The battle between the Jindan monks in Dahefang turned the once most prosperous inner city into a ghost town.
Thousands of monks were buried in it, which was truly a tragedy.
But for the other casual cultivators who survived, it was indeed a great opportunity!
Most of the people who can live in the inner city are people with advanced realms and wealthy families.
In addition to having special skills, these beings often run industries in the outer city or in the ancient plains mountains.
When they die, these resources are freed up.
Countless people began to compete for these things.
Moreover, the most important opportunity is not yet here!
Reiki!
As time went by, the casual cultivators discovered that the spiritual energy near Dahefang was getting stronger and stronger.
The concentration is almost no less than renting an ordinary house in the inner city.
This strange change surprised everyone.
According to a certain family monk, the elders in the clan judged that the spiritual energy blocking formation set up by the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect was destroyed, which caused the first-order spiritual veins in Luofeng Mountain to be released unscrupulously.
This creates a place thousands of miles away that is filled with spiritual prosperity.
This kind of judgment has high credibility.
Because it is rumored that most sects’ holy places have such a concentration of spiritual energy.
The powerful people of the sect will confine high-level spiritual veins and create an environment suitable for high-level monks to practice.
However, first-level spiritual veins are often not imprisoned, but released to provide training for lower-level disciples.
The first-order spiritual vein of Dahefang covers an extremely wide area and has a rich spiritual energy foundation.
If it were within the sect, I'm afraid it would be released.
It's a pity that this is not the place of the sect, but the place where casual cultivators gather.
Therefore, in the past, the Jade Cauldron Sword Cultivator used formations to imprison and block it, trapping it in the inner city.
Now that the blocking formation was destroyed by a great battle, the rich spiritual energy of this spiritual vein was finally enjoyed by all the powerless cultivators.
Due to this change, some late-stage Qi Refining monks who originally planned to leave Dahefang also stayed.
Where can I find a spiritual place that costs nothing?
Are there millions of mountains in the Eastern Wasteland?
No one is a fool. In addition to daily activities, everyone is seizing the time to practice.
Because everyone knows that when the sword cultivators from the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect come back, they will definitely confine the huge spiritual energy again.
At that time, they will have to spend spirit stones to enjoy such benefits.
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Luo Chen is also one of those who seize the time to practice.
It took him several days to finally reach an agreement on the supply of medicinal materials with Elder Zhou of the Lianyun Merchant Alliance.
In this way, Luo Tianhui can restart the refining of chalcedony pills.
After taking care of these trivial matters, Luo Chen's practice time became regular.
Inside the cave, Luo Chen walked out of the copper furnace naked.
While replacing the spirit stones in the spirit gathering array, he sighed.
"Fortunately, I have purchased a large amount of resources before, so I don't have to worry about the supply of training resources in a short period of time."
He has made two large-scale resource purchases before.
Once, after Pang Renxiong arrived, Dahefang fell into chaos. He was afraid that the prices of various things would increase, so he spent 5,000 spirit stones to buy a large amount of resources.
Another time, it was planning to run away.
Once you run from the underground mine tunnel to Changyin Mountain and fall into the deep mountains and swamps, safety and practice are the most important things.
Therefore, he spent thousands of spiritual stones to buy dust-transforming pills, calming incense, Yuan-pei spiritual liquid and many other things.
Later, after reaching a cooperation with Miao Wen, these hoarded resources were not consumed too much.
Now that the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion and other sect properties have left, others may have to worry about training resources, but he doesn't have to worry at all.
"These resources should be enough to support my practice for half a year."
"In half a year, order will be almost restored, and the people from the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect should also be back."
Dahefang is very important!
This is what Luo Chen inferred from the information he collected from many people.
Whether it’s the establishment of the Taoist platform, the resources of millions of mountains, or the geographical advantages of the bridgehead.
These are the reasons why the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect attaches great importance to this place.
Especially when he learned from Sima Xian that Dahefang was likely to be built as a fairy city, he became even more certain of his inference.
