Chapter 128 Second Level Alchemist (4k)

half year later.

In the alchemy room, Ji Chang sat cross-legged with a red alchemy furnace in front of him, with flames dancing inside.

Suddenly, Ji Chang took a deep breath, flicked his fingertips, and a subtle stream of magic power was injected into the alchemy furnace.

The flames in the furnace suddenly exploded, making a whooshing sound.

Ji Chang looked solemn, staring intently at the changes in the furnace.

Finally, not long after, Ji Chang felt a strong medicinal fragrance emanating from the furnace.

He was delighted, knowing that this was a sign of the elixir being successful.

After a while, a crisp sound came from the furnace, and then the medicinal fragrance in the room became stronger.

Ji Chang excitedly opened the furnace lid, and saw three crystal clear pills emitting a faint luster lying in the furnace.

"Success!"

"The second-level low-grade elixir, the Purple Night Pill!"

Ji Chang was delighted.

His alchemy skills finally improved to the lower second level.

This Zixiao Pill is the elixir for cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage. It is most effective for cultivators in the early Foundation Establishment Stage, but it can also be used by cultivators in the middle and late Foundation Establishment Stages.

With the help of elixirs, he would be able to cultivate to the peak of the initial stage of foundation building within twenty years, saving nearly ten years of hard work.

In addition, he became a second-level alchemist, and his ability to earn spirit stones was greatly improved.

Although the value of most second-grade low-grade elixirs is not as high as that of foundation-building elixirs.

However, the materials for the Foundation Building Pill are hard to find, and the number of commissions for refining the Foundation Building Pill is small. At most, we can only receive two or three commissions a year.

However, the commissions to refine second-grade inferior elixirs are in short supply. As long as he wants to accept the commission, there will always be cultivators in need coming to ask for elixirs.

"After a while, I will hold an alchemy appreciation meeting to build my reputation and celebrate my promotion to the second-level alchemist. I can also collect a gift money."

Ji Chang's mind moved slightly.

In the past six months, Master Badan took a concubine and had a child. He celebrated twice and lost all his face.

According to private rumors in the circle of foundation-building cultivators in the Immortal City, this Master Badan seemed to want to reproduce and establish a family.

Although Master Badan is a second-rank high-quality alchemist, his cultivation is only at the middle stage of foundation building.

Moreover, his life span seems to be less than sixty years. Even if he is lucky enough to break through to the late stage of foundation building, there is almost no hope that he can go further and enter the false pill realm.

I guess he wanted to build a family and have offspring while he still had some life left.

This is also the wish of most casual foundation-building practitioners.

However, there are limited second-level spiritual veins in Zheng State, and most of them already have owners.

It is extremely difficult for a casual cultivator who has established his foundation to occupy a second-level spiritual vein and establish a family outside.

As for establishing a family in Baishuixian City, that is almost impossible.

Although the relatives of the foundation-building cultivators do not need to pay a large amount of spirit stones to settle in Baishui Xiancheng, the Xiancheng has strict restrictions on the number of relatives who can enjoy the privilege.

However, as a second-rank high-quality alchemist and a guest official of the Zhou family who had reached the Jindan stage, it would be much easier for Master Badan to establish a family than for an ordinary foundation-building cultivator.

Outside the room, Liu Xuexuan was taking care of the spiritual field.

Although most of the spiritual medicines used by Ji Chang to make pills were purchased from the Immortal City.

However, how could he possibly waste the second-level spiritual environment in the cave?

Therefore, Ji Chang opened up a medicine garden in the cave and planted many second-level spiritual medicines with a short maturity period.

This is also the daily work of Liu Xuexuan, the cave housekeeper.

At this moment, Liu Xuexuan's expression suddenly changed, and she heard Ji Chang's telepathic message.

"Xuexuan, come here for a moment. I have something for you to do."

Upon hearing this, Liu Xuexuan immediately put down her work and came to the alchemy room. When she saw Ji Chang, she bowed slightly and said, "Master, what can I do for you?"

Ji Chang smiled and said, "I just refined a second-level elixir and successfully became a second-level alchemist."

"I am planning to hold a pill appreciation meeting and invite familiar foundation-building cultivators to participate. Please go there for me."

When Liu Xuexuan heard this, her heart was shocked. She widened her eyes and looked at Ji Chang in disbelief. Her lips were slightly open and she couldn't say anything for a long time.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm her shock and excitement.

Although for Liu Xuexuan, a Qi-refining cultivator, she did not know the significance of a second-level alchemist.

However, she heard that in the entire Zheng State, the number of second-level alchemists would not exceed ten, and each of them was a highly respected figure.

Liu Xuexuan understood that her master's cave would become more lively.

Then she replied respectfully, "Yes! Master, I'll do it right away."

After saying that, Liu Xuexuan turned and left.

……

A few days later.

Yuzhou, Hu family.

Hu Qingsong was sitting in the cave at this moment, listening to the head of the Hu family reporting to him about the family affairs of this month.

