[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster":3,"chapter-immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-chapter-268":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Immortality Starts with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1899672,2534,"Chapter 268: Ten Thousand Mile Quicksand Wasteland of the Nine Thunder Mountains","immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-chapter-268",268,"\u003Cp>Meeting Li Jinhuang again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The location was not in Huilong Bay, but inside a \"Water Mansion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep in the Qinhua River, a winding corridor led to an unknown destination, dark and gloomy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two figures, one in front and one behind, walked silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen followed behind, looking at the person in front with slight surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yingzhang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The existence in the Li family's generation most likely to reach Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With dual spirit root aptitude, he was young but had not joined a major sect; instead, he had been kept by Li Jinhuang from a very young age to be taught personally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a situation also existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the family's talent was in a transition period, a genius appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best way to handle it was not to send them to a major sect, but to keep them in their own family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, once entering a sect, it is as deep as the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One might forget the family at any time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, raising them by one's side from a young age could strengthen their reliance on the family and consolidate feelings beyond blood relations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, it was to bind the other party with the family's vast and complex interpersonal relationships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn't be said whether it was good or bad; after all, the other party did indeed enjoy the full tilt of family resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What surprised Luo Chen was that the other party's realm seemed to be in a state of slow decline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, he was at the Qi Refining Great Perfection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he was not in a hurry to reach Foundation Establishment, letting his realm slowly decline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was too strange!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seemingly sensing Luo Chen's doubt, Li Yingzhang said without looking back:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is the senior curious about my realm's declining state?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen hummed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yingzhang explained simply: \"My constitution is special; it is the Nine-Curved Recirculating Body. It just so happens that my ancestor found a Foundation Establishment secret technique for me, the 'Nine-Fold Recirculating Yuan.' By practicing this secret technique, one yuan is formed inside the dantian every year. After nine years, the Nine-Fold Recirculating Yuan reaches great accomplishment, which can increase my Foundation Establishment success rate by twenty percent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The faint explanation stirred layers of ripples in Luo Chen's heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was actually a secret technique to assist Foundation Establishment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Constructing Nine-Fold Recirculating Yuan inside the dantian; wasn't this simulating and shaping the Nine Heavens of the dantian after Foundation Establishment in advance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, when it came time for Foundation Establishment, after shattering the dantian, there was no need to painstakingly perform the act of turning the dantian into a sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shattering the dantian, turning the dantian into a sea, storing spiritual power, and turning spiritual power into liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were the four most critical points of Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They corresponded to the spiritual energy barrier, the soul barrier, and overall, the body barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After practicing this secret technique, the middle process of turning into a sea became a matter of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And looking at the meaning of Li Yingzhang's words, the mastery and purification of spiritual power during the practice of \"Nine-Fold Recirculating Yuan\" would be even deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wouldn't that mean he had also familiarized himself with the latter two processes in advance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder it could increase the Foundation Establishment success rate by twenty percent!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other party was so generous and spoke of this secret technique without any hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed he wasn't afraid of Luo Chen coveting it at all?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's right, this set of secret techniques is tailor-made for his special constitution; it's useless for others to have it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen had also seen the Nine-Curved Recirculating constitution in a casual book introducing genius constitutions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This belonged to a type of \"innate defective constitution\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People with this constitution are born with meridians that are thicker than others, and they can accommodate more spiritual energy among those of the same rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the thick meridians are winding and intersecting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's like the waterways of a great river, muddy and winding, nine-curved and recirculating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One can imagine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a complex meridian system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When operating the natal cultivation method, it naturally consumes several times the energy of an ordinary person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An ordinary person with this constitution would need at least a hundred years to reach the Qi Refining Great Perfection, and after a hundred years, there would be no hope of achieving the Foundation Establishment Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other party reached the Qi Refining Great Perfection at the young age of forty or fifty, which shows how much effort Li Jinhuang invested in him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just unknown which fold of the \"Nine-Fold Recirculating Yuan\" he has practiced to now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How many more years until Foundation Establishment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Luo Chen was thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the person in front stopped in front of a water curtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior, my ancestor is waiting for you inside.\" Li Yingzhang reached out his hand in an inviting gesture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen looked at him seriously, then stepped into the water curtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he entered, the rich spiritual energy felt like a different world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was truly a first-tier top-grade cave dwelling!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Luo Chen could sigh, his gaze fell on Li Jinhuang, and his brows furrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fellow Daoist, are you injured?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside a subterranean spiritual spring, Li Jinhuang sat on a meditation cushion, his aura fluctuating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On his body, there was still a faint smell of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Luo Chen arrive, Li Jinhuang gave a bitter smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn't expect the Quicksand Wasteland to be so chaotic. The robbery cultivators are simply too rampant!