Chapter 97 Calculation
Chapter 97 Calculation
"Is Fellow Daoist Tiezhen a third-level alchemist?" Yu Xianglan asked in surprise.
Wei Zhong nodded: "I am a humble alchemist. The elixir in your hand was also made by me personally."
"I wonder how many middle-grade Haoyuan Pills you have left?"
Wei Zhong smiled and said, "That depends on how many spiritual medicines your clan has."
"This matter is of great importance. I would like to ask Daoist Tiezhen to give Qingmu Sect some time so that we can discuss this matter."
"Of course, Palace Master Yu, you can take this bottle of elixir to your sect's alchemist to have a look at it and see if what I said is true."
Yu Xianglan took her leave respectfully.
Wei Zhong watched the other party leave with his bottle of mid-grade Haoyuan Dan without any worry.
Now that Tan Tai Lin is still here, the other party would only dare to take the elixir for himself if he really wants to die.
Moreover, even if there was no intimidation from Tan Tai Lin, the other party would not do such an unwise thing just based on his identity as a third-rank alchemist.
Between the long-term future and a bottle of elixir, Wei Zhong believed that Qingmu Zong could still distinguish the priorities.
Outside, Zhao Bai and Yao Zhengsheng were staying in a secret room, facing an ancient bronze mirror.
"understood!"
"Serve me well..."
"But······"
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The mirror went dark for a moment, and the picture disappeared instantly.
Yao Zhengsheng looked at the ancient mirror, his face so gloomy that it seemed as if water was about to drip from it.
The two of them left the secret room in silence and came to the outside world, where they finally burst into anger.
"The Shadow Moon Sect received so much tribute from my Qingmu Sect, but they just abandoned us when the critical moment came. This strange Yuanying is bullying my sect, but they were reluctant to send a Yuanying to take a look."
Zhao Bai looked at the hysterical Yao Zhengsheng and sighed.
As the "little brother" of the Shadow Moon Sect, the Qingmu Sect would offer a batch of spiritual stones and spiritual objects to it every few years in order to seek the other party's help at critical moments.
For example, the last time the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range was developed, it attracted the intervention of Taoist Ruowu, which successfully enabled the Qingmu Sect to gain a foothold in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.
However, for some reason, the Shadow Moon Sect had no intention of taking action this time.
The other party said that this Yuanying had no intention of killing, but only entrusted Qingmu Sect to do something, so there was no need for the sect's Yuanying to take action. Just let Qingmu Sect serve him well.
"Will you serve me well?"
Yao Zhengsheng only felt a burning pain on his left cheek. The memory of those two slaps was still fresh in his mind.
As a favored child of heaven trained by the sect, Yao Zhengsheng had never suffered such injustice before. He wished he could cut the man who humiliated him into pieces, but he was intimidated by the man's Nascent Soul stage and could only swallow his anger.
Zhao Bai also understood the other party's predicament and said:
"Zhengsheng, don't be impulsive."
Yao Zhengsheng took a deep breath:
"Uncle Zhao, I understand.
Now we can only wait for Master to come back before making a decision. We can no longer rely on the Shadow Moon Sect, so we have to rely on ourselves to resolve this difficulty."
Seeing that Yao Zhengsheng had calmed down, Zhao Bai also breathed a sigh of relief.
While the two were talking, Yu Xianglan happened to come back.
"Uncle Yu, did that person accept the gift we gave him?"
Yu Xianglan shook her head.
"Could it be that the other party thinks that our gifts are too shabby? That's right, it's normal for them to look down on the various spiritual materials recorded in the files..."
"No, you two might as well take a look at this elixir before you talk."
After saying this, Yu Xianglan handed over the pill bottle. The two of them opened the stopper and immediately saw ten golden Haoyuan Pills inside.
"Middle-grade Haoyuan Pill?"
Yao Zhengsheng was the most excited. He had now entered the middle stage of Jindan cultivation, but he was troubled by the lack of enough matching elixirs for cultivation. He could only use the inferior Haoyuan Pill to slowly advance his cultivation.
If I continue to practice like this, I don’t know when I can advance to the late stage of Jindan.
"Junior Sister Yu, where did this elixir come from?" Zhao Bai asked the key question in one sentence.
Yu Xianglan replied: "This pill was made by fellow Daoist Tie Zhen, who is a third-rank alchemist, and his level is extremely high, much higher than Qi Yun.
Even when Senior Brother Duan was alive, he would probably be on par with him."
"I didn't expect that this person is actually an alchemist. It's really a bit difficult for us to bribe him with this kind of elixir..." Zhao Bai showed an inexplicably depressed expression on his face.
"What is Tiezhen's intention in taking out the elixir?" Yao Zhengsheng asked.
Yu Xianglan straightened her expression and said, "The other party wants to use the elixir to complete a deal with my Qingmu Sect, exchanging the elixir for spiritual medicine."
"I knew it," Zhao Bai clenched his right fist and punched his left palm, "Once the other party sees the files, they will definitely not give up these spiritual medicines easily.
