264: Commissioned task, find the three-wheeled flower

Mu Feng didn't dwell on anything else after choosing to refine the True Qi Powder.

He directly used six High-Grade Spirit Stones to acquire the Five Qi Flower and Millennium spiritual fruit Fruit needed for the True Qi Powder.

“Uh, it seems I still need a Pill Furnace.”

After gathering all the Materials,

Mu Feng found that he still couldn't refine Medicinal Pills.

Because these Nascent Soul Stage Medicinal Pills couldn't be directly refined in the Workshop.

Currently, the Workshop's main function was probably to learn Pill Formulas and then check the Materials needed for their refinement.

“Let me exchange for the True Qi Powder first.”

Mu Feng wasn't sure if items in the integral Mall could be exchanged by others.

So, it was better to exchange for the True Qi Powder he needed first.

Lest if it was exchanged by someone else later, he wouldn't know where to cry.

It would be ridiculous if he bought all the Materials, but the Pill Formula was gone.

“System Reminder: Do you want to exchange for the True Qi Powder Pill Formula?”

“System Reminder: The exchange requires 30 integral.”

“Exchange!”

The effect of this True Qi Powder was quite good.

It consolidated Cultivation and increased the True Qi within the body.

“System Reminder: True Qi Powder Pill Formula exchange complete, integral -30.”

As the integral were deducted,

A Pill Formula appeared in Mu Feng’s hand.

He immediately clicked to learn it.

“System Reminder: True Qi Powder Pill Formula learned successfully. You can view the required Materials for refinement in the Workshop.”

Mu Feng had already used the System prompt to investigate the Materials needed for refinement earlier.

Naturally, there was no need to open it again to check.

Now that all the Materials were gathered,

What was missing was a Pill Furnace for Alchemy.

“The Transaction Channel should have one, but I don’t know if my current Spirit Stones are enough.”

Earlier, in order to upgrade to an Advanced Immortal Cave, he had spent almost all of his Spirit Stones.

The Transaction Channel here should have Pill Furnaces.

He was just afraid that he didn't have enough Spirit Stones.

As “Pill Furnace” was entered,

A large number of Pill Furnaces entered Mu Feng’s view.

There were many Pill Furnaces.

However, excluding those that couldn't be used and those that were too expensive,

There were only three or four choices left.

“Hmm, this one will do. I’ll make do with it for now. If I get a chance later, I’ll refine one myself, or explore and bring back a complete one.”

After some selection,

Mu Feng purchased an ordinary Pill Furnace named Wu Chang Furnace.

It cost him 3,000 Spirit Stones.

Fortunately, when he sold the Three-legged Crow meat earlier, he asked Li Chenxi for some extra High-Grade Spirit Stones; otherwise, he wouldn't have had enough money to buy this Pill Furnace.

He placed the new Pill Furnace in the forging room.

After connecting it to the Heavenly Fire in the forging room, Mu Feng began to refine the True Qi Powder in his hand.

Mu Feng was much more skilled in Alchemy than Artifact Refining.

Almost without any System prompts, Mu Feng completed all the preparatory work.

After inserting a High-Grade Spirit Stone,

The Heavenly Fire within the Wu Chang Furnace blazed fiercely.

Mu Feng knew this was the best time to place the Materials.

After sequentially placing all the various Materials into the Pill Furnace,

The entire Pill Furnace began to operate in an orderly manner.

At this point,

The Alchemy work was basically complete.

Next, he just needed to wait for the Medicinal Pills to be produced.

However, since it was his first time using a Pill Furnace for Alchemy, Mu Feng didn't dare to be careless in any way and kept his attention focused on the Wu Chang Furnace.

This way, if any problems arose later, he could remedy them immediately.

The Pill Furnace operated.

Facts proved that Mu Feng had worried too much.

Half an hour later, the entire Pill Furnace began to vibrate.

Mu Feng knew this was the prelude to the Formation of the Medicinal Pills.

A smile appeared on his face.

About a minute later, the Wu Chang Furnace stopped vibrating.

Immediately after, a pile of white powder emanating a captivating fragrance began to fly out from within the Wu Chang Furnace.

“System Reminder: True Qi Powder refined successfully.”

“System Reminder: True Qi Powder x500ml”

This True Qi Powder was not an ordinary Medicinal Pill, but rather some powder.

This was the first time he had seen such a situation.

If he hadn't seen the powder continuously emitting fragrance, he would have thought the furnace had exploded.

Picking up a white jade bottle, Mu Feng poured all the True Qi Powder into it.

Then, he began to examine its information by looking at the bottle's mouth.

“Name: True Qi Powder”

“Rank: Excellent”

“Effect: Consolidates Core Formation Cultivation, increases True Essence within the body.”

...

“Excellent quality, not bad!”

He wasn't sure if his Alchemy technique had improved recently, or if he was just lucky.

