Meet Li Jinhuang again.
The location is not in Huilong Bay, but in a "water mansion".
Deep in the Qinhua River, there is a winding corridor, dark and dark, and it is unknown where it leads.
Two figures, one behind and one behind, moved forward silently.
Luo Chen followed behind and looked at the man in front of him with a little surprise.
Li Yingzhang!
This generation of the Li family is the most likely to build a foundation.
With dual spiritual roots, he did not join a major sect at a young age. Instead, he was retained by Li Jinhuang to teach him personally at a very young age.
This situation also exists.
When the family was short of talent, a genius appeared.
The best way to deal with it is not to send it to the main gate, but to keep it at home.
Otherwise, once you enter the sect, you will be as deep as the sea.
At some point, the family may be forgotten.
On the contrary, bringing them up from an early age can strengthen their dependence on the family and consolidate their feelings other than blood relationships.
In short, it is to use the family's huge and complex interpersonal relationships to bind each other.
It's not good or bad. After all, the other party did enjoy the full tilt of family resources.
What surprised Luo Chen was that the other party's realm seemed to be in a state of slow decline.
It is obviously the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Period.
But he was not in a hurry to build the foundation, and allowed his realm to slowly slip.
This is so strange!
As if sensing Luo Chen's question, Li Yingzhang said without looking back:
"Senior, are you curious about my declining state?"
"Um."
Luo Chen hummed.
Li Yingzhang simply explained: "I have a special physique, which is a body with nine twists and turns. It happened that my ancestor found a foundation-building secret technique for me called "Nine-layer Return to the Origin". I practiced this secret technique inside the Dantian, one level of recovery every year. , nine years later, the Nine Levels of Return to Yuan Dacheng will increase my chance of success in foundation building by 20%."
The faint explanation caused ripples in Luo Chen's inner lake.
There is actually a secret technique to assist foundation building?
Constructing the Nine Layers of Returning to the Origin within the Dantian, wouldn’t this be simulating and shaping the Nine Layers of Qi Sea in advance after establishing the foundation?
Then when the time comes to build the foundation, after the Dantian is broken, there is no need to work hard to transform the Dantian into the sea.
The Dantian is broken, the Dantian turns into the sea, the spiritual power is collected, and the spiritual power turns into liquid.
These are the four most critical places for foundation building.
They correspond to the spiritual energy level and the soul level respectively, and as a whole, they correspond to the physical level.
After practicing this secret technique, the process of transforming into the sea became a matter of course.
And judging from the meaning of Li Yingzhang's words, in the process of practicing "Nine Levels of Return to Origin", the mastery and purification of spiritual power will be more in-depth.
Isn't it just that I have become familiar with the latter two processes in advance.
No wonder it can increase the chance of foundation building by 20%!
The other party was so generous and told the secret technique without any hesitation.
It seems that he is not afraid of Luo Chen coveting him at all?
"That's right. This set of secret techniques was created for his special physique. It's useless for others to ask for it."
Luo Chen also read about the nine-turn physique in a book introducing the physique of geniuses.
This is a kind of "congenital defective constitution"!
People with this physique are born with thicker meridians than others, and can accommodate more spiritual power at the same level.
But the thick meridians are winding and crisscrossing.
It's like a big river, with its turbid currents twisting and turning in nine twists and turns!
One can imagine.
Such a complex meridian system.
When running the natal skills, it will naturally take twice as much energy as ordinary people.
For ordinary people with this kind of physique, it would take at least a hundred years to reach the perfection of Qi refining. After a hundred years, they would never be able to achieve the foundation-building path.
The other party reached the state of Qi Refining Dzogchen at a young age of forty or fifty, which shows how much effort Li Jinhuang invested in him.
I just don’t know, what level has he reached in the "Nine Levels of Return to Origin" now?
How many more years will it take to build the foundation?
When Luo Chen was thinking.
Suddenly, the man in front stopped in front of a water curtain.
