Capítulo 484: After the modification: Chapter 483 Optimizing the Pill Formula (Seeking Monthly Pass)
“With the Nine Qi Unification Alchemy Method upgraded to the third layer, it is equivalent to me having once again solidified my status as a High-tier Third-Grade Alchemist. Although my alchemy prowess hasn’t greatly improved, I can now freely use this advanced alchemy method.
The pill success rate and pill quality will both see significant improvements.”
Bai Ziyue silently absorbed the memories and experiences related to alchemy, his face growing increasingly calm.
“Consume 5,653,138 Soul Energy to elevate the Nine Qi Unification Alchemy Method to Perfection in the fourth layer!”
“Five million six hundred fifty-three thousand?”
Bai Ziyue couldn’t help but widen his eyes. This expenditure was far greater than before, even making him feel some heartache.
“However, to spend over five million Soul Energy to directly enhance my alchemy skill from High-tier Third-Grade to High-tier Fourth-Grade, it doesn’t seem so hard to accept?”
After a brief thought, he quickly understood that although such consumption was massive, it was worth it considering the improvement and benefits it brought him.
“Upgrade!”
Thus, he quickly gritted his teeth and chose to upgrade.
In an instant, Bai Ziyue felt innumerable profound understandings of the Nine Qi Unification Alchemy Method flow through his mind. The preemptive prediction of the fusion and transformation of various materials before extraction, the application of pill formulas, and the control and guidance of flames—all these alchemical techniques and skills seemed naturally imprinted in his mind, incredibly familiar.
He seemed to truly have gone through countless uses of the Nine Qi Unification Alchemy Method to refine Spirit Pills, diligently for decades to centuries, mysteriously acquiring a grace unique to Alchemy Grandmasters.
“The fourth layer of the Nine Qi Unification Alchemy Method has finally reached Perfection.
And my alchemy prowess has accordingly been elevated to the level of a High-tier Fourth-Grade Alchemist.
As for the fifth layer… Forget it, my Soul Energy isn’t enough, and being a High-tier Fourth-Grade Alchemist is already sufficient for me now.
Given my current understanding and contemplation of the Alchemy Dao, looking back at my former alchemy prowess… it’s riddled with flaws, and some habits are outright erroneous methods, many actions seem redundant.
Refining those Second and Third-grade Spirit Pills again truly feels effortlessly easy, almost achieving a 100% pill success rate.
Spirit Pills below Third-grade, if refined by me, would undoubtedly be of Super Tier within the same grade.”
Bai Ziyue carefully reflected, comparing the changes before and after, clarity and immense confidence blossoming within him.
“Moreover, dealing with wasted pills, which I was previously powerless against, I can now re-refine and purify them…”
His gaze then fell on the side, to the three furnaces of wasted Third-Grade Spirit Pills, Awakening Pills he had just refined.
The worst batch of these Awakening Pills was a lump of pitch-black residue, the second batch barely formed a pill shape, and the batch with the least impurities had more than 45% impurities.
Without hesitation, Bai Ziyue reached out, summoning all the wasted materials from the three furnaces.
A cluster of five-colored flames burst out, followed by the casual casting of a pill formula from his hand.
Sizzle… sizzle…
After a slight sizzling sound, the materials converged, and unique ‘gas’ streams were extracted from the wasted pills.
The gas streams split, transforming into purer spiritual energy infused with medicinal power.
At the moment when all these gas streams completely merged, he cast the Pill Fusion Technique.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
As the sounds echoed out, an elliptical Spirit Pill, emanating an astonishing spiritual pressure, appeared before him.
“Divide!”
Bai Ziyue summoned again, and the Spirit Pill began to split.
In an instant, it divided into three pills, each half the size of a normal Spirit Pill, but of extremely high grade.
Third-Grade Super Tier Spirit Pills, Awakening Pills.
“Although there was some loss, making the resulting pills much smaller than normal, transforming waste into treasure means at least the materials weren’t entirely wasted.
These three Awakening Pills, being Third-Grade Super Tier, aren’t less effective than regular High-tier Third-Grade Spirit Pills.”
A contented smile graced Bai Ziyue’s face.
This trick of turning waste into treasure was immensely valuable to alchemists, comparable to a Divine Skill, significantly reducing material wastage.
After all, Spirit Pills of Third-grade and above mostly require Third-Grade Spiritual Materials, Fourth-Grade Spiritual Materials, and even Fifth-Grade Spiritual Materials, which are often irreplaceable or require enormous time costs, making them extremely precious and rare. Once wasted, gathering the materials again isn’t easy.
“However, viewing the Awakening Pill formula with my current insights, it does have some issues.
Regarding the final material composition for forming the pill, a few Third-Grade Spiritual Materials can indeed be replaced by Second-Grade Spiritual Materials. Especially the Third-Grade Spiritual Material Jade Ghost Grass, which can be substituted with the combination of First-grade Spiritual Material Silver Bell Flower and Second-Grade Spiritual Material Ghost Grass for refinement.
Furthermore, the Silver Bell Flower can also aid in the fusion with another spiritual material, enhancing the pill’s efficacy.”
