Chapter 400: Danwang

Seeing Li Zhangsheng's unusual reaction, Ning Bizhen couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's wrong?"

"This is an alchemical formula for increasing quality!" Li Zhangsheng did not hide it; it was his first time seeing a formula that could increase quality as well.

Moon Soul Star Snatching Pill formula: A top-tier alchemical pill recipe. According to the formula, one can refine the Moon Soul Star Snatching Pill, which can slightly increase a Demon Pet's quality. It requires three main ingredients: Nether Moon Lotus, Star Snatching Grass, and Heavenly Mango, as well as over a hundred auxiliary materials.

Furthermore, the steps for refining the Moon Soul Star Snatching Pill span dozens of pages; the dense text and various formulas made Li Zhangsheng's scalp tingle.

"Increase quality!" Ning Bizhen covered her small mouth in surprise. Like Li Zhangsheng, it was her first time hearing of an Alchemical Pill that could improve quality.

However, after finishing the materials list for the Moon Soul Star Snatching Pill, both fell into silence. They only recognized a portion of these materials, and even among that portion, many were Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure.

Just collecting these materials would cost an astronomical number of Soul Crystals.

The two looked at each other and, with a tacit understanding, took out their respective books related to materials and began to search, focusing mainly on the three main ingredients.

"Heavenly Mango is a top-tier Heaven and Earth Essence!"

"Star Snatching Grass is too!"

When they looked up the Nether Moon Lotus, they stared at the information and fell into silence once more.

Nether Moon Lotus: Heaven and Earth Essence, a specialty of the Abyssal Nether Moon Lake!

This was the information on the Nether Moon Lotus. Neither of them expected it to be a specialty of the Abyss; this made things difficult.

"Let's talk about it later!"

Li Zhangsheng silently put away the Moon Soul Star Snatching Pill formula and began to check the other formulas.

Besides the Moon Soul Star Snatching Pill, there were two other top-tier formulas.

One was a formula for recovering from injuries; as long as one was still hanging on by a breath, one could recover from injuries at an extremely fast speed, and it was effective for Demon Kings and Demon Saints.

The other was a formula to assist in breaking through realms, which could assist Lord-rank Demon Pets in breaking through to the Demon King realm.

Like the Moon Soul Star Snatching Pill, these two top-tier formulas also required over a hundred materials, but the difficulty of collecting these materials was one level lower, and they did not include products from the Abyss or other planes.

Besides these three top-tier formulas, there were also over a dozen high-level formulas such as the Beauty-Fixing Pill, as well as over a hundred intermediate formulas.

Among them, special Alchemical Pills like the Beauty-Fixing Pill possessed great commercial value.

Historically, the money of women and children is the easiest to earn, and the love of beauty is a woman's nature; even female Stronger are eager for Alchemical Pills like the Beauty-Fixing Pill that can stabilize youth.

This was another stable path to wealth!

Ning Bizhen suddenly suggested, "Zhangsheng, I have a suggestion. Some of these formulas have not been collected by the Academy. If you are short on Academic Credits, you can exchange them with the Academy as appropriate!"

"Hmm, I will consider it!"

Li Zhangsheng was naturally quite tempted; he was still thinking about the Third-Grade Star Palace Lotus Platform, but because he lacked Academic Credits, he could only watch from the sidelines.

After putting away the hundreds of formulas, the two went to the bedroom together.

Compared to the other rooms, the bedroom was significantly smaller, only about thirty or forty square meters in size and about three meters high, looking quite simple.

In the bedroom, there was only a bed, a meditation cushion, a stone table, and four stone stools; there was nothing else.

Li Zhangsheng went to the stone table first, but unfortunately, apart from a large amount of dust and a tea set, there was nothing else on it.

Ning Bizhen was also searching, but she had no harvest either.

At this moment, Li Zhangsheng released his Mental Power; he could feel an energy light spot existing in the bedroom, though the energy fluctuation it emitted was quite sparse.

After all, this was the bedroom where the Danwang Biefu once lived; even if the energy fluctuation of this light spot was weak, Li Zhangsheng had no reason to let it go.

Following the location of the light spot, Li Zhangsheng picked up the meditation cushion.

Either the meditation cushion was the light spot, or it was inside the meditation cushion.

While patting the dust off the meditation cushion, Li Zhangsheng touched a protruding hard object, which emitted a metallic sound.

When he took out the hard object, he discovered it was a Jade Slip.

This was a Jade Slip the size of an adult's palm, crystal clear, faintly emitting a green fluorescent light, with a large amount of text carved on it.

