Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 504: The Cruelest Joke! (Seeking Subscriptions)
Three years later.
Yuan State, Eternal Spring Mountain, Alchemical Pill Refinery.
Liu Yu sat cross-legged, his expression focused and his mind highly concentrated, his hands slowly forming a spell gesture.
Not far in front of him, the Yellow Mysterious Cauldron trembled slightly, and the alchemy fire in the fire door burned brightly, releasing intense heat.
The temperature in the alchemical pill refinery rose by dozens of degrees, making the gentle breeze in the air extremely hot.
If it weren't for the special construction of the alchemical pill refinery, it would have been destroyed long ago.
The serious expression and the trembling alchemy furnace indicated that alchemy had reached a critical moment; any slight carelessness could lead to a complete failure!
A powerful spiritual consciousness spread out, with Liu Yu paying close attention to the movements inside the cauldron, trying to avoid any errors, however small.
Every slight change in the cauldron was observed by him, and relying on the alchemy techniques he had honed through countless practices, he skillfully controlled the entire process.
The alchemy fire in the fire door gradually weakened, and the temperature slightly decreased. As time passed, a faint medicinal fragrance began to waft through the air.
“Almost there,” Liu Yu thought.
His rich experience in alchemy allowed him to determine that the best moment to open the furnace was approaching.
Although the alchemy process was nearing completion, Liu Yu’s expression remained unchanged.
The closer it got to the critical moment, the easier it was to make mistakes; he had suffered a lot during this final step.
Now, he could face it calmly.
After all, even if he failed, there were countless opportunities to try again.
“Open!”
After two or three breaths, Liu Yu changed the spell gesture in his hand, and the golden-red alchemy fire in the fire door suddenly extinguished.
At the same time, the lid of the Yellow Mysterious Cauldron suddenly rose.
In the alchemical pill refinery, the previously faint medicinal fragrance instantly became rich and obvious.
Liu Yu looked up and saw that inside the Yellow Mysterious Cauldron, seven pearl-sized, pure white Cultivating Yuan Pills floated quietly.
“It worked.”
He reached out and summoned the seven Cultivating Yuan Pills into his hand. After confirming they were all high-quality pills, a smile appeared on his face.
With a thought, the spiritual light of his storage bracelet flashed, and a jade vial appeared in his hand, into which he stored the newly refined seven Cultivating Yuan Pills.
Then, he reached out and picked up the other two jade vials beside him, examining them for a moment and feeling greatly pleased.
“Out of ten batches of alchemical materials, three furnaces successfully produced a total of twenty-two Cultivating Yuan Pills.”
“Calculating this way, my success rate for refining this pill has stabilized at thirty percent.”
This thought flashed through Liu Yu's mind.
The difficulty of refining third-tier spiritual elixirs is at least several times that of second-tier elixirs.
In the first two years of these three years, he earned spiritual stones by refining a large number of second-tier elixirs while honing his alchemy skills, finally advancing his alchemical mastery.
The success rate for refining Vitality Pills, Nourishing Yuan Elixirs, and other second-tier elixirs had officially reached an astonishing fifty percent.
After that, he began refining low-quality Cultivating Yuan Pills of the third tier.
However, he still experienced hundreds of failures before finally increasing the success rate for refining Cultivating Yuan Pills to thirty percent in recent days.
“Not bad, everything is developing in the expected direction.”
“Reaching a thirty percent success rate for refining Cultivating Yuan Pills marks a solid step towards the realm of an alchemical pill master.”
“As long as I achieve a thirty percent success rate for two more types of third-tier spiritual elixirs, I will be a true alchemical pill master.”