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Chen Nianzhi glanced at everyone and explained with a solemn expression.

"I want to protect the clan leader in retreat. During this period, ten of you will stay here to build foundations and guard Xuantie Mountain with two third-level treasure boats."

"clear."

Everyone nodded repeatedly, naturally knowing the importance of the third level earth veins.

After explaining everyone, Chen Nianzhi flew to Lingzhou Lake with the old patriarch. If the old patriarch wanted to break through the Zi Mansion, he still had to be in the third level of spiritual veins to avoid the risk of insufficient spiritual energy.

When it came time to break through the Zifu, Chen Nianzhi and the old clan leader were very excited. Although there were still many things that needed to be dealt with after being promoted to the Zifu Immortal Clan, they could no longer care about it at the moment.

After Chen Nianzhi left with the old patriarch, Chen Qinghao looked at the elders present with a smile and said.

"This Black Iron Mountain Spirit Vein only has a second-order low-grade one. If you want to set up a third-order formation, you need to upgrade it to at least the second-order high-grade one."

"It takes about 50,000 spiritual stones to advance to the spiritual veins. There are still not enough spiritual stones in the family library. Let's collect some first and I will return them to you in the future."

As Chen Qinghao finished speaking, everyone nodded. Now that the clan leader and Nian Zhi are not here, they elders also need to deal with some trivial matters.

For example, the promotion of the second-level high-grade spiritual veins of Xuantieshan Dojo, and the expansion of stores in Yuyangfang City, etc. These matters do not need to be worried by the two of them personally.

"..."

But Chen Nianzhi and the old patriarch flew for half a day and soon returned to Lingzhou Lake.

The old patriarch immediately went to the spirit pool of Lingzhou Lake and began to retreat to attack the realm of Zifu, while Chen Nianzhi stayed outside the spirit pool to practice and protect him.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Chen Nianzhi was refining the Lihuo Guixu Sword with the energy of Gengjin Lihuo.

As early as many years ago, the Five Elements Qi refined by the Chen family monks was no longer sold to outsiders, and they had been purchasing large quantities of Five Elements Qi.

He has accumulated a lot over the years. Three months ago, he mobilized the Gengjin Lihuo Qi that his family had accumulated in recent years and continued to refine his natal immortal sword.

It has now been three months, and he has finally touched the threshold of the third-level mid-level sword with the Lihuo Guixu Sword.

"Yin——"

As Chen Nianzhi incorporated a wisp of Lihuo's energy into it, the Lihuo Guixu Sword suddenly let out a soft groan, and the azure blue sword's strength increased sharply, reaching the third-level mid-level realm.

Chen Nianzhi looked at the powerful azure blue fairy sword with a smile on his face. The natal fairy sword was promoted to the third level of the middle grade, and his offensive methods finally increased a few points.

Although the Great Geng Immortal Sword is powerful, it also consumes too much mana. It can be used as a means of suppressing the bottom of the box. With the third-level middle-grade Lihuo Guixu Sword, his natal magic weapon is no longer weaker than Zi It's mid-term.

"Buzz..."

Just when his heart was filled with joy, the void trembled slightly, and countless spiritual energy poured into the spiritual pool like a whale sucking water.

Chen Nianzhi looked in the direction of the spiritual pool behind him in surprise, knowing in his heart that the old patriarch had broken through the Zi Mansion.

A figure pushed open the door of the retreat room, and saw the patriarch with white hair and a childish face, and an extraordinary figure.

Over the years, Chen Nianzhi had seen the old patriarch who was in his sixties, but when he saw him recently, he found that the old patriarch had rejuvenated and looked more like a young man in his mid-twenties, apart from his white hair.

Upon seeing Chen Nianzhi, the old patriarch laughed heartily.

"Hahaha……"

"I never thought I would be able to break through the Zi Mansion one day."

Chen Nianzhi also smiled and congratulated from the side: "Congratulations, old uncle, you have become the Zifu today, and you will definitely become the ancestor of the Golden Pill in the future."

"The golden elixir thing is still a little far away from me. I am very satisfied to be able to become the Zi Mansion."

Chen Changxuan shook his head and said with a slight smile.

He said this, but there was also a bit of longing in his eyes. He was one hundred and fifty-six years old at the moment. If he broke through the Zi Mansion at this age, he would still have about two hundred and fifty years of life in the future.

Generally, after the Erlinggen monks break through the Zifu, they will break through the first level of cultivation approximately every thirty years. If they practice hard, this time will be shortened to about twenty-five years.

If you are a wealthy Zifu, for example, if your annual salary is more than 5,000 spirit stones, you can afford some third-level spirit pill treasures to improve your cultivation, and you can shorten this time to seventeen or eighteen years or even less.

Moreover, the Chen family has a third-level spiritual peach, which is the best treasure to increase one's cultivation level. The old patriarch estimates that he may be able to break through one level of cultivation level in ten years.

In this case, as long as the bottleneck in the middle and late stages of Zifu is not stuck for too long, the old patriarch will still have more than a hundred years of life when he reaches the peak of Zifu.

The Zi Mansion can break through the golden elixir bottleneck once every thirty or forty years. Counting this, he may have three or four chances to break through the golden elixir. The certainty of breaking through the golden elixir is probably greater than that of most Zi Mansion monks.

Of course, this has a premise, that is, the bottleneck in the middle and late stages of Zifu can be quickly broken through.

These two bottlenecks are very troublesome. If there were no Cloud Pattern Creation Pill and Purple Qi Cloud Pattern Pill, it would probably take thirty to fifty years to polish the mana.

Adding the two together, it would take tens to hundreds of years, which is quite a time-consuming and labor-intensive matter.

The refining of the Cloud Pattern Creation Pill requires the consumption of precious Five Elements crystals such as the Lihuo Crystal and Gengjin Crystal. The refining of the Purple Air Cloud Pattern Pill requires the even more precious Ziyang Jade as the main medicine.

This is also the biggest reason why there are over a hundred monks in the Zifu of Chu State, but there are only a dozen monks in the later stages of the Zifu.

"Ahem..."

While thinking about the future, the old patriarch suddenly coughed and looked a little pale.

Chen Nianzhi helped the old patriarch and said with a worried look: "This is what you are doing."

"It doesn't matter." The old patriarch shook his head and said calmly: "When I attacked Zi Mansion, I had some real energy deficiency, which consumed some of my life essence and blood. I can recover it with twenty or thirty years of cultivation."

Chen Nianzhi's eyes moved slightly, knowing that this was a phenomenon of great loss of essence. If he could not recover as soon as possible, the old patriarch would need to spend twenty or thirty years of effort to heal his injuries.

However, it is not impossible. The Qi-Replenishing Guiyuan Pill recorded in Chen Qianyuan's Pill Formula was actually created for this kind of Zifu monk who had just made a breakthrough.

Thinking of this, Chen Nianzhi said calmly: "There is no need to waste twenty years. The medicinal effect of Guiyuan Shen in the Spiritual Medicine Garden is enough."

"When I open the furnace and refine a furnace of Qi-replenishing Guiyuan Dan, I can make up for the great loss of your essence."

"..."

In order to refine the Qi-Building Guiyuan Pill, Chen Nianzhi went to Qingyuan Mountain and picked the Guiyuan Ginseng.

Then he prepared auxiliary medicines in Yuyangfang City and the clan treasury. There were twenty-nine kinds of auxiliary medicines for Guiyuan Shen. Chen Nianzhi found twenty-seven kinds in the two places, but found that there were still two missing ones.