Immortality Begins with the Master of Alchemy

Chapter 101 Middle Grade Chalcedony Pill

The next morning, Luo Chen opened his sleepy eyes amidst the sharp and loud crowing of roosters.

 Go to the yard, get water from the well, and simply wash up.

Duan Feng was earlier than him and was playing with a flying sword in the yard.

 “What are you doing?”

“The magic weapon is damaged. Clean it and prepare to buy materials to repair it.”

 “Can you still practice magic weapons?”

Luo Chen was extremely surprised, and then he seemed to remember something and suddenly realized something.

“That’s right, you are from the Duan family. I heard that the Duan family has a spring of ice and fire and is the best at casting weapons.”

 When the name Duan family was mentioned, Duan Feng's face was obviously not good-looking.

 The atmosphere in the courtyard felt a little cold for a while.

Luo Chen realized that the relationship between the other party and the Duan family might not be harmonious.

Also, if the relationship is good, he does not need to leave the family and come to Dahefang to work alone.

 For a ninth-level Qi Refining monk, if there is no support from the forces and no skills of his own, it is actually not that easy to earn spiritual stones.

 This can be seen from the fact that Duan Feng not only participates in competitions on the Dao Forum, but also goes into the mountains to hunt monsters.

　　Haha, Luo Chen forcibly changed the topic.

“Your Yangwu chicken can lay eggs, so it’s a hen. Why does it crow every morning?”

“It has a trace of atavism and is therefore hermaphroditic.”

 Speaking of this, Duan Feng showed a trace of longing in his eyes.

“My mother collected all kinds of miraculous medicines and wanted to cultivate this Yangwu chicken to the second level, so that it could completely return to its ancestors and become the Fengming Yangwu chicken. Unfortunately, she failed in the end.”

 How precious is the elixir that can restore the bloodline of a spiritual beast to its ancestors.

How can an ordinary family do this?

Moreover, I heard from Brother Qin before that Duan Feng's lineage is not well received in the Duan family, and I'm afraid it will make his power even smaller.

After sighing with emotion, Luo Chen chatted with Duan Feng for a few more words.

 Before leaving, hesitate to ask a question.

“Can you practice magic instruments?”

“There’s nothing wrong with simple fixes.”

“Can you repair this knife?”

 Luo Chen took out a small wooden knife from the storage bag.

It was the sub-blade in his set of jasper knives that was damaged in the battle with Gray Leaf Wolf yesterday.

 At that time, I thought that I only needed to cultivate my spiritual power for a while, and then I could recover.

Unexpectedly, as the night passed, the spiritual light became even darker.

If he left it alone, his jasper sword would lose one of its blades, and the power of the condensed sword array in the future would probably not be as powerful as before.

Taking the wooden knife, Duan Feng looked at it carefully, and then said coldly: "It can be repaired, but it needs to be repaired with a piece of jasper tree heart. Currently, the jasper tree heart on the market sells for five pieces of spiritual stone."

Luo Chen was overjoyed, "Then I'll leave it to you!"

 After saying that, he took out five spiritual stones, thought about it, and took out five more spiritual stones.

"Um?"

“If it’s more, I’ll give it to you as a reward.”

 Duan Feng was silent for a while, and then took the extra five spiritual stones.

Seeing this scene, Luo Chen patted Duan Feng on the shoulder.

"Although you are older than me, I definitely have more experience in living in Fang City than you. Sometimes, you can actually earn spiritual stones without killing. That is too dangerous."

Duan Feng nodded, but after a moment, he took a deep breath.

 “No, you don’t understand.”

 After saying that, he closed the door and left.

Seeing his lonely and stubborn back, Luo Chen scratched his head.

 What don’t you understand?

Your boy looks like he has a deep hatred. He may be thinking about achieving a unique fighting method and then take revenge.

The target of revenge may be someone from your Duan family!

He understands this kind of clichéd plot!

 …

 In the Alchemy Hall.

 A team of twenty medicine disciples, a team of ten pyrotechnics, and the alchemists trained some time ago were lined up in several rows, waiting for the battle.

 In front of them were Gu Caiyi and Sikong Shoujia.

 The person at the front is the hall master Luo Chen.

At this moment, Luo Chen was wandering alone among the three alchemy rooms.

 After a moment, he came out.

“The renovation of the alchemy room has been completed and can handle the subsequent refining of the chalcedony elixir.”

“But I have to remind you, especially the fire workers, to pay attention.”

