The first volume debuts Chapter 83: Life and Death Stage!
"Shi Feng spends his days either refining pills or practicing. He only goes out to sell pills or buy herbs. We have never been able to find any handle to deal with him." Zhang Wen's expression improved after hearing the servant's explanation. To be honest, he was actually more anxious than the servant at this moment.
During this period, he sent people to investigate Li Xuanfeng. From the quantity of pills he sold and herbs he bought , he was able to roughly judge the success rate of Li Xuanfeng's pill refining.
There were only two words in his mind: horror!
After his investigation, he estimated that Li Xuanfeng's success rate in refining superior quality foundation-enhancing pills and perfect spirit-enhancing pills was as high as 30% to 40%!
However, Zhang Wen's success rate in refining the perfect spiritual base pill himself was only 10% to 20%, which was about twice as high as his!
This is the case when Li Xuanfeng's cultivation is much lower than his. If they were at the same level of cultivation, Zhang Wen couldn't imagine how high Shi Feng's success rate would be!
Because Li Xuanfeng sold a large quantity of these two kinds of pills, he had even lowered the prices of these two kinds of pills a lot.
In fact, what Zhang Wen didn’t know was that Li Xuanfeng had long anticipated that someone would investigate him, and was worried that someone would discover that his success rate was too high, so he kept 20% of the pills for himself. His actual success rate had reached 60%!
"Master Zhang, I have a suggestion. You can consider starting with his attendant Jiang Liu." The attendant smiled sinisterly after hearing this!
Zhang Wen's attendants hated Jiang Liu to the core, but they had seen Jiang Liu walking around the city freely during this period of time, and they had no way to deal with him. The depression in his heart had been lingering and he felt irritated.
“But Jiang Liu is only a servant in the Rongling realm. I’m afraid he can’t use this to threaten Shi Feng!” Zhang Wen said after thinking deeply. He didn’t think he could use Jiang Liu to threaten Li Xuanfeng.
In his opinion, the servants were too insignificant. Even a servant at the Spiritual Foundation Realm was just a chess piece that could be discarded at any time, let alone a servant at the Spiritual Fusion Realm!
“Even if Shi Feng doesn’t care about this little servant, he can still make him lose face and be embarrassed, which will affect his mood!” the servant continued.
For alchemists, a calm state of mind is very important, because they need to accurately control the flame and spiritual power. An uneasy state of mind can easily affect the success rate of alchemy.
In fact, he was more concerned about destroying Jiang Liu. With this explanation, even if he could not successfully deal with Shi Feng, he could still get rid of the thorn in his side, Jiang Liu!
"Good idea. Even if we can't deal with Shi Feng directly, affecting his state of mind can also reduce his chances of success in alchemy!"
After hearing this, Zhang Wen suddenly became enlightened and laughed out loud, praising the attendant.
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Since Jiang Liu entered the Rongling Realm, he often went to the shops and teahouses in Xuanling City to inquire about the affairs of the cultivation world. He also looked up books about the cultivation world and began to increase his understanding of the cultivation world.
In two months, he has already understood the basic cultivation system clearly, and knows that in the cultivation world, everything is determined by strength, and the strong are respected.
He even knew that the preacher was his teacher and wanted to worship Li Xuanfeng as his teacher, but Li Xuanfeng's answer was calm and unquestionable.
"I am not qualified to accept a disciple yet. I am only teaching you the skills to accept a disciple on behalf of the sect."
In Li Xuanfeng's impression, only the Spirit Infant Elders would accept disciples, but outside the sect, there were also many people with low cultivation who accepted disciples.
He didn't want Jiang Liu to follow him, because he would fight for his life and death for revenge in the future. Li Xuanfeng's plan was to bring Jiang Liu to Xuanling Sect if he had the chance, and let him practice peacefully in Xuanling Sect.
"Okay, then I'll continue to call you Brother Feng." Seeing that Li Xuanfeng insisted, Jiang Liu had no choice but to agree.
When Li Xuanfeng broke through to the middle stage of spiritual foundation, it caused a strong turbulence in the spiritual energy in the room. Jiang Liu felt it and immediately opened his eyes and stopped practicing.
After the spiritual energy calmed down, he asked Li Xuanfeng and the answer he got was a breakthrough to the middle stage of spiritual foundation.
This made Jiang Liu even more surprised. From what he knew, Zhang Wen and Su Mingke both reached the late stage or even perfect spiritual foundation before becoming top-class alchemists. He did not expect that Li Xuanfeng was only in the early stage of spiritual foundation when he was certified.
After breaking through the middle stage of spiritual foundation, Li Xuanfeng's spiritual power doubled again, and the spiritual foundation in his body began to appear crystal-clear, which was a phenomenon of extremely condensed spiritual power.
The success rate of refining the Foundation-Upgrading Pill has increased again, and even the quality has improved a little bit, and is beginning to approach perfect quality. It seems that if one's cultivation breaks through to the late stage of the spiritual foundation, one can refine the perfect Foundation-Upgrading Pill.
When there was only half a month left before the Alchemy Conference, Li Xuanfeng, who was refining the elixir, opened his eyes, took out the sound transmission jade slip to check, and saw that the sound transmission jade slip was vibrating violently!
Li Xuanfeng immediately opened the jade slip. This level of vibration indicated that it was an emergency message!
