While Li Xuangang was still thinking about how many spiritual stones the family had stored, Li Changqing had stopped watering, straightened up, looked at Li Xuangang with a smile, and asked him to sit down at the stone table next to him.
Li Changqing was not wearing the family's black uniform, but a white shirt. His smiling face had a warm aura, as if he was a kind elder whom he had not seen for a long time.
"Xuan Gang, I haven't seen him for many years, and he has already entered the late stage of Qi refining? Not bad."
Li Changqing put down the jade gourd in his hand, then casually put his hand on the corner of his clothes to wipe the water stains.
Seeing Li Changqing approaching, Li Xuangang naturally did not dare to sit down first, but waited respectfully next to the stone table.
After the clan leader Li Changqing took his seat, he followed suit.
There is a wind blowing from the East China Sea all year round at the top of Mount Taiqiu, but by the time it reaches Mount Taiqiu, it has long lost its original power, and the wind blowing on the surface makes people feel a bit relaxed.
Before Li Xuangang could say a few words of modesty about his cultivation, Li Changqing pointed to the green plum tree he had just watered and said:
"I heard from Sixth Brother that you are good at spiritual planting?"
Li Changqing is the fifth eldest son, so the sixth brother he refers to naturally refers to Li Xuangang's sixth uncle, Li Changyan.
"Xuan Gang can't say that he is good at this, he just has a little more experience than others."
Li Xuangang replied.
Li Changqing looked at Li Xuangang with a smile, as if looking at a promising junior. He continued:
"No wonder you are so talented in alchemy. The last time my eighth brother came back, he praised you in front of me and said that your talent in alchemy is even higher than his. Maybe you will become one of us in a hundred years.
The first third-level alchemist of the Li family."
Although Li Xuangang was not thin-skinned, he was still a little embarrassed to hear the clan leader praise him so much.
"Do you know this green plum tree?"
Naturally, Li Xuangang knew about this green plum tree. It was the spiritual creature originally bred from the spiritual veins of Taiqiu Mountain. This green plum tree had been planted ever since the first ancestor Li Taiqiu snatched Taiqiu Mountain from the tiger demon.
It has been on the top of Taiqiu Mountain for hundreds of years.
Judging from the fluctuations of spiritual energy it emits, Li Xuangang has determined that it has already become a third-order spiritual plant. However, Li Xuangang cannot tell whether it is a third-order spiritual plant. After all, third-order spiritual plants are extremely precious, and Li Xuangang has not seen it either.
Been there several times.
So he replied:
"Clan leader, Xuangang knows about it."
However, Li Changqing did not continue this topic, but turned his attention from the green plum tree to Li Xuangang.
Said a little seriously:
"Next, I will tell you some situations. After I finish speaking, you can ask some questions you don't understand. If they can be answered, I will tell you."
Li Xuangang then sat up straight, knowing that the clan leader was about to start talking about business.
"The reason why I called you back to Taiqiu Mountain instead of letting you continue to practice alchemy with your eighth uncle in Binhaifang City is because I briefly mentioned it in the jade tube I gave you before. It's nothing more than your eighteenth uncle.
Li Qingru was summoned to Wujiangfang City by the Corpse Ghost Sect."
"In this way, there will be no alchemist in the family to take her place. Although your thirteenth uncle Li Qingtian is also an alchemist, he is responsible for family affairs in Tianhefang City and cannot leave, so this is
Called you back."
Li Xuangang had already guessed this, so he was not surprised. He just sat quietly and continued to listen to what Li Changqing said next.
"In the family, once your Eighteenth Aunt leaves, no one will be able to refine the Yanggu Pill. This basic pill is not only needed by the clan members in the early stage of Qi refining in the family, but also by the new clan members who have recently entered the mountain.
, the demand is too great, and the price of purchasing it from the outside market is too high, the news that you became an alchemist was sent back to Taitai Qiushan, which solved one of our urgent needs."
"There are three kinds of elixirs in the family, namely the first-level Yanggu Dan, the Chunlu Dan and the second-level Ruby Dan. Previously, your eighth uncle was responsible for refining the Ruby Dan. Your thirteenth uncle was in Tianhefang.
The city is refining the Spring Dew Pill, while your eighteenth aunt is refining the Yanggu Pill on the Taiqiu Mountain in your family."
"The Ruby Pill is a second-level elixir. I think you can't refine it at this stage. As for the Spring Dew Pill, you can try it, but the main yellow bud grass must be provided to your Thirteenth Uncle. After all, he has already refined it.
After many years of making it, the rate of elixir formation is guaranteed and you won’t suffer a loss. But don’t worry, I will go down and give you some yellow bud grass, just as you do some practice for refining the yellow bud grass. After all, training a
A new alchemist is also necessary for the family."
"The family doesn't grow much yellow bud grass. I hope you can understand this, Xuan Gang."
Li Xuangang naturally knew this. When he first started practicing the Spring Dew Pill, he would definitely suffer some losses due to the early-stage pill-formation rate. The family was currently short of spiritual stones, so he would not allow himself to waste it like this.
Moreover, Li Xuangang also knew that the elixir recipe was a precious thing. Neither the family that owned it nor the alchemist who owned it would easily expose the elixir recipe they had collected to the public. The reason was naturally to ensure that no one would compete with him.
