Hua Ying sniffed lightly and found that it was the same as the smell of the Qi Gathering Pill sold in the stalls in Nafang City, and she immediately raised her eyebrows and said happily:

"This old way is quite a bit of a family, and three Qi Gathering Pills are worth five or six spirit stones."

After counting the bottle, she opened another porcelain bottle.

However, there is only one elixir in this porcelain vase, and the color is different, it is light blue, but it smells even more fragrant.

Hua Ying didn't recognize this pill, so she twisted it up curiously and sniffed it, and immediately a nasal aura poured into her lungs, and she was surprised: "This pill must be of the highest grade!" ”

Then, she carefully put the pill back into the porcelain bottle, planning to go to Fang City tomorrow to ask again.

As for the remaining three Qi Gathering Pills, after thinking about it for a while, she put away two of them, leaving only one to be taken for the next time she cultivated.

Hua Ying had used to directly take medicinal herbs to assist her cultivation, and she had never taken such a magical elixir, so she was quite expectant of its medicinal effects.

As far as she knew, this kind of elixir was a special group in the realm of cultivating immortals, 'alchemists', who were refined in the Dan furnace with several kinds of heaven and earth spirit grasses according to their unique Dan recipes.

This kind of people are not only monks, but also alchemists, and correspondingly, there are also refiners, talisman makers, beast masters, and so on. Like the Taoist leader that Fang Cai Hua Ying met in the Fang Market, he was a talisman maker.

The rarity of alchemists, even among the hundreds of monks of all sizes in this Dongshanfang City, is only ten fingers. Its rarity is far higher than that of refiners and talisman makers.

The reason why this is so is nothing more than because it is too difficult for ordinary monks to become alchemists.

In this Dongshanfang City, every alchemist has the full support of the Xiuzhen family or the Xiuzhen sect behind him, otherwise his personal financial resources alone will not be able to support the high cost of alchemy.

After all, all kinds of spirit grasses, pill recipes, pill furnaces, and even the furnace fire for alchemy all require a large amount of spirit stone consumption.

Needless to say, although there are a lot of wild spirit grasses in the Six Elements Mountain Range, the demon beasts in it are vertical and horizontal, and there are many dangers, and it is extremely difficult and dangerous to go into the mountains to pick spirit grass, and every spirit grass is almost a monk's life.

In addition, for tens of thousands of years, countless monks have gone into the mountains for many years to pick, and the number of wild spirit grasses in the mountains has been declining.

If it weren't for the fact that some far-sighted family sects had begun to artificially cultivate elixirs on their own for a long time, relying solely on the number of wild spirit grasses in various parts of the Immortal Cultivation Realm would definitely not be able to support the consumption of today's ever-expanding group of cultivators day after day.

In addition to the spirit grass, the pill recipe is also the top priority, and it is difficult to refine the spirit pill without a formula for the spirit grass alone.

However, most of the Danfang is in the hands of the Xiuzhen family and sects, and it is easy not to spread it. Nowadays, the ones circulating on the market are just extremely common, or long-obsolete Danfang, and the truly valuable Danfangs are firmly in the hands of those big family sects.

After all, the research and development of each new Danfang requires countless manpower and material resources, plus the accumulation of time to select the most suitable formula, which is difficult and can only be experienced by those who have experienced it firsthand. Therefore, it is naturally impossible for those family sects that have invested a lot of resources in the research and development of Danfang to make Danfang public.

Therefore, if ordinary casual cultivators have a demand for the elixir, they must go to those family sects, and those with good qualifications may have the opportunity to join the family or join the sect, and those with ordinary qualifications can only sigh and stay in the markets around the country with a group of people, silently cultivating.

It can be said that alchemists are a profession that desperately needs the support of their families, so there are almost few alchemists in casual cultivation, and even if there are, they will all be invited by those famous family sects to be guests.

Compared with the spirit grass and the Dan Fang, the Dan furnace and the Dan fire are very insignificant, and they can be bought in the fang market for just a few spirit stones.

In addition, there is also a problem of alchemy, even if it is an experienced and very skilled alchemist, in the process of alchemy, it is inevitable that the refining will fail, and most of them can only get a furnace of waste pill after failure.

It is also because of this that the price of the spirit pill on the market is so high, even if ordinary casual cultivation is frugal, the spirit stones saved all year round may not be able to exchange for a few lowest-level Qi Gathering Pills. However, in order not to let their cultivation stagnate, most of these people could only venture into the mountains to pick spiritual grass, and there were not a few monks who died in the mouths of demon beasts every year.

The cruelty of cultivating immortals can be seen.

As a rookie monk, Hua Ying knew very little about the doorways in it, and she didn't know that the Qi Gathering Pill she had just swallowed was a treasure that many monks couldn't eat once in a few months.

Thinking about that Zhengyi person, who has practiced all his life, and until his death, he has only left so many pills behind, you can imagine how difficult the path of other monks will be to cultivate immortals.

After taking the Qi Gathering Pill, Hua Ying hurriedly meditated and cultivated, ran the exercises, and began to refine the medicinal power in her body.

However, as soon as she felt it, she was extremely happy, the medicinal effect brought by the Qi Gathering Pill was far stronger than she imagined, and in just an instant, she felt that her meridians were already full of medicinal power.

Stepping up refining, Hua Ying didn't want to waste these medicinal powers at all.

As the medicinal power of the Qi Gathering Pill dissolved in the meridians little by little, several hours flashed by, and when she opened her eyes again, a gleam suddenly appeared in her eyes.

"This.... How could it be ......"

Hua Ying never thought that she would break through that bottleneck so quickly, just a pill of Qi Gathering Pill went down to her stomach, and the barrier that had hindered her cultivation for a long time was so easy to ...... Broken by himself.

With the breakthrough of cultivation, it was followed by pain all over the body, and the meridians in the body twitched as if they had atrophied.

The facial features on Hua Ying's face wrinkled, and she gritted her teeth and endured the pain.

Perhaps because this breakthrough was from the small realm to the middle realm, the pain she felt was far stronger than the previous few times, until her lips were bitten and bloody, and the pain in her body could be endured.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

After enduring it, Hua Ying hurriedly stroked her undulating chest and coughed, only to see that her pale little face was already covered with beads of sweat, and even the top of her head was still smoking, which was enough to see how much suffering her body had suffered.

However, despite the physical torture she had only endured, she still laughed because of the breakthrough in her own cultivation.

"Four Layers of Qi Training......"

After entering this realm, Hua Ying could obviously feel that her body had undergone new changes, and her ear power, eyesight power, physical strength, and even her own mana had been greatly improved.

Thinking of this, she hurriedly scanned her body with her spiritual eye technique.