"Damn it! Damn it!"

Accompanied by the extremely violent roar, in the northwest of Mingzhou, a cave of the Master Jiedan in the Burning World Shadow Sect.

A young man with a greasy and powdery face and a big red auspicious suit was strangled by an old woman with a crane hair and a chicken skin and a head full of white silver hair, strangled to death with one hand. After the magic flames urged him, the young man's entire body was burned into charcoal.

All the waiters and disciples around the cave were silent because the master in front of him had just been scolded by the ancestor's law edict. Because Xiao Hongyu, the seed of the sect she was raising, was defeated by Zhang Lie, the true disciple of Qianzhushan Sect during the blood refining of Wuyou Valley.

Not only did it fail to regain the sect's spiritual treasure, the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror, but it also caused the sect to suffer heavy losses in this blood refining, greatly weakening its momentum. Because for thousands of years, the owner of the top spiritual weapon, the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror, has always been the first cultivator in the Foundation Building Realm of Mingzhou, so the symbolic significance is great. Although it is just a spiritual weapon, even the Fentian Demon Ancestor of the Burning World Shadow Cult clearly knows it, because this Wuyou Valley Blood Refining Burning World Shadow Cult sent many elites. Xiao Ying took on this mission on behalf of his granddaughter Xiao Hongyu. If he wins, he will naturally be rewarded, and if he fails, he will naturally be punished.

This time, the Demon Ancestor issued a decree, ordering the witch Xiao Ying to stay in seclusion for twenty years. At the same time, the sect stopped offering Xiao Ying to worship for twenty years.

It would be fine if we stopped offering sect offerings. Most of the Grandmasters of Jiedan did not point to the sect offerings to live. However, what really made Xiao Ying unacceptable was the loneliness and suffering of the next twenty years and the face that had lost it.

As for the legitimate granddaughter Xiao Hongyu... the demon cultivator has unique advantages in this regard. When Xiao Hongyu was still alive, she could certainly be favored by all kinds of people. However, she was defeated and died. Xiao Ying turned around and asked her disciples to take action and slaughtered Xiao Hongyu's parents and family, even if that was actually her blood relative.

The witch Xiao Ying has to get married every three or five years, marrying a monk with good spiritual roots and qualifications. However, in most cases, these monks cannot leave Xiao Ying's cave alive. As a master of elixir, Xiao Ying obviously only needs to consume a small amount of energy to maintain her youthful beauty, but she just doesn't. She let herself grow old into an old woman, and then force her to marry those young handsome young men, absorb the other party's life energy to restore her own youth and even increase her magic power. Except for those extremely lucky and extremely pleasing young men, who can finally get a small fortune and leave alive and seriously injured, most of Xiao Ying's husbands will die.

The one she married this year was particularly miserable. She couldn't wait for the step in the bridal chamber, and was killed by the witch in anger.

"Master, calm down. Although the Demon Ancestor prohibits you from leaving the bone refining cave within these twenty years, he does not prohibit us from leaving. If we have our brothers searching for the groom for you, these twenty years will not make you lonely. If you endure it, you will pass."

"Yes, Master, I have investigated the monk of Qianzhushan Sect who killed the junior sister and took away the Liuyang Divine Fire Mirror. He was born in a small family in the three southeastern counties and dared to offend Master so much. We will not kill him for now, let him watch his relatives die in front of you. Twenty years later, we will capture him in front of you, so that Master, you will torture him to death to relieve his hatred in your heart."

Zhang Lie knew this truth in his heart, so the more he reached a critical moment, the more he was energetic he was. He suddenly made a spell and opened the top cover of the alchemy furnace. A rich smoke dragon energy column rushed out of the alchemy furnace. When he smelled this alchemy energy, Zhang Lie, who was in the alchemy room, suddenly felt refreshed and full of energy.

He did not dare to delay, so he took out a jade bottle containing the spiritual pills, immediately made a magic trick to collect the alchemy, and took in nearly a hundred shaped spiritual pills in the alchemy furnace.

After doing his own logistics reserves, Zhang Lie began to refine spiritual pills for the entire family. This time, the resources brought by Zhang Lie from the Qianzhushan Sect and the 100% income of the forty-four storage Qiankun bags were nearly 200,000 spirit stones.

Zhang Lie can divide 60% of them, and many spiritual medicines in the forbidden area are monopolized by the sects. In other words, even if there are spiritual stones, they cannot be purchased. The more representative of them is the main medicine for refining the foundation-building pill: Qianye Danshen.

Other medicinal materials for refining foundation-building pills can be replaced or are more common, but Qianye Salvia miltiorrhiza. Although it is also common, this ancient ginseng grows one leaf a year. It takes a thousand years to wait for the medicine to refining foundation-building pills.

