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In the following half a year, Chen Jing's alchemy skills improved by leaps and bounds, he was already able to concoct Tier 1 and 2 mid-tier or low-tier pills at will. He even managed to concoct a high-tier Tier 1 spiritual pill with 12 Pill Marks by chance, and the pill was currently stored in Qiu Shuyun's hands.

In this period of time, due to his breakthrough in his technique, Chen Jing had completely left his previous blind experience. His cultivation had naturally advanced at an incredible speed, he had broken through the bottleneck of the advanced stage of the universe level and entered the pinnacle of the universe level. However, Chen Jing had encountered a serious problem. He had eaten up several dozen low-grade fourth-grade elemental energy pills and a few low-grade fifth-grade elemental energy pills that he had robbed from Zhou Ping. In addition, there was an even more serious problem right in front of Chen Jing, which was that the Yellow Sand Star Gate would open in three years. In addition, there was an even more serious problem right in front of Chen Jing, which was that the Yellow Sand Star Sect would open in three years. Moreover, the time given to Chen Jing was less than three years, because to obtain this opportunity, one had to win in the outer sect Small Competition two years later. That was to say, Chen Jing only had two short years left.

To reach Perfection in two years, the only way was to consume a pill of the fifth step. However, the exorbitant price of a low-grade fifth-grade pill was not something Chen Jing could bear just by refining low-grade pills. Moreover, Chen Jing knew that consuming low-grade pills all at once would not work. As an alchemist, Chen Jing knew very well that the impurities in low-grade medicinal pills were still very high. If he took a large amount of medicinal pills, he naturally wouldn't have enough time to dispel them. The solution to this problem was naturally to consume high grade pure pills. Thus, Chen Jing had long since realized that he could not take any more low-grade pills. At the very least, he should take some mid-grade pills, preferably high-grade ones or top-grade ones!

This was easy to say, but it was even harder than ascending to the heavens. This was because the price of medium-grade and high-grade pills were two, three, five times that of low-grade pills. This was because every additional pill pattern would increase the price by several times. Besides, Chen Jing was still worried. He had set at least five targets for himself.

This goal seemed impossible to achieve, so Chen was faced with a major decision. Chen Jing currently had over a thousand crystals in his possession. If he used this money to buy a low tier level 5 pill, in addition to his earnings from concocting low tier pills, he might be able to reach the great circle of the universe in 3 years. As for the outer sect competition two years later, he would have to rely on himself, because Chen Jing knew that if they were at the same level, he had complete confidence in winning with his powerful spiritual sense. Moreover, this could leave a huge hidden danger on his path of cultivation.

The other option was to use the money to purchase a Rank 5 Elixir, and try to refine a Rank 5 Elixir. This choice was naturally very risky because Chen Jing had used a level 4 elixir before, but without exception, he had failed.

Of course, there was another choice, which was to first continue practicing with the level 4 elixir, and then train the level 5 Elixir. The advantage of this was that the level 4 Elixir threshold was relatively lower, and after becoming a level 4 Alchemist, one could still continue refining the level 4 Elixir to support the consumption of the level 5 Elixir. However, the drawback was obvious. It would definitely take a long time to reach the fourth step, and it would take a long time to reach the fifth step as well. Of course, if that was the case, Chen Jing definitely wouldn't be able to seize this once in a century and a half opportunity.

For this reason, Chen Jing considered for three days and three nights. In the end, he still decided to rush to the fifth step. For two reasons: Firstly, his savings were nothing more than half a year's worth of rewards. Secondly, Chen Jing's spiritual sense had long since reached or surpassed that of a tier 5 alchemist. Thus, there was not much of a difference between a rank 4 and a tier 5 alchemist.

After the decision was made, Chen Jing began to take action. Since the members of the second group were already as close as brothers, Chen Jing felt that he should report his decision to his senior brothers and sisters. After everyone was seated in the living room of their own suite, Chen Jing began to explain his decision and the reason behind it, "Fellow brothers and sisters, I've already broken through to the pinnacle of the universe level, due to..."

"So, I've decided to give up all my wealth to reach the level 5 apothecary stage!" In the end, Chen Jing used almost every ounce of his strength to state his final decision.

