Chapter 167: Completing the Nether-Passing Elixir, Qi Refining, Body Strengthening, Soul Fortifying—three-pronged approach!

After returning to the Luo Tian Association, Luo Chen entered the rhythm of focusing on alchemy and cultivation once again.

During this period, Wang Yuan came to find him once.

It wasn't because of that "Heavenly Roc Transformation" technique, but because the small means Wang Yuan had previously researched to deal with yin spirits and ghosts had made a breakthrough.

But Luo Chen already had the top-grade magic tool, the Green Fire Lantern, so that small means was of no great use to him anymore.

"Then should we send people into the city to explore?"

Qin Liangchen asked with great interest.

Now Qin Liangchen was affiliated with the Alchemy Hall as a nominal elder.

He usually helped manage miscellaneous affairs, but there were no mandatory requirements.

His role was mainly reflected in combat.

Last time they attacked the Fu family, he took action.

He fought the Fu family's third elder, Fu Jue, single-handedly and easily beheaded him.

It had to be said that Luo Tianhong's 'Golden Silkworm Continuous Technique' indeed had extraordinary effects.

After reattaching his new hand, Qin Liangchen adapted very quickly.

Faster than the time it took him to adapt last time.

Perhaps he had experience!

Glancing at the high-spirited Qin Liangchen, Luo Chen didn't give an answer directly but asked about the exploration results of other factions.

"The exploration progress of each family is different. Currently, the Nangong family's progress is the fastest; not only did they recover the remains of their own shop's cultivators, but they also had a bountiful harvest."

"The Da Jiang Gang's progress is the slowest; the leader is Li Da, who is at the ninth layer of Qi Refining."

Hearing the name Li Da, a flash of light appeared in Luo Chen's eyes.

He remembered that back then, in order to stall him, Gao Tingyuan had told him about the past of exploring the Soul-Refining Cave Mansion.

It was he and Li Da who went in together.

This person's strength was not low; on the Dao Discussion Platform, it was also he who took action on behalf of the Da Jiang Gang to win a round.

The Po Shan Gang cultivator he killed was the original master of the Mine Hall, Feng Linhu.

They were all old acquaintances.

"Li Da is leading the exploration?"

"Apart from the Fengdu Dharma Robes and Green Fire Lanterns bestowed by Gao Tingyuan, I imagine he must have other reliance."

"It seems that back then in the Soul-Refining Cave Mansion, he also had a bountiful harvest!"

The Soul-Refining Scatterer, Gu Yue, was, after all, a Foundation Establishment true cultivator.

The legacy left behind might not compare to a sect Foundation Establishment cultivator.

But for two Qi Refining ninth-layer cultivators, it was undoubtedly very valuable.

After listening for a while to the news about each family exploring the Dahe Ghost City, Luo Chen shook his head slowly.

"Let's not get involved in this muddy water."

"Fine!"

Qin Liangchen was dispirited; he was just bored recently and wanted to go back to see his former home in the inner city.

There weren't many resources left inside, but there were some small trinkets with commemorative significance that he wanted to get back.

Seeing him like this, Luo Chen couldn't help but laugh, "So bored, Brother Qin, how is your cultivation recently?"

Mentioning this, Qin Liangchen's smile became a bit forced.

Luo Chen frowned, "What's wrong? Are you short of elixirs, or have you encountered a bottleneck?"

Qin Liangchen shook his head.

"I was only a few years of grinding work away from the Qi Refining Great Perfection back then."

"Bottlenecks or anything like that don't exist."

"I don't lack elixirs either; after all, there are many high-priced 'Dust-Transforming Elixirs' transported from other places in the major black markets."

Luo Chen was confused, "Then what's wrong?"

Qin Liangchen sighed and touched his right arm with his left hand.

"The newly attached arm is constructed mainly with green-gold silkworm silk, supplemented by my own bone and flesh."

"But in the end, it's not my original arm!"

"Nowadays, my cultivation efficiency is far worse than before. The original few years of grinding work will have to be dragged out for at least ten or twenty years."

According to his memory, Qin Liangchen should be fifty now.

Ten or twenty years later, he would have long passed the age of sixty.

By then, even with the help of a Foundation Establishment Pill, the probability of Foundation Establishment would likely drop by a large margin.

Not to mention that he himself only had three-spirit-root aptitude.

Luo Chen couldn't help but understand; it was no wonder Qin Liangchen was so dispirited.

With the path of cultivation covered in dust, if it were him, he feared he would be like this too.

