Longevity: Never leave the mountain until you are invincible

Canglanfang City.

A first-class cave.

"The four demon-killing foreign affairs officers have a total of one thousand points of merit, which is pretty good."

Chu Chen added up his income, spent a year, and exchanged fifty bottles of Huanglong Pill for a thousand merit points, making no loss or gain.

But there is a huge gap between redeeming the three techniques including the Soul Seizing Manual. Even the cheapest Soul Seizing Manual is still short of 3,000 merit points.

"If you want to quickly accumulate merit, the only way is to do real-person level demon-killing work. However, with my current level of cultivation, it is quite dangerous to complete real-person-level demon-killing work."

Before his cultivation reaches a breakthrough, he will not rush into the real-person level demon-killing foreign affairs.

"There must be no eagerness."

The lesson from the Lingkong Master incident is at hand, and Chu Chen will not repeat the same mistakes again and mess up his identity.

The reason why Chu Chen went to the Foreign Affairs Hall to take over the mission without getting any clear information before was not only because of his own unbalanced mentality, but also because of Lin Fan's influence.

After thinking about it calmly, he realized there was no need to worry.

"Lin Fan is still in the Hanyuan Secret Realm and has not broken through the foundation building period. There will be no chaos in the Qingzhou Immortal Cultivation World in a short time. The safest strategy is to practice with peace of mind."

In the world of immortality, the state of cultivation is the foundation.

If Chu Chen had a peak foundation-building level, simple tasks such as killing fish monsters and other simple demon-killing tasks would be easy for him as long as he was careful.

By then, it will not be an easy task to save enough merit to exchange for the Soul Seizing Manual and other techniques.

"As for now, just slowly accumulate merit. If a chaos really breaks out in Qingzhou's immortal world, we can only temporarily give up on exchanging skills, leave Yunshui Sect, and find a safe place to live."

Skills such as the Soul Seizing Manual are certainly important, but compared to life, they are still far behind.

Moreover, except for the Soul Seizing Manual, the other two techniques do not have to be exchanged. Chu Chen can buy them elsewhere, such as Wanbao Pavilion.

Among the foundation-building Taoist techniques sold by Wanbao Pavilion, there are many escape techniques, sword techniques, and secret techniques to enhance the power of the soul.

It's just that the price is a bit expensive.

"Fortunately, the exchange price for the Soul-Seizing Scripture is not expensive. The difference is only 3,000 merit points. It is not too difficult to redeem the Soul-Seizing Scripture."

Chu Chen initially planned to refine the Huanglong Pill, hire Yunshui Sect disciples and Fangshi monks to help him complete the work of eliminating demons, and quickly accumulate merits.

However, this path was blocked by Yunshui Sect, so he could only do the next best thing and hand Huang Longdan directly to the Foreign Affairs Hall in exchange for merit.

Although this method accumulates merits slowly, it is safer.

A bottle of Huanglong Pill can be exchanged for ten points of merit, and as long as three hundred bottles of Huanglong Pill are refined, it can be exchanged for 3,000 points of merit.

In order to refine the Huanglong Pill, Chu Chen learned about it in simple terms and spent most of his time in the cave refining the pill.

Six years passed in a blink of an eye.

"It's time to redeem the Soul Seizing Scripture."

Chu Chen waved his hand, and the elixir in the elixir furnace flew into the elixir porcelain bottle.

Beside him were fifty porcelain vases, all filled with Huanglong Dan.

In the past three years, he would refine fifty bottles of Huanglong Pill every year and submit them to the Foreign Affairs Palace in exchange for merit.

This is the last fifty bottles of Huanglong Pill.

It's not that he doesn't want to refine more, but the elixir is limited. He can probably collect and refine fifty bottles of Huanglong Dan elixir every year.

Foreign Affairs Hall.

"These are fifty bottles of Huanglong Pill. I'd like to ask my senior brother to help me exchange them for merit awards."

Chu Chen found Han Yuanhao and handed him the storage bag containing the porcelain bottle and the identity token.

"alright."

After a while of busy work, Han Yuanhao returned the identity token and storage bag that had recorded his merits to Chu Chen.

"Thank you, senior brother."

