Immortality Begins with the Master of Alchemy

Chapter 274 Nine mountains with accumulated thunder, thousands of miles of quicksand wasteland

 Meet Li Jinhuang again.

The location is not located in Huilong Bay, but in a "water mansion".

Deep in the Qinhua River, there is a winding corridor, dark and dark, and it is unknown where it leads.

 Two figures, one in front and one behind, moved forward silently.

Luo Chen followed behind and looked at the man in front of him with a little surprise.

 Li Yingzhang!

This generation of the Li family is the most likely to build a foundation.

Double spiritual qualifications, at a young age, did not worship into the gate, but were left by Li Jinhuang to teach by Li Jinhuang when he was very young.

 This kind of situation also exists.

 When the family is short of talents, a genius appears.

The best way to deal with it is not to send it to the big gate, but to keep it at your own home.

 Otherwise, once you enter the sect, you will be as deep as the sea.

 At some point, the family may be forgotten.

  On the contrary, bringing them up from an early age can strengthen their dependence on the family and consolidate feelings other than blood relationships.

 Simply put, it is to use the family’s large and complex interpersonal relationships to bind each other.

 It cannot be said to be good or bad. After all, the other party does enjoy the full tilt of family resources.

 What surprised Luo Chen was that the other party's state seemed to be in a state of slow decline.

 It is obviously the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Period.

But he was not in a hurry to build the foundation, and allowed the realm to slowly slip.

 This is so strange!

As if sensing Luo Chen’s question, Li Yingzhang said without looking back:

“Senior, are you curious about my state of decline?”

"Um."

Luo Chen hummed.

Li Yingzhang simply explained: "My physique is special, and it is a body with nine twists and turns. It happened that my ancestor found a foundation-building secret technique for me, "Nine-fold Return to the Origin". I practiced this secret technique inside the Dantian, one level of recovery every year. , Nine years later, the Nine Levels of Return to Yuan Dacheng will increase my chance of success in foundation building by 20%.”

The bland explanation caused ripples in Luo Chen’s inner lake.

There is actually a secret technique to assist in foundation building?

 Constructing the Nine Layers of Return to the Origin within the Dantian, wouldn’t this be simulating and shaping the Nine Layers of Qi Sea in advance after the foundation is established?

At the time of building the foundation, after breaking the Dantian, there is no need to work hard to transform the Dantian into the sea.

 Broken the Dantian, the Dantian turns into the sea, absorbs the spiritual power, and the spiritual power turns into liquid.

 These are the four most critical places for foundation building.

 corresponds to the spiritual energy level and the soul level respectively, and as a whole, corresponds to the physical level.

 After practicing this secret technique, the process of transforming into the sea became a matter of course.

And judging from what Li Yingzhang meant, in the process of practicing "Nine Levels of Return to the Origin", the mastery and purification of spiritual power will be more in-depth.

 Isn’t it just that I have become familiar with the latter two processes in advance.

 No wonder it can increase the chance of foundation building by 20%!

The other party was so generous and told the secret technique without any hesitation.

 It seems that you are not afraid of Luo Chen coveting you at all?

“That’s right, this set of secret techniques was tailor-made for his special physique, and it’s useless for others to ask for it.”

Luo Chen also read about the nine-turn physique from a book introducing the physique of geniuses.

 This is a kind of "congenital defective constitution"!

 People with this physique are born with thicker meridians than others, and can accommodate more spiritual energy at the same level.

However, the thick meridians are winding, criss-crossing and criss-crossing.

 Just like a large river, the turbid currents twist and turn in nine twists and turns!

 It is conceivable.

 Such a complex meridian system.

 When running the natal skills, it will naturally take twice as much energy as ordinary people.

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The other party reached the state of Qi Refining Dzogchen at a young age of forty or fifty, which shows how much effort Li Jinhuang invested in him.

 I just don’t know, what level has he reached in the "Nine Levels of Returning to the Origin" now?

 How many more years will it take to build the foundation?

 While Luo Chen was thinking.