This was not the common language of the continent, but a more complex script; it seemed to be an ancient script from hundreds of years ago.

Li Zhangsheng had seen this ancient script before but had never studied it specifically, so he could only recognize a few characters.

At this time, Ning Bizhen leaned over.

"Formula for the Imitation Demon Refining Pot!"

Ning Bizhen recognized this ancient script. After finishing it, her eyes were full of shock, and she continued to translate: "The efficiency of the Imitation Demon Refining Pot in purifying the source Bloodline of Spirit Beasts is 5%. It requires a large amount of Refined Gold and Secret Silver to refine the pot body, with the Cangxuan Earth-Fixing Pearl, Water-Calming Pearl, Fire Element-calming pearl, and Wind-calming pearl embedded in the bottom, and the Yuanhe Ten-Color Pearl and Milaodingyuanzhu embedded in the internal core!"

On the back of the Jade Slip, the production method for the Imitation Demon Refining Pot was carved.

However, Ning Bizhen resisted the temptation and did not look, because in her view, these things all belonged to Li Zhangsheng.

The Demon Refining Pot is a World Wonder that made the Profound Emperor famous; it can purify the ancestral source blood within Spirit Beasts. The reason the Profound Emperor was able to become a Ninth-Rank Demon Tamer had a lot to do with the Demon Refining Pot.

Although the purification efficiency of the imitation pot is far inferior to the genuine one, the 5% purification efficiency alone is enough to make people flock to it. If paired with the complete "Book of Bloodlines," the purification efficiency could potentially reach 30%.

This was a great temptation for Li Zhangsheng!

In addition, he happened to possess the Yuanhe Ten-Color Pearl, the Cangxuan Earth-Fixing Pearl, and the Cangxuan Water-Stabilizing Pearl. As long as he collected the Cangxuan Fire-calming pearl, the Cangxuan Wind-calming pearl, the Milaodingyuanzhu, and a large amount of Refined Gold and Secret Silver, he could produce the Imitation Demon Refining Pot according to the blueprint.

"The Milaodingyuanzhu is also a Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure-grade treasure!"

The Milaodingyuanzhu is quite peculiar; it can gradually comb through violent energy and make it docile.

The refining conditions for the Imitation Demon Refining Pot are very harsh, requiring six Heaven and Earth Rare Treasures, as well as a large amount of Refined Gold and Secret Silver.

Judging from the effects of these six Heaven and Earth Rare Treasures, after the Imitation Demon Refining Pot is formed, it is very likely that, like the genuine Demon Refining Pot, it will come with a small world possessing abundant energy.

Li Zhangsheng put away the Jade Slip and sighed, "I didn't expect the Danwang to actually have the refining formula for the Imitation Demon Refining Pot!"

"The Danwang had outstanding talent in alchemy and was obsessed with it; he could be said to be the most powerful Alchemist from hundreds of years ago, which is why he was given the title of Danwang. According to ancient records, wanting to ask him to refine Alchemical Pills required paying a huge price; he could be said to be one of the wealthiest kings of his time. This formula for the Imitation Demon Refining Pot was very likely his reward!"

Ning Bizhen helped analyze it, and Li Zhangsheng found that she was simply an encyclopedia, well-read and knowledgeable about the past and present.

"If there were no accidents, the Danwang likely also refined an Imitation Demon Refining Pot. I wonder if he succeeded at the time!"

Li Zhangsheng paused and continued, "However, since the Danwang did not take away the formulas, Alchemical Pills, and the Imitation Demon Refining Pot formula in the Biefu, he must have fallen unexpectedly at that time!"

Ning Bizhen agreed with Li Zhangsheng's analysis; this map of the Danwang Biefu was very likely left behind specifically by the Danwang before he fell unexpectedly.

"Zhangsheng, I will help you collect these materials. I remember that Vice Principal Xu treasures a piece of Refined Gold; I will go help you get it. I can also get some Secret Silver! As for the remaining three Heaven and Earth Rare Treasures, it will just depend on luck!"

Even when facing immense benefits, Ning Bizhen did not give rise to any thoughts of snatching them; her gaze remained filled with sincerity.

As long as she could help Li Zhangsheng, she would become full of high spirits.

She was the type of woman who, even if sold by Li Zhangsheng, would willingly help him count the money.

"I believe we can definitely refine the Imitation Demon Refining Pot!"

Li Zhangsheng grabbed Ning Bizhen's right hand, emphasized the word "we" heavily, and winked at her.

Ning Bizhen was clear-minded and naturally understood the meaning behind his words; her expression became greatly invigorated, and she prepared to go find Xu Wenhua after returning to see how to get her hands on the Refined Gold.

