[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats-":3,"chapter-immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-66":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Immortality Cultivation: I Can increase My Stats Using Clansmen's Qi-Blood",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1156871,1501,"Chapter 66: 66 Tao Ji is on his way, the Calming Heart Pill becomes number 1","immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-66",66,"\u003Cp>Chapter 66: Tao Ji is on his way, the Calming Heart Pill becomes number 1Due to the influx of refugees into Qingshi Town, their numbers were increasing daily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, Luo Yong’s second round of military expansion\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was still ongoing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that the plan was to increase the size of the army to 50,000 during this second round of expansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, 30,000 would be regular troops and 20,000 would be reservists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, being assigned to the reservists did not mean that one would stay in that role forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as your performance met the standards, you could be promoted from the reservist to the regular troops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And some of the original regular troops, if they failed to meet the standards, might also be demoted to reservists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, competition in the military leads to improvement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, another day had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the sun was high in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in the early days of winter, at midday when the sun was at its strongest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>people could still feel the waves of heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“General, how much longer will it take to reach the place called Qingshi Town that you’ve spoken of?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the outskirts of Qingshi Town, on a piece of land cracked and barren, scarcely populated,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a fully armored, rather disheveled troop\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was presently struggling to advance steadily forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there, General Tao Ji, clad in shining silver armor with a gem-encrusted sword hanging at his waist,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was riding atop a scrawny, jet-black horse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression seemed quite unconcerned and relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No rush, no rush…” Tao Ji glanced at his deputy next to him, and with a smile, stroked his not-too-long beard, whispering, “At best, we’ll arrive in three days. At worst, seven days, and then we’ll be at Qingshi Town.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And once we get there, we certainly won’t have to worry about food and drink!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But General…” hesitated the deputy, then added, “General, even with just one meal a day, we have less than three days’ worth of provisions left.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Along the way, people are rarely seen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If this continues…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sooner or later, we will starve to death on this journey.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deputy’s words were not without merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, if all the food were gathered for his own consumption,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there would be plenty for Tao Ji alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, even though Tao Ji was the leader of this army,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he dared not easily do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If everyone had nothing to eat, that would be one thing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but if the leader hoarded food while his soldiers went hungry,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>mutiny would surely arise within the army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Ji was well aware that if he wanted to continue living well and go to Qingshi Town or some other remote village to borrow food or supplies,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had to keep a firm grip on his troops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What does the deputy think about those ‘lambs’ dying along the way?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lambs? What lambs along the way?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Deputy, are you sure you didn’t see them, or are you pretending to be oblivious?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“General, you… you mean?” Tao Ji’s deputy’s eyes widened in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face was filled with incredulity and utter refusal to accept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In desperate times, we have no choice but to do this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After all, who would wish for such a thing if there were any other option?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While saying this, Tao Ji sighed with a hint of reluctance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After pondering deeply,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the deputy could only silently nod in agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the threat of death, one’s own life was clearly more precious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside Qingshi Town, with the ascension of the New Emperor, conflicts among the princes were unceasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation on this land had grown increasingly chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, on the banks of Huai Water, Qingshi Town, with its abundant water resources and the presence of the Luo Family, had begun to stabilize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a period of expansion, the size of Qingshi Town had almost doubled compared to before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new city walls, although still under construction,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>now seemed to be taking shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially with the separation between the inner and outer city, Qingshi Town now looked more akin to the bustling counties with populations of hundreds of thousands, or even close to a million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Qingshi Town, on the Luo Family Ancestral Land,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>within a courtyard that exuded an ancient simplicity,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>lay an open space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, Luo Changfeng, the Ancestor of the Luo Family, was silently standing by a second-hand Furnace Cauldron that blazed with rampant flames at the bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elixir being refined in the cauldron was called the Calming Heart Pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Calming Heart Pill was known for its effect in calming the mind and soothing the spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This type of elixir was slightly more challenging to produce compared to the basic elixirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was specially refined for that little guy, Luo Qingshan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Crimson Flame Elixir, a vigorous session had yielded around a hundred pills, filling a total of ten porcelain bottles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, that little girl Luo Youwei was not in need for the time being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Should be about done, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Luo Changfeng waved his hand to use his Qi-Blood Force to extinguish the flames beneath the second-hand Alchemy Furnace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped forward and opened the lid that was currently bearing extremely high temperatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qi-Blood Force wrapped around his hands,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>protecting him from the heat of the lid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not bad, not bad, this fragrance of the pill…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It must certainly belong to the finest among the mundane!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Changfeng sniffed the fragrance of the pill that wafted towards him and examined the dozen or so dark-colored Calming Heart Pills, each about the size of a little finger, at the bottom of the second-hand cauldron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Following this method, just a few more batches of Calming Heart Pills should suffice.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As time passed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after Luo Changfeng had completed two more batches of Calming Heart Pills,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he stored all the pills in porcelain bottles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These bottles were placed on a stone table beneath the Stone Pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself sat quietly under the Stone Pavilion,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>picking up a book by the name of “Introduction to Talismans” from the stone table and started to flip through it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having studied for some time, he found his understanding of the way of talismans had deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Offensive, defensive, and supportive talismans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Changfeng had dabbled in all three categories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of these, he naturally delved deeper into offensive and defensive talismans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the supportive talismans?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t really bother to study them much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that he thought they were useless,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but rather some of the utilities of supportive talismans were quite bizarre and peculiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take for instance the Rain Seeking Talisman…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did his Qingshi Town, situated beside the Huai Water, need such a thing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that the river would run dry one day?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there was the Plague Talisman…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed to be designed to summon various plagues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, since it was excessively harmful to heaven and order,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was considered one of the hundred forbidden talismans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Luo Changfeng was not keen on researching it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were others like the Locust Disaster Talisman, the Locust Removal Talisman, the Great Sun Talisman, the Cloud Seeking Talisman—a bunch of odd and strange ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, the straightforward offensive and defensive talismans were what he found most practical.\u003C\u002Fp>",1227,"2026-06-03T12:43:47.001Z","2026-06-03T12:43:40.042Z",1,"novelbin.me","49fbb53032a981726a79f8dba915734042e04f5d1e11b71893f0df7879cb8854","immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-270","immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-65",2094,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--cover.jpg"]