Chapter 326

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

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

Luo Chen was incomparably surprised.

"Actually so complete?"

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

He rubbed his brows and said: "They were left by our Tao family's Ancestor Nanshan. After all, this elixir recipe was developed by him personally, and it was once pushed to the top-grade level. It's just a pity that, limited by the raw materials, the medicinal power could never go up, far inferior to our sect's Dragon Ascension Elixir."

"I couldn't find them in the family treasure vault; it was my sister who went to the Patriarch to find them."

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

His gaze was incomparably focused.

This thing was related to his cultivation progress later.

He had already expected that the medicinal power was inferior to the Dragon Ascension Elixir.

Now, he just wanted to know if the medicinal power of a slightly higher-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir could exceed that of an ordinary Dragon Ascension Elixir.

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

"What's annoying 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 elixirs? Marriage alliance?"

Realizing he had said the wrong thing, Tao Yisheng waved his hands 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 really agree."

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

Tao Yisheng sighed and leaned back in his chair, looking a bit dispirited.

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

"After the Dao Seed struggle, if my sister wins the Dao Seed position, this marriage alliance proposal will be voided and changed to me forming a Dao companion with a woman from the Fu family."

"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 the result of your sister and the Patriarch discussing it together, right? As far as I know, the Fu family has a Golden Core Shangren as a backer, but his lifespan is running out."

"No matter which side you are on, or if you 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 many people in the Qingdan Valley, so to prevent autumn settling of accounts, this marriage alliance was made."

"Of course, these are all things for the future. For now, we have obtained the full support of the Patriarch's line, and in the future, the people of that line will fully assist me in being a good Family Head. And, in the first round of sword fighting, the Patriarch will personally take action to help my sister win the position of one of the nine Great True Disciples."

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

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

Everywhere is interest exchange, everywhere is compromise and seeking perfection.

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

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

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

Now, they are tightly bound together.

Even an old guy like Tao Daonan, who is almost half-buried, has to personally take action for Tao Wan.

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

"It's hard to imagine how you supported such a large Luo Tian Association 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 get familiar with the internal operations of the family."

To 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 already handled them poorly, and I need my sister to compromise with the Patriarch to exchange for the full support of that line."

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

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

Only until this moment!

Did Luo Chen discover 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 had become responsible.

Family Head, Family Head, head of a family!

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

Luo Chen, who had been dealing with Tao Yisheng casually before, could not brush him off when the words reached his lips.

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 the Luo Dao brother who was both respectful and intimate after guiding him in alchemy for a year.

Now, he had become 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 miserable Tao Yisheng, and said seriously:

"Specific situations require specific analysis; how to do it depends on the situation at the time."

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

Tao Yisheng frowned and asked for advice with an open mind.

"Brother Luo, can you explain in detail?"

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

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

"And you are only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment; naturally, you will feel powerless when dealing with internal and external affairs."

"But if you look at it broadly, you are a descendant of a Golden Core 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 even have the identity of a true disciple of the Qingdan 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 fight, or unite and join forces."

"This is the big direction; in the small direction, you have to consider the demands of multiple interests, what you can satisfy, what others can give you, or how to take interests from others and give them to others while taking advantage of strengths and making up for weaknesses."

"To be more concise, pull one faction and hit another; you are the one carving the meat. What others are targeting is not you, but the meat in your hands."

"And..."

This "Mohe Dialogue" lasted for a whole afternoon.

What Luo Chen taught was not 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.

Just personal talk!

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

Luo Chen specifically exhorted that one should not blindly copy, but must analyze carefully before making a choice.

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

As he deals with more and more family affairs in the future.

These things will slowly merge into his instincts.

The immortal cultivation world is like this.

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

So-called conduct and management are rarely taught specifically.

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

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

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

With his intelligence, he will always benefit in the future!

The only pity is that his not-so-bad alchemy talent will only be buried in complex affairs.

In this 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 learned to delegate power during the Qi Refining stage.

He only is responsible for making major decisions, and the specific implementation must be carried out by the people below.

Tao Yisheng left.

With a head full of things, he left the Mohe Garden with hope for the future.

