Chapter 45 (1/2)

The next few days, he worked extra hard. After doing his chores at the herb field, he took the time to have read up on information related to having condensed spiritual droplets.

The next two days, he had managed to come across some amazing discoveries.

First, had been the process of condensing spiritual droplets that had been much harder than Chu Chen had imagined, or rather, the success rate had been much lower than he thought.

Although there had been quite a number of disciples around him that successfully condensed spiritual droplets, almost all of them had not managed it in their first try. Instead, it had been after several failed attempts before they had managed to do it.

While it had still been condensing spiritual droplets, the spiritual droplets condensed at the first try would have been of the highest quality. Meanwhile, with each successive failure, the condensed spiritual droplet’s quality would have deteriorated.

The quality of spiritual droplets would have determined the future of the cultivator. Higher quality spiritual droplets meant better achievements while inferior water droplets would have increased the difficulty of future cultivation, eventually having reached a point of stagnation.

That was why every cultivator would have dreamt of successfully having condensed their spiritual droplets on the first try. All that was to have ensured their bright future in the path of cultivation.

Chu Chen remembered that Tong Meng managed to have condensed her spiritual droplet on the first try, surprising many and causing them to have been extremely envious.

The quality of spiritual droplet could have been determined by its clarity. The clearer it had been, the better it was. Those that condensed it after several times would have resulted in an extremely murky droplet.

Due to the low probability of having condensed spiritual droplets, the frost crystal elixir that could have increased the success rate of condensing spiritual droplets became a treasured item.

Although Tong Meng had been a genius and managed to have successfully condensed her spiritual droplet in one try, the frost crystal elixir given to her by Elder Huang from Medicine Hall played an important role.

Even though frost crystal elixirs had just been a level-2 elixir, it had been surprisingly rare. Most of the major sects would have hoarded them in order to have nurtured their favored disciples to help them to have condensed high quality spiritual droplets.

Another reason was that the great difficulty of refining elixirs that helped broke through cultivation stages. The entire reining process had been complex and tedious, making it an extremely strenuous task for the elixir refiner.

Most importantly, the main ingredients used in refining the frost crystal elixir had been unique to the extremely cold northernmost region. With several major sects of the northern region having monopolized those herbs, it caused the ingredients of the elixir to have been extremely rare.

Chu Chen had asked Elder Ling Xin and she, too, had been lacking the ingredients for the frost crystal elixir. Otherwise, she would have been willing to help Chu Chen refine it.

Unresigned to his fate, Chu Chen took a few strolls in the sect market. Turns out that not even a single frost crystal elixir had been on sale. It truly had been a rare treasure.

As a last resort, Chu Chen searched for it on the sect’s trading platform and still came up with nothing.

However, when he searched for his own lightning herbs, the result had been a big surprise for him. When he had been looking for the frost crystal elixir in the past few days, he had visited the store owner a few times and was told that no other offers were made apart from the initial one spirit stone.

He had not expected it to have reached a deal on the fifth day. When Chu Chen checked the price, a big red figure of 500 made him wonder if his eyes had been playing tricks on him. After having rubbed his eyes a few times, he finally confirmed that it had been the right figure.

The last time his herbs were sold had only been for a hundred spirit stones. This time, after having processed the commission, he had been left with over 450 spirit stones. Chu Chen felt as though he was about to go crazy. He wondered who had been his great benefactor this time that bought it off for 500 spirit stones.

Chu Chen quickly rushed to the market. The owner grinned so widely that his eyes could not be seen and treated him with great hospitality, having shown no signs of neglect to his money tree.

“Brother, it’s such a pleasure to be working with you. If you can continue to find more rare herbs, you’ll have a bright future ahead!”