Fictional Transcension System - Chapter 47 Forming The Pill

“63rd time you’ve failed. Change up your heat intensity a little more.”

Lu Fengyi nodded at the attendant’s words before collecting a new set of ingredients and beginning the forging process once more. Each time the cauldron exploded after the first, Lu Fengyi had fully prepared and generated a layer of Zhizun realm energy to protect himself.

Flames blew up from the bottom of the cauldron once more, heating the cauldron until the sides had turned red hot. Each time Lu Fengyi attempted to forge a pill, he would learn something new that would not only advance his knowledge of pill forging, but would also allow him to perform better during the process.

In the beginning, he had simply applied the flames before placing in the ingredients and following the procedure, however he had learned that letting the cauldron turn a shade of bright red before beginning the process would not only forge the pill faster, but allow for even more of the internal energy of the ingredients to remain.

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The ingredients fell into the cauldron one by one, each with their own perfect timing and each with the appropriate placement within the cauldron. Steam billowed out of the opening as the flame intensity was raised several fold within the span of a second. Small explosions of light flashed within the cauldron and streaks drained ingredients cores flew out, expelled from the interior.

While with others who attempted for forge pills, the sight of the expelling of ingredient remains would be a sign of safety, for Lu Fengyi, it was only the build up to the climax. Before long, thousands of lights began to float out of the cauldron and the steam began to clear up, revealing the almost formed pill within the cauldron.

Lu Fengyi’s entire body was sweating from the large overdraw of his zhenqi caused by forging pills too many times, however he gritted his teeth and forced himself to expend the final amount of his zhenqi reserves. From what the attendant had told him, the most fundamental flaw of his technique was not the technicalities themselves, but the extreme expenditure of zhenqi during the crafting process. If it were not Lu Fengyi forging, but rather one of the others in the apothecary guild, it would only mean instant depletion of zhenqi and failure of crafting.

“Burn!” Lu Fengyi shouted, pumping the final vestiges of zhenqi dry before collapsing on a single knee, completely defenceless.

While Lu Fengyi expected to be knocked back into the wall, now that he was unable to maintain his barrier, instead, he had been hit with a small object upon the nose.

Trying his best to clear the blurriness from his vision, Lu Fengyi felt for the object which had fallen to the ground before peering intensely at it.

“Well done. You have completely your first ever pill. While you did take many tries to do so, the quality is of something else.”

The attendant stepped over before staring curiously at the pill, “Hmm. It seems like you have succeeded in forging a superior grade 3 pill, and a recovery pill at that. If you were to sell this on the market, it would easily cost tens of millions.”

Lu Fengyi felt his heart relax as he heard the attendant’s evaluation of the pill. Since he had managed to forge the pill, most of the less serious internal injuries within his body would be healed and his used up zhenqi would be completely revitalised.

Sitting up with difficulty, Lu Fengyi tossed the pill within his mouth and swallowed the pill whole, feeling the tingling, yet comfortable sensation of the pill’s energy coursing throughout his body, revitalising and recovering his body closer to a perfectly healthy body. At the same time, his emptied zhenqi reserves began to refill once more, however not only was it being restored, he felt a substantial improvement in the capacity and quality of his zhenqi.

Confused at the additional bonuses, Lu Fengyi questioned the system, ‘System, why did the recovery pill have additional effects?’

[ Huh? Isn’t it obvious? The Cultivation Affinity was described to you as a top tier perk that has the main uses of increasing cultivation speed, increasing affinity towards elemental powers, increases training of the mind and other important aspects, nullification of bottlenecks in all aspects and instantaneous understanding of techniques and other information. Since it increases affinity towards elemental powers, does that not mean that the energies within the pill will exceed their previous limits, performing values that it would not usually do ]

Lu Fengyi sighed in despair. If he were a normal cultivator and he had found out that a fellow cultivator has such an overpowered ability, he would definitely die of shame. Not only was his cultivation speed faster by leaps and bounds, his body would even treat pills and other commodities differently, granting them godlike aspects that would empower him for the duration of his stay within the world.

Seeing that the changes within his body had ceased, Lu Fengyi proceeded to inspect his body. To his surprise, every single minor internal injury had been completely healed, leaving only the more serious ones that required even higher grade pills. In addition, his zhenqi reserves had expanded by almost 20% and his zhenqi had become even more pure than before. If he were to forge pills 64 times consecutively again, he would not be completely deprived of zhenqi again.

Standing up to test his improved abilities, Lu Fengyi charged zhenqi through his fingers before expelling them towards the bottom of the cauldron once more. While the blue was still the most prominent colour, the slight tint of red from before had now become a tinge of purple, streaking alternatively throughout the heart of the flame.

“Oh? It seems that your zhenqi has improved from overexertion and breakthrough. The pill fire you’re able to produce has raised its grade by two minor steps, becoming something that even normal grade 5 apothecaries are unable to create.” the attendant spoke out.

Lu Fengyi felt confused as to how the young man knew so much and could point out so many fine flaws within his technique earlier. Deciding to pose the question, Lu Fengyi put on a amicable front before beginning, “Excuse me, but where did you learn so much knowledge from? Not only that, but your eye of insight is quite experienced since you’re able to point out so many of my flaws.”

The attendant chuckled lightly before indicating for Lu Fengyi to follow him. Noticing that Kan Kai made no move to follow, Lu Fengyi stared oddly at the attendant who had lead him to a darker room even further into the shop.

Upon stopping, the attendant responded, “Truth to be told, my father is an extremely influential figure that hails from a conferred kingdom, however, in order to train my temperament and adjust my views upon society, he sent me to work under a small shop in this kingdom. I can see that while you have some sort of powerful cultivation hiding artifact preventing me from seeing your cultivation normally, when you released it earlier as you were expending your zhenqi, I could find that your true cultivation should be of Zhizun realm pinnacle.”

Lu Fengyi stumbled in shock as he began to back away slowly, “If that is the case, you must either possess a great level of insight, or your cultivation must exceed mine!”

“Hehe, nice deduction. Since you’re such an interesting character, I’ll make an exception. My real identity…” the attendant grinned as he deliberately drew out his answer.

Feeling the tension, Lu Fengyi constricted his eyes as he waited for the answer.

“… is of a 4 star master teacher!”

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