"…?" After Chen Jing finished his sentence, everyone was dumbfounded. The scene suddenly became extremely quiet. After all, a fifth-tier alchemist was a far cry from the disciples of the 1st Battalion of Alchemy Class!

After a long silence, Zhang Chengbin took a sip of tea and said in a low voice, "I naturally admire my junior's shocking goal. Honestly speaking, everyone knows that taking a low rank pill will leave behind many dangers, but who wouldn't take a low rank pill? High-grade medicinal pills were too expensive! Even I, a wealthy prince of the Four Seas Empire, would not dare to claim that I have used all of my medicinal pills that have 5 or higher pill imprints. I might not even dare to say that I have used all of the mid-tier medicinal pills. Therefore, senior has decided to support you with my full support. In order to show my sincerity, senior has decided to give the most valuable treasure on your person, the Universe Heaven and Earth Cauldron, to junior. This cauldron is a high quality spirit treasure, if junior has its help, the chances of achieving your long-cherished wish will definitely increase by several fold. " With that, Zhang Chengbin took out a small cauldron from his interspatial ring and tossed it to Chen Jing as if it were an unremarkable item.

"No, no. Senior brother, this is too precious. Junior brother absolutely cannot accept this." Chen Jing waved his hand in refusal as he spoke, but the small cauldron had already flown over, so Chen Jing had no choice but to take it in his hands.

"Junior doesn't need to be like this. Senior's will isn't to refine medicine, and this cauldron is also a waste in my hands. If junior is truly sorry, then I will just give senior a few high quality pills in the future." Oh, and these other things too. " Seeing that Chen Jing had refused, Zhang Chengbin didn't mind and took out a few more level 5 Elixirs.

"Senior brother, since you said so, I will be a bit more formal if I continue to reject you. Senior brother, I will not say anything about your kindness. I will remember it in my heart." Chen Jing understood that he had no choice but to accept this favor. He sat down with tears in his eyes.

"Junior brother, I don't have a treasure like senior brother Zhang. Fortunately, senior sister still has some Rank 5 Elixirs. Junior brother should take them and train with them." After Chen Jing finished speaking, Qiu Shuyun got up and walked over to Chen Jing. She took out a dozen different types of spiritual medicines from her ring and placed them on the tea table in front of Chen Jing. Then she said, "You can't refuse, otherwise Senior Sister will be angry."

"Alright, I've accepted Senior Apprentice Sister's kindness. I really don't know what to say now, so I won't say anything else." Chen Jing felt that he was very lucky to have met people who were sincere.

"Junior brother, we don't have any spatial rings, but we do have a few stalks of spiritual medicine at home. We'll send them over to you later." Wang Hai and the other two said in unison.

"Okay, thank you senior brother. I will not be hypocritical, but I will definitely remember your kindness." Chen Jing cupped his hands and said with tears in his eyes.

Everything was ready, so Chen Jing took out the Ruyi Qiankun Cauldron and placed it on his palm. He closed his eyes and was about to start the refinement when he suddenly heard Zhang Chengbin's voice, "Junior Brother Chen, are you going to refine the Ruyi Qiankun Cauldron?"

"That's right. Junior, this is your intention. After all, it would have been sooner for us to start, wouldn't it?" Since Senior Brother Zhang had asked, Chen Jing naturally couldn't ignore him. Thus, he withdrew from the ritual and answered.

"But isn't refining a spirit artifact supposed to be binding by blood? "Junior apprentice-brother, why …" Zhang Chengbin found it strange, because the common sense of refining a spirit treasure was to separate a wisp of one's consciousness and attach it to a drop of blood on the tip of the finger. Then, he would force the drop of blood out of the finger and imprint it onto the core formation of the spirit artifact. There were two advantages to this method. The first was that the imprinted spiritual sense could persist for a long time due to the blood that contained the genes of the cultivator, and the second was that it ensured that low level cultivators could refine spiritual tools as well. Although the spiritual sense of cultivators below the Spirit Severing realm could not be released, it could still be attached to cells in the body after reaching the Xiantian realm.

