Chapter 3649 — Seeing Things and Thinking of the Person
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
After seeing Senior Brother Kubi out of the cave dwelling, Wei Zhao entered the jade pendant space, placed all three portions of the medicinal ingredients into the Divine Farmer Cauldron, and prepared to begin the pill refinement.
With this automated Divine Farmer Cauldron that Han Jingyi had modified, refining pills was a simple matter for Wei Zhao. One need only put the ingredients in; the only thing left to do was to keep channeling Heaven-Rank Perfection true qi according to the instructions on the cauldron.
From beginning to end it was an idiot-proof operation, with no technical difficulty whatsoever.
The only trial in all of this was that the supply of Heaven-Rank Perfection true qi could not be interrupted. In the old days, when Wei Zhao had still been at Heaven-Rank Perfection, this would have been no small challenge; the refining process would last at least a few hours, and if he had to keep going all out the whole time, he might well exhaust himself at some point—and then the joke would be on him.
But for the present Wei Zhao, there was no such worry at all. He was now a fine hand of the early Foundation Establishment stage, and supplying this little bit of Heaven-Rank Perfection true qi was naturally a matter of ease.
In terms of efficacy, the Barrier-Breaking Foundation Pill was a notch weaker than the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill that Wei Zhao had once set his heart on refining, but for Wei Zhao, who sat in possession of the automated Divine Farmer Cauldron, the refining processes for the two were in fact not much different. This time was essentially a rehearsal in advance for refining the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill.
Settling his mood and pressing down all distracting thoughts, Wei Zhao sat cross-legged in quiet meditation for a moment. Once he had tuned his body to its optimal state, he formally began to refine the pill.
He entered the pill fire's attributes, the refining time, and the method given in the pill formula into a tablet computer beside the Divine Farmer Cauldron, and the screen displayed: "Please wait. Jingjing is calculating the pill refinement time and temperature curve for Brother Wei Zhao, and will generate an automatic pill refinement script..."
Looking at that line of text, Wei Zhao was overcome with emotion. Han Jingyi. She too had come to Cloud-Tier Island. He wondered where she was now, on which island, and whether she was doing well.
Still, given how clever Han Jingyi was, even if worse came to worst and she joined the Pill Hall, she would surely be a figure of some standing wherever she went.
"Beep beep..." The tablet computer gave two clear, drawn-out tones. Wei Zhao looked up and saw on the screen: "Pill refinement script generated. Automatic analysis based on the weight inside the cauldron: three portions of ingredients have been placed for this refinement. Estimated refinement duration: four hours and fifty-five minutes. Please accumulate physical stamina and true qi in advance! Estimated pill output: five pills!"
Only close to five hours? Wei Zhao could not help but breathe a sigh of relief—but when he saw the number, he could not help but grin. Five pills could actually be refined!
That, however, was Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi. With anyone else, they could only refine one pill at a time—success was success, and failure was failure!
With Wei Zhao's mass production, even the leftover scraps and waste could be recombined into a new pill, so naturally his success rate was extraordinarily high!
Sitting cross-legged, Wei Zhao circulated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art and swiftly poured the physical stamina and true qi within his body into the automated Divine Farmer Cauldron. The cauldron gave off a clear, soft hum, and on the tablet computer beside it appeared the words "Refinement beginning, preheating..." with a countdown timer beside them.