Chapter 326: Conversation in Mohe Garden, The Future of Colorful Chrysanthemum Pills

Taking the boxes from Tao Yisheng's hands, Luo Chen opened them immediately to take a look.

Ten mid-grade, three high-grade, and even one top-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Pill with six and a half cloud patterns!

Luo Chen was incredibly surprised.

"Actually so complete?"

Tao Yisheng sat opposite him and poured tea as if he were at home.

He rubbed his brow and said: "It was left behind by our Tao family's Nanshan ancestor. After all, this pill formula was developed by him personally, once pushed to the top-grade level. It's a pity that limited by raw materials, the medicinal power could never go up, far inferior to the Ascending Dragon Pills of our sect."

"I didn't find it in the family treasury; my sister had to go to the Patriarch to find it."

Luo Chen listened to his introduction while carefully examining the pills in his hand.

His gaze was incredibly focused.

This thing was related to his cultivation progress later.

He had already expected that the medicinal power would not be as good as the Ascending Dragon Pill.

Now, he just wanted to know if the medicinal power of Colorful Chrysanthemum Pills with a higher grade could exceed ordinary Ascending Dragon Pills.

"That old guy had many requirements, but for just a few pills, he even set conditions."

"What's infuriating is that my sister actually agreed to that so-called marriage alliance..."

"Hmm?"

Luo Chen raised his head and looked at Tao Yisheng in shock.

"Just for these few pills? Marriage alliance?"

Realizing he had misspoken, Tao Yisheng waved his hand repeatedly.

"It doesn't really have much to do with this; it's just that Tao Daonan was looking for an excuse. I didn't expect my sister to actually agree."

Luo Chen frowned slightly, staring at him, waiting for the rest.

Tao Yisheng sighed and leaned back in his chair, somewhat dejected.

"The marriage alliance target is Fu Li of the Fu family."

"After the Dao Seed struggle, if my sister wins the Dao Seed position, this marriage proposal will be voided, and it will be changed to a Fu family woman becoming my Dao companion."

"If Fu Li succeeds, or if he also fails, then the marriage alliance will continue, and my sister will marry into the Fu family."

A complex marriage alliance plan.

Luo Chen chewed on the meaning of the words, and after some judgment, he reached a conclusion.

"This should be a result negotiated by your sister and the Patriarch, right! As far as I know, the Fu family has a Jin Dan True Person as a backer, but his lifespan is running out."

"Regardless of who succeeds or if both fail, this marriage alliance is beneficial to both sides."

Tao Yisheng nodded dejectedly.

"That is indeed the case."

"In order to fight for the Dao Seed, my sister offended quite a few people in the Green Elixir Valley. To prevent settling accounts after the autumn, this marriage alliance was formed."

"Of course, these are all things for the future. For now, we have obtained the full support of the Clan Leader's branch, and in the future, the people of his branch will fully assist me in being a good family head. Moreover, during the first round of sword fighting, the Clan Leader will personally take action to help my sister seize the position of one of the nine Great True Disciples."

Listening to this, Luo Chen could not help but smack his lips.

It seems that mixing in an immortal cultivation family is not easy either!

Everywhere there is an exchange of interests, everywhere there is compromise and seeking perfection.

Both sides are compromising, and both sides are speaking for their own interests.

The final appeal, however, is for the entire family.

Clearly, not long ago, they were arguing until their faces were red and their faces were gray.

Now, they are actually tied together tightly.

Even an old guy like Tao Daonan, whose half body is almost in the grave, has to personally take action for Tao Wan.

"Brother Luo, I have taken over the Tao family for only a short month, but I am struggling at every step, feeling that my ability is insufficient and my energy is not enough."

"It is hard to imagine how you supported such a large Luotian Society when you had nothing at the beginning."

"Do you have any experience to teach me?"

Tao Yisheng looked at Luo Chen with burning eyes, his eyes full of confusion and hope.

Luo Chen said casually: "The starting stage is like this; it will be fine once you are familiar with the internal operations of the family."

Regarding this.

Tao Yisheng bit his lower lip bitterly and shook his head with difficulty.

"Some things are not good just because you are familiar with them."

"This is just internal family matters, and I have not handled them smoothly, and I still need my sister to compromise with the Clan Leader to exchange for the full support of that branch."

"If in the future, it involves external struggles of the family, what should I do?"

Between the words, it was full of confusion and fear for the future.

Until this moment!

Luo Chen discovered that in just one month, Tao Yisheng had "aged" quite a bit.

Or rather, not aged, but matured.

He had shed his greenness and immaturity and become responsible.

Family head, family head, head of a family!

The young man who used to be carefree now began to worry about the management of an immortal cultivation family.

Luo Chen, who had been dealing with Tao Yisheng casually before, found that when the words reached his lips, he could no longer brush him off.

