Chapter 158 Chaos Appears (1/2)

Guiyuan Sect, Guiyuan Peak Alchemy Pavilion.

Li Yan's current alchemy room has been arranged on the third floor, next to Xia Lingshuang, the current first alchemist of Guiyuan Sect and the second-grade alchemist.

In the morning, in Xia Lingshuang's alchemy room, Li Yan was showing Xia Lingshuang the progress of this retreat.

This time, the alchemy was successful at once.

Before Li Yan opened the lid of the alchemy furnace, Xia Lingshuang had already waved her sleeves, and the water-attributed true energy surged out, lifting the lid of the furnace in the air.

If it were usual, Li Yan would have seen such a scene with some envy and yearning in his heart.

But now, he also has such a skill, and his mentality has become much calmer.

Xia Lingshuang stretched out her hand and four steaming green pills flew out from the alchemy furnace, which still maintained a high temperature inside.

However, when the pills came to Xia Lingshuang's hands, Xia Lingshuang flicked her left hand, and the heat on the pills disappeared.

Xia Lingshuang carefully looked at the four green pills the size of longan, and a smile appeared on her face, as if the sun was shining on an iceberg, which looked a little warmer.

"Li Yan, it seems that you have gained a lot from this retreat. Your alchemy skills have improved rapidly. Now you can refine the fine alchemy of the blood exchange realm - [Nourishing Blood Pill]."

Xia Lingshuang said with a gratified smile.

Li Yan then smiled with joy and said modestly: "This is all because of your good teaching, Master. Without your teaching, how could I have accumulated a lot of knowledge and made rapid progress in alchemy."

Li Yan's flattery skills are obviously quite advanced. After he finished speaking, Xia Lingshuang's smile became even more.

"You don't have to attribute these credits to your master. The master leads you to the door, and the practice is up to you."

"You can make great progress, which is also closely related to your own efforts and talents."

When she said this, Xia Lingshuang's face had returned to its former indifference, but when she looked at Li Yan, there was a touch of tenderness in her eyes.

Then she waved to Li Yan, who immediately stood up and came to her side. While returning the four [Blood Nourishing Pills] in her hand to Li Yan, she said:

"I didn't expect you to make such rapid progress this time. There must be rewards for progress. Tell me, what reward do you want?"

Hearing this, Li Yan pondered for a while, and then said: "I need a material for refining [Qi Enhancing Pills]."

Li Yan's request made Xia Lingshuang's face flash with surprise: "[Qi Enhancing Pills] are first-grade elixirs, used to increase the true qi of innate warriors. Do you want to start refining elixirs?"

"No, your alchemy skills have not reached this level yet. I won't let you start refining elixirs at this time."

"Change your request."

Without giving Li Yan a chance to explain, Xia Lingshuang directly denied Li Yan's request.

There was no way, Li Yan had to change his request. He wanted to get a batch of elixirs for the Bone Forging Realm from Xia Lingshuang.

Xia Lingshuang asked in confusion: "Haven't you already exchanged blood? Why do you still need these bone-forging pills?"

Yes, the strength that Li Yan showed now has reached the level of blood exchange.

Li Yan explained: "This is not for me, but for my relatives. The world is in chaos now, and these pills can help them improve their strength, which is also good."

Li Yan usually refines pills in the Alchemy Pavilion, because the medicinal materials are all provided by Guiyuan Sect, so they have to be handed over to Guiyuan Sect.

So, he doesn't have many pills to give away.

After listening to Li Yan's words, Xia Lingshuang sighed: "Yes, the world is in chaos, and it's too fast. The sect is a little unprepared."

"How about this, I still have some bone-forging pills for practice, you can take them."

Xia Lingshuang packed up all the pills that can be used in the bone-forging realm on the pill shelf in her alchemy room.

She didn't go to the sect's alchemy warehouse to get it because the sect had been consuming more and more pills recently, and she didn't want to trouble the sect because of her own affairs.

After handing all the pills in a package to Li Yan, Xia Lingshuang reminded him: "The task of alchemy is heavy recently. Because of your previous retreat, I have rejected all the alchemy tasks assigned to you."

"Now that you have come out of retreat, I can't reject it again, but you must pay attention that even if the task of alchemy is heavy, you can't relax your research on alchemy."

Li Yan took the package and replied seriously: "Master, I will."

After that, Li Yan left Xia Lingshuang's alchemy room.

Xia Lingshuang watched the door of the alchemy room being opened and then closed, but her eyes were a little distracted.

"The troubled times are coming, I don't know what choice the sect will make."

On the other side, when Li Yan came to the second floor from the third floor of the alchemy pavilion, he saw the scenes of bustling work again.

