Chapter 14

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Time passed slowly.

Another ten years passed.

20 years had passed since Wu Ye joined the Sword Control Sect.

Under his care, the entire herb garden was completely different from before.

The current herb garden was filled with abundant spirit energy, and the fragrance of herbs assailed one’s nostrils. It was simply a place where one could rest and recuperate.

Of course, this was all thanks to Wu Ye.

He had set up an exquisite array formation in the herb garden and gathered a large amount of spirit energy.

This was the place where he rested and cultivated every day. Of course, he had to tidy it up properly.

What had changed over the last few years was not just this small herb garden.

The entire Sword Control Sect had also undergone earth-shaking changes.

After the incident with the Blood Soul Demon Master ten years ago, the sect master and many elders had gone into seclusion one after another.

A year ago, Zhang Qishan finally came out of seclusion and advanced from the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm to the later stage.

A few months ago, many elders also gradually came out of seclusion, and many elders from the Core Formation Realm directly broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

This meant that the strength of the top experts of the Sword Control Sect had increased by a level.

In addition to the sect leader and elders, the Sword Control Sect had also recruited a few extremely talented genius disciples with special constitutions within this one year. They were accepted as core disciples by the sect leader.

The Sword Control Sect was finally about to enter the ranks of the top forces in the Northern Spirit Realm, although they were only in the last few.

At this moment, Wu Ye was still maintaining a regular pace of life in the Sword Control Sect.

Although he could be considered an old disciple of the sect now, in everyone’s eyes, he was just an ordinary disciple in the tenth level of the Qi Refinement Realm.

Cultivating to the tenth level in 20 years was ordinary.

The progress was neither fast nor slow.

In addition to Wu Ye’s outstanding spirit plant cultivation technique as well as his self-taught array formation ability, he could be considered to be quite popular among the elders.

When Elder Du saw Wu Ye, he was concerned about him. He even said that he would take in a few disciples to to help him with the chores in the herb garden to reduce his burden.

Elder Du wanted Wu Ye to have more time to cultivate and enter the 13th level of Qi Refinement as soon as possible.

He even took out a Foundation Establishment pill to encourage him.

His goal was to take him in as a core disciple.

However, Wu Ye refused to have a few junior brothers to help him with chores.

The herb garden was now his home. He was not used to having strangers in his home.

Finally, Wu Ye said that he would be able to enter the 13th level of Qi Refinement within five years.

Elder Du gave up and did not mention this matter anymore.

Besides Elder Xu, the elders of the Alchemy Hall had a good relationship with Wu Ye.

It was because of the high quality of Wu Ye’s spirit plants. They were several times better than those ready-made plants in the cultivation market outside the sect.

Therefore, many elders of the Alchemy Hall would often ask their disciples to go down the mountain to buy some precious spirit plants’ seeds and let Wu Ye cultivate them.

In the past ten years, the quality of the medicinal pills that the Sword Control Sect disciples had consumed had also increased by a few percent. Wu Ye had contributed a lot to this.

Of course, he did not mean to improve the quality of the spirit plants.

In the beginning, he only wanted to renovate the herb garden.

After all, he had lived in a house for a long time, so he wanted a new change.

He set up a spirit array and redesigned the spirit field.

Wu Ye’s casual actions had unexpectedly raised the quality of the spirit plants and the strength of many disciples.

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The herb garden.

In a wooden attic.

Wu Ye opened the lid of the red pill furnace in front of him, grabbed a bunch of spirit herbs from the bamboo basket at the side, and threw them into the pill furnace.

This red pill furnace was a spare pill furnace that he had obtained from an elder of the Alchemy Hall.

At this moment, Wu Ye was trying to refine pills.

After signing in for 20 years, the medicinal pills that he had obtained by signing in the Sword Control Sect had little effect on him.

Fortunately, he had also obtained a lot of alchemy knowledge as well as the rare spirit pill formulas by signing in.

These things were more precious than those ready-made pills.

Given that these were high-grade pills that could have an effect on the Soul Formation cultivators, any pills could cause a stir in the entire cultivation world.

At this time, Wu Ye walked around the pill furnace. He grabbed a handful of precious medicinal herbs from the other bamboo baskets and threw them into the pill furnace again.

His action was natural and skillful. The quantity of the medicinal herbs was just right. There was not the slightest bit of excess or error.

With his technique, he could be regarded as a master alchemist.

After closing the pill furnace, Wu Ye snapped his fingers.

The pill furnace immediately lit up with scarlet flames. He instantly closed his eyes and began to use his spirit sense to control the temperature of the fire.

About an hour later, the furnace suddenly shook.

A rich pill fragrance spread out.

“Done.”

The tip of Wu Ye’s nose moved slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes. He reached out his hand, and the lid of the furnace opened automatically. Then, a snow-white pill fell steadily into his palm.

There were four patterns on this pill.

“The Spirit Ascension Pill can have some effect on the Core Formation and Nascent Soul cultivators. It can help to purify the quality of spirit power.

“This fourth-grade pill isn’t too difficult to refine. I can be considered a qualified alchemist now.”

Wu Ye looked at the pill in his hand and muttered to himself.

The pill went from the first grade to the ninth grade.

Similarly, alchemists were ranked according to the grade of the pill.

Being able to refine a common fourth-grade pil meant that Wu Ye’s current alchemy level had completely entered the ranks of a fourth-grade alchemist.

Alchemists, talisman painters, array formation masters, and weapon refiners were the four most popular professions in the cultivation world.

Basically, these professions were the foundation of their survival in the cultivation world, especially for itinerant cultivators without sects.

Among them, alchemists had the highest status.

After all, who dared to guarantee that they would not encounter bottlenecks in the process of cultivation?

Who could tell that they would not fight and be harmed when they went out to develop?

Therefore, medicinal pills were essential for cultivators.

There was also a saying in the cultivation world that one would rather offend an expert than an alchemist.

Who knew how powerful the faction supporting that alchemist was?

No one knew how deep the client network of the alchemist was.

In today’s world, the alchemist could be considered the second largest profession among the four professions. The first was the talisman master.

However, most alchemists now were between the first grade and the third grade.

The fourth grade could be considered similar to the level of an alchemist master.

One a fifth-grade alchemist could be regarded as having a high status.

In the Sword Control Sect.

The Supreme Body Tempering Technique, the Indestructible Vajra Body, the Great Void Condensing Sword, the Innate Spirit Gathering Technique, and the Supreme Talisman Painting Technique.

These five great inherited secret techniques included two body tempering techniques, one sword technique, one spell, and one talisman technique.

As for the alchemy technique, this was not a field that the Sword Control Sect was good at..