Chu Chen smiled and thanked him.

"Why do you need to say thank you when it's your job?"

Han Yuanhao hesitated for a moment, then said: "Exchanging Huanglong Pill for merit is cumbersome and slow. Why don't Junior Brother try to take on the real-life demon-killing foreign affairs?"

"There is an external task here that requires the cooperation of several real people to eliminate demons. Junior brother can take a look at it. If it is completed, you can get 10,000 merit points."

While talking, Han Yuanhao took out a jade slip.

Chu Chen took the jade slip and looked at it. It recorded an extermination mission for a demonic monk.

This demonic monk is none other than Qiao Dongliu, a former disciple of the Yunshui Sect and now the Withered Bone Taoist of the Yin Corpse Sect.

One month ago, Qiao Dongliu appeared in the Nanshan Kingdom where the Yunshui Sect and the Yin Corpse Sect intersect. The Great Elder of the Yunshui Sect issued this mission and asked the Yunshui Sect's Ji Zhuren to go and encircle Qiao Dongliu.

"Senior brother understands his kindness. Junior brother is refining a batch of elixirs. He can't get away for the time being, so he won't get involved in this matter."

Chu Chen put down the jade slip and politely refused.

Qiao Dongliu suddenly appears in Nanshan Kingdom. Who knows if it could be the conspiracy of the Yin Corpse Sect?

Chu Chen's refusal did not go beyond Han Yuanhao's expectations. Han Yuanhao knew the character of his junior brother and would never touch anything dangerous.

This invitation was just with the intention of giving it a try. Chu Chen refused, and Han Yuanhao did not force it.

Then, Chu Chen went to the Dharma Transfer Hall and spent four thousand meritorious deeds to exchange for the Soul Seizing Scripture.

Master Qingyang reminded: "Although this soul-seizing scripture was inherited from Tianyou Palace, it lacks prerequisite skills, and ordinary monks' practice will damage the physical body.

Only those with strong physical bodies can practice forcefully, and their power is far less than what the techniques describe, let alone condensing the Tao body. "

"Junior brother practiced a body-training technique during his Qi training period. His physical body is quite strong, so he should be able to practice this technique."

Chu Chen had already thought of an excuse: "I don't even think about condensing my Tao body. As long as I can improve my physique and increase my life-saving ability, I will be satisfied."

"Hmm."

Seeing that Chu Chen had made up his mind, True Man Qingyang did not say much and fetched the technique for Chu Chen.

Back to Canglan Market.

After Chu Chen carefully studied the Soul Seizing Scripture, he could not wait to start practicing.

Boom!

As soon as he started to practice the Soul Seizing Scripture, Chu Chen's entire body was like a greedy beast, madly devouring the spiritual energy.

The Soul Seizing Scripture is more domineering than the Soul Seizing Body Refining Scripture, and can directly plunder the spiritual energy in the air.

In just a moment, the spiritual energy within a radius of ten feet rushed in and poured into Chu Chen's body violently.

Even though he had achieved the body refining foundation, his physical meridians were far stronger than those of ordinary foundation cultivators, and at this time he felt that his own meridians were faintly about to explode.

'This is why ordinary cultivators will damage their physical bodies when practicing the Soul Seizing Scripture. '

Chu Chen understood in his heart.

"Protect!"

But he was not afraid of danger and performed a secret method recorded in the Soul Seizing Body Refining Scripture.

All the bones suddenly lit up, emitting a faint light, and the medicinal power and spiritual power buried in them instantly fed back to protect all parts of the body.

These were the medicinal power and spiritual power that Chu Chen absorbed with the Soul-stealing Body-building Sutra.

The discomfort in his body faded away.

A few days later.

"The first level of the Soul-stealing Sutra has been completed, and the strength of the physical body has also been improved."

Chu Chen opened his eyes and smiled.

Only then did he truly condense his treasure body and reach the initial stage of the treasure body. Before that, due to the lack of exercises, he could only be regarded as condensing a 'half-step treasure body'.

With physical strength alone, Chu Chen can compete with most cultivators in the early stage of foundation building.

He even felt that his physical body was even stronger than what was described in the Soul-stealing Sutra.