Chapter 486

After conquering the third-tier spirit vein, Luo Chen's time suddenly became abundant.

Before this, he felt that there were too many things to do, like a tangled mess of hemp, with no place to start.

But after conquering it.

Without needing to worry about the most important cultivation spirit land anymore, he seemed to relax all at once.

Even though building a sect's spirit land involved many trivial matters, Luo Chen only needed to be responsible for the overall strategy.

His life now gradually became regular again.

Cultivating, refining elixirs, learning basic restrictions, and entering the door of simple arrays.

At the same time, he continued to send people to collect fire spirit drills while improving his spell proficiency.

Under this regular life.

His strength in all aspects was increasing in an orderly manner.

First is the Starry Elixir!

After consuming many materials and experiencing thousands of successes and failures, his proficiency in the Starry Elixir finally gradually trended toward the Great Perfection level.

Half a year later.

In the cultivation cave that had already been personally renovated by Elder Fei Ming.

Luo Chen stared seriously and carefully at the red-hot Minister Cauldron.

The medicinal liquid inside was slowly fusing.

A rich, refreshing elixir fragrance drifted into the cave unknowingly, only to be locked in by the array, unable to leak out.

Luo Chen pinched the spiritual formula with both hands, controlling the fusion progress.

In his mind, he pondered the medicinal power amplification of the Starry Elixir.

If the medicinal power of a low-grade Starry Elixir is viewed as one standard unit.

Then a mid-grade Starry Elixir reaches two standard units.

A high-grade Starry Elixir still doubles, at about four standard units.

Calculated this way, with proficiency reaching Great Perfection, the top-grade Starry Elixir refined should be around eight standard units.

But this is just a guess.

Judging by Luo Chen's judgment of the richness of this elixir fragrance, perhaps it will exceed that by a lot.

After all, entry-level Starry Elixir refining uses ten portions of raw materials to produce one bottle of low-grade.

Great Perfection-level Starry Elixir refining also uses ten portions of raw materials to produce one bottle of top-grade.

The success rate of both is exactly the same.

But the utilization rate of medicinal materials is clearly not on the same level.

"If I can achieve the essence of ten portions of materials fused into one elixir, the change in medicinal power will definitely not be as simple as seven or eight times."

Harboring beautiful hopes, Luo Chen controlled the final elixir-forming step.

When the elixir fragrance reached a certain level of richness, Luo Chen's mind stirred.

"Collect!"

He raised his palm, and the cauldron lid was lifted.

Ten elixir pills that looked like stars, emitting brilliant radiance, floated in the cave.

Just one glance was enough to feel dazzled and captivated by it.

Luo Chen beckoned with his hand, and the ten elixir pills fell into his palm.

He looked carefully at the patterns on them with his spiritual eyes.

One, two, three, four... nine... nine and a half patterns!

That last half cloud pattern was strikingly golden.

Because of this trace of golden half-pattern, this brilliant Starry Elixir became as if it were a Golden Core.

"A Golden Core cultivator taking a Golden Core to cultivate, wonderful! Wonderful! Truly wonderful!"

With three consecutive exclamations of wonderful, Luo Chen happily put away these ten Starry Elixirs that had reached the top-grade level.

With a flick of his large sleeve, he slightly cleaned up this simple elixir room.

Luo Chen turned and entered the cultivation room that had been partitioned off.

As soon as he entered.

The extremely rich heaven and earth spiritual energy surged over in unison.

In this rich environment, the five-colored Golden Core in Luo Chen's body seemed to be restless, as if trying to operate autonomously.

The reason for this situation lies in Elder Fei Ming using the Mount Ailao Mountain secret technique to mobilize the spiritual vein's energy to gather here.

In this way, the spiritual energy environment of the original third-tier low-grade cave was elevated to the third-tier mid-grade level!

Among the three spirit mountains of the Luo Tian Alliance, currently only Luo Chen can enjoy this kind of cultivation environment!

He closed the door of the cultivation room.

Luo Chen sat on the ice silkworm cushion dedicated to cultivation.

The Ice God Jade hanging around his neck made his thoughts gradually calm down.

"Third-tier mid-grade spiritual energy environment."

"Third-tier top-grade Starry Elixir."

"Perfect proficiency 'Burning Wood True Art'."

"With the three superimposed, I wonder to what extent my cultivation efficiency will be improved?"

With faint curiosity, his mind gradually became as still as an ancient well.

After swallowing a top-grade Starry Elixir, he operated his core cultivation art, and Luo Chen entered a state of cultivation.

The rich free-roaming spiritual energy all around seemed to have found its backbone and gathered toward Luo Chen; inside the small cultivation room, a funnel-shaped spiritual energy vortex faintly formed.

