Becoming An Immortal Begins With Marrying A Wife

Chapter 71: Second Stage Alchemist (33)

After leaving Wen Zhiyun's room, Chen An felt like he had lost a lot of things.

He hurriedly went to the alchemy room and took out a bottle of Vitality-Boosting Pill. He uncorked the bottle and poured it into his mouth.

Once the pill entered his stomach, it instantly turned into strands of vital energy that circulated within his body, continuously nourishing the overloaded parts of his body.

In just a moment, Chen An, who was originally a bit listless, became lively and energetic again.

"It's a pity that this Vitality-Boosting Pill only works for men. It would be great if it could also work for women."

Looking at the almost empty pill bottle, Chen An couldn't help but sigh.

If the Vitality-Boosting Pill could also work for women, then his wives wouldn't have to work so hard every day.

After resting for a while, Chen An started diligently refining pills when he had nothing else to do.

He spent over two hours refining pills.

Feeling that he had refined enough, he got up and left the alchemy room to go to his youngest wife's room to see his daughter.

On the way, when passing by Wen Zhiyun's room, Chen An caught a faint fragrance of stone orchid flowers coming from inside, which made him feel somewhat dissatisfied.

If they were to confront each other directly, he wouldn't lose to Wen Zhiyun at all. He could make this arrogant concubine beg for mercy.

However, now that this arrogant concubine was pregnant and knew that he couldn't use his full strength, she only attacked and didn't defend, using all sorts of despicable tricks, leaving him unable to express his grievances.

"After her child is born, I'll take back what I lost with interest. I'll make her beg for mercy every day."

Chen An comforted himself in his heart.

Then, he quickly entered his youngest wife's room and watched as she taught their daughter various worldly etiquette, finding it quite interesting.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the next day.

Chen An sat up from beside his still sleeping youngest wife and his gaze fell on the prompt message in front of him.

[Alchemy Experience +3] x15

[Alchemy Technique: Advanced First Stage (2391/2500)]

"Only 109 points of experience left."

Looking at the data on the prompt message, Chen An's heart was slightly excited. He thought that it was an incredibly correct decision to spend 700 low-grade spirit stones at the Treasure Pavilion to buy "Lovebirds Flying Together".

Not to mention 700 low-grade spirit stones, even if it was 7000, he wouldn't feel like he lost out.

For others, "Lovebirds Flying Together" might just be a tool to enhance the experience of intimacy with their wives and reduce the burden afterwards.

But for him, this technique was an upgrade assistant, at least doubling his leveling speed.

Getting dressed and getting out of bed, Chen An quickly finished washing up and drinking porridge. Then, under the watchful eyes of his wife and daughter, he carried a medicine box filled with pills and left the house.

...

Bamboo Leaf Gang, Logistics Department.

Chen An, as usual, entered and delivered the elixirs before turning around to leave.

But before he could take a few steps, he was stopped by a steward behind him.

"Master Chen, please wait," the steward called.

"Steward Liu, is there something else?" Chen An asked calmly on the surface.

But in his heart, he cursed the bunch of greedy dogs in the Logistics Department who wanted to increase the supply of elixirs endlessly.

Unfortunately, he cursed the wrong person this time.

The steward in the Logistics Department did not say anything about increasing the supply of elixirs.

Instead, he said:

"Master Chen, Elder Han, who is in charge of managing the entire Logistics Department, will come here later. He will gather all the alchemists for a meeting. If you don't have anything urgent, why not sit here and wait? It will save you from making another trip later."

"Thank you for the reminder, Steward Liu," Chen An smiled kindly.

Afterwards, he asked, "Steward Liu, do you know what the meeting is about?"

Steward Liu replied, "I'm not sure about the specifics of the meeting because it was suddenly announced. We are currently notifying the alchemists in the sect and the core area to come for the meeting."

"I see..." Chen An pondered for a moment, nodded, and then found a relatively quiet corner to sit and wait.

Ah, I hope it's not a meeting just to further exploit the alchemists, he sighed inwardly.

With nothing else to do, he observed the low-level cultivators who were busy in the Logistics Department.

There were more men than women.

There were handsome and ugly men, but the women were all ugly, not even one of average appearance.

The reason for this phenomenon was that the good-looking female cultivators at the lower levels were basically taken home by some wealthy male cultivators as concubines.

The rest were the ones no one wanted, so they could only stay in the Logistics Department and work hard.

As time passed, more and more cultivators entered the Logistics Department.

Almost all of them had received the meeting notice and hurriedly came as alchemists.

Some alchemists who knew Chen An walked over and greeted him with a smile when they saw him sitting in a corner.

After about half an hour, the originally empty corner gradually became crowded.

From initially only Chen An alone, it became more than fifty people now.

These more than fifty people were the top alchemists in the entire Bamboo Leaf Forest.

Starting is always at an advanced level.

However, they are all basically at an advanced level, with only two barely reaching the second level.

