Chapter 162

The Jin Dan cultivator battle in Dahefang turned the once most prosperous inner city into a ghost city.

Thousands of cultivators were buried in it, which is truly a tragedy.

But for the remaining loose cultivators who survived, it is truly a great opportunity!

Most of those who could live in the inner city were people with deep realms and rich net worth.

Such existences, besides having a skill, often operated industries in the outer city area or the Guyuan Mountains.

They died, and these resources were vacated.

Countless people began to fight for these things.

Moreover, the most important opportunity is not here!

Spiritual energy!

As time passed, loose cultivators discovered that the spiritual energy near Dahefang was becoming more and more concentrated.

Its concentration was almost no less than renting an ordinary house in the inner city at the beginning.

This strange change made everyone pleasantly surprised.

According to a family cultivator, the elders in the clan judged that the spiritual energy isolation formation set up by the Yuding Sword Sect was destroyed, which led to the first-rank spiritual vein in Mount Luofeng leaking out unscrupulously.

Thereby creating a place of spiritual prosperity for thousands of miles.

Such a judgment has high credibility.

Because it is rumored that most sect holy lands have such a concentration of spiritual energy.

Sect experts will enclose high-grade spiritual veins to form an environment suitable for high-grade cultivators to cultivate.

But for first-rank spiritual veins, they often do not enclose them, but release them to provide spiritual energy for low-grade disciples to cultivate.

This first-rank spiritual vein in Dahefang covers a very wide area, and its spiritual energy foundation is also quite thick.

If it were in a sect, I'm afraid it would also be released.

Unfortunately, this is not a sect place, but a place where loose cultivators gather.

So, in the past, Yuding sword cultivators used formations to enclose and isolate it, trapping it in the inner city.

Now that the isolation formation was destroyed by a great battle, the concentrated spiritual energy of this spiritual vein was finally enjoyed by all the loose cultivators who had no power or influence.

Because of this change, some late-stage Qi Refining cultivators who originally intended to leave Dahefang also stayed.

Where can you find a place of spiritual prosperity that doesn't cost money?

The million mountains of the Eastern Wasteland?

No one is a fool; besides daily activities, everyone is seizing the time to cultivate.

Because everyone knows that after the sword cultivators of the Yuding Sword Sect return, they will definitely enclose the massive spiritual energy again.

By then, they will have to spend spirit stones to enjoy this kind of welfare again.

Luo Chen is also one of those seizing the time to cultivate.

He spent several days finally negotiating the herb supply business with Elder Zhou of the Lianyun Commercial Alliance.

In this way, the Luotian Association can restart the refining of Yuxui Elixir again.

After handling these trivial matters, Luo Chen's cultivation time also became regular.

Inside the cave, Luo Chen was naked, walking out of the copper furnace.

While changing spirit stones for the Spirit Gathering Formation, he sighed with emotion.

"Fortunately, I purchased a large batch of resources before, so I don't have to worry about the supply of cultivation resources in the short term."

He had two large-scale resource purchase actions before.

One was after Pang Renxiong arrived, Dahefang fell into chaos, and he was afraid that various things would rise in price, so he spent five thousand spirit stones to buy a large batch of resources.

The other time was planning to run away.

Once running from the underground mine to Changyin Mountain and falling into the deep mountains and marshes, safety and cultivation are the most important things.

So, he spent thousands of spirit stones again to buy many things such as Dust-Transforming Elixir, Calming Incense, and Essence-Cultivating Spiritual Liquid.

Later, after reaching cooperation with Miao Wen, these hoarded resources were not consumed much.

Now that sect industries like the Spirit Medicine Pavilion have left, others may have to worry about cultivation resources, but he doesn't have to worry at all.

"These resources should be enough to support my cultivation for half a year."

"In half a year, the order should be restored, and the people of the Yuding Sword Sect should also be back."

Dahefang is very important!

This is information Luo Chen collected from many people and inferred.

Whether it is the establishment of the Dao Discussion Platform, the resources of the Hundred Million Mountains, or the geographical advantage of the bridgehead.

