JSCMU-Chapter 154: Emotion Points Shortfall

The formula for the Heaven Mending Pill was an old, yellowed sheet of paper. Right now, it was carefully laid out by Yue Zhao in the center of the table.

Yun Jin silently recited, “System, scan.”

“Grade-seven pill recipe: Heaven Mending Pill. Ingredients: Clarity Fruit, Hundred-Spirit Leaf, Tianyuan Grass…”

Line after line, there were a staggering fifty-four kinds of ingredients.

This was, without a doubt, the most complex pill recipe Yun Jin had encountered so far.

Among them, there were five different kinds of auxiliary spiritual liquids alone. The other spiritual herbs also spanned all five elemental attributes. The process of refinement would not only be tedious but also extremely difficult.

These ingredients matched exactly what was written on the paper.

Yun Jin’s gaze went straight to the last button.

“Simplify.”

At this moment, the button was greyed out.

If she wanted to use basic simplification attempts, she wouldn’t be able to click it at all.

If she wanted to force a simplification, she could only use advanced attempts.

Yun Jin converted all available simplifications into advanced attempts. On the panel, only 60 advanced simplification attempts remained.

Yun Jin took a deep breath and asked, “System, what conditions must I fulfill to refine the Heaven Mending Pill?”

Soon.

The system gave a response.

“Host’s cultivation level is Third-Grade Golden Core Stage. Grade-seven pills generally require a seventh-rank alchemist to have a decent chance of success. For the host to refine the Heaven Mending Pill, firstly, the recipe must be simplified to its perfect form. Second, during the refinement, spiritual power must be maintained at Nascent Soul Stage. Under these conditions, the success rate will be 70%.”

Yun Jin slightly furrowed her brows.

Even after fulfilling both conditions, the success rate was still only 70%.

To ensure success, it would be best to prepare extra sets of materials.

Seeing Yun Jin frown, Yue Zhao and the others tensed up as well.

Is the grade seven pill truly too far-fetched?

Then.

Under their nervous stares, Yun Jin calmly said, “I have about seventy percent certainty. Eldest Senior Brother, we’ll probably need to prepare at least two sets of materials. That way the chance of success will be higher.”

“Oh… okay,” Yue Zhao reflexively replied. Then he looked at Yun Jin with shock.

How much certainty?

“Little Junior Sister, did you just say…” Si Wanning asked directly.

“Seventy percent,” Yun Jin replied calmly. “It’s not very high, but it’s the best we can manage for now.”

Yun Jin believed the system’s evaluation was already the optimal solution.

With her current cultivation, the probability likely couldn’t go any higher.

Seventy percent… and that’s not high?

Yue Zhao and the others looked at each other in disbelief, as if they heard wrong.

Yun Jin already started analyzing the system’s two conditions.

She might have a solution for the second condition.

She grasped the endlessly compounding Surging Wave Sword Intent within the Azure Lotus Sword Technique.

If this intent was applied to her spiritual power and continuously stacked, her strength should reach the level of Nascent Soul.

However, her body’s spiritual energy reserve was limited, and refining a grade seven pill took a long time. To maintain this power the entire time, she’d likely need to refine many spiritual power recovery pills and replenish instantly the moment she ran dry.

That problem was probably solvable.

Which left only the first one.

Perfect recipe!

“System, how many advanced simplification attempts are needed to perfect the recipe?”

The system quickly responded.

“Due to the excessive leap in grade, perfect simplification of this recipe requires 100 advanced simplification attempts.”

Yun Jin narrowed her eyes.

She had 60 now, meaning a shortfall of 40.

Only one month remained, so she had to close that gap as soon as possible!

Without the perfect recipe, she couldn’t know which ingredients in the original formula could be omitted.

“Eldest Senior Brother, how many ingredients from this recipe do we already have?” Yun Jin asked.

Yue Zhao composed himself and carefully compared the list before replying, “The Heaven Mending Pill is well-known. I’d heard of several required herbs even before we got the recipe and had already started collecting them over the years. Recently, I also traded a good amount from Baicao Pavilion… Out of the fifty-four ingredients, I’ve gathered forty-three. Still missing eleven.”

He listed out the forty-three ingredients he had.

Yue Zhao felt a bit anxious.

If Little Junior Sister could refine the Heaven Mending Pill but failed due to missing ingredients, he wouldn’t be able to forgive himself.

Yue Zhao quickly added, “I’ll try to gather the rest as fast as I can. Now that we know what we’re looking for, it should be more efficient.”

Yun Jin nodded, “Eldest Senior Brother, try to collect them all. I also need to make other preparations. These fifty-four ingredients might not all be necessary. Also, if no mature herbs are available, seeds will do. Plant them right away, and maybe we’ll make it in time.”

Yue Zhao nodded seriously.

“I’ll help too,” said Si Wanning. “I think I’ve heard of this Blue Smoke Grass somewhere. I’ll handle this one.”

Yu Songnian looked at the Sinking Gold Fruit on the list and also said, “This, I’ll go search for it.”

Clearly, he had leads of his own.

Now wasn’t the time for politeness. Yue Zhao directly agreed, “Alright, let’s each act independently. No matter what, we must get the materials ready.”

Everyone agreed, and quickly went their separate ways.

Yun Jin’s biggest task now was closing the remaining gap.

She worked hard thinking up strategies.

Currently, she’s a certified third-rank alchemist, but hadn’t yet taken the official exam.

Could she go show off at the marketplace again?

But that wouldn’t be too appropriate.

Her current visibility was too high. If her identity was locked down, it might not necessarily be dangerous, but she definitely wouldn’t be able to return to Tianxing Sect anymore.

Hmm. Should she go look for Ye Danxia to chat, have a heart-to-heart, and encourage her to keep courting death?

Yun Jin marked that as a backup plan, then continued thinking.

At that moment.

From her panel, crisp notification sounds of Emotion Points being credited started ringing one after another.

Yun Jin: “???”

What’s going on!

She hadn’t even gone out to show off yet!

Although over the past few days, she was sporadically getting Emotion Points, they were never this concentrated!

What happened?

This surge of growth lasted for quite a while, continuously dinging without stopping, until it added up to ten advanced simplification attempts, only then did they gradually stop.

Moreover, Yun Jin discovered.

This wave of Emotion Points.

They were all at 500!

Each and every one of them was 500!

There were only three possible explanations.

One was that each person’s emotional fluctuations were extremely strong.

Two, they were all carrying great fortune.

Three, their strength was very high!

The higher someone’s strength, the more Emotion Points they could provide under the same emotional fluctuation.

“System, where did these Emotion Points come from?” Yun Jin asked curiously.

The system’s mechanical voice sounded, “Four Great Holy Lands, Xuandan Sect!”

Yun Jin: “???”

The Four Great Holy Lands!

Xuandan Sect?

From so far away, why were they generating so many Emotion Points toward her?

At this moment, all was silent inside Xuandan Sect.