Chapter 125 Changes

Back in the yard, Chen Luo unfolded the formula for the foundation-building pill given to him by the old corpse ghost and read the contents carefully.

"This pill formula seems to be a little wrong?"

Chen Luo put the pill formula next to the candle flame and burned it into ashes bit by bit. He frowned and carefully pondered the logic of the combination of spiritual materials in it. The brains of other alchemists in his mind could not help. As far as alchemy was concerned, he had surpassed those low-level alchemists in the Qi Refining Period.

At first glance, there was nothing wrong with the pill formula given to him by the old corpse ghost, but several methods of using medicine were inconsistent with the current cultivation world.

Although he had not seen other foundation-building pill formulas, he could still detect the differences in them. The pill formula given to him by the old corpse ghost was likely from a large tomb. The ancient alchemy techniques in it reminded him of the knowledge he learned from his teacher Changqing Zhenren when he was in the Yue Kingdom Tomb.

"Find a chance to try it. Except for a few main herbs, everything else is easy to buy. Next time Zhu Jie comes, ask her to help buy one."

Chen Luo stood up and brushed his sleeves to disperse the dust.

Blow out the candle and close your eyes to practice.

One night passed.

In the morning, Chen Luo opened his eyes after finishing his Qi training. Before he got up, he heard a knock on the door.

He frowned, got up and walked over.

"Junior Brother Chen, Junior Brother Chen!"

The voice of Senior Brother Hu Qiudao came from outside.

"Senior Brother Hu?"

Chen Luo opened the door and saw Hu Qiudao standing at the door waiting anxiously. Seeing Chen Luo coming out, Hu Qiudao grabbed him and said in a pleading tone.

"Junior Brother, do me a favor."

"The old man wants to see you."

Chen Luo was stunned and realized instantly that it was the old man of the Hu family who wanted to see him. The old man who went to the valley with them to compete for the foundation-building spiritual objects is also back. Chen Luo originally wanted to wait for a while, and then go to Hu's house to check the situation after the storm calmed down. Now it seems that there is no need to wait.

"Let's go."

It's just right to go over and take a look, and ask what happened to Mr. Hu that day.

The two soon arrived at Hu's house.

As soon as he pushed the door, Chen Luo smelled a strong smell of herbs. Looking at the bed, Mr. Hu, who was once the top master of Mushan City and the thirteenth level of Qi Refining, now looked like an old man who was terminally ill. He was withered and looked like a human, with deep sunken eyes and dull eyes. The spiritual energy in his body was almost dissipated.

No wonder Hu Qiudao was so anxious, Mr. Hu was already terminally ill.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, are you here?"

Mr. Hu wanted to sit up, but he struggled twice without success. Seeing this, Hu Qiudao stepped forward quickly and helped the old man up. Then he quickly picked up the medicine bowl next to him and poured a bowl of black spiritual medicine for the old man.

"I failed this time. I didn't expect to meet the alliance of independent cultivators and the corpse-raising sect working together."

Grandpa Hu drank a mouthful of medicine, and his complexion improved a little. He showed a bitter smile to Chen Luo.

"I don't know who the spiritual object fell into the hands of in the end."

Grandpa Hu didn't know what was behind it. He had been away from Shenhu Xianmen for too long, and his information channels were not as good as those of the old ghost.

"Nine Poison Valley."

Chen Luo gave him an answer.

Grandpa Hu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly.

"So that's it."

A trace of relief flashed in his eyes.

Foundation building is difficult.

It is even more difficult for independent cultivators. Without the support of a sect, it is almost impossible to obtain foundation building resources. He practiced for half a lifetime and finally reached the peak of the thirteenth level of Qi Refining. The door to foundation building was right in front of him, but he couldn't rush through. His current blood and qi were not enough to support him to force his way through.

"This time I was greedy." Grandpa Hu laughed at himself.

Being cautious all his life, he finally failed.

"I asked you to come here because I want to ask you a favor."

Grandpa Hu let it go and stopped talking about this topic.

"Our Hu family has been operating in Mushan City for 170 years. The operation of five generations cannot be stopped in my hands." As he spoke, Grandpa Hu took out a black token from his chest. He now has no spiritual power to use the storage bag.

Chen Luo took the token and took a look.

This is a square token, different from the Loose Cultivator Alliance, and it seems to belong to another force.