The center of that funnel was Luo Chen's body.

However, charging left and right, it was still within the attack range of the great handprint.

Two hours later, Luo Chen temporarily stopped his cultivation.

This was a standard cultivation duration.

He could continue, but there was no need for now; first, he had to judge the current cultivation speed.

He clicked on the attribute panel.

【Lifespan 112/402】

【Golden Core First Layer 8/100】

Looking at these two pieces of data, Luo Chen fell into deep thought.

The lifespan limit had increased by two years, which was not strange.

He had used the Withered Glory Fire to devour the vitality of many low-tier demonic beasts, and previously had slightly devoured a small amount of vitality from a third-tier demonic wolf, plus the improvement in his body-refining progress.

An extra two years was only natural.

What he was thinking about was the cultivation speed.

A hundred years to form a core, ten years to consolidate the realm, digesting the massive heaven and earth spiritual energy swallowed during core formation, thereby advancing to the first layer of the Golden Core.

Thus saving years of effort.

Like that Fu Elder Fu Jiusheng, his core formation time was earlier than his, but it was only in the last few days that he had barely entered the first layer of the Golden Core.

After the age of 110, most of the time was spent in deep cultivation, rushing to the Green Elixir Valley to refine the Nascent Soul Elixir, and conducting the opening war.

In two years, the cultivation time was very little.

The biggest improvement came from this half-year, supplemented by mid-grade and high-grade Starry Elixirs for cultivation.

Only then did he barely raise his cultivation progress to 【8/100】.

And after just finishing a session of cultivation, Luo Chen, relying on his insightful spiritual sense, had already keenly judged his cultivation speed.

"Overall, it has improved by about six times compared to before!"

Regarding this data, Luo Chen was very satisfied, but also a little dissatisfied.

A six-fold cultivation speed means that the thirty years he originally estimated to advance to the second layer of the Golden Core could be shortened to five or six years, provided no emergencies occur.

Advancing a small realm in five or six years is simply shocking to hear.

You must know, this is the Golden Core stage, where a small improvement takes decades or even a hundred years!

It is precisely because of this that Luo Chen is very satisfied.

And the point he is dissatisfied with is that the cost is simply too great!

"The raw material cost for refining one portion of Starry Elixir is about two thousand spirit stones."

"To refine a top-grade Starry Elixir, at least ten portions of raw materials are needed, which means the cost is twenty thousand spirit stones!"

"Spread out to each pill, it's still two thousand."

"This means that just my elixir consumption alone costs two thousand a day, sixty thousand a month, and seven hundred thousand a year!"

"And this is just the cost price. Outside, ordinary Golden Core cultivators find it hard to even find third-tier cultivation elixirs, let alone top-grade third-tier elixirs. If they were to buy them with spirit stones, I could sell them for fifty or sixty thousand a bottle, or even seventy or eighty thousand at an auction!"

"If you count the rent for a third-tier mid-grade cave, it's over a million a year... let's not count that, my current cave doesn't cost money."

"Such a massive price only exchanged for a six-fold increase in cultivation speed."

After finishing the economic calculation.

Luo Chen sighed.

No wonder cultivators have such a high demand for spirit land after advancing to the Golden Core, while the demand for elixirs decreases.

It's not that they don't need them, but that there is no market for them, and elixirs are hard to find!

Those legendary elixir masters, in reality, cannot be like him, able to easily elevate a third-tier elixir to the top-grade level.

Even so, Golden Core cultivators still flock to ordinary third-tier low-grade cultivation elixirs, thirsting for them.

Only then did it create the lofty status of high-tier elixir masters.

Like him, a rogue elixir master who previously had no sect, once he advanced to the Golden Core stage, followers gathered, and many peers took the initiative to befriend him.

When building an alliance force, it was also easy, almost without any difficulties.

He shook his head.

Luo Chen cast aside these reveries.

He seriously planned the next steps.

With the current business of the Luo Tian Sect, it can earn him at most five hundred thousand spirit stones a year, which includes the Jade Dew Elixir business with the Ice Fortress.

Moreover, currently, it seems this five hundred thousand spirit stones will likely be discounted.

Because improving the sect's spirit land environment is a continuous investment.

The Luo Tian Sect still has to continue investing at least one hundred thousand spirit stones into it every year.

Which means, what reaches Luo Chen's hands is only about four hundred thousand.

And his annual cultivation consumption, not counting those killing moves, just the elixir consumption alone, requires seven hundred thousand.

With this income and expenditure, there is a gap of three hundred thousand spirit stones.

"In the short term, I can still use my savings to make up for it."

"But if I want healthy development..."

