Chapter 106 The hunt begins
Ye Xiaoqi's cultivation level is not as good as Sun Liu, but his alchemy technique is obviously far superior to him. Yang Ming and Xiao Zhenyu were both dazzling and admired by the alchemy techniques she used next.
Bang!
After half an hour of refining, Ye Xiaoqi's cheeks were red, and she was sweating profusely, but her eyes were brighter. With her yell, the last spiritual severance was finally completed. The alchemy furnace shook violently, and the white heat that radiated the fragrance of fresh medicine directly lifted the cover of the alchemy furnace.
"It's done!"
Although he had not seen the spiritual pill, Ye Xiaoqi was confident. When the white smoke disappeared, he looked at the elixir in the furnace. Sure enough, there were two blood-red spiritual pills the size of fingers.
The spiritual power flows in a slight light, emitting pure medicinal fragrance and abundant spiritual energy, crystal clear and round as beads, and you will know that it is not an idiot at first glance.
"This pill is called Blood Soul, and its effect is far better than that of the Marrow Cleansing Pill. It can not only improve its cultivation, but also nourish the souls of cultivators. The two pills in front of you are low-grade, and each pill is still worth at least fifteen spirit stones!" Ye Xiaoqi was quite happy and was in a good mood. He felt that Yang Ming liked him a lot, so he explained to him specifically.
"Blood Soul Pill?"
Yang Ming instantly remembered the names of these two spiritual pills, and at the same time, he could not help but be slightly shocked when he heard the purpose and value of this spiritual pill.
The soul is actually two parts, one is the body and the other is the spirit. Both are the foundation of cultivation. Cultivating immortals is actually to cleanse, transform, and continuously strengthen the body and spirit with spiritual power. While improving the cultivation level, this blood soul pill can actually achieve this goal directly, which is naturally a rare thing. The price of fifteen spirit stones is far better than other elixirs of the same level. You must know that each marrow washing pill is only one spirit stone. In other words, the two blood soul pills refined this time are equivalent to a total of thirty marrow washing pills.
Looking at its cost, except for the moon bud grass and corpse beads, the others are ordinary high-quality medicinal materials. You can buy them without spending spiritual stones and gold and silver. It is quite expensive for Tongxuan practitioners, but insignificant for monks.
Yang Ming even made a special estimate that a corpse bead can sell up to ten spirit stones directly. Although the alchemy requires a low-grade moon bud grass worth three to five spirit stones, it can refine a total of three spirit stones worth three types of spirit stones. Even if the loss of high-end ordinary medicinal materials is calculated, the profit can reach as much as twice the cost.
From this we can see that alchemy is indeed very profitable.
However, Yang Ming quickly calmed down again. The reason is very simple. First of all, the alchemy requires other costs, including valuable alchemy furnaces and alchemy techniques, alchemy recipes, and spiritual stones and manpower will be consumed when refining alchemy. More importantly, alchemy is not necessarily successful, and the chance of failure is very high.
However, even so, Yang Ming still decided to continue learning to refine alchemy. Although the alchemy recipe is expensive, it can be used for a long time. Although the alchemy technique is difficult to practice, it will be bitter and sweet once it is practiced. As for the alchemy rate and the spirit stones consumed to start the alchemy furnace, it will be effectively guaranteed as the alchemy technique improves.
Xiao Zhenyu's mood was really complicated at the moment. On the one hand, Ye Xiaoqi's successful alchemy made him very happy. On the other hand, Yang Ming's successful help made him very disappointed and depressed. Fortunately, Ye Xiaoqi did not blame him anymore. Ye Xiaoqi took a break for a while and started to refine alchemy again. This time he was still the first to play.
Yang Ming was not surprised at all, nor did he care about it at all. In fact, he had already mastered the medicine and there was no need to practice it. However, now it is easier, and he can concentrate on watching Ye Xiaoqi's alchemy and learn more useful things from it.
With rest and Xiao Zhenyu's mistakes, it took nearly an hour to refine the alchemy every time, and the day passed quickly. At night, Ye Xiaoqi just refines ten blood soul pills. Although he failed once in the middle, he was very lucky in the last time and actually refines a medium-grade blood soul pill.
The medium-grade blood soul pill has far better performance than the low-grade ones, and its price is astonishing as every thirty spirit stone, one is equivalent to two lower-grade ones.
