Chapter 164 Great Advancement in Strength (4800 Words Long Chapter)

"It actually worked! Are you a genius in alchemy?!"

As the Yuanhun Jinye was successfully refined for the first time, the voice of the black spider in shock sounded in Zhou Qing's heart.

According to its original expectation, it would take at least half a year to a year of practice for Zhou Qing to succeed once by chance, but it was unexpected that it would be so early.

Moreover, the quality of this Yuanhun Jinye is not bad, it doesn't look like a lucky success.

"Then I don't know." Zhou Qing smiled faintly. This time, the progress of refining the Yuanhun Jindan increased by 21 points.

This is the result of him refining one part in three times. If it is refined normally into one Yuanhun Jindan, the progress should be increased by 50 to 60 points.

After more than a dozen times, alchemy will enter the next stage.

"Let's see how the improved Yuanhun Jinye works first."

The black spider was a little impatient. After all, this was the first time he assisted Zhou Qing in improving the pill formula wholeheartedly, and he was still very concerned about success or failure.

"Well." Zhou Qing nodded and took out the jade shovel to scoop up the light golden liquid inside.

"Crack!"

The pale golden Yuanhun Jinye didn't seem to have any cold air leaking out, but as soon as the jade shovel touched it, a layer of white frost instantly condensed, and the next moment it was directly frozen and cracked, breaking into several pieces.

"Such a strong cold air!" Zhou Qing's eyes condensed, fortunately he didn't get too arrogant and touched it directly with his hand.

The power of this Yuanhun Jinye is completely restrained, and there is no abnormality from the outside.

"It seems that ordinary utensils cannot contain Yuanhun Jinye."

The black spider said in a deep voice.

"But judging from the effect, the blood power of Bingpo Xuanzhu has been fully stimulated."

"Not only ordinary utensils can't work, but even this alchemy furnace can't work." Zhou Qing looked at the fine cracks on the surface of the alchemy furnace and frowned slightly.

Although Wuchenzi's alchemy furnace is not a magic weapon, its quality is still good. Unexpectedly, it can't withstand the cold air contained in the Yuanhun Jinye.

"Your Wood King Cauldron Magical Weapon can temporarily replace the alchemy furnace to refine Yuanhun Jinye, and can refine the second-level Bingsha Gu, become a second-level Gu Master, or break through the blood exchange realm. It's not too late for you to find a top-quality alchemy furnace." Xuan Zhu pondered. "For the time being, this is the only way." Zhou Qing nodded. The quality of the Wood King Cauldron Magical Weapon is absolutely sufficient, but it consumes more true essence to activate it. Yuanhun Jinye is not a real elixir, but a modified medicinal liquid. The difficulty of refining it at the second level is mainly because the medicinal materials used are too precious. To refine real elixirs, professional alchemy furnaces are still needed, and the Wood King Cauldron Magical Weapon cannot be used as a substitute. "Buzz buzz buzz!" In order to further test the effect of Yuanhun Jinye, Zhou Qing released the ice silkworm Gu. The ice silkworm Gu, which is as big as a human head, fell on the edge of the alchemy furnace like an ice ball, and its protruding eyes stared at the light golden liquid in the alchemy furnace, as if filled with some kind of desire. "Go!" Zhou Qing controlled the ice silkworm Gu to fall into the alchemy furnace. "Crack, crack, crack!"

Even if it was a mutated ice silkworm, it would quickly condense a layer of white frost on its body after falling into the Yuanhun Jinye, and soon it would be covered by thick ice.

However, through the induction of the true essence, Zhou Qing knew that the ice silkworm was not dangerous, but was just absorbing the pure ice spirit coldness in the Yuanhun Jinye.

In this way, after a whole day and night, the ice on the surface of the ice silkworm melted, and the Yuanhun Jinye in the alchemy furnace completely disappeared, absorbed and refined by the ice silkworm.

[Refining: Double-winged ice silkworm]

[Grade: First-grade top grade (cannot evolve, can be combined)]

[Progress: Breaking the limit body (800/800)]

"The effect is so strong?!" The ice silkworm did not change significantly on the surface, but when Zhou Qing checked the information about the ice silkworm on the jade scepter, he was surprised and happy.

