Xiaozhuang heard this and replied with a firm expression.
"Thank you, Sect Master. Xiaozhuang will surely live up to our high expectations."
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More than ten days later, in the underground alchemy room on Minghuo Island, Xiaozhuang finally waited for Ning Tao's arrival.
After Ning Tao saw the materials Xiaozhuang brought back, Ning Tao showed a satisfied smile on his face.
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A few days later, Ning Tao looked at a furnace of blackened medicine residue in front of him with a gloomy look on his face.
He waved his hand to clear the medicine residue into the lava pool not far away, closed his eyes and rested his mind.
Xiaozhuang on the side didn't say anything when he saw this, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Ning Tao, who closed his eyes and rested his mind, was not idle at all. This was already the third furnace of spent elixirs.
Trying to recall the alchemy scene just now, Ning Tao opened his eyes after adjusting his condition for half an hour.
A flame in his hand entered the alchemy furnace along the medicine inlet, like a swimming dragon constantly burning the inner wall of the alchemy furnace.
After a few breaths, several materials were controlled to enter the alchemy furnace.
The flame in Ning Tao's hand suddenly grew larger and began to burn the materials just put into it.
After a cup of tea, the medicine that had turned into a ball of liquid began to merge under Ning Tao's control.
After the liquid medicine was fused, Ning Tao flicked his other hand on a jade box, and a sea-blue round bead appeared in Ning Tao's hand. It was a demon pill from a sea beast.
Ning Tao controlled it to enter the elixir furnace and began to burn the demon elixir with a weak flame.
An hour later, the demon pill began to become soft under the burning of the flames. Ning Tao controlled his spiritual thoughts to form a sharp needle, which suddenly pierced the outer wall of the demon pill.
I saw light blue liquid seeping out of the pill wall, floating in the air under the control of spiritual thoughts.
Then the flame in Ning Tao's hand suddenly increased in size. After a while, the remaining pill wall turned into a group of dark blue liquid. Ning Tao controlled the two to merge with the medicine liquid below.
After the three liquids of different colors merged, Ning Tao flicked it with one hand, and several more treasure materials entered it.
After drinking the tea, it turns into a new medicinal liquid.
After all the medicinal liquids were integrated, Ning Tao withdrew his spiritual thoughts and flames, leaving only one air hole, and the rest was sealed.
Then he pinched the spell in his hand, and saw that the originally light red talisman seal pattern below suddenly increased in brilliance, wrapping half of the alchemy furnace.
After several hours like this, the flames under the alchemy furnace became smaller again under Ning Tao's control.
The weak flames began to lick the bottom of the alchemy furnace.
A few days later, Ning Tao, who was always paying attention to the changes in the alchemy furnace, pinched the spell in his hand, and the flame at the base suddenly increased. Then, a blue-red flame in Ning Tao's hand entered the alchemy furnace along the pores.
The instantaneous burning sensation instantly made Xiaozhuang feel hot all over his body.
After drinking the tea like this, the viscous liquid began to transform into a solid.
Upon seeing this, Ning Tao withdrew the flames, pinched the spell in his hand, and saw six or seven cyclones starting to rotate.
After a while of burning the incense, light blue pills with elixirs like ocean waves began to form.
Xiaozhuang on the side was overjoyed when he saw this. He couldn't help but beat his palms and shouted.
"It's done."
Then he quickly covered his mouth with his hands.
At this moment, as the power of the cyclone became smaller and smaller, Ning Tao suddenly opened all the pores.
A stream of hot steam began to spurt out, and the white steam was mixed with traces of black.
However, as soon as the black gas came out of the alchemy furnace, it was absorbed by a yellow-skinned gourd beside Ning Tao.
As the gas spurted out became less and less, Ning Tao waved his sleeves and saw the furnace lid suddenly open.
A stream of white steam with blue light spots steamed upward from it.
In the alchemy furnace, six elixirs were dripping and spinning.
Ning Tao waited until the elixir stopped, then took one of the elixirs in his hand with a move, then held it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it.
Then he opened his mouth and drank it. One day later, Ning Tao detected the increasing mana in his body. He opened his eyes and looked a little happy.
After Ning Tao spent three furnaces of elixirs, he finally succeeded in refining the finished product of the sea pattern elixir.
Upon seeing this, Xiaozhuang quickly stood up and congratulated.
In a good mood, Ning Tao took out one and gave it to Xiaozhuang.
Seeing this, Xiaozhuang quickly thanked him.
After Ning Tao adjusted his condition, he continued to refine the next batch of elixirs.
But he was preparing to work hard to refine all the remaining five or six demon pills into pills.
One month later, the tired Ning Tao asked Xiaozhuang to take the jade gourd containing the elixir and go to the Seven Star Sect to announce the good news.
Only this time, Ning Tao did not let him take away all the elixirs, but kept about one-third as reward.
...
A few hours later, Qixing Taoist held the jade gourd in his hand, his face full of joy, and said "Okay, okay, okay" to Xiaozhuang who had finished his report.
After Xiaozhuang finished his report, he took out the elixir given by Ning Tao from his waist.
After hearing this, Qixing Taoist waved his hand and said.
"Since it was given by Junior Brother Wuyou, you just take it."