The Jade Cauldron Sword Sect will never give up on Dahefang!
The half-year time was estimated by Luo Chen based on the response time of the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect to Fei Bowen's death last time.
No matter it is the time for the sect to make a decision or the time to come on the road.
Half a year is a very appropriate number.
"However, these have little to do with me at the moment."
Everything was ready, and the surging Qi and blood in his body were enough to support him to perform the Changchun Gong many times.
"Ming Shen has been here for a long time. In addition to tempering the will, it also has a slight benefit to the soul."
"Coupled with my physical growth, now I can perform Changchun Kung at full power four times a day even without the Anshen Incense."
"If you add the five times of Anshenxiang, it will be nine times!"
Nine times of full operation, half an hour each time, means that it will take at least five hours.
In the middle, you still have to pause and rest.
It takes so much time to practice the natal skills every day. If it were done in the past, Luo Chen would only feel that there was not enough time.
Because at that time, he still had many spells to practice.
But now, most of the spells are complete.
The only thing that needs attention is optimizing the fireball technique, as well as the earth and mountain technique and wave technique.
The former is his current strongest trump card, but the latter two are preparing for the second-level spell "Landslide".
"Thinking about it this way, after refining the elixir, the time is barely enough."
Luo Chen smiled slightly, took out a jade bottle from the storage bag, and poured out a pill.
The color is bluish and the smell is light and elegant.
Astonishingly, it was the Elf Pill from Miao Wen.
When I see the elixir, I think of Miao Wen.
Luo Chen couldn't help laughing.
This one is miserable enough!
He also came forward to protect Xieyue Valley, gave him the best formation, the Small Five Elements Formation, and even helped ask Luo Tianhong to heal Qin Liangchen.
In the end, Luo Tianhui didn't even get one month's dividend.
If you add these five bottles of elf pills, the other party will be at a huge loss!
If he loses money, he will make money!
"However, this elixir is of the second level, and I still need to use my Su Xin Hands to decompose it."
Luo Chen gathered his mind and made a secret with his right hand, and traces of light blue spiritual power emerged.
The green elixir in the air was stimulated and began to spin.
Suddenly, the outermost layer of the pill cracked, and a wisp of medicinal liquid seeped out.
"Is this the semi-finished spiritual fruit that Pang Renxiong mentioned?"
"I don't know what kind of strange spiritual fruit the main ingredient is, but it can actually integrate the medicinal power into the fruit."
With these thoughts in his mind, Luo Chen raised his head, opened his mouth, and took a gentle breath.
That wisp of medicinal liquid, like nectar and jade liquid from the sky, trickled down and fell into Luo Chen's mouth.
"One-tenth, that's almost it!"
He kneaded the secret with one hand again, and the light cyan spiritual power thread wrapped the remaining elf elixir layer by layer to prevent its excess medicinal power from evaporating out of thin air.
This is the wonderful use of Suxinshou.
It can decompose various herbs and medicinal materials, and can also seal part of the medicinal power.
It plays a great role in alchemy.
Unexpectedly, the elixir for semi-finished spiritual fruits is also effective.
Pack this Elf Pill separately.
With the help of Anshenxiang and Moonlight Grass, Luo Chen fell into deep cultivation.
The whole person was as motionless as a big tree.
About half an hour later, Luo Chen opened his eyes, his face glowing with joy.
"Mi Shuhua sincerely won't bully me!"
At the beginning, Mi Shuhua said that the Elf Pill refined by Yaowang Sect had an excellent auxiliary effect in purifying spiritual power.
Its magical effect is no less than the complete version of the sect's technique.
Now it seems that the other party may have underestimated the effect of the elf pill.
Just when he ran the Changchun Kung just now, he felt that the spiritual energy he absorbed was quickly refined to the extreme by the power of the Elf Pill after it was transformed into spiritual energy.
The speed was so fast that even Luo Chen didn't expect it at all.
