Devour

The scenery of Mount Qi to the north is charming, with clear mountains and clear water. From a distance, you can see painted bridges covered with willows and green curtains. From a close distance, you can see pines that look like dragons and rocks that look like tigers and leopards. It is like walking into a beautiful scenery in a painting.

The luxurious silver mine produced in Mount Qi is of excellent quality and is as famous as the Cold Wind Valley in the mainland.

Luxury silver is also known as rich iron. It has a treasure hardness of 3, rich luster, preciousness and rarity. It is much stronger than steel but light and flexible. It is a good material for refining weapons or armor.

Most of the ores are hidden between the cliffs and sandwiched between the rock layers. The veins are streamlined and reveal a graceful color. It is difficult for ordinary people to mine. In addition, there are rampant monsters nearby, so few people visit.

Cheng Bai used the dragon-finding and vein-finding techniques he learned from Qi Zong to find a rich mining site. Fortunately, the surrounding multi-eared macaques disliked the noise caused by moving mountains, so they hid on the other side of Qi Mountain, allowing him to mine without much interference.

The luxury silver ore is much harder than the diamond ore and more difficult to mine, so the three-piece suit of miners made of black iron is severely worn.

Cheng Bai relied on his profound skills to condense the knife energy to cut the ore, which consumed a lot of true energy. Otherwise, he would not be able to mine much even after working for several days.

After working hard for half a day, they collected more than 5,000 kilograms of luxurious silver ore, which was just enough. The miner's three-piece suit was also deformed and could no longer be used.

When he stopped, he noticed a large group of multi-eared macaques approaching.

It turned out that the clanging sound of mining had lasted for too long, and finally the monkeys could no longer bear it. They picked up rocks from a distance and threw them at the monkeys, making it sound like a rain of stones falling from the sky.

Cheng Bai left in a hurry, but he was unwilling to suffer any loss before leaving, so he caught a few pieces and found that they were also luxury silver ore. He put them into his treasure bag and teleported away with Xiaobai.

If you go east for another 500 miles, you will reach Tianshu City.

When the huge and majestic city wall came into view vaguely, it was already dark. Dark clouds were rolling in the sky and heavy rain was pouring down from the sky, crackling on the vast earth and then blown into smoke and fog by the wind.

Cheng Bai's power was as he wished, and he repelled the raindrops six feet away from his body, without getting a drop of water. He changed his mind and asked Xiao Bai to stop. Instead of entering the city, he teleported to the Faceless Great Rift Valley to collect enough earth spirit water for refining the Blood Ginseng Pill, and found a dry and refreshing place in the valley to camp and rest, avoiding the annoying heavy rain.

Two figures stood on the misty Tianshu city wall.

One is Guan Wanlan, the master of Tianshu Palace holding the Wind-Chasing Spear, and the other is the master of the Huangyu Flag waving the Ghost King Fan.

The two men had profound skills, and the rain was repelled three feet away from their bodies. They stared into each other's eyes.

The leader of the Huangyu Banner suddenly asked, "Do you still remember the blood debt of Lujia Village fifteen years ago?"

Guan Wanlan's expression slightly changed: "The world doesn't know who the master of the Yellow Jade Banner is, but he is so amazing. It turns out that he is Lu Duanyi who has been missing for many years. He has seized the opportunity to be reborn and robbed the body of the Saint of Medicine Sect."

"Thanks to you, I am where I am today." The leader of the Huangyu Banner had a grim smile on his face.

Guan Wanlan mocked, "You will suffer the consequences if you do evil. You have ruined Lujia Village by yourself. You have taken away other people's talents and luck, and you have caused great trouble to the world. How can you not attract masters from all walks of life to come to you?"

The leader of the Yellow Jade Banner said angrily: "I still remember clearly that it was you who brought them here, and Gai Xun's hypocritical face."

Guan Wanlan shook his head and said, "Lujia Village is only a hundred miles away from here and is under the jurisdiction of Tianshu City. How can I ignore it? Besides, I saved your youngest granddaughter and the inheritance of Taizu Lihua Spear. If others died because of protecting you, who can I blame?"