In the following time, the two searched Danwang Biefu again, not even letting go of the area outside Danwang Biefu.

Unfortunately, there were no more extra gains.

Even so, Li Zhangsheng expressed that he was very satisfied; just the hundreds of precious alchemical recipes were hard to measure in value, not to mention the formula for the Imitation Demon Refining Pot, the Undying Fire, and the Liandalu.

After leaving Danwang Biefu, Li Zhangsheng retrieved the map embedded in the stone slab; Danwang Biefu was built on a demi-plane, and he might have use for it in the future.

After putting away the map, the two returned to the Li Family Manor; this trip back and forth took a total of four or five hours, with most of the time spent searching Danwang Biefu.

In Li Zhangsheng's room, the two sat on chairs, and Li Zhangsheng took the lead in taking out those few bottles of Alchemical Pills suspected of not having spoiled, while simultaneously summoning Kailan.

The higher the grade of an Alchemical Pill, the longer its shelf life tends to be, and the less prone it is to rotting or spoiling.

Of course, some special Alchemical Pills also have very long shelf lives, such as those containing high metal content, or those containing certain ingredients that can extend shelf life; these types of Alchemical Pills naturally possess an extremely long shelf life.

Just like Li Zhangsheng, Ning Bizhen could be said to only have a superficial understanding of Alchemical Pills.

"Kailan, are you confident in identifying Alchemical Pills?"

These few bottles of Alchemical Pills originally had labels, but hundreds of years had passed, and these labels had long since turned black, making it impossible to see any handwriting at all.

Given that these few bottles of Alchemical Pills could potentially be worth a fortune, to avoid unnecessary trouble, Li Zhangsheng prepared to let Kailan identify them.

If Kailan could not identify them, he would only be able to think of other methods.

Alchemy and pharmacology can be said to be interconnected; Kailan must have dabbled in them, and identifying Alchemical Pills is the most basic ability of an Alchemist, which Kailan might well have mastered.

Additionally, since Kailan's talent for pharmacology was excellent, her talent for alchemy would definitely not be bad, especially since Li Zhangsheng had also swiped a Liandalu from Danwang Biefu.

Products from the Danwang are bound to be fine goods.

Even if this was not the best Liandalu in the Danwang's possession, being able to nurture Undying Fire meant it was definitely not an ordinary item, and the success rate of alchemy would likely see a significant increase.

"I do! I have even mastered the refining methods for several basic Alchemical Pills!"

As long as it was a matter related to alchemy or pharmacology, a confident radiance would appear on Kailan's pretty face.

In these two months, Kailan had become addicted to pharmacology and could not extricate herself, showing an increasing trend toward becoming a homebody.

Kailan immediately took action, first opening a Jade Bottle stopper and pouring out a blue Alchemical Pill the size of a fingernail.

The first step in identifying Alchemical Pills is observation: observing the appearance of the Alchemical Pill and memorizing its color and size.

At this moment, a tool with a scale appeared in Kailan's hand to accurately measure the size of the Alchemical Pill.

The second step is smelling; different Alchemical Pills have different scents, such as fragrant, pungent, sour, bitter, etc. Even for Alchemical Pills that are both of the fragrant type, there must be certain differences depending on the materials used.

The third step is floating; cutting off a bit of Alchemical Pill powder and placing it into a special liquid can reveal some of the Alchemical Pill's components.

"By the way, there are also these alchemical recipes; these Alchemical Pills have a high probability of corresponding to the alchemical recipes here!"

While Kailan was identifying them, Li Zhangsheng took out a pile of alchemical recipes and placed them in front of Kailan.

In these alchemical recipes, besides materials and refining methods, they naturally also contained detailed information about the Alchemical Pills.

Identification takes time, especially identifying these Alchemical Pills that were likely unfamiliar to Kailan.

Kailan first had to list the various data and then compare it with the information on these hundreds of alchemical recipes; this was undoubtedly a significant workload.

However, Kailan was eager to do this and soon became immersed in the knowledge of various alchemical recipes, unable to extricate herself.

While Kailan was working, Li Zhangsheng looked at Ning Bizhen and said, "Let's go to the City Lord Mansion first; yesterday, City Lord Qin specifically told me to go over and pick out some Spirit Beast corpses!"

Ning Bizhen did not refuse; instead, she suggested, "Okay, but they are of no use to me, so I'll just give my share to you!"

Like many couples who had just confirmed their relationship, Ning Bizhen showed extreme reliance on Li Zhangsheng and did not want to leave his side for even a moment.