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Quicksand Wasteland, you actually went to the Nine Thunder Mountains side?\" Luo Chen was extremely surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinhuang sighed, \"Only there is the situation chaotic, and no one will investigate the origin; everything depends on the quality of the goods.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen pursed his lips, not knowing what to say for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He naturally knew that it was easy to sell things on the Thunder Mountain side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, the war between the Nascent Soul sects still had some restraint, and personal intervention was not frequent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the initial brief confrontation, it evolved into a struggle between subordinates, allies, and vassals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thunder Mountain was the center of the struggle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Ten Thousand Mile Quicksand Wasteland extending from Thunder Mountain was the largest battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a mixed bag of fish and dragons, with countless loose cultivators from the Yuding Domain mixing in, trying to profit from the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Li Jinhuang was simply too bold!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I changed the name of your Tongyou Pill to Fantasy Dream Spirit Pill and sold it in batches on the black market.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was a bit unsmooth at first, but later it was in short supply.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I only spent three months selling it all clean.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn't expect someone to target me... After a bitter battle, I barely escaped.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While speaking, Li Jinhuang took out a storage bag stained with black blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is all the proceeds, all inside; you can count it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took the storage bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His spiritual sense swept over it, and Luo Chen couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quite a lot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He carefully put it away, then asked curiously: \"With your Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer strength, in the absence of Great Cultivators, who could force you to be so disheveled?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know, the other party's origin was well hidden.\" Li Jinhuang gave a bitter smile, \"I only know that the other party used a bowl-type magic treasure, which almost covered me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bowl?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen was stunned for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary cultivators wouldn't use such exotic magic treasures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the Buddhist powerhouses in the Central Plains and Southern Border outside the Eastern Wasteland would often use this type of magic treasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were actually such cultivators in the Yuding Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinhuang seemed not to want to talk more and changed the subject.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You've seen that child Yingzhang, haven't you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen nodded; it was Li Yingzhang who had led him in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked very normal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My grandson is good at everything, but as long as he practices, he ignores everything else.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am a bit worried about handing the Li family over to him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, please take care of the Li family juniors in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the other party's increasingly weak aura, Luo Chen nodded solemnly, \"It should be done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This felt a bit like entrusting affairs after death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other party had put in great effort to handle the Tongyou Pill for him, so Luo Chen naturally wouldn't spoil the mood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he had another purpose for this trip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wonder if Fellow Daoist Li has any channels to purchase middle-grade or even high-grade second-tier cultivation elixirs?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinhuang looked at Luo Chen in astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I had them, why would I have stopped at the Foundation Establishment middle stage in this life?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen was also stunned for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alright!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was asking a blind man for directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Li Jinhuang still pointed out some channels where high-grade elixirs might appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, there were the regular large auctions; there was nothing much to say about that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, there were various black markets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The origins of things in these black markets were often not seen in the light; one never knew which robbery cultivator had killed a major sect disciple and obtained high-grade elixirs from the other's storage bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the probability of high-grade elixirs appearing in the black market was not very high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, any cultivator could keep high-grade elixirs for their own use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Luo Chen entrusting Li Jinhuang to sell nine hundred middle and high-grade elixirs this time, it could be considered a big move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they were only first-tier, it still made Li Jinhuang noticed by many people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thereby bringing the trouble of being robbed and killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Li Jinhuang mentioned another path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since high-grade elixirs only circulate within major sects, why not find major sect disciples to buy them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way back to the city, Luo Chen thought about the path Li Jinhuang finally proposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clearly a path tailor-made for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a good relationship with the Ice Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps there was a chance to get high-grade elixirs from the Ice Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But it's only a 'perhaps'; if the Ice Fortress had a surplus of elixirs, they wouldn't be so thirsty for my Jade Dew Pill.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen didn't hold much hope for this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the flying boat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen carefully counted the spirit stones Li Jinhuang had brought back for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pricing of the Tongyou Pill was decided by the two of them before Li Jinhuang set off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given that this elixir was very niche but could significantly increase soul foundation, it was an exotic elixir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the price was set extremely high!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Middle-grade, ten pills per bottle, priced at four hundred spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High-grade, ten pills per bottle, priced at nine hundred spirit stones!