Chapter 34: Alchemy Promotion, Letter from Qingyang
After getting the alchemy book, Chen Nianzhi couldn't wait to improve his alchemy skills and was unwilling to stay in Yuyangfang any longer. He left Yuyangfang early the next morning.
After returning to Lingzhou Lake, he spent two months studying the elixir book in detail several times before starting to make elixirs.
He is naturally gifted and already has some confidence in refining Qi Restoration Pills. Now that he has obtained the elixir book from his seniors, he is even more confident.
The refining of the Qi Restoration Pill lasted for three days. The first two days of refining the elixir went very smoothly. He used warm fire to refine the medicinal materials and produced six portions of the elixir.
On the third day, Chen Nianzhi, who was sitting in front of the alchemy furnace, showed a solemn look. Now that the essence of the alchemy liquid had been refined, it was the critical moment for it to condense into an elixir.
"Success or failure depends on this moment."
Chen Nianzhi whispered and activated the alchemy technique to condense the elixir. As the elixir furnace trembled, three of the six elixir liquids turned into smoke.
He ignored his heartache and concentrated on condensing liquid into elixirs, and finally three elixirs were successfully condensed.
Chen Nianzhi hurriedly activated his energy, opened the furnace cover, and then saw three crystal clear pills flying out.
"It's done!"
He grabbed the three pills and his face was filled with joy.
The first time he refined a first-grade high-grade elixir, he actually produced three elixirs. The result was beyond Chen Nianzhi's expectations.
When an ordinary person refines first-level high-grade elixirs for the first time, most of them only have a 10% to 20% success rate. He thought it was a surprise that he could refine two of them, but he didn't expect that he could refine three of them in one furnace. p>
"Three pills can be made in one pot. Although it has something to do with luck, it also means that I have accumulated a lot."
"With my alchemy skills, if I make a few more high-grade elixirs, I should be able to far surpass Uncle Qingmeng."
Chen Nianzhi said to himself lightly. He had read Chen Qingmeng's notes and could probably tell that Chen Qingmeng's level was probably about the same as him.
After practicing the Qi Restoration Pill, his practice continued to calm down.
In the following time, after he inhaled the Hongmeng Purple Qi every day, he would refine his own meridians and improve his alchemy skills.
Occasionally play the piano, feed the spiritual fish and purple geese, and raise various spiritual flowers and spiritual grass. My life is peaceful and peaceful.
Until two months later, Chen Nianzhi was feeding the second brood of purple-striped geese that had just hatched, when he saw a black hawk flying over in the sky.
"Messenger Eagle."
When the messenger eagle landed in front of him, he took off the letter that the eagle had grasped, took a look at it, and put it away with a solemn expression.
"Did something happen over there at Qingyuan Mountain?"
Chen Changyan grabbed a handful of spiritual rice and fed it to the eagle. Seeing his strange expression, he couldn't help but ask.
Chen Nianzhi nodded, teased the little purple-striped goose in front of him, and then said.
"News from Qingyang Sect."
"Uncle Qingyuan sent a letter back, and the family asked me to go back and discuss it."
"Qingyuan." Chen Changyan's expression moved slightly, revealing a bit of joy: "Did he get the Foundation Establishment Pill?"
"The specific situation was not mentioned in the letter. We still have to go back to Qingyuan Mountain to find out."
Chen Nianzhi clapped his hands, feeling that the matter was not that simple, otherwise the third elder would not have let him go back to discuss it.
"It seems that I still have to go back to Qingyuan Mountain. During this period, I hope you can take care of Lingzhou Lake for me."
The old uncle nodded: "As long as I am here, you can rest assured here."
"..."
When Chen Nianzhi returned to Qingyuan Mountain, he found that except for the elder who was in charge of Pingyang Town, all the senior officials of the family had arrived.
In the clan affairs hall, five elders of the ninth level of Qi training, including the second elder Chen Qinghe, the third elder Chen Qinghao, the fourth elder Chen Qingyuan, the fifth elder Chen Qingwan and Chen Nianzhi, all arrived.
When the third elder saw Chen Nianzhi, he smiled and nodded, and then said.
"Now that everyone is here, let me talk about it."
"Not long ago, Qingyuan received news from the Qingyang Sect's trustee, saying that the Qingyang Sect had refined three furnaces of Foundation Building Pills not long ago."
When everyone heard this, they all showed joy.
The Qingyang Sect will refine a batch of foundation-building pills every ten years, with about three or five furnaces made each time. This is also the biggest opportunity for the Qingyang Sect's Qi-training monks.
The second elder, Chen Qinghe, held up his long beard and said with a big smile: "Among our Qing generation, Qingyuan Immortal Yuan is the best."
Chen Nianzhi listened quietly. As a family elder, he knew the reason for everyone's joy.
Because the Qingyang Sect, the largest sect in Chu State, owes the Chen family a foundation-building pill.
This matter has to start from sixty years ago. The monster rebellion broke out more than sixty years ago. In order to fight against the monsters, Qingyang Sect, the largest sect of Chu State, recruited monks from three states in Chu State to join the war.
At that time, in order to allow the human monks to put aside their past grievances and work together to fight against the monsters, Qingyang Sect made a contract with the major immortal clans and casual cultivators in Qingyang Mountain.
According to the contract, all harvests from this battle, including monster materials and inner elixirs, will be distributed uniformly by the Qingyang Sect.
After the battle, Qingyang Sect will refine these materials into magic weapons and foundation-building pills, and distribute them to the monks who participated in the battle according to their merits.
In this distribution process, the Qingyang Sect won the largest share of the profits, and naturally had to bear the losses of the battle.
Therefore, there is a special stipulation in the contract. If a Foundation-Building monk dies in the mouth of a monster in a battle, the Qingyang Sect must compensate the family behind them with a Foundation-Building Pill.
This rule is also to prevent foundation-building monks from being greedy for life and afraid of death, so that they do not work hard.
And this contract was later called the Qingyang Alliance by the Chu Immortal Cultivation Circle.
The Qingyang Alliance is essentially good, but some people will always be cautious when it comes to interests.
In that battle, the elite members of the Chen Clan's Immortal Clan were wiped out overnight. Not only did the two foundation-building monks die, but even the Purple Sun Jade's whereabouts were unknown.
Such a huge loss is simply unacceptable, but the Qingyang Sect used the excuse that no one saw them being killed by monsters, circumvented the Qingyang Alliance's treaty, and refused to pay them the Foundation Establishment Pill. p>
At that time, seven or eight immortal clans, including the Chen Clan, suffered great losses as a result and have been unable to recover since then.
This matter was a big deal at that time, and more than a dozen Foundation-building Immortal clans raised objections together for fear of dying.
Later, Patriarch Jiang of Tianxu Mountain intervened, and the Qingyang Sect relented and expressed its willingness to compensate for half of the losses.
It is worth mentioning that since then, Ancestor Jiang’s status in the Chu Kingdom has skyrocketed, and many immortal cultivators respect her more than the Qingyang Sect.
Closer to home, the Qingyang Sect agreed to supply the Chen family with a Foundation-Building Pill, but required that those who use the Foundation-Building Pill must join the Qingyang Sect from a young age.
For this Foundation Building Pill, the family had no choice but to let Chen Qingyuan, the most talented person in the Qing generation, join the Qingyang Sect since he was a child.
Chen Qingyuan has dual spiritual roots of fire and earth, and his cultivation speed is second only to the heavenly spiritual root and the foreign spiritual root. He has extraordinary talents and has broken through to the ninth level of Qi training as early as the age of twenty-nine.