In the early morning of the next day, amid the sharp and loud crowing of roosters, Luo Chen opened his sleepy eyes.
Come to the yard, get water from the well, and simply wash up.
Duan Feng was earlier than him and was playing with a flying sword in the yard.
"What are you doing?"
"The magic weapon is damaged. Clean it and prepare to buy materials to repair it."
"Can you still practice magic weapons?"
Luo Chen was extremely surprised, and then he seemed to remember something and suddenly realized.
"Yes, you are from the Duan family. I heard that the Duan family has a spring of ice and fire and is the best at casting weapons."
When the name Duan family was mentioned, Duan Feng's expression was obviously not good-looking.
The atmosphere in the courtyard felt a little cold for a while.
Luo Chen realized that the relationship between the other party and the Duan family might not be harmonious.
Also, if the relationship is good, he doesn't need to leave the family and come to Dahefang to work alone.
If a ninth-level Qi Refining monk does not have the support of forces and does not have his own skills, it is actually not that easy to earn spiritual stones.
This can be seen from the fact that Duan Feng not only participates in competitions on the Dao Forum, but also goes into the mountains to hunt monsters.
After a haha, Luo Chen forcibly changed the topic.
"Your Yangwu chicken can lay eggs, so it's a hen. Why does it crow every morning?"
"It has a hint of atavism, so it's hermaphroditic."
Speaking of this, Duan Feng showed a trace of longing in his eyes.
"My mother searched for all kinds of miraculous medicines and wanted to cultivate this Yangwu chicken to the second level, so that it could completely return to its ancestors and become the Fengming Yangwu chicken. Unfortunately, she failed in the end."
How precious is the elixir that can restore the bloodline of a spirit beast to its ancestors.
How can an ordinary family do this?
Moreover, I heard from Brother Qin before that Duan Feng's lineage is not well-received in the Duan family, and I'm afraid it will make him less powerful.
After sighing with emotion, Luo Chen chatted with Duan Feng for a few more words.
Before leaving, I hesitated to ask a question.
"Can you cultivate magic weapons?"
"There's nothing wrong with simple fixes."
"Can you repair this knife?"
Luo Chen took out a small wooden knife from the storage bag.
It was the sub-blade in his set of jasper swords that was damaged in the battle with Gray Leaf Wolf yesterday.
At that time, I thought that I only needed to cultivate my spiritual power to recover.
But he didn't expect that as the night passed, the aura would become even darker.
If he left it alone, his jade sword would lose one of its blades, and the power of the condensed sword array in the future would probably not be as powerful as before.
Taking the wooden knife, Duan Feng looked at it carefully, and then said coldly: "It can be repaired, but it needs to be repaired with a piece of jasper tree heart. Currently, the jasper tree heart on the market sells for five spiritual stones each."
Luo Chen was overjoyed, "Then I'll leave it to you!"
After saying that, he took out five spiritual stones, thought about it, and took out five more spiritual stones.
"Um?"
"Anything more will be treated as a reward for asking you to take action."
Duan Feng was silent for a while, and then took the extra five spiritual stones.
Seeing this scene, Luo Chen patted Duan Feng on the shoulder.
"Although you are older than me, I must have more experience in living in Fang City than you. Sometimes, you can actually earn spiritual stones without killing. That is too dangerous."
Duan Feng nodded, but after a moment, he took a deep breath.
"No, you don't understand."
After saying that, he closed the door and left.
Seeing his lonely and stubborn back, Luo Chen scratched his head.
What don't you understand?
Your boy looks like he has a deep hatred. He might be thinking about achieving a unique fighting method and then taking revenge.
The target of revenge may be someone from your Duan family!
He understands such clichéd plots!
…
In the alchemy hall.
A team of 20 medicine apprentices, a team of 10 pyrotechnics, and alchemists trained some time ago were lined up in several rows, ready for battle.
In front of them were Gu Caiyi and Sikong Shoujia.
And the one at the front is the hall leader Luo Chen.
At this moment, Luo Chen was walking alone among the three alchemy rooms.
After a while, he came out.
"The renovation of the alchemy room has been completed and can handle the subsequent refining of the chalcedony elixir."
"But I have to remind you, especially the pyrotechnics, to pay attention."
"I'm not familiar with the refining of chalcedony pills, so it's very likely to be dangerous. If there are signs of a furnace explosion, run away as soon as possible, okay?"
