After dealing with the three unlucky people, Mo Tiange found a place to rest.
Sure enough, it was the Immortals Assembly. The streets were full of people, and several inns were all full. Mo Tiange had no choice but to spend a bit more money to rent a hut from Tiandao Sect.
Soon after, she went to a shop belonging to Tiandao Sect, a medicinal hall called Hundred Herbs Hall.
The Immortals Assembly was approaching, so the medicinal hall was crowded with people buying all kinds of medicinal pills. There was only one corner that was empty. An old man in the second layer of the Aura Refining realm wearing the uniform of a part-time disciple of Zixia Sect was dozing off.
Mo Tiange looked at the counter. It was the corner responsible for buying and selling spiritual plants, so she walked over and knocked on the counter.
The old man guarding the counter opened his eyes, looked at her, and said lazily, "Buy or sell?"
Her attitude was really cold. She recalled that when she hadn't entered Yunwu Sect and her cultivation level was still very ordinary, the shop assistants in Yunwu Sect's shops also treated her politely. As the number one cultivation group in Kunwu, Tiandao Sect's part-time disciples were actually this arrogant.
However, she was too lazy to care about this and just said, "I want to buy some spiritual plants for pill-concocting."
"Oh?"
The old man glanced at her. He probably thought she was a concocting master, so he asked, "Type and quantity?"
Mo Tiange said, "What's the price of the materials needed for primary medicinal pills?"
"Oh …" This sound was different from the previous one. The old man's eyes lit up. He stared at her and said, "Fellow Daoist, are you a beginner in pill-concocting?"
Mo Tiange nodded. There were many people who couldn't concoct medicinal pills, but there were also many people who wanted to learn pill-concocting, so there was nothing to hide.
The old man said, "I also have a few common pill recipes. Do you want them?"
Mo Tiange originally planned to buy some pill recipes after buying them. Since he took the initiative to ask, she said, "If Fellow Daoist has them, I'm willing to buy them."
Upon hearing this, the old man changed his cold attitude and said with a smile, "Of course I do. I have Aura-Nourishing Pills, Restorative Panaceas, Spirit-Purifying Pills, Refreshing Pills, and so on. If Fellow Daoist wants them, I can sell them to you at a lower price. How about three spirit stones each?"
These pills were the most common pills in the Taoism world. Pill recipes could be found everywhere and were not rare. Therefore, their prices were very low. However, this low price was only relative to other pill recipes that could easily cost hundreds of spirit stones.
Three spirit stones wasn't a small amount for ordinary cultivation group disciples. The group only distributed about five spirit stones a month. Even if they worked hard to earn money, they would probably only get a dozen or so spirit stones, let alone individual cultivators. Therefore, after the old man finished speaking, he stared at Mo Tiange's face.
Seeing that she didn't answer immediately, the old man said in a low voice, "Fellow Daoist, this isn't the shop's price. If you go elsewhere to buy it, it'll usually cost around five spirit stones. You won't be able to get it this cheap."
Mo Tiange was silent for a while because she was used to it. She wasn't rich and overbearing, so when she bought things, she would naturally save as much as possible. Because of that, she didn't answer immediately. Instead, she thought about it for a while. Now that she heard the old man's meaning, she finally understood.
This old man was selling it privately, and the spirit stones went into his own pocket. That was why he looked like this.
Being stared at by her, the old man didn't feel embarrassed at all. He just smiled.
Mo Tiange muttered to herself for a while then said, "Alright. Bring me the pill recipes. I'll choose a few and you can prepare the materials for me."
The old man smiled then took out a piece of animal skin paper and handed it to her.
Mo Tiange chose three or four pill recipes from it.
The old man glanced at them then asked, "Fellow Daoist, how many sets of materials do you need?"
Mo Tiange thought for a while then said, "One hundred sets of each.
