Chapter 62 Monster
Chapter 62 Monster
Chen Yuan hesitated for a moment and said:
"I appreciate your kindness, fellow Taoists. However, I have no intention to go into the mountains to hunt monsters for the time being. If there is a chance in the future, I will cooperate with you three fellow Taoists."
Cao You was startled and asked:
"Brother Chen, are you planning to rent a spiritual farm?"
Fan Yigang and Ren Man also looked at Chen Yuan with surprise.
Cao You said it clearly. Chen Yuan had two mid-grade magic weapons and his strength exceeded that of most of the casual cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining.
In addition, Chen Yuan saved Cao You's life and was not a cold-hearted person, so they came to Chen Yuan's house together and asked him to cooperate in hunting monsters.
How could such a powerful person be willing to be exploited by Guiyuan Sect?
Chen Yuan smiled and said:
"Chen will naturally not become a farmer, but I still have some spirit stones on me, so I plan to practice for a while before making any plans."
Cao You suddenly realized:
"That's right, Brother Chen still has materials on the wolf demon, so there's no need to rush into the mountains."
A hint of disappointment flashed across Fan Yigang's face, but then he smiled heartily and said:
"Since Fellow Daoist Chen has his own plans, let's discuss the matter of going into the mountains to hunt monsters later."
Ren Man changed the subject:
"Fellow Daoist Chen has been able to cultivate to the fifth level of Qi Refining in the mountains. This is truly extraordinary. I would like to exchange my cultivation experience with you. What do you think?"
Chen Yuan smiled and said:
"Chen couldn't ask for more."
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Two hours later, it was getting dark and Cao You and the other two got up to say goodbye.
When Chen Yuan and Ren Man were exchanging cultivation experiences, they naturally would not miss Cao You and Fan Yigang.
The three of them sat and discussed for two hours, and Chen Yuan benefited a lot.
He practiced hard alone, without anyone to guide him, so it was inevitable that there were some omissions in his practice.
Cao You and the other two have been practicing in Huanyue Market for many years, and often exchange their practice experiences with other casual practitioners, so they have much richer experience.
Fan Yigan, like Chen Yuan, practiced the "Red Flame Art", and his cultivation was one level higher than Chen Yuan's. His words made Chen Yuan feel suddenly enlightened.
He knew in his heart that Fan Yigang had no ulterior motive. He was doing this not only to help Cao You repay his life-saving grace, but also to win him over to go into the mountains to hunt monsters together.
While the few of them were discussing Taoism, Chen Yuan also asked a lot of questions about monster hunting, and the three of them answered all the questions.
From the three people, Chen Yuan learned about the level classification of monsters.
The first-level monsters are equivalent to Qi-refining monks, and are divided into low-level, medium-level, and high-level, corresponding to the early, middle, and late stages of Qi-refining.
The monsters at this stage cannot use magic, but their bodies are strong. Some monsters with strong bloodlines can use one or two innate secret techniques.
The wolf demon that Chen Yuan and Cao You had teamed up to kill before was a horned wolf, a very powerful first-level intermediate monster. It could perform the secret art of shape-shifting and was extremely fast and difficult to deal with.
Going further up, there are monsters that are equivalent to foundation-building cultivators, divided into levels two to four.
Demonic beasts of levels five to seven are equivalent to Jindan cultivators.
Demonic beasts of levels eight to ten are equivalent to Nascent Soul cultivators.
There are many monsters in the Fantasy Moon Mountains. Level one monsters are numerous, and sometimes you will encounter level two to four monsters. It is even said that some people have encountered level five monsters.
Going into the mountains to hunt monsters is extremely risky. Only cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining dare to go into the mountains alone to hunt monsters.
Even when Cao You and the other two joined forces, they only dared to hunt monsters in the outermost area of the Fantasy Moon Mountains, and they were extremely cautious.
Upon hearing this news, Chen Yuan immediately gave up the idea of going into the mountains to hunt monsters as a fallback.
Before he figured out why the monsters lost their minds when they saw him, he would never enter the Fantasy Moon Mountains and seek his own death.
Chen Yuan became more and more eager to learn alchemy. As soon as the three people left, he went to the alchemy room and began to purify the goldenrod for the fourth time.
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The purification of goldenrod is extremely difficult. Chen Yuan failed twice and succeeded in the sixth attempt.
Two days had passed at this time. He put the golden spiritual liquid into the jade bottle and continued to purify the silverleaf grass and white orchid fruit.
Two days later, all three spiritual herbs were purified.
This is the ninth furnace of spiritual herbs that Chen Yuan has refined. He has finally reached the stage of condensing the pill.
Chen Yuan carefully controlled the flame. In the alchemy furnace, the silverleaf grass spirit liquid, the white orchid fruit spirit liquid, and the goldenrod spirit liquid formed a three-legged tripod and slowly moved towards the center.
Finally, the three spiritual liquids came into contact with each other and began to merge.
Suddenly, the fusion of the Silverleaf Grass Spirit Liquid and the Goldenrod Spirit Liquid increased a little, the balance was broken, and the three spirit liquids instantly mixed together, forming three colorful colors.
Chen Yuan sighed, and with his magical power, he burned the spiritual liquid into nothingness.
Then he put away the spell, closed his eyes to recover his magic power, prepared to draw the starlight into his body, and then refine the next batch of spiritual herbs.
Condensing pills is ten times more difficult than purifying spiritual herbs. There cannot be any mistakes, otherwise there will be failure.
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On the second day, after experiencing the infusion of starlight and recovering his mana, Chen Yuan began to try to condense the pill for the second time.
This time it was stronger than before. One third of the three groups of spiritual liquids merged before the pill failed to form.
