At 3 pm, Alex logged back into the game. He had 3 tasks to do today. Make pills for the disciple hall, use the yellow rock, and learn the immortal technique.
He could make the pills a bit later, and he could also go learn the technique when he had to go to the sect valley for his work. So he decided to start with the yellow rock.
"This is going to hurt once more, isn't it?" He could still remember the pain the first yellow rock put him through. The result from using the rock was amazing, but the process itself, not so much.
Thankfully, he had been through worse pain, so he was okay with the pain he would feel now. He took out the yellow rock and took a deep breath. Then, he swallowed it.
The rock immediately melted in his mouth and turned into a smooth-flowing liquid that slid down his throat. The liquid was still the same scalding hot one, but he still felt nothing.
However, he started feeling the pain when the liquid reached his stomach once more.
<You have ingested a 'Yang Jade'>
<Sun God's Divine Yang Body is turning the yang energy in the yang jade to Yang Qi>
<Purifying the Yang Qi in your body… 2%>
<Purifying the Yang Qi in your body… 3%>
<Purifying the Yang Qi in your body… 4%>
The already hot and vigorous Yang Qi in his body started to feel more hot and vigorous.
The pain wasn't as bad as he remembered and it disappeared in a few minutes.
<Purifying the Yang Qi in your body… 98%>
<Purifying the Yang Qi in your body… 99%>
<Purifying the Yang Qi in your body… 100%>
<Congratulation, the Yang Qi in your body has been purified and condensed>
<Yang purity at 20%>
The change wasn't as intense as he had expected it to be. All the Qi he had in his body had been condensed to about 90% of the original size, yet it did the same amount of work as the previous 100%. Meaning, when his body was full of Qi, he could now do more.
"Hmm… will my Qi last about 10% longer now? That is more substantial than I had previously guessed."
He tried his new 20% purity Yang Qi on different things. He used Flame Mastery Scripture and found it more manageable. Qi manipulation could carry heavier things now, meaning he could also fly a bit faster. His Smiting Blade was probably more powerful now as well, though he didn't dare use it here.
After he was done testing with his techniques, he decided to try making some pills. Unfortunately, his alchemy skills didn't get any better from having a better Qi.
"So my previous Qi was already good enough for it, it seems." He made about 6 different pills using the ingredients he had left, mixed with the new ingredients he got from Song Zun's storage bag.
He logged out to get some food and came back in. He decided to learn the new technique before going to do his work, so he walked down to the sect valley.
He had about an hour before he had to go to work, so he walked to the library. He showed his nameplate through the different floors and reached the 8th floor.
He had an hour to spend, and taking back the book only took a minute, so he decided to go up a floor and read all the records on the 9th floor that he had previously skipped.
Since everything on the 9th floor had to stay there, he started picking the records one by one and started reading them. He read one after another record and realized something.
"Hmm… most of these aren't even alchemy related."
Most of them were just historical records, some about the sect and some about other things. It seemed the sect only went as far back as 50 years, so it didn't have a lot of history in this place.
Some of the records also talked about cultivation rumors and rare monsters. Very few records had anything to do with alchemy, talking about pills with no recipes or ingredients that were very rare and hard to find.
He saw a record of Spirit Cleansing Lily talking about how hard it was to actually pick it. The person who wrote the record had no idea what to do when one actually found it and only talked about how to recognize it.
Alex read through all the records and quickly memorized them. After finishing the records, he looked at the time and realized it was time to leave. He walked down to the 8th floor and quickly found the immortal technique with his spiritual sense.
He took the book down to the ground floor, where the attending elder at the gate unlocked the seal on the book. Every book had these seals to stop the disciples from reading the books inside the library, and the seal could only be removed by an elder with a corresponding medallion.
After the book was unsealed, Alex walked towards the alchemy garden while constantly reading the book in his bag using his spiritual sense.
Before he could even reach the garden, he got a notification.
<Congratulations. You have successfully learned [Flickering Shadows]>
'Hmm… that took about the same time as the Immortal Concealing technique. I wonder how it compares to that technique. Master did say it was a movement technique so maybe comparing those two isn't the best idea.'
He immediately opened the techniques panel and looked at the description of the technique.
[Flickering Shadows
Grade: Immortal
Teleport to any shadow with a larger area than your palm within 10 meters. You can also travel to where ever your own shadow is. Qi used to teleport depends on the distance.]
"Huh?? Teleport?" he was expecting some techniques that allowed him to move really fast when he heard the word 'Movement Technique', but somehow this was on a whole other level.
'If I can teleport to anywhere with a shadow then… isn't that pretty overpowered? No wonder it's an Immortal grade technique.'