You continued to study pill refining through the system while cultivating at the same time.

The Nine Condensations Profound Skill greatly improved your martial talent.

Your cultivation encountered no bottlenecks.

The process was extremely smooth.

Before long, you completed your second condensation of true qi.

The power of your externalized true qi reached an epic-level enhancement.

Your externalized true qi could now break through the defenses of mid-stage Bone Tempering warriors.

The release range expanded to six zhang, approximately over twenty meters.

This range was quite far.

Although your practical pill refining skills did not improve much,

the pill refining insights taught by Xie Huide gave you great inspiration.

Many previously confusing aspects were now effortlessly understood,

as if years of constipation suddenly cleared.

You realized you had taken many detours in refining Blood Qi Pills before.

On the surface, Xie Huide appeared indifferent to you,

but in fact, he held you in high regard.

Every time he explained pill refining techniques, he was very thorough.

Moreover, he only cared about your pill refining,

never prying into your daily affairs.

While learning pill refining, you also touched on some medical theory.

Pill refining and medicine were actually similar.

Both required a thorough understanding of the human body to apply the right treatment.

The top pill refiners in Danxia Sect were also skilled physicians.

In your third year, you had been in Danxia Sect for eight months.

One day, Xie Huide called you to his courtyard.

He wanted to check your pill refining progress.

Your test results when you entered were impressive,

but a master of pill refining like Xie Huide did not care much about that.

The longer he taught you, the more he understood you.

Your decades of self-taught pill refining experience clashed with Xie Huide’s own experience.

Sometimes you even gave him new ideas and inspiration.

Gradually, Xie Huide realized you truly were a pill refining genius,

just on the wrong path.

This made him cherish your talent.

He was trying his best to guide you back on the right track.

Based on his understanding of you,

he estimated you had already achieved a great mastery level in refining a first-grade pill.

Xie Huide was reclining in a rocking chair in the courtyard, leisurely basking in the sun.

He gently waved the palm fan in his hand and said, “Tiezhu, for the three first-grade pills, have you reached great mastery in any of them?”

You calmly replied, “I have great mastery in the Poxuan Pill and Jinming Pill. The progress on Yangsha Pill is poor, just beginning.”

In fact, your mastery in all three first-grade pills was already great.

Your proficiency in the Poxuan Pill was even perfect.

But to avoid causing a stir, you concealed your true progress.

You discovered you indeed had a natural talent for pill refining.

You were a genuine pill refining prodigy.

“You have great mastery in two first-grade pills?” Xie Huide suddenly sat upright in his rocking chair.

He had expected you to master only one first-grade pill.

He never imagined you had mastered two,

and the third was already initiated.

“Yes, Master,” you replied.

Suddenly serious, Xie Huide said, “Tiezhu, there’s no faking this!”

You said firmly, “If I ever lie, from now on, Zhao Tiezhu will explode every pill refining furnace he uses!”

Xie Huide stopped your oath and said, “Tiezhu, it’s not that I don’t believe you, but pill refining needs proof.”

You knew he wanted you to demonstrate.

You immediately took out your pill furnace, arranged everything, and began refining.

You refined two fresh batches on the spot.

The output rate of the Poxuan Pill and Jinming Pill indeed reached great mastery.

Xie Huide was overjoyed. “Excellent! Just like my glory days!”

He immediately gave you his own written book “True Explanation of Pill Refining.”

This was a summary of his decades of pill refining experience, extremely valuable.

It could help you avoid many detours.

You took it back and studied day and night for three days and nights.

During these three days, you even set aside your favorite cultivation.

This book greatly benefited you.

Your understanding of pill refining and medicine reached a higher level.

But outside, you still pretended to be a clueless newbie.

In the third year,

after finishing Xie Huide’s “True Explanation of Pill Refining,”

you felt terrifyingly strong.

You took a third-grade pill recipe directly from the Transmission Pavilion.

Confidently, you began refining.

But after a month, your record was still 0-10.

You refined for a month without producing a single pill.

You had slightly overestimated your pill refining talent.

Luckily, your perseverance was strong.

You continued refining third-grade pills.

One day, feeling the time was right,

you revealed your great mastery in the third first-grade pill, Yangsha Pill, to Xie Huide.

