After Yuan Yan came to die, less than four years later, Gu Xuanzhou's life came to an end.
Gu Xuanzhou is the best weapon refiner in the Ziyang Sect and one of the three ninth-level golden elixir monks in the sect. His status in the Ziyang Sect far exceeds that of Yuan Yanlai.
His death directly caused the inheritance of Ziyang Sect's weapon refining skills to decline.
Compared with Yuan Yanlai, Gu Xuanzhou made arrangements for his funeral in advance and passed away very peacefully without suffering any pain.
His last wish was to be buried in the Goddess Peak Cemetery as a monk of the Xuan Su Sect, together with his masters and disciples.
Like Yuan Yanlai, the names of Xuan Suzong were engraved on the tombstones of these two old men.
With the passing of these two people, the old era of Ziyang Sect has ended, and a new era has gradually begun.
On the sixth day after Gu Xuanzhou's death, Kang Duhe, who had been in seclusion for nine years, finally achieved something. He successfully broke through the golden elixir and made up for the blood loss of the sect.
Kang Duhe's elixir formation was not too smooth. His first breakthrough exhausted his family's financial resources and owed a lot of debt, but he failed to successfully form the elixir.
Fortunately, he was very lucky and did not damage his vitality by acting recklessly during the elixir formation process, and the sect had enough fifth-level demon elixirs to support him to take further steps.
The second time he formed the elixir, he owed a debt of 400,000 spiritual stones to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Finally, he lived up to expectations and walked ahead of his teacher, Patriarch Liang.
Patriarch Liang's life was not smooth, and he spent the last few decades paving the way for his brothers.
He even dragged his old body and risked his life to fight against the Golden Elixir monks.
After settling their brothers in Qingxuan Sect, they also found friends like Zhang Family Sanzi Mansion for them.
"If I had better luck and was not seriously injured and ruined my journey, I would definitely be able to seize this opportunity to form an elixir." Wei Bohan saw the scene of his junior brother forming an elixir and thought of his own life. He suddenly had mixed feelings in his heart and couldn't help but howl.
Cry loudly.
After more than three hundred years of hard training, Kang Duhe finally took a crucial step on the road to spiritual practice.
After refining the golden elixir, one can live up to eight hundred years, and a monk's life experience will be turned upside down.
After Kang Duhe became an elixir, he took over as the head of Zhike Courtyard.
The first major thing he did when he took power was to obey Zhang Zhixuan's edict, hold an elixir-building ceremony for himself, and invite masters from nearby sects.
Although Yuan Yanlai and Gu Xuanzhou's funeral were equally grand, it was still a funeral and no outsiders were invited to participate.
The sect has a new monk to form an elixir, but it is a happy event worthy of celebration.
Zhang Zhixuan sent the Zifu monks to come forward and invited the Jindan sects from the nearby countries such as Liguo, Liangguo, Peiguo, Songguo, etc., obviously wanting to make a name for themselves.
Several small countries near Yu State, except Song State, were all vassals of Wu State in the past.
In the past few hundred years, due to civil strife in Wu, the State of Yu has become independent, and the Jingyang Sect of the State of Pei has also changed its sect and joined the Danyang Sect, the ancestor of the Song Dynasty.
Although the Li and Liang states still recognized Xuan Suzong as their master, Yang Xuanzhen's control over the vassal states was far less than when he was strong.
The three sects of the Li Kingdom are united and help each other. There are three golden elixir monks, which can be regarded as a powerful force. The four sects of the Liang Kingdom have five golden elixir monks, and the national strength is even greater.
If we could bring over the two major vassal states of Li and Liang, we would undoubtedly be able to cut off Yang Xuanzhen's arm, and save a lot of effort in the final battle.
Monks from the Kingdom of Li are the easiest to win over.
In recent hundreds of years, except for one Yuan Yanlai, the State of Wu has not sent a single soldier to the State of Li.
Moreover, although Yuan Yanlai has passed away, he is still a member of the Ziyang Sect.
If it weren't for the Qingxuan Sect and the Tianchandong monks who joined forces to defeat the poisonous dragon pond monster last time, the Liguo monks might not have been able to save the mountain gate.
In the previous few hundred years, they had lost half of their territory.
Because the Kingdom of Wu sat back and watched the invasion of monsters, the monks of the Kingdom of Li were already full of complaints.