In fact, I don’t know that the Blood Soul Pill and other spiritual pills are the same. Even the same quality can be divided into high and low. For example, the Marrow Cleansing Pill is a low-grade spirit stone, the medium-grade spirit stone can reach two spirit stones, and the top-grade can even sell three spirit stones, and the supply is in short supply. However, generally speaking, the Marrow Cleansing Pill is a low-grade blood soul pill, and the medium-grade quality is very rare. Even an alchemy master like Ye Xiaoqi can only occasionally refine one.
As night fell, Ye Xiaoqi was tired for a day and went to rest early, but Yang Ming and Xiao Zhenyu were still in extreme excitement. They actually abandoned their past grudges and began to work together to refine alchemy.
Of course, what they refine is not the Blood Soul Pill, because the Blood Soul Pill is a relatively advanced and difficult spiritual pill. Although Ye Xiaoqi rarely fails, at their current level, they will not succeed at once and will only waste materials. However, the Marrow Cleansing Pill is the basic pill in the Qi training realm. It is the least difficult and easiest to get started. More importantly, the materials for refining Marrow Cleansing Pill are relatively cheap. Although there are many kinds of Marrow Cleansing Pill and the recipes are different, they are all ordinary high-quality medicinal materials, plus a low-grade spiritual herb.
Even so, Yang Ming still had no pill recipe and knew nothing about it. Fortunately, Xiao Zhenyu had pill recipes and had even prepared the materials, but no one happened to help him, so he came to Yang Ming.
Yang Ming didn't usually feel anything, but when he arrived in Panlong Town, he couldn't help but worry more about his parents' safety. He had no intention of sleeping. He wanted to find something to pass the time and wanted to learn to refine spiritual pills. He naturally wanted to suggest this. The two hit it off and immediately became busy.
Xiao Zhenyu's marrow washing pill recipe is the most common spiritual herb, Polygonatum. Ordinary Polygonatum is an ordinary medicinal herb, and it is a low-grade spiritual herb for more than a hundred years. Therefore, its cost is relatively low compared to other spiritual herbs. What makes Yang Ming even more secretly happy is that this type of spiritual herb is the easiest to cultivate, and there is no need to spend a piece of spiritual stone.
Although Xiao Zhenyu had a dispute with Yang Ming before, he was all because of the differences in sects and wanted to show himself in front of Ye Xiaoqi. He was not stingy. In order to really help Yang Ming and reduce waste of raw materials, he took out the marrow washing pill recipe and let Yang Ming study it for a long time.
Yang Ming was very happy and even moved by Xiao Zhenyu's sharing actions. He immediately seized the opportunity and kept the pill formula in mind. Yang Ming did not care about face for some questions that he could not understand and immediately asked Xiao Zhenyu for advice. Although Xiao Zhenyu did not fully understand it, he had to give Ye Xiaoqi's detailed guidance. After his retelling, there were a lot of deviations, but Yang Ming still benefited a lot from it.
After preparing for an hour, the two of them started to formally refine the alchemy. The one they used to refine the alchemy was not Ye Xiaoqi's medium-grade alchemy furnace. Because it was very simple, the medium-grade alchemy furnace could improve the success rate of alchemy and improve the quality of the elixirs, but it was quite complicated to operate, especially the requirements for the user's cultivation. Although Yang Ming and Xiao Zhenyu were both weak, they were only second-level qi cultivation cultivators, far less than Ye Xiaoqi. At most, they would exhaust their spiritual power after all. In such a short time, it would not be enough to refine any kind of elixir.
In addition, the consumption of the medium-grade alchemy furnace is also very large. Ye Xiaoqi used up to only one day to consume nine low-grade spirit stones.
Even Xiao Zhenyu was a disciple of Lingyao Mountain, but he could not withstand such consumption. After all, Ye Xiaoqi had a high cultivation level and was well treated, and he could make money by refining alchemy, but he was completely different.
As for Yang Ming, it is even more impossible to be so luxurious.
However, Xiao Zhenyu must not look down on the ordinary alchemy furnace. Xiao Zhenyu used the lower-grade magic weapon alchemy furnace given by the sect. The alchemy furnace was square and black, with a shiny light. When it was taken out, it was only the size of a palm. As Xiao Zhenyu made a spiritual power, the alchemy furnace immediately rotated in the air and became larger in the blink of an eye. With a bang, it fell heavily and steadily on the stone slabs in the courtyard of the mountain temple.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Zhenyu was responsible for fire control and alchemy, and Yang Ming specially gave medicine. Because he had given the medicine for Blood Soul Pill before, this was relatively simple, Yang Ming succeeded without any mistakes for the first time. However, Xiao Zhenyu was very difficult to control fire and alchemy, and failed more than ten times in a row. It took him a whole night and he still couldn't even refine a marrow washing pill.
