Chapter 27 – The Opportunity for Organ Tempering, the Organ Tempering Pill!

Selling Beauty-Preserving Pills would definitely bring Su Xing enormous profits.

But he didn’t yet know the exact profit margins. He would find out once he extracted the Separation Fire Alchemy Art from the simulator and successfully refined a batch of Beauty-Preserving Pills.

【Year Five: Having achieved financial freedom by refining a budget version of the Beauty-Preserving Pill, you prepared to continue deepening your research into the Separation Fire Alchemy Art.】

【Your perseverance was remarkable. You spent an entire year memorizing all three hundred and sixty formulas of the Separation Fire Alchemy Art, committing every step to memory. However, due to your lack of spirit herbs, you were unable to successfully refine any pills.】

【Year Six: One day, Wang Qingxuan sought you out. Over the years, Wang Qingxuan had maintained minimal contact with you out of fear of exposure.】

【Wang Qingxuan brought you the first half of the Eternal Spring Art. Puzzled, you asked her about the whereabouts of the second half.】

【Wang Qingxuan explained that her clearance level was insufficient. She would need to reach Elder rank before she could exchange for the second half of the Eternal Spring Art.】

Su Xing was overjoyed when he saw this. Although he hadn’t obtained the second half of the Eternal Spring Art, this at least confirmed that the Advent Cult truly possessed it!

As for needing to wait until Elder rank to exchange for it—based on previous simulations, Elders in the Advent Cult needed to reach Heavenly King-stage strength.

While it was currently impossible for Su Xing to obtain the second half of the Eternal Spring Art, he had plenty of time. He could run many simulations and would eventually gain access to it.

With this thought, a great weight lifted from Su Xing’s heart.

After all, only by possessing the second half of the Eternal Spring Art would he have any hope of becoming a Void Return cultivator. Only then could he go to the Azure Cloud Sect to find his nominal master, Qingyunzi.

【You gave Wang Qingxuan some Beauty-Preserving Pills. She was delighted with your gift. That night, you two tried a new position.】

【You chose not to join the Advent Cult, instead continuing to devote yourself to studying immortal arts.】

【Year Seven: After seven years of breeding, your spirit chickens had reproduced to the seventh generation. The seventh-generation spirit chickens were noticeably more intelligent, even comparable to some high-IQ dog breeds.】

【You ate spirit rice daily, along with several spirit chicken eggs. Although you hadn’t focused much on cultivation these years, you had still reached the ninth level of Bone Forging.】

【You began planning how to break through to the third major realm of body cultivation: Organ Tempering.】

【One day, you received news of your younger sister’s death. You attended her funeral.】

【You knew that Su Nian’an had died in a Demon-Sealing Pass dungeon, but with your current strength, you were unable to change any of this. So you threw yourself even more deeply into studying immortal arts and improving your power.】

【You suffered from the lack of a body cultivation technique, and so could only fumble your way forward along the body cultivation path.】

【One day, while studying the Separation Fire Alchemy Art, you suddenly recalled that among its formulas was a pill called the Organ Tempering Pill, which seemed capable of strengthening the human body’s five viscera and six bowels. You realized that the Organ Tempering realm might require exactly that—strengthening the body’s internal organs. So you began attempting to refine the Organ Tempering Pill.】

【However, according to the Separation Fire Alchemy Art’s descriptions, the Organ Tempering Pill was fundamentally different from the Beauty-Preserving Pill and the Fasting Pill. Among the three hundred and sixty pills, it ranked as low-grade—a vast difference in refinement difficulty compared to the two previous unranked pills.】

【Year Eight: You spent an entire year painstakingly studying the Organ Tempering Pill, mentally simulating the process countless times. But you were still missing a key ingredient: a spirit herb called Yellow Immortal Essence.】

【Yellow Immortal Essence was the primary ingredient of the Organ Tempering Pill. When consumed, it replenished qi and nourished yin, while also strengthening the spleen, moistening the lungs, and benefiting the kidneys—greatly beneficial to the body’s internal organs. However, the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique noted that Yellow Immortal Essence was difficult to cultivate. It thrived in shaded, watery environments and required at least three years of cultivation before it could be used in medicine.】