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This price was jaw-dropping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mere first-tier elixir, the middle-grade ones were almost catching up to the second-tier Qi-Harmonizing Elixir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The high-grade ones even directly exceeded the selling price of the low-grade Qi-Harmonizing Elixir and Rising Dragon Pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounded like treating people like fools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But those who could cultivate to the Foundation Establishment stage might have some foolish people, but those mixing in the Quicksand Wasteland definitely had no fools to be slaughtered for nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tongyou Pill, after being ignored at first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just half a month later, it ushered in a buying frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinhuang later even deliberately controlled the outflow speed of the elixirs in his hands and put them on the black market auction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High-grade Tongyou Pill, nine hundred per bottle?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was just the starting price!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The highest transaction price once reached two thousand stones, far exceeding the transaction price of the middle-grade Qi-Harmonizing Elixir at the Tianlan Auction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why were Foundation Establishment True Cultivators so crazy about snapping up high-grade Tongyou Pills?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen had just thought about this question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's probably related to what Chu Kui said, that soul foundation is especially important at the time of Core Formation!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And those Foundation Establishment True Cultivators who dare to mix in the Nascent Soul sect battlefield are mostly those who have ambitions for the Great Dao. When they encounter such elixirs that can directly increase soul foundation, everyone will spare no cost to bid for a few bottles.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if it only increases by one or two percent, perhaps it will increase a little bit of success rate in future Core Formation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For the sake of Core Formation, everyone is fighting!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sighing, Luo Chen put away the storage bag with satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he had gained one hundred and eleven thousand low-grade spirit stones!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be considered a small compensation for the costs he had previously invested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the future, he didn't plan to refine middle and high-grade Tongyou Pills anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two, while seemingly high in price and profit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, it was only \"seemingly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cost was three times that of the Jade Marrow Pill, and after each batch of raw materials was successful, the output was only three pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn't form a scale, the refining difficulty was high, and the market could only face a small number of Foundation Establishment True Cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, after taking this kind of elixir multiple times, the effect would also become worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coupled with the heaven-defying effect of increasing soul foundation, it was easy to attract the covetousness of major sects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In summary, it was decided that the Tongyou Pill could not be used for large-scale profit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen planned to only refine top-grade Tongyou Pills for his own use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally refine a few low-grade Tongyou Pills and put them in the Luotian Society as internal welfare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flying boat flew at high speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, it returned to Tianlan Immortal City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen didn't hesitate and headed straight for the Qingdan Valley shop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, he asked if Xuan Yunzi was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a mind to inquire about news of middle-grade Rising Dragon Pills from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the Ice Fortress in the bitter cold, Qingdan Valley, famous for alchemy in the Yuding Domain, was more likely to leak middle-grade Rising Dragon Pills!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, his \"relationship\" with Xuan Yunzi seemed quite good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a pity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After inquiring, the answer was that the other party had already returned to the sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle-Master He was not a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator who rotated at the Qingdan Pavilion for a long time; his alchemy attainments are very high, and he is highly valued in the valley. This time coming to Tianlan Immortal City was also for a few types of medicinal materials that might appear at the auction, so he made a personal trip.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He has successfully purchased the items he wanted and didn't stay long; he returned half a year ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The maid explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen was helpless and lost the thought of getting to know the rotating Foundation Establishment of Qingdan Pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out his discount card and bought nearly a year's worth of low-grade Rising Dragon Pills in one go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the discount, it cost a full nineteen thousand spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This speed of spending money truly made Luo Chen's heart ache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His previous assets were only those sixty thousand spirit stones that were as immovable as a mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past year, it had only increased by one hundred thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adding the one hundred and eleven thousand recovered today, the total was only two hundred and seventy thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was just a rough number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, Luo Chen seemed not to go out, but his expenses were not low at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was high-quality spiritual rice, second-tier monster meat cut by the butcher shop, or one stick of Blazing God Incense every day, or other auxiliary elixirs consumed occasionally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His spirit stones were always being consumed at a terrifying speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hundred and seventy thousand?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, he only had two hundred and forty thousand left before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, another nineteen thousand was spent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After going out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen didn't set up the Langqi flying boat but walked on the wide street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still had some things to buy later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alchemy consumes a lot, not just energy, but the consumption of the durability of some utensils is also visible to the naked eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And involving the Jade Dew Pill, he still had to go buy Hundred Flower Dew, and by the way, buy the Blazing God Incense for the next year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This trip would cost another ten thousand plus spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fortunately, Sima Huiniang adjusted the merit policy of the Luotian Society, otherwise, if it continued like before, my annual surplus of one hundred thousand would be gone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But even so, with one hundred thousand a year, after all my various expenses, I can't save a few tens of thousands of savings.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What will I use to compete for Core Formation spiritual medicine in the future?