These are all reasons why the Yuding Sword Sect values this place.

Especially after he learned from Sima Xian that Dahefang is very likely to be built as an immortal city model, he was even more certain of his inference.

The Yuding Sword Sect can never give up Dahefang!

And half a year is a number Luo Chen estimated based on the Yuding Sword Sect's reaction time to the death of Fei Bowen last time.

Whether it is the sect's decision time or the time to rush over.

Half a year is a very suitable number.

"However, these currently don't have much to do with me."

Everything is ready, and the surging blood and energy in his body are enough to support him in operating the Changchun Gong many times.

"Ming Shen Po Sha has been introduced for a long time; besides the tempering of will, it also has a weak gain for the soul."

"Plus the growth of physique, now even without Calming Incense, I can fully operate the Changchun Gong four times a day."

"If you add the five times of Calming Incense, then it is nine times!"

Nine full operations, each for half an hour, means consuming at least five hours.

In the middle, there is still a need to pause and rest.

Spending so much time every day to cultivate the life-bound cultivation method, if it were in the past, Luo Chen would only feel that time was not enough.

Because at that time, he still needed to cultivate many magic spells.

But now, most of the magic spells have been perfected.

The only ones that need attention are optimizing the Fireball Technique, as well as the Earth Mountain Technique and the Wave Technique.

The former is his current strongest trump card, and the latter two are preparing for the second-rank magic spell "Mountain Collapse".

"Calculating like this, after alchemy, the time is barely enough."

Luo Chen smiled slightly, took out a jade bottle from the storage bag, and poured out an elixir.

The color is cyan, and the smell is elegant.

It is indeed the Spirit Elixir from Miao Wen.

Seeing the elixir, he thought of Miao Wen.

Luo Chen couldn't help laughing out loud.

This one is also miserable enough!

He came forward to protect Xieyue Valley, sent him the top-grade formation Small Five Elements Formation, and helped invite Luo Tianhong to treat Qin Liangchen.

As a result, in the end, he didn't even get the dividend of the Luotian Association for a month.

If you add these five bottles of Spirit Elixir, the other party is simply losing miserably!

He lost miserably, so he made a fortune!

"However, this elixir is second-rank, and I still need to use the Su Xin Hand to decompose it."

Luo Chen gathered his mind, pinched the formula with his right hand, and strands of light cyan spiritual power emerged.

The cyan elixir in the air, stimulated, spun around.

Suddenly, the outermost layer of the elixir skin 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 material is, that it can melt the medicinal power into the fruit."

These thoughts appeared in his mind, and Luo Chen looked up and opened his mouth, inhaling gently.

That wisp of medicinal liquid, like the nectar of the gods in the sky, flowed down and fell into Luo Chen's mouth.

"One-tenth, that's about it!"

Pinching the formula again with one hand, the light cyan spiritual power threads wrapped the remaining Spirit Elixir layer by layer, so that its excess medicinal power would not volatilize in vain.

This is the wonderful use of the Su Xin Hand.

It can decompose various herbs and can also seal part of the medicinal power.

In alchemy, it has a great effect.

Never expected that it would also have an effect on the elixir of semi-finished spiritual fruit.

Separately packaging this Spirit Elixir.

Luo Chen, with the help of Calming Incense and Moonlight Grass, fell into deep cultivation.

The whole person was like a big tree, motionless.

About half an hour later, Luo Chen opened his eyes, and joy appeared on his face.

"Mi Shuhua did not deceive me!"

At the beginning, Mi Shuhua said that the Spirit Elixir refined by the Medicine King Sect had an excellent auxiliary effect for purifying spiritual power.

Its wonderful use is no less than the complete version of the sect cultivation method.

Now it seems that the other party only underestimated the effect of the Spirit Elixir.

Just that one operation of the Changchun Gong just now, he felt that the spiritual energy absorbed, after being transformed into spiritual power, was quickly purified to the extreme by the medicinal power of the Spirit Elixir.

The speed was so fast that even Luo Chen didn't expect it at all.