In addition, I'll add the materials for Aura-Nourishing Pills, Marrow-Supplementing Pills, and Unity Divinity Pills. One hundred sets of each. "
One hundred sets of materials was already a lot. The old man was a bit surprised, but he didn't say anything. He turned around, took the animal skin paper from the counter, and wrapped the spiritual plants one by one from the medicine cabinet in the back. There were also several kinds that needed to be kept fresh, so he directly took them out along with the jade boxes.
"These are the materials for one hundred sets of medicinal pill recipes. Please take care of them."
The counter was full of materials, and there were several Jade Slips on top of the jade boxes. Mo Tiange checked them. After confirming that they were indeed pill recipes, she asked, "How many spirit stones do they cost?"
The old man's eyes shone brightly as he looked around. When he saw that no one was paying attention to them, he said, "As for these materials … since you're buying so many, I'll give them a bit cheaper. One hundred and fifty spirit stones. Three sets of pill recipes cost nine spirit stones, so the total is one hundred and fifty-nine spirit stones."
Mo Tiange nodded. She took out spirit stones from her Qiankun Bag, counted them several times, and handed them over. Being a bit cautious also showed that this was already a lot of money for her, so she didn't want other people to be greedy.
This place wasn't like Yunwu Sect. With Second Uncle here, she didn't need to worry about other people getting jealous when she spent several hundred spirit stones because it was normal for Foundation Building cultivators to spend several hundred spirit stones.
The old man took them with a smile. "Thank you for your patronage." He earned nine spirit stones for free, so this wasn't a small business.
After putting all the materials into her Qiankun Bag, Mo Tiange asked, "May I know if there are any pill furnaces for sale here?"
Upon hearing this question, the old man once again showed a sincere smile. "Fellow Daoist, you're really asking the right question. I'll sell you some pill furnaces. Although they're not high-quality ones, they're enough for beginners.
Of course, if you want to buy a high-grade pill furnace, please come to our Tiandao Sect's Hall of Ten Thousand Tools. It's just next door. "
Mo Tiange said, "I'm just a beginner, so I don't need a high-grade pill furnace. Let me see what kind of pill furnaces you have."
The old man nodded repeatedly. He took several pill furnaces from under the counter and placed them on the counter. "Please take a look."
The smallest of these pill furnaces was a square foot, while the largest was a full three feet tall.
Mo Tiange recalled Qin Xi's pill furnace she saw before. It seemed to be a foot tall, but it was full of spiritual aura. Presumably, its size shouldn't have anything to do with the finished product, so she randomly picked a small one. "How many spirit stones?"
"All of them have the same price — fifteen spirit stones."
Mo Tiange nodded. She counted out fifteen spirit stones and put the pill furnace into her Qiankun Bag.
The two of them were very satisfied with the transaction. Mo Tiange left Hundred Herbs Hall amidst the old man's "Welcome again."
She didn't know why, but when she heard the old man's voice, she felt it was very similar to the courteous tone of a brothel keeper in the secular world when she saw off a guest. She couldn't help but get goosebumps.
After returning to the small house she temporarily lived in, Mo Tiange laid a formation then took out the pill furnaces she bought, cleaned them, and placed them in front of her.
She then took out several books and started to read.
Second Uncle said that for generations, almost no one in Ye Clan learned pill-concocting. There were only a few concoctions masters, but that was a long time ago. Therefore, there weren't many materials on pill-concocting. The few that remained were also lost when Ye Clan moved out of Mount Qingmeng.
Fortunately, several years ago in Miwu Valley, she obtained several books. One of them was about pill-concocting. The other books were good, so this one shouldn't be bad, either. Thus, she took it out and compared it.
The most basic medicinal pills in the Aura Refining realm were Aura-Nourishing Pills, so she naturally had to start concocting them.
First, she picked up all kinds of materials and reviewed the precautions, the Real Fire for pill-concocting, and the use of various hand seals. Only after she confirmed that she understood everything did she put down the book.
She sat cross-legged on the praying mat and condensed her aura in her dantian. After a while, a wisp of spiritual aura naturally sprang out from her palm and instantly turned into a fiery red flame.