Carts of processed medicinal materials were sent to the alchemy rooms of various alchemy apprentices.

Outside the alchemy room, there would be an inner disciple of Guiyuan Sect waiting. Once the sound of bells came from inside, these disciples would carefully push the door open.

When they came out, they brought a box full of jade bottles, which were filled with elixirs.

When they saw Li Yan's white core disciple uniform, many inner disciples hurriedly greeted Li Yan: "Hello, Senior Brother Li."

There are only eight core disciples of Guiyuan Sect. If they can't recognize them, it can only be said that they are intentional.

Li Yan nodded, which was considered a response.

When they arrived on the first floor, the scene was also bustling.

After Li Yan greeted Shen Yue, Chi Xiaoxiao and other familiar people, he left the Alchemy Pavilion.

Looking at Li Yan's back, Shen Yue sighed: "I didn't expect that in less than a year, Li Yan could make such progress. It really surprised me."

Others echoed.

However, after a few words, they once again devoted themselves to the intense work of making medicinal food.

After leaving the Alchemy Pavilion, Li Yan went straight to the Attack Hall.

Along the way, the Guiyuan Sect disciples Li Yan met were all in a hurry, and some of them were still covered with blood.

After arriving at the Attack Hall, Li Yan looked around and came behind a disciple of the Attack Hall.

"Who is it!"

The disciple of the Attack Hall who was patted on the shoulder turned around with a puzzled look, and then saw a very familiar face.

"Brother Li Yan, why are you here? I heard that you have been in seclusion recently. Have you made another breakthrough in your cultivation?"

The man asked excitedly.

"There are some breakthroughs in alchemy. Huaquan, has your brother gone on a mission?"

This person is one of the direct descendants of the Li family who became a disciple of Guiyuan Sect together with Li Yan, and is the younger brother of Li Huahu.

When Li Huaquan heard that Li Yan was looking for his brother, he hurriedly said, "No, he just came back from a mission yesterday and is still resting in the dormitory."

Hearing this, Li Yan nodded and continued to say to Li Huaquan, "Then take me to find him."

"Okay, brother Li Yan, come with me."

In fact, in terms of real age, Li Yan is a few months younger than Li Huaquan.

However, Li Yan is already a core disciple of Guiyuan Sect at this time, and Li Huahu has praised Li Yan in front of him more than once.

Over time, Li Yan's image in his heart became taller and taller, causing him to call Li Yan like this when he saw Li Yan later, instead of following Li Huayue and others.

Li Huaquan led the way in front, and Li Yan followed behind him.

Because they were going to the disciples' accommodation area of ​​[Attack Hall], the people they met along the way were all people from [Attack Hall]

Seeing Li Yan, the core disciple, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they all apologized and saluted.

"Hello, Senior Brother Li."

Li Yan naturally nodded in return.

Li Huaquan, who was leading the way in front of Li Yan, saw the senior brothers and sisters who were either arrogant or unruly in the past, saluting with their hands and shouting "Hello, Senior Brother Li".

He was brought in invisibly. After all, his surname was also Li. He couldn't help but feel secretly happy, and even secretly said in his heart: "I really hope that one day I can become a core disciple like Brother Li Yan."

Speaking of which, Li Yan and [Attack Hall] still have a grudge. At that time, the elder of [Attack Hall] personally invited Li Yan to join [Attack Hall], but Li Yan did not join.

Although the elder of [Attack Hall] was angry at the time and felt that he had lost face.

Later, Li Yan became Xia Lingshuang's disciple, revealed his "genius" alchemy talent, and became a core disciple, and the elder of [Attack Hall] was not angry.

He even came to apologize to Li Yan, which was something Li Yan had not expected.

Li Yan asked the other party why he did so, and the elder of the [Attack Hall] answered very straightforwardly: "Although my [Attack Hall] has lost an excellent disciple, this will allow my Guiyuan Sect to have an additional alchemist, which is a good thing for the sect."

"I came to apologize to you because I almost caused the sect to destroy an alchemist."

Obviously, in the other party's mind, the interests of the sect are even greater than his own interests.

However, the elder of the [Attack Hall] is magnanimous, and the disciples of the [Attack Hall] do not have such a big heart after knowing this matter.

Due to the intervention of the elder of the [Attack Hall], they dare not directly cause trouble to Li Yan.

And it is still possible to disgust Li Yan indirectly, just like many elite disciples of the [Attack Hall] have publicly expressed their dislike for Li Yan.

Along the way, some disciples of the [Attack Hall] looked a little stinky after seeing Li Yan.

However, the sect rules are more important than anything else. When they see the core disciples, they must salute as outer or inner disciples.

