Chapter 53: There is a Luoqi Pill
Ruan Xing obtained from his memory many recipes for elixirs used by mortals in the world of immortal cultivation, some for maintaining youth and beauty, some for prolonging life, but there was no recipe for Luoqi Pills.
She had spent three years in the simulation making ordinary elixirs of inferior quality. If she had chosen skills, her alchemy proficiency might have been upgraded to that of a master of alchemy.
Ruan Xing decided to simulate the route again and choose random skills.
[Congratulations on gaining the experience of refining medicine at the age of 23. ]
The mastery of alchemy in the panel quietly transformed into the master of alchemy, which has reached the highest level among mortals.
Unfortunately, being able to refine medicine does not mean that one knows medical skills. In the early stage of refining medicine, she gained experience in martial arts medicine and some poisons, and in the later stage, she gained experience in maintaining youth and prolonging life. It has nothing to do with curing diseases and saving lives, otherwise she could have gained medical skills by the way.
Now that there is already a master of alchemy, when she goes to the herbal medicine shop this time, will the owner look at her differently and teach her some recipes for high-quality pills?
[Simulating]
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At the age of twenty, you entered the city and found a herbal medicine shop. The owner took you in. After learning that you could make medicine, he gave you most of the inferior medicine lists. You were paid twenty taels of silver a month, and you spent part of the silver to rent a place to live.
After that, you worked diligently to refine medicine every day with high efficiency, and made outstanding contributions to the transaction rate of the herbal medicine shop. The owner was very happy to praise you. You took the opportunity to ask the owner about the Luoqi Pill. The owner said that the Luoqi Pill was a first-grade elixir with high price, which was not affordable for ordinary mortals, so he seldom refined it.
You asked why the Luoqi Pill is a pill for mortals, but it is a high-grade elixir. The shop owner replied that the function of the Luoqi Pill is to cleanse the bones and veins, so that mortals can also have spiritual bones that can be used for immortal cultivation. Even though this kind of spiritual bone is inferior to the natural spiritual bone aptitude, it still attracts those mortals who do not have spiritual bones.
You showed the three bottles of white pills to the store owner for identification. After looking at them, the store owner said that they were Qi Gathering Pills used by disciples in the Qi Training Stage to assist in their practice. Although they were also first-grade elixirs, they were cheap.
You asked some more questions about spiritual bones and Luoqi Pills, and the owner answered them one by one. Then you wanted to become his apprentice and learn alchemy, but the owner said that he was only a first-level alchemist and could not teach you anything. Moreover, a small herbal medicine shop could not afford to support two first-level alchemists, so he rejected you.
At the age of 21, you saved 100 taels of silver in the herbal medicine shop and decided to change jobs. The owner tried to persuade you to stay but then let you go. You asked around for jobs that paid more money, but apart from hunting monsters and picking some spiritual herbs in harsh environments, there were no public jobs that could earn spiritual stones. And since you had no cultivation, you couldn't do these two jobs.
After inquiring from many sources, you decided to work as a maid in Wanbao Tower. Wanbao Tower is similar to a modern high-end shopping mall, selling all kinds of high-end materials, elixirs, magical tools, and some high-end talismans and arrays. Therefore, the shopping guides there are all good-looking young men and women, and the monthly salary is four or five times higher than that of the herbal medicine shop. With your outstanding appearance, you got the opportunity to work in Wanbao Tower.
At the age of 22, you have worked in Wanbao Tower for a year. You have learned a lot about the knowledge and prices of elixirs and magic weapons in the world of immortal cultivation, and you have saved up more than one thousand taels of silver. You decided to leave the town with the silver. Before leaving, you sold the three bottles of Qi Gathering Pills and exchanged them for six low-grade spirit stones. Not long after leaving the city, a casual cultivator in the Qi training stage came to you and asked you to hand over the spirit stones. You refused and fought with him using talismans, but you did not have the talismans with you. The power range of the talismans was limited, and it was difficult to cause damage without careful precautions. Your true Qi body protection could not resist the opponent's spells, and you could only injure the opponent even if you tried your best, and you died.
[End of simulation]
Still choosing to remember, Ruan Xing sighed. If she had known earlier, she would not have left the city. In her memory of Wanbao Tower, she learned about many alchemists in the city who had cooperative relations with Wanbao Tower. It would be fine to become their apprentice or to serve as a servant in their cave. Maybe she could learn something from them.
Yes, a beautiful mortal woman alone is likely to attract the attention of those who are interested. In addition, she is carrying spiritual stones, just like a three-year-old child carrying gold through a busy street. How can it not attract people's attention?
Moreover, she has only reached the acquired martial arts realm. Even if she has the talisman, her resistance to the immortal cultivator is like a gnat trying to shake a tree.
She roughly understood the realms of cultivating immortals, including Qi training, foundation building, golden elixir, Nascent Soul, spirit transformation, and returning to the abyss. Above the Return to the Abyss, one could ascend to the spirit world, but as for what the spirit world was like, no one knew.