【So for the next three years, you studied the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique while cultivating Yellow Immortal Essence.】

【Year Eleven: After three years of careful cultivation, you successfully grew several stalks of Yellow Immortal Essence. You began attempting to refine the Organ Tempering Pill.】

【You had mentally simulated the refinement of the Organ Tempering Pill hundreds of times, but when you actually tried it, you discovered it was far more difficult than you had imagined.】

【The first problem was your insufficient mastery of the Separation Fire technique. Refining a single batch of Organ Tempering Pills required hours of sustained heating, and the spiritual energy within your body was nowhere near enough to sustain you for that long.】

【So you held spirit stones in one hand to replenish your spiritual energy while using Separation Fire to refine the Organ Tempering Pill with the other.】

【You barely managed to sustain yourself for several hours, utterly exhausted by the end. Then you opened the furnace to retrieve the pills, only to discover that your Organ Tempering Pills hadn’t formed at all. Your control of the heat had been too poor—the Organ Tempering Pill had been reduced to a lump of black paste.】

Su Xing was speechless at this, muttering:

“The refinement difficulty of the Organ Tempering Pill is completely incomparable to pills like the Beauty-Preserving Pill and Fasting Pill… With my alchemy level in the simulator, attempting the Organ Tempering Pill is still too ambitious. Maybe I should start by learning to refine some other pills first?”

An idea struck Su Xing, and he continued the simulation.

【You temporarily abandoned the Organ Tempering Pill and began studying other unranked pills instead. Through your research, you discovered that you were currently capable of refining an unranked pill called Qi-Gathering Powder.】

【Qi-Gathering Powder came in powdered form. Its refinement required spirit stones, spirit spring water, spirit rice, and several supplementary herbs.】

【Qi-Gathering Powder could temporarily increase a cultivator’s spiritual energy reserves by a small amount.】

【You devoted yourself to developing Qi-Gathering Powder. Thanks to your prior alchemy experience, you progressed quickly in learning it.】

【Year Twelve: You successfully refined Qi-Gathering Powder. After taking a dose, you felt your internal spiritual energy increase by roughly ten percent, lasting approximately fifteen minutes.】

【Year Thirteen: After a year of refinement and improvement, you could now produce high-quality Qi-Gathering Powder. After consumption, spiritual energy increased by twenty percent and lasted approximately thirty minutes.】

Su Xing nodded with satisfaction. The raw materials for Qi-Gathering Powder were abundant—he still had nearly a thousand spirit stones on hand! Moreover, the effects of Qi-Gathering Powder were genuinely impressive. The boost in spiritual energy would not only enhance his combat ability but also make pill refinement much more manageable.

Su Xing continued the simulation.

【One day, an imposing middle-aged man found you. He told you he was Jin Congxue’s father. He brought news of Jin Congxue’s death.】

【Sorrow welled up within you. The man then stated his purpose for visiting. Among Jin Congxue’s belongings, he had discovered Fasting Pills. He explained that this type of pill held great significance for Great Xia’s military, and asked whether you could supply Fasting Pills.】

【After a moment’s hesitation, you admitted that you had personally refined the Fasting Pills. You then produced one thousand Fasting Pills—your entire accumulated stock from all these years.】

【Jin Congxue’s father accepted the Fasting Pills with great excitement. He paid you two hundred million yuan in compensation and requested that you refine a batch of Fasting Pills—one hundred thousand in total.】

【Your curiosity piqued, you asked him why he needed such a large quantity of Fasting Pills.】

【After a brief hesitation, he told you the reason. The situation for humanity at Demon-Sealing Pass had grown increasingly dire. Class Users were in particularly short supply, and these Fasting Pills could keep a Master rank Class User free from hunger for three days. This made them enormously useful on the battlefield.】

【You agreed to help Great Xia’s military refine Fasting Pills, but you also set a condition: you wanted to meet with Great Xia’s military leadership.】

【Arranged by Jin Congxue’s father, you successfully met with a certain commander of Great Xia’s military…】

(PS: Sorry, the previous two chapters were uploaded in the wrong order and have been corrected.)