witch stop

Chapter 105
Jade Everest, half an hour later, Li Yu slowly walked out of the hall.

He unconsciously pursed his lips and moved his throat. It has been a long time since he felt this kind of thirst.

Starting today, the pure friendship between him and Jiang Li has finally gone in another direction.

This is something Li Yu himself did not expect.

His feelings for Jiang Li are extremely complicated, so complicated that Li Yu himself doesn't know what kind of feelings it is. Friendship can't be summed up, and love... doesn't seem to be pure.

But in terms of the position in his heart, no one can surpass her.

Including Senior Sister Zhou, and the witch.

This is the conclusion Li Yu came to after carefully examining his own heart.

In this world, she is the only one who treats him well without asking for anything in return.

Both of them don't know what the future will be like, but Li Yu knows that instead of worrying about the distant future, it is better to cherish the present, and even if you do something wrong now, don't wait until the future to regret it.

This is what Li Yu learned from those old people.

In their whole life, they didn't have much regret for the things they did when they were young, but for the things they wanted to do but never did, they couldn't help but express regret every time they mentioned it.

From their mouths, Li Yu heard the most four words are:

"If back then..."

They have only one piece of advice to Li Yu.

Life is short, why not give it a try.

As for the consequences, we will talk about it later.

When passing by the main hall of Mt. Yuzhu, Li Yu fed a few grapes to the green luan. As the mount of Xuanzhen Patriarch, although it is just a bird, it has the strength of the golden core period, and because of the blood , it is stronger than the average golden core stage monster.

In a real fight, Li Yu is far from its opponent.

Ordinary monsters can transform into humans after forming demon pills. This kind of divine beast blood needs to break through the pills to become babies before they can transform into human beings. After transforming, their strength is much stronger than that of human immortal cultivators of the same level.

Every time Li Yu came, he would feed it something to eat. Although it couldn't speak yet, its intelligence was very high. Building a good relationship with it would not only broaden the network of people, but also broaden the network of demons.

Gently touching Qingluan's beautiful wings, Li Yu bowed to Xuanzhen Patriarch beside him, intending to leave.

Patriarch Xuanzhen threw over a jade bottle casually, and after Li Yu took it, he found a foundation-building pill inside.

Patriarch Xuanzhen said lightly: "Don't rush to take this foundation building pill, wait until you can compress the mana of all the spiritual veins into ten acupoints, and then take the foundation building pill. Bigger."

Li Yu bowed again and said, "Thank you Patriarch."

He was used to Patriarch Xuanzhen's cold face and warm heart. Although she never smiled towards Li Yu, she was never stingy when giving him things.

From Jiang Li and Patriarch Xuanzhen, he got three Foundation Establishment Pills, but he couldn't take them immediately.

Now, he can only compress the mana of the 72 acupuncture points of each spirit vein into [-] acupuncture points. This is because his mana is five times that of the ordinary ninth-level Qi refining. It can be compressed to about fifty acupuncture points.

Although the process of condensing gas into liquid is not as difficult as opening up the 72 acupoints, it is also extremely difficult and takes a long time.

Those top geniuses can greatly shorten this process with the help of their masters or ancestors in the Nascent Soul stage. Li Yu has no elders who are willing to work hard for him, so he can only take his time.

If he has enough Foundation Establishment Pills, it is not difficult to compress mana. The function of Foundation Establishment Pills is to help compress mana. If one is not enough, then two, if two are not enough, can ten or eight be enough...

It's a pity that he has too many spiritual veins and too few foundation building pills, so there is no way for him to be so extravagant.

For Li Yu, the biggest problem at present is that there are not enough foundation pills.

He has five spiritual veins, even if every foundation building pill works, he still needs five, but he only has three, and at least two more are needed. Ji Dan may not be enough, five spiritual veins add up, and there must be more than ten Ji Dan to be safe.

After leaving Jade Everest, Li Yu didn't go back, but came to Tianzhu Peak, wanting to see about the mission of Zhuji Dan.

On the densely packed task walls, water curtains flowed. Li Yu had no interest in these tasks during the Qi refining period, so he walked straight into the main hall of Tianzhu Peak.

There are a lot fewer people here, and they are basically on the ninth level of Qi Refining, and there are also many people in the foundation building stage.

When a deacon disciple saw Li Yu, he immediately greeted him warmly and asked, "Junior Brother Li, are you here to see the mission?"

Li Yu nodded and said, "Let's take a look at the missions that can be exchanged for Jidan."

The deacon disciple brought Li Yu into a stone room and said: "The sect needs countless disciples who need the foundation building pills, but the number of building foundation pills is very small. Apart from queuing up for qualifications, there are not many who can exchange for the building foundation pills." Junior Brother Li, let’s see which one suits you..."

On one wall of the facts, there are various tasks written, including the Jidan task.

