However, the step of adding the spirit medicine was not the issue; the key still lay in the fire control aspect.

After adding the Flame Wood Twin Fruit, I should have adjusted the Fire Control Technique regarding the extraction of Cyan Leaf Ginseng’s Spiritual Liquid."

After pondering this, Chu Ning repeatedly scrutinized and refined the process.

Only then did he begin another attempt.

An incense stick later.

"Boom!"

With a sound even louder than before, Chu Ning’s attempt was once again declared a failure.

This time, because more spirit medicine had been added, the loss was even greater.

"Seems like the Gold and Silver Dew was added a bit too much..."

Attempt after attempt.

With each failure, Chu Ning would improve something, either the order of spirit medicine or a change in the Fire Control Technique.

And with every improvement, Chu Ning’s alchemy time extended, and he drew nearer to pill formation.

In this process of refining and contemplating, unknowingly, Chu Ning had used up all twelve portions of spirit medicine provided for the Profound Wood Ganoderma Pill formula.

Chu Ning opened the door of the alchemy room, originally intending to directly request more spirit medicine, but thought for a bit and called Wang Ping from the hall.

"Take this Communication Talisman and go to the exchange office to collect ten portions of Golden Ganoderma, Profound Wood Root, Purple Mist Fruit, Ghost Orchid Leaves..."

Chu Ning promptly recorded the spirit medicine needed for his improved Profound Wood Ganoderma Pill formula on a Communication Talisman and handed it to Wang Ping.

Originally curious about the alchemy room, Wang Ping quickly took the Communication Talisman from Chu Ning and hurriedly headed to the second-floor exchange office.

"Are you helping Master Chu exchange spirit medicine?"

Seeing Wang Ping taking Chu Ning’s Communication Talisman over, the kind-faced cultivator in the second-floor exchange office curiously asked:

"What elixir is Master Chu refining now? He just requested more than ten portions of these spirit medicines some days ago."

Upon hearing this question, the chaotic scene of Chu Ning’s alchemy room flashed through Wang Ping’s mind.

Nonetheless, he instinctively shook his head and said:

"I don’t know, Master Chu didn’t tell me."

Though naive, Wang Ping knew what could and could not be said.

The cultivator asked casually, and since Wang Ping said he didn’t know, he didn’t ask further.

Wang Ping quickly returned to Chu Ning’s alchemy room with those spirit medicines.

Chu Ning took the spirit medicines and was about to enter the alchemy room again, but then remembered something from before and instructed:

"I will be here refining elixirs for some time; you don’t need to guard the door, just attend to your other tasks."

"Yes, Master!"

Wang Ping answered respectfully and headed toward the hall.

"This naive lad." Chu Ning shook his head and returned to the alchemy room again.

After opening these spirit medicines, Chu Ning stared at them for a long while but didn’t rush to start.

While Wang Ping was fetching the medicines, Chu Ning had once again summarized the failures from the past dozen refining attempts.

At this moment, he took out several Jade Scrolls recording the alchemy technique and studied them again.

Only after another full day did Chu Ning resume action.

Opening the furnace, Chu Ning first executed several fire control techniques.

This was the same as when refining the Jiuhua Essence Condensing Pill, but halfway through, Chu Ning suddenly altered the technique, seemingly changing to a different Fire Control Technique.

Instantly, the spirit medicines hadn’t been placed in the furnace yet, but inside the alchemy furnace, it seemed there was already a surge of Wood and Fire Dual Attribute Spiritual Qi.

However, Chu Ning’s recent set of Fire Control Techniques seemed to have already divided and separated the spiritual Qi.

Only at this moment did Chu Ning, unhurriedly, place each spirit medicine and fruit into the pill furnace.

Subsequently, the Fire Control Technique continued to change.

As the last spirit medicine was added, Chu Ning’s gaze remained calm and steady, but the speed of his hands executing techniques accelerated.

The last spirit medicine was swiftly extracted and refined within a short duration.

The next moment, Chu Ning altered the technique again.

The extracted spiritual liquid began to slowly merge within the alchemy furnace.

Chu Ning was particularly careful at this step, as it was the one most prone to issues in past attempts.

Finally, under Chu Ning’s control, all the spiritual liquids uniformly merged.

Chu Ning used his Divine Sense to probe and gauge the uniformity of the fusion.

Then he configured his hands’ techniques and began the Separating Liquid, but instead of dividing into nine parts, it was twelve!

After adding multiple spirit medicines, Chu Ning realized the potency was too strong; if refining nine pills, the elixirs couldn’t withstand it.

Thus, he set the pill formation number for this batch to twelve.

Even with twelve portions of spirit medicine, Chu Ning, using the Divine Splitting Technique, didn’t feel much pressure while sensing.

The twelve Divine Sense-monitored spiritual liquids were all in order, and Chu Ning immediately changed the technique again.

The techniques landed one by one on the pill furnace as Chu Ning uttered a light shout.

"Condense!!"

Inside the alchemy furnace, twelve portions of spiritual liquid finally began pill formation.

Everything proceeded smoothly until Chu Ning sensed that twelve pills had formed.

On his face did not show any hint of joy.

Because he already felt that even so, it was still just shy of an Intermediate Upper Grade Elixir.

This might be related to separating into twelve, diminishing the potency slightly more than anticipated.

Chu Ning immediately changed techniques continuously, executing numerous techniques.

Gathering Spirit!

This pill originally did not have a significant Gathering Spirit demand, but at this moment, Chu Ning insisted on performing the Gathering Spirit technique.

But unlike prior spirit gathering, Chu Ning’s current implementation was more difficult.

Because this pill only required Wood and Fire Dual Attribute Spiritual Qi!

Guiding and infusing the two types of spiritual Qi into the alchemy furnace, originally slightly lacking, the elixir at this moment crossed a tier.

Suddenly, an exotic fragrance emanated from the alchemy furnace, permeating the entire alchemy room.

"It’s done!"

Chu Ning’s eyes lit up as he waved his hand, opening the furnace lid.

Simultaneously, twelve pills flew out of the alchemy furnace, landing into Chu Ning’s hand.

"Intermediate Upper Grade Elixir!"

Chu Ning felt the quality of the elixirs, his face displaying a hint of satisfaction.

This was the first time he created an elixir after developing his own pill formula!

"Flame Wood Spirit Pill!"

Chu Ning gazed at these pills, his eyes shimmering.

In his vision, Intermediate Upper Grade Elixir was not the ultimate potential of this pill.

"Advanced Elixir."

Chu Ning softly murmured, handling the alchemy furnace, then placed one spirit pill inside.

Advanced Elixirs, typically only the Pill Fire of Golden Core Cultivators could refine.

Now, with the Talent of Refining Spirit, he was set to try!