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    Chapter 15 - Trial and Error

    Here is the chapter as promised, and I'll try to get the next chapter out as soon as i can 2-3 days as usual.

    Im working on getting some more translators, so hopefully, i can increase the release speed soon.

    At any rate, hope you enjoy the chapter.






    After resting for one hour, the blue lights were finally

    restored enough to remove impurities again, so once

    again sitting down, Lin Xuan began again.

    Circulation, Controlling the lights to

    enter the pill..

    BOOM!

    Failure, it looks like it's still flowing too fast, he

    needs to lower the speed more

    After resting again, Lin Xuan will try again.

    Once again Lin Xuan will try to slow down the flow, step by step, until he found the limit for what the pill could handle without exploding.

    This time, however, there was an accident, when the light enters the pill too slow, not only will the purification fail, but rather it would move the impurities closer together, making them denser and inseparable.

    It seems that going too slow, will not work either.

    Lin Xuan after playing with both ends of sped, begins to consider the situation carefully, this purification process really isn't easy to grasp, going either too fast or too slow will result in failure, the speed must be controlled in a certain range to be successful.

    But exactly how fast/slow is this range, only by testing over and over again can he find out.

    Lin Xuan meditates, while resting until the blue lights recover, he once again begins to purify once hes fully rested, working throughout the night, he did not sleep all night, continuously cycling through testing and resting in attempt to master the secrets of the blue lights as soon as possible.

    The darkness fades away as the sun rises.

    Lin Xuan is holding a pure white immortal pill, after going through the night trying over and over and wasting several trash pills, Lin Xuan finally has a successful purification.

    Carefully recalling the moment he found the right amount of speed, Lin Xuan reveals a thoughtful look, and after a short break takes out another trash pill.

    However, after a while, he fails again, Shaking his head, Lin Xuan understands that although the required speed is now clear, his control of the blue lights is still insufficient, leaving no other choice but more practice.

    But even with the current success rate, the trash pills can be purified at a rate of two in ten, about twenty percent chance, not too low, and because the elder previously tried to embarrass him by giving him a bottle of trash pills he has plenty to spend.

    Things could have been a disadvantage, but now with the blue lights

    There are around one hundred pills in a bottle, and two bottles can give out at least forty purifying essence pills, compared to the original two pills, he has gained twenty times the profit.

    Understanding all this, Lin Xuan shows a slight smile, not because he has gained so many pills, but because with the abilities of these blue lights, he finally has hope as a cultivator, with enough drugs, even ordinary people can be successful.

    Finally having a basic understanding of the blue lights, Lin Xuan pushes open his window, to a bright sky, and decides it's time to practice, going to the young hawk pavilion, he begins o meditate, even now using the blue lights to do so, not to refine pills, but rather to become more proficient in his control.

    Over the next ten days, Lin Xuan painstakingly begins repairs, quietly purifying the trash pills, not only to get the practice needed, but also to try and find other applications of the blue lights.

    After all, as a cultivator on the road to immortality, even with no hope, one cannot afford to make any mistakes. After confirming his determination, Lin Xuan began to implement his plan, although the process is hard, it can be said to be feeling the stones, holding the pill, circulating the blue lights, controlling the speed, all while carefully observing all this with his soul.

    BOOM!

    Failure, Lin Xuans face sank, in the eyes of others, trash pills are worthless, but to Lin Xuan every single trash pill has the chance to become a usable pill, so every waste is distressing.

    But now is the trail stage, so losses are inevitable, and in addition to the consumption of trash pills, the volume of the blue lights also reduces by a lot, forcing Lin Xuan to rest for a while

    In this way, Lin Xuan practiced every day while purifying pills, after two weeks, his practice is finally beginning to show results. Initially, there was only one success for every five or six attempts, but now after all the hard work, the success rate is one in three.

    Originally on his first night , he was only able to purify two pills, but now working through the night he was able to get fifty-six low-grade purifying essence pills.

    Speed, the success rate has been greatly improved.

    Two bottles of trash pills, after the efforts of a full month, his harvest was higher than anticipated, leaving Lin Xuan sixty usable pills.

    Sixty pills is definitely a lot of money, as it would take an ordinary disciple thirty months to gather so many pills.

    Lin Xuans net worth now, can be described as very rich, carefully collecting many purifying essence pills is good, the important part however is to keep others from finding out.

    With enough pills, then naturally one has to practice hard, after seeing how he is treated by others in thundercloud valley, Lin Xuan has come to understand, that strength is the most important thing required to survive as a cultivator, with enough strength anything can be fair, justice and truth can be considered as mere lip service to the strong.

    The most important thing in the end is how much strength one possesses.

    And even to cultivators, life is not unlimited, but the higher the skill, the longer the life.

    Spirit gathering disciples, have yet to really set foot into the cultivating world, as their lives are barely higher than that of mortals, and it is only at foundation building stage will their life expectancy double to two hundred years, and it would continue to double as one broke through to the next stage, finally leading to immortality if one were to cross the boundary.

    Lin Xuan did not believe in reincarnation after death, as he saw it as an illusory hope for the weak. Although he did not have spiritual roots, now that he has the blue lights, Lin Xuan is finally showing some promise.

    Lin Xuan produced a detailed training plan.

    Using pills as his base, and coordinating it with diligent effort, Every morning Lin Xuan took one purifying essence pill, and began meditating to refine the drug.

    Although in the cultivating world, purifying essence pills are not considered as a wondrous medicine, not everybody can be so luxurious as to take several pills every day after all, and under the stimulation of the pills, in just a week Lin Xuan felt the spirit power in his own dantian is reaching the limit, once again approaching the bottleneck that previously caused him so much concern.

    Its finally time to achieve the second layer of spirit gathering stage.

    .........

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    Thank you.....really good job

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    Chapter 16 - Medicinal Breakthrough

    Here is the first chapter of the day, a bit later in the day than i had planned, but here it is. More chapters incoming in a few hours, so I'll see you all then.



    After cultivating for the past three years, it is the first

    time that Lin Xuan is able to relax and enjoy cultivation

    without being met with difficulties at every step of the way.

    With the doors and windows closed, Lin Xuan drags

    over a cushion, and sits down crossed-legged on the ground,

    pulling out the jade bottle, he pours out nine purifying essence pills.

    To Break through this bottleneck, Lin Xuan can be said to take great pains, yesterday he went to the medicinal pavilion, and glanced through some books, since he now does not lack the pills, he wanted to understand if there would be any negative effects from taking too many pills, or if there was a limit to how many can be taken.

    A clear understanding of this issue is required otherwise, after eating a lot of pills he might come to regret it. Reading the book on pills, in the first line in the Compounded Drug Illustration Lin Xuan sees a row of introduction: purifying essence pills, the lowest level of pill, the most common of immortality pills, can increase the amount of spiritual power, if taken every day, no more than nine should be taken.

    What would happen after nine, the book did not say, but this description was already sufficient to Lin Xuan.

    He just needed to know the maximum dose of immortality pill he could take, Lin Xuan once again poured out the nine pills from the jade bottle, and carefully put them into his mouth, beginning to circulate the spiritual power to attack the second layer.

    The drugs quickly spread into the limbs.

    Boom!

