Chapter 107: I am not yet strong, but when I am, there will be changes

Luo Chen's confidence comes from the Yin Sixiang Cauldron.

But it is not just the Yin Sixiang Cauldron!

On the attribute panel, the proficiency of the Jade Marrow Pill has unknowingly reached the perfect level!

Carefully calculating, this progress is actually not fast.

From the beginning of refining Jade Marrow Pills until now, several months have passed.

Whether it is manpower or alchemy materials, the Broken Mountain Gang is supplying them with all its strength.

If it weren't for considering hiding his true alchemy level, the proficiency of the Jade Marrow Pill might have already been brushed to the master level.

At the perfect level of proficiency, the stable success rate is forty percent, and all the elixirs produced are mid-grade.

Under Luo Chen's deliberate control, he could also reveal a mid-grade success rate of fifty percent.

He could just happen to embezzle the extra mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills to satisfy his daily magic power consumption.

At noon, Mi Mi Junping naturally came to the Alchemy Hall in person.

She stared fixedly at Luo Chen, attempting to find a little bit of facial features similar to her or Mi Hearing Mi Shuhua on the other party.

In the end, she gave up the idea that Luo Chen was Mi Hearing Mi Shuhua's illegitimate child.

However, the treatment of four bottles of Dust-Transforming Pills and one box of Soul-Calming Incense every month really made her heart ache!

She, the biological daughter of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, didn't have such treatment.

Luo Chen didn't care about her dark thoughts, and after resting, he turned on the alchemy mode again in the afternoon.

He still needed to get familiar with the Yin Sixiang Cauldron, so he didn't let anyone else help today.

The success rate in the afternoon was not high, that furnace of four batches of raw materials only produced twenty Jade Marrow Pills, and the rest were all waste beads.

Luo Chen secretly put away ten, and let the elixir-nourishing master put away the rest.

If Mi Hearing Mi Shuhua knew about Luo Chen's embezzlement, I'm afraid he would raise the Heavenly Moon Purple-Gold Wheel and give him a ruthless strike.

Late at night, a figure followed the mine tunnel down to the depths of the ground.

Clang!

The low-grade alchemy furnace, the Purple Cloud Copper Furnace, landed in the spiritual vein cave, and Luo Chen took out some high-quality firewood he had stolen from the Alchemy Hall one after another.

Light the fire, boil the Pei Yuan Spirit Liquid.

Looking at the raging fire, Luo Chen subconsciously touched his chest.

A full month has passed since he broke through to the seventh layer of Qi Refining.

His meridian injuries, with the help of that bottle of Pulse-Moistening Liquid, have all healed.

Not only that, perhaps it was a blessing in disguise; he noticed that his meridians were tougher and wider than before.

Even if he had to withstand that kind of massive spiritual power torrent during the breakthrough again, he felt he would have no pressure at all.

This is a good thing!

The tougher the meridians, the more elixirs he can refine in normal times.

Even if he can't absorb them, he can temporarily store them in the wider meridians than before.

It is precisely because of this that he would embezzle mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills in large quantities.

"Perhaps I shouldn't embezzle too many mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills?"

Luo Chen thought of drug resistance.

"Eat fewer low-grade and mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills, endure for a few more days, and then secretly refine top-grade Jade Marrow Pills to cultivate myself. That might be better?"

Thinking about these things, the Pei Yuan Spirit Liquid had unknowingly been boiled.

Untie his clothes, step into it with bare feet.

Another iron pot stewing himself!

Enter, medicinal bath.

After absorbing enough medicinal power and feeling that his blood and energy were extremely vigorous, Luo Chen took out an incense burner.

"This was a birthday gift from that kid Tang Quan, right!"

"He's quite sensible, perhaps I can consider letting him take over part of the refining of the Myriad Wonder Pills later?"

With a slight smile, he lit a stick of Soul-Calming Incense.

Facing the hot temperature, Luo Chen swallowed a Dust-Transforming Pill and operated the Changchun Gong, his mind converging like a cold, deep pool.

Under such focused cultivation, the night passed in the blink of an eye.

Opening his eyes, Luo Chen fell into deep thought.

At the sixth layer of Qi Refining, two Qi-Nurturing Pills a day, plus a portion of Pei Yuan Spirit Liquid, a few low-grade Jade Marrow Pills, and finally seven operations of the Changchun Gong under the blessing of Soul-Calming Incense.