Since he lived in Nanli County, the Qilian Mountains were one or two hundred miles away from here, and it was not as convenient to go back and forth as in Heishan Town, so Zhou Qing basically went out once a month to enter the Qilian Mountains to collect poisonous insects.

The number of ice silkworms has not exceeded one hundred so far.

However, although the number is far less than before, the strength of these surviving ice silkworms has greatly increased.

Except for the strongest mutant ice silkworm, which already has a powerful combat power comparable to that of a bone refining realm martial artist, the individual strength of other ice silkworms is also very close to the tendon refining level.

Hundreds of ice silkworms close to the tendon refining level are enough to deal with multiple bone refining realm martial artists.

If these ice silkworms can evolve to the first-level extreme, then facing hundreds of first-level extreme ice silkworms, ordinary blood exchange realm martial artists can only flee.

"One third of the Yuanhun Golden Liquid allows the golden silkworm to grow directly to the upper limit." Zhou Qing caught the mutant ice silkworm in his hand and finally found the difference.

Even if the ice silkworm restrained the ice soul coldness in his body, he still felt a chill that penetrated his bones.

You know, his physical strength is not comparable to that of an ordinary bone refining realm martial artist.

"Do you have a strong talent in refining Gu? Your Ice Silkworm Gu has grown to such a level?"

The black spider appeared beside Zhou Qing and looked at the Ice Silkworm Gu in Zhou Qing's hand in surprise.

It now occupies the body of the Corpse Worm Gu King, so its perception of Gu is much stronger than Zhou Qing's. It found that the ice soul coldness in the Ice Silkworm Gu had undergone a qualitative change, and this process only took a short day.

"It should be possible to use this Ice Silkworm Gu and the Wood Spirit Corpse to refine it together." Zhou Qing asked.

"More than enough." Xuan Zhu pondered, "However, you'd better prepare more Yuanhun Jinye, so that the success rate can be guaranteed to the maximum extent."

"Of course." Zhou Qing nodded and put the Ice Silkworm Gu and the Corpse Worm Gu King into the Yuanqiao.

He left the backyard and went to Wanbao Pavilion in the inner city. He used the last few thousand taels of silver on him to buy thirty auxiliary medicines for refining Yuanhun Jinye.

Thirty portions of medicinal materials can be divided into ninety times of refining.

Even if the success rate is one in ten, it can succeed nine times.

What's more, he has succeeded once, so his proficiency will continue to improve.

Before all the medicinal materials are consumed, the progress of alchemy should enter the next stage.

After Zhou Qing put away the medicinal materials, he returned home and wrote two letters, asking Lan Lan to pass them to Han Qingqing and Lu Yan.

He has been in the county city for more than five months. It's time to go back, but he should come again soon.

Han Wending led the Shenwei Camp in Nanli County City and was still fighting with the Wuxi Barbarians. He might not be able to return in a short time, so Zhou Qing planned to visit Han's family again when the next war ended and Han Wending returned.

When Lan Lan left the house to deliver the letter, Zhou Qing had packed his luggage, rode a tall horse, and went straight out of the north gate of Nanli County City, galloping away.

A moment later, when Zhou Qing's figure completely disappeared, a girl in white riding a red-brown horse appeared outside the county city.

Then, a young man in a Taoist robe appeared behind her on a black horse.

"Brother Zhou is really too much!" Han Qingqing pouted.

"Brother Zhou left straightforwardly, and he is also a wonderful person." Lu Yan arched his hands towards the empty woods in front of him.

Snap!

"You shouldn't leave without saying goodbye!" Han Qingqing waved the whip in a gruff manner, and a burst of sound suddenly came in the air.

After receiving the letter from Lan Lan, she went to Zhou Qing's house as soon as possible, but it was empty.

She ran into Lu Yan when she left the house, and went to the north gate together, but they were still late.

"Didn't Brother Zhou say that he would come to visit the Han family again when his uncle came back." Lu Yan nodded.

"He didn't even wait for us to see him off." Han Qingqing was still a little unhappy.

"Why? Are you so reluctant to let Brother Zhou leave? Then next time I go to Ping'an County, I can take you with me." Lu Yan said with a smile.

