[Today was a day of studying the Foundation Establishment Pill formula hard, but still gaining nothing]

[Extraction obtained: Foundation Establishment Pill Refining Insight +1]

As if struck by a blow to the head, or like being enlightened by ambrosia, Fang Jinyu suddenly truly grasped the essence of the Foundation Establishment Pill. With a mind of tacit understanding, he opened the alchemy furnace.

Following the usual alchemy steps, as the unique fragrance of the Foundation Establishment Pill wafted out, Fang Jinyu extinguished the fire.

Opening the furnace, he saw that thirteen pills had been formed within.

Fang Jinyu divided them into two jade bottles, then continued refining. He opened three furnaces in a row, each forming more than ten pills. Only the fourth furnace had problems, so Fang Jinyu stopped refining for the day.

Because his energy had been over-drained today, causing him to lose control of the heat during this last furnace, which led to failure.

‘Forty-seven pills obtained!’

Counting the day's harvest, Fang Jinyu was naturally extremely satisfied.

This not only completed the task for those two Golden Core black pig spirit beasts, but the remaining pills all belonged to him—enough to exchange for ten thousand Merit Points.

Thus, Fang Jinyu glanced at the text box within his field of vision.

[0:22:00:00]

‘There are still 22 hours left. The time is generous enough.’

Fang Jinyu planned to send ten Foundation Establishment Pills to Spirit Beast Valley, and use another twenty to exchange for that Yin Thunder Spirit Pearl. Then he would go into seclusion to refine the stone sphere magical treasure, striving to avoid that damnable opportunity that was about to arrive.

However, on his way to Spirit Beast Valley with the Foundation Establishment Pills, he changed his mind halfway and sent ten extra pills.

Because he was an "honest man."

Since Fang Jinyu had stayed here for a month, most of the black pigs here were familiar with him. After he found a Foundation Establishment black pig and stated his purpose, this Foundation Establishment black pig, though unable to speak yet, could understand what Fang Jinyu was saying, so it led him to see their King.

That was a giant black pig, its body as huge as a small mountain. Its eyes flowed with golden light, unbelievably. Though the aura around its body was restrained with all its might, it still brought Fang Jinyu a tremendous sense of oppression.

"Disciple Fang Jinyu pays respects to Senior. Earlier, two Seniors asked this disciple to refine a furnace of Foundation Establishment Pills, and this disciple has finished refining them." Fang Jinyu produced two jade bottles.

"You're an alchemist?" The Black Pig King opened its mouth, but its voice was a man's voice, as warm and gentle as jade. If one only heard the voice without seeing the form, one would think it was an elegant young master.

The kind described as: a man as fair as jade on the roads, an unmatched gentleman in the world!

"This disciple can barely be counted as one."

The Black Pig King nodded slightly. Then its gaze swept over, but suddenly paused: "Inside here... there are twenty Foundation Establishment Pills?"

This Black Pig King was slightly surprised.

It was aware of the matter of finding someone to refine Foundation Establishment Pills. After all, that Foundation Establishment Fruit tree was inside its cave abode. This time, three of their clan's younger generation at the Qi Refining stage were about to break through, so they wanted someone to refine a few Foundation Establishment Pills.

And this was an unwritten rule of the past: using a large number of Foundation Establishment Fruits to exchange for a small number of Foundation Establishment Pills.

"This disciple performed quite well during refining, so quite a few extra were made." Fang Jinyu replied half-truthfully, because he hadn't even used a third of those thirty-five Foundation Establishment Fruits.

Upon hearing this, the Black Pig King couldn't help but be stunned.

Then it laughed heartily: "Oink-oink! You're an interesting person! By the way, you're an alchemist, so do you have any study of the Yuanling Pill?"

"This disciple has not studied it."

Fang Jinyu replied truthfully, while his gaze flickered slightly.

"Then take this and study it for three days." As the Black Pig King said this, a Jade Slip landed in front of Fang Jinyu.

Clearly, this was the pill formula for the Yuanling Pill.

Fang Jinyu was instantly delighted.

Because the Yuanling Pill was not only higher-grade than the Spirit-Summoning Pill, but also a pill with an extremely wide range of applications. It could be taken at the first layer of Foundation Establishment, and also at the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment. And between the two, one only needed to appropriately reduce or add some spirit materials that were not needed at the time of refining.