In this spiritual vein cave, one cultivation session could increase the progress bar by two.

Now, he is at the seventh layer of Qi Refining!

Qi-Nurturing Pills were replaced by Dust-Transforming Pills with double the effect, and the quantity was still two.

One portion of Pei Yuan Spirit Liquid, low-grade Jade Marrow Pills were replaced by mid-grade ones, and the Changchun Gong was still operated seven times.

It can be said that Luo Chen has tried his best to improve his cultivation resource configuration.

However, one night passed.

His progress bar only barely jumped from 【1/100】 to 【2/100】.

"Resources are almost doubled, but the efficiency has actually decreased by half."

"Is this the longer time required for cultivation as the realm gets higher?"

Luo Chen sighed, but without any frustration.

In fact, he had long expected this, and even the possibility that the eighth and ninth layers of Qi Refining would be increasingly difficult, he had already thought about.

It's a simple truth: if cultivation in the late stage of Qi Refining were not difficult, the ten thousand rogue cultivators in Dahe Market back then wouldn't have only had a few hundred people.

And among those few hundred people, most were trapped at the seventh layer of Qi Refining.

In normal times, although one can see Elder Sikong Elder Sikong Shoujia, Qin Qin Liangchen, and these ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivators just by looking up.

But they actually can't be considered ordinary rogue cultivators anymore.

Each of them has a title, a position, and even an industry in the Broken Mountain Gang.

On the contrary, those cultivators in the Medicine Hall and those internal affairs cultivators in the Alchemy Hall are the representatives who can reflect the average cultivation level of Dahe Market.

Leaving the spiritual vein cave, Luo Chen covered the traces with stones as usual.

Coming to the center of the mine tunnel, when he was about to go up, Luo Chen suddenly thought of a problem.

"What if something happens and I get blocked down here?"

Looking around, Luo Chen remembered that the only few mine tunnel exits all led to the center of Xieyue Valley.

If something happened to the Alchemy Hall, then Xieyue Valley definitely couldn't be stayed in either.

His gaze fell on three mine tunnels; those were the three paths with the furthest distance Luo Chen explored initially.

"Perhaps I should find a time to open up one or two mine tunnels and plan a new exit."

With this thought, Luo Chen returned to the stone house.

Remove the formation, replace the discarded spirit stones, and Luo Chen strolled into Xieyue Valley.

Perhaps knowing that the outer city area would be very chaotic during this period, many cultivators didn't go home and stayed directly in the stone houses built on the Xieyue Valley cliff at night.

Early in the morning, many people were already up and busy.

Rustle...

"This snow is really thick!"

Luo Chen didn't cast the Wind-Riding Technique, just stepped on the thick snow layer and took a walk in Xieyue Valley.

After hard cultivation, appropriate relaxation is necessary.

Breathing some fresh air, the mood will also be more pleasant.

Walking and walking, Luo Chen lay on the railing, staring deeply downwards, as if thinking about some key to the Great Dao.

"Little Luo, what are you thinking about?"

A clear spring-like sound came from behind, and Luo Chen said without looking back: "Nothing much, Sister-in-law, you're here so early?"

"Didn't go back yesterday, the Medicine Hall still needs someone to keep an eye on it."

Murong Murong Qinglian walked to the side and stretched.

Her plump figure made Luo Chen subconsciously take a glance.

"Oh, so you were peeping at the female cultivators in our Medicine Hall!"

From this angle, Murong Murong Qinglian discovered that Luo Chen was clearly not thinking about problems just now; his pair of thief eyes were obviously looking at the female cultivators working below.

Cough cough!

Luo Chen straightened his face, "That's not it, I'm just more interested in the spells of spirit planters recently."

"Hehe, really?" Murong Murong Qinglian couldn't stand his fake serious look and laughed until she trembled, "Then do you want me to collect a few spirit planting techniques for you?"

"That's not impossible!" Luo Chen said seriously.

Not to mention, many of the spells he is learning now have had their proficiency brushed to the perfect level and master level.

Adding a few more spirit planting techniques, they can be used to continue brushing achievement points.

Moreover, alchemists cultivating spirit plants is a common routine in career planning.

Which alchemist doesn't have their own small medicine garden?

Murong Murong Qinglian tapped his head and scolded with a smile: "You really pretend well!"