“I’m not very familiar with the refining of chalcedony pills, so it’s very likely to be dangerous. If there are signs of a furnace explosion, run away as soon as possible, do you understand?”

"What are you doing? Did you hear me clearly? I am not responsible for dying in the alchemy room!"

 “Listen clearly!”

 The last sentence is very powerful!

 No one expected that Luo Chen, who used to be gentle, could say such harsh words.

 So they were all a little taken aback.

Sikong Shoujia raised his eyebrows. He found that Luo Chen had gained a hint of dignity at some point.

 Perhaps, this is to stay in your position and nourish your energy!

"Okay, the medicine disciples will first send in the chalcedony pill and the required materials. Remember, place them one by one in the order I handed them out before."

 When all the medicine practitioners started to get busy, Luo Chen couldn't help but press his eyebrows.

 Looking at the attribute panel, I saw the proficiency of Chalcedony Pill, after a month of various failures and a few successes.

 At present, the proficiency level has reached [Chalcedony Pill Proficiency 101/200].

To be honest, Luo Chen didn't have any confidence to directly start large-scale alchemy with this level of proficiency.

 But he had to do this, Mi Shuhua was obviously a little anxious.

 Having invested so much in himself, even using the Qi refining experience of the Foundation Establishment monks, if the other party does not see results, they will definitely become anxious with him.

 Luo Chen didn’t want to face the wrath of a foundation-building monk.

 So, he had to hurry up and speed up the refining of Chalcedony Pill.

 But after all, he is a kind-hearted person who has received nine years of compulsory education. He knows what it means to be as big as the sky.

 Therefore, even if we are rushing to put products on the shelves, we must try our best to put production second and safety first.

 “Hope everything goes well!”

Luo Chen muttered something in a low voice, flicked his sleeves, and walked into the largest alchemy room.

 …

 “Increase the fire, increase the heat, the temperature is not enough!”

“You bastard, what happened to the flame-making technique that I asked you to learn? You don’t know how to separate half of the fireball technique!”

“Hall Master, there is a burnt smell in the alchemy room No. 2!”

“Maintain the original firepower here and wait for me to come back soon.”

"It's gone. This furnace is wasted. Remove the waste. Mi Li will send someone to clean the furnace and prepare for the next furnace."

“Hall Master, the alchemy furnace in the alchemy room No. 3 is shaking violently.”

 “Why are you standing there stupidly? Tell them to get out quickly!”

 After refining it all morning, everything failed and no one succeeded.

Luo Chen’s face was frighteningly gloomy.

Others did not dare to touch his brow, and just kept their heads down and went about their own business.

 After lunch, Luo Chen adjusted his mentality.

 In the afternoon, he did not continue to refine the chalcedony pill, but ordered Mi Li Tangquan and the others to refine Bigu Powder.

 This time, he chose to let these medicine disciples do it themselves.

 I was just standing by, giving advice from time to time.

Not to mention, in this way, he felt better again.

 Sure enough, people can only find a sense of accomplishment and happiness in the areas they are best at.

The more people we have, the more powerful we are, and the more alchemy furnaces we have, so this afternoon, although there were some failures, we had a lot of successes.

 Looking at the Bigu Pills that had just been pinched out, not only Luo Chen, but also everyone else felt much better.

 The failure in the morning not only affected Luo Chen, but others were actually even more frightened.

“Okay, today’s alchemy ends here, we will continue tomorrow.”

"These Bigu Powder are of average quality, so the alchemist does not need to take them into the alchemy room. Take them out directly and give them to the brothers in the battle hall!"

Luo Chen said calmly, not feeling distressed at all.

According to Mi Shuhua, Bigu San is regarded as a gang benefit and is given to the monks in the gang from time to time.

Of course, it is limited to low-grade Bigu Powder.

  If it is of medium or high quality, they still have to buy it at the internal price.

 After dealing with these, Luo Chen got into the alchemy room again.

Gu Caiyi stood outside the door, "Aren't you going home today?"

 “Well, I won’t go back.”

 “Then I’ll leave first.”

"By the way, when I meet Duan Feng, I ask him if my magic weapon has been repaired. If it is repaired, you can just bring it back for me. During this period, I may have to stay in the Alchemy Hall for a long time."

Hearing these calm words, Gu Caiyi felt that Luo Chen seemed a little different from before.

 How specific it is, I can’t say.

  Anyway, it is the kind of focused attitude that is revealed inadvertently after you are really interested in something.

“Did he not go to the Heart Alchemy Hall before?”

On the way home, Gu Caiyi had this idea inexplicably.