The new arm was constructed mainly with the silk of the green-gold silkworm; even if it simulated Qin Liangchen's meridians and acupoints through flesh and blood, it was ultimately not the original one.

During daily cultivation, if the time was a bit long, it would produce a stinging pain.

Long-term cultivation would even destroy the arm.

It was no wonder Qin Liangchen's cultivation speed had dropped significantly.

Luo Chen couldn't help but comfort the other party.

Fortunately, Qin Liangchen was also an open-minded person and didn't let this kind of emotion continue.

"Let's see; the road is walked step by step, and there will be a way when the car reaches the mountain!"

He laughed heartily and skipped over the matter.

Luo Chen sighed in his heart, still wearing a smile on his face, and handed a task to the other party to do.

"Receive a batch of medicinal ingredients?"

"Mm, sent from the Zhenlong Black Market side; it should be here in these two days. I'll have to trouble you, Brother Qin, to make a trip for me."

While speaking, Luo Chen handed over a set of top-grade magic tools.

This was one of the spoils of war from the Battle of Xieyue Valley, which had concealment functions.

Although the effect couldn't compare to the Great Perfection 'Qi-Restraining Spirit Technique', it was also quite mysterious.

Qin Liangchen took it and accepted the task.

After he left, Luo Chen shook his head.

He had already done enough, but when it involved cultivation, he was powerless.

Some things still had to be relied on by oneself.

Taking out a beast skin, Luo Chen calmed his heart and began to study it.

"Emperor Flowing Pulp, according to the neutralization of medicinal properties and the effect of medicinal power, it is indeed a spiritual medicine of great benefit to demon beasts."

"But three of the auxiliary materials are only absorbable by humans."

"In other words, this medicine can actually be used by humans too?"

"Having nature without life, supplementing nature returns to nature. Having nature and life, escaping the cage, becoming close to heaven and earth."

"Could it be understood that grass and wood species using Emperor Flowing Pulp can get closer to the Great Dao?"

"And non-grass and wood species can rely on this medicine to escape the cage and get close to heaven and earth?"

"What is the cage? What is heaven and earth?"

While pondering, Luo Chen had a faint guess.

But that kind of guess made him unable to be certain.

For a long time, he put away the Emperor Flowing Pulp elixir formula and took out another elixir formula.

Nether-Passing Elixir!

Main materials: Phantom Nether Grass, Demon Fox Blood.

Twenty-seven auxiliary materials.

Consuming it can increase a cultivator's divine soul foundation and enhance spiritual sense.

This was an incomplete elixir formula obtained from Mi Shuhua.

Back then, Old Man Mi, besides the "Qingyuan Elixir Explanation," also gave two elixir formulas.

The Jade Marrow Elixir was the top priority, but the Nether-Passing Elixir was just an incidental addition.

Although it was incomplete, he had obtained it for a long time.

Luo Chen had already studied it thoroughly and had successively added some auxiliary materials, barely completing it.

Open the system.

Luo Chen held the completed Nether-Passing Elixir formula, his heart stirred.

[Nether-Passing Elixir, complete Tier 1 elixir formula, can enter the door]

[Whether to enter the door]

Closing the system panel, Luo Chen put away the elixir formula with satisfaction.

This proved that his direction for completion was correct; those twenty-seven auxiliary materials could indeed fuse with the two main materials marked on the original elixir formula.

But he didn't choose to enter the door directly.

The main reason was to see if Tian Xingzi had collected the corresponding materials for him.

He could still buy some auxiliary materials from the Lianyun Merchant Alliance.

But one of the main materials, Snow Fox Blood, was not so easy to get.

This was a specialty of the Snow Lotus Market.

The Snow Fox, a Tier 1 demon beast of the Great Snow Mountain, was skilled in concealment and illusion, and was extremely intelligent and very human-like.

This thing was very difficult to capture and kill.

He feared that with the strength of the Zhenlong Black Market, it would be very difficult to get.

Facts proved that Luo Chen had greatly underestimated the Zhenlong Black Market.

That same night, Qin Liangchen brought back a storage bag.

"It's all inside!"

"The medicinal ingredients on the list, except for the Yellow Spring Yin Sha and the North Sea Jade Yao Pillar, others were all obtained in quite a few quantities. The three thousand spirit stones you gave me spent a total of one thousand seven hundred and eighty; this is the remaining one thousand two hundred and twenty—you count them."

So powerful?

They even got the Snow Fox Blood!