    A boundless heat flows out from his dantian through the various passages through which spirit power passes through, making Lin Xuan feel as if he was in a furnace.

    In the blink of an eye, his whole body was wet with sweat, moreover the heat flowing through him was constantly increasing rather than cooling down.

    Previously when taking the purifying essence pills, this never happened, was the book wrong , maybe i shouldn't have taken so many at once.

    Lin Xuans mind flashed through several thoughts, but rather than panicking he decided to calmly deal with this unexpected accident.

    Although the heat was quickly becoming unbearable, due to Lin Xuans experience in the inner area it is still not at a level to worry him, gritting his teeth, he ignores the heat, and lets it freely move through his limbs, keeping his focus on his dantian, so long as he maintains his will, there shouldn't be any surprises.

    Lin Xuan was eventually proven correct, as after two hours, the heat began to gradually weaken into a warm feeling that was spread all over.

    AT the same time, the spiritual power in his dantian began to change, just as if it was absorbing nutrients, it showed boundless growth, looking at just the volume it is twice as large as it was previously

    Lin Xuan ability with spiritual power also increased, as previously whenever he circulated through his meridians it was difficult, and the spirit power flowed slowly, but that is no longer the case.

    The situation is better than imagined, but Lin Xuan maintains his patience, as after all this time Lin Xuan has entered the most critical phase, Lin Xuans face quickly becomes motionless, fully focusing on his meditation.

    Ping, a light sound rang out, sounding as if something broke, in his dantian all the spiritual power immediately becomes unstable, and do not immediately re stabilize, although it can be said to be a rapid transformation, using the soul it can be observed as a change in the color of the spirit power, from spirit gathering first layer to the second layer, although it only one step, it is a qualitative change.

    After breaking through to the second layer, Lin Xuan immediately felt different from his past self, the spiritual power in his dantian has also greatly improved in both quality and quantity.

    Although Lin Xuan was happy, his expression was still calm, as the result was entirely within his expectations with the support of so many pills, if he had still been unable to breakthrough it would have been strange.

    The results this time proves that using pills can really overcome the defects of not having spiritual roots, thus boosting Lin Xuans confidence as a cultivator.

    After carefully understanding a bit about the second layer of the spirit gathering stage, and experiencing the differences, Lin Xuan begins to plan for the future, although he has a lot of time, his current cultivation is still far below that of the other disciples, and is imperative that he catch up.

    Also, the stuff that he got from Zhou Yan and Zhang Y, were unable to be used below the fourth layer, and could only look at it enviously, so for now the only thing to do is rapidly increas his strength.

    Thinking through all this, Lin Xuan sits down cross-legged, ready to inspect his current physical condition, to see if his current situation required any changes to his future training plans.

    It was then that Lin Xuan had an unexpected discovery.

    Looking at the changes in his dantian, Lin Xuan noticed that the blue lights have also become bigger and brighter along with the spiritual power.How?

    Lin Xuan began to wonder if the blue lights will grow along with his cultivation level, with the higher his cultivation the stronger the blue lights.

    This inference on the surface may seem strange, but after thinking about it, it is reasonable, and would even solve a problem that Lin Xuan had been worrying about.

    The first of which was the speed, although the blue lights recover after consumption, it will still take some time, and after all is not conductive to purifying a large amount of pills, previously, the blue lights were only able to purify two pills in a row, but now that the blue lights have doubled in size, four in a row should not be a problem.

    The second was for the long term, as according to Lin Xuans guess, since the blue lights can purify purifying essence pills, it should be also be able to purify other types of pills.

    Purifying essence pills were the lowest level of pills, and relatively speaking, had few steps to its creation, so its impurities were also less, but the other more advanced pills, had more complicated impurities, and thus would consume even more of the blue lights, if the blue lights had stayed the same size, they might not have been able to support the purification of a single pill.

    Lin Xuan has also tested, and found that the purification can not be interrupted, otherwise the result will be failure, although Lin Xuan didn't pay much thought to that problem for now, he never would have expected that the solution would be so easy.

    If his guess was correct, then the blue lights will grown along with his spirit power, the more spirit power he posses, the stronger the blue lights.

    Of course if this is not the case, then it will take time to confirm that if there was any way to enhance the blue lights and allow them to grow.

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    Chapter 17 - Pill Upgrade Attempt

    Here is the second chapter of the day, hope you guys enjoy it. I'll begin working on the next chapter right away, which i wasn't going to do tonight, until i noticed that it is the last chapter of volume 1. I'll see you guys again in a bit with the next chapter, and please tell me if you find any mistakes and such.



    Although Lin Xuan has begun to grasp the uses of the blue lights, he was not sure if that was the entirety of it or simply the tip of the iceberg, so Lin Xuan decided to continue his exploration of the blue lights.

    Pouring a pull from the jade bottle, not a trash pill, but a purifying essence pill, one of the ones he obtained from Zhou Yan.

    Trash pills can be purified, so then can low-grade purifying essence pill be further purified and upgraded?

    Lin Xuan decided to give it a try.

    To know how the purifying essence pill was ranked, all immortal pills are divided into four grades, being low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade.

    Pill grades are mainly used to see the amount of impurities contained within a pill, there are no difference in the materials used, and thus the more impurities it possesses, the more of its essence gets dispersed when it is taken, thus giving worse results.

    The high grade immortal pills, are of course the opposite of low grade, having less impurities and thus having more concentrated essence and making the effects it gives even more obvious.

    Of course, the higher the grade of the pill, the higher the difficulty in refining it is.

    In general, if the impurity content is more than seventy percent, it is called a trash pill, impurity content of fifty percent is low-grade, thirty percent being mid-grade, twenty percent for high grade, and less than ten percent for top-grade.

    Over tens of thousands of years, the cultivation world has been trying to find ways to reduce the impurity percentage of pills, with many master alchemists, intelligent scholars, and various others, not worrying bout labor, have made many attempts, and as a result there are no a variety of different pills, purifying essence pills, foundation establishment pill, Yuan forming pill, Nine Turns pill, etc to name a few of the more common ones.

    Lin Xuan now wants to try further, since the blue lights are able to turn trash pills into low-grade pill, could it also purify it further?

    Theoretically it should be possible, so Lin Xuan sits down cross-legged, holding in his hand a white pill, as the blue lights begin to gather in his dantian.

    After a month of practice, especially after breaking through into the second layer, the blue lights when being circulated no longer had any jerky movements.

    But Lin Xuan did not relax, as this would be a new attempt, he released his whole consciousness, with the blue lights flowing through his meridians, and all concentrated on the purifying essence pill in his hand.

    After entering the second layer of spirit gathering stage, Lin Xuan's calculating ability was doubled, in addition to the growth of spiritual power, his soul was also greatly enhanced, with him being able to know look through into the interior of the pill, where he was only able to look at the surface previously.

    With the purifying essence pill magnified by many times in his mind, he is able to now see the traces of black in the pill that originally seemed to be pure white.

    What he needs to do now is to remove those useless things.

    As the blue lights pass through his skin and into the pill, Lin Xuan who was previously unable to observe any further and could only continue to push the blue lights into the pill, is now able to control the movements of the blue lights inside the pill with his consciousness.

    Lin Xuan begins to control the flow rate of the blue lights, while carefully observing.

