Chapter 228

Time flies like a shuttle, and youth passes easily.

Looking back, a year has already passed.

In the warm and quiet room.

Luo Chen held his breath and focused, paying close attention to his vast sea of energy.

A vortex was spinning at high speed.

As his spiritual sense withdrew, the rotation speed of the vortex became slower and slower.

He carefully controlled the rhythm of his spiritual sense's withdrawal.

"If the Clear Source Wonderful Pill Method wants to reach small success, it must operate autonomously without spiritual sense control."

"Only then can it suppress the production of pill toxins."

"After a year of effort, whether it succeeds or fails depends on today."

Thoughts flickered in his heart, and he didn't hesitate any longer, completely withdrawing his spiritual sense.

In that instant, the vortex, which had weakened to the extreme and was spinning slowly to the extreme, paused.

It was as if it were about to dissipate.

Hum!

It seemed accustomed to having this vortex in the sea of energy, and as it was about to dissipate, a drop of pure spiritual liquid dripped into it.

At this moment, the stalled vortex slowly began to spin again.

It drove the surrounding free spiritual energy into it.

Seeing this scene, Luo Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Success!"

"The Clear Source Wonderful Pill Method has reached small success. From now on, I can continue to take pills for cultivation."

He didn't rush to take pills for a test.

He was waiting for this small vortex to fully form; it was currently in a newborn stage and very fragile.

With nothing to do, Luo Chen clicked on the attribute panel.

【Lifespan: 36/160】

【Spirit Root: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth】

【Realm: Foundation Establishment Second Layer 4/100】

【Cultivation Method: Wood Medicine King Scripture Perfect 47/1000, Bright Spirit Breaking Fiend Grandmaster 01/1000, Ten Thousand Beast Scripture 10/100】

【Spells: Second-grade: Mountain Collapse Proficient 10/100, Glazed Liuli Liuli Tianmu Proficient 10/100

First-grade: Healing Art Grandmaster 700/1000, Earth Mountain Art Perfect 40/100, Wave Art Perfect 40/100, Sound-Isolating Art Perfect 31/100, Soul-Seizing Art Proficient 70/300, Great Perfection Spells (Click to query details)】

【Pill Method: Great Perfection Folding Jade Hand, Pure Heart Hand Grandmaster 13/1000, Huanxi Hand Proficient 170/300, Transforming Cloud Hand Proficient 141/300, Clear Source Wonderful Pill Method Proficient 01/300】

【Wu Gong: Mountain-Splitting Tablet-Breaking Palm Great Perfection, Heaven Maiden Scattering Flowers Perfect 400/1000, Wang Family Secret Manual Entry 89/100】

【Skills: Second-grade Alchemist: Grain-Avoiding Powder Great Perfection, Myriad Wonderful Pill Great Perfection, Jade Marrow Pill Great Perfection, Blood-Burning Pill Proficient 04/300, Nether Pill Proficient 107/300, Emperor Flowing Pulp Entry 3/100】

【Achievement Points: 10】

He glanced at his lifespan; unsurprisingly, he was thirty-six years old.

Luo Chen was about to look at the next entry, but his gaze paused.

"160—160"

"My lifespan limit increased by five years?"

"Strange, I haven't broken through to a new realm, have I?"

In his confusion, Luo Chen suddenly gained some insight.

That's right!

It must be the chain reaction caused by the Clear Source Wonderful Pill Method reaching the proficient level of proficiency, which is small success.

The sea of energy cannot be polluted, and the Dao foundation cannot tolerate filth.

Returning to the same path, there is no early or late; clearing toxins requires a clear source.

This pill method isn't just about dissolving pill toxins.

In the day-to-day cultivation, it can also actively expel impurities from the body, making the cultivator's body increasingly pure and clean.

It vaguely points toward the concept of "flawless."

As such, with a better body, he can naturally live a few more years.

Luo Chen couldn't help but reveal a smile.

This pill method is not bad; it detoxifies and nourishes the skin. Over the past year, his skin has improved quite a bit.

When he was young, because he was surrounded by the stove and fire pit every day for alchemy, his skin color was reddish.

Now, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him as white as jade with delicate skin.

But as a man, he didn't care that much about his appearance.

Luo Chen smiled and focused his attention on his realm.

The progress bar for the second layer of Foundation Establishment had only moved a little in a year, reaching 4/100.

To be honest, this progress was truly too slow.

Even though he hadn't taken any pills to increase his cultivation, he had been diligent every day, insisting on cultivating the "Wood Medicine King Scripture."

For this reason, even the proficiency of the "Wood Medicine King Scripture" was about to reach the Grandmaster level.

In other words!

Without pills, if he wanted to break through to the third layer of Foundation Establishment, it would take at least another four years.

