Chapter 42

"He is a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator from Mount Ailao!"

"Coming to the Dahe Market this time, he is responsible for testing and maintaining the status of various spirit residences in the Dahe Market; after all, the Dahe Market was originally designed and built by Mount Ailao for the Yuding Sword Sect."

"Not only that, the Yuding Sword Pavilion also intends to spend a huge amount of money to invite him to redesign and build new landmark buildings."

Hearing Gu Caiyi say this, Luo Chen's eyelids jumped.

Damn, this is a foreman!

No wonder he is so rich, throwing away low-level elixirs and magic tools at will.

But no matter how rich he is, he shouldn't spend spirit stones like this!

Facing Luo Chen's doubt, Gu Caiyi thought for a moment and said tentatively, "Does he have ideas about me?"

As soon as these words came out, Gu Caiyi's small mouth opened slightly, and she grabbed Luo Chen's arm.

"My Great Dao has hope!"

Luo Chen rolled his eyes, "Isn't it shameful to be a kept man!"

Kept man?

After all, she was an immortal cultivator, and Gu Caiyi instantly understood this term.

Hammering Luo Chen hard, she thought seriously and muttered to herself, "It is said that Fei Bowen is a live-in son-in-law and has a Daoist companion himself. And his Daoist companion is the granddaughter of a Core Formation cultivator from Mount Ailao, so I'm afraid he doesn't dare to keep a concubine."

So he's a live-in phoenix man?

She hummed, thought carefully, and sighed.

"Forget it, this kind of person can't be provoked; even if he has the heart, I can't afford to provoke his Daoist companion."

"Besides, it's not my wish."

After speaking, she prepared to go out.

Luo Chen shouted from behind, "Remember to help me buy five hundred jade bottles at Jixiang Market when you come back tomorrow; I want this style, and I'll give you the spirit stones later."

Gu Caiyi didn't look back, just waved her hand.

Seeing her walk away, Luo Chen sighed and walked into the alchemy room again.

"Failed again, why is the success rate in the afternoon so low."

"Two furnaces a day, is it still too forced?"

Luo Chen, covered in dust, looked at the pile of medicinal dregs he had shoveled out, his mood low.

One failure meant five spirit stones had gone down the drain.

But he confirmed that he had already done well enough!

Clean the alchemy furnace, clean the alchemy room.

Practicing spells several times in the room, Luo Chen went to bed after a simple cleaning.

Taking the remaining Qi-Nurturing Pills, he operated the Changchun Gong.

He felt it might be because his cultivation realm was too low, causing the success rate every afternoon to be far inferior to the morning.

So much so that when he practiced, he brought a sense of urgency.

His eyes were tightly closed, his breathing followed a unique rhythm, just seemingly a bit heavier than usual.

"When will such days come to an end!"

"Gu Caiyi is really lucky, having elixirs and magic tools sent to her, while I have to earn them myself."

"Does a Foundation Establishment cultivator really fancy her? Actually, she is quite beautiful; although her face shape isn't as exquisite as Miss Xiangxiang's, her figure is really good."

"Why can't such a woman be someone I, Luo Chen, can possess?"

"Hehe, does a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator deserve to possess such a beauty? Unless I go to the mortal world to rot."

"But can a five-spirit-root aptitude really establish a foundation?"

"If I work so hard and it all ends up being empty in the end, wouldn't that be a waste of my best years."

"Perhaps I should be more relaxed and not treat myself so harshly."

"Maybe there will be another time-travel; then I'll be born a heavenly spirit root cultivator, and have a pair of powerful parents, hehe..."

Strands of fragrance, as if there were none, drifted into his nose and deep into his soul.

"No, what on earth am I thinking about!"

Suddenly!

Luo Chen opened his eyes, and a feeling of depression and stuffiness rushed directly to his chest.

Pfft!

A mouthful of bright red blood sprayed onto the floor tiles.

Looking blankly at the dazzling blood, a word popped up in Luo Chen's mind for no reason.

"Heart Tribulation."

A word that was somewhat unfamiliar yet very appropriate.

During his cultivation just now, he had produced many negative emotions for no reason.