The first three levels of Qi training are still in the stage of drawing Qi into the body and refining Qi in the meridians. Even the meridians in the body have not been fully expanded. Not only is her physical strength weaker than that of mortals who have practiced martial arts, she has not learned many spells. When she was carrying water to irrigate the fields at the foot of the mountain, most of the outer disciples at the first or second level of Qi training used a small cloud and rain technique, and their spiritual energy dried up before they could even irrigate an acre of land. That's why she dared to boldly trick the male cultivator at the second level of Qi training into going down the mountain with her and killing him.
When you reach the fourth level of Qi training and all the meridians in your body are expanded, you can formally learn some low-level spells. Although they will run out of energy after being cast two or three times, at least you have a means of attack. Moreover, most disciples in the Qi training stage will also study swordsmanship as a secondary skill, because except for swordsmanship which only requires a magic sword, all other skills require spirit stones or sect contribution points to exchange.
Moreover, the fourth level of Qi training is the minimum standard for going out of the city to hunt monsters. No monster hunting team will accept someone who is not at the fourth level, because he is of no use at all.
Ruan Xing quietly compared himself with others. He should be able to defeat anyone below the third level of Qi training. Of course, the premise is that this person cannot have obtained spiritual bones through the Luoqi Pill. Those who can take the Luoqi Pill to cleanse their spiritual bones must have gone through the acquired realm, and their physical strength cannot be compared with others at the third level of Qi training.
Those who practice Qi at the fourth level should be able to have a chance, but it would be different above the fifth level, 30-70. The other person has three moves, and she has the first seven.
Perhaps at this stage she should not focus on escaping from the attacks of the evil cultivators, but instead speed up the process of obtaining the Luoqi Pill to cleanse her spiritual bones.
She wasn't worried about her inferior talent, since she had never practiced martial arts herself since she started...
Once the simulator is turned on, hey, isn’t it easy to achieve any level?
The price of Luoqi Pills also made Ruan Xing feel overwhelmed. Wanbao Tower did have them. One bottle contained six pills and was sold for eighty low-grade spirit stones. Depending on one's martial arts aptitude, a mortal who wanted to cleanse his spirit bones would need to start with three bottles and there was no upper limit.
Ruan Xing is aware of her own qualifications, she needs at least five bottles.
That’s four hundred low-grade spirit stones.
No wonder those mortals who spent a lot of money to enter the world of immortal cultivation have no qualifications and can only continue to be mortals.
Who the hell can afford this!
In fact, she had been carrying the 20,000 taels of silver notes with her all the time, but there was no such thing as a silver bank in the world of cultivating immortals. All transactions were made with real gold and silver, or spirit stones. The silver notes were useless as no one would recognize them.
After a careful calculation, she had more than 30,000 yuan in her pocket, of which she had lent Cui Yurong 10,000 yuan, and she still had more than 20,000 yuan left. There were also 40,000 taels of silver notes hidden in the old man's cave. If she exchanged all these silver notes for silver and then brought them to the immortal cultivation world to exchange for spirit stones, she would have about 60 low-grade spirit stones.
Damn, I can't even afford a bottle.
Moreover, more than 60,000 taels of silver would need three or four large boxes, which she couldn't carry with her. It would be difficult to carry it with gold. Would more than 6,000 taels of gold be small in size? It would still be very obvious if she carried it with her.
This is simply unsolvable. Ruan Xing sat on the bed and thought, if he didn't follow the immortal riding the eagle, would he be able to pass through the numerous mountain passes and reach the world of immortal cultivation?
Ruan Xing guessed that there might be a barrier or a natural barrier, but he still had to try a simulation.
……
After a few seconds.
Shit! There's a monster!
Ruan Xing's face was gloomy. When she reached the sparsely populated border, she could clearly feel a layer of jelly-like barrier. Ruan Xing passed through it easily, and there was no sign of it disappearing or turning into ashes. But when she wanted to pass through it again, the jelly-like barrier became extremely hard, like a layer of transparent solid glass. It could not be broken, and no cracks could be found.
She gave up after just one try, intending to continue walking outside to see if she could pass through the continuous mountains she had seen in the sky. However, after only walking into the mountains for more than ten minutes, she was pinned to the ground by a leopard with bloodshot eyes. After feeling the tearing pain for a few seconds, she died.
How could a spotted leopard appear in the forest? And it was so fast that she couldn't see it clearly.
That can only be an unscientific monster bred in an unscientific world of cultivating immortals.
No wonder the barrier allows exit but not entry; it turns out it is to protect mortals from being harmed by monsters and beasts.
She now understood why there was no armed force in the dynasty except for the Patrol Security Division. There were uninhabited mountains all around, so it was impossible to attack other countries, let alone be attacked.
Protected by the barrier, living in a corner, self-sufficient, and living a peaceful life, it seems quite happy.
If you didn’t know that there are immortal cultivators out there.
