Supreme Emperor of Mist

"How can I help you today, fellow disciple?" a female disciple greets Qin Lan as he approached the desk with a Request Token.

"I would like to take on this request. Is there anything else I have to provide?" Qin Lan politely replies to the receptionist as he placed the Request Token on the desk.

"Is this fellow disciple new to our Dan-Xin Dwelling?" she asked. After confirming her suspicion with a nod from Qin Lan, she begins to read through the content written on the token.

"Hmm... Please let me have a look at your Disciple Token first."

Qin Lan immediately provides her with what she asked for. After a quick inspection, the receptionist sighed but remained calm as she came with a way to answer Qin Lan's inquiry.

"I guess I'll have to get in detail with you since it's your first time. You're lucky that you came to this big sister desk instead of the others. You guys, go to the other table to process your request!" the receptionist smiled at Qin Lan.

But at the same time, her gaze turned fierce as she roared at those queuing behind Qin Lan and ordered them to go to the other receptionist for their request.

What's funnier is that nobody dares to complain about her attitude.

"Listen well. In our Cloud Plucking Sect, trust is built through contribution points. In your case, you were supposed to work as an apprentice or medicine boy for a while before we allowed you to accept a pill refining task." the female receptionist started.

Unknown where her smoking pipe came from, the female receptionist took a deep puff and savored the taste before she continued.

(Frigid-Marrow Leaves... She must be a Half-Step Bone Reconstruction Layer Cultivator... Is there a reason she's working as a receptionist here?)

"Furthermore, the medicinal ingredients you'll be using will be provided by the requester. There will be a small security deposit required to be paid before you can collect them and get started." the receptionist said.

Her words give Qin Lan a deeper understanding of how things work in the Cloud Plucking Sect. By using the Contribution Points as a form of currency, it created a proper cycle of development.

"Well, I have a suggestion. Are you interested?" the receptionist smiled cheerfully like she just made a prank out of Qin Lan.

"By the name Qin Lan, I supposed you must be one of the few people that came from Fu-Rong Town? Oh, wait! It was called Xiyun City right now, correct?"

"If you can promise me that you'll get me three bottles of Spiritual Gathering Dew, I'll put on a recommendation so you can perform this request." she winked at Qin Lan.

"Then, I'll have to bother this senior sister..." Qin Lan secretly took three Spiritual Gathering Dews from the Purple-Dragon Spatial Jade and placed them on top of the desk.

"Great! That's great." the three bottles of dew vanishes from the table from a simple sweep of her hand. In exchange, there was a pouch with some ingredients are placed on top of the desk.

"This is a request to refine five sets of Turbulence Pill. The quota is five pills to be handed over. Anything above that will be paid accordingly based on the quality and quantity of the product. You have three days to complete this request."

"Is there any other questions?" the receptionist asked.

"No. I'll be back in three days to deliver the finished product." Qin Lan accepted the ingredient pouch and returned to the Lower-Xuan Room he was assigned to.

"Senior sister Luo! The eighth elder is looking for you." a disciple came and delivered a message to the female receptionist.

"En. I'll be there soon," she replied.

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"Looks like the world has changed a lot." Qin Lan chuckled as he rummages through a few books related to the way of Alchemy and Medicine.

Now, the concept of producing pills efficiently is no longer a focus for them due to the abundance of material available. Instead, they're more into creating a quality product to be marketed to the vast minority.

Perhaps that's one of the reasons they no longer using a Medicinal Tripod to refine pills. In exchange, a closed Medicinal Cauldron became a norm in today's pill refining process due to their unique characteristic.

Qin Lan rested down beside the ingredients spreads all around him.

The page related to the recipe for Turbulence Pill is opened wide in front of Qin Lan. Studying it all over again, Qin Lan used his vast experience in pill refining to decipher its usage and reason for its existence.

This pill belonged to the division of Cultivating Medicine. Just like its name suggested, taking in a Turbulence Pill before practicing a body refining technique would increase the efficiency by onefold.

