Eternal Life: My Talents Can Refresh-Chapter 308 - 159: Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, Scheming and Escape
Luoxia Island is quite a famous island of Tier Two Demon Beasts within the Thousand Islands Thousand Lakes.
Therefore, the island is teeming with demon beasts, but also plentiful spirit medicines, attracting cultivators from time to time.
Chu Ning arrived on Luoxia Island, six months after beginning alchemy.
"The pill formation success rate of the Cyan Wood Primordial Yang Pill has already exceeded 90%, and the Flame Wood Twin Fruit should mature in about seven days.
Next, I must prepare for the Profound Spirit Treasure Pill.
But the preservation time of the White Reishi Grass is too short; even with a Jade Box, it can only be stored for half a month at most."
Chu Ning walked toward the center of the island, shaking his head slightly in resignation.
Over the past six months, despite giving up a lot of cultivation time, Chu Ning’s alchemy technique has been improving at an astonishing speed.
In fact, the time Chu Ning now spends on cultivation is much less than before.
This is naturally because various aspects of cultivation have reached a bottleneck.
After achieving First Layer Perfection in the Flame Divine Wood Technique, progress has slowed down.
Chu Ning’s magical power from cultivating the Flame Divine Wood Technique has reached a relatively full stage.
Therefore, proficiency improvement is extremely slow; he can only further refine his magical power at most.
His Body Refinement progress has stalled at the final bottleneck for a long time without any advancement.
On the other hand, Refining Spirit Technique continues to achieve a daily proficiency increase of 1 point.
This way, Chu Ning has ample time for alchemy.
Additionally, with a constant supply of alchemy materials from Cen Zijin.
After greatly increasing the pill formation success rate of the Gathering Essence Pill, he attempted refining the Spiritual Essence Pill, Jade Dew Pill, and Cyan Wood Primordial Yang Pill.
Almost every month, Chu Ning would learn a new pill refining method.
Once confident in the refinement of the Cyan Wood Primordial Yang Pill, Chu Ning began pondering the Profound Spirit Treasure Pill he always wanted to refine.
The most crucial ingredient for this pill is naturally the Flame Wood Twin Fruit, and it requires a significant amount.
Refining one pill requires about 5 Flame Wood Twin Fruits.
According to the records in the Flame Divine Wood Technique, using this Profound Spirit Treasure Pill to transform into liquid requires continuous consumption for at least one month.
If one’s magical power is quite dense, this duration could extend further.
Chu Ning is prepared to set aside two months.
Thus, 60 Profound Spirit Treasure Pills are required, totaling 300 Flame Wood Twin Fruits.
Including some loss, even more preparation is necessary.
Chu Ning currently has about 180, with the rest waiting to mature.
Additionally, the pill requires numerous other auxiliary herbs; Chu Ning has collected some from various islands over the past two years.
But some herbs have a very short efficacy, unsuitable for long-term preparation.
So he entrusted Cen Zijin to help purchase some.
In the past six months, Cen Workshop, after the talisman business, the pill business started booming.
Not only are many people purchasing elixirs.
Many loose cultivators also seize the opportunity to sell herbs.
This way, it helped Chu Ning gather most of the auxiliary herbs.
Only the White Reishi Grass remains unacquired.
This spirit grass, once harvested, even with a Jade Box, can only be stored for half a month.
After half a month, its efficacy greatly diminishes.
Hence, few would ever gather this type of spirit grass.
Chu Ning had previously learned detailed information about various islands from He Mingjin’s Jade Scroll.
He remembered that White Reishi Grass exists within Luoxia Island.
So he once asked Cen Zijin to help post a task in the market.
But White Reishi Grass indeed has too short an efficacy, and Chu Ning is very constrained by time.
Moreover, with numerous demon beasts on Luoxia Island, the place where White Reishi Grass grows is rumored to host Tier Two demon beasts.
Thus, even with a generous reward, no one has undertaken this task.
With no alternative, Chu Ning had to go personally.
"Luoxia Island isn’t like Pinghu Island, which has restrictions affecting divine sense, but this island indeed has far too many demon beasts.
No Foundation Establishment Cultivator is willing to laboriously clear them."
Chu Ning casually killed a Tier One Advanced Demon Beast and muttered something.
Then continued moving forward.
Aside from the aforementioned reason, Chu Ning also understood that with many cultivators within Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands.
There is equally high demand for artifact refining and alchemy herbs.
This way, it indeed necessitates some islands retaining their original topography.
Allowing demon beasts and spirit medicines to naturally proliferate.
Along the way, killing six or seven Tier One Advanced Demon Beasts, Chu Ning avoided areas potentially inhabited by Tier Two Demon Beasts.
However, after traveling fifty miles, he halted.
Watching the Mad Bone Beast ahead, he patted his hand to take out the Fire Phoenix Feather Spear.
The emaciated Mad Bone Beast examined the intruding cultivator to its territory, the fur clinging to its bones bristling.
Next, a white light attacked Chu Ning.
Meanwhile, the lion-like body, at least two zhang in size, directly pounced at Chu Ning.
Chu Ning did not immediately use the Fire Phoenix Feather Spear but instead raised his left hand.
Instantly, two flame-transformed Flame-winged Birds flew consecutively, one toward the white light, the other toward the Mad Bone Beast.
The Flame-winged Bird and white light both disintegrated upon contact.
