"What can I say, don't you know?"
"I entered the Tianxiang Tower on the fifth level of Qi Refining. I danced there every day and never fought with anyone. How could I know this?"
"Haha, you weakling!"
Luo Chen looked at Gu Caiyi with disdain, causing the other party to look at him angrily.
But slowly, Gu Caiyi also sighed.
"I really need to become proficient in combat methods. The Poshan Gang is no better than Tianxiang Tower. It doesn't have a strong background. It's unlikely that the same thing will happen again."
What happened before was about a fight between two gangs.
That time, many people died. Even Xu Renke, the Broken Sword man who had the fragment of the magic weapon, died on the Taoist forum.
And this kind of thing cannot happen only once.
Many gangs have emerged in Dahefang in history.
The Poshan Gang and the Dajiang Gang only emerged in the past hundred years.
But... no background?
Luo Chen rubbed his chin, did the Poshan Gang really have no background?
I’m afraid that’s not the case!
On the way out of the city, the two chatted about some things in the city.
"Speaking of which, Fu Xiuxiu has left and the east wing is still vacant. Do you want to move there?"
"Forget it, the renovated house has no shortcomings except for its cold spots."
"Winter is coming soon, I'm afraid it will be even colder!"
Is winter coming soon?
Only then did Luo Chen discover that some leaves on the streets in the outer city had begun to turn yellow.
The monks have strong bodies and rarely notice temperature differences unless the weather is extreme.
Before he knew it, he had gone from midsummer to autumn.
Behind him, two bodyguards followed.
They gradually realized that the route was wrong. Luo Chen didn't seem to be going in the direction of Xianyue Valley.
Zhou Yuanli was confused, "Hall Master, where are we going?"
Luo Chen said with a smile: "Go to the main forum and see if the gang leader is there. I have something to talk to him about."
It's a pity that Mi Shuhua is not here.
In fact, Mi Shuhua didn't spend time in the Poshan Gang every day.
He also has his own social circle, and behind him is the Mi family, a small cultivating family.
Old Man Mi was a casual cultivator, but after building the foundation, he branched out and established the Mi family.
Nowadays, the Mi family is relatively well-known near Dahefang, no worse than some foundation-building families who have migrated from other areas.
Even because they control the Poshan Gang, they are even stronger.
It is precisely because of this that many of the Jiji families who have moved here will take the initiative to visit Mi Shuhua.
Luo Chen felt a little regretful that he didn't see each other.
But to verify his doubts, he had other methods.
When we arrived at Xieyue Valley, we practiced the four furnaces of Zhongmiaowan in the morning.
Then Luo Chen did not rush to refine the chalcedony pill, but instead approached an old monk in the pyrotechnics.
As mentioned before, most of the internal staff of the Alchemy Hall are old, weak, women and children.
And this old monk named Qu Hancheng was the one with the highest level of cultivation among them, reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining.
The other party is currently married in Dahefang and has a son and a daughter.
It's a pity that neither of the two children have spiritual roots.
He only hopes that he will have another child, or that one of his grandsons will have spiritual roots and continue his dream of cultivating the Qu family.
"Hall Master, do you have anything to do with me?"
Qu Hancheng looked at Luo Chen doubtfully.
Luo Chen smiled slightly, "It's a good thing if something happens! From today on, you will be the squad leader, in charge of all the monks who watch the fire, responsible for scheduling and rotation. Oh, I will give you an extra spiritual stone salary every month. But... "
Hearing such a good thing, the old man became excited.
Tired of watching the fire!
Always keep an eye on the size of the fire, add or remove firewood, and when the firepower is not enough, you have to release the fireball technique yourself.
It was okay once or twice, but after more than a month, he felt like he was going to have a fever.
If he becomes the squad leader, he can stop watching the fire himself and direct others.
Of course, he knew very well that there must be conditions for being the squad leader.
The condition lies in that "but"!
Seeing Luo Chen staring at him like a rare treasure, he felt slightly uncomfortable.
"Hall Master, please speak out, if you can find me, I will do my best."
"It's very simple, come and come with me!"