Many of the Medicinal Pills he refined were of Excellent quality.

As for Perfect quality, he hadn't refined a single one yet.

He heard that above Perfect quality, there was also Saint Grade.

However, he had only heard about it.

Up until now, the best Medicinal Pill quality he had seen was Perfect.

Taking the True Qi Powder,

Mu Feng left the forging furnace and walked towards his large bed.

After meditating first to restore all his states to Peak,

Mu Feng began to take out the white jade bottle containing the True Qi Powder.

He poured it into his mouth in batches.

The True Qi Powder refined this time amounted to 500ml.

It should be enough for him to consolidate his Dan Formation Stage Initial Phase Realm and simultaneously enhance the True Essence within his body.

The True Qi Powder entered his abdomen.

Mu Feng immediately felt a massive surge of pure spiritual energy impacting and colliding within his body, compressing the True Essence within his Golden Core.

As a result, the space within his body that could store True Essence instantly expanded significantly.

“What a miraculous Medicinal Pill!”

This was the first time Mu Feng had seen such a method of increasing True Essence.

It could actually increase the amount of True Essence by compressing the original True Essence!

“Not bad, not bad!”

“As expected of a Medicinal Pill from the new map, its effect is beyond words!”

Mu Feng was very satisfied with this True Qi Powder.

The amount he had just taken was about 100ml.

It increased his True Essence by one-fifth.

This meant that if he took all the True Qi Powder,

The amount of True Essence in his body should double from before.

“Again!”

Immediately after refining the medicinal power of a batch of True Qi Powder,

Mu Feng eagerly raised the white jade bottle in his hand again.

He poured another 100ml or so of True Qi Powder into his mouth.

He began to operate his Cultivation Technique to refine it.

....

Two and a half hours later,

Mu Feng opened his tightly closed eyes.

A profound True Essence emanated from within his body.

At this moment, his Realm had reached the Peak of the Dan Formation Stage Initial Phase.

But the biggest change wasn't his Realm.

It was the Magic Power True Essence within his body.

If you looked closely,

You would find that the True Essence in Mu Feng’s Golden Core was more than twice as profound as before!

This was precisely the effect of him consuming a bottle of True Qi Powder.

He stretched lazily.

Mu Feng's face was filled with an uncontrollable excited smile.

The True Qi Powder's boost to him was even greater than he had imagined.

This made him even more interested in the two subsequent Medicinal Pills.

However, no matter how interested he was, he could only look.

The previous True Qi Powder refinement had depleted all his Spirit Stones and integral.

If he wanted to buy more,

He would have to complete tasks and explore Immortal Caves to slowly accumulate them again.

“Hmm, let’s go complete the two remaining tasks for today first.”

After experiencing the benefits of the integral Mall,

Mu Feng was quite attentive to this Task System.

He opened the Task System.

After some investigation, Mu Feng found that there was an additional player-commissioned task compared to before.

“Player-commissioned task?”

“Can players also issue tasks themselves?”

Mu Feng was stunned.

He had only just encountered this Task System today and wasn't very familiar with it.

“Of course, but this player commission requires your Task Rank to reach Rank C before you can post it, and the integral for the task reward must be provided by you.”

“Generally speaking, player-issued commission tasks will have higher integral rewards than those issued by the System. You can check if it’s difficult. If it’s not too hard, you can accept it first.”

“So that’s how it is.”

After reading the red prompt content, Mu Feng nodded.

This Task System was quite user-friendly.

In the future, if he needed any Materials he couldn't find, he could issue a commission through this Task System.

However, this also made Task integral even more precious.

They could completely be compared to Spirit Stones.

Sometimes, they were even more valuable than Spirit Stones.

Because the integral Mall could exchange for some Spirit Treasures that weren't available on the market.

Those were even more precious than Magic Treasures.

After understanding the importance of integral,

Mu Feng opened the newly refreshed player-commissioned task.

“Player Commission Task”

“Difficulty: Rank F.”

“Content: Find sanlun flower.”

“Task Progress: 0 / 1”

“Task Reward: 25 integral.”

...

“Indeed, it’s much higher than the integral for tasks issued by the general System.”

“A Rank F task for 25 integral.”

“Accept it first!”

Mu Feng didn't hesitate.

He clicked accept.

“System Reminder: You have accepted a player-commissioned task. This is the map indicating the location of the sanlun flower as marked by the player.”

Mu Feng had just accepted the task.

A map immediately appeared in his hand.

Mu Feng picked it up to examine it.

He found that this map was similar to the treasure maps he had seen before.

The red dot represented his location.

The flower symbol should represent the location of the sanlun flower.

His luck seemed to be quite good.

The closest sanlun flower on the map was only two grids away from him.

This meant that he only needed to follow this route for two Immortal Cave Secret Realm explorations to reach it.

