Chapter 160 I Have It
The saint finally returned to Lingchan Peak.
When he went back with Kunlun's young master, he was humming a little tune and looked very happy.
This made many people in the Xuanyin Sect feel relieved.
Li Yu had only been in Xuanyin Sect for a short month, but the cultivation of the core disciples in the sect had skyrocketed. This also meant that in a certain period of time in the future, the number of powerful people in the Nascent Soul stage in the sect would also increase dramatically.
There is no need to say much about his importance to the Xuanyin Sect, and everyone naturally hopes that the Saint gets along well with him.
It would be best if two single men and women were on the same peak, maybe sparks could fly.
It would be best if I could have a few more children, who would perfectly inherit the Saint's talent for cultivation and Li Yu's talent for alchemy. The expansion of the Xuanyin Sect would be just around the corner. In a few years, it would be possible to punch Kunlun and step on the Heavenly Dao...
No, at that time Kunlun would be a relative. If the two families joined forces, wouldn’t they be invincible in the world of immortal cultivation?
Of course, some people were disappointed that the two got back together.
The young master of Kunlun is a priceless treasure in himself. There are countless people in the Xuanyin Sect who want to be associated with him. The simplest and most effective way to strengthen the relationship with a certain person or a certain force is through marriage.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the relationship between the Saint and him was extremely special. The two of them even lived together, so naturally there was no chance for anyone else to force their way in.
These days, Li Yu and the Saint Girl are separated from each other, which is their best opportunity.
Taking advantage of the Saint's absence, some Yuanying ancestors of the Xuanyin Sect would often bring their younger women with them when they asked Li Yu for help in refining pills, hoping that Li Yu would take a fancy to them. However, with the Saint returning to the peak, they no longer had any chance.
At Lingchan Peak, Li Yu had reconciled with the witch and could finally make pills with peace of mind.
Although the witch is easy to get angry, she is also easy to coax.
This kind of girl is the easiest to deceive.
However, Li Yu still planned to be more sincere to her in the future, in case he couldn't coax her back one day, it would be too late to regret.
Without her, Li Yu would have died countless times. His life took a major turn, from a little medicine boy to the current headmaster of Kunlun, all started when he met her.
In fact, if you examine his heart, you will find that the witch has unknowingly occupied an important and special place in his heart.
He hoped that she could be happy every day, just as he had just told her.
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As the Qiankun furnace was gradually repaired, Li Yu's speed in refining elixirs became faster and faster.
But in order not to exaggerate, he did not ask for too much material at once.
This month, Li Yu simply helped them to refine the low-level Tongmai Pills.
As Li Yu's cultivation level increased, the grade of spiritual medicine he needed became higher and higher. The materials for the Tongmai Pill could no longer help his cultivation, but he still needed the Tongmai Pill.
After changing the alchemy furnace, he could produce hundreds of these second-level pills in one furnace.
The time required does not exceed a quarter of an hour.
In the world of immortal cultivation, elixirs that can improve cultivation are hard currency, incomparable to any other currency.
After collecting Tongmai Pills, Zhuji Pills, Tuomai Pills and Jinling Pills, one can provide a one-stop service for breakthrough from just drawing in Qi to the first stage of Golden Elixir.
From Lingchan Peak, bursts of fragrance came from the temple.
Li Yu used the materials from last refining to make a double-flavored hot pot. He and the demon girl would have hot pot here every now and then, which made their alchemy and spiritual practice less boring.
Li Yu's cooking skills have improved greatly compared to before.
It's more than an improvement, it's a world of difference.
Because he didn't know how to cook before, he learned these skills from Xu Yi from the Soul Refining Sect. Xu Yi's talent for cooking was even higher than his talent for cultivation. Li Yu learned a few tricks at that time and occasionally cooked by himself, which won unanimous praise from the girls.
Hotpot may seem simple, but the skill lies in the details.
Take the whitebait balls that the witch likes to eat for example. The selection of whitebait of different sizes, the selection of fish parts, the force, angle and number of beatings, the ingredients and time of marinating are all very particular. After putting them in the pot, if the cooking time is too short and they are not cooked through, or too long and they are overcooked, it will affect the taste.