Without letting anyone follow him, Luo Chen took Qu Hancheng out of Xieyue Valley and came to the back of the valley.
As far as the eye can see, a huge virgin forest spreads quietly.
Qu Hancheng swallowed his saliva and said, "Hall Master, if you go over here, you'll reach the Xiaoyue Mountains. There are a lot of monster wolves over there, so we'd better not get too close."
"It's okay, just stay here!"
Luo Chen fixed a place with a smile, and then said: "Do you know the fireball technique?"
"meeting!"
"Okay, now you use all your strength to cast the fireball spell, release as much as you can until the mana is exhausted."
"Every fireball must be infused with maximum spiritual power!"
It's that simple?
Qu Hancheng was stunned for a moment, and then followed the instructions and used the fireball technique.
Luo Chen watched carefully from the side and compared the difference between ordinary monks and his own Dzogchen Fireball Technique.
Generally speaking, monks put the least effort into magic.
The spell is indeed very powerful, but the release speed is slow. It needs to be kneaded, chanted, and mobilized to take shape.
And many spells, even after they are formed, have very slow attack speeds.
Like the fireball technique, it is a low-level attack technique as famous as the golden spear technique and the water arrow technique.
But speed has always been its shortcoming.
In comparison, the magic weapon Talisman is much better.
One only requires spiritual control, the other is instantly activated.
Moreover, spells consume high energy, which will affect the monks' ability to accumulate spiritual power and achieve breakthroughs.
Therefore, only those monks who have no hope of a breakthrough and do not have any magic weapons on hand will focus on spells.
Qu Hancheng is such an old monk who perfectly meets the conditions.
In Luo Chen's opinion, his fireball technique was at his own level of proficiency.
This is already excellent!
He is proficient in pinching, quick to form and quick to release, but he cannot control the direction of the fireball very well.
There is no way Luo Chen can fire dozens of fireballs at every turn, and he can also control the degree of steering.
But Luo Chen's goal is not here either.
"One, two...sixteen, seventeen. Continue?"
Qu Hancheng's face turned pale and he wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"No, the spiritual power in my body is only enough to release these seventeen fireballs."
Only seventeen?
Luo Chen frowned and his eyes fell on those dark potholes.
"How old are you? How long have you been advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining?"
"I am the third spirit root. I was at the sixth level of Qi refining when I was seventy-five years old. It has been eighteen years now."
Ninety-three!
"You still go out to work at such an old age. It's hard work for you." Luo Chen spoke in a more polite tone.
Qu Hancheng took a breath and forced a smile: "It's not hard. I have to thank the hall master for his support. I will be able to relax a little bit in the future."
Luo Chen hummed and fell into deep thought.
It has been eighteen years since I advanced. Even if there is no supply of elixirs, relying on the qualifications of the Three Spiritual Roots, it is time to reach the sixth level of Qi Refining.
No, considering that the monks in the early and middle stages are very strapped and cannot afford to live in the first-level spiritual place in the inner city.
Therefore, it is necessary to improve your realm more slowly.
This old man is approximately in the middle of the sixth level of Qi Refining.
Even so, it is much higher than my current progress.
But his total spiritual power is not even half of his own?
Luo Chen raised his brows and realized that his total spiritual power might be far higher than that of ordinary people.
Fireball, his best spell.
At the fifth level of Qi refining, he can release nearly a hundred fireballs.
It sounds like a lot, but if each one must ensure maximum power and contain the most spiritual power, then there will only be about twenty.
This is also the reason why his usual number of flying fireflies has always been around ten.
After breaking through to the sixth level of Qi Refining, he could release about thirty pills with all his strength, which was already ten more than the fifth level of Qi Refining.
And it is foreseeable that as he continues to practice, this number will continue to increase.
If he reaches Qu Hancheng's current cultivation progress, he can release about forty of them with all his strength.
Doesn't that mean that my spiritual power is more than double that of monks of the same level, and more?
Luo Chen was shocked when he got this answer.
"When did this change happen?"
Suddenly, Luo Chen thought of the Grandmaster Changchun Kung Fu.
