276: Chapter 229 276: Chapter 229 Alchemists knew that alchemists from other families had their own legacies; they would not pass down their alchemy skills to other families, let alone to an individual, unless one became their disciple or a family member.
Jiang Tang was so generous in sharing his knowledge; this was a learning opportunity for them, and perhaps he was a teacher invited by the family.
They certainly wanted to seize this great opportunity to improve their own alchemy skills.
What Jiang Tang initially thought of was to show off his Alchemy Furnace that was used to refine supreme elixirs.
But upon reflection, he realized that showcasing the Alchemy Treasure Furnace while constantly exchanging supreme elixirs would interfere with his avatar’s pill refining in the space and would delay his important business of selling pills.
Aside from the Alchemy Treasure Furnace, Jiang Tang’s space also contained another Alchemy Furnace that he obtained during the Qi Refinement Realm.
Those Pill Furnaces were items he had studied and accompanied him for several years, but they were all destroyed after he fell into the Hell Palace and was severely injured, ruining the items in the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space.
It was only after Jiang Tang returned to the Cultivation World, in his own shop in Immortal Venerable City, that he saw two Alchemy Furnaces that were still usable.
Although they were not as good as his treasured furnace, he could still use Xuanming Spiritual Fire to refine pills within them.
He felt he couldn’t rely on the treasured furnace alone; if regular Alchemy Furnaces could also produce supreme elixirs, then this was an excellent opportunity to elevate his alchemy skills.
A more important point was that while the best pills in the Cultivation World were supreme elixirs, if one ascended, they must refine Immortal Pills.
If one’s alchemy skills don’t improve, they’ll forever believe that supreme elixirs are the peak achievement of the Cultivation World’s alchemists, and without the desire to progress, it is hard to achieve greatness.
Indeed, Jiang Tang wanted to teach disciples.
If someone was talented enough to refine supreme elixirs, he intended to do other things.
How could one who serves as the Sect Leader of the Saint Sect spend days on end like an alchemist, ceaselessly refining and selling pills?
These tasks could be left to his avatars, yet the outside world believed he was the one refining.
Perhaps this misconception could lower his own standards.
Jiang Tang took out an Alchemy Furnace from his Storage Bag and then thought that using a single furnace to refine ordinary pills was too time-consuming.
So, he took out another Alchemy Furnace from his Storage Bag.
The crowd saw him place two Alchemy Furnaces in front of him and watched Jiang Tang with rapt attention.
Admiration filled the eyes of the alchemists; this man had managed to produce pills with nine Alchemy Furnaces, proving his substantial spiritual power and his ability to control many things.
“Give me some of your Spirit Grass for pill refining,” he said.
Jiang Tang believed that refining pills for others should naturally use their own Spirit Grass.
It wasn’t that he was stingy, but many of the products in his space were fresh and difficult to explain publicly.
He had spent many days visiting these families with the women and had not gone out to buy Spirit Grass alone.
Even if other families bartered some Spirit Grass with him, he couldn’t use another’s items here.
Matters in the Cultivation World were rather complicated.
Without any incidents, there would be no problems, but should issues arise, many other matters would be implicated.
Jiang Tang just wanted to handle things smoothly.
He wouldn’t be so foolish as to think that everyone in the Cultivation World wished him well.
There were also those who observed in secret, waiting to hinder his endeavors.
One of the Lin Family Alchemists handed Jiang Tang the Storage Bag in which he kept his pill-refining Spirit Grass.
Jiang Tang used his Divine Sense to inspect the medicinal herbs within the Storage Bag.
He couldn’t afford to refine anything too ordinary or rudimentary in front of them.
He then selected the necessary materials to prepare two furnaces of Nascent Soul Pills.
These pills were selling at high prices in the market, and not every person in the Cultivation World could become a Nascent Soul, only seen in large families or major sects.
Jiang Tang also learned that some ordinary families had members whose highest level of cultivation was Golden Core, with those at the Foundation Establishment Stage being considered elite.
He had previously met Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin, two individuals who were not only elite members of their families but also elite disciples of major sects.
Before, when Jiang Tang was merely at the Qi Cultivation Stage, he felt they were out of reach.
But since his heaven-defying Ascension, he had become the strongest among his peers.
Having decided to refine Nascent Soul Pills, Jiang Tang summoned his Xuanming Spiritual Fire, and the presence of the fire spirit within his Alchemy Room made everyone’s eyes light up.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh,”
The Xuanming Fire Spirit called out proudly, appearing fierce and imposing.
The nine alchemists in the room looked at the Xuanming Spiritual Fire as if it were a treasure.
With such a flame, they had no fear of failing to refine high-quality pills.
In addition to the nine alchemists, the nine women who saw the Xuanming Spiritual Fire again couldn’t help but gaze at it enviously.
Jiang Tang had too many treasures on him—who wouldn’t be jealous or envious?
Among the women, only Hua Xian’er had the skill to refine pills and desired such a flame.
Those without alchemy skills also wished to possess such treasures.
In battle, they could summon the Xuanming Spiritual Fire to utterly defeat their adversaries.
Jiang Tang could sense the expressions of others but remained indifferent.
In the past, revealing the Xuanming Spiritual Fire when his cultivation was low could have brought disaster upon him.
Now, with his strong cultivation base, it was possible that some were stronger than him, but he possessed the most formidable cultivation technique, the Star-Absorbing Spell, that could protect him in the direst of dangers, regardless of whether it exposed him to others or not.
Jiang Tang didn’t need to physically engage in alchemy to refine pills; his entire process was governed solely by his spiritual power.
However, to teach the nine alchemists, he demonstrated the manual technique and the correct sequence to refine pills.