Thinking for a while, Murong Murong Qinglian said seriously: "The female cultivators in the Medicine Hall, I know them well. Their cultivation realms might not be high, but most of them have clean backgrounds and are pure in character. They would rather earn hard money here than go to filthy places like the Long Tianxiang Tower or the Spring Tide Pavilion to earn spirit stones."

"Sister-in-law, what are you trying to say?" Luo Chen was a bit confused.

"You're not young anymore, and your spiritual root aptitude isn't good either. While you're young and strong, why not start a family!"

Once the words were spoken, Murong Murong Qinglian clearly took it to heart.

She counted on her fingers and said: "Looking at it from a short-term perspective, you are so busy every day that you can't go home; having a Dao companion can help you do many things, and at the very least, she can warm your bed in the cold winter."

"Looking at it from a long-term perspective? That's even more important!"

"Find a Dao companion, give birth to a child with spiritual roots, cultivate him for ten or twenty years, and send him to the sect. If you're lucky, he'll establish a foundation in twenty or thirty years, and you'll still have lifespan left for him to come back and repay you."

Luo Chen finally understood.

This is someone coming to urge him to marry. Perhaps Murong Murong Qinglian even wants to be a matchmaker.

He smiled and said: "You don't say, listening to you, it really is like that."

"Right!" Murong Murong Qinglian smiled like a flower, "Tell me, what kind do you like, I'll help you consult."

"Then I like those who smile with curved eyebrows, and the figure shouldn't be too slim, it must be plump, with some meat."

Murong Murong Qinglian nodded slightly; this is liking the plump type!

"When speaking and doing things, one must be atmospheric, not too petty."

This requirement is also very normal; Little Luo is now the Alchemy Hall Master, and the people he contacts are either rich or noble, so being too petty indeed won't do.

"And she must be good to me, know how to make soup, know how to cook, and usually give me some suggestions so that I don't go astray."

Murong Murong Qinglian didn't have time to analyze if there were any female cultivators in the Medicine Hall who met the conditions before she heard the last sentence.

"The cultivation realm can't be bad, at least the ninth layer of Qi Refining, just like Sister-in-law!"

Murong Murong Qinglian was stunned, then covered her mouth and laughed: "You little guy, you're really bold, aren't you afraid your Brother Qin will beat you up."

"Hmph, beat me up?" Luo Chen held his head high and chest out, "I am not yet strong, but when I am, there will be changes!"

"Change your grandfather!"

A sharp shout came, followed by snow falling from the sky.

Luo Chen's face changed drastically, and he fled in a panic.

Behind him were Murong Murong Qinglian, who was laughing uncontrollably, and Qin Qin Liangchen, who was furious.

After a fierce snowball fight, the farce ended with Luo Chen taking the initiative to admit defeat and apologize.

Qin Qin Liangchen didn't take it to heart either; he was very familiar with Luo Chen and knew the other party was just joking.

However, after this incident, Murong Murong Qinglian indeed didn't mention finding a Dao companion for Luo Chen again.

Clearly, she also understood that Luo Chen was using joking words to politely and firmly refuse starting a family.

"Little Luo, he is ultimately heart-set on the Great Dao!"

This is what Murong Murong Qinglian said to Qin Qin Liangchen in private.

In fact, it is indeed so.

For the next period of time, Luo Chen almost put all his time into cultivation, except for alchemy.

Even if the progress is relatively slow, it depends on who you compare it with!

If compared to those rogue cultivators who are short of cultivation resources, Luo Chen's cultivation speed is definitely as fast as a Core Formation sword cultivator flying in a rainbow!

After all, counting it all up, one progress point a day, he could break through to the eighth layer of Qi Refining in three or four months.

Even a peerless genius of a sect is nothing more than this.

And in alchemy, after Luo Chen got familiar with the Yin Sixiang Cauldron, he also gradually started letting others help.

In this way, the stall was completely laid out.

The Yin Sixiang Cauldron can refine four batches of raw materials at once.

The Yu Xuan Yun Cauldron can put in two batches of raw materials at once.

The Purple Cloud Copper Furnace, one batch!

In one morning, seven batches of Jade Marrow Pills can be refined at the same time, and if the afternoon time is added, that is fourteen batches a day!

Combined with a success rate of forty percent, at least one hundred Jade Marrow Pills can be produced a day.

As for why it's not more than one hundred?

The extra ones were naturally quietly embezzled by Luo Chen.

Even though Luo Chen deliberately controlled the success rate of mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills, five days later, his proficiency still climbed to the master level.

