Chapter 563: Failure? I'm Used to It

With the help of the intermediary Dan Shubao, Yu Gao obtained five bottles of top-grade Emperor Di Di Liu Jiang and twenty top-grade spirit stones from Luo Chen.

Yes, top-grade spirit stones were used for the delivery.

Luo Chen originally wanted to pay with low-grade spirit stones, but 200,000 was truly too large a quantity, and an ordinary storage bag couldn't hold it at all.

Even if Golden Core superiors had the spare capacity to purchase storage bags with larger space, such a large number of low-grade spirit stones was too cumbersome.

This also made Luo Chen realize that after the realm became higher, the currency for trading was also quietly changing.

Yu Gao himself was very satisfied with this transaction.

For him, a refining method for a defensive magic treasure, which wasn't even developed within the sect, wasn't that important.

Moreover, it was very difficult to actually refine the defensive magic treasure inside.

At least, he had entrusted the elders in the sect to spend a lot of materials, and only then did he barely succeed once.

Using a refining method that wasn't very important to exchange for Emperor Di Di Liu Jiang was of great use to him.

"My spirit beast originally had the bloodline of an ancient desolate beast, but after many years, it has been unable to excavate the bloodline inheritance."

"With the help of this elixir, perhaps it can help it."

Desolate beasts that reached the fifth tier were like Soul Transformation great powers of the human race, having already comprehended part of the laws of heaven and earth.

This also led to their offspring's bloodlines being more or less affiliated with that aspect.

If supernatural powers were derived, they could be hidden in the bloodline to benefit future generations.

But after the great war between humans and demons in ancient times, the demon race began to follow the path of human form, and although the cultivation speed accelerated a lot, the original path was abandoned, leading to problems in excavating their own bloodlines.

It became more and more difficult!

Ordinary low-tier demon beasts found it very difficult to naturally awaken the inheritance hidden in their own bloodlines.

This Emperor Di Di Liu Jiang, I don't know which alchemy grandmaster developed it, actually has such a magical effect?

Compared to Yu Gao's satisfaction, Luo Chen's mood was also very good.

After taking the iron slips from Dan Shubao, he waved his hand to remove the simple mark left by the original owner, and his spiritual sense probed into it.

Sure enough, it recorded a complete refining method for protective armor.

Luo Chen scanned the specific content roughly and knew that this method was extraordinary.

Once refined successfully, it could be divided into inner and outer layers of defense.

One was energy armor to protect against energy attacks, and the other was physical armor to resist physical attacks.

This was not the occasion for careful study, so Luo Chen put away the iron slips and continued to pay attention to the progress of this gathering.

The first session was barter, which was relatively slow and cumbersome.

It was mainly some scarce resources, and their value was not easy to determine, as it varied from person to person.

Therefore, it took a lot of time when negotiating with each other.

After collecting the refining method for the defensive magic treasure, Luo Chen didn't make many moves.

But he didn't make moves, yet some people asked him privately from time to time if he had any more top-grade Emperor Di Di Liu Jiang.

Luo Chen used the excuse that he only had the stock of those five bottles to fob them off.

After experiencing the exchange with True Person Fu.

His ideas had changed.

He didn't intend to sell the elixirs he refined on a large scale to show off his identity as an alchemy grandmaster, so as to avoid attracting the attention of the Blood Nightmare Demon Luo.

However, although he thought so, some people were still suspicious.

"Fellow Daoist Luo, are you an alchemy grandmaster?"

Looking at the visitor, Luo Chen felt a jolt in his heart, but his expression didn't show it.

"Fellow Daoist Witch is overpraising. After I achieved Golden Core, although I dabbled in alchemy like most people, hoping to become a noble alchemist. But my talent is limited, and after spending a lot of energy, I can only refine some low-grade elixirs."

After cultivators achieve Golden Core, their lifespan skyrockets, and in the absence of accidents, most can live for five hundred years.

With such abundant time, besides cultivation, they basically try to study one or two skills.

Alchemy is often the first choice!

However, the vast majority of people cannot get started, and even if they rely on abundant resources to force their way in, being able to refine first-tier, second-tier, or even third-tier elixirs is of no avail.

The specific reason is that being able to refine them is one thing, but ensuring the success rate and the finished product rate is another matter.