 Suddenly, the man in front stopped in front of a curtain of water.

“Senior, my ancestor is waiting for you inside.” Li Yingzhang stretched out his hand as an invitation.

Luo Chen took a serious look at him, and then stepped into the water curtain.

As soon as you enter, the rich spiritual energy seems to be like a different world.

 Duanduan is a top-grade first-class cave!

Before Luo Chen could sigh, his eyes fell on Li Jinhuang and his brows furrowed.

“Fellow Taoist, are you injured?”

Beside an underground spiritual spring, Li Jinhuang sat on a futon, his breath rising and falling.

There is still a faint smell of blood on his body.

Seeing Luo Chen arrive, Li Jinhuang smiled bitterly.

"I didn't expect that there would be such chaos over there in the Quicksand Wasteland. Jie Xiu is really too rampant!"

"Quick Sand Wasteland, you actually went to Ji Lei Jiu Mountain?" Luo Chen was extremely surprised.

Li Jinhuang sighed, "The situation there is the only one in chaos. No one will investigate the origin. Everything only depends on the quality of the goods."

Luo Chen pursed his lips, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

 He naturally knows that things are easy to take advantage of over Jilei Mountain.

 At present, the war between Yuanying Shangzong is still restrained, and there are not many personal actions.

After a brief initial confrontation, it evolved into a battle between his allies and vassals.

JiLei Mountain is the center of the battle.

 The thousands of miles of quicksand wasteland extending from Jilei Mountain is the largest battlefield.

 There is a mixture of fish and dragons there, and countless casual cultivators from the Jade Cauldron Territory are mixed in, trying to make profits through war.

This Li Jinhuang is a little too courageous!

“Your Tongyou Pill, I changed its name to Dream Dream Elixir and sold it in bulk on the black market.”

 “It was a little rough at the beginning, but then demand outstripped supply.”

“It only took me three months to sell it completely.”

“I didn’t expect that someone was actually targeting me... After a hard fight, I managed to escape.”

While speaking, Li Jinhuang took out a storage bag stained with black blood.

 “Here are all the profits, they are all in it, you can count them.”

 Take the storage bag.

Luo Chen couldn't help but raise his brows as his spiritual consciousness swept over him.

 There are quite a few!

He put it away with great care, and then asked curiously: "With your strength at the fifth level of foundation building, without the great monk, who can force you into such an embarrassing situation?"

“I don’t know, the origin of the other party is very good.” Li Jinhuang smiled bitterly, “I only know that the other party used a bowl-type magic weapon, and it almost covered me.”

Bo?

Luo Chen was stunned for a moment.

This kind of strange magic weapon is not something that ordinary monks would use.

 Only the strong Buddhists in Zhongzhou and Southern Xinjiang outside the Eastern Wasteland often use this type of magic weapon.

There are actually such monks in the Jade Cauldron Territory.

Li Jinhuang didn’t seem to want to say more and changed the topic.

“Have you seen that kid Yingzhang?”

 Luo Chen nodded, it was Li Yingzhang who brought him in.

 Looks normal!

“My grandson is good at everything, but as long as he practices cultivation, he doesn’t care about anything.”

“I’m a little worried about leaving the Li family to him.”

“So, please take care of the younger generation of the Li family more in the future.”

Looking at the other party's increasingly weakened aura, Luo Chen solemnly nodded, "It's as it should be."

This seems to be a bit like entrusting the funeral affairs.

The other party dealt with the Tongyou Pill for him and worked hard, so Luo Chen would not be disappointed.

However, he had another purpose for this trip.

“I wonder, Mr. Li Daoyou, if there is any way to purchase middle-grade or even high-grade second-grade cultivation elixirs?”

 Hear this question.

Li Jinhuang looked at Luo Chen in astonishment.

“If I had it, how could I stop at the middle stage of foundation building in this life?”

Luo Chen was also stunned for a moment.

All right!

 This is considered a blind question.

However, Li Jinhuang still pointed out some channels to Luo Chen where high-quality elixirs might appear.

 First of all, it is a regular large-scale auction. There is nothing much to say about this.