According to Xu Yi at the time, in order to develop the most delicious silverfish balls, he did not practice for a whole month. He used nearly 10,000 silverfish and conducted countless experiments before he found the best ratio of ingredients and the most suitable cooking time.
Li Yu calculated the time and picked up a fish ball for the witch.
After Nangong Chan ate the fish ball, a puzzled expression appeared on her pretty face.
She didn’t know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that the food Li Yu gave her tasted better than what she cooked herself.
Although the difference is slight, it does exist.
In return, she also picked up a piece of tofu for Li Yu.
Watching Li Yu eat the piece of tofu, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
These days are the happiest days she has had since joining the Xuanyin Sect.
In the past, she was alone, practicing in this dark hall, doing boring exercises day after day for ten years, so she often ran out alone, but in the past few days, she didn't want to leave Lingchan Peak.
When she felt bored with her practice, she would go outside to see the scenery. If Li Yu was not making the elixir, he would teach her martial arts, or the two of them would go fishing for silverfish together. Silverfish meat was extremely tender and delicious no matter how it was cooked, especially the fish balls made by Li Yu. She would miss them if she didn't eat them for two days.
She could live this kind of life for a hundred years without getting bored.
She even felt a little regretful. If she had not sent Li Yu to Baiyun Temple at that time, but had taken him directly back to Xuanyin Sect, the outcome would definitely have been different.
In that case, he would never know Jiang Li and Zhou Zixuan, nor would he become Qin Keren's junior apprentice, and he would not be entangled with Xu Qingxin and those women from Emei. Instead, he would be Li Yu who belonged to her alone.
Unfortunately, there is no if.
Thinking of this, Nangong Chan sighed slowly.
Li Yu was slightly stunned and asked, "What's wrong?"
Nangong Chan shook her head and said, "Nothing."
Thinking of Zhou Zixuan and the others, Nangong Chan suddenly asked, "Last time in Kunlun, why couldn't I see through Xu Qingxin and Jiang Li's cultivation at all? And Zhou Zixuan, even if they were wearing fairy clothes, it's impossible for them to have no fluctuations in their magic power. Did they all learn the art of concealing their energy?"
At that time, she was only thinking about those hairpins. Although she noticed this matter, she was so angry that she didn't think about it carefully.
Only then did she realize something was wrong.
In response to the witch's question, Li Yu nodded slightly.
Having learned from the previous experience, he did not intend to deceive the witch in this matter.
Nangong Chan looked puzzled: "The Hidden Qi Technique can only be used when the five elements are balanced. Could it be that Xu Qingxin has formed a pill in the five spirit veins?"
Li Yu continued to nod.
Nangong Chan looked at Li Yu and asked, "Zhou Zixuan also..."
Li Yu still nodded.
Nangong Chan finally realized something, frowned, looked at him and asked, "You stole our Xuanyin Sect's resources to support your woman?"
Li Yu said: "How can you call it stealing when it comes to alchemy? This price is very reasonable. You can go out and ask around. Other alchemists don't offer this price at all..."
The price he gave to the Xuanyin Sect was really very generous. A third-level elixir only required three portions of materials, and a fourth-level elixir only required seven portions. Even if this number was multiplied by two, there would probably not be many alchemists willing to pay for it in the entire world of immortal cultivation.
Nangong Chan was a little angry. She was not angry that Li Yuzhong enriched himself, but that he was angry that he was with her while still thinking about those women in Kunlun.
Moreover, he had to use her spiritual fire to refine the fourth-level elixir. To some extent, wasn't she indirectly helping him support another woman?
How outrageous!
Li Yu looked at her frowning brows, picked up a whitebait ball that was cooked to perfection, brought it to her mouth, and said, "This one is ready."
No matter how angry she was, she couldn't let the delicious food go to waste. Nangong Chan bit the fish ball as if she was biting Li Yu. Li Yu looked at her and finally said helplessly: "How about I give you some of the extra pills I made?"
Nangong Chan raised her pretty eyebrows and asked, "How much?"
