Chapter 735: 15%
After a long thought, Qingyang found the problem. He adjusted his mentality and started refining for the second time. After that, every attempt of Qingyang was similar to the previous one. He failed, looked for the reason, and continued to try after finding the problem and adjusting.
Unknowingly, five or six days passed. Qingyang tried more than 30 times in a row and failed more than 30 times. In other words, he wasted more than 30 materials but failed once. Qingyang did not get impatient like he did last time he refined the Juyuan Pill. He did not doubt his talent, and he did not even get up to relax, because he knew it was inevitable.
Improving the alchemy skills is not as easy as imagined, and the higher the level, the more difficult it is to improve. The reason why Qingyang became an alchemist so easily in Qingfeng Hall is because he had a high starting point and had a lot of experience to refer to. He stood on the shoulders of countless predecessors in Qingfeng Hall.
Now it is different. There is no experience of predecessors to refer to. Everything needs to be explored by oneself. The difficulty can be imagined. If refining Juyuan Pill can be successful as easily as before, then the world would have been full of Dan Kings, instead of now, Dan Kings seem to be rarer than Yuanying cultivators.
Therefore, alchemy tests a cultivator's comprehensive ability, including not only the level of cultivation, the amount of true essence, and the strength of divine consciousness, but also the cultivator's vision, decision-making, talent, and even the cultivator's character, perseverance, adaptability, and stress resistance.
If it were other cultivators, they would have failed dozens of times in a row and wasted materials worth nearly a thousand spirit stones. At this time, they would have rolled on the ground in pain, but Qingyang did not have this problem. More than 30 pieces of materials seem a lot, but for Qingyang's wealth, it is nothing, not to mention that these materials are not his own at all, so there is no need to feel bad.
A good mentality is the key to success. Qingyang is not affected by other factors at all. He summarizes his experience and starts again after failure. After repeated attempts, he wasted more than 50 pieces of materials in a row, and he finally succeeded in refining a Juyuan Pill.
Looking at the Juyuan Pill in his hand, he was overjoyed. He finally succeeded. The total value of more than 50 materials was almost more than 1,000 spiritual stones. It took so many spiritual stones to refine a Juyuan Pill worth less than 100. The success rate was frighteningly low. So it is said that good alchemists are made of materials. Without the support of a strong force, it is difficult to cultivate a good alchemist.
Thinking back to when he was perfect in the Qi Refining Period, he refined two Foundation Establishment Pills with only ten materials. Now thinking about it, it was full of luck. He was really brave at that time.
Of course, the success of the Foundation Establishment Pill was also due to the difference in difficulty between the two. The Juyuan Pill was a golden pill-level pill. The gap between the Juyuan Pill and the Foundation Establishment Pill Master was too large, just like the difficulty of the Foundation Establishment Cultivator breaking through the Golden Pill realm. The Foundation Establishment Pill was a foundation-level pill. Although it was one of the more difficult ones, Qingyang had already improved his alchemy skills to the level of a Foundation Establishment Pill Master because of the large-scale refining of Juqi Pills. He just changed a pill to refine, which was relatively less difficult.
Qingyang even thought that if he could skillfully refine Juyuan Dan and increase the success rate to more than 30%, he would be a Jindan master. If he tried to refine the Jindan used by the foundation-building cultivators to break through the Jindan stage, it would probably be the same situation, but the materials for the Jindan were even rarer and their value was ridiculously high. If there was a slight mistake, the loss might be thousands or tens of thousands of spirit stones. If there was a chance, I wonder if he could still be as calm as before.
Thinking a little far, Qingyang quickly pulled his thoughts back and looked at the Juyuan Dan in his hand. He did not continue to refine the next batch of materials, but sat there to savor the past. If he failed, he had to analyze the problem, and if he succeeded, he had to summarize the experience to improve.
With the experience of the first success, Qingyang was more confident when refining Juyuan Dan. After repeated attempts, summaries, and improvements, Qingyang's alchemy skills were also improving rapidly. When the 100 batches of materials were used up, Qingyang already had four Juyuan Dan in his hand, which was equivalent to three successes of more than 40 batches of materials.
After more than a hundred materials were used up, Qingyang had eleven Juyuan Pills in his hand, and the success rate was about 15%. This success rate is far from that of a real Jindan master. If he helps others refine Juyuan Pills at this level, he will probably lose a lot of money.
But for Qingyang, a beginner, it is already very good. You know, many senior Jindan cultivators who have learned alchemy are not at this level, and Qingyang has only the top of the third level of foundation building, but he has reached a height that many Jindan cultivators can hardly reach, which is extremely shocking.
More than a hundred materials are worth about four thousand spirit stones, which is also a heavy burden for the Duanmu family. The key is that these materials are difficult to find. Even if there are spirit stones, they may not be bought. After all the materials were used up, Qingyang didn't dare to ask Duanmu Song for them again.
It's already very good to be able to improve the alchemy to this level. Qingyang didn't dare to have more extravagant hopes. As for the Dan Wang Association, he did his best and left it to fate. How could the Dan Wang's mantle be so easy to get?
Qingyang didn't ask for anything, so Duanmu Song was happy to pretend to be confused. The revival of the Duanmu family also required a lot of resources, and they couldn't be wasted on Qingyang. In his mind, Qingyang must have failed in refining the Juyuan Pill. He probably didn't even make one Juyuan Pill with more than a hundred ingredients. It must be for this reason that Qingyang was embarrassed to look for him again.
It took almost a month to use up more than a hundred materials. During this period, in order to improve the alchemy skills, it can be said that the tension was extremely severe. The spiritual power was extremely exhausted, the spirit was tense for a long time, and the attention could not be relaxed at all. Even for a foundation-building cultivator, it would be unbearable for a long time. That kind of deep fatigue is difficult to be relieved in a short time.
For a period of time afterwards, Qingyang did nothing else, but just repaired in the quiet room every day, improved his strength, and eliminated fatigue, preparing for the upcoming Dan King Conference.
Of course, at a fixed time every month, Duanmu Fei and his brother would come to Qingyang's yard to learn the art of grass alchemy. After nearly five years of study, both of them have greatly improved their alchemy skills, especially Duanmu Fei, who has been exposed to a lot of knowledge about foundation-building-level elixirs, and the questions he asked are getting more and more profound. It seems that he also has ideas about the upcoming Dan King Conference.
The time for the Dan King Conference is getting closer and closer. The Duanmu family is very busy during this period. On the one hand, they are preparing for the upcoming Dan King Conference, and on the other hand, the five-year agreement is approaching. Qingyang will leave soon, and the Duanmu family needs to prepare for the rainy day.