Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1243: Chapter 815: Refining Foundation Establishment Pill (Part 2)

This process is extremely painful, almost equivalent to grinding every part of the body, flesh, and bones.

At the same time, this process also carries certain dangers, potentially causing damage to the body, resulting in injuries that are difficult to recover from.

However, once this stage is passed, it is considered a successful breakthrough, and the final stage is to stabilize the cultivation, without any danger.

The four stages take about three to five years, but during the breakthrough process, it is not necessary to go into full seclusion, only when establishing the Spirit Base, complete focus is required.

Zhou Tianci chose to go into seclusion in the western part of the Spirit Source Land because there is a Mystic Iron Ore Vein there.

Meanwhile, An Yuxing secluded himself beside the waterfall stone pool under the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau, where the water attribute Spiritual Energy is rich, not much different from the Spiritual Spring Lakeside.

As for Yu Qingyi, naturally, she went into seclusion on the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau itself, personally overseen by Yang Zhenshan.

Their breakthroughs signify a new stage in the Martial Arts development of the Spirit Source Land, namely the Martial God period.

They are just the beginning, and as time goes by, more people in the Spirit Source Land will attempt breakthroughs.

Liang Shengze and Qu Changkong are also preparing for breakthroughs.

Once they finish their breakthroughs, it will be the turn of Ding Qiu, Yang Mingcheng, Yang Minghao, Wu Zheng, Wu Zhan, Luo Jingsong, and others.

Yang Zhenshan estimated that in the next twenty years, at least twenty people in the Spirit Source Land could attempt breakthroughs.

Yang Zhenshan himself will attempt Foundation Establishment within five years.

Day by day, Yang Zhenshan refined elixirs while overseeing the breakthroughs of the three.

From time to time, he would check on the progress of Zhou Tianci and An Yuxing, but most of the time, he focused on Yu Qingyi, as he was concerned about his wife’s breakthrough.

"It’s time to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill!"

At Flame Mountain, in the Alchemy Hall, Yang Zhenshan sat before the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, placing the pre-prepared medicinal materials within reach.

The Foundation Establishment Pill is a Second-Order Elixir; a low-grade Foundation Establishment Pill can increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment by twenty percent, a mid-grade by thirty percent, a top-grade by forty percent, and a supreme-grade by sixty percent.

Depending on one’s foundation, generally speaking, as long as the cultivation is stable and the body has no major issues, taking a low-grade Foundation Establishment Pill gives a forty percent success rate.

That is to say, without a Foundation Establishment Pill, one has only a twenty percent chance, but with a supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, the chance is eighty percent.

Yang Zhenshan naturally desired a supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, but he knew this was a luxury. His expectations weren’t high; if he could refine one top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill out of four furnaces, he would be satisfied.

In theory, Qi Refining Cultivators find it very difficult to refine Second-Order Elixirs because refining them requires True Foundation Fire or the use of Second-Order Earth Fire.

Qi Refining Cultivators definitely don’t have True Foundation Fire, and controlling Second-Order Earth Fire is extremely difficult, requiring the Fire Control Skill to be honed to an extremely proficient level.

The Earth Fire at Flame Mountain barely counts as First-order, not sufficient for refining Second-Order Elixirs.

However, Yang Zhenshan has the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, which contains the True Sun Fire, so Yang Zhenshan doesn’t need to worry about the flames.

But using the True Sun Fire is excessively spirit stone-consuming, and Yang Zhenshan had prepared two hundred thousand low-grade Spirit Stones, uncertain if they would suffice to refine four furnaces of Foundation Establishment Pills.

"Ready?" Yang Zhenshan glanced sideways at the Golden Crow beside him.

"Rest assured, Master, I will not mess up!" The Golden Crow flapped its wings confidently.

Alright, compared to the Golden Crow, Yang Zhenshan should be more concerned about whether he would make mistakes.

"Then let’s begin!"

As he spoke, the Golden Crow ignited the True Sun Fire, causing the temperature inside the hall to soar several times over, making Yang Zhenshan’s face feel fiery hot.

Yet, sensing the flame’s gentleness and stability, Yang Zhenshan nodded in satisfaction.

Subsequently, he put the prepared medicinal materials into the furnace one by one in order.

First, four auxiliary herbs: Cow tendon grass, Sweet Dew Grass, Dragon Bone Flower, and Cold Pine Fruit, followed by two harmonizing herbs, Red Beard Ginseng, and Bone Cleansing Flower.