 In the alchemy room, Luo Chen personally took action and made a furnace of chalcedony elixir.

Looking at the twenty jade-white elixirs that came out of the furnace, Luo Chen let out a long sigh of relief.

“When the proficiency reaches the proficiency level, the rate of elixir formation is indeed increased to 20%.”

“I failed so much today that I almost doubt myself.”

 Shaked his head, Luo Chen casually threw a chalcedony pill into his mouth, just like eating jelly beans.

 Eat on the sly?

nonexistent!

 The cook is just trying to see how the dish is done!

 Leaving the alchemy room, I found that there were few people in the entrance of the hall.

 There are only a few late-stage monks responsible for guard patrols outside.

These people belong to the Alchemy Hall, but they mainly come from the three battle halls. He has no intention of making friends with these people.

I simply took out "Qing Yuan Dan Jie" and read it carefully in front of the stone table on the cliff platform.

“Last time I only learned how to fold the jade hand, but this time I have to put some thought into the plain hand.”

Zhe Yushou, good at processing mineral materials.

It is precisely after learning this thing that he can deal with Huanyu well.

Su Xin Shou is different, targeting various low-level herbs.

 Although he is no longer specifically involved in the processing of medicinal materials, there are some medicinal materials that cannot be processed in advance.

It is said that some high-level spiritual herbs, flowers and fruits must be processed into alchemy as soon as possible after being picked.

 Otherwise, it will be contaminated with the turbid qi of the earth's orifices, and the medicinal properties will be lost.

Chalcedony elixir does not currently encounter such restrictions, but there is no guarantee that Luo Chen will not encounter elixir recipes that require this method in the future.

 It is always good to learn in advance.

 After mastering Su Xin so well that he could even recite it by heart, Luo Chen took out some worthless common medicinal materials in the pharmacy and started practicing.

 There are failures and successes, and Luo Chen never gets tired of it.

The patrolling monks came in occasionally and remembered this scene in their hearts. Late at night, Luo Chen quietly took away a purple cloud copper stove from the alchemy room, then returned to the stone house and activated the formation.

 Confirming that no one was disturbing him, Luo Chen lifted up the floor and went deep into the mine tunnel.

 After many twists and turns, Luo Chen returned to the Spirit Vein Cave.

“I wonder if directly refining the spiritual liquid here will affect the pure spiritual energy emitted by the spiritual veins?”

 While thinking, Luo Chen had completed the preparations.

In the slightly cramped cave, a raging fire burned for a while on the Ziyun copper stove.

The raging heat wave made Luo Chen sweat profusely even though he had activated his defensive robes.

 But he didn't care, and still paid attention to the concentration of spiritual energy here.

 The spiritual eye technique rooted in the eyes plays a very good role in real-time monitoring.

 Three hours later, the fire disappeared and the temperature of the alchemy furnace gradually dropped.

 Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief, "No problem!"

 The next step is to start practicing in the cave.

 “He has been staying in Dantang during this time?”

“Yes, I only went back to the inner city twice in a month. I only went back to buy some daily necessities.”

 “What was the result?”

“He has focused most of his attention on refining the chalcedony elixir. Currently, the elixir production rate has improved. Out of ten furnaces, he can barely succeed in two furnaces.”

“Is there any middle-grade chalcedony elixir?”

“There is not yet, but it is said that there is a furnace, and it almost succeeded in getting the middle grade. But in the end, the chalcedony pill only condensed one and a half cloud patterns.”

 “It seems that he is really interested in it!”

Mi Shuhua’s face looked pleased, and there was a hint of joy in his tone.

 After thinking about it, he said: "Ask him what else he needs in life. If possible, I will buy it for him."

 “Well, I’ll do it.”

Sikong Shoujia responded to this matter.

●Today’s intelligence report is almost over here.

 But he hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and asked cautiously: "Gang leader, how is the incompetent guy in my family doing lately?"

Mi Shuhua glanced at him and said calmly: "Yuan Hong has been practicing very hard, and he has already reached the eighth level of Qi refining."

 Sikong Yuanhong, the only son of Sikong Shoujia.

At present, he is thirty-five years old and has three spiritual roots. He has been practicing with Mi Shuhua and can be regarded as his disciple.

With this kind of qualification, if you can reach the eighth level of Qi refining at this age, there is hope for foundation building in the future!

Sikong Shoujia was overjoyed and was even more concerned about the Foundation Building Pill in Mi Shuhua's hand.