"You can't be wrong. Grandmaster-level Changchun Gong has opened all my meridians, thus doubling the maximum amount of spiritual power I can store."
"That's why I need to accumulate more spiritual power from monks of the same level in order to break through each realm."
After thinking about this, Luo Chen's brows relaxed a lot.
This is definitely a good thing.
In terms of combat and foundation, both are strengthened.
But for Luo Chen, who has a short lifespan, it is a big bad thing.
This means that he has to spend more time and resources to break through the realm like monks of the same level.
"Maybe the situation is a little worse?"
Luo Chen thought of a common sense!
As the monks continue to transfer spiritual power, their Dantian will expand and their meridians will become wider, all in order to break through the foundation and accumulate enough spiritual power.
Then if I have twice as much foundation as the same level now, doesn't it mean that with future cultivation, his Dantian will be wider than that of ordinary people.
Need more spiritual power?
Double? double! three times!
Luo Chen’s head is big!
"Master, is there anything else?"
The old man's voice came from beside him. Luo Chen shook his head and motioned for the other person to go back first.
After he left, Luo Chen let out a long breath.
"Sure enough, everything has two sides."
"Grandmaster-level Changchun has brought me many benefits, including the upper limit on the number of refining elixirs, automatic regeneration, accelerated practice, etc."
"Now it seems that the meridians are all connected and the foundation is increased, which are also the benefits that have always been hidden."
"But this benefit hinders me from breaking through quickly."
After thinking for a long time, Luo Chen suddenly smiled.
"You just need more training resources."
"What am I worried about? There are alchemy methods, spiritual stones and so on. Isn't that what I want?"
After thinking about this, Luo Chen returned to Xianyue Valley leisurely.
"I would like to inform you that we will no longer practice Zhongmiao Pills in the afternoons. We will all use them to refine Chalcedony Pills!"
…
…
In the afternoon of that day, the Dantang went all out to refine the chalcedony pill.
The results are gratifying!
All failed!
Luo Chen liked to bring dozens of waste elixir stone beads.
On the way home, he angrily knocked out the stone beads one by one, using the technique of scattering Hunyuan beads on the flowers of the goddess.
Wherever it passed, flowers, plants, insects, and moths all suffered.
Seeing him like this, Gu Caiyi and the two bodyguards didn't dare to touch his brow.
After returning home, Luo Chen brewed the Peiyuan Spiritual Liquid as he did yesterday.
The materials purchased with three hundred spirit stones were enough for him to brew thirty doses of Yuan-Building Spiritual Liquid.
When sitting in the Ziyun copper furnace, Luo Chen thought of a question for no reason.
"The monks who take this elixir furnace to make extraordinary pills in the future may be contaminated by my aura."
"So when they did that, did I feel involved?"
"Bah, bah, bah!"
As the Changchun Gong circulates, distracting thoughts disappear.
In fact, this situation will not occur at all.
After taking a medicinal bath every day, he would clean the alchemy furnace diligently.
And when refining elixirs, with such high temperatures, what breath can't be burned away?
With the assistance of Anshenxiang, the Changchun Kung was circulated over and over again, and the nearby spiritual energy was also absorbed, and then slowly transformed into Luo Chen's own spiritual power.
The huge flesh and blood essence of Peiyuan Spiritual Liquid, after the medicinal materials were fused, also seeped into Luo Chen's body and transformed into streams of qi and blood.
Time flowed by slowly like this.
Early the next morning.
The rooster sings and the world is white!
"Huh? Where did the cock crow come from?"
Luo Chen's eyes moved around and soon fell on the east wing.
Gu Caiyi also got up and looked over curiously.
The door opens.
A man with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, dressed in white, walked out with a frosty expression.
He glanced at Luo Chen and Gu Caiyi, turned around and walked out of the courtyard without saying a word.
Luo Chen opened his mouth wide and pointed at his back.
"How rude!"
"Is he a new neighbor?" Gu Caiyi frowned.
Yesterday, the two of them talked about how the east wing was empty after Fu Xiuxiu left.