If in the past, ordinary casual practitioners could purify spiritual power at a speed of one, the Dzogchen Changchun Gong's own purification speed was almost five.
So with the blessing of the elf pill, Luo Chen's purification speed suddenly reached ten!
Moreover, this speed is not as simple as just doubling.
The purifying effect of Dzogchen Changchun Gong can only be produced when the exercise is running.
It only takes half an hour to perform Changchun Gong once.
It also involves capturing external spiritual energy, drawing it into the body, absorbing it, refining it, and finally purifying it.
In other words, there was only seven or eight minutes left for Luo Chen to purify.
In this little time, there is no time to purify all the captured spiritual energy.
The excess can only be left in the body and passively compressed and transformed.
After practicing for many times, a lot of unpurified spiritual energy will accumulate in the body. Only when it reaches its limit, Changchun Gong will take care of this.
But now, the speed has doubled.
In other words, more spiritual power can be purified in a limited time.
"Just once, all the spiritual energy I absorbed was transformed, and there is even still some energy left!"
"This is just normal practice."
"If I swallow the elixir and refine it with Changchun Gong, wouldn't I be able to purify it even more?"
Just do what comes to mind.
After resting for a while, Luo Chen took out a dust-transforming pill and swallowed it.
With the help of the remaining elf elixir power, Luo Chen started practicing again.
…
Dawn breaks in the sky and the morning fog clears.
Luo Chen flew out of the spiritual vein cave with a look of joy on his face.
With the blessing of the Elf Pill, his cultivation speed almost doubled!
If he had enough elf pills, the time he had previously estimated would take five or six years to complete Qi Refining could be shortened again.
The premise is that there are enough!
Luo Chen's joy gradually faded.
Elf elixirs are not as easy to obtain as ordinary elixirs.
Even when the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion was there, there was no such thing on the shelves.
Only at auctions, some are occasionally revealed.
"The elf pills in my hand are four bottles in total, forty pills, one tenth at a time. In other words, it is barely enough for me to practice for about four hundred days."
"I still lack a lot of elf pills!"
"Then where is it?"
Wang Yuan had a bottle in his hand, which he had given away, so he was naturally embarrassed to ask for it back.
Moreover, he has no shortage of elf pills in a short period of time.
In the long run, there will be no shortage of one or two bottles.
Therefore, you need to find a relatively stable channel to purchase.
"Stablize?"
"While the order in Dahefang is still there, there is no stabilizing elf elixir to speak of."
"So, we have to find a channel that has this thing."
Luo Chen's eyes flickered and he had some plans in mind.
Now that you have decided to fight and no longer follow the crowd, some things must be considered in the long term.
Not just elf pills, but other things.
…
Luo Tianhui.
A conversation was going on slowly amidst the abacus.
"Currently, there are only a few monks in the early stage of Qi refining in the guild, and they only spend 80 yuan of low-grade spiritual stones a month."
"There are thirty middle-stage Qi Refining monks in the Alchemy Hall. According to their respective positions and contributions, the salary standard fluctuates around fifty spiritual stones. The monthly salary expenditure is one thousand and five."
"Over in the war hall, there are mainly seventh- and eighth-level Qi Refining monks, supplemented by a small number of mid-level elites. Their salary standard was also set by you, Luo Chen, at one hundred per month. Therefore, the expenditure is three thousand yuan for low-level people. Spiritual stone.”
"The number of people in Jintang and Xuntang is smaller, and their realms are slightly lower. They spent a thousand spiritual stones last month."
Hearing this, Luo Chen frowned slightly.
He raised his hand, and Murong Qinglian stopped fiddling with the abacus.
In fact, with the monk's intelligence, there is no need for abacus at all.
But when it comes to many inputs and outputs, it needs to be combined with account books and abacus to make it clear and easy to understand.
"The treatment at Jintang must be mentioned later."
"Um?"
Murong Qinglian was surprised, but since it was Luo Chen who made the decision, she no longer questioned it.
