Chapter 101: Medium-Grade Jade Marrow Pill

The next morning, amidst the sharp and loud crowing of a rooster, Luo Chen opened his sleepy eyes.

He came to the courtyard, drew well water, and washed simply.

Duan Feng was even earlier than him, fiddling with a flying sword in the courtyard.

"What are you doing?"

"The magic tool is damaged, cleaning it up, preparing to buy materials to repair it a bit."

"You can also repair magic tools?"

Luo Chen was surprised, then as if remembering something, he suddenly realized.

"Also, you come from the Duan family; I heard that the Duan family has an Ice-Fire Spirit Spring, which is best at casting tools."

Mentioning the name Duan family, Duan Feng's face was obviously not very good.

The atmosphere in the courtyard was somewhat 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 was good, he wouldn't need to leave the family and come to Dahe Market alone to fight.

A ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator, if there is no power support and no specialized skill of his own, earning spirit stones is actually not that easy.

This can be seen from the fact that Duan Feng, apart from participating in the Dao Discussion Platform competition, also had to enter the mountains to hunt monster beasts.

He laughed, and Luo Chen forcefully changed the topic.

"Your Yangwu chicken can lay eggs; logically speaking, it is a hen, so why does it still crow every morning?"

"It has a trace of bloodline atavism, so it is hermaphroditic."

Speaking of this, a look of longing appeared in Duan Feng's eyes.

"My mother searched for various spiritual elixirs back then, just wanting to cultivate this Yangwu chicken to the second tier, letting it completely atavize into a Phoenix-Crowing Yangwu Chicken, but unfortunately, it fell short in the end."

Elixirs that can make spirit beast bloodlines atavize, how precious are they?

And how could ordinary families be able to do it?

And before hearing Brother Qin say that Duan Feng's lineage was not treated well in the Duan family, I'm afraid the force they could exert was even smaller.

After sighing, Luo Chen chatted with Duan Feng a few more words.

Before leaving, he hesitated and asked a question.

"Can you repair magic tools?"

"Simple repairs are no problem."

"Then can you repair this knife?"

Luo Chen took out a small wooden knife from his storage bag.

It was exactly one of the sub-blades in his set of Jade Green Knives, which had been damaged in the battle with the Gray-Leaf Wolf yesterday.

At that time, he thought it only needed spiritual power to nourish it, and it could recover.

But he didn't expect that after a night, the spiritual light became even dimmer.

If left alone, his Jade Green Knives would lose a sub-blade, and the power of the knife array condensed in the future would be greatly reduced.

Taking the wooden knife, Duan Feng looked at it carefully, then said coldly: "It can be repaired, but a piece of Jade Green Wood heart needs to be added; currently, Jade Green Wood heart sells for five spirit stones each on the market."

Luo Chen was overjoyed, "Then I'll trouble you!"

After speaking, he took out five spirit stones, thought about it, and took out another five spirit stones.

"Hmm?"

"The extra is the reward for your action."

Duan Feng was silent for a while, but still took the extra five spirit stones.

Seeing this scene, Luo Chen patted Duan Feng on the shoulder.

"Although you are older than me, my experience in living in the market is definitely richer than yours. Sometimes, actually, you don't have to fight and kill to earn spirit stones; that is too dangerous."

Duan Feng nodded, but after a moment, he took a deep breath.

"No, you don't understand."

After speaking, he closed the door and left directly.

Seeing his lonely and stubborn back, Luo Chen scratched his head.

What don't I understand?

You kid have a look of deep hatred, maybe thinking of achieving peerless fighting means, and then taking revenge.

The target of revenge, maybe it's some people in your Duan family!

This kind of cliché plot, he understands!

In the Elixir Hall.

The team of twenty medicine apprentices, the team of ten fire workers, and the elixir-nurturing cultivators cultivated some time ago, lined up in several rows, waiting in battle array.

In front of them were Gu Caiyi and Sikong Shoujia.

And at the very front, it was Hall Master Luo Chen.

At this moment, Luo Chen was walking alone in the three elixir rooms.

After a while, he walked out.

"The renovation of the elixir room has been completed and can cope with the refining of Jade Marrow Pills next."

"But I have to remind you, especially the fire workers, listen carefully."

"The refining of Jade Marrow Pills, I am not very familiar with it yet, and it is very likely to be dangerous. If there are signs of furnace explosion, run away at the first time, do you know?"

