First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 12: Insights on Pill Refining

"I've taken the pill recipe and medicinal materials. As for this cauldron, find someone to help me deliver it to the Linjiang Sect," Shen Mo paid the bill and kept the receipt, speaking to the shopkeeper.

He had a Qiankun bag.

However, the Qiankun bag he used was of the lowest quality issued by the sect.

Its internal space was only a few tens of centimeters in size, enough to hold some medicinal materials on ordinary occasions.

If he wanted to put this pill cauldron inside, it would be too small.

Therefore, he could only ask the shopkeeper to have someone deliver it up the mountain.

"No problem."

The shopkeeper nodded and shouted inside the shop, "He Er, come out quickly and deliver the goods for me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a burly wrestler walked out from the backyard.

"This guest ordered the Red Cloud Pill Cauldron. Accompany the guest and deliver it," the shopkeeper pointed to the cauldron and instructed.

"Okay."

The wrestler immediately carried the cauldron on his shoulder and walked out of the shop.

Seeing this, Shen Mo also left the Baodan Pavilion and walked towards the outskirts of the market.

Upon arriving at the market checkpoint, Shen Mo checked the items sold and the Spirit Stones he had obtained with the guardian.

After confirming everything was correct, the middle-aged man guarding the market spoke, "Forty-one Spirit Stones. According to the rule of one percent commission in the market, this is what you have left."

As he spoke, he took out five and a half catties of spiritual rice and handed it to Shen Mo.

Before entering the market, Shen Mo had handed over one Spirit Stone as a deposit.

Now, after calculating the market commission, Shen Mo had about half of that Spirit Stone left.

Naturally, Spirit Stones would not be broken apart.

In transactions of this amount, both parties would often use equivalent spiritual rice as payment.

Although spiritual rice was not as widely used as Spirit Stones, it was still a relatively valuable item.

Five and a half catties of spiritual rice was worth about half a Spirit Stone.

Shen Mo took the spiritual rice, put it into the Qiankun bag, and then left with He Er, the wrestler carrying the cauldron.

They returned to the Linjiang Sect.

"I'm back!"

In the evening, Shen Mo returned to his residence.

He tidied up the room before starting to take stock of his current possessions.

"After all the trouble, I've spent all my Spirit Stones again."

Looking at the only five Spirit Stones left, Shen Mo sighed.

In this trip to the market to sell talismans, he sold forty-one Spirit Stones, including the market commission, leaving him with forty.

In addition to the twenty low-grade Spirit Stones Chen Mengze gave him yesterday and his original savings, he had a total of sixty-six low-grade Spirit Stones.

But today, after purchasing at the Baodan Pavilion, he had spent most of them. Only five Spirit Stones were left.

"However, the Spirit Stones spent were worth it."

He had obtained the pill cauldron and bought all the medicinal materials he needed.

Now, he could start trying to enter the realm of pill refining at any time.

"But before that, I need to check this cauldron."

Shen Mo recalled the fleeting brilliance he saw when he first laid eyes on the Red Cloud Pill Cauldron in the market.

"I hope there's really something surprising!"

At this moment, Shen Mo felt a sense of anticipation and nervousness, as if he was opening a blind box.

He lit a candle in the room and carefully explored the cauldron, trying to find if there was anything hidden inside.

After a thorough search, there was no gain.

"Clean it once more, then take a look."

He fetched a tub of water from the backyard and cleaned the dust off this Red Cloud Cauldron. After searching again, he still couldn't figure out anything.

"Roast it with fire, then take a look."

Shen Mo lit a bonfire in the room and placed the cauldron on top. After a round of roasting...

Finally, the cauldron showed some changes.

"Whoosh!"

The blazing flames flickered, and smoke gradually rose from the Red Cloud Cauldron.

And as the thick white smoke dispersed, there seemed to be small characters appearing at the bottom inside the cauldron. Under the scorching of the flames, they began to appear faintly.

Sure enough!

There is a universe inside!

Shen Mo's heart skipped a beat as he quickly identified the characters above.

[Red Cloud, a pill refining master, insights on pill refining]

Shen Mo gradually read the characters above, word by word.

[I started pill refining at the age of seven, officially became a first-class pill refining master at the age of twenty-three, and at the age of sixty, I finally became a second-rank pill refining master. I have been obsessed with Alchemy my whole life.]

The first section of characters recorded the life experiences of a pill refining master.

According to the description, this pill refining master was named Red Cloud, lived to be seventy-two years old, and was a second-rank pill refining master in his lifetime, extremely obsessed with Alchemy.

"I suppose this Red Cloud master was the previous owner of this cauldron."

Shen Mo thought to himself and continued reading.

[As my life is coming to an end, I regret not having taken on any disciples in this lifetime. I will leave this century's worth of insights on pill refining here. If future generations come across it, it can be considered a stroke of good fortune.]

The first section of characters ended, and the second section consisted of countless densely packed characters, recording various insights and realizations about pill refining.

Shen Mo looked at these characters and firmly memorized them in his mind.

"You have observed the century's worth of insights left by Master Red Cloud, and your Alchemy attainments have improved."

After Shen Mo finished observing and memorizing all these insights, he noticed that the information panel had already sent several prompts.

Shen Mo quickly opened the status bar and saw that his previously nonexistent Alchemy Cultivation Base had experienced a considerable increase.

[Alchemy (No Rank): 124/500.]

"I haven't even formally started refining a Medicine Pill, yet I suddenly gained over a hundred points of experience out of thin air!"

Shen Mo looked at this data and couldn't help but feel delighted. "The century's worth of insights left by Master Red Cloud is truly the best Alchemy initiation method."

The improvement brought by the Alchemy insights to Shen Mo was not over yet!

This was just the beginning.

According to Shen Mo's speculation, the insights and realizations of a second-rank pill refining master should continue to provide experience bonuses until he advanced to second-rank Alchemy.

He bought a cauldron, and on the cauldron was engraved the insights and realizations of the previous owner, a second-rank pill refining master, about pill refining throughout his life.

It was a buy-one-get-one-free deal.

Although it couldn't be considered a great stroke of luck, for Shen Mo, who was about to initiate Alchemy, having the pill refining insights of Master Red Cloud as a guide was undoubtedly a significant help, allowing him to better embark on the path of pill refining.

"It seems that it wasn't an illusion. When encountering a good treasure or a special destiny, there really is an effect of prompting."

After firmly remembering this Alchemy knowledge, Shen Mo paid more attention to his special destiny of "good eyesight."

Fortunately, I believed in my own judgment and didn't think it was a trick of the eyes.

Otherwise, I would have missed this opportunity to obtain the pill refining insights!

After feeling emotional, Shen Mo rubbed his hands together and laid out the medicinal materials he had bought one by one.

"Let's begin. Tonight, I will refine my first Medicine Pill!"

He murmured with great ambition.

(End of this chapter)