Lingxiao Immortal Clan

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, a year and a half had passed.

Ling Pengyun had been stationed in the Rock Scale Snake Cave, taking care of the spiritual plants in the thirty-five acres of spiritual fields here for two years.

One day, the Immortal Crane King, who was stationed here with Ling Pengyun, held a snake corpse about ten feet long in his mouth, walked along the entrance and exit of the snake cave, and slowly walked to Ling Pengyun, who was sitting cross-legged beside the thirty-five acres of spiritual fields deep in the snake cave, and put the snake corpse down.

Then, the crane called softly to Ling Pengyun.

After a while, Ling Pengyun completed a big cycle and opened his eyes.

When he saw that the snake corpse brought back by the Immortal Crane King had a breath that reached the perfection of Qi training, his expression was delighted.

"This snake has many scales on its body, which can be used as the main material for at least two sets of first-grade superior golden scale inner armor."

In the two years that Ling Pengyun has been stationed in this snake cave, he has deliberately asked the Fairy Crane King, who needs to go out to find food every day, to search for snakes and python monsters as much as possible to kill them.

Because the "king" of Jiaomang Lake is Jiaolong, the snakes and python monsters in this area have also multiplied greatly.

It is also very easy for the Fairy Crane King to search for snakes and python monsters. In the past two years, at least a hundred snakes and python monsters above the middle stage of Qi training have been killed.

Ling Pengyun does not need the flesh and blood of these hundred snakes and python monsters above the middle stage of Qi training, but he needs the scales of these hundred snakes and python monsters very much.

Relying on those snake scales and some solid monster bones as raw materials, Ling Pengyun has refined a hundred first-grade intermediate and superior golden scale inner armors.

This also increased his success rate in refining the first-level middle-grade golden scale inner armor to 40%, and the success rate in refining the first-level upper-grade golden scale inner armor to 20%.

After Ling Pengyun was overjoyed, he thanked the Immortal Crane King.

"Thank you very much."

The Immortal Crane King had entered the foundation building stage, and its intelligence had been greatly opened. Even if there was no master-recognition restriction between it and Ling Pengyun, it could understand some human words.

The Immortal Crane King was quite satisfied with Ling Pengyun's words of thanks.

It nodded slightly, and with a crane cry, urged Ling Pengyun to quickly clean the scales on the snake corpse, as it was a foodie.

Ling Pengyun had been in contact with the Immortal Crane King for more than two years, and he also understood what the Immortal Crane King meant.

He immediately did as he was told, waved his hand and patted the storage bag on his waist, summoned the Qinggang mother-and-child flying swords from it, and used these two sharp second-level inferior flying swords to completely cut off the snake skin from the snake corpse that the Fairy Crane King brought back this time.

He also used the Qinggang mother-and-child flying swords to remove all the snake bones in the snake corpse, and then signaled the Fairy Crane King to eat the remaining snake body.

After receiving the signal, the Fairy Crane King directly picked up the snake body without the snake skin and went to the side to gnaw it.

After a while, the ten-foot-long snake corpse entered the Fairy Crane King's stomach.

And after eating, it also crawled on the ground and fell into a deep sleep. Relying on this sleeping method, it refined the spiritual energy contained in the snake body that had just been swallowed into its stomach to improve its cultivation.

As for Ling Pengyun on the other side, he used the snake skin of the Qi-cultivating snake demon and dozens of hard snake bones to refine the first-grade upper-grade golden scale inner armor twice.

This time, he had better luck and succeeded once and failed once.

After the refining was over, Ling Pengyun looked at the first-grade upper-grade golden scale inner armor he had just successfully refined, and his face was delighted.

"Although the quality of this golden scale inner armor is the lowest, the price on the market is only 70% of the price of the medium-quality golden scale inner armor, but it can at least be sold for 140 spiritual stones, which is quite good."

After a moment of joy, Ling Pengyun put away the golden scale inner armor in his hand, closed his eyes again, and practiced according to the plan.

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At the same time, halfway up Lingxiao Mountain, in a quiet room in a courtyard.

A young man was closing his eyes, practicing the technique to continuously absorb the rich spiritual energy around him into his body, and cooperate with the spiritual power in his own dantian to attack the bottleneck of the third level of Qi training.

After several hours, the bottleneck of the third level of Qi training was broken, and the young man's cultivation level quickly improved to the third level of Qi training.