Those thoughts almost made the spirit energy in his dantian boil during the operation of the Changchun Gong.

However, shouldn't a high-level term like Heart Tribulation appear in Core Formation True Persons or Nascent Soul Real Persons?

He, a low-level Qi Refining cultivator, how could he be tainted with such a thing?

In his confusion, Luo Chen began to actively organize his emotions and recall what had just happened.

Slowly, he had a trace of enlightenment.

"Perhaps it's because I changed to a new alchemy environment during this period, causing my body to be overly tired."

"It could also be that the success rate has been slow to meet the standard, and the cost loss is serious, making me overly anxious."

"Caiyi's stimulation to me during this period might also be a trigger."

Luo Chen thought a lot, even thinking about the huge changes in his worldview and living habits before and after time-travel, which had accumulated many negative emotions.

It was just that because of his busyness before, it was temporarily suppressed.

He had been a bit relaxed recently, and it was gradually released.

"If I hadn't woken up in time just now, I'm afraid I would have already deviated into qi and died."

Recalling the feeling of spirit energy boiling and violently wandering through his meridians, Luo Chen only felt a burst of terror.

"Fortunately, the Moonlight Grass saved my life."

His gaze fell on that clean white little crescent grass at the head of the bed, and Luo Chen felt extremely lucky.

Moonlight Grass has the effect of calming the mind and stabilizing the soul; the longer the age, the better the effect.

It is rumored that thousand-year-old Moonlight Grass has an auxiliary cultivation effect even for Nascent Soul Real Persons.

Luo Chen didn't have thousand-year-old Moonlight Grass, but he was only in the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

Just now, it was the fragrance emitted by this pot of Moonlight Grass that made him wake up suddenly, thus saving his life.

Shaking his head and smiling, he had unintentionally owed Fu Xiuxiu a favor.

But if he said it out, I'm afraid others wouldn't believe that he encountered a Heart Tribulation during the Qi Refining stage!

Getting up and washing himself, Luo Chen walked out of the house.

The night was deep and quiet, and everything was silent.

Sitting on that small child-sized swing, Luo Chen looked up at the starry sky.

"It's just a few bumps on the road to longevity."

"So what if I have five spirit roots? As long as there are enough resources, even a pig can become an immortal, so why should I belittle myself."

"Work hard, struggle, until death!"

Under the starry sky, the man was as humble as dust, but his heart was as bright as the stars.

The next day, it was still those trivial things.

Luo Chen was already used to it, especially after the Heart Tribulation last night, his mindset was even more peaceful.

Even though he failed in the morning, he didn't rush the refining of the second furnace of Zhongmiaowan in the afternoon.

"Rise!"

Pinching a spirit seal, the traction technique, which had reached the proficiency level, grabbed the furnace lid with residual heat from the air and slowly lifted it upward.

A familiar strange fragrance rushed into his nose.

Luo Chen smiled knowingly.

Success!

Unlike the spirit iron pot, the elixirs produced in the alchemy furnace could be condensed and formed under the control of the magic array.

Therefore, Luo Chen directly used a jade bottle to collect the ten Zhongmiaowan pills inside.

During the collection process, he rubbed his temples.

Before, when refining elixirs every afternoon, he would often feel a lack of energy in the later stages.

But today, it seemed he didn't have that feeling anymore?

And faintly, his spiritual power seemed to have increased.

About double.

"Is this the harvest after breaking through the demonic barrier last night?"

Luo Chen was thoughtful.

It is rumored that when high-level cultivators cross the tribulation, besides the external lightning tribulation, there is also an internal Heart Tribulation.

Whether it is obsession or demonic barriers, or extraterrestrial demons hooking into the human heart, etc.

As long as high-level cultivators survive the internal Heart Tribulation, they will have unexpected benefits.

Luo Chen asked himself that he hadn't reached that level, but others wouldn't encounter a Heart Tribulation during the Qi Refining stage either.

So inferring this way, it really might be such a situation.

This was naturally a good thing; at least Luo Chen had stronger confidence in refining two furnaces of Zhongmiaowan a day.

And he had a feeling that this experience might also have unexpected benefits in his future cultivation process.