Chapter 149: Strength Overwhelms
Xuanyin Sect.
Two figures were touring the various peaks of the Xuanyin Sect.
The same scene often happened in Kunlun, but at that time Li Yu was the host and the demon girl was the guest. Today, their identities were reversed, and the demon girl led Li Yu to stroll around the Xuanyin Sect.
"Meet the Saint."
Along the way, all the Xuanyin Sect disciples they met bowed respectfully to the demon woman.
After the two men left, many Xuanyin Sect disciples showed surprise on their faces.
As everyone knows, there has never been a man around the saint.
After so many years in Xuanyin Sect, this was the first time they had seen such a scene.
"Who is that person, and how could he appear beside the Saint?"
"It doesn't seem like we are disciples of Xuanyin Sect."
"Hey, there was such a big commotion in the sect yesterday, but you didn't know that the person was the young master of Kunlun Sect, the number one third-grade alchemist. He came here to help us refine pills."
"It is said that the Saint has a close relationship with him. Last night, the Saint stayed in his room for a long time before coming out."
"No, my pure and innocent Saint, could it be that you have also been tempted by worldly desires..."
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There is actually nothing worth visiting in the Xuanyin Sect. It cannot be compared with other blessed places like Kunlun Cave Heaven and Tiandao Secret Realm.
No wonder the witch has always been obsessed with taking away Kunlun Cave Heaven.
Li Yu finally landed on a mountain peak.
On a stone tablet at the top of the peak, three large characters "Lingchan Peak" are engraved.
This is where the witch lives.
The entire mountain is rocky, with sparse vegetation and covered with snow everywhere. There is a lonely palace on the top of the mountain, which is also dominated by dark tones. When you are on this mountain, it is easy to get a feeling of depression and dullness.
It fits the atmosphere of magic.
Nangong Chan also felt that this place was a bit shabby, and said, "There's nothing to see here. I'll take you to see some other places."
Li Yu walked straight towards the hall.
Because there were no windows open, the hall was very dark even though it was daytime. The light emitted by the quartz inlaid on the walls was extremely dim and pale green, which made the atmosphere in the hall even more depressing.
At the end of the hall, there is a huge chair. Although it is called a chair, it is actually more than enough to be used as a bed. It can easily accommodate three or five people sleeping on it.
Li Yu asked, "Do you usually practice here?"
It would be strange if you could be happy if you practice in such an environment all day long.
"What's wrong?"
Nangong Chan muttered to herself, he really became more powerful after becoming the acting headmaster of Kunlun. He used to respectfully call her "girl", but now he doesn't even call her that.
However, after thinking about it all night yesterday, she figured out some things.
With Li Yu's current identity and strength, he really can't go back to the time when he was just her subordinate, and she can no longer look at him the same way as before.
"too dark."
Li Yu said this, and his body slowly flew up. Without the consent of the witch, he took down the crystal stone that was embedded in the wall and emitted a dim light, and replaced it with a few pearls.
These pearls were applied for from the sect when Yuxuan Peak was being renovated. There were still quite a few left, which Li Yu casually put into his storage ring.
"I like darkness."
Nangong Chan curled her lips and said something, but did not stop Li Yu.
This is her place, but Li Yu acts like the master. However, when she thinks about what she did in his Yuxuan Peak, which seems even more excessive, she doesn't know what to say.
After slightly modifying the witch's palace, Li Yu did not stop.
He came outside again and flew around the peak. All the snow covering the peak melted, revealing the barren mountain.
Li Yu waved his hand and scattered countless seeds. He pressed one hand on the ground, and the tree seeds he had just sown immediately took root and sprouted, breaking through the soil, growing and growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Within a dozen breaths, they had already blossomed and borne fruit.
There were only fruit tree seeds and flower seeds in his space ring, so he had to make do with what he had.
With the power of the Jindan period, Li Yu created a peach blossom forest in just a quarter of an hour.
The ground of Lingchan Peak is no longer bare, but covered with green grass and colorful flowers. It just lacks some vitality. It would be more perfect if there were some small animals.
