Surprise! The popular villain is actually Long Aotian's wife

(Read the previous chapter first)

"How is this possible!" The bearded elder looked in disbelief.

He believed that he had compressed every step of the alchemy process to the extreme.

He didn't believe it, so he took out hundreds of medicinal herbs and tried it three times.

It was not until the last time that he finally got close to the boy, only a few breaths slower.

The short-bearded elder groaned for a long time and said, "It seems that we were wrong."

He sighed and said, "Don't forget, the alchemy furnaces in your hands and mine are both earth-level alchemy furnaces that have been refined several times, while the one in that child's hand is only a high-level alchemy furnace."

We have already gained the advantage in magical weapons.

The bearded elder looked unhappy. "Since he has such a good talent, why doesn't he join our alchemy academy? He can worship a master and devote himself to alchemy."

The sword cultivator elder interjected sympathetically: "What else can I do? I just don't like you."

"This shows that this child is smart. He knows that being an alchemist is a complicated path, and swordsmanship can go further."

The elder of the Dan Academy was angry: "You——"

Seeing that they were about to fight again, Luo Huangji smiled and stopped them: "Stop talking, drink tea, drink tea."

The elder without beard was a smart person. He immediately started a small talk and then slowly told his intention: "I wonder if Medicine Master is interested in taking a disciple? In fact, it doesn't matter whether he is a disciple or not. Even if these children can get some guidance from Medicine Master, they will be very lucky."

"Chu Jin is very good at alchemy. We all think this kid is a promising talent. I wonder if he can catch the eye of Medicine Master?"

The short-bearded elder immediately helped to speak up: "I privately asked Xiao Chu about his opinion, and he is still willing to join Xuantian Immortal Sect. A senior from Dan Valley also had high hopes for him before..."

Luo Huangji couldn't figure out what these people were thinking. Seeing him here, they wanted to take the lead and push their disciples in front of Bu Jiu.

"He has a temper that won't save me... You know, if he wants to accept a disciple, that would be great. Otherwise, others can't force him to do it." Luo Huangji smiled and glanced at the beardless elder. "Since you said he is interested in joining Xuantian Immortal Sect, you might as well give it a try when the sect recruits students in two years."

Seeing that he didn't give in at all, the beardless elder gave up and continued to observe the situation in the water mirror.

At this time, a new wave of beasts has arrived.

The strength of the monsters ranges from the first to the fifth level of Vein Condensation, and is unevenly distributed. Although their strength does not pose a threat to the few people, their numbers are considerable.

Liu Ling, Xiao Yici and senior Zhamao stood in a triangle formation, guarding the two alchemists in the center. So far, each of them has killed more than a hundred monsters.

But looking at the situation, it seems like something is yet to be accomplished.

The monsters are still gathering in an endless stream.

Although spiritual power can be replenished in time, physical strength is lost.

"This is not a solution!" Xiao Yici said as he killed a double-eyed fire rhinoceros.

"I know this is not a solution, but we can only kill these monsters first and then clean up their corpses quickly, otherwise the bloody smell will only attract more monsters." Senior Zhamao was also helpless, and he smashed the ground with the golden stick in his hand.

The golden stick became extremely huge. He held a section of it in his hand, roared, and flew away the surrounding monsters.

The ultimate move is a bit laborious, and it lacks stamina after use.

The angry senior quickly called Liu Ling: "Brother Liu, Brother Liu, help me block it over here."

So Liu Ling not only had to take care of the monsters coming from his own direction, but also had to help block them.

The angry senior took some time to slack off. While eating some pills, he shouted to Xiao Yici, "Brother Ci, where's your majestic sword? Show us how to use it! Let us see it for ourselves!"

Xiao Yici laughed and scolded him: "What knowledge do you have!"

The angry senior was happy: "You are not a young lady, what can't you see? Our captain praised your great sword and said it is very handsome, you should show your skills."

"Look, you're living a miserable life with the young lady. You don't have any elixirs you want. Show me your skills and I'll give you half of them."

Xiao Yici was a little tempted: "Come over here and hold on first. It will take some time for me to charge my move."

The angry senior readily agreed: "No problem, big sword, come on!"

He wielded the golden staff with great power, the golden light was so blazing that it forced the approaching monster back dozens of feet.

Xiao Yici soared into the air, with his sword hovering in front of him, the sword light shining coldly.

He raised his hand and formed a sword seal.

The sword rang loudly, and the sword spirit roared out and soared into the sky.

The dazzling sword light faded away, and a giant sword with the power to split mountains and break seas was suspended in the air. A pattern on the sword was shockingly bright, and the blade was pointing straight to the sky, with its might and edge fully revealed.

