Chapter 48

Right now, Xia Ye had Beastman spiritual power stored in his mind, and his dantian contained the power of the Pill Sect. Refining pills required the use of his spiritual power.

Based on her reasoning, even if Xia Ye’s power was depleted, as long as he kept his mental power in his brain at around 20%, he should be fine.

From this assumption, it seemed that Beastmen were actually safer than females when it came to pill refining. They had an extra layer of mental protection in their brains.

But this was just a guess.

Xia Ye’s body wasn’t fully recovered, so he had to be cautious while refining pills.

Xia Ye’s eyes flickered with emotion.

“Okay,” he agreed.

After that, Chu Ning didn’t rush to leave; instead, she stayed to watch Xia Ye refine the pills.

Xia Ye took half a portion of the processed medicinal ingredients and placed them in the alchemy furnace.

He then placed his hands on the furnace and, following the mental power trajectory diagram for the Pain Relief Pills, began to channel his spiritual power.

At first, Xia Ye was a bit nervous, worried that he might make a mistake.

But as his spiritual power flowed smoothly, his heart gradually calmed down.

So this is what it feels like to use mental power for pill refining?

Compared to using meditation to hone his spiritual power, this method of refining pills felt much easier.

In comparison, Xia Ye even found it enjoyable.

After around five minutes, Xia Ye finally started to feel a bit of strain.

But this slight fatigue was nothing to him.

He pushed on, continuing to shape the power’s trajectory.

After another ten minutes, with the last line drawn, Xia Ye stopped and opened his eyes.

The furnace in front of him emitted a puff of steam, and Xia Ye smelled the fragrance of the pills inside.

“It’s done.” He suppressed his inner excitement and spoke.

He could really become an alchemist.

Gu Ming, seeing this scene, couldn’t help but hide his excitement.

If Xia Ye could refine pills, then surely he could too.

Beastmen really could become alchemists!

“Open it and see how successful the pill is,” Chu Ning said with a pleased expression.

“Alright.” Xia Ye nodded.

With a bit of anxiety, he opened the furnace lid.

A wave of heat rushed out, quickly dissipating.

Following Chu Ning’s earlier instructions, Xia Ye carefully extracted the pills from the furnace.

This batch of pills resulted in five successful pills.

However, Xia Ye didn’t seem overly thrilled.

After all, not everyone had the talent of a wife, so even when refining new pills, he couldn’t always maintain such a high success rate.

“This is your first time refining pills, and you managed to produce five pills with half the ingredients. That’s impressive,” Chu Ning praised.

“Let’s test your dantian to see how much spiritual power remains.” To make communication easier, Chu Ning didn’t use the term “magical power.”

Qin Zhen quickly brought over the testing instrument.

The result showed that Xia Ye’s remaining spiritual power was 391, which was around 20% of his total spiritual power in his dantian.

“Just as I thought. Even if you exhaust the spiritual power in your dantian, as long as you have more than 20% of your mental power left in your brain, your body won’t suffer,” Chu Ning said happily.

Xia Ye also realized this and his eyes lit up with joy.

“So that means, from now on, I don’t have to worry about my body failing when refining pills.”

After all, refining pills consumed the mental power from the brain, but taking Spirit Essence Pills would replenish both the brain’s and dantian’s spiritual power at the same time.

Moving forward, Xia Ye would take several Jade Dew Pills every day to replenish his mental power frequently.

He wouldn’t feel fatigued and would remain energetic throughout.

“That’s right,” Chu Ning confirmed.

“From now on, you can stay here and refine pills with me. Don’t worry, take it step by step.”

“Mm!” Xia Ye’s eyes flashed with excitement.

After arranging things for Xia Ye, Chu Ning found Qin Zhen.

“Next, I want to distribute some pills to the military in exchange for their medicinal materials. What do you think?”

Previously, when she didn’t have enough funds, she had borrowed medicinal materials from the military, sharing the pills with them.

But now, she was running low on money and, more importantly, time. She couldn’t afford to keep giving away so many pills.

“That’s fine,” Qin Zhen replied without hesitation.

“Let me know directly what medicinal materials you need, and I’ll have Zheng Yuan arrange to send them.”

Chu Ning’s eyes shifted slightly.

“Let’s keep it separate. I’ll pay for the materials, just give me a discount as a military associate.”

Just as Chu Ning finished speaking, her communicator beeped with a notification.

Opening the message, she discovered she had received two payments of ten million star coins each, from Xia Ye and Gu Ming.

Chu Ning looked at the two of them and met their gentle gazes.

She was momentarily stunned, then smiled back at them.

She had thought of herself as the head of the household, wanting to support the family.

But she had forgotten that her companions were all quite wealthy and didn’t need her to support them.

“Ahem, I’ll make a list of the materials. Can you pass it on to Zheng Yuan? Have him send the bill directly to me,” she said.

She was going to refine high-level pills, and since Xia Ye and Gu Ming were also going to refine pills, she planned to buy more materials this time.

“Mm,” Qin Zhen nodded in agreement.

Now that there were four people in the house, Xia Ye and Gu Ming needed to learn pill refining and also help her establish the Pill Sect, while Zheng Yuan had the most free time, so he could handle some of the menial tasks.

Chu Ning pulled up her communicator and quickly prepared the list of materials, sending it to Qin Zhen.

Once everything was arranged, she returned to refining pills.

For now, she focused on refining Jade Dew Pills, and later she would work on other high-level pills in preparation for the Pill Master qualification exam.

The day passed quickly with all the work.

Before dinner, Chu Ning went over all the pills that might be tested for the high-level Pill Master exam.

Xia Ye successfully increased the yield from five pills to eight from half a batch of ingredients.

At the same time, the instrument showed that Xia Ye’s spiritual power had increased to 3001.

His progress was nothing short of rapid.

The most frustrated was Gu Ming, who had worked all day but still couldn’t successfully refine Qi, and his spiritual power only increased to 708.

Chu Ning encouraged him, telling him that his progress was already much faster than most people’s, which helped him let go of his self-doubt.

After dinner, Chu Ning didn’t continue refining pills, but went back to her room.

She had nearly finished preparing for the practical exam for high-level Pill Master, and tonight she planned to review the written exam questions.

She would review tonight, and the exam would be tomorrow night.

Meanwhile, Qin Zhen, Xia Ye, and Gu Ming were discussing the establishment of the Pill Sect.

Since Qin Zhen was still with the military, he could participate in the management of the Pill Sect and help strategize.

Xia Ye was the one in charge, so he received the management rights to Chu Ning’s online store and the 500 million star coins she transferred to him for preparations.

“Gu Ming, I’ll arrange things, and you execute,” Xia Ye said.

“Within a week, let’s finalize the site selection and the initial recruitment of personnel,” Xia Ye instructed.

“Mm,” Gu Ming responded.

He too wanted to stay by Chu Ning’s side and refine pills with her. But since Xia Ye had more talent and was more eager to improve his spiritual power, and since Xia Ye was capable and efficient, the more troublesome tasks could be left to him.