Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1161: Chapter 779: Escape Technique

Starting is always difficult, but once you succeed, the next success comes much easier.

Four days passed again, and after failing seven times, Yang Zhenshan once more managed to refine a batch of Jade Marrow Pills, this time producing fourteen pills.

Following this, Yang Zhenshan continued refining Jade Marrow Pills, gradually stabilizing his success rate at around twenty percent, achieving success in two batches out of ten, with each batch yielding approximately fifteen pills.

This result seemed quite good, yet in reality, it was a losing trade.

It’s important to note that Yang Zhenshan spends two hundred spirit stones to refine Jade Marrow Pills each time, amounting to one thousand spirit stones for five attempts, resulting in just fifteen pills. On average, each Jade Marrow Pill costs sixty-six spirit stones.

The cost is extraordinarily high, even surpassing the sales price of the Qi Nourishing Pills sold by the Three Sects of Lingxiu.

The price for Qi Nourishing Pills is fifty spirit stones per pill, and this is the selling price, while the cost is estimated to be around twenty spirit stones.

Although the Jade Marrow Pills refined by Yang Zhenshan should be better than the Qi Nourishing Pills of the Three Sects of Lingxiu, the difference in cost is too significant. If sold, it’s likely difficult to compete against the Qi Nourishing Pills of the Three Sects.

However, Yang Zhenshan cannot purchase a large amount of Qi Nourishing Pills, so he can only refine Jade Marrow Pills for his own cultivation needs.

Moreover, with more refining attempts, his pill yield rate will improve, so the current losses are quite necessary.

Additionally, Yang Zhenshan plans to refine Foundation Establishment Pills in the future.

Foundation Establishment Pills are essential for Immortal Cultivators; without them, attempting Foundation Establishment is nearly impossible. Even with them, the success rate only increases by thirty percent.

Yang Zhenshan’s refining of Jade Marrow Pills is considered practice, preparing for future refinement of Foundation Establishment Pills.

The ingredients needed for refining Foundation Establishment Pills aren’t typical; many Yang Zhenshan has never seen, only read about in the pharmacopoeia within the Ancient Relic Array.

Although Yang Zhenshan is still far from attempting Foundation Establishment, he has started preparing for it.

"Foundation Establishment Pills must be refined, and several should be prepared!"

"If Foundation Establishment fails, it may damage the Dantian, not life-threatening but will take years to recover, and the more attempts, the higher the risk of failure. Generally failing three times means being cut off from Foundation Establishment!"

"Success preferably on the first attempt!"

"Besides Foundation Establishment Pills, I need to prepare some other spiritual objects. Martial Artists use spiritual objects to forge a Spirit Base, and Immortal Cultivators should be able to do the same."

"But the difficulty for Immortal Cultivators to achieve Foundation Establishment is much greater than for Martial Artists. Martial Artists mainly face the challenge of channeling the spiritual mechanism of spiritual objects into the body, using spiritual energy to temper the flesh, bones, and organs!"

"For Immortal Cultivators, it requires breaking the Dantian Qi Sea, thoroughly linking the Dantian Qi Sea with all meridians and acupuncture points, and requires a strong Divine Soul!"

"There’s no worry about the Divine Soul; cultivating the ’Void Refining Scripture’ should ensure a strong enough Divine Soul. What I lack is the violent spiritual power needed to break the Dantian Qi Sea, namely Foundation Establishment Pills!"

Yang Zhenshan sat by the lakeside, carefully pondering over the Foundation Establishment Pill’s elixir recipe.

This preparation must be done in advance, the sooner, the better; relying on last-minute efforts won’t suffice.

"The ingredients for Foundation Establishment Pills!"

Stroking his beard with a slight smile, "Most of them should be found within the Ancient Relic Array!"

The most crucial aspect for an Immortal Sect is various resources, and for cultivators, Foundation Establishment is undoubtedly the most vital barrier on the immortal path. Success means stepping through the portal of immortality, failure leaves one outside.

An Immortal Sect naturally prepares Foundation Establishment Pills for disciples and cultivates the necessary ingredients for refining.

Though the Ancient Sect vanished, many of its left resources remain and have undergone millennia of wild growth.

Even though the Twelve Families of the Three Sects of Lingxiu loot the area every decade, something is always left behind.

"Less than six years remain until the Ancient Relic Array opens. Haha, I vow not to rest until I empty it!" Yang Zhenshan’s eyes gleamed with anticipation.

Last time, he had no choice; failure to leave meant being trapped inside the Ancient Relic Array.

But now, situations differ; he has a Pocket World Gate. Placing it within the Ancient Relic Array transforms the area into his backyard, enabling entry and exit at his discretion, and allowing him to take whatever he pleases.

Though Yang Zhenshan yet cannot refine Foundation Establishment Pills, familiarizing himself with the elixir recipe, practicing refining techniques and procedures prepares him better for future endeavors, preventing unnecessary trial and error.

With Jade Marrow Pills, Yang Zhenshan’s cultivation efficiency soared, significantly increasing mana within him, hastening the nurturing of the Qinghua Thunder Pearl.

This Qinghua Thunder Pearl, despite being a one-time spell, serves as the basis for later divine skills within the ’Qinghua Thunder Skill.’ Nurturing it supports not only Yang Zhenshan’s holding a trump card but also lays the foundation for cultivating subsequent spells and divine skills within the skill.

At Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau, time slipped by like sand through fingers, three years passing quietly among the cascading streams, morphing the Qinghua Thunder Pearl into substantial form.

Within Yang Zhenshan’s spiritual sense, a thumb-sized thunder pearl swirled within the liver palace, surrounded by divine thunder, carrying the sharply contrasting essences of vibrant vitality and fierce destruction.