C1687 Direction of Improvement
Of course, this was because Lu Yu had always been a rogue cultivator. If Lu Yu chose to join the Pill Alliance, with her ability in pill refining, she would be able to get as many spirit herbs as she wanted. Amongst the supreme nourishing pellet that Lu Yu had refined before, the one that had been in the best condition was the one that Lu Yu had refined at the ninth star eighth level, and the ones that she had usually been refining was also the ones that were at the seventh level of the ninth star.1
Refining a Nine-Star Level 6 Pellet like this was really out of line with Lu Yu's standard of alchemy. Furthermore, because of the Sky Cloud Fire, even if Lu Yu was refining a level 7 Nine Star supreme nourishing pellet, her speed would definitely be faster than Tang Ao's. Therefore, if Lu Yu had been more serious in the first round, she would have definitely lost.
With Tang Ao's current alchemy level, refining a Nine-Star Level 7 pellet was Tang Ao's limit, but Lu Yu was actually refining a Nine-Star Level 8 pellet. After Tang Ao pondered for a long time, he felt that if he had to say that there were any other areas that he needed to improve on, there were only two areas that he could improve on.
The first was naturally the Pill Fire Tang Ao used when refining the pellet. The Pill Fire Tang Ao used was condensed from Essence, it was only a type of first grade spirit fire, and its grade was a little lower. Other than that, there was also the Black Rock Continent that Tang Ao used. Any random pill furnace he took out from Tang Ao's body was of a higher grade than this Black Rock Continent.
But Tang Ao felt that even if he used an even higher grade flame and an even better pill furnace, he would not be able to refine a lot of pills that changed. At most, it would only make the process of refining the pills a little easier. Thinking about it here, Tang Ao faintly realized where the problem was. Only, right now, Tang Ao was still a little unsure if the real reason was as he thought. It was because his understanding of pills was not yet at a certain level that the pills he concocted came to a halt here.
Tang Ao's current thoughts were not thinking about the hundred crystals that he had competed with Lu Yu. Tang Ao felt that if he could overcome this problem, his alchemy skills would improve by leaps and bounds. Although Tang Ao was confident that he could refine immortal pills now, he wasn't very confident in his success rate. Tang Ao felt that if he were to make a breakthrough in his pill refining skills, there would be no real problems with the immortal pills he would concoct.
"Senior Brother Tang Ao, do you want to rest?" Just a moment ago, Lu Yu had refined the pellet two hours in advance, so Lu Yu had already rested well. In fact, refining pellets of this level was not even close to consumption for Lu Yu, so Lu Yu did not need to rest at all. However, Lu Yu didn't know if Tang Ao was like her, concocting pills was very easy, and could continue to concoct pills for the next round.
"Mn, there's no need. Junior Sister Lu Yu, we can start refining the Heavy Yang Pill now." Tang Ao had just gained some insights just now, so he naturally wanted to take this opportunity to gain some insights as well. At a time like this, how could Tang Ao possibly rest and waste such a precious opportunity? Although Tang Ao's alchemist had inherited Shen Nong Emperor's top tier Pill Emperor, he did not know how many years Shen Nong Emperor had already fallen.
As a result, what the Shen Nong Emperor left behind for Tang Ao were only some inheritances of alchemy experiences and techniques, and as for comprehensions, they were very little. And when Tang Ao encountered this doubt in refining pellets, he naturally would not be able to find the Shen Nong Emperor either. Back then in the Emperor of the Underworld's secret plane, after the Shen Nong Emperor gave the Alchemy Inheritance to Tang Ao, he had completely escaped into the cycle of reincarnation.
Throughout the journey, Tang Ao had encountered many doubts in the area of pill refinement, all of which he had slowly fumbled with himself. This time, Tang Ao had once again encountered a bottleneck, and Tang Ao could clearly feel that as long as he could break through this bottleneck, his alchemy skills would increase by another level. Just like how he always concocted pills, Tang Ao placed all of his spiritual herbs into the furnace.
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