"You are shameless and invincible." The leader of the Yellow Jade Banner roared, opening and closing the Ghost King Fan in his hand, feeling sad and angry. "My Lu family's secret martial arts have become the private collection of the academy, and you are so generous. Over the years, I have been thinking all the time about how to grind you to ashes. The Sword Sect has been destroyed, and it will be your turn next."

Guan Wanlan shouted: "Those who have evil intentions will only suffer the consequences themselves."

Dark clouds rolled in the sky, and a huge black dragon emerged from the clouds, looking down at the hustle and bustle, staring at the two people and urging them, "Why don't you act quickly?"

Guan Wanlan's eyelids twitched wildly, and he said in a deep voice: "The Disaster Legion and the Demon Clan Sage have joined forces?"

The leader of the Yellow Jade Flag did not answer. He gently waved the Ghost King Fan, and the entire city wall twisted and turned into a huge mud giant. The giant mud and stone hand attacked Guan Wanlan fiercely, but was grabbed by a giant flaming claw halfway.

A strange three-legged firebird rose behind Guan Wanlan, with a huge ring of fire, burning everything around it. The rain approached, making a "hissing" sound, continuously, and raising a large amount of water vapor.

"Do you know why I asked the black dragon to bring rain? Because your scorching sun combat body is incompatible with water and fire, and your strength will be reduced in the rain."

The master of the topaz flag urged the mud giant, and the giant mud and stone hand stretched forward, gradually pushing the giant flaming claw back.

"So what? You are my defeated opponent."

Guan Wanlan refuted verbally, but he knew something was wrong. He did not dare to slow down at all. His Wind Chasing Spear streaked across the sky like a comet. The storm made it even more powerful. It emitted brilliant light and caused the city walls to collapse. His first move was to dominate the world.

A hint of ruthlessness flashed in the eyes of the Yellow Jade Banner Master: "I learned the secret of dominating the world from Shen Ya, knowing myself and the enemy, but you have never seen the short-lived effect of my fifteen years of retraining."

The two masters fought a decisive battle on the city wall, causing the mountains to collapse and the earth to crack.

The city was in chaos. The Thirty-Six Riders of Tianshu led the Tianshu Temple Legion to engage in a fierce battle with the Disaster Legion that had infiltrated the city. People ran, jumped, and fought in the dim night. The noisy footsteps, the terrified shouts, the clash of swords, and the splash of blood were all drowned in the heavy rain.

There is a small hill in the city, which is only a hundred meters high and less than a thousand meters in circumference. The buildings on the top of the hill are scattered in an orderly manner. There is a wooden house at the highest point, and the courtyard is quiet and elegant.

The rain curtain was hazy. A thin old man with half black and half white hair stood in front of the house. He let the rain wet his whole body without noticing it, and looked into the distance at the place where the fire was lit on the city wall.

The sound of rain could not cover up the loud noise of the city wall collapsing, and the shocking gap could be seen from as far as the top of the mountain.

"Guan Wanlan used Hero Domination so quickly, which shows that he is eager to win. The opponent's threat is beyond our expectations, and the Rain and Sun Battle Body is unable to fully exert its strength and is at a disadvantage."

The old man made a thorough analysis, shook his head and sighed: "What is coming will eventually come, and there is no point in hiding."

A figure landed in the darkness and slowly approached, revealing a dark yet handsome face.

"I hope you won't interfere, Sect Master Yang."

Yang Kaiping turned his head and saw that the black louse did not use his power to force away the rain, but the rain did not touch his body. This was one of the manifestations of the fusion and harmony between the heavenly realm and all things in nature.

“The biggest difference between humans and other things is that they have diverse thinking and abilities, and often make different choices for the same purpose.”

Yang Kaiping seemed to be talking about something completely unrelated. The rain that had just fallen on him, which was no different from the rain that fell on ordinary people, suddenly changed.

The raindrops that fell and touched his body seemed to be hit violently, breaking into more small drops, which then fell and broke into even smaller drops on his body surface, and then broke into even smaller water mist when they broke again.

