The Ancient Supreme

"Sir Lin, may I know which herbs you need? How many do you need?" The owner poured Lin Yuan a cup of fragrant tea and asked.    

    

Lin Yuan wrote down all the required herbs on a piece of paper, and after passing it to the boss, he asked: "These are the thirty-two herbs, how much are there?"    

    

After carefully looking at the herbs required, the boss thought for a while and said, "The herbs that Sir Lin needs are not too precious and he has quite a bit of stock. I don't know how many you need in order for me to have an idea."    

    

Lin Yuan placed the storage bag with the High-grade Spirit Stone in front of the boss, and then said indifferently: "I wonder how many spirit stones I can buy?"    

    

The owner's eyes lit up. After inspecting the High-grade Spirit Stone s, his initial smile had now turned into a chrysanthemum smile.    

    

"Aiya, Sir Lin is indeed generous. How is it that the spirit stones are enough to buy all of the store's stock, and there are still leftover spirit stones left over. If you view the thirty-two herbs as one portion, I just happen to have five thousand here. If not, sir, can you give me three days? I'll immediately transfer some from other branches."    

    

Lin Yuan frowned, 5000 pills was too little, with his current pill refining experience, even if it was a first class pill, there was still a failure rate, today's failure rate was around 20%, which meant that out of the 100 herbs, he would only be able to succeed with 80 pills.    

    

If it were five thousand pills, it would only be able to refine four thousand pills. Four thousand pills sounded like a huge number, but Lin Yuan still felt that it was not enough.    

    

"How about this, I'll take the 5000 spirit stones from you. I'll come back for the remaining three days. I'll leave these spirit stones with you. I believe that the boss is a serious businessman and won't run away."    

    

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, the boss was all smiles: "Hahahaha, Young Master Lin is indeed straightforward. Don't worry, my Invigorated Merchant Guild has always kept our promises, we will definitely not covet a mere three hundred High-grade Spirit Stone like you."    

    

Only now did Lin Yuan remember that this person was from a merchant guild of the same name, so naturally, he would not destroy his signboard for the sake of a mere three hundred High-grade Spirit Stone.    

    

"Sorry, I was wrong."    

    

The shop owner laughed and waved his hand, saying without a care, "You are welcome, Sir Lin. Please sit for a moment, I will send someone to prepare the herbs."    

    

With that, the boss turned and left. Lin Yuan waited for less than an hour before the boss walked over quickly.    

    

"Mister Lin, these two storage bag were just a gift for you. Inside are all the herbs you requested. Young man, take a look." The owner said after handing the two storage bag over to Lin Yuan.    

    

Lin Yuan took the storage bag and scanned through it, then nodded and said: "I trust Boss, I have something that I want to ask, do you guys want to accept some other things?"    

    

Hearing this, the owner nodded and said, "Of course I will. If you have anything you want to buy, you can go to the second floor. That is the purchasing area and the price there is very reasonable. It won't make you lose out."    

    

"Then it'll be better for you, boss. I'll see you in three days. Farewell." After Lin Yuan left the Brilliant Merchant Guild, he immediately returned to the residence in the Thousand Lightning Sect.    

    

After taking out all the herbs in the storage bag, the densely packed herbs immediately filled the room, and a thick smell of grass spread out.    

    

Looking at the herbs in the room, Lin Yuan decided to make his move. As the jade pendant was in Qing Er's possession, he was unable to activate the Great Ceremony of the Medicine God.    

    

After taking out a copper cauldron that he casually bought at the Brilliant Peak Chamber of Commerce, Lin Yuan began to refine some pills, and this time, the pills he refined were not chemical pellet s or Energetic Pill s, but another type of pill, called Holy Spirit Powder.    

    

This pellet was different from chemical pellet and Energetic Pill, it was a genuine healing pellet, and the effect was extremely good. Normal small wounds could instantly heal in an instant, and even if one were to deeply see serious injuries to the bone marrow, they would still be able to recover in an hour.    

    

Originally, Lin Yuan had wanted to refine the Holy Spirit Powder for a long time, but he hadn't had the time to buy the ingredients yet.    

    

After recalling the refining methods and the steps on the Great Ceremony of the Medicine God, Lin Yuan began to use his Qi to first heat up the copper cauldron with mortal fire, then put the required medicinal herbs into the cauldron in order, and then use his spirit energy to catalyze it.    

    

As this was his first time refining Holy Spirit Powder using ordinary fire and copper, he had naturally failed the first batch. However, Lin Yuan was not discouraged by this, he only needed to experience failure a few more times and that would be good.    

    

Without the Gold Cauldron and cloud fire, the chances of failure in refining the pellets increased a hundredfold. In exactly six hours, he had failed over a hundred times and did not succeed even once.    

