My dreams can simulate the future.

Chapter 88 Grade 2 Talisman

Jiang Chen used his fire control technique again to adjust the furnace temperature, and then took out a portion of the ingredients for the Spirit Gathering Pill.

The Spirit Gathering Pill is a mid-grade first-rank pill that requires six kinds of spiritual herbs to refine.

Compared to the Bigu Pill, the Spirit Gathering Pill is much more difficult to refine.

There is a significant difference in the step of refining the essence of the elixir.

Because different elixirs require different temperatures and times to refine their essence.

Therefore, the essence of the elixir must be refined in different orders, and the temperature must be constantly adjusted during the process.

Moreover, it requires six different temperature zones within a single alchemy furnace to refine the essence of six kinds of spiritual herbs.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen's spiritual sense was strong enough that he quickly refined the essence of the six spiritual herbs.

Compared to the Bigu Pill, the refining of the Gathering Spirit Pill involves an additional process of fusing essence.

This step is the easiest to fail at. The essences of different temperatures and medicinal properties are blended together. If you are not careful, it will be like hot oil being poured into cold water, with droplets splashing everywhere, or even exploding directly.

Jiang Chen failed on his first attempt to fuse the medicinal liquid.

After seven or eight attempts, the first fusion of the medicinal liquid was finally completed.

The subsequent process is no different from refining the Bigu Pill.

Fifteen minutes later, Jiang Chen opened the stove lid, and a mixture of medicinal fragrance and burnt smell wafted out.

Inside the alchemy furnace were three pills and three small piles of ashes. Of the three pills, two had reached the mortal level, while one was a waste pill.

Putting away the three pills, Jiang Chen pondered in his heart: "Affected by the great battle, the prices of Spirit Gathering Pills and medicinal herbs have risen significantly."

A single ordinary Spirit Gathering Pill costs ten spirit stones. Waste pills can be fed to spirit beasts and sold for two or three spirit stones.

The ingredients for a single Spirit Gathering Pill cost only twenty spirit stones, yet I've already made a small profit from this batch of pills.

"Alchemy is a really lucrative profession!"

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[Day 15 of the Dream]

Jiang Chen used up all fifty portions of the ingredients for the Spirit Gathering Pill. Thanks to his powerful spiritual sense, his alchemy skills progressed rapidly.

With the last batch of Spirit Gathering Pills, he successfully produced four pills. Three of them were of ordinary quality, and one was of good quality.

Like talismans, elixirs are classified into four quality levels from low to high: common, good, fine, and top-grade.

Ordinary medicines can be taken, but taking too much can lead to an excessive accumulation of erysipelas, which may affect one's spiritual journey.

The erysipelas in high-quality pills is only about one-tenth that in ordinary pills. Even if one pill is taken every day, the erysipelas will be almost entirely excreted by the body.

As for premium pills, they are almost free of toxicity and their efficacy is 50% to 100% stronger than that of ordinary pills.

Generally speaking, if a high-quality elixir is produced, it's not a big deal; it's just that it's more expensive.

If a high-quality Foundation Establishment Pill or other pills that aid in breakthroughs were to appear, it would definitely cause a frenzy of competition.

As for top-grade pills, they can only be refined by alchemists who, through a fortuitous encounter, enter a state of "harmony between man and nature."

No matter what kind of pill it is, as long as a top-grade one is produced, Nascent Soul cultivators will vie for it.

Because the elixir contains the essence of the unity of heaven and man, even a Nascent Soul cultivator can greatly benefit from comprehending this essence.

The same applies to top-grade talismans and magical artifacts; it might take hundreds of years for even one to appear.

"Being able to refine high-quality pills, it seems my skills are up to par. If I have a way to sell them, becoming a pill refiner would be a piece of cake."

Having said that, he immediately ended his dream.

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Back to reality, it was precisely at this moment that Jiang Chen had just broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

He sighed inwardly, 'This dream has been quite eventful. Exchanging for the Foundation Establishment Pill is out of the question, and now I've even gotten myself into the Shennong Garden.'

