Chapter 498

It was just as Luo Chen had anticipated.

With his reputation as a newly promoted Jin Dan cultivator and an alchemy master, holding a small gathering naturally attracted many followers.

Especially the latter!

Even if some people didn't have a great need for elixirs, if they had the chance, they would definitely choose to build a good relationship with him.

Led by Ceng Yilong, the ten Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Luo Tian Alliance took invitations and visited them one by one.

It didn't take long before, except for some Jin Dan True Persons who were in seclusion, most of the others accepted the invitation and came.

A gathering with more than ten people was thus convened.

For this, Mu Yunyan helped a little by sending Murong Qinglian over to handle the various mundane matters of the gathering for Luo Chen.

With the disciples running errands and old acquaintances helping out.

Luo Chen didn't spend much effort to organize this gathering.

One by one, familiar or unfamiliar Jin Dan cultivators also slowly warmed up in the conversation of a few words.

Lin Qingxuan of the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect, Gongye Qian of Tianfan City, Wei Wuya of Motian Cliff, Ye Xiang of the Divine Talisman Sect, the Hundred Flower Fairy of the Joyous Sect, the Wind and Moon Fairy of the Fenghua Palace, as well as the local hosts Mu Yunyan and Linghu Jie of the Falling Cloud Sect.

It can be said that of the nine Nascent Soul upper sects participating in this opening war, except for Meng Changshou of the Medicine King Sect and Jin Buque of the Five Elements Divine Sect, basically all were present.

Apart from the Jin Dan cultivators of the upper sects.

Some people from the great sects also came.

The Heartless Fairy of the Ice Fortress, Yu Jiaolong of the Dream Spring Cave, Nalan Feng of the Liu Sen Studio...

Luo Chen walked among them, enthusiastically communicating with them.

Initially chatting about backgrounds, exchanging names, and topics like "I have long admired your name."

Slowly transitioning to small groups of two or three, exchanging some cultivation insights.

Then in the middle stage, Luo Chen took the initiative to suggest that everyone exchange some resources.

As the host, he naturally had to throw out a brick to attract jade.

And this "brick" was also very simple.

Three types of elixirs: Tier 1 Peak-grade Blood-Burning Elixir, Tier 2 Mid-grade Profound-Penetrating Elixir, and Tier 3 Mid-grade Star-Clustering Elixir.

These three had different grades and different effects.

Some could be used as life-saving trump cards, some could enhance the foundation of the primordial spirit, and there were also common cultivation elixirs.

And they were all rare in the market.

The value might not be high, but the effects were truly outstanding.

Even though everyone present was a Jin Dan cultivator, many were moved and traded with him one after another.

The low-grade Blood-Burning Elixir could be rewarded to clansmen and disciples for life-saving.

And the mid-grade Profound-Penetrating Elixir was even snatched up, finally taken by the wide-eyed Mu Yunyan herself.

Luo Chen calmly presided over the gathering process, not caring at all about exposing these few rare elixirs he had mastered.

The reason was simple.

Times have changed!

He was now a person of status and position; appropriately exposing some elixir trump cards would not cause any big trouble.

Instead, it would deepen the impression of him as an alchemy master in the eyes of others.

From low-grade to high-grade, strange or conventional, low-grade or high-grade, he could refine them all.

If this wasn't an alchemy master, then what was?

Moreover!

Regarding the Blood-Burning Elixir and the Profound-Penetrating Elixir, he had previously traded the elixir formulas to Meng Changshou in order to exchange for the Mountain-Moving Method. (The Profound-Penetrating Elixir formula given was Tier 1)

With the strength of the Medicine King Sect, it would probably not be long before they could refine such elixirs on a large scale.

Him hiding his skills would be of no avail.

It was better to take them out first and seek his own interests.

Of course, the transactions here were not simple spirit stone settlements, but barter.

Luo Chen used the condition of a stable supply of Tier 3 low-grade Star-Clustering Elixirs to exchange for a decent-quality Fire Spirit Diamond from Nalan Feng of the Liu Sen Studio!

In this way, he not only harvested a material for refining his life-bound magic treasure but also solved the gap in the supply of Star-Clustering Elixirs after Jiang Yu's fall.

After Luo Chen finished throwing his "brick," naturally others were not stingy, taking out some resources they didn't need but were of decent value to exchange.

In this process, Luo Chen gradually discovered something.

