After several days of alchemy refining experience, Xu Chen had a relatively basic understanding of alchemy. For him, as long as he had enough energy, the correct elixir recipe and refining method, and the quality of the medicinal materials, he could successfully refine a first-class elixir.
Panacea.
But it was the strange plants in the medicine garden that gave him the biggest headache.
You must use spirit stones as fertilizer to grow well. Once you stop fertilizing, not only will your growth slow down, but your breath will also begin to decline.
Because these plants may be rare species of fairy grass in the world, Xu Chen also wanted to see what they would be like when mature.
It's just that he can't afford the cost at all. Even the entire Taiyuan Sect can't afford it now and can't support it at all.
"Junior brother, don't be discouraged. You will always find a way. You can make alchemy now. This is the most popular profession in the immortal world. By refining a furnace of Dayuan Dan, you can earn at least five spiritual stones. From now on, I will let all senior brothers and sisters
I will give you all the elixirs I find, and you will receive 20% of the labor fee for refining one furnace. Even if you refine two or three furnaces of elixirs a month, you can barely maintain the expenses of the medicine garden." Zhao Xuan comforted her softly.
Xu Chen couldn't laugh or cry and said: "I need to take three Dayuan Dan to refine a furnace of elixirs. If I only charge 20% of the hard work fee, I will lose all my shorts. I am afraid that my senior sister wants me to run naked at the mountain gate."
Zhao Xuan covered her mouth and chuckled: "What else can I do? At worst, I will lend you the skirt."
Xu Chen's face turned dark immediately, but after a while he sat up and said: "But the senior sister is right to remind you that the elixir is difficult to refine, but I can still relax with Xiao Yuan Dan. As long as I have enough medicinal materials, I can do it even if I don't talk for a day."
After refining two furnaces, I can earn several spiritual stones if I sell them. Tomorrow I will go to Wild Wolf Valley and sell some Xiaoyuan Dan first to see if I can collect some more elixirs for alchemy. This way I can slowly
It can also support the expenses of the medicine garden.”
Zhao Xuan smiled and nodded: "That's just right. Wild Wolf Valley is not far away. I also want to go down the mountain to relax. I'll go with my junior brother tomorrow!"
"good!"
So after the two of them agreed, Zhao Xuan left with her sword. Xu Chen looked at the scrapped alchemy furnace and couldn't help but sigh. One furnace of pills scrapped a first-grade alchemy furnace. The cost was so high that people would vomit blood.
I don’t know where Senior Sister Seven can get a second-grade pill furnace.
Xu Chen was looking forward to it.
Among all magic weapons, the alchemy furnace is the most special one, and it is also almost the most difficult to refine and build. Moreover, the higher the grade of the alchemy furnace, the rarer it is. Only the third elder of the Taiyuan Sect has a second-grade pill furnace.
, it is said that it was passed down from the previous generation of Taiyuan Sect seniors.
If you find someone to specially build one, you won't be able to get it without thousands of spiritual stones, which is more expensive than many third-grade magic weapons.
However, before getting the alchemy furnace, he still tried to collect as many materials as possible to refine the large and small Yuan Dan. He looked through the storage bag and found that there were less than ten spirit stones left in it, so he sighed again.
I used to be as poor as a mortal, but now I am as poor as an immortal.
As long as the strange plants in the medicine garden did not mature for one day, he felt that he would remain poor.
Get rich, get rich, where can you get rich?
He now urgently needs to get rich overnight.
Although alchemy can be a way to make money, at his current level of cultivation, if he wants to get rich, there seems to be no other way out than robbing.
Thinking of the last time he went down the mountain to practice, he was a little ready to make a move.
Early the next morning, Xu Chen just got up, washed his face and mouth, and ate cold hard noodles with mountain spring water. He saw a ray of green light coming through the sky, and soon Zhao Xuan jumped down from the flying sword, holding a bag in her hand.
Holding a food box.
Seeing Xu Chen chewing on the noodles, he was immediately angry and funny. He put the food box into his hand and said, "You're too lazy. I've cooked some rice porridge and vegetable soup for you. Eat it while it's hot!"
Xu Chen smiled dryly and quickly put down the pancake and opened the food box. As expected, there was a steaming bowl of yellow rice porridge inside. There were also lotus seeds and nuts and two shelled bird eggs. He was so happy that he squatted on the ground and swallowed it.
Then he burped happily with a touch of his mouth full of face.
Of course, after finishing the meal, I didn’t forget to give her a nice flattery and said, “Senior Sister’s cooking skills are really good. This porridge is soft, glutinous and fragrant, and it’s very delicious. It must have taken a lot of time.”