Suddenly, Hu Qingsong's expression changed slightly, and then a member of the Hu family walked in respectfully, holding a jade slip that was flickering with a faint light in his hands.

"Clan leader, this is the jade message slip that was just sent from Baishuixian City." The Hu family member bowed his head and reported.

When Hu Qingsong heard this, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and he reached out to take the jade slip of the message.

He activated his spiritual sense and browsed the contents of the jade slip.

"Fellow Daoist Qingsong, I, Han, have successfully refined a second-level elixir and have been promoted to a second-level alchemist. I would like to invite you to attend the elixir appreciation meeting I am holding."

After browsing through it, Hu Qingsong stood up suddenly with an expression of joy that was hard to conceal on his face.

Second-level alchemist!

It was worth it for him to refine a second-level alchemy furnace for Ji Chang for free.

Here it comes, the reward.

With this favor, it would be much easier to ask Ji Chang to make pills for me in the future.

However, Ji Chang's speed of promotion to the second-level alchemist still exceeded Hu Qingsong's expectations.

Originally, he thought that Ji Chang might not have the second-level alchemy inheritance, and it would take him longer to be promoted to a second-level alchemist, and he might even be trapped by this bottleneck for decades.

After all, in the world of immortal cultivation in Zheng State, many first-class top-grade alchemists find it difficult to advance to the second-class level because they do not have the inheritance of the second-class alchemy, rather than the limitation of their cultivation in the foundation-building period.

Hu Qingsong took a deep breath to calm his inner excitement.

He immediately sent out orders, asking the tribesmen to prepare generous gifts and congratulatory messages.

"No, I'll personally choose a second-level magic weapon as a gift to show the strength of our Hu family and the friendship between us and Fellow Daoist Han."

On the other side, Ji Chang was refining a second-level elixir.

Ji Chang planned to take advantage of the pill appreciation meeting to sell some second-level pills to his fellow foundation-building practitioners who came to celebrate, in order to spread his reputation and earn some spirit stones.

And this requires having inventory on hand.

But just when Ji Chang was refining the elixir, he suddenly realized something in his heart and his face changed slightly.

The next moment, he calmed down and peeked into the Tao Seed, and a shadow dissipated.

"This is?"

"Wang Miaotong!" Ji Chang was silent for a moment, then exclaimed.

"Wang Miaotong is dead."

Wang Miaotong is the ancestor of the Wang family, the Wang family's foundation-building cultivator who forced Chen Biqi to flee to Taizhou.

Back then, when the Wang family and the Chen family were fighting, Ji Chang was forced to flee Cangyufang City twice in order to avoid being implicated.

As time goes by, I have become a foundation-building cultivator and have reached the level of Wang Miaotong and Chen Biqi.

Even in terms of combat power alone, Ji Chang is not much different from these two.

"Wang Miaotong is dead, I wonder if Chen Biqi is still alive?"

"If Chen Biqi were still alive, Jiaozhou would be plunged into turmoil again."

Thinking of this, Ji Chang summoned the phantom belonging to Chen Biqi.

The next moment, the scene around Chen Biqi appeared in Ji Chang's mind.

"Alive."

"And this is... Taizhou Han family?"

“I didn’t expect that Chen Biqi was mixed up with the Taizhou Han family.”

"It seems that Jiaozhou is really going to be in turmoil."

"However, how come Chen Yinghu's cultivation has just reached the ninth level of Qi Refining?"

Ji Chang observed Chen Yinghu again, and after realizing his cultivation level, he couldn't help but shook his head.

Perhaps because of his life on the run over the years, Chen Yinghu’s cultivation resources were not abundant, and he no longer had the environment for a second-level spiritual vein.

Chen Yinghu, the leader of the younger generation of the Chen family, had just recently broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Back then, Ji Chang was only a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining, but this person had already broken through to the late stage of Qi Refining.

But now, Chen Yinghu has been left far behind by himself.

"This is the difference in spiritual root qualifications."

Perhaps it was because he hadn’t spied on these old friends in Jiaozhou for many years.

Ji Chang was in a good mood today and went to spy on Yuan Yixiao again.

When Ji Chang left Jiaozhou, he wanted to repay the favor of renting the spiritual land and also wanted to plant a chess piece in Jiaozhou.

Therefore, he left the foundation-building method of "Five Poison Fragments" and several bottles of top-grade elixirs to assist in foundation-building to Yuan Yixiao.

If we say that in Jiaozhou now, apart from the Wang family and the Chen family, there is also the Han family, an outsider family that is ready to make a move, who else has the opportunity to control Jiaozhou besides these three families?

That is the Yuan family.

"Why didn't Yuan Yixiao hand over the method?"

Ji Chang noticed something was wrong.

At the beginning, Yuan Yixiao said that it was for the sake of her family that she rejected his invitation and stayed in the remote place of Jiaozhou, instead of coming with him to Baishuixian City.

However, Ji Chang did not see Yuan Yixiao hand over the foundation-building method and top-grade elixirs in order to strengthen the family's strength through peeping.