At the master level of proficiency, not only is the success rate as high as fifty percent, but he can even refine top-grade Jade Marrow Pills, and the medicinal power is not inferior to normal low-grade Qi-Nurturing Pills!

Of course, Luo Chen has been controlling the birth of top-grade Jade Marrow Pills.

Under his strenuous control, every top-grade Jade Marrow Pill produced would directly enter his storage bag when the elixirs were collected.

The benefits of the master level of proficiency don't stop there!

After harvesting a large amount of extra experience, Luo Chen became more proficient in controlling the quality of elixirs, reaching the level of the Myriad Wonder Pills back then.

Not only that, by passing on some low-end techniques to the medicine apprentices and fire workers, he could also relax a lot and not be so tired.

One month later!

In the Alchemy Hall, in the Elixir Nourishing Room.

Elder Sikong Elder Sikong Shoujia and Gu Gu Caiyi were nervously counting the number of Jade Marrow Pills.

Every batch of Jade Marrow Pills, after being refined, has a dedicated elixir-nourishing master to collect them into the Elixir Nourishing Room, bottle them according to grade and time of production, and store them in categories.

Therefore, counting them was very easy.

After just a minute or two, Elder Sikong Elder Sikong Shoujia's excited voice came.

"Two hundred and eighty bottles of low-grade Jade Marrow Pills!"

"One hundred and twenty bottles of mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills!"

What does this mean?

Low-grade Jade Marrow Pills, the Broken Mountain Gang prices them at ten spirit stones a bottle.

Mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills, the Broken Mountain Gang prices them at fifty spirit stones a bottle, and they can be sold individually.

As long as one has a brain, one can calculate how many spirit stones this batch of elixirs in the Elixir Nourishing Room can sell for.

Eight thousand eight hundred spirit stones!

After getting this number, Elder Sikong Elder Sikong Shoujia looked at Luo Chen, who was leaning against the wall behind, and his eyes changed.

Gu Gu Caiyi swallowed a mouthful of saliva; once again, Luo Chen refreshed her values.

Are alchemists really that good at earning spirit stones?

Mi Hearing Mi Shuhua didn't talk nonsense either, a magic power shrouded Luo Chen, and he flew towards the southwest at lightning speed.

"Let the Elixir Escort Team come to escort the elixirs to the shop!"

Luo Chen curled his lips and turned to leave, as if he wasn't interested at all in that huge profit.

After he left, Elder Sikong Elder Sikong Shoujia and Gu Gu Caiyi looked at each other.

Since when was Luo Chen so unmoved by spirit stones?

Is Luo Chen unmoved?

That's naturally impossible; after this batch of elixirs is sold, he has a twenty percent dividend.

What made him so uninterested was that he was very regretful.

Regretful that if he didn't have so many restrictions and had a more powerful background, he could refine elixirs unscrupulously.

Then what was placed in the Elixir Nourishing Room today wouldn't just be four hundred bottles of low-grade and mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills.

He could have refined most of them into top-grade Jade Marrow Pills!

And top-grade Jade Marrow Pills, although Mi Hearing Mi Shuhua didn't announce the price, they are definitely very close to the price of the Spirit Medicine Pavilion's Qi-Nurturing Pills.

What does that represent?

It represents tens of thousands of spirit stones!

"Unfortunately, I must hide my clumsiness, otherwise a Mi Hearing Mi Shuhua can't protect me."

After the regret, Luo Chen was still a bit excited in his heart.

Although he can't refine top-grade Jade Marrow Pills to sell, he can secretly keep some top-grade ones for his own use!

Top-grade Jade Marrow Pills have medicinal power equivalent to low-grade Qi-Nurturing Pills.

He can't take Qi-Nurturing Pills anymore because of drug resistance.

But Jade Marrow Pills have no drug resistance!

Moreover, through the past half month of taking them, Luo Chen has discovered that Jade Marrow Pills that reach the top-grade level don't have the sequelae of dantian jade-ification!

This means he can unscrupulously take medicine to cultivate again.

The eighth layer of Qi Refining is just around the corner!

Before getting off work, Luo Chen gathered all the internal affairs cultivators.

Facing dozens of eyes, Luo Chen wasn't panicked at all.

With his hands behind his back, he paced back and forth in front of them leisurely.

"I believe everyone has heard a little bit about the alchemy results this month."

"This is not just my credit alone, but also everyone's hard work."

