70: Cai Weishan

The Heqi Pill, consumed by Foundation Establishment cultivators, uses extremely expensive medicinal Materials.

This pill is incomparable to the Qi Condensation Pill consumed during the Qi Refining period; the main ingredient for a Qi Condensation Pill only takes over a decade to mature, while the main ingredient for a Heqi Pill, consumed by Foundation Establishment cultivators, takes nearly a century, and auxiliary Materials still require over a decade.

After Lin Feng arrived at Zheng Yun Market, he cultivated while refining Qi Condensation Pills, completing the tasks for the Sect's shop.

For refining Qi Condensation Pills, the Sect provides the Spirit Medicine, and Lin Feng only needs to complete the task.

The Sect requires Alchemists to have a minimum 30% pill formation rate and offers two choices.

The first choice is to achieve a 30% pill formation rate, and the Alchemist can dispose of any excess Medicinal Pills as they wish.

The second choice is for the Alchemist's pill formation rate to be higher than 20%; all formed Medicinal Pills must be sold to the Sect, with the excess portion purchased at a 40% discount, and private sales are not allowed, requiring a contract.

Of course, if the standard is not met, the Alchemist must pay compensation.

Given his current pill formation rate of up to 50%, Lin Feng chose to submit a 30% pill formation rate to avoid others knowing the extent of his superb Alchemy skills and to achieve higher profits.

Aside from completing the Sect's quota tasks, as an Alchemist, Lin Feng actually enjoys a lot of leisure time.

Lin Feng uses his leisure time not only for Cultivation but also to gradually collect medicinal Materials for refining Heqi Pills.

Lin Feng never collected Heqi Pill Materials in his true form.

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, Lin Feng transformed into a middle-aged Cultivator, rented a small courtyard outside, and acquired Heqi Pill Spirit Medicine under the name of the Loose Cultivator Wang Sicong.

Lin Feng did not want to attract attention, so he collected slowly.

It was only after a month of arriving at Zheng Yun Market that Lin Feng spent 40,000 Spirit Stones to acquire over a dozen portions of Heqi Pill Spirit Medicine.

Lin Feng and the shop agreed to a monthly task handover.

Once Lin Feng completed the Sect tasks, he began refining Heqi Pills at the ground fire in the Alchemy room.

The complexity of refining Heqi Pills is only slightly higher than that of Qi Condensation Pills, but due to the potent medicinal properties of the Spirit Medicine, Lin Feng repeatedly failed when fusing the Materials and condensing them into pills.

Within half a month, only one batch of all the medicinal Materials was successfully refined.

This batch yielded ten Medicinal Pills.

Lin Feng took one, and with his current absorption rate during Cultivation, one pill could sustain Lin Feng's Cultivation for ten days.

The price of Heqi Pills is extremely high, a hundred times that of Qi Condensation Pills.

One Heqi Pill sells for over a hundred low-grade Spirit Stones in the market, which is equivalent to one mid-grade Spirit Stone.

Lin Feng clearly lost money refining Heqi Pills this time, but he was still very happy.

He finally refined Heqi Pills, and now he could once again use Medicinal Pills to Cultivate quickly.

Lin Feng lived a peaceful life here for half a year, and his cultivation level steadily increased.

His Body Refining also improved significantly, already approaching the second stage.

Half a year allowed Lin Feng to thoroughly understand the area around Zheng Yun Market and its conditions.

Because Lin Feng wanted to accelerate his advancement to Body Refining second stage, he began acquiring some Yao Beast spiritual meat and essence blood under the identity of Wang Sicong to speed up the process.

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator and Alchemist, Wang Sicong naturally attracted many Cultivators who came to befriend him.

Lin Feng gradually became familiar with the middle and high-ranking Cultivators in this area.

Currently, as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, Lin Feng's treasures are still some Magical Artifacts from the Qi Refining period, which greatly displeased him.

The price of Spiritual Artifacts used by Foundation Establishment cultivators ranges from several thousand for low-grade ones to tens of thousands for mid-to-high-grade ones, and top-grade Spiritual Artifacts require over a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

This made Lin Feng feel a deep lack of financial resources.

Just as Lin Feng was feeling troubled, a Qi Condensation Perfection Cultivator found him, having prepared Foundation Establishment Pill Materials for many years, which he had finally gathered.

This person, named Cai Weishan, was already fifty years old and had spent ten years collecting Foundation Establishment Pill Materials.

He reached Qi Condensation Perfection at thirty; due to wanting to successfully establish Foundation in one go, he lacked Spirit Stones.

