Chapter 90 Trial of Tongmai Pill
In a flash, one of the six Soul Refining Sect disciples was captured and five surrendered .
Li Yu untied the ten Kunlun disciples, and everyone immediately used the Soul Binding Ropes to tie up the Soul Refining Sect disciples. The five disciples were only tied with one Soul Binding Rope each, while the Soul Refining Sect's genius was tied up like a dumpling with five Soul Binding Ropes.
A group of Kunlun disciples looked at Li Yu with admiration on their faces.
This is the strength of the third on the Trial List. If before, there were still people who had doubts about his process of breaking through the illusion trial, today’s battle has completely shattered all those suspicions and doubts.
A Kunlun Sect dual-spiritual-veined genius clasped his fists toward Li Yu and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Li!"
He entered the sect earlier than Li Yu and was older than Li Yu. He originally called Li Yu "junior brother", but at this moment he changed the name from the bottom of his heart to show respect.
Several other people also spoke up.
"Senior Brother Li is so fierce!"
"With Senior Brother Li here, this Xu Ling Cave Heaven will be ours from now on!"
"What a genius from the Soul Refining Sect, what a Five Ghost Soul Capturing Formation. They were praised so highly, I thought they were so powerful, but it turns out they are just so-so..."
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When the genius from the Soul Refining Sect heard these words, he felt so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood. The Five Ghosts Soul Capture Formation was his biggest trump card. Even if he met those top geniuses from the Heavenly Dao Sect, he would be able to fight them. The Soul Refining Sect was able to become one of the three giants in the magic world, so how could its disciples just get the reputation for nothing?
He still hasn't figured out how those ninth-level Qi Refining ghosts were destroyed...
A Kunlun disciple kicked the tightly bound Soul Refining Sect disciple and taunted him, “Scream, you were quite loud just now, scream a few more times so I can hear you…”
Here, the strength of the disciples of the two factions was originally very balanced, but the Soul Refining Sect did not abide by martial ethics and sent in a genius, breaking this balance. Now, they also have someone to support them, so naturally they want to vent all the humiliation they suffered before.
After capturing these disciples of the Soul Refining Sect, Li Yu was not idle either.
He took out a set of formation flags that Lao Chen had given him and set them up at the Soul Refining Sect's stronghold.
This is a set of dual-purpose formation flags, which can be used as a protective formation as well as an enemy-trapping formation. After being deployed, even if the people from the Soul Refining Sect come over, they will be trapped in the formation, unless they send dozens of people at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining at once, they will be able to force their way through from the inside.
After doing all this, he led everyone and flew towards Kunlun’s stronghold.
Xuling Cave Heaven, the stronghold of Kunlun Sect.
Three figures stood in the protective formation. Song Yunfei looked into the distance and said worriedly, "Junior Brother Li has been gone for so long, why is there still no news? Has something happened to him?"
"Not really. With Junior Brother Li's strength, even if he is discovered, he can still run away if he can't win. He is ranked third on the Trial Ranking..."
"Not necessarily. You all know the methods of the Soul Refining Sect disciples. Those ghosts are very difficult to deal with, and they also have various ghost techniques that directly target the soul. Zhou Han, Chang Ze, and several others were captured together. Junior Brother Li is indeed good at dealing with monsters, but he has no experience in dealing with ghosts..."
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As the three were discussing, they suddenly saw a dozen black spots appear in the sky ahead.
Soon, more than a dozen figures appeared in their sight, and the three of them were all stunned.
"Zhou Han, Chang Ze, weren't they captured by the Soul Refining Sect?"
"Those around them are all our Kunlun disciples."
"Look, the people from the Soul Refining Sect were tied up with soul-binding ropes. Junior Brother Li rescued them?"
Seeing Li Yu and a group of Kunlun disciples coming back in a mighty procession, the three of them stood there in a daze, looking at each other in silence.
Didn't he say he was going to spy on the enemy?
After exploring for a while, how did we rescue all the people?
From beginning to end, the three of them never stepped out of the base, and Li Yu had already taken care of everything.
This was probably the easiest task they had ever completed in their cultivation career.
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After rescuing everyone, Li Yu quickly left Xuling Cave Heaven.