Yang Zhenshan carefully placed each herb into the Pill Furnace, observing the changes in the herbs within the furnace with his Spiritual Sense, while cautiously forming spells with one hand and engraving runes into the furnace with the other.

After the herbs in the furnace had all fused into a single medicinal liquid, Yang Zhenshan proceeded to add eight supplementary herbs.

Throughout the process, Yang Zhenshan was extremely meticulous, fully concentrating on observing all the changes within the Pill Furnace.

In fact, he had rehearsed this process countless times and had it memorized backward and forward, but practice was mere practice; this was his first time truly refining Foundation Establishment Pills.

Lastly, the three main ingredients: three-hundred-year-old Purple Leaf Orchid Grass, five-hundred-year-old Phoenix Blood Flower, and three Green Profound Fruit Cores.

Among the three main ingredients, the Green Profound Fruit Cores were most precious to Yang Zhenshan because while the Ancient Relic Array contained plenty of Purple Leaf Orchid Grass and Phoenix Blood Flowers, he found only twelve Green Profound Fruit Cores.

The so-called Green Profound Fruit Core is the core of the Green Profound Fruit after the fruit ripens.

The Ancient Relic Array had over a dozen Green Profound Fruit Trees, but these trees, being Second-order Spirit Plants, only bear fruit once every century, each time producing only twelve fruits.

Yang Zhenshan was fortunate to find twelve fruit cores under these Green Profound Fruit Trees.

The Ancient Relic Array had existed for tens of thousands of years, and theoretically, there should be many fruit cores. In reality, the previous cores had long been collected by others, leaving only these twelve.

Yang Zhenshan estimated that the last time the array opened, no one visited that Medicinal Garden; otherwise, not even these twelve cores would be left.

As the three fruit cores were added to the Pill Furnace, Yang Zhenshan immediately controlled the medicinal liquid to encapsulate the cores.

But in the next moment.

With a loud boom.

A puff of black smoke emerged from within the Pill Furnace, the medicinal liquid, and the cores instantly turning to ashes.

"Failed! The cores were added too early; the medicinal liquid hadn’t yet fully integrated!"

Yang Zhenshan calmly analyzed the mistake he had just made.

Failure was an expected outcome; he was not discouraged by it.

"Master~" The Golden Crow looked at Yang Zhenshan.

Yang Zhenshan waved his hand, "Clean the furnace, let’s try again!"

Despite the setback, feeling in good shape, he decided to give it another go.

After clearing out the ashes from the furnace and thoroughly cleaning it inside and out with Spiritual Spring Water, Yang Zhenshan began his second attempt at refining the Foundation Establishment Pills.

This time, Yang Zhenshan smoothly added the Green Profound Fruit Cores into the Pill Furnace, where they gradually dissolved under the encasement of the medicinal liquid, blending into it.

But at the final step, when the liquid was supposed to solidify into pills, he encountered another failure.

Two failures in, yet Yang Zhenshan maintained a tranquil mindset.

He didn’t continue refining this time. Instead, after cleaning the furnace, he left the Alchemy Hall and returned to the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau.

Yu Qingyi sat inside a pavilion, her body and mind immersed in cultivation, with Qingxia and Red Cloud taking turns guarding beside her.

Seeing she was well, Yang Zhenshan also checked on An Yuxing and Zhou Tianci.

The three were still in their breakthrough’s first phase, which, while not dangerous, was certainly time-consuming.

Half a month later, Yang Zhenshan once again fired up the furnace for refining the Foundation Establishment Pills.

Inside the Alchemy Hall, the True Sun Fire burned fiercely, continuously nourishing the medicinal liquid in the furnace.

"Solidify!"

Inside the furnace, three batches of pale green medicinal liquid continuously concentrated, with colors shifting between green and black.

Yang Zhenshan, sweating on his forehead, cautiously stabilized the conflicting medicinal properties within the liquid.

More than two hours later, Yang Zhenshan abruptly stood up, and with a thought, the lid of the Eight Trigrams Furnace popped open, and with his hands forming spells, he cast runes into the furnace one after another.

The Eight Trigrams Furnace trembled slightly, and three round, pale green pills flew out of the furnace, landing in a white Jade Plate nearby.

Before Yang Zhenshan could closely examine these pills, two turned from green to black, then cracked and disintegrated into gray ashes.

Only one pill remained, its surface glowing with a faint light, with three shallow cloud patterns imprinted on its outer surface.