Chapter 169: Ghost City Ghost General, Pill Formation into Dreams

Early the next morning, Luo Chen changed into the white fox fur coat from last year and walked out early in the morning with his hands in his pockets, patrolling his territory.

Winter had completely arrived, and snow was falling in large flakes.

In Xieyue Valley, there was snow everywhere.

From afar, Luo Chen saw a little brat building a snowman at the gate.

Luo Chen walked over and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"So ugly!"

Qu Lingjun tilted his head, didn't say a word, and rushed into the house.

Luo Chen was startled; it shouldn't be that bad!

I gave you pills yesterday, why are you so impolite today!

But the next moment, he saw Qu Lingjun run out with a small flower pot.

"President, President, this is your birthday present!"

Looking at the plant in the flower pot that had just sprouted new buds.

Luo Chen opened his mouth; is it my birthday?

Qu Lingjun showed off proudly, "This is a Soul-Nurturing Tree; the seeds were given to me by you casually before. I used some monster blood that the uncles didn't want and cultivated it for a period of time before I got it."

"How about it, am I very powerful?"

Luo Chen pinched his little face with baby fat and scolded with a smile, "After all this, you're borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha!"

"Hehe!"

Qu Lingjun smiled honestly, and then straightened his chest, "Ordinary people can't raise this Soul-Nurturing Tree."

Indeed, the Soul-Nurturing Tree was very difficult to raise.

But it wasn't difficult to cultivate.

The difficulty of raising it was reflected in the fact that a Soul-Nurturing Tree needed a full thousand years of time from rooting and sprouting to growing to a usable stage.

The seeds of this Soul-Nurturing Tree, if you talk about it, were given to him by Feng Xia on his birthday last year.

Always kept in the storage bag, Luo Chen didn't care either.

Before, seeing Qu Lingjun reciting and understanding the "Hundred Herb Atlas," he simply gave it to him and let him operate it.

Unexpectedly, he really raised it.

"Alright, I already know you raised it. Don't give it to me, you keep raising it for me, and give it to me when it grows up."

"Hmm hmm."

Qu Lingjun nodded repeatedly and carefully hugged the flower pot back.

Luo Chen lowered his body, scooped up a large handful of snow, and repaired the ugly little snowman.

After a while, Qu Lingjun also joined in.

"Who is this snowman, why does it have a beard?"

"It's my dad! His beard is very hard and pricks people, so I used pig hair to stick it on as a beard."

"Then aren't you scolding your dad for being a pig?"

"He is really stupid, not as smart as my mom... no no, my dad isn't that handsome, I'm more like my mom."

While building, Qu Lingjun's nose turned red.

He raised his head, looked at Luo Chen, and sobbed.

"President, I miss my dad and mom."

Luo Chen pursed his lips and gently rubbed the little boy's hair.

One big and one small, standing in the wind and snow, built an ugly snowman.

"Ghost General?"

In the Haoyue Hall, the cultivators were sitting around the stove roasting fire.

Luo Chen listened in surprise to the news brought back by Zeng Wen.

Zeng Wen clicked his tongue in wonder, "Yes, no one expected that a ghost of the Ghost General level would appear in the ghost city. The Nangong family, who rushed to the front, suffered heavy losses this time!"

The Yin Ghost lineage had many classifications.

Those who turned into spirits from Yin energy, those who fell on the Dao path and turned to ghost cultivation, those who died in the Yin Evil land and became fierce ghosts, and even the most classic zombies, could all be counted as the Yin Ghost lineage.

The division standard was not the conventional Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment.

But Ghost Soldier, Ghost General, Ghost King.

The reason for such a division lay in the fact that higher-level Yin Ghosts had a natural suppression of lower-level Yin Ghosts.

A powerful Ghost King could even turn a place into a ghost domain.

All the ghost cultivators inside, while gaining benefits, would also be controlled by the Ghost King.

The Battle of the Inner City of Dahe Square broke out at noon, with many cultivators inside, the number at least as high as five thousand or more!