If the outsiders control a large enough share of Shennong Garden, it won't be so easy for the loyalists to order them around in the future.

"Entering Shennong Garden, conflict is inevitable. After taking over Shennong Garden, the conflict between the outsiders and the loyalists will be further intensified."

To be on the safe side, it's best to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm as soon as possible and go out to settle scores with the Blackstone Society.

"Cultivation is fundamental. When I entered the dream, I was already able to refine high-quality Spirit Gathering Pills."

Having achieved such results after only fifty batches, although the reason is partly due to the powerful spiritual force that allowed me to defeat the enemy in a lower dimension, my talent in alchemy is still quite good.

I should first go to the Guardian Hall to buy the alchemy furnace and medicinal herbs, and then continue refining pills in my dream.

If one can consistently refine high-quality Spirit Gathering Pills, breaking through to the eighth level of Qi Refining in two years will be a piece of cake, and even the ninth level is not out of the question.

Taking large amounts of pills to rapidly increase one's cultivation level will lead to an unstable foundation.

The most obvious manifestation is that the magical power is extremely mixed, making it very difficult to improve one's cultivation level in the future.

However, Jiang Chen cultivated the Jade Cauldron Pure Yuan Technique, which allowed him to gradually refine even impure magical power until it became pure.

Just like in the dream, the purchase of the alchemy furnace and elixirs went exceptionally smoothly this time.

The alchemy he refined in his dream was quite successful, so Jiang Chen bought a lot of medicinal herbs, a total of one hundred portions.

Afterwards, he even made a special trip to the Array Formation Division of the Guardian Hall to purchase array diagrams.

It turns out that the array masters here don't know how to draw array diagrams.

He learned after inquiring that although array diagrams were inexpensive and effective, drawing array diagrams was a highly difficult skill among array masters.

Without a superior lineage and a strong enough memory, it is simply impossible to draw this.

Within the entire Golden Cauldron Sect, only a few high-ranking members of the Array Hall are capable of drawing it.

Jiang Chen then tentatively went to the Array Hall to try and buy it, but naturally he couldn't find it.

Back in the courtyard, Jiang Chen sighed, "I can't buy any new array diagrams. I only have one diagram of the Xuanwu Protective Spirit Array, which is not enough at all."

It seems I need to draw a second-grade talisman as soon as possible. Once I'm in the ruins, I'll rely entirely on it for protection.

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A year has passed, and Jiang Chen is thirty-two years old.

Jiang Chen has been extremely busy this past year.

In addition to completing the recruitment mission and submitting a certain number of talismans, one must also refine elixirs for one's own cultivation needs.

Fortunately, with the help of the Dream Butterfly Diagram, after a year of hard work, his cultivation level has broken through to the eighth level of Qi Refining.

At this moment, he was lying on his desk, carefully drawing talismans.

The talismans on his table were noticeably different from before.

In the past, the talismans used, whether made of animal hide or plant material, were mostly yellowish-brown.

The talisman paper on the table was silver-gray. Upon closer inspection, one could even see a faint shimmering silver light, a characteristic of second-grade talisman paper.

Before long, he finished his last stroke, and the entire talisman flashed with silver light before the light faded.

But upon closer inspection, a faint golden light could be seen flowing across the intricate rune-like restrictions.

Jiang Chen immediately picked up the talisman, carefully examined it with his divine sense, and then let out a long sigh of relief.

"Finally, I've managed to draw a second-grade talisman in the real world. As expected, talisman drawing still depends on one's cultivation level. When I was at the seventh level of Qi Refining, I practiced hundreds of times, but I never succeeded even once."

He had only broken through to the eighth level of Qi Refining after a few practice sessions in his dream world. Now, he could draw second-grade talismans in the real world, which was considered to have met the standard.

According to the rules of the Talisman Hall, as long as one can draw a second-grade initial talisman in the Qi Refining stage, regardless of the success rate, and with the prospect of Foundation Establishment, one can become a disciple of the Hall Master, Yuanfu Zhenren.

"If I can become a disciple of Master Yuanfu, I can be considered a Core Formation successor."