Chapter 168

Time flies like a shuttle, in the blink of an eye, three days have passed in a hurry.

After finishing the refining of the Jade Marrow Pill in the afternoon, Luo Chen didn't go to the wasteland under Huiye Mountain to practice magic.

Instead, he stayed in the Alchemy Hall to watch Mi Li refine Grain Grain Bigu Powder.

With a large supply of raw materials, Mi Li's Grain Grain Bigu Powder refining technology can now be considered to have entered the hall and entered the room.

Out of ten times, she can succeed two or three times.

If put into the system, it should be a rating of skilled to perfect.

Luo Chen is very satisfied with Mi Li's progress.

The profit of Grain Grain Bigu Powder is not high, and the market competition is also extremely fierce.

The purpose of refining Grain Grain Bigu Powder is not to make money, but to satisfy the internal use of the Luotian Society at present.

It's winter, and the activities of cultivators are greatly affected.

Although the Lianyun Business Alliance took the opportunity to occupy the market of Lingyuan Zhai back then and transported a lot of spirit rice from other places for sale.

But for now, it still cannot satisfy the ten thousand loose cultivators remaining in Dahefang.

In the Luotian Society, there are also many cultivators who suffer from it.

In this case, the Alchemy Hall can provide Grain Grain Bigu Powder at a low price, which is very popular.

Compared with miscellaneous grains, Grain Grain Bigu Powder, which contains a little spiritual energy and can satisfy hunger, is much better.

After Mi Li, it was Tang Quan's turn to refine Zhongmiao Pills.

At this time, Mi Li, who had washed her hands clean, was holding a little boy and standing in the corner watching.

Luo Chen stood with his hands behind his back, his expression calm.

"This is the how many-th time?"

"I don't know, but it must be at least a hundred times!"

"Refined so many times, and not succeeded even once? Is he really okay?"

"Who knows, after all, Uncle Tang Quan is Elder Zeng Wen, with high power and weight."

"But wasting medicinal materials like this, doesn't President Luo Chen feel heartache?"

Fragmented discussions came from the medicine apprentices and fire workers who were helping.

Even though Tang Quan was already used to it, he felt a bit dejected at this moment.

This is the last batch of Zhongmiao Pill raw materials in the Alchemy Hall, right!

If he fails again, I'm afraid President Luo Chen won't worry about this elixir in the future.

Everyone knows that the focus of the Luotian Society is now entirely on the Jade Marrow Pill.

Thinking about these things, Tang Quan began to refine the Zhongmiao Pills.

Halfway through, a slightly burnt smell came out.

It was so familiar!

Tang Quan's heart sank.

Just at this time, Luo Chen pulled him to the back.

"Watch carefully, this is how Zhongmiao Pills are refined."

"I will only demonstrate this last time, if you still fail in the future, it proves that you really have no alchemy talent."

After taking over from Tang Quan, Luo Chen injected a stream of spiritual power into the Ziyun Copper Furnace.

The spiritual power entered the furnace, first preventing the further disintegration of the medicinal power.

Separate first, then fuse!

Luo Chen's ten fingers flew like flowers, elegant and freehand.

It made everyone dizzy, only feeling that it was a world of difference from Tang Quan before.

Luo Chen didn't care about these, his mind was all on the alchemy furnace, occasionally striking out spiritual power.

The fire worker beside him was also increasing or decreasing the fire size under his command.

After about a cup of tea, a refreshing medicinal fragrance flew out from the copper furnace.

"Rise!"

The furnace lid floated up, and Luo Chen grabbed it with his hand.

Immediately, ten deep red elixirs, printed with three cloud patterns, fell into his hand.

The scorching temperature seemed to be non-existent.

Luo Chen threw it casually, and Tang Quan caught it in a panic.

"High-grade!"

Mi Li exclaimed beside him, "President, your alchemy skills have improved again!"

Looking at those elixirs, Tang Quan was incomparably shocked in his heart.

That the President can refine high-grade Zhongmiao Pills is not a secret.

However, this furnace had already approached failure!

In such a harsh situation, he could reverse the failure, finally condense it into an elixir lightly, and even the finished product was high-grade!