After some thought, Luo Chen reached a conclusion.

He still has to continue refining elixirs to sell!

Forget about low-tier elixirs, just sell Starry Elixirs!

Simple and easy, when refining top-grade Starry Elixirs, just refine a batch of ordinary low-grade Starry Elixirs along the way.

There is also a huge market for such elixirs.

Not to mention anything else, just within the Luo Tian Alliance, Fifth Qi and Jiang Yu would definitely be willing to spend a lot of money to buy them.

Based on their strength and needs, one bottle a month, at a market price of five thousand spirit stones per bottle, that's sixty thousand a year, and twelve thousand for the two of them combined.

As for Cen Cen Qiusheng, he is old and has no hope for the Great Dao, so his demand is likely relatively low.

Leave him a budget of thirty thousand spirit stones.

For Fu Elder Fu Jiusheng, give him a discount, let's say 20% off!

He is an insider after all, so it's normal to have some benefits.

Plus the previous promise to give him five bottles for free every year.

In this way, that's seven bottles, which is also a budget of about thirty thousand spirit stones.

"Within the alliance, I can solve a total budget gap of one hundred and eighty thousand spirit stones."

"Still not enough!"

Luo Chen thought for a moment and set his sights on his friends.

Song Mi, a sect master, has quite a family fortune. Count him in.

Chen Chen Xiuli, who has a steady stream of income from the magic clothing business, has quite a family fortune. At the same time, she has not formed her core for long, so her demand for third-tier elixirs must be extremely high. Count her in.

Combined, that's about one hundred and twenty thousand spirit stones.

Luo Chen did not sell at a premium.

He already said they are friends!

Providing them with a channel to purchase elixirs is mutually beneficial, and they should be extremely grateful to Luo Chen.

Calculated this way, eighteen plus twelve, the three hundred thousand spirit stone gap is perfectly solved!

"With my elixir refining technique, satisfying this group of people is more than enough, and even more is not a problem."

"But I can't be too conspicuous; this level is already enough."

"It can not only guarantee my reputation as a third-tier elixir master but also let Golden Core cultivators outside know that I treat my close friends well and will think of them when there are suitable elixirs. In this way, there will definitely be more Golden Core cultivators with weaker forces who will take the initiative to befriend me."

"At the same time, this level of elixir refining won't take up too much of my cultivation time."

Muttering to himself, Luo Chen made a decision.

The plan is set, and the path forward is clearer.

Luo Chen gathered his thoughts and operated the "Dust Origin Art".

The spiritual energy captured earlier, as well as the massive medicinal power transformed by the elixir, were still entrenched in his body.

After simple transformation, this spiritual energy became spiritual power.

But!

This is not magic power!

A large part of a Golden Core cultivator's cultivation lies in transforming spiritual power into stronger magic power.

Those ordinary Golden Core cultivators without strong inheritance can only rely on the Golden Core to absorb spiritual power and then slowly use their spiritual sense to permeate and transform it.

This process is very complex and troublesome, requiring a lot of time and energy.

And this point.

For Luo Chen, it is the easiest part.

He doesn't have any strong inheritance, but he has the self-created "Dust Origin Art".

This secret technique is not only a supreme core-formation secret technique but also contains the knack for transforming spiritual power into magic power.

He once used this to form his core, and now he can still use it to transform magic power.

In fact, he can increase his cultivation speed to six times, and apart from those external environments, the "Dust Origin Art" has also made great contributions.

Within the boundless sea of qi, the massive spiritual energy is like a sea of smoke, with a five-colored Golden Core floating and sinking within it.

As the "Dust Origin Art" operates, a large amount of pure spiritual energy transforms into magic power, merging into the Golden Core.

The luster of the Golden Core becomes deeper, and its size is also increasing imperceptibly.

Early the next morning.

Luo Chen exited his cultivation state and walked out of the cave.

He summoned Ceng Ceng Yilong and gave him a task.

"Take these two bottles of Starry Elixirs and go to the Broken Moon Xiancheng to find Song Mi, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Blade Sect, and Chen Chen Xiuli, the head of the Chen family. If you can't find them in the Broken Moon Xiancheng, go to the Taishan Workshop and the Heavenly Clothing Workshop, and say that I intend to sell this elixir stably."

"If they want it, have them hand over the spirit stones for one year to you to bring back, and in the future, they can just send someone to take it themselves."

At his current realm and status, Luo Chen no longer engages in sales strategies like door-to-door delivery.

He believes the other party will be willing to accept these conditions.

Ceng Ceng Yilong received the task and did not refuse, setting off that very day.

Luo Chen was not idle either.

He first went to Min Longyu's place to take a look and see how his progress on the restriction fusion technique he was researching for him was going.

