Uncle Ming left, drank the Sanhua Qingye wine given by Cheng Ling in one breath, and staggered out of the secret room. The narration of the debate between Buddhism and Taoism seemed to stimulate his pain, and he was unwilling to say anything anymore.
But this was enough for Cheng Ling. His understanding of the immortal world had risen to a higher level, and he was no longer the novice he was before. And from what Uncle Ming told him, he once again confirmed that Zhouji Shop is anything but simple.
The strength of the major forces and the secrets of the sect are not something ordinary people can know. Zhou Yuanbai had previously told him about Piao Miao Snow Sect's Love-Slaying Dao technique, and now Uncle Ming analyzed the major and minor forces in the immortal world for him one by one. Their background was by no means simple.
But so far, the two sides are still cooperating, which not only does no harm, but also has great benefits. Such a situation made him completely give up and go deeper. After all, everyone has their own secrets, and he didn't want to be pried into.
After staying quietly in the secret room for a day, Zhou Yuanbai never turned around. It wasn't until Zhang Hu arrived at the shop at Chenshi the next day that Zhou Yuanbai led two middle-aged monks to greet him.
"Brother Cheng and Brother Zhang are indeed trustworthy people. They came to the shop before midnight. Let me introduce you first. These two are the children of my Zhou family. One is named Zhou Yu and the other is named Zhou Lin. From today on, Zhou Yu accompanies Brother Cheng in refining the elixir, while Zhou Lin accompanies Brother Zhang."
"Don't be polite. No matter what your request is, you can leave it to them. Of course, we have negotiated with Brother Cheng before. Please allow them to watch while the two are refining. It would be their honor if you can give me some advice. .”
Zhou Yuanbai spoke very politely, pointing out that these two monks were here to learn alchemy and weapon refining, and they were just running errands. Whether they were willing to teach them or not was entirely up to their hearts.
Cheng Ling waved his hand and said, "Brother Zhou, you're welcome. Since everyone is cooperating, we should follow the agreement. How much they can learn is up to them."
Zhang Hu naturally followed Cheng Ling's lead. Since he said so, he would just do it.
Zhou Yuanbai was overjoyed. With this sentence, even if Cheng Ling and Zhang Hu didn't teach it specifically, they could finally learn something. After all, as disciples of the Wuji Sect, they cannot continue to refine elixirs and weapons for the Zhou family. In the future, they will still have to rely on the family disciples they have trained.
In this way, the two took Zhou Yu and Zhou Lin back to their respective secret rooms and started refining.
The first thing Cheng Ling refined was the sixth-grade elixir, which corresponds to the Immortal Lord stage, and the market is still very large. He did not hide his secrets, and showed the steps of alchemy one by one in front of Zhou Yu, allowing the other party to watch.
After working hard for three hours, he refined ten furnaces of Zuojun Dan. Zhou Yu was inexplicably shocked. He had never seen such a fast alchemy technique before. His level of alchemy was level 4. It would take about two hours to refine a furnace of level 4 elixir. Three hours and ten furnaces would have never occurred to him. .
He was excited and his body was trembling slightly. Only now do I realize how much the young master takes care of me. Such a powerful elixir master is even worse than the Dan Alliance.
Cheng Ling completely conquered Zhou Yu with one unintentional move!
Zuo Jundan is to get a share of the immortal crystal, and the next step is to refine the seventh-grade elixir. The first choice was naturally the Purple Snow Pill. The market for this kind of pill was huge and it was relatively difficult among the seventh-grade elixirs. Cheng Ling's order success rate and the quality of the elixir had not yet reached their peak.
The ingredients for the elixir were already prepared. Cheng Ling randomly selected a set of ingredients and started refining them.
Following the sound of Dang Dang Dang Dang's handprints hitting the alchemy furnace, bursts of Taoist rhyme echoed in the secret room. Zhou Yu was torn between wanting to carefully observe Cheng Ling's alchemy techniques and comprehending the charm of alchemy. In the end, he gave up his enlightenment and stared at the alchemy furnace.
One by one, the herbs were thrown into the furnace, and the medicinal liquid tumbled in the furnace. This continued for an hour, and five purple snow pills that exuded medicinal fragrance were already in hand.
Cheng Ling picked it up and looked at it, frowning slightly. These five pills were still only of medium quality, far from his goal.
Zhou Yu carefully asked from the side: "Master Cheng, is this the Purple Snow Pill?"
“Not bad, unfortunately only of average quality.”
Zhou Yu gasped, there were only a handful of seventh-grade elixirs that could be refined, let alone of medium quality. Moreover, when he was refining the alchemy earlier, he discovered that Cheng Ling's spiritual consciousness was extremely huge. Unlike other alchemy masters who purified the liquid to more than 80% before starting to fuse it, he had to refine it to more than 95%.
This is a huge difference. The concentration of the medicine is 15% different, and the mental power consumed is almost twice as much as usual. But it was incredible to see Cheng Ling finish refining a batch of elixirs without feeling any mental drain.
Cheng Ling didn't care about this, his goal was to advance to the eighth level of elixir master. The entire Immortal Realm can refine less than one palm of the eighth-grade elixir. While there is time now, there is a steady supply of herbal medicines. How long will it take if we don't attack now?
He is completely different from other elixir masters. No matter what grade of elixir he produces, it must at least reach the top grade or above before it will stop. Obviously, the first furnace of Purple Snow Pill does not meet your requirements, so keep up your efforts and continue refining!
The second furnace, the third furnace...! Zhou Yu stood aside and watched, almost petrified. This mental power is so powerful that he can continuously refine the same elixir faster and faster, and the quality is constantly improving.