"This is the token of the royal family of Sheguo. Every year on the eighth day of March, the royal family will hold an exchange meeting, and our Hu family is also invited. On the surface, it is mainly for cultivators to exchange experiences and auction materials, but in fact it is a redistribution of the interests of Sheguo by cultivators. If you don't go this time, Mushan City will be allocated to others. Qiudao is too weak. He doesn't have the strength of the late stage of Qi Refining. He can't keep the foundation even if he goes. I hope you can help him for my sake." Grandpa Hu said very sincerely, and his words have put Chen Luo on the same level as him.

In the world of immortal cultivation, strength is respected.

Grandpa Hu saw it more thoroughly than Hu Qiudao.

After saying that, without waiting for Chen Luo to answer, Grandpa Hu took out something from the side.

"Thousand-year spiritual ginseng!"

Chen Luo had eaten a spiritual ginseng before, but it was an ordinary hundred-year spiritual ginseng. The thing that Grandpa Hu took out would make even a cultivator at the perfect stage of Qi Refining be tempted, because one of the main spiritual materials recorded in the foundation-building pill formula is the thousand-year spiritual ginseng!

"This is the reward."

"I know."

Chen Luo took the spiritual ginseng and put it into the storage bag. This gift is very valuable.

This spiritual ginseng should have been prepared by Mr. Hu for himself, but it was a pity that he didn't gather all the materials until his death. He was about to die, so he simply took out the things as a favor. Not only did he find a backer for the Hu family, but he could also eliminate the hidden dangers brought by the spiritual objects. It can be said that he killed two birds with one stone.

Chen Luo also understood what Mr. Hu meant, so he did not hide the process of taking the things, so that everyone inside and outside the Hu family saw it. After the news was passed on, no one would come to the Hu family to cause trouble.

The exchange meeting was not a difficult matter for him. It just so happened that he also needed some spiritual materials for refining foundation pills, so he went to buy them together. I hope that the exchange meeting held by the royal family of Sheguo can be a little higher-end.

Hu Qiudao stood by the side throughout the whole process. The longer he left the Xianmen, the less he spoke and the greater the change in his mentality. Now, it is difficult for him to look at Chen Luo, his junior brother, as he did at the beginning. When communicating with Chen Luo, he gradually became cautious, just like facing the elders of the Xianmen.

Outside, the changes brought by strength are more intuitive than the Xianmen.

After leaving the Hu family, Chen Luo first went to the Loose Cultivator Alliance to find Zhu Jie. As a cooperative alchemist of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, he still had to say hello to Zhu Jie when he left Mushan City.

"Exchange meeting? It's just right, I want to go too."

After learning Chen Luo's destination, Zhu Jie chose to go with him without saying a word. She was going to go too. The Loose Cultivator Alliance has always participated in the division of interests in She Country, and now it's just a few days in advance.

In She Country, there are only two most valuable areas, one is the capital, and the other is Shenfeng County.

Both places have teleportation points of Shenhu Xianmen, and when the cross-domain flying boat comes, it will stop at these two places. Disciples with spiritual roots who want to join Shenhu Xianmen must go to these two places first. The Black Mountain Village where Chen Luo and Xie Shuang came by teleportation array is under the jurisdiction of Shenfeng County.

In the division of interests in She Country, the capital and Shenfeng County are both must-fight places.

Relatively speaking, the value of other places is not that high. For example, the Muwang Domain where Mushan City is located is defined as a remote and poor place. When Zhu Jie was first assigned here, she was full of resentment and felt that she had lost a lot. After meeting Chen Luo, she changed her mind.

"Then let's go together."

Chen Luo nodded in agreement. After all, one more person would not make much difference, and one less person would not make much difference.

This time he went there mainly to collect foundation-building materials and prepare for the foundation-building later. The old mummy ghost only had one spiritual material in his hand. With this potentially problematic foundation-building pill recipe, it was unknown what would be made. In order to ensure that everything was foolproof, Chen Luo decided to find a material to practice first. By the way, he would go to the royal family of Sheguo to see if he could find some more valuable brains.

It would be best if it was a second-level alchemist.

If that didn't work, digging graves would also work.

Half a day later.

Hu Qiudao came again. The difference was that this time he changed into mourning clothes, and his tone of voice when talking to Chen Luo was much more respectful. He no longer addressed him as a junior brother, but as "Senior Chen".

He seemed to have matured all of a sudden.

Chen Luo sighed, and went to the Hu family with Hu Qiudao to bid farewell to Mr. Hu. Standing in front of the mourning hall, looking at Mr. Hu being put into the coffin, Chen Luo gave up the idea of ​​collecting the brain for the first time.

Looking at the crying Hu family members around and the mourning hall covered with black cloth, he went over to light a stick of incense, and then left.

It was raining outside the house.

It was drizzling.