In this gathering, although he was the host, others didn't just come with the purpose of befriending him.

For example, Yu Jiaolong; the Dream Spring Cave had taken down Seven Kings Mountain, and in the future, they would basically settle in the Howling Moon Mountain Range, so now they were here to make friends for the sect.

And the Hundred Flower Fairy, the palace master of the Hundred Flower Palace, was also befriending others with a purpose.

From time to time, she would send spiritual sense transmissions, and the people in the conversation would often show hesitant expressions.

Linghu Jie, the famous Jin Dan of the Falling Cloud Sect and the temporary leader of the Nine Sects Sword Hall, also took out the sect's special puppets to promote the advantages of their sect's puppets.

After some observation, Luo Chen could not help but laugh inwardly.

"Looking at it this way, I actually have the potential to be a broker!"

"The title of alchemy master means one's connections must be broad, and most are friendly. In the future, if these friends have disputes, but not to the extent of life and death, I can mediate in the middle."

"Or, others can connect with others through me, thereby achieving contact."

"In this way, as long as I don't make any big mistakes in the future, I and the Luo Tian Sect can be like a fish in water in the human cultivation world and develop steadily."

The transactions gradually came to an end.

Jin Dan cultivators who had no other needs started talking again.

But this time, the content of the conversation was mostly related to the opening war.

When to take down Extreme Emperor Mountain, when to cross the Heavenly Drum Plain to kill into the Ao Xiao Wolf Court, when to end this war...

In short, everyone seemed full of confidence and showed a posture of being sure of winning this war.

During this period, the Hundred Flower Fairy of the Hundred Flower Palace also sought out Luo Chen privately.

The content of the conversation was about the same as what the Heartless Fairy had revealed earlier.

The Hundred Flower Palace had now attached itself to the Cloud Crane Daoist Couple, and after ending the opening war here in Howling Moon, they would attack the Great Snow Mountain.

She represented the Cloud Crane Daoist Couple and invited the Luo Tian Alliance to participate as well.

She even gave the condition that after success, the Luo Tian Sect's elixirs could be sold in the Great Snow Mountain area!

It had to be said that Luo Chen was a bit tempted.

But it was only temptation; he did not agree on the spot, only saying that he needed to consider it further.

The Hundred Flower Fairy did not urge him, but continued to persuade others.

The woman was beautiful, elegant in speech, and her means of communicating with others could be considered smooth; under her lobbying, many people showed signs of being moved.

Finally.

When it got dark, this small Jin Dan gathering hosted by the Supreme Elder of the Luo Tian Sect slowly came to an end.

Streaks of light left his cave and returned to their respective homes.

Not to mention the thoughts and moods of others.

Just regarding the Falling Cloud Sect.

Mu Yunyan and Linghu Jie walked side by side on the mountain path, talking in low voices.

"This person Dan Chenzi, his alchemy attainments might not be as good as mine for the time being, but his foundation is terrifyingly solid. As long as he is given the appropriate elixir formula, he can mostly figure out the way."

"And within his own sect, there are no extra Jin Dan cultivators. In the future, the excess Tier 3 cultivation elixirs refined might be able to reach a stable cooperation with our sect."

"In addition, that Profound-Penetrating Elixir must be of great use to our sect's Foundation Establishment disciples!"

"For the subsequent Sword Hall tasks, you might be able to give him some preferential treatment."

Linghu Jie listened quietly, and a touch of softness appeared on his gloomy face.

"Since that is the case, then this brother will listen to Junior Sister!"

Luo Chen did not know about these things.

Even if he did, it was within his expectations.

The elixirs he revealed covered the Qi Refining stage to the Jin Dan stage, and there would always be people with needs.

Because of reputation, because of skill, and thus getting alternative preferential treatment, this was a matter of course!

After the guests dispersed and the gathering ended.

Luo Chen sat quietly in the silent room, counting the materials for refining the Hunyuan Cauldron in his storage ring.

The auxiliary materials had all been collected, at least enough to guarantee twenty refinements.

And for the major materials, there were enough for more than ten refinements, and even the least had six or seven.

Only the Fire Spirit Diamond currently had only two.

"If I can collect five, I can go all out and go into seclusion to refine my life-bound magic treasure."

This kind of material should have been abundant in the Jade Cauldron Domain, after all, that place had many fire veins.