    As he saw the pills enter the pill, inside the flow he saw that white represents the essence and black represents the impurities, when it comes to the pure parts, the blue lights would directly pass through, as if there is nothing there, but when the blue lights encounter impurities, it will begin to push against it slowly, it is during this process that the blue lights expend energy.

    Lin Xuan saw that the black impurities are moved forward a short distance every time they come into contact with the blue lights, until it is finally pushed out of the pill, thus reducing the impurity level.

    As the purification process continued, Lin Xuan began to nod to himself, as his understanding of the blue lights deepens.

    Since my consciousness can enter inside the pill, then am i able to control it inside the pill as well? Lin Xuan came up with this idea, since the flow of the lights inside the pill is chaotic, and thus the purification efficiency is not that high, if he could control it the lights and bring them together, then the purification would also become easier.

    So Lin Xuan began the attempt.

    To control the flow of the blue lights, he must first attach his soul to the lights, and although it is not a difficult technique, the nature of the blue lights made it difficult.

    Different from actual objects, the lights have no visible form, although with a high enough cultivation anything can be controlled, Lin Xuans cultivation was only on the second layer of Spirit Gathering stage, and even with a stronger soul, it was still not enough.

    Although he tried hard, he was still only able to slightly jolt the blue lights.

    LIn Xun very wisely decided to give up then, and decided to try again another time once he has a higher cultivation.

    Lin Xuan then re-focuses the control on his soul and the flow rate of the blue lights from his body, to continue the purification.

    This process was not easy, and he soon encountered a new problem, even though the low-grade pill had a low amount of impurities when compared to trash pill, it still required more of the blue lights to purify.

    As time went by, an hour quickly passed, and the blue lights in his dantian have been reduced to one-third of the original size, close to the limit of how many blue lights he can put out.

    After the blue lights finally stagnated, the impurities that were left inside the pill returned to their original positions and were left even more tightly bound to the essence.

    The pure white pill was also became a pale black color.

    Lin Xuan opened his hands, and looked at the ruined pill in his hand, a thoughtful expression on his face, although this time the test was not successful, the gains were not at all small.

    First of all, he learned that he could use his soul to enter inside the pill, which allowed him to better understand the purification process, which in turn allows him to better understand the blue lights, thus the benefits are incalculable.

    Secondly, after entering inside the pill, the blue lights can still be controlled, the only issue is that his skill is not enough, and so after his soul is strong enough to control the flow inside the pill, the purification efficience will also be higher.

    His experience in this is also beginning to accumulate, since in addition to the practice, the results eventually add up, as everytime Lin Xuan does a test, regardless of success or failure, there are still some benfits gained from analysis.

    It is due to this additude, coupled with his bold but cautious nature, that allowed Lin Xuan to go from being ignorant of the uses of the blue lights, to where he is now.

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    Chapter 18 Danxia Mountain

    Here we are folks, the third chapter of the day as well as the last chapter of volume 1. I'd like to thank those of you who have stuck around and kept reading, even with my unreliable release speeds. I'm hoping to get some more people working on translating this which will hopefully mean faster releases for you all. Also, let me just apologize ahead of time for any errors, as i am super sleepy right now and I've probably made some mistakes somewhere along the line. Hope you all enjoy, and have a good night.



    Lin Xuan next began to increase his cultivation,

    since even though he had the pills to support his cultivation,

    as long as he worked hard, his results would become even greater.

    According to ancient records, even without spiritual roots,

    as long as there are enough pills as a support, all obstacles can be

    overcome in cultivating.

    After determining this point, Lin Xuan will take as many pills as possible,

    if it wasn't for the medicine book recording that one cannot take more

    than nine per day, he really would eat pills just like it was food.

    Along with taking the pills, Lin Xuan gradually built up some experience, and decided to not waste any more pills and only take them one at a time, as his supply was limited and the effects were not ideal.

    Of course, it truly impacts the bottleneck, but to eat nine all of a sudden is wrong, as although it does not exceed the limit, the results are too fast, and it makes him needlessly suffer, and since it is not easy to absorb so much that fast, the excess energy ends up being wasted.

    This is clearly wasteful behavior, and not desirable.

    The correct approach would be, to take three pills at a time at set intervals, and then slowly absorb the power for the best results.

    Other low-level disciples, only have two pills every month, and Lin Xuan ate nine a day, at such near-luxury usage of pills, Lin Xuans progress was very fast, although it cannot be said to be the best, the daily growth of his spiritual power was obvious.

    But good things dont last forever, and after one week, Lin Xuan ran out of purifying essence pills, although there are two left in his hand, they are higher quality pills that he got from Zhang Yu.

    It is a red, pea-sized pill, a pill Lin Xuan had never seen before, of course, he would not ask any Elder,s as that would be tantamount to a confession and would show his connection with the disappearance of Zhang Yu and Zhou Yan, and so Lin Xuan quietly went out and began to once again review books, to find out which pill it is that he possessed.

    Foundation Establishment Pills!

    Useless to spirit gathering disciple, but valuable to a foundation building as it increased their cultivation.

    Understanding what the pill was, Lin Xuan carefully hid them, putting them away for the future, the important thing now is to get more purifying essence pills, so as to continue cultivating.

    Lin Xuans goal is the so called Trash pills.

    to the west of thundercloud valley, there is a hill, but the whole of it was hollowed out, creating a huge tunnel heading deep underground, eventually leading to an active volcano mouth, with its fires used for the purpose of alchemy.

    Danxia Mountain, the most important forbidden area of thundercloud valley, its importance being far above any other area.

    With constant patrols, and under the supervision of many experts, all intruders are dealt with swiftly, leaving no survivors.

    Even the disciples are not allowed to freely enter, and in front of the Mt Danxia there is a building which is in charge of receiving any visitors.

    Before coming, Lin Xuan found out all about the circumstances, and confidently enters the building.

    In Front of him lies a very spacious area, hundreds of square meters wide, with a bored boy sitting there, who quickly jumps up as he saw Lin Xuan enter, greeting him respectfully, he explained

    Immortal?

    The boy is not a thundercloud valley cultivator, but rather an outer disciple.

    The so called outer disciples, are those without spiritual roots, but are talented in other areas, and so they are useful to thundercloud valley, although they are not taught any cultivation exercises, they gain other benefits.

    In the eyes of mortals, cultivators are like gods to them, and even for the outer disciples, the registration is not easy, and their academic abilities were valued.

    For example, the boy, although he had no spiritual roots, he was born to a family of doctors, and so he familiar with a variety of herbs and medicines, making him qualified to work in Danxia Mountain.

    The school bases everything on performance, so and will reward the best with precious medical books or martial skill books, similar to the ones Lin Xuan saw in the Book Pavilion.

    Although these books are not worth mentioning to cultivators and were like garbage, but where normal people are concerned, they are considered as supreme treasures. Outer Disciples after studying for eight to ten years, can then return to the normal world, and in that time they will be considered as genius doctors and masters of martial arts.

    The benefits are self-evident.

    Lin Xuan, although he had no spiritual roots, was received as a formal disciple, something very few outer disciples can manage, all because he managed to save a powerful and influential elder.

