Chapter 467

"Sorry, I didn't protect that magic treasure sub-cauldron."

"You don't have to blame yourself. In that situation, you are not a member of my Qingdan Sect, so self-preservation is human nature. Besides, with the mother cauldron, re-cultivating a sub-cauldron is just a matter of time."

"Mother cauldron... I wonder how the Supreme Elder of your sect is doing?"

Refining a fourth-tier elixir across levels, and still the most violent breakthrough pill among elixirs of the same rank, and even refining seven pills together, the furnace explosion in this situation is far from what ordinary Jin Dan cultivators can resist.

Even if there was the Qingdan Array at the time, with thirty-six people and thirty-six cauldrons for dredging, the power of the furnace explosion was divided.

But the injuries suffered by Qing Danzi in forcibly saving the mother cauldron are absolutely unimaginable.

Especially since he is very old, having long passed his lifespan limit, and has been surviving by relying on life-extending elixirs.

After this encounter, Qing Danzi will only live for a short time.

Therefore, Luo Chen asked this question.

Tao Wan, who was walking side by side with him, smoothed the hair hanging to her cheeks, her expression miserable, and she shook her head but didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Luo Chen didn't find it appropriate to continue asking.

Looking at the scenery behind him, he had already moved far away from Qingdan Valley.

He cupped his hands in a salute, "Let's stop here!"

Tao Wan gave a light hmm.

Seeing someone off for a thousand miles, there must be a parting.

Currently, there are many things in Qingdan Valley, so it is impossible for her to personally send Luo Chen back to Tianlan Xiancheng.

Looking at Luo Chen's free and easy face, she thought for a while and said:

"I heard you are participating in the opening war?"

"Hmm, I have already sent people to the front line."

"My Qingdan Valley has suffered this disaster, and its strength is greatly damaged, so I'm afraid it will be powerless in this opening war... You, take care!"

Luo Chen summoned a flying boat at will, stepped on it, and looked back with a light nod.

"Take care!"

Tao Wan barely squeezed out a smile, "Take care!"

Magic power surged, and the flying boat floated up slowly.

After circling in the sky, it flew rapidly toward Tianlan, and before long, it disappeared, leaving only a black dot.

Looking at that black dot, Tao Wan sighed helplessly.

She walked toward Qingdan Valley in a lonely manner, and before entering the valley, she heard bursts of sad weeping.

"Supreme Elder, you lost the gamble this time!"

……

On the flying boat.

Luo Chen, who had changed into a red cloud gold-edged robe, was deep in thought.

He was reviewing.

Not reviewing himself, but reviewing Qing Danzi's failure this time.

The other party gambled on the luck of Qingdan Valley, trying to forcibly refine the Nascent Soul Pill with the foundation of a sect.

But failed.

The reason is actually very simple: the alchemy technique was ultimately a bit lacking!

A full twenty portions of materials, not even a semi-finished product was refined.

"If I were to do it, would it be better?"

Luo Chen possessed a system, as long as he could enter the pill formula, he would have a guaranteed success rate of one-tenth.

He imagined, if he were to refine the Nascent Soul Pill, could he succeed on the basis of twenty portions of materials?

After some thought, he got the answer.

No!

"The refining of fourth-tier elixirs requires consideration of too many places. Not only individual alchemy techniques, but also requirements for magic power, spiritual sense, and even alchemy utensils."

Qing Danzi's individual ability is unquestionable.

Inheriting the Dao name of the sect's founder, he could handle most third-tier elixirs with ease, and even say that with his alchemy technique, he was enough to refine some relatively simple fourth-tier elixirs.

And the realm close to Jin Dan Great Perfection made his magic power and spiritual sense almost impeccable.

There was even the top-grade magic treasure Qing Tian Glazed Cauldron, assisted by five third-tier alchemists, thirty experienced second-tier alchemists, and even an alchemy array.

Under these circumstances, he still failed.

It can be seen how difficult it is to refine the Nascent Soul Pill!

With Luo Chen's current alchemy technique, it is completely incomparable to him.

Even if there is a system entry, so what?