"It's alright, I can …" Chen Jing was naturally an unorthodox person. He wanted to say that he could refine Spirit Treasures without dripping blood, but when he wanted to say something, he was immediately interrupted by Wang Hai, "Junior Brother Chen, did you say that you can refine it with your consciousness? There may be some common sense that Junior Apprentice Brother Chen still does not know about. If he did not have his own blood to attach to the Spirit Treasure, his consciousness will gradually fade away when it is branded onto the Spirit Treasure. "

"What?" Hearing Wang Hai's words, Chen Jing couldn't help but be shocked. He thought that it was no wonder that the little Chen Jing in his ring had become smaller, and her facial features had started to blur, making the ring less easy to use. Chen Jing had long understood that the soul was the most fundamental source of power for cultivators, and any slight loss was a disaster that was hard to recover from. Fortunately, the time was short, and the loss wasn't too serious, but even this bit of loss couldn't be made up for in eight to ten years. That is to say, due to the recklessness of this time, Chen Jing had lost at least ten years of cultivation, because the higher the rank of the soul, the more important it was.

After consulting with his fellow disciples for a while, Chen Jing refined the three spirit artifacts according to the correct method. Of course, Chen Jing also knew that the spatial ring and red iron flying sword he had robbed from Zhou Ping were both low-grade spiritual tools.

In the next period of time, Chen Jing recovered his spirit and repeatedly tried to break through to become a Rank 5 alchemist. Of course, it was impossible to extract high level alchemy pills using the previous method, because the energy molecules within the high level elixirs had become very pure and heavy, and could no longer be activated by hot water. The most commonly used method is to extract the core fire, which is to burn the inner Qi to form a flame to obtain the essence of the high-level elixirs. However, in order to achieve this minimum requirement, one must be at least at the Core Formation Stage, which is why it is called the core fire. Of course, this method was obviously impossible for Chen Jing to implement. The other method was to rely on the strength of the array. This was the simplest method, and it could directly extract, modify, and purify spirit herbs. However, this required a pill furnace with an array engraved on it. The grade of the pill depended on the grade of the pill and the divine sense of the pill refiner.

In the Treasure Pavilion in the middle of the city, there was a very domineering pill furnace called the Yin Yang Cauldron, but it was only a low-grade spiritual tool, so the price was set at 588. Chen Jing guessed that he should be able to buy it at 500 crystals, so he was prepared to ask for the help of his fellow Senior Brothers and Sisters, who would have thought that Senior Zhang would directly send over a high-grade spiritual tool.

The higher the grade of a pill furnace, the more powerful the spiritual sense it required. Although Chen Jing's soul was at the sixth or even seventh stage, he didn't have the direct support of his internal energy due to his lack of Soul Formation. Therefore, using such a high level spiritual tool would be a bit difficult. The majority of them were abandoned halfway. Watching a furnace full of heaven stage spiritual medicines turn them into slag, Chen Jing wanted to cry, but there were no tears. He had to rely on his firm dao heart to endure the countless times he had been on the verge of giving up. However, it was not like he didn't get anything, because Chen Jing could feel that his soul consciousness was getting stronger day by day. Especially because his soul consciousness was becoming more and more tenacious.

Another month had passed, and Chen Jing's soul consciousness had been able to complete the whole refining process, but unfortunately, he still couldn't refine a single pill. His biggest gain was only some poor medicinal liquids and pills, and after selling them, he could only get less than one-third of the cost.

After breakfast, Chen Jing sat alone in the quiet room. After taking a deep breath, he threw a 3000 year old ginseng into the Universe Heaven and Earth Cauldron, and then released his spiritual sense to activate the formation array inside the cauldron. The Universe Heaven and Earth Cauldron, which was the size of a palm, rotated along with Chen Jing's palms as they danced around in front of his chest. A quarter of an hour later, Chen Jing discovered that all of the energy molecules in the ginseng had been completely refined, and the dark cold molecules had also turned dark green. He gave up on controlling the leftovers of the ginseng, and only suspended a ball of dark green liquid slightly smaller than an egg in the middle of the cauldron. After that, Chen Jing gave up on the leftovers of the supplementary medicines and started to inject his Qi into the furnace. As a result, under the influence of Qi, the ball of liquid started to evaporate, and the visible water vapor slowly escaped out of the furnace. The ball of liquid in the cauldron also gradually became smaller, finally turning into a translucent, semi-solid substance the size of a pigeon's egg. At this moment, Chen Jing's divine sense split the mass of material into ten parts. Then, he controlled them to quickly rotate inside the cauldron and continue to transport the remaining water from the vapour inside the cauldron. After a while, no more water vapor came out.

