As for the Nurturing Spirit Pill, although Su Bai was very confident in her Alchemy techniques, to be safe, she still chose to cultivate all the Spirit Medicine first.
This way, even if she failed, she could always try again, not worrying about the failure of the Medicinal Pill damaging her reputation.
After all, she was now a High Grade Second-Rank Alchemist!
Moreover, with the token given by the Elixir Cauldron Sect, her status among Loose Cultivators was quite noble!
In Su Bai's hands, the Spirit Medicine for the Nurturing Spirit Pill had already multiplied from one to two, and then two to three, in just one month.
Looking at the Spirit Medicine in her hand, still with fresh soil on its roots, she thought, "Let me just practice a bit first."
After speaking, she threw the Spirit Medicine into the Pill Furnace.
This was her first time refining this type of Medicinal Pill.
With the Pill Formula in hand, Su Bai simulated the proportions of various Spirit Medicine and the heat of the flames in her mind.
However, after actually starting, Su Bai still felt that refining this Medicinal Pill was somewhat difficult.
"Is this really a High Grade Second-Rank Medicinal Pill?"
Perceiving the Spirit Medicine that had been refined within the Pill Furnace, because it was her first time refining, Su Bai did not act overconfidently but chose to refine the Spirit Medicine separately.
After this first Spirit Medicine was refined, Su Bai felt herself to be in excellent condition.
But after refining the second Spirit Medicine, her powerful Divine Sense allowed Su Bai to discover that the two types of Spirit Medicine already refined in the Pill Furnace actually had a faint phenomenon of mutual repulsion.
This naturally wouldn't do.
"If you repel each other like this, how am I supposed to refine the Medicinal Pill?"
Su Bai did not waste time and quickly refined the next Spirit Medicine.
But the more Spirit Medicine she refined, the more they seemed to want to fight each other inside the Pill Furnace.
"Hmph! My Pill Furnace is not a place for you to run wild!"
"If I tell you to fuse, you must fuse!"
Su Bai ignored them and still tried to force the Alchemy.
Relying on her powerful Divine Sense, she continuously adjusted the Spirit Medicine.
Utilizing the Medicine King Canon's affinity with Spirit Medicine, she sought a Breakthrough point.
She kept building bridges between them.
Finally, after struggling for a long time, the Spirit Medicine in the Pill Furnace reluctantly fused together.
And Su Bai looked at her final product.
She took out the Medicinal Pill from inside.
Looking at the small pits on the surface of the Nurturing Spirit Pill, she frowned.
"Low Grade in quality..."
Although it could still be consumed, this meant she had failed the refinement.
"Sigh~"
After taking a breath, Su Bai scratched her head.
"It's so difficult for a powerful Alchemist like me to refine this Medicinal Pill."
"If it were someone else refining it, they would definitely fail!"
Su Bai was not boasting.
Her powerful Divine Sense and precise Spirit Qi control ability were very useful for Alchemy.
Su Bai could guarantee that if she were to refine Third-Rank Medicinal Pills now, she could still ensure a certain success rate.
This Nurturing Spirit Pill was merely a High Grade Second-Rank Medicinal Pill.
She simply refused to believe it.
She casually threw the failed Low Grade Medicinal Pill aside.
Xiao Qing in the Spirit Beast Pouch seemed to have smelled it.
She poked her small green head out of the Spirit Beast Pouch and hissed.
After Su Bai's permission, she crawled out and moved towards the failed Medicinal Pill Su Bai had thrown.
Su Bai paid no attention to this greedy fellow.
She took out a pen and several sheets of paper.
She began to recall her Alchemy process just now and recorded it down one by one.
Finally, she took out the Pill Formula given to her by that mysterious Cultivator.
She began to constantly compare them, looking for the reason for her Medicinal Pill refinement failure.
Time slowly passed like this.
Half a month later, Su Bai tried refining a few more times and figured out the reason for her Alchemy failure.