With his limited foundation, wanting to enter the Nascent Soul Pill formula, the achievement points consumed would be a huge number.

The 66 achievement points he had managed to save were estimated to be not enough.

And another reason for Qing Danzi's failure was that there wasn't enough time.

Dragged too long!

Long enough for the outside world to have reactions, and even for three Nascent Soul True Persons to descend.

At that time, the reason Qing Danzi failed was not without the reason of huge pressure and mental imbalance.

"What's more, even if he refined the Nascent Soul Pill, so what?"

"In front of Tian Yezi and True Person Yunhe, could he still keep it?"

"Heh..."

Luo Chen laughed, not knowing if he was laughing at Qing Danzi or mocking himself.

In that situation, it was just a case of others being the butcher and me being the fish!

Let alone Qing Danzi, if it were him, eight or nine out of ten he wouldn't be able to do better.

"After this disaster, Qingdan Valley's strength is greatly damaged, almost equal to withdrawing from the opening war."

"No!"

"Think carefully, perhaps this is a good thing for Qingdan Valley?"

Luo Chen's thoughts turned.

If considering only from the perspective of Qingdan Valley as a sect, not targeting Qing Danzi personally, this alchemy large sect is now seemingly greatly damaged, but in fact, it only suffered heavy losses in the alchemy aspect.

The sect's own combat power has not decreased much!

And the one who had the greatest hostility toward Qing Danzi before was the Medicine King Sect, which was also famous for alchemy.

Now Qingdan Valley's alchemists are empty and weak, and the elixir business will naturally decline, but the Medicine King Sect will not be so hostile to them, let alone target them unnecessarily.

The Medicine King Sect's main energy will definitely be placed on the opening war.

Watching her stroke the jade bottle, Luo Chen sighed in his heart.

Qingdan Valley now has no five-peak valley-covering layout, and the Supreme Elder Qing Danzi has no chance to advance to the Nascent Soul stage, so it is no longer a threat to the Yuding Sword Sect of this domain.

The Tai Dan Institute lost more than half of its alchemists, and the elixir business declined, so it is no longer a threat to the Medicine King Sect of the outer domain.

And their own strength can still deter the small-minded.

In this way, isn't it equal to retreating from the whirlpool of the storm?

"Hiss!"

Thinking of this, Luo Chen couldn't help but gasp.

He didn't know if this situation was deliberately caused by Qing Danzi.

But undoubtedly, this was the best result after the sect's operation reached its peak and could not advance further.

By comparison, the Burning Incense Valley, which once had the same momentum as Qingdan Valley, had a much more miserable end.

Sect destroyed, people dead, inheritance broken!

"If you speculate in this direction, Qing Danzi's promotion of the Nascent Soul Pill refining this time was mainly to break the situation."

"Success, he rushes to the Nascent Soul stage, using individual strength and realm to break the lifespan limit and the sect's crisis."

"Failure, it can also break the crisis of Qingdan Valley having tigers inside and wolves outside."

"Truly a good plan!"

Luo Chen pursed his dry lips and put away that smile.

Being in the game, he thought too narrowly before.

He was not worthy of laughing at that old man with a youthful appearance.

What the other party thought and considered was further, and perhaps there was also the decision made by borrowing the previous warning of the Burning Incense Valley.

This decision was far more comprehensive than the plan he offered to Qingdan Valley to attack the Burning Incense Valley.

If they were in each other's shoes...

"Heh, my Luo Tian Sect is still far from the level of Qingdan Valley, why consider so much."

Luo Chen twitched the corners of his mouth, urged the flying boat under his feet, and his desire to return became stronger.

……

Free and easy when going, full of ambition when returning.

This trip to Qingdan Valley, although the Nascent Soul Pill was not refined in the end, he and Qingdan Valley could be considered a win-win.

Qingdan Valley broke the situation amidst wind and rain and internal and external worries.

And he personally also gained many benefits.

The stable supply of second-tier high-grade Dragon Transformation Pills can cultivate more powerful Foundation Establishment experts for the Luo Tian Sect.