Zhao Xuan said angrily: "It's not as delicious as you said, but it's cold in the mountains. It'll be warmer if you eat some hot porridge. Let's pack up and go!"
"Okay!" Xu Chen turned around and went into the house to pack his things. Zhao Xuan took the porridge bowl to the fountain and washed it. A moment later, the two of them rose into the air with their swords and headed northeast.
In the blink of an eye, it has been nearly two months since I last went to the capital.
It is now autumn, and although the mountains and fields in southern Xinjiang are still lush and green, many trees have begun to wither and turn yellow. Therefore, flying all the way, the mountains at your feet are colorful, looking more autumnal and more pleasing to the eye.
Over the past two months, Xu Chen's cultivation has not progressed slowly. Now it has stabilized in the middle stage of Kaiyuan Realm, and his cultivation is almost the same as that of Zhao Xuan.
With sufficient vitality and powerful spiritual control, flying with a sword became easier and more convenient for Xu Chen. Not only did the speed increase a lot, but he was no longer in the awkward state of flying with a sword as before.
An hour later, the two of them landed in the Wild Wolf Valley.
Wild Wolf Valley still looks the same, with almost no changes.
But this time there seemed to be a lot more people.
As soon as he entered the valley, Xu Chen's powerful spiritual consciousness had already sensed seven or eight waves of divine souls. Some of them had strong auras, and they were obviously monks in the middle to late stages of the Kaiyuan Realm.
Before the two of them landed, several figures came to greet them in the air. The leaders were Song Qingshi, the Lord of the Great Valley, and Ouyang Ping, the Lord of the Second Valley. The others were vaguely seen last time, but three of them had strong auras but were very unfamiliar.
The acquaintances were naturally very happy to meet each other. After a while of greetings, Song Qingshi introduced three strange monks, two men and one woman. They were not ordinary monks, but another immortal sect with the same reputation in the Song Dynasty.
Disciples of the Taihua Sect, but their rankings are much lower than those of the Taiyuan Sect, and the sect leader with the highest cultivation level is only at the early stage of the Danyuan Realm.
Among the three people in the Taihua Sect, the leader is called Ma Xiuping, who is about thirty years old and in the late Kaiyuan realm.
The other man and woman are much younger, both in their twenties. The man is named Minglang, and the woman is named Su Xiaorou. They are both in the middle stage of Kaiyuan Realm.
Just like the Taiyuan Sect, although Xu Chen and others are usually poor, after all, the sect still has a strong man in the Danyuan realm. Even if it is poor, it still has some foundation. Therefore, the Taihua Sect is in a similar state. The three cultivators
He is a decent person and can be considered a well-known and upright person, so in the eyes of a group of casual cultivators in Yelang Valley, he is a high-ranking person who cannot afford to offend.
In addition, Song Qingshi was rescued by Xu Chen last time, so Song Qingshi was very excited when facing his savior. He led the two of them to a wooden house to sit down, and then asked them to serve fragrant tea.
The three members of the Taihua Sect didn't look down on the casual cultivators from Wild Wolf Valley, but they were extremely enthusiastic and respectful towards Xu Chen and the other two.
After all, today is different from the past. Xu Chen and the others made a big fuss in the capital, seriously injured the Yulong Master, and even rumored to have killed Liang Feng of the Yuqing Palace and Guo Ming of the Longmen Mountain. These stories had already spread throughout the Song Dynasty's fairy world.
The recent news that Dan Chenzi successfully transformed into a spirit was like a thunder that shook the immortal sects of the Song Kingdom, big and small, and even caused violent shocks to the senior officials of the immortal world of neighboring countries.
There are a lot of rumors in the fairy world about Dan Chenzi's advancement, but there is news that he did not advance through the Spiritual Transformation Pill, but another way. In addition, when Dan Chenzi advanced, he caused an unprecedented eight thunder tribulations, which also caused an uproar.
People were extremely shocked.
Ordinary immortals were shocked and envious that after Dan Chenzi transformed into a spirit, the Taiyuan Sect would flourish from then on.
For large immortal sects and powerful people in the Danyuan Realm, the process of Dan Chenzi's advancement is what excites and interests everyone the most.
After all, transforming into a spirit is as difficult as ascending to the sky, and being able to advance without using the Spirit Transformation Pill is even more imaginative.
However, Dan Chenzi went out to visit after he successfully transformed into a spirit and stabilized his realm.
In the blink of an eye, nearly ten days have passed and I still haven’t returned to the mountain.
Xu Chen and others naturally didn't know where Dan Chenzi had gone.