Li Yan did not dislike them, and nodded in return.

Finally, under the leadership of Li Huaquan, Li Yan met Li Huahu.

Li Huahu immediately spotted Li Yan behind his brother, and was surprised: "Li Yan, how come you have time to come here today."

"I heard that the tasks of your [Alchemy Pavilion] are not easy."

Li Yan walked into Li Huahu's room, looked around, and then set his eyes on Li Huahu in front of him, smiling and said: "Didn't I just come out of seclusion?"

"My master blocked all the previous tasks, and I will start taking tasks to refine pills tomorrow."

As Li Yan said, he untied the package behind him and handed it to Li Huahu.

Li Huahu took the package and listened to the jingling sound inside. He had some guesses in his mind, but he still asked: "What's in it?"

Li Yan replied: "Some bone-forging elixirs. You and other tribesmen share one. These are all made by my master."

"I took a look. The efficacy is much better than the same level."

Li Huahu heard this, but there was no surprise on his face. Instead, he frowned and looked at Li Yan: "Did you exchange this with your own sect contribution?"

"If so, I can't accept it."

Li Huahu wanted to return the bundle to Li Yan without opening it, but was stopped by Li Yan.

"It was not exchanged with my sect's contribution. My sect's contribution has been used up by myself a long time ago."

"This is the reward Master gave me after I made a breakthrough in alchemy after seclusion. You can take it."

After Li Yan explained everything clearly, Li Huahu finally accepted the big baggage of Bone Forging Realm elixirs.

Seeing Li Huahu accept these pills, Li Yan nodded with satisfaction, and then chatted with Li Huahu about recent events.

"After I left the customs, I received news that Wanhua County, the county closest to our Guiyuan Sect, was occupied by a group of people, and these people also had their mind set on our Guiyuan Sect."

Li Yan asked with a slight frown.

After hearing this, Li Huahu nodded silently, sighed, and then replied: "That's right, that group of people came out of nowhere, and there are even innate masters among them."

"The latest news we [Attack Palace] have received so far is that there are two innate masters in that group, and there are dozens of acquired warriors above the blood exchange realm under them."

"Relying on this power, they first killed the city lord family in Wanhua County, and then occupied the entire Wanhua County, burning, killing and looting in Wanhua County."

"Almost all the large families and gangs in Wanhua County were killed and robbed by them. On the contrary, the small families and civilians were not affected much."

"Then, they formed a force called [Red Blood Camp] to take in teenagers and young people from small families and civilians."

"Currently, they are still testing the sect. Most of the people sent are local warriors from Wanhua County, and only a few are direct descendants of the [Red Blood Camp]."

Just as Li Huahu finished speaking, Li Yan asked again: "It seems that more than just Wanhua County has been occupied by strange forces?"

In response, Li Huahu could only continue to reply: "Indeed, there are three, but the city lords of the other two county towns heard the news and ran to Linjiang City overnight with their clansmen and wealth."

"The big families in those two cities also followed the city lord and ran away with their family wealth."

"Therefore, those people did not get much benefit, so they targeted the small and medium-sized families and some wealthy families, and stopped only after they had almost robbed them."

Having said this, Li Huahu took a sip of tea brewed in Li Huaquan to moisten his throat.

"You should have informed the family about such a big thing!"

"Of course, the family has received my letter. Not only me, but also the children of other county families in the sect have sent letters back."

Hearing this, Li Yan nodded with satisfaction.

Then, Li Yan stood up and said to Li Huahu, who was about to get up as well: "I'm leaving first. Please help me divide all those pills. I'll probably be very busy recently."

"However, if you encounter any trouble or something that cannot be solved, you can come to the Alchemy Pavilion to find me."

Li Huahu could only say: "Okay."

After Li Yan left, when the two brothers Li Huahu and Li Huaquan opened the package and saw a pile of high-quality elixirs inside, they couldn't help but look at each other in shock.

Li Huaquan swallowed: "I'm afraid it will cost several thousand taels of silver."

After hearing this, Li Huahu said: "Not only that, it's at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, but the price of elixirs has risen sharply recently, and these high-quality elixirs are even unavailable."

Finally, Li Huahu sighed: "My Li family can only produce Li Yan. As long as Li Yan does not die, my Li family will definitely prosper in the future."

After Li Yan left Li Huahu's room, he returned to his own room.

The place where the core disciples live is obviously much better than that of the inner disciples.

Then, Li Yan began to analyze the current situation in Da Zhou based on the information he received from clones everywhere.

After a while, several pieces of white paper filled with writing were spread on the table.

At this time, Li Yan already had a rough understanding of the current situation in Dazhou.