If it is said that in the past, the speed of purifying spiritual power for ordinary loose cultivators was one, the purification speed brought by the Great Perfection Changchun Gong was about five.

Then under the blessing of the Spirit Elixir's medicinal power, Luo Chen's purification speed actually reached ten!

Moreover, this speed is not as simple as just increasing by one time.

The purification effect of the Great Perfection Changchun Gong only occurs when the cultivation method is operated.

But operating the Changchun Gong once is only half an hour.

It also involves capturing external spiritual energy, leading it into the body, absorbing and refining, and finally purifying.

That is to say, the time left for Luo Chen to purify is only seven or eight minutes.

In this little time, it is too late to purify all the captured spiritual energy.

It can only leave the excess in the body, passively compressed and transformed.

After multiple cultivations, a lot of unpurified spiritual power will accumulate in the body, and only after reaching the limit will the Changchun Gong take care of these.

But now, the speed has doubled.

That is to say, in the limited time, more spiritual power can be purified.

"Just in that short time, the spiritual energy I absorbed was all transformed, and there was still room to spare!"

"And this is just normal cultivation."

"If I swallow the elixir and refine it with the Changchun Gong, wouldn't I be able to purify more?"

Thinking and doing.

Resting slightly for a while, Luo Chen took out a Dust-Transforming Elixir and swallowed it into his abdomen.

With the help of the remaining medicinal power of the Spirit Elixir, Luo Chen began to cultivate again.

The sky broke dawn, and the morning mist dissipated.

Luo Chen flew out of the spiritual vein cave with a face full of joy.

His cultivation speed, under the blessing of the Spirit Elixir, almost doubled!

If he had enough Spirit Elixir, the five or six years he estimated before to reach the Great Perfection of Qi Refining could be shortened again.

The premise is enough!

Luo Chen's joy gradually subsided.

Spirit Elixir is not like ordinary elixir, it is not so easy to obtain.

Even when the Spirit Medicine Pavilion was there, there was no such thing on the shelf.

Only at auctions would some occasionally leak out.

"The Spirit Elixir on hand, a total of four bottles, forty pills, one-tenth at a time. That is to say, it is barely enough for me to cultivate for about four hundred days."

"I still lack a lot, a lot of Spirit Elixir!"

"So where is it?"

Wang Yuan has a bottle on hand, which he gave away, so naturally, he is embarrassed to ask for it back.

Moreover, he is not short of Spirit Elixir in the short term.

In the long run, he is not short of that one or two bottles either.

Therefore, he needs to find a relatively stable channel to buy.

"Stable?"

"When the order of Dahefang was still there, there was no stable Spirit Elixir to speak of."

"Therefore, it must fall on the channels that have this thing."

Luo Chen's eyes flickered, and he had some plans in his heart.

Since he has decided to fight and no longer go with the flow, some things must be considered in the long run.

Not just Spirit Elixir, but other things too.

In the Luotian Association.

A conversation was slowly proceeding with the tapping of the abacus.

"Currently in the association, there are very few early-stage Qi Refining cultivators, and the monthly expenditure is only eighty low-grade spirit stones."

"In the Elixir Hall, there are thirty middle-stage Qi Refining cultivators, and according to their respective positions and contributions, the salary standard fluctuates around fifty spirit stones. The monthly salary expenditure is one thousand five."

"On the Battle Hall side, it is mainly late-stage Qi Refining cultivators, supplemented by a small number of middle-stage elites. Their salary standard is also set by you, Luo Chen, personally, one hundred per month. So, the expenditure is three thousand low-grade spirit stones."

"The Gold Hall and the Merit Hall have fewer people and slightly lower realms, with an expenditure of one thousand spirit stones last month."

Hearing this, Luo Chen's brows moved.

He raised his hand, and Murong Qinglian stopped manipulating the abacus.

In fact, with the intelligence of cultivators, there is no need for an abacus at all.

But involving many income and expenditure items, it still needs to be combined with account books and an abacus to be clear and easy to understand.

