The daily life of a genius who enjoys gossip and cultivates immortality

Chapter 33 Guiyuan Sect Danfeng 2

"Junior Sister is out, Brother, stop hitting her, Junior Sister is out too."

Gong Yu immediately spotted Cheng Jiu standing by the window, smiling and watching them. He grasped at this like a lifeline, hoping his brother would pay attention to his junior sister and spare his poor younger brother.

Gongcheng straightened his clothes: "Junior Sister, we didn't disturb you just now, did we?"

"No." Cheng Jiu shook his head.

"Junior Sister, do you know what? Your brother just exploded in the oven! His hair stood on end!" Gong Yu said excitedly, trying to share her brother's embarrassing moment with Cheng Jiu.

Gongcheng reached out and grabbed his neck. This move was very effective. Gong Yu was like a chicken with its neck being choked, not daring to move at all.

"It's alright, Senior Brother Gongcheng. It's normal to fail the first time you try alchemy. Just try a few more times." Cheng Jiu said, feeling embarrassed, that he had watched the whole process.

"Junior Sister, did you succeed?" Gong Yu asked curiously.

Cheng Jiu rolled her eyes at the other person. She had just said those words, which inevitably had a hint of showing off.

Fortunately, the three of them had a good relationship and understood each other's personalities: "The result of the first alchemy attempt."

"Three high-grade, two mid-grade, and two low-grade pills. Junior Sister, you are indeed a genius in alchemy, aren't you!" Gong Yu praised without reservation.

"That's right, Junior Sister. To succeed on your first attempt at alchemy, you must be a top genius in the field." Gong Cheng was also delighted that his little friend was so amazing.

“If you practice a few more times, Senior Brother Gongcheng will definitely succeed,” Cheng Jiu replied.

The three of them looked at each other and laughed.

While the afterglow was still lingering, the two decided to try a few more times, only to discover that they had only been given one dose of medicine.

If they want to continue refining, they need to purchase it from Gongshitang.

As for their own low-grade medicinal herbs, the three of them were not alchemists before, and they did not have such low-grade medicinal herbs on hand.

The three went to Gongshi Hall, which was very large and divided into a medicine hall and a mission hall. The medicine hall was where you could buy medicinal herbs with points.

For example, the medicinal materials for the first-tier pills that the two wanted to buy could be purchased for ten catties with just one point, which shows that Danfeng's purchasing power with points is quite impressive.

Gongcheng and Cheng Jiu spent one point, and each of the medicinal herbs weighed two jin.

If you want to exchange for points, you need to go to the Mission Hall, where the standards for exchanging points for each grade of pills are listed.

One bottle of low-grade first-tier pills equals one point, a mid-grade pill equals three, a high-grade pill equals ten, and a top-grade pill equals fifty. For each grade of pill, a zero is added after the point value, increasing with the grade.

Each bottle of pills contains nine pills, since nine is the extreme number.

Compared to the medicinal herbs that can be redeemed at the pharmacy with one point.

The exchange rate for pills to points seems very good, but unfortunately we also have to consider the failure rate of alchemists. Not everyone can succeed on the first try like Cheng Jiu, and even refine seven pills.

This exchange rate is enough to bring tears to the eyes of all the junior disciples at Medicine Peak.

They generally don't buy medicinal herbs from the pharmacy; instead, they exchange the monthly points given to them by the Pharmacy Peak with some of their senior brothers and sisters.

Ask them to buy medicinal herbs for them down the mountain, which would increase the amount of herbs by at least half.

There are senior brothers and sisters on Medicine Peak who specialize in this business. For them, it is practically all benefits and no harm. The points on Medicine Peak are of very high value.

Guiyuan Sect is one of the five major sects. Needless to say, it has countless secret realms under its control, including many resource-rich ones that produce a lot of rare spiritual herbs every month. These herbs are the kind that people outside would fight tooth and nail for.

As the place where Guiyuan Sect refines pills, all the spiritual herbs, except for some very high-grade ones that are specially reserved by Venerable Lords or Immortal Lords in the back mountain, are sent to Medicine Peak.

The medicinal herbs are stored in the medicine hall and can be exchanged using points. Junior disciples don't have many points, only 500 per month, but when all the junior disciples accumulate them, it adds up to quite a lot.

Then you can exchange these points for high-level medicinal herbs in the pharmacy.

Whether for personal use or to be sold at a high price, it's a business that won't lose money.

Yao Feng tacitly approved of this behavior. The amount of medicinal materials needed by Yao Feng's junior disciples was simply too large, especially in the early stages of alchemy. Almost no one could avoid failure, and it was quite normal for it to take one or two years to refine a single batch.

