Chapter 67: Pear Essence Pill

Pear Essence Pill!

A Grade Two, top-tier Spiritual Pill. After taking it, it could greatly increase a Primordial Warrior’s internal Primordial Force, making the Primordial Warrior’s cultivation speed soar dramatically. One Pear Essence Pill was enough to match several months, or even over a year, of hard cultivation for a Primordial Warrior in the Tendon Training Realm.

After some thought, Jiang Xincheng immediately went to prepare the materials for the Pear Essence Pill. Pear, dried pear tree branches, rock sugar… he gathered the materials one by one. In just half a day, Jiang Xincheng had prepared enough materials to refine dozens of Pear Essence Pills.

It must be said, in this era of Primordial Force enlightenment, various refining materials were truly abundant, and finding them was extremely easy.

The materials were all ready, so the next step was to refine the Pear Essence Pill.

The Pear Essence Pill was a Grade Two, top-tier Spiritual Pill, and refining it was quite difficult. Given Jiang Xincheng’s current strength, refining the Pear Essence Pill would normally be very challenging, with a very, very low chance of success.

Fortunately, he had just obtained an Alchemy Furnace, the Qingming Cauldron. With the help of the Qingming Cauldron, the difficulty for Jiang Xincheng to refine the Pear Essence Pill decreased significantly. Furthermore, as time passed, Jiang Xincheng’s Spiritual Sense had become increasingly pure and vast, enabling him to refine Spiritual Pills of this level.

After preparing and restoring his essence, energy, and spirit to their peak, Jiang Xincheng began to refine the Pear Essence Pill.

Refining the Pear Essence Pill required dried pear tree branches to make a fire. Jiang Xincheng placed the pear tree branches under the Qingming Cauldron and threw a match into the branches. A small flame ignited beneath the Qingming Cauldron.

Just as it seemed about to go out, Jiang Xincheng moved his right hand, circulated his Primordial Force, and drew out the Primordial Force from the pear branch Yuan Stones. Under the effect of the Primordial Force, the pile of pear branches immediately burst into flames, burning with a white fire.

Jiang Xincheng controlled the fire, allowing the pear branch flames to evenly heat the Qingming Cauldron. Inside the Qingming Cauldron, white flames gradually began to burn as well.

At a certain moment, Jiang Xincheng moved his right hand slightly and threw the pear cores into the Qingming Cauldron.

One of the pears had already been separated by Jiang Xincheng into several piles: one pile of pear flesh, one pile of pear peel, and one pile of pear cores. Each pile was clean and did not mix with any other materials.

The pear cores turned into a slurry within the Primordial Force flames. It was grayish-black and emitted a startling Primordial Force fluctuation.

Only when this grayish-black slurry was burned by the Primordial Force flames until it turned gray did Jiang Xincheng carefully add a certain amount of pear peel, blending it with the slurry in a specific ratio.

After the pear cores and pear peel perfectly merged, Jiang Xincheng began to add the snow-white pear flesh. As soon as the pear flesh entered the Qingming Cauldron, it turned into snow-white pear juice, flowing throughout the Qingming Cauldron. Under Jiang Xincheng’s control, it slowly merged with the pear cores and pear peel.

Pear core 3.34 grams, pear peel 5.12 grams, pear flesh 50.03 grams. This was the proportion of pear peel, pear core, and pear flesh contained within one Pear Essence Pill. Jiang Xincheng was only refining one Pear Essence Pill this time.

Any more, and even with the Qingming Cauldron in hand, Jiang Xincheng would not be able to control it. After all, this was a Grade Two, top-tier Spiritual Pill, containing an extremely massive amount of medicinal power. If something went wrong, the consequences would be unimaginable.

If the furnace exploded, it would likely turn everything within dozens of meters into ruins. This showed just how immense the medicinal power contained within a Grade Two, top-tier Spiritual Pill was.