After Luo Chen had a simple and rich dinner, he entered the cultivation room.

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

Since advancing to the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment, the spiritual energy required to break through this realm is even more.

Compared to the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment, it has more than doubled.

If he had not connected the hundred meridians before, and only took second-tier low-grade elixirs as an aid.

It would take him at least ten years to break through.

And now, with the help of the Blood Fiend Elixir, he has connected the hundred meridians and has the Grandmaster-level "Age-Defying Evergreen Scripture" as his main cultivation technique.

As long as he matches it with a high-grade cave dwelling, he is confident that he will break through to the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment within six years!

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

However.

Just like this, Luo Chen will not be satisfied!

In the vast Qingdan Valley, there are hundreds of late-stage Foundation Establishment great cultivators.

Many of them stop at the seventh or eighth layer of Foundation Establishment, or like Tao Daonan, are late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators who are old and frail.

Is it that they don't want to reach the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment?

No!

It is just because cultivation becomes slower and slower as it goes on, and even every small realm is like a natural chasm that is difficult to cross.

A mere fifth layer of Foundation Establishment will take Luo Chen five or six years.

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

Fifty years?

One hundred years?

He does not want to wait until he is over two hundred years old like Tao Daonan to sprint for the Golden Core stage.

His goal is the major sect geniuses like Tao Wan and Shangguan Yan!

Under one hundred and fifty years old, they are already at the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment.

They have plenty of time to perfect the Foundation Establishment realm and sprint for the Golden Core stage.

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

"This generation of geniuses is what I should pursue!"

His mind gradually became calm.

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

The current cultivation realm cannot satisfy him, and a better third-tier spiritual land is even more unattainable.

If he wants to speed up his cultivation, he can only rely on elixirs.

And the Dao of Alchemy happens to be a skill he is 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 each grade.

Low-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir has only half the medicinal power of low-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir.

Medium-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir can barely rival low-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir.

High-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir exceeds low-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir, but is still inferior to medium-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir.

Only that top-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir slightly exceeds medium-grade Dragon Ascension Elixir.

This level of increase, if it were when Luo Chen was in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, he would have been extremely happy.

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

One elixir is worth half a day of hard cultivation.

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

But!

Luo Chen's realm is already at the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment.

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

A mere medium-grade one can only be said to be barely acceptable.

But unexpectedly, Luo Chen had studied the elixir recipe of the Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir.

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

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

If Luo Chen wants 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 means that for every top-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir he harvests, he has to spend one thousand spirit stones!

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

But what is unreasonable is that the number of elixirs refined in each 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 buying second-tier medium-grade elixirs directly, it is still not cost-effective.

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

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 get half the result with twice the effort!

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

"I should have expected it long ago."

"Just like the Jade Marrow Elixir recipe, which is garbage, can be circulated outside, major sects only need to control the cultivation elixir recipes with better effects, and they can completely suppress the ordinary cultivation elixirs refined by loose cultivators in terms of cost-effectiveness, thereby occupying the vast majority of the market!"

After figuring this out, there was only a bitter smile on Luo Chen's face.

The Colorful Chrysanthemum Elixir recipe in his hand suddenly became incomparably tasteless.

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

To say it is useless?

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

It's just that this backup is a bit weak.

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

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

Perhaps, even Tao Wan did not expect that his demand for elixirs would be so high!

For an ordinary loose cultivator, if he can refine elixirs himself for his own use, it is already a great blessing.

But Luo Chen's requirements far exceeded those of an ordinary loose cultivator.

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

"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 the clouds and left the Mohe Garden.

He planned to go out and relax.

Tao Yisheng mentioned before that the Qingdan Valley's sect market had been very lively recently.

The Dao Seed struggle is imminent, many Foundation Establishment cultivators in the sect have returned, and there are many helpers invited from outside, and even many Foundation Establishment disciples from other sects have come to watch the ceremony.

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

"Alchemy is disappointing; maybe I can find some luck elsewhere to make up for it?"

Carrying beautiful hope, Luo Chen stepped into the Qingdan Market.