Chapter 131: Li Clan

Although Long Xuan could see the progress of alchemy and had a unique sense of smell in controlling the fire.

But refining high-grade spirit pills, it was useless to just control the fire well. It required every aspect to be perfect. No matter which link went wrong, it would lead to falling short of success, refining a furnace of expensive spirit medicine into waste.

So even with Long Xuan secretly helping, the Xuan Long Pill was refined furnace after furnace into waste. In just a few months, the two didn't know how many expensive spirit medicines were wasted, and the clan's small half of the golden mountain was almost lost by them.

At this time, Long Xuan truly realized how expensive it was to refine high-grade realm-breaking pills. This was simply a bottomless pit.

How could it be an easy thing for a clan to cultivate a Gu King? Don't even think about gathering the resources to cultivate a Gu King without hurting the muscles and bones.

If it could be bought directly from outside, it would be fine. The problem was that things that helped break through to Gu King had a 90% probability of attracting murder and treasure snatching.

If not careful, the realm-breaking pill just obtained would be snatched away. Losing the pill was one thing, but it was also possible to cause the clan to lose a large number of experts, from then on unable to recover.

There were truly too many similar examples, and it had happened countless times.

The reason why the Long Clan could become one of the seven major clans in the Far West was because the Li Clan, one of the former seven major clans, purchased a King-Breaking Pill at an auction in the Western Earth. In order to ensure foolproof, they predicted the enemy generously, and actually sent 80% of the clan's experts to escort it.

It was cautious enough, but the forces that had designs on the King-Breaking Pill were far more than one wave. One wave was killed and another came, endless.

The final result was that the experts of the Li Clan who went to escort the King-Breaking Pill were all dead, and even the King-Breaking Pill was lost. The Li Clan suffered heavy losses this time.

The key was that in order to purchase this King-Breaking Pill, the Li Clan also sold a large amount of clan property and emptied the family bottom, which undoubtedly made the clan worse.

Without resources, the cultivation speed of geniuses would be greatly affected. If geniuses couldn't grow up, the clan would never think of recovering its vitality. This was a vicious cycle. The Li Clan was unable to recover from then on, and its strength could no longer match the status of the seven major clans, and it couldn't guard such a large territory. This piece of fat meat would attract countless hungry wolves.

In the end, in order to avoid the crisis of being exterminated, the Li Clan also took the initiative to sell the territory to the Long Clan at a low price, fearing that the Long Clan would lose a child and then come to the door.

After the Long Clan inherited the massive territory of the Li Clan, they were able to develop rapidly, successfully ranking among the seven major clans in a very short time, and the clan's luck was flourishing.

This was a lesson from the past, and the Long Clan felt it too deeply.

So Long Wanli, unless it was a last resort, truly didn't dare to buy pills outside. Otherwise, if not careful, the wheel of fortune would turn, and it would be his turn next year.

Based on this consideration, the Long Clan spared no effort to support Long Ao in refining the Xuan Long Pill, and it was the strength of the entire clan.

Based on this consideration, the Long Clan spared no effort in supporting Long Ao in refining the Xuan Long Pill, and they did so by concentrating the strength of the entire clan.

So even though Old Long and the two kept refining waste materials, massive amounts of materials were still transported in continuously, without hesitation. The clan was also fighting hard.

With the unremitting support of the clan, finally, at noon on the third month, the lid of the alchemy furnace suddenly flew up, and a rich pill fragrance overflowed, instantly drifting throughout the entire room.

The two sniffed the third-grade pill fragrance that was rich to the extreme, and expressions of extreme excitement appeared in their eyes, their faces turning red.

Even that Straw Gu gently opened the door, sniffing the third-grade pill fragrance hard, looking at the Xuan Long Pill with excitement.

I don't know what its excited gaze represented. Maybe it wanted to take the Xuan Long Pill over to cover the house.

This was a top-grade building material.

Old Long stared at the golden spirit pill in the alchemy furnace with bloodshot eyes, excited to the point of going crazy.

Finally, he could no longer hold back, laughed wildly: "Hahaha... Success! Success! I finally succeeded!"

The crazy laughter was deafening, spreading very far, very far. The major high-level members of the clan had already been guarding outside the house for many days. After hearing his wild laughter, they all revealed expressions of ecstasy, and then rushed in like crazy.

"Finally succeeded? Is this the Xuan Long Pill?"

"Quick, let me see! Don't move! Is this something you can touch?"

"Hehe! Didn't expect it could really succeed. Being able to see what the ancestral Xuan Long Pill looks like with my own eyes, I won't have lived this life in vain."

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Some laughed mentally abnormally, and some even burst into tears.

Although everyone had fallen into madness, no one dared to reach out and touch that golden pill, they didn't dare to reach out to touch it at all, as if afraid of blaspheming the treasure.

Long Wanli's eyes were a bit red, finally walked toward the great contributor of the clan, Long Ao, and his voice carried a bit of gratitude: "Brother

Long Wanli's eyes were slightly red as he finally walked toward the clan's great hero, Long Ao. With a voice tinged with gratitude, he said, "Brother Ao, you have worked hard these past few months. The clan will not forget the contribution you have made."

Long Ao, feeling somewhat flattered, hurriedly waved his hands and smiled, "It was no trouble! No trouble at all! The Clan Head is too kind."

