Unfortunately, no matter how much she restrained, she still refined five Spirit Gathering Pills.
"Damn! I tried so hard to compress my Alchemy technique, how did I still refine five? How am I going to explain this later?" Ye Liuyun looked at the Medicinal Pills rolling out of the medicine furnace and felt her head ache.
She carefully used her peripheral vision to glance at Nalan Yan beside her. At this moment, Nalan Yan's look and expression could only be described with the four words: dumbstruck.
Staring with wide eyes, mouth agape, she had an expression of disbelief.
Ye Liuyun knew that she had scared Nalan Yan.
"It's over." Ye Liuyun had already begun to think about how to deal with Nalan Yan's questioning.
Because in the eyes of normal people, if an Alchemist could refine one Medicinal Pill from one portion of Medicinal Herbs with 100% success rate, that was already considered high-level skill. Being able to refine two pills from one portion of Medicinal Herbs was Master-level, and being able to refine three was absolutely rare in the world.
But Ye Liuyun refined five in one go, and this was what Nalan Yan saw with her own eyes. It wasn't cheating, but truly refining five.
"Eh? Senior Sister, Senior Sister, I've finished refining. I should have passed, right?" Ye Liuyun bit the bullet and spoke to wake up the absent-minded Nalan Yan.
Hearing Ye Liuyun's call, Nalan Yan stiffly turned her head to look at Ye Liuyun.
"You... passed. But, Junior Sister, how, how did you do it?" Nalan Yan grabbed Ye Liuyun's arm, her eyes filled with an extremely eager expression—it was the look of yearning for the path of medicine.
As an Alchemist, wasn't the lifelong pursuit just Alchemy technique? In their eyes, they could not care about cultivation level, but if they could improve their Alchemy technique, they could pay any price.
There were several sub-occupations in the Cultivation World: Alchemist, Artifact Refiner, Formation Master, and Talisman Master.
These four were the main ones and also the four most profitable sub-occupations in the Cultivation World, but their difficulty in improvement was even harder than Cultivation.
This purely depended on Comprehension Ability. If the Comprehension Ability was good, relying on perseverance was useless.
Anyway, they all had relatively harsh requirements. For example, an Alchemist must have an Innate soul power higher than ordinary people. Ordinary soul power strength could not deeply learn Alchemy; at most, one could only become a White Grade Alchemist, and it was impossible to have further improvement.
As for those with qualified soul power, wanting to improve Alchemy technique required the accumulation of experience.
The highest-level Alchemist in the Yunxia Sect was the Blue Grade Top-Grade Alchemist Yun Xiao. Yun Xiao could refine up to Blue Grade Top-Grade.
And Nalan Yan, as Yun Xiao's Personal Disciple, could refine up to Blue Grade Low Grade, which was already very amazing.
Blue Grade and Purple Grade were the watershed for all sub-occupations. Almost 70% of sub-occupation Cultivators would stay at the Blue Grade for their entire lives, not just Alchemists; other sub-occupations were the same.
Because Alchemy techniques above the Purple Grade were incredibly precious Legacies. At the very least, there were no rumors of Purple Grade Alchemists appearing in the Tang Country.
That also meant that Blue Grade Top-Grade was the upper limit of the Tang Country.
"Eh? Senior Sister, you're hurting me." Ye Liuyun felt her arm being clamped tightly by a pair of pincers, and it was very uncomfortable.
Nalan Yan heard this and quickly realized she had lost her composure, so she hurriedly released Ye Liuyun.
"I apologize, I lost my composure." Nalan Yan quickly calmed down.
She had been too anxious. After all, even if the other party's Alchemy was truly profound, there was no need to tell her, right?
"It is fine." Ye Liuyun replied with an innocent face.
"Junior Sister, what should I call you? My name is Nalan Yan." Nalan Yan introduced herself.
"Ah? Senior Sister Nalan, didn't I just say? My name is Ye Liuyu." Ye Liuyun replied, feeling somewhat speechless.
