I Can Upgrade My Talent Infinitely-Chapter 100: Material Compatibility

According to the information Zhu Tianrui had gathered.

The Alchemy tasks Fang Yun was accepting at Dan Cloud Pavilion were all for refining Qi Enhancement Pills.

With Fang Yun taking so many of the Qi Enhancement Pill refining tasks, other disciples with decent Alchemy Talent were also accepting fewer of them, but the number of other Alchemy tasks they accepted would then increase.

The total number of Alchemy tasks accepted by disciples with decent Alchemy Talent wasn’t really affected.

The ones who were affected were disciples like him, Zhu Tianrui, who had only average Alchemy Talent.

Zhu Tianrui felt he was severely affected.

’It always feels like the other disciples with average talent are getting more tasks than me.’

In the private room, Zhu Tianrui, who had been dwelling on this matter, could no longer control his expression.

He was alone here now, so there was no need to deliberately control it.

"Fang Yun..."

Facing a guy with Five Spirit Roots, he now felt a profound sense of powerlessness.

His grandfather couldn’t step in to help. He had sought out Deng Qian, who, after getting a free meal out of him, also said he was powerless to do anything about it.

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「Inner Sect, Area A Residences.」

Inside House Twenty-Two, Fang Yun was cultivating, refining and absorbing an Upper Grade Qi Enhancement Pill.

Ever since he started refining fourteen cauldrons of Qi Enhancement Pills at a time, his average daily consumption of Upper Grade pills had been less than his output.

Every time he went to hand in an Alchemy task, there were always new ones for him to take, a seemingly endless supply.

He also had other things to do, so he couldn’t possibly spend all his time on refining pills.

Therefore, the frequency with which he accepted and completed Alchemy tasks wasn’t particularly high.

Among the recent Alchemy tasks he’d accepted, the Spirit Medicines used for refining Qi Enhancement Pills were more frequently of good quality; superior-quality ones had become rather rare.

This situation was within Fang Yun’s expectations.

Normally, from one mu of Spirit Medicine tended by a disciple with decent Planting Talent, the yield of superior-quality Spirit Medicine was between one-tenth and one-seventh of the total.

For Fang Yun, as long as there were no inferior-quality Spirit Medicines, he was very satisfied.

Theoretically, with all good-quality Spirit Medicines, as long as his Alchemy skill was high enough, he could still refine them all into Upper Grade pills.

If they were all inferior-quality, it would be like before: the maximum output of Upper Grade pills would be less than half a cauldron’s worth—normally just two pills out of six.

Superior-quality Spirit Medicine was naturally the best. Even if his Alchemy skill were a bit lower, he could still refine all the pills to Upper Grade.

Just as Fang Yun had refined and absorbed two-thirds of an Upper Grade Qi Enhancement Pill, he heard a knock on the door.

He stopped cultivating and quickly went to open the door.

Standing outside were two people: Lu Zefeng and Zhang Cailing.

"Oh, it’s Senior Brother Lu and Senior Sister Zhang. Please, come in." Fang Yun invited the two inside.

Recalling the events from five days ago, Fang Yun had a good idea of why Lu Zefeng and Zhang Cailing were here.

"Junior Brother Fang, it’s a good thing you’re home this time."

"Yes, we came the day before yesterday and yesterday as well..." As she came in, Zhang Cailing briefly explained what they had been through.

They had left in such a hurry five days ago that they hadn’t asked about many things.

For example, where Fang Yun, now an Inner Sect Disciple, was living.

They only found out after asking around, and when they learned that Fang Yun was living in Area A for Inner Sect Disciples, they were surprised for a while.

They knew that, like them, Fang Yun had no background or connections in the sect.

And Area A was a special residential area; generally, only those with a certain background in the sect could be assigned to live there.

After finding out where Fang Yun lived, they had come over three times.

Today was the third time.

"Senior Brother, Senior Sister, if you need to find me in the future, it’s best to come in the morning. I’m most likely to be here during that time," Fang Yun reminded them.

Each month, he spent much more time away from his residence than in it.

"Senior Brother Lu, about your arm, what did the Elder of Alchemy say?" Fang Yun asked directly after motioning for the two to sit.

Lu Zefeng was just about to bring it up.

"The Elder was also powerless to help," Lu Zefeng sighed.

The Elder of Alchemy’s conclusion was within his expectations. After all, when he first met Fang Yun, Fang Yun had already explained the situation clearly to him.

Although Fang Yun was modest, he understood the true value of Fang Yun’s talent.

"If you’d like, Senior Brother, I can refine your arm into a Magical Artifact," Fang Yun offered, knowing full well this was why Lu Zefeng had come.

"Then I’ll have to trouble you, Junior Brother Fang... um, Junior Brother..."

"Senior Brother, please speak your mind." Seeing Lu Zefeng’s hesitation, Fang Yun wasn’t sure what was holding him back.

"After my arm is refined into a Magical Artifact, can it be reattached?"

"Senior Brother, you’ve really given me a difficult problem. Let me think."

Fang Yun began to think, flipping through all the books on Artifact Refining he had ever read in his mind.

The arm came from Lu Zefeng himself. After being refined into a Magical Artifact, it was indeed possible for it to serve as a prosthesis.

However, refining such a Magical Artifact would be an extremely troublesome process. In the entire Celestial Cloud Sect, besides him, probably only the Artifact Refining Elder could accomplish it.

With his three-star Artifact Refining talent, he could probably manage to complete the refining by relying on his intuition in some places.

"It can be reattached. The Magical Artifact can serve as your arm, and it will even have some other functions."

"That’s great!" Lu Zefeng was overjoyed.

Hearing this, a smile also appeared on Zhang Cailing’s face, happy for Lu Zefeng.

"However, this kind of refining is very difficult, and the materials are not easy to collect," Fang Yun added, stating the conditions after their initial excitement subsided.

The difficulty of the refining was high, one could ask the Artifact Refining Elder to do it.

But just asking an Elder to take action would come at a very high price.

"Junior Brother Fang, can you tell me first what materials I need to collect?"

"Of course."

"About a pound of Spiritual Milk—more than a pound would be best—and eighteen stingers from Spotted Poison Bees. These two are the most crucial. The other materials are..."

Fang Yun went on to list nine materials in total.

Zhang Cailing was at the side, writing down what Fang Yun said.

Originally, refining the arm into a Magical Artifact would have only required six types of materials. But to meet Lu Zefeng’s request, both the Spiritual Milk and the Spotted Poison Bee stingers were additional materials.

"Why so many poisonous materials?" Zhang Cailing couldn’t help but ask as she looked at her notes.

"Because Senior Brother Lu’s arm is poisonous itself," Fang Yun explained simply.

This involved knowledge related to Artifact Refining. Not just any materials could be combined into a Magical Artifact; their compatibility was crucial.

To refine this Magical Artifact, Lu Zefeng’s arm was undoubtedly the main material.

"By the way, Junior Brother Fang, do you know what Yinlin Flowers are used for?" After hearing the list of required materials, Lu Zefeng suddenly asked.