Finally obtaining the information about the fire that can burn lifespan, Lin Jing felt clear-headed and sensed that mastering the Celestial Demon Body was just around the corner.
This alchemy competition focuses not on the grade of the pills, but purely on their efficacy...
It seems to encourage alchemists to "innovate," bringing transformation to the Cultivation Realm.
The rules of this competition are extremely advantageous for Lin Jing. Thanks to a bunch of "special plants," he has many top-grade pill recipes at hand...
For example, the Gluttonous Pill, which can indeed bring transformation to the Cultivation Realm...
However, there’s a fatal problem on Lin Jing’s side, which is that the pills he refines all rely on the Divine Technique of the Glazed Immortal Pupil, a Treasure Beast power that’s hard for others to replicate.
Whether the Heaven-Reaching Tower will trade top-tier exotic flames for a pill that’s difficult to replicate is a significant question.
"No, it’s not a problem. The previous transaction with the Divine Strategy Manor and the current one with this female alchemist are both good examples."
"As the ’strongest Mechanical Technique legacy’ and the ’strongest Alchemy Dao legacy,’ as long as the pill recipe is of enough value, they are confident they can replicate it, having immense faith in their technology, so the trade can be pushed forward, even if the recipe has defects..."
The Jiegeng Alchemist looked at the thoughtful Lin Jing and asked, "Are you satisfied with this information?"
"Yes." With a slight lift of his palm, bottles of the Gluttonous Pill appeared and floated toward the Jiegeng Alchemist.
"If I have time, I’ll go check out this alchemy competition."
The Jiegeng Alchemist smiled, "The next alchemy competition is in a few years. Here’s the token for participating in the competition for you."
She tossed out a token and then left the Nameless Pill Pavilion with the Gluttonous Pills, having achieved her purpose.
After the Jiegeng Alchemist left, Lin Jing sat back in his wooden chair and found a book among the pile he purchased earlier that detailed the alchemy competition...
The last competition was won by a Sixth-Grade Alchemist from the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
This person developed a Sixth-Grade Elixir called "Celestial Human Pill," which allows Nascent Soul Cultivators to fully comprehend the power of heaven and directly ascend to Divinity Transformation...
The competition before last was won by a Demon Beast Alchemist from the Medicinal Toad Race.
The pill they refined, the "Tadpole Pill," allows cultivators with special constitutions to have offspring who can fully inherit the cultivation body of one parent.
The competition before that was won by the Spirit Ginseng King who had become sentient.
They refined the "Thunder Protection Pill," which can make the user nearly immune to lightning magic and natural lightning, and most importantly, effectively avoid tribulation lightning.
After reading, Lin Jing fell into contemplation. Indeed, it is an alchemy festival without racial boundaries, with the past three winners each from different races.
Compared to the Ancient Country, Qingzhou is indeed more open.
Also, he heard that though the Heaven-Reaching Tower is primarily led by humans, it has some demon beast disciples, so allowing different races to participate is understandable.
Subsequently, Lin Jing felt a certain difficulty.
Whether it’s the Dragon Ascending Pill, Gluttonous Pill, Pain Relief Pill, or the yet-to-be-studied Fake Sun Pill, Lin Jing doesn’t think they can completely overpower these pills.
"In the past, when Nascent Souls ascended to Divinity Transformation, cultivators typically followed the path of refining an avatar to comprehend the power of heaven and earth. This Celestial Human Pill, though not the first pill to assist Nascent Souls in breaking through to Divinity Transformation, is the first with a 100% success rate for assisting Nascent Souls in achieving Divinity Transformation..."
"The Tadpole Pill, let’s not mention the name, but the effect is indeed astonishing. Offspring don’t necessarily inherit the cultivation body of their parents. Like Xia Yan, who appears to be a later-acquired Fire Spirit Body, and didn’t inherit his father’s Innate Fire Soul Body, resulting in mediocrity. This Tadpole Pill, for some forces that emphasize legacy, especially those with Innate Divine Bodies, will be greatly valued, hoping their offspring can inherit their talents."
"The Thunder Protection Pill, heavenly tribulation... a catastrophe that has stumped countless great powers. If there’s a way to hide or evade it, it will surely double the number of strong cultivators in the Cultivation Realm."
"These pills are all astonishing in effect, but their refinement difficulty must be very high, and the materials are incredibly rare..."
"But regardless, the pills I have are still far behind compared to those, including the currently partially researched Fake Sun Pill..."
The Fake Sun Pill, it’s just a fake pill technique. While the Cultivation Realm has few top-grade fake pill techniques, adding another won’t cause much of a ripple. In terms of influence on the Cultivation Realm, it might not even surpass the Gluttonous Pill.
Nonetheless, the problem with the Gluttonous Pill is its low grade, and it might only assist in assimilating fourth or fifth-tier spiritual objects at most. When the cultivator’s realm is high, it becomes ineffective and cannot help high-level cultivators digest across ranks, only assisting the weaker to digest across levels.
While the Heaven-Reaching Tower alchemy competition claims to focus solely on the pill’s influence and not its grade, Lin Jing takes this with a grain of salt.
Because he noticed that in past competitions, the winning pills were usually those that had significant effects on the strong, giving them hope of winning.
Pills that benefit low-level cultivators may achieve good results but find it challenging to win.
The Gluttonous Pill is a pill that benefits low-level cultivators.
Moreover, the cost-effectiveness is very low. No matter how much a low-level cultivator has spirit pills to aid digestion, they can hardly perfectly absorb the power of high-level resources, which is destined to be wasteful. Few forces cultivate the younger generation in such a lavish manner. High-level resources... it is more cost-effective to give them directly to powerful cultivators who have already matured.
Cases like Xia Yan are, after all, the minority.
"The discourse power is still in the hands of strong cultivators, so I must research a pill that can entice those above the Nascent Soul level before the new alchemy competition."
Lin Jing sighed. This possibility might only be achievable by refining pills of the fourth grade or higher.
The Fire Scaled Dragon was right; it seems that without it, it truly wouldn’t be possible.
After all, Lin Jing can currently only refine third-grade pills, whereas the Fire Scaled Dragon can rely on its Treasure Beast physique and fuse exotic fire to conduct the refining of fourth-grade pills.
Once it achieves Core Formation, refining fourth-grade pills will be as easy as a pie.
"Fortunately, during my time at the Thousand Illusions Mountain, I took the time to master the Beast Taming Sect’s ’Fusion’ and ’Immortal Rebirth’ secret techniques. If the Fire Scaled Dragon participates in the alchemy competition without any background, it could be dangerous, but having ’Immortal Rebirth’ in hand, most dangers should be able to ’shed the chrysalis’."
"Roar!!!" From within the staff, the Fire Scaled Dragon assured Lin Jing to rest assured.
"How can I be at ease?" Lin Jing said, "From the moment you gained sentience, you’ve been with me, and haven’t experienced any significant challenges. Although now you have the royal bloodline of a dragon, in my eyes... you’re still that little carp."
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"I’ve decided that before you participate in the alchemy competition, I will let you out ahead of time, alone, to have some adventures and polish yourself."
"You know the story of ’The Adventures of the Little Carp,’ right!"
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