But I didn’t expect that the other party didn’t rob me openly, but chose to use the magic pill to exchange for it.”
Just as everyone was sighing, Yi Liu walked over.
Yao Zhengsheng took out a medium-grade Haoyuan Pill and handed it to the other party:
"Junior brother, let Master Qiyun take a look and see if there is anything fishy about this pill?"
Although Yi Liu was a little confused, he still reached out to take it, and then rushed towards the Dan Palace.
Yao Zhengsheng looked at the other person's departing back, with a hint of gloom in his eyes.
"Zhengsheng, what are you going to do?" Yu Xianglan asked.
Yao Zhengsheng put his hands behind his back:
"Let Master Qi check it first. If there is no problem with the pill, I will go and try to see if I can entrust him to help my Qingmu Sect refine the pill.
Compared to directly exchanging spiritual medicine for spiritual pills, this will save our sect a little more loss."
"I'm afraid it's difficult. Since the other party has proposed a transaction, he is definitely not targeting ordinary spiritual herbs. Maybe his goal is those thousand-year-old spiritual herbs."
After these words were spoken, the three of them fell silent.
Yao Zhengsheng regretted even more that he had handed the complete file to the other party. Now he was really inviting a wolf into the house.
When Yi Liu was on his way to the Dan Palace, he met his former junior fellow apprentice, the seventh true disciple Shen Yuqi.
"Uncle Master Yi, what business do you have in the Dan Palace?"
Yi Liu fell from the air: "Master Brother asked me to ask Alchemist Qi Yun to identify a pill."
"Qi Yun, looking for Qi Yun again."
Shen Yuqi's face became a little gloomy. In the dark night, Yi Liu did not notice the other party's mood changes.
Ever since Duan Delong passed away, the Dan Palace has fallen into a state of disarray.
Without a third-level alchemist, Qingmu Sect was suddenly in short supply of high-level cultivation elixirs, and they could only use up the sect’s inventory while purchasing from the Yunji Chamber of Commerce.
At that time, Duan Delong's disciple Shen Yuqi was just an ordinary second-level alchemist and could not support the big sign of the Alchemy Palace.
But a few years later, Qi Yun emerged as a dark horse and successfully refined a third-grade inferior Haoyuan Pill, becoming the new third-grade alchemist of Qingmu Sect, and also the only third-grade alchemist of Qingmu Sect.
For a time, he attracted a large number of alchemists in the Alchemy Palace to join him, all hoping to gain experience from him to break through to the third-level alchemist.
Some people even recommended the other party to become the master of the Dan Palace.
Shen Yuqi was worried that his master's foundation would be taken away by the other party, so he asked the head brother for help.
In the end, Qi Yun’s foundation-building cultivation was not enough to form a golden elixir, so he rejected the other party’s proposal to become the hall master.
Because of this, the position of the head of the Qingmu Sect's Dan Palace remained vacant for a full ten years. Shen Yuqi's idea was that with Qi Yun's qualifications, it would be very difficult to advance to the foundation-building stage, and he might never reach the threshold of Dan formation in his lifetime.
"And in the Alchemy Palace, I am the only one who has the hope of forming a Dan. When I advance to the level of a Dan and become a third-level Alchemist, the position of the Palace Master of the Alchemy Palace will be mine sooner or later."
"Master Qi Yun is refining a furnace of pills in the alchemy room, Uncle Yi, please follow me," Shen Yuqi said and led the way.
The two came to an underground passage and met Qi Yun himself.
The other party was still the same young man that Wei Zhong had seen at the beginning. When he saw Yi Liu and Shen Yuqi coming together, he showed some doubts:
"I wonder what Elder Yi is here for?"
After Yi Liu was promoted to the Jindan stage, since there was no suitable hall master position vacant in the sect, he was given the position of elder.
"Here is a pill. I hope Master Qi can help me take a look."
Yi Liu took out the elixir he got from Yao Zhengsheng.
Qi Yun reached out to take it, gently scraped off some powder on the pill with his fingernails, and sniffed it at the tip of his nose.
He said: "Haoyuan Pill is still of medium quality."
Qi Yun carefully examined the elixir in his hand, his eyes becoming brighter and brighter:
"I wonder where Elder Yi got this elixir?"
Yi Liu replied: "Master Qi, please don't worry about this. Even I don't know the origin of this elixir. Master, just give your evaluation of the elixir so that I can report back."
Qi Yun did not ask further questions but said:
"This pill is round and shiny, and has a strong fragrance. It is undoubtedly a top-quality mid-grade Haoyuan Pill."
At this point, Qi Yun swallowed the scraped powder and closed his eyes to savor it.
"The quality of this pill is far beyond my level. Perhaps only Master Duan can compare with it."
"In that case, I will report back."
Yi Liu took the pill, bowed and left.
When Shen Yuqi saw the other party leaving, his eyes flickered.
The sect had just encountered a disaster during the day, and now the head senior brother asked Qi Yun to appraise the Hao Lingdan. Shen Yuqi didn't believe that there was no connection between the two.