But the Fire Spirit Diamond had a wide range of uses, whether it was refining tools, refining puppets, or setting up arrays, it could be used.

After so many years, it was instead on the verge of extinction.

It had to be said, it was truly a pity.

"Before that, I should still familiarize myself with the basic knowledge of tool refining and related arrays!"

Luo Chen clicked on the attribute panel and stared at the basic Five Elements Array for a while.

Before setting off, he had already entered the door by copying Min Longyu's arrays.

Next, he only needed to mobilize magic power, carve restrictions, and then combine them into arrays, copying them over and over again.

Brush up the proficiency, and after reaching Great Perfection, learn advanced arrays, thereby mastering the arrays for refining the Hunyuan Cauldron.

From easy to difficult, gradually deepening, until fully prepared!

"Dan Chenzi, it's your turn to patrol this month. This is the defense line jade slip, take it and memorize it."

"Hmm."

Luo Chen took a jade slip from Linghu Jie's hand.

His spiritual sense probed into it, and he soon temporarily memorized the map in his mind.

Before setting off, Linghu Jie stopped him.

"If you encounter an enemy you cannot defeat, activate your identity token, and I will bring people to support you soon."

Facing this well-intentioned advice, Luo Chen smiled and nodded.

Patrol tasks were considered the safest tasks.

And as long as it wasn't the Ao Xiao Wolf Emperor himself or a large-scale wolf raid, he believed he could easily handle it.

Others only thought he was still that newly promoted first-layer Jin Dan cultivator.

Little did they know, he was already at the second layer of Jin Dan.

After Luo Chen came out, Ceng Yilong and the nine Foundation Establishment true cultivators of the Luo Tian Alliance had been waiting for a long time.

Luo Chen smiled slightly: "Let's go!"

Patrol tasks among cultivators were far easier than for mortals, not requiring too frequent walking around.

But at the same time, they were not that easy.

Because one needed to constantly emit spiritual sense and spiritual awareness to patrol in all directions.

In addition, one had to use the array token to check at any time and place whether the various arrays were under attack.

In this situation, it was a small test for the cultivator's primordial spirit foundation.

Those with shallow foundations often could not hold on for long.

Therefore, the patrol tasks of the Sword Hall were generally limited to one month.

After one month, they would be rotated to other forces.

Luo Chen took the alliance cultivators to the periphery of the base camp, and then followed the original process to start patrolling.

When he released his spiritual sense to patrol the surroundings, three people had already gathered on the Falling Cloud Sect side.

Linghu Jie, Mu Yunyan, and that True Person Cheng Yan!

"What a powerful spiritual sense!"

"The coverage area is as wide as five or six hundred miles. Such primordial spirit foundation is almost comparable to a Jin Dan fifth or even sixth-layer cultivator."

"Junior Sister was right! Dan Chenzi must have cultivated his primordial spirit foundation to the limit of the Foundation Establishment stage by taking a large amount of self-refined Profound-Penetrating Elixirs during the Foundation Establishment stage. Only then could he possess spiritual sense strength comparable to a middle Jin Dan cultivator at the first layer of Jin Dan."

The three of them, with the help of the array, were shocked by the spiritual sense Luo Chen displayed in an instant.

After some exclamation, Linghu Jie said in a deep voice: "No wonder he could succeed in one go with our sect's Jin Dan formation secret technique. With such a foundation, practicing 'Locking Pearl Curtain' is like a fish in water; minor success is within reach, and major success is not impossible to glimpse."

They did not doubt at all that with such primordial spirit foundation, Luo Chen would choose those inferior or even middle-grade Jin Dan formation secret techniques.

He must have practiced the "Locking Pearl Curtain" that the Falling Cloud Sect released back then!

Of course, if they knew that Luo Chen not only practiced this technique to the Great Perfection state but also used it as a foundation to create a supreme Jin Dan formation secret technique, they would be shocked beyond measure.

Even so, it was enough to be amazing now.

A look of excitement appeared on Mu Yunyan's delicate face.

"It is impossible to make him hand over the Profound-Penetrating Elixir formula, but if he can sell Profound-Penetrating Elixirs to our sect in batches, then our sect's disciples can practice 'Locking Pearl Curtain' on a large scale. In time, our sect might have hundreds of Jin Dan cultivators, or even cultivate one or two Nascent Soul True Persons."