“Depart!”

Having confirmed the route,

Mu Feng immediately went to the Immortal Cave hall and focused his attention on investigating the information there.

The Immortal Cave Secret Realm on the map was in the West.

As his first choice,

Mu Feng investigated it first.

“The Immortal Cave Secret Realm in the West is a purple gold abandoned mine. There is a lot of scattered purple gold inside, but there is a Core Formation Yao Insect entrenched within, so you need to be careful.”

“purple gold abandoned mine!”

The moment he saw this Immortal Cave Secret Realm, Mu Feng's eyes lit up.

No other reason.

Only because this purple gold was exactly what another task required.

That was a collection task.

One piece of purple gold could be exchanged for one integral.

It seemed his luck was quite good.

He could complete two tasks with one exploration.

As for the Core Formation Yao Insect mentioned,

Mu Feng didn't care.

His current combat power was fine as long as he didn't encounter a Transformed Yao Beast; other things were not a problem.

These Yao Insects could be used to upgrade his Lifebound Treasure, Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword!

Speaking of the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword,

Mu Feng suddenly remembered that his Lifebound Treasure had changed when he used the sword Formation to kill that Gāng Tiān Pig.

However, at that time, because his attention was focused on the two women, Mu Feng hadn't checked its status.

After he finished looking at the Immortal Cave Secret Realm situations, he could take it out and see what changes had occurred to the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword after killing the Gāng Tiān Pig.

“Forget it, let’s look at the changes to the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword first.”

The Immortal Cave Secret Realm in the West was good.

Mu Feng should choose it.

The rest was just for show.

It was better to first look at the changes in the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword after killing the Gāng Tiān Pig.

Thinking this,

Mu Feng summoned the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword, which he had been nourishing within his Golden Core.

“Name: Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword”

“Rank: Lifebound Treasure (Low Grade)”

“Effect: A set of Magic Treasures, powerful in might. When combined, they can form a sword Formation to attack enemies!”

“Additional: Soul Devouring (1 / 10, once the remaining nine Primordial Spirits are devoured, it can be upgraded to a Medium Grade Magic Treasure!)”

Durability: 30000 / 30000.

....

“Nine more to go!”

Mu Feng immediately saw the change in the Soul Devouring option.

The growth rate of this Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword was faster than he had imagined.

He believed it wouldn't be long before it could be upgraded to a Medium Grade Lifebound Treasure.

He put the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword back into his Golden Core for nourishment.

Mu Feng looked at the remaining Immortal Cave Secret Realms.

Although he had already chosen the first one,

Because this was his first time arriving at the new map,

Mu Feng was still quite interested in the situation of the Immortal Cave Secret Realms in this central area.

“There is a platinum treasure chest in the Northwest Secret Realm, but you need to resolve the Core Formation Yao Beast inside first.”

“The Southwest Secret Realm is a Medicinal Garden of Immortal Cave creatures. Your current strength is temporarily unable to break through the Formation defenses inside, so it is not recommended for you to enter.”

“The East is a player’s Immortal Cave. The opponent is currently Cultivating inside. Perhaps you will have a harvest if you go later, provided you can break through his Immortal Cave Formation.”

“The Northeast Secret Realm seems to have already been explored by someone. It is not recommended for you to enter.”

“The Southeast Secret Realm is a sea Secret Realm with two platinum treasure chests inside.”

“The South Secret Realm seems to be the cave of a Transformed Yao Beast. There is banyao grass you need inside, but this is a Rank Nine Nascent Soul Stage Middle Stage Yao Bird. Entering with your current strength will surely lead to death!”

“The North Secret Realm has many spiritual fruit trees, but unfortunately, none of them are ripe. Of course, if you want to transplant them into your own Medicinal Garden, you can choose to enter.”

“It feels like the resources in the Immortal Cave Secret Realms here are indeed more abundant than those in the outer layer.”

After reading everything,

Mu Feng found that the Immortal Cave Secret Realms here were indeed richer compared to the outer layer.

The most intuitive feeling was probably that the treasure chests here seemed to be at least platinum treasure chests.

Of course.

It might also be his good luck.

Whether it was truly at least platinum treasure chests,

Remained to be seen.

“But it’s also more dangerous.”

Among the eight Secret Realms, the lowest were Core Formation Yao Beasts.

The highest were Rank Nine Nascent Soul Stage Middle Stage Yao Beasts.

The danger level was not on the same level as the outer layer.

Indeed, danger and reward coexist.

However, this was a good thing for him.

After all, he could know in advance which were dangerous and which were safe.

His exploration speed was unknown how much faster than others.

....

After reading all the Secret Realm information,

Mu Feng still chose the initial West Secret Realm.

Before entering,

He also accepted the task of collecting purple gold.

Everything was ready.

Mu Feng summoned the little fox.

He took her and stepped into the West Secret Realm.