339: Chapter 339 Only Su Cheng himself was dissatisfied.

Several days later, Su Yunling flew on her sword towards the Tiangang Sect, while Su Cheng flew towards the Danding Sect.

" Xiao Cheng. " Su Yunling suddenly turned back and called out.

Su Cheng stopped his Flying Sword and turned around.

" Take care of yourself. " After she finished this sentence, she flew on her sword, turning into a streak of red light that disappeared into the clouds.

Su Cheng watched the streak of light fade into the distance, stood in mid-air in a daze for a moment, and then turned to continue his journey.

Seven days later, at Qingmu Peak of the Danding Sect.

Su Cheng had returned to his Immortal Cave for less than half a day when Chen Yuan came running over.

" Junior Brother, you have finally returned! " Chen Yuan sat down at the stone table with a thud and gulped down two large mouthfuls of Spirit Tea. " The Alchemy Hall has already sent someone to ask three times, asking when you would return. "

" Are they trying to rush me to my death? Didn't I say I would be away from the Sect for two months? I didn't return late! " Su Cheng said helplessly.

" Isn't it exactly like rushing you to your death? " Chen Yuan counted on his fingers. " But Junior Brother, how should I describe your current status in the Sect? You are like a tree full of fruit, and underneath are all these fledglings that can't fly, opening their mouths waiting for food. "

Su Cheng was amused by his metaphor: " You make me sound like a tree. "

" Pretty much, pretty much. " Chen Yuan chuckled, then immediately turned serious. " But Junior Brother, don't feel pressured. With your current Alchemy speed, improving your Cultivation is the fundamental thing. Don't push yourself too hard regarding the Medicinal Pill matters. "

Su Cheng nodded. Cultivation was indeed fundamental; that was true.

But the problem was that the higher his Cultivation became, the greater the expectations and demands from the outside world, forcing him to spend more time on Alchemy.

This was a vicious cycle that couldn't be broken in the short term; he could only tough it out and keep up appearances.

Fortunately, with the creation furnace as a fallback, his actual Alchemy time was much, much shorter than outsiders imagined.

Chen Yuan sat for a while and then left, saying he had new ideas regarding his Formation-based Alchemy to test out.

Not long after seeing his Senior Brother off, the Alchemy Hall sent someone to deliver seventy-two portions of Spirit Medicine for the nine-aperture golden spirit pill, which was the amount for the next half year.

Looking at the Spirit Medicine piled in front of him, Su Cheng sighed helplessly. He went to see his Revered Master, Elder Qingmu, to inform him that he was going into seclusion for Alchemy, then returned to his Immortal Cave, closed the door, and activated the three-layered isolation Formation.

He summoned the creation furnace. The bronze-colored Pill Furnace floated in the center of the secret room, its ancient patterns shimmering faintly in the Spiritual Qi.

Su Cheng circulated his Qi of Creation and tossed the first portion of Spirit Medicine into the furnace.

Time to work.

Over the next three months, Su Cheng lived a life that was monotonously appalling.

During the day, he Cultivated the Qiankun Creation Art to polish his Foundation Establishment Mid-stage Foundation.

At night, he opened the furnace for Alchemy. The creation furnace churned batch after batch, and all sixty portions of nine-aperture golden spirit pill Spirit Medicine were finished in ten days.

Besides that, Su Cheng also spent over two months refining a year's worth of first-rank and second-rank pills needed by the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and the Su Family, handing them over to the Chamber of Commerce's people in the market to take back to the Prefecture City.

Every month, he punctually delivered four top-grade nine-orifice golden spirit pills to the Alchemy Hall, without fail.

Head Xu Changqing was always satisfied when collecting the pills and would occasionally send someone to deliver some Heaven And Earth Treasure for Cultivation.

Deputy Head Zhao Ming deep's attitude towards Su Cheng also changed from the initial lukewarm reception to being very polite. There was no help for it; in the entire Danding Sect, he was the only person who could stably produce top-grade nine-orifice golden spirit pills.

Over these few months, an interesting thing happened.

Several Golden Core Elders in the Sect, including those from the Alchemy Hall, had tried to refine nine-aperture golden spirit pills, aiming for the supreme grade.

None succeeded.

The closest attempt was when Deputy Head Zhao Ming deep personally stepped in, yet he was still one step away from success.

This made the entire Alchemy Hall wonder about the same question in private: What kind of Dao Rhyme did Su Cheng actually comprehend?

