Heavy snow covers the ground, like a cloud-white robe.
The giant trees are covered with ice, like crystal gems.
On the horizon, the continuous snow-white mountains appear lush and green, like an oasis in the desert.
Above the oasis, a large number of water-blue ice clouds floated, blocking the sky and the sun.
The lush greenery stretching for hundreds of miles from east to west is like a giant dragon lying next to the snow-white mountains, looking to the west.
After flying for more than a month, the Black-scaled Flame Bird finally slowed down.
"It's Wangchan City! We're here."
Yuan Yao was pleasantly surprised. She had been here three or four years ago.
Due to fear of Duanmu Jingbai's reputation in Qianjue Chan Ridge, the plan to steal the Di Rong Fruit failed to be implemented.
"Eh...it seems that the number of ice demon cicadas in Wangchan City is more than a few years ago." The little girl looked suspicious.
Li Yuandao: "Qianjue Chan Ridge is different from other regions. The special environment has created many precious medicines.
"But a few years after these precious medicines appear, they will disappear one after another.
"The attack of the demonic cicada beasts on Qianxue City and other reasons caused the expansion of the Qianjue Cicada Ridge area, and Wangchan City was also affected."
Patting the Jie Scale Flame Bird's back, Li Yuan said again: "Jie Yan, you stay outside the city while Yuan Yao and I go into the city to exchange for a precious medicine. It won't take long.
"You probably haven't been out of Qianjue Cicada Ridge for hundreds of years. Take a walk around here."
Jiu Yan nodded his huge head.
Two figures, one large and one small, jumped up from the back of the Flame Bird, and then swooped down and disappeared into the snow-capped mountains.
The scaled flame bird flapped its huge wings, circled in the air, let out a bird's cry, and flew towards the mountains and forests to the east.
………
Wangcicada City is one of the three giant cities in Qianjue Cicada Mountains.
Located at the southern end of the eastern periphery of the middle section of Chanling Ridge, its scale is not much smaller than Qianxue City.
The city has lush vegetation and the energy of the wood element is particularly strong. Many high-level alchemists were born here.
The Duanmu family in Wangchan City has considerable strength and reputation, with 40% of the entire huge city under its control. It can be said that it is a single family.
Therefore, the Duanmu family is also the lord's palace of this city.
The Duanmu family did not bully the weak because they were strong, and they had a good reputation.
Of course, this is also relative.
If you belong to a philanthropic family, it will be difficult to grow up in Qianjue Cicada Ridge.
In addition to the Duanmu family, there are many smaller forces in the city.
Although these forces have friction with each other, they are not at war with each other like Qian Xuecheng. They are generally still connected to compete with the Duanmu family.
After entering the city, Li Yuan followed Yuan Yao and walked through countless streets for two or three hours before arriving at a majestic mansion with an extremely large area.
The quaint courtyards in the mansion are arranged in a well-proportioned manner, shrouded in the fragrance of medicine, mixed with the faint fragrance of red elixir, and shrouded in clouds and mist.
Above the towering gate, there is a plaque that is more than ten feet long. It does not have any words, but some grass and tree patterns.
The mansion follows the topography of the city, from east to west, as if it is soaring into the clouds and looking over the mountains, eager to find the precious medicine there.
The row of guards in front of the gate wear badges engraved with vegetation on their chests, which are the same as those worn by Duanmu Jinghai.
The City Lord's Mansion in Wangchan City is the largest elixir market within hundreds of thousands of miles.
Although there are not as many mysterious pills as there are occasionally at the Qianxue City Auction Conference, there are countless condensed pills here and all the king pills are available, but the prices are a bit higher.
Standing outside the gate, Li Yuan couldn't help but admire: "I'm afraid there are no other places on the mainland that have as many Nirvana powerhouses as there are powerhouses in the Yuan Shen realm.
There are less than a hundred people in the Nirvana Realm in Daxia, but there are more than a hundred people coming and going here in a hurry.