Soon Yang Kaiping was shrouded in mist, and his figure was blurry and unclear.

Hei Long nodded in praise, "Your Multi-leaf Divine Art has finally been perfected. It is said that it can easily lead to infatuation. It is the most difficult and repetitive internal art in the continent."

Yang Kaiping said calmly with his hands behind his back: "The most difficult thing to practice is the Six Paths of Supreme Skill. The reason why the Multi-Leaf Divine Skill is repeated is because we need to experience different paths with highs and lows, so that we can smooth out the edges and corners and achieve perfect integration."

He said with regret: "Although Jifen has good talent, it's a pity that he is too angular and can't enter the door of the multi-leaf way. It's difficult for him to make further progress in his realm, and he was ultimately defeated."

Hei Long narrowed his eyes and said, "You know he is dead."

“We have been master and disciple for many years. I knew it was not Ji Fen when I saw that man from afar. If he was not dead, how could his Yin Spirit Body be taken away? For the public and for my own benefit, I can only fight with all my strength.” Yang Kaiping faced it calmly.

Hei Long said disdainfully: "My trip was not in vain. You can stay in Yushan today."

There were loud thunder explosions on the top of the hill. The decisive battle between the two masters intensified the storm and the debris of the wooden house was blown down the hill like fluttering pieces of paper.

The next morning, the rain stopped and the sky cleared up with the sun shining brightly. Everything was full of vitality. It was a pleasant and nice day.

When Cheng Bai returned to Tianshu City again, the once majestic city walls were in ruins, with only broken and charred ruins left, telling of the hardships that had happened in the past.

"It was still fine yesterday evening, but after a night of rain, the wall collapsed. It's probably a shoddy construction."

Although Cheng Baihua said this, he had to admit that Tianshu City was grand and magnificent. It was known as the number one city on the continent. In terms of buildings and population alone, it ranked first among all cities.

A big reason for its prosperity is that the headquarters of the Medicine Sect is located in Yu Mountain, west of Tianshu City, and all the spiritual pharmacists in the Qiongqi Continent regard it as a holy place.

Cheng Bai excitedly ran towards the Yaozong store at the foot of Yu Mountain.

From a distance, the top of the mountain was in a mess, with trees and houses collapsed in large numbers, and the place was in a shambles. It seemed that there was a severe storm last night, which brought disaster to the sect buildings on the mountain. The nearby streets were deserted and there were few pedestrians.

Fortunately, the shops at the foot of the mountain were open as usual. Cheng Bai found that he was the only customer, which was a bit unusual. In the past, this place would have been crowded with guests.

Maybe it's too early.

Various medicinal materials are quietly placed in the store, filled with a faint medicinal fragrance. There is only an old man with half black and half white hair taking care of the counter, and it is no longer as busy as before.

Cheng Bai recognized him as the thin old man he had seen in Tianquan City before, and asked curiously, "Excuse me, senior. How are you? Why are there so few people here today?"

The old man said, "There were many casualties in the city last night. All the spiritual pharmacists who could be sent out to work have gone out, leaving only an old man like me."

"Oh... please help me to refine the medicine, old man." Cheng Bai took out the ghost ginseng and half a liter of earth spirit water, and entrusted him to refine the blood ginseng pill.

"Only refine one?"

The Blood Ginseng Pill is very valuable, and the labor cost is not cheap. The old man took the medicinal materials and actually thought it was too little.

"The elixir is precious, please help me." Cheng Bai wanted to keep the rest of the materials for his own refining.

Since there were no other customers, the old man agreed and took the deposit for the materials.

"Thank you, senior. I'll come back to get it later."

Cheng Bai gave clear instructions and walked out of the store in a pretentious manner. He turned around and followed the old man into the pharmacy behind the store invisibly. He watched him move back and forth between tools such as medicine grinders, mortars, medicine scales, and medicine furnaces. He patiently wrote down every process and technique, and compared them with the "Secret Book of Medicine Collection" until he understood it clearly.