"Senior, my ancestor is waiting for you inside." Li Yingzhang stretched out his hand as an invitation.
Luo Chen took a serious look at him, and then stepped into the water curtain.
As soon as I entered, the rich spiritual energy seemed to be a different world.
Duanduan is a top-grade first-class cave!
Before Luo Chen could sigh, his eyes fell on Li Jinhuang and his brows furrowed.
"Fellow Taoist, are you injured?"
Next to an underground spiritual spring, Li Jinhuang sat on a futon, his breath rising and falling.
There is still a faint smell of blood on his body.
Seeing Luo Chen arriving, Li Jinhuang smiled bitterly.
"I didn't expect that there would be such chaos over there in the Quicksand Wasteland. Jie Xiu is really too rampant!"
"Quicksand Wasteland, you actually went to Jilei Nine Mountains?" Luo Chen was extremely surprised.
Li Jinhuang sighed, "The situation there is the only one in chaos. No one will investigate the origin. Everything only depends on the quality of the goods."
Luo Chen pursed his lips, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
He naturally knows that there are easy things to do on the Ji Lei Mountain side.
At present, the battles between Yuanying Shangzong are still restrained, and there are not many personal actions.
After a brief initial confrontation, it evolved into a battle between his allies and vassals.
Jilei Mountain is the center of the battle.
The thousands of miles of quicksand wasteland extending from Jilei Mountain is the largest battlefield.
There is a mixture of fish and dragons there, and countless casual cultivators from the Jade Cauldron Territory are mixed in, trying to make profits through war.
This Li Jinhuang is too courageous!
"I changed the name of your Tongyou Pill to Fantasy Dream Elixir and sold it in bulk on the black market."
“It was a bit rocky at first, but then demand outstripped supply.”
"It only took me three months to sell it completely."
"I didn't expect that someone would actually target me... After a hard fight, I managed to escape."
While speaking, Li Jinhuang took out a storage bag stained with black blood.
"This is all the income, it's all there, you can count it."
Take the storage bag.
Luo Chen couldn't help but raise his eyebrows as his spiritual consciousness swept over him.
Quite a lot!
He put it away carefully, and then asked curiously: "With your strength at the fifth level of foundation building, without the great monk, who can force you into such an embarrassing situation?"
"I don't know. He concealed his background very well." Li Jinhuang smiled bitterly, "I only know that the other party used a bowl-like magic weapon and almost covered me."
Bowl?
Luo Chen was stunned for a moment.
This kind of strange magic weapon would not be used by ordinary monks.
Only the strong Buddhists in Zhongzhou and Southern Xinjiang outside the Eastern Wilderness often use this type of magic weapon.
There are actually such monks in the Jade Cauldron Domain.
Li Jinhuang didn't seem to want to say more and changed the topic.
"Have you seen that kid Yingzhang?"
Luo Chen nodded, it was Li Yingzhang who brought him in.
It looks normal!
"My grandson is good at everything, but as long as he practices cultivation, he doesn't care about anything."
"I'm a little worried about leaving the Li family to him."
"So, please take care of the younger generation of the Li family more in the future."
Seeing the other party's increasingly weakened aura, Luo Chen nodded solemnly, "Of course it should be."
This seems to be a bit like entrusting the funeral affairs.
The other party handled the Tongyou Pill for him and worked hard, so Luo Chen naturally wouldn't be disappointed.
However, he had another purpose for this trip.
"I wonder, Fellow Daoist Li, if there is any way to purchase middle-grade or even high-grade second-grade cultivation elixirs?"
Hear the question.
Li Jinhuang looked at Luo Chen in shock.
"If I had it, how could I stop at the middle stage of foundation building in this life?"
Luo Chen was also stunned.
All right!
This is considered a question of blindness.
However, Li Jinhuang still pointed out some channels for Luo Chen where high-quality elixirs might appear.
The first is a regular large-scale auction. There is nothing much to say about this.