Her personality was too gentle; although her strength was clearly greater, she did not show any overbearing traits, giving people the feeling of "follow the chicken, follow the chicken; follow the dog, follow the dog."

When the two were together, Li Zhangsheng was the one who made the decisions.

The two left the room, leaving only Kailan to continue researching these alchemical recipes.

Soon, the two rode the Venom Flying Dragon to the Luo City City Lord's Mansion.

The City Lord Mansion was one of the landmark buildings of Luo City and was naturally built to be extremely imposing and dignified; this was also the place where City Lord Qin Fangxin worked and lived daily.

Even though Qin Fangxin's spirit was still in a state of shock, Luo City was waiting to be rebuilt, so he could only force himself to pull it together to handle various affairs and restore Luo City's vitality as soon as possible.

After Li Zhangsheng and Ning Bizhen arrived at the City Lord Mansion together, Qin Fangxin personally received the two and signaled for his trusted aide to take them to the place where various Spirit Beast corpses were stored.

These Spirit Beast corpses were densely packed in the City Guard barracks; after removing materials such as fur, scales, and claws, the remaining flesh and blood mainly served as rations for the City Guards.

Since it was still winter and the temperature was very low, the rate at which these Spirit Beast corpses rotted had greatly decreased; even with a severe shortage of manpower, it was enough to finish processing them before they rotted.

City Lord Qin Fangxin's trusted aide pointed to the mountain of corpses and said, "These are all Low-tier Spirit Beasts; the corpses of Mid and High-tier Spirit Beasts are all concentrated in the camp's logistics department. Please follow me, both of you!"

Soon, the two entered the camp's logistics department, where the corpses of Mid and High-tier Spirit Beasts were placed in rows on the ground.

There were a total of several hundred corpses of Mid and High-tier Spirit Beasts, among which there was no lack of some massive Spirit Beast corpses, almost filling the large logistics department completely.

"The City Lord said, you can pick as much as you want, it doesn't matter how many you pick!"

"Then we shall respectfully obey!"

Li Zhangsheng replied casually; he naturally could tell that it was just a polite remark. If he really picked them all, City Lord Qin Fangxin's expression would certainly be very unsightly, and it would also easily affect his reputation.

He would not be greedy and would only pick the corpses that were useful to him.

"Komodo Giant Beast!"

At first glance, Li Zhangsheng subconsciously looked at the largest Spirit Beast corpse.

The Komodo Giant Beast is a High-tier Exotic Beast, and it can reach the Leader level upon reaching adulthood.

Li Zhangsheng shook his head; although the Komodo Giant Beast's corpse was large, it was of no use to him.

Suddenly, Ning Bizhen pointed at a spot and said, "Hey, that's a Feifei corpse! What a pity, it's not a live Feifei!"

The Feifei is a Quasi-God Sprite; it can reach the Lord rank upon reaching adulthood. Its appearance can be described as quite magnificent, its temperament is gentle, and its combat power is extremely strong; it can be said that it is deeply loved by Monster Tamers.

Unfortunately, it is a dead Feifei!

The value of a dead Feifei is naturally greatly discounted, worth about several thousand Soul Crystals, and it is also the only Quasi-God corpse among these corpses.

This Feifei corpse became Li Zhangsheng's first target; this had little to do with its value, mainly to collect its Bloodline, because Yuangungun's Bloodline is fused from the two Quasi-God Bloodlines of the Feifei and the Wind Fox.

To improve Yuangungun's Bloodline grade, one only needs to let it drink the Spirit Essence of these two Quasi-Gods; after these Spirit Essences are absorbed, they will fuse under the influence of Yuangungun's Bloodline.

"Two Fire Phoenix Eagle corpses!"

Soon, Li Zhangsheng found his target again; this time it was two Fire Phoenix Eagle corpses possessing Concentrated Grade Phoenix Bloodline.

"Light Ancestor Bird corpse, taken!" Concentrated Grade Chongming Bird Bloodline.

"Thunder Heavenly Punishment Cat, taken!" Concentrated Grade Cang Cat Bloodline.

"There is actually a Three-Legged Fire Sparrow corpse, taken!" Concentrated Grade Three-Legged Golden Crow Bloodline.

Li Zhangsheng was strolling through the property management office with great interest; he did not expect that there would be a Three-Legged Fire Sparrow corpse here.

It's a pity; if he had known a few days earlier that there was a wild Three-Legged Fire Sparrow here, he would not have risked hunting Zhao Wencan's Three-Legged Fire Sparrow.

In the time that followed, Li Zhangsheng pointed at the corpses one by one, and the officers at the property management office registered them, and finally, the City Guards sent them to the designated location.

