Chapter 84: The Life Sucking Beast (1/2)
Chapter 84: The Life Sucking Beast
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Once Mo Wuji finished refining the ingredients and began fusing the medicinal essences together, Yan Qianyin was sure that his skill at refining ingredients was not any lower than hers. The purity of the refined product definitely hit around 85%. What’s more, Mo Wuji was only a Tier 1 Mortal Pill Refiner. Someone with such terrifying potential definitely could become an Earth Pill Refiner.
Thinking of Mo Wuji’s talent in cultivation, Yan Qianyin sighed once again. He was fated to waste his talent in pill refining, because no Earth Pill Refiner could reach that level just by talent in pill refining alone; talent in cultivation was equally important. This was also why there were so few pill refiners.
Perhaps her words really had some effect on him, because after listening to Yan Qianyin’s speech, Mo Wuji’s movements became more fluid than ever. There were zero problems up to the point when the medicinal essences were about to completely fuse together.
Minutes later, the fusing was finished. Mo Wuji breathed a sigh of relief. In the past tens of attempts, not once had he been able to even start condensing the pills, which was what he was about to embark on next. Spiritual energy began to course through his hands as he initiated his hand techniques on the purified and fused medicine essences, but even before he had the time to start the pil condensation, the spiritual ingredients suddenly went “Boom”, and a smell of charred material wafted through the air.
A disappointed look appeared on Mo Wuji’s face as he halted the pill condensing process, staring at Yan Qianyin for answers. He could still identify the core problems after his previous failures, but now, without further guidance, he had no idea what went wrong. Yan Qianyin sighed, staring back at Mo Wuji and asked, “Aren’t you curious what caused your failure at refining a Tier 2 Mortal Pill?”
Mo Wuji nodded silently, thinking to himself: You don’t say?
“You are the most talented pill refiner I’ve ever seen. From the start to the end, I never saw a single mistake in your refining techniques.” Yan Qianyin replied. “The problem doesn’t lie with the pill refining process, but with the pill flames instead. You are using firestones for pill refining, this in itself already makes pill refining much harder as compared to using normal flames. On top of that you chose the poorest quality firestone, red firestones, which not only give a low temperature, but is also unstable. As a result, the fusing process of medicinal essences was still incomplete.”
Believing that she would continue to give him a further explanation, Mo Wuji quietly listened to Yan Qianyin’s speech. As expected, she added on further, “Pill Master Ju and Pill Master Shi were able to refine the Tier 3 Mortal Pills that you saw, only because Pill Master Ju was an infinitesimal gap away from becoming a Tier 4 Earth Pill Refiner, and as Pill Master Shi had your help to barely succeed. Most importantly, their cultivation levels were greatly superior than your current state, hence allowing them to infuse spiritual energy into the pill flames to facilitate the fusing process. While you, if I’m not wrong, are only in the initial levels of the Channel Opening Stage. Even the Tier 2 Pill Refiners of the lowest cultivation levels would be at the more advanced levels of the Channel Opening Stage.”
So it was an issue with my cultivation level...
Mo Wuji lamented to himself. When he failed previously, didn’t he consider that it was because his level of cultivation was too low? As it always seemed as though as his spiritual energy could never reach his desired levels when combining it with his hand techniques for the fusing process.
“So pill refining must progress parallel with one’s cultivation?” Mo Wuji asked again impatiently.
“Not necessarily, some expert pill masters are still about to produce top tier pills even with their cultivation sealed up. But this sort of pill refiners are an endangered species, and even for them, they wouldn’t have gotten to their level without a certain level of cultivation.” Hearing Yan Qianyin’s explanation, Mo Wuji answered back, “it’s not that I don’t want to go with you, but at my current standard, there’s no way that I’ll be able to make the Ephemeral Life Pill.”
Hesitantly, Yan Qianyin pulled out an orange coloured rock, “I have an orange firestone here. The temperature of its flames are markedly higher that the red firestone, and is comparable to other earth fires, thus you’ll likely be able to refine a batch of Ephemeral Life Pills with it. However, I only have one of it, so you can’t do any trial and error with it first. If you’re willing to take the risk, we’ll depart now. But remember, once the Life Sucking Beast has been disturbed, you’ll only have one chance to refine the pills.”
After speaking, Yan Qianyin was unsure if Mo Wuji would agree, hence she added on, “If there’s any skills there, I’ll let you have first pick. Even if there aren’t any, and we manage to survive, I promise that I’ll give one skill to you.”
“Okay, I’ll go with you.” With the guarantee that he would get a skill either way, what was there to hesitate about? He could already cultivate, so once he had a skill, at least he would be able to fight back if he met with any incidents.