After traveling through time, my blood became a panacea

Although the process was a little tortuous, it generally went smoothly as Xu Feng had planned. Soon, everyone in the Sikong family knew about Xu Feng. As a family guard, he did not take on family missions like others to earn cultivation resources. Instead, he found a new way to make beauty products such as rouge and powder for his daughter's family, and sold them to the women in the family's inner house to earn money.

This kind of behavior was disdained and looked down upon by other Yuan Realm cultivators of the Sikong family. It was too cheap for a dignified cultivator to engage in business and specifically do business with women.

However, the things made by Xu Feng were quite popular among the women who used them, and their fame became even more famous.

Not only Sikong Ming, the nominal master, but even Qi Lin looked at him with a strange look when he went to drink with him. However, Xu Feng didn't care about the rumors in the outside world and continued to do his own thing.

Xu Feng still felt that he was not making money fast enough. Although the things he made had been proven for half a year and had been recognized by most of the maids and old women, and even some of the low-ranking girls from the Sikong family also preferred his products, if he wanted to shorten the time as much as possible, he would need a steady supply of cultivation resources with increasingly higher quality. He needed to develop beauty products with better effects.

To achieve this, you can't stick to the rules, you have to take a different approach and use things with slight toxicity, such as blood jasmine leaves, blue butterfly flowers, and cornstarch, etc., using the mutual promotion and restraint of different toxic ingredients to offset the toxicity and retain only the effects of whitening, rosy and anti-aging.

For ordinary people, this method is naturally unacceptable. When using something like this on a woman's face, one must be extremely careful. Even if one does not use the face at first, but instead uses skin from other parts of the body as a substitute for the experiment, a single mistake can cause skin damage or ulceration, which is not worth the loss.

Moreover, in order to obtain satisfactory results, the formula needs to be modified at least hundreds or thousands of times, and a bit of luck is needed to develop a completely new formula.

But Xu Feng has his own advantages. With the shrunken crystal core in his body, he is not afraid of the damage to his body caused by changing the formula at will, no matter how serious it is. However, this matter cannot be rushed. The more anxious you are, the easier it is to lose your balance and make mistakes. On the contrary, if you keep a calm mind, maybe a surprise will come unexpectedly one day. He just needs to experiment slowly.

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Two years passed in a flash. Xu Feng used the salary from the Sikong family and the money he earned to buy various resources for cultivation. With his pretty good talent, he finally reached the late third level of the Human Yuan Realm two years later. It was the critical moment when he could try to break through to the fourth level of the Human Yuan Realm.

This is the second bottleneck that a cultivator encounters on his path to cultivation (the first is the entry level of cultivation). In the Fenyan Continent, this is also the dividing line between the lower three grades and the middle three grades. Once a breakthrough is successful, one's strength and status will increase greatly.

In order to successfully break through, Xu Feng made sufficient preparations. He not only bought two low-grade spirit stones, two Qi Yuan Dan to increase the chances of successful promotion, but also Juhun incense which could eliminate all distracting thoughts after being ignited. Xu Feng even prepared generous gifts to ask for relevant experiences from those elite guards of the Sikong family who had successfully broken through.

Everything was ready, and Xu Feng stepped confidently into the retreat room specially opened by the Sikong family.

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A day later, Xu Feng came out of seclusion, but his face was dejected.

Failed! He actually failed to break through?! This was something he had never thought of before. Back then, he had once reached the first level, which was the ninth level of the Human Yuan Realm. Now that he was in the more superior cultivation environment of the Huanyue Continent and had prepared so many auxiliary items, he was defeated by the fourth level of the Human Yuan Realm. It must be said that Xu Feng was somewhat shocked.

"Brother Xu, you..." Qi Lin, who was waiting outside the retreat room, saw Xu Feng's expression and immediately felt something was wrong. He had already prepared a sumptuous banquet in the city restaurant in advance, waiting for Xu Feng to come out of retreat to celebrate for him, but he didn't expect...

"No reason!" Xu Feng was puzzled and could not accept the fact that he had failed to break through. He had done everything he should have done, so what was the problem?

Looking at Qi Lin's concerned and worried eyes, he felt warm in his heart.

"It's okay, it's just a failure. At worst, you can start over again!" Xu Feng smiled at him.

"Yes, yes, yes. With this experience, you will be able to make a breakthrough next time." Seeing this, Qi Lin felt much more relaxed and encouraged with a smile.

The two were about to leave together. Not far away, a man who was also waiting for his companions to come out of retreat laughed coldly, "Some people never complete family missions, and never participate in the competitions between cultivators of the same level. They are timid and have no blood. We cultivators fight against the sky, the earth, and people. How can you dream of breaking through the bottleneck by being a turtle every day? What wishful thinking!"

Xu Feng was a well-known figure in the Sikong family. There were indeed many people who disliked him for his opportunistic behavior. However, this was the first time he had encountered such a face-to-face ridicule.

Xu Feng and Qi Lin's faces changed at the same time. Qi Lin was worried that Xu Feng was in a bad mood, and that he would conflict with the person who just spoke and make an enemy out of this.

Xu Feng was shocked. Could it be that this was the reason for his failure? Was he too eager for stability and lacked courage and fighting spirit? Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that every warrior in the Burning Flame Continent would go out to train in order to hone themselves and seek breakthroughs.

Before, when he was a medicine body, all he needed to do to improve his strength was swallow thousand-year-old spiritual materials and refine spiritual objects, and he tried his best to avoid fighting with others. However, this mentality now became an obstacle for him to break through the bottleneck.

"Let's go!" Xu Feng said to Qi Lin calmly. Although the other party was sarcastic, at least he knew the reason for his failure. Xu Feng should thank this person. Otherwise, if he relied on himself to figure it out, he would have wasted a lot of time to figure it out.

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Although Qi Lin was told that he could just start over, it was not that simple. Xu Feng had made full preparations for this breakthrough, spending almost all of his earnings over the past two years.

Not only does he need to earn a large amount of cultivation resources in a short period of time, but he also needs to hone himself. Ordinary family tasks take a long time and the rewards are not high. At this time, Xu Feng no longer thinks highly of them.

His eyes turned to the pioneering team that would go to the Blood Mist Mountains once a year in two months. This mission had the highest pay, and as long as they could return alive, the reward would be mouth-watering.

However, the casualty rate of the pioneering team is also extremely high. In good years, there is a 30% mortality rate. In serious cases, more than half of the cultivators cannot return. For most Yuan realm cultivators in the Sikong family, the mere mention of it is a terrifying thing.

Those who actively join the pioneering team are not only those who are very confident in their own strength and ambitious, but also some old people who have made little progress in their cultivation but are unwilling to give up and want to risk their lives again. Or there are those who have committed serious mistakes and want to join the pioneering team in order to avoid family punishment.

I just heard that in recent years, as the pioneering team has gone deeper into the Blood Mist Mountains, the casualty rate has remained high, and the number of people who voluntarily join has been decreasing.

As a last resort, the Sikong family gave more generous rewards to the monks who joined the pioneering team. They would receive a settlement allowance beforehand, and if they could come back alive afterwards, they would receive additional rewards based on their merits.

High risk comes with high rewards. Just when Xu Feng wanted to find out more about the pioneering teams that went to the Blood Mist Mountains over the years before making a decision, Qi Lin suddenly found him with despair in his eyes and told him the news that he was forcibly recruited into this year's pioneering team.