"I dare not say anything else, but as long as everyone cooperates with me in refining elixirs, after the Alchemy Hall's profits increase, I will definitely apply to the Gang Leader to improve everyone's treatment!"

"Alright, that's all I have to say, off work!"

After speaking, he waved his hand and slipped away, not taking a single cloud with him.

And behind him came enthusiastic cheers.

Among them, the voice of the old cultivator Qu Hancheng was the loudest, leading a group of fire workers, shouting things like "Long live the Hall Master."

Others were also infected and participated, singing praises to Luo Chen.

As for a group of cultivators, is it normal to have this reaction?

Actually, it's very normal!

Because whether working in a sect shop or in a gang, the salaries of most internal affairs cultivators are fixed.

To improve treatment, one must either have outstanding skills or participate in dangerous combat-type missions.

Like these old, weak, sick, and disabled people in the Alchemy Hall, perhaps they won't even get a treatment improvement once before they die of old age.

But Luo Chen is an atmospheric person; not only is he kind to people in normal times, but he also often seeks benefits for everyone.

He had already given some small favors to several cultivators before.

This time, he even promised to improve everyone's treatment.

Although the improvement range is not large, it's only one or two spirit stones a month, and a few catties of spirit rice.

But when accumulated, it is quite considerable.

Mixing with such a Hall Master, the days ahead will definitely get sweeter and sweeter!

Luo Chen doesn't care about these thoughts; anyway, improving treatment isn't him paying spirit stones, it's the Broken Mountain Gang's money!

On the contrary, letting these old cultivators and female cultivators have better treatment will make them work harder when refining elixirs.

That way, he can also relax a lot.

Today he can't continue to cultivate in the Alchemy Hall; staying too long easily arouses suspicion.

After all, the inner city is the place for cultivation.

And he has things to do when he returns to the city; the Soul-Calming Incense is not enough, he has to buy new ones.

The accounts on Yuan Xiaoyue's side also need to be settled every month, and he still has to provide goods for the next month.

Flying in the sky by casting the Wind-Riding Technique, Luo Chen chatted and laughed with the two bodyguards.

"I heard that five days ago, cultivators fought in the outer city and burned a large area of houses?"

"Yes, no one died, but the houses were burned, so the matter became serious."

Liu Liu Qiang is very gossipy and likes to tell Luo Chen these things in normal times.

In his words, killing people is not a big deal, but setting fire to burn houses touches the bottom line of the Sword Pavilion's sword cultivators.

He gloated and said: "The inner city Law Enforcement Team was brought in, and after searching for a day, the two culprits were caught. The end was miserable; first, they had to compensate for the losses, and then they had to rebuild the houses. Not only that, they had to stay in the Red Pillar for half a month."

"Finally, they had to go to the Discussion Platform once, and the two of them had to fight in front of everyone, the winner gets out of jail, and the loser stays for another half month!"

Luo Chen found it interesting, and when he heard the end, he clapped his hands and cheered.

This kind of criminal who kills and sets fires should be caught and severely reformed through labor!

In addition to the reform, going on stage to fight is entertaining the public and contributing to society!

"And that so-called Profound One Society? Didn't they say they had a conflict with Luo Luo Wudi's people again?"

Liu Liu Qiang curled his lips, "Small matter, just encountered a first-grade demon beast in the mountains, and they insisted on fighting Luo Luo Wudi for it."

"Later, how was it resolved?"

"Both sides sent three people to have a fight. The Profound One Society won two matches and obtained the hunting power. After they killed the demon beast, Luo Luo Wudi made a move himself..."

Luo Chen's eyes shone, "Killed them?"

"No, he bought the demon beast corpse, and after turning it over to the Medicine Hall and Beast Hall for processing, he sold it for a high price."

"Tch!"

Everyone says Luo Luo Wudi, this tiger descending the mountain, is how brave and fierce.

After all that, he is also someone who plays with his brain.

Luo Chen curled his lips, and suddenly his brows furrowed, his gaze falling into the slightly deep forest below.

Liu Liu Qiang and Zhou Zhou Yuanli were stunned, and then their faces changed drastically.

The two didn't hesitate at all and struck together.

A huge light shield spread wildly.

A pitch-black light suddenly broke through the air.

In the small forest, a black-robed cultivator stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky.

"Actually has a top-grade defensive magic tool, it's a bit troublesome." ===== CHAPTER 108 =====