After the outbreak, some people died on the spot, and some were trapped inside by the formation activated by the Yuding Sword Pavilion.

Only a very few lucky ones escaped by chance at the beginning.

When the war ended, the three Ghost Kings were blown up by the Golden Core sword cultivator Pang Renxiong.

The accumulated ghost energy of hundreds of years completely shrouded the inner city, completely turning it into a ghost domain.

If it were just like this, it would only need to wait for the major sects to arrive and eliminate the ghost energy inside, and it could repeat the righteous path of heaven and earth.

However, three months had passed, and the Yuding Sword Sect hadn't been seen.

Instead, there were now existences of the Ghost General level in that ghost city!

A Ghost General, although it couldn't reach the level of a Ghost King manipulating all the Yin Ghosts in a domain.

But it had already been born with some spiritual wisdom and retained some of the behavioral habits before death.

Added to the fact that it was in a ghost domain, the combat power increase was extremely great.

Compared with Foundation Establishment cultivators, it was unknown whether it was high or low.

But Qi Refining cultivators were absolutely not to be resisted.

"Where did it appear?" Luo Chen asked curiously.

Zeng Wen said spiritedly, "It is said that it appeared in the Bai Shi Square area. The Nangong family rushed the deepest and wanted to enter the Yuding Sword Pavilion in advance."

"As a result, as soon as they reached the Bai Shi Square, they encountered the Ghost General."

"Tsk tsk, that was miserable! Nine of the ten late-stage Qi Refining cultivators of the Nangong family died on the spot."

Luo Chen raised his eyebrows, "Nine?"

"Yes, only Nangong Qin survived." Zeng Wen glanced at Qin Liangchen, who was drinking, when he said this. "That kid had good luck; he had a magic tool specifically for ghosts and a magic tool bestowed by his Foundation Establishment father."

"Relying on the time dragged by the nine people, he activated that magic tool and fled the Bai Shi Square area in a sorry state."

Hearing this result, Murong Qinglian couldn't help but feel a pity.

The hatred of Nangong Qin leading people to surround and kill Qin Liangchen was still remembered by their Qin family.

Qin Liangchen didn't express any opinion.

"Here, give."

A voice came to his ear, and Luo Chen smiled and took a handful of peeled hazelnut kernels from Gu Caiyi.

Swallowing them whole, Luo Chen asked vaguely:

"The Nangong family shouldn't talk about this kind of thing to outsiders, right!"

"You talk so detailed, how come it's like you watched it on the spot?"

Zeng Wen smiled, "I wasn't on the spot, but someone from the Li family was!"

"The Li family?"

"Yes, at that time Li Ao led the team and just touched the periphery of the Bai Shi Square, and witnessed this scene with his own eyes relying on that Green Fire Lantern magic tool."

Did the Li family also send people to explore the ghost city?

Luo Chen was thoughtful.

It seems that during this period, the focus of major forces was all on the ghost city.

That's right, the benefits inside were extremely high, but as long as they transported some out, it would be faster and more than bitter management.

Not to mention anything else, Luo Chen especially wanted to loot the Immortal Building.

As an industry of Ailao Mountain, the various spirit materials inside the Immortal Building were all hard currency.

Especially the Earth Fire Evil!

Beside him, Zeng Wen was still talking eloquently about the ghost city.

These were all things he had inquired about from other guests when he worked in the Golden Hall.

The Li family cultivators witnessed the miserable defeat of the Nangong family with their own eyes, and after coming out, they publicized it widely.

The purpose was nothing more than to hit the Nangong family, this foreign cultivation family.

After all, the two families had fought for the resources of the Beast Hall of the Poshan Gang back then, and there were quite a few moths.

In Zeng Wen's narrative, everyone gradually understood the current situation of the ghost city.

The most dangerous part was the Bai Shi Square area.

There was a Ghost General patrolling, and no one could enter it safely.

However, once out of the Bai Shi Square range, that Ghost General would no longer chase and kill.

That was why Nangong Qin and the Li family cultivators could escape by chance.

