Chapter 5: Rapid Progress

In the northern district of Mengshan City, in a courtyard belonging to the Xuandan Sect.

Han Yi put the small silver round disc "array plate" into his storage bag, with a satisfied look on his face.

With this array plate, he is already the owner of this courtyard.

This courtyard, not counting the open-air backyard, has an area of ​​at least more than 100 square meters, with a meditation room and two living and bedrooms.

The backyard is also about 100 square meters, in which there is a jujube tree of unknown species, with red jujubes hanging on the branches.

Next to the jujube tree, there are stone benches and stone tables, covered with fallen leaves and dust.

But Han Yi didn't dislike it at all.

After all, in a short period of time, this is his house.

Back in the quiet room, Han Yi first took out everything in the storage bag.

The largest hexagonal copper furnace for alchemy was placed in the middle of the quiet room, and the remaining alchemy and auxiliary materials were placed around it.

Before going down the mountain, he exchanged the points for the refreshing pills, plague-repelling powder and animal-raising pills he had refined before, and then used all the points to buy materials such as herbs and spiritual charcoal.

Moreover, the herbs were all materials for refining the nourishing pills, and there were as many as eight sets.

"Now, my alchemy skills have reached the level of a glimpse of the basics. I wonder what the success rate of refining the nourishing pills is."

Han Yi was a little excited.

After breaking through to a new level of alchemy on Xiaolingxu Peak.

His success rate in refining the plague-repelling powder and animal-raising pills was close to 100%.

Although he only practiced two furnaces to refine the refreshing pills, they were all successful.

So, before going down the mountain, he directly gambled everything and exchanged all the points for materials for refining the nourishing pills.

After sorting out the materials, he did not refine the pills immediately, but sat cross-legged on one side to practice.

For him, each nourishing pill was very important and could not be lost. He must refine it in the best condition.

Two hours later.

Han Yi opened his eyes and felt the mana in his body becoming more abundant. He felt helpless.

The spiritual root of this body is a low-grade fire spiritual root, and the aptitude is really too poor.

It took two hours to recover some mana.

If the mana is seriously depleted, it will definitely take longer to recover.

"Forget it, I will make the elixir first, then sell the nourishing pill to get the spirit stone, use the spirit stone to buy the materials for alchemy and practice, then make the elixir again, and then sell it..."

"Only by doing this cycle can we become richer and richer."

"If the aptitude is not enough, the spirit stone will make up for it."

Concentrating all his thoughts, Han Yi began to make the elixir.

He first transferred a mana to the hexagonal elixir furnace.

Then, he carefully put the quantitative spirit charcoal evenly into the three entrances under the elixir furnace, and then put the medicinal materials into the elixir furnace one by one according to the steps...

As all the materials were put into the elixir furnace, Han Yi's face became more and more nervous. He put his hands on the elixir furnace and kept transferring mana.

His mind was constantly sensing the changes in the materials in the furnace, and he kept adding or reducing mana to allow the materials to gradually fuse together.

At a certain moment.

Although Han Yi was so nervous that beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, he was happy in his heart.

It was about to take shape.

The next moment after his inner joy.

The black viscous substance that had already melted into one in the furnace and was only one step away from forming the elixir, suddenly emitted the slightest sound, like a bubble bursting.

Puff!

Han Yi's face changed, and before he could make any other moves.

In the furnace, the spiritual black viscous substance that was wriggling had already emitted a series of "puff" sounds.

Then, no matter how much mana he transferred in, the wriggling black substance gradually softened and no longer had any reaction.

Seeing this.

Han Yi let go of his hands and sighed.

"Failed."

Then, he frowned and began to summarize.

"The previous steps were all correct, without a single mistake."

"The problem is in the latter part."

"The materials should be fine, the amount of spiritual charcoal should also be correct, and the mana did not interrupt during the whole process. What is the reason?"

After thinking for a while, Han Yi did not find any obvious abnormalities.

He glanced at the work manual that he renamed as the proficiency panel.

[Alchemy (A Glimpse into the Way 12/100)]

"The progress from 11/100 to 12/100, even if the refining fails, there is a progress jump."

"Forget it, the sample is not enough, practice another furnace."

This time, it took six hours, during which he took a fasting pill. In the evening, Han Yi finally replenished the mana in his body.

If there were spiritual stones, it would only take about two quarters of an hour.

If it were spiritual sand, it would take one hour.

Even if there were no spiritual sand and spiritual stones, if it was on Xiaolingxu Peak, relying on the second-level spiritual vein, it would not take more than four hours to recover.

This shows the importance of wealth and land in cultivation.

After recovering his mana, Han Yi began to refine the second furnace of nourishing qi pills.

A quarter of an hour later.

The qi of the pills drifted away.

Han Yi looked at the translucent jade bottle in his hand, and his heart was filled with infinite joy.

"Success."

In the jade bottle, there were eight white pills about the size of a fingernail.

Nourishing qi pills.

According to the exchange rules of the sect, one nourishing qi pill can be exchanged for ten points, and this bottle means eighty points.

If the deadline had not passed, Han Yi would only need to refine one more furnace of nourishing qi pills, or two furnaces of refreshing pills, to meet the requirement of one hundred points.

After the joy, Han Yi noticed that the proficiency panel also had progress changes.

[Alchemy (A Glimpse of the Way 13/100)]

In addition to this change, he was more concerned about the difference between the two alchemy attempts just now.

"The order is exactly the same, the movements are the same, and there is no slight difference in the mana, but one furnace succeeded and the other failed."

"The failure of refining has progress changes, and the success of refining also has changes, and the changes are still the same."

"The reason for this, after thinking about it, can only be attributed to the success rate."

Alchemy, not all steps are correct, it will definitely succeed.

Among them, there is a saying of success rate.

The so-called success rate refers to the probability of an alchemist to successfully refine the pill without obvious minor errors.

This probability cannot be summarized from a small number of alchemy attempts, and it requires a certain scale of refining times to obtain it.

Just like on Xiaolingxu Peak, Han Yi once accidentally refined a furnace of nourishing qi pills.

Does that mean that his success rate in refining nourishing qi pills is 100%?

Of course not.

Because the next Qi-nourishing Pills he refined all failed.

With his alchemy skills at that time, the probability of success in refining Qi-nourishing Pills was actually less than 10%.

"I don't know what the success rate of refining Qi-nourishing Pills is now."

At this moment, it was late, and Han Yi didn't feel hungry after eating a Qi-nourishing Pill.

But he still picked some red dates in the backyard to eat, rested for an hour, and then devoted himself to cultivation.

...

The sun rose and the moon set.

Five days passed in a flash.

This time, Han Yi paid attention and didn't close his mind like the first time he practiced. Instead, he had an extra thought before restoring his mana every time, and he could come back to his mind after the mana was restored.

At this moment.

In the quiet room, the materials for the eight sets of Qi-nourishing Pills had disappeared, and instead, there were three bottles of finished Qi-nourishing Pills.

Although they were just ordinary Qi-nourishing Pills, they were already a considerable fortune for Han Yi.

"Three batches were successful. The first batch produced eight, the second batch produced ten, and the third batch produced eight."

"Twenty-six in total."

"We've become rich."