Normal low-grade elixirs of various grades, when sold, lose money, and you can't make money at all.

Only by ensuring a strong success rate can you not lose the cost of raw materials.

If you want to make a big profit, you have to have middle-grade or even top-grade elixirs!

Therefore, this is why there are many high-level cultivators in the cultivation world, but not many high-level alchemists.

Witch Qi's face was suspicious.

He had observed secretly before that there was indeed no such rich Dan aura residue on this loose cultivator named Luo Hai.

This didn't match the Qingyang Demon Lord.

But the sudden appearance of an elixir he had never heard of made him unable to help but fantasize in that direction.

Luo Chen said apologetically: "If Fellow Daoist Witch also wants Emperor Di Di Liu Jiang, I'm very sorry. Those Emperor Di Di Liu Jiang were also obtained by me from an ancient cultivator ruin, and the quantity was not large to begin with. My own spirit beast used some, and only the few bottles left were traded to Fellow Daoist Yu Gao."

"Spirit beast?" Witch Qi's eyes lit up, and he asked subconsciously: "I don't know what the Fellow Daoist's spirit beast is..."

Luo Chen's face sank.

Witch Qi reacted immediately, "Sorry, I was abrupt."

A cultivator's spirit beast, like their magic treasures and cultivation techniques, can be counted as a trump card, so how could it be easily told?

He was indeed abrupt.

During their exchange, the first session finally came to an end.

Dan Shubao walked to the middle of the hall and clapped his hands.

"Next, let's talk about the auction in a few days!"

What's there to talk about at that auction?

Luo Chen was curious.

Seeing the confusion in his eyes, Witch Qi perhaps to make up for his previous abruptness, explained in a low voice.

It turned out that this auction involved many large and small forces.

And the main participants were True Person Feileng, the Tianyuan Alliance, the Demon Luo Stream, the Penglai Sect, and the Canghai Alliance.

Most of the resources to be auctioned were also provided by them.

One could imagine that the resources taken out by these large forces, even if they didn't need them much, were absolutely of high quality. Once put on the auction, people would fight for them, and the price would easily rise.

What Dan Shubao was doing now was acting as an intermediary, connecting a part of the people in advance to make a rough plan for the ownership of certain auction items, so as to avoid their own people fighting each other at that time and hurting the harmony.

The chat atmosphere in the room had been opened by Dan Shubao, so people spoke up from time to time.

"That Lingting Stone taken out by True Person Feileng, I, Chu, am determined to get, and I hope everyone will give me some face when the time comes."

"Sorry, I am recently going to refine a Dinghai Plate, and that Lingting Stone is also of great use to me."

The Dinghai Plate is a common magic tool in the North Sea.

For non-water-attribute cultivators, fighting against water-attribute cultivators on the sea often suffers from the disadvantage of terrain.

And the Dinghai Plate can calm the waves, block water vapor, and erase the terrain gap.

Not only that, if such a magic treasure is placed on an island, combined with corresponding formations, it can also create a small-scale environment of calm winds and waves, and favorable weather.

If families and sects obtain it, they can build a living environment with it.

Whether it is cultivation or farming certain seafood, it is of great benefit.

Dinghai Plates are common, but good Dinghai Plates are not common.

Inferior ones are only at the magic tool level, but excellent ones can reach the magic treasure level.

The person who said that was clearly a fire-attribute Golden Core cultivator like Luo Chen; fighting on the sea, he suffered quite a bit, so he urgently needed a Dinghai Plate at the magic treasure level.

Looking at the dispute between the two, Luo Chen was thoughtful.

At a low realm, the restraint of five-element attributes on battles between cultivators is not so obvious, because the realm is low, and the means used by cultivators mostly rely on external objects.

But when the realm is high, reaching the level of Soul Transformation and Nascent Soul, they can already use the general trend of heaven and earth, and even the power of laws.

Golden Core cultivators like them, although they can't reach that level, can also use the terrain to fight.

Therefore, the way of generation and restraint increasingly affects the battle and cultivation of cultivators.

"Should I also find time to get a Dinghai Plate?"

After thinking about it, Luo Chen secretly dismissed this idea in his heart.