Tao Yisheng's address to him had been constantly changing.

Fellow Daoist Luo during the Yuanzhao Kingdom period, later the slightly respectful Dan Chenzi, and then not long ago, after he had guided him in alchemy for a year, he became the respectful and intimate Fellow Daoist Brother Luo.

Now, he was very accustomed to calling him "Brother Luo".

From the constant changes in address, it could be seen that his trust in him had been constantly increasing.

Brushing him off was not right.

Luo Chen sighed, looked at the distressed Tao Yisheng, and said seriously:

"Analyze specific situations specifically; how to do it depends on the situation at the time."

"The experience I can give you is that the angle from which you look at things should not be limited to yourself."

Tao Yisheng frowned and asked for advice humbly.

"Brother Luo, can you explain in detail?"

Luo Chen straightened his clothes, sat upright, and his face was serious.

"Personal strength, before reaching a sufficiently high realm, is extremely limited compared to family sects."

"And you are only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment; when dealing with internal and external affairs, you will naturally feel that your ability is not equal to your ambition."

"But if you look at it broadly, you are a descendant of a Jin Dan cultivator, your family has more than a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators, including late-stage Foundation Establishment powerhouses like your sister and Tao Daonan, and you yourself also have the status of a true disciple of the Green Elixir Valley!"

"In many cases, these external things can be borrowed to help you."

"Against enemies, in many cases, you don't have to do it yourself; you can completely borrow strength to strike, or unite and connect."

"This is the big direction; towards the small direction, you have to consider the demands of multiple interests, what you can satisfy, what others can give you, or take from others' hands by taking strengths and making up for weaknesses, and give it to others."

"More concisely, pull one faction and hit another; you are the one cutting the meat. What others are targeting is not you, but the meat in your hands."

"And..."

This "Ink Lotus Dialogue" lasted for a whole afternoon.

What Luo Chen taught was not some profound knowledge, but some relatively shallow theories.

He had not received systematic teaching in this area either.

Many things were explored little by little based on his theories from his previous life and his practice in this life.

It was just personal experience!

How to implement it specifically still depended on the specific situation at the time.

Luo Chen specifically exhorted that it should not be copied blindly and must be carefully analyzed before making a choice.

But at least, with an afternoon of teaching, Tao Yisheng had more or less a concept in his mind.

Later, as the handling of family affairs gradually increased.

These things would slowly melt into his instincts.

The immortal cultivation world is like this.

For those with outstanding talent, what they are taught from childhood is cultivation, and the hundred arts of immortal cultivation.

The so-called conduct of life and management of subordinates are rarely taught specifically.

Once the realm is high, one can naturally suppress everything.

But clearly, not everyone can climb to the highest realm.

Now Luo Chen stood from the perspective of an outsider and instilled some conceptual things into Tao Yisheng.

With his intelligence, he would always be able to benefit in the future!

The only pity was that his outstanding alchemy talent would likely be buried in complicated affairs.

In a person's life, energy is limited.

It is impossible to be proficient in everything and become an all-rounder in the immortal cultivation world.

Even Luo Chen had learned to delegate power during the Qi Refining stage.

He was only responsible for making major decisions, and the specific implementation had to be carried out by the people below.

Tao Yisheng left.

With his brain stuffed with a lot of things, he left the Ink Lotus Garden with hope for the future.

After Luo Chen simply ate a sumptuous dinner, he entered the cultivation room.

Taking out a middle-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir, Luo Chen swallowed it.

Since advancing to the fifth level of Foundation Establishment, the spiritual energy required to break through this realm had become even more.

Compared to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, it had more than doubled.

If it were before the hundred meridians were connected, only second-tier low-grade elixirs were taken as supplements.

If he wanted to break through, it would take at least ten years.

And now, with the help of the Blood Fiend Elixir, he had connected the hundred meridians, and also had the master-level "Ageless Evergreen Scripture" as his main cultivation technique.

As long as he matched it with a high-grade cave dwelling, he was confident that he would break through to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment within six years!

This was the confidence brought to Luo Chen by the soaring cultivation speed after the hundred meridians were connected.

However.

Just like this, Luo Chen would not be satisfied!

In the vast Green Elixir Valley, there were a full hundred late-stage Foundation Establishment great cultivators.

Among them, many stopped at the seventh or eighth level of Foundation Establishment, or like Tao Daonan, were old and frail at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.

Did they not want to reach the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment?

No!

It was just because the further one cultivated, the slower the progress, and even every small realm was like a natural chasm that was difficult to cross.

A mere fifth level of Foundation Establishment would take Luo Chen five or six years.

He could imagine how much this time would become after reaching the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Fifty years?

One hundred years?

He did not want to wait until he was over two hundred years old like Tao Daonan to rush to the Jin Dan stage.

