Chapter Thirty-Eight: Activating the Alchemy Pavilion

  "Stellaria, Seven-leaf Flower, Hundred-year-old Ginseng, Thousand-year-old Yellow Essence..."

  "Ah, so many spiritual herbs and medicines! This is a first-class spiritual herb, this is a second-class spiritual medicine... and this, Stone Dust Flower, it's actually a third-class spiritual medicine! If I can successfully convert all of these into points, how long will my cultivation last?!" After receiving the family heirloom from Fang Zhen, Fang Yan entered the family treasure room. He skipped over the area where the weapons and secret manuals were stored, and went straight to the area where the spiritual herbs and medicines were kept. Seeing that many spiritual herbs and medicines were scattered all over the stone room, Fang Yan's eyes widened in excitement, as if he had arrived at a paradise."

  The stone house is over ten zhang wide, with rows of wooden shelves more than two meters high on all sides. The wooden boards are separated and stacked with various medicinal materials, which are classified and piled up. As you walk further in, the grade of the spiritual medicine encountered becomes higher and higher, and many Fangyans can't even call out their names.

  The Fang family didn't have a master of alchemy, so they would exchange the accumulated spiritual medicine and herbs on the market for various spiritual pills. Therefore, the Fang family didn't place much importance on these spiritual medicines, which was fortunate for Fang Yan.

  "Haha…… With so many spiritual medicines and herbs, if I were to exchange them all for experience points, wouldn't I be able to enter the 9th level of Qi Refining?" The room was filled with the fragrance of herbs, and Fang Yan was a bit dizzy. So many spiritual medicines and herbs, even if he had ten years, he wouldn't be able to collect this many spiritual medicines.

  "Whatever, let's exchange some merit points for now to deal with daily cultivation." Fang Yan shook his head and exchanged all the spiritual medicines in the warehouse into experience points. Then, he exchanged over a thousand first-class and second-class spiritual grasses at the entrance into merit points.

  "Five hundred thousand merit points should be enough for me to cultivate for a few more days, right?" Looking at the additional five hundred thousand plus merit points on his account, Fang Yan was satisfied as he walked out of the family's treasure room.

  With the support of his family, Fang Yan's cultivation quickly stabilized. Every day, he practiced either the Phantom Sword Technique or the Water Shadow Sword. At night, he cultivated the Pure Yang Skill to increase his power. His life was well-organized and regular.

  It's been over half a month since Fang Yan returned to the Fang family. During this time, Fu Qingxuan came to visit him once because she was going to retreat and try to break through the Violent Qi Realm, and if she wasn't successful, she wouldn't come out, so she made a special trip to see Fang Yan.

  "Merits are being used up so quickly! Only one step away from breaking through to the 9th level of Qi Refining, I'll go to the family's treasure room to get some spiritual medicine and herbs to aid in my cultivation." Fang Yan walked through the garden, heading towards the family's treasure room.

  "This time, a lot of spiritual medicine has been added, but I don't know where these spiritual medicines are produced. In the future, I will have to get more opportunities to get some." Entering the spiritual medicine storage room, Fang Yan discovered that the replenished spiritual medicine was far from keeping up with the consumption. Now he is only in the Qi Refining stage, if he enters the Violent Qi Realm or the Innate Realm, the spiritual medicine provided by his family will not be enough to meet his consumption, let alone the fact that the Fang family has more than one person cultivating, and there are many others who need to cultivate.

  "I don't know what level the top-grade spiritual medicine is in this storage room, fourth grade or fifth grade." Fang Yan exchanged tens of millions of cultivation points and headed to the deepest part of the storage room. The innermost part of the storage room was filled with high-grade spiritual herbs.

  "Ding! A 5th-grade spiritual herb has been discovered. The Alchemy Tower system has been triggered. Does the host want to activate the Alchemy Tower system?"

  When Fang Yan's hand touched a grey-brown seven-leafed Tanhua grass, suddenly, the cold system prompt in his mind sounded abruptly.

  "The Alchemy Pavilion System. That's a specialized system for refining elixirs, with it, I can refine all sorts of spiritual elixirs at will, the effects of which far surpass those of spiritual herbs!" Fang Yan heard this and his sword-like eyebrows relaxed, his face filled with excitement, and he hastily chose to activate the Alchemy Pavilion System.