Therefore, the Li family has only collected three prescriptions for elixirs over the years. It is precisely because of this that the Li family's medicine garden in Taiqiu Mountain mainly grows the main herbs of Chunlu Dan and Hongyu Dan, namely Huangyaocao and Zhudan.
Grass.
"Your eighth uncle has already given you the recipe for Yanggu Dan. I will print the remaining two for you later and take them with you when you go back. Just be careful not to pass them on to outsiders."
After that, Li Changqing talked about some matters after Li Xuangang took over Li Qingru's alchemy, and Li Xuangang carefully wrote down everything.
After Li Changqing finished speaking, Li Xuangang asked a few more questions after careful consideration. For example, how to calculate the contribution points for refining Yanggu Pill for the family? And how long is the interval between refining Yanggu Pill himself?
Li Changqing gave Li Xuangang answers one by one.
Afterwards, Li Xuangang bid farewell to Li Changqing and went down from the top of Taiqiu Mountain.
After Li Xuangang left, the cave at the top of Taiqiu Mountain suddenly opened, and a slightly older figure wearing black mysterious clothes walked out.
He walked to Li Changqing and sat down, then asked:
"Changqing, what do you think of this boy?"
Li Changqing straightened his clothes and replied:
"My talent for cultivation can only be said to be acceptable, but my temperament is pretty good, I have a solid foundation for advancement and retreat, and I have a strong sense of belonging to my family. It's worth cultivating."
...
Li Xuangang, who had returned to his cave, had a gloomy face. Although he did not show it in front of the clan leader Li Changqing, the pressure of the late stage of foundation building was really pressing on him, and most of his mind was on controlling himself throughout the process.
Keep your mind calm.
Although I don't know what the clan leader means, I guess there shouldn't be any malicious intent. Maybe he's just trying to test the younger generation.
Although the current patriarch of the Li family, Li Changqing, behaves like a kind-hearted elder in front of Li Xuangang, Li Xuangang knows that the patriarch Li Changqing is a famous figure in the cultivation world of the entire Tianhe region.
More than a hundred years ago, when the patriarch Li Changqing had just established the foundation, the family had a conflict with the Xiang family, the Xiuzhen family in Yuzhang Mountain at that time. The conflict became more and more intense, and eventually escalated to the point of life and death. It was the rivalry between the two major foundation-building families.
In the first battle, both families devoted their entire clan's efforts to participate in the battle.
At that time, the Li family had only three foundation-building monks, while the Xiang family had four. But the final result was that the entire Xiang family was razed to the ground, and the Xiang family monks were exterminated. Even the family's residence, Yuzhang Mountain, was later built by the Li family.
Yuzhang City is a place where ordinary people live.
The Xiang family was destroyed.
In that family-wide battle, when one of the Li family's foundation-building monks died first, Li Changqing led the rest of the clan to exert force and single-handedly killed two other foundation-building monks, and then fought with the family members.
The remaining foundation-building monk cooperated and killed the two remaining foundation-building monks of the Xiang family in an ambush.
This established the Li family's victory. However, the Li family also suffered heavy losses, and it took fifty years for the Li family to recover.
When the battle between the two families ended, the spiritual veins of the Yuzhang Mountain where the Xiang family resided were severely damaged, and they fell from the second level back to the first level.
Since then, the name of Li Changqing of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain has been spread in the Tianhe area. After all, this is a foundation-building monk who can cross the border to kill monks of the same level. Even though some people still cannot deny it, they secretly remember Li Changqing in their hearts.
With this name, I know that this foundation-building monk is not someone to be trifled with.
...
Li Xuangang stayed in the cave and began to plan his future training plan.
I learned from the clan leader that it is enough for me to go to the alchemy workshop once a month to refine Yanggu Pills, and I can get five contribution points for every hundred Yanggu Pills I refine.
As for the Spring Dew Pill, I haven't even learned the recipe yet, so there shouldn't be much output in the short term.
On the second day, Li Xuangang went to the family library and looked up all the books on spiritual plants. He kept comparing the characteristics of the three spiritual bamboos in the Jieyuan space, and finally found it among them.
of detailed information.
It turns out that the three spiritual bamboos are called Juyuan Bamboo, which is a second-level spiritual bamboo that can gather spiritual energy. Its effect is almost the same as that of the Spirit-Gathering Formation. However, the Juyuan Bamboo does not damage the spiritual veins, and the older the Juyuan Bamboo is, the more likely it is to gather spiritual energy.
The more powerful the effect of bamboo gathering spiritual energy is, the more it has a unique advantage in assisting monks in their cultivation. However, thinking about the thin spiritual energy in the world source space, the three Yuan-gathering bamboos will not have much effect on me in a short period of time.
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...
On the fourth day after Li Xuangang returned to Taiqiu Mountain, two figures left Taiqiu Mountain without disturbing anyone.
After waiting some distance away from Taiqiu Mountain, the two figures turned into two escaping lights and flew towards the west.
To the west is where the Hengduan Mountains are located.
At the same time, Li Changqing, the patriarch of the Li family, announced that he was in retreat, preparing to break through the late stage of foundation building and hit the great perfection state of foundation building.
Subsequently, the Corpse Ghost Sect also issued formal recruitment orders to the major affiliated cultivation families in the Tianhe region.
On the eastern border of Chaoyang Continent, the situation was turbulent for a while, and it seemed that something big was about to happen.