The task given to him by the head master was to rescue the ten trapped Kunlun disciples. Not only did he rescue the disciples, he also captured the people from the Soul Refining Sect, which was considered to be exceeding the task.
For him now, as long as there is no opponent in the Foundation Establishment Stage, he can be said to be invincible in the Qi Refining Stage.
Outside Xu Ling Cave Heaven, the Jindan-stage elder had only waited outside for less than half an hour before he saw Li Yu bringing out a group of Kunlun disciples. Even he was surprised.
This is too fast.
He is worthy of being in the top three of the trial list. Let’s not talk about what happened after he established his foundation. At least, among Kunlun’s Qi Refining disciples, he is basically invincible. The last invincible Qi Refining disciple in Kunlun was the head disciple.
Half a day later, Kunlun Cave Heaven.
At Yuxu Peak, several Nascent Soul masters were discussing matters with the head master.
This time, the Soul Refining Sect destroyed the long-standing tacit understanding between the two sects. They originally wanted to kidnap a few Kunlun disciples in exchange for Tongmai Pills, but ended up losing their own genius as well.
Kunlun certainly cannot miss such a good opportunity.
The Soul Refining Sect has a kind of elixir called the Soul Nourishing Pill. Although it cannot improve one's cultivation level after taking it, it can strengthen the soul, which is exactly what the alchemists of the Kunlun Sect need.
This kind of elixir can only be refined by those who have practiced the secret method of the Soul Refining Sect. Even Kunlun, the number one sect in alchemy, cannot refine it.
This was the biggest advantage Kunlun had gained in its battles with the Soul Refining Sect in more than a decade.
A Yuanying stage ancestor suggested: "Although Li Yu has no advantage after building his foundation, there are probably not many people in the entire cultivation world who can beat him in the Qi Refining stage. It is better not to let him build his foundation. In this way, won't Kunlun be invincible in these low-level cave heaven secret realms?"
Wang Daoxuan glanced at him and said calmly, "Whether or not they are willing to build a foundation, and when to build a foundation, is their own business. Don't make blind suggestions. Let's discuss first how many Soul Nourishing Pills we should get from the Soul Refining Sect..."
What happened in Xuling Cave Heaven was soon spread by the mouths of the Kunlun disciples who were rescued.
Instantly killing five Qi Refining Sect peak spirit ghosts and capturing the Soul Refining Sect’s genius while chatting and laughing made Li Yu famous in one battle and also made those who questioned his results in the illusion trial shut up completely.
Some people even compare Li Yu today with Senior Sister Qin back then.
The conclusion is that even if he is not as good as Senior Sister Qin at that time, he is not far behind.
In today's world of cultivating immortals, apart from a few geniuses in the Tiandao Sect, he has no rivals among the disciples in the Qi Refining Stage. This also makes him the person that low-level disciples most want to cling to when they go out on dangerous missions.
If I could carry out the mission with him, wouldn't I be able to earn spirit coins without doing anything?
It's a pity that Junior Brother Li doesn't seem to take on missions that don't have the Tongmai Pill as a reward. Moreover, after returning to the sect, he stays indoors and no one knows what he does in the villa. The disciples can only give up the idea of inviting him to do missions together.
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Purple Cloud Peak.
Li Yu took the last Tongmai Pill and breathed a sigh of relief.
The head master was very trustworthy. Li Yu had just returned with his disciples, and in less than a quarter of an hour, twenty top-grade Tongmai Pills were delivered to Ziyun Peak.
On the road to becoming an immortal, taking drugs for a while makes you feel good for a while, and taking drugs all the time makes you feel good all the time.
Compared to his hard work in practicing, the speed at which he took drugs was simply too fast.
After taking these twenty Tongmai Pills, two hundred and eighty of the three hundred and sixty major acupoints in his body have been opened. He only needs the last eighty Tongmai Pills to complete the cultivation of all five spiritual meridians.
During this trip to Xu Ling Dong Tian, he gained not only twenty Tongmai Pills, but also a surge in his soul power.
The soul power of a cultivator will increase as his magic power increases. His soul in the five spiritual veins was already powerful, and he absorbed five spirit ghosts at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining. Although it was only a little bit of help from the alchemy furnace, the increase was significant. In terms of soul power alone, he should be comparable to an ordinary person in the early stage of foundation building.