"What are you dazing for! Did you all hear clearly? I won't be responsible if you die in the elixir room!"

"Heard clearly!"

The last sentence was stern!

Everyone didn't expect that the previously gentle Luo Chen could say such severe words.

Therefore, they were all startled.

Sikong Shoujia raised his eyebrows; he found that Luo Chen, this kid, had gained a bit of intangible majesty at some point.

Perhaps, this is being in the position and nurturing the aura!

"Alright, medicine apprentices, send the materials needed for Jade Marrow Pills in first. Remember, place them one by one in the order I distributed before."

Waiting for a group of medicine apprentices to get busy, Luo Chen couldn't help but press his eyebrows.

Looking at the attribute panel, the proficiency of Jade Marrow Pill, after a month of various failures and a few successes.

Now the proficiency had been brushed to 【Jade Marrow Pill Proficiency 101/200】.

To be honest, with this proficiency level, directly launching large-scale alchemy, Luo Chen had no confidence in his heart.

But he had to do so; Mi Shuhua was clearly a bit anxious.

He had invested so much in him, and even took out the Qi Refining insights of a Foundation Establishment cultivator; if the other party couldn't see the results, he would definitely be anxious with him.

Luo Chen didn't want to face the anger of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Therefore, he had to force himself to speed up the refining rhythm of Jade Marrow Pills.

But he was ultimately a kind person who had undergone nine years of compulsory education, knowing what it meant that human life is as big as heaven.

Therefore, even if he was forced to do it, he had to do production second and safety first as much as possible.

"Hope, everything goes smoothly!"

Luo Chen muttered in a low voice, flicked his sleeves, and walked into the largest elixir room.

"Add fire, add fire, the temperature is not enough!"

"Bastard, where did you learn the Flame Manipulation Art you were taught? Don't you know how to split the Fireball Technique in half!"

"Hall Master, there is a burnt smell in the second elixir room!"

"Maintain the original firepower here, wait for me to come back immediately."

"Wasted, this furnace is wasted, withdraw the waste materials. Mi Li, send someone to clean the elixir furnace and prepare for the next furnace."

"Hall Master, the elixir furnace in the third elixir room is vibrating violently."

"What are you standing there for? Tell them to get out quickly!"

After a morning of refining, all failed, none succeeded.

Luo Chen's face was terrifyingly gloomy.

Others didn't dare to touch his brow and lowered their heads to do their own things.

After lunch, Luo Chen adjusted his mindset.

He didn't continue refining Jade Marrow Pills in the afternoon, but directed Mi Li, Tang Quan, and the others to refine Grain Bigu.

This time, he chose to let these medicine apprentices do it themselves.

He was just on the side, pointing out from time to time.

Don't say, through this way, his mood became better again.

Sure enough, people can only find a sense of achievement and happiness in the field they are best at.

Many hands make light work, and there were many elixir furnaces, so this afternoon, although there were failures, many succeeded.

Looking at those Grain Bigu pills that had just been pinched out, not only Luo Chen, but others' moods also became much better.

The failure in the morning not only affected Luo Chen, but others were actually even more terrified.

"Alright, today's alchemy ends here, continue tomorrow."

"These Grain Bigu, the appearance is average, the elixir-nurturing cultivators don't need to collect them into the Elixir Room. Just take them out and give them to the brothers in the battle halls!"

Luo Chen said lightly, not feeling distressed at all.

According to Mi Shuhua's statement, Grain Bigu should be treated as a gang benefit, occasionally given to cultivators in the gang.

Of course, it was limited to low-grade Grain Bigu.

If it were medium-grade or top-grade, they would still have to buy them at internal prices.

After handling these things, Luo Chen drilled into the elixir room again.

Gu Caiyi stood outside the door, "Are you not going home today?"

"Hmm, not going back."

"Then I'll go first."

"By the way, ask Duan Feng if my magic tool is repaired when you meet him. If it is repaired, bring it back for me. During this time, I might stay in the Elixir Hall for a long time."

Listening to these unhurried words, Gu Caiyi only felt that Luo Chen seemed to be a little different from before.

How exactly, she couldn't say.

Anyway, it was the focused attitude revealed inadvertently after truly caring about something.

"Could it be that he didn't care about the Elixir Hall's affairs before?"

On the way home, Gu Caiyi had this thought inexplicably.

And in the elixir room, Luo Chen personally took action and refined a furnace of Jade Marrow Pills.

