NOVEL WEB Chapter 148 Top Quality Foundation Establishment Pill_3
With these items in hand, even if Zhao Chengjing couldn't rise to the rank of a second-tier alchemist in a short span of time, the pills she crafted would inevitably aid the Zhao Family,
At the very least, her own survivability would definitely greatly increase.
Although Zhao Chengjing had completely exhausted the goodwill between them, Chen Yi could not bear to ignore her,
However, the extent of help he could provide was just that. As for the Zhao Family's Liu Huo, Zhao Chengjing and the others, they are still not important enough for Chen Yi to personally step up and fight for them.
Chen Yi's lecture made Zhao Chengyu feel a bit embarrassed, yet he understood that Chen Yi was only speaking out because of their close relationship.
But while it was fine for Chen Yi to speak those words,
he himself could not afford to do the same.
Favors, to be lasting, must be reciprocal; he had been living on this island for five or six years and constantly owed Chen Yi for treatments, so asking for more at this time might exhaust their friendship.
In addition, it was the Zhao family facing difficulties this time, and the responsibility should naturally fall on the Zhao Family Head. Being a non-family head himself, it was inappropriate to use his personal relationship for this matter.
Thirdly, always considering himself royalty, Zhao Chengyu had been arrogantly lording over others, and asking favors from old friends two consecutive times in recent years would inevitably hurt his pride.
Thus, this was the current situation.
Sweating profusely, Zhao Chengyu apologized and thanked Chen Yi, before taking Chen Yi's items to Zhao Chongwen.
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More than two years later, Chen Yi just turned 58 years old.
He held the two second-tier Demon Cores he had yet again gathered from the martial world, contemplating deeply.
After successfully refining a substandard Foundation Establishment Pill for the first time two years ago, Chen Yi had not used his pill furnace since.
On one hand, finding high-quality cores from Demon Beasts in the Martial World was difficult, as not all second-tier Demon Beasts leave behind Demon Cores upon their deaths.
Some strong-willed Demon Beasts would self-destruct their cores when near death, and some with impure bloodlines would have unstable cores that could easily shatter in battle.
Only a minority of Demon Beasts would leave Demon Cores behind, let alone the Water-Attribute cores with pure spiritual power that Chen Yi sought, they were even scarcer.
Moreover, aside from Demon Cores, Chen Yi had also used up most of the other materials for refining his Foundation Establishment Pill. With only a few auxiliary materials left, Chen Yi needed to find a way to procure the rest.
However, he needed to be very discreet about this. Over the years, he had collected most of the materials he needed for the Foundation Establishment Pill. Those who paid attention would know that he was only missing the main ingredient for the pill.
Chen Yi therefore needed to hide his identity when procuring other materials, visiting various auction fairs and merchant associations.
However, as someone in the Qi cultivation stage, he did not hold enough prestige to acquire the core goods from these businesses.
Therefore, it took him two years to gather a full set of auxiliary materials for the Foundation Establishment Pills.
Finally, two years later,
Chen Yi could barely gather a full set of materials for the Foundation Settlement Pill.
And this time, he had two sets of main materials but only one set of auxiliary materials.
As fate would have it, Chen Yi's collection of Foundation Establishment Pill materials had now reversed. A twist of fate indeed.
The two demon cores in Chen Yi's possession, one was a High Tier, attribute-less, second-tier Demon Core, which he planned to use for another refining practice.
On the other hand, there was the core of the Cold Jade Snake, a Water-Attribute demon core with a biased towards the cold, its contained Mana was fairly pure and closely matched Chen Yi's own Mana.
Regrettably, it wasn't a High Tier Cold Jade Turtle Snake's core, which was still somewhat lacking.
Chen Yi was getting older, approaching the age of sixty. Despite having the physical capacity to form his foundation later, the older he got, the attention his successful foundation forming was bound to draw.
In the recorded history of the Ten Thousand Islands Alliance, the oldest age for foundation establishment was only sixty years old,
If he exceeded this age, it would be too noticeable, easily attracting the attention of the powerful. Once they discovered more of Chen Yi's secrets, the losses would outweigh the gains.
"Well, wait a few more years. If I can't find a suitable core, I'll use this Cold Jade Snake's Core..."
Waiting a few more years was because he still needed to gather other materials for the Foundation Establishment Pill, and he also asked his friends to look out for Water-Attribute second-tier Turtle Snakes with High Tier bloodline.
After sorting out these matters, Chen Yi cast himself in the form of an old man and rented a Pill Refining Room in the core area.
This was probably Chen Yi's last time making a Foundation Establishment Pill for practice.
With the previous successful experience, there was basically no problem with the method Chen Yi used to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill.
However, this time he was going to try using a pill refining method he had learned from an ancient book over the past two years while refining the pill.
It was a secret method where by sacrificing the quality of other pills to forcibly enhance the quality of the main pill,
This method was the secret transmission of some high-tier alchemists.
This came from Liu Peng after he got drunk and impulsively shared this secret in order to pry the remaining Beautifying Pill Formula Heritage from Chen Yi.
But Liu Peng immediately regretted it when sober. This matter related to his father's reputation. If it spread, it would bring great trouble to his father.
Liu Peng stealthily glanced at Chen Yi, only to find that he was also drunk and incoherent.