After his strength improved, Li Yu went to Tongtian Peak as soon as possible.
But soon he was back.
He still underestimated the headmaster. There were many great elders in the late Nascent Soul stage of Kunlun, but he was the only one who sat on the position of headmaster. There was a reason for that.
Li Yu used up his last bit of magic power and true energy, but failed to break his record.
However, he does not need to be discouraged. After all, he still has a full eighty acupoints that have not been opened, and his strength still has a lot of room for improvement. The master is not his goal, but Senior Sister Qin is.
Putting aside the illusion trial for the moment, Li Yu began to practice martial arts.
When the people from Yuxu Peak delivered the Tongmai Pill to Li Yu yesterday, they also brought a few books on martial arts, which contained the subsequent methods of cultivating internal qi.
Like magic power, true Qi can actually form an inner elixir, but it is not called a golden elixir, but a true elixir. In the history of the immortal cultivation world, only a very small number of people have succeeded in cultivating it. However, because practicing martial arts is not easy and cannot prolong life, after forming the true elixir, they gave up. Up to now, there are almost no people practicing martial arts in the immortal cultivation world.
The book says that after building a martial arts foundation, one will be able to release true Qi. At that time, ordinary close combat martial arts will have the ability to launch long-range attacks, and one will also be able to fly in the air with true Qi. By then, the strength of a martial artist will basically not be inferior to that of a cultivator in the foundation-building stage.
Pills that increase magic power are useless for martial arts, so Li Yu can only practice on his own. Fortunately, he has a good talent for martial arts. Every time he practices, he can feel the subtle increase of his true energy.
While Li Yu was practicing in the yard, Ling'er was also on the lawn nearby, imitating him by flapping his two front paws and actually doing it quite well, looking like a little Kung Fu tiger.
Every time this happened, Zhou Zixuan would stand aside and watch, which caused Li Yu to lose focus. As he practiced, Ling'er was the only one left on the lawn...
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Kunlun Cave Heaven, Feilai Peak.
In front of a certain stall, which was obviously different from the other stalls, it was surrounded by disciples buying medicinal pills.
At this time, half a month had passed since Li Yu returned from Xu Ling Dong Tian. Ziyun Peak had only consumed half of the pills he had refined this month, so he could only do his old business.
Having just purchased a spirit boat worth 200,000 spirit coins, Li Yu is now very short of money.
However, Lingfang is a bit expensive, but it is definitely worth it.
Ten days ago, Li Yu drove a spirit boat and went back to Zhao State with Zhou Zixuan to visit her parents.
With the spirit boat, going out is much more convenient. As long as you adjust the direction, the spirit boat can automatically cruise at an altitude of 10,000 meters. Two people can drink tea and play chess in the cabin, which is very leisurely.
This time when she returned, Zhou Zixuan's identity was different from last time.
In a sense, her family is also Li Yu's family.
Li Yu carefully checked them, but unfortunately, except for her, no one in the Zhou family had the qualifications to practice cultivation. The spiritual energy could not gather through their bodies, and they could not embark on the path of cultivation.
The matter of spiritual cultivation is very cruel. If you don't have the qualifications, you don't have the qualifications. Even a strong person in the realm of transformation or breaking the void cannot allow ordinary people to embark on the path of cultivation.
However, although the Zhou family members cannot practice Taoism, with the elixirs left by Li Yu, as long as there are no external accidents, they will not be affected by diseases and will live a long life. There will be no problem.
The elixirs from the world of immortal cultivation are real elixirs for mortals.
In order to thank Li Yu for taking care of the Zhou family, Zhou Zixuan was very proactive on the return trip on the spirit boat. Naturally, there was another unforgettable lingering. Li Yu even forgot the time. The spirit boat flew over Kunlun Cave Heaven for a full hundred miles, and he had to turn back...
The pills refined by Li Yu have never had trouble selling. In just a quarter of an hour, all his remaining pills were sold out.
When he was about to return to Ziyun Peak, Li Yu heard a hawking voice suddenly.
"Jade Spirit Fruit, one plant only costs 800 Spirit Coins..."
Li Yu paused and looked towards a street stall.
