Chapter 684: A Bit Evil

Ji Liuli appeared in the center of the Dao Soldier formation, stepped down, and trampled a group of Dao Soldiers to death.

But these Dao Soldiers died, and before dying, they exploded with large patches of thick green juice, almost splashing onto Ji Liuli's feet.

She was also startled, but at this time a circle of Dao Soldiers appeared in the sky, connected head to tail, circling in the same pace. But among them, there was always one Dao Soldier who would occasionally walk two steps outside the circle.

Ji Liuli was expressionless, waved a piece of golden fire, and burned this team of Dao Soldiers from afar. Sure enough, when the Dao Soldiers were burned by the true fire, they all exploded into a mass of green juice.

But at this time, two teams of Dao Soldiers appeared at the same time, arranging the characters "Liuli". It was Liuli, not Liuli, and there was an extra black dot next to the "Li" character.

Ji Liuli burned them.

Then two more teams of Dao Soldiers appeared, and Ji Liuli burned them again.

Finally, Ji Liuli's Dao power was about to bottom out, and she saw hundreds of Dao Soldiers arranged in a pattern. It was a square frame, with a hair hanging on the frame, swinging and swinging but not falling off.

"Enough!" Ji Liuli shouted angrily.

Wei Yuan appeared and said cautiously, "Not fighting anymore?... Then, count it as a draw?"

Ji Liuli nodded, Wei Yuan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, while the Human World Renjian Yanhuo were cheering.

Wei Yuan asked again, "Then, what about the paid content?"

"Dream on!" Ji Liuli turned and left.

After Ji Liuli left, Wei Yuan came to Zhang Sheng, bowed, and said, "Thank you, teacher."

Zhang Sheng laughed out loud, Wei Yuan knew something was wrong, immediately observed himself with divine sense, and only then discovered that he was actually bruised and swollen, and one eye was black and blue.

Ji Liuli's Dao power was extremely domineering; being injured by her, the Dharma Body's self-healing ability would almost drop to zero. Even with Wei Yuan's Dharma Body, self-healing was very slow; it seemed that the injury on his face wouldn't heal for several hours.

Zhang Sheng wrote a prescription and said to Wei Yuan, "Go get some ointment and apply it yourself; it will heal faster."

Wei Yuan sent a Dao Foundation warrior to Xu Henshui's Pill Hall to make medicine, and he returned to his residence to recuperate.

This great battle resulted in one injured in the flesh and one injured in the heart, which could be considered a mutual loss. But after this battle, the Dao hearts of the Taichu Palace cultivators suddenly became much clearer, their cultivation had great progress, and the old Daoist Chuhe was eating hot pot again.

Up to this point, Ji Liuli had re-established the title of Grand Senior Sister, and only the battles with Feng Tingyu and Bao Yun remained. But whether these two battles were fought didn't matter; Ji Liuli's Dao path was the nemesis of almost all normal Dharma Forms, and she had no weaknesses herself.

Wei Yuan's true meaning attack actually had a bit of karma flavor, and could only be released through the Peerless Dao Domain.

Ji Liuli was only sparring with Wei Yuan, which was why there were so many scruples and awkwardness; if it were a life-and-death struggle, she could fight in the mud without hesitation, and the disgust could be put aside until after the battle.

After three full days, Wei Yuan was able to walk out of his residence and see people again. If it weren't for the healing ointment carefully refined by Xu Henshui, this injury would have taken another three to five days to recover. From this, Wei Yuan personally experienced the terror of Ji Liuli's Xuanhuang True Meaning; this thing was almost able to suppress other people's Dharma Bodies to drop a rank.

After leaving his residence, Wei Yuan received news from Feng Chutang that the research on the Transformation Pool had made progress.

Wei Yuan immediately rushed to Feng Chutang's place; at this time, Feng Chutang looked radiant and full of spirit, his whole person exuding a vigorous upward vitality.

More than a dozen formation diagrams were floating around his desk, each incomparably complex, and the original blueprint of the Transformation Pool was placed on the table.

Feng Chutang smiled and said, "These few days I have had a surge of inspiration, and after referring to ancient Dao classics, I finally have some insights into the Transformation Pool."

Wei Yuan looked at those formation diagrams and was also very shocked. The original blueprint of the Transformation Pool plus annotations was just a picture plus a few thousand words; from this little bit of stuff, Feng Chutang had researched more than a dozen complex formation diagrams?

Feng Chutang said, "This Transformation Pool is not simple; the concept and ideas can be said to be ingenious, enough to open a Dao path alone. These of mine are just a little bit of fur I just got."

Feng Chutang raised his hand and pointed, and all the formation diagrams floating in the air recombined, turning into an ancient incense burner-style building.

"This is a refining furnace I redesigned based on the Transformation Pool, which can be called the Reincarnation Furnace. This furnace does not need ordinary fire, but uses heaven and earth Yin and Yang as fire, and can refine the remains and Yin souls of all living beings, turning them into spiritual energy and feeding them back to this heaven and earth.

In the past, every time we had a decisive battle with the Shaman tribe, we would pile the corpses in the morgue, waiting for their toxins to naturally dissolve, eventually turning into spiritual energy and being absorbed by the domain heaven and earth. Actually, from this point of view, Qingming can also be regarded as a huge Transformation Pool.

With this furnace, the remains of the Shaman tribe and war beasts can be placed in it, and it can be refined in about three to five days, and the converted spiritual energy will greatly increase, with an efficiency ten times higher than Qingming's natural conversion."

