Chapter 859 Twenty Years
After a conversation, both sides got what they wanted. The Liu family did not coerce or bribe Qingyang because of his low cultivation level. Instead, they were friendly and willing to discuss everything. In fact, this is easy to understand. Putting aside Qingyang's strength, the identity of a Dan King alone has surpassed most Jindan cultivators. As long as he does not have malicious intentions, he will be treated as a guest of honor wherever he goes.
After a while, Qingyang saw that Dan King Liu was getting worse and worse, so he took the initiative to get up and say goodbye. Liu Linyuan did not keep him and ordered Liu Wei to send him out of the Liu family. Although Liu Linyuan did not give any special instructions, Qingyang knew that nothing about today's events could be leaked.
Back at the Danyuan, Qingyang thought of the Liu family's affairs and could not help but sigh with emotion. Every family has its own difficulties. Even a strong family like the Liu family is walking on thin ice when it comes to the transition between the upper and lower generations. If they are not careful, they may be taken advantage of by others and suffer great losses.
The Liu family is now in turmoil, and wasn't it the same for the Gui family more than a hundred years ago? Although the Yang family looks prosperous now, when Yang Chengzu grows old in the future, he may not be able to escape this curse. If you want to avoid this old path, you must do your best to improve your cultivation. When you transcend everything, there will probably be nothing that can pose a threat to you, right?
Qingyang didn't know what the answer was. The only thing he could do was to seize every opportunity to practice and try his best to improve his cultivation, and wait until one day to see if it was true.
This is exactly the case. After becoming the head of the Wantong Pavilion Alchemy Institute, Qingyang's life has completely stabilized. He almost never leaves the house and only moves around in the Alchemy Institute every day.
In addition to practicing, Qingyang spends almost all of his remaining time refining pills. It will take nearly three months to use up all the materials for the 200 Juyuan Pills without sleep. How can you not seize the time? As the guest Dan King of Wantong Pavilion, he needs to pay 60 Juyuan Pills for 200 Juyuan Pills every year. With Qingyang's current ability, even if he uses the Ziyun Tongxiao Ding to refine, it is still a bit difficult. There are always three or five pills short, and Qingyang needs to use his salary to subsidize it.
Fortunately, Qingyang didn't care much about it. His main purpose was to improve his alchemy skills. Besides, the subsidy was not too much, and there was still some left after the guest alchemy king's remuneration was subsidized.
However, with the improvement of Qingyang's alchemy skills, this situation gradually improved. At the beginning, three or five Juyuan pills were subsidized every year, and then they decreased year by year, and gradually became equal. Later, Qingyang's alchemy skills improved to a certain level, and there was a slight surplus every year. In other words, Qingyang's alchemy skills have exceeded the level of ordinary alchemy kings, and the success rate of pills has reached more than 30%.
Another important task of Qingyang is to refine Liji Bu Shou Pills for the Liu family. Four pills a year are a trivial matter for Qingyang. He can just take a few days to make them, and he has never missed anything. With the life extension of Liji Bu Shou Pills, the situation of Liu Dan Wang has been up and down, but with the reputation of the past, the Gui and Yang families have never dared to act rashly.
The work of the head of the Danyuan was not much. The main thing was to distribute task materials to the guest alchemists of the Danyuan at the beginning of the year, and collect the pills at the end of the year. After checking, they were handed over to Wantong Pavilion. Qingyang assigned these tasks to Lv Yuan and Xia Meng. Only when it was more important or something that the two of them were not competent, Qingyang would do it himself.
The two of them were happy with it, thinking that Qingyang gave them such great power as a trust in them. Qingyang did not treat them badly. When he was free, he would also give them some advice on their alchemy skills, so their alchemy skills also improved a lot. They were more than qualified to be the guest alchemy kings of Wantong Pavilion, so Qingyang promoted them and they became Qingyang's right-hand men in the Danyuan.
Master Kuzhu is simple and low-key. Although he is a Jindan cultivator, he has never caused trouble for Qingyang in these years. Master Jinfeng has always been honest. However, after keeping a low profile in Wantong Pavilion for a few years, because his cultivation was stuck at the perfect foundation building without any progress, he left Wantong Pavilion in search of a chance to break through the Jindan realm, and then disappeared.
Perhaps Gui Rong was tired of the position of the chief steward of Wantong Pavilion and needed more time to practice, or perhaps the Yang and Liu families felt that the influence of the chief steward Gui in Wantong Pavilion was too great and he could not continue. A few years ago, Gui Rong resigned from the position of chief steward and his son Gui Huang entered Wantong Pavilion.
Of course, Gui Huang, who had just entered Wantong Pavilion, could only be a deputy chief steward, and the position of the chief steward was taken over by Yang Mu, who had already broken through the Jindan realm, and Liu Wei became the first deputy chief steward. Liu Wei's cultivation had also been raised to the perfect foundation building level, but she could not break through without forming a Jindan.
As for Qingyang, perhaps because alchemy took up some of his energy, or perhaps because the later a cultivator progressed, the slower his cultivation level improved. In short, it was not as fast as in previous years. It took him fourteen years to improve his cultivation level to the perfect level of the sixth level of foundation building. After that, it took him nearly a year to successfully break through the seventh level of foundation building and become a late-stage foundation building cultivator.
Of course, this was under the condition that Qingyang had no shortage of elixirs and a large amount of spiritual wine, spiritual honey and other auxiliary spiritual objects. If Qingyang relied solely on his own qualifications to practice, it would be good to be able to improve his cultivation level by one level in these ten years.
After becoming a late-stage foundation building cultivator, Qingyang did not relax at all and still stayed in Wantong Pavilion. In addition to alchemy, he practiced hard every day, as if he had identified Wantong Pavilion and seemed to be the head of this alchemy academy for the rest of his life.
In a blink of an eye, another five years had passed. Qingyang had been in Wantong Pavilion for a full twenty years. His cultivation level broke through another level and became an eighth-level foundation building cultivator.
For ordinary people, twenty years is enough for a child to grow into a young man, a young man to become middle-aged, and a middle-aged man to become old. But for a cultivator, it is just a very insignificant period of time in life, not worth mentioning in experience.
Although Qingyang's cultivation has been improved by several levels, his face has not changed at all. This is related to his age. Compared with the life span of a foundation-building cultivator of 200 years, over 70 years old is still a young man. Of course, it is also related to his frequent use of Liji Bu Shou Wan. Every year, he asks Liu Dan Wang to refine the pill once. If he refines too much, he will eat it casually. This pill can not only increase the life span of Liji, but also has a certain effect of keeping the face.
Qingyang's reputation has not weakened with the passage of time, but has become more and more famous. In fact, this is normal. Who made him so evil? He became one of the few Dan Kings in Zhongsha District in the middle stage of foundation building, and his alchemy skills have been improved every year. Gradually, he is not inferior to those old Dan Kings. Such talents are idols in the minds of many alchemists.