Chapter 25: Greatly Increased Strength

  Excitedly looking at the newly baked Zhongpin Dan, Yang Ze was also thrilled and didn't speak for a while before saying: "Do you understand?" This question was naturally directed at Lin Feng.

  Lin Feng nodded and said: "Disciple understands, but now disciple's control over divine sense is still far from being as flexible and effortless as Master Uncle's, I'm afraid it will take some time to achieve this effect."

  "Heh heh, don't worry about this little thing, what's important is the method. As long as you know the method, with your current cultivation speed from taking middle-grade Qi-boosting pills every day, are you still worried that you won't reach the Foundation Establishment stage? Alchemists always keep their best pills for themselves, and with Lin Feng's current alchemy skills, wanting to cultivate by taking middle-grade Qi-boosting pills every day is indeed not a problem."

  Lin Feng thought of the medicinal power of the Zhongpin Dan he had been taking for the past few days and nodded: "I will definitely work harder, striving to build my foundation as soon as possible." In fact, he knew that with the amplification effect of the jade on his divine sense, he only needed to reach the sixth or seventh layer of the Qi Refining stage to reach Yang Ze's current level. However, this was something he couldn't say out loud. Nevertheless, he was filled with confidence for his future.

  Yang Zesheng nodded with a smile, but his expression suddenly changed, and he said seriously: "Nowadays, most of the Tiqi Dan on the market are inferior products, and mid-range Tiqi Dan is almost priceless. You should know this, right?"

  Lin Feng saw his master uncle suddenly become serious, so he respectfully replied: "Disciple knows, doesn't know what Master Uncle is thinking?" Lin Feng was not stupid, at this moment Yang Ze said such words, naturally it was aimed at the new refining method and the large number of medium-grade elixirs that were about to appear, so he also wisely showed an attitude of leaving everything to his master uncle.

  Yang Zeman nodded in satisfaction. Although the method had been greatly improved after his revision, it was still Lin Feng's original creation. If Lin Feng had different ideas, he wouldn't dare to act on his own accord. Seeing how sensible Lin Feng was now, Yang Zeman felt very pleased in his heart.

  "Since that's the case, Master Shu will also stop beating around the bush. As for the medium-grade dan, whether you want to take it yourself or sell it is up to you, but Master Shu hopes that this refining method won't be casually spread outside. Even if you enter Qingyang Gate in the future, I hope you won't easily reveal it."

  Yang Ze said with reason, the largest group in the cultivation world is the Qi Refining and Foundation Building cultivators, especially the Qi Refining cultivators. There are hundreds of millions of them on Tianyuan Star alone. The Qi Boosting Pill is the most commonly used pill for Qi Refining cultivators to improve their cultivation. Its importance among first-grade pills is the highest, but its price is relatively the lowest. Otherwise, not many Qi Refining cultivators could afford it. This shows how enormous the demand for Qi Boosting Pills is in the cultivation world. Even if Lin Feng were to spend day and night refining pills until he died, even if he refined a large quantity of mid-grade pills, it would have little impact on this massive market. Therefore, Yang Ze was not afraid of Lin Feng's mass production.

  But if the method were to be leaked out, the situation would be vastly different. A large number of alchemists would refine countless middle-grade pills overnight, causing the value of middle-grade pills to plummet and that of lower-grade pills to drop to an unacceptable level. The large quantity of lower-grade pills would not be accepted by the market, directly leading to a significant increase in refining costs. This would have little impact on high-level alchemists, but it would be a huge blow to low-level alchemists like Yang Ze. After all, he still needed to rely on selling Qi Gathering Pills to make some profit. At that time, the Yang family would not only fail to gain from developing middle-grade pills but would also suffer significant losses, which was something Yang Ze did not want to see.

  But if this technique is mastered, the Yang family will reap huge benefits from the mid-grade Qi Dan in this market. A mid-grade Qi Dan costs twenty spirit stones on the market, nearly twice as expensive as a low-grade Qi Dan, but it's still in short supply. Because there are always rich people in this world who spare no expense to improve their children's cultivation speed.

  Yang Ze explained the reasoning in detail to Lin Feng, and after understanding the great benefits, Lin Feng immediately agreed. Without mentioning that everything he had gained since practicing Taoism was thanks to the Yang family, and now he was also a member of the Yang family, but rather that it also involved his own personal interests, Lin Feng also knew that he couldn't reveal the method.

  "Of course, this time you have also made a great contribution to the Yang family. I will report to the master and give you a certain reward. If you want anything now, just tell Master Shu, and Master Shu will try his best to get it for you." Seeing Lin Feng agree, Yang Ze was also overjoyed and immediately made a promise.

  Lin Feng now needs most is to continuously improve his alchemy skills, this is the only thing he can bring out of his hands after entering Qingyang Gate, so he also said without pretension: "Recently, I want to refine more pills, hoping that Master Uncle can give me more time."

  Yang Ze couldn't help but laugh and said, "What kind of requirement is this? The dan room is just for the two of us, and with your current level, plus new ideas, you're almost as good as a beginner dan master. From now on, as long as I'm not using the dan furnace, you can use it anytime, no time limit."