The art of alchemy has its own mysteries and is by no means an easy task.

Refining medicinal materials is just a basic skill. If there is a slight mistake in the control of the dosage and the temperature, the efficacy will be greatly reduced at the least, or even completely destroyed, and the work will be in vain. Medicinal materials are rare and precious, and it is not easy to obtain them. Every link cannot be missed, so spiritual pharmacists are required to have superb spiritual consciousness, or be mentally focused and sensitive to be competent.

The old man seemed to be afraid of forgetting, so he whispered about the severity of the medicine and the control of the heat, which was equivalent to giving a lot of reminders.

Cheng Bai silently memorized the details and thought to himself: "Just treat refining medicine as cooking delicious food, it won't be difficult for me."

After the old man left the pharmacy with the refined Blood Ginseng Pill, Cheng Bai was overjoyed: "The Medicine Sect is almost unattended today. Isn't this a great opportunity for me?"

Obtaining the elixir is secondary; learning the art of alchemy is the goal.

He quickly reappeared, took out another batch of medicinal materials, recalled the old man's method of refining, and boldly acted according to the records in the secret book.

The alchemy furnace in the pharmacy of the Qi Sect's main altar is unique. It is a treasure tool made of Feiying Stone. It is much superior to the equipment in the branch altars. It can make alchemy twice as effective with half the effort and increase the efficiency by three times. A Blood Ginseng Pill was successfully made on the spot.

Looking at the deep red pill in his hand, Cheng Bai was very proud: "It turns out to be so simple. Refining the elixir is just like this. Apart from the formula, don't make any mistakes. The key is to have a magic furnace."

When he turned around and was about to hide and go out, he suddenly found the old man standing at the door, staring blankly at the Blood Ginseng Pill in his hand.

Cheng Bai was shocked. He was just estimating the old man's strength when he saw him striding towards him, picking up the pill in his hand, taking a look at it, and swallowing it.

The speed of the technique caught the guilty Cheng Bai off guard for a moment, and he kept muttering in his heart: "I'm just borrowing your room and alchemy furnace to make a pill, you can't be forbidden to take it away, right?"

The old man tasted the pill and nodded in praise, "It's about 70% effective. It's rare for a novice to have this level of efficacy after just one look."

Cheng Bai realized that he had been discovered when he was invisible just now, and his face immediately turned red. He asked awkwardly: "What's your name, old man?"

"This old man, Yang Kaiping."

Cheng Bai secretly called out to the master, and it turned out to be the leader of the Medicine Sect. He quickly bowed and said, "Master Yang, please forgive me for laughing. I am Cheng Bai. Can I borrow the pharmacy for a while? I will pay the rent."

Yang Kaiping was not shy and said, "Two hundred taels of gold per hour."

Cheng Bai paid the full amount in person, and simply took out all of his treasured ghost ginseng and earth spirit water, racing against time to refine the elixir.

Yang Kaiping left the store counter completely unattended and watched calmly from the side, reminding people of the details from time to time.

Cheng Bai thanked him repeatedly, and an hour passed quickly, and he made 10 Blood Ginseng Pills.

Yang Kaiping naturally picked up one and swallowed it to taste it, and said with satisfaction: "It has 80% medicinal effect, which is a good product. You can stay in the store as an apprentice."

Spiritual pharmacists also have ranks. As long as one is proficient in refining one kind of elixir, he or she can become an apprentice and officially take up the job.

Cheng Bai put away the remaining Blood Ginseng Pills and the one that Yang Kaiping had refined before, his heart bleeding: "He ate two of them, and I made them myself, what a loss."

But he continued to pay and said happily, "Rent it for another hour."

He took out the Yunying Luhua, Zhushu fruit, and Lianxin grass, followed the Yunzhen Lianxin Pill recipe that he had memorized long ago, and asked Yang Kaiping for advice on the pill-making techniques.

The cost of refining one Yunzhen Lianxin Pill is four hundred taels. This kid is clearly trying to take advantage of it.

Yang Kaiping's eyes twitched, but he still taught patiently and imparted his experience meticulously.