The vast majority of the sect's disciples, even more than [-]% of the disciples, do not need to specifically complete any specific tasks. For example, as long as the deacon disciple has been working at Tianzhu Peak and is responsible for receiving people who are consulted, then when he practices After the qi is complete, you can queue up in the sect and get the qualification to buy a foundation building pill.

The same is true for Kunlun's alchemists, craftsmen, and talisman masters.

This is very friendly to disciples with average talents. It usually takes decades for them to cultivate to the peak of Qi refining. They slowly compressed and condensed their mana, and when they were in line, they could just build a foundation.

Of course, Li Yu can't wait that long. It will be at least ten years before he has enough qualifications, and the day lily will be cold by then.

There are also channels that can quickly obtain Foundation Establishment Pills, but those require more contributions to the Zongmen. For example, if you refine a hundred catties of purple gold and give it to the Zongmen, you can exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Also, if you collect ten Jade Spirit Fruits and hand them over to the Zongmen, you can also exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Then there are thirty Tongmai Pills above middle grade, which can be exchanged for one Foundation Establishment Pill, but for alchemists, this is a blood-losing business, and anyone who hears it can't help scolding the black-hearted sect.

In comparison, the task of refining Zijin is more reliable.

Chen Ming chose this task.

Zijin is an important material for refining equipment. Whether it is forging magic weapons, casting swords, or making mechanism puppets, it will be used. The demand of various sects is very high. The Zijin mine in the big world has long been mined. Only some There are still in Dongtian Secret Realm, but the quality is not very high.

These low-quality purple gold mines have extremely low purple gold content, so they need mana fire to slowly refine and collect the purple gold. It takes a hundred catties, even for disciples who cultivate fire and gold spirit veins, it will take several years For those who cultivate other spiritual veins, it takes more than ten years.

Some other tasks are not bad, either collecting spiritual grasses and elixir, or various materials, also need to sacrifice several years of practice time, not only time-consuming and laborious, but also depends on luck.

This also made Li Yu personally realize that even in the Dazong sect, it is not easy to establish a foundation without a strong background.

After considering it comprehensively, he decided to go to a certain secret cave that produces purple gold first.

three days later.

Zijin Cave.

The Zijin Cave is named for its abundance of purple gold. Thousands of years ago, it was a secret cave where the righteous and the demons fought fiercely. The dispute over the mine veins initiated an unknown number of battles, and an unknown number of disciples fell in it.

However, that was already a thousand years ago.

Today's Zijin Dongtian, those large Zijin mines have long been mined out, leaving only some extremely low-quality ore veins, and Zijin stones scattered throughout the cave, which contain very little Zijin, it takes a lot of time Refining has long been abandoned by the righteous and the evil.

Only some disciples in the Qi refining period would enter Zijin Cave from time to time and spend time refining some Zijin in exchange for cultivation resources from the sect.

Zijindongtian, with a radius of a hundred miles, is near the center and is divided into north and south by a stretching mountain range. The disciples of the righteous and demons also have a tacit understanding, and each occupies a place to avoid disputes.

However, this cannot completely avoid conflicts.

After all, there is a great demand for Zijin regardless of the righteous way or the evil way. In the righteous way, a certain amount of Zijin can even be exchanged for Foundation Establishment Pills, and refining it by yourself is too time-consuming. Some people don’t want to work hard and want to take shortcuts. , naturally set the target on other people.

It is much faster to grab it by hand than to refine it yourself.

Most of the people who do this kind of thing are demons. All righteous disciples of Zijin Dongtian need to be extra careful. If they don't pay attention, the Zijin that they have spent time and hard to refine can be used as a wedding dress for others.

Fortunately, Zhengmo and Dao have been in Zijin Cave for so long, and they have already cultivated a certain tacit understanding. If they can't beat them, they will hand over Zijin honestly. Generally speaking, the opponent will not be too difficult. Zijin is not an important treasure. There's no point in risking your life.

If someone kills someone here and breaks the rules, he may be the one who gets killed next time, even if he is a disciple of the Demon Dao, he will always follow this tacit understanding.

In the Zijin Cave, several disciples of the Soul Refining Sect were searching along the central mountain range.

They are not looking for purple gold stones that can be used to refine purple gold, but are looking for people who can refine purple gold. This mountain range is the place with the highest purple gold content in the entire cave. Most people will refine purple gold here.

In the past, these disciples of the Soul Refining Sect would not have dared to act here so swaggeringly, but today is different, with Senior Brother Xu who is at the peak of Qi Refining with Dual Spirit Veins, they can walk sideways in this cave.

Suddenly, a Soul Refining Sect disciple pointed to a mountain not far ahead and said, "Senior Brother Xu, I saw a fire there just now, someone should be refining it. This guy doesn't even find a hiding place to refine Zijin. He must be a newcomer, let's go teach him a lesson, if he is so careless, how will he mess around in the world of cultivating immortals in the future..."