Then, he spent several days to stabilize his cultivation level, and then he opened his eyes.

Feeling the improvement brought by the breakthrough here, the young man looked very happy.

"My spiritual consciousness and spiritual power are 30% stronger than the second level of Qi training, which is a good thing."

"Relying on the breakthrough in cultivation, perhaps the bottleneck of alchemy that has stuck me for half a year can be resolved and improved."

Thinking of this, his expression moved slightly, and he waved his hand and patted the storage bag on his waist.

He summoned the last three remaining spiritual materials for refining Qi training pills in the storage bag.

Looking at the spiritual medicines on the ground in front of him, the young man was quite expectant and muttered to himself.

"I don't know if the last three spiritual materials for refining Qi-training pills on me can be used to refine a furnace of Qi-training pills. If so, my success rate in refining this pill will reach 30%.

This young man is Ling Chengxin, the only one who was found to have spiritual roots when Ling Pengyun was stationed in Lingyun Mountain five years ago.

Ling Chengxin is the fourth in the Cheng generation, and his spiritual roots are fire, wood, and earth.

When the spiritual roots were tested using the spiritual array, the strength of his fire and wood spiritual roots, which are mutually restraining, reached a rare "nine feet", but his earth spiritual root was only two feet, and the wood spiritual root that restrained it could directly crush the earth spiritual root and was not affected.

The senior management of the Ling family specially selected a wood-assisted fire technique for him, "Binghuo Burning Wood Jue".

The Binghuo Burning Wood Art was obtained by Ling Yunhong, the head of the Ling family, when he followed the Pingyun Yang family to attack and destroy the Ye family in Hongye Ridge several years ago.

Although the Binghuo Burning Wood Art obtained by the Ling family only has the Qi training chapter, the entire chapter of this technique can be practiced to the perfection of foundation building. Bailingmen has the entire chapter of this technique.

This technique can be practiced to the foundation building stage to cultivate the Binghuo secret method, which is more powerful than the flames that ordinary foundation building cultivators can conjure.

Relying on the effect of burning wood to help fire, although Ling Chengxin has three spiritual roots, his practice speed is much faster than that of ordinary double spiritual roots.

Moreover, this technique also greatly increases Ling Chengxin's control over fire.

It is for this reason that since Ling Chengxin was diagnosed with spiritual roots, he has been arranged by the Ling family's senior management to learn the knowledge of "alchemy and refining" which will be the main development of the family in the future.

Two years ago, when he entered the second level of Qi training and had a certain amount of spiritual power, he began to refine ordinary iron tools and ordinary pills under the guidance of the Ling clan leader to test his talent in these two different arts.

It took half a year to draw a conclusion.

Ling Chengxin's talent in alchemy is much stronger than that in weapon refining, at least when he was refining ordinary pills and ordinary iron tools.

When Ling Chengxin's talent in alchemy was revealed, Ling Yunhong, an alchemist who could refine the second-level lower-grade Juling Pill, also began to formally teach him to refine pills.

So far, he has officially entered the alchemy for a year and a half.

During this year and a half, he specialized in cultivating pills and Qi training pills, and the success rate of refining this pill increased to 20% half a year ago.

But he has been stuck in this bottleneck, and the success rate of refining Qi training pills is difficult to improve.

Coming back to his senses, Ling Chengxin waved his hand and patted the storage bag on his waist, summoning a small pile of firewood and a green alchemy furnace about a foot in size.

As soon as the two items were taken out, Ling Chengxin used his spiritual power to transform a wisp of flame, threw it on the small pile of firewood, and instantly ignited the pile of firewood.

Firewood is very easy to burn. In just a moment, a raging fire ignited on the pile of firewood, and it burned bigger and bigger.

Seeing this, Ling Chengxin frowned, pinched his hands, and used the fire control method to condense a red seal and hit it into the fire burning in the firewood pile.

As soon as the seal was integrated into the fire, the burning fire flashed a red glow.

"Small."

Ling Chengxin changed his finger technique and murmured.

The fire burning on the firewood pile was like Ling Chengxin's arm. It was controlled in an instant, became much smaller, and stabilized.

Seeing this, Ling Chengxin waved his hand to perform the art of controlling objects, and placed the green alchemy furnace that he had taken out earlier above the burning flames of the small pile of firewood.

Relying on the burning flames of the pile of firewood to burn the bottom of the alchemy furnace and heat the alchemy furnace.