Before they even finished their hotpot, Li Yu and the demon girl had already discussed how to divide the loot.
Li Yu gave her five Golden Spirit Pills, ten Foundation Establishment Pills, fifty Meridian Extension Pills, and one hundred Meridian Opening Pills every month, and she helped Li Yu conceal the fact that he stole the resources of the Xuanyin Sect.
Li Yu hesitated for a moment and then agreed to this request.
When he borrowed the spiritual fire, he said he would give her some of the benefits.
Moreover, the demon girl had no idea how much more he could refine. Five Golden Spirit Pills, ten Foundation Establishment Pills, fifty Vessel Extension Pills, and one hundred Vessel Opening Pills. Even if this number was multiplied by two, he could accept it.
Seeing that Li Yu didn't even bargain, Nangong Chan thought for a moment and asked, "Should I ask for less?"
Li Yu blocked her mouth with a silver fish pill and said, "It's not a small amount. The entire Kunlun only produces three Golden Spirit Pills a month. Sometimes there are even fewer than three..."
He kept picking up food for the witch, keeping her mouth busy and leaving her no time to bargain.
The demon woman who had formed pills through the five spiritual veins had no use for these pills herself. She used the first batch of pills that Li Yu gave her on a maid named "Qing'er".
She was a little girl in the Qi Refining Stage and was her personal maid. Li Yu often saw her in Lingchan Peak. After taking the elixir to build the foundation, the number of Tuomai Pills was not enough, so Li Yu gave her more than thirty more, and then used five Jinling Pills to successfully make her Shuilingmai Pill form.
This little girl's basic talent is better than his and Zhou Zixuan's.
The pills Li Yu gave her were all top-grade and could be taken continuously within a short period of time without worrying about pill poisoning.
In just two days, Li Yu witnessed her cultivation level, which went straight from the fifth level of Qi Refining to the first level of Golden Core. Even Kunlun's disciples of the Tianlingmai did not invest so much resources.
Comparing himself with others and thinking about his own practice along the way, Li Yu couldn't help but feel emotional.
Thinking of Elder Sun and his old friends from Ziyun Peak who had passed away, Li Yu felt even more emotional.
If they could have waited a few more years, they would have already formed the elixir by now.
Unfortunately, there is no "if" in the word "fate".
In the following days, Li Yu began to busy himself with refining elixirs again.
This month, in addition to the Xuanyin Sect's alchemy tasks, he also took on a lot of private work, all from the Xuanyin Sect's Nascent Soul ancestors.
Every Nascent Soul ancestor has lived for at least a few hundred years and has accumulated a lot of elixirs. In the past, they would secretly seek alchemists from Kunlun and Tiandao Sect to refine them, but those people charged too much. The materials they used to refine one pill were enough for Li Yu to refine two or three pills, and the quality was not as high as what Li Yu refined. Anyone who was not stupid would know what to choose.
The sect’s elixirs belong to the sect and are distributed by the Council of Elders.
They provide the materials, and the pills they refine become their own and can be used on their younger generations or descendants at will.
After several days of contact, Li Yu discovered that although everyone said that the evil sect was poor, the Yuanying ancestors of the Xuanyin Sect were even richer than those of the righteous sect, and they could get dozens of materials for the Golden Spirit Pill at a time.
Li Yu was very sure that even the head of Kunlun could not take out so much at once.
Soon he figured it out. It wasn't that the Demonic Path was really richer than the Righteous Path. The strong men in the Righteous Path were all from the Moonlight Clan, especially Kunlun. They could refine the materials as soon as they got them, so naturally they wouldn't have any left. Compared to the Righteous Path, the strong men in the Xuanyin Sect really had too much money to spend, so they saved it and it became more and more...
Li Yu was naturally happy to help them refine the elixirs. So many high-level spiritual medicines were delivered to their door in batches, and it was even faster than if he had gone to grab them.
Another Xuanyin Sect patriarch in the early Nascent Soul stage came to visit. He first praised Li Yu with words like "young talent" and "handsome", and then explained his purpose. Naturally, he came to find Li Yu to make pills, and asked him the number of materials needed for each kind of pill.