Chen Luo walked alone on the street, feeling a little cold. Thinking of the scene of Mr. Hu lying in the coffin in his mind, his heart towards the Tao became more and more determined.

Building the foundation, forming the elixir.

Even becoming an immortal for eternity!

Half a month later.

After packing up their things, Chen Luo, Hu Qiudao, and Zhu Jie got on a carriage to the capital.

There was no teleportation point for cross-domain flying boats near Mushan City, so they could only take a carriage.

After walking for more than ten days, the three of them finally entered the city with a flying boat node nearby. After paying six spirit stones, the three of them boarded the flying boat to the capital of Sheguo.

This flying boat is not as good as the cross-domain flying boat of Shenhu Xianmen. The flying boat is only about 20 meters long and the number of people on board is very limited. On weekdays, this flying boat is basically not started, because there are not so many immortal cultivators in Sheguo, and consumables in units of spirit stones are even less used.

"This flying boat was made by the Tiangongyuan of the royal family. The worshiper used to be an inner disciple of Shenhu Xianmen's Shenhuo Peak. After failing to break through the foundation building, he returned to Sheguo. It took 13 years for the whole country to build these five flying boats."

Sitting on the flying boat, Zhu Jie introduced the flying boat under his feet to Chen Luo.

The power of the Loose Cultivator Alliance is very large. In terms of information control, it has reached the first level of the sect. What it lacks is the top-level Dinghaishenzhen. If a Jindan cultivator appears in the Loose Cultivator Alliance, the power of the Loose Cultivator Alliance will immediately be promoted to become the fourth largest sect in the land of the countries.

"It's already very powerful."

Chen Luo looked at the flying boat under his feet. He could clearly sense the magic weapon patterns running inside and several simple wind-proof formations. At the level of Qi Refining, this kind of flying boat is already the top skill. Going up is the realm of foundation-building cultivators. The one in the Tiangongyuan of Sheguo has not reached that level yet.

Chen Luo's current level of alchemy is probably at this level.

Peak of the first level, less than the second level.

The flying boat is very fast, and the three of them arrived at the capital of Sheguo two days later.

Compared with Mushan City, the prosperity of the capital is like another world. From the architectural structure and street layout here, you can see the outline of some Shenhu Xianmen. All the direct royal members of the She Kingdom have gone to the Shenhu Immortal Sect to practice cultivation. There are even rumors that the backer behind the royal family of the She Kingdom is the elder of the Shenhu Immortal Sect, a foundation-building immortal cultivator!

Where Chen Luo and the others landed, there were already people waiting to greet them.

In the extravagant country, those who cultivate immortality are superior to others. Those who use spiritual stones to ride on flying boats will have a higher status.

Because this means that the other party is a wealthy immortal cultivator.

"Invite the three of you."

"The exchange meeting has already started?"

Chen Luo thought that after arriving in the capital, he would have to wait ten days and a half before officially entering the exchange meeting. He did not expect that the royal family of She Kingdom would do things so efficiently and start immediately.

"We are all cultivating immortals. Who has the time to waste that time? Those who come first may not necessarily give face to the royal family of She Kingdom. In the world of cultivating immortals, strength is the most important thing."

Zhujie looked calm. This was not the first time she had come here, so she naturally knew the process of the exchange meeting.

After entering the gate, the person who led the way retreated on his own. Zhu Jie took Chen Luo and Hu Qiudao to the inner courtyard.

The venue for the exchange meeting was specially designated by the royal family of the She Kingdom, and the entire area was used for trading. After entering the inner garden, Chen Luo saw many immortal cultivators setting up stalls. Most of them were in the first three levels of Qi Refining. The items on display were also ordinary items. Among these items, Chen Luo also saw some ordinary martial arts. Cheats, and some neatly crafted trinkets.

"There's basically nothing good out there. Only the trash in the early stages of Qi refining hang around here." A trace of disdain flashed in Zhu Jie's eyes.

She was easy to talk to in front of Chen Luo because Chen Luo was an alchemist.

It's different for others.

Hu Qiudao followed Chen Luo and watched silently. Mr. Hu is gone, and the Hu family will have to rely on him to support it from now on. I have to start learning things that I didn’t know before.

"Ask you something."

"What?" Zhu Jie looked back.

"Is there any cemetery of immortal cultivators near the capital? It would be best to have a tomb of a foundation-building or elixir-forming cultivator, or an ancient battlefield." Chen Luo asked sincerely.

He is such a down-to-earth person and doesn't like to beat around the bush.

Asking for a monthly ticket. . If you're passing by, don't miss it.