"Isn't this the main entrance of Duanmu's house?" Li Yuan turned his head and looked at Yuan Yao and asked.
Yuan Yao replied: "This is the main entrance.
“The City Lord’s Mansion is divided into two courtyards, the east and west, also known as the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard.
“The east courtyard is an open market and you can enter at will.
"The west courtyard is where the Duanmu family lives."
Looking to the west, Yuan Yao thought for a while and continued: "There are several side doors over there. Only people from the Duanmu family can enter, and outsiders are not allowed in."
Li Yuan shook his head helplessly, looked towards the main entrance, and said, "Let's go in and take a look."
After saying that, he stepped into the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, and a strong medicinal fragrance hit his face.
The east courtyard is wide and divided into six major areas.
The three material areas and the three elixir areas are all classified according to grade.
The further you go, the higher the grade, and the figures are relatively rare.
There are counters made of high-grade stones in all areas, with various materials, jade bottles, jade boxes, etc. placed on them.
The six major areas are all open trading areas, and the number of counters belonging to the Duanmu family is very small.
The entire trading area is similar to a market. It only deals in materials and elixirs, and it also looks like a big pharmacy.
There are three gates on the westernmost side of the trading area.
Many alchemists hurriedly walked out of the left door.
There are many alchemists inside who are refining elixirs and controlling the fire while also exchanging their experiences on refining elixirs.
There are several guards from the City Lord's Mansion at the middle gate, which leads directly to the Duanmu family's real mansion in the west.
The door on the right is closed and very mysterious.
Looking around, Li Yuan did not see the fifth-level materials sales area, so he took Yuan Yao to the fourth-level materials sales area.
While walking around, I saw that most of the materials here need to be exchanged for high-quality elixirs. If you buy them with Yuan Stone, the price will be much higher.
The elixirs in the elixir area, materials, ingots, techniques, and techniques can all be exchanged.
This method made Li Yuan think of a way to collect precious medicine.
He plans to return to the Cyanwood Palace to refine a batch of high-quality mysterious elixirs, and have the Cyanwood Palace invite all the major forces in the mainland to exchange for the precious elixirs.
In this way, he will have all the extremely rare treasures on the mainland in his pocket.
While walking slowly, looking left and right, Li Yuan couldn't catch any of the elixirs or materials.
Wandering all the way, after a while, the two came to the sales area of level four materials.
Here, a counter finally caught Li Yuan's attention.
Behind a counter, there was an old man who had reached the peak of Nirvana. He was sitting on a futon with his eyes closed.
Li Yuan felt that he had seen this old man somewhere before, but he didn't think about it carefully because something more attractive caught his eye.
In front of the counter, there were many Yuan people gathered around, carefully looking at the nearly a hundred herbs that were one foot square on the counter.
Each plant is delicate and full of vitality.
The endless vitality slowly drifts away from it, which is refreshing and very beneficial to practice.
The medicinal herb is called Dan Baicao. It is a treasure that assists Yuan practitioners in their cultivation and is particularly effective in the Yuan Dan realm.
In Daxia, it is rare to see this kind of fourth-level special grade material.
Li Yuan had read in the Holy Book of Medicine written by Mu Lan that Dan Baicao was one of the main materials for refining Taixu Wang Dan.
The efficacy of the Taixu King Pill recorded in the Sacred Book of Medicine can increase the level of Yuan Dan by about half a level.
After Ling learned about the efficacy of this pill, she concluded that this pill should be an extremely crude and simplified version of Taixu Pill.
After taking the Taixu King Pill, the Yuan Zhe can travel to Taixu and instantly improve his cultivation level.
And it can also play a certain role in accelerating the subsequent improvement of cultivation. The higher the quality, the better the effect.
The Taixu King Pill and the Demonic Beast Inner Pill have similar effects. The former instantly improves the cultivation level, while the latter needs to be refined slowly in seclusion.