Bai Ziyue pondered silently, optimizing and modifying a Third-Grade Spiritual Material formula within a short time.
After calculating the results, his eyes lit up: “The original Awakening Pill formula required seven kinds of Third-Grade Spiritual Materials and twelve kinds of Second-Grade Spiritual Materials, costing about forty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones. My optimized formula reduces the Third-Grade Spiritual Materials to four kinds. Although the Second-Grade Spiritual Materials increase to fifteen kinds, with an additional three kinds of First-grade Spiritual Materials, the total material cost is reduced to twenty-five thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.”
“Moreover, the new Awakening Pill effect is 20% stronger than the original, and the reduced Third-Grade Spiritual Materials significantly lower the refining difficulty, correspondingly increasing the pill success rate.
Regarding pill success rate, it might not mean much to me, but for those Initial-stage Third-Grade Alchemists, it would be a gigantic benefit.
Roughly calculated, the profit of refining Awakening Pills with the new formula can directly increase by more than double.”
“This is just the Awakening Pill. For other first-grade and second-grade spirit pills, I can likewise optimize their pill formula.
Basically, for each type of spirit pill, I can reduce the cost by half, double the effect, and even if the pill success rate can’t be increased, it won’t be worse than the original.
By this calculation, the profit margin will increase fourfold.
If we fully utilize Fire Spirit Peak’s scale advantage, I can surely earn Spirit Stones and contributions much faster.”
Bai Ziyue gradually became excited.
After spending some time optimizing more than ten commonly used first and second-grade spirit pills, he recorded them in the Jade Scroll Eye, then walked out of the Alchemy Room and summoned all the disciples.
“It has been about twenty days since Fire Spirit Peak was established. What are the results?”
Bai Ziyue looked towards Ma Zhen.
“Master, initially everyone’s alchemy skills were quite weak, and both the pill success rate and quality were not high, so we were in a loss at the beginning.
On the seventh day, our income and expenses balanced out, and by the fifteenth day, we officially started making a profit.
As of now, Fire Spirit Peak has earned a total of 30,000 merit points and 250,000 Spirit Stones. By the end of the month, it is estimated that the merit points will reach 60,000, and the Spirit Stones will reach 700,000.
For next month, we are confident we can earn a total of 100,000 merit points and 1.5 million low-grade Spirit Stones.”
Ma Zhen replied respectfully.
All the disciples’ eyes lit up upon hearing this, feeling a sense of pride.
They looked at Bai Ziyue with even more respect and admiration.
They knew very well to whom they owed all of this.
“Achieving profitability in less than a month, well done.”
Bai Ziyue was not stingy with his praise. Even though their alchemy talent was not very strong, he had seen their sincerity and hard work in alchemy.
That was the fundamental reason Fire Spirit Peak could go from loss to profit in such a short time.
Diligence can indeed make up for inadequacy.
Especially with the correct guidance of the ‘Kunlun Pill Scripture,’ the results were immediate.
“However, it’s not enough.
In these twenty days of refining, the ‘Kunlun Pill Scripture’ has already brought out all your foundational skills and potential.
It will be difficult to improve as quickly as before.
You can only continue to improve through more alchemy, a lot of alchemy.
Now you have barely caught up with the alchemists of your age, but you are still far behind the alchemy geniuses.
Now that I have handed the ‘Kunlun Pill Scripture’ to the Hall Master, it will be publicly accessible in the Pill Treasure Hall in six months.
This means you have only six months of advantage time.”
Bai Ziyue looked at this group of registered disciples. Seeing that everyone had become serious, he continued, “This batch of Jade Scroll Eyes contains the improved pill formulas I have developed, which will greatly assist your alchemy.
Next, whether you can surpass the alchemists of your age and those alchemy geniuses depends on how diligent you are.
And during these six months, the fastest progress and best performance group will be promoted to official disciples. I hope you won’t disappoint me.”
Instantly, everyone became excited.
Even Ma Zhen’s eyes were filled with excitement and anticipation.
Official disciples!
The temptation was immense for them.
They were very aware of Bai Ziyue’s powerful alchemy skills. Just one Pill Scripture had brought them such a significant improvement. If they could become official disciples and receive guidance directly from the master, their progress would be much greater.
Everyone secretly made up their minds to perform well in the upcoming days, in hopes of being chosen by their master…
Bai Ziyue, seeing this, nodded with satisfaction. He then distributed the Jade Scroll Eyes, handing out the pill formulas and giving three Awakening Pills to Ma Zhen to be delivered to Fang Han and Zhao Wu.
Even if some had made mistakes, as long as they recognized and corrected them, he was willing to give them a chance.
“In about ten days, you should be able to familiarize yourself with these pill formulas and exert their proper effects.
By then, based on the original monthly estimates of 100,000 merit points and 1.5 million low-grade Spirit Stones, a fourfold profit margin would be 400,000 merit points and 6 million low-grade Spirit Stones.
Even after deducting losses and distributing profits to the disciples, I could still get 200,000 merit points and 3 million low-grade Spirit Stones.
It won’t be long before I can go back to the Innovation Hall for more creations.”
Bai Ziyue showed a smile on his face.
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