 Secondly, there are various black markets.

The origins of these black market items are often shady. Someone might have killed a large number of sect disciples and got high-quality elixirs from the opponent's storage bag.

However, the probability of high-quality elixirs appearing on the black market is not very high.

 After all, any monk can keep high-grade elixirs for his own use.

Luo Chen entrusted Li Jinhuang to sell 900 middle-grade and high-grade elixirs this time, which was considered a big deal.

 Even though he was only at the first level, Li Jinhuang was noticed by many people.

 This led to the trouble of being robbed and killed.

 Finally, Li Jinhuang also proposed a way.

“Since high-quality elixirs are only circulated within the great sect, why not buy them from the disciples of the great sect?”

 …

On the way back to the city, Luo Chen thought about the path Li Jinhuang finally proposed.

The other party obviously thought of a path tailor-made for him.

 He has a good relationship with Iceburg.

Maybe there is a chance to get high-quality elixirs from Ice Castle.

"But it's just maybe. If Ice Castle has a surplus of pills, it won't still be so thirsty for my Jade Dew Pill."

Luo Chen didn’t have high expectations for this.

 On the flying boat.

Luo Chen carefully counted the spiritual stones that Li Jinhuang brought back to him.

 The price of Tongyou Pill was decided upon by Luo Chen and Li Jinhuang before they set off.

 In view of the fact that this elixir is a very partial one, but it can significantly improve the spiritual foundation of the Qimen elixir.

 Hence, the price is set extremely high!

 Medium grade, a bottle of ten pieces, priced at 400 spirit stones.

High-grade, a bottle of ten pills, priced at 900 spiritual stones!

 The price is staggering.

 It's just a first-level elixir, but the middle-grade ones are almost as good as the second-level Heqi elixir.

 The price of the top-grade ones even directly exceeds the price of the lower-grade Heqi Pills and Shenglong Pills.

 Sounds like treating people as fools.

However, those who can practice to the foundation building stage may be stupid, but there are definitely no fools who are fooled in the Quicksand Wasteland.

 Tongyou Dan was initially ignored.

 Just half a month later, there was a panic buying frenzy.

Li Jinhuang later even deliberately controlled the flow rate of the elixir in his hand and put it on the black market auction. A bottle of top-grade Tongyou Pill costs nine hundred?

No!

This is just the starting price!

 The highest transaction price was once as high as 2,000 yuan, far exceeding the transaction price of the middle-grade Heqi Dan at Tianlan Auction.

Why are the foundation-building cultivators so crazy about buying high-grade Tongyou Pills?

Luo Chen has just thought about this issue.

“It’s probably because Chu Kui told me that the foundation of the soul is particularly important when forming elixirs!”

"Most of the foundation-building cultivators who dare to go to the Yuanying Sect's battlefield are those who have ambitions for the great road. When they encounter such pills that can directly increase the foundation of the soul, anyone will take a few bottles at any cost. of."

“Even if it is only increased by 10% or 20%, it may increase the chance of success a little bit when forming elixirs in the future.”

 “Everyone is working hard to form the elixir!”

After sighing with emotion, Luo Chen put away the storage bag with satisfaction.

 This time, he harvested 110,000 low-grade spiritual stones!

 It can be considered a small amount of money to make up for the cost that I invested before.

 As for the future, he does not plan to refine the middle-grade and high-grade Tongyou Pills anymore.

 These two seem to be selling at high prices and making a lot of profits.

 Actually, it’s just “seemingly”.

 The cost is three times that of the Chalcedony Pill. Even if each raw material is successful, the number of pills produced will only be three.

 It cannot be scaled up, it is difficult to refine, and the market can only deal with a small number of foundation-building cultivators.

 Furthermore, the effect of this elixir will become worse after being taken multiple times.

Coupled with the heaven-defying effect of increasing the foundation of the soul, it is easy to attract the covetousness of major sects.

 In summary, it is determined that Tongyou Pill cannot be used to make large-scale profits.

