The Martial Emperor with Dragon Blood

Chapter 1339 - 1340: Bitter Cultivation in Alchemy

Back at the inn, Ye Mo calmed his mood once again and started preparing for Alchemy.

Entering the Genius Space, Ye Mo took out the Terrestrial Fiend Demon Furnace. His gaze burned with heat—this was the furnace of a Pill Demon of a generation, capable of raising the success rate of Pei Yuan pills to fifty percent. Basically, even the most useless Alchemist, with this furnace, could still refine Pei Yuan pills.

However, when competing in Alchemy, what they compare is not simply whether you can succeed, but the purity of the Pei Yuan pills, as well as their difficulty.

The same pill, when refined by different Alchemists, the higher the level, the higher the purity of the refined Pei Yuan pills. Top Alchemists can even refine markings, and even let the pill emit pill fragrance.

"Let’s try refining a Huangji Pill again!"

Ye Mo opened the lid of the Pill Furnace, tossed the materials for refining the Huangji Pill into the furnace, took a deep breath, then put the lid back on. He placed one hand on the Pill Furnace, raised flames, and started urging his fire-attribute Xuan Aura.

A moment later, the whole Pill Furnace turned blazing red, and with a bang, the first tempering process was completed.

Ye Mo hovered in midair, opened the furnace, and his jaw instantly dropped. Inside, where were there any pills? It was basically just a pile of mud-like stuff, with only one pill barely passable, and that one wasn’t even round.

"Is my Alchemy really this trash? I clearly circulated my Xuan Aura according to the Elixir Scripture Iron Scroll, and I even used the Terrestrial Fiend Demon Thunder with a fifty percent success boost, yet I still failed. By rights, with this furnace of materials, I should at least be able to refine 10.0 Huangji Pills."

Ye Mo was extremely dejected.

"Ye Mo, everything has its difficulty. Although your Tomb Dragon Power can raise the purity of Pei Yuan pills to a perfect degree, you haven’t refined pills for so long. Wanting to succeed in one go, how could it be that easy?"

Hong Ling said.

"Keep going!"

Ye Mo sighed, cleared out all the pill dregs, and tossed the herbs back in again.

After a round of attempts, Ye Mo finally grasped a bit of technique. To successfully refine Pei Yuan pills, he had to control his fire-attribute Xuan Aura to the extreme and circulate it exactly as described on the Elixir Scripture Iron Scroll.

Next, Ye Mo stayed in the Genius Space for a full month. He tried all sorts of methods, refined all kinds of pills, kept groping for experience, and his pill-refining methods finally became more or less proper.

The Huangji Pill was also successfully refined by him for the first time.

"Success. A whole month of bitter Cultivation, and I finally refined the Huangji Pill at a hundred percent success rate."

Ye Mo sighed with emotion.

However, this month of bitter Cultivation was worth it. The successful refinement of the Huangji Pill also laid the foundation for him to refine other Pei Yuan pills.

A month of refining not only made Ye Mo burn through all 18 million Wheel of Reincarnation Pills, he even exchanged out three Immortal Artifacts. In other words, in this one month, just to practice refining Eighth-grade Elixir, he had already consumed nearly 5 Immortal Artifacts.

And this was only practicing Eighth-grade Elixir. Once he tried refining Ninth-grade Elixir, the herbs consumed would be even more terrifying. Moreover, the Pei Yuan pills Ye Mo refined were basically failed products and Wu Fa be sold.

On Ye Mo, there was only one kind of Verdant Ink Grass that could be used to refine Ninth-grade Elixir, but Ye Mo obviously wouldn’t use this for practice. These Verdant Ink Grass were what he intended to use to refine Ascending Soul Pills. When he breaks through to Soul Realm in the future, he will definitely consume a large amount of Ascending Soul Pills.

"Looks like I have to think of a way to get some money."

Ye Mo thought for a bit. The fastest way to make money, besides refining seals himself to sell, was to consecrate Pei Yuan pills.

But refining seals here was obviously a bit inappropriate, so consecrating Pei Yuan pills was his only choice.