Apart from this, the Yuanling Pill could also be used to assist the refining of some special pills, even Golden Core stage pills.

It could be said that an alchemist who could refine the Yuanling Pill was a true alchemist!

Otherwise, they were merely alchemy tools.

But because of this, the pill formula for the Yuanling Pill was considered one of the secret transmissions in every major immortal sect. Some minor immortal sects didn't even have the Yuanling Pill formula at all!

For example, Xin Qianqian's aunt's Tu Jian Mountain.

Fang Jinyu remembered that this immortal sect had previously sent people to request some Yuanling Pills.

However, Fang Jinyu had absolutely never expected that this Black Pig King would give him such a huge benefit!

Although it was only for three days, these three days were probably the maximum the Black Pig King could lend it out. Moreover, Fang Jinyu was confident he could learn it within these three days!

This made Fang Jinyu involuntarily think of the description of this Black Pig King in that book: ugly in appearance but not ugly in heart, repaying kindness without fail, just rather petty. A bird pecked its bottom hundreds of years ago, and it still remembers it to this day.

"Many thanks, Senior!"

Fang Jinyu quickly expressed his thanks, deliberately making his expression appear more excited.

Seeing this, the Black Pig King laughed again: "Oink-oink! Oink-oink! If you come to return it in three days and I'm not here, then you can come back another day."

Fang Jinyu instantly understood. This was deliberately helping him delay for a few more days. After all, "another day" was left completely unspecified.

Thus, he expressed thanks once more, then left Spirit Beast Valley.

He had originally only wanted to brush up his goodwill some more, to make these black pig spirit beasts look upon him even more favorably, so they'd look for him again when such good things happened. Who would have thought he'd actually obtain the Yuanling Pill formula!

‘Now, reaching the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment within thirty years is within grasp!’

Fang Jinyu was filled with joy, then hurried off to exchange for Merit Points.

Every Tianling Sect disciple had a personal token: Qi Refining disciples had talisman tokens, and Foundation Establishment disciples had spirit tool tokens. Ordinary Foundation Establishment disciples usually had low-grade spirit tool tokens, but if one had a lot of Merit Points, the sect would upgrade it to mid-grade.

Fang Jinyu's token was a mid-grade spirit tool, obtained after he had previously contributed quite a few Little Entering the Dao Mysterious Spirit Pills. Now, as he placed twenty Foundation Establishment Pills on that Merit Reward Platform, in an instant, his token displayed ten thousand new Merit Points added. At the same time, a special pearl appeared floating above his token.

"Many thanks, Ancestor!"

Fang Jinyu was overjoyed. He had not expected that the Ancestor had long since bound that Yin Thunder Spirit Pearl to his personal sect token, set to be obtained as soon as his Merit Points were sufficient.

Immediately, Fang Jinyu redeemed this Yin Thunder Spirit Pearl.

He didn't have to wait long. A white bird flew over clutching a special jade case. When this white bird stopped before him, the Nascent Soul stage ancestor's voice followed: "Where did you get so many Foundation Establishment Pills?"

The Foundation Establishment Pill was a strategic resource of the immortal sect, so even a Nascent Soul stage cultivator had to pay some attention to it.

Fang Jinyu didn't hide anything and quickly recounted the whole story from beginning to end.

"Those two stupid pigs looked for you to refine Foundation Establishment Pills? And you actually succeeded? And a fair number at that? The two of you really are one daring to ask, and one daring to refine!"

Even the Nascent Soul stage ancestor couldn't help but complain. Finding someone who had just started getting into Foundation Establishment stage pills to refine pills—only those two stupid pigs could do such a thing. Truly not afraid that so many Foundation Establishment Fruits would all be wasted in refining!

Naturally, Fang Jinyu couldn't say much.

But then, he heard the Nascent Soul stage ancestor ask again: "Then how many more can you refine? If you can refine a hundred pills, then the Tianling Sect can stay out of things from now on, and I can save a lot of worry. Of course, it won't be in vain. One Wind Spirit Pearl and one Fire Spirit Pearl each. The True Origin Fruit, the most important ingredient of the Yuanling Pill, I can let you take one box. In addition, I'll include a copy of my insights on refining magical treasures."