Chapter 23 - Spirit Stones
Jian has been continuously trying to refine the pill for one day, and after wasting seven sets of material. On the eighth try, Jian had refined three pills in which the only one is usable and the other were not.
It is evening and Jian has been sitting in front of the cauldron in which three pills are there. Jian takes out one pill from the cauldron and throws them in the garbage, where failed pills are kept.
Jian looks at the and tells the system " Show me the mission".
[Ding!]
[Mission]
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Mission: How Host of My Sect System can be an apprentice.
Description: The host has to concoct One star Pill.
Condition: 1)Concoct a Pill (Not completed) 2)One Star Alchemist (Not completed)
Time Limit: One Day.
Reward: Knowledge and Formulae about the one-star alchemist.
Note: Basic Knowledge of Alchemy will be Provided.
]
Jian looked at the mission and saw that there was no completed mark on the concoct a pill and asked the system "System why it is not completed".
The System said, "Host although you have refined a pill it is not up to mark defined by the system which is 60 % Purity."
Jian was shocked hearing this because only one day is remaining to complete the mission and he only has two tries remaining to refine the pill which is above 60 % purity.
Jian kept the pill aside and was in deep thought on how to refine the pill and asked to show me the process. The refinement process of the pill started in his mind and he concentrated and after ten minutes he frowned because of his last refinement.
Jian was able to follow the process completely and there was also no mistake but in the information provided Jian should be able to refine the pill with purity above 80 %. So Jian was in deep thought.
After thinking for a while Jian meditated to be top condition and after few minutes he started his ninth try as he lights up the fire under the cauldron and gets ready to refine the pill system sounds "Use your ability".
Jian frowns for a while and suddenly realization dawns upon him and he activates Star Gaze.
Jian has activated his ability and then he puts the herb in the cauldron and starts to extract the essence. Jian had become very good in the extraction of the herb due to multiple times trying.
Jian didn't do anything new while extracting but after refining the first herb Jian sees that the essence and impurities are different in color. Essence is in the color of the herb and impurities are in black.
Seeing this Jian finally realizes his mistake and continues to refine the herbs and after refining all the herbs there was only essence present in the cauldron and the last process was remaining was to form the pill
But before that Jian used his Star Gaze to look for the essence of the herbs after combining different essence its color has become orange and the impurities have also combined and became darker. Jian had been using his ability and refining pill simultaneously so the pressure was doubled on Jian.
Jian looked at the impurities and used his Qi to guide the heat of the cauldron towards it as the heat touches the impurity which is lighter compared to others it burns and the essence surrounding it also burns.
But Jian has confirmed his hypothesis and continues doing it till only small essence is remaining and he was so concentrating that sweat can be seen on his forehead he wipes it off and tries to complete the process by forming a pill. As the pill forms Jian collapses and sighs.
After few minutes just as Jian wants to call the system. System sounds.
[Ding!]
[Mission]
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Mission: How Host of My Sect System can be an apprentice.
Description: The host has to concoct One star Pill.
Condition: 1)Concoct a Pill (Completed) 2)One Star Alchemist (Not Completed)
Time Limit: 21 hours.
Reward: Knowledge and Formulae about the one-star alchemist.
Note: Basic Knowledge of Alchemy will be Provided.
]
Jian screams "yes" and looks at the cauldron and only find one pill and frowns and
The system continues "Congratulation host on refining pill of 75 % purity and host you are not efficient in controlling your Qi so the essence was also burned and only little remained to form the pill".
Jian sighs because he knew that his control was not up to par. Just as he was about to ask more, a voice sounds " Master".
Yu Yue and Yu Yang were both checking the sect after everyone slept and just as they were going from Sect Hall to Treasure Hall they both hear Jian scream 'yes' and moves towards Sect Hall and both shout "Master".
Jian knew while he was refining pills, Yu Yue and Yu Yang were taking care of the sect. So when he hears both calls Jian said, " Come In" as both were entering Jian kept all the material in the inventory and cleaned the area.
When they came towards him, there was not any proof left of alchemy in the hall. Both Greeted him and Jian told them to sit.
Jian had checked the status of disciples registered today and the total count has exceeded the mission's count by 35. So Total disciples were 185.
Jian said, "Spread the word that registration is stopped and no one will be admitted after today".
Jian knew that the total number had reached noon only and after that, no one came so he wanted to end the ceremony. Hearing what Jian said both nodded.
Jian then stopped talking and asked the system " You said something about spirit vein and spirit stones ."
Jian was thinking about the resources and one of the resources for the sect was spirit stone and before when Jian was thinking about how to gather the resources system had said about spirit vein. system "information will cost 100 SP,"
Jian said " ok".
[Total SP: 1550]
[-100]
[Total SP: 14550]
The information appeared in Jian's mind.
Spirt stones are a resource used by cultivators to cultivate. They are formed in the spirit vein. The spirit stones are divided into four qualities. Low, Middle, High, and Top. Spirit Stones are divided from 0 to 9 stars in grade. Zero being ungraded.
Host due to spirit vein present insect surviving the tribulation it has gain ability to upgrade if specific conditions are met and with the help of the system host can get numbers of spirit stone up to grade low two-star.
Spirit Vein can provide.
Ungraded.
10,000-Low quality, 5000-Middle quality, 1000- High quality, 500- Top quality.
One Star
1000-Low quality, 500-Middle quality, 100- High quality, 50- Top quality.
Two Star
10-low quality
This number of stones will be provided per month and the host also can control the numbers of stones but increase and decrease will be.
10,000 and 5000: Increase and Decrease will be in 1000
1000 and 500: Increase and Decrease will be in 100
50: Increase and Decrease will be in 10
10: Increase will be 10 and Decrease will be in 1
If ungraded is increased then the no of stones in one-star and two-star will decrease. But If One star stone is increased then 50 % of ungraded stones will decrease and two-star will normally decrease.
The two-star maximum increase is 100 stones and if it is increased then no one star and ungraded stones will be provided. foe one-time increase 50 % will be minus from ungraded and one-star stones.
100 low = 1 Middle
100 middle = 1 High
100 High = 1 Top
100 Top = 1 low ( increase in star)
And last was that if two-star stones are not produced then a 50% increase will be in ungraded and one-star stones. After gaining this complicated information Jian was in shock and happy simultaneously because this was possible due to the system.
Jian looks at Yu Yang and smiles.