As for these low-grade spiritual herbs, Yaofeng itself does not produce them. They are usually purchased from herb farmers under the sect, as it is simply not cost-effective to hire people to cultivate them.

In this situation, paying only one or a few high-level medicinal herbs to get help solve the problem is a very worthwhile deal for Yaofeng.

Moreover, the other party is one's own disciple, but one must not go too far. These disciples must understand their own position.

If they use this incident to deceive and exploit those junior disciples, Yao Feng will absolutely have zero tolerance for such suppression.

Back in their courtyard, the two of them enthusiastically began to refine medicine. Unfortunately, Gong Cheng had not succeeded for some reason. Cheng Jiu was so annoyed by him that she lost all interest in refining medicine, so she went to his kitchen and taught him how to refine medicine.

The result was that the method and the procedure were correct, but for some reason, it exploded during the fusion process.

The two studied it for a long time, but unfortunately, they were both novices and couldn't find the problem. So they decided to go to the Elementary Knowledge Hall tomorrow to ask the senior brothers and sisters for help.

The next day, the two flew towards Chu Chu Shi Tang without waking Gong Yu.

The two descended from the sky, stunning the junior disciples who were still using cranes to travel.

Normally, the two of them only interact with geniuses of the same level, so they didn't feel anything. But when Pu came into contact with the junior disciples of the Medicine Peak, he felt somewhat lost.

Although the children are roughly the same age, some are in the Foundation Establishment stage, but most are in the Qi Refining stage.

When I was at other peaks, I mostly met some senior students, and the children of the same age were basically in the enlightenment halls of various schools.

There was a sense of unease, like suddenly entering a flock of sheep. The two carefully withdrew their golden core aura, because some of the Qi Refining stage children inside already looked rather unwell.

"Wow, who are they? They've broken through to the Golden Core stage at such a young age?"

"To break through to the Golden Core stage at such a young age, who else but someone with golden aptitude could do that?"

"Those two must be Venerable Lord's disciples, and that girl must be Venerable Lord Qingxu's disciple!"

"Oh, I see. She's the junior sister who almost exploded from using a top-grade spirit stone to guide her Qi into her body."

"Yes, that's the junior sister who almost failed to reach the Foundation Establishment stage because she compressed her spiritual energy during her Foundation Establishment process."

"They were injured by that witch, weren't they?"

"As expected of a genius, he was able to reach the Golden Core stage so quickly after experiencing so many things."

The disciples chattered on and on, and Cheng Jiu's face grew increasingly stiff. His smile gradually faded as the foolish things he had done the previous year flooded his mind.

Damn it, why does she have to be so sharp-eyed and perceptive at the Golden Core stage?

Furthermore, these disciples of Medicine Peak are far too gossipy and presumptuous. Couldn't they at least try to keep a distance from people?

Miyagi, standing to the side, smiled with a smile, but unlike his simple-minded brother, he was trained not to laugh out loud.

Cheng Jiu glared at Gong Cheng. That's enough! Senior Brother Gong Cheng's smile is too obvious. He should tone it down a bit.

She suddenly realized the pain of having someone gossip about her in front of her, so she decided to gossip about her in the future in a more discreet way.

She casually found a seat, then turned around and asked, "Excuse me, what are you talking about? Could you help me out?"

The group of kids immediately became extremely guilty and hurriedly shook their heads: "No, junior sister. We didn't talk about anything."

Seeing that the discussion had subsided, Cheng Jiu nodded with satisfaction: "I see. Senior brothers and sisters, my name is Cheng Jiu. If you chat again in the future, could you guide me? After all, I am also very curious about the senior brothers and sisters of Medicine Peak."

The group of kids kept wiping their sweat, their mouths full of agreement, "Okay, okay, don't worry, junior sister!"

Gongcheng, standing to the side, looked at her with admiration and gave her a coded signal: "Not bad, junior sister."

He sat next to Cheng Jiu.

There are rows of alchemy furnaces arranged here, with earth fire already lit underneath. If you don't want to use the standard furnaces provided, you can use the ones you bring yourself.

Today's lecturer is Senior Brother An Qi. He is wearing a light blue robe with willow leaf patterns and his hair is neatly tied up. As soon as he enters the classroom, it becomes completely silent.

Today, he personally came to teach a class because it was Cheng Jiu and Gong Cheng's first time learning alchemy.

Today we're refining a first-grade Rejuvenation Pill. Everyone has already taken the medicinal herbs out of the drawer below.

It was only then that Cheng Jiu and Gong Cheng realized that the drawer below was actually a storage space.

The two opened the package to check and found that they were all the most basic first-grade medicinal materials. They had just refined them yesterday, so they took them out with ease.