    Although the boy did not know Lin Xuan, by just looking at his clothing, he can tell that he is a thundercloud valley cultivator, so of course, he has no intention of mocking him.

    Faced with his respectful attitude, Lin Xuans heart held a bit of emotion, as over the past three years, he suffered the ridicules of others and was looked down upon due to his slow cultivation speed.

    Although outer disciples have no spiritual roots, they are extraordinary ordinary people, but in the end they are still ordinary people and view cultivators the same as gods.

    Standing high above, Lin Xuan enjoyed the feeling o being respected, which goes reaffirms Lin Xuan's determination as a cultivator, but without batting an eyelid Lin Xuan speaks.

    Is the steward in?

    The boy listened, and nodded his head The steward is in, Immortal, please take a seat, I'll go report it.

    The boy respectfully takes Lin Xuan to a seat next to a painting, and offers tea, Lin Xuan ponders how to proceed as he drinks his tea, and soon a man walks into the room.

    Gray-haired, over seventy years old, this is also a low-level cultivator, a man who had difficulty cultivating, since just having spiritual roots was not enough, as the spiritual roots also come in different quality, as well as requiring diligent work from the cultivator.

    Just looking at thundercloud valley, ninety percent of the disciples, are still low-level cultivators, just like the old man in front of him, seventy-three years old, but still only at the late stage of spirit gathering, still a distance away from the peak, and even further from foundation building, it can be said he has reached the end of the line as a cultivator, so he simply no longer cultivates, and asked for a quiet place to work and relax in his comfortable old age.



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    Thanks TrickEye for your hard work.

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    thanks TrickEye, keep the great work!

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    Volume 2 Chapter 1 - Play the role of the pig to eat the tiger

    Here is the first chapter of the day, and the next one will be out after a while. As for the third chapter that was promised for today, i might or might not be able to finish it today and if i don't, I'll release it tomorrow along with the other three for tomorrow. Hope you guys enjoy.




    Young fellow, why do you come here? Seeing that the youth in front of him seems to be ordinary, and only at the second layer of spirit gathering, the old man stares at Lin Xuan coldly.

    Lin Xuan clearly saw his expression, and sneered at the old man in his heart, but none of this showed on hi face as he responded.

    Fellow apprentice, this junior brother came here to ask for a relaxed assignment.

    As mentioned previously, cultivation is difficult, and even with spiritual roots, most people have limited success in their lives as cultivators.

    Some people end up discouraged, and rather than enduring the hardships, decide to stop cultivating, and take on some light jobs in the sect, to live out the rest of their lives relaxedly

    The old man in front of Lin Xuan is one such person.

    After hearing Lin Xuans words, the old man assumed that Lin Xuan was also such a person, reacting just as Lin Xuan wanted him to.

    Thats not so easy to do. The old man began to frown, revealing an awkward appearance. Although there are a lot of odd jobs that need to be done around Mt.Danxia, at this moment all the positions are filled, we are not short of manpower, fellow disciple i want to help you, but i am unable.

    This old fox. Lin Xuan swore in his heart, he always planned out his actions before hand, how could he not know that a little while ago that there was a vacant seat for a steward at Danxia Mountain, this old man was intentionally being difficult.

    However, this situation was also expected by Lin Xuan, in fact the cultivating world is very [****] , and as such the old man was trying to get the most out of the situation, demanding a bribe, something Lin Xuan had already planned for.

    Sneering in his heart, the old man's intentions were very clearly to Lin Xuan, but on the surface, Lin Xuan still put out the appearance of a rookie, stammering This junior . please help this junior who has no spiritual roots, cultivation is too difficult for me, and i wish to live carefree as a steward, if senior brother is willing to help, this junior will follow you.

    Having said that, Lin Xuan pulled out a package, covered in layers of cloth, quietly placing it in front of the old man.

    Whats this? Lin Xuan deliberately acted in a secretive manner, successfully attracting the old mans attention.

    As the layers of cloth were pulled away, it slowly revealed a sparkling object, although it was just a glimpse and did not directly see the whole object, the old man still could not help but lean forward Spirit Stone?

    Spirit Stones are stones that are rich in spirit power, and whether it is for cultivation or for trading, the role of spirit stones is irreplaceable, as it is treated as the main currency to cultivators.

    However, the number of spirit stones mined is low, and those that mine them are the seniors, only allowing experts to posses them, so low-level cultivators might occasionally see one, but never possess any.

    This boy at the second layer of spirit gathering, actually has something like his.

    However, after all the cloth was removed, the old mans expression became somewhat disappointed, as the package was filled not with a spirit stone, but spirit stone fragments, about half of a full spirit stone.

    When spirit stones get fragmented, they lose a lot of spirit power, and the fragments here was worth less than half, after deducting the missing fragments as well as the lost spirit power, the amount contained in the package was only about one quarter of a full spirit stone.

    This is the spirit stone fragments this junior accidentally obtained, if senior is willing to grant me the post of steward, this junior will give it to you.

    The old man suddenly perked up, although it was only spirit stone fragments, he was only a low-level cultivator, and it can be said that this was a great amount of wealth, even after all his work, he has little to show for it, so this was a great thing for him.

    After pretending to think about it for a moment well, since junior is so sincere, how could i not show my benevolence?

    After pulling out a book: Trash pill storage department lacks a steward, you can go work there.

    Lin Xuan was overjoyed, everything really went according to plan, although on the surface he only shows an awkward expression: Trash pill storage, this

    Seeing the awkward expression on his face, the old man hastily replied: Junior, you do not know that being steward of the trash pill storage is the easiest job, there is nothing for you to do other than sit back and relax, this senior is really looking out for you giving you this job.

    Really? Although Lin Xuan knew it to be a lie, he still played into the old man's hands, and he certainly won't argue, as he pretended to believe him: I see, i always thought trash pills were a waste, well, thank you senior.

    Oh, don't mention it, junior. As the old man gathered up the spirit stone fragments into his arms he called out to the boy: This junior is now the steward of the trash pill storage, go take him to receive his number and identification plate.

    Yes!

    As Lin Xuan walked away, the old man had a proud smile on his face: Working in the trash pill storage is really easy, and has no requirements, such a trash disciple can also obtain spirit stone fragments, without even understanding anything

    The old man thinking of his earnings, did not realize that the one who benefited the most was actually Lin Xuan, as everything that happened was within his calculations.

    Every word, every expression, was planned out beforehand.

    Before coming, he had done his research and found out that this Senior named Feng was a greedy old man that would do nothing if it didn't benefit him.

    Originally, he had nothing to give him, other than the spirit stone he from Zhou yan and Zhang Yu, and although Lin Xuan can be considered to be very rich, since he was a spirit gathering disciple, having a spirit stone would be too conspicuous, and if he was not careful it would attract the attention of others, So Lin Xuan deliberately smashed a spirit stone into fragments, then gave the old man half of the fragments, saving the rest for later.

    Secondly, by pretending he knew nothing, the steward was able to take his bribe, and by pretending to be honest he managed to give the worst job over to Lin Xuan thinking he was a fool.

    After his investigation Lin Xuan knew that because no one needs trash pills, the storage room was almost never used, and no one ever visited it, and so it was considered the worst job available.

    Feng being the unscrupulous person he was will certainly lie to Lin Xuan and send him there.

