Chapter 73

Inside the iron gate, it was not the pitch-black mountain belly, but a beautiful valley filled with light, where various medicinal herbs and spiritual trees were planted!

Su Mei Yao and Bai You You hurriedly came out. When they saw it, their faces showed surprise.

"These are all thousand-year-old medicinal herbs!" Su Mei Yao said.

Thousand-year-old ginseng, thousand-year-old lingzhi, thousand-year-old xuanling ginseng, thousand-year-old diling grass... Although most of these medicinal herbs were auxiliary, they were all over a thousand years old. Now they were as numerous as large radishes, and Shen Xiang estimated there were several hundred!

"Twenty golden spirit fruits, twenty thousand-pattern fruits, and over a hundred purple spirit fruits... Damn, am I dreaming?" Shen Xiang exclaimed, his heart pounding with excitement.

Although purple spirit fruits were not as precious as golden spirit fruits, they were still very expensive on the market and were the main ingredient for refining a spirit pill.

"Hmph, you're so happy over just a little bit of stuff, you're really a bumpkin!" Bai You You said coldly.

Shen Xiang pouted and said, "I know both of you have extraordinary backgrounds, and these things are nothing to you, but to me, they are all treasures."

"Quickly help me pick all these medicinal herbs. It will be enough for me to refine quite a few spirit-level pills." Shen Xiang said excitedly. He didn't yet know how to refine spirit-level pills, and he knew he would fail many times, but this medicinal garden had plenty of auxiliary herbs, which would save him a lot of expenses.

Only someone like Shen Xiang would make two peerless beauties work in the fields, and this made Su Mei Yao and Bai You You secretly despise him.

"You're not a real man. Beauties are meant to be pampered, not to do hard labor." Although Su Mei Yao said this, she started picking the thousand-year-old medicinal herbs.

Shen Xiang chuckled, "Both of you don't let me pamper you, so I can only..."

"Hmph, stop being a smartass." Bai You You huffed, making Shen Xiang quickly shut up. He didn't dare offend this cold beauty.

After half a day, most of the thousand-year-old medicinal herbs in the garden were picked and stored in the storage ring where Su Mei Yao and Bai You You lived.

"There are 120 purple spirit fruits, over twenty golden spirit fruits, and over twenty thousand-pattern fruits. This should be enough for me to refine quite a few foundation-building pills!" Shen Xiang grinned widely. Foundation-building pills not only helped those entering the True Martial Realm but also improved the cultivation of those already in the True Martial Realm, making them a very practical mystic-level pill!

High-grade spirit-level true essence pills were already very precious, let alone mystic-level pills!

Of course, whether he could refine them was another matter. Shen Xiang wasn't in a hurry. Even refining high-grade spirit-level pills would take him a long time to learn.

There were still other medicinal herbs growing in the garden, all auxiliary herbs several hundred years old. Shen Xiang wasn't in a hurry to pick them. He now had several hundred thousand-year-old medicinal herbs, and they were all quite large.

"This garden has many powerful formations. Not only do they allow sunlight to penetrate the thick rock, but they also condense a large amount of spiritual energy to nurture the medicinal herbs. This person must have left the Mortal Martial Realm." Su Mei Yao looked at the beautiful mountain belly and said.

Leaving the Mortal Martial Realm meant possessing the power to shatter the void! Shen Xiang secretly yearned for it. He didn't know when he would reach that realm.

"Shen Xiang, stay here and cultivate. Enter the ninth level of the Mortal Martial Realm before going to the Great Martial Sect." Bai You You said. At that moment, she was wearing a golden long dress, and under the gentle sunlight, she exuded a noble and cold beauty, like a high and mighty empress.

The dress was bought by Shen Xiang, and she loved wearing it. Now, both she and Su Mei Yao could wear beautiful clothes and bask in the sunlight, which was a very pleasant thing for them. If not for dire necessity, they wouldn't want to stay in the ring at all.

Shen Xiang now needed a large amount of true qi to condense the other three attributes of true qi. He had to know that swallowing a person at the tenth level of the Mortal Martial Realm only allowed him to condense two attributes of true qi into form. It was easy to imagine how much true qi he needed to condense the other three attributes.

The spiritual energy in this garden was very dense. With his Yin-Yang Divine Vein, Shen Xiang felt as if he was in an ocean of spiritual energy when he closed his eyes. However, even with this, it would take a long time to reach the ninth level of the Mortal Martial Realm.

Now Shen Xiang understood why people in the secular world only reached the ninth level of the Mortal Martial Realm in their old age, due to the lack of spiritual energy!

"Start learning to refine true qi pills! Refine during the day and take them at night, digesting the medicinal power while absorbing spiritual energy." Su Mei Yao said, then began to teach Shen Xiang her experience in refining true qi pills.

Great Yuan Pills are high-grade mortal-level pills that produce a large amount of true qi, increasing cultivation speed! True Qi Pills are much better than Great Yuan Pills, being low-grade spirit-level pills and the most popular pills in martial sects.

True Essence Pills are high-grade spirit-level pills that also produce true qi, but they are much more expensive, and ordinary people can't afford them.

The main ingredient for True Qi Pills is only one: the purple spirit fruit! Shen Xiang now had over 120, and the auxiliary herbs were all available, requiring only five hundred years of age. If he used thousand-year-old herbs, he would need only a little, which was very cost-effective.

Shen Xiang took a deep breath, digesting the alchemy experience Su Mei Yao had taught him, then began sorting the herbs into portions. He knew he would fail a few times at the beginning.

Shen Xiang took out the Flame Dragon Treasure Furnace, and Bai You You immediately ran to a distance, chatting softly with Su Mei Yao. The two sisters had a good relationship, and although Bai You You was cold, she was very good to Shen Xiang and Su Mei Yao. If it were anyone else, she wouldn't even acknowledge them, let alone talk to them.

Shen Xiang failed soon after he started, and the Flame Dragon Treasure Furnace emitted a puff of purple smoke. The second time, he failed again... It wasn't until the tenth time that he entered the middle stage of refining, which involved burning the herbs into powder and beginning to fuse the medicinal energy with the powder. However, he failed again at this stage!

"Damn, these purple spirit fruits are like rat droppings, ruining the whole pot of porridge. I always fail because of these purple spirit fruits." Shen Xiang complained.

From a distance, Su Mei Yao giggled, "The main ingredients and auxiliary ingredients of high-level pills conflicting is a natural occurrence. The higher the level of the pill, the more obvious the conflict and the harder it is to resolve. You need to figure it out yourself."

Su Mei Yao had always been proud of her alchemy talent, but Shen Xiang's appearance had dealt her a heavy blow. Now, seeing Shen Xiang's expression of failure, she was very happy.

Shen Xiang pouted and looked at Su Mei Yao's joyful and beautiful face, cursing silently in his heart.

"Sister Mei Yao, how many times did you fail at the beginning?" Shen Xiang asked.

"Are you testing my memory? I remember clearly, it was 72 times!" Su Mei Yao said. Although she failed so many times, she was still very satisfied with this number. Other alchemists wouldn't even dare to say they had learned to refine true qi pills if they hadn't failed over a hundred times.