His goal was the great sect geniuses like Tao Wan and Shangguan Yan!

Not even one hundred and fifty years old, yet at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.

Having plenty of time to perfect the Foundation Establishment realm and rush to the Jin Dan stage.

"My goal has long been not limited to ordinary sect disciples."

"These geniuses are the ones I should chase!"

His mind gradually became calm.

Luo Chen focused on refining the medicinal power of the middle-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir.

His current cultivation realm could not satisfy him, and better third-tier spiritual lands were even more unattainable.

If he wanted to speed up his cultivation, he could only entrust it to elixirs.

And alchemy happened to be the skill he was most confident in.

……

Three days later.

Luo Chen walked out of the cultivation room with a fluctuating expression.

He had already tested the medicinal power of the Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir at various grades.

The low-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir was only half of the low-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir.

The middle-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir was barely comparable to the low-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir.

The high-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir exceeded the low-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir, but was still inferior to the middle-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir.

Only that top-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir slightly exceeded the middle-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir.

This degree of increase, if it were when Luo Chen was in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, he would certainly be extremely happy.

After all, the medicinal power at the level of a middle-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir, after digestion, already had nearly half the effect of running the cultivation technique once in a high-grade cave dwelling.

One elixir was worth half a day of hard cultivation.

No matter how you calculate it, it is extremely good.

But!

Luo Chen's current realm was already the fifth level of Foundation Establishment.

What he craved was a spiritual elixir at the level of a high-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir!

A mere middle-grade one could only be said to be barely acceptable.

But as it happened, Luo Chen had studied the Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir formula.

He did not know the difficulty of refining it, but he could judge the cost of a portion of raw materials through his rich knowledge.

One portion cost one hundred spirit stones, comparable to the Jade Dew Elixir!

If Luo Chen wanted to refine top-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixirs.

Even without counting the consumption of brushing proficiency in the early stage, just the ten percent success rate of top-grade elixirs.

It meant that for every harvest of top-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixirs, he had to spend one thousand spirit stones!

One thousand spirit stones to buy a bottle of second-tier middle-grade elixirs is very reasonable!

But what is unreasonable is that the number of elixirs per furnace of Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir is likely not high either.

Tao Yisheng only produced three at the beginning.

If Luo Chen were to do it, perhaps he could double it, or even produce seven or eight.

But compared to directly purchasing second-tier middle-grade elixirs, it was still not cost-effective.

Luo Chen is not a stupid person; he knows how to calculate accounts.

Just by calculating this account, one can find that after the realm is high, refining top-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixirs is a loss-making business.

Self-sufficiency will only result in twice the effort for half the result!

"That's right, if it were a cultivation elixir formula not inferior to the Dragon Ascension Elixir, the Tao family would not give it to me."

"I should have expected it."

"Just like the Jade Marrow Elixir, a trash elixir formula that can be circulated outside, as long as the great sects control the cultivation elixir formulas with better effects, they can completely suppress the ordinary cultivation elixirs refined by loose cultivators from the perspective of cost-effectiveness, thereby occupying the vast majority of the market!"

After thinking this through, Luo Chen only had a bitter smile on his face.

The Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir formula in his hand suddenly became incomparably chicken-rib-like.

To say it is useful, it is of no great use to Luo Chen.

To say it is useless?

It is not necessarily so; if Luo Chen develops drug resistance to the Dragon Ascension Elixir in the future and cannot find other substitutes, then a top-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir comparable to a middle-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir is not a bad backup.

It is just that this backup is a bit weak.

Amidst the bitter smile, Luo Chen walked out of the Ink Lotus Garden.

Looking towards the Tao family's main residence, he was silent for a moment.

Perhaps even Tao Wan did not expect that his demand for elixirs was that high!

For an ordinary loose cultivator, if one could refine elixirs oneself for one's own use, it would already be a great blessing.

But he, Luo Chen, had requirements that far exceeded those of an ordinary loose cultivator.

"Forget it, perhaps I am a bit insatiable."

"The current situation has long exceeded my initial expectations; how can I become a big fat man in one bite."

Shaking his head, Luo Chen drove his cloud and left the Ink Lotus Garden.

He planned to go out to relax.

Tao Yisheng had mentioned the sect market of the Green Elixir Valley before, which had been very lively recently.

The struggle for the Dao Seed was imminent, many Foundation Establishment cultivators in the sect had returned, and there were also many helpers invited from outside, and even many Foundation Establishment disciples from other sects who came to watch the ceremony.

With so many people gathered together in a short time, transactions would naturally occur.

"Alchemy is disappointing; maybe in other places, luck can make up for some of it?"

Carrying beautiful hopes, Luo Chen drove his cloud and stepped into the Green Elixir Market.

(End of chapter)