The original idea of opening an alchemy shop in Lingyuefang City, refining elixirs for people while secretly "deducting" the source of alchemy replenishment points, cannot be realized for the time being.
After joining the Lin family, he inquired about the shops in major cities and towns that were not so easy to rent. Sometimes they would rather leave them empty than rent them to others.
If Chen Qingyan wants to buy it, he can either do it in the name of the original founder family of the five ancient towns, or he can settle in as a Lingu monk.
For a mere outside disciple, a mere mortal, or a casual cultivator, to want to open a shop in a city is undoubtedly an idiot's dream.
This restriction disrupted an important arrangement of Chen Qingyan's acceptance of "Rui Xi", and he could no longer open an alchemy shop.
It's okay to drive in an ancient town, but safety is definitely not guaranteed.
Just the big and small families in the town can make it difficult for him to drive, which is the most troublesome thing.
How can you win if you compete with local forces for business?
Even if these families don't take the initiative to cause trouble, those casual cultivators who see a profit, or the Black Evil Forest demon cultivators who have recently robbed various places, will take action after figuring out the truth.
After all, it is still too weak.
Chen Qingyan entered the room and had just put the medicinal materials properly when there was a knock on the door.
Opening the door, Rui Xi stood at the door with two swords on his back.
"I gathered together three pairs of medicinal ingredients." She said concisely and concisely.
"Well, as usual, after the elixir is completed, I will give you a magical elixir."
After a pause, Chen Qingyan asked: "This is the sixth time you have been to Fangshi, haven't you been discovered?"
Rui Xi shook her head, "My flame cloud awning is extremely capable of hiding. Since I became a casual cultivator, I have only stumbled once in your hands."
"...Haha." Chen Qingyan looked at the calm face of the female cultivator and felt that the resentment in her heart seemed not small.
Also, the Time Stone, which he spent a huge amount of money to bid for, was seized as a trophy as soon as it opened. It was also planted with laws and was enslaved by mortals. It was strange that he had no resentment in his heart.
However, in the past few months, she has not gained anything. At least the source of magic pills is definitely much better than before.
Of course, the benefits you think are often just that in the eyes of others. Compared with freedom, some benefits cannot offset the uneasiness of being controlled by others.
Putting himself in his shoes, Chen Qingyan definitely doesn't want to let his life be in the hands of others.
The days are long, and Chen Qingyan is more concerned about recent events. After thinking about it, he said:
"It's better to be cautious. In the past few months, stay in the town and don't go out. I don't think Heishalin's recent actions are that simple. I think in a few days, the price of pills may skyrocket.
Everyone’s life is beginning to be difficult.”
Rui Xi nodded. She did have this hunch. She just came back from the market recently and obviously found that the prices of many medicinal materials had increased. In the past, you could buy them for one hundred spirit jade coins, but now they cost one hundred and ten spirit jade coins. It is estimated that they will cost more.
In a few months, the price will double, or even there will be no market.
Correspondingly, areas outside the city will inevitably become more chaotic and dangerous.
Although the ancient town is not as rich in rare resources as Fangshi, it is better in that it has sufficient ordinary resources. Each major family also has its own medicinal fields, so there is no need to worry about the supply channels of medicinal materials being greatly affected for the time being.
She didn't say anything about Chen Qingyan's ability to join the Lin family, but she actually appreciated it in her heart.
The two chatted for a while, and after Rui Xi left the medicinal ingredients, she returned to her room to rest.
Chen Qingyan put away these three sets of medicinal materials and went out to the station.
He is still an outer disciple and still has to be on duty.
Fortunately, since the last time the evil altar was sent back, the pattern of patrolling disciples on duty has been changed to a five-person team rotation, with a half-day shift and three days of rest.
When they arrived at the station, Chen Qingyan, Fei Yihe and others simply walked around the streets. If there were no demons causing trouble, they found a place to rest.
As soon as I took a break, it was time for shift change.
If the threat of demons is ignored, this kind of work can make people lazy.
After the shift was over, Chen Qingyan declined Fei Yihe's invitation to Manchun Tower and returned to the courtyard to take out all the medicinal materials and start refining elixirs.
Peng.
The three-legged tripod fell to the ground and suddenly rose to a height as high as a person and three people wide.
Chen Qingyan made a splash and poured the inspected medicinal materials belonging to Lin Dong into the furnace. Then he opened the medicinal materials that Rui Xi bought from the market. After handling them skillfully, he put them all into the alchemy furnace.
These ten medicinal materials are all used to refine Haoyuan Dan.
Originally, according to his alchemy technique, he could only refine it one furnace at a time. Because of the need to concentrate on temperature control, material steps and other external forces, the elixir yield rate was very low.
But the existence of Xuantian Cauldron gave him more possibilities.
Back then, Xuantian Cauldron was able to produce nine different magical pills at once, which showed that it had the function of refining different pills in the same furnace.
Chen Qingyan did not have such great alchemy attainments, and he only mastered this one kind of magic pill, but he still had the ability to simultaneously refine the Haoyuan Pill.
Xuantian Cauldron has a spirit. It only needs to be refined once, and it will remember the refining steps and operate on its own, which can save the alchemist a lot of energy.
With Xuantian Cauldron, there is no difference between one batch for one furnace and ten batches for one furnace.
As a result, apart from being unskilled and ruining a few furnaces at the beginning, today, as far as Haoyuan Dan is concerned, his success rate has reached over 90%.
Although they are still somewhere between single and double lines.
But it is already very exaggerated.
A Lingbao-level pill furnace has this powerful auxiliary ability.
Lingu probably doesn't have many treasured tripods like the Xuantian Cauldron, maybe not even one.
If it wasn't unrealistic, he would even want to drag him for a long time to capture all the tripods in the other four secret realms, and then become a monk.
The origins of these secret realms are too mysterious.
During his return, Chen Qingyan purchased books from the town and asked his cousin Fei Yihe and Rui Xi to purchase relevant books from Lingu and Fangshi. However, after reading through them all, he found that there was no information about "Zhaigu" at all.
As for the origins of the five secret realms, they are all simply introduced in Chunqiu style, because the people who wrote these contents are also confused and have various conjectures about who arranged the secret realm, whether it exists in which location in the Northern Wilderness, and why it is in the tripod.
There will be elixirs, where did the essence and blood of ancient strange beasts come from, whether a palace master appears in the elixir room every sixty seconds to make elixirs, who is keeping the powerful demon carrying five palaces in captivity, etc.
I couldn't find much useful information at all.
Perhaps the "Zhaigu" he knew was the latest and most critical news.
Chen Qingyan could only give up temporarily.
...
Time flies by while refining alchemy.
A stick of incense passed, and a strong medicinal fragrance filled the alchemy furnace.
Chen Qingyan focused entirely on the cauldron, silently controlling the alternation of the three clusters of spiritual flames. The cauldron spirit could not completely replace the existence of the alchemist, otherwise Chen Qingyan would suspect that the master behind Xuantian Palace was the cauldron spirit.
This discovery also made Chen Qingyan feel that maybe the five palaces were not some secret place, but maybe... just the relics of a lost civilization.
It has been running for hundreds of thousands of years. It may not be a living existence, or even controlled by humans. It is more likely that "technological program-like products" such as formation puppets and alchemy puppets are operating rigidly.
Perhaps "Zhaigu" is a civilization from an ancient period.
Hululu——!
A large amount of steam came out from the gap in the cauldron lid.
Chen Qingyan raised his hand and nine Haoyuan Pills fell into his palm.
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