With Cultivation Simulator in a Chaotic World-Chapter 102 - 101: The Alchemist’s Charm
"From today onwards, Ouyang Yun will be my disciple!"
[Master Yunding is extremely satisfied with you and announces to the Nine Clouds Market and surrounding regions spanning several dynasties that you are his disciple.]
[He personally bestowed upon you the credential of a First-Grade Alchemist.]
Jiang Ming gently exhaled.
The reason Ouyang Yun could so perfectly align with Master Yunding’s intentions was because of his role as the Spring Commander.
Jiang Ming’s perspective allowed him to see the situation more clearly.
Master Yunding’s status and mastery of Alchemy surpass most alchemists in the Nine Sects.
How to please a perfectionist? Naturally, by being a perfectionist yourself.
[Upon learning that you became Master Yunding’s disciple, the Ouyang Family sent representatives to offer congratulations despite their busy schedule, and privately emphasized your status as a disciple of the Ouyang Family, which you simply acknowledged.]
[You learned that downstream of Qingqiu River, there is a very loose Alchemist Association, which doesn’t hold any power but serves as a platform for alchemist exchanges.]
The Alchemist Association was somewhat different from what Jiang Ming had seen in novels from his past life; this organization is quite loose. However, as alchemists are scarce, the association formed to protect the interests of alchemists.
So-called credential levels are merely a means for various forces to quickly know your advancement, thereby spreading your reputation instantly, increasing commissions, and benefiting Alchemy Dao naturally.
Additionally, the Alchemist Association exists to prevent individuals from treating alchemists as emotionless pill-making machines, exploiting them to death. If there are grudges, resolve them, but if one forces an alchemist to toil like a beast, be prepared to face the revenge of all alchemists downstream of Qingqiu River. This is their bottom line.
[Your master, Master Yunding, is the vice president of the Alchemist Association.]
[With Master Yunding, you gained knowledge that Nine Clouds Market is one of the three largest markets downstream of Qingqiu River; however, it is essentially a buffer zone for various forces, thus Nine Clouds Market must remain strictly neutral.]
[Master Yunding is one of the few bigwigs behind Nine Clouds Market with broad connections. He treated you as a trusted disciple, introducing you to other bigwigs, earning you many valuable meeting gifts.]
[Your status as a First-Grade Alchemist was also publicized by the Alchemist Association, and upon returning to Nine Clouds Market, you received alchemy commissions.]
[You began researching the Dao of Alchemy.]
[In the year 7907 of the Nine Rivers Calendar, you successfully crafted the Qi Gathering Pill, the most popular First-grade Pill.]
Gathering Yuan Powder was a First-grade Pill created by Master Yunding, featuring a daring design.
Alchemy requires the condensation of medicinal power rather than dispersal, with a final solidification step. However, Gathering Yuan Powder doesn’t need this step; instead, it employs a clever interplay of medicinal properties to lock the power.
This greatly lowers the barrier to entry, making it ideal for alchemists new to the Dao, but its efficacy is somewhat poor.
The Qi Gathering Pill, however, has been refined by numerous alchemists, increasing its difficulty, making it unachievable by most First-grade Alchemists.
Crafting a Qi Gathering Pill means Ouyang Yun will be respected by any force he approaches in the future.
[In October of the same year, you astonished the alchemists of Nine Clouds Market with an 80% pill emergence rate from a single furnace producing eight pills.]
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[In the year 7908 of the Nine Rivers Calendar, you learned a new pill formula, Rejuvenation Pill.]
[That same year, you learned a new pill formula, Blazing Fire Pill.]
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[In the year 7909 of the Nine Rivers Calendar, you learned a new pill formula, Light Body Wind-controlling Pill.]
[Within the same year, the innovative discount package of your Pill pack attracted many small families and your commissions kept coming.]
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[In the year 7911 of the Nine Rivers Calendar, you broke through to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer and switched to the complete legacy from Qi Refining Realm to Golden Core Realm taught by Master Yunding, the Ninth-grade Pill Control Technique with Fire and Wood Attributes.]
The Ninth-grade Pill Control Technique, with Fire and Wood Attributes, offers little combat enhancement.
But significantly strengthens control capabilities.
Every time a new pill is crafted and every advancement to the next alchemist rank provides feedback from the pills, enhancing one’s own cultivation, partially remedying the flaw of alchemists lacking cultivation due to pill making.
This is the most advanced cultivation technique Jiang Ming has ever seen.
In the Cyan Cloud Sect, there are only two or three complete transmission techniques for Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment; others are scattered techniques.
[In the year 7915 of the Nine Rivers Calendar, you have mastered eighteen formulas, covering mainstream pills for cultivation, healing, combat, and attributes within the Qi Refining Realm.]
[In the year 7916 of the Nine Rivers Calendar, you successfully crafted a Second-grade Pill, Turtle Shell Pill, advancing to a Second-Grade Alchemist...]
[You gradually became renowned among low-level cultivators in Nine Clouds Market as a distinguished alchemist; your all-inclusive First-grade Pill package was recorded and propagated by the Alchemist Association and several large Pill Pavilions in Nine Clouds Market.]
[Your master grows increasingly satisfied with you.]
[In the year 7917 of the Nine Rivers Calendar, you searched for incomplete pill formulas at auction for inspiration.]
[You easily acquired an incomplete pill formula, which had only half, relating to Fire Attribute pills, which greatly aided you and sparked an idea in your mind.]
[On your way back to the pavilion, you’re followed, attracting the attention of a tribulation cultivator.]
Ouyang Yun’s eyes seem vacant, his mind far from the road ahead.
"Bang."
A sudden explosion of Spiritual Qi rings out from behind.
Ouyang Yun hurriedly turns his head.
He spots two burly men being subdued by four Law Enforcement Cultivators in blue uniforms.
"Alchemist Ouyang, we apologize for your fright; it’s our oversight."
Ouyang Yun then realizes that his years of dedication to alchemy have somewhat diminished his combat skills.
Of course, it was also due to his distraction just now. If it were his past self in that perilous world, Ouyang Yun could detect threats immediately.
"No harm done."
Yet as an alchemist, Ouyang Yun doesn’t have high demands for his combat skills.
[Based on incomplete ancient pill formulas, you refined and improved the Fire Source Pill formula, creating the modified Endless Fire Pill. Its ability greatly sustains Fire Attribute Cultivators’ endurance, earning favor from several Fire Cultivation Sects upon release.]
[A month later, the Nine-Ring Village leader’s head was respectfully delivered to Cloud Cauldron Pavilion; only then did you learn that the tribulation cultivators targeting you were notorious members of Nine-Ring Village.]
Nine-Ring Village, a third-tier force, has no Foundation Establishment Cultivators but numerous cultivators at Qi Refining Perfection.
Comprised of formidable tribulation cultivators, living off plunder.
Yet Nine-Ring Village occupies a perilous position, residing within a natural formation, leaving many loose cultivators resentful yet indifferent.
But now, with just a word from Master Yunding, Nine-Ring Village is annihilated.
Members of Nine-Ring Village hadn’t planned to act yet; they intended to confirm identities before striking. This didn’t prevent Master Yunding from making an example of them.
[You learned that Master Yunding offered a Fifth-grade Pill as a bounty, easily eradicating Nine-Ring Village. While grateful to your master, you also subtly felt the allure of being an alchemist, beyond the vast Alchemy Dao it’s the allure of the alchemist’s identity.]
