Chapter 413

The departure of Murong Qinglian is a matter of great consequence for the Luo Tian Society.

She has been present since the very inception of the Luo Tian Society.

At one point, she managed various aspects of affairs, including finance, personnel, resources, and merit, on behalf of Luo Chen.

Even though more departments emerged within the Luo Tian Society later on and internal responsibilities were continuously subdivided, Murong Qinglian's existence remained pivotal due to the ever-increasing number of cultivators in the society.

If she were to suddenly resign as the Hall Master of the Merit Hall, it would inevitably lead to massive chaos within the Luo Tian Society.

But at the same time!

If Murong Qinglian leaves now, the impact would still remain within a controllable range.

Because of the passing of Qin Liangchen, she has frequently been immersed in sorrow over these past few years.

Therefore, the Luo Tian Society granted her a long leave of absence.

Over at the Merit Hall, her deputy, President Sima Wenjie, has been temporarily acting in her stead.

In the span of two years, President Sima Wenjie has already become familiar with most of the Merit Hall's affairs.

Therefore, if she leaves, the Luo Tian Society will continue to operate, and no major chaos will occur.

Of course, some important matters still require time for a handover.

Moreover, Murong Qinglian is a very responsible person.

Before preparing to leave Tianlan to go to the Luo Yun Sect, she intends to pull herself together and personally instruct President Sima Wenjie for a while.

She must ensure she does not leave behind a mess before walking away.

Regarding her decision, her son, Qin Yuanjiang, gave his support and approval.

It just so happens that this time, their Luo Yun Sect disciples also went out on a mission and need some time to complete it.

So, they agreed on a time for Qin Yuanjiang to personally come and pick up his mother to return to the Luo Yun Sect.

In the midst of this.

Luo Chen did not offer the slightest obstruction.

Not only that, but he also prepared to present Murong Qinglian with a super grand gift.

A brand-new set of top-grade dharma robes.

A water-element magic treasure suitable for her.

Plus enough top-grade Jade Dew Pills for the other party to use for a hundred years!

Especially the latter!

Based on an ordinary cultivator's consumption of one pill every three to five days, the value of this gift alone reaches a staggering one million spirit stones!

It can certainly be called precious!

One must know that many rogue cultivators at Foundation Establishment cannot even earn a few thousand spirit stones in a year.

This is also the first time in history that Luo Chen has been so generous.

Everything is solely to thank Murong Qinglian for her care of him over these years and her contributions to the Luo Tian Society.

Of course, contained within this is also a sentiment he holds for Brother Qin.

……

Inside the cave dwelling.

Luo Chen has temporarily stopped his activities of opening blind boxes and reading classics.

Every day, apart from cultivating and practicing spells, he only focuses on alchemy.

Not just the Blood-Increasing Pills, Dust-Descending Pills, and Profound-Penetrating Pills that he himself needs, but also Jade Dew Pills!

There is no other way.

The quota for the Ice Fortress side can only be increased, not decreased.

If he wants to gather enough Jade Dew Pills for Murong Qinglian to use for a hundred years, he must personally refine more of them.

In this way, it will naturally occupy a large amount of time.

Of course.

There is also good news among it.

That is, after a large number of alchemy attempts, he has become increasingly familiar with that incomplete alchemy magic treasure, the Minister Cauldron.

This is a good treasure; not only is it as one wishes in size, but it can also be retracted and deployed freely.

Moreover, every time he refines pills, it can accommodate more raw materials.

It even has the effect of improving the grade of the pills!

Coupled with Luo Chen's already perfected proficiency in Jade Dew Pills, his success rate in refining them is extremely high!

He has even broken the fifty-percent success rate limit several times.

Inside the alchemy room.

Luo Chen looked at the harvest of pills once again, a look of contemplation appearing on his face.

Jade Yu Yu Ludan, a second-tier pill, and one with extremely high refining difficulty.

The limit for the number of pills from one portion of materials is ten.

After reaching the Grandmaster level, the success rate is fifty percent, and the grade is improved to top-grade.

And then, it got stuck there.

At most, after reaching perfection, one can refine top-quality Jade Dew Pills.