Looking at the twenty pills that were as white as jade coming out of the furnace, Luo Chen breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Proficiency reached Proficiency level, the elixir yield rate really increased to twenty percent."

"Failed so many times today, making me almost doubt myself."

Shaking his head, Luo Chen threw a Jade Marrow Pill into his mouth, just like eating sugar beans.

Stealing?

Doesn't exist!

The cook is just tasting how the dish is made!

Leaving the elixir room, he found that the hall was sparsely populated.

Only outside, there were a few late-stage cultivators responsible for guarding and patrolling.

These people belonged to the Elixir Hall, but they mainly came from the three battle halls; he had no intention of making friends with these people.

He simply took out the "Qingyuan Elixir Explanation" and studied it carefully at the stone table on the cliff platform.

"Last time I only learned the Folding Jade Hand, this time I have to spend some effort on this 'Su Xin Hand'."

Folding Jade Hand, good at processing mineral materials.

It was precisely because he learned this thing that he could handle Huanyu very well.

Su Xin Hand is different, targeting various low-tier herbs.

Although he no longer specifically handles medicinal materials, some medicinal materials cannot be processed in advance.

It is said that some high-tier spiritual herbs, flowers, and fruits must be processed for alchemy at the first time after being picked.

Otherwise, they will be contaminated with earth-aperture turbid energy, and the medicinal properties will be lost.

Jade Marrow Pills currently don't encounter this restriction, but it's hard to guarantee that Luo Chen won't encounter elixir formulas that need this technique in the future.

Learning it in advance is always good.

After memorizing the Su Xin Hand and even being able to recite it backward, Luo Chen took out some ordinary medicinal materials that were not worth much in the medicine room and practiced.

There were failures and successes, and Luo Chen enjoyed it.

The patrolling cultivators occasionally came in and saw this scene, and they all kept it in mind.

Late at night, Luo Chen quietly took away a Ziyun copper furnace from the elixir room, then returned to the stone room and opened the array.

In the stone room, the first-tier water wave array had been activated.

After several turns, Luo Chen returned to the spiritual vein cave.

"I don't know if refining Peiyuan Spirit Liquid directly here will affect the pure spiritual energy emitted by the spiritual vein?"

While pondering, Luo Chen had already completed the preparation work.

In the slightly cramped cave, the Ziyun copper furnace was set up, and the raging fire burned for a while.

The surging heat wave made Luo Chen, even after activating the defensive magic robe, sweat profusely.

But he didn't care, still paying attention to the spiritual energy concentration here at all times.

The Spirit Eye Technique rooted in his eyes played a very good role in real-time monitoring.

Three hours later, the big fire disappeared, and the temperature of the elixir furnace gradually dropped.

Luo Chen breathed a long sigh of relief, "No problem!"

Next, he started to cultivate in the cave.

"He has been staying in the Elixir Hall during this time?"

"Yes, in a month, he only returned to the inner city twice. When he went back, it was just to purchase some daily necessities."

"What are the results?"

"He put most of his mind on the refining of Jade Marrow Pills; currently, the elixir yield rate has improved, and out of ten furnaces, he can barely succeed in two."

"Are there any medium-grade Jade Marrow Pills?"

"Not yet, but it is said that one furnace almost succeeded in medium-grade. But the last Jade Marrow Pill only condensed one and a half cloud patterns."

"It seems he is indeed very attentive!"

Mi Shuhua's face was gratified, and his tone carried a trace of joy.

After thinking about it, he said: "Ask him what other help he needs in life; if possible, the gang will buy it for him."

"Hmm, I will do it."

Sikong Shoujia accepted this matter.

Today's intelligence report was almost over here.

But he hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and asked carefully: "Gang Leader, how is my useless one cultivating recently?"

Mi Shuhua glanced at him and said lightly: "Yuanhong is still very diligent in cultivation; he is currently at the eighth level of Qi Refining."

Sikong Yuanhong, Sikong Shoujia's only son.

Currently thirty-five years old, with three-spirit-root aptitude, he has been following Mi Shuhua to cultivate and can be considered the other party's disciple.

With this kind of aptitude, being able to reach the eighth level of Qi Refining at this age, Foundation Establishment is promising in the future!

Sikong Shoujia was happy in his heart and even thought about the Foundation Establishment Pill in Mi Shuhua's hand.