"Perhaps it's to avoid leaking the news, or maybe it's just greed."

"After all, it is far better to try to build a foundation yourself than to support the tribe members in their attempts to build a foundation."

……

After releasing the news that he was going to hold an Alchemy Appreciation Conference, Ji Chang waited for nearly two months before officially starting the Alchemy Appreciation Conference.

In addition to leaving time for himself to refine a batch of second-level pills, it is also to give some familiar foundation-building cultivators enough time to arrive in Baishuixian City.

At this age, they often make a living by refining foundation-building pills, and have gotten to know many cultivators from foundation-building families.

Generally, there are not many foundation-building monks in foundation-building families, and the second-level spiritual land occupied by their own families is not enough.

It is difficult for a family like the Hu family to spare a foundation-building cultivator to reside permanently in Baishuixian City.

Ji Chang had to give them enough time to get to Baishuixian City.

On this day, Ji Chang's cave became lively, and many foundation-building cultivators came to participate in the pill appreciation meeting held by Ji Chang.

Ji Chang was wearing a green robe and standing at the entrance of the cave with a smile on his face to welcome the guests.

He has an upright posture, elegant temperament, and his every move reveals the calm and unhurried demeanor of a master.

Whenever a foundation-building cultivator arrived, he would personally step forward to greet them and express his gratitude.

The guests congratulated Ji Chang on his successful promotion to the second-level alchemist and presented him with carefully prepared gifts to express their sincere blessings.

Ji Chang accepted them all with a smile, but did not take the initiative to take them. Instead, he let Liu Xuexuan who was standing next to him receive the gifts.

This made Liu Xuexuan earn a lot of face in front of the group of foundation-building cultivators, especially some cultivators who had something to ask of Ji Chang. They mistakenly thought that Liu Xuexuan was his concubine, and most of them would casually praise her.

When Liu Xuexuan heard these words of praise, her pretty face turned slightly red and a feeling of pride surged in her heart.

Although she tried hard to suppress her pride and remain humble in front of the group of foundation-building monks, the smile on her face became even brighter.

At this moment, a female cultivator guarding the gate reported loudly.

"Senior Si Baichuan from the Si family has arrived."

Originally, there was only one cave manager, Liu Xuexuan, in Ji Chang's cave.

However, in order to entertain the foundation-building cultivators who were attending the Alchemy Appreciation Meeting, Ji Chang asked Liu Xuexuan to hire some female cultivators with clean backgrounds and beautiful looks a few days ago.

Ji Chang, a foundation-building cultivator, wanted to hire female cultivators as maids, and there were countless cultivators who came to apply for the job.

After all, Ji Chang is a foundation-building cultivator and a second-level alchemist. If one could be favored by Ji Chang and become his concubine, that would be a great opportunity to reach heaven in one step.

When Ji Chang heard Si Baichuan's name, his heart moved slightly.

Although he did not know this person, he had seen Si Baichuan many times when he was spying on Si family's foundation-building cultivator Si Shengcai.

This Si Baichuan is the new foundation-building person in the Si family, and he built his foundation later than Ji Chang.

However, the fundamental technique he was practicing was the third-level technique "Huangquan Corpse Refining Technique", and he had two refined corpses in his hands.

One was just refined in recent years, and the other was passed down from the ancestors of the Si family.

Among them, the refined corpse handed down by the ancestors of the Si family has reached the middle grade of the second level, which is enough to rival a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.

Because of this, even though Si Baichuan has just established his foundation, his strength is quite terrifying.

According to Ji Chang's estimation, a casual cultivator like Zixuan Sanren, who was in the middle stage of foundation building, basically had little chance of winning against Si Baichuan, who controlled two second-level refined corpses.

However, Ji Changzai does have some chance of winning against his boss Baichuan.

In addition to the fact that he also mastered the "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art" and was very familiar with Si Baichuan's methods.

It is also because Ji Chang has the second-level poisonous insect Phantom Scale Gu in his hand.

Ji Chang activated the Phantom Scale Gu and combined it with the Poisonous Mist Escape Technique to launch a decapitation attack on Si Baichuan without intending to do so. He was very confident that he could kill him directly.

After all, the weaknesses of corpse cultivators and beast taming cultivators are similar. Although the corpses and spirit beasts are powerful, their original bodies are much weaker.

Of course, there are also cultivators who have powerful skills and practice corpse-controlling and beast-taming, but their number can be said to be very few.

However, in terms of hard power, Ji Chang is still far inferior to Si Baichuan.

This has nothing to do with qualifications or inheritance, it’s all about background and foundation.

If Ji Chang was like Si Baichuan, born into a foundation-building family whose ancestors had a cultivator in the false elixir realm, he would have inherited a second-grade mid-quality refined corpse just after breaking through the foundation-building period.

Then Ji Chang’s strength is much more terrifying than Si Baichuan’s.

However, even though Si Baichuan was a second-generation immortal with a prominent background, when facing Ji Chang, he restrained his usual arrogance and congratulated him with a flattering look on his face.

(End of this chapter)