Chapter 42 - Guidance
Jian was sitting in sect hall and was refining Body tempering Pill. In front he many pill bottles was kept.
Two days have passed since he had discussed the upgrade of sects with Yu Yue and Yu Yang.
On the first day, Jian had distributed the Body tempering pills to every disciple. Every pill was above 75% of purity.
When Jian had distributed the pills he found that after taking the pill the techniques exercises have become less burden and disciples above talent seven-star has started to show improvement and were able to complete the cycle of exercises.
Seeing the improvement in their cultivation Jian was happy. However, one thing that caused Jian to frown was that after completing the technique the impurities were increasing and their cultivation speed was decreasing.
Jian asked, " System since more impurities are were discarded, is good things why their cultivation speed decrease every time they complete one cycle."
The system said, "Host although they can increase their cultivation through Body tempering pills. But your pill contains impurities, it is not pure so the impurities are will keep increasing if you continuously feed them the pills. "
Jian was in dilemma and he wanted to increase the speed of their cultivation so when he heard the system saying that their speed will decrease his progress has been stopped.
Jian asked, "System what can we do?"
The system replied, "Host you have to increase your efficiency in purifying the pills and of pills quality reach above 90% purity then there will be no problems."
Jian knew to increase the purity of pills he has increased his Qi control and to that, he has continued to practice.
Jian decided that since he has 10 days to complete the mission for Weapon Smith Profession. He will focus on refining the pills and increase their purity.
However, before going to Sect Hall and refine the Pills.
Jian asked, " System are there other ways to increase their speed of cultivation. "
The System replied, " Host you can refine Marrow Cleansing Pills which can cleanse the impurities gathered in the body. However, Host, you have to become a two-star alchemist because it is a grade Two pill."
Jian knew it will require time to become a two-star alchemist so he shook his head and went to Sect Hall to refine the pills.
It has been two days he is continuously refining the pill and is trying to get above 90% purity but he couldn't get past 89%.
One day before Jian had started to successfully refine the pills which have 89% purity but he couldn't get past it and he continued to refine.
Jian asked, " How can I increase its purity. "
The system said, " Host even though your efficiency of Qi control has increased still you will not be able to increase the purity of pill further. "
Jian was baffled and asked, " Why?"
The system said, " Host each herb is different each has a different amount of essence and to refine each herb you require specific temperature. If you recall the process of refining the pill you will see that each pill is a combination of different essence and in each pill specific amount of essence only required extra will lessen the quality of the pill"
Jian's mind went haywire as the system said this. He suddenly recalled the process of refining the pills.
Jian has been sitting in the same position for more than two hours however there is no sign of fatigue. The only smile is seen on Jian's face.
Jian opened his eyes and took out the herbs required for the pill. Jian didn't ask anything he directly started the process.
As every time the process was the same but something different was happening. Jian's speed has increased exponentially and he doesn't stop midway. Now he can do multiple things simultaneously.
After half hour of refining, there were three pills in the cauldron. But something was different because when Jian completed the last process there was a light shown in the cauldron. Even though it was minimal it was still different from before.
Jian saw three pills in the cauldron, he knew something was different in this pill and he couldn't wait to check the pills.
Jian said, "System check the quality of the pills".
A screen appeared and it showed the quality.
[Ding!]
90%
90%
91%
Jian saw the screen was haw shocked because he knew that he had surpassed the 89% mark but he couldn't have thought that he will be able to refine the pill of 91%.
Jian smiled seeing the screen for one last time and collapsed.
Jian has been continuously refining the pills and he only took small rests between the refining but he couldn't sleep. And for the last process, he had used his last bit of energy. so seeing the success of pills he couldn't hold anymore.
Jian has been sleeping for more than three hours. He had tried to wake up but he couldn't so he continued to lay on the ground.
Jian asked, " Why am I exhausted? This didn't happen before."
The system, "Host you have used overused Qi and your mental strength was also overdrawn. You should take a healing pill you will be able to move."
Jian nodded and took out the healing pill and ate it. After few minutes he could feel his exhaustion going and he was able to move.
Jian stood up and exercised a little bit. Because of soreness of body. After exercising for few minutes he sat on the chair.
Jian asked, " How was I able to refine the 90% quality pill?"
The system said, "Host you went in a state of enlightenment when I told the reasons why purity was not increasing and after enlightenment, you didn't stop you directly started to refine the pill. The state of enlightenment helped you breakthrough in pill refining and the purity reached above 90% ."
Jian finally understood what happened because he could only remember asking the system to check the quality right before he collapsed.
Jian asked, "Why I went to the state of enlightenment?"
The system replied, " when the system pointed out the problems you immediately understood where you went wrong and you started to recall the process continuously for two hours before you started to refine the pills."
Jian nodded and sigh finally he can refine pills with high purity.. Jian couldn't wait to start refining the pills and check the results.