Xiao Yici hovered beside the giant sword with his fingers together, and his figure seemed to be almost fused with the huge silver sword.

He drew his sword and slashed down, as if the mountains were about to collapse and the mountains and rivers were about to collapse.

There were sounds of breaking air, clanging, beasts roaring, and all mixed together in chaos.

The moment the giant sword chopped down, it seemed as if the sky, earth, mountains and rivers were all silent, and the surroundings were silent.

Hundreds of monsters lay dead on the ground, their bodies bloody and mangled.

The senior student was amazed: "So cool! It's worthy of being a great sword!"

Xiao Yici staggered in the air.

Xiao Lin threw sufficient amounts of refined pills to the three main forces.

He refined hundreds of each kind of pill. Although he didn't know how long this so-called test would last, he would go back before dinner anyway. If it didn't work out, he would just quit when the time came.

And these pills are more than enough to deal with the day ahead.

The angry senior raised his hand to catch several bottles filled with pills. When he looked up, he saw Xiao Yici also took the pills from his junior. He immediately shouted, "Hey, Dajian, why are you taking my brother's pills? Let me make it clear first, you can't take my brother's pills for free. All the monsters you kill must belong to my brother. Brother Dajian, do you have any objections?"

Xiao Yici replenished his spiritual energy with a few Yiling Pills. Although the power of the previous move was terrifying, the loss of spiritual energy was huge.

He put away the pills and gave the angry senior a look: "If you don't keep talking about big swords, I don't mind."

What a ridiculous name! It made him want to hit someone.

Sometimes, he even wanted to sew up the mouth of his angry senior.

Although monsters can be sold for spirit stones, for this person with a good background, spirit stones are the last thing he needs to care about.

On the contrary, the insights gained from hunting monsters are more important and valuable.

The angry senior who was focused on seeking benefits for Xiao Lin was very satisfied: "Okay, Brother Jian, it's settled."

Then he went to help Liu Ling dig out the beast core.

It is impossible to take away all of these monsters, so it is better to dig out the most valuable beast cores from the monsters.

The skin, bones, claws and horns of monsters are useless to alchemists, but the beast cores are still of some use.

Xiao Jin was also released by Xiao Lin. Xiao Jin was very excited to see the food all over the ground.

It was about to start eating, but then found there was too much and it couldn't finish it.

Xiao Jin: This feast that is hard to eat is a happy choice.

Xiao Lin glanced at it and prompted, "Beast core."

Then Xiao Jin concentrated on taking out the animal cores and eating them. He took them out and ate them one by one. The texture was crunchy, just like eating sugar pills.

Xiao Jin is a monster with sharp claws, and he can dig out the core of the monster much faster than Senior Zhamao and Liu Ling.

So it happily ate the beast cores of more than a dozen monsters in the Condensation Vein Stage.

One or two, such a crisp taste.

Three and four, such rich spiritual power.

Ten or eight, uh, I feel a bit like indigestion.

When he had eaten more than a dozen, excess spiritual energy began to flow out of his mouth, ears, and nose as he ate.

Others were emitting smoke, but he was emitting spiritual energy from all his orifices.

In order to avoid being killed by spiritual power, Xiao Jin reluctantly stopped talking and focused on digging out the beast core.

Xiao Lin selected a few monsters that were famous for their delicious meat, bled them, processed them briefly, and froze them in the mustard seed ring. He took a quick look and saw that several people had almost dug out the beast cores. He said:

"The spiritual herbs here have been picked almost completely. Staying here will not only be useless, but the bloody smell of the remaining monster corpses will attract more powerful monsters. There is no benefit in staying here any longer."

"While the monsters are being destroyed now and before the next wave of monsters arrive, we need to quickly move to the next place, preferably a place where old spiritual medicines grow."

"I know where to find some high-aged spiritual medicines. Come with me." Chu Jin took the initiative to speak, and then began to lead everyone.

Xiao Jin held a storage bag in his mouth and watched Senior Zhamao and Liu Ling put the animal cores they dug into his storage bag.

The angry senior student stroked the big lion and it felt great.

Why pet a kitten? A real man should pet a big lion.

For the sake of the beast core, Xiao Jin ignored his little trick and walked to Xiao Yici with pure cat steps, holding the storage bag in his mouth.

Xiao Yici: "..."

Seeing that he was hesitant to move, Xiao Jin couldn't help but urge him: "Hurry up, release the beast core."

Yes, it can talk.

It’s just that most of the time I’m too lazy to speak, and I only speak human language when I’m pushed into a corner.

It’s not that Xiao Yici didn’t want to let it go, he just thought it was dirty and didn’t dig it at all.

