Chapter 115: Is the Undercover Identity About to be Exposed?

The first three elixir formulas, ignoring that outrageous failure rate and costs, Li Yu liked every one of them.

He continued to look down, and soon evil god sect-related elixir formulas began to appear.

Before long, he finished reading them all.

The first page had a total of ten elixir formulas, and Li Yu was quite tempted by more than half of them.

If he could, he would be willing to buy them all.

Unfortunately, he couldn't, because he couldn't afford the price.

"The price of the first page of elixir formulas: 1,500 merit points, each one is."

"In other words, my remaining merit points are just enough to buy two."

Li Yu frowned and said.

It wasn't that he thought it was expensive!

On the contrary, Li Yu felt that this price was too cheap.

Sequence Eight elixir formulas, 100 merit points each.

And rarer Sequence Eight elixir formulas, such as "Ancient People Elixir," "Flower Lady Elixir," etc., rose to 500.

At this rate, if it were Sequence Seven elixir formulas, it wouldn't be strange to double to 1,000 or even 2,000 merit points.

But the elixir formulas Li Yu took a fancy to now were all involved in Sequence Six; normally, shouldn't they double again to 3,000 or 5,000 merit points?

Li Yu's thoughts turned, and his gaze shifted to that extremely eye-stinging success rate, and he vaguely understood why these elixir formulas were so cheap.

To verify, he still asked:

"Demon Star, does the second page of elixir formulas under the same conditions have a higher success rate? How many merit points to display?"

"Back to Command Holder, 50% higher success rate, requires 2,000 merit points."

"... Sure enough."

After Li Yu guessed the reason, he couldn't help but fall into hesitation.

A failure rate as high as 90%!

This doesn't mean Li Yu refines ten times and can succeed once; that's just a description.

It's very likely he refines one hundred times and fails one hundred times.

So, this investment of his is very likely to be a total loss.

Losing merit points is nothing, but delaying his combat power enhancement plan is a big trouble.

But now, Li Yu seems to have no second choice.

At this moment, he understands the 【Alchemist】 sequence he is in even more; usually doing things like fooling people with demon words and pretending to be gods and ghosts, every alchemist can do it with ease.

But once it's a real fight, it immediately looks weak.

To enhance combat power, he has to use this move of "stealing laws and refining elixirs."

"Complain about seniors, understand seniors, become seniors."

"Hope the next Sequence Six will be better."

"Now, let's survive this life-and-death crisis first."

Muttering, Li Yu made a decision, and his eyes immediately fell on the two elixir formulas on the first page.

The first one, undoubtedly, is 【Sword Pill Elixir】; when it comes to frontal fighting, practitioners of the Star God path can't beat sword cultivators, not to mention Li Yu already possesses a sword cultivator vest, so it's only natural to wear it again.

And the second one, it was the turn of the evil god path.

"【Merciless Elixir】: From a high-sequence practitioner of the Spirit Venerable path, stealing the law from the Sequence Six 【Merciless One】 of the Hanged King path; taking this elixir can possess part of the abilities of that sequence within one hundred breaths, such as exuding Hanged King memes, sorrow viruses, etc., and possesses inspiration to communicate with the True God Hanged King, which can transfer many negative states and pollution added to the body to the True God, thereby maintaining a strange state of no pity, no emotion, but always immortal."

"Refining this elixir requires perfect skills, possessing high inspiration, failure rate 90%... and once this elixir is taken, one must kill a certain number of living beings, otherwise one will be marked by the True God 【Hanged King】, and disasters will be endless."

"In addition, the cost is: becoming heartless and loveless, always thinking about hanging others."

"Other things are easy to say, just the effect of 'transferring pollution' alone makes the importance of this elixir formula even higher than Sword Pill Elixir."

"Demon Star, exchange Sword Pill and Merciless elixir formulas."

"Merit points deducted!"

"Elixir formula exchanging!"

In an instant when the merit points were completely zero, two streams of information poured into Li Yu's mind.

Inside, it was a fairly detailed formula.

Whether it was complexity, refining difficulty, or the materials consumed, they were far from comparable to those few Sequence Eight elixir formulas.

For example, the first spirit material needed for Sword Pill Elixir: a large amount of Geng metal essence... the price of a small amount of Geng metal essence is already not cheap, and it wants a large amount.

Merciless Elixir is even more outrageous, needing a spirit material called "Death Hatred Object," referring to special strange objects produced by some people before death, gathering the resentment, hatred, and obsession of the deceased, such as the rope used by someone who hanged themselves, the hair of someone who committed suicide by jumping into a river, etc.

These things are very rare, meaning the price is not cheap.

After Li Yu finished reading, he only felt that an invisible hand was reaching toward him, intending to steal all his family wealth.

The first thought: those 500,000 taels of silver are afraid they can't be kept.

He can falsely report the loss of other materials and take them from the "City Lord's Mansion," but many special materials that don't match medicinal cuisine at all can only be bought in the Taiping Mystic Market.

"I estimate that in a few days, I will receive the formal conquest notification from the Demon Star Command, and then they will give me two or three days to prepare."

"Shang Yang's provocation came too timely, otherwise I would have had big trouble this time."

"Now at least I have time to struggle and prepare, great."