"What... What reluctance?! Cousin, don't you want Brother Zhou to stay for a few more days? Although he has lived in the city for five months, he has been practicing behind closed doors most of the time, and we haven't treated him well. If... Dad knew about it, he would definitely blame us for not being hospitable and not paying enough attention to our savior."

Han Qingqing said seriously, but his eyes were a little erratic.

"Oh? Is that so?" Lu Yan looked at Han Qingqing with a smile.

"Of course it is!" Han Qingqing glared at him.

"Then next time I go to Ping'an County, I will go by myself." Lu Yan teased.

"Hmph! Then I will go find him myself!" Han Qingqing blurted out. As soon as she finished speaking, she felt that this was inappropriate and her cheeks were hot.

After speaking, she waved the whip, turned around and returned to the city.

Let's talk about two things.

On the other side, Zhou Qing galloped for hundreds of miles and stopped in a small town when it was dark.

At dawn the next day, he found that his horse was in a bad state and seemed to be sick.

This red-brown horse was given by Han Qingqing and was worth a thousand taels. It was a real sweat-blood horse.

So Zhou Qing found an escort agency in the town and asked them to send the horse back to Heishan Town, and then he left alone.

When his cultivation reached this level, he ran no slower than a good horse, and his endurance was much stronger than that of a horse.

Why do all masters have mounts? The style is one aspect, but more importantly, running will make you tired, how can you ride a horse easily?

However, the remaining distance was only a few hundred miles, which was nothing for Zhou Qing now. He could travel in two days and it was easy.

When it got dark again, Zhou Qing stayed in the forest in the wild.

He took out the hazelnuts bought from Baixiangxuan in the county city from the leather bag and ate them. He brought them for the old lady and bought some to bring to Liang Chao, Xu Lin and others.

"It tastes really good. Not sweet." Zhou Qing ate the hazelnut crisp and gave the highest praise a dessert could get.

After eating three hazelnut crisps, Zhou Qing couldn't help but pick up the fourth one. When he was about to put it in his mouth, he suddenly paused, a strange smile appeared on his face, and then put the hazelnut crisp into his mouth, chewing it slowly.

After eating the hazelnut crisp in his hand, Zhou Qing stood up and patted the food residue on his hand.

"Just right, some exercise after dinner."

At this time, a strange sound came from the bushes in front of the forest. Two pitch-black arrows shot out under the dim moonlight. The arrowheads glowed with a cold blue light, obviously poisoned.

Facing the arrows that hit his face, Zhou Qing just stretched out his right hand lightly.

Buzz!

The silk-wrapped ice power gathered in Zhou Qing's palm like a substance, and spread out to the surroundings. The dim moonlight shone on the power, twisting and refracting, forming a blue-white twisted texture, as if there was a vortex in Zhou Qing's palm.

Ka-ka-ka!

The two pitch-black arrows rotated at a high speed less than a foot away from his palm, but could not move forward an inch. The entire arrow body condensed a layer of white frost at a very fast speed, and quickly froze into an ice sculpture, and finally shattered inch by inch.

Swoosh!

At this moment, a sharp sound of breaking through the air suddenly came from behind Zhou Qing. A nearly transparent flying knife flew from a hundred meters away. In the blink of an eye, it was less than one meter away from him and hit his back.

It turned out that the two arrows in front were just feints, and the flying knife behind was the real fatal blow.

Clang! !

The next moment, a loud noise came, and the transparent flying knife flew backwards, and a blue-white ice crystal the size of a human head appeared on Zhou Qing's back.

Cracks appeared on the ice crystal, spreading out like a spider web, and finally covered the entire ice crystal. As a piece of debris fell, the entire ice crystal shattered, revealing the blue-white hideous beetle inside.

Chi——!

The mouthparts of the ice silkworm Gu opened and closed, spitting out a ball of white cold air that was as real as substance.

"Since you are here, why hide your head and show your tail." Zhou Qing turned around.

"Good Gu worm!"

An old man in green robes walked out from behind the tree, holding a translucent flying knife between his fingers. The whole person exuded a sharp and domineering aura, as if a precious sword would be unsheathed at any time.

The old man in green robes stared at the ice silkworm Gu worm in front of Zhou Qing.

"Good Kung Fu!"