He previously always thought that the limit was just like this.

But in recent days, he discovered that he can actually break the limit!

Currently, the success rate for top-grade Jade Dew Pills has gradually stabilized at sixty percent.

Moreover, he has a feeling that with large-scale refining, it can still be improved!

"Is this breaking the system's limit, or breaking my own limit?"

"Why would it be like this? Why didn't I discover it before? Or is it that the Minister Cauldron, this alchemy magic treasure, deserves the credit?"

Question after question arose spontaneously.

If it were anything else, he naturally wouldn't trouble himself with unnecessary worries.

But since it involves the system, he must investigate the reason.

Only after establishing a pattern can he easily conduct corresponding experiments on other pills, or even spells and cultivation techniques, in the future.

Problems cannot be solved by mere wishful thinking.

Luo Chen decided to conduct a controlled experiment.

He took out another alchemy furnace from the Accumulated Thunder Treasure Ring.

A top-grade alchemy furnace, which he obtained from those spoils of war; there were even two top-quality alchemy furnaces among them.

However, top-quality alchemy furnaces are mostly troublesome to use and require tedious procedures to become familiar with.

The top-grade alchemy furnace is just right for him to conduct experiments now.

Setting up the furnace, lighting the fire, and adding various materials in order; a total of five portions of raw materials, which is the limit of the top-grade alchemy furnace.

Luo Chen began to refine Jade Dew Pills with familiar ease.

However, after two hours, a refreshing medicinal fragrance wafted out.

Luo Chen reached out and summoned, and pill after pill of snow-white pills fell onto the huge ice tray in front of him.

One, two, three... twenty-eight!

After obtaining this data, Luo Chen's heart couldn't help but stir.

Five portions of raw materials, ten pills per portion; according to a fifty-percent success rate, the pill yield should be twenty-five.

If calculated according to his previously stabilized sixty-percent success rate, the quantity should be thirty.

And currently, it is twenty-eight.

"Good alchemy equipment does indeed affect the success rate and the grade of the pills."

"But those extra three pills have nothing to do with the grade of the alchemy furnace; they are purely a manifestation of the improvement in my personal alchemy attainments."

"In other words, I can indeed break the system's limit!"

"Then, how did it come about?"

Luo Chen reviewed the past.

Gradually, he had some ideas in his heart.

This should be related to his accumulation in the Dao of Alchemy.

It is not just about refining the same kind of pill in large batches.

It also lies in the fact that he has started to dabble in more other types of pills.

Under such accumulation, he was previously able to master second-tier pills like Colorful Chrysanthemum Pills and Blood-Increasing Pills on his own, even without relying on the system's achievement points.

This is the perfect manifestation of an Alchemy Master's attainments in alchemy!

He can easily master pills of the same tier and maintain an extremely high success rate and yield rate.

Reaching this stage, he is no longer just an Alchemy Master.

Calling him a Grandmaster is not an exaggeration at all!

And, it is not the narrow kind of "Grandmaster" from before who only specialized in refining one type of pill.

Rather, it is the manifestation of a Grandmaster across the entire same tier!

Simply put, the current Luo Chen has Grandmaster-level dominance in his alchemy regarding second-tier pills.

Even without relying on the system, he can easily master them.

"Reading many alchemy classics, practicing even more, and mastering increasingly powerful alchemy techniques; under the superposition of many factors, I have achieved this Grandmaster-level alchemy realm."

"Even, given enough time, I feel I can complete or improve some first-tier and second-tier pill formulas myself."

"Only then can one be called a generation of Alchemy Grandmasters who founded a sect!"

After reaching this conclusion.

Luo Chen had more expectations hidden in his heart.

If he puts his full effort into refining a certain type of pill, can he reach a one-hundred-percent success rate?

To act is to succeed!

Instead of having to consider the corresponding failure rate and needing enough raw materials.

From the point to the surface.

If the Dao of Alchemy can be like this, then other aspects should also be the same.

The system does not have a limit!

The one who has a limit is actually himself.

If his own accumulation is enough and strong enough, then he can do better and more perfectly.

