During the period of learning alchemy, Tong Yan has not slacked off in her cultivation. Last month, she had reached the peak of the tenth level of Qi training.
There are no realm barriers to the advancement of the Chaos Spiritual Root. As long as the spiritual power is sufficient and the realm is sufficient, she can be promoted, so it is okay for her to build the foundation now.
But she felt in her heart that something was missing, and she had been suppressing the fact that she had not built the foundation. This was probably the state of mind that the monk said.
The alchemy and the sect challenge made her feel a lot, and she thought it was not far away from building a foundation.
On this day, after many times of practice, Tong Yan finally succeeded in practicing the spirit-boosting pill. Surprised, he continued to practice the middle-grade pill, but it seemed to have reached its limit, and he could only get one middle-grade pill out of ten.
But this was enough to make her happy for a long time. She walked to the cafeteria in a good mood, thinking that she could have an extra meal at noon today to celebrate this rare achievement.
Walking halfway, I saw many disciples in front of me. They looked like they were leaving one after another, as if they had dispersed after watching the excitement.
Tong Yan was a little confused, but her steps were still unhurried. After all, that was exactly where she was going to pass.
When she got closer, most of the people had left, except for a figure getting up from the ground with difficulty.
She thought for a moment and walked over. The man heard the movement and glanced sideways, then looked away again.
Not to mention, this side of the face is pretty good-looking, with three-dimensional facial features, fair skin, and a bit of familiarity.
She recalled for a moment before she remembered, wasn't this Huo Qizhi?
Huo Qizhi took care of his messy clothes and left, as if he didn't see her coming.
Tong Yan was so stunned that he forgot to speak. When he noticed that he turned around to leave, he remembered what he was here for.
She is here to sell her refined elixir.
"Mid-grade spirit-boosting pill, do you want to try it? I just made it myself." Tong Yan walked beside him, smiled and took out the bottle containing the pill and shook it.
At this point, Tong Yan finally heard the first words Huo Qizhi said to her, "Why are you following me?"
Hearing that the tone of the words was not very nice, Tong Yan said matter-of-factly: "I was passing by here when I went to the cafeteria, so I didn't follow you. I was trying to sell you the elixir because I just thought you might need it."
Huo Qizhi was silent for a while and said, "I can't afford your elixir, so don't pester me."
Tong Yan: "It's free of charge. This is the first time I successfully refined this elixir. Now I'm so happy that I give it to anyone who needs it. But I can only give one to each person."
Huo Qizhi suddenly stopped while walking and turned his head to look at Tong Yan. It would be an exaggeration to say that he was staring.
This sudden movement startled her. "What's wrong?"
Huo Qizhi just wanted to see her true intention, whether she was here to tease him, or whether she was just panicking.
"Aren't you going to give me the elixir? Bring it." However, it was obvious that he did not see the teasing intention.
"Oh, then give it." His attitude changed so quickly that Tong Yan thought he wouldn't accept it, but he didn't expect that the next second he would ask her to give it to him.
She forgot what she had said in the blink of an eye, and directly handed over the full bottle of elixirs.
Huo Qizhi took the bottle and poured an elixir into the palm of his hand. The elixir was round and round, with a light fragrance. It was indeed a middle-grade spirit-boosting elixir.
After taking one, he returned the medicine bottle to Tong Yan, then took a bite and said, "You can go."
Why do you have the illusion of being ruthlessly abandoned by a scumbag?
Tong Yan held the bottle and said speechlessly: "You took my elixir. You don't want to say thank you, but you don't want to be so ruthless."
At this time, a female voice came from the front, "Junior Brother Huo!"
The two of them looked over at the same time. The female disciple was also wearing the clothes of a handyman disciple, but her cultivation had reached the ninth level of Qi training. She had a gentle temperament and smiled like a close sister.
Their relationship seemed to be pretty good. After the female disciple approached, Huo Qizhi first called out, "Senior Sister Wang."
Seeing Huo Qizhi's disheveled clothes and small scars on his face, Wang Jiayu immediately frowned, with a little distress in his eyes, and asked Huo Qizhi softly: "They beat you again?"
Huo Qizhi avoided her eyes and said nothing, and Wang Jiayu couldn't guess his silent expression.
"They are going too far. Why do they always bully you just because of their high cultivation level?"
Huo Qizhi whispered: "I'm used to it, it'll be fine."
Wang Jiayu said worriedly: "You just say this because you don't want me to worry, but how can this make me feel relieved?"
Huo Qizhi was silent again.
When they met as acquaintances, Tong Yan knew it was time to leave, but it was difficult to interrupt the two of them, so he had to stand by with a hesitant expression on his face.
Only then did Wang Jiayu remember that there was someone standing next to him, and asked aloud: "Junior brother Huo, who is this junior sister?"
Huo Qizhi had met Tong Yan several times but still didn't know Tong Yan's name. Huo Qizhi couldn't answer, so he looked at Tong Yan and motioned for her to speak.
Tong Yan raised a smile and introduced himself: "My surname is Tong. As the famous saying goes, Tong Yan is incompetent."
