160 There Really Was a Treasure (1/2)

Over the past couple of days, Leon's routine had only been consisting of three things; hunt ghouls, refine longevity blood and search for herbs.

At this moment, Leon was inside his Worldspace refining a batch of Soul Enhancing Pills. He finally managed to find the prerequisite spirit herb after six days of searching. Although it was only one stalk, it was better than nothing. As for the other spirit herb required to refine the Soul Mending Pill to awaken his father, there was still no luck.

While not intruding beyond the 500-yard deeper region mark, he had otherwise scoured the rest of the area within a 10-mile radius of the forest during this time. He wagered he would only have a chance of finding the 7-Petal Frigid Agapanthus in the deeper regions of the forest.

However, even after making his breakthrough to Energy Condensation Realm, it did not give him any sense of security in treading beyond the 500-yard mark. He did not fear being attacked by vengeful spirits as they were just mindless bodies of energy. But what is to be feared was sentient vengeful spirits that knew how to cultivate. Ghost cultivation was unfamiliar to him, but not unheard of.

Chasing the profundities of the soul, ghost cultivation was one such topic that would be commonly mentioned by the higher-level divine practitioners back in the Divine Realm.

Suddenly, Leon's eyes snapped opened as the pill cauldron lid was removed and nine sparkling azure pills flew out and rested on his palm. The warm texture could still be felt from the freshly refined Soul Enhancing Pills.

Leon brought the pills closer for a whiff and was only able to smell a very subtle medicinal fragrance from the pills, but this did not cause him disappointment. On the contrary, his eyes lit up with satisfaction.

”Supreme-rank pills!” Leon exclaimed with amazement. A deep sense of accomplishment welled up inside him, before he sighed with melancholy. ”Haih… Even back in the Divine Realm, the amount of times I was able to concoct supreme-rank pills could only be counted with one's hand.”

As he said this, he glanced over at the 2000 plus bottles of longevity blood some distance away. These longevity blood could only be considered as tier-1 spirit elixirs, but after refining so many, his alchemy had improved.

This was not an improvement in his alchemy level, but an improvement in his pill refining. In addition to the spirit tier of a pill, there is also the quality of a pill. The quality of a pill is determined by how much medicinal essence the alchemist was able to coagulate into a pill without any waste. In other words, the pill's medicinal efficacy.

A pill with at least 30% medicinal efficacy was qualified to be called a low-rank pill, 50% for mid-rank pills, 70% for high-rank pills and 80% for peak-rank pills. Only pills with more than 90% medicinal efficacy were called supreme-rank pills.

But why should the quality of pill matter, if the purpose of the pill is ensured? Can't people just make up the deficiency in quality with quantity by increasing the pill intake? Or simply ingest higher tier pills?

The answer was no, because pill toxins exist. Not only does taking low quality pill affect one's health, it builds up immunity with every intake. As such, any pills with less than 30% medicinal efficacy was considered a failure and didn't have a rank.

However, if there was one, it would be called the trash-rank. No one would dare ingest one unless, they were desperate as the saying goes; desperate times calls for desperate measures.

Furthermore, a supreme-rank tier-1 pill was as effective as a low-rank tier-2 pill, with the difference being the amount of pill toxin contained within them.

Only the legendary flawless-rank pill with 100% medicinal efficacy was free of pill toxin but refining a flawless-rank was as difficult as ascending the heavens, but only in Gaia and other similar lower realms. The number of divine practitioners capable of ascending the heavens in the Divine Realm was a common as cabbages.

Back in the Divine Realm, only a handful of people were capable of refining flawless-rank pills. His father, the Divine Medicine King was one of them.

”Let me test the effect of this supreme-rank.”

Leon quickly ingested the Supreme-Rank Spirit Tier-1 Soul Enhancing Pill. The results were almost immediate as the medicinal efficacy rushed through his body and cleansed his mind, uplifting his spirit and enhanced his ability to sense things with greater clarity. His soul was strengthened.

”Truly worthy of a supreme-rank Soul Enhancing Pill. I'm capable of extending my divine sense to a 5-meter radius without quickly exhausting myself.” Leon licked his lips in comfort and eyed the rest of the pills in his hand like a ravenous wolf. ”My Five-Element Body should be able to ingest a few more pills without worries of overdosing.”

With that said, Leon ingested another three pills and absorbed it medicinal efficacy. His soul strength grew, and his divine sense reached greater distance. After all the medicinal efficacy was absorbed, his divine sense was able to reach a 10-meter radius.

It wasn't much, but it was good progress. His only regret was not having a soul cultivation technique to maximize the effect the pill brought him.