The third time, the three balls of spiritual liquid were half fused.
The fourth time, Chen Yuan was unlucky and only one-fourth of the three spiritual liquids were fused. The fifth time, Chen Yuan finally achieved a historic breakthrough and the three spiritual liquids were fused to 90%.
But the 90% integration degree has also become a threshold.
Chen Yuan was stuck at this threshold five times. When he was refining the twentieth furnace of spiritual herbs, he finally crossed it and completely fused the three balls of spiritual liquid together.
The next step is to continue to mobilize magic power to further refine the medicinal power and solidify the spiritual liquid into a pill, and the alchemy will be successful.
This step is much simpler than purification and pill condensation, but how many pills can be refined depends on the strength of the alchemist's spiritual awareness.
Chen Yuan divided the spiritual liquid into ten portions and condensed them into pills respectively.
Half an hour later, the surface of the three balls of spiritual liquid fluctuated and turned into nothingness under the burning flames.
An hour later, three more balls of spiritual liquid fluctuated and disappeared.
Two hours later, the two balls of spiritual liquid disappeared.
But the last two balls of spiritual liquid finally stabilized, slowly rotating in the alchemy furnace and slowly solidifying into shape.
Six hours later, Chen Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, the spell in his hand changed, the furnace lid was lifted, and two silver pills flew out of the furnace and fell into the jade bottle that had been prepared long ago.
Chen Yuan withdrew his magic power, the flames dissipated, and the alchemy furnace fell to the ground.
He picked up the jade bottle, poured out two Soul Gathering Pills, and said as if relieved:
"Finally done!"
From now on, he is a real alchemist!
Moreover, his first batch of pills had a 20% success rate, and only 19 batches of spiritual herbs were wasted. This was even better than Zhang Yu, the strongest alchemist in the Zhang family.
The role of spiritual consciousness in alchemy is greater than he imagined.
Chen Yuan immediately closed his eyes and meditated to recover his magic power and prepare for the starlight to infuse his body at night.
If his spiritual awareness continues to grow, what level will his alchemy skills reach?
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The next day, Chen Yuan's magic power recovered and he continued to devote himself to refining the elixir.
Among the 19 furnaces of spiritual herbs that were wasted in the previous refining, eight furnaces of spiritual herbs did not reach the stage of pill condensation, so the consumption of the three kinds of spiritual herbs was different.
At this time, Chen Yuan still had thirty-five goldenrods, eighty-seven white orchid fruits, and eighty-nine silverleaf grasses in his hands, so he could refine another thirty-five furnaces of elixirs.
He stayed indoors without going out, and continued to refine the elixir. He only stopped to restore his magic power before and after the starlight infused his body every three days.
It takes three days to refine a furnace of Soul Gathering Pills. After refining thirty-five furnaces of pills, plus the time it takes to restore magic power by infusing the body with starlight, a total of nearly five months has passed.
At the beginning, Chen Yuan’s pill success rate was only 20%.
When refining the tenth batch of pills, the success rate increased to 30%.
When refining the 24th batch of pills, the success rate increased to 40%.
In the end, Chen Yuan obtained a total of sixty-five Spirit Gathering Pills.
According to the price of two spirit stones for one Spirit Gathering Pill, that would be one hundred and thirty spirit stones.
Chen Yuan invested a total of 250 spirit stones and mastered the art of alchemy, and also recovered half of the cost. This deal was extremely cost-effective.
During this period, Cao You visited Chen Yuan several times to discuss going into the mountains to hunt monsters, but was politely declined by Chen Yuan.
After mastering the art of alchemy, he no longer concealed it and told it directly.
He still remembers Cao You's shocked expression.
The next day, he, Fan Yigang and Ren Man came to visit Chen Yuan together, and his attitude was obviously more respectful than before.
Although Chen Yuan’s cultivation level was similar to theirs, the status of an alchemist was extremely honorable, especially among independent cultivators whose inheritance was incomplete.
If you make friends with an alchemist, your cultivation level will be guaranteed to improve.
If Chen Yuan agreed to help them refine the pills, it would be much cheaper than buying the pills directly from the market.
However, Chen Yuan can only refine the Spirit Gathering Pill at present, so Cao You and the other two's idea of asking him to refine the pill has come to nothing.
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After refining thirty-five furnaces of pills, the boring and repetitive life of refining pills can finally come to an end.
Chen Yuan took all the Soul Gathering Pills and came to the market, where he set up a stall on the street to sell the Soul Gathering Pills.
If it is sold directly to those stores, the price will definitely be lower than selling it directly.
Chen Yuan’s stall was very simple, with a piece of grey cloth with a jade bottle on it and the three words “Julingdan” written on a wooden board.
But after a while, a cultivator in the early stage of Qi Refining came to ask the price.
In the Huanyue Market, medicinal pills have always been in short supply.
Chen Yuan directly offered a reserve price of twenty spirit stones and refused to bargain.
Perhaps because he was young and looked new, several monks who came to ask about the price took a look at the pills and then left.
Chen Yuan was not in a hurry. These cultivators were generally young and had little experience. They could not tell the quality of the pills and believed more in the reputation of those pill shops.
Those more experienced independent cultivators didn't care whether Chen Yuan set up a stall or not. After asking the price, they would buy a few.
Although it was Chen Yuan’s first time to make pills, the quality of the pills was not inferior to those sold in those shops.
Two days later, all 65 Spirit Gathering Pills in Chen Yuan's hand were sold, earning a total of 130 spirit stones.
He took out the twenty spirit stones in his hand, added up to one hundred and fifty, bought thirty furnaces of spirit herbs, returned to the cave, and continued to refine the elixir.
(End of this chapter)