As long as the Yu State pulls together a little bit, shows its strong strength, and has a sense of kindness and righteousness, the Three Golden Pills of the Li State will definitely switch families and help the Yu State.
Now that the Wu Kingdom is in decline, Yang Xuanzhen does not dare to release the Jindan monks easily.
In the past few hundred years, the Xuansu Sect of Wu State had almost no influence on the vassal Jindan Sect.
As long as they see the strong strength of the Ziyang Sect, at the critical moment of the war between the two countries, the Liang Kingdom monks will not dare to intervene easily even if they do not help.
Sure enough, after the elixir-forming ceremony and seeing the powerful strength of the Ziyang Sect, the monks from the Li Kingdom soon had the idea of becoming a vassal.
As a sect close to the Southern Wilderness, the monks of the Li Kingdom always have to find a backer to resist the Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivators.
Otherwise, facing the siege of the fifth-level monsters, we would have no choice but to help ourselves, and the mountain gate's spiritual veins would not be able to be defended.
A few years ago, the three sects of the Li Kingdom planned to switch to the Song Patriarch.
However, the Danyang Sect had just swallowed the Pei Kingdom and did not want to fall out with Yang Xuanzhen or anger the Poison Dragon Pond monster, so it did not accept the Li Kingdom and chose to let them fend for themselves.
Now that the Ziyang Sect was born, Zhang Zhixuan almost didn't take the initiative to speak, and the three sects of Baihongshan, Xuanyang Cave, and Feilongguan took the initiative to come forward and willingly became vassals of the Ziyang Sect.
Not long after seeing off the guests, a fifth-level high-grade elixir finally matured.
This elixir is planted in an underground cave in Lingjing Mountain and is about 460 years old.
As a fifth-level high-grade elixir, it would have taken more than five hundred years to mature.
After Zhang Zhixuan received the inheritance from Tianyuan Sect Ling Zhifu, he used his ripening elixir method to make this fifth-level top-grade purple snow orchid mature forty years in advance.
Purple ginseng pill is a very precious elixir inherited from the Tianyuan Sect, which can help the late-stage golden elixir monks break through bottlenecks.
Refining this kind of elixir is extremely difficult. If Zhang Zhixuan had not refined a large number of fifth-level elixirs in recent years, he would not have dared to easily try to refine the purple ginseng elixir.
The recipe for purple ginseng elixir is complex and takes up to three years to refine.
Not only do you need two fifth-level elixirs, but auxiliary elixirs are also relatively rare, requiring thirteen fourth-level elixirs and forty-six third-level elixirs.
Just collecting the elixir may take a long time.
Although the Purple Snow Orchid is mature, it is still necessary to collect another plant of Centifolia Ginseng, the main medicine, to get the two main medicines together.
Centifolia ginseng is also a rare elixir. The growth environment is very harsh, especially the fifth-level cinnamon ginseng, which requires six hundred years to grow.
Zhang Zhixuan sent his disciples to search for several months before discovering this spiritual plant in Huilongguan.
Huilongguan is a vassal of the Ziyang Sect, and there are no fifth-level alchemists within the sect. The mature fifth-level elixirs have been exchanged for spiritual objects by the golden elixir monks.
Zhang Zhixuan exchanged three mature plants of Chalcedony Golden Zhizhi for Centifolia Ginseng. The three plants of Chalcedony Golden Zhizhi are worth thirty thousand spiritual stones, which is slightly more than the market price of Centifolia Ginseng. Moreover, Chalcedony Golden Zhizhi can be used to refine the Foundation Building Pill, which is useful for
Huilongguan is also more useful.
Although the fifth-level main medicine was gathered together, the auxiliary elixir still had to wait for three years.
Zhang Zhixuan sent seven or eight monks from the Purple Mansion to travel throughout nearby countries.
Wu Xianlong and Wen Ziqing even went to Da Zhou to collect all the rarest low-level elixirs in Shenmu Sect.
In the past three years, Wang Chengxiang has also reached the peak of the Zifu stage and is preparing to redeem the demon elixir for retreat.
His worth far exceeds that of Kang Duhe, and he easily exchanged three hundred thousand good deeds for the demon pill. However, this person is not as good as Kang Duhe at all, and he needs at least three opportunities to form the pill.
It takes three chances to form an elixir, so the price/performance ratio is far from enough.
Fortunately, the sect now has a large amount of demon pills in its treasury, otherwise the sect would not have the money to train this person.
This person is able to form elixirs because he has caught up with the good time.