If Yuan Hong can use that Foundation Establishment Pill, he might really be able to achieve Foundation Establishment in the future!

“Thank you, leader, for your guidance over the years. I will trouble you again with Yuan Hong’s path in the future. If we can achieve foundation building, our Sikong family will work hard for the Mi family!”

Mi Shuhua smiled and nodded.

 When Sikong Shoujia was about to leave, he suddenly said something.

“My youngest daughter is currently in the boudoir, and she has reached the sixth level of Qi refining, but she is missing a Taoist companion. I think Yuan Hong is okay. If we can become a family, I will try my best to provide guidance.”

Sikong Shoujia stiffened and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

 According to Mi Shuhua's intention, this is to let his only son join Mi's family!

 …

On the way back to the Alchemy Hall, Sikong Shoujia was not in his thoughts.

He is old and frail, and his Qi and blood are declining. Even if he reaches the ninth level of Qi refining, the Great Perfection will be far away, so there is no talk of building a foundation.

 Hence, the hope of this life is placed on his only son.

For this reason, he is willing to be driven by Mi Shuhua and become his confidant in the Poshan Gang.

 The level of trust is still the same as that of Xu Renke, the Broken Sword, and Han Dang, the Heart-eating Tiger.

Now Mi Shuhua's implicit meaning is that he must make Sikong Yuanhong a member of the Mi family before he is willing to fully support his practice.

 In this way, the son has a bright future, but the Sikong family will have no heirs.

 For a moment, the old man was in a state of confusion!

　　When he returned to the Alchemy Hall with a sad face, he found that the others were more panicked than him.

 “What’s wrong? What happened?”

He caught a guy. If he remembered correctly, he was the son of an eighth-level Qi Lian monk named Tang who used to be in the gang. Now he was following his uncle Zeng to ask.

It seems to be called Tangquan?

Tang Quan said with a horrified expression: "The furnace exploded. Alchemy Room No. 3 exploded just now. One person was killed and the other injured on the spot."

"Why is this happening? Is Luo Chen okay?"

Sikong Shoujia was shocked and angry. If Luo Chen was killed by the explosion, how would he explain it to Mi Shuhua?

The other party was in a very good mood today, and he even said that he would do his best to take care of Luo Chen's life.

Just when he was frightened and angry, angry roars were coming from the hall inside the Alchemy Hall.

"How many times have I told you, if there are signs of a furnace explosion, don't worry about anything and just run away."

“Have you all turned a deaf ear to my words?”

　　“A bunch of bastards, which one is more important, the elixir or life!”

Sikong Shoujia squeezed into the crowd and saw Luo Chen walking around, his face ashen.

 Two people were lying on the ground.

 A corpse's bones are broken into pieces, and the remains are just spliced ​​together.

 The other body was covered in blood and flesh, and a woman was trying her best to save it.

He just took a look and realized that the **** one was the old monk Qu Hancheng who was promoted by Luo Chen himself.

"Wow!"

 A mouthful of bruised blood, suddenly vomited out.

Murong Qinglian stepped aside with a smile on her face.

“It’s okay, Qu Hancheng, this is an internal and external shock caused by the runaway spiritual energy.”

“Although the meridians were severely damaged, at least my life was saved.”

“Luo Chen, I have nothing to do here, so I’m leaving now. The medicine hall is still very busy.”

 “Thank you, sister-in-law, I’m really sorry to trouble you.”

Luo Chen asked Murong Qinglian to be sent away, and his eyes fell on Qu Hancheng.

Qu Hancheng had already opened his eyes at this time. His face was pale and his body was covered in blood.

 The corner of his mouth cracked, and he raised his hand, revealing a red and white pill in his palm.

 The white ones are the color of the elixir, but the red ones are the blood on his body.

 “Hall Master, middle grade…this is a middle grade chalcedony elixir.”

"grass!"

Luo Chen slapped away the middle-grade elixir and grabbed the old guy's collar.

 He wanted to say something, but in the end he gave the other person a hard look.

 Looking back, I found that Sikong Shoujia had already nervously picked up the middle-grade chalcedony pill.

“Hall Master Luochen, you have really refined the middle-grade chalcedony elixir!”

Luo Chen didn’t pay attention to the middle-grade elixir at all, he just stared at Sikong Shoujia.

"Elder, the name of the deceased is Zuo Xiangyu. Please arrange his funeral arrangements for me. In addition, check whether he has any family members recorded in the gang. The aftermath must be done properly."

Sikong Shoujia was stunned for a moment.