Luo Chen planned to refine only the best Tongyou Pill for his own use.

 Occasionally refine a few low-grade Tongyou Pills and place them in Luotian Club as an internal benefit.

 The flying boat flies at extremely high speeds.

Soon, he returned to Tianlan Immortal City.

Luo Chen did not hesitate and went straight to the shop in Qingdan Valley.

 First asked if Xuanyunzi was there.

 He wanted to inquire about the middle-grade Shenglong Pill from the other party.

Compared to the Ice Castle in a bitter cold place, the Qingdan Valley in the Jade Cauldron Region, which is famous for alchemy, is more likely to leak the middle-grade Shenglong Pill!

 Furthermore, his “relationship” with Xuanyunzi seems to be pretty good.

Unfortunately.

 After asking around, the answer was that the other party had returned to the sect.

"Uncle He is not a foundation-building cultivator who has been rotating in the Qingdan Pavilion for a long time. He is very accomplished in alchemy and is very valued in the valley. This time he came to Tianlan Immortal City for several medicinal materials that may appear in the auction. Let’s go there in person.”

"He has successfully purchased what he wanted and did not stay long. He went back half a year ago."

The maid explained this way.

Luo Chen had no choice but to get acquainted with Qingdan Pavilion's rotation foundation builder.

 Took out the discount card and bought the low-grade Shenglong Pill for nearly a year.

 After discounting, it cost a total of 19,000 spiritual stones.

This speed of spending money really makes Luo Chen feel a little distressed.

 His previous family property only consisted of 60,000 spiritual stones that were as immovable as a mountain.

 After one year, it only increased by 100,000 yuan.

　Including the 110,000 yuan recovered today, the total is only 270,000 yuan.

But this is only an approximate figure.

 Normally, Luo Chen doesn't seem to go out, but the expenses are not low at all.

Whether it is high-quality spiritual rice, second-level monster meat cut by the butcher shop, a piece of Li Shen Incense every day, or other auxiliary elixirs taken occasionally.

 His spiritual stones have been being consumed at a terrifying speed.

 Two hundred and seventy thousand?

 No, I only had 240,000 left with me before.

This time, another 19,000 yuan was spent.

 Out of the door.

Luo Chen did not set up the Langqi flying boat, but strolled on the wide street.

 He has some things to buy later.

 Alchemy consumes a lot of money, not only energy, but also the consumption of the durability of some equipment is also visible to the naked eye.

 And when it came to the Jade Dew Pill, he had to buy Baihua Dew and the Lieshen Incense for the next year.

This time, more than 10,000 spiritual stones have to be removed.

“Fortunately, Sima Huiniang adjusted Luo Tianhui’s merit policy. Otherwise, if it continued like before, my annual surplus of 100,000 yuan would be gone.”

“But even so, even if I spend 100,000 yuan a year on all kinds of expenses, I still can’t save tens of thousands of yuan in savings.”

“What will we use to compete for elixir-forming elixirs in the future?”

“I heard that after forming the elixir, you have to create a natal magic weapon for yourself, which is another huge expense.”

If Luo Chen wanted to create a natal magic weapon, he would definitely not choose an ordinary magic weapon sold on the market.

Most of those magic weapons and functions and special effects have been figured out by others.

Furthermore, those magic weapons have basically lost their growth potential, making it difficult to upgrade their level as his realm improves.

 “Thinking too far ahead, this is all a matter after the alchemy is formed.”

　　After getting out of Shixiang Pavilion, Luo Chen went to Tianyi Tower again.

 Spent 7,000 spiritual stones to buy a brand new top-quality robe.

 It has four functions: cleaning, defense, dust avoidance, and wind protection.

At this moment, 20,000 spiritual stones were gone.

"Looking closer, I have advanced to the middle stage of foundation building, which only takes a year."

 “What about after the mid-term?”

“Each level will require more spiritual power, and the progress of cultivation will only be slower. I must get enough high-quality elixirs.”

 “That means a huge amount of money!”

“Now, I only have 200,000 spiritual stones left on my body.”

 “Not enough, far from enough!”