What kind of profound alchemy skill is this.

After the shock, there was incomparable bitterness and frustration.

Do I really have no alchemy talent?

While he was in a daze, Luo Chen had already bypassed him and walked outside.

Passing by the entrance of the alchemy room, Luo Chen paused for a moment.

He rubbed Qu Lingjun's little head and asked with a smile, "Have you understood the Hundred Herbs Atlas thoroughly?"

Qu Lingjun raised his head and looked at Luo Chen with admiration.

He nodded excitedly.

"I've memorized it all, and the understanding is also up to standard, Sister Mi Li can testify!"

Luo Chen looked at Mi Li, who nodded gently.

"I've tested him several times, there were mistakes at the beginning, but now he can basically get them all right."

"When it comes to the understanding of the Hundred Herbs Atlas, even among a group of medicine apprentices, he is at the forefront."

It seems he is indeed a smart and good child!

It's a pity, the talent is a bit poor.

Luo Chen swept over, and a faint spiritual power fluctuation radiated from him.

This is the sign of just entering the first level of Qi Refining.

However, the spiritual power fluctuation is too weak, almost non-existent.

According to what he knows, Qu Lingjun started cultivating a month ago.

As the only seedling of the Qu family who can cultivate, Qu Hancheng certainly won't treat him badly.

But after a month, is this the only degree?

Luo Chen thought of Yuan Xiaoyue, who only spent a month from the second level of Qi Refining to the third level.

Thinking about it, Luo Chen took out a small bottle.

"Very good, you perfectly completed the task I gave you, this is the reward for you."

Qu Lingjun took it happily and wanted to open it, but was stopped by Luo Chen.

"Open it when you get home!"

That deep look made Qu Lingjun understand the meaning immediately.

He is a sensible child and bowed to thank him immediately.

Luo Chen didn't care, turned and left the alchemy room, leaving a group of people to clean up the mess.

Qu Lingjun, like a little adult, followed the crowd, cleaning the alchemy furnace, repairing the fire pit, and replacing the fire-avoidance bricks.

When encountering residual medicine dregs, he even collected them preciously.

Mi Li asked him gently with a smile, these medicine dregs are useless, they are usually taken to the wasteland to be buried, why collect them?

Qu Lingjun just said with big eyes that these are the medicine dregs that succeeded, collecting them and comparing them with those that failed might also find other differences between success and failure.

Outside the alchemy room, Luo Chen, who was about to return to the stone house, paused for a moment.

He also has such a habit, and will draw experience and lessons from repeated failures.

However, he seems to have never paid attention to the medicine dregs left over from the elixirs that were successfully refined.

It's like doing a math problem.

Many people get the wrong answer and will go to find which step went wrong.

But few people, after getting the correct answer, go to study the meaning of each step in the calculation process.

Because people are immersed in the joy of success.

Whether it is alchemy or doing problems.

"Although it's better than nothing, it indeed opened up a new line of thinking for me."

Luo Chen smiled lightly and stopped paying attention.

After returning to the stone house, he activated the formation, went down the mine, and went to Changyin Mountain.

The Earth Mountain Technique and the Wave Technique have both reached the perfect level.

In the evaluation of cultivators, it is considered to be between small success and great success, and can already be operated as one wishes.

He wants to try today, the second-grade magic technique "Mountain Collapse" derived from the combination of fireball, earth mountain, and wave techniques!

"Lingjun, stop playing with mud, it's time to cultivate."

"Grandpa, I'm not playing with mud!"

Qu Hancheng smiled helplessly and dotingly, and pulled the dirty Qu Lingjun up from the side of the basin.

He looked down and smelled a burnt smell mixed in the fragrance.

"Is this medicine dregs?"

"No, this is not ordinary medicine dregs!"

Qu Lingjun smiled proudly, "This is medicine dregs that are close to failure and success!"

"Hmm?"

"Forget it, Grandpa, you are old and don't understand these."

"Cut, stinky boy, go wash up."

While Qu Lingjun was washing up, Qu Hancheng looked at the gradually darkening sky, his gaze looking towards the former inner city of Dahe.

Now, it is a ghost city there.

And all his descendants, son and daughter-in-law, and two little grandsons without spirit roots, all died inside.