  Earlier, Fang Yan activated the Refining Pavilion system in the Sword Grave Trial space. With this Refining Pavilion system, every weapon refined was a masterpiece. Now that he has activated the Refining Dan Pavilion system, the elixirs refined will definitely be of the highest quality.

  As Fang Yan activated the Alchemy Pavilion system, the Seven-Leaf Tandan Grass in his hand instantly turned into flying ash and disappeared. Now, there are three systems connected to the Immortal Realm system, among which the Equivalent Exchange System seems insignificant but is actually the most powerful auxiliary system. The Refining Pavilion and Alchemy Pavilion come second.

  "I don't know what I activated in this Alchemy Pavilion, but I can refine some kind of elixir." Fang Yan said as he picked up various spiritual herbs and medicines from the storage room to see if the Alchemy Pavilion system would give any instructions.

  A stalk of spiritual grass was picked up and then put down, the system's prompt tone kept ringing out, but the prompts were all reminders that this spiritual grass or spiritual medicine could be exchanged for how many merit points and experience values. As for what kind of spiritual elixir was refined, there was no hint at all.

  "Could it be that the Alchemy Pavilion is just for show?" Fang Yan tried a few times, but didn't get the prompt he wanted, and his brow furrowed in response.

  "The alchemy furnace needs a template, and the elixir refining requires an elixir formula. Does it mean that only with a single formula can we refine the spiritual elixir?" Fang Yan came out of the storage room, his eyes lit up as he thought of the key point.

  Opening the Alchemy Pavilion's system interface, Fang Yan found a small grid in the bottom right corner. The grid displayed that he had mastered zero alchemy formulas. Without any formulas, it was naturally impossible to refine pills.

  As for why the Alchemy Pavilion system activated by Fang Yan in the Sword Grave trial space can refine top-grade spiritual weapons, it's all because of the alchemy materials on the demon beast's body. A single piece can be refined into a weapon, and it's even based on a sword model, so naturally, it can be refined. As for refining pills, that's much more complicated than refining equipment, requiring pill formulas. Refining equipment also requires an equipment manual, but its limitations are above the level of magical weapons, and spiritual weapons are not included in this category. Refining magical weapons involves the fusion of multiple alchemy materials; without a refinement method, it may lead to refinement failure.

  "Dan Fang, where are you going to get the Dan Fang formula?" Fang Yan's sword eyebrows slightly furrowed, this was a big problem. The Fang family didn't have any great alchemists, and in the entire Yanzhou City, there was only one alchemist in the city lord's mansion. The three major families that needed elixirs all purchased them from the shops opened by the city lord or at auctions.

  Yanzhou City, not big nor small, in the Song Dynasty, can only be considered a third-rate city. Above it are prefectural cities and royal cities. Yanzhou City is also under the jurisdiction of Hekou Prefecture, which is the fiefdom of General Baiwang.

  "Father, does our Fang family have any Danfang?" Fang Yan still decided to ask his father, Fang Zhen, maybe the Fang family had some collected Danfang.

  "Fang Yan, how's your recent cultivation going? Why did you suddenly think of asking about alchemy?" Fang Zhen asked with a smile, putting down the work in his hands.

  "Father, I just think that using medicinal materials to assist in cultivation is too wasteful. If we were to refine all the spiritual medicines and herbs in our mansion into dan medicine, the effect would be more than ten times better than it is now." Fang Yan heard this and smiled.

  "Yan Er, although it's true, do you know how many resources are needed to cultivate a Dan Master? Even ten families like ours wouldn't be enough. Moreover, every single Dan formula is extremely precious, not something that our small family can possess." Fang Zhen let out a sigh and continued with a serious tone.

  "Yan Er, do you know how big this Zhou state city is?"

  "This Zhoucheng city's controlling power is within a thousand miles." Fang Yan said.

  "Not bad, a small state's sphere of influence is about a thousand miles in diameter, while a county town's sphere of influence is about 50,000 miles in diameter. Larger ones are about 100,000 miles in diameter, and the fiefdoms of princes and kings are about 1 million miles in diameter. The Great Song Empire has eight great princes, with a total area of about 10 million miles in diameter. Such a large country is only a small country in the Xian Tian Da World. Dan Fang, this thing, only nine-grade families have the qualifications to grasp and can keep it. Many people are like us, relying on direct consumption of spiritual grasses and medicines for cultivation." Fang Zhen heard this and couldn't help but smile bitterly.