Luo Chen took the storage bag quite pleasantly surprised and didn't even go to count the spirit stones.

"Can I not trust you, Brother Qin?"

Qin Liangchen grinned, "The Wang-surnamed cultivator who delivered the goods said that the Yellow Spring Yin Sha belongs to Tier 2 Sha Qi, and they really couldn't find it, but the North Sea Jade Yao Pillar had a lead and is currently being contacted; it will definitely be supplied next month."

This result was within expectations.

Luo Chen had also asked Bai Meiling about it before because of the Blood Sha Elixir.

According to her, even the Medicine King Sect didn't have Yellow Spring Yin Sha.

The North Sea Jade Yao Pillar being supplied next month was undoubtedly excellent.

In this way, the refining of the Myriad Wonders Pill could also continue.

Nodding, Luo Chen put away the storage bag and asked with a smile,

"Are you used to using that Golden Melon Hammer of Fu Zhang's?"

"It's quite good; apart from being a bit heavy, its power is extremely strong. It's also a metal-type magic tool, which just happens to suit me."

After the Battle of the Fu family ended, Qin Liangchen specifically used the spoils of war from Fu Yu to exchange for Fu Zhang's Golden Melon Hammer with Luo Chen.

His original big sword was destroyed in the battle, and he had been lacking a magic tool that was to his liking.

Luo Chen naturally had no objection and exchanged it directly.

After chatting for a while, Qin Liangchen yawned and left the Alchemy Hall.

Nowadays, he and Murong Qinglian lived in a courtyard built by the Luo Tian Association.

In reality, most of the Luo Tian Association cultivators now chose to build houses nearby to live in.

The inner city was destroyed, but the spiritual energy of the spiritual vein spread out.

Living here was no worse than living in the inner city back then.

And they didn't have to pay rent!

Thinking of rent, Luo Chen subconsciously thought of Sun Shou of the Yuding Sword Pavilion.

It was a pity; that was also a very good senior.

He had originally thought about contributing his life to the sect in this remote market.

As a result, he fell silently; in the end, he didn't manage to die of old age.

The old friend was gone, and thinking of it only added to the sorrow.

After sighing, Luo Chen entered the Alchemy Hall.

First, he took back the spirit stones inside, and then he placed the various medicinal ingredients inside into the corresponding medicine cabinets.

Many of these things needed special treatment.

Afterward, he took out all two main materials and twenty-seven auxiliary materials needed for refining the Nether-Passing Elixir.

"The Phantom Nether Grass needs to be dried; this is simple, it can be done with the residual heat of the fire furnace."

He spread a large bunch of green Phantom Nether Grass evenly on the fire bed usually used for roasting medicinal ingredients.

The fire furnace below was continuously emitting temperature.

As one of the two main materials, the processing of Phantom Nether Grass was the simplest.

But the Snow Fox Demon Blood was not so simple.

"The processing of Snow Fox Blood is very complex. It has to go through five processes... It's a pity, if I knew the 'Huanxi Hand', I could completely save three of the processes."

"Zhanxing Grass is highly toxic and also carries extremely strong hallucinogenic properties; it needs to be eliminated of toxicity with 'Jiekuang Jade', but the hallucinogenic properties must be retained."

"These few auxiliary materials are not so troublesome; there are already processed ones in our own medicine room."

By midnight, Luo Chen had set the processing plans for the many raw materials and main materials on the Nether-Passing Elixir formula.

Some had already started processing, while others had to wait for a period of time.

But times had changed!

Many things didn't need him to do them personally; when dawn came, he could just hand them over to the medicine apprentices.

Cultivation must never be left behind.

After finishing his cultivation once again, Luo Chen took a look at the attribute panel.

[Realm: Qi Refining Ninth Layer 8/100]

Almost four months had passed since he broke through to the ninth layer of Qi Refining.

He was very satisfied with this cultivation progress.

In the first month, the progress climbed slowly from 1 to 2, like a turtle's speed.

But in the following two-plus months, because of the Spirit Elixirs, the efficiency doubled, and now it had reached 8 progress points.

"The specific cultivation speed should be about 15 per month."

"Spirit Elixirs are truly good things!"

"I hope Tian Xingzi can help me get more."

Luo Chen estimated his stock of Spirit Elixirs; two-plus months had passed, consuming one every ten days, and now only thirty-three were left.

In other words, it could support him for at most one more year.

"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious!"

Luo Chen exclaimed; having this cultivation speed was already extremely heaven-defying.

Dual-spirit-root cultivators were nothing more than this.