If Yuanhong could use that Foundation Establishment Pill, maybe he could really achieve Foundation Establishment in the future!

"Thank you, Gang Leader, for your guidance over the years; Yuanhong's Dao path will still trouble you in the future. If he can achieve Foundation Establishment, my Sikong family will definitely do their best for the Mi family!"

Mi Shuhua smiled and nodded.

When Sikong Shoujia was about to leave, he suddenly said a sentence.

"My youngest daughter is currently waiting to be married and also has the cultivation of the sixth level of Qi Refining, but she lacks a Dao companion. I think this child Yuanhong is okay; if he can become a family, I will definitely try my best to guide him."

Sikong Shoujia's body stiffened, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer.

According to Mi Shuhua's meaning, this is to let his only son marry into the Mi family!

On the way back to the Elixir Hall, Sikong Shoujia was absent-minded.

He was old and frail, his blood and energy were declining, even at the ninth level of Qi Refining, but Great Perfection was far away, let alone Foundation Establishment.

Therefore, the hope of this life was placed on his only son.

For this, he was willing to be driven by Mi Shuhua and become the other party's confidant in the Poshan Gang.

The degree of trust was even higher than that of the original 'Broken Blade' Xu Renke and 'Heart-Eating Tiger' Han Dang.

Now Mi Shuhua's meaning was that he had to let Sikong Yuanhong become a Mi family member before he was willing to fully support the other party's cultivation.

In this way, the son's future was there, but his Sikong family would have no successors.

For a time, the old man's heart was in chaos!

When he returned to the Elixir Hall with a sad face, he found that others were even more panicked than him.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

He grabbed a guy; if he remembered correctly, it was the son of a Tang-surname eighth-level Qi Refining cultivator in the gang, now following his uncle Zeng Wen.

Seems to be called Tang Quan?

Tang Quan said in horror: "Furnace explosion, just now the third elixir room exploded directly, one dead and one injured on the spot."

"How could this happen? Is Luo Chen okay?"

Sikong Shoujia was both shocked and angry; if Luo Chen was blown to death, how would he explain to Mi Shuhua?

The other party was in a very good mood today, and even said directly that he would fully take care of Luo Chen's life matters.

Just when he was shocked and angry, in the hall inside the Elixir Hall, an angry roar was coming.

"I said how many times, if there are signs of furnace explosion, don't care about anything, just run."

"Did you all take my words as wind in your ears?"

"A bunch of bastards, is the elixir important, or is life important!"

Sikong Shoujia squeezed into the crowd, just seeing Luo Chen walking back and forth, his face livid.

On the ground, two people were lying.

One corpse was shattered, the remains were just spliced together.

The other one, bloody and blurry, a woman was using means to save him as much as possible.

He just took a look and found that the bloody one was the old cultivator Qu Hancheng, who was personally promoted by Luo Chen.

"Wow!"

A mouthful of stagnant blood was suddenly spat out.

Murong Qinglian dodged, a smile appearing on her face.

"It's okay, Qu Hancheng is suffering from internal and external shocks caused by spiritual energy rampage."

"Although the meridians are severely damaged, at least his life is saved."

"Luo Chen, there is nothing for me to do here, I'll go first, the Medicine Hall is still very busy."

"Thank you, sister-in-law, really trouble you."

Luo Chen sent Murong Qinglian away, his gaze falling on Qu Hancheng.

Qu Hancheng had already opened his eyes at this time; his face was pale and his body was covered in blood.

With a crack of his mouth, he raised his hand, and in his palm, a red and white elixir was revealed.

The white was the elixir color, but the red was the blood on his body.

"Hall Master, medium-grade... it's a medium-grade Jade Marrow Pill."

"Damn!"

Luo Chen slapped the medium-grade elixir away and grabbed the old guy by the collar.

He wanted to say something, but finally glared at the other party fiercely.

Turning his head back, he found that Sikong Shoujia had nervously picked up that medium-grade Jade Marrow Pill.

"Hall Master Luo Chen, you really refined a medium-grade Jade Marrow Pill!"

Luo Chen's attention was not on the medium-grade elixir at all, just staring at Sikong Shoujia.

"Elder, the one who died is called Zuo Xiangyu; you arrange his funeral for me. In addition, check if he has any recorded family members in the gang, and the aftermath work must be done in place."

Sikong Shoujia was stunned for a moment.

Didn't you say at the beginning that dying in the elixir room had nothing to do with you?