Under Xiao Jin's urging gaze, he dug one out and put it into the lion's storage bag.

Although he also didn't understand why this junior even had a storage bag for his spirit pet.

Xiao Jin gave him a look full of disgust.

……

The place that Chu Jin led everyone to was the heart of the valley. It was full of spiritual energy and had hundreds of years and thousands of years of spiritual plants growing everywhere. It could be said to be a treasure land with the most and best spiritual medicines.

The elders of the Alchemy Academy outside watched helplessly as their proud and talented disciple led a bandit to the treasure land.

Especially that piece of precious land, he prepared it privately and told Chu Jin secretly.

The elder of the Alchemy Academy's eyes went dark: You've let a wolf into the house! My elixir is in danger!

Oh my God! My disciple! You are truly my dear disciple!

"Oh shit! Here it comes again!"

The senior student who stretched out the golden rod and climbed to the top to watch the wind screamed: "The third wave of beasts is coming!"

He slid down the golden stick quickly like a nimble monkey.

Xiao Lin opened his eyes and asked, "How many monsters are there? What level of cultivation are they at?"

Senior Explosive was really going to get mad this time: "At least a few hundred! This time their cultivation was even higher, I saw five or six Spirit Sealing Stage monsters in there!"

“Five or six people in the Sealing Spirit Stage!” Liu Ling was surprised. “We only have one person in the Sealing Spirit Stage, Xiao Yici.”

Senior student with a raging face: "What should we do? Should we run away before they attack us?"

Xiao Yici was speechless: "Where are you running to?"

Senior student with a rage: "Find a cave to hide in?"

Xiao Lin: "There is no cave. It would be more realistic for you to dig a hole and jump in."

The angry senior student cried: "Brother, why are you laughing at me too?"

Liu Ling patted him and said, "Don't even think about running away. Think about how to deal with those monsters first!"

Chu Jin frowned: "Why not notify more sword cultivators and alchemists to join us, so that we can fight against the monsters together with more people."

Senior student: "Ah, that's right, there is strength in numbers."

Xiao Lin shook his head: "No."

Everyone was puzzled: "Why? Did the junior brother discover something?"

Xiao Lin said calmly: "Since Senior said that this valley didn't have so many medicinal pills in the past, but it is different today, I think it is most likely caused by human factors."

"This is a dilemma specially set up by the academy for this exam."

The angry senior was still confused: "So I can't cooperate with others?"

Xiao Lin: “…”

He pressed his brow and said, "Lift up your sleeve and smell it."

The angry senior raised his sleeves and sniffed twice: "Don't tell me, it smells really good."

Then I couldn't help but smell it twice more.

"Is there a problem? Isn't it just that there are too many spiritual herbs in the valley, and it has the smell of herbs?"

"It's a spiritual herb." Chu Jin put down his sleeves, his face solemn.

Xiao Yici held the sword and said, "Please explain clearly, what is the spirit summoning grass? We sword cultivators don't understand that."

"The spirit-attracting grass will amplify the attraction of the spiritual medicine and will continuously attract more monsters. I have heard from the elders before that there is actually a huge beast-chasing formation buried underground in this valley to prevent the spiritual medicine from being trampled and eaten by monsters."

"There are so many monsters in the valley today. It seems that the beast-chasing formation has been stopped."

Liu Ling scratched his head: "Can we just throw that grass away, pull it out, or burn it if that doesn't work?"

Chu Jin shook his head: "Logically speaking, the scent of the spirit summoning grass would not be stained on the cultivators for no reason. If it weren't for this junior brother's reminder, in fact, even I would not have noticed that we have the lingering scent of the spirit summoning grass on us."

"It's probably because the teachers of the academy deliberately used magic to leave it on the students for the purpose of grading them."

The frizzy senior was disappointed: "So I can only smell like grass?"

Chu Jin nodded: "At present, it seems so."

In fact, Xiao Lin could use the Phoenix True Fire to eliminate the scent of the spirit-summoning grass, but it was just a test, so there was no need to make it too conspicuous.

"Those beast cores can come in handy." Xiao Lin said.

Chu Jin quickly understood: "You mean, the Beast Tempering Pill."

Xiao Lin nodded.

The Beast Tempering Pill is an attack pill made from beast cores as the main material.

Xiao Lin: "Then please ask Senior Chu to be in charge of refining the beast-quenching pills, and I will prepare the formation to protect against the monster beast's attack."

Xiao Yici suspected for a moment that he was hallucinating: "Formation...you also know formation?"

Xiao Lin threw the spirit stone to roughly lay out the direction, and nodded casually, "I understand."

Xiao Yici looked at his skillful and effortless technique and thought it was not as if he was just an expert.