Xie Huide happily gave you the Blood Qi Pill recipe.

He also explained the precautions for refining Blood Qi Pills.

Compared to other first-grade pills, the difficulty of refining Blood Qi Pills was several orders of magnitude higher.

If you had zero experience, you would be mostly clueless.

But your success rate for refining Blood Qi Pills was actually perfect every time.

Refining Blood Qi Pills was effortless for you.

You even felt like laughing.

Feigning unfamiliarity, you began refining.

In truth, you were not refining Blood Qi Pills at all.

You focused entirely on cultivation.

Pill refining was just auxiliary.

The sandbag-sized fists were the real truth.

In the fourth year,

you spent the whole year cultivating martial arts.

You completed your fourth condensation of true qi.

As an early-stage Marrow Washing cultivator, you could now easily defeat mid-stage Essence Refining warriors!

You revealed your hidden cultivation to late-stage Skin Refining.

At the same time, you revealed your proficiency in Blood Qi Pills to Initial Achievement.

Seeing your outstanding talent in both martial arts and pill refining, Xie Huide was very pleased.

He took you to meet Deng Rusong, the sect leader of Danxia Sect.

You thought something important was going to be said,

but Deng Rusong only casually chatted with you a few sentences.

You were confused.

Later, you found out

this meant Xie Huide intended to cultivate you as his successor.

Bringing you before Deng Rusong was to let the sect leader recognize you.

From that day on, you became a direct disciple of Danxia Sect.

Your ordinary token was replaced with a more exquisite one, marking your elevated status.

There were over four hundred disciples in the entire Danxia Sect.

Only sixteen were direct disciples.

This status was extremely precious.

After returning, you continued studying third-grade pill refining.

Your theoretical knowledge of pill refining was very rich.

Your understanding of human anatomy was also very accurate.

Suddenly, you thought of creating your own pill.

All the existing pills were created by predecessors.

If your theoretical knowledge was sufficient,

you should be able to create pills yourself.

You did it without hesitation.

You refined a batch of ten self-created pills.

The pill’s effect was to induce a berserk state lasting three breaths.

You were unsure if the pill was successful and did not dare try it yourself.

You gathered a litter of white rabbits for testing.

You fed one rabbit a pill.

The effect was excellent—the rabbit exploded into a pool of blood on the spot.

Unwilling to accept defeat, you fed another rabbit the pill.

That rabbit’s eyes instantly filled with blood veins and it went into a frenzy of lust.

It did not care about gender, randomly mounted another rabbit’s rear, and attacked at maximum speed,

forcing the other rabbits to flee in panic.

You threw all the pills into the cage.

The rabbits went crazy after eating them,

biting and tearing each other apart.

The cage became a chaotic battlefield.

Obviously, your self-created pill was a failure.

But it seemed you had created a powerful poison.

You did not know if it would have such deadly effects on humans.

You planned to find a few lucky test subjects to experiment on later.

Besides the self-created pill,

during your free time outside cultivation, you kept refining third-grade pills.

You faced all the problems in third-grade pill refining on your own.

You did not dare ask Xie Huide.

After all, you had only revealed your proficiency in second-grade Blood Qi Pills at Initial Achievement.

Suddenly asking him about third-grade pills would seem awkward.

In the sixth year,

your schedule was very tight over the past two years.

You had to focus on cultivating your skill and raising your level.

You also needed to condense true qi.

You had to refine third-grade pills.

And you had to devote some energy to exploring self-created pills.

You wished there were twenty-four hours in a day to use.

You considered yourself a master of time management.

You had consumed most of the Internal Spirit Pills stored in your space.

But the effort brought rewards.

Your Wild Heaven Saber Technique broke through to mid-stage Marrow Washing.

You condensed true qi five times.

Your real combat power reached late-stage Essence Refining.

No one would guess that a pill refiner like you knew some boxing skills.

You also revealed your proficiency in Blood Qi Pills to minor achievement.

Once you reached great mastery,

you would qualify to receive the Internal Spirit Pill recipe.

It was not far off.

Xie Huide was very satisfied with your progress.

He called you over and said he had something to tell you.