Reaching the pinnacle from Doupo

Chapter 278 Entrustment, Alchemy, and the Coming Storm
"Just creating a good relationship, I hope he can be more attentive in the future!"

Lin Yuan smiled faintly, released the Green Lotus Seat, then sat cross-legged on it, tapping his forehead lightly with his fingers, thinking about what had just happened.

From the conversation just now, even though Gu Xun'er was causing trouble, the Gu Zhen lineage was still quite kind to me. It seemed that my identity as an eighth-grade alchemist was indeed of great value to this lineage.

Lin Yuan was naturally happy to see this.

Interacting with people from such ancient clans is more effective because of practical benefits rather than empty feelings.

Acting as a shield for Gu Xun'er would inevitably lead to a conflict between him and the younger generation of the Gu clan. If that happened and he offended certain people, it would be a big hidden danger.

As a person who was not born from the ancient ancestral lineage, he would not overestimate the bottom line of people from the ancient ancestral lineage.

After all, there is one certain fact no matter what - of the five most powerful men in the Douqi Continent, the two who were not from the imperial clan died unclearly.

Therefore, Lin Yuan would remain vigilant on a psychological level towards these ancient clans, even the Thunder Clan.

By making friends with the Gu Zhen lineage and some of the ancient clan, not only can we effectively utilize the ancient clan's resource library, but we can also reduce the hostility of some of the ancient clan towards ourselves. After all, before interests, a little unhappiness is not that important.

After reaching a relationship of interest, to a certain extent, harming oneself would mean harming the interests of some powerful people of the ancient clan. The stronger one's alchemy skills are, the more so.

With the wiggle room of interests, many things become much easier to handle.

After all, if it might harm the interests of their own people, some shameless old immortals in the ancient clan would have to think twice before taking action against Lin Yuan.

If he could get a high-level identity in Danta, he could beat up the younger generation who came to cause trouble with peace of mind.

"call--"

Taking a deep breath, Lin Yuan cast aside all distracting thoughts and began to practice the Heaven and Earth Soul Art. A strange suction force emanated from between his eyebrows. Soon, wisps of spiritual energy seeped out from the void and poured into the center of Lin Yuan's eyebrows.
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"Uncle San, have you informed Sister Luan?"

When Gu Zhen returned to the edge of the pond, he saw Gu Yong standing alone by the pond, so he asked.

Gu Yong shook his head. "Let's wait until we succeed before telling Luan Er! In case of failure..."

Shaking his head, he immediately looked at Gu Zhen, "Lin Yuan is indeed too extraordinary. You made a wise choice not to try to face him alone. If we use this man well, it will be of great benefit to our lineage... You have made a great contribution."

After a pause, he continued, "Your uncle said before that if this channel is successfully developed, you can get 30% of the revenue from this channel in the future."

"Uncle San, this is too much, absolutely..."

Gu Zhen waved his hands quickly, trying to express his refusal, but...

"Snapped--"

Gu Yong patted the back of his head and said calmly, "Stinky boy, don't play tricks on your uncle. Your uncle has seen a lot of this outside."

"Without enough resources, how can you fight for the position of governor? In our lineage, many people have achieved achievements beyond the bloodline level. They rely on family traditions, unity, and clear rewards and punishments within the family."

Hearing this, Gu Zhen laughed awkwardly and said, "Nephew, I understand! By the way, Third Uncle, look at this..."

As he spoke, he took out the Meteorite Heart Fire Pill and explained it to him.

Gu Yong glanced at the pill in the jade bottle and nodded: "The effect is very targeted. Let's have the seventh-grade senior Master Yi in the city check it and confirm that there is no problem before taking it. Lin Yuan, this person's talent... his future is limitless!"

"Then..." Gu Zhen hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do we need to give up some of the profits in the transaction to befriend him?"

"No need." Gu Yong shook his head and said decisively.

"People with extraordinary talent don't care how much profit we make, because to them, that's nothing. What they care about is whether we can help them achieve their goals and whether we are still useful to them."

"If you really want to be friends with him, it is more important to better meet his needs than to give up your interests."

Seeing the confusion in his nephew's eyes, Gu Yong explained calmly.

"If you spend some time, you should be able to find some colorful raw stones and Bodhi body saliva. I remember that a strong man in the clan killed a Dou Sheng who used poison and seized a Dou Sheng-level poison book. You can also start from this aspect..."

Hearing this, Gu Zhen pondered for a moment, then respectfully bowed to Gu Yong and said, "Thank you for your teachings, Third Uncle!"
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The next morning.

Sunlight streamed in through the window and sprinkled into the quiet room. Lin Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged practicing, slowly opened his eyes as if he had sensed something. At that moment, a ray of spiritual energy was extracted from the void, poured into his brows, and merged into his soul.

"The distance between the late stage of the spiritual realm and the peak of the spiritual realm is really far!"

"It seems that normal cultivation will take quite a while..."

Shaking his head, Lin Yuan stood up from the green lotus throne, stretched his body slightly, then put away the lotus throne, pushed the door open, and walked into the courtyard.

"Senior Gu, Brother Gu Zhen, are you all ready?"

Looking at the uncle and nephew of the Gu family who were already waiting in the courtyard, Lin Yuan smiled slightly and asked.