Mo Tiange smiled when she saw the flame in her palm.
This was Dantian Fire. Even if she didn't have fire spiritual roots, she could still release it. However, the quality of fire spiritual roots would increase the power of Dantian Fire.
Although her Spiritual Roots weren't good, it was in the sense of the number of Spiritual Roots she had. Second Uncle had tested her before, and just by looking at the pros and cons of each Spiritual Root, they were all pretty good. That was why she was able to force out the Dantian Fire so easily.
She guided the spiritual aura in her hand, and the Dantian Fire turned into a long line. It reached the bottom of the pill furnace and quickly covered it.
Soon, the pill furnace was heated up.
Her free hand flicked out a wisp of spiritual aura and opened the furnace lid. She quickly threw all kinds of ingredients inside and closed the lid again.
In addition, she also sent a strand of divine sense into the furnace to carefully sense the fusion of these materials.
The heat of Dantian Fire was much higher than that of ordinary flames. Soon, the materials inside melted. At that moment, a muffled "pop" came from inside the furnace.
Mo Tiange stopped the Dantian Fire, opened the lid, and stared at the materials inside the furnace gloomily.
Most of these materials had melted, but they weren't perfectly mixed together. Instead, they turned into a pool of black water that sizzled and steamed.
Mo Tiange heaved a sigh. She threw away all the failed concocting dregs and washed them with clear spring water before putting the pill furnace back on the table.
Sure enough, concocting pills wasn't a simple matter. According to the book, although the quantity of various materials was roughly known, the fine details had to be learned by the concoctions master themselves.
The reason why she failed in the smelting step was that she didn't have a sense of the medicinal pill's composition, so she couldn't grasp the quantity.
She changed the materials and failed again, but a smile appeared on Mo Tiange's face.
This time, when her divine sense entered the pill furnace, she could already sense the subtle sensations of the materials, so she washed the furnace again and continued to concoct pills.
After quickly adding the materials, she used her divine sense to explore the furnace. She felt the materials inside were melting and fusing with each other … After a quarter of an hour, they finally turned into a complete medicinal liquid, and she could smell the rich fragrance of medicinal pills.
After swallowing several Restorative Panaceas, Mo Tiange guided her spiritual aura into her dantian. An even fiercer Dantian Fire came out and covered the entire pill furnace.
Under the high temperature, the medicinal liquid in the pill furnace began to boil and shrink little by little.
Mo Tiange kept swallowing Restorative Panaceas to maintain the Dantian Fire.
Now was the time to condense pills, so she needed to maintain a stable, high-temperature fire. However, the spiritual aura of Aura Refining cultivators was too weak, so she could only rely on Restorative Panaceas to maintain the Dantian Fire.
She didn't know how much time had passed or how many Restorative Panaceas she ate, but finally, the medicinal liquid in the pill furnace slowly shrunk into lumps, which then began to condense into pills …
When the pills condensed, Mo Tiange happily stopped the Dantian Fire and opened the pill furnace.
But in the next moment, her expression became extremely gloomy.
The medicinal pill had already taken shape, but it exploded the moment she opened the furnace.
She knew it was because she opened the furnace at the wrong time.
Sure enough, concocting pills wasn't a simple matter. No wonder the book emphasized that only after opening the furnace dozens of times could one grasp the entire process of concocting medicinal pills.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be a huge profit if she could make one or two spirit stones for each of the seven or eight kinds of medicinal pills with only one or two spirit stones for each of the medicinal pills she refined?
Because the success rate was too low, being able to concoct two or three hundred medicinal pills out of seven or eight hundred materials was already considered very good. Coupled with other investments, the profit was really not much.
Shaking her head, Mo Tiange once again dumped the medicinal dregs, cleaned the pill furnace and continued to concoct medicinal pills.
Even if she didn't have talent, she would definitely succeed as long as she kept working hard.
In any case, she had a lot of spirit stones now. When she ran out of spirit stones, she could consider giving up.