Finally, three days later, Cheng Ling stopped refining. He was relieved, but he soon became confused again. Just listen to Cheng Ling say: "Zhou Yu, we have run out of materials, go and gather some."
He stepped forward and took a look, wasn't it? Those were thousands of seventh-level herbs, and they were all refined in just three days? Looking at the jade bottles neatly arranged on the ground, there are at least more than 5,000 purple snow pills in them.
"This is so horrific, it's almost inhuman!"
Zhou Yu secretly made a judgment to Cheng Ling, and immediately left the secret room and went out to collect materials.
Cheng Ling was temporarily free, and instead of resting, he went to the training room to refine the Five Marks Yin and Yang Pill and start practicing.
I haven't encountered any special circumstances so far. I still have time to improve my alchemy level and cultivation level. Once the master is summoned, I will have no time. Therefore, he almost never gives up any opportunity to improve his cultivation. No one knows how many five-line Yin-Yang pills need to be refined to advance to the level of Immortal Lord.
On the other side, Zhang Hu's situation was slightly normal. Refining weapons is different from refining alchemy. After all, many materials need to be smelted and it takes more time. However, Zhou Yuanbai made a request before Zhang Hu entered the secret room, that is, all materials should be used to refine swords.
Zhang Hu was confused. In terms of value, the price of defensive magical weapons was generally higher than that of offensive magical weapons. It was a bit confusing for Zhou Yuanbai to ignore the defensive magical weapons and pursue sword weapons blindly.
It's just that Zhang Hu doesn't care who the master is. Anyway, no matter what kind of immortal weapon he refines, his weapon refining level will be improved, and he hopes to be promoted to the master of immortal weapons in the near future.
The two of them forgot all about sleeping and eating, as if they had completely forgotten that they were in the Yuming Immortal City, and kept retreating in the secret room, either refining elixirs and weapons or refining elixirs to improve their cultivation.
Unconsciously, half a year passed. Zhang Hu kept refining the immortal weapons every day, and was finally promoted to the sixth-level immortal weapon master. His cultivation level was also advanced to the early stage of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Immortal. And Cheng Ling had already upgraded the Purple Snow Pill refining level to the top grade.
The happiest people are Zhou Yu and Zhou Lin. These two masters are really good. After observing them refining alchemy and weapon for half a year, their own grades have improved a lot, from the early stage of fourth grade to the peak of fourth grade.
Next, Zhang Hu naturally continued to refine the sixth-grade immortal weapon, but Cheng Ling encountered a bottleneck.
As early as two months ago, he started refining the Yiwang Pill to improve the quality of the pill. Now, every two furnaces he refines can reach the top grade in one furnace.
After a month, every furnace can reach the top grade. At this time, he was ready to try to attack the eighth-grade elixir, and the one he chose to refine was the Dragon King Pill, which was a pill that allowed monks in the Immortal Emperor stage to improve their cultivation level.
But no matter how it is refined, the Dragon Emperor Pill cannot be successfully refined. Besides, the eighth-level fairy grass is not a popular commodity after all. No matter how wealthy Zhou Ji Shop is, in a place like Yuming Fairy City, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
The dozens of herbs collected to refine the Dragon King Pill were all consumed by Cheng Ling. Unfortunately, not a single pill was refined.
Cheng Ling thought hard and carefully replayed the entire alchemy process in his mind, but still couldn't figure out where the problem lay. In the end, it can only be attributed to the fact that I am not proficient enough in the seventh-grade alchemy. So far, I have only refined two kinds of elixirs, namely Purple Snow Pill and Yiwang Pill.
He learned from the pain and decided not to rush for success, but to take one step at a time, intending to refine all the seventh-grade elixirs he knew to the highest grade, and then attack the eighth-grade elixir master.
In this way, in the next few months, he refined all the seven elixir recipes he knew, Xuanyuan Dan, Lingso Dan, Huntian Dan, Qingshuang Dan, Baizhuan Dan, Bingxin Dan, and Yuanyang Dan, until No matter which elixir is used, it must be of the highest quality.
Another half year later, Cheng Ling and Zhang Hu had stayed at Zhouji Danpu for a year. During this year, the elixirs and artifacts refined by Cheng Ling and Zhang Hu were sold, Zhou Ji's shop became famous, and the immortal crystals came in like a tide.
Not to mention the store's revenue, even the share received by Cheng Ling and Zhang Hu amounted to hundreds of millions of mid-grade immortal crystals. This situation naturally caused other forces to covet him, and they sent people to find out where the Zhou family had the ability to sell high-grade elixirs.
Unfortunately, Zhou Yuanbai had been prepared. Except for the front of the alchemy shop, the back hall and backyard were surrounded by iron barrels, making it impossible for anyone to enter easily.
Naturally, for the sake of profit, some people will eventually take risks. However, the Zhou family was well prepared and actually resisted several sneak attacks in a row and transported all the corpses to the city lord's palace, which gave the Xu family a headache for a long time.
In the end, the city lord's palace could only dispatch two city guards to surround Zhou Ji's shop, and only then could the rest of the city's crazy attack be contained.
In the alchemy secret room, Cheng Ling was finally ready to attack the eighth-grade elixir again. After preparing all the materials needed for the Dragon King Pill, Zhou Yuanbai spent a lot of effort to collect five copies of this batch of materials.
Unfortunately, after more than ten days of hard work, the last five materials were all scrapped. And when he was refining the last batch of Dragon Emperor Pill, a flash of thought suddenly occurred in his mind. The Pill Dao is also one of the three thousand avenues. Unless he can advance to the Immortal King stage, it will be impossible to refine it.
In other words, his alchemy level improvement has reached a bottleneck!
