Chapter 653 Sun Tuanhong (Please Subscribe, Please Bookmark)

The role of the foundation-building pill is unquestionable, and its status in the entire cultivation world is also second to none. Whether a second-level top-grade alchemist can master the refining of the foundation-building pill, his status must be very different.

At present, in the entire Song Dynasty cultivation world, only the four major sects and a small number of Jindan-stage families with a heritage of more than a thousand years can stably master the method of refining the foundation-building pill.

Different families and sects have their own unique secrets in refining the foundation-building pill, which can slightly increase the success rate of the foundation-building pill.

These unique secrets are almost all passed down orally between teachers and apprentices, and will not be easily spread to the outside world. Every seemingly simple skill is almost summed up from countless failed blood lessons.

The foundation-building pill recipe purchased by the Sun family is just the most basic template in the cultivation world. There is naturally a certain probability of refining the foundation-building pill if it is refined in an orderly manner according to the records on it, but this success rate is really unacceptable.

After all, each spiritual medicine used to refine the foundation-building pill is valuable, and some of them can even be used to refine the third-level spiritual pill.

Every failure means a loss of more than 8,000 spiritual stones. If it weren't for the family's continuous trade over the years, earning spiritual stones to buy various spiritual medicines, it would not be able to support Sun Caiyun's 20 consecutive failures.

Perhaps the only thing to be thankful for is that the 20 failures did not occur in a short period of time, but started when Sun Caiyun reached the threshold of the second-level intermediate alchemist.

After each failure, as a qualified alchemist, Sun Caiyun would make a detailed summary, and every time he started refining, there would be obvious progress.

From the beginning, the process of extracting the pure liquid from the spiritual medicine of the first furnace of the foundation-building pill has not been completed, to the current pill, it is just that in the final process of removing toxins, the pills were broken or the toxins were not expelled cleanly and thoroughly due to the lack of control over the fire.

"After the foundation-building pill is formed, the control of the amount of fire will be the most stringent. Too much fire or too strong fire can easily cause the pill to break; too little fire can easily cause the pill to have too high a poison content."

"From the condensation of the pill to the final pill being taken out of the furnace, the fire should be gradually decreasing."

Sun Caiyun looked at the foundation-building pill in front of him, which had cracked and lost its value, and kept rotating and observing it, while his nose kept smelling the scent of the elixir.

Beside him, there were two other blue-black pills, which were caused by the failure of the last refining process due to incomplete detoxification.

The comparison between the two pills may not be of any use or value to others, but for Sun Caiyun, the alchemist, the significance of this can be imagined.

"After more than twenty consecutive failures, the family certainly did not blame me at all, and they also went all out to supply the spiritual medicines needed to refine the foundation-building pill."

"But as a second-level top-grade alchemist, if I cannot successfully refine the foundation-building pill for the family, wouldn't I be ashamed of the family's training?"

As time went by, Sun Caiyun's obsession with the foundation-building pill became more and more stubborn and firm, and it seemed to have become the most important thing in his remaining life.

According to common sense, with Sun Caiyun's three spiritual roots and relatively advanced alchemy qualifications plus the full support of the family, there is also a certain chance that he will condense the golden pill and enter a new realm of cultivation.

But for Sun Caiyun, it can be said that he made it through alchemy and failed through alchemy. It was thanks to his qualified alchemy qualifications that he was fully trained by the family, and he consumed two foundation-building pills in succession before he was promoted to the foundation-building stage.

But after being promoted to the foundation-building stage, all his energy was placed on the study of alchemy, and even his investment in cultivation was less than half of that of a normal cultivator.

Only at the critical moment of the advancement of alchemy did she think of the advancement of her cultivation, which was also mainly dependent on the assistance of elixirs.

This also caused her cultivation foundation to be basically in a relatively superficial state, which was equivalent to cutting off her future cultivation path.

With Sun Caiyun's current state, she could not support the backlash caused by the condensation of the golden elixir. As the saying goes, a tall building starts from the ground. If there is no solid foundation, how can she go further in the future?

She was naturally clear about her actual situation, so after being promoted to the eighth level of foundation building to meet the needs of alchemy, she almost completely gave up the polishing of her cultivation.

While Sun Caiyun was thinking about the refining of the foundation building pill, and was about to start refining a new round of foundation building pills after having a relative grasp, a late-stage Qi refining cultivator was accepting the instructions of the Golden Pill Patriarch Sun Mingzeng face to face at the most concentrated spiritual power on the top of Shenquan Mountain.

"Tuan Hong, alchemy is important, but for a cultivator, cultivation is the most fundamental. Don't be like Cai Yun, who gave up his own cultivation because of alchemy. This is the most typical case of throwing away the watermelon for sesame seeds."

"A second-level high-quality alchemist is certainly very important to the family, but a Jindan-stage cultivator is the real decisive factor."

"You are a cultivator with three spiritual roots, of which the fire spirit accounts for nearly 70%. You have excellent qualifications and the potential for alchemy. The family will definitely not hesitate to cultivate you, but once you give up the future path of cultivation, even the gods cannot save you."

Sun Tuanhong, the seventh in the family's Tuan generation, is a cultivator with three spiritual roots: fire, wood and earth. The fire spirit accounts for 69% of all spiritual roots. He is now a genuine first-class top-grade alchemist with good alchemy talent.

Sun Mingzeng pointed out with great pain, fearing that the second young generation in the Sun family with good alchemy potential and double qualified spiritual root qualifications would go down the old path of Sun Caiyun again.

Of course, in a sense, Sun Tuanhong is unlikely to be the same as Sun Caiyun. After all, the current family is completely different from the original.

After years of development, at least in terms of the provision of various foundation-building spiritual objects, it has basically remained in a relatively abundant state.

For ordinary family members, as long as they provide enough family contributions or spiritual stones and spiritual objects, they have a certain choice.

For cultivators like Sun Tuanhong, who are the focus of family cultivation, they are qualified to exchange for foundation-building pills. With his current alchemy skills, this is not a big problem at all.

"I know clearly which is more important, alchemy or cultivation. Please rest assured, I will put cultivation first on the path of cultivation"

"Tuanhong will definitely take the two ancestors as his goal in the future, stand at the height of the Golden Core Stage, and overlook the beauty of the cultivation world"

Sun Tuanhong is a young man who is not afraid of tigers. He is not ashamed of his future, but his unique arrogance is accumulated by the continuous development of his family for nearly a hundred years.

"If you want to stand at the top of the cultivation world, the Golden Core Stage is just a beginning. Only Yuanying and Huashen have such qualifications. You need to continue to expand your horizons and not limit it to Shenquan Mountain and Pingyang County"

Sun Mingzeng admires this kind of ambition.