You have to know, this was under the premise that he possessed a second-grade spiritual vein cave!

"This is only the early stage of Foundation Establishment, the stage where cultivation is easiest and improvement is fastest."

"If it were the later stages..."

Luo Chen remembered very clearly that during his Qi Refining stage, the early and middle stages were calculated in months.

By the late Qi Refining stage, it had increased more than tenfold, calculated in years.

The spiritual energy required for the Foundation Establishment stage would only be more than that of the Qi Refining stage.

By then, it wouldn't just be ten times more.

A hundred times, a thousand times!

Pursing his lips, the joy from the increase in his lifespan limit gradually subsided.

At least, everything was moving in the right direction!

Regarding the cultivation method, there was nothing to say.

He had long since figured out that he needed to operate the "Wood Medicine King Scripture" twenty times to barely increase his proficiency by one point.

He was still a bit away from the Grandmaster level, which was five hundred times; he could operate the cultivation method five times a day at full strength.

"A hundred days?"

After muttering this, Luo Chen focused his attention on another cultivation method.

Bright Spirit Breaking Fiend!

Grandmaster level!

The geothermal fiend energy extracted from Mount Xiaohuan Mountain had long since been exhausted.

Later, in order to cultivate, he had purchased a batch of geothermal fiend energy in Mount Tianlan Xiancheng, and finally, through persistent effort, he had raised it to the Grandmaster level.

And the Grandmaster-level Bright Spirit Breaking Fiend gave him a huge surprise.

With a thought!

His spiritual sense was released, then suddenly rolled back.

It formed a thin, membrane-like film that tightly wrapped around his sea of consciousness.

Su Yinyin, it seemed to form a defensive mechanism.

If it were another Foundation Establishment cultivator, they would likely be hearing it until their head felt as big as an ox.

Luo Chen breathed a long sigh of relief.

The extension of the Grandmaster-level Bright Spirit Breaking Fiend was not an offensive means, but rather a defensive one.

He could feel that under this layer of spiritual sense golden film, he could resist spiritual sense attacks from the outside world.

"Could this change be related to that body-refining cultivation method of Wang Yuan's?"

In the Wu Gong column, an entry had appeared.

Wang Family Secret Manual.

Over the past year, Luo Chen had focused on the cultivation of the Clear Source Wonderful Pill Method.

But that didn't mean he hadn't done anything else.

Besides daily cultivation, he had also practiced a set of fist techniques from the secret manual Wang Yuan had given him.

It didn't take much time anyway; he would just practice a set after sitting in meditation every day.

This set of fist techniques was not known for body refining or attacking.

Instead, it focused on health preservation and defense.

It combined parts of will and soul, requiring every move and style to extend one's will along with the body.

Over time, it had made Luo Chen feel much more spirited every day.

He hadn't expected that after the Bright Spirit Breaking Fiend reached Grandmaster level, it would also form a defensive golden film.

"Perhaps I can study it more and solidify this layer of spiritual sense golden film, completely wrapping it outside the sea of consciousness."

Luo Chen knew that soul attacks were always the most dangerous and extreme type of attack.

One strike, and there would be casualties!

When Gao Gao Tingyuan cast the Soul-Seizing Art on him earlier and ended up suffering a backlash, that was an example.

And wanting to defend against soul attacks was extremely difficult, often requiring one to just take it head-on.

There was no such thing as winning against the strong with the weak.

If your soul foundation is deeper than theirs, you can hold on.

If not, you will be injured.

Moreover, even if you hold on, there's a possibility of a momentary stiffness or pause.

Which would reveal a huge flaw in the battle.

He decided that the cultivation of Bright Spirit Breaking Fiend could not stop!

"I don't have much fiend energy left on hand; I need to buy some more."

His gaze slid down.

It came to the spell column.

There was no need to look at the first-grade spells anymore; the main ones were the two second-grade spells.

Mountain Collapse and Glazed Liuli Liuli Tianmu had both reached the proficient stage.

This was good news.

But Luo Chen didn't care.

The shortcomings of such large spells were always very obvious.

The consumption of spiritual power was one thing, and the casting time was another.

Unless it was like the Fireball Art, cultivated to the instant-cast level, and the Scorching Sun Art fused from it could also be cast fast enough.

Only then could it be used to fight the enemy.

Luo Chen practiced these two spells only because he valued their potential.

"Take it slow!"

He muttered to himself.

Luo Chen looked at the various things on the attribute panel.

He scanned down quickly and paused at the pill column.

The Blood-Burning Pill and the Nether Pill had also reached the proficient level.

Burning Blood Elixir and Tongyou Elixir had also reached the proficient level.

This was related to the few batches of elixirs he had refined in his spare time over the past year.

Currently, he didn't need these two types of elixirs.