Although a lot of mana was consumed, Li Yu was very satisfied with the results.
This is a place where people live.
When the demon girl was in Kunlun, she lived in his territory. After transforming the place, Li Yu decided to live with her from now on, which was fair.
Nangong Chan watched Li Yu busying around, and the barren Lingchan Peak became magnificent. Although the current Lingchan Peak is indeed more beautiful, she is a demonic demon girl, and the changed Lingchan Peak does not match her temperament as a demon girl...
Although she prefers the current Lingchan Peak in her heart.
After the initial transformation of Lingchan Peak, Li Yu planned to go outside to catch some small animals such as rabbits and squirrels, as well as some birds. It would be best to attract some butterflies to make this place more lively.
Watching Li Yu leave, Nangong Chan hurriedly followed him, and asked as she chased him, "Have you really given up..."
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Just as Li Yu and Nangong Chan were chasing birds and butterflies in the Xuanyin Mountains, in a hall of the Dan Department of the Xuanyin Sect, several high-ranking members of the Xuanyin Sect had unhappy expressions on their faces.
The alchemist of Tiandao Sect made a very good promise to Xuanyin Sect.
Two portions of materials for one pill, compared to the previous ten portions, it was like a dream.
But only if... they can do it.
Before officially cooperating with the Tiandao Sect, the Xuanyin Sect naturally wanted to witness their strength with their own eyes.
The result was that the Xuanyin Sect provided the materials, and the five third-grade alchemists of the Tiandao Sect refined Tuomai Pills on the spot. Four of them failed to refine even one pill. The one called Wu Boyong did refine one, but it had no pill patterns. It was basically a poison pill. If a Foundation Establishment Stage disciple ate it, he would probably die immediately.
You won’t know until you try. Once you try, the Xuanyin Sect will waste ten packages of materials for the Tongmai Pill.
Isn't this a fraud?
If you don’t have the ability, why are you quoting a random price?
The two Yuanying elders from Tiandao Sect were also embarrassed. The old man surnamed Huang glanced at them and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"
Several third-grade alchemists were also feeling aggrieved. He was an outsider who called out the price randomly, and now they were being blamed.
Kunlun's alchemy level has been hundreds of years ahead of the world of immortal cultivation, and the requirements for alchemists are the most stringent. For the third-grade elixir, they are only required to produce one elixir with three portions of materials. This number is not set randomly. Under normal circumstances, a third-grade alchemist can only produce one elixir with three portions of materials.
The Tiandao Sect should have sent the fourth-grade alchemist instead of letting a cultivator like him give orders blindly.
Of course, they only dared to say these words in their hearts. Wu Boyong gritted his teeth and said, "Master, with our alchemy skills, we need at least three materials to refine a pill..."
Although the old man surnamed Huang was angry that they had not said anything just now, he had no choice but to say to the elder of Xuanyin Sect: "The Tiandao Sect will compensate you for these ten materials. Daoist friend has just seen that two materials cannot be used to refine the elixir. How about we make an agreement on three materials?"
The people from the Xuanyin Sect did not agree to them directly.
They need three sets of materials, and Li Yu also needs three sets of materials. However, when Li Yu was a second-grade alchemist, he was able to win the championship in the third-grade alchemist competition. Now he has been promoted to the third grade, and his attainments in alchemy are probably more profound. With the same three materials, the quality of the pills he can refine must be higher than theirs.
If that’s the case, why did they choose the Tiandao Sect?
To be fair, we should call Li Yu back and compare the quality of the pills they refined before making a decision.
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Li Yu and Nangong Chan returned from hunting in the wild. They placed some small animals they caught in the mountains on Lingchan Peak and set up a formation around the peak to prevent them from running away.
Then, he and Nangong Chan flew towards a mountain at a leisurely pace.
The five third-grade alchemists stood dejectedly in a hall.
Wang Heng's gaze lingered slightly on Nangong Chan and Li Yu.