"Why are you so dazed! Did you hear me clearly? I am not responsible for dying in the alchemy room!"
"Listen clearly!"
The last sentence is very powerful!
No one expected that Luo Chen, who used to be gentle, could say such harsh words.
So they were all a little taken aback.
Sikong Shoujia raised his eyebrows. He found that Luo Chen had gained a hint of dignity at some point.
Maybe, this is to stay in his position and nourish his energy!
"Okay, the medicine disciples will first send in the materials needed for the Chalcedony Pill. Remember, place them one by one in the order I handed them out before."
When all the medicine disciples got busy, Luo Chen couldn't help but press his eyebrows.
After taking a look at the attribute panel, I saw the proficiency of Chalcedony Pill after a month of various failures and a few successes.
Now the proficiency level has reached [Chalcedony Pill Proficiency 101/200].
To be honest, Luo Chen didn't have any confidence to start large-scale alchemy directly with this level of proficiency.
But he had to do this, and Mi Shuhua was obviously a little anxious.
He has invested so much in himself, and even used the Qi refining experience of the foundation-building monks. If the other party does not see results, he will definitely become anxious with him.
Luo Chen didn't want to face the anger of a foundation-building monk.
Therefore, he had to hurry up and speed up the refining of Chalcedony Pill.
But after all, he is a kind-hearted person who has gone through nine years of compulsory education, and he knows what it means to be as big as the sky.
Therefore, even if we are chasing ducks to put on the shelves, we must try our best to put production second and safety first.
"Hope everything goes well!"
Luo Chen muttered something in a low voice, flicked his sleeves, and walked into the largest alchemy room.
…
"Increase the heat, add the heat, the temperature is not enough!"
"Asshole, what happened to the flame-making technique that I asked you to learn? You don't know how to separate half of the fireball technique!"
"Hall Master, there is a burnt smell in Alchemy Room No. 2!"
"Maintain the original firepower here and wait for me to come back soon."
"It's useless. This furnace is useless. Remove the waste. Mi Li will send someone to clean the alchemy furnace and prepare for the next furnace."
"Hall Master, the alchemy furnace in Alchemy Room No. 3 is shaking violently."
"Why are you just standing there? Tell them to get out quickly!"
After a whole morning of refining, all failed and no one succeeded.
Luo Chen's face was frighteningly gloomy.
Others did not dare to touch his brow and kept their heads down while doing their own thing.
After lunch, Luo Chen adjusted his mentality.
In the afternoon, he did not continue to refine the Chalcedony Pill, but directed Mi Li Tangquan and the others to refine the Bigu Powder.
This time, he chose to let these medicine disciples get their hands dirty.
He was just standing by, giving advice from time to time.
Needless to say, through this method, he felt better again.
Sure enough, people can only find a sense of accomplishment and happiness in the areas they are best at.
With more people, there is more power, and there are more alchemy furnaces. Therefore, although there were failures this afternoon, there were many successes.
Looking at the Bigu Pills that had just been pinched out, not only Luo Chen, but also others felt much better.
The failure in the morning not only affected Luo Chen, but others were actually even more frightened.
"Okay, today's alchemy ends here, we will continue tomorrow."
"These Bigu Powder are of average quality, so the alchemist does not need to take them into the alchemy room. Take them out directly and give them to the brothers who are fighting brothers!"
Luo Chen said calmly, not feeling distressed at all.
According to Mi Shuhua, Bigu San is regarded as a gang benefit and is given to the monks in the gang from time to time.
Of course, it is limited to low-grade Bigu Powder.
If it's mid-grade or top-grade, they still have to buy it at the internal price.
After dealing with these, Luo Chen got into the alchemy room again.
Gu Caiyi stood outside the door, "Aren't you going home today?"
"Well, I won't reply."
"Then I'll leave first."
"By the way, when I meet Duan Feng, ask him if my magic weapon has been repaired. If it is repaired, you can just bring it back for me. During this period, I may have to stay in the Alchemy Hall for a long time."
Listening to these calm words, Gu Caiyi felt that Luo Chen seemed a little different from before.
How exactly, I can't say.
Anyway, it is the kind of focused attitude that is revealed inadvertently after you are really interested in something.
"Didn't he go to the Xindan Hall before?"
On the way home, Gu Caiyi had this idea inexplicably.
