"Who are you calling a broken bowl!"
A voice, both childish and ancient, came from the broken bowl.
Su Yuan looked at the broken bowl in surprise and exclaimed, "You actually have sentience, are you a spiritual treasure?"
"Consider yourself knowledgeable!" The broken bowl snorted.
Xiao Li looked at the broken bowl in amazement and leaned in to examine it.
"Huh, you actually have a spiritual treasure too, and its rank isn't low! You kid have some tricks, no wonder I ended up in your hands!" The broken bowl said in surprise again.
"Tell me, what kind of spiritual treasure are you? How much power do you have?" Su Yuan asked with interest.
The broken bowl immediately said proudly, "My name is Myriad Treasure Cosmos Cauldron, and I can gather the effects of myriad treasures! Every time you refine a treasure, I can gain a trace of its charm, adding another effect to the Myriad Treasure Cauldron. The more treasures, the stronger I become, and they can even stack, allowing me to exert increasingly powerful effects!"
"Wait!" Su Yuan suddenly interrupted it, his expression strange, "What rank are you now?"
"Seventh rank! I am a seventh-rank spiritual treasure, are you scared?" The broken bowl said proudly.
"Then what level of power can you exert now?" Su Yuan asked again.
The broken bowl was silent for a moment, then said, "First rank Low Grade, this proves I have a lot of room for improvement."
Su Yuan was choked for a moment and asked, "Why do I have to refine it myself?"
"Your refining treasures for me to gain charm is also the process of refining me. Otherwise, with your cultivation, it would be impossible to refine me! And once the refining begins, I can only gain your charm." The broken bowl continued.
"But I don't know how to refine items!" Su Yuan spread his hands.
"How is that possible? Which Cultivator doesn't know a little skill? You must be a master in some area by now, right?" The broken bowl didn't believe him.
Su Yuan smiled and said, "I'm not lying to you, but I can learn."
"Ah? You really don't know how! Then I'm finished. My current state is too poor. Without a large amount of charm to replenish me, I might just dissipate! Impossible! I specifically deduced it back then, and the person who can obtain me must be the most suitable existence in this era! How could you not know a skill?"
The broken bowl clearly couldn't understand. The reality was completely opposite to the result of its deduction, causing the broken bowl to fall into a state of doubting life.
"Then quickly help me find a master, someone who knows how to refine fifth-rank treasures, preferably someone with Spirit Transformation cultivation or above! Hurry up, don't dawdle!" The broken bowl shrieked.
"Don't rush!"
Su Yuan waved his hand and said, "What's your name?"
It sighed, "My previous life is over, there's no need to mention past names!"
"Then I'll call you Su Qian."
"This name is acceptable." The broken bowl with sentience said.
"Then is there any inheritance regarding skills?" Su Yuan asked again.
"...You can't expect a spiritual treasure to learn how to refine treasures by itself, right? Although I've seen the process of refining treasures many times, I've only watched..." The broken bowl said.
Su Yuan was speechless, this broken bowl!
He thought for a moment and said, "I understand! Can it be pills, artifacts, or Talismans?"
"Basically, anything with a physical form is fine, and the more precious, the better." Xiao Qian said.
"Understood!"
Su Yuan left the cave heaven spiritual treasure and flew towards Dan Jue Peak on his sword.
Peak Lord's main hall.
Tao Yaoyao unexpectedly met with Su Yuan.
"A rare guest! I heard you stepped down as Peak Lord?" Tao Yaoyao asked with a smile.
"That's right, being a Peak Lord is too tiring. Since someone wants the position, I naturally have to give it up!" Su Yuan said.
"What are you here for today?" Tao Yaoyao asked again in confusion.
"I want to come here to learn Alchemy!" Su Yuan said directly.
"You want to learn Alchemy?" Tao Yaoyao said in surprise, "Aren't there many Alchemy techniques in your ultimate skill?"
"That was something I made up!" Su Yuan waved his hand, "I haven't practiced it at all, so I specifically came to ask Peak Lord Tao for guidance. When I refine later, I hope Peak Lord Tao can give me some pointers. If Peak Lord Tao isn't free, please have an Elder come and guide me!"