    It also works out for Lin Xuan, because he is being cheated to go there, rather than asking for the position, so no one would think twice of him working there.

    Feng thought he was being very smart, but he never realized that he was being led by the nose by Lin Xuan, who ended up the biggest beneficiary of this situation.

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    Volume 2 Chapter 2 - Trash Pill Storage

    Here is the second chapter of the day and sorry to say it is also the last chapter of the day, im just too tired to do another chapter today, but i will make it up to you all tomorrow by releasing a 4th chapter. Also what do you guys think of the dialogue, should i add connotations to show who is talking or is it fine as is. Hope you enjoy and see ya tomorrow.




    Here is your token
    a forty year old low-order cultivator tossed the identification
    plate into Lin Xuans hands, with an indifferent expression,
    after judging Lin Xuan to be no more than an average youth,
    getting sent to the trash pill storage, a position usually given to
    the most useless people, as it had no requirements, this youth was
    obviously tricked by old Feng.
    Looking at Lin Xuan with contempt in his eyes, he failed t
    o notice that Lin Xuan was happy about his posting, who was as
    usual pretending to appear unaware.
    Thank you, Senior
    Lin Xuan looked at the plate in his hand, a half-palm sized piece of jade with the words trash pill storage written on one side, and the word Steward on the other side.
    This was to represent his position, and with it even someone could get into the first area of Danxia Mountain unimpeded with free access to the trash pill room.
    Danxia Mountain as a key area of the school was divided into three areas.
    The first area containing the trash pill storage, wherein the second area contains the fire alchemy rooms, and the third area being the storage area for all finished products as well as all sorts of immortal herbs making it one of the most important locations, guarded by various barriers and numerous checkpoints.
    The first area, other than containing the trash pill storage area, also contains a reception room, as well as various areas for the few odd jobs required, and since Lin Xuan now possessed the identification plate, he could freely move throughout the first area.
    Holding the Plate, Lin Xuans heart is filled with joy, but he still maintains a dull expression maintaining his facade.
    And as he came out of the room, he went towards the first area holding the identification plate, and the demeanor of a rookie who understood nothing of the world fell away without a trade. Replaced with a mature youth who held a slight mocking smile.
    Steward of Trash Pill Storage, finally achieving his goal with only having to pay the price of spirit stone fragments, Lin Xuan was finally able to secure a source of trash pills without causing any undue attention on himself.
    After a moment of silent contemplation, Lin Xuan took out a jade plate, injecting his soul into it, it was a map of the first area of Danxia Mountain, with explanations of the different areas as pointing out the forbidden areas.
    After taking a look around, Lin Xuan found the entrance to the storage area and walked past it.
    Trash pills truly are considered worthless by others, the other areas actually have a few barriers and protections, but this storage area actually has nothing. As Lin Xuan walked around, the more he understood just how little regard other cultivators held for trash pills, which in the end just made things more convenient for him.
    After walking around for about a quarter of an hour, Lin Xuan finally came to the trash storage room, which stood in a courtyard among some other buildings, the biggest one being the storehouse, followed by the living areas for the steward and his assistant.
    It was a relatively simple layout, and possessed a lot of space, After taking a look around Lin Xuan nodded with satisfaction and directly entered the courtyard.
    In the courtyard there were several fifteen-year old boys sitting around bored, as apparently there had been no new people for a long time, so as they saw Lin Xuan coming they were surprised, but after noticing that he wore the clothing of a cultivator the immediately showed respectful expressions, and ran up to offer greetings, with the one who seemed the oldest stepping forward.
    Immortal, what makes you come here?
    What is your name?
    This junior is called Zhao Ming. As the youth quickly responds to Lin Xuan, it is apparent that he is offering his utmost respect.
    The other boy doesn't even dare to be disrespectful, making Lin Xuan understand fully the feeling of superiority, the feeling of being a cut above everyone else, since in the eyes of normal people cultivators are superior beings, a truly comfortable feeling.
    You are the leader?
    Yes! Zhao answered truthfully. This junior here is the proxy steward.
    proxy steward? Lin Xuan is startled, since even though it is an odd job, the duties of the steward has always been meant for a cultivator, not an outer disciple
    Thinking that Lin Xuan was doubting him, Zhao smiles: Upon my honor, immortal, Trash pill storage stewardship has been vacant for a long time, and because there have been no new steward assigned this junior has been looking after things.
    I see. Lin Xuan nodded that he understood, no one has any use for trash pills, so new stewards are reluctant to come.
    Wanting to clear the air, Lin Xuan speaks out: I was sent to be the new steward, so the Trash room is now under my control, Here is the Identification plate, take a look.
    Zhao is not stupid, and had apparently already suspected as much, so he showed no surprise at Lin Xuans statement, and quickly took the plate and looked it over, after which he quickly saluted: This junior greets the steward
    You Lin Xuan waves his hand: Get to your duties.
    After dismissing the other boys, Zhao was left alone: You, show me around.
    as this was his new territory, Lin Xuan of course needs to know everything about it, Zhao nodded respectfully and began to lead the way.
    Squeeeek!
    As the heavy door slowly opened, a thick layer of dust fell onto Lin Xuans head, making him somewhat startled, as he looked at the mess in front of him. Piles and piles of bottles and jars lying about.
    Thisthis is the trash pill storage area?
    Yes,Immortal
    How long has it been since someone cleaned, or even organized, with such a chaotic area how do you even know how many trash pills there are?
    This. Zhao had no response, after a moment of silence he cautiously responded: Immortal, it is not clear exactly how many trash pills there are here, as the accounts table has not been filled out for a long time.
    How is that possible, weren't you the steward here, how could you not know anything?
    Immortal this is as looked at Lin Xuans expression he carefully measured his words: Since the impurity level in trash pills is so high that cultivators are unable to use it, making it harmful to the body, even though they are not thrown away, no one really cares about the trash pills, so it eventually became a chaotic heap that is naturally very messy, since no one would bother to account for something that no one cares for, it has always been like this, Thundercloud valley has thousands of years of history, and the Trash pill storage has always been like this, since the trash pills are useless, who cares how many there are.


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    Volume 2 Chapter 3 - Symbol Array

    here is the first chapter of the day, hope you all enjoy. I'll put the next one up a little later in the day as i have a family reunion to attend to now. I wish those of you that celebrate it a happy labor day, and I'll see you all later.



    Ah. Lin Xuan nodded in response to Zhaos explanation,

    greatly relieving Zhao, as Lin Xuan was showing no emotions on his face.

    Becoming the steward of the trash room storage was

    only the first step in Lin Xuans plan, his next step had been

    to himself familiar with the accounting of the pills, so as to be

    able to do false accounts allowing him to steal pills as he needed,

    although he would have to be careful to not draw attention.

    But Lin Xuan never expected things to be so easy.

    Since the trash room storage was so disorganized, the accounts had never been done, and in other words, no one really knows how many trash pills there, allowing Lin Xuan to take them as needed without worry of being caught.

    Thinking of this, Lin Xuan finally showed a slight smile.

    Immortal, Immortal (Zhao)

    Hearing a voice reaching his years, Lin Xuan turned to find Zhao looking at him in a confused expression, Lin Xuan immediately put on a cold expression, giving himself a warning in his heart: I must not be so careless in the future, no matter what emotion im feeling it should never be visible to others.