But the Burning Blood Elixir could indeed increase a cultivator's instantaneous combat power.

Mount Tianlan Xiancheng was highly competitive, and who knew when a battle might suddenly break out.

These Burning Blood Elixirs were trump cards he prepared for the high-level members of the Luo Heaven Society, and even for late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

Facts proved that the Burning Blood Elixir had miraculous effects in battles between low-level cultivators.

Back then, in the battle of Mount Xiaohuan Mountain, the Luo Heaven Society was able to keep casualties to a minimum because of the Burning Blood Elixir.

Since then, because he had to prepare for the Foundation Establishment breakthrough, he hadn't refined much.

As a result, in the battle of Mount Gaoling Plain, the Luo Heaven Society suffered its greatest casualties since its founding.

Out of a scale of over three hundred people, only over one hundred and fifty survived in the end.

Even his good friend Zeng Wen was left there forever.

If there had been a batch of Burning Blood Elixirs on hand at that time, at least dozens more people could have survived!

With this lesson from the past, Luo Chen would rather spend some time.

As for the Tongyou Elixir, it was prepared by Luo Chen for the few cultivators in the Luo Heaven Society who were close to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining as Foundation Establishment spiritual medicine.

Moreover, he also wanted to know, after his own Foundation Establishment.

Would ordinary Tongyou Elixirs still have an effect on him?

If the low-grade ones didn't work, what about middle-grade? High-grade? Or even top-grade Tongyou Elixirs!

Compared to top-grade Zhongmiao Pills and top-grade Yusu Pills, these two were too chicken-rib-like for Luo Chen.

But if top-grade Tongyou Elixirs were useful, Luo Chen would rather pay a high price to refine them.

Spiritual medicine that could increase spiritual foundation was too rare!

And in the process of brushing top-grade Tongyou Elixirs.

These extra low-grade Tongyou Elixirs naturally wouldn't be wasted.

Luo Chen knew very well what kind of wonderful benefits a strong spiritual foundation would have for breaking through Foundation Establishment.

Even, it didn't need too many Tongyou Elixirs.

A small batch of elixirs could allow Duan Feng and the others to have more chances of Foundation Establishment.

"Achievement points, reached ten again."

Looking at those ten achievement points, ripples rose in Luo Chen's heart.

After Foundation Establishment, he could spend normal achievement points to enter the corresponding second-tier cultivation techniques, spells, and even elixir formulas.

He didn't need any cultivation techniques to enter.

In terms of spells, he had extremely high talent.

In other words, all his achievement points were actually prepared for elixir formulas.

And elixir formulas?

With a thought, two elixir formulas appeared in his hand.

One was animal skin, recording the Blood Evil Elixir.

One was a bamboo slip, recording the Jade Dew Elixir.

"Originally, it should be used to enter the Blood Evil Elixir, which was my promise to Wang Yuan back then."

"But I have explored this elixir formula for many years, and even based on this elixir formula, I have researched the Burning Blood Elixir."

"It doesn't need achievement points; give me some more time, and I can figure it out thoroughly."

The current Luo Chen was quite confident in the way of elixirs.

If it were a strange elixir formula, he would be helpless and unable to enter quickly.

But he had studied the Blood Evil Elixir for so many years, and he had already researched it seven or eight out of ten.

And refining this elixir was never about the difficulty of refining.

The problem lay in the main materials for refining.

Therefore, he wanted to save this achievement point.

"Jade Dew Elixir..."

In his muttering, the effects of the Jade Dew Elixir flowed through Luo Chen's heart.

For female cultivators, especially female cultivators who practiced water-attribute and ice-attribute cultivation techniques, it had miraculous effects on cultivation.

The effect was far superior to orthodox cultivation elixirs.

This was not just recorded in the elixir formula!

Because the Jade Dew Elixir itself was a very popular elixir in another great domain.

Its effects had long been known to the world.

It was just because the distance was too far, and the Jade Dew Elixir was difficult to refine, so it was rarely circulated in the Yuding Domain.

"If I can refine it, it will definitely be a huge source of wealth!"

"But in this way, it will easily attract the covetousness of large forces, so I still have to deliberate."

"If Yusu Pills can earn wealth, then Jade Dew Elixir is not in a hurry to refine."

Thinking about these things, Luo Chen gradually made a decision.

He planned to leave seclusion tomorrow and go to the Luo Heaven Society to see the market research situation on Gu Gu Caiyi's side.

It's been a year!

That batch of Yusu Pills should be enough to collect the market feedback completely.

Time passed gradually.

After Luo Chen took stock of his current attributes.

It was already morning.

At this time, the tiny vortex in his Qi Sea had finally completely formed.

Even if it didn't have the power of active casting, it was running actively.

In this way.