The shops of the five major outer-domain sects were already empty.

The various treasures inside that could be taken away were taken away, and those that couldn't be taken away were destroyed.

As for the shops of some local small sects, more or less all had formations to guard them.

For a time, major forces were thinking of ways to crack them.

Mentioning formations, Luo Chen thought of the character Elder Min Longyu.

This person seemed to belong to the Dajiang Gang, but in fact, he should be a cultivator of the Lianyun Alliance.

Very good at formations!

Even when fighting, he mostly used formations to fight the enemy.

If the Lianyun Alliance also had the heart to explore the inner city, as long as they sent Elder Min Longyu, the harvest would inevitably far exceed everyone else's.

"If only the Luo Tian Society also had such a person good at formations."

Luo Chen thought with regret.

The talents of the Luo Tian Society were still too few, mostly based on production cultivators and combat cultivators.

These production cultivators weren't eating for free, and they were all playing their respective roles.

The spirit rice planted before, under the host of Yuan Dongsheng, was growing quite vigorously.

Next year, perhaps they could harvest a small crop.

The remaining medicinal herbs also benefited from the eruption of the inner city spiritual vein, and the scattered spiritual energy made some medicinal herbs grow well.

It was just that winter had arrived, and the formation that must maintain spring all year round consumed quite a bit.

But the things produced by production cultivators also needed someone to protect them.

Otherwise, what if they were snatched by others?

Combat cultivators might be able to stand alone.

But if a battle really broke out and spread, these crops would probably be a waste of effort.

In contrast, a formation cultivator like Elder Min Longyu would be very useful.

With such a person presiding over the Small Five Elements Formation, as long as Foundation Establishment didn't take action, the crops planted in Xieyue Valley would be safe and sound.

It was a pity that the Luo Tian Society didn't have one.

The only one who knew a little about formations was Duan Feng.

But most of the formations he knew were related to magic tool casting, and they were all small formations.

Recently, besides cultivation, he was busy bringing apprentices.

He planned to follow Luo Chen's previous plan to bring out a batch of casting apprentices and set up a Tool Hall.

"To develop the Luo Tian Society, there is still a long way to go!"

Luo Chen shook his head and continued to chat with everyone.

The topic also gradually turned from the news of Dahe Square to cultivation.

Everyone in the hall was basically a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator.

Except for Zeng Wen and Granny Yuan, who had long since looked down on things, most of them still held a glimmer of hope for Foundation Establishment.

Under Luo Chen's host, everyone chatted about the problems encountered in cultivation, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

Luo Chen also benefited a lot from the cultivation insights of others.

Perhaps just one or two points of realization could make him take many fewer detours in cultivation.

This tea party lasted until dusk, and everyone gradually dispersed.

After everyone returned home, Luo Chen returned to the pill room.

Today, the Pill Hall didn't refine pills and gave everyone a holiday.

Luo Chen rested for a day, and the slight meridian damage he received before was restored as before under the conditioning of the Pulse-Moistening Liquid.

Added to a day of chatting and joking, his state had reached its peak.

"Let's refine a batch of Blood-Burning Pills first to try my hand!"

The successive failures yesterday were quite a blow.

Luo Chen planned to refine some Blood-Burning Pills first, not only to give himself more confidence but also to prepare some goods for the next meeting with Tian Xingzi.

Before taking action, Luo Chen glanced at the attribute panel.

【Blood-Burning Pill entry-level 97/100】

As long as he succeeded in one more batch, he could advance to the skilled level.

By then, the pill success rate could be increased from ten percent to twenty percent.

It could be considered a small breakthrough.

"I have accumulated several failures before, this time refining four portions of raw materials at the same time, how can I succeed in one!"

Now, Luo Chen had explored this system very clearly.

The so-called probability was actually not as simple as it looked.

Just like the entry-level period, it seemed that ten times must succeed once.

Actually, it wasn't!

If every time you refine pills, you are not serious and focused, and don't do your best, it is possible to fail all ten times.