Later, by chance, he obtained a main ingredient for the Foundation Establishment Pill, and subsequently collected the remaining Materials piece by piece.

Recently, he acquired another Jade Marrow Ganoderma.

Cai Weishan collected the Materials instead of directly buying Foundation Establishment Pills because he was older and his vital Qi and blood were insufficient.

It would be difficult to succeed in Foundation Establishment with one Foundation Establishment Pill, and he wasn't very confident even with two.

So, he simply collected Spirit Medicine and sought someone to refine them, which would yield more Foundation Establishment Pills and be more cost-effective than buying them individually.

He was overjoyed to obtain the Jade Marrow Ganoderma.

Having gathered all the Materials, he wanted to find an Alchemist to refine Foundation Establishment Medicinal Pills.

He requested four Foundation Establishment Pills and searched everywhere for an Alchemist to refine them.

No Alchemist in this area agreed, so he came to Lin Feng to try his luck.

Lin Feng, who was currently worried about lacking Spirit Stones, readily agreed upon seeing the Spirit Medicine the other party possessed.

The two immediately hit it off and signed a contract.

If Lin Feng failed, he would compensate him with 100,000 Spirit Stones, but if Lin Feng succeeded in refining, he only needed to provide him with four Foundation Establishment Pills.

Lin Feng's Alchemy skills had greatly improved over the years, and he had previous experience refining Foundation Establishment Pills.

How could he miss out on such a windfall?

After the two signed the contract, Lin Feng first completed and submitted the Sect's tasks ahead of schedule, then prepared to refine Foundation Establishment Pills in the Alchemy ground fire room.

With previous experience, Lin Feng's refining of Foundation Establishment Pills this time was very smooth.

One batch of Foundation Establishment Pills yielded nine pills.

Lin Feng handed four Foundation Establishment Pills to Cai Weishan.

As Cai Weishan joyfully received the four Foundation Establishment Pills, Lin Feng also obtained five Foundation Establishment Pills.

Lin Feng, holding five Foundation Establishment Pills, secretly sold four of them, acquiring 4,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones.

He then went to the Spiritual Artifact Pavilion to purchase a set for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

The Magical Artifacts on Lin Feng no longer matched his strength.

With Spirit Stones in hand, Lin Feng was flush with cash.

Under the enthusiastic reception of the shopkeeper, he selected a range of Spiritual Artifacts.

Having acquired Spirit Stones, Lin Feng splurged, purchasing three top-grade Spiritual Artifacts.

Among them was a Fire Cloud Fan, with fire-patterned spiritual bamboo as its ribs and flaming feather silk as its fan surface.

With a single wave, it could stir up raging fires, erupting like a volcano.

It could control the form of flames, transforming into fire snakes to entangle or fire walls for defense, possessing both offense and defense.

This item could serve as Lin Feng's offensive and defensive weapon when fighting others.

The second Spiritual Artifact Lin Feng chose was based on his cultivation of the Thousand Faces Phantom Body Technique.

This item was called the Illusory Feather Cape.

The cape was made from the feathers of Illusory Feather Birds, thin yet tough.

When worn, it could change to a color similar to the surrounding environment, achieving an invisibility effect.

Lin Feng placed great importance on defense, so after much deliberation, he also purchased a Spirit Rhinoceros Shield.

It was crafted with a Spirit Rhino horn as its core material, supplemented by refined steel.

Extremely sturdy, it could withstand various Spell attacks.

When attacked, the shield surface would flash with the light of the Spirit Rhino, reflecting a portion of the attack.

Having acquired three top-grade Spiritual Artifacts, Lin Feng felt that he was now on par with other Foundation Establishment cultivators.

These Spiritual Artifacts cost Lin Feng a total of 3,500 mid-grade Spirit Stones.

Lin Feng now had one Foundation Establishment Pill and 500 mid-grade Spirit Stones remaining.

Lin Feng did not plan to keep these Spirit Stones; keeping them in hand was not very useful.

Therefore, Lin Feng began purchasing Materials for Heqi Pills in Zheng Yun Market.

Because Lin Feng now possessed three top-grade Spiritual Artifacts, his confidence grew.

As Wang Sicong, he extensively purchased Materials in the market.

After completing his purchases, Lin Feng did not immediately refine Medicinal Pills.

Refining Foundation Establishment Pills, buying Spiritual Artifacts, and purchasing Medicinal Pills had already taken him a month.

Lin Feng secretly left, restored his transformed appearance, and returned to his assigned residence in the Sect.