"The treatment of the Gold Hall side should be improved in the future."

"Hmm?"

Murong Qinglian was surprised, but since it was Luo Chen's decision, she would no longer express doubt.

In fact, she did not quite agree with the salary standard Luo Chen set for the cultivators in the association before.

It wasn't too low, but too high!

Late-stage cultivators were almost all paid one hundred spirit stones a month.

You know, in the past, large sect shops were only sixty or seventy spirit stones a month.

Considering that the Battle Hall involves life and death, it doesn't matter if it's a little higher, but one hundred spirit stones a month is still too high.

But during this period, after the phenomenon appeared that talents from some small forces were dug away by major families and the Dajiang Gang, while few people left the Luotian Association.

She deeply realized how wise the high salary Luo Chen gave was.

Without high salaries, the Luotian Association, even without external enemies, would gradually fall apart.

Where would there be such good days of two people sitting steadily, drinking tea and calculating accounts.

Reality is very skinny!

Early and middle-stage cultivators have no choice, but late-stage cultivators have a lot of room for choice.

Those old people from the Poshan Gang, unlike Murong Qinglian and Zeng Wen, have deep friendships with Luo Chen besides interest connections.

Just like that Li Wanchun from the Wanbao Building, there are many people who want to recruit him.

"You continue!"

Luo Chen poured a cup of tea, blew the heat, and sipped it into his mouth.

"Hmm!"

Currently in the Luotian Association, besides Luo Chen and Wang Yuan, there are nine ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators.

Among these nine, basically all hold important positions in various halls.

Therefore, their salaries once reached three hundred spirit stones a month, which is another huge expenditure.

"In addition, my and Caiyi's salaries are five hundred spirit stones a month."

"Finally, there are raw material costs, which also have to be spent two thousand five every month."

After a series of calculations, Murong Qinglian finally let out a long sigh of relief.

Calculated the final number for Luo Chen.

"A total of eleven thousand seven hundred spirit stones were spent last month."

This huge number, if taken out, is enough to make any loose cultivator feel moved, red-eyed, and even have murderous intent.

But Luo Chen can already face it calmly.

He asked, "How many spirit stones are currently on the books of the association?"

"Twenty-six thousand spirit stones!"

Luo Chen raised his eyebrows, "How can there be so many?"

In his calculation, there shouldn't be so many, at least it should be halved.

Murong Qinglian stroked the hair hanging down and smiled, "You forgot, there is a batch of middle-grade Yuxui Elixir that you refined when you were still in the Poshan Gang. That batch, we don't need to bear any cost, it's pure profit!"

"Hehe, I forgot about this matter."

Luo Chen remembered that during the Xieyue Valley battle, he specifically put that batch of Yuxui Elixir away.

Carefully calculating, that batch of elixirs is worth at least fifteen thousand!

If you deduct this fifteen thousand that was whored for free, the Luotian Association can currently operate normally for a month, and after deducting all expenditures, it can still have a surplus of about eleven thousand spirit stones.

"How do you plan to give the salary of Hall Master Wang Yuan?"

Facing this question, Luo Chen had a plan in his heart early on.

He said without hesitation, "Three thousand!"

"So high?" Murong Qinglian revealed a look of shock, and her throat felt dry. "This is almost the same as the Foundation Establishment period offering of a small sect, right?"

"He is worth this treatment!"

The decisive tone made Murong Qinglian startled.

She remembered what Old Qin said, the matter of Wang Yuan breaking the formation alone in the battle to destroy the Fu family.

Finally, she nodded.

"Then let's follow the Foundation Establishment period offering standard of three thousand!"

Lowering her head, she recorded this sum in the account book.

Luo Chen watched this scene and couldn't help but feel excited; everything is moving in a good direction.

Operating the Luotian Association, after a month, he, the president, can net eight thousand low-grade spirit stones a month.

This benefit is really too big!

If said out, it is enough to make all Qi Refining loose cultivators, and even Foundation Establishment cultivators, jealous.

But in fact, this is a very normal income.

