Chapter 1178 The Difficulty of the Dark Pill
Things related to the Nether Pill are profound and cannot be mastered in a short time. However, with the content and scope of the assessment in recent years from Master Guicang, Qingyang can learn some things about the Nether Pill in a targeted manner, and he will be more confident when the assessment comes.
Qingyang and Master Guicang are not related, and it is very good that he can give you a few words for the sake of the face of the first-level Jindan cultivator next to him. It is impossible to give you a copy for free. After that, Master Guicang offered fifty Nether Stones, and Qingyang did not bargain and bought a copy directly.
Qingyang was straightforward, and Master Guicang's face also looked much better. After the transaction, he reminded Qingyang: "Ten days later, the Ghost Valley will recruit outsiders this year. If you miss it, you will have to wait until next year. While there are still a few days, you should go back and prepare well. When I return to the Ghost Valley, I will take you back with me and strive to pass the assessment in one go."
Ten days is extremely tight for Qingyang, especially in such a short time to be familiar with a new method of refining pills, then the time is even less. But if he missed this opportunity, he would have to wait until next year. Qingyang was unwilling to waste a year outside. Moreover, there were few opportunities to learn advanced methods of refining the Nether Pill outside, which was not conducive to his learning of alchemy and thus improving his status in the Ghost Valley as soon as possible. Therefore, he had to go to the assessment in ten days.
The two parties agreed on a time. Master Guicang went to do his own thing, and the Jindan level 1 cultivator took Qingyang out of the shop. After that, Qingyang gave him the other half of the Nether Stone he promised him. In less than a day, he harvested nearly three hundred Nether Stones. This was probably the most successful business that the Jindan level 1 cultivator had ever done in his life. He was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. For a while, he was very grateful to Qingyang. Later, he took Qingyang to buy a lot of books on refining the Nether Pill, from the level of opening meridians to the level of refining qi, and even some foundation-building level, which saved Qingyang a lot of trouble.
If there was no Jindan level 1 cultivator leading the way, it would be almost impossible for Qingyang to buy these things. The goods sold in the market are all common goods at the Kaimai level. Those with a little more advanced level are regarded as treasures and are not easily sold to the public. The more advanced ones can only be found in the sect.
But now Qingyang has just arrived. Not to mention the high-level goods in the sect, even the slightly more advanced ones are not available. Now with the local snake leading the way, it is easy to buy. In this way, it will be more confident in the assessment in ten days. In this way, the more than 200 spirit stones are worth it. This is a huge income for the Jindan level 1 cultivator, but it is nothing to Qingyang. Thinking back to the beginning, he spent nearly 800,000 spirit stones just to improve his cultivation from Jindan level 2 to Jindan level 4. This amount of dark stones is nothing at all.
After buying the book on refining dark pills, Qingyang found a relatively secluded inn in Ruyou City to stay, and studied the refining method of dark pills in seclusion to prepare for the assessment in ten days.
With the improvement of his cultivation, Qingyang's memory, comprehension and other abilities have been greatly improved, and his ability to learn new things has become stronger. It only took Qingyang three days to master the most basic method of refining the Nether Pill of Kaimai level, but this mastery was only in his mind. Because of the tight time, Qingyang did not have time to try it himself, and he might be discounted when he did it.
Although the Nether Pill is similar to the Spirit Pill in some aspects, it is a brand new thing after all, and the complexity is beyond Qingyang's imagination. The refining techniques, steps, and utensils are very different, and the materials used must be re-familiarized. There is also a biggest difference, that is, the spiritual power in the body of the immortal cultivator is not only of no help in refining the Nether Pill, but also to a certain extent. It will destroy the effect and success rate of the Nether Pill, which requires Qingyang to spend a lot of energy to avoid.
No wonder the Jindan level 1 cultivator and Guicang Zhenren were not optimistic about Qingyang when they heard that Qingyang was the Spirit Pill King. It turns out that the problem in this regard is that the Nether Pill and the Spirit Pill are two completely different systems, and the experience of refining the Spirit Pill is not much help in learning the Nether Pill.
As a result, Qingyang's progress in learning how to refine the Nether Pill was particularly slow. After spending another five days, he only mastered the basics of refining the Qi Refining Nether Pill. If he tried to refine it, Qingyang felt that his success rate might not even reach 25%.
Seeing that there were only two days left before he went to the Ghost Valley with the Ghost Cang Master, Qingyang did not dare to delay any longer. He could only read the remaining content about the Foundation Establishment Nether Pill in a hurry. He did not know whether he had mastered it or not, but he barely understood it.
At the agreed time, Qingyang came to the shop where he had met the Ghost Cang Master before. The Ghost Cang Master was still very trustworthy and waited in the backyard early. After Qingyang came here, he found that there were many people who went to the Ghost Valley with him to participate in the assessment.
Think about it, the Ghost Valley is such a large sect, with hundreds of thousands of registered disciples alone, and its scale is dozens of times larger than the Qingfeng Palace in the Jiuzhou Continent. The amount of pills consumed every day is astonishing, so how could the number of alchemists be small? Apart from self-cultivation, the rest is external recruitment. The entrance examination of Ghost Valley is only held once a year, so it is impossible for him to be the only alchemist.
Qingyang took a rough look and found that there were about forty cultivators present, of which 60% were foundation-building cultivators, nearly thirty of them. The reason why there were the most foundation-building cultivators was that they missed the Spirit Selection Conference, had no way to form a pill, and had some research on the Nether Pill, so they wanted to join the Ghost Valley to find opportunities. Their main goal was to be the pharmacist assistant.
Golden elixir cultivators accounted for 30%, about 12 or 13 in total, and most of them were in the early and middle stages of the golden elixir. However, most of them were native cultivators of the Netherworld, and they were quite knowledgeable about the refining of the Netherworld elixir. Unlike Qingyang, who had to learn everything from scratch, these people's goal was to be the followers of the alchemist.
In addition, there were four or five late-stage Qi refining cultivators, who probably had no hope of entering the Netherworld Valley through the Spirit Selection Conference, so they decided to take a shortcut and would be satisfied with the status of a chores medicine boy. As long as they joined the sect, they could slowly improve their status in the future.
These more than 40 people only had these three levels of cultivation. The higher Yuanying cultivators were welcome wherever they went, and would not come here to try their luck. As for those with lower cultivation, they still had many opportunities, and they could enter the Netherworld Valley through the formal channels of participating in the Spirit Selection Conference. Only such people would be trained as the direct disciples of the Netherworld Valley, and there was no need to go far to become followers or assistants.