Before Li Yu opened his mouth, Nangong Chan said, "Five portions of the second-level elixir, five portions of the third-level elixir, and eight portions of the fourth-level elixir."
The Yuanying Patriarch was stunned and said, "Don't you only need three portions for the second and third-level pills, and seven portions for the fourth-level pills?"
Nangong Chan glanced at him and said, "A third-level pill requires at least three ingredients to refine one, and a fourth-level pill requires seven. This will take more than ten hours, a lot of effort, and a lot of practice time. Are we helping the master refine it for nothing?"
The Nascent Soul expert was speechless for a moment.
What the saint said was right, the alchemist was not a tool to help others make pills, the number of portions agreed upon with the sect was a transaction between the two sects, but making pills for them was a business.
Only five portions of second- and third-level elixirs are needed, and only eight portions of fourth-level elixirs are needed, which is already the conscience of the alchemist world.
but……
He glanced at Nangong Chan.
For a moment, he had the illusion that she was not the Saintess of Xuanyin Sect, but the wife of the Young Master of Kunlun Sect...
Young Master Kunlun hasn't said anything yet, why is her arm bent outward?
As expected, the woman is outgoing. The matter between Kunlun's young master and the saint is probably almost certain, and she has started to consider their small family so quickly.
He could totally accept this price and said with a smile: "Just do as the Saint Lady said..."
Seeing that the Yuanying Patriarch simply left the materials and left, Nangong Chan fell into self-doubt and asked Li Yu: "Did I say too little again?"
Li Yu smiled and said, "Not a few."
The price she mentioned was just a critical point. In fact, the alchemists of Tiandao Sect could also make one third-grade pill with three ingredients, but the quality was not as high as the one refined by Li Yu. If six ingredients were required for one pill, most people would rather choose two medium-quality pills rather than one super-quality one.
Li Yu naturally handed over the task of receiving these Nascent Soul masters to the demon girl.
One of the two people is responsible for external affairs, and the other is responsible for internal affairs.
She was responsible for collecting elixirs and contacting those Nascent Soul ancestors, while Li Yu was only responsible for refining pills. The division of labor was clear and the efficiency was greatly improved.
A month later, it was time for Li Yu to return to Kunlun.
After refining the last batch of pills this month, Li Yu walked out of the alchemy room. Nangong Chan stood at the door, glanced at him and asked, "Are you going back again?"
Li Yu nodded.
Noticing that she was not in a very good mood, he asked again: "Since you are free anyway, do you want to go back with me?"
Nangong Chan's heart moved, but she said: "How can I be idle? I am very busy practicing..."
"Then I'll go back."
Li Yu said something, turned around and left without looking back.
Nangong Chan stood there in a daze, biting her lips lightly, wishing time could go back.
Just as she was regretting, Li Yu stopped, looked back, and said, "Why are you still standing there? Let's go. Isn't it better to practice in Kunlun than here..."
Nangong Chan nodded seriously, followed Li Yu and said, "That makes sense. Kunlun Cave Heaven has rich spiritual energy and is more suitable for cultivation..."
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Yuxuan Peak.
Zhou Zixuan was naturally happy when Li Yu finally came back. Under normal circumstances, she would have been in Li Yu's arms after not seeing him for a month. However, Li Yu was accompanied by the Holy Maiden of Xuanyin Sect, so she could only remain reserved.
She really didn't like this evil witch in the past.
Because she always orders Li Yu around like a younger brother.
Now she is not that way towards Li Yu, and Zhou Zixuan no longer hates her. Like Senior Sister Qin, she stands at the pinnacle that is untouchable by all the female cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation. As a female cultivator, she can't help but feel a little ashamed in front of her.
When she found that Nangong Chan had changed her hair into a unique hairpin, she took the initiative to praise her, "Miss Nangong's hairpin is very beautiful."
Facing the compliments from others, Nangong Chan also smiled slightly and said, "Thank you."
But she snorted in her heart and thought proudly.
is it beautiful?
It was made by your Taoist partner himself.
That's all I have.