As a genius in the world of immortal cultivation who is as famous as Qin Keren of Kunlun, Nangong Chan, the Saintess of Xuanyin Sect, he has naturally known about her for a long time. Qin Keren is Li Yu's senior sister, which is fine, but what is her relationship with Li Yu? Why do they look so familiar with each other...
He just didn't understand. Qin Keren, Jiang Li, Xu Qingxin, Bai Qingying from Emei, the three Zhao sisters, and Nangong Chan, how come these most famous favored daughters of heaven in the world of immortal cultivation were all closely related to Li Yu!
Li Yu already knew that the five alchemists from Tiandao Sect had failed in their alchemy.
This was exactly what he expected.
A normal third-grade alchemist needs three sets of materials .
Since they failed, Li Yu entered the game again.
The top leaders of Xuanyin Sect are all old foxes who only care about the interests of the sect. They are impartial towards Tiandao Sect and Kunlun. They will cooperate with whoever refines high-quality elixirs, and accordingly, the other party will be eliminated directly.
After several people from the Tiandao Sect discussed it, Wu Boyong said to an elder from the Xuanyin Sect: "Three materials for one pill. We can guarantee that all the pills are above the middle grade, and no less than half of them are top grade..."
This is already the limit of what they can do, which is equivalent to helping the Xuanyin Sect to refine pills for free.
Not only do you not get any benefit from it, but it is also extremely time-consuming and laborious.
Looking at the entire world of immortal cultivation, no alchemist would do this, but Li Yu was too ruthless, and they had no choice in order to achieve the purpose of this trip.
When they arrived at Tiandao Sect, they realized that life in Kunlun was more comfortable.
They thought that the Tiandao Sect was a holy place for cultivating immortals. If they joined the Tiandao Sect, they could practice peacefully in the blessed land with the most abundant spiritual energy. However, they did not expect that they would spend their days refining pills. After refining pills for the Tiandao Sect, they were sent to the Demonic Path. This was far from the life they had dreamed of...
After the people from Tiandao Sect finished speaking, everyone from Xuanyin Sect turned their eyes to Li Yu.
Li Yu thought for a moment and said, "Three materials for one pill. All pills must be at least super-quality. If there is one pill that is below super-quality, ten top-quality pills will be compensated..."
Upon hearing this, Wu Boyong and several other third-rank alchemists had dazed expressions on their faces.
How can one be an alchemist like this?
Is he here to make elixirs or to do charity?
Alchemists have a high status in the world of immortal cultivation. For a third-grade alchemist, people would always beg him to make pills for them. In addition to providing double the materials, they would also give him a certain amount of extra compensation. If he could make a mid-grade pill, they would be grateful...
There are only basic materials, and they are guaranteed to be no less than super-quality. If one is less than that, ten will be compensated...
Isn't this destroying the entire industry's ethos?
If all alchemists were like Li Yu, they would have no more pills to make in the future.
The powerful men of Xuanyin Sect have fallen into silence for a long time.
Three sets of materials, one super-grade elixir, and if it’s not super-grade, they have to pay ten times the compensation... To be honest, they wouldn’t even dare to think about it in their dreams.
The Tiandao Sect and Kunlun started fighting, and the Xuanyin Sect unexpectedly became the biggest winner.
The late Yuanying strongman of Xuanyin Sect who was in charge of the alchemy department immediately said, "That's too much. There's no need for compensation. Why don't you refine a few furnaces of elixirs on the spot and decide based on the quality of the elixirs..."
After the experience, they did not make a direct decision. Words alone were not enough. As alchemists, their alchemy skills also depended on it.
It’s just right, I can take this opportunity to let them refine a few pills for free.
The Xuanyin Sect quickly prepared the materials, and the five alchemists from the Tiandao Sect started the furnace at the same time.
Even during the Immortal Dao Conference, they were defeated by Li Yu, but they all believed that Li Yu's performance at that time had a lot to do with the Purple Myrtle Spiritual Fire of the fourth-grade alchemist. They didn't believe that he, at the mere Golden Core Stage, could refine a super-quality Tuomai Pill with only three ingredients...
