Alchemy ability skyrocketed! Earth-level Alchemist

Although Little Lizard's gray flames had limited power, it was a huge improvement compared to before.

After all, it now had a fairly powerful offensive method.

After Little Lizard advanced to the early stage of the Yuangang Realm, its stomach began to rumble continuously.

It opened its mouth, full of sharp teeth, and began another round of massive devouring.

In just half a day, the large pile of Yellow-tier pills Xiao Ming had refined was completely devoured by Little Lizard.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss~"

After eating all the pills, Little Lizard flicked its forked tongue and let out an unsatisfied sound at Xiao Ming.

It still wanted to continue devouring pills, and it wanted to devour pills with even richer medicinal potency.

Yellow-tier pills could no longer satisfy it.

"Don't worry, Daddy will refine even more powerful pills for you." Xiao Ming patted Little Lizard's head, then put it back into his Spirit Beast Pouch.

What Xiao Ming needed to do now was to wait patiently.

He planned to summon Elder Lian in a few days and then continue to improve his pill refining techniques.

Time passed little by little.

Sunset, moonrise.

Moonset, sunrise.

Three days later.

As dawn was just breaking, Xiao Ming sent a sound transmission to Elder Lian in the ring, "Elder Lian, I've acquired enough high-quality spirit herbs; we can continue refining pills!"

A moment later.

Elder Lian's primordial spirit flew out of the ring.

He looked sleepy, yawned, and said, "Only a few days have passed, and you've already obtained the raw materials?"

Xiao Ming nodded silently.

Then he took out a large pile of three-thousand-year-old low-grade spirit herbs, six-thousand-year-old mid-grade spirit herbs, and nine-thousand-year-old high-grade spirit herbs.

Instantly, an extremely strong medicinal fragrance diffused throughout the room, and each spirit herb emitted a faint spiritual glow, illuminating the entire room.

"There are so many spirit herbs?!" Elder Lian was startled, saying incredulously, "And the quality is quite good; there are even many nine-thousand-year-old high-grade spirit herbs.

Did you get all of these?"

"Yes," Xiao Ming nodded, then deliberately put on a grimace and said, "You don't know how I spent these three days.

I went through a lot of trouble to finally buy these things."

"Because I bought these medicinal ingredients, I've almost spent all my money!"

"Not bad, not bad, you're even more impressive than I imagined.

You managed to get so many good quality spirit herbs in just three days," Elder Lian praised, then said, "Then don't just stand there.

I'll teach you now how to refine top-grade Yellow-tier pills."

Xiao Ming eagerly rubbed his hands, then activated the Primordial Stone Formation, generating powerful Primordial Fire.

Afterward, he took out his pill refining furnace and placed it in the center of the formation.

The Primordial Fire surged, scorching the Earth-tier top-grade pill refining furnace, and at the same time, it significantly raised the temperature in the room.

"Now take out a three-thousand-year-old spirit herb and throw it into the pill refining furnace," Elder Lian instructed Xiao Ming, saying, "The steps are the same as before: first refine this spirit herb into a pure medicinal liquid, then temper the fire energy and solidify the medicinal liquid little by little."

He paused.

Elder Lian added, "With your strength, refining top-grade Yellow-tier pills is not a problem; even refining Black-tier pills wouldn't be difficult."

"The real challenge is how to refine Earth-tier pills."

Xiao Ming nodded.

Then, following Elder Lian's instructions, he first threw the three-thousand-year-old spirit herb into the pill refining furnace, then carefully controlled his divine sense and the formation's Primordial Fire to scorch the medicinal ingredients inside the furnace.

Approximately ten minutes later, a fresh batch of top-grade Yellow-tier pills, exuding a rich medicinal aroma, was easily refined by Xiao Ming.

"Your pill refining technique is very proficient, more proficient than I expected," Elder Lian praised without reservation, "Now, it's time to learn how to refine Black-tier pills."

"Do you see that pile of six-thousand-year-old spirit herbs next to you?

Take out two and throw them into the pill refining furnace!" Elder Lian commanded.

Xiao Ming acted as instructed.

The refining process proceeded in an orderly manner, and time passed little by little.

Five days later.

The originally calm room suddenly surged with a strong energy fluctuation, and then, under Xiao Ming's somewhat regretful gaze, the pill refining furnace let out a low, muffled 'bang'.

Subsequently, an unpleasant burnt smell emanated from the furnace.

Opening the lid, he saw no pills inside the refining furnace, only a pile of charred medicinal dregs.

This pill refining attempt had failed again.

Xiao Ming secretly sighed, feeling a bit dejected.

In these five days, under Elder Lian's guidance, his pill refining skills had advanced by leaps and bounds!

As early as two days ago, he had become a Black-tier alchemist, able to easily refine top-grade Black-tier pills.

In the following three days, his technique became even more proficient, and he began to challenge Earth-tier pills.

And he successfully refined a large batch of Earth-tier pills, including many top-grade Earth-tier pills!

This meant that Xiao Ming's pill refining skills had advanced further, making him an Earth-tier alchemist.

The recent pill refining failure occurred when Xiao Ming attempted to refine Heaven-tier pills, and the results were not ideal; on average, two out of three attempts failed.

After a series of setbacks, Xiao Ming clearly felt that his pill refining level had reached its limit.

Currently, the probability of refining Heaven-tier pills was a bit low.

However, if he wanted to refine Black-tier or Earth-tier pills, he could still succeed 100% of the time.

Seeing Xiao Ming's somewhat dejected expression, Elder Lian comforted him, "You don't have to be so disheartened.

In fact, your pill refining level is already quite formidable, far exceeding this old man's expectations."

"To become an Earth-tier alchemist in such a short period of time, such astonishing pill refining talent, even this old man back in his day couldn't quite match it."

"But I often fail when refining Heaven-tier pills..." Xiao Ming sighed, looking a bit displeased.

Hearing this, Elder Lian couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Your success rate for refining Heaven-tier pills has already reached one-third; such an off-the-charts success rate is already quite astonishing," Elder Lian said.

"You might not know, but even Heaven-tier alchemists who have immersed themselves in the Way of Alchemy for many years only have a success rate of at most forty to fifty percent."

"You're not much worse than them!"

"More importantly,"

"Your basic conditions for pill refining, such as raw materials and the pill refining furnace, are not up to standard.

You should know that to refine Heaven-tier pills, you need at least ten-thousand-year-old spirit herbs and a Heaven-tier pill refining furnace."

"And you don't have ten-thousand-year-old spirit herbs or a Heaven-tier pill refining furnace."

At this point, Elder Lian said with a surprised tone, "For you to be able to raise the success rate of Heaven-tier pills to one-third under such scarce conditions, even those Heaven-tier alchemists can't compare to your ability."

"You're already very impressive, kid!"

After listening to Elder Lian's words, Xiao Ming had an epiphany and immediately felt energized.

"So, I'm already that awesome?"