    Nothing. (Lin Xuan)

    Lin Xuan shook his head: I just did not expect being the steward of the trash pill storage would be so easy, It seems that i will have alot of free time.

    Oh, rest assured that there is nothing to do in the trash pill room, and the few jobs that we do have to do are very small. Zhao replied in a pleasant manner, trying to curry favor with his new boss.

    Lin Xuan nodded noncommittally, letting him lead the way to visit a few other places, and then picked a relatively secluded house as his own living area.

    Lin Xuan then had Zhao summon all the other boys, so he could announce some rules, the first being that without his permission, no one is allowed to approach within ten steps of his home.

    On this point, the boys didn't have the slightest objection, since even though they were outer disciples, they still understood that everyone has their own secrets methods, and in the case of cultivators they would kill to keep their secrets.

    While low-level cultivators did not usually have the power to have such secret methods, these boys were living in a secluded area.

    Therefore, this statement made by Lin Xuan seemed very normal, leaving no doubts behind.

    After the boys had dispersed, Lin Xuan entered his room, to lie in bed for a while, while at the same time thinking over the day's events as he meditated.

    So far everything is going well, and there is no longer a problem in getting trash pills.

    At different levels of cultivation, the required pills vary, as purifying essence pills are only useful for the spirit gathering stage, and were useless to those who are at foundation building stage or higher.

    Those higher grade pills although they have higher failure rates, there are still some uses for the trash pills created at higher levels.

    At any rate, at least for his cultivation level, Lin Xuan has an assured source of pills, as for the foundation building stage, he is far from achieving that so there are no worries for now.

    After considering things again, Lin Xuan sat up in bed, and after a moment took out a bracelet.

    It was Zhou Yans storage bracelet, which now belong to Lin Xuan, of course he wouldn't be so silly as to put it on his wrist, as that would be tantamount to admitting his involvement in the disappearance of those two.

    After a quick search, Lin Xuan pulled out a talisman from the bracelet.

    A symbol array!

    Cultivation takes various forms, and along with the various energy techniques, there are also symbol arrays, which various sects use as a defensive method as well as for combat.

    In general, a good array requires the use of formation flags, formation circle, as well as a few other components, but those items are impossible for Lin Xuan to posses, as his cultivation is far too low, let alone that he would still be unable to use them.

    So what should a low-level cultivator do, are there any alternatives?

    Of course.

    Similar to how there are magic weapons to allow for high level spirit techniques, there are also tools for allowing one to use formation arrays, that is the symbol array.

    Of course, the formations available through symbol arrays are the easiest and most simple of formations with limited power, but the benefits are still obvious as they are extremely easy to use and consume very little spiritual power, to the point that even low-level cultivators can easily use it.

    He hesitated a bit, after all formation flags, and circles as well as the other tools used in different formations can be recycled as long as they are not damaged, but the symbol array that he got from Zhang Yu, he only had twenty, and they were all single use.

    After thinking that, Lin Xuan still decides to use it and circulates spirit power from his dantian, while saying the incantation causing the talisman to light up and burn.

    Lin Xuan waves his hand, causing some wind, and shouted: Form!

    Suddenly, the spiritual power began to form up into a formation array taking the shape of the yin yang cycle, which rapidly soared up and out of the house until it enveloped the whole house.

    After a few moments, the rays of light began to dim, until eventually it completely faded from sight, restoring the area to its previous appearance, but this was only an illusion, as there is now a formation array around the house and if someone were to trespass they would activate it.

    After all, Lin Xuan had many secrets, and if someone were to see him purifying immortal pills it would be trouble, even though the boys who work for him would not dare go against steward, it would be best not to take any risks, and so to prevent any accidents, Lin Xuan decided to use a formation array.

    This formation is a simple one and makes normal people unable to enter, and so long as a cultivator does not come, this formation should be foolproof.

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    Volume 2 Chapter 4 Closed Door Cultivation


    Here is the second chapter for the day,and sorry to say, but I'm more tired than i expected, so the two chapters i still owe you guys will probably not be done tonight. I will however do as much of the next chapter as i can, but no promises on it coming out tonight. Hope you enjoy the chapter and as usual, please point out any mistakes and/or changes i can put to make my translations better. As my three day weekend is now at an end, i'll be returning to my usual release speed of one chapter every 2-3 days, but because i still owe you guys 2 chapters out of what i promised, they will be released along with my regular chapter in 2-3 days time.




    After doing all this, Lin Xuan decided to lie down and

    rest, in an attempt to recover his energy before he began cultivating.

    Over the next few days, Lin Xuan did not immediately

    begin converting trash pills, but rather decided to quietly observe

    things for several days, although Zhao had clearly described

    the situation here, he wasn't convinced that he was told the

    truth, even if there was no point for Zhao to lie to him, better

    safe than sorry.

    Moreover, the people who usually apply to be stewards are the laziest cultivators, those unwilling to work hard, so then if someone who was known for his hard work were to come work here, wouldn't that cause doubt?

    Anyways, the path of a cultivator is a long one, and Lin Xuan was in no hurry, so he decided to spend time and secretly understand the going ons of his surroundings, ,meanwhile he is also building the image of being very lazy by closing himself off in his room, which will in turn keep others from disturbing him.

    As long people fall for this false image he is projecting, later on when he begins to purify and cultivate no one would suspect anything.

    After planning out his intentions, Lin Xuan started to put his plan into action over the next few days.

    After about a week since he became a steward, Lin Xuan was able to quietly observe that Zhao did not lie that the jobs of the trash shop storage steward was easy, and that there really was nothing to do,except for the first day of every month, where a boy will come from the alchemy rooms to deliver a load of trash pills, other than those times not to even mention other cultivators visiting, even the outer disciples from other areas will not come here.

    The entire area is usually isolated, but Lin Xuan is not concerned as this suits him best.

    The mess in the trash storage room was worse than Zhao had said when he claimed that it had been thousands of year since anyone cleaned or did the accounts.

    In short, the whole house was full of trash pills that have been accumulated over thousands of years, and no one knew exactly how many there were, it was in other words a treasure trove in the eyes of Lin Xuan.

    Unfortunately, these pills were only purifying essence pills, and this could be considered the only downside.

    But Lin Xuans need for the higher grade pills was a distant thing, so it's best not to think about it.

    After getting a clear idea of the situation, Lin Xuan decided that he has spent enough time in building the perfect illusion of laziness in the eyes of the other boys.

    As far as the other boys know, their new steward spends all day sleeping and lazing about, a true eccentric just like the old man in the main house.

    They knew that the new steward hates to be disturbed, so even when the boys went too close once and discovered the formation they were not surprised as they privately believed that he prepared so as to not be disturbed from his sleep.

    Understanding this of course, none of them were foolish enough to attempt to enter within a ten meter radius of Lin Xuans home, and would take detours around it, all the jobs are also still managed by Zhao.

    And this is the result that Lin Xuan wanted, and so Lin Xuan headed over to the storage room for a jade bottle, and returned to his house to begin purification.

    Naturally, beforehand he also prepared some bread and dried meat as food, as cultivators who are still at the spirit gathering stage still require food.