After getting a reply that it was still lacking, he went to Fu Elder Fu Jiusheng's place to learn some basic restrictions.

By the afternoon, he originally wanted to go to the place where Wang Yuan was in seclusion to take a look.

However, before he could take a step, he was stopped by a commotion.

Listening to the loud noise coming from behind Iron Qingshan.

Luo Chen frowned.

"Are there demonic beasts invading again?"

Before long, a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Wind and Rain Shanzhuang ran back.

"Alliance Leader, on the front line, a third-tier wolf king has wandered over here, and our two villa masters are struggling to hold it off, look..."

"I'll go lend a hand!"

Luo Chen said casually, telling Fu Elder Fu Jiusheng not to worry and to continue setting up the array.

Then he soared into the sky and headed straight for the back mountain.

When crossing Iron Qingshan, he glanced at the mountain.

Many low-tier cultivators from the Wind and Rain Shanzhuang were already killing some low-tier demonic wolves.

And in the distance, three figures were crisscrossing in the sky, surrounding a third-tier mid-grade demonic wolf, fighting fiercely.

"A tricky one has come this time!"

Luo Chen muttered to himself, not joining the battlefield immediately.

Instead, he controlled his distance, observing the methods of the three and the strength of that demonic wolf from afar.

Fifth Qi, Jiang Yu, and another person who looked familiar... Yu Jade Jiao Long!

Soon, Luo Chen remembered the origin of that petite woman.

A genius from the Dream Spring Cave!

A Heaven Spirit Root cultivator, just like himself, also a heaven-sent talent who formed a core in a hundred years.

Previously on the discussion platform of the Broken Moon Xiancheng, she was provoked by Wang Yuan.

At that time, the other party didn't make much of a move, so he couldn't see the strength of her methods.

Looking at it now, her small body had a quite fierce and ruthless fighting style!

A black whip that seemed to be condensed from flowing water danced in her hands, making a hunting sound; every whip strike, with the exertion of magic power, often left a conspicuous wound on that third-tier mid-grade wolf king.

In comparison, Fifth Qi, who had a slightly higher realm, was rather unremarkable.

Luo Chen's arrival naturally fell into the attention of the three people and one wolf.

The wolf king itself was already at a disadvantage, and now seeing another human Golden Core, it fought even more fiercely.

Every move and style was no different from fighting for its life.

The encirclement formed by the three gradually had gaps.

Suddenly!

"Alchemist Danchenzi, you've been watching for a long time, why not lend a hand?" Yu Jade Jiao Long shouted, her voice spreading for a hundred miles.

Fifth Qi and Jiang Yu looked at each other and slightly loosened the encirclement.

That demonic wolf found the gap, and under the attack of the three, it couldn't wait to fly toward Luo Chen.

It also had intelligence.

It could see that Luo Chen's realm was not very deep, making him the weakest gap.

Regarding this scene, Yu Jade Jiao Long was a bit puzzled.

Fifth Qi, however, had a sneer on his face.

"A beast is a beast, how would it know that Alchemist Danchenzi's ability is not below ours."

Jiang Yu, while controlling the Rain-Calling Banner, responded: "Just wait for Alchemist Danchenzi to block it slightly, and the three of us will strike with all our might to blast it to death."

Yu Jade Jiao Long was half-believing, magic power surging in the long whip in her hand, ready to strike a heaven-shaking blow.

However!

Can Luo Chen really block this third-tier demonic wolf that is fighting for its life?

Under the gaze of the three, and in the charge of the demonic wolf.

Luo Chen suddenly closed his eyes.

And on his hands, he pinched dense magic formulas.

"Get lost, human!"

A roar entered his ears.

A fishy wind blew toward his face.

Luo Chen opened his eyes abruptly, and in his pupils, it seemed as if water mirrors appeared, with thousands of scenes emerging within the water mirrors, colorful and enchanting, making one deeply trapped within.

Hum...

A strange humming sound echoed in the demonic wolf's heart.

Vaguely, it seemed to see some familiar scenes.

And its body also stiffened abruptly for a moment.

And it was at this moment that three powerful attacks seized the opportunity and landed together on the defenseless demonic wolf.

Boom!

A deafening loud noise echoed through the rolling green mountains.

Blood rain scattered across the sky.

Yu Jade Jiao Long and the others stared suspiciously at Luo Chen's figure, which stood like an abyss and a mountain, motionless.

"Hiss!"

"Gulp..."

"What kind of method is that?"

"It actually made a dignified third-tier mid-grade wolf king motionless and wait to be slaughtered!"

"Alchemist Danchenzi's strength has improved again, he has never used this move before!"

(End of chapter)