"De Xian, rest in peace! I will definitely cultivate Lingjun into a powerful cultivator."

Firm in his heart, Qu Hancheng took out two jade bottles from his storage bag.

The former is a low-grade Jade Marrow Pill, which he bought and hoarded at an internal price when he was in the Po Shan Gang.

It is very suitable for Qu Lingjun at this realm to use.

The latter is a Nourishing Qi Pill, which he recently bought at a high price from the black market in the south of the outer city.

This is produced by the Medicine King Sect, with mild efficacy and no sequelae.

"Taking too many low-grade Jade Marrow Pills will have the sequelae of dantian jade-ification."

"Logically, Lingjun should be allowed to take Nourishing Qi Pills, but I..."

Qu Hancheng thought that he didn't have many years to live, and he had been seriously injured before, so he really didn't have many years to live.

Working as a fire worker manager in the Alchemy Hall, even though the President had raised his treatment several times, the spirit stones he earned in a month were barely close to those of a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator.

"Nourishing Qi Pills are getting more and more expensive, and my spirit stones can't buy many."

"Save these few bottles first, wait until Lingjun is in the middle stage of Qi Refining, stop using Jade Marrow Pills, and then use these Nourishing Qi Pills!"

After making the decision, Qu Hancheng put away the medicine bottle of Nourishing Qi Pills very preciously.

Waiting for Qu Lingjun to finish washing up and run out naked, he scolded him with a smile and told him to put on his clothes and go cultivate.

Unexpectedly, Qu Lingjun stood on the bed, shaking his little bird, and said loudly with reason and evidence

"No!"

"I heard the President say two days ago, being close to nature and experiencing the Great Dao is the foundation of cultivation."

"Cultivating with clothes on will make it hard for me to absorb external spiritual energy."

Qu Hancheng was stunned, is there such a saying?

It's just a layer of close-fitting outer clothing anyway.

But thinking it was said by Luo Chen, he couldn't help but half-believe it, and believed it for the time being.

"Fine, follow your heart. This is the elixir to be used today, take one before cultivating."

While speaking, the old man lit a fire basin in the corner.

The charcoal fire burned, bringing a touch of warm heat to the room.

He also opened a crack in the window, letting the cold wind and air outside seep in a little bit.

He couldn't let his little grandson freeze, nor could he let something happen in the room.

It's hard for this little old man.

However, looking back, he found that Qu Lingjun didn't cultivate directly.

Instead, he squatted on the bed, looking blankly at an elixir in his hand.

"It's just a low-grade Jade Marrow Pill, what's so good to look... at."

Qu Hancheng was stunned.

Because the elixir in the child's hand clearly had three cloud patterns, which meant it was not a low-grade Jade Marrow Pill.

But a high-grade Jade Marrow Pill!

He snatched the elixir, his face nervous, "Where did you get it?"

Qu Lingjun pouted, "The President rewarded it to me today, saying I memorized the Hundred Herbs Atlas well."

Given by the President!

Originally worried that it was stolen by Qu Lingjun, but hearing it was given by Luo Chen, his heart fell to the ground.

Our old Qu family, whether in the Po Shan Gang or the Luotian Society, relies on being honest and doing things with dedication to stand out from many loose cultivators step by step.

Stealing things is a big taboo!

Must not be contaminated.

After relaxing, Qu Hancheng reacted.

"High-grade Jade Marrow Pill!"

"God!"

"The President's alchemy skills have actually improved to this degree? How long has it been, and he actually refined high-grade Jade Marrow Pills."

"If old gang leader Mi were still alive, I'm afraid he would also be incomparably ecstatic."

While he was talking to himself, Qu Lingjun pulled him.

"Grandpa, this matter, can't be told to outsiders!"

"Hmm?"

Qu Hancheng didn't understand, the President's alchemy attainments have made another breakthrough, why can't it be told to outsiders?

Qu Lingjun tightened his little face, imitating the look of Luo Chen during the day, his eyes staring at his grandfather.

Seriously said, "Absolutely cannot tell outsiders, this is the President's meaning!"

Qu Hancheng opened his mouth, and actually didn't react to his little grandson's look and tone.