"You can wait here for a few days. I will be back in ten days or a few days. Then you can go and serve Junior Brother Wuyou."
...
As an alchemist, Ning Tao knew the value of the pills he handed over to Taoist Seven Stars.
Taking each demon pill as an example, as long as two pills are refined, the cost can be repaid.
Ning Tao gave back three to four demon pills to the Seven Star Sect, which meant that he could bring dozens of demon pills to the Seven Star Sect every year.
This is more profitable than an ordinary golden elixir cultivator who works tirelessly outside to kill monsters.
The key is that elixirs are not the hard currency here like demon elixirs.
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A few days later, Taoist Qixing, who returned from abroad, brought Xiaozhuang to Minghuo Island.
Minghuo Island, inside Ningtao Cave.
"Junior Brother Wuyou, I have something to discuss with you."
When Ning Tao heard this, he smiled and said.
"Senior brother, please tell me."
After hearing Ning Tao's approval, Taoist Qixing spoke.
"Junior brother also knows that after our sect has a junior brother, there will be no shortage of elixirs, but the appearance of so many elixirs in our sect will always make people suspicious."
Ning Tao thought for a moment after hearing this. He had considered this matter before, so he spoke.
"Senior brother, it doesn't matter. Even if others find out, it doesn't matter. There is no need to hide it, but don't make it public."
Taoist Qixing nodded happily when he heard this.
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More than a year passed, and Ning Tao's reputation had already become famous in the neighborhood.
In order to obtain lower-cost golden elixir stage elixirs, many golden elixir monks would often cross the nearby sea area and ask Ning Tao to refine the elixirs.
However, Ning Tao did not die on the road of refining the elixir. He should practice as he should.
However, I am not yet ready to refine the natal magic weapon, as this matter is too much of a waste of time.
Ning Tao has no intention of refining the elixir until he has accumulated enough elixirs for training, ranging from more than ten years to several decades.
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Half a year later, on Minghuo Island.
Xiaozhuang stood at the door of Ningtao Cave and said.
"Senior, Master Wuyou said he wanted to go into seclusion a few days ago. It's better to go back first. It can take at least a year and a half, or at most a few years before he can leave the seclusion. It won't be too late to come back then."
The Jindan monk was a little less interested when he heard this, but it was not easy to force others to do anything, so he left.
Seeing the golden elixir monk leaving, Xiaozhuang couldn't help but sigh.
This is already the third Golden Core cultivator he has taken over in the past few months.
Unexpectedly, the reputation of the elders worshiped by my family has gained such a reputation in just three years.
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At this time, there was a huge reef thousands of miles away from Seven Star City to the east.
Ning Tao, who had transformed into a black ape, was showing off his power. The black gold stick in his hand emitted black-gold light, and he smashed the head of a sea snake-like sea beast covered in wounds to pieces.
Then he picked up the sea snake that was more than ten feet long with one big hand and reached into its belly. A moment later, a blue-black demon pill the size of an egg was found.
Ning Tao picked up the demon pill, rinsed it in the sea water and put it in his storage bag.
Then he put the bodies of these sea snakes into storage bags, and then sat cross-legged to restore his mana.
After a few hours, I took out a few pieces of light green grass, crushed them into pieces, and washed them in the sea water.
After another half an hour, countless dark figures were rising and falling under the sea.
He was soon discovered by Ning Tao, whose consciousness was far beyond ordinary people, and a smile appeared on his lips.
Then he turned over his hand and took out the changed Blood Soul Flag, and inserted it into the ground with one hand.
Then he pinched the spells with both hands, and the robes all over his body moved automatically without wind, and blood rose up all over the sky. Thirteen ghosts were galloping among them as if they were leading thousands of troops.
In an instant, he plunged into the sea water around the reef.
After a while, the surrounding area, which was several miles away, was shrouded in blood evil, and the sea water was soaked in blood red.
After a while, thirteen ghosts dragged several ferocious shark-like sea beasts to the reef.
As for the other foundation-building stage sea beasts, they were devoured by these ghosts in the sea.
Ning Tao skillfully took out pills and bones.
The remaining parts were eaten by these ghosts.
While these ghosts were devouring flesh and blood, Ning Tao thought to himself.
"I have been in this sea area for a while. It is time to leave here and change places. Otherwise, it will not be good to attract the attention of the demon clan."
Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly noticed that dozens of miles away, a humanoid boy was riding the waves, followed by more than a dozen shark-like third-order sea beasts galloping towards him.
Ning Tao couldn't help but frown when he saw this.
He casually pulled up the blood soul flag stuck on the ground and collected the ghosts into it.
It turned into a streak of flame and left.
It was the "Earth-Leaving Flame Technique" that Ning Tao exchanged from the sect before leaving. However, Ning Tao has not been idle in these years. He has already mastered this technique, making up for his lack of escape skills.
Less than half an hour later, we were on the reef where Ning Tao was just now.
The young man sniffed the remaining smell in the air and couldn't help frowning, his face was a little gloomy, and he muttered to himself.
"Who dares to slaughter the sea beasts kept in captivity by our Red Shark Clan like this?"
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A hundred miles away, Ning Tao saw a small desert island and landed on it, resting for a while to recover his mana.
After recovering his mana, Ning Tao couldn't help but think about the water-bending boy who had just appeared.
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