Chapter 127 Exploring the Cave
"Corpse Pill, Black Evil Stone, Soul-Destroying Grass..."

"The spiritual objects needed for this Dan-forming method are truly precious."

Looking at the long list of spiritual objects, Ji Chang couldn't help but feel a headache.

These main medicines are almost all third-level spiritual objects, and they are quite rare.

Corpse pills can only be produced in a corpse during the Jindan stage.

The Xuansha Stone only occasionally appears in some evil places.

The Soul-Destroying Grass is a little more common than the Black Evil Stone. It has a chance of appearing in an environment where a large number of living creatures die.

Before Ji Chang was still in Jiaozhou, he had heard that after a monster hunting conference several hundred years ago, the Wang family slaughtered monsters on a large scale and gave birth to the third-level spiritual medicine such as the Soul-Destroying Grass.

After arriving in Baishuixian City, Ji Chang had heard that a foundation-building family in Zheng State had massacred mortals on a large scale in order to promote the growth of the Soul-Extinguishing Grass.

There is no telling how much time and energy it would take just to collect the spiritual objects needed to form a pill for the "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art".

Of course, just like refining external elixirs, in this method of forming elixir, except for a few important main medicines, other auxiliary medicines can be replaced by spiritual objects with similar properties.

In addition, according to the "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art", the experience of refining external elixirs is also of certain help in cultivating internal elixirs such as the Golden Elixir.

"From this point of view, there is one more reason to practice alchemy skills."

Ji Chang shook his head, his consciousness skipped over the method of forming the elixir, and browsed the secret method of refining corpses.

For Ji Chang now, the secret method of corpse refining is the thing that can quickly improve his strength.

However, Ji Chang currently does not have a suitable corpse of a foundation-building cultivator, so it is difficult for him to try to refine the corpse.

Therefore, he merely studied the theoretical knowledge about the secret method of corpse refining.

This is also the reason why Ji Chang did not change his cultivation after obtaining the "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art".

Even if you change your practice method faster, it will still take several months.

He didn't have a corpse to refine, so even if he switched to practicing the "Huangquan Corpse Refining Technique", it would be difficult for him to unleash the power of this corpse-refining technique.

Instead, it will weaken the poison spells that he has already cultivated and the power of the phantom scale poison that he has refined.

As for the speed of cultivation, although "Five Poison Fragments" is only an incomplete practice, it is also the foundation-building part of the third-level practice "Five Poison Sutra".

The speed of cultivation is not much inferior to the "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art", which is also a third-level technique.

After all, "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art" is only a lower-level skill of the fourth-level skill "Huangquan Sutra", and not the fragment of the "Huangquan Sutra" for the Jindan period.

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On this day, after finishing his research on alchemy, Ji Chang began to spy on the situation on Hu Qingsong's side.

Two months ago, after attending Master Badan's concubine wedding banquet, Hu Qingsong did not stay in Baishuixian City for too long and returned to Yuzhou.

Based on Ji Chang's surveillance of Hu Qingyun, Zixuan Sanren and others, Yuzhou finally began to explore the cave ruins again.

After more than half a year of wrangling, the Cheng family was unable to send more foundation-building cultivators to participate in the exploration of the cave.

Apart from the opposition from the Hu family, Zixuan Sanren involved the Cheng family only to check and balance the Hu family. It is impossible for him to really do something like letting a wolf into the house.

Otherwise, what if the Hu family and the Cheng family decide to kick him out as a casual cultivator?
However, on Zixuan Sanren's side, in addition to the Cheng family cultivator and himself, Zixuan Sanren also found a fellow cultivator in the early stage of foundation building as a helper.

On the Hu family's side, Hu Qingyun and Fairy Hong Ling were exploring the cave, along with Shen Yaoyu, the formation master invited by the Hu family.

The cultivation levels of the cultivators on both sides were all, one was in the middle stage of foundation building, and two were in the early stage of foundation building.

However, Hu Qingyun, who is in the middle stage of foundation building, is a family cultivator, and his skills are much stronger than Zixuan Sanren. Shen Yaoyu is also a second-level middle-grade formation master, and is also stronger than Zixuan Sanren.

In addition, the Hu family has deep roots in Yuzhou.

Overall, the Hu family has a considerable advantage.

However, the Hu family is wealthy and powerful, and the family ancestor, who is in the late stage of foundation building, has been in seclusion for many years.

Therefore, when they were exploring the cave, Hu Qingyun called back Hu Qingsong, who was stationed in Baishuixian City, to take charge of the Hu family's territory.

Otherwise, if someone took advantage of this opportunity to raid the Hu family’s territory, it would be disastrous.

Ji Chang was very much looking forward to the cave ruins.

You know, before this, the Hu family and Zixuan Sanren had only explored the periphery of the cave, and they had already encountered many second-grade top-grade formations to intercept them.

There might be a higher level of formation protection inside the cave ruins.

The owner of the cave ruins might be a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building, or even a cultivator in the false elixir realm.

Although Ji Chang already has the third-level inheritance of "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art", he does not feel that the inheritance he has is too much.

Moreover, if the owner of the cave ruins is a cultivator at the Fake Dan realm, a cultivator at this level probably has a third-level technique in his hands.

After all, the false pill realm is different from other realms in the foundation-building period.

After the magic power is solidified and breaks through to the false elixir realm, there will be no improvement in cultivation unless one successfully cultivates the golden elixir.

The false elixir state itself refers to the level where mana is compressed to the extreme and solidified into mana crystals.

Therefore, if a cultivator in the False Dan realm wants to make progress, he will definitely collect third-level skills and methods of forming a elixir.

"and……"

“If it is the remains of a cave dwelling of a cultivator in the Fake Dan realm, perhaps there are some third-level spiritual objects used for forming Dan.”

Ji often thought so.

Although these third-level spiritual objects may not be suitable for the elixir-forming method of "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art", they are also extremely precious third-level spiritual objects.

It can be used to refine magical instruments and elixirs. Even if it is limited by the skill level and cannot reach the third level, it is definitely the top level among the second level.

What's more, there are many precious elixirs and magical instruments in the cave ruins.

Thinking of this, Ji Chang even felt a little regretful.

If I had known that they would delay for so long, I should not have refused so bluntly and should have left some room for negotiation.

After all, with Ji Chang's current strength, he can be ranked in the upper middle among the six foundation-building cultivators who are preparing to explore the cave ruins.

Second only to Hu Qingyun and Zixuan Sanren, two cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building.

In fact, based on Ji Chang's observation of Zixuan Sanren, his fighting skills were not as powerful as he imagined.

After all, he was born as a casual cultivator, and his inheritance was not very good. He did not have any spiritual skills or spells.

If Ji Chang used the Phantom Scale Gu to interfere and the Blood Python's Erosion Heart Seal to attack, he might be able to kill Zixuan Sanren in one encounter.

In addition, Ji Chang's Peeping Dao Seed is also of great help during battles.

Ji Chang can control his spiritual sense in the peeping state to sense Zixuan Sanren's every move, and be able to foresee and dodge before his spells are activated.

(End of this chapter)