 Didn’t you say before that your death in the alchemy room had nothing to do with you?

 Why are you now dealing with funeral arrangements and taking care of the other person’s family?

“In addition, for Qu Hancheng’s injury, the helper must provide spiritual stones to support him. Not only that, after he recovers from his injury, he will have to add two spiritual stones to his monthly salary.”

"But…"

“There is no but, if you have any doubts, take this middle-grade chalcedony pill to the leader of the Mi Gang, and he will make a decision!”

"oh oh."

 After handling these matters, Luo Chen's anger has dissipated a lot.

But still a pair of cold eyes swept over all the medicine practitioners and pyrotechnics present.

“Let me say it again, if there are signs of danger in the alchemy room, run away as soon as possible.”

“Even if the middle-grade Xuanyun Cauldron explodes, I won’t blame you.”

"But next time, if you still die in there, you see, I still don't care about you."

"snort!"

 Damn, what a bunch of bastards.

Luo Chen cursed and entered the stone house, leaving only a group of old, weak, women and children looking at each other.

 The younger Tangquan and Roldo were in a different mood.

He didn't pay any attention to the dead Zuo Xiangyu, but looked at the seriously injured Qu Hancheng with envy.

This old guy, this is his second salary increase!

  Qu Hancheng was lying on the ground, grinning stupidly, as if he didn't care about his injuries at all.

 In the stone house, the first-order water wave array has been activated.

  Everyone else has become accustomed to the hall master frequently activating formations.

 The guess is that Luo Chen doesn't want others to disturb him, so no one usually comes up to cause trouble.

 In the room where no one was paying attention, Luo Chen sat on the couch and sighed.

 In his hand, he had a whole bottle of medium-grade chalcedony elixir.

As early as half a month ago, he had already raised his proficiency to the proficiency level and secretly refined the middle-grade elixir.

 The reason why he has not announced it to the public is because he wants to hide his level of alchemy.

 After all, in such a short time, it was possible to refine a medium-grade product, which would scare people to death.

Unexpectedly, before I could collect the pills today, the pill furnace exploded.

Two pyrotechnics were also involved, one was killed and the other was injured.

“I didn’t kill them, but they died and were injured because of me!”

 This is the main reason why Luo Chen sighed.

 The alchemy furnace that was blown up was the Ziyun copper furnace that he bought from Miss Xiangxiang for two hundred spirit stones.

  A first-level low-grade magic weapon with wide applicability.

 But the shortcomings are actually very obvious.

 That means it cannot be used frequently, it must be maintained at a certain interval, and it must be well maintained.

 But during this period, the refining work of Dantang never stopped.

 When he was practicing in the Spirit Vein Cave, he often used the alchemy furnace to brew the Spiritual Liquid.

 Once it comes and goes, the "durability" will be lost.

 Coupled with the negligence of the fireworkers at the time and improper fire control, the furnace explosion accident occurred.

“Forget it, there is no point in dwelling on this matter. Let’s try our best to urge Bangli to do a better job in the follow-up aftermath!”

 After all, these people are following him.

They did have some effort on them, some fire control skills, a bit of alchemy common sense, and even asked for the flames to let them practice.

It can be said that this is Luo Chen’s preliminary team.

 After putting this matter aside, Luo Chen clicked on the attributes panel and looked at the realm column.

 【Realm: Sixth Level of Qi Refining Stage: 99/100】

 It has been two full months now!

With the blessing of a good environment such as Qi Nourishing Pill, Chalcedony Pill, Soothing Incense, Yuan Spiritual Liquid, and Spirit Vein Cave every day regardless of the cost, he was soaring in cultivation at a rate of nearly two progress bars every day. .

Had it not been for a period of time in the middle, I would have spent too much time on the refining of chalcedony pills and the spirit of gathering breath.

 He is afraid that he has already broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

 But now, it is not too late.

Taking a deep breath, Luo Chen held back his anticipation and took out the book "Qi Refining Experience" written by Mi Shuhua and started reading.

 He was waiting for the monks in the alchemy hall to disperse one by one.

Maybe it was because of the explosion of the furnace that Luo Chen was unhappy, or maybe it was because someone died today and the alchemy hall got off work a little early today.

Sikong Shoujia did not hesitate at all, and went to find Mi Shuhua with the middle-grade chalcedony pill.

At midnight, Luo Chen quietly took away another Ziyun copper furnace from the alchemy room.

 Then, he went all the way down to the hidden depths of the ground.

 “The breakthrough is today!”

 (End of this chapter)