The Jade Spirit Fruit is a third-level spiritual medicine. Li Yu can absorb the medicinal power of this level of spiritual medicine to open up his meridians. The reason why he cares about it is not only this reason, but also because the Jade Spirit Fruit is the main ingredient for refining the Tongmai Pill.
There are eighteen kinds of raw materials for Tongmai Pill, seventeen of which are second-level spiritual medicines and one is third-level. The first and second-level spiritual medicines can be cultivated within the sect, while the third-level spiritual medicines are natural treasures and cannot be cultivated artificially. Although Tongmai Pill is a second-level pill, the most important main ingredient is third-level.
Li Yu|The magic power in his body is already very strong. He has always wanted to try whether he can refine Tongmai Dan with his current magic power, plus the power of the mysterious alchemy furnace. If he is determined, he can also get the seventeen kinds of materials. The only thing he can't buy even if he has spirit coins is the Jade Spirit Fruit.
This thing is something that the sect only buys but does not sell.
However, third-level spiritual herbs and medicines would occasionally appear on Feilai Peak.
The sect's purchase price for these spiritual medicines is between five hundred and one thousand spiritual coins each. The value that these spiritual medicines themselves can create is of course far more than that, but their effects can only be developed in the hands of alchemists of the second rank or above. It is useless for low-level disciples to take them, so the sect's purchase price is not very high.
Those low-level disciples obviously knew this as well. Some of them accepted the loss silently, while others were unwilling to sell the spiritual medicines they obtained at the risk of their lives at a low price, and would choose to sell them at Feilai Peak. The price was much higher than the purchase price of the sect, but there were still many alchemists willing to buy them.
One ripe Jade Spirit Fruit can be used to refine three Tongmai Pills. This is certainly a good deal for those second-grade alchemists with a relatively high success rate.
Before Li Yu could speak, a figure walked up to the young disciple and said, "I want this Jade Spirit Fruit."
It was an old man, wearing the uniform of a second-grade alchemist.
The young disciple was delighted and was about to agree, but he glanced at the other figure behind the old man. He was stunned for a moment, then asked with some surprise: "Senior Brother Li, do you also want this Jade Spirit Fruit?"
Li Yu nodded and said with some regret: "It's a pity that I'm late..."
The young disciple smiled and said, "It's not too late. If Senior Brother Li wants it, I will give you this Jade Spirit Fruit for free."
Upon hearing this, the second-grade alchemist looked at him as if he was a fool. He had the spirit coins but was not going to earn them, but had to give them away for free. Was this disciple crazy?
Li Yu was also slightly stunned. Although he had some face among Kunlun's low-level disciples, he was not at the point where he could get third-level elixirs for free.
At this time, the young disciple explained: "Half a month ago, you rescued my brother among the ten Kunlun disciples from Xuling Cave Heaven. I don't have anything to thank you, so I will give you this Jade Spirit Fruit..."
In this case, the second-grade alchemist had nothing to say and could only leave with regret.
Although others said they would give it to him, a few hundred spirit coins was still a considerable amount of money for a low-level disciple. Li Yu did not want to take advantage of him, so he bought the Jade Spirit Fruit for a thousand spirit coins.
The young disciple insisted on not accepting it, but Li Yu took the Jade Spirit Fruit, left a thousand spirit coins, and then left without giving him a chance to refuse.
It was not until Li Yu's figure disappeared that the disciple reluctantly accepted the spirit coins.
Just as other disciples said, Senior Brother Li's character is really beyond reproach...
After obtaining the Jade Spirit Fruit, Li Yu, with the help of his connections, easily got the other materials for the Tongmai Pill from the various peaks of Dandao. Second-level spiritual medicines were not valuable, and they were planted on a large scale in their medicine gardens. Li Yu did not even spend a single spiritual coin.
Purple Cloud Peak.
Li Yu, who had just gathered all the materials, was eager to start the furnace and try it out. After returning to the villa, he came to Zhou Zixuan's room.
He couldn't touch the Jade Spirit Fruit directly with his hands, otherwise it would be sucked dry by the alchemy furnace. He needed her to help him extract the spiritual liquid.
It was for this purpose that he initially asked her to live with him.
But then, things changed a little bit...
But it's pretty much the same.