In fact, she did not agree with the salary standards set by Luo Chen for the monks in the guild.
Not too low, but too high!
In the later period, monks almost received a salary of one hundred yuan a month.
You must know that in the past, large sect shops only had sixty or seventy spiritual stones per month.
Considering that the battle hall is related to life and death, it doesn't matter if you mention it a little bit, but one hundred spiritual stones a month is still too high.
But during this period, some talents from small forces were poached by major families and the Dajiang Gang, but few people from Luo Tianhui left.
Only then did she realize how wise the high salary given by Luo Chen was.
Without high salaries, Luo Tianhui will gradually fall apart even if there are no external enemies.
Where else can there be a good day like this, where the two of them sit peacefully, drink tea and settle accounts.
The reality is very skinny!
In the early and middle stages, monks have no choice, but in the later stages, monks have more choices.
Those old men from the Poshan Gang, unlike Murong Qinglian and Zeng Wen, had an extremely deep friendship with Luo Chen in addition to their interests.
Just like Li Wanchun from Wanbao Tower, many people want to recruit him.
"Go on!"
Luo Chen poured a cup of tea, blew on the hot air and sipped it into his mouth.
"Um!"
Currently, there are nine monks in the Luo Tianhui who are on the ninth level of Qi Refining, except Luo Chen and Wang Yuan.
Among these nine people, basically all hold important positions in various halls.
Therefore, their salary once reached 300 spiritual stones a month, which was another huge expenditure.
"In addition, Caiyi and I's salary is five hundred spiritual stones a month."
"Finally, there is the cost of raw materials, which also costs 2,500 per month."
After a quick calculation, Murong Qinglian breathed a sigh of relief.
Calculated the final number for Luo Chen.
"Last month, a total of 11,700 spiritual stones were spent."
This huge number, when taken out, is enough to make any casual cultivator feel excited, red-eyed, or even murderous.
But Luo Chen has been able to face it calmly.
He asked: "How many spiritual stones are there currently in the club's books?"
"Twenty-six thousand spiritual stones!"
Luo Chen raised his eyebrows, "Why are there so many more?"
In his calculations, there shouldn't be so many, at least they have to be folded in half.
Murong Qinglian smoothed her hanging hair and said with a smile: "You have forgotten that there is a batch of middle-grade chalcedony pills that were refined when you were still in the Poshan Gang. We don't need to bear any responsibility for that batch. The cost is pure profit!”
"Haha, I forgot about this."
Luo Chen remembered that during the battle in Xianyue Valley, he deliberately put away the batch of chalcedony pills.
After careful calculation, that batch of pills is worth at least fifteen thousand!
If you deduct the fifteen thousand for free, Luo Tianhui will be operating normally for a month now. After deducting all expenses, there will still be a surplus of about eleven thousand spiritual stones.
"How do you plan to pay Hall Master Wang Yuan's salary?"
Faced with this problem, Luo Chen already had a suspicion in mind.
He said without hesitation: "Three thousand!"
"So high?" Murong Qinglian looked shocked, and her throat felt dry. "This is almost the same as the small sect's foundation-building period offering, right?"
"He deserves this treatment!"
Murong Qinglian was startled by the decisive tone.
She remembered what Lao Qin had said, about how Wang Yuan broke the formation alone during the battle to annihilate the Fu family.
Finally, she nodded.
"Then let's follow the foundation-building period standard of three thousand!"
Lowering her head, she recorded this amount in her ledger.
Looking at this scene, Luo Chen couldn't help but feel excited. Everything was going in the right direction.
In one month of running Luo Tianhui, as the president, he could earn eight thousand low-grade spiritual stones.
This benefit is really too great!
Saying it out loud is enough to make all Qi Refining stage casual cultivators and even Foundation Establishment cultivators jealous.
But in fact, this is a normal benefit.
The products they make are all medium-grade chalcedony elixirs, which sell for 50 yuan per bottle. The monthly gross profit is more than 20,000 yuan.
Now he doesn't have to share his profits with anyone else.