Natal magic treasure forging blueprints, Geng Metal, Black Sink Wood, Su Mud, and other mineral materials.

In addition, he also got a small means of accelerating the refining of magic treasures with natal true fire.

Finally!

It was Luo Chen recording all the medicinal materials needed for the Nascent Soul Pill through observation.

In time, when he reached Qing Danzi's realm, he might be able to try refining the Nascent Soul Pill himself.

It can be said that this was a trip of great harvest!

After returning to the Luo Tian Sect, President Sima Hui Niang, accompanied by Gu Caiyi and Xing Zonghan, came to see him immediately.

Inside the main hall.

Luo Chen asked leisurely: "How is the war on the front line?"

"Not very good, just small skirmishes." President Sima Hui Niang replied.

Luo Chen was stunned.

This answer was beyond his expectation.

Opening the Xiaoyue Mountain Range, carefully calculated, has been more than half a year.

How could it still be just a small skirmish!

You know, for this battle, not to mention other forces, just the Luo Tian Sect, a small sect, had already sent a large number of people.

Led by guest elder Fu Jiusheng.

Assisted by Transmission Hall Master Wang Yuan and Battle Hall Master Chu Kui.

There were also Merit Hall President Sima Wenjie and Outer Gate Lou Ying leading a group of low-tier cultivators for logistics.

The number of Foundation Establishment True Persons involved reached ten, and there were over five hundred Qi Refining cultivators, all in the late Qi Refining stage.

Sending so many people over was already considered a major injury to the Luo Tian Sect.

Now you tell me, small skirmishes?

Did he miss any news during those months in Qingdan Valley?

Seeing his confusion, President Sima Hui Niang waved her hand.

Xing Zonghan immediately opened his mouth: "According to the intelligence gathered by the Luo Net, the situation on the battlefield now is like this..."

Next, in his mouth, Luo Chen finally knew why the opening war, which had been prepared for fifty years, was progressing so slowly.

Xiancheng!

It's just that simple.

The Luoyun Sect, as the leading sect that launched the war, proposed a strategy of first taking a firm foothold and then advancing step by step.

What it did was, the first step was to build an immortal city on a third-tier spirit land conquered from the periphery.

With the immortal city as the human base camp, radiating in all directions, and finally swallowing the Xiaoyue Mountain Range.

Nowadays.

On the front line, the theme is not opening up territory and killing demons to seize land.

It's infrastructure!

Countless cultivators, under the leadership of the Luoyun Sect, are vigorously building a super immortal city with a scale far exceeding all immortal cities in the Yuding Domain!

"Actually, when this situation appeared, some people opposed it at the beginning."

"At that time, there were Nascent Soul large sects from other domains proposing to take advantage of the large number of people and sweep across the Xiaoyue Mountain Range with the momentum of thunder."

Luo Chen nodded.

This was the war trend he had predicted before.

Fifty years of planning and preparation, twenty-seven sects participating, hundreds of thousands of cultivators with ambition and strength.

Such a force was enough to sweep across the Xiaoyue Mountain Range.

Xing Zonghan continued: "However, in the early stages of the war, something was wrong. We found that the Xiaoyue Mountain Range was not a scattered sand, and the demon forces within it had been integrated and unified."

"Oh?" Luo Chen raised his eyebrows, somewhat incredulous.

"It's the Wolf Clan!" Xing Zonghan also said somewhat incredulously: "No one expected that a Demon Wolf Emperor would appear in the Xiaoyue Mountain Range, not only succeeding in transforming into human form but also unifying seventeen large and small demon wolf clans. Under the leadership of that Wolf Emperor, the wolf clan in the Xiaoyue Mountain Range erupted with unimaginable strength. In the early stages of the war, the alliance only advanced eight thousand miles before being forced to stop."

Luo Chen's eyes flashed.

Wolf Emperor?

Unifying all the wolf clans in the Xiaoyue Mountain Range?

Inexplicably, he thought of what he saw and heard in Changyin Mountain when he was young.

That was probably eighty years ago!

