Chapter 663: Breaking the Habit of Itchy Hands

The first batch of Peiyuan Small Pills came out of the furnace. Wei Yuan checked the pill quality and found it quite good, so he waited another half a month. Once he had a stock of 50,000, he wrote a notice and ordered people to copy it and post it on the bulletin boards of major cities.

The content of the notice was very simple: starting from today, the exchange of Small Peiyuan Pills for military merit would be open to the Qingming civilian class and above. Up to this point, Wei Yuan felt that "Peiyuan Small Pill" sounded better and decided to use it as the official name.

Each person was limited to exchanging one pill per month, and it was explained that those who had just started body forging should take one pill per month, as excessive consumption was harmful.

Once the notice was posted, the civilian residents of Qingming instantly boiled over. This meant that the door to body forging was opened to them from now on, and the notice didn't limit the number of exchanges. Qingming had a million civilian residents and hundreds of thousands of families; almost every family had enough military merit to exchange for a few pills.

Because there was no limit on the number of exchanges, and it was required that they be taken on the spot after exchange, the civilians quickly realized the value of military merit with their city wisdom and instead became cautious and hesitant.

Now that there was no war, it wasn't as easy to accumulate military merit as before. Many families had thought carefully and saved the opportunity for children under ten years old, in the hope that they could go further on the path of cultivation.

The major merchant firms stationed in Qingming naturally smelled business opportunities and immediately bought a batch of Small Peiyuan Pills at a high price. After testing and trial consumption, they found that this batch of pills was of quite good quality, neat and uniform, with almost no fluctuations.

At first, the Small Peiyuan Pills themselves were not in the eyes of the merchant teams, but they saw Qingming's high level of alchemy from them. The merchant teams inquired and learned that Xu Xu Henshui, the next Sect Master of the Creation Sect, was now living in Qingming, so everyone suddenly realized and felt they understood the source of the high quality of Qingming's pills.

The medicine workshop, weapon forging workshop, and weaving workshop were all strictly kept secret by Wei Yuan, and any idlers were strictly forbidden from approaching. Anyone who approached, no matter who they were, was directly captured and imprisoned, and their life or death was unknown from then on. It was useless for anyone to plead for them.

The medicine workshop was filled with Wei Yuan's Dao Foundation warriors, which used up over 500 Dao Foundation warriors at once. Now Wei Yuan himself only had a little over 100 mobile ones left. Therefore, there was no problem of leakage.

Those who knew the inside story were the Creation Sect disciples, but these alchemist masters were all wealthy and had eccentric temperaments, so trying to bribe them was purely looking for trouble.

Wei Yuan, as the Realm Master of Qingming, was the undisputed number one Dao Foundation of the younger generation, the number one in merit points, and the number one in Dao Foundation in the world, holding up the entire galaxy with one continent. Even so, he couldn't convince these alchemist masters. Only when Wei Yuan refined a three-pattern Great Sun Morning Glory Pill, overpowering Xu Xu Henshui, did he truly win the favor of the alchemist masters.

Merchant teams naturally had their own valuation methods. Based on the cases of Qingming military merit used previously, as well as the ratio of exchanging for other materials, they finally calculated that Qingming's exchange price was thirty percent of the current market price.

They immediately swarmed like sharks smelling blood, beginning to try every possible way to seek opportunities.

Wei Yuan finished arranging the pill exchange and felt there was nothing major, so he went to the Void Heaven to collect chaotic energy, one blade at a time. But the saying "practice makes perfect" had no effect on Wei Yuan.

With Human World Renjian Yanhuo monitoring the whole process, after a few times, Wei Yuan's process of building the array and extracting the Chaos Blade was already close to perfect, and there was no room for improvement.

After collecting energy for a month, Wei Yuan felt that he had taken a firm step forward on the long 2,300-year path of immortal cultivation. But before he could be happy, several strands of immortal spiritual energy rose into the sky in Human World Renjian Yanhuo, and a scorching fire energy rose up, almost reddening half the sky!

Supported by these strands of immortal spiritual energy, Human World Renjian Yanhuo slowly expanded, grew quite a bit larger, and directly gave a new estimation result: Wei Yuan's Dao path had directly increased from 2,300 years to 2,700 years. Subtracting the remaining lifespan, Wei Yuan still owed over 2,000 years.