Senior Brother Anqi slowly explained the doubts and difficulties in the alchemy process from above. He explained things in a simple and easy-to-understand way, and everyone listened very attentively.

After he finished explaining, he announced that they could begin refining. This was Cheng Jiu's second time refining. Yesterday, he had been so busy teaching Gong Cheng how to refine that he hadn't really started himself.

Having learned from her first experience, she was quite adept this time, her movements light and graceful. After skillfully calming the patient, she began to mix the medicinal liquid, starting with Lan Xinrui and Jingxin Flower, adding iron wire liquid, blue ore as a harmonizing agent, and finally dragon soil root.

She felt better than ever before, light and airy, as if she couldn't perceive any of the noise around her. All she could see was that ball of shimmering green liquid.

The surrounding spiritual energy slowly flowed into her alchemy furnace. Senior Brother An Qi, who was patrolling nearby, also saw this and hurried over. The surrounding spiritual energy had been completely drained by the furnace. He placed a large handful of top-grade spirit stones on the ground.

A strange light slowly emanated from the alchemy furnace, and golden rays of light shone from the sky, making Cheng Jiu appear both sacred and beautiful.

The medicinal liquid in the alchemy furnace slowly took shape and finally settled, with golden light slowly appearing on the surface of the pill, one after another, forming a lotus-shaped rune.

The runes formed a pill that lay obediently at the bottom of the alchemy furnace, and Cheng finally snapped out of his reverie in the fantastical space.

The top-grade spirit stone beside her had long since shattered into dust. She opened the alchemy furnace, and a strange fragrance wafted out. Inside, seven top-grade pills lay round and plump.

This is also due to her limited strength; initial top-grade pills do not have a grade.

Because they were blessed by the Heavenly Dao from the very beginning of their refining process, the pill patterns on these seven Rejuvenation Pills cannot be said to have been formed for them by Cheng Jiu.

Instead, the Heavenly Dao specially inscribed Cheng Jiu's exclusive runes for top-grade pills on these seven Rejuvenation Pills.

Since the power of Heaven's Dao still exists, the grade of the elixir is not so important.

"Junior sister, this is your first pill. You must treasure it and protect it well. If anyone offers you a high price to buy it, you must not sell it. It is extremely precious."

Senior Brother Anqi explained to her the preciousness of the initial pill of a top-grade elixir.

Seeing that Cheng Jiu understood, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Senior Brother An, can you also refine top-grade pills?" Cheng Jiu was a little curious because of how familiar they seemed.

"I was fortunate enough to successfully refine it before, unlike you, Junior Sister, who can refine top-grade pills in one go," Senior Brother An Qi said modestly.

“But this is my second time,” Cheng Jiu explained, adding that he wasn’t exactly a genius.

"That's incredibly talented. Throughout history, there have been very few geniuses who can refine top-grade pills. Not to mention someone like you, Junior Sister, who succeeded on your second try!" Senior Brother An Qi praised generously.

Cheng Jiu blushed slightly: "Senior brother, you flatter me!" Yes, she didn't think she deserved the praise.

In fact, she was quite proud of herself for being able to refine a top-grade pill on her second try.

Although Cheng Jiu successfully refined it, the other disciples did not have such a smooth experience.

Cheng Jiu just stood there, and without mentioning the disciples affected by him, the sound of failure was already quite loud.

As expected, Gongcheng failed again. Unlike Cheng Jiu, who was a novice, Senior Brother Anqi carefully observed his refining process and understood the reason.

"Junior brother, are you the Extreme Flame Spirit Body?"

“Yes.” Miyagi nodded.

"No wonder. Although fire spirit roots have a significant advantage in alchemy, it still comes down to dealing with spiritual herbs."

Wood-based spiritual herbs are inherently quite mild, while your spiritual energy, junior brother, carries a violent attribute.

It is easy for it to conflict with the elixir, and the final fusion is likely to fail, or even cause an explosion.

You could try going to Qi Peak; your physique is quite popular with them.

Senior Brother Anqi subtly advised Gongcheng, implying that he was not well-suited to study alchemy.

Miyagi was a little disappointed, but she accepted it.

Back in the courtyard, the three discussed the matter, mainly because the Gong brothers didn't want Cheng Jiu to be left alone on Danfeng.

However, Cheng Jiu didn't want to jeopardize his two friends' futures, so the three of them had a discussion.

In the end, Cheng Jiu was the more skilled one, and she stayed at Danfeng to continue learning alchemy.

The Gong brothers went to the other four art peaks to learn the side professions they were more talented in.

So the three friends temporarily separated.