  "Thank you, Master!" Lin Feng was overjoyed. With his current success rate of refining pills, he could earn countless materials, as long as he had a pill furnace. He could practice alchemy every day. If he could continue to practice like this for the next few months, taking a middle-grade Qi-replenishing Pill every day while cultivating, he would enter a phase of rapid growth in power.

  "It's nothing, this doesn't even count as a reward. Alright, since you can't think of anything good, I'll report this to the master and let him decide. You will definitely get some benefits." Yang Ze was truly grateful for Lin Feng's contribution, perhaps Lin Feng didn't fully understand, but he did. Mass-producing middle-grade Qi Dan was an opportunity for the Yang family to rise up, such a great achievement couldn't go unrewarded, or else how could they put his mind at ease.

  Without waiting for Lin Feng to say more, Yang Ze left to discuss with Yang Mu, leaving Lin Feng alone. Lin Feng had already refined five furnaces of elixirs today and didn't have the energy to refine any more. Moreover, he couldn't waste the medium-grade elixir he had eaten earlier, so he continued to cultivate again.

  Several days later, the head of the Yang family personally announced that in order to increase the cultivation speed of the younger generation of the family's Qi Refining stage disciples, the family would add three more Qi Boosting Pills to the original supply of medicinal pills every month. Disciples who were about to participate in the Qingyang Gate selection would be fully supplied with mid-grade Qi Boosting Pills, a total of six pills, and hoped that all disciples would intensify their cultivation.

  As soon as the news came out, Yang's disciples were overjoyed and delighted, although they didn't know why their family suddenly became so wealthy and generous, but it didn't affect their joyful mood.

  As the greatest contributor, Lin Feng was not so excited. The monthly stipend of six medium-grade elixirs had no attraction to him. He now took one medium-grade elixir per day, and what he wanted was the maximum medicinal effect of the elixir on the first day. Yang Ze shook his head at such a luxurious way of taking the medium-grade elixir, but he didn't want to interfere too much. Lin Feng was now refining ten furnaces of elixirs every day, five of which were medium-grade elixirs, and he could get about five medium-grade elixirs and twenty or so low-grade elixirs. Taking one medium-grade elixir seemed like no big deal.

  In addition to the five furnaces of Dan, there are other first-class Dans. Lin Feng doesn't often refine these Dans, but in order to broaden his horizons and improve his skills, he still refines them very seriously. He just casually releases his hand, and the materials that are destroyed and consumed are not a few. However, relying on the success of the Tiqi Dan, Lin Feng can also afford to consume it, which is a common method used by alchemists to refine and nourish their skills.

  Due to confidentiality reasons, Lin Feng's reward was not publicly announced, but he didn't mind. He wasn't someone who liked to show off. However, when he received the reward, he was still thrilled for a long time. A mid-grade water-attribute sword, the Fish Dragon Sword, worth at least several thousand lower-grade spirit stones, replaced his original two-cubic-meter storage bag with a new ten-cubic-meter one. Additionally, he received an extra 1,000 lower-grade spirit stones, equivalent to three years' worth of pocket money for a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator like Lin Feng's Master Uncle, giving him a sudden feeling of being rich.

  What do rich people do when they have nothing to do? Lin Feng didn't know, but he had his own plans, which was to work hard and burn. After successfully refining the Qi Gathering Pill, Lin Feng naturally understood what path he should take. If one's innate talent wasn't good, then they could use pills to make up for it. As long as a large quantity of high-quality pills were refined, how could their cultivation not improve?

  So for the next five months, Lin Feng practiced making first-grade pills in five furnaces almost every day, of course using the Five Elements entering subtlety method. In order to succeed, and even to understand a certain step, he didn't mind destroying a furnace's worth of materials, if calculated with spirit stones, it would be nearly a hundred spirit stones consumed every day, truly worthy of being called burning money in earnest.

  However, the money was not spent in vain. Five months later, Lin Feng had basically mastered all the first-class pill refining methods and could guarantee that he would refine middle-grade pills. Moreover, the true pill rate of lower-grade pills could also be guaranteed to be above 80%. This level, even Yang Ze had to admit defeat.

  Looking for the reason, in the five-month money-burning process, Lin Feng was not eager to pursue success, but repeatedly studied pharmacology and spiritual changes, exploring their interrelationship. It was precisely because he grasped most of the subtle relationship changes that he was able to navigate the alchemy process with ease, and the elixir he refined was naturally several points higher than that of ordinary people.

  The alchemy technique has been greatly improved, and Lin Feng is very happy. However, what makes him even happier is that due to the extreme use of his divine sense, his divine sense grows extremely fast, and his cultivation speed also increases by a lot. Of course, the increase in divine sense can accelerate the cultivation speed, but this is just a feeling. This feeling Lin Feng is not sure about either, because during these five months, he has been maintaining a daily intake of one middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill, and his cultivation speed was already several times faster than before, so the effect of his divine sense is not obvious.

  But that doesn't matter, what's important is the result. In five months, with his spiritual energy rapidly increasing, Lin Feng successfully broke through to the fourth layer of the Qi Refining stage and quickly approached the level of the fifth layer, it's just that everyone was busy cultivating and not many people knew about it.

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