Chapter 70: Top-grade Dan

  Perhaps having read more books, Lin Feng had a deeper understanding of cultivation and found his purpose, unleashing his potential, making his recent training exceptionally smooth. In just three months, Lin Feng felt he had reached the late stage of the fifth layer of Qi Refining, only one step away from the threshold of the sixth layer.

  Of course, during this period, Zhong Pin Dan did not reduce his dosage. With Mo Li's reminder, Lin Feng controlled his emotions well, and the phenomenon of walking fire never appeared again, which made him feel much more at ease. Sometimes when he suddenly thought of Yang Ling's expression when he first entered the Yang family, and the attitude of many foundation-building cultivators he had seen later, it was just like himself now - calm and peaceful, warm and gentle. Lin Feng felt that he was developing in that direction, could this be the appearance of a successful cultivator?

  For three months, Lin Feng had been keeping an eye on the situation in the Panlong Ring. Those unknown spiritual medicines were like thousand-year-old fossils that hadn't changed at all, but the spiritual seeds he had sown himself were growing vigorously, and although they weren't yet mature, just by looking with his naked eye, Lin Feng could see that these spiritual medicines had much more spiritual energy than the wild spiritual medicines outside.

  Those mature spiritual medicines that were later transplanted have had pleasant changes over the past few months, with the biggest change being a steady increase in the spiritual energy contained within them. However, this change has become very weak in recent days. Based on his knowledge of spiritual medicine, Lin Feng felt that these medicines had reached their limit for absorbing spiritual energy and decided to use them to refine two furnaces of elixirs.

  He naturally chose the most important Qi-gathering pill, and to ensure that the spiritual energy of the elixir did not leak out, Lin Feng took out the elixir from the Panlong Ring and began refining it directly. After producing three batches of pills, he immediately started firing up the furnace to refine the medicine. The new medicinal materials were clearly more spiritually abundant than the previous ones used, and their potency seemed even more intense. Lin Feng was as cautious as when he first refined the pill, not daring to be careless in the slightest, for this contained the hope that he had been vaguely expecting.

  If only from a technical standpoint, Lin Feng is now at the top level in the refining of Tiqi Dan, leaving Yang Ze far behind. The Five Elements Micro Law controls the spiritual energy and medicinal effects of the elixir during the refining process, although it consumes more divine consciousness than conventional methods, its effect is far beyond what conventional methods can achieve, and the refined elixir is countless times better than those refined by conventional methods.

  Lin Feng used to be able to refine three medium-grade elixirs and four low-grade elixirs with ordinary materials, maintaining a success rate of over 90%. This shows that his skills are not ordinary. Now that he has even better herbs, there's no reason he can't refine even better elixirs. The high-grade Qi Gathering Elixir is Lin Feng's goal for today.

  Since entering the fifth layer of the Refining Qi period and learning to refine the elixir with Yang Ze's improved method, Lin Feng had never been as serious as he was today, except for the first few furnaces. The warm furnace, simmering, and fetal dan were all familiar steps, but Lin Feng did them with extreme care, not a single detail out of place. His divine sense was also fully exerted, focusing on feeling every subtle change in the elixir furnace, and his hands continuously cast spells to control the furnace's movements, ensuring that the medicine reached its most perfect fusion.

  "Hiss!" Lin Feng took a light breath, and the elixir in the crucible emitted a wisp of fragrance that grew increasingly rich and intense, filling the entire alchemy room in an instant. Lin Feng was overjoyed - he had never smelled such a rich aroma before, which indicated that the quality of this batch of elixirs far surpassed his previous attempts at refining spiritual elixirs.

  The fragrance of the elixir in the room reached its most intense moment, and at this time, Lin Feng also sensed that there was no longer any spiritual energy or medicinal scent inside using his subtle five-element method. He knew it was time to take out the elixir. With a wave of his hand, the furnace opened wide, and with a single gesture, a white light was sucked into the jade bottle. Taking a closer look, Lin Feng couldn't help but smile.

  "Haha, high-grade Qi-replenishing pill, I've finally refined a high-grade Qi-replenishing pill! Hehe..." Lin Feng couldn't help but burst out laughing, then felt his voice was too loud and hurriedly lowered it, panting and chuckling, with tears welling up in both eyes, his expression unable to convey whether he was overjoyed or anguished.

  After a while, Lin Feng finally stopped and carefully observed the elixir in the bottle. The eight elixirs collected from the furnace were all of good quality, not a single one was a waste product, which showed that the medicinal materials used were of high quality with very little impurities. The worst among them was an inferior-grade elixir, while the other six were mid-grade elixirs. But what caught his eye the most was the small white superior-grade elixir in the middle, which was clearly smaller than the others by a circle.

  This top-grade elixir, apart from its size, has many obvious unique markings. The top-grade elixir has a special aura that is similar to the middle-grade elixir, but it is more refined and transparent, with a subtle sparkle under the light. Moreover, the milky white color of the elixir has become crystal clear, and there are even some faint patterns on its surface that can only be seen clearly on the highest grade of elixirs.

  Danwen is the pattern formed by the fusion of Dan medicine through its own cohesive force during the formation of Dan, which is fundamentally different from ordinary Dan that relies on the strong rotation of the Dan furnace to forcibly combine the Dan medicine into a ball. It represents the result of the most pure Dan medicine arranged and combined in the most reasonable order. Just like crystals in nature, they always have their own unique shape, and this shape is manifested as various patterns in Lingdan.