"I'm free, of course I'm free." Tao Yaoyao still couldn't believe it, "Are the things in your book really made up? That's impossible, I didn't see any problems..."
Su Yuan said, "I also have some understanding of deduction, so it looks fine, but I can't guarantee whether there are actual problems."
Tao Yaoyao's mouth twitched, "If you really haven't refined pills before, I think you should be mentally prepared. Alchemy is not simple. Refining, blending, and proportioning medicinal ingredients, controlling the heat, managing the time, and the technique of Alchemy – you should be prepared for your first batch to fail."
"I naturally know about this!"
Su Yuan affirmed.
"Then come with me, I'll arrange an Alchemy room for you."
Su Yuan followed Tao Yaoyao and quickly arrived at an extremely high-end Alchemy room.
He curiously examined the Pill Furnace in the center of the Alchemy room, carefully observing every detail of the furnace.
"This is a third-rank Pill Furnace, it has many bonuses for Alchemy. Familiarize yourself with it." Seeing Su Yuan's expression as if he were looking at something rare, Tao Yaoyao almost couldn't maintain her composure.
This is truly an amateur!
Tao Yaoyao took out one hundred portions of Materials for refining Pilgrimage Pills, as well as a formula for Pilgrimage Pills.
"Start by refining Pilgrimage Pills, this is one of the simplest pills!"
"These are the Pilgrimage Pill Materials?"
Su Yuan looked at the spiritual Materials for Pilgrimage Pills in surprise. There were three types in total: spiritual valley, ordinary ginseng, and spiritual spring water.
"That's right." Tao Yaoyao nodded.
Su Yuan pointed to the ginseng and said, "Could it be that the bitter taste of Pilgrimage Pills comes from the ginseng? That doesn't make sense! There's no reason why refining these three Materials together would result in such a bad taste!"
Tao Yaoyao coughed, "That's not important."
"Taste is also very important!" Su Yuan said, "Shouldn't it be possible to add some ingredients rich in sweetness to refine together?"
Tao Yaoyao fell silent.
"This is the first time I've seen someone have an opinion on the formula for Pilgrimage Pills." Tao Yaoyao rubbed her forehead, "Beginners are supposed to reduce the variety of spiritual Materials. Adding one more type might increase the difficulty several times! Refine this batch of Pilgrimage Pills successfully first."
"That's also true!" Su Yuan nodded.
"Then I'll start refining!" Su Yuan said seriously.
Tao Yaoyao nodded and stood by the side, very curious if Su Yuan could succeed in refining. This was an Opening Meridian Ancestral Teacher level figure; if he failed, it could be written into unofficial histories later.
Su Yuan injected his True Essence into the Pill Furnace. The furnace, guided by the True Essence, immediately extended a tongue of flame from underground!
This is Earth Fire!
Su Yuan attempted to control the Earth Fire with his spiritual sense. The tongue of flame constantly changed shape under his control.
With his comprehension of the 'Potential of Fire', these operations could be called instinct.
Su Yuan glanced at the Pill Formula, a formula so simple it left him speechless.
[Add one portion of spiritual valley, extract the spiritual valley essence, add one portion of ginseng, extract the ginseng essence, then add a little spring water to mix, and condense into pill form.]
This was the Pill Formula, extremely plain and unadorned.
How much is one portion of spiritual valley? It didn't say. How much is one portion of ginseng? It didn't say. How much is a little spring water? How big should the pills be? Everything seemed unknown.
Su Yuan's mouth twitched. Fortunately, Tao Yaoyao had portioned the ingredients for him. He glanced at them and found that the portions were also unequal. In some portions, there were fifty extra grains of spiritual valley, and in others, the amount of spring water was double that of others.
Su Yuan suspected that Tao Yaoyao did it intentionally, but he had no proof, because according to what he had read in ancient texts, this was the norm for Alchemists.
"Starting now!"
