419: Fire Spirit Crimson Essence Pill

Pill Refining Tower.

The purple poison cauldron had toxic gas accumulated on its walls, and its body was deep purple. Inside, the golden Great Sun True Fire was burning fiercely.

"Chi Yuan Grass!"

"Fire Spirit Honey!"

"Origin Heart spirit fruit!"

...

Liu Xuan added various Materials into the cauldron while repeatedly reading the Pill Formula Jade Slip, reciting the names of the Materials as he added them.

Behind him, An Yunmiao frowned repeatedly. It was obvious that this was Liu Xuan's first time dealing with the fire spirit chi yuan pill, and she feared he would waste her Materials for nothing.

The fire spirit chi yuan pill was a Third-rank Mid-grade Medicinal Pill, belonging to a type of pill that was relatively difficult to refine within its grade. Many Third-rank Mid-grade Alchemists had a very low success rate.

An eighty percent success rate required one's Alchemy level to reach Third-rank High-grade, and it required spending a large amount of Materials for practice.

The higher the difficulty of refining, the more expensive the Medicinal Pill naturally was. A fire spirit chi yuan pill sold for about 300,000 Spirit Stones, while the cost was only about 70,000 to 80,000.

The Cultivation Technique An Yunmiao practiced had a fire attribute, making the fire spirit chi yuan pill extremely compatible with her. Her demand was relatively high; she could refine one pill every day during her cultivation.

If she consumed one every day during her cultivation, it would cost over 100 million Spirit Stones a year, which she could not afford.

Therefore, Liu Xuan promised not to charge any Alchemy fees and guaranteed to provide her with pills at an eighty percent success rate—equivalent to reducing the price of a 300,000 Spirit Stone fire spirit chi yuan pill to 100,000—which was why she was so excited.

An Yunmiao calmed down and thought about it: how could a Third-rank Mid-grade Medicinal Pill be so easy to refine? No matter how high Liu Xuan's talent for Alchemy was, his cultivation was only at the Early Golden Core Stage. Being able to refine it successfully was already a stretch; when could he achieve an eighty percent success rate?

A batch of fire spirit chi yuan pill Materials was worth 700,000 to 800,000 Spirit Stones! It was likely going down the drain.

"Buzz!"

The Pill Furnace vibrated slightly. Liu Xuan said calmly: "Most of the Materials for this pill are fire-attribute Spirit Medicine. The difficulty in refining lies in the pill fire, but to me, it is not difficult."

Under the control of Liu Xuan's Divine Sense, the various Spirit Medicines were refined into a mass of liquid and then gradually condensed into individual pill embryos.

Fine fire patterns appeared on the surface of the pill embryos, which then changed from translucent to a solid crimson red. The pill bodies were round and smooth, with the Spirit Qi contained within.

The crimson Medicinal Pills trembled slightly, and a pure yang fire fragrance drifted out from the furnace, neither harsh nor intense.

The Third-rank Mid-grade fire spirit chi yuan pill was complete!

Ten pigeon-egg-sized crimson Medicinal Pills flew out from the purple poison cauldron. Their surfaces were covered in faint golden fire patterns, and the quality was top-tier!

"It's already done?" An Yunmiao shifted her gaze away from the Medicinal Pills and stared straight at Liu Xuan, asking: "Why are you so fast?"

It was one thing that Liu Xuan succeeded on his first attempt, but what An Yunmiao couldn't understand more was Liu Xuan's refining speed.

For Third-rank Mid-grade Medicinal Pills, every time those Third-rank High-grade Alchemists in the South Courtyard started the furnace, it took anywhere from three to five days, or even more than ten days. They had to spend a few days preparing their minds before starting the furnace, and after refining, they had to rest for a few days to recover their exhausted spirit.

Adding it all up, one furnace took more than half a month. If they failed in the middle, it might not even be possible to successfully refine a furnace in a month.

But what about Liu Xuan? Counting from the moment he entered the Alchemy Room, the total time was just over an hour. This wasn't refining a Third-rank Mid-grade Medicinal Pill; even refining a Second-rank Spirit Pill wasn't this fast.

"Whether it's fast or not doesn't matter," Liu Xuan took two pills from the ten and put them into his Storage Ring, then pushed the remaining eight toward An Yunmiao, smiling: "Quality is the key!"