Seeing the situation inside the furnace, Chen Jing knew that it was a success. He suppressed his pounding heart and slowly removed the ten still rotating pills from the furnace, sending each pill into a jade bottle on the table.

After calming himself down a little, Chen Jing took out a pill from the jade bottle and placed it on his left palm, but he didn't dare open his eyes for a long time because this kind of situation had happened many times before. He was filled with hope again and again, but the reality before his eyes was merciless.

Chen Jing shook his head, dispersing the illusions in his mind. Then, he resolutely opened his eyes. After all, it was a blade to stretch one's head. Wasn't it a blade to shrink one's head?

"What?" Chen Jing blinked his eyes vigorously. Indeed, a sparkling and translucent pill was quietly lying on his palm. There seemed to be a few wisps of bright and agile pill traces on it. Chen Jing quickly checked the pill carefully. There were seven pill patterns on its entire body. It was a mid-tier, higher-tier Yin Dan!

Ah!" Excited, too excited. " Chen Jing then carefully examined all ten pills. There were actually six or more pill patterns in each pill. One of them actually had eleven pill patterns, and the other eleven. What kind of thoughts were these? It was a high-grade medicinal pill!

"Senior!" Senior Sister! "Come here, come here quickly!" Excited, Chen Jing could not help but shout out loud, so loud that he could be heard clearly from several courtyards nearby.

"Junior brother, what's your name?" The first to arrive was Qiu Shuyun, followed by a few others.

"Look, quickly take a look!" Chen Jing's hands trembled slightly as he poured a pill into each of their palms.

"Ah, it's a middle tier pill, a mid tier 5 pill." This time, the first to speak was Lei Potian.

"As expected, it is a Medial Grade one." The others also followed suit.

"It's really a Medial Grade pill. Furthermore, there are eight Pill Marks. Junior Brother, did you really succeed?" Other than Qiu Shuyun, Zhang Chengbin was slightly later than the others.

"No, it's not a mid-tier pill. You're wrong. Look, there are 11 of them. They are definitely high-tier pills!" Qiu Shuyun, who had carefully checked, finally opened her mouth.

"Seniors, Senior Sisters, our gamble this time is really a close one." Truthfully, I already have 1,300 crystals here, and with senior brother and sister's elixirs, our capital will at least be over 2,500 crystals. In these two months, we've spent at least 2,000 crystals, and I'm afraid we don't even have 500 crystals now. If we don't win, I'm afraid we'll go bankrupt. After the cheers, Chen Jing stood up and said.

"Next, I have a suggestion for Senior Martial Brother to discuss regarding the handling of medicinal pills." Honestly speaking, the main reason for our gamble this time is to compete for the once in a century and once in a century fortuitous opportunity on the Yellow Sand Star. Of course, senior brother Wang and senior brother Lei had long since reached the Foundation Establishment stage, so senior brother Zhang had already reached the great circle of the universe level. Senior brother Wang, senior sister Qiu and I are currently at the pinnacle of the universe level, we should definitely go all out. Therefore, we should take the good pills ourselves. However, refining pills requires money, so I suggest that you consume 50% of the best quality pills and sell the worst quality pills at Senior Martial Brother Wang's' An Ren Tang 'for the pills in exchange for resources. For these ten pills, there was a total of 11 Superior Grade Yin Dan, 9 Intermediate Grade Yin Dan, one Eight Vein Pill, two Seven Vein Pill, and the rest were all Six Vein Pills. I suggest that we give the 11 Superior Grade Pill to Senior Qiu and the 9 Inscription Pill to Senior Wang. The other 2 Seven-Patterned Pills are also for Senior Qiu and Senior Wang. "As for the other five, let senior brother Wang sell them." Chen Jing spoke out his thoughts in one breath.

"Alright, Junior Brother Chen's suggestion is fair and reasonable. If there are no other opinions, then we will carry them out. After all, this is an opportunity that occurs once every 150 years, so as Senior Brother, we should support you more." As the boss of the second group, Zhang Chengbin spoke with determination.

The members of Group 2 were originally brotherly, so they all expressed their approval.