In the alchemy room, Luo Chen personally took action and made a furnace of chalcedony elixir.
Looking at the twenty jade-white elixirs that came out of the furnace, Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
"When the proficiency reaches the proficiency level, the rate of elixir formation has indeed increased to 20%."
"There were so many failures today that I almost doubted myself."
Shaking his head, Luo Chen casually threw a chalcedony pill into his mouth, just like eating jelly beans.
Stealing food?
nonexistent!
The chef is just trying to see how the dish is done!
After leaving the alchemy room, I found that there were few people in the hall.
Only outside, there are a few late-stage monks responsible for guard patrols.
These people belonged to the Alchemy Hall, but they mainly came from the three fighting halls. He had no intention of making friends with these people.
Simply take out "Qing Yuan Dan Jie" and study it carefully in front of the stone table on the cliff platform.
"Last time I only learned how to fold the jade hand, but this time I have to put some thought into the Su Xin hand."
Zhe Yushou is good at handling mineral materials.
It was precisely after learning this thing that he could deal with Huan Yu well.
Su Xin Shou is different, targeting various low-level herbs.
Although he is no longer specifically involved in the processing of medicinal materials, there are some medicinal materials that cannot be processed in advance.
It is said that some high-level spiritual herbs, flowers and fruits must be processed into alchemy as soon as possible after being picked.
Otherwise, it will be contaminated with the turbid qi of the earth's orifices, and the medicinal properties will be lost.
Chalcedony elixir does not currently encounter such restrictions, but there is no guarantee that Luo Chen will not encounter elixir recipes that require this method in the future.
It’s always good to learn in advance.
After mastering Su Xin so well that he could even recite it by heart, Luo Chen took out some worthless common medicinal materials in the pharmacy and started practicing.
There are failures and successes, and Luo Chen never gets tired of it.
The patrolling monks came in occasionally, and when they saw this scene, they remembered it in their hearts.
Late at night, Luo Chen quietly took away a Ziyun copper furnace from the alchemy room, then returned to the stone house and activated the formation.
After making sure that no one was disturbing him, Luo Chen lifted up the floor and went deep into the mine tunnel.
After many twists and turns, Luo Chen returned to the Spirit Vein Cave.
"I wonder if directly refining the spiritual liquid here will affect the pure spiritual energy emitted by the spiritual veins?"
While thinking, Luo Chen had completed the preparations.
Inside the slightly cramped cave, a raging fire burned for a while on the purple cloud copper stove.
The raging heat wave made Luo Chen sweat profusely even though he had activated his defensive robes.
But he didn't care, and still paid attention to the concentration of spiritual energy here.
The spiritual eye technique rooted in the eyes plays a very good role in real-time monitoring.
Three hours later, the fire disappeared and the temperature of the alchemy furnace gradually dropped.
Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief, "No problem!"
Next, we started practicing in the cave.
"He has been staying in the Alchemy Hall during this time?"
"Yes, I only went back to the inner city twice in a month. I only went back to buy some daily necessities."
"What was the result?"
"He has focused most of his attention on refining the chalcedony elixir. The rate of elixir formation has improved so far. Out of ten furnaces, he can barely succeed in two furnaces."
"Is there any middle-grade chalcedony elixir?"
"Not yet, but it is said that there is a furnace, and it is almost successful. But in the end, the chalcedony pill only condensed one and a half cloud patterns."
"It seems that he is really interested in it!"
Mi Shuhua's face looked pleased, and there was a trace of joy in his tone.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Ask him if he needs any help in life. If possible, help me buy it for him."
"Yeah, I'll do it."
Sikong Shoujia agreed.
Today's intelligence report is almost over here.
But he hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and asked cautiously: "Gang leader, how is the incompetent guy in my family doing lately?"
Mi Shuhua glanced at him and said calmly: "Yuan Hong has been practicing very hard, and he has already reached the eighth level of Qi refining."
Sikong Yuanhong, the only son of Sikong Shoujia.
He is currently thirty-five years old, has three spiritual roots, and has been practicing with Mi Shuhua. He can be regarded as his disciple.
With this kind of qualification, he can reach the eighth level of Qi refining at this age, and there is hope for foundation building in the future!
Sikong Shoujia was overjoyed and was even more concerned about the Foundation Establishment Pill in Mi Shuhua's hand.
