This was also the reason why many of the sect elders were unwilling to let the disciples consume pills. The underlying problems, theoretically, shouldn’t be too serious as a certain amount of the medicine toxicity would be expelled from the body over time. However, if the medicine pills were consumed more than necessary, the medicine toxicity would naturally increase. By letting it gradually build up, it would hinder future cultivation.
Thus, based on the amount of impurities, medicine was classified into six levels.
“Low, medium, high, fine, great and supreme…” Bai Xiaochun looked at the incense sticks in his palm while mumbling. If the impurity level of the medicine was ninety percent: it was poison. Unless forced to do so, no one would consume it.
If it was eighty percent, it would be classified as a low quality medicine. This was the most common type. Sixty percent would be a medium quality medicine, which was uncommon these days, and was only crafted by true Medicine Masters.
As for those with a forty percent impurity level, they were high quality medicines. Rare. The ones with only twenty percent impurity level were fine medicines, and those with ten percent were known as great medicines which could only be seen in large scale auctions every once in a while.
The supreme medicine that had zero impurities only existed in legends.
Bai Xiaochun stared at the incense sticks. When he was refining medicine last time, he didn’t understand anything. Now, as he inspected the incense sticks with heightened attentiveness, he immediately discovered that refining medicine with the turtle-shell pot was about changing the quality rather than improving it the way he strengthened the power of his equipment.
And the incense sticks in his hand had only forty percent impurities. It was a fine medicine.
This discovery excited Bai Xiaochun. He headed to the Purple Cauldron Mountain, not for Zhang Fatso One, but for the South Bank of the Spirit River Sect, towards the Spirit Refinement Hall only found on the Purple Cauldron Mountain.
The disciples could pay contribution points for the elders of the Spirit Refinement Hall to help with their refinements. The success rate wasn’t too high, but nevertheless, many disciples still came.
Bai Xiaochun looked around as he entered the Refinement Hall and did some research. He confirmed that it was possible to learn how to remove impurities from refined medicine.
Returning back to the Scented Cloud Mountain, Bai Xiaochun looked happily at the results of his work in his hands. He lit one of the incense sticks and sniffed, feeling a sense of satisfaction one would have after finishing a lavish meal. The scent entered his body wave after wave, filling him with warmth. If life was a ball of fire, then at this moment, this fire had firewood thrown inside, blazing it.
Sniffing the incense stick and cultivating the Unending Longevity Technique, things were going well. As soon as he felt hunger from cultivating, he would take a deep breath to abate it.
Seven of these incense sticks supported his cultivation for half a month, until he felt that his impenetrable iron skin had obviously toughened, and his body had become indisputably stronger.
The success rate in refining these Longevity Incense Sticks rose under his care, from seventy percent success rate to eighty, ninety, and in the end, one hundred.
But Bai Xiaochun still felt dissatisfied. He had a perfect success rate, but the medicines he created were still only low quality medicines.
But this sort of thing was hard to improve in the short term. All he could do was use refinement to remove impurities and sniff an incense stick from time to time. It made him incomparably happy.
His Unending Longevity Technique improved day by day along with his cultivation, reaching the peak of the sixth level Qi Condensation.
As for the Unending Longevity Technique that was improving the fastest, only a bit more was left before he could reach the peak of the Impenetrable Iron Skin. The hardness of his skin had vastly improved, and his two fingers now had a much darker colour when he casted his Throat Crushing Grasp.
But the effects of the incense sticks wore off. In the end, there was almost no effect from sniffing them. Bai Xiaochun sighed. He understood that his body had gotten used to the incense sticks after using them too much.
He wanted to continue training, but he needed a replacement for the incense sticks. This type of medicine was controlled strictly, and wasn’t sold in the city square. The only way he could get them was to pass the promotional examination and exchange contribution points for them afterwards.
Or he could go to an even larger city. However, those city squares were a long way from the sect. After careful consideration, Bai Xiaochun made a decision.
“Onwards to the promotional exams!”
He thought that with his experience in refinement, and his knowledge about herbs, passing shouldn’t be very difficult. However,