With the addition of Spirit Elixirs, he feared he was not much different from a heaven-spirit-root cultivator.

However, cultivation speed could not be increased, but he could improve his strength from other aspects.

Facing the cold morning breeze, Luo Chen took out a small medicine bottle from his storage bag.

Under the guidance of spiritual power, two drops of crystal-clear liquid flew out and slowly fell into his wide-open eye sockets.

As soon as the medicine liquid entered, Luo Chen felt a burning pain, and he quickly closed his eyes.

It was like chili paste in his eyes, and also like needles pricking and swords stabbing.

Tears fell involuntarily.

After a while, Luo Chen slowly opened his eyes.

Wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes, Luo Chen let out a long breath of turbid air.

"Fortunately, having cultivated 'Mingshen Posha', this bit of pain is within the range of tolerance."

Blinking his eyes, he only felt that his tired eyes, after staying up late to cultivate, had become clear.

A pair of pupils, pitch-black and deep.

Light shone in, as brilliant as the stars in the boundless starry sky.

"Tongming Liquid is truly ten times as effective as Runming Pearl Liquid!"

"Having insisted on dropping it for only two months, the distance I can see has already broken through to over a hundred miles away."

Shaking the empty bottle, Luo Chen felt quite a pity.

"No, this thing, I must get more!"

Luo Chen knew very well the benefits of a pair of spiritual eyes.

Because of these eyes, he had enjoyed too many conveniences.

In the Battle of Xieyue Valley, he saw through the disguise of the spies.

In the two battles at the Lancang River and the Dahe Inner City, he saw combat scenes that ordinary people couldn't see from a safe distance.

Especially in the Zhenlong Black Market, these eyes allowed him to see through the disguise of the "Heavenly Roc Transformation" beast skin and obtain the Tier 2 elixir formula "Emperor Flowing Pulp."

This was the first time since he crossed over that he felt the pleasure of "scavenging for a leak."

Therefore, continuing to strengthen his eyes was a predetermined decision.

Even without Tongming Liquid, Runming Pearl Liquid had to be used persistently.

Accumulating little by little, day after day, one day he would go a step further on his current Great Perfection 'Spiritual Eye Technique'.

Apart from Tongming Liquid, cultivation hadn't ended.

Luo Chen took out another bottle.

Golden Jade Liquid!

A body-refining spiritual medicine more suitable for Qi Refining cultivators!

The reason Wang Yuan could reach the second stage of body refining in such a short time, besides his martial arts accumulation during his mortal period, relied heavily on this thing.

Ever since he took over the Jiao Hall, he had almost taken all his resources to the Taishan Market to purchase Golden Jade Liquid from the Golden Stone Pavilion.

Back then, after he reached the Great Perfection of the first stage of body refining, he had extra Golden Jade Liquid and sent a bottle to Luo Chen.

It was also at that time that Luo Chen enjoyed this thing for the first time.

It had to be said that the effect was indeed unique.

Its efficacy could be seen from the name.

Golden Jade Liquid: 'Golden Quality' corresponds to the external physique; long-term consumption leads step by step to the realm of 'Body as Indestructible as Diamond'.

'Jade Liquid' targets the internal tendons and bones.

When it reaches great success, it is the sign of Wang Yuan's current 'Ice Muscle and Jade Bone'.

As for how to cultivate the second stage of body refining, Wang Yuan mentioned it simply but didn't say it in too much detail.

If he said it in detail, Luo Chen, because he wasn't personally involved in body refining, wouldn't understand those ins and outs.

He only knew that he absolutely could not let his physique fall behind.

Golden Jade Liquid is for strengthening the physique, and Nether-Passing Elixir is for fortifying the divine soul.

Even if he couldn't reach an outstanding level, he couldn't let it drag him down when breaking through to Foundation Establishment.

Without hesitation, Luo Chen took a sip of Golden Jade Liquid.

That feeling was like drinking magma.

However, Luo Chen, who was already accustomed to it, just smacked his lips like drinking hot soy milk.

"It's a pity I can't drink too much in a day, otherwise it's easy to burn the internal organs."

Luo Chen could feel that after the Golden Jade Liquid entered his body, he had a feeling of numbness and itching all over his body.

This was a sign that his physique was constantly strengthening.

"In this way, only the Nether-Passing Elixir is left."

Qi Refining, Body Strengthening, Soul Fortifying.

Luo Chen was going to use a three-pronged approach!

Everything was just to break through to Foundation Establishment!

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