"Half of the credit for this success belongs to my disciple; I truly dare not take all the glory. I, Long Ao, am also incompetent for having wasted so many of the clan's materials. The clan must have spent a great deal during this time, right? Exactly how many resources did I consume?" Long Ao asked with a nervous expression.

He had been so focused on alchemy that, to this day, he couldn't remember how many materials he had ruined; he only knew it was a great, great many.

The pressure in his heart was truly too great. He was terrified of failing the clan's expectations—if he had exhausted all the clan's resources and still failed to refine the Xuan Long Pill, he would truly have been guilty of a crime for which death would not be enough to atone.

Fortunately, the Xuan Long Pill had finally been completed. The stone that had been weighing on his heart had finally fallen, leaving him feeling relieved. However, he now began to worry about how many of the clan's resources he had wasted, and he became anxious about gains and losses.

Long Wanli smiled, "You are overthinking it; there is no need for that. To be honest, your success far exceeded my expectations."

"I originally thought you would need to consume at least half of the clan's resources to refine the Xuan Long Pill, so I prepared a whole warehouse of Xuan Long Pill materials for you."

"Who would have thought you would refine the Xuan Long Pill using only one-tenth of the inventory? This truly exceeded my expectations by a wide margin. I prepared in vain; I underestimated Brother Ao's alchemy ability."

"Is that so? Hahaha..." Hearing this, Long Ao finally let go of the last bit of worry in his heart and laughed heartily. He added, "It wasn't in vain. Although I only used one-tenth of the materials to refine the Xuan Long Pill, don't trade away the remaining ninety percent."

"Everything is difficult at the start. As long as I have successfully refined the first Xuan Long Pill, refining the next one will be much easier; there will be no need to concentrate the entire clan's strength to refine it again."

"From now on, I will possess the ability to refine the Xuan Long Pill. As long as you give me time, a second and a third Xuan Long Pill will appear in the clan!"

Hearing this, Long Wanli's eyes immediately lit up, as if he saw a group of Gu Kings walking before him.

He understood all too well what Long Ao's words meant: it meant he could continuously refine Xuan Long Pills. From now on, the Long Clan would no longer need to risk going outside to purchase them, and the clan's Gu Kings would be produced in a steady stream.

"My Long Clan is about to rise! Truly, Heaven blesses our clan!" the Great Elder said first, his eyes brimming with tears.

"Long Buhui! This Xuan Long Pill is yours; do not let us down!"

In the end, it was Long Wanli who carefully took out the Xuan Long Pill, placed it into a pill bottle, and handed it to Long Buhui.

If there was anyone in the entire venue who was the most excited at this moment, it was undoubtedly Long Buhui.

He was the direct beneficiary; this Xuan Long Pill was refined for him. As long as he swallowed it, he had the possibility of breaking through to Gu King and becoming a top-tier powerhouse in this region. Who here could be more excited than him?

Long Buhui's face was flushed, and his heart was pounding wildly. Facing the Xuan Long Pill that was within arm's reach, he couldn't calm down at all; he was so excited he was about to go crazy.

He took the pill bottle with trembling hands. Even though the Xuan Long Pill was very light, at this moment, he felt as if it weighed a thousand catties. This pill carried the hopes of the entire clan, making his heart feel heavy and giving rise to a sense of pressure out of thin air.

At this moment, he actually began to feel as anxious about gains and losses as Long Ao. What if he failed the breakthrough, wasted this good pill, and let down the hopes of the entire clan?

An invisible pressure weighed on his back, making it hard for him to breathe. He didn't want to let his clansmen down, but the more he had such thoughts, the greater his pressure became.

Seeming to see what he was thinking, Long Ao said with empathy, "Brother Buhui, don't have too much pressure. After all, the Xuan Long Pill only has a twenty percent breakthrough rate; failing the breakthrough is perfectly normal."

"If it were so easy to break through to Gu King, why would each of the Seven Great Clans only have one or two?"

"But you are different from others. When others fail a breakthrough, they fail completely, but you still have a chance, because I already have the ability to refine the Xuan Long Pill."

"If one Xuan Long Pill isn't enough to break through, then use two; if two don't work, then three. Our clan now has the conditions for this, so you don't need to worry about failure at all, nor do you need to have any psychological pressure."

"That's right!" The Great Elder also walked over at this time to comfort him, "Even if you fail the breakthrough, no one in the entire clan will blame you. You must not have any psychological pressure."

"The greater your pressure, the easier it is to fail the breakthrough. You must adjust your mindset; to become a Gu King, your psychological quality must be up to par. Do not be timid."

The crowd's comfort clearly had an effect. Long Buhui nodded heavily. After adjusting his mindset, his eyes once again released a confident gaze: "Rest assured, everyone! I cannot guarantee a one-hundred-percent breakthrough to Gu King this time, but I will definitely do my utmost. I will absolutely not let a low-level mistake like poor psychological quality cause me to fall short of success."

Long Buhui tightened his fist.

Seeing Long Buhui in this state, everyone smiled and nodded together, finally feeling at ease.

Just at this moment, the Ancestor's voice suddenly came from the sky: "I will protect Buhui from now on. Unless the clan faces a crisis of life and death, no one is allowed to disturb us no matter what happens. Buhui, come to me."

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(End of this chapter)