Thinking of this, Ye Mo left the Genius Space. He had spent a month in the Genius Space, which was only about four days in the outside world. With the remaining time, as long as he had enough materials, Ye Mo was fully confident that before heading to the Yang family clan, he could raise his ninth-rank seal Fortifying Pills with Pill’s Markings up to standard.

He only needed to raise his success rate in refining Pei Yuan pills to one hundred percent. As for pill purity, with Tomb Dragon Power, there was no need to worry at all.

Because he had come to the trading hall several times, Ye Mo was already very familiar with the place and soon entered the trading hall.

However, this time, Yang Rong wasn’t in the trading hall. The one receiving him was the old man who had received him the first time he came.

"Where’s your young miss?"

Ye Mo asked directly.

After all, he was more familiar with Yang Rong. Last time, when he sold three Immortal Artifacts, Yang Rong directly gave him thirty million Wheel of Reincarnation Pills and didn’t charge any handling fee.

"Young Master Ye, have you taken a fancy to my young miss? You keep coming to the trading hall again and again. Let me warn you, you’d best not set your sights on my young miss. The young miss has already been noticed by our Yang family clan’s Alchemy genius, Yang Qingshu. He’s also the one most likely to compete with the Dan Clan geniuses for the top three."

The old man kindly reminded him.

"Yang Qingshu!"

Ye Mo silently remembered this name. Anyone who could vie with the Dan Clan geniuses should be very formidable.

"Steward Yang, you misunderstand. Even if I liked your young miss, your young miss wouldn’t necessarily fancy me. I’m looking for your young miss because I have business with her."

Ye Mo said.

"It’s best if there’s nothing between you."

Steward Yang let out a sigh of relief, afraid this fellow might go courting his young miss. He said, "The Alchemy competition is about to be held. The young miss is also going to participate and is in the midst of intensive preparation, so she has handed all the trading hall affairs to me."

"I want to exchange Immortal Artifacts for Pei Yuan pills."

Ye Mo stated the purpose of his visit.

"What Pei Yuan pills?"

Steward Yang asked.

"Divine Venerate Pill!"

"Divine Venerate Pill? How many do you want to exchange for? According to the old rules, after deducting the handling fee, one Immortal Artifact is worth 9 million Wheel of Reincarnation Pills. If you want to exchange for Divine Venerate Pills, one Immortal Artifact equals 900 Divine Venerate Pills."

"I have five Immortal Artifacts here. I want to exchange all of them for Divine Venerate Pills."

Ye Mo directly took out his last five Immortal Artifacts.

Steward Yang checked them over and didn’t ask why Ye Mo had so many Immortal Artifacts. After confirming they were indeed Immortal Artifacts, he said, "Wait here for a moment."

A short while later, Steward Yang came back carrying a bag of Divine Venerate Pills. Ye Mo counted them and, after confirming there were 4,500 Divine Venerate Pills, left the trading hall.

Returning to the inn, Ye Mo shut his door tight, took out the Genius Badge, had Little Jing stand guard to the side, and then entered the Genius Space again.

"These are Divine Venerate Realm, the best auxiliary Pei Yuan pills when Divine Venerate Strong Practitioners are in Cultivation. But I’m reluctant to eat them right now."

Ye Mo spread out the Divine Venerate Pills and couldn’t help giving a sigh. Five Immortal Artifacts could only be exchanged for 4,500 Divine Venerate Pills. If it were an ordinary Martial Artist, taking a dozen a day for Cultivation, an average clan could still afford it.

But Ye Mo wanted to push his Cultivation speed to the limit; he’d need to take at least a hundred Divine Venerate Realm a day.

With Tomb Dragon Power added into those Divine Venerate Pills, all the impurities in the Divine Venerate Pills were completely removed. On the surface of each pill, markings appeared, shining with luster, and soon after, pill fragrance began to waft off the pills’ surface.

"Ye Mo, what exactly did you do to these Pei Yuan pills? You can actually raise their purity to a perfect level, without the slightest trace of impurity."

The Wraith Demon Emperor was shocked when he saw Ye Mo’s method.

"This is one of the effects of Tomb Dragon Power. Back when I had no money, this was how I played it. If I sell these Pei Yuan pills again now, I can probably jack the price up tenfold."