Zijin Dongtian, the central mountain range, a certain mountain top.

In Li Yu's hands, two purple stones the size of a fist had been refined by his mana fire, leaving only a purple metal the size of a grain of rice in his palm, which was the purple gold that the sect needed.

This thing is obviously not as high-level as the star iron essence, and the pill furnace doesn't even bother to absorb it.

Putting the small piece of purple gold into the storage space, Li Yu continued to search for that purple stone.

After struggling for three days, he still came here.

There is no way, the Foundation Establishment Pill is no better than the Tongmai Pill, even Patriarch Xuanzhen can only give him one, there are no trials for him to break through, and there are no competitions with rich rewards, if you want to build a foundation, you have to be old. Work honestly.

Fortunately, his magic power is extremely profound, and he is an alchemist. Playing with fire is his profession. The speed of refining purple gold is not comparable to that of ordinary Qi refining period. It takes others several years to refine a hundred catties of purple gold, but he only needs half a year at most. .

It only took him one year to go from the first level of Qi refining to the peak of the ninth level of Qi refining with five spirit veins.

It would take him half a year for just one Foundation Establishment Pill, and the road to immortality will become more and more difficult as it goes on, Li Yu can't help but worry about his future practice.

Just as Li Yu put away the small piece of purple gold, a shout came from behind him: "Hey, that kid in front, hand over the purple gold you just refined, don't force us to do it..."

Li Yu glanced back.

This glance made one of the five people not far away turn pale.

Xu Yi is broken at the moment, he doesn't understand why he can meet Li Yu everywhere?
After reacting, he kicked the blind-eyed junior brother away, then walked forward quickly, and said to Li Yu with a smile on his face: "Li Daoyou, I'm really sorry, my junior brother is ignorant, so I offended you. I apologize to you here..."

A quarter of an hour later.

Xu Yi sat on a rock, looked back at the four people behind him, and said, "Refine well, don't be lazy!"

The four disciples of the Soul Refining Sect squatted there obediently, with a fire of mana raised in their hands, concentrating on refining the purple gold stone in their hands.

They couldn't figure out why Senior Brother Xu, Tianjiao of the soul-refining sect, was so polite to this disciple of the righteous way, and even a little humbled. The two of them were eating roasted whole lamb there, and they could only smell it and refine purple gold for the disciple of the righteous way. .

Li Yu's gaze stayed for a while on the flame in the hands of the four Soul Refining Sect disciples.

Also condensed by mana, the mana fire of demonic disciples is different from the mana fire of righteous disciples. The mana fire of righteous disciples is crimson in color, while the mana fire of demonic disciples is black. .

For the same spiritual vein, there is such a difference between normal training and reverse training.

It's no wonder that the alchemy of the righteous and the devil doesn't communicate with each other. It's not a matter of ability, but also has a lot to do with the fire of mana.

But soon, he withdrew his gaze and looked at a fire in front of him.

On the fire, a lamb was roasting. The skin of the lamb was brushed with a secret sauce. The constant smell of meat whetted Li Yu's appetite.

The last time he went to the Xuling Cave, Xu Yi and a few disciples of the Soul Refining Sect were roasting whole sheep. Apart from cultivating immortals, this guy also had a good research on food. Although Li Yu and him belonged to different sects, they also There was no grievance. For his sake, Li Yu didn't care about the offense of the Soul Refining Sect disciple just now.

He simply took out two jars of spiritual wine, and chatted with the other party while eating.

Li Yu asked casually, "Why did you come here?"

Xu Yi took a sip of the spirit wine and said, "I'm here to refine some purple gold and return to the sect to exchange for the elixir."

Li Yu was surprised and said, "You arrogances, do you want to exchange Zijin for Jidan?"

With Xu Yi's talent, if he was in Kunlun, he would belong to the kind of people who practiced to the peak of Qi refining, and the sect would take the initiative to distribute free foundation building pills.

"Building Foundation Pill?" Xu Yi was taken aback when he heard the words, then shook his head and said: "There is no Zhuji Pill in Zongmen that can be exchanged, I want to exchange for a elixir of returning qi, a catty of purple gold can be exchanged for a returning qi pill, I used up all my recovery pills last time in the Thousand Poison Cave..."

Huiqi Pill is the most common pill in Kunlun. A high-grade Huiqi Pill costs about [-] Lingcoins, and the private booth on Feilai Peak only costs [-] Lingcoins.

If it is low-grade, you can buy it with twenty spirit coins.

And the price of a catty of purple gold can be sold for hundreds of Lingcoins in Kunlun.

Li Yu said unexpectedly: "You Soul Refining Sect, Huiqi Pill is so expensive?"