At that time, the Gray Leaf Wolf Clan and the Frost Wolf Clan occupying Changyin Mountain disappeared strangely for a period of time.

Could it be related to this?

If it was related, wouldn't that mean that the Wolf Emperor had already started planning this a long, long time ago?

Xing Zonghan was still reporting relevant intelligence.

"The alliance's momentum was blocked. Although it could continue to advance, casualties had begun to appear."

"Therefore, True Person Han Zhan of the Luoyun Sect appropriately proposed the plan of taking a foothold in one corner and then planning the whole situation."

"At that time, he was the only Nascent Soul True Person in the alliance, and he was the leader, and had a legitimate reason, so naturally no one disobeyed. Therefore, there was the current act of vigorously building a super immortal city."

Luo Chen suddenly realized that this was the development process!

It was normal that others didn't dare to disobey.

Generally, opening wars are led by the initiator.

Other large sects might help, but they only send a small number of Jin Dan and Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Nascent Soul True Persons basically don't show up to help.

This is also a way to determine the authority of the new sect in the new domain.

As far as he knew, among the eight large sects helping this time, like the Profound Yuan Tianzong, it only sent one Jin Dan elder named Ye Xiang, and dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Tianfan City and the Medicine King Sect sent the most people.

The nine-story Wind-Thunder View seen in Qingdan Valley before had three Jin Dan True Persons inside, and the famous Huyan Zhuo was also inside.

Like Fenghua Palace and Motian Cliff, which were far away, most of the cultivators sent were for training. Trying to reproduce the example of True Person Yunhe of the Hehuan Sect back then, using the war to train and advance to a higher realm.

The main force of opening up is actually those Jin Dan large sects.

Either they couldn't survive in their original territory, or their own strength had developed to a bottleneck, needing a better spirit vein place, or they were forced to leave their homes by the large sects of their own domain.

These Jin Dan large sects, for the sake of a new place to survive, will inevitably exert great effort.

The Luo Tian Alliance led by Luo Chen will also be one of them.

It just so happens that Qingdan Valley has no intention of opening the war, and the Luo Tian Alliance just happened to fill the twenty-seventh spot.

"How is the progress of the immortal city construction now?"

Luo Chen asked with concern.

Xing Zonghan said without thinking: "The progress is more than half, and the next most important thing is to lead the earth vein energy and gather the spirit vein."

Luo Chen was puzzled: "Isn't it said that it is a natural third-tier spirit land itself, why gather the spirit vein?"

"I heard that the Luoyun Sect True Person considered that there are too many participating Jin Dan cultivators, and they lack third-tier spirit land when resting, so he wants to slightly improve the spirit land of the base camp. For this, he even invited True Person Tian Ye, one of the three great True Persons of Tianfan City."

Luo Chen said oh.

In this way, it was normal for him to see that grand outing of the True Person in Qingdan Valley.

After all, under normal circumstances, the helping large sect would not send out a Nascent Soul True Person.

However, how should the appearance of Yunhe's companion be explained?

In a situation that couldn't be explained, Luo Chen was too lazy to delve into it.

Since the progress of opening the Xiaoyue Mountain Range was blocked, he didn't need to rush to the front line.

Not fighting, casualties would naturally be less.

The Luo Tian Alliance wouldn't have too much loss for the time being.

In this way, he could use the time waiting for the immortal city to be built to complete his current means.

Having obtained a new magic treasure refining method, he could thoroughly refine the Heavenly Moon Purple Gold Wheel.

By the way, brush some spells to the Great Perfection level.

Now in the Jin Dan stage, magic power is majestic, spiritual sense is more keen, and brushing low-tier spells is invincible.

Next, Luo Chen chatted with Gu Caiyi about the Luo Tian Sect's business on the front line and announced that he would go into seclusion once.

It was a small seclusion, and if there was anything urgent, they could go to him at any time.

If the immortal city was built, they should also notify him immediately.

Everyone naturally had no objection; sharpening the knife is necessary for cutting wood, and the more prepared Luo Chen is, the safer he will be when going to the battlefield.

(End of chapter)