When young people try sex for the first time, they usually become addicted to it and lose control for a period of time. Zhou Zixuan saw that Li Yu was a little anxious, and thought it was obviously a misunderstanding. Her pretty face blushed and her hands were already on the belt.
Li Yu said quickly: "What are you thinking about? I just got up. Am I such a person who doesn't know how to control myself? I want to start refining the elixir. Please help me extract the spiritual liquid..."
Zhou Zixuan's face turned even redder and she ran towards the alchemy room as if escaping.
When passing by Li Yu, Li Yu held her slender waist and said with a smile: "Come back after you finish refining the elixir..."
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In the other courtyard, inside the alchemy room.
Zhou Zixuan had already prepared all the spiritual liquids for him. Li Yu took out the third-grade alchemy furnace that Junior Sister Zheng had given him, and added the spiritual liquids to the furnace one by one in strict accordance with the order of the alchemy recipe.
Next, comes the most critical refining step.
Li Yu himself certainly does not have the ability to refine the Tongmai Pill, but that is not necessarily the case when he is under custody.
A ball of flame rose in his hand, and his eyes looking towards the alchemy furnace gradually lost focus.
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After an unknown amount of time, Li Yu woke up from his trance.
The first was tiredness.
A tiredness that comes from the soul, exhausting both physically and mentally.
The magic power in his body was also drained away without a trace left. Fortunately, his true energy was still there, otherwise, he would have been too weak to stand.
Li Yu's eyes first turned to the alchemy furnace.
He didn't smell anything.
In the past, when he refined ten top-grade pills in one furnace, he could smell the faint fragrance of the pills even without opening the furnace lid.
But this time, no smell came out of the furnace.
Li Yu opened the furnace lid with a nervous mood and saw a pill lying in the furnace.
Second-level pills, unlike low-level first-level pills, are almost impossible to refine ten or eight at a time.
Even a third-grade alchemist with extremely mature skills can only produce one or two second-grade pills in one furnace. Of course, this is also related to the amount of materials. Li Yu just prepared the spiritual liquid according to three Tongmai Pills.
This time, even though he took care of the whole process, he only managed to refine one pill out of the three ingredients.
Li Yu stretched out his palm, and with a thought, the pill in the furnace slowly floated up and fell into his palm.
The first time he refined the Tongmai Pill, he was successful, but not completely.
The pill in his hand was indeed the Tongmai Pill, but it was a low-grade pill with only one danwen on it.
Whether it is the luster of the pill, the roundness of the pill body, or the concentration of the pill fragrance, it cannot be compared with the pills Li Yu had refined before.
Low-grade elixirs contain more poison than spiritual energy. No cultivator would be willing to take them unless it is an extremely critical moment or there is really no other choice.
The poison in a low-grade pill is more than ten times that of a high-grade pill. Moreover, taking a low-grade Tongmai Pill may not necessarily open up the acupuncture points, and there is a high chance of failure.
If the meridian flushing fails, the spent spirit coins will poison oneself, and a great deal of time will have to be spent afterwards to refine the poison, which is a loss of both the wife and the army.
Li Yu has always had extremely high demands on himself when it comes to alchemy. The elixir that comes out of the oven must at least be of top quality. This time of refining was of course a failure for him, and he wasted a Jade Spirit Fruit in vain.
The reasons for the failure are also very obvious.
The second-level elixir is an elixir that can only be refined during the foundation-building period.
Although the "quantity" of Li Yu's mana is not much weaker than that of the Foundation Establishment Stage, it has "quantity" but no "quality". It is not as condensed as the mana of the Foundation Establishment Stage, and the temperature of the mana fire cannot reach the requirements for refining second-grade elixirs. It is a miracle among miracles that he can refine a Tongmai Pill with a single danwen. This is enough to show how amazing the elixir furnace in his body is...
But Li Yu was too weak and couldn’t even carry such a miraculous magic weapon.
However, today's failure did allow Li Yu to verify one thing.
With this alchemy furnace, he can refine high-level elixirs across realms. His current magic power is not yet at the peak of Qi Refining. Once he has completed the cultivation of the Five Spiritual Veins, he will be able to refine a top-grade Tongmai Pill without building a foundation.
Although he couldn't use it at that time, he had a source of medicine for Senior Sister Zhou and Ling'er.