"Brother Shi, your servant has been captured and is on the life and death stage. He is threatening to be executed immediately!"
This was the message sent by Su Ming. After hearing it, a gloomy look flashed across Li Xuanfeng's calm eyes. He rushed out of the room and headed for the duel arena.
Private fights are prohibited in Danling City, but there is a duel field in the city. The duel field has an ordinary duel stage. There is also a life and death stage, which can decide the winner and loser, as well as life and death!
Li Xuanfeng quickly rushed to the duel arena and saw that next to the life and death stage, a big man was grabbing Jiang Liu's hands with one hand and lifting them in the air. There was blood at the corners of Jiang Liu's mouth!
Jiang Liu saw Li Xuanfeng coming, his eyes flashed with surprise, but also with worry. Su Ming was not far away, and did not come out to mediate, but just informed Li Xuanfeng.
"I wonder how Shi's servant offended you? I apologize on behalf of the servant. If there is any loss, I am willing to double the compensation."
Li Xuanfeng clasped his fists and bowed and asked, if it could be resolved peacefully, he did not want to cause a conflict, after all, he had just arrived in Danling City.
He felt a little puzzled. The aura of this big man was similar to that of Wang Chong at that time. His cultivation had already reached the perfection of spiritual foundation, so how could he have a conflict with Jiang Liu?
He already knew Jiang Liu's personality. He was not the kind of person who would cause trouble. After entering the cultivation world and knowing the huge gap between the strong and the weak in cultivation, he became much more restrained. He did not want to cause trouble for Li Xuanfeng, and even made a few friends in the city.
"You, a servant, bumped into me in a hurry and asked me to apologize, but you still dared to insult me. Today I will fight him on the stage of life and death! Send him to hell." The big man shouted in a rough voice.
Li Xuanfeng's eyes flashed, and the gloom in his eyes deepened again.
What a joke! With your perfect spiritual foundation, if you don't want to be hit by Jiang Liu, who is in the early stage of spiritual fusion, it will be useless even if Jiang Liu chases you at full speed.
It was obvious that he came here to cause trouble, but he did not seize the opportunity to find Li Xuanfeng, so he started with Jiang Liu.
"Brother Feng, he asked me to kneel down and kowtow a hundred times to apologize, but I didn't do it. I didn't scold him." Jiang Liu explained with grievance.
"Shi would like to apologize to you on behalf of my servant. You can offer compensation and I will bear the full responsibility." Li Xuanfeng suppressed his anger and was still thinking about settling the matter peacefully with compensation.
"Your servant has no sense of dignity. No compensation will be of any use today. I just want to send him to hell today!"
But the big man was not moved at all, and seemed to only want to go up to the life and death stage and kill Jiang Liu.
"This Tian Guang is really shameless. He let an attendant at the early stage of spiritual integration fight him on the stage of life and death. What's the difference between that and sticking out your head for him to chop off?"
Although the crowd was unhappy about it, they only talked in low voices, not daring to let Tian Guang hear.
"This servant of mine has a low level of cultivation, so please spare his life. I am willing to compensate you with thirty top-grade foundation-enhancing pills."
The onlookers were extremely surprised when they heard this. Thirty top-grade foundation-enhancing pills were worth nearly 20,000 spirit stones, which was not a small amount for a man with perfect spirit foundation. They didn't expect that Li Xuanfeng was willing to pay such a high price for a little attendant in the early stage of spirit fusion.
"Even if you offer a hundred top-grade foundation-enhancing pills, it will be useless. I only want his life today!" But the big man still refused to give in.
The crowd that had been watching discovered that before Li Xuanfeng arrived, the big man had been constantly humiliating Jiang Liu, trying to provoke him to sign a life and death agreement and go on stage.
But when Li Xuanfeng arrived, he ignored Jiang Liu and just kept arguing with Li Xuanfeng. It seemed that his target was not Jiang Liu, but Li Xuanfeng!
Li Xuanfeng had already seen that the big man wanted to threaten him with Jiang Liu, and his previous words were just a test. It would be best if the matter could be resolved peacefully.
"Brother Shi, Tian Guang wants to threaten you with Jiang Liu. He has a perfect spiritual foundation and strong combat power. Don't be fooled by him!" Su Ming had seen the big man's intention and reminded him.
It was precisely because of Tian Guang's strong fighting power that Su Ming only informed Li Xuanfeng and did not go directly to help Jiang. Seeing that Tian Guang was unwilling to let Jiang Liu go, he suggested that Li Xuanfeng abandon Jiang Liu, after all, Jiang Liu was just an attendant of Rong Ling Realm.
The status of a second-level superior alchemist is noble, even higher than that of the great man Tian Guang who has perfected his spiritual foundation, so he dare not target Li Xuanfeng directly.
If Li Xuanfeng didn't care about Jiang Liu, Tian Guang would have no way to deal with Li Xuanfeng. The most he could do was to humiliate Jiang Liu constantly and force him to go on the life and death stage, so that Li Xuanfeng would be humiliated and affect his mood.
However, Li Xuanfeng's calm words made the onlookers and Su Ming open their eyes wide!
"This servant of mine has low cultivation and his fighting ability is not even a fraction of yours. Why don't I take his place on the life and death stage?"