In a trance, there was a trace of Luo Chen's charm.

Since this is the case, he also put away the idea of promoting the President's reputation to outsiders.

Flattering to the horse's hoof is not very good.

It's just that because of this, he hesitated.

Should he let his grandson use low-grade Jade Marrow Pills, or high-grade ones?

"High-grade ones!"

"Since the President rewarded a bottle, he must have considered Lingjun's realm."

"And, he seems to like this child quite a bit, letting Lingjun's realm go up early can also help with things, maybe he can get reused."

"These low-grade Jade Marrow Pills, keep them for me to use, anyway, I haven't eaten a few elixirs in this life."

Finding a reason for himself to enjoy, Qu Hancheng urged his grandson to cultivate.

He stood at the door, leaving the air in the room to Qu Lingjun, so that the spiritual energy would not be shared by him.

Facing the biting cold wind, Qu Hancheng pulled out a pipe from his waist.

Skillfully lit the tobacco pouch with a fireball technique and took a puff.

Only feeling that the choking tobacco leaves in the past also had a trace of sweetness.

A sorrowful face climbed onto his face.

Luo Chen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and drank a small mouthful of Supplement and Moistening Pulse Liquid.

Lowered his head, looking at the small mound not far away.

"Is this the power of a second-grade magic technique?"

"Damn!"

"The Zhenlong Black Market wouldn't sell pirated fake goods, would it!"

After complaining, Luo Chen recalled the situation at that time.

According to the secret book, as long as the three magic techniques all reach the small success level, you can start practicing "Mountain Collapse".

He is now at the perfection level of fireball, perfect level of earth mountain, and perfect level of wave, already exceeding the small success level.

But, the three techniques actually cannot be combined!

"Where is the problem?"

The basic conditions have already been met, why did it still fail?

Luo Chen doesn't doubt his magic talent.

Even compared to the alchemy skills that Foundation Establishment and Core Formation cultivators covet, his magic talent is the real deal.

He learned so many magic techniques, none of which relied on the system to get started.

All rely on himself, bitter cultivation alone.

In constant thinking, Luo Chen looked at that small mound.

This is the effect of the Earth Mountain Technique.

If he exerted his full strength, it should be at least tens of meters high.

But when he released it just now, the spiritual energy in his body was chaotic, and there was a moment of rampage.

Not only did the spell fail, but it also caused a small injury to his meridians.

Fortunately, there was the Supplement and Moistening Pulse Liquid obtained from Gao Tingyuan's heritage, otherwise, he would have gained more than he lost today.

"What about water?"

"I also urged the Wave Technique, why didn't I see a single drop of water, and didn't even notice any water-type spiritual energy."

"It can't be that the Earth Mountain Technique and the Wave Technique haven't been practiced to home!"

In doubt, Luo Chen suddenly reacted.

Perhaps, it's not that he hasn't practiced these two prerequisite magic techniques to home.

But the attainment of the Fireball Technique is excessively high.

The perfection-level Fireball Technique, urged to the extreme, is even comparable to the second-grade fire-type Blazing Sun Technique.

The combination of three techniques talks about balance, and then explosion.

If you can't reach balance first, how can you talk about explosion?

As a result, there is only premature detonation.

And premature detonation hurts the caster!

"So, what I need to do is improve the two prerequisite magic techniques."

"Or, control the spiritual energy input of the Fireball Technique?"

The former two need water-grinding work, at least calculated in units of "months".

And the latter, on the contrary, is easy to handle.

A few months ago, he had been optimizing the Fireball Technique.

The perfection-level Spirit Eye Technique made him like a tiger with wings.

Until now, the optimization of the Fireball Technique has reached a very profound level.

If it is combined again to form the Blazing Sun Technique, the power will be even greater than before by three points.

Even giving him enough time to squeeze out all the spiritual energy in his body, he will inevitably be able to release a brilliant blow.

If it's just controlling the spiritual energy input, this is not difficult to solve.

Luo Chen wanted to continue practicing magic, but his eyes focused slightly.

Under the night, an old wolf emitting a powerful aura was climbing to the top of the mountain from a hundred miles away.