People without thought, he must worry about.

Luo Chen is already making various plans for the cultivation after the middle stage of foundation building.

 First of all, you must focus on your own financial resources.

 Otherwise, even if someone gave him a way to get a high-quality elixir, he might not be able to take it.

Don’t forget, the rent in Shangpin Cave is also very scary!

Furthermore, it seems that Ice Castle’s rotation in Tianlan Immortal City is almost at the end of ten years.

If they no longer take turns, will the new Golden Elixir Sect still give him the privilege of renting it once a year?

 If you don’t give it, it will cost 480,000 spiritual stones in one breath!

“The benefits of Chalcedony Pill can be seen at a glance.”

“Should I put the issue of generating income from Yulu Pill on the agenda?”

 Arrived outside the Tiansheng Water Defense Formation.

Luo Chen casually said hello to the monk guarding the door and walked in on foot.

 In my mind, I am still thinking.

As a second-level elixir, Jade Dew Pill has a high price and is very scarce, but the cost is also very high.

One raw material costs one hundred spirit stones, and is also affected by market price fluctuations, which may rise from time to time.

The key thing is, once the price goes up, it won’t come down.

nausea!

 Before Luo Chen, only ten raw materials could be used to refine one bottle.

The key point is that in order to take advantage of the ice castle line, he voluntarily gave up the high price of the scarce elixir and only sold it for 500 yuan a bottle.

 In other words, he takes the cost of one thousand yuan and sells it for five hundred yuan.

 Losing money to maintain a relationship!

 This is human nature.

 But as Tantai Hao wants more and more Jade Dew Pills, he will lose more and more.

 One bottle loses 500, and one year loses 2,500.

 After the ten-year period, one hundred bottles will be provided a year, and then there will be a total loss of 25,000!

This does not involve wasting Luo Chen’s time and energy.

“If you want to maintain an intimate relationship, you also want to get money from them.”

“The only way is to improve the grade of the elixirs sold.”

 For this, Luo Chen can do it.

His current Jade Dew Pill refining proficiency has reached the proficiency level, and he can refine the middle-grade Jade Dew Pill.

"no!"

 “I can’t be in a hurry!”

“In just a few years, it was promoted to the middle level. Although it can be explained by genius, it is still too risky in the end.”

Suppressing the urgent thoughts in his heart, Luo Chen forced himself to calm down.

 Just losing money!

The current income is enough to support his cultivation.

 You can plan for future events in advance, but you must not be in a hurry.

 Everything must be done step by step.

 “Master, you are back!”

"Um."

 “What do you want to eat tonight?”

"I won't have dinner anymore. You stew this golden pheasant for me. I'll drink the soup tomorrow morning. By the way, this is a top-grade Baiyin robe that I just bought at Tianyi Building. You can try it on if you can. ”

Bai Meiling took the lively golden pheasant, and then excitedly entered the house with the Baiyin robe.

 She is a ghost, and the clothes on her body are all manifested by the spirit of the ghost.

 The Hundred Yin Dharma Clothes are made from hundreds of Yin Qi and special materials, and are just right for her to wear.

 From now on, you can save yourself from the ghostly spirit of manifesting clothes.

 After she entered the house, Luo Chen entered the meditation room.

Looking at the low-grade Shenglong Pill in his hand, Luo Chen gave a bitter smile.

“Forget it, let’s put up with the reduced cultivation speed for the time being, and let’s cultivate to the middle stage of foundation building first!”

 With a flick of his finger, the Shenglong Pill was swallowed into his mouth.

 The incense of the God of Fire rises slowly.

In the smoke, Luo Chen, who had changed into a red cloud robe and a cassock, was sitting cross-legged.

 The mind is clear and clear, absorbing countless spiritual energy into the sea of ​​​​qi.

In the third heaven, the clouds formed by spiritual energy gradually condensed during the operation of the technique.

for a long time.

 A drop of spiritual liquid, with a ticking sound, fell into the small lake below which was mostly filled with spiritual liquid.

 (End of this chapter)