Conversely, if the preparation is sufficient, and you are skilled enough in the pill formula, pill technique, and various methods.

It is also possible to succeed once!

The first time refining the Blood-Burning Pill was a good example.

He didn't experience multiple failures at all, but instead succeeded the first time.

Young man, every time you refine pills, you must go all out!

Only then will there be a chance for a guarantee!

Luo Chen cheered himself up silently, and then added a root of Green Grain Monster into the fire pit.

Using this monster body as pill fire could increase the number of pills.

He had no reason not to use it.

Before officially refining pills, he looked solemn, mobilized the spiritual power in his body, and stimulated the eighteen acupoints in his body one by one.

"Hmm..."

A muffled groan sounded, Luo Chen took a deep breath, suppressing the pain brought by the operation of Mingshen Posha.

He needed this pain!

Not to refine the Blood-Burning Pill, but to get familiar with this feeling.

Because, when refining the Tongyou Pill later, the Mingshen Posha might be able to resist the hallucinogenic power brought by the Snow Fox Monster Blood.

This was an inspiration he got when communicating with friends today.

Pain might be able to make people wake up from hallucinations.

And maintaining pain all the time had a high possibility of not falling into that kind of trance hallucination.

After making the preliminary preparations, Luo Chen put in the medicinal herbs one by one.

Afterward, the refining process of the Blood-Burning Pill began.

For all this, Luo Chen was already familiar with it.

About two hours later, Luo Chen put away fourteen Blood-Burning Pills with satisfaction.

All were low-grade, but the pill success rate was two out of four.

The proficiency of the Blood-Burning Pill also reached the skilled level.

Not only that, the achievement points lost when entering the Tongyou Pill also increased by one.

Nowadays, the number of achievement points.

After the Spirit Eye Art reached Great Perfection, Earth Mountain Art and Wave Art advanced to the perfect level, and Blood-Burning Pill advanced to the skilled level, it increased by another four.

28 achievement points!

During the break, Luo Chen looked at these achievement points and couldn't help but have an impulse.

If all these achievement points were invested in those two complete second-tier pill formulas, I don't know if they could enter entry-level?

The reason for this impulsive urge was mainly because there were no first-tier pill formulas on hand.

Only three second-tier pill formulas remained: Jade Yu Yu Ludan, Blood Evil Pill, and Emperor Flowing Pulp.

Among them, he was relatively most confident in the Blood Evil Pill.

It's a pity that the main materials were missing.

Even if he entered entry-level, he couldn't refine it for the time being.

The value of the Jade Yu Yu Ludan was the greatest!

But it was defective, and the achievement points required for deduction and completion might be an unimaginably huge number.

"Emperor Flowing Pulp..."

Luo Chen shook his head; it hadn't reached that point yet.

After he advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage, whether it was entering entry-level or deduction, it wouldn't cost too many achievement points.

Because at that time, it would be the corresponding realm, and the achievement points required for entry-level would be no different from entering entry-level for a first-tier pill formula now.

After a simple break, Luo Chen stood up and stepped into another pill room.

Looking at the bronze cauldron, Luo Chen smiled slightly.

"Although the Divine Wood Cauldron is only first-tier middle-grade, it has extra benefits for refining plant-based pills."

"One of the two main materials of the Tongyou Pill is Illusion Ghost Grass."

"It should also have an effect."

This time, he gave up the Four Symbols Cauldron and chose the Divine Wood Cauldron, which had a lower grade but special benefits.

I hope it can succeed!

Mingshen Posha operated, and the sharp pain appeared again.

Luo Chen's face didn't change, as if he didn't feel anything, and put in the raw materials one by one.

After a long time.

Luo Chen walked out of the pill room with a calm face.

Failed!

Within expectations.

He wasn't angry; the pill formula for the Tongyou Pill was also defective, and it was completed by himself.

After being forcibly entered entry-level by the system.

All failures were forgivable.

And in this failure, it was confirmed that Mingshen Posha had a significant resistance effect on the hallucinations of the Snow Fox Monster Blood.

This point was instead the biggest harvest.