Immediately, a shrill and low wolf howl resounded through the wasteland and ancient forest.

"It's not good to continue practicing this technique today."

"Forget it, since I have found the general problem, I will master this technique sooner or later."

Without hesitation, Luo Chen turned and left.

The Carefree Wind-Riding Technique unfolded, the gale roared, and there were black clouds hiding his figure.

In an instant, Luo Chen disappeared without a trace from Changyin Mountain.

Returning to Xieyue Valley, Luo Chen didn't cultivate directly.

Over the past few days, the processing of the raw materials for the Tongyou Pill has been completed.

Ten processed main materials were placed in his storage bag.

"Well, the Tao-protecting means are only for Tao-protecting after all, cultivation is the foundation."

"Refine the Tongyou Pill first, and increase cultivation first!"

System, get started!

Without any hesitation.

Ten achievement points were wiped from the panel.

And on the attribute panel, an entry was added.

【Tongyou Pill 1/100】

According to past experience, this extra "1" represents that he, Luo Chen, has already had one successful experience.

Therefore, it will be evaluated as the entry level.

Don't underestimate this "1".

Without this "1", no one knows how many failures will be experienced before this.

At least Luo Chen recognized from Tang Quan the sense of frustration brought by not being able to succeed even once.

In order to get started with Zhongmiao Pills, Tang Quan has refined more than a hundred times.

Calculated at a cost of five spirit stones per portion, he has already wasted five hundred low-grade spirit stones.

What is this concept?

If it were when Luo Chen started from scratch, his total fortune would only be fifty spirit stones.

Five hundred spirit stones, he needs to start from scratch and make a comeback ten times!

Moreover, he couldn't see any hope of success.

Only by succeeding that one time can he record the most beautiful memory and draw more successful experience from the successful memory.

In a word, winners are always winners!

Faint thoughts passed, Luo Chen released the Four Elephant Tripod.

This is the magic tool he is most familiar with now, even above the Ziyun Copper Furnace, Xuanyun Tripod, and Shenmu Tripod.

"Old man Mi, I miss you very much!"

After remembering, Luo Chen burned the fire himself, and then put in the medicinal materials one by one.

"Zhanxing Grass, Bamboo Yellow..."

"Huanyou Grass, interval Blue Citrus Grass juice..."

"Finally, it is the Snow Fox Demon Blood, so it will be... no!"

Just for a moment, Luo Chen woke up from his trance.

And it was this trance that made the pungent fishy smell come to his face.

He soared into the air, overlooking the situation in the large tripod.

A large amount of snow-white solid-liquid mixture flowed inside.

The pungent fishy smell came from this.

Luo Chen's face was gloomy, failed!

It didn't even reach the stage of medicinal power fusion, and it failed.

Not to mention the step of combining elixirs.

"Just stimulating the Snow Fox Demon Blood produced the hallucinogenic feeling, which made me indulge for a moment."

"And it was this moment that led to the failure of refining!"

"This is the only time in my many years of alchemy that I have encountered a counterattack from an elixir."

This situation is rare.

Or rather, there is!

But it generally only exists in high-grade elixirs.

For example, the refining process of some high-grade elixirs that use living things must face the counterattack of the elixir raw materials.

Unexpectedly, even a mere Tongyou Pill would have such a situation.

"It may be that the elixir formula I supplemented did not inhibit the hallucinogenic ability in the Snow Fox Demon Blood, which led to this."

"But it has already been entered, and it is too late to temporarily change and optimize the elixir formula."

"I have to find a way to not be hallucinated when I am refining elixirs."

If there is a problem, solve the problem!

Luo Chen was not discouraged, he had experienced many failures.

Without these failures, where would more successes come from?

It's just that this short day today, experiencing magic failure and alchemy failure, really made him mentally exhausted.

"Perhaps it is also related to being too tired during this period."

"It just so happens that the meridians are slightly damaged today and need to be recuperated."

"Don't cultivate today, just take the Gold Quality Jade Liquid and Tongming Liquid, and then go to sleep!"

Luo Chen understands the truth of going too far is as bad as not going far enough.

He chose to go to sleep very decisively.

Don't say, this sleep was quite stable.