Published: March 3, 2025
As a professional alchemist, Liu Yu disliked being disturbed while refining pills, focusing solely on one task.
As time passed, the pale blue flames in the fire door gradually diminished, and the light became weak.
The aroma of herbs that filled the room became increasingly rich.
“It's almost done.”
Liu Yu flashed this thought. His powerful spiritual consciousness continuously monitored the situation in the alchemical cauldron.
The step of condensing the pills was already completed, and based on years of alchemical experience, he judged that it was time to open the furnace.
“Rise!”
With Liu Yu's soft shout, the spell technique in his hand shifted, and the lid of the Azure Alchemical Cauldron immediately lifted.
With a soft rumble, several round pills appeared inside.
“Hmm?”
However, at that moment, Liu Yu frowned.
The original aroma of the herbs in the room rapidly faded, replaced by a burnt smell, as if something had been scorched.
In his spiritual consciousness observation, he saw that the seven pills in the Azure Alchemical Cauldron had turned black.
This pill refining attempt had clearly failed.
“Failed again.”
“Although the grade is only mid-tier third stage, the complexity of the herbs needed makes the difficulty of refining the Soul Condensing Elixir comparable to some third-tier supreme quality pills.”
Acknowledging his failure, Liu Yu remained expressionless, his heart calm as he cleaned the Azure Alchemical Cauldron and stored it in his storage bracelet.
As an alchemical pill master, with his current level of alchemical skill, he could maintain a relatively high success rate when refining mid-tier third stage pills and below.
Once it exceeded mid-tier third stage, however, the success rate would sharply decline, requiring gradual improvement of alchemical skills to maintain a high success rate.
For instance, he had failed many times in refining the Soul Condensing Elixir.
“Fortunately, with the Immortal Abode as my backing, the cost of my failures is much lower than that of an ordinary cultivator.”
“This failure can be summarized as experience, and I can try again next time.”
“In terms of alchemy, even compared to the true inheritance of major factions, I have many more opportunities to fail.”
After tidying up the alchemy scene, Liu Yu thought quietly.
Overall, his talent in alchemy was not particularly good; becoming an "alchemical pill master" relied entirely on countless experiences.
Failures like this had been experienced countless times, so he no longer felt anxious about them.
But he would not become lax because of it; his attitude towards alchemy remained as rigorous as it was at the beginning.
While thinking, Liu Yu's mind shifted, and he took out a palm-sized Messaging Jade Token from his storage bracelet, probing his spiritual consciousness inside to read the message.
“Special order for our alliance cultivator, Gu Cheng, on April 9 of the 13,230th year of the Great Qian, to Jiangzhou.”
In an instant, his spiritual consciousness read the message.
This mission required Liu Yu to secretly assassinate several Qian Court cultivators alone.
The target was to seize a fourth-tier spiritual material called “Mystical Stone” and hand it over to the Cloth-Clad Alliance.
The message mentioned that those cultivators would not exceed the golden core realm and that no yuan ying stage cultivators would appear within the stipulated time frame.
The mission specifically required that more than half of that group of cultivators must be killed, and the “Mystical Stone” must be brought back to the Cloth-Clad Alliance to be considered completed.
If either of the two requirements were not met, it would count as a mission failure.
“Qian Court cultivators?”
“That's somewhat troublesome.”
After putting away the Messaging Jade Token, Liu Yu sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion, deep in thought, his brows slightly furrowed.
For his first mission, having to assassinate Qian Court cultivators made the intentions of the Cloth-Clad Alliance quite clear.