    After two days, Lin Xuan finished purifying an entire bottle of trash pills, as he cut down his purification time due to practice and experience. He is already extremely familiar with the purification process for trash pills, so of course his success rate is now much higher, and so he received thirty-six useful pills out of one hundred trash pills.

    His speed is also a lot faster than before, of course, this is thanks to the added control he gained from being at the second layer of spirit gathering, as well as the size increase of the blue lights.

    With the purified pills in hand Lin Xuan finally began cultivating, in accordance with the limits stated in the medical books, as well as his own experience he took three pills three times a day.

    Even though he lacked spiritual roots, Lin Xuan was able to cultivate at fast speeds as he was driven by the powerful drugs coupled with his hard work.

    When he used up all the pills he had, Lin Xuan went back to get more trash pills, purified them, and cultivated again.

    He repeated this cycle time and time again.

    And in the same uninterrupted pattern, six months quickly went by.

    Lin Xuan is cultivating in his room still using only pills, as he no longer went to the inner area to cultivate, even though he now has adequate power to do so, and is not afraid of hardships, there is simply no longer a need to do so. Since Lin Xuan took purified essence pills every day, he did not have to worry about the spiritual power in his surroundings running out.

    However, Lin Xuan did not completely isolate himself, as he would know nothing about current events if he stayed inside all the time, so every few days he also went to the young hawk pavilion.

    Since according to the rules of thundercloud valley, every so often a foundation building expert would come and give lessons to the spirit gathering disciples, and Lin Xuan was not willing to miss out on the lessons.

    Even though the lessons were temporarily irrelevant, he still carefully listened, and wrote down the practice method, to save for some time in the future.

    Over the past six months, Lin Xuan has taken thousands of purified essence pills, and under the effects of the drug, coupled with his hard work, Lin Xuan finally reached the fourth layer of spirit gathering stage, finally being considered as mid-level disciple.

    Lin Xuans cultivation now is the same as those of his generation, as they are also mid-level disciples, not counting those who had excellent spiritual roots and were already at the fifth layer, while the majority were still hovering around in the third layer.

    This is to say..Lin Xuan left most of his peers behind.

    To know that six months ago, he was at the first layer of the spirit gathering stage, and in just a few months managed to reach the fourth layer.his speed cannot be said to be the highest as very rarely do such geniuses appear who are able to cultivate that fast, but Lin Xuan had no spiritual roots and was no different from a common person.

    The main reason is that immortal pills are truly amazing, since after all, in addition to having the purification ability, Lin Xuan can be considered to be the richest low-order disciple, as not even those who come from large sects are able to treat immortal pills as if they were candy.

    Another reason is hard work, since Lin Xuan clearly understands that to succeed, you must first pay the price, so even with this purification ability, he still does not dare to be lazy, and works even harder than he did originally.

    As a result, Lin Xuan did not get arrogant with the immediate success that he achieved, as he is still seen as a low-level disciple, since other people cannot know about his secret, and he keeps as far away as possible from other disciples and cultivators, in order to take no chances.

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    Volume 2 Chapter 5 - Mid-Grade Purified Essence Pill

    Here is the first of the two chapters i promised, the other chapter as well as the regular release will be out sometime tomorrow. Id also like to point out that purifying essence pills will now be called purified essence pills, as that seems to make a bit more sense to me. If there are any problems, or any changes you guys would like to see, please comment and let me know. Hope you enjoy the chapter, and A Good Night/Evening to you all.




    Although after achieving the fourth layer Lin Xuan

    was met with a problem, as the effect of purified essence

    pills was greatly reduced, thus making his cultivation once

    again rise up in difficulty and slowing down.

    Its no surprise that cultivation becomes harder and

    harder the further you go, and so with Lin Xuans rise in skill,

    low-grade purified essence pills just aren't enough.

    In accordance with common sense, it is possible to make up for the poor quality by increasing the quantity, however the problem lies with the limit of nine pills per day, thus not allowing him to overcome quality with quantity.

    Lin Xuan after some careful consideration, finally decided that the next step would be to once again try and purify beyond low-grade.

    Since according to the ancient texts, it only states that purified essence pills can only be taken nine times a day, but it does not specify a specific grade of pill, in other words since he is able to consume nine low-grade pills a day, he should also be able to eat nine pills of a higher grade per day.

    Since the low-grade pills are unable to meet his requirement, then of course the only option is to increase the quality, although Lin Xuan had tried once before to purify past low-grade and found it difficult, and eventually failed.

    The situation now is different, as the last time he tried he was only at the second layer of spirit gather stage, and is now at the fourth layer of spirit gathering stage, and since the blue lights are synchronized with his spiritual powers growth, the amount of blue lights he now possesses is now much greater. Although Lin Xuan cant say for certain whether or not he has enough to purify further, but the only way to find out if its possible or not is to try it and see.

    After finally making his decision, Lin Xuan began to prepare, deciding to first take a short break, so that his spiritual power and blue lights can be restored to their best condition.

    Lin Xuan then sat down cross-legged, pouring out a low-grade purified essence pill from a jade bottle, he holds it in his hand, and uses his divine consciousness to begin observing for any changes, as it has grown greatly along with Lin Xuans cultivation.

    Of course, his divine consciousness is still nothing compared to that of those legendary cultivators who were said to be able to spread their divine consciousness over hundreds of miles, however as far as Lin Xuan is concerned, they have nothing to do with him.

    The priority now is to purify a mid-grade pill.

    Thinking this, Lin Xuan began to circulate the blue lights, causing the blue lights to gather together, converging into a blue ribbon before moving along his meridians. This process which was once very difficult, can now be considered to be relaxing, as Lin Xuan has by this point purified thousands of pills, and practice does make perfect, and along with the improvement of his skills, his meridians are also a lot stronger than before, having more endurance, so the process truly no longer feels awkward.

    Eventually, the lights moving along his meridians reached his wrist and began to enter the pill in his hand.

    Immediately Lin Xuans consciousness enters the pill, magnifying the scene several times in his mind, giving Lin Xuan a clear view of the essence and impurities in the pill. Carefully controlling the speed of the blue lights, allowing the m to slowly enter into the pill as the purification began, Lin Xuan watched as the blue lights slowly began to move the the impurities.

    This process is very difficult, because the impurities are usually tied closely with with the essences contained within the pill, making it very hard to separate the two, however the blue lights were able to do so, as they simply passed right through the essences and only affected the impurities.

    However the impurities in a low-grade pill and a trash pill are very different, as in a trash pill, the impurities are more spread out into a sort of powder, and thus easy to push out, but the impurities in a low-grade pill are in a thick, semi-liquid form and so it was much harder to separate them from the essence.

    Similarly, the size of the impurities is also much bigger than those in a trash pill, taking about three times the amount of blue lights to achieve the same result as it would in a trash pill. The last time the purification failed, because the amount of blue lights that Lin Xuan possessed was not enough, but there is now a larger amount of blue lights, allowing the process to run through to its end.

    It is also impossible to interrupt the purification process, meaning that he cannot purify half of it today, and then try again the next day. The blue lights only allow for success or failure, as there is no way to re-purify the pills which were partially purified.