Several people from the Tiandao Sect have already started refining . Li Yu is not in a hurry. After extracting the spiritual liquid through the air, a ball of flame also rose in his hand.
It usually takes more than five hours to refine a batch of Tuomai Pills.
The refining time will be shortened if the magic power is condensed enough or the attainments in alchemy are extremely high.
Less than half an hour later, Wu Boyong and others were still conscientiously refining the elixir.
Li Yu put out the alchemy fire and opened the lid of the alchemy furnace. Immediately, a strong alchemy fragrance emanated from the purple gold alchemy furnace.
In the past two years, the Qiankun Furnace has followed him and absorbed countless powers of faith and a large amount of medicinal herbs. The cracks on the furnace have been repaired a lot, and its ability to refine elixirs on behalf of Li Yu has become even stronger.
A third-level elixir can be refined in less than a quarter of an hour.
In order to avoid being too shocking, Li Yu deliberately delayed the time several times.
But even so, this speed still shocked those third-grade alchemists to the extreme.
Looking at the Tuomai Pill with four danwen on it, their minds went blank.
He actually managed to refine a super-quality third-grade pill in such a short time!
Obviously, after being promoted to a third-rank alchemist, his attainments in alchemy were even more terrifying than before.
This moment of distraction caused the fire in their hands to shake. If they hadn't been extremely experienced, the furnace would have exploded. They no longer dared to be distracted and concentrated on refining their own pills.
Li Yu had nothing to do anyway, so after refining one batch of pills, he did not stop. He asked the elders of Xuanyin Sect to continue refining the second batch.
The strong man from Xuanyin Sect naturally would not refuse this and brought another set of materials to Li Yu.
Half an hour later, Li Yu's second batch of pills was successfully produced.
Then the third furnace, the fourth furnace, the fifth furnace...
Until he had finished refining five furnaces of pills and placed five super-grade Tuomai Pills on a pill plate made of white jade, Wu Boyong and the other five people from the Tiandao Sect had not yet refined even one furnace of pills.
At this moment, their hearts were already numb.
To be able to become a third-grade alchemist, each of them is a genius in alchemy and has been praised all the way.
In terms of talent in alchemy, even those fourth-grade alchemists did not feel that there was much gap between them and the others.
But in just over two hours, they felt a despairing, insurmountable gap from Li Yu.
This despair even made them waver in their faith in the path of alchemy.
The combined lifespan of the five of them was over 1,500 years old, but even if they joined forces, they were no match for Li Yu, who was in his twenties...
Li Yu refined five super-grade pills, but the other five people were unable to refine even one.
This made these former geniuses in alchemy doubt the significance of alchemy.
Refining the third-grade elixir does not allow for distraction. The five people were hit by Li Yu, and cracks appeared in their Tao hearts. The fire of mana shook violently, and the violent spiritual power in the alchemy furnace could no longer be controlled. After a series of strong energy fluctuations, the five alchemy furnaces exploded one after another.
If there had not been nearly ten people in the late Nascent Soul stage present, using their powerful magic power to block the fragments of the alchemy furnace and the violent spiritual power, the entire hall would have been razed to the ground.
The whole hall was filled with silence.
No one would have thought that the young acting Kunlun Sect leader's efficiency in alchemy could surpass that of the five people of the Tiandao Sect.
Despite such high-intensity alchemy, the quality of the pills he made was surprisingly high.
Even those practitioners who knew little about alchemy could feel the gap between them.
Nangong Chan stared at Li Yu blankly. When she heard Li Yu talk about his level of alchemy, she didn't think anything of it.
But when she compared herself with the third-grade alchemists of Tiandao Sect, she realized the real meaning of those few words Li Yu said so casually.
No wonder the master wanted to keep him in the Xuanyin Sect.
Suddenly she noticed someone's eyes on her.
She looked up somewhere.
Her master, the current head of Xuanyin Sect, looked at Li Yu with fiery eyes, then blinked at her frantically.