Although there are replacements, with the current achievements of alchemy, there are only two replacement solutions developed: the inner elixir of the great demon in the Golden Elixir stage or the brain marrow of the ancient demon in the Golden Elixir stage.

In other words, if you want to refine the foundation-building pill, you need these third-level spiritual objects. Whether it is a great demon in the Golden Elixir stage or an ancient demon in the Golden Elixir stage, it is difficult to provoke, so it is relatively easier to obtain Qianye Dan Miltiorrhizae.

The medicine gardens of various powerful sects are planted with Thousand-leaf Salvia miltiorrhiza, which is a veritable sect heritage. In fact, there are often planted in the medicine gardens of major immortal cultivation families, but most immortal cultivation families are difficult to inherit for more than a thousand years and are not weak at all. Therefore, most immortal cultivation families can only use the powerful immortal cultivation sects in their local area to obtain the foundation-building pill.

Becoming a vassal and sending elite tribes into the sect, even if it will cost a considerable price and bring various disadvantages.

In addition to the medicine gardens in the strong sect, Qianye Salvia, a common spiritual medicine that is actually very strong in life, can also be found in medicine gardens that are rarely visited or have been blocked for a long time. This time, Wuyou Valley Blood Refining, some monks found the mature Qianye Salvia miltiorrhiza. Then they were killed by Zhang Lie, and the storage bag of Qiankun fell into Zhang Lie's hands.

This time, Zhang Lie exchanged all the two thousand-leaf Salvia miltiorrhizae and prepared to start refining the foundation-building pill himself and push all the elders in the family to the foundation-building realm. In this way, it is worth the family's investment in training himself for so many years.

In the next two years, Zhang Lie almost lived in the Earth Fire Pill room.

The foundation-building pill, the things that most monks have dreamed of but cannot get, are probably the blood and tears stories that happen around it, even if they call ten storytellers, they can’t finish talking about it for hundreds or thousands of years.

Some immortal cultivation families were destroyed for a foundation-building pill.

Sometimes, for a foundation-building pill, father and son become enemies and husband and wife turn against each other. There are countless such things.

But to put it bluntly, it is just a second-level pill after all.

Although it is very difficult to refine the second-level elixir, theoretically, a master of Qi Refining Realm can be refined, because Qi Refining Realm can cultivate the second-level elixir.

The reason why the foundation-building pill is so valuable is not only because of the monopoly of the sects, but more because of the completely disproportionate supply and demand gap. More than 80% of cultivators need foundation-building pills. How many thousand-leaf sanitary miltiorrhiza are mature every year and can be used in time? Even if it is the inner elixir of the great demon of the Golden Pill Realm, how much brain marrow can the ancient demon of the Golden Pill Realm?

In the entire world of immortal cultivation, the number of foundation-building pills produced each year is not rare, but it is not proportional to the number of cultivators at the ninth level of Qi refining. This leads to the extremely high value of foundation-building pills. Ten thousand low-grade spirit stones/one thousand medium-grade spirit stones, and most third-level elixirs do not have this price.

Therefore, after learning that the seventh elder Zhang Yuanlie had collected enough materials and wanted to refine the foundation-building pill himself, the entire Zhang family in Qinglu Mountain was on guard. Zhang Tianzhi even wrote a letter himself, inviting the powerful immortal cultivation family in the three southeastern counties: monks from the Wu, Wang, Sun, and Liu families.

Because the Zhang family wants to completely digest the batch of resources Zhang Lie brought back from the sect, it cannot be digested by the Zhang family. If this resource is used well, it can be effective twice as much. However, if it is not used well, it is meaningless to put it in your hands and may even cause disasters.

It would be fine if other medicinal materials were nothing more than losing some spiritual stones. However, looking at the two Thousand-Leaf Salvia miltiorrhiza in her hand, Zhang Lie also knew that if these two main medicines were broken, they would not only lose the spirit stones, but also lose the strategic opportunity to rapidly develop the entire family. If it weren't for the law and tacit approval of the Ancestor Jile, even if he made great contributions, the Deacon Palace would not allow him to take strategic resources such as Thousand-Leaf Salvia miltiorrhiza from the sect.

The Zhang family is difficult to absorb all the nutrients from these resources, but Qianzhushan Sect has no problem at all.

Qinglu Mountain, Zhang Family Ancestral Hall.

"Brother Tianzhi, isn't it too rash to let Yuan Lie take action to host such an important alchemy? I know one or two third-level alchemists. Let's spend some big money to invite others. This Thousand-Leaf Salvia miltiorrhiza is hard to come by!"

