He Pingsheng did not immediately proceed to refine the second batch of Medicinal Pills; instead, after cleaning the Pill Furnace, he calmly sat down and carefully recalled the details of his Alchemy process.
What was wrong?
What was different from what was recorded in the Pill Formula?
And what did he not control well?
Only by summarizing gains and losses could he make further progress.
Early the next morning, He Pingsheng began refining Medicinal Pills again.
The second batch!
Because he had learned from his first experience, He Pingsheng did not cause the Pill Furnace to explode the second time.
This time, he still did not succeed in refining, only producing twelve discarded Medicinal Pills.
“Hoo…”
He Pingsheng let out a sigh of relief.
For him, there was no difference between discarded Medicinal Pills and High Grade or Peak Grade ones.
When placed in the gathering treasure basin for enhancement, they would ultimately become doubled Peak Grade Medicinal Pills.
But since it was Alchemy, who wouldn't want to truly succeed in refining it?
“Continue!” He Pingsheng tossed the discarded Medicinal Pills aside and continued to refine the third batch.
The third batch was still discarded Medicinal Pills!
In the following days, three batches daily!
The fourth batch, discarded Medicinal Pills!
The fifth batch, discarded Medicinal Pills!
The sixth batch, successful!
Finally, after five consecutive failures, He Pingsheng successfully refined a batch of second-grade Medicinal Pills.
The quality of the successfully refined Medicinal Pills was definitely the lowest; all twelve were Low Grade.
Low Grade was fine too!
He Pingsheng smiled very happily.
After all, he had refined a second-grade Medicinal Pill through his own efforts.
As long as one could refine a second-grade Medicinal Pill, regardless of its quality, that person was a second-grade Alchemist.
He still had four batches of Materials.
He Pingsheng continued refining!
The seventh batch was also successful.
Twelve Low Grade!
The eighth batch, discarded Medicinal Pills.
The ninth batch, discarded Medicinal Pills.
Only one portion of Materials remained.
He Pingsheng looked at the last remaining portion of Materials and suddenly had a wild idea.
When he refined Medicinal Pills, he always boiled the Materials in water to extract the medicinal juice, and then condensed the Medicinal Pills from the boiled medicinal juice.
But the Thirty-Six Methods of Elixir Refining also stated that it was best not to use water.
Water was a last resort.
What was best to use?
Spirit Liquid!
He Pingsheng had Spirit Liquid; his gourd contained two large gourds full of it.
Golden Bee Holy Nectar was also a type of Spirit Liquid found between heaven and earth.
Of course, it was impossible to simply pour a whole pot of Golden Bee Holy Nectar in, as that would absolutely not result in the successful refinement of Medicinal Pills.
He Pingsheng's idea was to use one drop.
One drop of Golden Bee Holy Nectar fused into the water would turn the water into Spirit Liquid.
Would the success rate of Medicinal Pills refined under such circumstances increase?
He Pingsheng decided to give it a try.
For the last batch, after adding water, He Pingsheng also added a drop of Golden Bee Holy Nectar.
Then he continued refining!
Perhaps it was due to the addition of the Holy Nectar, but this last batch of Medicinal Pills actually succeeded.
What left He Pingsheng dumbfounded was that among these twelve Medicinal Pills, there were two High Grade and ten Medium Grade.
This…
He Pingsheng certainly wouldn't believe that this was due to his improved Alchemy skills; it must have been the Spirit Liquid's contribution.
“Excellent!” He Pingsheng was overjoyed: “I never thought this Golden Bee Holy Nectar would have such a miraculous effect!”
“It can actually improve the quality of second-grade Medicinal Pills?”
After his joy, He Pingsheng grimaced again: A loss!
It was truly a loss.
Adding Holy Nectar during Alchemy improved the quality of the Medicinal Pills, which was good, but how many Spirit Stones could it sell for?
This batch of Medicinal Pills would at most not exceed ten thousand Spirit Stones.
However, one drop of Golden Bee Holy Nectar could instantly fill a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator's Dantian; its value was self-evident.
If this item were taken to a trade association, it would surely fetch a sky-high price.
So it was truly a huge loss.
He couldn't waste it in the future.
He Pingsheng put away the Pill Furnace and took stock.
A total of ten portions of Materials yielded three batches of Medicinal Pills.
All in all, it was not bad.
After all, the first five batches of Medicinal Pills were completely wasted.
“Enhance them!”
He Pingsheng tossed the twelve discarded Medicinal Pills into the gathering treasure basin.
The full moon rose, and the moonlight was like snow.
Under the pull of the gathering treasure basin, the moonlight outside the window gradually condensed, flying into the gathering treasure basin and beginning to enhance the Medicinal Pills.
Since He Pingsheng had the gathering treasure basin, he had always enhanced directly, but he had never seen the process of enhancement before; today, he suddenly had an idea and wanted to see what this enhancement process was like.
So, for the rest of the night, He Pingsheng's Divine Thought focused on the dark basin.
Of course, the basin was kept in his hundred treasure sack.
At first, countless moonlight entered the discarded Medicinal Pills, but the discarded Medicinal Pills showed no change.
However, at a certain point, these twelve discarded Medicinal Pills suddenly transformed into twenty-four.
It was very abrupt.
He Pingsheng continued to observe.
Then he discovered that after a period of time, the quality of the Medicinal Pills also changed.
From discarded Medicinal Pills, they became Low Grade Medicinal Pills!
All twenty-four were Low Grade.
After another period of time, Low Grade became Medium Grade.
And so on, Medium Grade became High Grade!
High Grade became Peak Grade.
The key was that by the time all twenty-four Medicinal Pills turned into Peak Grade, it was still far from dawn.
In other words, they could continue to be enhanced.
He Pingsheng reached out and took out the twenty-four Peak Grade Gathering Spirit Pills, then put another twelve discarded Medicinal Pills in.
By dawn, these twelve discarded Medicinal Pills had transformed into twenty-four Peak Grade Medicinal Pills.
Seeing this process, He Pingsheng took a deep breath.
This Medicinal Pill enhancement process was extremely useful to He Pingsheng.
For example, if one day he needed to sell a type of Medicinal Pill to exchange for resources, taking the Foundation Establishment Pill as an example, higher quality would naturally be more valuable.
However, it wasn't a case of the higher the better.
If all were Peak Grade, although they would fetch a higher price, they could also easily lead to disaster.
Any single one of these items was equivalent to an opportunity to be directly promoted to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Naturally, their value was immeasurable.
But if those major powers believed that a small Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator with no background could refine Peak Grade Foundation Establishment Pills, anyone with half a brain would know what the consequences would be.
Peak Grade ones couldn't be sold, and Low Grade ones were too low in value.
What to do?
It was best to sell High Grade ones.
And having observed this process of Medicinal Pill enhancement, He Pingsheng felt that the quality of High Grade Medicinal Pills could be controlled.
When the Medicinal Pills were enhanced to High Grade, he could just take them out, couldn't he?
Of course, this was just a future earning idea and did not affect his current cultivation.
He Pingsheng put away the Peak Grade Medicinal Pills and continued enhancing.
Now, he simultaneously enhanced two batches of discarded Medicinal Pills each time.
At the same time, he opened his mouth and swallowed half a Peak Grade Gathering Spirit Pill; the Spiritual Qi in his body began to circulate frantically.
After all, he was only at the first layer of the Foundation Establishment Stage, and the medicinal power within a Peak Grade Gathering Spirit Pill was too potent; he was afraid he wouldn't be able to handle a whole one.
The result proved that even half a pill was too much.
A large portion of the energy from this half Gathering Spirit Pill dissipated into the air because he couldn't refine it in time.