  This top-grade elixir has already shown its pattern on the surface, although it's only faintly visible. This means that among top-grade elixirs, it's considered good. But if it's this good, why did I only refine one? Based on past experience, when such a good top-grade elixir appears, there should be at least two more slightly inferior top-grade elixirs. Why have all the others suddenly dropped to mid-grade elixirs?

  Lin Feng thought for half a day, but he still couldn't understand it. The difference between this and his previous alchemy knowledge was too great, beyond the understanding of his current alchemy knowledge. Fortunately, no matter what, the top-grade pill had been successfully refined, so he should be happy about that. So, the disturbance caused by this question was temporarily ignored by him.

  After refining the elixir, Lin Feng naturally had to try it out first. Although the alchemy room was a bit hot, fortunately, no one disturbed him. He temporarily sealed off the earth fire and began to circulate his breath in the alchemy room. After making some adjustments, he placed the high-quality elixir in his mouth, lightly biting down with his teeth. Immediately, a refreshing fragrance spread through his nose, followed by a thick, rich spiritual energy that rushed into his nostrils. Lin Feng quickly closed his mouth and swallowed, taking the spiritual energy down with it. This was just a test of the elixir, so it was inevitable that some spiritual energy would be wasted. Normally, when consuming spiritual elixirs, this wouldn't happen, but to improve his skills, this small price was worth paying.

  The elixir entered the abdomen, and Lin Feng's manipulation of the air led to a sudden surge of spiritual energy spreading out. However, under the guidance of the air manipulation technique, it was quickly absorbed into the whirlpool of air in the dan Tian, where it was swallowed up by the whirlpool. After several cycles, except for a small portion that overflowed, everything else was assimilated by the whirlpool.

  "Awesome!" Lin Feng involuntarily exclaimed, after several days had passed and he had digested most of the pills. He came to a conclusion that the top-grade pill's spiritual energy content was roughly two to three times that of the mid-grade pill, and it was even more refined. The absorption effect was also increased by 30%, compared to the mid-grade pill where about half of the spiritual energy was lost in the end, the top-grade pill was almost perfect.

  That's great, if all the elixirs used in the future are replaced with top-grade elixirs, then one's cultivation speed will probably be much higher than Zhao Chun's. In that case, it won't take more than two years to build a foundation. Thinking of this, Lin Feng suddenly realized that the true function of the Dragon Ring was probably similar to the secret realm created by high-level cultivators, used for cultivating spiritual medicine or spiritual beasts. It's just that this secret realm is a bit special and can be carried around. As for being able to use it as a storage ring for items, that's just an additional effect.

  It's a waste that the original owner of this ring only cultivated so little spiritual land. Lin Feng couldn't understand the thoughts of his predecessor, but he had made up his mind. With such a good thing in hand, it would be foolish not to use it himself. His cultivation path had just begun, and he needed a lot of pills, not to mention the Qi Gathering Pill, let alone the Small Prenatal Pill, Prenatal Pill, Foundation Establishment Pill, and Golden Elixir Pill. He needed a large quantity of spiritual herbs, so he decided to go out and collect seeds for spiritual herbs, continuing his previous hard life of cultivating spiritual land and planting spiritual herbs.

  Of course, now that there are only two sets of materials left, they will be placed in a jade box for a long time, and the spiritual energy will also leak out, so it can't be wasted. It must be quickly refined into a pill, only spiritual pills are easier to preserve.

  There was no suspense, and the two sets of medicinal materials were refined into two top-grade elixirs. Lin Feng carefully preserved them separately. As for the middle-grade and lower-grade elixirs, they were now just ordinary spirit stones to him; besides selling them, what else could he do with them?

  No one knows what Lin Feng is thinking now, if this idea were to be leaked out, I'm afraid the saliva of many cultivators would be enough to drown him. The mediocre elixir that others can't get, in his eyes, is like a worthless weed, how can it be tolerated?

  When he went out, he met Zhu Yan again. Recently, it seems that he can often see him wandering in front of himself. Lin Feng was also very curious about how the actual controller of Baibao Hall could be so idle. However, today he refined a top-grade elixir and was overjoyed, so he didn't think much and just greeted Zhu Yan before rushing to the counter selling spiritual seeds, buying a large package of both usable and temporarily unusable spiritual seeds.

  Unfortunately, the main medicine of Chujidan, Wuxuezi and Jiejindan's main medicine, Hudi Jinlian, and several other important spiritual medicines were not available for sale, which made Lin Feng very disappointed. After asking casually, he found out that Wuxuezi was only cultivated by some major sects, and almost all of it was collected from the wild, while Hudi Jinlian was even harder to find, and even major sects had difficulty storing it, and it was said that it could only be found in deep mountains and old forests, which relied on luck.

  Lin Feng left the Baibao Hall and ran to several small shops that sold spiritual seeds, but he didn't find any new varieties, so he returned to continue his practice. However, he didn't know that just as he was leaving the Baibao Hall, Zhu Yan entered the dan room he had just used. Zhu Yan, who had always looked at Lin Feng with a different eye, saw Lin Feng come out of the dan room today with such high spirits, which piqued his great curiosity, and he couldn't help but take a look, fearing that if he didn't, he would be distracted from his practice all day. As a mid-level dan master, Zhu Yan had just entered the dan room when he smelled the unique fragrance of the Tiqi Dan, and after such a long time had passed, the fragrance could still be easily detected, so how concentrated must it have been when it was released?

  "Could it be that he has refined a high-grade elixir? Impossible!" Zhu Yan was extremely clear about what this intense fragrance of the elixir meant, but he didn't dare to believe in this fact.

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