If Miao Wen had shared half of the profits according to the terms of cooperation he had reached with him, he would still have to spend four thousand.
Although four thousand low-grade spiritual stones per month are already two or three times more than during the Poshan Gang period.
But it was still too little, not worthy of his status as an alchemist.
Eight thousand, no more, no less, very reasonable!
Luo Chen did not take away all the spiritual stones in the book.
The fifteen thousand spiritual stones were left as Luo Tianhui's working capital, and only the normal income of eight thousand for this month was taken.
After receiving these spiritual stones from Murong Qinglian, Luo Chen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
He had already accumulated a lot of wealth, and with the contribution of Gao Tingyuan's storage bag, plus this amount of spiritual stones.
His net worth has soared to 20,000 yuan.
If this spiritual stone is in the hands of a foundation-building monk, you can even consider purchasing a magic weapon.
No, maybe some monks who are new to foundation building have spent all their wealth and still don’t have this deposit.
Luo Chen knew how difficult it was for casual cultivators.
The reason why Mi Shuhua still spends so much thought on him after having the Poshan Gang is that isn't the so-called long-term future?
But he was progressing too fast, and Mi Shuhua happened to be seriously injured, so he wanted to harvest early.
It's a pity that Mi Shuhua didn't wait for such a big profit.
Things are not going as planned, and it is not just for Luo Chen.
Among all living beings, how many people can have everything they want and have everything going smoothly?
As strong as Pang Renxiong, both...
"If you do the math, Mi Shuhua, Miao Wen, and Pang Renxiong all ended badly."
"I can't defeat the Lord, can I?"
"No, I shouldn't have a master!"
Luo Chen sneered, stood up and left.
Murong Qinglian, who stayed in the room, looked confused. Why was Luo Chen, who was so good, sneering?
…
"Why did you drag me out?"
"There's no shortage of bodyguards here!"
"Where are Zhou and Liu?"
"Zhou Yuanli has accumulated enough recently, and Dahefang's spiritual energy has become abundant again, so he plans to retreat and attack the ninth level of Qi refining."
Luo Chen stopped and spread his hands, "Besides, their strength is indeed a bit low."
"The two of them are okay. Working together, it won't be a problem to deal with the ordinary ninth level of Qi refining." Wang Yuan also stopped in confusion.
"But for where I'm going next, my strength really can't keep up."
Luo Chen smiled slightly, and under Wang Yuan's gaze, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his face wildly.
After a moment, a specious face appeared in front of him.
Do you want to disguise yourself?
Wang Yuan was helpless, his body trembled, and bursts of trembling sounds erupted from his joints.
The whole person is a bit shorter, standing shoulder to shoulder with Luo Chen, about the same height.
He wiped his face with one hand and his face became lighter.
After being fully prepared, Luo Chen took Wang Yuan into a familiar alleyway.
As he walked, he sent a message and asked: "How far have you progressed in your research on the methods against ghosts?"
"It's not perfect yet."
"For people like me with strong energy and blood, low-level ghosts don't dare to get close, but in the eyes of powerful ghosts, they will become popular."
"In other words, the exploration into the inner city must be postponed?"
"Are you in a hurry?"
Luo Chen shook his head, "I'm not in a hurry, but other forces are already organizing manpower and preparing to enter the inner city."
"Then let them take the lead!"
Wang Yuan's footsteps stopped.
Looking at the familiar doorway, he hesitated and asked: "Zhenlong Black Market?"
Luo Chen nodded, "Now and then, in the current Zhenlong black market, you and I have to be careful."
After saying that, he opened the curtain and walked in.
Wang Yuan did not hesitate and followed in.
Correcting the password and showing the hydrangea magic weapon, the two once again stepped into the spacious underground luxurious hall.
As soon as he stepped in, Wang Yuan's whole body tensed up.
He finally understood why Luo Chen said this and that.
Just because there are quite a few people exuding the aura of foundation building in the black market at this moment.
(End of chapter)
