's transparent furnace, the final form of the five colors merging together.Xie Shiulong and Yan Zilan were both here, all the pills that Shen Xiang had refined into Five Elements True Essence Pills we...Chapter 8: Pill Formation

The moment the flames were poured into the furnace, the medicinal materials inside dried up and the spiritual energy evaporated before it could even spread. It failed at the beginning, but Shen Xiang didn't lose heart. He now knew how powerful his flames were and needed to control them more carefully.

Shen Xiang gathered the medicinal materials, this time he controlled his flames carefully and baked them inside the furnace with utmost caution, but it still failed.

After three failures, he gained some experience. He knew that it was due to the timing of the fire.

On the fourth attempt, Shen Xiang achieved many successes and was able to enter the latter stages of pill formation.

The furnace was specially made and allowed him to see inside. At this moment, Shen Xiang could see the various colors of spiritual energy emanating from the medicinal materials. He controlled those energies inside, forming a vortex, while the medicinal materials were drying up slowly turning into ash.

Then Shen Xiang used his spiritual energy to control the 'drug vapor' and mix it with the medicinal powder...

Shen Xiang was at the 5th level of ordinary martial realm, and his spiritual energy wasn't bad. However, at this moment, he felt that he was reaching the limit because he had to divide 'drug vapor' into five vortices and mix it with the medicinal powder. This way, he could produce five pills at once.

Five vortices formed, Shen Xiang frowned as sweat dripped down his forehead. Not only did he have to consume true qi to release flames, but he also had to use a lot of spiritual energy to control the fire and condense the pills.

"I have to succeed!" Shen Xiang said in his heart. The 'drug vapor' vortices spun quickly, mixing evenly with the five uniform medicinal powder groups. Now all that was needed was to add water in appropriate amounts, allowing the 'drug vapor' and medicinal powder to condense into pills, thus completing the process.

After adding water that had been nurtured with true qi, five pills appeared inside the furnace. They were still damp and surrounded by a dense aura of spiritual energy.

"Pill formation!" Shen Xiang exclaimed in his heart. The five spirit pills inside the furnace were immediately enveloped by a white vapor, which was the steam produced during drying.

Shen Xiang's forehead was covered in sweat, looking very tired. He had released flames and used spiritual energy continuously, almost exhausting his true qi.

"Finally succeeded! It took a whole day, indeed pill formation requires time!" Shen Xiang sighed softly.

Shen Xiang opened the furnace, and looking at the five spirit pills from Body Tempering Pill with the mist dispersing, revealing five snow-white pills. He couldn't help smiling. Before he had also consumed Body Tempering Pills, but he believed that his were better.

If those old pill masters knew that Shen Xiang could successfully produce Body Tempering Pills within a day, they would feel ashamed. Many people took more than three years to successfully cultivate pills, and even the most talented needed a year plus, trying once to produce one pill.

But Shen Xiang achieved five pills on his first try, this would shock those pill masters if they knew.

Not only old pill masters, even Su Meiyao and Bai Yuyou were shocked by Shen Xiang's talent in pill formation. Looking at the pills on their delicate hands, they had difficulty believing it.

“Hehe, Senior Meiyou, you said I needed half a year before, but I created them within a day. How about rewards” Shen Xiang proudly smiled.

“That’s great! What will the young master reward us with” Su Meiyao asked joyfully.

Shen Xiang crossed his arms, laughing mischievously, “Kiss my face.”

“Dream on!” Bai Yuyou said coldly, then returned into her ring.

But Su Meiyao, with a smug smile on her face, leaned over and gently kissed Shen Xiang's cheeks. She said playfully, “My dear little brother, you must continue to work hard and don’t be proud.”

Shen Xiang was only joking, but he didn't expect this luscious beauty to actually kiss his face. Su Meiyao saw Shen Xiang with a dazed expression, covering her mouth as she smiled seductively. Then she returned into the ring.

Shen Xiang took a deep breath, inhaling that pleasant aroma and feeling extremely comfortable. He murmured softly, “Surely you are a fairy, I actually became more energetic!”

He touched the invisible ring on his hand, as if caressing a lover's face. In order to restore the strength of those two fairies inside, he was full of energy. One Body Tempering Pill could sell for 700 great spiritual stones, five pills inside the furnace amounted to a total of 3500 great spiritual stones. He had made big profits, and there was still material left that he hadn't refined yet. If it was successful, another 3500 great spiritual stones could be gained.