All are middle-grade Yuxui Elixir, sold for fifty spirit stones a bottle, and the monthly gross profit is more than twenty thousand.

He doesn't have to share with others now.

If it were according to the cooperation conditions he reached with Miao Wen at the beginning, sharing half, he would still have to take out four thousand.

Although four thousand low-grade spirit stones a month is already two or three times more than the Poshan Gang period.

But it is still too little, not worthy of his identity as an alchemist.

Eight thousand, not much, not little, very reasonable!

Luo Chen did not take away all the spirit stones on the books.

He left fifteen thousand spirit stones as the Luotian Association's working capital and only took away this month's normal eight thousand income.

After receiving this batch of spirit stones from Murong Qinglian, Luo Chen couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

He originally accumulated a considerable net worth, had the contribution of Gao Tingyuan's storage bag, and added this sum of spirit stones.

His net worth has soared to twenty thousand.

This sum of spirit stones, if in the hands of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, could even be considered to get a magic treasure.

No, perhaps some cultivators who just entered Foundation Establishment, exhausted all their family wealth, still don't have this deposit.

Luo Chen knows how difficult loose cultivators are.

The reason why Mi Shuhua spent so much effort on him after having the Poshan Gang, isn't it for the long-term future?

It's just that he progressed too fast, and Mi Shuhua happened to be seriously injured, so he wanted to harvest early.

Unfortunately, Mi Shuhua didn't wait for this kind of big profit.

Things in the world are not as people wish, and it is not just aimed at Luo Chen alone.

Among all living beings, how many can be satisfied and smooth sailing?

As strong as Pang Renxiong, all...

"Calculating, Mi Shuhua, Miao Wen, Pang Renxiong, the endings are all quite miserable."

"I won't be a master-killer, will I?"

"No, I shouldn't have a master!"

Luo Chen sneered and got up and left.

Murong Qinglian, who stayed in the room, was confused. Why did Luo Chen sneer for no reason?

"Why did you pull me out?"

"Isn't this short of bodyguards!"

"What about Zhou and Liu?"

"Zhou Yuanli has accumulated enough recently, and the spiritual energy of Dahefang has become abundant again, so he intends to go into seclusion to sprint to the ninth level of Qi Refining."

Luo Chen stopped and spread his hands, "And, their strength is indeed a bit low."

"They are okay, dealing with ordinary ninth-level Qi Refining is not a problem when they join forces." Wang Yuan also stopped suspiciously.

"But for the place I am going to next, their 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.

A moment later, a face that was somewhat similar appeared in front of him.

Do you still have to disguise?

Wang Yuan was helpless, his body shook, and a burst of bone-joint trembling sounds erupted all over his body.

The whole person was a few inches shorter, standing shoulder to shoulder with Luo Chen, about the same height.

Wiping his face with one hand, he also disguised himself.

After being fully prepared, Luo Chen took Wang Yuan into a familiar alley.

While walking, he asked via sound transmission, "How far has your research on means against ghosts progressed?"

"Not perfect enough yet."

"For someone like me with strong blood and energy, low-grade ghosts dare not get close, but in the eyes of powerful ghosts, it will become a sweet pastry."

"That is to say, the matter of exploring the inner city has to be put aside?"

"Are you in a hurry?"

Luo Chen shook his head, "I'm not in a hurry, but other forces are already organizing people, preparing to enter the inner city."

"Then let them take the lead!"

Wang Yuan's footsteps stopped.

Looking at the familiar entrance, he hesitated, "Zhenlong Black Market?"

Luo Chen nodded, "Times have changed; now the Zhenlong Black Market, you and I must be careful."

After speaking, he lifted the curtain and walked in.

Wang Yuan didn't hesitate and followed in.

Correcting the code, showing the embroidery ball magic tool, the two stepped into the underground luxury hall that was a hundred feet wide again.

As soon as he stepped in, Wang Yuan tensed up.

He finally understood why Luo Chen said times have changed.

Just because at this moment in the black market, there were already several people exuding Foundation Establishment aura.