Immortal Cultivation and Longevity: Starting with Refining Pills

The Golden Elixir Lifespan is 400 years, which is the shortest I've read in cultivation novels 🙂. The protagonist needs a Breakthrough Pill of Grade 1 (medium quality) to break through from Qi Refining Level 6 to Qi Refining Level 7. Is there something wrong with that? Shouldn't it be Grade 1 (high quality)?

I always feel that writing novels still requires some logic, even if it is cheating. Just like this refined elixir. Logically speaking, the elixir is useless, which means that the formula and certain medicinal materials in it have been burned and you refined it. Its formula is also incomplete and there is no way it can be used as an elixir.

It's been a long time since I've seen the traditional golden finger. Finally, it's not a daily settlement on the panel. God rewards those who work hard. This kind of shitty thing.

This kind of novel, where someone with low aptitude can take off just by taking drugs, doesn't conform to the most basic logic. If taking drugs were all it takes, then second-generation immortals and alchemists would have been kings long ago. If you can succeed by taking drugs, why can't others?

The other novels are all about the Xuanjian school of thought, so highbrow and sophisticated, I don't understand them, they feel so pretentious and empty. I wanted to read about ordinary people, but they're all too formulaic and repetitive.

Isn't this cheat system from the game "Hundred Refinements to Immortality"?

Has anyone seen this? Isn't it going to involve some kind of body-refining boiling water again? All this cultivation stuff follows the same template: body-refining and boiling water. To make the water seem valuable, they even introduced garbage settings like body cultivators being tougher and stronger than magic weapons.

I have a question: Given the current meta of mortal cultivation, is a "fake core" (or a half-step Golden Core at the peak of Foundation Establishment) or the weakest Golden Core? This is very important!! And if it's the weakest Golden Core, what about an external core? It's also a very weak Golden Core, right? I'd like to discuss this with everyone to avoid getting flamed later. Thank you all.

Refining discarded pills is an old trick. Why not refine the spiritual energy from the corpses of cultivators or demonic beasts, or extract their spiritual roots? The setting is to remove impurities. Wouldn't it be better to refine oneself instead?

The setting of this cheat ability is good; it's not too big or too small. You don't have to work yourself to the bone every day, but you also can't just give up and lie low.