Without realizing it, a new person moved in today.
And that guy is hard to get along with at first glance.
They didn't even have the courtesy to exchange names or say hello.
"It's the tenant brought here by Senior Sun. It is said that he comes from the Duan family, a nearby cultivating immortal family. His name is Duan Feng."
The speaker was Qin Liangchen who had just left the house.
He stretched, looking tired.
Among the few people in the courtyard, he is the most laid-back.
With the title of elder, you don't have to worry about anything, and you get a white-collar salary every month.
Naturally, I know these trivial matters better than anyone else.
Duan family?
Luo Chen asked curiously: "Don't the Duan family have an ice and fire spiritual spring? Although it is not as big as the spiritual vein, it is comparable to the first-order spiritual vein in a small area. How come their clan members came to live in the inner city?"
"The Xiuxian family is not in harmony either. Duan Feng had a falling out with the patriarch's son, and he was the only one left in his lineage."
"So he moved to the inner city?" Luo Chen shook his head, "This is unreasonable!"
Qin Liangchen shrugged, "What's the point? He came here for the Taoist Forum. His name is still on the Dahefang Prodigy List, ranked 19th."
When he said this, Luo Chen understood instantly.
There is indeed such a group of monks in Dahefang now.
They don't have any special skills, and unlike the Poshan Gang and the Dajiang Clan, they rely on big rivers to practice.
Their way of practice is to participate in competitions on the Dao Forum and win rewards.
If you rank at the end of the month, you can stabilize the top three and get huge rewards.
Duan Feng, the abandoned son of the Duan family, obviously followed this path.
"So, he is very good at fighting?"
Qin Liangchen thought for a while and said, "I can still fight. It's worse than when I was in my heyday, but better than I am now."
After such a long time, Qin Liangchen gradually got used to the new arm.
His combat effectiveness also gradually returned to the level of the ninth level of Qi Refining.
Luo Chen curled his lips, "What's the use of being able to fight? When you come out to hang out, you need to talk about power and background. Yep, he's just a rude little brat!"
After saying that, he greeted Gu Caiyi and went out.
But when going out, the direction was towards the Jade Cauldron Sword Pavilion.
Perhaps it was too early to go out, because there were not many people around Jiange or in the White Stone Square opposite.
Hey, Xiaoyue came out to set up a stall so early!
Just as Luo Chen was about to say hello, he saw his new neighbor Duan Feng walking up to the stall.
I bought a bottle of ten-year-old pineapple wine.
Luo Chen's eyes lit up, this was definitely not some scumbag, this was his dearest and most beloved client!
"Fellow Taoist, let me meet you. I am your neighbor Luo Chen. This beauty is Gu Caiyi from the main house."
The young man in white said two words coldly.
"Duan Feng."
"What a good name! The edge of the sword is sharpened, and my fellow Taoist spirit is at its peak. Today I will defeat my opponent."
Duan Feng glanced at Luo Chen and shook his head slowly.
“Nangong Qin is not a weakling.”
Luo Chen's forehead veins jumped.
Hey, what’s that look in your eyes!
It means that I am weak!
Humph, if it weren't for the fact that you are my client, I would kill you with ten or eight fireballs.
I thought so in my heart, but there was still a flower-like smile on my face.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. After drinking our wine, your fighting power will definitely increase dramatically."
After saying that, he called out to the well-behaved Yuan Xiaoyue next to him.
"Xiaoyue, this is my neighbor. I will give him a discount when he buys things from now on. Buy ten bottles of pineapple wine and get a fairy bean for free!"
"Yes, I understand, Brother Luo." Yuan Xiaoyue obediently took note of Duan Feng's appearance.
Duan Feng then realized that this food stall was Luo Chen's property.
He nodded to Luo Chen, "Thank you!"
After saying that, he walked straight into the passage to the Luofeng Mountain Discussion Platform.
The monk selling tickets yawned and didn't ask any questions.
It seems that he is very familiar with this person, and knows that the other person is not a spectator, but a contestant.
Gu Caiyi stood nearby with a smile, "You have always been stingy, why are you so generous today?"