"It turns out to be Junior Sister Tong. It's a pleasure to meet you. My surname is Wang and my name is Jiayu. I have known Junior Brother Huo for three years." Wang Jiayu said with a smile, and at the same time glanced at Huo Qizhi.
Tong Yan took advantage of the situation and said, "Really? Then your relationship should be very good."
Wang Jiayu: "Our relationship is as close as brother and sister. He is often bullied by others, but I am the only one who still remembers that he was injured and often gives him some pills."
"Haha, that's it." Why does this sound so weird?
Tong Yan felt that Senior Sister Wang's words were a bit strange, so she said a few words and left.
Wang Jiayu looked at Tong Yan's leaving figure and casually asked Huo Qizhi, "Where is this Junior Sister Tong's disciple from? At such a young age, her cultivation level is so high."
"I don't know her. I only know that she is learning alchemy and I have met her twice." Huo Qizhi said.
"Could she be a registered disciple of some peak, or an elite disciple of the inner court? I see that she has an extraordinary temperament and outstanding appearance. I'm afraid she is a charming young lady from a certain family."
Huo Qizhi said without any emotion: "What does her identity have to do with me? She is just a passerby."
Wang Jiayu walked to where Tong Yan was standing, looked at him and asked, "Did she bully you?"
Huo Qizhi turned his head and glanced at her. Wang Jiayu looked away from his face and then looked back at him.
Huo Qizhi looked at Lu and said, "She was just too busy to panic, and just took a bottle of pills and gave them away randomly."
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After persisting in refining alchemy for two months, Tong Yan finally... decided to give up learning alchemy.
She didn't believe that she was a loser. It was all because alchemy was too troublesome and she had too few talents and skills in this area.
So, farewell! (Holding fists)
After weighing many aspects, she re-selected formation as a subject to study, but at this time she felt that she was in a good mood and decided to build the foundation first.
She went to seek advice from Senior Brother Luo Dong and asked about the tips and precautions for foundation building. Then she took a bag of spiritual stones and a foundation building pill from him and started the half-month long retreat.
According to Senior Brother Luo Dong, Master Shang Xun ordered these spiritual stones to be prepared early in the morning. He also told her that if she could build the foundation without elixirs, she would try not to use them.
Tong Yan understood that after all, pills contained a lot of impurities, and taking too much would be detrimental to cultivation.
Half a month later, her cultivation stabilized at the early stage of foundation establishment, so she went to the Consul Hall to exchange for a token dedicated to foundation establishment disciples, and by the way, she took on a sect mission to fight monsters nearby.
As early as the day she went to see Shang Xun, Luo Dong helped her replace her disciple token with Luo Huafeng's ordinary disciple token.
Why not a personal disciple token?
Don't forget what Shang Xun said, wait until she comes out of the secret realm to officially accept her as a disciple.
However, she is very satisfied with the ordinary disciple token, because she is low-key and can tell at a glance that she is not likely to get into trouble.
The location for hunting monsters is the forest in the back mountain. The trees stretch from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the bottomless valley, and then spread to the horizon.
The back mountain is very big, go deeper until you see the cliff, which is the confinement place of Mosha Sect. Some disciples who have made mistakes will be imprisoned here as punishment.
The place of confinement is on a cliff, which is to dig a hole in the straight stone wall of the cliff, and then put people in it to think about their mistakes. It is called a prison of confinement.
There are various kinds of monsters in the forest at the bottom of the cliff, and some sect disciples who are seeking breakthroughs will go here specifically to practice.
There are also some disciples who have made mistakes and are thrown away and left to fend for themselves.
As for whether anyone came out of there alive, she didn't know.
The task she took was to collect animal bones and fresh animal blood. Animal bones are generally used to refine weapons, while animal blood can be used to draw talismans.
And if you want to refine something with considerable power, the higher the grade of the monster, the better, and the minimum is level three.
Therefore, most of the people who take on this kind of mission are disciples who have established a foundation. During the Qi training period, you need to form a team.
During the three days, Tong Yan kept looking for monsters to practice with, casually fighting the fourth-level monsters, and testing the fifth-level monsters. Through frequent battles, he gradually became familiar with the power that was several times stronger after promotion.
No wonder everyone is addicted to cultivating immortals. The feeling of leveling up and winning a fight is simply not very satisfying. Occasionally, narcissistically imagining that you are the protagonist of the world is also quite exciting.
Tong Yan: Let me make it clear here that I am not a middle-grade student.
As soon as Huo Qizhi emerged from the bushes, he saw Tong Yan sitting by the fire with an unspeakable smile on his face.
The disadvantage of not always letting your consciousness go out is that you have to wait until someone is close and can see with your eyes before you know who the person is.
Tong Yan turned around and saw him: "It must be a special fate that we can..." We met him frequently.
Huo Qizhi: "...?" Why does it feel like she is singing???
The two looked at each other for a while, and Tong Yan noticed that the grass behind him moved. His eyes narrowed, and he quickly threw the meat-cutting dagger behind him.