Such a change instantly made Wei Yuan's heart go cold. He hurriedly checked, only to discover that the nine new immortal orchids given by Xu Xu Henshui had actually sprouted at the same time, officially taking root in Human World Renjian Yanhuo. At the moment the immortal plants sprouted spiritual nature and took root, heaven and earth spiritual energy converged, and the heaven and earth energy obtained by Human World Renjian Yanhuo was terrifying.

The fire-attribute immortal spiritual energy came from the Flame God Flower brought by Lord Tianyu from the Wild Realm. This flower had been half-dead and lifeless, and Wei Yuan had thought he had been cheated again, but it had given him a big one at this very moment!

Wei Yuan stood dazed for a long time, finally smiling bitterly and shaking his head, determined that he must hold back and absolutely not raise any more immortal plants before solving the cultivation problem!

As soon as Wei Yuan made up his mind, he thought about his lifespan running out and not being able to finish the next realm, so he repeatedly warned himself that he must break the habit of itchy hands and made quite a few poisonous oaths.

Just as he made up his mind, Wei Yuan suddenly received an intention from the young girl Yin and Yang: the stone that Lord Tianyu sent, which was claimed to be an ancient mysterious plant, had movement. There seemed to be life beginning to gestate, but it was very weak and could stop at any time.

Wei Yuan's figure flashed, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived beside the young girl Yin and Yang from outside the Void Heaven. At this moment, that ancient mysterious plant seed was lying quietly in the center of the Yin and Yang Baking Furnace Array. Wei Yuan sensed it carefully; there was indeed a point of life gestating inside, but this point of life fire was truly dim and could be extinguished at any time.

At this moment, Wei Yuan had a flash of inspiration, his hand faster than his brain, taking out that strand of Mysterious Heaven Purple Energy and flicking it onto the mysterious plant seed!

The point of life seemed to have obtained firewood, immediately beginning to burn steadily and constantly growing, starting to gestate and sprout clearly.

Wei Yuan hadn't had time to be happy when he already screamed "bad" in his heart!

He saw the stone ball covered in cracks, and boundless light sprayed out from the cracks. The entire Human World Renjian Yanhuo, along with the surrounding Void Heaven, was shaking, and the sound of the Great Dao vaguely came from outside the sky.

A strand of ancient mysterious energy sprayed out, straight into the sky, and endless heaven and earth energy fell from the Void Heaven, nourishing Human World Renjian Yanhuo. Thus, in a short moment, after Human World Renjian Yanhuo grew a round, it began a new round of growth.

Wei Yuan's Dao path had already soared to 4,000 years.

Tribulation clouds suddenly appeared in the sky, a black mass rolling constantly, and in the blink of an eye, bolts of heavenly thunder rolled down. The tribulation clouds were born above the ancient mysterious plant. Wei Yuan had originally thought that the immortal object was in trouble and needed to cross the tribulation, but he didn't expect that all the heavenly thunder bolts were striking him!

In the blink of an eye, Wei Yuan was struck until he was scorched black all over, and his Primordial Spirit received no small amount of tempering.

After a meal of heavenly thunder, Wei Yuan finally remembered the poisonous oaths he had just made. Fortunately, this time the Heavenly Dao seemed to be more tolerant and didn't upgrade or add weight to Wei Yuan's tribulation thunder.

The young girl Yin and Yang looked at Wei Yuan suspiciously, not understanding why he was struck by thunder, but knowing it definitely wasn't a good thing.

Wei Yuan was also powerless to explain, looking weakly at the ancient mysterious plant seed that was slowly cracking, only hoping that this thing was worthy of his extra 1,300 years of hard cultivation.

At this moment, on the edge of the Shaman Domain, Shengxin said to Lady Hui Xin, "This is the Eastern Wild; it looks very barren, and in fact, it is also very barren, and the Son of Luck we are looking for is hiding here."

Lady Hui Xin sighed, "Really? We've been looking for months."

Shengxin was a bit embarrassed and added, "This time there will absolutely be no more mistakes! If you don't believe me, I can..."

Before he could finish swearing, he suddenly trembled in his heart. Looking up, he saw a gray-white tribulation thunder falling on his head, and Shengxin was instantly shocked out of his wits!

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