Cheng Yan frowned, "Junior Sister Mu, you obtained a bottle of Profound-Penetrating Elixir, can't you reverse-engineer the specific elixir formula?"

Mu Yunyan gave a wry smile, "Reverse-engineering an elixir formula is not that simple! Moreover, in this month, I experimented many times, and even if I deduced the corresponding medicinal herbs, I found that no matter how I adjusted the proportion, I couldn't reach the ideal state."

"Not to mention forming an elixir, the furnace exploded several times!"

That difficult?

Cheng Yan and Linghu Jie looked at each other.

Deducing the approximate medicinal herbs for refining the Profound-Penetrating Elixir was actually not difficult.

Investigating the Luo Tian Sect's medicinal herb procurement situation, narrowing the scope, and then slowly through the Falling Cloud Sect's pharmacists and Mu Yunyan, the alchemy master, one could get a general idea.

But how to refine it, and it just kept exploding, this was very outrageous.

They did not know that Luo Chen's Profound-Penetrating Elixir was itself only an incomplete elixir formula, which was completed and mastered through the system.

And the Profound-Penetrating Elixir Luo Chen traded to Mu Yunyan was Tier 2!

And the Tier 2 Profound-Penetrating Elixir formula was further deduced and improved by Luo Chen on the original basis.

This meant that this elixir formula had three layers of locks.

The system completion was one layer of lock, how to master it was another layer, and directly deducing the Tier 2 elixir formula was another layer of lock.

After a long while, Cheng Yan stroked his beard and said in a deep voice: "If this is the case, then there is no need to reverse-engineer it anymore, wasting manpower and material resources."

Mu Yunyan nodded.

This was the most important moment for the Falling Cloud Sect, and the sect could not give her the full support it had in the past.

Manpower and material resources had to be used on the cutting edge.

Cheng Yan continued: "This person Dan Chenzi, continue to maintain a friendly relationship with him! In addition, Junior Brother Linghu."

"Senior Brother, please speak."

"Attacking Extreme Emperor Mountain in a year, the Ao Xiao Wolf Court might send demon beast troops to support. You should schedule the Sword Hall tasks at that time and arrange the Luo Tian Alliance in the base camp; don't let them go to the battlefield."

Linghu Jie nodded; this was within his expectations.

Extreme Emperor Mountain was the location of the top-grade Tier 3 spiritual vein that the five Jin Dan sects had not taken down before.

According to investigations by interested people, the quality of that spiritual vein was extremely high, and if nourished properly, it might become a Tier 4 spiritual vein!

One Howling Moon Mountain Range having the chance to produce two Tier 4 spiritual veins was truly amazing.

This was also why five Jin Dan great sects had set their sights on this one place at the same time before.

For this, not only were many strong individuals lost, but even the Taihe Gate was almost wiped out.

Linghu Jie hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Then when the decisive battle comes, how to arrange Dan Chenzi?"

Cheng Yan frowned and then waved his hand.

"No need to arrange, just let it be. Some things cannot be too biased; I will take care of him a little when the time comes depending on the situation."

"Hmm, I understand."

Luo Chen had discovered this a long time ago.

After he achieved success and fame, the environment he was in had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Wherever he went, he would be treated with courtesy.

Everyone he met would greet him with a smile.

Even now, on the front-line battlefield that many people feared, his treatment was still surprisingly good.

Since the patrol task a month ago, in the following months, he had not been assigned any decent dangerous tasks.

At most, it was sending one or two Foundation Establishment cultivators out to deliver messages.

He didn't have to move at all.

In contrast, the tasks received by cultivators from other sects in the Sword Hall were much more dangerous.

Intercepting demon beasts, gathering intelligence, mediating sect conflicts...

From time to time, he could see Sword Hall cultivators returning stained with blood.

Regarding this situation, Luo Chen naturally had no objections and even accepted it gladly.

Quietly copying arrays in the cave, brushing up proficiency, meditating and cultivating every day, watching his cultivation base rise steadily, it was simply wonderful.

Occasionally, he would take time to visit Mu Yunyan to exchange alchemy techniques.

After several exchanges, he took out the Scale-Turning Hand and exchanged it with the other party for an elixir technique, the Burning Crane Hand, to enrich his alchemy foundation.

Sometimes when he was bored, he would take out a large batch of medicinal herbs stored in his storage ring and refine elixirs.