At this time, a masked man in black jumped out of the bushes behind Zhou Qing. This man was not tall, but his body was very strong, his arms were over his knees, and he looked very conspicuous.

"I have never met the three of you, why did you attack me?" Zhou Qing said lightly.

The masked man in black heard the words, his eyes were stern, he didn't expect Zhou Qing to even find another martial artist who didn't show up.

He immediately smiled and bowed, "Brother Zhou misunderstood, it's all a misunderstanding."

"Three martial artists in the bone refining realm think highly of me. So, my red-brown horse was also poisoned by the three of you, right?" Zhou Qing said calmly.

"Just put a little croton." The masked man in black said with a smile.

"The three of us are casual cultivators in the vicinity. We are a little short of money recently, so we want to borrow some money from Brother Zhou. With Brother Zhou's wealth of tens of thousands of taels of silver, it shouldn't be a problem to borrow 30,000 taels of silver."

"20,000 taels is enough!" The old man in green robe suddenly interrupted.

The black-clothed masked man's eyes fixed, and just as he was about to speak, the old man in green robe added: "I want your poisonous insect."

"No problem." Zhou Qing nodded.

"Brother Zhou is indeed a..." The black-clothed masked man smiled, but he did not relax his vigilance.

"Ah!"

Suddenly, a scream came from the bushes.

The black-clothed masked man's face changed, and he felt a flash in front of his eyes. Zhou Qing's figure turned into a residual image, and instantly crossed a distance of more than ten meters and appeared in front of him, and his right palm slapped his face.

"You?!"

The black-clothed masked man was shocked and angry, but as a martial artist in the bone refining realm, his reaction was not slow at all, and his blood and qi instantly gathered towards his right arm.

"Crack."

The muscles in his right arm, which were originally thick, quickly swelled with blood, stretching the loose sleeves tight, and finally broke directly, revealing a ferocious right arm that was thicker than many people's thighs. A light golden boxing glove was worn on the fist as big as a casserole, and it suddenly met Zhou Qing's right palm.

The black-robed masked man showed a hint of sneer on his face. Since they came to deal with Zhou Qing, they were naturally prepared.

Zhou Qing was a disciple of the poison demon Wei Sheng. He practiced the White Cloud Palm Method. Although this palm method had a significant bonus to strength, it mainly relied on the poison to fight the enemy. Competing with a pure horizontal martial artist like him in strength was definitely courting death.

Especially since he was wearing the Tiancan boxing gloves to avoid poison, Zhou Qing's palm method had no effect on him.

Bang——!

The fists and palms collided, and there was an explosion in the air. The sneer in the black-robed masked man's eyes disappeared instantly, and the whole person suddenly widened his eyes. He felt a huge force coming from Zhou Qing's palm, and his arm instantly cracked.

Then, he felt a sharp pain in the muscles of his entire right arm, and a strange cold air penetrated through the boxing gloves and penetrated into his meridians.

"Ah!!"

The black-robed masked man screamed in pain and wanted to withdraw, but found that his body was stiff and numb, and his fist was tightly grasped by Zhou Qing's palm.

A layer of white frost quickly appeared on his entire right arm. He wanted to forcibly mobilize his true energy and blood to melt the frost.

But he was horrified to find that his right arm was covered with fine scars, and the skin that was difficult to be injured by swords and knives had completely disappeared, revealing the muscles and fascia underneath. The waves of real strength cut his arm muscles like a sharp bayonet.

"Puff!"

A scarlet knife air appeared in front of the black-robed masked man, and there was a sharp pain in his waist.

Zhou Qing loosened his fist, and the upper body of the black-robed masked man fell to the ground. The whole person was directly cut in half by the Sky Centipede Knife, and his internal organs flowed all over the ground.

"Ah! Save me!" Even the Bone Refining Realm martial artist with strong vitality could not bear the severe pain after such a severe blow, and wailed in pain.

However, the old man in green robe was unable to take care of himself. Under the siege of hundreds of ice silkworms, he was eaten by the ice silkworms before he could even survive the death of the black-robed masked man.

As for the third person hiding behind the bushes, he was killed by Xuan Zhu, Er Qing and Chi Yan at the beginning.

The three Bone Refining Realm martial artists did not even last more than 20 breaths under Zhou Qing.