Although Xiao Zhenyu learned a lot of experience and lessons, he was very frustrated by the result. In the end, Yang Ming comforted him and said, "How can there be success without failure?" He felt better."
As for Yang Ming's night, when the sun rose in the morning, he had no consumption except for being a little sleepy and had no money. While seeing how difficult it is to refine the spirit pill, he also gained a lot. The only regret is that he failed to do it himself and did not get the Fire Control Spirit Art.
"Actually, it's not that you are stupid. Refining spiritual pills is not an easy task. You see my success yesterday, but you don't know how many times I have failed before." Ye Xiaoqi, who just woke up, learned that Yang Ming and Xiao Zhenyu had been busy all night, but he didn't make a pill. He did not laugh at the two of them for this, and he was even very calm. He specially encouraged them a few words. Obviously, all this was as expected by her.
After washing and eating, the game of hunting zombies officially began. Xiao Zhenyu, Ye Xiaoqi and Yang Ming agreed to come back with the corpse beads to count in the evening, and said take care of themselves, then left first.
Yang Ming took advantage of the abundant spiritual energy in the morning and meditated and practiced for a while, then he whistled neatly. The red cloud horse, who was scattered outside and freely moved that night, immediately neighed and responded, and appeared in Yang Ming's sight with a rolling smoke and dust.
Click!
At the same time, Xiao Zhenyu took a knife and successfully killed a red-eyed zombie who had just woken up and had not had time to resist, nor had the chance to roar.
"Senior sister, do you think Jian Chi can kill zombies in these three days? Can he really threaten us?" Then, Xiao Zhenyu bent down and skillfully dug up the corpse beads, while talking casually with Ye Xiaoqi beside him.
Their method of hunting zombies is very simple. First, prepare some wild beast blood and put it in a storage bag to attract red-eyed zombies. However, it is not for luring and killing, but for diverting the zombies' attention in critical moments, such as when surrounded by zombies, and creating a chance to escape.
Secondly, they would use a talisman called the Anonymous Qi Talisman to try their best to conceal the breath of living creatures on their bodies. Finally, they quietly entered Panlong Town and searched for houses from the edge.
When they encounter a dormant zombie who is alone, they approach carefully without making any sound. When they arrive at the zombie, they will attack directly and cut off the zombie's head with lightning speed, so as to prevent the zombie from roaring after zombies wake up and attract more companions. If they encounter two or more zombies, or accidentally alarm more zombies, they will retreat without hesitation.
"I don't know. But if he wasn't very stupid, he would soon think of the same way as us. Even if he didn't kill more than us, it wouldn't be much different." Ye Xiaoqi held a small flying sword with blue light flashing in his hand, and while vigilantly observing the situation around him, he lowered his voice.
"What should he do? What if he is lucky and beats us? You must know that any monk can implement this method, and it has little to do with the level of cultivation." Xiao Zhenyu was slightly shocked, but soon laughed again and said, "By the way, we have the qi-hidden spirit talisman, but he doesn't."
"Wrong. Have you forgotten that his breath is restrained and he doesn't need to have an air talisman at all. If he hadn't been unfamiliar with the situation yesterday, he was walking on the street with a swagger, and I'm afraid he wouldn't be discovered by zombies so soon." Ye Xiaoqi shook his head slightly. When Xiao Zhenyu was nervous again, she smiled confidently and said, "But you don't have to worry. After going back tonight, if the corpse beads he got were similar to ours, we would immediately act separately tomorrow. Even if we can't take care of each other, we will definitely be able to double our harvest."
"Yes, I almost forgot that we are two people. And you have a flying sword, I have a giant sword, and this time it is no surprise that I am better than that sword tycoon." Xiao Zhenyu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this.
However, Yang Ming did not act like Xiao Zhenyu and Ye Xiaoqi speculated, but once again rode the Red Cloud Horse openly to Panlong Town. However, this time, he stopped just outside the town, and then shouted loudly: "Walking corpses, come out, I will free you!"
Ao, ao...
Yang Ming's voice contained spiritual power, which instantly spread throughout Panlong Town. Even Xiao Zhenyu and Ye Xiaoqi could hear it clearly. The red-eyed zombies who had just fallen into dormancy because they had no food were all awakened immediately. They roared in anger and excitement, appeared one after another, rushing towards Yang Ming.
Chapter completed!