After half a cup of tea, when the temperature in the alchemy furnace reached a certain level, Ling Chengxin performed the art of controlling objects again, opened the lid of the alchemy furnace, and orderly threw one of the three spiritual materials for refining Qi-training pills placed in front of him into the alchemy furnace.

The next moment, Ling Chengxin changed his finger technique and performed the alchemy method. With the high temperature inside the alchemy furnace, he refined the impurities in the bodies of several spiritual medicines thrown into the alchemy furnace.

This step took a very long time, and it took half an hour to complete.

And those spiritual medicines whose impurities were refined were also transformed into spiritual medicine liquid under the high temperature in the alchemy furnace.

Seeing this, Ling Chengxin's face gradually became solemn.

Refining spiritual medicine into liquid medicine is the simplest step in alchemy, and it is also the beginning.

In order to raise the temperature inside the furnace, Ling Chengxin waved his hand and sent a spiritual power to the flames of the blazing wood pile.

The spiritual power was like a catalyst. Once it touched the flames of the blazing wood, the flames quickly grew and turned into a big fire.

Ling Chengxin's expression condensed, and he used the fire control method again to stabilize the big fire burning in the blazing wood pile, so that the fire would not fluctuate.

As the big fire continued to burn the bottom of the furnace suspended in the air, the temperature inside the furnace was getting higher and higher.

When the temperature inside the furnace increased by nearly double, Ling Chengxin took action.

He pinched his fingers again, transformed several magic formulas, and injected them into the furnace, blessing the several kinds of spiritual medicine liquid inside the furnace.

"Together." Ling Chengxin changed his middle finger technique and groaned.

Inside the furnace, the several kinds of medicine liquid suddenly flashed green spiritual light at the same time.

Then, the several kinds of liquid medicine blended together and turned into five fingernail-sized balls.

"Success is another success." Ling Chengxin groaned.

The next moment, Ling Chengxin pinched the magic formula and performed the most important "melting pill method" in alchemy.

"Melting pill."

In the alchemy furnace, the five spherical liquid medicines flashed green light.

Under the interaction of the melting pill method and the high temperature in the alchemy furnace, the five spherical liquid medicines made a "sizzling" sound and gradually condensed into pills.

But after a few breaths, due to the limitation of his spiritual consciousness, Ling Chengxin could not maintain the transformation of five pills at the same time, so he had to bear the pain and give up the other three spherical liquid medicines and concentrate on condensing two liquid medicines.

As soon as the spiritual consciousness withdrew from the other three spherical liquid medicines, the flashing spiritual light of the three spherical liquid medicines suddenly dimmed, and was burned into three wisps of smoke by the high temperature in the alchemy furnace.

Seeing this, Ling Chengxin felt very distressed.

If the three liquid medicines could be condensed into pills, they would be three first-grade, low-grade Qi-refining pills of considerable value.

However, Ling Chengxin did not dare to be distracted too much while refining the pills. After suppressing the confusion in his mind, he devoted himself to the last two spherical liquid medicines in the pill furnace.

After half an incense stick, the two pills finally condensed successfully.

Ling Chengxin hurriedly urged his spiritual power and used the art of controlling objects to lift the lid of the alchemy furnace and take out the two green pills that were shining with spiritual light.

Looking at the two pills in his hand that had just come out of the furnace and were still slightly warm, Ling Chengxin was overjoyed.

"The improvement of cultivation is indeed of great help to alchemy."

"The first batch of pills I refined today was successful, and two pills were made. Even if the last two batches of Qi-training pills failed, my 30% success rate in refining this pill can be confirmed."

"In the future, when I refine this Qi-training pill, I can finally achieve a balance between income and expenditure, and I don't need to use my own spiritual stones to refine this pill."

"Thinking about it this way, it's all thanks to the 50 spiritual stones that Uncle Ba sponsored me five years ago, and the 30 spiritual stones that the family should have rewarded Uncle Ba after Uncle Ba detected my spiritual roots, a total of 80 spiritual stones to help."

"If there were no help from these 80 spiritual stones, my success rate in refining Qi-training pills would probably still be around 10%."

"In the future, when I succeed in alchemy, I will definitely thank Uncle Ba for his kindness."

The Uncle Ba mentioned by Ling Chengxin is Ling Pengyun, who helped him detect his spiritual roots.