Xu Yi said: "Of course it's expensive. A Qi-Returning Pill can instantly regenerate mana. At a critical moment, it is equivalent to an extra life..."

Li Yu suddenly understood that he had been looking at the magic way as a Kunlun alchemist.

Although Huiqi Pill is only a first-order elixir, it is only cheap in Kunlun. For casual cultivators and magic disciples who are not good at alchemy, this thing is really a rare item.

Why doesn't he eat minced meat?

But he still said with some surprise: "With your talent, wouldn't the Soul Refining Sect provide you with these for free?"

Xu Yi waved his hand and said: "In this world, what is the use of good talent? It depends on the background and relationship. Those disciples and descendants of the Yuanying Patriarch, if you want Tongmai Pill, there is Tongmai Pill, and if you want Jiji Pill, there is Jiji Pill." Dan, since the fall of my grandfather, I have no backer in the sect, and those resources are of course not my turn..."

Li Yu was deeply touched by this, and said, "It's the same everywhere..."

In terms of talent, the descendants of the disciples of the Yuanying Patriarch in the sect may not be much better than other disciples. They can get so many resources to cultivate, and more is because of their background.

Xu Yi cultivated double spiritual veins. If he had a background, he would have established his foundation long ago, and he wouldn't be stuck at the peak of Qi refining for so long.
Xu Yi looked at Li Yu and said, "So, Li Daoyou also came to refine Zijin in exchange for elixir?"

Li Yu sighed, "In Kunlun, after reaching the peak of Qi refining, one hundred catties of purple gold can be exchanged for a foundation building pill."

Xu Yi was greatly surprised, and said: "With your strength and your contribution to Kunlun, it's too outrageous that they didn't directly give you the Foundation Establishment Pill..."

Li Yu waved his hand and said, "Most of the foundation building pills of the sect are given to the descendants of the disciples of Patriarch Yuan Ying, and the other disciples have to rely on contributions in exchange for..."

The two touched the wine jar, and both sighed with emotion, feeling a sense of sympathy for each other.

Li Yu took a bite of the delicious leg of lamb, and suddenly thought of something, and said to Xu Yi: "Friend Xu, why don't you give me a catty of purple gold, and I'll give you two top-quality recovery qi pills, what do you think?"

One catty of purple gold, two top-quality Qi-returning pills?
Xu Yi was stunned.

Is there such a good thing?

You know, a catty of purple gold, in the Soul Refining Sect, can only be exchanged for one Huiqi Pill, or a middle-grade pill with only two pill patterns, let alone the best Huiqi Pill, even if it is a top-grade pill with three pill patterns Returning Qi Pills are rare even in the Soul Refining Sect...

Li Yu asked, "Why, you don't believe me?"

Xu Yi waved his hands again and again: "No, no, no, Xu absolutely believes in Li Daoyou's character."

Although one of them is a demon and the other is a righteous one, Xu Yi has no doubts about Li Yu's character at all.

It can be said that Li Yu's character is obvious to all in the world of cultivating immortals, even in the magic way, his name is also a signboard.

Li Yu directly took out a bottle of Huiqi Dan, handed it to Xu Yi, and said, "You can take a look at the pill first."

Xu Yi opened the pill bottle, looked at the top-quality pills with five pill patterns, and froze in place for an instant.

At this time, Li Yu said again: "If there are others in your Soul Refining Sect who are willing to exchange Zijin for the highest-grade Huiqi Pill, Fellow Daoist Xu can also introduce you to me. The price is still the same, but for every ten people you introduce, I will give you one A top-quality recovery pill..."

Li Yu learned from the demon girl that there are two ways of righteousness and evil, and that if there is no peace, there will be no peace, but the business is still done as usual.

Some elixirs from Kunlun will also be sold to Mo Dao in exchange for some elixir, spirit grass, or resources that other sects lack, but the price is much more expensive. Relying on the monopoly of technology, Mo Dao is completely treated as a fat sheep.

Since Zongmen can do this business, so can he.

Of course he needed Zijin, but letting him slowly search and refine it would be a waste of time. After all, he had to compress his mana and learn spells, and for a cultivator, time is life and cannot be wasted.

He is an alchemist, so he naturally wants to use his strengths.

Kunlun disciples would definitely not exchange a catty of purple gold for a return qi pill. Kunlun is the holy land of alchemy, and the pills in the sect are cheap and cheap. Apart from restoring mana, there is no other effect.

But the way of magic is different, things are rare and expensive, they can't make any good pills, and they have to use purple gold to exchange ordinary Qi-returning pills.

These Soul Refining Sect disciples, if they work for the Demon Dao, they might as well work for him. It takes ten years for one person to refine one hundred catties of purple gold, one year for ten people, and maybe one month for one hundred people...

(End of this chapter)