"Mmm, caution is never wrong; it was my negligence this time..."
Mu Jinyu didn't argue further with Su Zijin, after all, it was her mother.
Seeing Mu Jinyu's response, Su Zijin felt that she might have been a bit too harsh.
Her original intention was just to remind Mu Jinyu to be more careful, but now it seemed like her plan backfired and she might have hurt Mu Jinyu's feelings.
Seeing this, Su Zijin wanted to explain.
Mu Jinyu waved her hand and said, "Mom, you don't need to explain, I understand what you're saying, and I'm not hurt. I'll go back to pill refining."
Of course, Mu Jinyu wasn't upset by Su Zijin's lack of trust. Elderly people, after reaching a certain age, often get suspicious, which is quite normal; understanding is all that's needed.
When Su Zijin heard Mu Jinyu's words, she instantly felt much better and stopped trying to explain, so as not to delay Mu Jinyu's alchemy.
However, if she knew what Mu Jinyu was thinking, considering her a suspicious old witch, probably she wouldn't be worried about hurting Mu Jinyu's feelings but rather would be on the verge of losing her temper and giving Mu Jinyu a good beating!
After appeasing Su Zijin, Mu Jinyu ran to the medicine field to continue collecting various Spiritual Medicines.
Of course, if some elixir formulas required Spiritual Medicines not available in the medicine field, Mu Jinyu would send a message to Mu Hongchen, asking her to transport these medicinal materials.
In these rare peaceful days, Dragon King Hall naturally collected various medicinal materials, Spiritual Medicines, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and so on from all over the country, even the whole world...
Therefore, Dragon King Hall currently has a lot of medicinal material in stock, enough for Mu Jinyu to try refining each pill formula in her hand and test their effects.
Soon, Mu Hongchen delivered all sorts of medicinal materials specified by Mu Jinyu.
Having collected almost all she needed, Mu Jinyu held the pile of Spiritual Medicines, returned to the side of the Shennong Cauldron, lifted the lid, and according to another Pill Formula, she began throwing in the required ingredients into the Pill Furnace, one by one, commencing the alchemy process.
"Clang!"
It was about an hour or so.
The Shennong Cauldron once again burst into a radiant red light, which flickered before subsiding.
Mu Jinyu lifted the lid, and the rich Dan Fragrance hit her nose once again.
"Not bad at all, this time five pills were formed!"
Mu Jinyu saw five rounded elixirs inside the Shennong Cauldron and couldn't help but be delighted.
The Pill Scripture recorded that the highest achievement was to refine nine elixirs with nine Pill Patterns.
When Mu Jinyu previously refined the Minor Nourishing Yuan Pills, in her view, it was relatively unsuccessful, only yielding three pills with three Pill Patterns.
But now that she had refined the Qingling Pill, with five pills formed, it was clear there had been some progress.
Mu Jinyu stretched out her hand to beckon, taking the five Qingling Pills out of the Shennong Cauldron.
"Oh, there's also one with four Pill Patterns, nice..."
Upon a quick glance, Mu Jinyu saw that among the five Qingling Pills, four of the elixirs had only three Pill Patterns, but one more plump elixir had four Pill Patterns.
This immediately lifted her mood.
If this second batch of refined elixirs increased in quantity but the Pill Patterns didn't improve, Mu Jinyu would still feel quite disappointed, as after all, quality is more important than quantity.
One Qingling Pill with four Pill Patterns could equal several with just three Pill Patterns!
Holding the four-Pill Pattern Qingling Pill, Mu Jinyu turned her head toward Jian Ruyan with a smug expression, "See, see, didn't I say fine elixirs aren't hard to come by?"
Jian Ruyan was already stunned upon seeing the four-Pill Pattern Qingling Pill in Mu Jinyu's hand, speechless.
Waves of shock and disbelief rose in her heart, feeling that it was simply too incredible.
On her first attempt at alchemy, Gu Xiyan had produced a fine quality elixir with three pill patterns, and on the second attempt, not only did the quantity increase to five pills, but one of them was even a fine elixir with four pill patterns!
Mu Jinyu's talent in the alchemy dao was monstrous, wasn't it?
As for Gu Xiyan and the others, they didn't understand much about elixirs and simply felt that Mu Jinyu was very impressive, having increased the number to five pills on his second try, and one of them was a fine elixir.
They had no idea what this represented.
In the current Kunlun Ruins, for someone to produce five pills in a single alchemy session, with the lowest being fine quality and the highest being fine elixirs, was such a terrifying pill production rate that even the "Pill King" couldn't achieve it.
The first Pill King of Kunlun Ruins had once, at the peak of his condition, produced a batch of fourth-grade pills, ending up with six pills, two waste pills, two with two pill patterns, one with three pill patterns, and one with four pill patterns...
And that, was the pinnacle of his achievements.
Ever since that time, although he had produced fine elixirs with four pill patterns, he had never managed to produce as many fine quality pills!
Mostly, it would be one fine elixir with four pill patterns, with the rest being waste pills, or on a good day, he might be lucky to have one or two fine quality pills with a single pill pattern.
Mu Jinyu's achievements were completely outdoing that Pill King!
And this was only Mu Jinyu's second attempt at alchemy!
This was the reason Jian Ruyan was stunned on the spot.
Mu Jinyu himself didn't understand all of these details, but seeing Jian Ruyan's dumbfounded gaze, he felt proud but also somewhat puzzled. Was it really worth such astonishment?
It was just forming five pills and one of them with four pill patterns, was there really a need to be so shocked?
Mu Jinyu felt that his current state wasn't even that good, and since he had only refined pills twice, his touch, control of the true fire, and timing weren't perfect yet.
Most of the medicinal liquid had evaporated away under the true fire because he hadn't mastered the timing, wasting it before it could form into pills!
Once he got familiar with the steps of alchemy, he estimated that he could improve to producing nine pills in a session, all of them having four or five pill patterns!
And when he figured out how to better merge the medicinal liquid without damaging the potency during pill formation, he guessed it wouldn't be difficult to add a few more pill patterns, making seven pill patterns top-quality elixirs very achievable.
"You..." Jian Ruyan finally snapped out of her shock, her lips twitching a few times, not wanting Mu Jinyu to gloat, but also wanting to know what would follow, so she said, "Refine a few more batches for me to see."
"Sure."
Mu Jinyu was feeling good about his touch and knew it would get smoother and quicker with more practice, so even if Jian Ruyan hadn't said anything, he was prepared to start on the next batch.
Soon, Mu Jinyu cleared out the residue left in the pill furnace and then added medicine and spiritual herbs again, continuing to refine elixirs.
"Boom!!"
The flames roared to life, enveloping the Shennong Cauldron.
Mu Jinyu's earlier feeling was not mistaken, it wasn't an illusion, his touch was getting better, and this time he succeeded in just half an hour!
"Clang!"
Mu Jinyu lifted the lid of the furnace, the fragrance of the pills wafted out, and then he took out all the formed pills.
Jian Ruyan was dumbfounded once again.
This time, Mu Jinyu had produced seven pills, three fine quality elixirs with three pill patterns, two fine elixirs with four pill patterns, and the last two pills were both fine elixirs with five pill patterns!
It was simply unbelievable.
Jian Ruyan's mouth hung open so wide it looked as though it could fit an ostrich egg!