His fire-attribute magic power was cultivated and transformed through the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Sutra," and its quality was domineering and unparalleled.

Ordinary terrain, a little bit of water and fire restraint, simply couldn't affect him.

Instead of spending spirit stones in these places, it's better to study other means.

The dispute between the two cultivators in the room, under Dan Shubao's mediation, gradually came to an end.

That Chu-surnamed Golden Core cultivator finally persuaded the other party.

The Lingting Stone was of great use to his cultivation and was a must-have.

And the Dinghai Plate didn't necessarily need the Lingting Stone; the Chu-surnamed cultivator promised to use another material to replace it, so the two reached an agreement, and the latter decided not to compete with him at the auction.

Of course, if other forces at the auction wanted to compete aggressively, the Chu-surnamed cultivator could only rely on himself.

The dispute over the Lingting Stone ended here.

Next, people kept speaking out to inform others of the resources they wanted, to avoid other cultivators in the room competing with them.

"I must have the Tongmai Grass; I have a direct descendant who is born with blocked meridians and needs Tongmai Grass to refine related elixirs. Although this item is third-tier, it is of no use to fellow Golden Core Daoists, so I think no one will compete with me when the time comes!"

"That piece of Nine-Yang Geng Gold is already in my pocket, and I hope no one will interfere."

"Fellow Daoist, this is different. Nine-Yang Geng Gold is the top grade among Geng Gold. Adding a little to the flying sword magic treasure of gold and fire attributes makes it unparalleled in sharpness. I, too, am determined to get it!"

"Hehe, do you really want to compete with me?"

"Let's rely on our own means!"

"I don't know if any fellow Daoists here are interested in that Coral Glazed Umbrella?"

"Fellow Daoist Yoruo, do you want it?"

"It's not that I want it, but that Coral Glazed Umbrella is a relic of a good friend of mine, which was obtained by someone killing and seizing the treasure back then. Now, after tossing and turning, it appeared at the auction, and I want to buy it back and send it back to my friend's family."

"Since Fellow Daoist Yoruo wants it, I, Xu, will not compete with you when the time comes; it's just a low-grade magic treasure after all."

"Thanks!"

Luo Chen watched this scene from the sidelines, combined with what Witch Qi said, and had already understood the role of this session.

It was nothing more than private connection to avoid unscrupulous bidding at that time, which would hurt the harmony.

Looking at it this way, the alliance between the Demon Luo Stream and the Penglai Sect was already a settled matter, and contradictions had already begun to be avoided from the details.

He was also curious about another question, "Some resources were originally produced by our three parties, why not digest them internally, why do we need to put them on the auction?"

Regarding this, Witch Qi transmitted: "This grand event was facilitated by True Person Feileng. If it were digested internally, no one would be able to make up for her share of the profit."

The Feileng City auction was organized by True Person Feileng?

Luo Chen raised his eyebrows.

Associating with Feileng City's neutral status for many years, he was slightly enlightened again.

But in his heart, he felt it was funny.

Not only did they have to satisfy True Person Feileng's commission profit, but they also privately connected to lower the bidding price, which was equivalent to reducing her share of the revenue.

Such a contradiction was truly ridiculous.

However, when the third cultivator exchange session arrived, Luo Chen understood the reason for that contradiction.

The third session was the common cultivator exchange.

Either raising doubts in the cultivation process to ask others for advice, or sharing each other's knowledge.

The rise and fall of various forces on the North Sea islands, where strong figures appeared, which ancient forces were destroyed.

Even the movements of various demon races in the demon sea were all recounted by these knowledgeable Golden Core cultivators.

In this process, Luo Chen even learned some situations about True Person Feileng from Yu Gao's casual words.

It turned out that this woman was actually from the Penglai Sect!

I don't know why, she defected from the Penglai Sect and had some involvement with a Nascent Soul elder of the Yuanmo Sect, and the relationship was unclear.

Relying on the Yuanmo Sect elder, she obtained this cultivation place of Feileng City.

This Feileng City auction was also facilitated by her guarantee, plus the secret efforts of the Tianyuan Alliance.

Penglai Sect, Yuanmo Sect, Demon Luo Stream...

Luo Chen understood the origin of that contradiction.