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard that after Core Formation, one also needs to tailor-make a natal magic treasure, which is another huge expense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he, Luo Chen, were to build a natal magic treasure, he would definitely not choose ordinary magic treasures sold on the market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The functional effects of those magic treasures were mostly figured out by others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, those magic treasures basically lost their growth potential and were difficult to improve in grade as his realm improved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thinking too far ahead, these are all things after Core Formation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emerging from the Fragrance Pavilion, Luo Chen went to the Heavenly Clothing Building again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spent seven thousand spirit stones to buy a brand-new top-grade magic robe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It came with four major functions: cleaning, defense, dust avoidance, and wind control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this, twenty thousand spirit stones were gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looking at the near future, it will only be a year before I advance to the Foundation Establishment middle stage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about after the middle stage?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The spiritual energy required for each layer will only be more, and the cultivation progress will only be slower; I must get enough high-grade elixirs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That means a huge amount of capital!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, there are only two hundred thousand spirit stones left on me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not enough, far from enough!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a person has no long-term worries, there will be near-term troubles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen was already planning and plotting for the cultivation after the Foundation Establishment middle stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First of all, it had to land on his own financial resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, even if someone gave him a path to high-grade elixirs, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to eat it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't forget, the rent for a high-grade cave dwelling is also very terrifying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the time for the Ice Fortress to rotate in Tianlan Immortal City seemed to be almost at the ten-year mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they no longer rotate, will the new Golden Core major sect still give him the privilege of renting year by year?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not, he would spend four hundred and eighty thousand spirit stones in one go!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The profit of the Jade Marrow Pill can be seen to the bottom at a glance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I put the Jade Dew Pill income generation on the agenda?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arriving outside the Tianyi Water Defense Array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen casually greeted the guarding cultivator and walked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his mind, he was still thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a second-tier elixir, the Jade Dew Pill had a high selling price and was very scarce, but the cost was also very high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One batch of raw materials cost one hundred spirit stones, and it was also affected by market price fluctuations, occasionally rising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key is, damn it, once the price goes up, it doesn't come down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Disgusting!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before, Luo Chen needed ten batches of raw materials to refine one bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key was that in order to hook up with the Ice Fortress line, he voluntarily gave up the high selling price of scarce elixirs and only sold them for five hundred per bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, he was selling for five hundred with a cost of one thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Losing money to maintain the relationship!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is human nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as Tantai Jin asked for more and more Jade Dew Pills, he would lose more and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Losing five hundred per bottle, losing two thousand five hundred a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the ten-year period passed, he would have to provide one hundred bottles a year, and by then it would be a pure loss of twenty-five thousand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This doesn't even involve wasting Luo Chen's time and energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I want to maintain an intimate relationship and also want to get money from them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can only improve the grade of the elixirs sold.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding this point, Luo Chen could do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His proficiency in refining Jade Dew Pills had already reached the mastery level, and he could refine middle-grade Jade Dew Pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can't be in a hurry!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In just a few years, improving to the middle-grade level, although it can be explained by genius, it is still too risky.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suppressing the urgent thoughts in his heart, Luo Chen forced himself to calm down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just losing money!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current profit is enough to support his cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Future things can be planned in advance, but never be in a hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything must be done step by step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master, you're back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you want to eat tonight?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I won't eat dinner; you stew this brocade-feathered chicken for me, and I'll drink the soup tomorrow morning. By the way, this is a top-grade Hundred Yin magic robe I just bought at the Heavenly Clothing Building; try to see if you can wear it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Meiling took the lively brocade-feathered chicken, and then excitedly took the Hundred Yin magic robe into the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a ghost soul, and the clothes on her body were manifested from ghost soul energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this Hundred Yin magic robe was woven from hundreds of strands of yin energy combined with special materials, which was just right for her to wear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From now on, she could save the ghost soul energy used to manifest clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After she entered the room, Luo Chen entered the meditation room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the low-grade Rising Dragon Pill in his hand, Luo Chen gave a bitter smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine, let's endure the reduced cultivation speed for now and cultivate to the Foundation Establishment middle stage first!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flicking his finger, he swallowed the Rising Dragon Pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blazing God Incense rose slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the smoke, Luo Chen, who had changed into a red cloud long robe magic robe, sat cross-legged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind was clear, absorbing countless spiritual energy into his dantian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within that third heaven, the cloud mass of spiritual energy formed by spiritual energy gradually condensed during the operation of the cultivation method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A drop of spiritual liquid dripped into the small lake of spiritual liquid that had accumulated more than half below.\u003C\u002Fp>",3828,"2026-06-12T10:36:04.828Z","2026-06-18T03:42:36.771Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","e4d55e64887cbb475b8946e39fad299266bbfa7e70768f0c669a38904456375d","immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-chapter-269","immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-chapter-267",1090,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-cover.jpg"]