How come now, it's handling the funeral, and taking care of the other party's family?

"In addition, Qu Hancheng's injury must be paid for by the gang to nourish him. Not only that, after his injury heals, his monthly salary must be increased by two spirit stones."

"But..."

"No buts, if you have any questions, take this medium-grade Jade Marrow Pill to find Gang Leader Mi, he will decide!"

"Oh oh."

After handling these things, Luo Chen's anger had dissipated quite a bit.

But still with cold eyes, he swept over all the medicine apprentices and fire workers present.

"I'll say it again, if there are signs of danger in the elixir room, run away at the first time."

"Even if that medium-grade Xuanyun Cauldron explodes, I won't blame you."

"But next time, if you still die inside, see if I care about you."

"Hmph!"

Damn, a bunch of bastards.

Luo Chen cursed and entered the stone room, leaving only a group of old, weak, sick, and disabled people looking at each other.

The younger Tang Quan and Luo Erduo had different moods.

They didn't pay attention to the dead Zuo Xiangyu at all, but looked at the seriously injured Qu Hancheng with envious eyes.

This old guy, this is the second time he has had his salary increased, right!

Qu Hancheng lay on the ground, grinning foolishly, seemingly not caring about the injury on his body at all.

In the stone room, the first-grade Water Wave Formation has already been activated.

For the Hall Master frequently activating the array, others were already used to it.

Guessing that Luo Chen didn't want others to disturb him, so usually no one would go up to touch the bad luck.

In the room where no one paid attention, Luo Chen sat on the soft couch and sighed.

In his hand, there was a whole bottle of medium-grade Jade Marrow Pills.

As early as half a month ago, he had already brushed his proficiency to the Proficiency level and secretly refined medium-grade elixirs.

The reason why he hadn't announced it to the outside world was also to hide his alchemy level.

After all, in such a fast time, refining a medium-grade one would scare people to death if said out loud.

But he didn't expect that before he had time to collect the elixir today, that elixir furnace exploded.

It even implicated two fire workers, one dead and one injured.

"I didn't kill them, but they died and were injured because of me!"

This was the main reason for Luo Chen's sigh.

The exploded elixir furnace was the Ziyun copper furnace he bought from Miss Xiangxiang for two hundred spirit stones back then.

First-tier low-grade magic tool, very widely applicable.

But the shortcomings are actually very obvious.

That is, it cannot be used frequently, must maintain a certain time interval, and usually needs to be well maintained.

But during this period, the refining work of the Elixir Hall had never stopped.

When he was cultivating in the spiritual vein cave, he often used that elixir furnace to boil Peiyuan Spirit Liquid.

After a while, the "durability" was gone.

Coupled with the fire worker's negligence at the time and improper firepower control, it caused the furnace explosion accident.

"Forget it, it makes no sense to dwell on this matter; try to urge the gang to do a good job in the follow-up aftermath!"

After all, this group of people is mixed with him.

He also really spent some effort on them, some fire control techniques, some alchemy common sense, and even begged for the Flame Manipulation Art for them to practice.

It can be said that this is Luo Chen's preliminary team.

After putting aside this matter, Luo Chen clicked on the attribute panel and his gaze fell on the realm column.

【Realm: Qi Refining Period Sixth Level: 99/100】

Now a full two months have passed!

Under the blessing of his cost-free daily Nourishing Qi Pills, Jade Marrow Pills, calming incense, Peiyuan Spirit Liquid, and the good environment of the spiritual vein cave, his cultivation was soaring at a speed of nearly two progress bars every day.

If it weren't for a period of time in the middle when he spent more effort on Jade Marrow Pill refining and the Breath-Restraining Spirit Technique.

He would have broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining long ago.

But now, it's not too late.

Taking a deep breath, Luo Chen suppressed his expectant mood and took out the "Qi Refining Insights" authored by Mi Shuhua to read.

He was waiting for the cultivators in the Elixir Hall to disperse one by one.

Perhaps because of the furnace explosion, it annoyed Luo Chen, or perhaps because someone died today, the Elixir Hall got off work earlier today.

Sikong Shoujia didn't delay at all, taking that medium-grade Jade Marrow Pill to find Mi Shuhua.

Late at night, Luo Chen quietly took away another Ziyun copper furnace from the elixir room.

Then, he went all the way down to the hidden deep underground.

"The moment of breakthrough is today!" ===== CHAPTER 102 =====