The intermediary of this cooperation alliance was clearly not just the Tianyuan Alliance, but True Person Feileng was also one of them.

Therefore, her share of the revenue had to be given.

But compared to the two behemoths, even though Feileng was a Nascent Soul True Person, she was truly humble.

Therefore, just give some benefits, but don't give too much.

After understanding this point, Luo Chen couldn't help but shake his head secretly.

Things in the world are winding and twisting, even Nascent Soul True Persons are involuntary in it!

As for more inside information, Luo Chen couldn't find out.

Because this gathering between Golden Core cultivators was nearing its end.

After the meeting, Luo Chen didn't, like others, want to gather privately.

There were not many people he knew well here, and deep talk with shallow acquaintance was not his character, so he left early.

In front of a window on the sixth floor of Tianyuan Building.

Witch Qi looked at Luo Chen's departing back, and that strange feeling in his heart finally dissipated gradually.

Beside him, the hook-nosed old man asked: "You are very concerned about him? Do you know him?"

"Before, I just thought he was an old friend, but his Dharma cloud escape light is completely different, so I must have recognized the wrong person." Witch Qi shook his head, then smiled: "If you say you don't know him, don't you know him now?"

Eagle Demon curled his lips, "You don't cultivate well, but you are keen on socializing; what's the use for the Dao?"

Witch Qi was calm and composed, "Knowing one more friend means one more path. You don't know that although there are many experts under the Blood Nightmare stream master, most of them are old people from the Yuanmo Sect, and they are naturally not on the same path as me. Especially after they joined the Demon Luo Stream, they all went into closed-door cultivation and never showed their faces outside. When I encounter things, I either have to make a move myself or ask you for help. If this continues, I will have an accident sooner or later."

Hearing this, Eagle Demon also showed a look of doubt.

"This seat also doesn't understand, aren't most orthodox Demon Sect disciples flamboyant? How come after they arrived under the Blood Nightmare stream master, they all love bitter cultivation so much and never show their faces outside."

"Also, didn't a survivor of the Yuanmo lineage come to defect to the Blood Nightmare stream master not long ago? What was his name?"

Witch Qi said in a low voice: "He Yuan, Golden Core fourth-tier realm, his strength is truly not weak."

"Yes, his name is He Yuan." Eagle Demon nodded heavily, "That guy was very arrogant when he showed his face, why is he nowhere to be seen recently? Could it be that the Blood Nightmare stream master..."

"Eagle Demon, you think too much."

Witch Qi smiled, but that smile looked very reluctant no matter how he looked at it.

He looked in the direction Luo Chen left again, then took a deep breath.

"Let's go, Yu Gao is still waiting for us, and I don't know how many Golden Core cultivators the Penglai Sect sent this time, and which hidden old monster is leading the team."

After returning to the valley.

Luo Chen took out the refining method for the first time and studied it carefully.

Han Zhan appeared, scanned with spiritual sense, and asked: "Defensive magic treasure?"

"Hmm." Luo Chen responded while studying.

Han Zhan was puzzled, "Why are you looking at it in such detail? You can just spend a lot of money to ask a famous casting grandmaster to refine it for you."

Luo Chen raised his head and twitched the corner of his mouth: "Senior, after experiencing the Hunyuan Cauldron incident, do you think I still trust others to refine such life-related treasures?"

Han Zhan was stunned, then laughed dumbly.

It turned out that once bitten, twice shy!

He joked: "The refining difficulty of physical defensive magic treasures is second only to soul defensive magic treasures. Compared to normal attack magic treasures and formation disks and puppets, it is much more difficult, and even well-known refining grandmasters dare not say they will definitely succeed. If you insist on going your own way, I'm afraid the ending will be failure."

"Failure? I'm used to it."

Luo Chen smiled softly and lowered his head to study the iron slips again.

Han Zhan was slightly startled, associating it with Luo Chen's calm appearance when alchemy failed in the past, and for a while, he couldn't refute it.

Being used to failure doesn't mean accepting failure.

Repeated failures prove that he is trying again and again, and as long as the conditions allow, one day he will welcome success.

It's just that Han Zhan was a little puzzled.

Luo Chen had extraordinary talent in alchemy, formation, and even spell casting.

He couldn't have talent in casting as well, could he?

(End of chapter)