"By the way, this tenth truth bubble is almost full, I must find an opportunity to charge it these few days, and the reliance for saving my life can be one more." Just when Li Yu was thinking and planning in his heart,

Suddenly, there was chaos and restlessness outside, as if the entire Heavenly Mystery Workshop was making a fuss.

Li Yu was about to listen, and the old street soon had movements, and the door of his residence was also knocked by someone after a while.

It was just different from the doors of other neighbors on the street that were almost smashed!

His door was knocked gently.

Li Yu listened for a few ears, vaguely guessed what was happening, and took Hongdou to open the door.

At first glance, he saw the Three Saints Gang's Grand Manager, the incomparably ugly Bei Nanshi, leading several demon Daoists, standing at the door with a smile.

And on the old street, other houses were being rudely disturbed and questioned by demon Daoists.

"Daoist friend Li, how have you been lately."

"Pretty good, Manager Bei is this...?"

"Don't blame me, fellow Daoist. It's not like it's my choice; it's the orders coming down layer by layer from the 【Main Mansion】, requiring us poor wretches to check whether the citizens under our jurisdiction are undercover agents for the three kingdoms and six sects... Hmph, they didn't have the ability to stop a group of undercover agents from gathering and escaping, lost such a big face, yet they come to torment us."

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"However, the arm cannot twist the thigh, and the Three Saints Gang has to try one or two."

"Daoist friend Li, are you an undercover agent?"

Suddenly hearing this question.

Li Yu didn't answer, but looked at Bei Nanshi.

Immediately, the two laughed at the same time.

"Which undercover agent would be like me, liking to show off and make big money."

"Hahaha... Daoist friend Li even made the *Wanfu Daily* headline; if this is an undercover agent, doesn't it mean our Three Saints Gang are all fools."

The joke ended, and Li Yu's undercover suspicion was denied.

Bei Nanshi didn't leave immediately, but suddenly leaned over and whispered:

"Daoist friend Li, coming here this time, actually there is one more thing to trouble you to do."

"The modification and promotion of the three leaders in my gang have now reached the second half, and because of some reason, almost all desires have been restricted."

"Even appetite, besides that bitter psionic machine oil, only the Furnace Refining Body Soup you gave is left, which simply cannot be satisfied."

"Knowing that you have the means of a Food God, I have to trouble you to spend your heart to customize some medicinal cuisine for the three leaders."

"This... customizing medicinal cuisine is not difficult, I'm just afraid it will offend..."

Li Yu heard this, happy in his heart, but deliberately showed difficulty on his face.

Hesitating to speak, pointing to something.

"Daoist friend, don't worry, this matter is top secret, it won't leak at all, and besides, it's just eating something, it won't affect anything, even if the Sacred Nest discovers it

"Alright then, but since it's custom-made, I still need you, Superintendent, to bring me the latest 【Physical Condition】 of the three gang leaders."

"No problem, I'll have it sent tomorrow."

After Li Yu agreed, Bei Nanshi, having achieved his true goal, was overjoyed and prepared to leave.

Before turning around, as if remembering something, he added:

"Oh, right, Fellow Daoist Li!"

"This inspection will go through three rounds, lasting until the Zi hour tomorrow. The first round is conducted by the overlords of the local market, which is to say, organizations similar to our Sansheng Gang."

"The second time is the Sacred Nest taking action. Starting tomorrow morning, the entire South District will be blown by the 【Wind of Flesh and Spirit Energy】, and Orthodox Sect practitioners will have nowhere to hide."

"The third time is the Main Mansion. At the Zi hour of midnight, a powerful magic treasure will ascend into the sky, releasing treasure light to lock onto every citizen. As long as one sincerely accepts Wanfu City, one can pass the judgment... If those undercover agents who spend their days thinking about escaping after completing their missions are caught, there is a high probability they won't pass the judgment, and their true colors will be revealed at that time."

"But you aren't an undercover agent, so don't worry. I'm telling you in advance to save you from being disturbed."

"Many thanks, Superintendent Bei."

After some pleasantries, Bei Nanshi led a group of demon Daoists away.

Li Yu, having gained quite a bit, returned home with a frown.

The so-called gain was naturally the physical condition of the Three Saints, whose flesh-and-blood mechanical transformation was nearing completion, which he would receive tomorrow.

The custom-made medicinal cuisine was a lie!

His true thought: to have Hongdou analyze the secret production method of the special sequence 【Sacred Skull Heavenly Soldier】 from it, as well as its weaknesses.

And this was also a significant secret.

Perhaps after peeking at it, the tenth bubble would be perfected.

Beyond the gains, there were also hidden worries.

"Triple inspection?"

"It seems that those eight people, especially that 【Star-Worshiping Doctor】, besides slapping the Main Mansion's face hard, also stole very important intelligence; otherwise, the Main Mansion wouldn't have gone to such great lengths."

"The city-wide overlords joining forces, tsk tsk, I'm afraid the undercover agents of the three kingdoms and six sects are in trouble this time."

"The Sacred Nest isn't using the obviously more efficient 【AI Audit】 but is switching to some wind of flesh and blood; I'm afraid they don't want to expose the existence of the Sacred Nest network. I'm not an Orthodox Sect member anyway, so I'm not afraid at all."

"It's that Main Mansion magic treasure that requires sincere acceptance of Wanfu City to pass; won't someone like me, who thinks about escaping all day, be in trouble?"

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