Hearing a pop sound, the corpse of the monster fell behind Huo Qi. After looking back, he frowned, but he was shocked in his heart. The second-order red tiger had been following him for so long, but he didn't notice anything at all.
Tong Yan then said, "It's a big place here, you can sit wherever you like."
Huo Qizhi looked at the flat grass around him, and then at the simple stool under her butt.
He went back and picked up the dagger from the monster, and then walked to the fire.
"Give it back to you." He handed the dagger to Tong Yan.
Tong Yan looked at the blood-stained dagger with disgust, "Actually, you can wash it before giving it to me."
When she reached out and was about to take it, he put the dagger back, and then used his little spiritual power to use water control to clean the dagger.
"Yes." He handed the clean dagger over again and motioned for her to take it.
Tong Yan took the dagger with a smile and asked him, "I'm about to start dinner. Do you mind using this knife to cut meat?"
Huo Qizhi looked at her intently, then shook his head, and suddenly said while she was squatting down to cut meat, "You still have more stools, give me one."
Tong Yan paused mid-cut, turned around and asked in surprise: "How did you know I had extra?"
Huo Qizhi: "You told me this."
Tong Yan was surprised and said: "You defrauded me?!"
Huo Qizhi nodded.
Then, she reluctantly took out the fresh stool for Huo Qizhi, which she had specially prepared for the little master Ji Xing.
He was overtaken by others before he even sat down.
However, stools are meant for people to sit on. If someone needs it, use it first. She can't just watch Huo Qizhi sit down on the wet grass, right?
"Why are you here? And you're alone." Tong Yan asked the doubts in his heart while eating meat.
Huo Qizhi said after a while: "I took over the sect's mission with other fellow sect members."
"What about them?" The other disciples he saw a few times before were not very friendly towards him, but he didn't expect that someone would invite him to form a team to play a dungeon.
"The monster attacked and got separated." Huo Qizhi's tone was calm, but his lowered eyes were filled with hatred.
If they hadn't insisted on killing a third-level coyote, they wouldn't have provoked a pack of wolves and been hunted down by the entire back mountain.
Not to mention that he was forced to attract the wolves and let Senior Sister Wang get injured trying to save him...
Tong Yan, who was satisfied with his meal, suddenly noticed something was wrong with the aura of the person opposite him. He squeezed the barbecue in his hands tightly, as if he had some deep grudge against it.
Could it be the legendary blackening?
Tong Yan said tentatively: "Is this meat... so delicious that it makes you cry?"
Huo Qizhi raised his head and glared at her, his depressed mood inexplicably dissipated a lot.
He replied expressionlessly: "If the barbecue master had your skills, his family would probably starve to death."
"Please stop eating before you say this, thank you!"
As the saying goes, a cannibal has a short mouth, but why didn't it show up in him at all?
Then Huo Qizhi seemed to realize this truth. He ate the barbecue in a dull manner without saying a word, staring at the fire without raising his eyes for a moment.
Early the next morning, Tong Yan stretched out and thought about packing up before heading out of the back mountain. On the way, he went to Yatai City next to Mosha Sect.
Last time I went to the city with Master Shang Xun. This time I went again. Firstly, I sold some things that I didn’t use. Secondly, I bought some things for practicing formations. Considering that she might also learn talismans in the future, it would be better to buy them all.
Prepare everything first.
She looked at Huo Qizhi, who woke up very early, and asked him: "I will go down the mountain in a while, do you want to come with me?"
"No, I still have things to do here."
Tong Yan: "Okay. Then be careful, you... are not safe here alone."
Huo Qizhi knew that this was a very euphemistic way of saying it. What she wanted to say was probably that her cultivation level was too low.
Looking at Tong Yan's smiling face, he wanted to ask her to help him find Wang Jiayu for a moment, but the idea quickly fell back.
After much hesitation, he said, "Can you lend me some elixirs and talismans? I will return them to you in the future."
As for finding someone, it's up to him, even if he knows that she won't refuse after he opens his mouth.
Because that's her character.
Tong Yan dug out the remaining elixirs from the last trip to the secret realm, threw two bottles to him, and gave him a dozen talismans.
Then he said thoughtfully: "See if it's enough. I don't need it in the first place. You can pay it back slowly in the future."
Anyway, she has already established her foundation, and the talisman used in the Qi training period is of little use to her.
Maybe I can dig it out and sell it when I get to Yatai City.
Since someone needs it, why not borrow it? After all, there is no loss for her.
Are you worried about whether Huo Qizhi can return the favor?
Have you ever seen that rich man lend out thousands of dollars and expect to get it back?
Tong, a fake rich man, said that she didn’t care about this small amount of money!
After giving the things to Huo Qizhi, Tong Yan left.
After she left, Huo Qizhi also turned around and headed deeper. He grabbed the talisman in his hand and finally gave a sarcastic smile.
What was the way she looked at him unconsciously?
Slight pity, sympathy, and seems to be mixed with interest?
He hates this look.
I hate it so much that I want to dig out all the eyes that show such a look!
But just now, he actually felt that it was not so unbearable for her to look at him like this.