Chapter 504 - 359: Developing Pills
The refining of two Lower-Grade Spiritual Artifacts began.
Fang Yun watched from the side, doing nothing.
He needed to observe without interfering. This way, the information he gathered would be more accurate.
By the time the two Lower-Grade Spiritual Artifacts were nearly finished, Fang Yun had reached a conclusion.
’It’s just as I thought. Even with two carrier bodies, the effectiveness of my talent isn’t affected. It should be the same even when I have more carrier bodies in the future.’
His profession in his past life had instilled in Fang Yun a rigorous attention to data. Even when he was completely certain, he would still run a simple test.
’Next is the test that requires splitting my focus.’
To conduct this test, Fang Yun didn’t currently have the necessary materials on hand.
The Spiritual Materials he currently possessed were for items his carrier bodies could refine on their own with the aid of his talent, without requiring him to expend extra focus.
Afterward, Fang Yun assigned his carrier bodies to continue their work.
One carrier body went to tend to the Spirit Medicine, while the other began refining medicinal pills.
There was still one batch of the Second-Tier Spirit Ascension Pills that hadn’t been refined.
Previously, while he was refining the second carrier body, the first carrier body had also been tasked with refining Spirit Ascension Pills. He had already arranged for Song Qiaoqiao to deliver the Spirit Medicine for these pills to his carrier body.
Not long after Fang Yun left the Artifact Refining Room, Song Qiaoqiao emerged from her Cultivation Room.
"Husband, how did the refining of your second carrier body go?"
"It was completed smoothly, and the test results were good."
"That’s wonderful."
For Song Qiaoqiao, this was good news as well.
The two began to chat as they usually did.
"With a second carrier body, I can take on more refining tasks from now on," Fang Yun said, explaining the change. Besides more refining tasks, he could also tend to more Spirit Medicine.
After the sect’s Tier Three Middle-Grade Spirit Vein was upgraded to a Tier Three Top-Grade one, its utilization rate had dropped significantly. If he could care for more Spirit Medicine, it would mean opening up more Spirit Fields, which would increase the utilization rate of the sect’s Spirit Vein.
After some time, once he had reassigned the tasks, there would be more to do. Subsequently, he should be able to accumulate over seven hundred thousand Talent Points each month.
Earning over ten million Talent Points per year should be a relatively easy matter.
And that was without acquiring any Combat Talent Points.
At ten million Talent Points a year, it would take one hundred and ten years to reach 1.1 billion. He recalled that when his Life Talent had just been upgraded to eight-star, he had calculated that it would take over four hundred years of accumulation to reach that 1.1 billion.
He knew it wouldn’t actually take four hundred years; he was confident he would earn more and more Talent Points over time. However, compared to the time it took to upgrade his Life Talent from seven-star to eight-star, the time from eight-star to nine-star would undoubtedly be much longer.
"Like the task of refining Spirit Ascension Pills?" Song Qiaoqiao couldn’t help but ask.
"That’s right."
"Husband, with you refining more Spirit Ascension Pills, the standards for Dan Cloud Peak’s Alchemy Masters will have to be stricter."
As the total number of pills Fang Yun refined increased, the total number available for other Alchemy Masters to refine would inevitably decrease.
For the sect as a whole, this was definitely beneficial, because any pill below the Third Tier that Fang Yun had refined before, he could now refine perfectly.
"Stricter standards are a good thing. We might also have to add a rule later: if an alchemist’s skill in refining a certain pill is insufficient, they won’t be allowed to use Middle-Grade Spirit Medicine."
To refine a batch of pills that were all Upper-Grade, under the condition of perfect refining, all the Spirit Medicine used just needed to be of good grade or higher.
As for the Spirit Ascension Pills he refined for himself, Fang Yun had long instructed that only good-grade Spirit Medicine was needed. Giving him excellent-grade materials was, in a way, a waste.
"Husband, regarding your alchemy... the way you refine so many pills, it can’t all be just for the sect’s sake, can it?" Song Qiaoqiao couldn’t hold back her curiosity and asked.
Once an Alchemy Master could perfectly refine a type of pill, continuing to refine it offered almost no improvement to their alchemy skills.
She felt her husband was a bit too enthusiastic about refining these kinds of pills.
"It’s beneficial for me as well," Fang Yun answered Song Qiaoqiao’s question.
As for what the specific benefits were, it wasn’t convenient for him to say. There was no need to elaborate on matters that were beyond conventional understanding.
He said this because he knew Song Qiaoqiao well.
Sure enough, after he said it was beneficial without explaining why, Song Qiaoqiao didn’t press the issue.
"I knew it," Song Qiaoqiao said with a smile, and the topic shifted to other matters.
She wouldn’t pry into things Fang Yun found difficult to talk about.
She knew her husband’s character and was certain he would never do anything to harm her, so there was no need to know everything.
Within the entire sect, she was already the one who understood her husband best.
The middle and upper echelons of the sect all thought her husband spent a great deal of time practicing Magical Combat, but in reality, he spent no time on it at all.
This was something she only learned after they had officially become Tao Companions.
As for why her husband was so powerful? Only he himself knew the real reason.
Song Qiaoqiao was supposed to refine some Spirit Ascension Pills herself, but after understanding the situation, she decided against it.
In any case, she had long been able to refine Spirit Ascension Pills perfectly. From now on, she could just hand her share of the refining over to her husband’s carrier bodies.
「One month later.」
Fang Yun could finally begin his next experiment.