" It should be the Dao Rhyme of Wood. "

This was the guess of most people. After all, Su Cheng claimed to Cultivate a Wood-attribute Cultivation Technique, his Spiritual Qi's affinity for plants and Spirit Medicine was well-known, and combined with that "uncontrolled, following the natural flow" approach during Alchemy, it looked like a manifestation of Wood-type Dao Rhyme.

But this guess was soon slapped in the face by reality.

An Elder who had comprehended the Dao Rhyme of Wood refined nine-aperture golden spirit pills, but in the end, only obtained High Grade, and the quality of the golden veins was not even as good as Deputy Head Zhao Ming deep's.

" Perhaps it is not the Dao Rhyme of Wood. " Someone proposed a new guess. " Could it be some kind of special Dao Rhyme? "

Various versions of speculations circulated within the Sect, but there was never a definitive conclusion.

One evening, Elder Qingmu specifically sought out Su Cheng; he was quite curious as well.

" Kid, what kind of path is the Dao Rhyme you comprehended? " Elder Qingmu rarely asked so directly.

Su Cheng thought for a moment and answered honestly: " Revered Master, this Disciple cannot explain it clearly either. I can use it when doing Alchemy, but if you ask me to describe it... it is just a feeling of 'all things growing, transforming decay into newness'? I cannot say anything else. "

This was the truth, and also nonsense.

Elder Qingmu smiled helplessly. " Very well, everyone's Dao is different. This kind of thing is not something others can comprehend anyway. As long as you know what you are doing, that is fine. "

Su Cheng nodded in agreement.

From then on, no one pestered him with this question again.

If they couldn't get an answer, they stopped asking.

As long as he could still refine Medicinal Pills, no one would make things difficult for him.

Time flew by, and another year passed.

Life in the Danding Sect was not entirely just sitting before the furnace for Su Cheng.

The Alchemy Hall, Artifact Hall, Dharma Transmission Pavilion, Scripture Pavilion, Myriad Treasures Pavilion, and so on—those Golden Core Elders who wanted to get Medicinal Pills for their Disciples sent Su Cheng items, each one rarer than the last.

A Late Golden Core Stage Elder from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion named Yuanyang sent three thousand-year-old Spirit Amber containing Wood-type Spiritual Qi.

The Elder of the Law Enforcement Hall was even more generous, directly giving a set of third-rank Spirit Gathering Formation Plates in exchange for ten Medicinal Pills.

Su Cheng set up these Formation Plates in his Immortal Cave, and the speed at which Spiritual Qi gathered during Cultivation increased several times over.

There was also Elder Sun, who specialized in Physical Body tempering; Elder Zhong, who was proficient in Formations; Elder Bai, who was skilled in Divine Soul techniques... Everyone took out their best hidden treasures to invest in him.

These Golden Core True Persons had calculated well: for every bit Su Cheng's Cultivation increased, his Alchemy speed would increase, and the time their Disciples received top-grade Medicinal Pills would be advanced.

Consequently, Su Cheng was almost "force-ripened" by a group of Golden Core Cultivators working together.

The effect was immediate.

At the end of this year, Su Cheng's Cultivation officially stepped into the Late Foundation Establishment Stage.

On the day the news spread, all the Disciples were filled with joy. It wasn't because they were happy for Su Cheng—well, a little bit, perhaps—but mainly because they were happy for themselves.

" Now that Su Cheng has reached the Late Foundation Establishment Stage, his Spiritual Qi reserves are fuller and his Divine Sense is stronger. Can the speed of refining nine-aperture golden spirit pills be shortened from one every seven days to one every three days? "

This was what a certain Elder said during an Alchemy Hall meeting, representing the inner thoughts of everyone present.

The very next day, Su Cheng received a new batch of nine-aperture golden spirit pill Spirit Medicine from the Alchemy Hall, the quantity being three times more than the last time.

Good grief, his Cultivation hadn't even stabilized yet, and everyone was already impatient.

" What do they take me for? " Su Cheng smiled bitterly at the pile of Spirit Medicine. " A Danding Sect-brand perpetual motion machine? "

Despite saying that, the work still had to be done.

Anyway, the Medicinal Pills were already in his creation space; it was just a matter of delivering more each month.

He could just unify and refine all these Spirit Medicine later on.

Then Su Cheng adjusted the delivery from four pills per month to ten pills per month.

The Alchemy Hall was very satisfied.

The Golden Core Elders were very satisfied.

The Giant Spirit Sect and the Fentian Sect were also very satisfied.

Only Su Cheng himself was unsatisfied.