    

Lin Yuan was a little discouraged, could it be that without the Golden Cauldron and the cloud fire, he really could not concoct any pills? No, haste makes waste. If one were to think about how rare alchemists were in this world, how could they be easily refined by him? Wouldn't the streets be filled with alchemists?    

    

After calming himself down, Lin Yuan started concocting again. Fail, failed, failed again, three days had passed, half of the five thousand sets of herbs were used up, a total of two thousand five hundred batches, in the end, it was only seventy-three batches.    

    

After continuously refining for three days, Lin Yuan's mental energy had long been severely overdrawn, so he had no choice but to rest for the night. After recovering his mental energy, he once again began his journey of refining medicine.    

    

However, Lin Yuan changed his method this time, there were three reasons behind the failure, the first was due to his inexperience, but now he had understood a few things.    

    

Secondly, the copper cauldron was of poor quality. After all, this copper cauldron was only worth ten low-grade spirit stones, and the cauldron itself was filled with impurities.    

    

Who knew that to an alchemist, the fire used to refine medicine was extremely important. Normally, the temperature of an ordinary flame was too low, so it was unable to completely refine some of the herbs. Furthermore, the ordinary flame was full of impurities, which fundamentally affected the herbs in the cauldron.    

    

Lin Yuan thought about it carefully, these three conditions had to change in order to increase his success rate, otherwise, with this rate of failure, even if he was given a hundred thousand sets of herbs, he would not be able to produce the amount he needed.    

    

If one didn't have enough experience, they could only rely on accumulating it. There was no way to change this. Besides, there were still some ways to do it, so there was no need to make any special changes.    

    

As for the copper cauldron, had used all his spirit stones to purchase herbs, but now, he had no money on him, so how could he afford a better copper cauldron?    

    

All he could think of was how to get the fire from the fire. He had no way of getting the fire from the jade pendant, but he had some ways to get a spiritual fire or a demonic fire that was a level higher than any fire.    

    

Spirit Fire was the burning of spirit fire. After the death of a few cultivators, their spirit energy would dissipate and they would be saved by someone else. Then, they would be trained with the Spirit Blazing Method, and after three days of training, they would be able to become spirit fire and preserve it.    

    

As for the demonic fire, it was similar to the spiritual fire. After the demonic beast died, the original essence of the demonic energy was left behind and it was then used to temper the demonic fire. However, this demonic fire was a bit more violent than the spiritual fire.    

    

Normally, these spirit fires and demon fires were used by ordinary alchemists because the 'Heavenly Flame' was something that could only be encountered by chance and not sought after. Even if a 'Heavenly Flame' appeared in the world, it would basically all be taken by a tier ten alchemist.    

    

However, alchemists below the tenth rank were unwilling to use ordinary fire. After all, its quality was too poor, so they could only use spirit fire or demonic fire. This also caused the price of spirit fire and demonic fire to be very expensive.    

    

Since he could not afford it, Lin Yuan decided to refine the demonic fire himself. As for the Spirit Transformation method, it was only the lowest level of support skills, so he believed that the Thousand Lightning Sect must have it.    

    

Lin Yuan had trained for three days on refining pills, but he had never taken a step out of his house, so the atmosphere outside was still relatively fresh.    

    

After leaving the sect peak to come to the Inner Gate Peak, Lin Yuan did not go over to Xiao Yu and Qing Er's place. Firstly, because he did not have much time left, and after all, the five great forces wanted him dead.    

    

Relying on others was not as important as relying on oneself, so Lin Yuan urgently needed to raise his strength, adding on that, he was afraid of disturbing Xiao Yu and Qing Er's cultivation, the two of them had also stepped into the The Way of Cultivators, even if he could not always be by their side, if by chance, he was in danger while he was not around, they could only rely on themselves.    

    

After arriving at the Inner Gate Peak, Lin Yuan realized that the disciples here were just as crowded as before. After looking for a while for the first time, he finally found the Spirit Transforming Burning Technique.    

    

After Lin Yuan looked through it again, he realized that it was not that hard, but he felt a sense of doubt in his heart. It was not that difficult to learn the Spirit Fusion Method, and he could basically buy it, why didn't he use it in large numbers?    

    

One must know that spirit fire and demon fire were expensive. If everyone gathered them, wouldn't they make a fortune? But then, Lin Yuan understood.    

    

When humans or demons died, their spiritual energy and essence could only be retained for a few seconds. After a few seconds, the energy would dissipate and if they wanted to collect it, they would have to go kill or collect it personally.    

    

Even if one was able to successfully gather spiritual energy and demonic energy, it would still take a certain amount of time to refine fire, and there was a certain probability of failure. More importantly, if the spiritual energy or demonic energy was too weak, the amount of time needed to refine spiritual fire and demonic fire would also be shorter.    

    

Even if he successfully refined the demonic flame, it would only burn for less than two hours. Normally, the higher the level of a pill, the longer the refining time would be required.