"So that's how it is; these Spirit Medicine inherently repel each other like fire and water."
"To fuse them, you need to use different heat levels to burn them!"
The Medicinal Pills she had refined before all had requirements for stable flame temperatures.
But this Nurturing Spirit Pill was different.
The Spirit Medicine it required had incompatible natures, so the required heat would naturally be different.
According to the Pill Formula's records, different Spirit Medicine required different flame temperatures for refinement.
It needed to be one high and one low.
But this would make the Spirit Liquid at different temperatures repel each other even more.
Therefore, when finally refining them into a Medicinal Pill, one also needed to do this, requiring constant adjustment between low and high temperatures.
"No wonder some Medicinal Pills, even with a Pill Formula, still require much practice; they hid a trick!"
Su Bai shook her head.
With this hidden trick, who knew how much Spirit Medicine would be wasted to figure it out.
"Since you recorded the Pill Formula, you should have honestly written everything down; if you wanted to keep a trick, then don't record it at all."
She put away the annoying Pill Formula.
This had wasted her half a month.
Since she had already figured it out, Su Bai no longer delayed.
After all, the originally stipulated time was three months, and half of it had already passed.
This time, when Su Bai started Alchemy again, she was much more relaxed.
She immediately threw ten Spirit Medicine into the Pill Furnace in one go.
The Nurturing Spirit Pill was considered complex among Second-Rank Medicinal Pills, requiring more than forty types of Spirit Medicine Materials alone.
Ordinary Alchemists could waste a lot of time just on the refinement of Spirit Medicine.
This step was nothing to Su Bai.
Around Su Bai, various flames rose, some deep in color, some light.
This indicated that the temperatures of these flames were all different.
Under Su Bai's technique, the Spirit Medicine was quickly refined.
Soon, all the Spirit Medicine was completely refined.
And Su Bai, knowing how to perform the final step, raised her hand to fuse all the flames, then controlled the temperature of this Spirit Fire, making it fluctuate between high and low.
Under this operation, the repulsion between the Spirit Liquid indeed decreased significantly.
Finally, Su Bai went all out, taking advantage of the weakest repulsion between the Spirit Liquid to completely blend them.
Looking at the Medicinal Pills radiating golden light inside the Pill Furnace, she directly pulled them into her hand through the air.
Feeling the temperature on her palm, there were five Medicinal Pills in total.
"One High Grade Medicinal Pill, and the other four are Medium Grade."
"Barely acceptable."
She took out an empty porcelain bottle and put these five Medicinal Pills inside.
These few Medicinal Pills would be used for the submission.
But if she wanted to consume them herself, it definitely wouldn't be enough.
So Su Bai did not stop the fire but continued Alchemy.
The next month and a half were spent in Alchemy.
In the end, Su Bai only barely managed to refine three Nurturing Spirit Pills with Pill Markings.
"Phew~ It's indeed not easy to Breakthrough to a Medicinal Pill with two Pill Markings."
Su Bai wanted to try refining a Nurturing Spirit Pill with two Pill Markings.
Unfortunately, she did not succeed.
Of course.
This was only Su Bai's own regret.
If other Alchemists knew that Su Bai could completely master a newly acquired Pill Formula in just three months, and even refine Pill Markings.
They would be filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred.
Many of them spent most of their lives striving to refine High Grade Medicinal Pills.
Any Alchemist who could refine Medicinal Pills with Pill Markings was already considered an exceptionally talented individual.
And two Pill Markings not only required talent but also hard work, and behind them, there must be a large amount of Spirit Medicine for them to squander.
Looking at the Nurturing Spirit Pill in her hand, which had one Pill Marking and emitted a strange fragrance, Su Bai frowned.
"Forget it, I'll keep it for now; let's see if I can Breakthrough to two markings during this period."
"For Foundation Establishment Stage Spirit Medicine, two markings should be close to the limit, right?"
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