But with such a spiritual transformation monk sitting in charge, Yuqing Temple and Longmen Mountain should not come to continue to cause trouble for them now, so that the three culprits of causing trouble in the capital can go down the mountain in an upright manner.
So while drinking tea and chatting, Ma Xiu and others praised Xu Chen and Taiyuanmen enthusiastically, with faces full of envy and compliments.
"With Taiyuan Sect having the Great Monk of Hualing in command, he will surely rise to great heights in the future, and will be on par with Yuqing Palace and Longmen Mountain. I, the Taihua Sect, have to look up to the many Taoist friends of Taiyuan Sect and take care of me!" Ma Xiuping bowed his hands.
Xu Chen smiled slightly, clasped his fists and returned the greeting: "Three fellow Taoists are too polite. The Great Elder is the Great Elder. When we wait for the cultivators to ask questions, we still have to rely on our own abilities and opportunities."
"Yes, yes, Fellow Daoist Xu is right. However, when I heard that Fellow Daoist Xu made a big fuss in the capital last time, we admired him greatly. Unfortunately, it was not the three of us who went there at that time, but two other senior fellow apprentices, so we missed that.
An earth-shattering show!" Ma Xiuping explained with a smile and nod.
Zhao Xuan couldn't help but covered her mouth and chuckled. Xu Chen laughed and said: "Hey, what happened in the past is still mentioned, but I don't know what the three Taoist friends are doing in my southern border. Since they are in Nanyang, why not go to Taiyuan Gate?
Let’s discuss Taoism over tea?”
Ma Xiu Ping smiled awkwardly and cupped his hands and said: "We were indeed ordered by our master to go to Taiyuanmen to pay homage to the mountain. However, as soon as we arrived in Nanyang, we were told by some colleagues from Yelanggu that Taiyuanmen had recently closed the mountain, so we did not dare to go up the mountain rashly.
Excuse me, I was lucky enough to meet fellow Daoist Xu and Fairy Zhao coming down the mountain today, and it was really good luck that we met each other."
Xu Chen nodded in astonishment for a moment: "So that's it. It seems that our Taiyuan Sect's etiquette is not good enough, but the mountain has been really chaotic recently. The great elder went through the tribulation, and the mountain gate hall was flattened by the tribulation thunder. Recently, we have been busy repairing it.
, for fear that fellow Taoists from all walks of life would have no place to stay, so they announced that the door would be closed for a period of time. I thought that in a few days, when the great elder returns to the mountain, the seal would be lifted. At that time, I would certainly invite the three fellow Taoists to go up the mountain to drink tea and apologize.
"
"Don't you dare? In fact, the three of us are just here to stand by and send greetings. In a few days, many immortal sects from the Song Dynasty and neighboring countries will come to the mountain gate to congratulate Xuan Chen.
For your spirit-transformation ceremony, I am afraid that we will not be able to go up to the mountain to drink tea because of my low cultivation. Today, I can meet the two Taoist friends in the Wild Wolf Valley, so I would like to express my congratulations in advance. If you have free time in the future, I will invite you both.
When a Taoist friend comes to the Taihua Sect, everyone in the sect will definitely treat him with a warm welcome."
Xu Chen's face twitched slightly.
Finally, I truly understand the meaning of a person attaining enlightenment and ascending to heaven.
The influence of Danchenzi's transformation into a spirit has extended beyond the Song Dynasty. It seems to have spread far and wide. Even the immortal sects of neighboring countries have been alarmed and come to pay homage to the mountain. Sure enough, they are all snobbish people, more powerful than the mortals.
Not to mention more concessions.
However, he didn’t want to continue to listen to a group of people’s praise, so he said with a smile: “If I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely visit Taihua Sect. However, my senior sister and I came down the mountain today to collect some spiritual herbs and elixirs.
Are you interested in chatting?"
Upon hearing this, Ma Xiuping quickly nodded and said: "Of course, when we arrived in Nanyang, we also heard that Wild Wolf Valley was a trading place for casual cultivators in the southern wasteland, so we came to join in the fun and see if there was anything we could trade.
Items, since these two fellow Taoists are here for this purpose, we will definitely support them."
Song Qingshi was also very happy and immediately asked people to clean up the place and prepare to hold a small fairy treasure trade fair.
After all, two well-known immortal sects from the Great Song Dynasty came to the Wild Wolf Valley at one time, which was also an affirmation of their casual cultivators. In addition, with the support of the Taiyuan Sect, which already has spiritual realm monks, the reputation of the Wild Wolf Valley will increase in the future.
It will definitely be bigger, and it may eventually develop into a large trading place.