If Yuan Hong can use that Foundation Building Pill, he might actually be able to achieve Foundation Building in the future!
"Thank you, leader, for your guidance over the years. I will trouble you again with Yuan Hong's path in the future. If we can achieve foundation building, our Sikong family will work hard for the Mi family!"
Mi Shuhua smiled and nodded.
When Sikong Shoujia was about to leave, he suddenly said something.
"My youngest daughter is currently in a boudoir. She also has the sixth level of Qi refining, but she lacks a Taoist companion. I think Yuan Hong is okay. If we can become a family, I will try my best to provide guidance."
Sikong Shoujia stiffened and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
According to Mi Shuhua's intention, this is to let his only son join Mi's family!
…
On the way back to the Alchemy Hall, Sikong Shoujia was in a state of confusion.
He is old and frail, and his Qi and blood are declining. Even if he refines Qi to the ninth level, the Great Consummation is far away, so there is no talk of building a foundation.
Therefore, the hope of this life is placed on his only son.
For this reason, he was willing to be driven by Mi Shuhua and become his confidant in the Poshan Gang.
The level of trust is still the same as that of Xu Renke, the Broken Sword, and Han Dang, the Heart-eating Tiger.
Now Mi Shuhua's hidden meaning is that he must let Sikong Yuanhong become a member of the Mi family before he is willing to fully support his cultivation.
In this way, the son has a bright future, but the Sikong family will have no heirs.
For a moment, the old man was in a state of confusion!
When he returned to the alchemy hall with a frown on his face, he found that the others were more panicked than him.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
He caught a guy. If he remembered correctly, he was the son of an eighth-level Qi Refining monk named Tang who used to be in the gang. Now he was following his uncle Zeng.
It seems to be called Tangquan?
Tang Quan said with a horrified expression: "The furnace exploded. Alchemy Room No. 3 exploded just now. One person was killed and the other injured on the spot."
"How could this happen? Is Luo Chen okay?"
Sikong Shoujia was shocked and angry. If Luo Chen was killed, how would he explain to Mi Shuhua?
The other party was in a good mood today and said he would do his best to take care of Luo Chen's life.
Just when he was frightened and angry, angry roars were coming from the hall inside the Alchemy Hall.
"How many times have I told you, if there are signs of a furnace explosion, don't worry about anything and just run away."
"Have you all turned a deaf ear to my words?"
"A bunch of bastards, which one is more important, the elixir or life!"
Sikong Shoujia squeezed into the crowd and saw Luo Chen walking around, his face ashen.
On the ground, two people were lying.
A corpse's bones were broken into pieces, and the remains were just spliced together.
The other body was covered in blood and flesh, and a woman was trying her best to save it.
He just took a look and found that the bloody one was the old monk Qu Hancheng who Luo Chen personally promoted.
"Wow!"
A mouthful of bruised blood suddenly spit out.
Murong Qinglian stepped aside with a smile on her face.
"It's okay, Qu Hancheng is experiencing an internal and external shock caused by the runaway spiritual energy."
"Although the meridians were severely damaged, at least my life was saved."
"Luo Chen, I have nothing to do here. Let's go now. The medicine hall is still very busy."
"Thank you, sister-in-law, I'm really sorry to trouble you."
Luo Chen asked Murong Qinglian to be sent away, and his eyes fell on Qu Hancheng.
Qu Hancheng had opened his eyes at this time. His face was pale and his body was covered in blood.
The corner of his mouth cracked, and he raised his hand, revealing a red and white pill in his palm.
The white one is the color of the elixir, but the red one is the blood on his body.
"Master, it's a middle-grade... it's a middle-grade chalcedony elixir."
"grass!"
Luo Chen slapped away the middle-grade elixir and grabbed the old guy's collar.
He wanted to say something, but ended up giving the other person a hard look.
Looking back, I found that Sikong Shoujia had already nervously picked up the middle-grade chalcedony pill.
"Hall Master Luochen, you have really refined the middle-grade chalcedony elixir!"
Luo Chen didn't pay attention to the middle-grade elixir at all, he just stared at Sikong Shoujia.
"Elder, the name of the deceased is Zuo Xiangyu. Please arrange his funeral arrangements for me. In addition, check whether he has any family members recorded in the gang. The aftermath must be done properly."
Sikong Shoujia was stunned for a moment.