The difference between the two also makes their value very different.
The only shortcoming of this elixir is that it cannot provide help for realm barriers.
For those who have reached the peak of Yuan Dan, taking the Taixu King Pill is ineffective. If they want to break through that barrier, they can only use the Nirvana Pill.
The Taixu King Pill ranks among the top king pills. One Taixu King Pill with one pattern will cost you six or seven top-grade Yuan stones.
For people in the Yuan Dan realm, it is impossible to use this elixir to improve their cultivation without the support of powerful forces behind them.
Moreover, this pill is only effective for the first time you take it to instantly improve your cultivation. If you take it later, it will have no effect at all.
Apart from the fact that this elixir is a bit more expensive, its ability to instantly improve one's cultivation level is quite attractive.
"Senior, can you sell me ten of your herbs?" A middle-aged man said respectfully to the old man.
A Yuanzhao on the side heard this and sneered: "Brother, I'm afraid you don't even know what Dan Baicao is."
"Isn't it used to assist cultivation?
"There are nearly a hundred plants here, and buying them together costs several million high-grade Yuan stones. There are a few Yuan Dan realms who can afford them.
"If I can buy ten plants, I have to sell everything." The middle-aged man said.
As soon as these words came out, many Yuan people who were watching laughed.
"It seems you really don't know Dan Baicao."
The middle-aged man heard this and touched his head, his face full of confusion.
"Danbaicao generally grows in groups of about a hundred.
“When digging, as long as the roots are not completely damaged, it can absorb the vitality of heaven and earth to survive.
“Once they are separated, they can only be refined into elixirs.
"Otherwise, within a hundred days, the remaining Danbaicao will wither and die."
A tall and beautiful figure emerged from the onlookers. She wore the Duanmu family's emblem on her plump front. The introduction to Dan Baicao came from her mouth.
The woman walked to the counter, gave a slight salute to the old man, and said openly: "Senior Lou, I, Duanmu Xirong, bought these pills and herbs."
Duanmu Xirong, the niece of Duanmu Chengqing, is a genius of the younger generation of the Duanmu family. She is only thirty-three years old and has already reached the late Yuan Dan realm.
She was born with second-class mortal bones, and with the strength of the Duanmu family, she evolved into first-class mortal bones, which was not a big problem.
By then, the Duanmu family will have another Nirvana member.
The sound of Senior Lou suddenly reminded Li Yuan who the old man was.
The Senior Lou whom Duanmu Xirong calls is Lou Hongyun, the master of the Tuchan Tower in Qianxue City, one of the thirty-six unique buildings in Chan Ridge.
Lou Hongyun half-opened his left eye and closed it again, lazily saying: "My elixir cannot be sold for yuan stones, it needs to be exchanged for elixirs."
"What elixir do you want?" Duanmu Xirong asked.
Lou Hongyun said: "I have been striving for Nirvana and Consummation in the past few years, but I have not been able to succeed.
“I have already refined a monster inner elixir.
"Now if I want to rely on external forces to quickly succeed, the only way is Taixu Xuandan...
"The Duanmu family is a family that refines medicine, so there should be no problem in taking out this elixir.
"I don't want more, one is enough."
Duanmu Xirong, who was born in a family of medicine refining, naturally knew what kind of pill Taixu Xuanyuan Pill was.
This elixir is of a higher grade than the Taixu King elixir and has the same effect. It targets the Nirvana realm rather than the Yuan elixir realm.
Whether it is Taixu King Pill or Taixu Xuandan, the energy of the Yuan Zhi needs to be swallowed during refining.
Moreover, the amount of Yuanli consumed was so large that 99% of the alchemists did not dare to refine such elixirs.
"Senior Lou, you..." Duanmu Xirong was extremely angry, "You want to exchange for a mere Dan Baicao for a high-quality Wang Dan.
"Don't say that my Duanmu family doesn't have it, even if it does, I won't give it to you.