"Haha, I have always been generous to my neighbors!"
Luo Chen replied.
He won’t talk about cultivating user habits.
When that kid gets used to drinking fairy beans in the future, he will naturally get extra spiritual stones and buy fairy beans.
Earning spiritual stones also requires skills!
He didn't even bother to talk about these things.
"Let's go to Xianyue Valley. There is no way we will fail today!"
With a wave of his sleeves, Luo Chen left in high spirits.
…
With the last three failures yesterday, I am very lucky today.
In the afternoon, Luo Chen succeeded once.
He succeeded on his familiar Ziyun copper stove.
Maybe it was because he was familiar with this alchemy furnace. Anyway, Luo Chen let out a long sigh of relief when he saw twenty chalcedony pills being put into the alchemy room.
The proficiency and failure rate at the entry level are really too high.
It takes ten times to succeed.
The loss of raw materials is too great.
But as long as your proficiency improves, everything will be easy to handle.
Although the profits of Zhongmiaowan are high, the market is too small and it will definitely not be able to support his future practice.
Chalcedony Pill does have that market potential!
"I don't know how the channel talks are going with old man Mi Shuhua?"
When thinking this way, Luo Chen's eyes suddenly hurt.
A trace of blood flowed strangely along both sides of the eyes.
"Luo Chen, what's wrong with you?"
With her eyes closed, Gu Caiyi's worried voice could be heard in her ears.
He raised his hand and waved.
"It's okay, you guys are busy first, I'll go in and take a rest. Maybe it's because I've been refining too much elixir recently, and I've been using the Spiritual Eye Technique all the time, and my eyes can't stand it."
Gu Caiyi watched him stumble into the house worriedly.
Immediately, a blue light curtain rose.
That was when Luo Chen activated the first-order formation in the stone house.
In the room, Luo Chen had already opened his eyes.
After wiping away the blood stains, it seemed to be the same as before.
However, the whole world has become different!
In his eyes, the world suddenly became vivid.
The house exudes a faint spiritual energy, which comes from deep underground.
Xieyue Valley was the mine where Yuding Jiange mined star silver ore, and there was indeed a branch of Luofeng Mountain's first-order spiritual vein underneath.
It is precisely because of this that Mi Shuhua specifically rented the right to use this place to process the collected herbs.
In addition, Luo Chen also saw a lot of things.
The blue light curtain originated from several formation flags, and the energy source of the formation flags was several low-grade spiritual stones.
Outside the light curtain are the monks gathered in the Alchemy Hall.
Those people also exude light groups in various colors, corresponding to the five elements of spiritual power.
Staring at this new world, Luo Chen was in a trance.
The spiritual eye technique has been upgraded to the master level!
This spell he acquired later was used very frequently due to frequent elixir refining.
Now it has finally been upgraded.
The performance of the upgrade is completely different from other fireball techniques, Xiaoyaoyou, and Wind Control Technique.
The Grandmaster Fireball Technique can now release ten fireballs at the same time.
Wind Control Technique reduces the consumption of spiritual power.
Xiaoyaoyou doesn't have any bonus, it's just more proficiency.
Maybe this is also related to the fact that Xiaoyaoyou itself is not a magic spell, but just a secular light skill.
The spiritual eye technique seemed to have performed an operation on his eyes.
After the operation, Luo Chen realized that he no longer had to take the initiative to make secrets every time to attract spiritual energy into his eyes.
Now this spell has been ingrained in his eyes.
As long as he wants to, he can activate the spiritual eye technique without others noticing.
Even if he maintains the spiritual vision technique, monks of the same level cannot detect it, and perhaps even higher-level monks in the foundation-building stage can find it difficult to detect.
Not only that, but the perception of spiritual energy fluctuations is also more than ten times more sensitive.
His eyes wandered, up and down, left and right, far and near.
Suddenly, Luo Chen's eyes stopped on the ground.
He seemed to have seen through countless thick rock layers and reached the depths of the earth's veins.
"Such a strong accumulation of spiritual energy?"
(End of chapter)