The three materials—pear core, pear peel, and pear flesh—slowly merged under the effect of the Primordial Force flames. The difference in their proportions could not exceed 0.01 grams. Once exceeded, the best outcome would be the pill being destroyed and the refinement failing; the worst would be the furnace exploding, blasting everything around into ruins.

Jiang Xincheng dared not be the slightest bit negligent. He concentrated on controlling the Primordial Force flames while his Spiritual Sense fluctuated. His Spiritual Sense at the Soldier Realm Middle Stage probed into the Alchemy Furnace, sensing every minute change in the medicinal power, and he was always prepared to deal with difficulties.

The merging of the pear core, pear peel, and pear flesh was the most critical step in refining the Pear Essence Pill, and also an extremely difficult one. As time passed, at a certain moment, Primordial Force fluctuated in Jiang Xincheng’s hand. From the flames rising from the burning pear branches beneath the Alchemy Furnace, a wisp of blue flame drifted out. At this exact moment, Jiang Xincheng abruptly opened the Alchemy Furnace, and the blue flame instantly drifted inside.

As the blue flame drifted into the Alchemy Furnace, the embryonic liquid of the Pear Essence Pill, which had already merged into a transparent mass, fled toward the corner like a mouse seeing a cat.

But the Alchemy Furnace was only so big; how could this mass of liquid escape? The blue flame was like a greedy monster, swallowing the liquid in one gulp, then beginning to temper and forge it.

Inside the entire Alchemy Furnace, only a mass of blue flame remained burning. Within the flame, faint traces of transparent liquid could be seen.

Sweat had already begun to drip from Jiang Xincheng’s forehead. This blue flame was the essence fire born when the pear branch Yuan Stones burned. It could help the Pear Essence Pill take shape, but if something went wrong while tempering the embryonic pill liquid, it would immediately explode.

Although the Qingming Cauldron had considerable defensive power, it still could not withstand the explosion of a Grade Two, top-tier Primordial Force pill. If it exploded, he himself would be the first one affected. If he were caught in the blast, even if Jiang Xincheng wasn’t seriously injured, he wouldn’t be able to cultivate again for a short time. This would greatly impact his cultivation, and most critically, it would affect his entry into the Flourishing Tang Empire.

Jiang Xincheng’s expression was grave. He stared fixedly at the Qingming Cauldron, completely unaware of the passage of time.

Finally, inside the Alchemy Furnace, the blue flame disappeared, replaced by a pill that shimmered with a blue light. The refinement of the Grade Two, top-tier Pear Essence Pill was already half successful.

After resting for a moment, Jiang Xincheng sensed the Spiritual Sense in his Spirit Sense Sea. Surprisingly, more than half of it remained. A bright smile crossed his face as he looked at the Qingming Cauldron.

It truly was a precious alchemy treasure. Not only did it make the process of refining Spiritual Pills much easier for him, but it also reduced his consumption significantly. With this Qingming Cauldron in hand, his success rate in pill refinement would increase by more than double.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Jiang Xincheng began refining the Pear Essence Pill again. As the Primordial Force flames rose, he threw a handful of rock sugar into the pear branches, letting the Primordial Force flames burn the sugar.

As the Primordial Force flames roasted it, the rock sugar turned into patches of white mist, condensing around the Qingming Cauldron like clusters of white clouds, looking particularly wondrous.

But Jiang Xincheng didn’t dare be the least bit careless. He carefully controlled these clusters of white clouds, guiding them into the Qingming Cauldron to envelop the half-finished Pear Essence Pill and slowly permeate it.

The blue glow on the embryonic Pear Essence Pill gradually disappeared under the permeation of the white rock sugar mist. Where the blue glow vanished, faint sparks could be seen flickering.

Those were sparks generated by the interweaving and fusion of the white rock sugar mist and the blue glow. These sparks couldn’t be too large; if they became too big, they would damage the pill and cause the refinement to fail. Jiang Xincheng operated his Spiritual Sense to its limit, controlling the fusion of the white rock sugar mist and the blue glow. On his forehead, large drops of sweat fell…