    Due to his previous experiences, Lin Xuan predicted that with his current volume of blue lights, his current chance of success should be at about seventy percent, given that there are no unexpected accidents.

    So far, although it can be said that Lin Xuan has a lot of experience in regards to purifying pills, but as this was only his second attempt in purifying a low-grade pill, Lin Xuan was still not completely sure in the results.

    However, even if it ends in failure, Lin Xuan still possesses a large amount of low-grade pills, he would be able to try again and build up experience, and slowly increase his success rate, just as he did with purifying trash pills, and unlike that time he is not starting from scratch, so his success rate should still not be too bad.

    Having mentally prepared himself thus, Lin Xuan is no longer afraid of failure, and boldly continues the purification.

    Having started out with no issues, the impurities in their semi-liquid state were being steadily pushed out, although it required more energy, it looks to be sufficient.

    But as the impurities are gradually separated from the essence and pushed out to the edge, they stop moving further, refusing to be pushed out.

    How could this happen?

    Such a situation never occurred when purifying trash pills, Lin Xuan frowned as he began to think it over but did not panic, as that wouldn't help anything.

    Using his divine consciousness to focus in on the edge of the pill, Lin Xuan saw that the edges of the pill were blocked with the liquid.

    I see. Lin Xuan maintained the flow of blue lights as he analyzed the situation, the impurities in a trash pill are in a powdery form, so pushing them out is easy, but a low-grade pill is purified the impurities are semi-liquid and thus too big to fit through the small openings, making it difficult to push out.

    It should be such a thing!.


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    Volume 2 Chapter 6 Pros and Cons

    Here is the next chapter, and i hope you enjoy, and i'll see you all later with the next chapter which will be the regular release.




    Analyzing the situation clearly, Lin Xuan tries to resolve

    the problem, beginning by first increasing the speed of

    the blue lights, so that there would be a more powerful

    force pushing against the the impurities.

    But the problem lies in figuring out by how much he

    should increase the speed of the flow, if the increase was too

    low it wouldn't change anything, but if he increases it too much

    it will be more than what the pill can handle, and it would explode,

    resulting in a failure.

    Lin Xuan began by increasing the speed by a small bit, slightly

    increasing the pressure on the impurities and pushing them out a small bit further, Lin Xuan continued in such a careful manner, and little by little the impurities were finally pushed out after an hour.

    Whew!

    Lin Xuan laid on his bed tiredly, with his clothes drenched in sweat, the purification exhausting him more than a whole day of meditation.

    But he also held the hint of a pleased smile on his face, moving his right hand in front of his face, Lin Xuan took a look at the pill in his hand, causing a refreshing fragrance to drift by his nose.

    The result, mid-grade Purified Essence Pill.

    Although he has never seen one before, Lin Xuan recognized it from the descriptions in the medical books, as it had the same color and appearance as the book, a genuine mid-grade pill.

    With a pale blue surface, and exuding a thicker herbal smell than the low-grade pill, the success rate of refining one was less than one fifth, usually when one prepared five furnaces, there will often be four trash pills, but the success rate was still not too low, usually however this was only possible under the hands of an experienced alchemist, as such a behavior was extremely extravagant, and only the few large factions could afford to do so, and as a result a small school such as thundercloud valley, there are no mid-grade pills.

    In theory, a mid-grade pill can be exchanged for ten low-grade pills of the same kind, but in fact, there is no real market price, since the few schools and sects that can produce mid-grade pills would never sell them.

    Holding the pill in his hand as he looked over, Lin Xuan decided to finally just stop thinking about it and see just how much better a mid-grade pill is.

    Getting up from his bed, and sitting cross-legged on the ground, Lin Xuan throws the small blue pill into his mouth (So he chose the blue pill)

    As he focuses his consciousness into his dantian, Lin Xuan begins cultivating as the pill begins dispersing a warm energy into his dantian.

    Similar to the the time when he took nine low-grade pills at once, the mid-grade pill gives off a warm energy, although the heat is not as hot as that time.

    As the pill fully dissolves the energy produced is truly on a different level, and although it is hot, it gives a feeling similar to soaking in a hot spring.

    Since the pill has fewer impurities than the low-grade pill, the energy it gives off is more pure, and stronger.

    Since

    Although there are some records in the medical books telling what to expect from a mid-grade pill, it is completely different to experience it after all. Lin Xuans heart is filled with joy, but he did not allow it to affect his mind, as he concentrated his consciousness into refining the pill.

    His dantian gathered the spirit power, and compared to how it was at the first layer, both the quality and quantity of spiritual power has changed dramatically.

    If it was originally a fine strand of hair, it was now as thick as a matchstick, with a much deeper, almost dark color in comparison to the previous pale white color.

    After gathering the spiritual power, it began to flow, slowly passing through his kidneys, and eventually mixing with the energy from the pill.

    This is the most important step, as it is when you use the energy from the pill to nourish your own spiritual power.

    Similar to how the roots of a plant absorb nutrients to grow, his spiritual power is doing the same thing as it circulates.

    He circulated the spiritual power nine times!



    Since the time Lin Xuan took the pill till now, it has already become noon, it seems that the time it takes to refine a mid-grade pill is slightly longer than the time for one low-grade pill, so of course the effects are also more pronounced.

    Using his consciousness to look over his body, Lin Xuan feel that the spiritual power in his body has undergone a significant growth, it seems that the effects of a mid-grade pill at the fourth layer is much more significant than a low-grade pill.

    In other words, it seems that the grade of the pill really matches up with the grade of cultivation.

    Although this was only a guess, from his own experiences, the problem lying in front of Lin Xuan now was how difficult it was to refine a mid-grade pill.

    After six months of using the blue lights, Lin Xuan of course has a lot of experience , and could purify a low-grade pill easily, but a mid-grade pill

    Honestly, just having that one success was lucky, as Lin Xuan was not sure he could do so again. It wasn't that he couldn't purify it, but rather the process was too time-consuming and cost too much energy, on top of the low success rate.

    For example, right now Lin Xuan could purify a whole bottle of trash pills after spending one day and night working, with a success rate of about one in three, as his body could now support six to seven low-grade purification's without rest.

    However, with his current amount of energy, he could only purify one mid-grade pill, with a very low success rate.

    In other words, he could get mid-grade pills, but it was extremely inefficient, and it would decrease the speed of his progress.

    What to do now?

    Lin Xuan lying in bed, began to think in silence for a moment, until finally deciding to purify mid-grade pills.

    The reason for such a decision, was that by continuing to cultivate under the effects of low-grade pills shows very little effect, and if he wants to breakthrough the next bottleneck like that, he did not know how many months it would take.

    Purifying mid-grade pills will take more time, but the more he does it the better he will get so in the long run mid-grade pills are more beneficial.

    He cannot allow himself to become complacent with just low-grade pills, since if he were to back down from mid-grade pills because it was too hard, that mentality would also affect his cultivation.

    So he is only left with the option to overcome.

    Lin Xuan believes that with constant practice, the efficiency of his purification will also increase, which will in turn increase his cultivation speed.

    Looking at the long run, although it will take time to master purifying mid-grade pills, it is still absolutely worthwhile.

    After carefully going over the pros and cons of the situation, Lin Xuan decides on his plan for future cultivation, and once again continues in his efforts.


    ......

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