Alchemy is like this; I imagine spells, cultivation techniques, medical skills, etc., will also be like this.

After reaching this conclusion.

Luo Chen couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

Sure enough, his decision to take time out of his daily schedule to read various classics extensively was correct.

In the future, this kind of thing must continue.

Not to mention becoming a Grandmaster of all professions, at least with enough accumulation, using the stones from other hills to polish one's own jade, he can also go further in a single path.

Of course!

It's not possible right now.

Luo Chen put away the top-grade alchemy furnace.

Next, he still has to use that Minister Cauldron to refine pills.

A mere top-grade alchemy furnace can only handle five portions of raw materials at a time.

Even a top-quality one can only handle ten portions.

But this magic treasure-level alchemy furnace can handle twenty portions of raw materials at once, and Luo Chen hasn't even touched its limit yet!

"Let's refine the required Jade Dew Pills first!"

……

Time flowed slowly.

Three months passed in a flash.

Even if Luo Chen didn't refine enough Jade Dew Pills, he couldn't wait any longer; at worst, he would just misappropriate a portion of the top-grade Jade Dew Pills that were supposed to be handed over to the Ice Fortress.

The reason for being so anxious is none other than this.

The agreed time has arrived, and Murong Qinglian is about to leave.

On Danxia Peak.

Luo Chen and President Sima Hui Niang stood behind, watching a crowd of cultivators go up one by one to bid farewell to Murong Qinglian.

Gu Caiyi, Feng Xia, Yuan Xiaoyue, President Sima Wenjie... even Bai Meiling revealed her figure and specifically rushed over to see Murong Qinglian off.

Among these people, some were old friends who had walked all the way from the Dahefang period and had an excellent relationship with Murong Qinglian.

Others were her subordinates in the Merit Hall over these years and friends within the Luo Tian Society.

Especially that neighbor from the Sihe Academy in the inner city of Dahefang back then.

At this moment of parting, they appeared particularly reluctant to let go.

Even Duan Feng, who had always been reticent, presented a gift.

He had also briefly lived in that Sihe Academy for a while and had received care from Murong Qinglian.

Finally, it was Luo Chen's turn.

"Society Leader..."

Luo Chen shook his head, "At a time like this, I would rather hear you call me 'Little Luo', Sister-in-law."

Murong Qinglian was startled; having changed how she addressed him for many years, asking her to switch back to the former title.

For a moment, she really wasn't quite used to it.

"This is a little token of my heart for you; Sister-in-law, you must take good care of yourself in the future."

Luo Chen handed over a storage bag.

Everyone else gave individual gifts, but only Luo Chen directly handed over a storage bag.

This made Murong Qinglian somewhat curious.

When her spiritual sense probed inside, in just an instant, her expression changed drastically.

"Little Luo, isn't this too precious?"

Luo Chen smiled, "Sister-in-law, just accept it!"

Although his voice carried a smile, his words were unrefusable.

Everything was what she deserved.

Whether it was that bowl of Tiger Bone Soup that helped Luo Chen break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining back then, or the Battle of Xieyue Valley, where she blocked a powerful enemy for him, attempting to let Luo Chen escape.

Luo Chen remembered these things clearly.

Not to mention that over these years, the other party had been conscientious and diligent, contributing much to the Luo Tian Society and achieving countless great merits.

Luo Chen is not a cold-hearted person.

Even if, in the eyes of outsiders, he helped the other party achieve Foundation Establishment, he already owed nothing.

But in Luo Chen's view, a drop of kindness should be repaid with a gushing spring.

Within his own capabilities, these meager things count for nothing at all.

His only regret is that Brother Qin did not succeed in Foundation Establishment and did not live to see his son, Qin Yuanjiang, again.

Looking at Luo Chen's sincere expression, Murong Qinglian's expression also softened.

Holding the light storage bag, she nodded.

"Then thank you."

Luo Chen gave a hum, and transmitted his voice into her ears, urging the other party not to overly expose the quantity of Jade Dew Pills.

Murong Qinglian naturally knew the severity of such matters.

It wasn't that she was afraid of Luo Chen being coveted.