Secondly, there are various black markets.
The origins of these black market items are often shady. Someone might have killed a large number of sect disciples and got high-quality elixirs from the opponent's storage bag.
However, the probability of high-quality elixirs appearing on the black market is not very high.
After all, any monk can keep high-grade elixirs for his own use.
For example, Luo Chen entrusted Li Jinhuang to sell 900 middle-grade and high-grade elixirs this time, which was considered a big deal.
Even if it was only the first level, Li Jinhuang was noticed by many people.
This led to the trouble of being robbed and killed.
Finally, Li Jinhuang also suggested a way.
"Since high-grade elixirs are only circulated within the large sect, why not buy them from the disciples of the large sect?"
…
On the way back to the city, Luo Chen thought about the path Li Jinhuang finally proposed.
The other party obviously thought of a path tailor-made for him.
He has a good relationship with Iceberg.
There may be a chance to get high-quality elixirs from Ice Castle.
"But it's just maybe. If Ice Castle has a surplus of pills, it won't still be so thirsty for my Jade Dew Pill."
Luo Chen didn't have high expectations for this.
On the flying boat.
Luo Chen carefully counted the spiritual stones that Li Jinhuang brought back to him.
The price of Tongyou Pill was decided upon by Luo Chen and Li Jinhuang before they set off.
In view of this elixir, it is a very special elixir, but it can significantly improve the foundation of the soul.
Therefore, the price is set extremely high!
A bottle of ten pieces is of medium quality, priced at 400 spirit stones.
Top grade, a bottle of ten pills, priced at 900 spirit stones!
This price is staggering.
It's just a first-level elixir, but the middle-grade ones are almost as good as the second-level Heqi elixir.
The price of the top-grade ones even directly exceeds the price of the lower-grade Heqi Pills and Shenglong Pills.
It sounds like you are treating someone as a fool.
However, there may be some stupid people who can cultivate to the foundation building stage, but there are definitely no fools who are fooled over there in the Quicksand Wasteland.
Tongyou Dan was initially ignored.
Just half a month later, there was a rush to buy.
Later, Li Jinhuang even deliberately controlled the flow rate of the elixir in his hand and put it on the black market auction.
A bottle of top-grade Tongyou Pill costs nine hundred?
No!
This is just the starting price!
The highest transaction price was once as high as 2,000 yuan, far exceeding the transaction price of the middle-grade Heqi Pill at Tianlan Auction.
Why are the foundation-building cultivators so crazy about buying high-grade Tongyou Pills?
Luo Chen had just thought about this issue.
"It's probably because Chu Kui told me that the foundation of the soul is particularly important when forming pills!"
"Most of the foundation-building cultivators who dare to go to the Nascent Soul Sect's battlefield are those who have ambitions for the great road. When they encounter such pills that can directly increase the foundation of the soul, anyone will take a few bottles at any cost. of."
"Even if it only increases by 10% or 20%, it may increase the chance of success a little bit when forming elixirs in the future."
"Everyone is working hard to form the elixir!"
After sighing, Luo Chen put away the storage bag with satisfaction.
This time, he harvested 110,000 low-grade spiritual stones!
It can be regarded as a small amount of making up for the cost that I invested before.
As for the future, he does not plan to refine the middle-grade and high-grade Tongyou Pills anymore.
Both of these seem to be sold at very high prices and have a lot of profit.
In fact, it just "seems".
The cost is three times that of the Chalcedony Pill. Even if each raw material is successful, the number of pills produced will only be three.
It cannot be formed on a large scale, it is difficult to refine, and the market can only face a small number of foundation-building cultivators.
Moreover, the effect of this elixir will become worse after being taken multiple times.
Coupled with the heaven-defying effect of increasing the soul's foundation, it is easy to attract the covetousness of major sects.
To sum up, it is determined that Tongyou Pill cannot be used to make large-scale profits.
Luo Chen planned to refine only the best Tongyou Pill for his own use.