Wang Lianzai, the patriarch of the Wang family of the three counties in the southeast, has always had quiet skills. However, the anxiety during this period made him lose his skills. Some time ago, a monk who was good at alchemy was wandering outside the Zhang family's earth fire alchemy room and smelled some elixir smell. When he came back, he was worried and said that Zhang Yuanlie might have broken a foundation-building pill.

A thousand-leaf Salvia miltiorrhiza/Great Demon Inner Alchemy/Ancient Demon Brain Bone can refine ten foundation-building pills at the limit. However, this is the personal action of the old monster in the Nascent Soul. Under normal circumstances, the alchemists in the sect do not have such a way. Being able to refine more than five is already a masterpiece.

All the medicinal materials for refining the foundation-building pill plus the Thousand-Leaf Salvia miltiorrhizae are costing about 30,000 lower-grade spirit stones. In other words, one furnace of alchemy must be refined at least three to be considered as not making or losing. The direct alchemist of the sect can be refined about five, which basically ensures that every time you open the furnace, you will be able to make a profit. If the Wang family's alchemist does not make a mistake, Zhang Lie has already broken one furnace and paid 30,000 spirit stones. In other words, his second furnace must be refined six foundation-building pills in one breath. This time, the furnace will be opened and refined alchemist will not be considered as losing.

"Brother Lian Zai, I believe in my family's methods. Don't say that the alchemist in your family is only a second-level. Even if he is a third-level, I will let Yuan Lie refine this foundation-building pill and hire outsiders to refine the pill. No matter what, it is, it will not be as good as Yuan Lie's promotion to the third-level alchemist himself. So don't continue to say the rest, and I will not agree if I say it." The patriarch Zhang Tianzhi thought about not only the family's benefits at this moment, but what he thought more was the various impacts brought by Zhang Lie after he was promoted to the third-level alchemist.

Although Xiao Ying, the witch of the Burning World Shadow Sect, and Nangong and his wife from the Danyuan Sword Spirit Palace, were temporarily suppressed, they were always sharp swords hanging around the neck of the Zhang family. It is not really reassuring to temporarily suppress them. And if the seventh elder Zhang Yuanlie successfully promoted to the third-level alchemist, his value and status could be comparable to the master of alchemy. If his age and prospects were added, such a person and such inheritance seeds would be killed by cultivators from other sects, the Qianzhushan Sect would no longer have to gain a foothold in Mingzhou.

For this reason, Zhang Tianzhi rejected all "reasonable suggestions" to hire third-level alchemists. He had diversified investment for so many years before, for the sake of family self-protection. Now that Zhang Yuanlie has risen, the family's main tendency to be the Qianzhushan Sect in the future is the Qianzhushan Sect. Originally, the Danyuan Sword Spirit Palace was located in the center of the Mingzhou area, the Xuanmo Sect is in the north, the Fenshi Shadow Sect is in the northwest, the Yueling Gate is in the south, the Fantasy Heart Sect is in the west, the Qianzhushan Sect is in the east, and the Chongxuan Pavilion is in the south. The Xuanmo Sect is closest to the Zhang family in Qinglu Mountain. Zhang Tianzhi was also quite inclined to the increasingly powerful Xuanmo Sect at that time, so he sent Zhang Xinyuan, a member of the two-spirit root tribe who was rare in the family.

However, after slowly learning what Zhang Xinyuan did, all the voices in the family who originally tended toward the Xuanmo Sect shut up.

Zhang Lie took Zhang Xinyuan's lifelong wealth, so although he reported this to the master after the blood refining, he deliberately avoided Zhang Xinyuan and said nothing in the family. However, the Zhang family also had some purpose in the Xuanmo Sect. As time went by, with Zhang Xinyuan's death, everything gradually became exposed. Although they could not find out what magic skills Zhang Xinyuan practiced, they still knew the general process. At this point, the entire Zhang family began to tend to be vassals to be relatively far away and weak, but they also acted in the moderate and peaceful Qianzhushan Sect.

In the Qinglu Mountain Earth Fire Alchemy Room, Zhang Lie looked at the furnace of waste pills in front of him, gasped deeply, barely calmed down his emotions, and then took out the six waste foundation-building pills from the furnace.

(The recipe for Foundation Building Pills is complicated, and I am under a lot of psychological pressure, which led to the failure of this alchemy refining. Fortunately, there is still a way to remedy it.) Thinking about this, Zhang Lie held the six waste pills and sat cross-legged, and burst into purple fire flames in his palms, constantly melting and removing the impurities in the six foundation building pills.

Of course, it is impossible to directly turn the waste pill into a good pill, but it can extract the required ingredients and refine them again to greatly reduce the loss. This life fire superpower, similar to "repeated deletion of files and repeated", is also the most important reason why your alchemy can improve to this level in just over a decade.
Chapter completed!