For this, he refined a large batch of top-grade and peak-grade Jade Dew Elixirs for Huiniang and Caiyi, enough for them to use until the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.

After sending people to deliver them back.

Luo Chen felt bored again and started collecting complete Tier 2 demon beast corpses here at the base camp.

He wanted to brush the Tier 2 elixir "Imperial Flowing Pulp" to the Great Perfection level.

Otherwise, every time he opened the attribute panel, that Tier 2 category hanging there alone was truly ugly.

Time flowed slowly.

A year later.

Luo Chen came to the Sword Hall headquarters again.

"Another patrol task?"

"Yes, doesn't Fellow Daoist like it?" Linghu Jie asked.

Luo Chen smiled slightly, "How could I not like it? Quiet and peace are my wishes."

Linghu Jie nodded, and when Luo Chen was about to leave, he suddenly called him back.

"There might be big moves recently, and the base camp is relatively empty, so you need to be careful with patrolling."

Luo Chen was startled.

Suddenly!

He realized what the big move the other party was talking about was.

Attacking Extreme Emperor Mountain, cutting off the last gateway of the Ao Xiao Wolf Court.

In this way, the final decisive battle should not be far away, right!

He took a deep breath, "Thank you for the reminder, Fellow Daoist."

Linghu Jie nodded gently; the other party could understand the signal of goodwill he released, and that was enough.

Relationships were all built up like this.

It was almost exactly as Luo Chen had anticipated.

Five days after he accepted the patrol task for the second time, the human coalition had movements.

Led by the Jin Dan great sect Star-Moon Hall, they gathered seven Jin Dan sects, large and small, including the Blazing Sun Sect and the Lotus Flower Palace, and launched an attack on the Extreme Emperor Mountain area again.

Luo Chen had found out the details.

If Extreme Emperor Mountain was taken down, this area could be jointly governed by the two sects.

And with the seven sects moving, the Sword Hall was also ready to go.

Three days after the war began.

In the Sword Hall, a bell rang.

Hundreds of streaks of light flew out together.

Luo Chen stood on a small hill, looking up at this scene; he knew that the Ao Xiao Wolf Court must have sent troops as well.

He lowered his head and looked at Ceng Yilong standing below, a look of regret on his face.

Luo Chen couldn't help but smile: "What, want to go?"

Ceng Yilong scratched his head, "Yes, didn't you say, Uncle Master, that you were bringing me out this time to test my sword? Besides fighting some strong peers in the camp, I haven't had any decent battles; how can this be called testing my sword."

Luo Chen pursed his lips and smiled, "Perhaps there is some contradiction, but I still want to say that meaningless battles are unnecessary. You want to test your sword, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future, no need to rush."

"Is that so?" Ceng Yilong nodded, keeping this teaching in his heart.

Seeing him accept the teaching, Luo Chen was also greatly comforted.

If Ceng Wen were still alive, seeing his son grow to this level, he would also be very happy!

However, what Luo Chen did not expect was.

His words came true.

The opportunity to test his sword came too quickly!

When the night was deep, Luo Chen's face changed slightly, and he took out his identity token.

"Enemy attack!"

"The number of demon beasts is over ten thousand, and there are no less than twenty Tier 3 demon king-level existences."

His powerful spiritual sense allowed him to discover the scene of ten thousand wolves rushing from hundreds of miles away in advance.

And just as he issued the warning, in the base camp, streaks of array light lit up.

On Thousand Leaf Peak, even more ferocious puppets exuding powerful momentum walked out.

At the same time.

A golden light slashed down from the nine heavens!

Seeing that golden light that looked like the moon, Luo Chen's face changed drastically.

"Tier 4 Demon Emperor!"

On Thousand Leaf Peak, a voice full of energy spread clearly.

"Fellow Daoist Ao Xiao, coming uninvited is not the way of a guest!"

Faster than this voice was a black brilliance that rose from the ground.

Golden light and black brilliance collided in an instant.

Immediately, the wind and clouds changed, and the universe shook.

Centered on Thousand Leaf Peak, a radius of a thousand miles shook together.

The earth overturned, the arrays were destroyed, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was chaotic, and the Thousand Leaf Peak, which towered into the clouds, was even directly shortened by a hundred feet.

A figure stood under the bright moon, coldly watching the Nascent Soul True Person on Thousand Leaf Peak.

"You are the unwelcome guests!"