"Next time, it will definitely succeed!"

Next time, it didn't succeed either.

It wasn't until five days later that Luo Chen stopped refining the Jade Marrow Pill and spent a whole day refining the Tongyou Pill alone, and barely succeeded once.

"It took a full nine times to usher in a harvest!"

Luo Chen looked at the three pill pills in his hand that were as white as ice and snow, and sighed endlessly.

Three, only three!

Even though Luo Chen had psychological preparation, he still couldn't hold it.

He knew that besides the complete main materials, half of the auxiliary materials were missing, and he spent a lot of time completing them.

He also knew that without the reverse deduction of a second-tier pill formula like the Blood Evil Pill, the completed pill formula might be congenitally insufficient.

But he didn't expect that the number of pills would be so small.

"The cost of one portion of raw materials is as high as fifteen spirit stones, far exceeding the eleven spirit stones for the Blood-Burning Pill and five spirit stones for the Jade Marrow Pill."

"Finally, there are only three."

"If not calculated by spreading, but by the total cost of real consumption, wouldn't it be one hundred and fifty spirit stones for ten times to get three first-tier low-grade Tongyou Pills?"

This data made Luo Chen unable to hold it again.

He had never been so wasteful.

"I want to see what heaven-defying efficacy you have!"

Holding three snow-white pills in his palm, Luo Chen entered the spiritual vein cave.

Full of spirit and energy, there was no injury around.

Luo Chen took a deep breath and resolutely swallowed the snow-white pill.

The tyrannical Blood-Burning Pill, after being refined, Luo Chen didn't dare to take it easily.

Because he knew the direction of the medicinal properties, so he needed to test the pill.

But the direction of the Tongyou Pill's medicinal properties was to increase the soul foundation.

The cost was so high that he couldn't bear to find small animals to test the pill.

Since that was the case, it was better to experience it himself!

The pill entered the body, and then melted at the entrance.

An icy, cool feeling rushed straight to the top of his head.

Luo Chen couldn't help but shiver coldly.

And it was in this shiver that his consciousness became trance-like.

In a kitchen full of fireworks, a young man was lying in front of the stove, grabbing a large handful of black medicine dregs, his expression crazy.

"Failure?"

"Failure!"

"Why, still failure!"

"I risked all my family wealth to gather these ten portions of raw materials, but now I can't succeed at all."

"Could it be that I have no talent for pill refining?"

"No, I don't believe it, there are three portions of raw materials left, I will definitely succeed."

The young man put away the medicine dregs and came to the stream to wash the iron pot.

He practiced spells, cultivated techniques, and constantly adjusted his state.

On the second day, he continued to refine the Myriad Wonder Pill.

Failure!

Third day, still failure!

And on the fourth day, which was that last portion of raw materials.

He held all his expectations and, with the most focused and even fanatical state of mind, made a desperate gamble.

Finally...

"Still failed."

The young man opened his mouth, and the sound of talking to himself carried a sob.

Fifty spirit stones were all his family wealth.

To refine the Myriad Wonder Pill, he had invested it all.

However, not a single pill was formed, which meant his years of accumulation had gone to waste.

It was ultimately a waste of effort.

Then, where should he go from here?

Luo Chen looked around; the house was empty, and there wasn't even half a catty of spirit rice left in the rice jar.

"Perhaps, I am not suitable for pill refining by nature!"

"Shouldn't I have had the dream of becoming an alchemist and never having to worry about spirit stones again?"

He fell into deep self-doubt.

Sitting alone in the kitchen, letting the burnt smell of failed medicine dregs spread all over his body, as if he himself was a failure.

I don't know how long it had been.

When dawn came, he slowly stood up.

Luo Chen looked at the situation at home, then poured out the medicine dregs and cleaned up the kitchen.

After a simple wash, he went out of the house and went to the outer city area.

Came to a building complex with beautiful mountains and clear waters and bamboo buildings.

"Who is coming?"

"Loose cultivator Luo Chen, wants to join the Poshan Gang."

(End of chapter)

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