Not everyone can refine elixirs. If everyone could refine elixirs, then there would be alchemists everywhere in the world.
Wanting to become an alchemist naturally requires some skills and thresholds, but these are not the most important. The most important are two talents.
Shang Wang has been refining elixirs for decades, but he can only produce third-grade elixirs at best, and they are ordinary third-grade elixirs.
Some of the more complex third-grade elixirs, such as the Rejuvenation Pill, the Life-Prolonging Pill, and the Immortality Pill, are quite difficult to refine. The average third-grade alchemist cannot refine them at all, and even some fourth-grade alchemists have not been able to refine them 100% successfully. of certainty.
Therefore, alchemy is a highly sophisticated technical activity that requires both talent and understanding.
The two most important conditions for alchemy are talent and understanding.
Talent is something that is already determined at birth, even before you are born. After all, no one has the right to choose their parents.
Comprehension is an illusory thing. Enlightenment is a person's cognition and understanding of the world. Some people may be born with good understanding, while others can also improve their understanding due to acquired training.
Generally speaking, it is difficult to know who has and who does not have this thing called comprehension.
Some people have very poor talent in cultivation, but are good at alchemy. Some people have very high talent in cultivation, and can break through realms very quickly, but are a mess in alchemy.
As the saying goes, people cannot be judged by appearance, and sea water cannot be measured. There are many people who hide their secrets.
God seems to be fair about this, but nothing is absolute. There are also those who are monsters in cultivation and geniuses in alchemy, so who can say for sure!
After all, a person is an independent individual. If you can get anything by forcing yourself, then there may not be so much resentment and unfairness in the world.
Shang Wang is one of those people who is not very talented in cultivation, but is relatively good at alchemy. He is only relatively good at it. Compared with those so-called geniuses, there is still a big gap.
But if you look at a small county town, it's different. Although the merchants are now in decline, Shang Wang's status in Shanghai City is still quite high. After all, not everyone can enter the Pill Association.
The Alchemy Association is a very special organization. It does not belong to any country or force. It is an organization formed voluntarily by alchemists in the cultivation world. After countless generations of outstanding alchemists, it gradually formed an organization that now spreads across the entire Shenyan Continent. Transcendental organization, the Elixir Society.
The Alchemy Association is a paradise for alchemists. Anyone who dreams of becoming an excellent alchemist will choose to join the Alchemy Association.
Not only does the Alchemy Association provide high remuneration, but once certified as an alchemist, the person's value will also increase.
What follows will be invitations from various forces, and the forces invited will be different depending on the level of the alchemist.
A good bird chooses the right tree to rest. This is a two-way selection process. A powerful alchemist will definitely attract competition from all major forces, so the importance of the alchemist can be seen.
Shang Wang heard that Guo Xun was very interested in alchemy and said he wanted to learn it. Naturally, Shang Wang would not miss such a good opportunity.
I still have some understanding of geniuses and business prospects, which are simply not comparable to the juniors trained by their families.
Take Shang Fei as an example. Although he broke through to the eighth level of foundation building at the age of twenty-four, he is far behind compared with the disciples of those major sects.
Those genius disciples of truly top sects, some of whom are evildoers, even started practicing at the age of fourteen to build the foundation in just one year, enter the elixir condensation stage in three years, and reach the goal they pursue in life, the golden elixir stage, before they are thirty years old.
Now, in Shang Wang's eyes, Guo Xun is completely a disciple of a large sect, even a very talented disciple. The reason is very simple, because he cannot see through Guo Xun's realm.
There are generally two ways for a person to know the realm of others. One is for others to take the initiative to tell you, and the other is to judge the realm of others by detecting other people's breath through spiritual consciousness.
This second method is actually just guessing. Because there is a rough measurement standard, you can generally judge a person's state by breath.
Although Guo Xun's level is lower than Shang Wang's, Shang Wang's spiritual consciousness is not as powerful as Guo Xun's. If Guo Xun deliberately hides Shang Wang, it would be impossible to tell.
Shang Wang was a little curious about Guo Xun's state, so he asked: "What state are you in now?"
The question Shang Wang asked immediately attracted the attention of Shang Yan and Shang Tian.
Shang Tian was a little surprised. He had used his spiritual consciousness to explore Guo Xun's realm before, but found nothing in the end. Although he said in his heart that he didn't want to dwell on this issue, after all, it was also one of other people's privacy.
But this doesn't mean that Shang Tian doesn't want to know. When he heard Shang Wang's words, Shang Tian became interested.
Shang Yan looked at Guo Xun quietly from the side. He also wanted to know Guo Xun's level. Shang Yan was sure that Guo Xun's level must be higher than his, but he didn't know how much higher it was.
Guo Xun was a little confused about whether to reveal his state of affairs. After all, Shang Tian used his spiritual consciousness to probe him just now, and he knew it, but Guo Xun didn't know whether these people had any malicious intentions.
Shang Wang looked at Guo Xun's hesitant look and said with a smile: "You don't have to mind too much. Just forget it if you don't want to say it. Anyway, you don't need to be at a high level to make alchemy. You only need to reach the foundation building stage to be able to use your spiritual consciousness. "
After Shang Wang finished speaking, he pretended to be a little regretful, which made Guo Xun feel dizzy.
In the end, Guo Xun chose to surrender, "My cultivation talent is too poor. Someone once said that my qualifications are completely inferior, so I just broke through the pill condensation stage not long ago!"
A hint of gloom flashed in Guo Xun's eyes.
"Ah! You are indeed in the pill condensation stage. Have you practiced any spells or secret techniques that can hide your realm?"
Guo Xun was stunned for a moment, and then he figured out why Shang Wang asked this question.
"I have indeed practiced a spell that hides my realm, so that people with the same realm as me cannot discover my realm."
Shang Wang suddenly realized, "That's it!"
Shang Tian and Shang Yan sat aside dumbfounded. They never expected that the handsome young man in front of them, who was less than twenty years old, actually had the cultivation level of the pill condensation stage, and also practiced the magic that can hide the realm. .
What's even more irritating is that this man actually said that his cultivation talent was poor, and Shang Yan wanted to beat Guo Xun.
damn it! I built the second level of the Foundation at the age of twenty-five, but you actually reached the Core Condensation stage before you were twenty! Do you still want me to live? You are too irritating!
Shang Wang became more and more curious about Guo Xun, "I wonder where you studied?"
The corners of Guo Xun's mouth curved. He had answered this question before, and he was very good at answering it.
"My master is Taoist Wuyou from Zixu Mountain. I went down the mountain to practice this time just to find opportunities. I didn't expect that I encountered some dangers when passing through the Biluo River, so I ended up in the current situation."