Nalan Yan remembered that Ye Liuyun had introduced herself when she entered, but she hadn't taken it to heart and had ignored it.
"I, I am sorry, I was distracted just now and didn't hear clearly." Nalan Yan said, blushing slightly.
She hadn't just "not heard clearly"; she simply hadn't taken an entry-level Disciple to heart. That was normal, though; the status of a Personal Disciple could not be compared to that of an entry-level Disciple.
Could an emperor remember the name of an ordinary commoner? Obviously, it was basically impossible.
But from this day on, the name Ye Liuyu was remembered by Nalan Yan.
Nalan Yan took a deep breath, then led Ye Liuyun to process the identity token for an Alchemy Pavilion exclusive Disciple. With this token, Ye Liuyun could come to the Alchemy Pavilion to practice Alchemy at any time.
As for what Nalan Yan wanted to know, she could only endure for the time being. After all, this was her first meeting with Ye Liuyun, and it hadn't reached the level where she could ask the other party to teach her Alchemy.
After obtaining the identity, Ye Liuyun immediately thanked Nalan Yan.
"Thank you for your trouble, Senior Sister. I will go see what tasks I can accept." Ye Liuyun greeted her and then turned to leave.
Nalan Yan wanted to say something, but couldn't bring herself to speak. She could only take a deep breath and return to her own Alchemy room.
However, the few Medicinal Pills Ye Liuyun had refined were still in her Alchemy room.
"Refining five Medicinal Pills at once—this must be a very Advanced Alchemy technique to be able to do this. Let me first see how these five Spirit Gathering Pills differ from the common ones." Nalan Yan began to study the Medicinal Pills Ye Liuyun had refined.
As for Ye Liuyun, she was already standing in the hall where tasks were claimed, looking at the many task tokens hanging on the wall.
White tokens were tasks for refining White Grade Medicinal Pills, green tokens were for Green Grade, and blue tokens were naturally for Blue Grade.
At the same time, they were also divided by grade. So, even though they were tokens of the same color, they were divided into four grades.
Ye Liuyun's Alchemy was sufficient to refine Medicinal Pills of any grade, but her current Soul strength was only enough to refine White Grade Top Grade.
However, as an entry-level Disciple, it was not appropriate for her to be so flamboyant. The previous incident must have already made that Nalan Yan take note of her, so she had to keep a low profile.
Therefore, Ye Liuyun casually accepted a few tasks for refining White Grade Low Grade Medicinal Pills, then went to the Alchemy room assigned to her.
Well, Ye Liuyun's comfortable life had begun.
Let's talk about Song Shuwen. After returning to his residence, he took out the Medicinal Pill Ye Liuyun had given him to look at it. He was also curious about what Medicinal Pill Ye Liuyun would give him.
But after pouring out the Medicinal Pill, he discovered that it was a type of Medicinal Pill he had never seen before.
"Eh? It looks like a Spirit Gathering Pill, but it doesn't quite look like one. And this pill fragrance and luster seem extraordinary?" Song Shuwen sat in his cultivation room and sniffed the Medicinal Pill.
He thought for a moment, then swallowed it in one gulp. But as the Medicinal Pill entered his body, he felt a massive surge of Spiritual Qi converging into his body from all directions.
"This? What kind of Medicinal Pill is this? Such massive Spiritual Qi—just this one pill is equivalent to my Spiritual Qi requirement for three days." Song Shuwen was shocked.
A normal Spirit Gathering Pill would double one's daily cultivation amount; eating one was equal to two days of cultivation.
But Ye Liuyun's Spirit Burst Pill injected three days' worth of cultivation directly. This wasn't accelerating cultivation; it was directly increasing one's cultivation level.
After absorbing the Spiritual Qi, Song Shuwen looked at the Medicinal Pill in front of him, not knowing how to describe it. He had never heard of any Medicinal Pill that could directly increase one's cultivation level.