Occasionally, he would refine a few low-grade Tongyou Pills and put them in Luo Tianhui as an internal benefit.
The flying boat flies at extremely high speeds.
Soon, he returned to Tianlan Immortal City.
Luo Chen did not hesitate and went straight to the shop in Qingdan Valley.
First, I asked if Xuan Yunzi was there.
He wanted to find out about the middle-grade Shenglong Pill from the other party.
Compared to Ice Castle, which is in a bitter cold place, Qingdan Valley, which is famous for alchemy in the Jade Cauldron Region, is more likely to leak the middle-grade Shenglong Pill!
Moreover, his "relationship" with Xuan Yunzi seems to be pretty good.
Unfortunately.
After asking around, the answer was that the other party had returned to the sect.
"Uncle He is not a foundation-building cultivator who has been rotating in the Qingdan Pavilion for a long time. He is very accomplished in alchemy and is very valued in the valley. This time he came to Tianlan Immortal City for several medicinal materials that may appear in the auction. Now I’ll go there myself.”
"He has successfully purchased what he wanted. He didn't stay long and went back half a year ago."
The maid explained this.
Luo Chen had no choice but to get acquainted with Qingdan Pavilion's rotating foundation.
I took out my discount card and bought the low-grade Shenglong Pill for nearly a year.
After discounting, it cost a total of 19,000 spiritual stones.
This speed of spending money really made Luo Chen feel a little distressed.
His previous family property only consisted of the immovable 60,000 spiritual stones.
After one year, it only increased by 100,000 yuan.
Including the 110,000 yuan recovered today, the total is only 270,000 yuan.
But this is only an approximate figure.
In ordinary times, Luo Chen seemed not to go out, but the expenses were not low at all.
Whether it is high-quality spiritual rice, second-level monster meat cut by a butcher shop, a Lishen Incense plant every day, or other auxiliary elixirs taken occasionally.
His spirit stones have been being consumed at a terrifying speed.
Two hundred and seventy thousand?
No, I only had 240,000 left on me before.
This time, another 19,000 yuan was spent.
Out the door.
Luo Chen did not set up the Langqi flying boat, but strolled on the wide street.
He has some things to buy later.
Refining alchemy consumes a lot of energy, not only energy, but also the consumption of the durability of some equipment is also visible to the naked eye.
And when it came to the Jade Dew Pill, he had to buy Baihua Dew and the Lieshen Incense for the next year.
This time, more than 10,000 spiritual stones have to be removed.
"Thankfully Sima Huiniang has adjusted Luo Tianhui's merit policy, otherwise if it continues like before, my annual surplus of 100,000 yuan will be gone."
"But even so, with 100,000 yuan a year, after all my expenses, I still can't save tens of thousands yuan in savings."
"What will we use to compete for the elixir of elixir formation in the future?"
"I heard that after forming the elixir, you have to tailor-make a natal magic weapon for yourself, which is another huge expense."
If he, Luo Chen, wanted to create a natal magic weapon, he would definitely not choose an ordinary magic weapon sold on the market.
Most of those magic weapons and functions and special effects have been discovered by others.
Moreover, those magic weapons have basically lost their growth potential, making it difficult to upgrade his level as his realm improves.
"Thinking too far, this is all the matter after forming the pill."
After emerging from Shixiang Pavilion, Luo Chen went to Tianyi Tower again.
He spent 7,000 spiritual stones to buy a brand new top-quality robe.
It has four functions: cleaning, defense, dust avoidance, and wind protection.
This time, 20,000 spiritual stones were gone.
"Looking closer, it only takes a year for me to advance to the middle stage of foundation building."
"What about after the mid-term?"
"Each level will require more spiritual power, and the cultivation progress will only be slower. I must get enough high-grade elixirs."
"That means a huge amount of money!"
"Now, I only have 200,000 spiritual stones left on me."
"Not enough, far from enough!"