The news that Alchemist Danchenzi could refine Jade Dew Pills had already spread; after all, there were many people with loose lips over at the Ice Fortress.

It was mainly because the gift he gave was too expensive.

If Murong Qinglian went to the Luo Yun Sect and was targeted for this batch of pills, it would inevitably lead to trouble.

Qin Yuanjiang now seemingly has the name of a true disciple.

But he is, after all, someone who just entered Foundation Establishment, and his foundation is too shallow.

If he truly encountered difficulties, he might not necessarily be able to protect his mother.

After bidding each other to take care, Luo Chen retreated into the crowd.

"Aren't you going up to bid her farewell?"

"Over these years, I've had the most contact with her, and we've chatted no less than ten times in these past few months; why would we need this one more time?"

President Sima Hui Niang said indifferently.

Although she said it like that, Luo Chen still saw a trace of reluctance and regret in her eyes.

From now on, of the three golden flowers of the Luo Tian Society that the outside world loved to talk about—President Sima Hui Niang, Murong Qinglian, and Gu Caiyi—only two remain.

And they happen to be two rivals who are somewhat like fire and water.

Without Murong Qinglian to mediate in the middle, who knows what kind of conflicts the two will stir up in their daily work in the future.

It was just as they were waiting.

Outside Danxia, a huge flying boat came, parting the clouds and stirring the mist!

The moment they saw this flying boat, the entire Luo Tian Society couldn't help but let out a collective gasp.

A magic treasure-level flying boat!

Within the crowd, Luo Chen's expression was even more violently shaken!

It wasn't the shock of the flying boat's size, which seemed to cover the sky and block the sun.

But in this instant, at least ten spiritual senses that made his heart and gallbladder tremble swept across Danxia, and finally all fell upon him simultaneously.

Although it was just a sweep!

Although it was concealed extremely well!

But in that instant, the pressure exerted by ten powerful spiritual senses simultaneously still made him involuntarily retreat several steps.

"Society Leader, what's wrong with you?"

President Sima Hui Niang was closest to him, and at this moment, she turned her head in confusion to look at him.

Just one glance, and her expression changed.

Within her line of sight, large beads of cold sweat were dripping down Luo Chen's face.

The seven steps he retreated, every footprint sank three inches into the ground.

One must know that this boat-parking platform was built with top-quality materials, sufficient to withstand the takeoff and landing of large flying boats.

What happened to make the Society Leader lose his composure like this!

Luo Chen raised his head with difficulty and squeezed out a smile.

"Nothing."

Just two words, yet they seemed as heavy as a mountain.

Suddenly, Luo Chen let out a long sigh of relief, and his spine straightened.

Is he really okay?

President Sima Hui Niang looked suspicious and uncertain.

However, at this time, a young man flew out from that huge flying boat.

"Mother, Mother!"

"I'm here!"

Qin Yuanjiang landed on the boat-parking platform in high spirits and couldn't help but grab his mother's hand.

Murong Qinglian shook her head with a smile, "Are you that happy?"

"Thinking that I can often be by Mother's side in the future, naturally I'm happy, Little Tiger." Qin Yuanjiang rarely revealed a youthful mindset. "Mother, have you packed your things?"

"Yes, they are all packed."

"Then let's go!"

Qin Yuanjiang grabbed Murong Qinglian's hand and prepared to leave.

However, just as he took a step, he stopped instantly.

He let go of her hand, cupped his hands, and bowed solemnly to the crowd of the Luo Tian Society.

"Over these years, I have been indebted to everyone for taking care of my mother."

"Uncle Luo, thank you!"

Within the crowd, Luo Chen smiled reluctantly.

"Go, have a smooth journey."

Qin Yuanjiang nodded repeatedly, and then took Murong Qinglian and flew impatiently toward that huge spirit boat.

Along the way, Murong Qinglian looked back from time to time.

Finally, with red-rimmed eyes, she said loudly: "Everyone, Murong is taking her leave now; I will not forget you all, nor will I forget the Luo Tian Society."

On Danxia Peak, countless cultivators also responded in kind.

"Hall Master Murong, have a smooth journey."

"Take care!"

"May we meet again someday!"

(End of chapter)