile, earnestly examined the Elixir’s interface panel inside the Medicine Box.

[Qi Gathering Pill]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Effect: Upon consumption, greatly increases Spiritual Power recovery speed for one Hour. Consuming multiple pills within a short period can slightly extend the Elixir’s duration and further increase Spiritual Power recovery speed.]

That Danyang Peak senior brother thought it was mere Luck that Lu Chen refined perfect Quality Qi Gathering Pills.

However, only Lu Chen knew this wasn’t actually Luck.

Because the steps he had just taken during Alchemy could be entirely Copied!

This was not only because Lu Chen had mastered a special data-flow Alchemy technique that allowed him to precisely control every step of his refining process, but also because his Basic Alchemy Skill Level had reached Great Success.

[Basic Alchemy Skill: Great Success (Cannot be upgraded)]

[Effect: Massively increases Alchemy success rate and increases the chance of producing perfect Quality Elixirs.]

In reality, Lu Chen looked at his character on the screen, who had finally leveled up the Alchemy Skill to Great Success, and muttered softly to himself, "The Skill Level of the Basic Alchemy Skill is high enough now. Later, all I need to do is go to my Master and ask for a Tripod Cauldron. Then, I can try refining Foundation Establishment Stage Nourishing Essence Pills in my own cave dwelling.

"As long as I have a stable channel to obtain Nourishing Essence Pills, my experience gain rate will probably speed up significantly."

...

Just as Lu Chen was preparing to find his Spiritual Fire Master to see if he could get him to drop some Gold Coins, a Female Cultivator specifically in charge of arranging marriages for the Sect’s disciples arrived at Spiritual Fire Taoist’s cave dwelling.

Spiritual Fire Taoist poured the tea and looked at the Female Cultivator before him in confusion.

"I wonder what wind blew you here, Red Duster Fairy?

"You should know that my Pure Yang Spiritual Root, which has kept me single for ten thousand years, is worlds apart from your Mandarin Duck Bureau."

Hearing this, Red Duster Fairy, who had a dot of cinnabar between her brows, smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Jing, just because you have no affinity with our Mandarin Duck Bureau doesn’t mean the disciples under your wing are the same.

"I came here today specifically to deliver a destined marriage to one of your disciples."

"Who?"

"The Inner Sect Disciple of Danyang Peak, Lu Chen."

...

PS: I’m posting two Chapters first. I took the day off with my supervisor today. Tomorrow, I will put all my effort into writing and try my best to finish the remaining eight Chapters.