Chapter 525 Where to Buy the Elixir?

More than a hundred years ago, after the elder of the Zhang family was lucky enough to enter the Nascent Soul stage, the Zhang family immediately became the first immortal family in the Western Han Dynasty to have a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Relying on the banner of the Nascent Soul cultivator, the power of the Zhang family also rose.

Although the immortal sects of the Western Han Dynasty also sent people to participate in the Nascent Soul Ceremony of the Zhang family's Nascent Soul cultivator, they united behind the scenes to suppress the Zhang family.

The Zhang family's foundation was too shallow, and they dared not speak out, so they could only work hard to cultivate their clansmen, and alchemists were the focus of the Zhang family's cultivation.

The Nascent Soul cultivator of the Zhang family was an alchemist himself. He knew the importance of alchemists to a family of immortals. Under his instruction, the Zhang family increased the training of alchemists.

Zhang Yue was one of the few alchemists in the Zhang family. Although he was only in the middle stage of foundation building, among the alchemists of the same generation, his alchemy level dared to admit that he was second, and no one dared to admit that he was first.

On this day, Zhang Yue was refining alchemy in the earth fire room of the Shendan Hall in the family.

The underground fire room is not big, only more than thirty feet.

There are a lot of red runes engraved on the walls of the underground fire room, which converge from all over the walls to the center of the underground fire room.

In the center of the underground fire room, there is a half-human-high purple alchemy furnace. At the bottom of the alchemy furnace is a millstone-sized fire pool, which constantly spews out blazing flames and wraps the top of the purple alchemy furnace.

In the upper left corner of the underground fire room, there is a magic array of five or six feet in size.

Zhang Yue sat cross-legged in front of the purple alchemy furnace, with a layer of sweat oozing from his forehead.

He dared not relax at all, as this was the 35th furnace of Qi-combining pills he had refined.

Qi-combining pills are pills taken by cultivators in the late stage of foundation building. The price of a piece of material is about more than a thousand spirit stones. Zhang Yue is the only alchemist of the same generation who is qualified to refine Qi-combining pills.

Not long after, when an alluring fragrance floated out of the purple alchemy furnace, Zhang Yue quickly pinched his fingers and hit several magic spells on the magic array in the upper left corner.

The red runes around suddenly lit up, and a dark red light curtain suddenly emerged, blocking the ground fire pool and isolating the red flames.

Zhang Yue's hand gestures changed, and several gestures hit the purple alchemy furnace.

The lid of the alchemy furnace flew up and fell to the ground.

Zhang Yue couldn't wait to stand up and walked quickly towards the alchemy furnace.

He walked closer and saw five green pills the size of soybeans placed in the alchemy furnace.

"Success." Zhang Yue's tired face showed a relieved smile.

He put the five Qi-combining pills in a porcelain bottle and sat down on the futon.

He did not continue to refine the Qi-combining pills, but carefully recalled the alchemy process just now.

"The alchemy technique just now is no different from the past, and the temperature is the same. What is different!" Zhang Yue frowned and muttered to himself in a low voice.

"Could it be a spiritual herb?" Zhang Yue's eyes turned and fell on the blue storage bag next to him.

This blue storage bag was given to him by an elder of the clan. It contained materials for refining Heqi Dan, a total of fifty materials.

Zhang Yue's expression changed, and he picked up the storage bag and poured it down. After a blue glow, a pile of wooden boxes appeared on the ground.

He opened all the wooden boxes and checked the spiritual medicines inside one by one.

"Shelanhua and Huangliancao seem to be a little different." Zhang Yue muttered to himself in a low voice, holding a spiritual flower and a spiritual grass in his hand.

He picked a petal and a piece of spiritual grass, put them in his mouth, and chewed them gently.

"That's right, the spiritual energy contained in Shelanhua and Huangliancao is much more abundant than before. The problem is indeed with Shelanhua and Huangliancao." Zhang Yue's eyes showed a firm look.

The spiritual energy contained in the same hundred-year-old spiritual medicine may not be the same. The quality of a spiritual medicine is greatly affected by the growth environment.

Take the She orchid as an example. If it grows in a place with weak spiritual energy, it can be used as medicine after a hundred years, but the color is not bright enough and the spiritual energy contained is not sufficient. For alchemists with rich experience in alchemy, it is not a big problem, but for alchemists with less experience in alchemy, the spiritual energy contained in the auxiliary medicine is not sufficient, which will affect the success rate of alchemy. The more spiritual energy contained in the auxiliary medicine, the higher the success rate will be.

Most of the spiritual medicines on the market are artificially planted. The Zhang family also planted a lot of spiritual medicines, but they are generally not sold to the public.

Zhang Yue took out a wooden box from the storage bag on his waist, took out a spiritual flower from it, picked a petal and put it in his mouth, frowning.

The She orchid he took out was picked from the Zhang family's spiritual medicine garden, and the spiritual energy contained was not much.

"It seems that I have to ask Uncle Sixth clearly. With my alchemy level, if the auxiliary medicine is better, the success rate will be higher." Zhang Yue thought secretly, put away the wooden box on the ground, and left the ground fire room.

After walking through a long corridor, Zhang Yue came to the main hall of the Shendan Palace. An old man in a white robe with a ruddy face sat behind a yellow wooden table in the middle of the hall, holding a yellowed ancient scroll in his hand and reading it with relish.

"Sixth uncle, do you have any more spiritual medicine?" Zhang Yue put the blue storage bag on the table and asked in a deep voice.

"What? You used it up so quickly? It will take some time before I can provide you with another batch." The old man in the white robe said disapprovingly.

Zhang Yue shook his head and said seriously: "Uncle Six, I am not asking for materials. I have refined the Heqi Pill. What I want to ask is, where did you get the two auxiliary medicines, Shelanhua and Huangliancao, in the storage bag?"

"What? Is there something wrong with Shelanhua and Huangliancao? No way! I checked it myself and didn't find any problems!" The old man in white robe was slightly stunned and asked in confusion.

Zhang Yue took out four wooden boxes from his arms, two yellow wooden boxes and two red wooden boxes.

"Uncle Six, the red wooden box contains the Shelanhua and Huangliancao I picked from the spiritual medicine garden last time, and the yellow wooden box contains the Shelanhua and Huangliancao you gave me. Please identify them carefully and see if there is any difference." Zhang Yue said solemnly.

The old man in white robe had a solemn look in his eyes. He opened the four wooden boxes, took out the spiritual flowers and herbs, and sniffed them a few times.

"The Shelan orchid and Coptis chinensis picked from the spiritual medicine garden seem to contain less spiritual energy." The old man in white robe muttered to himself, his eyes full of doubt.

He picked a petal from each of the two spiritual flowers and put them in his mouth one by one, his eyes lit up.

"Yes, the Shelan orchid and Coptis chinensis bought from outside contain more spiritual energy. I'll check who bought the Shelan orchid and Coptis chinensis."

The old man in white robe took out a palm-sized yellow disc from his sleeve and gestured on it.

"There is a new batch of spiritual medicines in the past few days. Among the spiritual medicines purchased by Zhang Feng, there are Shelan orchids and Coptis chinensis."

"Sixth uncle, call him over quickly to see where he bought the spiritual medicines from. The quality is even better than what we grow ourselves." Zhang Yue's eyes flashed with a gleam of light, and he urged with joy on his face. 鈥斺��

(The additional chapter of the leader is completed. Thanks again to the two Taoist friends Zi Bing and Dong Feng Guaiyi for their support!)