When taking elixirs, the medicinal power would first enter the vortex and then be decomposed.

Luo Chen moved his mind, and two bottles of elixirs appeared in his hand.

One was called the Rising Dragon Elixir, refined by the Green Elixir Valley, third-turn level, with a low-grade quality.

One was called the Harmonious Qi Elixir, refined by the Medicine King Sect, sold exclusively by the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion.

The quality didn't need to be said, naturally also low-grade.

These large sects seemed to only sell low-grade elixirs to the outside world, and the marked price was extremely high.

Middle and high-grade elixirs, except for auctions, were rarely sold to loose cultivators.

The name Harmonious Qi Elixir was simple and natural, having the same style as the naming of Nourishing Qi Elixir and Transforming Dust Elixir.

"Next, I will test the effect of taking elixirs at the Foundation Establishment stage."

"Spiritual power conversion, frequency of taking, and the clearing and suppressing power of the Qingyuan Miaodan Method on elixir poison."

"Finally, through experiments, clarify the general direction of my cultivation."

Luo Chen first chose the Harmonious Qi Elixir.

It was a specialty of the Medicine King Sect, and regardless of anything else, the quality was guaranteed.

This bottle in his hand had the standard quantity of ten pills.

Purchased at the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion, the current market price had risen to 600 low-grade spirit stones per bottle.

It was truly ridiculously expensive.

It was expensive before, but at least 400 or 500 spirit stones per bottle was within the normal range.

"The war has been going on for so long, not only is the price of magic tools high, but all kinds of cultivation resources have also become more and more expensive."

"Sigh, I don't know when it will end."

Luo Chen sighed and swallowed the Harmonious Qi Elixir.

The moment it entered his mouth.

The "Green Wood Elixir King Sutra" operated at full strength instantly.

Spiritual power flowed through specific meridians and acupoints throughout his body, thereby bringing the Harmonious Qi Elixir into his stomach.

If it were in the past, the elixir would have exploded at this time, and the immense medicinal power would be operated by the cultivation technique, merging into the great river, and then entering the Dantian Qi Sea to become a part of the cultivator's spiritual power.

In the middle, there was a process of digestion, release, conversion, purification, and finally belonging to oneself.

But this time, that immense medicinal power.

During the operation of the Green Wood Elixir King Sutra, after entering the Qi Sea, it didn't merge immediately.

Instead, it was brought to the side of the vortex formed by the Qingyuan Miaodan Method.

"No wonder it must be at the small success stage to have an effect."

"Cultivators can usually only operate one set of cultivation techniques at the same time. When taking elixirs, most choose their own life-bound cultivation technique. In this case, it is difficult to be distracted to operate another cultivation technique to resolve elixir poison."

"Over time, elixir poison is left behind."

"But after the Qingyuan Miaodan Method reaches the small success stage, it can operate autonomously."

Under Luo Chen's full concentration, the immense medicinal power brought by the Harmonious Qi Elixir entered the vortex.

For a moment, the vortex almost collapsed.

But with the help of the pure spiritual power that had turned into liquid all around, it was finally stabilized.

The medicinal power entered the vortex and spun rapidly.

One after another, the full medicinal power was converted into spiritual energy, and then spiraled out, merging into Luo Chen's own spiritual power.

It was also in this process.

Above, strands of gray and black substances, invisible to the naked eye, were thrown out of the Qi Sea.

Luo Chen had been paying attention to the refining process of the elixir.

Until it ended.

He opened his eyes.

Luo Chen lifted his clothes and touched his navel.

Su Yinyin, there was a feeling of sweatiness.

"Is this the manifestation of suppressing elixir poison?"

He cast a cleaning spell to keep himself in a clean and refreshed state.

Luo Chen let out a long sigh of relief.

Now, he could finally barely cultivate with the help of elixirs.

Even if the vortex formed by the Qingyuan Miaodan Method was not as powerful as active casting, it could already suppress the generation of a large amount of new elixir poison.

The remaining ones could be thoroughly cleared in the future when he had time.

"It's just that I have outstanding talent in spells; if it were someone else, wanting to reach this step would take at least several years."

"And if they wanted to reach the great success stage, it would be even more remote."

After the sigh, Luo Chen began to estimate how much spiritual energy one Harmonious Qi Elixir increased.

If it were someone else, they might only get a rough idea.

But he had a system.

The attribute panel could quantify it very well.

He called up the attribute panel again, his gaze falling on the realm column.

【Foundation Establishment Second Layer 4/100】

"No change?"

"Is the medicinal power of one Harmonious Qi Elixir not enough to reach the spiritual energy amount of one progress point?"

Luo Chen's gaze flickered, and he already had a plan in his heart.

Next, spend more time and summarize the experimental results!

(End of chapter)