An Yunmiao picked up one and brought it close to her eyes to examine it carefully. It had a crimson gold luster, clear fire patterns, and thick Ling Yun. It was of better quality than anything refined by all the Alchemists in the South Courtyard; only imports from the Central Plains could compare to it.

"Junior Brother Liu!" An Yunmiao clutched the eight Medicinal Pills in her hand and swallowed as she looked at Liu Xuan: "Can you always be this fast every time you refine?"

Liu Xuan's expression darkened, and he said seriously: "Yun Xi is now my Dao Companion, so you should call me brother-in-law, Elder Sister Yun Miao."

"Brother-in-law?"

An Yunmiao gently rubbed the Medicinal Pill in her hand and revealed an ugly smile: "Fine! Brother-in-law, are you able to be this fast every time?"

"Of course... not!"

"One furnace every ten days. Don't look at how fast I refined it; in reality, the mental exhaustion is immense, and I need to rest well before I can continue refining."

Liu Xuan spoke with conviction, but An Yunmiao didn't believe it at all. Where did he look like he had any mental exhaustion right now?

However, one furnace every ten days was enough. One furnace had eight pills. Previously, purchasing them would have cost 2.4 million Spirit Stones; now, it only required 700,000 to 800,000 for the Spirit Medicine costs. Calculating it, she had earned 1.6 million Spirit Stones.

1.6 million Spirit Stones in ten days meant 4.8 million Spirit Stones in a month. Adding the 900,000 Spirit Stones Liu Xuan paid her, she could obtain 5.7 million Spirit Stones in benefits from Liu Xuan in a month!

She didn't realize it until she calculated it, but An Yunmiao was shocked. She suddenly realized that her younger sister's eye for talent was truly good; she had found a god of wealth as a Dao Companion!

"Elder Sister Yun Miao, I've helped you so much; don't you have anything to say?" Liu Xuan walked out of the Alchemy Room with An Yunmiao, taking De Ming and Xin Ci from the hands of the maid at the door.

"How do you want me to express it?"

"Hmm... I'm just joking. We are family. There's no need to fuss over such trifles. If you can take care of my Liu Family a little more, I will be very satisfied!"

An Yunmiao glanced at Liu Xuan without speaking, then flashed away in a streak of light, flying toward the small courtyard where she lived.

...

Two months later.

Recently, besides his great endeavor of fathering children, Liu Xuan spent most of his leisure time on Alchemy.

He possessed a Fourth-Tier Legacy of Alchemy and the Fourth-Tier Great Sun True Fire, making the refining of Third-rank Low-grade and Mid-grade Medicinal Pills as simple as eating and drinking.

If it weren't for the fact that the purple poison cauldron was too low-level, he could even break through his cultivation restrictions and successfully refine Third-rank High-grade and Third-rank Top-grade Medicinal Pills.

However, the higher the grade of the Medicinal Pill, the longer the refining time. The fire spirit chi yuan pill was only so fast because it was compatible with the Great Sun True Fire.

Some high-grade special Medicinal Pills took months or even years to refine. Even if Liu Xuan could refine them, he didn't have the time.

Over at the Artifact Refining Workshop, Zhou Qingwei would summon Liu Xuan from time to time to discuss matters. Liu Xuan would stall whenever he could and hide whenever possible.

To keep this old man from bothering him, Liu Xuan even took out the unfinished blueprints for the Third-rank Sun Warship.

The Third-rank Sun Warship required upgrading the entire industrial chain of the Liu Family Artifact Refining Workshop.

From the standardized specifications for refining each component to the upgrading of the entire Artifact Refining Workshop, there was a great deal of work to be done.

Since Zhou Qingwei wouldn't leave, Liu Xuan treated him as free labor, having him preside over the upgrade of the Artifact Refining Workshop and train the Liu Family Artifact Refiners to complete the refining of parts.

Zhou Qingwei had originally wanted to take Liu Xuan as his disciple to guide him properly onto the right path of Artifact Refining.

However, he slowly discovered that Liu Xuan was truly uninterested in Artifact Refining—or rather, he was uninterested in all Cultivation professions. What he was most interested in was only... women!

In two months, the time Liu Xuan spent on the four arts of Cultivation didn't even add up to two days. Instead, he spent his days accompanying his beautiful wives and concubines, living a life of debauchery!

"What a waste of natural talent!!"

To save the natural genius of Artifact Refining, Liu Xuan, Zhou Qingwei made a bet with him.