"Looking at the entire Qinggu Continent, even the eight sects cannot easily take out the Taixu Xuandan."
Although Taixu Xuandan is ranked among the top Xuandans, its value is not much lower than that of the first-class Xuandan.
Duanmu Xirong stamped his feet, shook his sleeves vigorously, turned around and left, and all the Yuan practitioners hurriedly made way.
This is the Duanmu family's place, and ordinary Yuan people can't afford to offend it.
As a strong man, Lou Hongyun would naturally not look down upon a small junior of the Duanmu family.
Li Yuan couldn't figure out why the owner of Qianxue City's Tu Chan Tower came to visit Cicada City.
Judging from his appearance, he was not really selling Danbaicao by putting it here.
The difference between the value of this pill and Baicao and Taixu Xuandan is one hundred thousand times.
From this point of view, Lou Hongyun seems to have done it intentionally and wanted to disrupt the order of the Duanmu family's trading area.
Li Yuan rubbed his chin, feeling happy in his heart.
I didn't know what kind of elixir to refine to search for the treasures on the mainland.
Refining special mysterious elixirs mostly requires the addition of precious medicines, which is a bit tricky.
If you switch to Taixu Xuandan, it will be relatively easy. You only need to prepare level five materials.
Moreover, Li Yuan boldly guessed that there is no alchemist who can refine this elixir in the Qinggu Continent today.
Refining elixirs is easy and not too difficult.
It's just that the energy consumed during refining is too terrifying. If you are not careful, the alchemist may be at risk of falling.
There are less than six years left before the gods and demons can aspire to the throne. As long as they come up with a high-quality Taixu Xuandan, they will definitely be robbed.
Those sects will try their best to improve the strength of the sect's genius.
Looking at the figure of Duanmu Xirong who was about to leave, Li Yuan had an idea and walked to Lou Hongyun's counter. He glanced at the Dan Baicao on the table and said, "Can I exchange other elixirs for Dan Baicao?"
Lou Hongyun glanced sideways at the young man in blue robe, feeling that he had seen him there before, but couldn't remember, so he closed his eyes again and said lazily: "Other pills?
"Young man, do you know what level of Xuandan Taixu Xuandan is?"
"High-quality Xuandan." Li Yuan replied.
Lou Hongyun said: "Then you should know that there are very few Yuan practitioners in the entire continent who have seen high-grade mysterious elixirs, let alone possess such rare elixirs."
"It's just a high-grade mysterious pill... You haven't seen it yourself, don't say that others haven't." Yuan Yao teased at the side.
As soon as these words came out, the Yuan people who were watching all looked at Li Yuan and Li Yuan with disdain.
"Little girl, you have such a strong tone." Lou Hongyun's old eyes suddenly opened, his face changed, and he shouted.
Li Yuan turned his hand, and a jade bottle appeared in his hand. When he opened the mouth of the bottle, the treasure light filled the air and the fragrance of elixir overflowed.
The mouth of the bottle was slightly tilted, and a blue pill rolled out and lay in his hand. The pill was shrouded in a faint haze.
"Nirvana Pill." Yuanzhe exclaimed directly.
"What kind of elixir is that?"
"The king of the Mysterious Pill is infinitely close to the legendary treasure pill. The strange pill that can make the Yuan Pill reach its peak and successfully break through to the realm of Nirvana."
"It's really good. I'm afraid even the eight sects may not be able to get such a pill."
"I think it's true. Three or four years ago, I saw the Nirvana Pill at the Qianxue City auction, and it was exactly the same as the one in his hand."
"You see, there are three faint circles of pill patterns on the elixir. It should still be of triple pattern quality."
"..."
Everyone's discussion reached Duanmu Xirong's ears, and she stopped slowly and looked back.
The woman's movements naturally did not escape Li Yuan's eyes, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly, achieving her goal.
(End of chapter)