This had to do with Li Zhangsheng's Space Ring; his Space Ring only had a total of 100 cubic meters, and coupled with the fact that it was already packed with many items, the remainder could not hold these Spirit Beast corpses at all.

As for Ning Bizhen, her Space Ring was only 80 cubic meters, with even less area than Li Zhangsheng's.

Not long after, Li Zhangsheng stopped his steps, still feeling unsatisfied; he had already looked through all these Spirit Beast corpses and finally designated 32 Spirit Beast corpses.

These Spirit Beast corpses were either closely related to the Demon Pets of Li Zhangsheng and Ning Bizhen, or possessed the Bloodlines of other Divine Beasts, such as the Tianpeng Divine Pig, Bi Fang, Hundun, Qiongqi, Baxia, and so on.

Their Bloodline concentration was all no lower than the Pure Grade level.

"A bumper harvest!" Li Zhangsheng was excited in his heart, and his inner urgency grew even stronger.

The confidant of City Lord Qin Fangxin was clearly surprised; he felt that Li Zhangsheng had chosen too few, because relative to the total number, 32 only accounted for one-tenth.

In the eyes of others, these corpses could only be dismantled into various materials, worth about 20,000 Soul Crystals.

Li Zhangsheng was different; in his eyes, these were priceless treasures. Once their Bloodlines were purified, it would be difficult to measure them by value anymore.

Besides the flesh and bones, the remaining materials could also be decomposed and sold.

For the sake of safety, Li Zhangsheng declined the idea of having the City Guards escort the corpses and specifically borrowed Vice Principal Xu's Dragon Horse Hall to use the Dragon Horse Hall for the escort.

By the time they returned to the Li Family Manor, night had already fallen.

Li Zhangsheng immediately entered solitary mode. After Ning Bizhen returned to her own room, he began to process these corpses one by one, peeling off the useless fur, scales, and claws to store in his Space Ring, finally leaving only piles of flesh.

When the night was deep and quiet, Li Zhangsheng's room was still brightly lit. His eyes were bright, and he still had no fatigue, gradually extracting Spirit Essence from these flesh and bones.

At this time, the table was already filled with jade bottles and jars, containing different types and quantities of Spirit Essence.

Among them, the most abundant was naturally the Feifei Spirit Essence. Li Zhangsheng did not need a Dissolving Agent at all, because this was its own Bloodline, without extra Bloodline Imprints, and he directly purified more than two jars.

It is a pity there was no Wind Fox Spirit Essence, otherwise he could have let Yuangungun evolve.

The second most abundant was Phoenix Spirit Essence; he had collected exactly one jar.

Last month, while collecting Three-Legged Golden Crow Spirit Essence, Li Zhangsheng was also incidentally collecting various Spirit Essences related to his Demon Pets.

Although not as 'lecherous by nature' as the True Dragon, there were quite a few Spirit Beasts possessing Phoenix Bloodline. Li Zhangsheng had originally collected nearly half a jar, and now, with the contribution of these two Fire Phoenix Eagles, he had the current scale.

The third most abundant was White Tiger Spirit Essence, about 3/5 of a jar, mainly from the contribution of those two Savage Winged Tigers.

The fourth was Chongming Bird Spirit Essence, about 2/5 of a jar.

As for the other Divine Beast Spirit Essences, some were as much as one or two bowls, and some were only the amount of a test tube, and so on.

In addition, there were some flesh and bones that had not been purified. It was not that Li Zhangsheng did not want to continue purifying, but that his Advanced Dissolving Agent was not enough!

To be precise, it was that the Advanced Demon Heart was not enough.

Li Zhangsheng had long since exchanged all the Advanced Demon Hearts in the Yuanling Academy, but the Bloodlines that needed to be purified this time were too many and too mixed, which simply exhausted all his Advanced Dissolving Agent.

Advanced Demon Hearts are very rare and almost unseen on the market. If Li Zhangsheng wants to obtain them, the best method is to take a trip to the Abyss Gate, where there is a specialized market, and perhaps he can purchase Advanced Demon Hearts.

If there are none, then he can only go to hunt and kill Advanced Demons, but with Li Zhangsheng's current strength, he is not yet a match for an Advanced Demon.

"After advancing to the Fourth Rank, I will take a trip to the Abyss Gate!"

Li Zhangsheng secretly said in his heart, put away the bottles and jars on the table, then held the Jade Ceramic Jar containing the Phoenix Spirit Essence, came to the backyard, and impatiently summoned the Blazing Bird.

Today's goal: Three, Pig, Proof!

(End of this chapter)