Moreover, these two second-level alchemists are members of the Bamboo Leaf Gang.

"Fellow Daoists, thank you for coming to the logistics department." With a deep male voice, an old man in white appeared in front of everyone.

This is Han Elder, the one in charge of the logistics department of the Bamboo Leaf Gang.

As soon as they saw this elder in charge of the logistics department, many alchemists present began to flatter him, saying how it was not hard and how it was an honor to be summoned by Han Elder.

It's not surprising that these alchemists are flattering.

After all, this Han Elder in front of them is a big figure who controls the fate of all alchemists in the Bamboo Leaf Forest.

Whether they can join the Bamboo Leaf Gang as alchemists, and how much medicinal supply they need to provide to the logistics department every month, it's all up to Han Elder.

"Everyone, please calm down."

Han Elder pressed his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

Then he said, "The main reason for gathering everyone here today is to talk about the production of poison pills."

Poison pills?

As soon as they heard these two words, all the alchemists present couldn't help but change their expressions.

Everyone looked at each other, thinking that someone was secretly producing poison pills for sale, causing everyone to be implicated.

But what Han Elder said next was not what they expected.

He astonishingly said that the alchemists present should produce a special poison pill to control mercenaries on the battlefield.

Because recently, the Bamboo Leaf Gang has been increasingly declining in the war against the Black Iron Mountain Villa. Many mercenaries, seeing the situation, have chosen to betray and attack the members of the Bamboo Leaf Gang, taking their heads and joining the Black Iron Mountain Villa.

In order to prevent this situation from happening, Han Elder requested the alchemists to develop a special poison.

The requirement is: it should be completely harmless to the body under normal circumstances, but if the specific antidote is not taken regularly, it will eventually result in sudden death.

To increase motivation, generous rewards were also offered.

There were rewards for companions, rewards for status, rewards for techniques... and many more.

The alchemists present were excited, and most of them began to be eager to try.

Chen An was one of the more unsociable ones among them.

He had no interest in this.

He didn't want to expose himself just to get the reward.

He just wanted to quickly break through to become a second-level alchemist and then join the Treasure Pavilion to change his life.

Not long after, the meeting was adjourned.

Chen An didn't stay long and left the logistics department as soon as possible.

After returning home, he went straight to the room of his beloved wife, Song Huaying.

Currently, only 109 points of experience are needed to break through to the second stage of the alchemy realm.

He didn't want to wait any longer.

Thinking about it, he decided to work hard one more time with his beloved wife and break through the alchemy realm tonight.

As compensation, he would love his wife even more in the future and give her more respect.

Instead of letting his wife be a woman who only knows how to obey her husband's orders, without any sense of her own life.

The sky gradually darkened.

A slight cool breeze blew outside.

On this night, their daughter Chen Yuejian slept in Wen Zhiyun's room.

Chen An pushed open his wife's door, took off his clothes, and lay on her bed, chatting about every beautiful moment they had experienced in the past two and a half years.

"Wife, Yue'er is just an ordinary woman. Why are you, as a celestial master, so good to me?" Song Huaying weakly lay on the bed, breathing deeply and with a slightly heavy complexion on her delicate and reddened face, filled with a look of confusion.

Chen An chose to follow his heart and honestly stated the real reason, saying, "It's just because Yue'er is too beautiful. I was captivated by just one glance."

"Ah... is it just that?" Song Huaying felt a little disappointed with this answer.

But soon, she put away her disappointment and instead, with watery and beautiful eyes, smiled sweetly, saying, "Then, husband, you should take a few more glances at Yue'er while she is still young and beautiful. Otherwise, when Yue'er becomes old and faded, there won't be anything for you to see."

"No, I will definitely find the Eternal Youth Pill for Yue'er in the future, so that she can always remain youthful. I want to see the young and beautiful Yue'er every day," Chen An said with determination.

"Husband..." Song Huaying was moved, and her eyes became slightly moist.

Chen An gently wiped away the crystal-clear tear that had formed at the corner of her eye, and with a loving tone, said, "Yue'er, you've rested enough. It's time to continue reminiscing about every beautiful moment we've had in the past two and a half years."

"Mm." Song Huaying nodded tearfully.

Happy times always pass quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was already morning.

When Chen An opened his eyes again, the pitch-black sky outside the window had completely brightened.

He lowered his head and glanced at his wife, who was sleeping soundly in his arms, and wiped away the tear stains she had left at the corner of her eye last night. He let her leg rest on him.

Then, with a thought, he brought up the progress bar of the alchemy technique that he had been longing for and checked the data.

[Alchemy Technique: Second Stage Intermediate (2502/12500)]

"I am now a second stage alchemist..." Chen An looked at the prompt message in front of him, but there was no excitement as he had imagined, only a sense of deserving it as a matter of course.

...

PS: Please support me with votes and recommendations!

(End of this chapter)