Five years ago, after Ling Pengyun had determined his spiritual roots, he gave Ling Chengxin a batch of spiritual objects, including fifty spiritual stones, considering that Ling Chengxin was born in the mortal world.

"The third great-grandfather will be very happy to know this news."

"At that time, I will ask the third great-grandfather to bring a batch of spiritual materials for refining Qi-training pills. Maybe that batch of spiritual materials for refining Qi-training pills can help me refine this pill one step further."

Ling Chengxin could feel that the great improvement brought by this breakthrough in cultivation would benefit him more than just two pills at the moment.

If he refined Qi-training pills a few more times, he might be able to make three pills.

In the process of refining pills, a furnace of pills can produce up to five pills at most, and the probability of success is related to the alchemist's own level of alchemy.

The success rate of alchemy is a matter of failure and success, and has nothing to do with the probability of success.

After adjusting his mentality, Ling Chengxin used the remaining two spiritual materials to refine two more furnaces of Qi-training pills.

Although the last two batches of Qi-training pills failed, Ling Chengxin was not sad.

After all, he successfully refined the first batch of Qi-training pills.

After cleaning up the mess of alchemy, Ling Chengxin closed his eyes and practiced his skills to absorb the free spiritual energy around him and restore the spiritual power consumed by alchemy.

After several hours, when Ling Chengxin's Dantian spiritual power was restored, he stood up, left the courtyard where he lived, and walked towards the top of the mountain along a road.

Not long after, he was blocked by the defensive light curtain protecting the top of the mountain.

However, he successfully broke through the defensive light curtain on the top of the mountain and entered the top of the mountain with the help of a token given by Ling Yunhong when he officially followed Ling Yunhong to refine pills a year and a half ago.

Relying on the token, he forced back the large cloud that could cover the divine consciousness on the top of the mountain and walked to the door of the only cultivation cave on the top of Lingxiao Mountain.

After knocking on the cave door, Ling Yunhong opened the door and walked out after a while.

Ling Yunhong saw that it was Ling Chengxin who came and asked.

"Chengxin, today is not the last day of the month. What is the important matter that you come here for this time?"

Since Ling Chengxin followed Ling Yunhong to learn alchemy a year and a half ago, Ling Yunhong made an agreement with him that he could teach Ling Chengxin to refine pills on the last day of each month.

Today is still in the middle of this month.

When Ling Chengxin heard Ling Yunhong's question, he told Ling Yunhong in detail that he had improved his success rate of refining Qi-refining pills to 30% due to his breakthrough in cultivation.

Ling Yunhong was very happy to hear this, and quickly pulled Ling Chengxin into the cave, gave Ling Chengxin three spiritual materials for refining Qi-refining pills, and asked him to refine three more furnaces of Qi-refining pills.

Ling Chengxin also did as he was told. After a while of adjusting his breath and restoring his condition to the best, he took out a small pile of firewood and the alchemy furnace, and used the three spiritual materials given by Ling Yunhong to refine the Qi-training pill.

He opened the furnace three times, succeeded once, and failed twice.

However, the one time he succeeded, he made three pills.

Ling Yunhong looked at the three Qi-training pills that Ling Chengxin had just successfully refined, his eyes full of joy, and thought to himself.

"In just one and a half years, Chengxin has increased the success rate of refining Qi-training pills to 30%. This alchemy talent is not weak. According to this talent, this child can at least become a first-level middle-grade alchemist in the future."

After coming back to his senses, Ling Yunhong commented.

"I successfully refined one of the three furnaces of Qi-training pills, and three pills were made, which is not bad."

"Although your success rate of making pills is not profitable, it can at least guarantee no loss."

"When your success rate of refining this pill reaches 40%, you can come to me again, and then the family can entrust you to refine this pill."

"As for these ten spiritual materials for refining Qi-training pills, I funded you with my own money. Make good use of these ten spiritual materials for refining Qi-training pills."

After saying that, Ling Yunhong handed the three Qi-training pills in his hand back to Ling Chengxin, and took out ten spiritual materials for refining Qi-training pills from the storage bag and handed them to Ling Chengxin.

"Thank you, great-grandfather." Seeing this, Ling Chengxin was overjoyed and thanked him first. Then he put the ten spiritual medicines for refining Qi-training pills handed by Ling Yunhong into the storage bag.

Afterwards, Ling Yunhong began to point out the mistakes that Ling Chengxin made when refining three furnaces of Qi-training pills just now.

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