People without thought, he must worry about.
Luo Chen was already making various plans for his cultivation after the middle stage of foundation building.
First of all, you must focus on your own financial resources.
Otherwise, even if someone found him a way to get a high-grade elixir, he might not be able to take it.
But don’t forget, the rent in Shangpin Cave Mansion is also very scary!
Moreover, it seems that Ice Castle's rotation in Tianlan Immortal City is almost over ten years.
If they no longer take turns, will the new Golden Elixir Master still give him the privilege of renting it once a year?
If you don't give it, it will cost 480,000 spiritual stones in one go!
"The benefits of the Chalcedony Pill can be seen at a glance."
"Should I put the issue of generating income from Jade Dew Pill on the agenda?"
Arriving outside the Tiansheng Water Defense Formation.
Luo Chen casually greeted the monk guarding the door and walked in on foot.
In my mind, I am still thinking.
As a second-level elixir, Jade Dew Pill has a high price and is very scarce, but the cost is also very high.
One raw material costs one hundred spiritual stones, and is also affected by market price fluctuations, which may rise from time to time.
The key is, once the price goes up, it won't come down.
nausea!
Before Luo Chen, it took ten raw materials to refine one bottle.
The key point is that in order to catch up with the ice castle line, he voluntarily gave up the high price of the scarce elixir and only sold it for 500 yuan a bottle.
In other words, he takes the cost of one thousand yuan and sells it for five hundred yuan.
Lose money to maintain a relationship!
This is human nature.
But as Tantaixun demands more and more Jade Dew Pills, he will lose more and more.
A bottle loses 500 yuan, and a year loses 2,500 yuan.
After the ten-year period, we will have to provide one hundred bottles a year, and then we will have a total loss of twenty-five thousand!
This does not involve wasting Luo Chen's time and energy.
"If you want to maintain an intimate relationship, you also want to get money from them."
"The only thing we can do is improve the level of the elixirs we sell."
Luo Chen can do this.
His proficiency in refining the Jade Dew Pill has now reached the proficiency level, and he can refine the mid-grade Jade Dew Pill.
"no!"
"I can't rush!"
"In just a few years, it has been promoted to the middle level. Although it can be explained by genius, it is still too risky in the end."
Suppressing the anxious thoughts in his heart, Luo Chen forced himself to calm down.
Just losing money!
The current income is enough to support his cultivation.
You can plan for future events in advance, but you must not be in a hurry.
Everything has to be done step by step.
"Master, you are back!"
"Um."
"What do you want to eat tonight?"
"I won't have dinner anymore. You stew this golden pheasant for me, and I'll drink the soup tomorrow morning. By the way, this is a top-grade Baiyin robe that I just bought at Tianyi Building. You can try it on if you can. .”
Bai Meiling took the lively golden pheasant, and then excitedly entered the house with the Baiyin robe.
She is a ghost, and the clothes on her body are all manifested by the spirit of the ghost.
The Hundred Yin Dharma Clothes were made from hundreds of Yin Qi combined with special materials, and were just right for her to wear.
From now on, you can save yourself from the ghostly energy of manifesting clothes.
After she entered the house, Luo Chen entered the practice quiet room.
Looking at the low-grade Shenglong Pill in his hand, Luo Chen smiled bitterly.
"Forget it, let's put up with the reduced cultivation speed for the time being, and let's cultivate to the middle stage of foundation building first!"
With a flick of his finger, the Shenglong Pill was swallowed into his mouth.
The incense of the God of Fire rises slowly.
In the smoke, Luo Chen, who had changed into a red cloud robe and cassock, was sitting cross-legged.
The mind is clear and clear, absorbing countless spiritual energy into the sea of qi.
In the third heaven, the clouds formed by spiritual energy gradually condensed during the operation of the technique.
for a long time.
A drop of spiritual liquid, with a ticking sound, fell into the small lake below that was mostly filled with spiritual liquid.
(End of chapter)