Su Yuan didn't hesitate. He took out one portion of spiritual valley, about 120 grains, and threw them all into the Pill Furnace.
He controlled the flames and gently swept them over the spiritual valley. All the husks of the spiritual valley immediately fell off and were swept up by the tongue of flame, burning into ash.
The remaining white grains gradually melted under the licking flames of Su Yuan.
At this point, Su Yuan put the ginseng into the Pill Furnace, separating a portion of the flames to burn the ginseng. The residue of the ginseng quickly burned into ash, leaving behind a ball of medicinal liquid.
In just this short time, the ball of white grains also turned into a semi-liquid essence.
Su Yuan then added the spiritual spring water.
The tongue of flame first heated the spiritual spring water, raising its temperature, then allowed the three to merge together. Su Yuan used his spiritual sense as a stirring rod to fully mix the three.
As the flames gradually burned, the mixed liquid gradually solidified.
Su Yuan instantly cut the mixed liquid with his spiritual sense, dividing it into ten portions in one go. He rotated each portion with his spiritual sense, causing it to transform into a sphere.
Unconsciously, the pills took shape!
Su Yuan lifted the furnace lid, and ten pills flew out from it!
Falling into the jade plate beside it.
At the same time, a trace of charm and spiritual light, difficult for ordinary people to see, flew into the broken bowl hidden inside Su Yuan's chest.
At this moment, Su Yuan established a faint connection with the broken bowl and very roughly refined the broken bowl! Oh no, it was the Myriad Treasure Cosmos Cauldron!
"Finally, I've tasted a trace of charm again!" Xiao Qian's voice let out a sigh, then continued, "You were lying to me earlier, right? You refined nine high-grade pills and one supreme-grade pill in one go. Although they are Pilgrimage Pills, it's impossible that this is your first time refining!"
Xiao Qian's tone was extremely certain.
Tao Yaoyao was also surprised at this moment and said, "You actually succeeded in refining it in one go!"
She picked up the supreme-grade pill to examine it, "The medicinal properties are uniform, gentle and smooth. With this quality, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say you've refined a thousand batches of Pilgrimage Pills. Is this really your first time refining?"
Su Yuan said helplessly, "My cultivation path in the Sect should be relatively easy to check, right? Where would I have the time to learn Alchemy!"
Tao Yaoyao fell into silence.
"Peak Lord Tao, is there anything I need to improve?" Su Yuan asked again.
Tao Yaoyao coughed, "Practice more. The advice given by others is not as deeply understood as what you comprehend yourself."
Su Yuan nodded in understanding. He glanced at the side of the Alchemy room, where many common spiritual herbs were placed.
Su Yuan walked over, picked up a fragrant leaf grass, and then walked back.
"What are you doing?" Tao Yaoyao asked in confusion.
"Of course, I'm refining Pilgrimage Pills!"
Su Yuan said.
He sent a voice transmission to Xiao Qian, "Your Myriad Treasure Cauldron, does it mean you can't absorb charm a second time from the same kind of treasure?"
"Yes!" Xiao Qian said.
"Then if I improve the Pilgrimage Pill, can you repeatedly absorb charm?"
"Yes, you can, but the effect will gradually decrease. After all, they are all Pilgrimage Pills, and there's no need to absorb too much from low-rank pills. One high-rank pill is worth ten low-rank ones!" Xiao Qian reminded him.
"No, no, I think it's the opposite. Only by accumulating enough charm at the low rank can you maximize the benefits when you move to the high rank!"
Su Yuan explained, "Think about it, people always encounter Bottlenecks. At that time, they won't be able to refine higher-rank items, and the charm must be obtained from refining items of the same rank. And the difficulty of refining items of the same rank at that time is definitely not low. If you want to refine low-rank items again, they probably won't be able to satisfy the Myriad Treasure Cauldron's needs anymore, right? In the end, won't you be unable to obtain charm for a long time?"
Xiao Qian seemed to be persuaded by Su Yuan.
"But how many types of low-rank items can there be?"
"Have you heard of the Hundred Flavors Pilgrimage Pill?" Su Yuan asked.
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