Just as Gu Yuan captured the Spirit Pill, a line of small text appeared before his eyes:

[You have captured Thousand-Change Pill Spirit (Red), would you like to tame it?]

This Spirit Pill is a peculiar entity, formed by absorbing the essence and medicinal energy of many spirit pills and spirit medicines, and inheriting a trace of Creation Qi.

It possesses the unique ability to organize medicinal properties and stabilize furnace fires.

Many alchemy masters often nurture one, as it can play a significant role in their daily alchemy practices.

Medicine King Mountain is a major sect of the Alchemy Dao. Particularly in a place called Hundred Poison Gorge in the back mountain, the Spiritual Qi is abundant and rich, allowing many spirit medicines to grow.

However, due to being shrouded in poisonous miasma all year round, the harvesting of spirit medicines tends to be difficult, resulting in numerous spirit medicines and exotic flowers rotting due to aging and becoming absorbed into the soil.

Additionally, disciples of Medicine King Mountain later intentionally or unintentionally threw discarded spirit pills, poison pills, and inferior pills into Hundred Poison Gorge.

Over time, the accumulation of medicinal and toxic properties became entangled, combining with the original special conditions of Hundred Poison Gorge, creating this peculiar place.

Besides various spirit medicines, occasionally, strange entities like the Spirit Pill grow in Hundred Poison Gorge.

As a result, Medicine King Mountain gained an additional source of income.

Gu Yuan asked He Ling True Master and learned that this Spirit Pill survives and grows by absorbing medicinal properties.

In other words, it feeds on spirit pills and spirit medicines.

At that time, upon seeing this Spirit Pill, Gu Yuan had suspected that it might possess a specific talent beneficial to alchemy.

Thus, the reason he decisively accepted the wager with Liu Xinjun was partially related to the Spirit Pill.

Since he joined Medicine King Mountain, an external cultivation path like alchemy is something Gu Yuan intends to explore.

Alchemy is the external path of Medicine King Mountain's origin; each year, the various spirit pills produced by Medicine King Mountain are quickly purchased by other major sects from various states, often in short supply.

Spirit pills like Medicine King Mountain's Jade Essence Pill and Red Sun Pill are hard currencies equivalent to spirit stones.

High-quality spirit pills can be exchanged for various cultivation resources at inflated prices in markets and auction houses, and they are highly sought after.

Disciples of Medicine King Mountain, when traveling, don't need to carry spirit stones; they simply carry spirit pills with them.

Currently, Medicine King Mountain boasts an alchemy grandmaster, three alchemy masters, over a dozen alchemists, and hundreds of alchemists.

The status of any alchemist is no worse than that of inner sect disciples, and even enough to stand on equal footing with true disciples.

Regardless of whether the person is male or female, young or old, their identity, or cultivation level.

As for alchemy masters... they are able to refine great medicines and spirit pills required by great powers of Yin Spirit and Yang Spirit, along with various spirit pills.

Their status is extraordinary, ranking even higher than the positions of the nine elders!

Even the sect leader must treat them with courtesy and respect.

The status of the alchemy grandmaster is naturally even higher, capable of refining outer medicinal spirit pills required by Primordial Spirit True Immortals.

According to He Ling True Master, this alchemy grandmaster is Supreme Elder Danxia Ancestor from the sect lineage.

This Ancestor is a Yang Spirit great power, although in cultivation and divine techniques not as formidable as another Supreme Elder from the family faction, Purple Peak Lord, yet due to holding another identity as "alchemy grandmaster," both the family faction and sect lineage remain restrained despite overt and covert conflicts, never reaching the point of tearing faces.

The reason Gu Yuan wants to learn alchemy consists of three factors.

Firstly, possessing many skills does no harm, and after learning alchemy, he can refine pills himself to nurture the five little ones, accelerating their growth; he also requires various external medicines for his cultivation.

The higher the cultivation level, the more cultivation resources are needed, relying solely on the sect's provisions is somewhat unrealistic, as Gu Yuan doesn't hold a high position after all.

So what he can rely on is himself.

With alchemy, he can refine spirit pills to exchange for other cultivation resources.

The second reason is that Medicine King Mountain values alchemy greatly, having originated from it.

If he can demonstrate substantial talent in the Alchemy Dao, becoming an alchemist or even an alchemy master, the internal voices against him within the sect lineage would disappear immediately.

Even the family factions would likely go to great lengths to win him over, not daring to offend him easily.

As for the third reason.

Alchemy is the path of outer elixir, while Golden Core refers to the inner elixir method.

The ancient Daoist sects have a lineage that practices the inner elixir method, with nine revolutions altogether.

The first revolution is Golden Core Great Cultivator, the third revolution is Dragon Gate Yang Spirit, the sixth revolution is Primordial Spirit True Immortal, and ascension. The ninth revolution can achieve the Dao Fruit of Transcendence in the Immortal Realm, becoming Immortal!

The current cultivation system has borrowed from the inner elixir method, with Golden Core followed by Yin Spirit, and Yin Spirit followed by Yang Spirit.

The external elixir path and inner Dao skill have many similar and interconnected points.

If he can become an alchemist, then forge a Golden Core in the future, the likelihood of forming an upper-grade pill increases by three to two percent.

If Gu Yuan becomes an alchemy master, even if the time comes to form a first-grade pill, it's definitely very possible!

In fact, alchemy provides countless benefits for achieving inner Golden Core.

It's equivalent to simulating the Golden Core formation process many times in advance, although with several deviations, yet with many similar points.

Therefore, Gu Yuan has ample reasons to learn alchemy.

Furthermore, having the Spirit Pet System allows him to acquire talents by taming spirit pets.

Even if this Spirit Pill doesn't have a talent that aids in alchemy, in this vast world, there are always unique demons or spirit beasts with special talents beneficial to alchemy.

In the worst-case scenario, there are spirit objects like the Fire Crow, which help with fire control, and the Cyan Carp, which aids in water control.

Even medicinal kings like Ginseng Dolls and Ganoderma Horses can help him familiarize himself with medicinal properties.

By simply taming spirit objects, Gu Yuan can naturally acquire their talents.

Currently, in the cultivation realm, true flame refining is mainstream; however, water refining is also an exceptional method.

The water's gentle and lingering nature doesn't share the explosive heat characteristics of fire, making it even more convenient in tempering medicinal properties and eliminating impurities.

Now, seeing this red-quality spirit pet Spirit Pill, Gu Yuan faintly feels that he hasn't guessed wrong.

Just unsure of the origins behind the name "Thousand-Change Pill Spirit," and why it's called this.

"Tame!"

As soon as Gu Yuan's words fell, he felt a surge of his spiritual power being drawn out, which condensed into a seemingly illusory talisman, falling into the Spirit Pill.

Today, Gu Yuan's cultivation and perception are vastly improved, already capable of seeing that this talisman is ancient and mysterious, faintly emitting a primeval aura.

This is a mysterious talisman that Gu Yuan has heard of before, possessing unfathomable power, which once condensed, directly pins into the source of the Spirit Pill and disappears.

Evidently, the mystery of the Spirit Pet System is beyond Gu Yuan's understanding.

Even now, Gu Yuan cannot ascertain its essence or origin.

Then...

[Tame successful, you have obtained the pet Thousand-Change Pill Spirit!]

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