The Undying Immortal System

Without having concocted an Improved pill successfully, aiming to complete a Superior pill at high efficacy in eighteen months seemed implausible. I wasn’t going to let that stop me.

I began to feel more and more that the other disciples here were being held back by their lack of drive. Most spent a lot of time just enjoying themselves. I couldn’t blame them though. This was a steady, safe life. People here had homes, food, entertainment, and steady work. It wouldn’t be wrong to come here and just… live.

I needed to stay focused though. If this had been my only life, I might have been willing to just settle down here too, but I needed to prepare for the distant future.

Bao didn’t have much advice for me. He could still only make Improved pills, and he told me I was doing everything he could think to do. Cao told me basically the same thing. She was good at teaching cultivation, but her pill refining was lacking.

I wanted to find another private teacher, but the ones that could make High-Purity Superior pills spent their time concocting, not teaching. That’s when I began signing up for public lessons. I didn’t have another choice.

My days were filled with lessons, pill practice, and a mad scramble for points to pay for everything. In time, I was able to concoct Improved pills to a high purity. After that, I started making High-Purity Improved pills to fund everything.

Advancing to Martial Master was a boon. It helped provide me with more energy to keep pushing. I was always short on energy.

I considered using alchemy to help me with the energy problem but decided it wouldn’t work. My basic reasoning was that Qi Gathering pills were great, but they were only really useful when cultivating and shouldn’t be used when making pills. They increased the speed I gathered qi too much over too short a period of time.

I considered looking into whether there was a different pill I could potentially make to help me here, but I knew that every other Rank 1 pill was nearly useless. It wasn’t worth the effort.