When Shen Xiang was reading books before, it said that one batch of materials could refine five Body Tempering Pills in a furnace. So originally, he aimed to produce five pills on the first try. But he didn't know that in such a situation, only pill masters with extremely high insight could master the process of condensing pills. The most important thing was timing, which was vital.

Controlling spiritual energy and controlling the fire were both subtle changes depending on the conditions inside the furnace, otherwise they would fail.

Body Tempering Pills were very helpful for tempering the body, but only for those at the 3rd level of ordinary martial realm. Now that Shen Xiang was at the 5th level of ordinary martial realm, these pills didn't help him much but could quickly restore his true qi.

After consuming one pill, Shen Xiang's true qi was restored by half. Then he packed the remaining four pills and planned to give them to Shen Tianhu.

“Nice taste, but I ate seven hundred great spiritual stones!” Shen Xiang felt slightly painful. Then he ran to his father's study.

It was already late night, but Shen Tianhu didn't sleep. He was still thinking about some aspects of martial arts in his study, which was his habit.

“Xiang'er, what happened since it's late” Shen Tianhu frowned when he smelled the sweat on his son.

Shen Xiang grinned and said, “I promised that I would give you the first pills after refining them!”

“What” Shen Tianhu suddenly stood up, his eyes wide as he didn't believe it. He thought Shen Xiang would take at least ten to eight years before refining the pills, but he didn't expect him to finish in just one day!

Shen Xiang took out the four snow-white Body Tempering Pills and handed them to Shen Tianhu. Shen Tianhu was wide-eyed, incredulously looking at the four white pills.

“Still hot!” Shen Tianhu was shocked to the point of being speechless, as he couldn't believe that his son had mastered pill formation techniques in a day. This was a once-in-a-thousand-years talent.

Such extraordinary talents were prized by many factions, while others envied and coveted them. Some wanted to cultivate ties with them, while some wanted to assassinate them.

Shen Tianhu took a deep breath, calming his excitement and said, “The quality is much better than the Spirit Pill Pavilion. At least it’s worth 800 great spiritual stones per pill! These four Body Tempering Pills I’ll take first and exchange them for spiritual stones. Then I’ll buy you some spirit medicinal seeds.”

From Shen Xiang's ability to ripen spirit medicines and refine spirit pills, just within days, Shen Tianhu knew that his son would inevitably become a pill master.

“Don’t rush, first refine the inferior grade pills. Wait until you feel it’s about time before proceeding to a higher level.”

Shen Xiang nodded. He went back to rest, waiting for his spiritual energy to recover before refining the last batch of herbs.

The next day, Shen Xiang woke up early. Thinking about his success in refining Body Tempering Pills made him excited, having successful experience helped him feel more at ease as he proceeded through the process.

The furnace already had five groups of powder and spiritual energy combined together inside. At this moment, Shen Xiang felt very relaxed compared to his previous attempts.

“Success!” Shen Xiang exhaled in relief, opened the cover of the furnace, and took out those Spirit Pill with a drifting spiritual energy from inside.

This batch only took two hours!

During the following days, Shen Xiang continued to ripen spirit medicines and refine spirit pills. Not only Body Tempering Pills, he also refined inferior grade pills like Recovery Qi Pill, Golden Wound Medicine, Poison Removing Pill, and Condensation Qi Pill.

Although he would fail at first when starting each refining process, after gaining familiarity with the medicinal materials, he could control the timing and gather some insights.

The skill of refining pills from this mysterious woman was highly skilled. If it was before, Shen Xiang wouldn't have believed that such a luscious beauty knew about pill refinement, while in his mind, pill masters were usually old bald men.

This kind of day made Shen Xiang's life very fulfilling, it didn't affect his cultivation. He usually condensed the green dew drops that could ripen spirit medicines during night time when practicing Dragon Breath Skill.

Another month passed, and Shen Xiang could skillfully refine inferior grade pills now.inative methods can we try You've tried many!"Shen Xiang stroked her face, smiling. "What do you think I can try next Something extremely imaginative or out of the box"Yoo Qing rotated her eyes, but S...