"Fellow Daoist Shen, do you have anything else to say?" Qi Yun asked when he saw him standing there in a daze without leaving.
Shen Yuqi turned his head to look at the other party, and gradually an idea came into his mind.
"Master Qi, do you know that a third-level alchemist has come to our sect today?"
"A third-level alchemist actually has such a thing. Could it be that this elixir was made by that master?"
The flames in the furnace were reflected in Qi Yun's eyes.
Shen Yuqi knew that the other party was obsessed with alchemy and was unaware of the unusual events in the sect, so he must have been unaware of the disaster that happened during the day.
The third-level alchemist's words were just Shen Yuqi's own speculation, and he did not know the details.
"That's right, otherwise Elder Yi wouldn't have asked you to check the pills."
Upon hearing that a third-level alchemist had arrived in the sect, Qi Yun immediately wanted to discuss the Dao with him.
"Fellow Daoist Shen, do you know where the alchemist lives now?"
Shen Yuqi shook his head: "How could I possibly know this kind of information? You might as well ask the head brother."
After leaving these words, Shen Yuqi turned and left.
'The two people who brought disaster to the Qingmu Sect must be people that no one in the Qingmu Sect can afford to offend.
As long as Qi Yun is informed of the matter of the third-level alchemist, no matter what action the other party takes, it will make the head brother unhappy.
What's more, the head brother lost face at the hands of the other party.'
As for whether he would be implicated in this matter, Shen Yuqi had no concerns at all.
This was the elixir that Yi Liu asked Qi Yun to identify. It was normal for him to make this association, and his role was just to provide some guidance.
As expected, after learning about the third-level alchemist, Qi Yun put aside the alchemy work in his hands and went directly to the main peak to find the headmaster Yao Zhengsheng.
At this moment, Yao Zhengsheng was discussing with three people how to deal with the elixir transaction.
"Since there is no problem with the elixir, let's talk to fellow Daoist Tie Zhen."
Several people immediately rushed to the flower garden.
After a while, the five of them sat at the same table.
"My fellow members of the Qingmu Sect, what do you think of my proposal?"
Yao Zhengsheng raised the teacup in his hand:
"I wonder if Fellow Daoist Tiezhen would accept the commission to make an elixir?"
Wei Zhong chuckled and said, "I will be leaving your sect soon. How many pills can I refine in such a short time? You should just give up the idea.
Or do you have the guts to let me take the elixir and leave a promise to return it later?"
Several people looked at each other, knowing that this approach would not work.
Wei Zhong asked: "Since you are here, you must know the quality of the elixir I refine."
Then he took out a bottle of elixir.
"This is a top-grade Hao Yuan Dan. I hope you can taste it."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. They opened the pill bottle and found that it was the top-grade Haoyuan Pill, and it seemed to be of quite good quality.
Several people were breathing rapidly.
The top-grade Haoyuan Pill corresponds to the late stage of the Jindan. There are two people in the late stage of the Jindan in the Qingmu Sect.
They are the former sect leader Nie Yuansen and the supreme elder Lian Chengjue.
Because of the lack of elixirs for cultivation, the progress of these two people is very slow. If they can obtain a large amount of high-quality Haoyuan Pills from this person.
Then these two pillars of the sect have the hope of reaching the peak of the Jindan stage before the end of their lives, and have a chance to impact the Yuanying stage.
This is a rare opportunity for a Jindan sect like Qingmu Sect to make a leap forward that only comes once in a thousand years.
Several people looked at the pill bottle containing the top-grade Haoyuan Pill, and for a moment they could not take their eyes off it.
Yao Zhengsheng even had the urge to kill someone and steal the treasure, but reason soon brought him back to his senses.
This alchemist must not be offended. Not only must he not be offended, he must also be treated well.
If they can maintain the relationship with them, Qingmu Sect will not have to worry about high-level elixirs for a long time in the future.
"Fellow Daoist, why don't you just tell me directly? How many spiritual medicines do you need from Qingmu Sect?"
Wei Zhong straightened his sitting body slightly: "I don't want much, just a few ten thousand year old spiritual herbs and thousand year old spiritual herbs."
'Sure enough, it's here! '
Yao Zhengsheng didn't show any surprise on his face. Instead, Yi Liu said, "Impossible. How can a mere third-level Haoyuan Pill be exchanged for the ten-thousand-year-old elixir in my sect?"
Yao Zhengsheng looked angry: "Junior Brother Yi?"
Yi Liu caught a glimpse of his angry face and fell silent immediately.
Yao Zhengsheng cupped his hands and said, "The matter of the ten thousand year old spiritual object is of great importance. I still need to discuss it with the elders of the sect. I'd like to trouble Daoist Tiezhen to wait for a day."
Wei Zhong nodded, and the others said goodbye and left.
Putting away the two bottles of pills on the table, Wei Zhong knew in his heart that the matter was at least half done.
Mu Zong could not refuse the top-grade Haoyuan Danqing. The only problem was how many good things he could get from it.
(End of this chapter)