Wei Yuan always felt that this Transformation Pool and the Reincarnation Furnace felt a bit wrong, and said, "Uncle Master, this Reincarnation Furnace feels a bit evil."

Feng Chutang said sternly, "All things are born by inheriting the Great Dao of heaven and earth, and living beings with spirits stepping on the cultivation path are even more snatching the essence of heaven and earth to strengthen themselves. When they fall, their Dao power and immortal energy dissipate, and their Dharma Bodies turn into caves, or directly feed back to heaven and earth. Therefore, converting spiritual energy is the most fundamental Dao path; where does the evil come from?"

Wei Yuan was not a pedantic person, and seeing Feng Chutang speak so seriously, he believed it. This little bit of evil was not worth mentioning compared to his refining eight hundred thousand Shaman tribe members in one breath.

Finally, Feng Chutang pointed to a corner of the original Transformation Pool blueprint and said, "There is a small mark here; I flipped through the Dao classics, and it seems to be the mark of the Heavenly Demon Immortal who was famous in the world in ancient times. If my guess is correct, then this Transformation Pool is likely a part of the Heaven-Refining Great Formation that the Heavenly Demon Immortal was famous for in the world back then."

"This Heaven-Refining Heavenly Demon Immortal, what is his reputation?"

Feng Chutang said, "He slaughtered all living beings, killing without distinction of race, and at least tens of millions of people died at his hands; of course, there were more aliens. He cultivated by borrowing karma and carried this Dao path to the extreme. So, we had better not mention the origin of the Transformation Pool."

Next, the two discussed the construction of the Reincarnation Furnace for a while.

The Reincarnation Furnace designed by Feng Chutang could refine ten thousand Shaman tribe corpses and remains at one time, which was quite huge, and the total cost was close to five million taels of immortal silver. However, once this furnace was built, it could greatly accelerate Qingming's speed of changing heaven and earth and accumulating nourishment, so Wei Yuan agreed.

Next was Feng Chutang adjusting and completing the design blueprint in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo, and improving the details.

It must be said that the Institute of Materials Mechanics and Structural Design is now developing rapidly, and there are already more than a thousand people. Now, whether it is Sun Yu building a new medical center or Xu Henshui expanding the Pill Hall, they all entrust the design to the design institute.

The most tasks still come from Yu Zhizhuo; the Weapon Forging Workshop is now developing very fast, changing almost every few days, so there are a large number of buildings and mines that need to be designed.

Subsequently, Wei Yuan took stock of the immortal silver currently existing in Qingming and found that after building the Reincarnation Furnace, only three million taels were left. Now Qingming has millions of taels of immortal silver worth of materials entering and leaving every month, with a net profit of hundreds of thousands of taels.

Armor and pills are profitable, but the largest volume, brocade, is not very profitable. In addition, Qingming also needs to purchase a large amount of minerals, medicinal materials, spiritual wood, and other materials, so the accumulated immortal silver is not as much as imagined.

Wei Yuan has weighed the pros and cons; the completion of the Reincarnation Furnace can promote Qingming's development, and Qingming is closely connected with Wei Yuan's Dharma Form, so Wei Yuan estimates that after the Reincarnation Furnace is built, it will directly promote the progress of the Human World Renjian Yanhuo.

At this time, the design of the Reincarnation Furnace still needs to be optimized, but many basic materials are determined, so Wei Yuan gathered the merchant caravan and distributed the procurement list.

This huge order naturally made many merchant caravans crazy, while the Zhao Guo merchant caravan was miserable. Because Zhao Guo now completely prohibits trade with Qingming. Therefore, they could only watch helplessly as the order was snatched away by the Ji Guo merchant caravan.

The construction of the Reincarnation Furnace started, and in the following days, Wei Yuan practiced step by step, and at the same time, the data of the battle with the Grand Senior Sister had been basically analyzed, and the Human World Renjian Yanhuo began to constantly put forward targeted improvement suggestions.

Wei Yuan handed over this part of the work to the Human World Renjian Yanhuo, while he himself continued to study the Five Elements Dao Soldiers, trying to combine the formation with the Five Elements Dao Soldiers, thereby significantly enhancing the power of the Five Elements Dao Soldiers.

After re-establishing her status, Ji Liuli also quieted down, spending more and more time in Sun Yu's medical center, starting to improve gunpowder.

Xijin, Crown Prince's Mansion.

The Crown Prince sat as usual in the small and crowded council hall in the mansion, reading a memorial. After reading it, he frowned slightly and said, "Wei Yuan is again purchasing various materials on a large scale, exceeding one million immortal silver? This Wei Yuan, what is he doing again?"

All the ministers lowered their heads and looked at the ground, none of them speaking.

The Crown Prince was a bit annoyed, but forcibly suppressed it, then asked, "What about those spies we planted in Qingming, not a single message has been sent back?"

A general said, "Your Majesty, our spies have suffered heavy losses in the past few months, and most of them disappeared inexplicably. Even those experienced veteran spies were no exception. Only one leader carried a magic treasure that sent back the last segment of footage: the room suddenly went dark, and then that leader also lost contact.

Now the spies we have in Qingming probably number less than ten; they dare not act rashly, and they are not at the core, so they can't find out anything. I am afraid they will also have accidents, so I have never given them orders."

The Crown Prince frowned slightly and said, "I heard Wei Yuan has been selling brocade to Ningzhou, and the entire Ningzhou brocade industry has withered because of this. We cannot let him sell brocade so easily; go and check which families are selling Qingming machine brocade, and then use some means on them."

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