In the public market, a single Turbulence Pill is sold for the price of three Flesh Refining Pills.

(Flame Essence Grass, Starry Spiritual Flower, Calming Wave Fungus, Flesh Refining Elderberry. Two Yang herbs and two Yin herbs. This is indeed the best match to concoct a Flesh Refining quality pill)

Qin Lan retrieves the Medicinal Cauldron provided along with the room and began to fire the cauldron. Although there were a few options available apart from using Spiritual Energy as the source of flame, this method is still the most approachable one for him.

Of course, it was possible due to Qin Lan's excessive Spiritual Energy capacity.

Five thousand units in Flesh Refining Pill is the base amount of Spiritual Energy a cultivator in the fifth-Level Flesh Refining Layer could hold. For those luckier, they might stumble across a half or a full inheritance that could increase the capacity of Spiritual Energy.

For example, Lang Xue's (Incomplete) Flame Tempering Body Art.

But the odds of encountering such luck can be said to be harsher than reaching the peak of Precelestial Cultivation.

Thus, that's where the sect came in. Supported by the Country ruling over this piece of land, they're given both resources and rights to groom potential seedlings into a sprout that will contribute to the country in the future.

Furthermore, the return from investing in a sect is far more profitable and worthwhile than utilizing the strength of country-level manpower. After all, it is all about the economy at the end of the day.

After taking the Precelestial Realm Restructuring Pill and practicing the Mistral Flesh Diagram, Qin Lan's Spiritual Container Physique is more than capable of accumulating fifteen thousand units worth of Spiritual Energy.

Although having three times what his opponent has doesn't justify the end results of a fight, it could still support Qin Lan with endurance against three equal opponents.

"Gentle flame towards the Yin Attribute herbs and Strong fire against the Yang Herbs!" two conflicting flames appeared from the top and below as Qin Lan processed four ingredients at once. With fifteen thousand units of Spiritual Energy, he's indeed qualified to be this reckless!

A clear red medicinal extract is taken out from the stem of Flame Essence Grass. After removing the dried straw, Qin Lan proceeds with the Starry Spiritual Flower and Calming Wave Fungus.

The cold flame from above is like a steam bath that penetrates deep into the flower petals and opened spores. The Calming Wave Fungus quickly releases the powdery essence to fight against the steam, but to no avail.

Soon, the steam condenses with the powdery essence to creates a few additional drops of extract with calming properties. As for the Starry Spiritual Flower, the steam bath nourishes it until the nectar is visibly sitting on top of the flower's stigma.

Last came the Flesh Refining Elderberry. Just like its name, the elderberry was the toughest nut to crack amongst the four medicinal herbs. Using both flames to nourish and beat the walnut-like skin of the berry, Qin Lan felt conflicted.

It was like he's using the larvae of Foul Essence Ant once again as he prepares them into a blood mixture.

"Break!" Qin Lan's last stretch of effort removes the cauldron's lid as the waste from these medicinal herbs are taken out. Only four types of medicinal extracts are left inside the pot as they gradually combine into one entity.

From there, one becomes two, and two into four. The excess from the four hardening extracts forms the fifth. With the separation process is now accomplished, only one step remained.

Qin Lan held the Medicinal Cauldron with both hands as he ignited the excess Spiritual Energy he has. Out of a sudden, the Spiritual Energy enough to contend against a Full-Completion Flesh Cultivator burst out as Qin Lan fires the pill to its maturity!

"Which Peak Flesh Refining Layer Cultivator is undergoing Spiritual Deviation? Is he mad?" Qin Lan's recklessness causes a few fellow disciples to fail in their pill refining process.

But he's yet to notice that.

Inside his room, Qin Lan seated comfortably without bothering about his current appearance. On his hand is an opened medicinal cauldron with four qualified Turbulence Pill and one subpar Turbulence Pill.

On each of the pill is three veins, which means they had reached the minimum qualification to be rated as a Xuan-Grade Pill.