Chapter 406: Someone Kills and Provokes (Part 1)
After refining two furnaces of the One-Revolution Questioning Heart Pill and one furnace of the Second-Revolution Questioning Heart Pill, Yang Chen finally came out of seclusion. ┏_ ┓
Yang Chen's retreat lasted for fifteen years. When he was concentrating on practice, he didn't feel the passage of time. When he came out of seclusion, he realized that so much time had passed.
The sect didn't seem to have changed much, but the energy and spirit on the faces of the sect disciples they saw seemed to be different, and all of them looked very proud.
Seeing the master, I was naturally happy again. Over the years, Gao Yue has almost refined the dragon horn and started the refining work. Because refining is extremely difficult, this work will continue for at least several decades.
The master has also been helping. He is very satisfied with the improvement of Yang Chen's cultivation. After some encouragement, he asked Yang Chen to keep up his efforts.
When the head of the palace met Yang Chen, he said a lot. Sect affairs and external matters, as long as they are related to Chunyang Palace, basically have not fallen behind.
Over the years, Chunyang Palace has recruited thousands of highly qualified reserve disciples. After passing numerous examinations, most of the new disciples were sent to the Qingqiong Mountain Cave Mansion. Judging from the current mountain gate of Chunyang Palace, the strength of Chunyang Palace has not improved much and is developing step by step.
Jiuxianju and Chunyang Palace now have a tacit understanding of cooperation. In some positions, even Chunyang Palace has placed core disciples in charge. Nowadays, major events and minor affairs happening outside can basically not escape the control of Chunyang Palace, which also makes it convenient for Chunyang Palace to adjust its external strategy at any time.
However, these are all secret and never let people from other sects know. The only thing that can be said to have greatly increased the strength that the outside world knows about is that Chunyang Palace held a disciple recruitment ceremony more than ten years ago. During that ceremony, Chunyang Palace recruited hundreds of monsters into the Yiren Hall at one time.
The demon clan that joined included twelve Nascent Soul masters and more than eighty golden elixirs, and the rest were all at the foundation-building stage. Although these powers are completely incomparable with those of the major sects, the sudden addition of twelve Nascent Soul masters is also the result of the doubling of Chunyang Palace's high-end strength, making people raise eyebrows frequently.
And there is another piece of great good news, which Chunyang Palace is also keeping secret. The Mahayana demon in Qingqiong Mountain Cave, the Great Ape King Houyun, also went from hostility to sympathy at the beginning due to the frequent contact between the old tree demon and Wang Yong, and finally fell under the temptation of the Heart-Questing Pill. He joined Chunyang Palace and became the third Mahayana master in Chunyang Palace.
With three Mahayana masters, Chunyang Palace's own sect can solve many things. However, Hou Yun's joining Chunyang Palace was not announced to the outside world, and Hou Yun was used as a secret weapon.
Recently, Hou Yun has reached a bottleneck in his practice and is stuck in the middle stage of Mahayana. Chunyang Palace was so generous that it directly gave Hou Yun a Heart-Questing Pill and asked him to retreat to achieve his realm. For at least the past ten years, Hou Yun was expected to spend his time in retreat.
After all, Hou Yun is different from the masters of these major sects in the outside world. He has been confined to the Qingqiong Mountain Cave and has never traveled outside. In terms of vision and knowledge, he cannot compare with those masters.
Even with the help of the Transformation Technique and the systematic practice techniques provided by Chunyang Palace, it still takes several times longer to overcome the bottleneck than those of masters from large sects. When he completes the retreat, regardless of whether he succeeds in attacking the realm or not, Chunyang Palace will arrange for him to go out to experience and increase his knowledge.
There are more and more core disciples, and the hundreds of high-grade flying swords that Yang Chen brought back last time have also been distributed, which has raised the combat effectiveness of the core disciples to a higher level.
Now Chunyang Palace is like those large sects. After the core disciples have consolidated their realm in the Golden Core stage, they will start to temper their natal flying swords. Compared with before, when they reached the Nascent Soul stage, they could not find a suitable magic weapon to use as their natal flying sword. There is already a difference between heaven and earth.
Everything I heard about Chunyang Palace was a good thing. The sect was prosperous, no wonder the disciples I saw had energetic faces.
Before Yang Chen went into seclusion, Jiuxianju spent a lot of effort to investigate the fact that there were people who were plotting against Yang Chen. The news came from the mouths of some senior officials of Taitian Sect, but it was only for people from several alchemy sects such as Danding Sect and Baiyao Sect. In addition, some casual alchemists also received such news.
This was purely to cause trouble for Yang Chen, and it was also a conspiracy to deliberately stir up greedy people and cause chaos. Maybe in the chaos, someone will be able to discover a hint of Yang Chen's alchemy secret, and then everyone will be able to profit.
This technique seems clumsy, but it is very effective. Chunyang Palace has already sent stern notes to several sects, but I guess no matter what attitude the other sects use to deal with it, they will still be unkind when it's time to do something dirty.
It's just that everyone is afraid of the masters who need Yang Chen's alchemy, so they have to restrain themselves. At least on the surface, they are harmonious and there is no misunderstanding.
Yang Chen was not surprised by this. Even if Yang Chen had not reached the fifth-level realm, outsiders would still have many speculations. After all, the prescription of Wenxin Dan was enough to make people tempted. Moreover, Yang Chen didn't take those people seriously. Are there still few people who want Yang Chen's life these years?
The head of the palace was also nervous about himself, but he completely forgot that he had brought back the body of the second city lord. It seems that Yang Chen's positioning in the head of the Palace Master's heart is becoming more and more important, otherwise he wouldn't be so concerned.
Wuxingyu and Qiankun Sect are close to each other, and they have an irreversible friendship with Qingyun Sect Baguio Immortal Island. They are the first major sects to know that Yang Chen is a fifth-grade alchemist, so they are also the first to make requests for alchemy.
The two major sects both seek elixirs and seek heart elixirs. During the fifteen years that Yang Chen was in seclusion, there was another Mahayana master in Baguio Island, who also made a breakthrough after taking the Questioning Heart Pill.
In just twenty years, four consecutive Mahayana masters appeared because of the Heart-Questing Pill, and the entire spiritual world went completely crazy.
Countless people have gone bankrupt to get a Heart-Inquiring Pill, but it has always been priceless and no one will sell it no matter how high the price is.
The Five Elements Sect and the Qiankun Sect want to get the Heart-Questing Pill at all costs. Both sects know that if Qingyun Sect and Baguio Immortal Island continue to occupy this advantage, then completely surpassing them in strength is not a fantasy, but is already becoming a reality.
For this reason, the price offered by the two sects to Chunyang Palace has almost made the head master of the palace, who has been accustomed to seeing good things in recent years, a bit dumbfounded.
Of course, Yang Chen's benefits are indispensable. The reward given to Yang Chen even exceeds that of Qingyun Sect and Baguio Immortal Island.