Didn't you say before that your death in the alchemy room had nothing to do with you?
Why are you now dealing with funeral arrangements and taking care of the other person's family?
"In addition, Qu Hancheng's injury requires the help of spiritual stones to support him. Not only that, after he recovers from his injury, he will have to add two more spiritual stones to his monthly salary."
"But……"
"No, but if you have any doubts, take this middle-grade chalcedony pill to Gang Leader Mi and he will make a decision!"
"oh oh."
After handling these matters, Luo Chen's anger had dissipated a lot.
But still a pair of cold eyes swept over all the medicine apprentices and pyrotechnics present.
"I'll say it again, if there are signs of danger in the alchemy room, run away as soon as possible."
"Even if the middle-grade Xuanyun Cauldron explodes, I won't blame you."
"But next time, if you still die inside, I won't care about you."
"snort!"
Damn, what a bunch of bastards.
Luo Chen cursed and entered the stone house, leaving only a group of old, weak, women and children looking at each other.
The younger Tangquan and Roldo were in a different mood.
He didn't pay any attention to the dead Zuo Xiangyu, but looked at the seriously injured Qu Hancheng with envy.
This old guy got his second salary increase!
Qu Hancheng was lying on the ground, grinning stupidly, as if he didn't care about his injuries at all.
In the stone house, the first-order water wave array has been activated.
Everyone else is already used to the hall master frequently activating formations.
The guess is that Luo Chen doesn't want others to disturb him, so no one usually comes up to cause trouble.
In the room where no one was paying attention, Luo Chen sat on the couch and sighed.
In his hand, there was a whole bottle of medium-grade chalcedony pill.
As early as half a month ago, he had already reached the proficiency level and secretly refined the middle-grade elixir.
The reason why he has not announced it to the outside world is also to hide his alchemy level.
After all, to be able to refine a mid-level product in such a short time would be scary to say the least.
Unexpectedly, before I had time to collect the pills today, the pill furnace exploded.
Two pyrotechnics were also involved, one dead and the other injured.
"I didn't kill them, but they died and were injured because of me!"
This was the main reason why Luo Chen sighed.
The alchemy furnace that was blown up was the Ziyun copper furnace that he bought from Miss Xiangxiang for two hundred spirit stones.
A first-level low-grade magic weapon with wide applicability.
But the shortcomings are actually very obvious.
That is, it cannot be used frequently, it must be maintained at a certain interval, and it must be well maintained.
But during this time, the refining work of Dantang never stopped.
When he was practicing in the Spiritual Vein Cave, he often used the pill furnace to brew the Spiritual Liquid.
As time passes, the "durability" is lost.
Coupled with the negligence of the fireworkers and improper fire control at the time, the furnace explosion accident occurred.
"Forget it, there's no point in worrying about this matter. Let's try to urge Bangli to do a better job in the follow-up aftermath!"
After all, these people are following him.
I did put a lot of effort into them, including some fire control skills, some knowledge of alchemy, and even asked for the Flame Making Technique for them to practice.
It can be said that this is Luo Chen's preliminary team.
After putting the matter aside, Luo Chen clicked on the attributes panel and looked at the realm column.
[Realm: Sixth Level of Qi Refining Stage: 99/100]
It has been two full months now!
With the blessing of a good environment such as the Qi Nourishing Pill, the Chalcedony Pill, the Soothing Incense, the Yuan Spiritual Liquid, and the Spirit Vein Cave every day regardless of the cost, he was soaring in cultivation at a rate of nearly two progress bars every day. .
If it hadn't been for a period of time in the middle, I would have spent more time on the refining of the Chalcedony Pill and the Breath Condensation Spirit Art.
He was afraid that he had already broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
But now, it's not too late.
Taking a deep breath, Luo Chen held back his anticipation and took out the book "Qi Refining Experience" written by Mi Shuhua and read it.
He was waiting for the monks in the alchemy hall to disperse one by one.
Maybe it was because of the furnace explosion that made Luo Chen unhappy, or maybe it was because someone died today and the alchemy hall got off work a little early today.
Sikong Shoujia didn't hesitate at all, and went to find Mi Shuhua with the middle-grade chalcedony pill.
Late at night, Luo Chen quietly took away another Ziyun copper furnace from the alchemy room.
Then, he went all the way down to the hidden depths of the ground.
"The breakthrough is today!"
(End of chapter)