Ruan Xing could only change his idea. What about going directly to the alchemist to try?
[Simulating]
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At the age of twenty, you entered the city and found the cave of a high-level alchemist. You asked to become his disciple, but were driven away by the alchemist's disciples.
You changed to a second-level alchemist and continued to ask to be his apprentice. He refused because you had no spiritual bones and could not use spiritual energy to attract the earth fire to make pills. You changed your words and said that you only wanted to follow the alchemist as a servant and did not ask to be his apprentice. The alchemist then accepted you and provided food and accommodation, but no salary.
You watched the alchemist making pills, and helped him deal with the drug residue and clean the alchemy room. Every month, the alchemist would send you to deliver the pills he made to Wanbao Tower for sale. Because you had worked as a waiter in Wanbao Tower, you knew that each alchemist had a fixed number written on the cooperation contract. You did not secretly take any pills, and the alchemist gradually began to trust you.
The alchemist uses the spiritual stones he earns from refining pills every month to support his own practice, and he only has you as his servant. After a long time, he teaches you some simple pre-processing methods for medicinal materials to save him time. You have experienced many of these medicinal materials when you were in the herbal medicine shop, so you processed them quickly and well, and the alchemist was very satisfied.
At the age of twenty-one, while observing the alchemist's mechanical work of refining pills and purchasing and processing various medicinal materials, you slowly pieced together several pill recipes made by the alchemist. The second-grade elixirs he made included the Tranquility Pill and the Jade Face Pill, and the first-grade elixirs included the Qi Gathering Pill, the Qi Luo Pill, the Bleeding Powder, and the Heart Purifying Pill.
At the age of 22, you asked the alchemist if he could make a few bottles of Luoqi Pills for you. Once you started practicing Qi and learned how to make pills, you would work for him for free for a hundred years. All the pills you made would be exchanged for spirit stones for your master to use for cultivation. The alchemist was somewhat tempted. He had completed his Qi training and was about to enter the stage of foundation building, which did require a lot of time to practice. However, he felt that it would take at least a few years for you to learn how to make pills, which would delay his foundation building. Therefore, he rejected you and said that he would consider this matter after he had established his foundation.
At the age of twenty-three, the alchemist had not yet established his foundation, and evil cultivators invaded. When the city lord led most of the cultivators in the city to resist the evil cultivators, you rushed into the alchemy room that the alchemist never let you enter, and got a bottle of Luoqi Pill in your hand before you died.
[End of simulation]
Ruan Xing was a little confused. She didn't know whether to choose memory or items. If she chose memory, she could get the recipes of Luoqi Pills and some other pills. If she chose items, she could get six Luoqi Pills.
However, the selection of items is random, and if she takes the Luoqi Pill, her realm will definitely be improved. I wonder if it will affect the subsequent development of the simulation.
Never mind. Anyway, her realm is low now and one simulation only needs one hundred points. She has more than four million points. What is there to be afraid of? Can't she just simulate a few more times?
Only children make choices, she just wants them all!
After selecting the memory, Ruan Xing simulated the route again and successfully got another bottle of Luoqi Dan.
With this bottle of Luoqi Dan in her hand, she felt reassured and no longer so anxious.
Even if she only had one bottle, she could use the simulator to make it work like a hundred bottles. However, she was not in a hurry to use the Luoqi Pill. She was worried that after she entered the innate stage, the simulator would be upgraded, and each simulation would then cost a thousand points, or ten taels of silver… It didn't seem like that much, but with the frequency with which she used the simulation, she would probably use up a lot of it without realizing it.
She had to take advantage of the time when points consumption was relatively low to brush up on her skills. At the very least, she had to learn how to make pills and draw talismans. Otherwise, when she reached the immortal cultivation world, she would have no means of making money, and would be living off her savings. How could she simulate this?
Ruan Xing first used the simulator to take Luoqi Pills to practice, repeating it four or five times. When she had reached the acquired perfection and was only one bottle away from breaking through to the innate, she stopped and continued to simulate according to the alchemist's route. In her memory, the alchemist was a kind and easy-going person. As long as she solved the problem of spiritual bones herself, and worked for him for a hundred years for free, she didn't believe that the alchemist would not be tempted.
[Simulating]
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At the age of twenty, you entered the city and found a pawn shop. You sold all your gold necklaces and gold bracelets in exchange for more than three hundred taels of silver. You rented a place to live in the city and began to take Luoqi Pills to practice. Seven days later, you successfully broke through to the Xiantian realm.
You find the residence of a second-level alchemist, request to be his disciple, and promise that if you succeed, all the pills you refine within a hundred years will belong to him, and the spiritual stones you get in exchange will be provided to him for his cultivation free of charge. The alchemist is shocked by your request, and he asks you, the lifespan of a Qi training stage is only a hundred years, how can you cultivate if you don't even have a spiritual stone? Are you willing to stay in the Qi training stage and work for him all your life?
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(End of this chapter)