"Everything is ready!" Gu Yong nodded slightly, then handed him a storage ring: "There are four doses of herbs for Xuanmai Fushi Pills in it."

Lin Yuan took the ring and took out all the herbs without avoiding the two of them.

Four batches of nearly a thousand medicinal herbs turned into nearly a thousand light balls that flew out of the ring, like a thousand stars, all floating around Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan carefully checked and selected the herbs, and soon re-selected the four herbs. However, he also found a few herbs whose medicinal properties had been slightly lost... Sometimes omissions cannot be completely avoided, and this is the significance of the inspection before refining the medicine.

After putting away the selected herbs, Lin Yuan looked at the uncle and nephew Gu Zhen and chuckled, "Okay, let's go!"

Gu Yong nodded, his eyes showing a hint of anticipation and nervousness compared to yesterday: "Little friend Lin, please! My retreat should be very suitable for refining medicine..."

As he spoke, he led Lin Yuan to fly towards a valley.

That’s right, it’s a valley. In the Yongning City where every inch of land is valuable, Gu Yue actually has its own valley among the mountains and waters. The strong... have such great power and are so domineering.

"correct……"

As they were walking, Lin Yuan seemed to have remembered something and suddenly asked, "Gentlemen, are there any ancient mountains in this Eastern Region... or any ruins that are rumored to be related to the ancient sky snake?"

The Ancient Sky Snake is one of the ancestors of the ancient snake-like magical beasts. It is a magical beast of the same level as the Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python, the Ancient Sky Phoenix, and the Taixu Ancient Dragon.

However, its number is less than that of the ancient Sky Phoenix, so it became extinct in ancient times...

In the original storyline, after Qinglin came to Zhongzhou, she mistakenly entered an ancient mountain range and encountered the skeleton of a mutated ancient sky snake. Afterwards, she used the Green Snake Three Flower Pupils to summon the soul of a nine-headed sky snake from the skeleton.

That soul body is of great use to Qing Lin. With the cultivation level of a one-star Dou Zun, it can rival a six-star Dou Zun.

Once it is completely refined and subdued, the level of cultivation can soar to the level of a six-star Dou Zun. Combined with the combat power of the Green Snake Three Flower Pupils, the combat power can be comparable to that of a seven-star Dou Zun.

What is cheating? This is cheating!
After Lin Yuan arrived in Zhongzhou, he always kept this matter in mind. When he was in the Southern Region, he also arranged matters related to the Zhaixinglanyue investigation, but there were no useful results.

According to Lin Yuan's guess, the ancient mountain range should not be in the Beast Domain. After all, there are too many snakes in the Beast Domain, and many of them are very close to the bloodline of the ancient sky snake. If there is a place related to the ancient sky snake, or a place that can be entered by Qinglin Douzong, it would have been searched by them long ago, and there is no way that there are any bones left.

Based on intelligence analysis and a bird's-eye view, Lin Yuan made a preliminary judgment that the ancient mountain range was most likely in the Eastern Region where there were more ancient areas.

The Eastern Region is the territory of the ancient clan. Even the powerful Warcraft family will not easily set foot here.

However, in the Eastern Region, Lin Yuan did not have any forces to mobilize, and could only entrust the investigation to the Gu Zhen lineage.

Of course, the other areas cannot be ignored and we also need to arrange personnel to investigate.

After hearing Lin Yuan's words, Gu Zhen's uncle and nephew were somewhat confused... This person, who was obviously a human, how could he be interested in the Ancient Sky Snake? Would he also be interested in the Ancient Sky Phoenix and the Taixu Ancient Dragon?

Clicking his tongue in his heart, Gu Yong said in a deep voice: "The ruins and mountains related to the ancient sky snake... Don't worry, my friend, I will investigate this matter!"

Lin Yuan straightened his expression and bowed, saying, "Thank you for taking care of this matter, Senior!"

Seeing this, Gu Yong's eyes became slightly stern... The other party seemed to take this matter very seriously, so he nodded seriously and took the matter to heart.

"Don't worry, leave this to me... Here we are!"

As they were talking, they had already arrived at a valley filled with abundant energy.

After taking a look at this valley called "Quiet Valley", Lin Yuan nodded with satisfaction. Then he moved, jumped down, and landed gently on the stone platform in the center of the valley.

With a wave of his hand, the fiery red Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron fell in front of him; with a wipe of his palm, hundreds of Dark Sea Rings flew out and circled around his body.

Lin Yuan took a deep breath and without hesitation, he flicked his fingers and the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire rushed into the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron. Then he waved his sleeves and hundreds of medicinal herbs circling around him rushed into the cauldron one after another.

The moment the medicinal materials were put into the cauldron, they were instantly refined by the flames within. The entire refining process was as smooth as flowing water without any pause.

At the same time, the vast soul power slowly spread out with Lin Yuan as the center.

Feeling this powerful soul pressure, Gu Yong's eyes suddenly became solemn... It was indeed the soul of the spiritual realm, and among the spiritual realm masters, he was also an absolute leader, surpassing most of the eighth-grade masters in the clan.

Thinking back to those old men who exuded a sense of age, and then looking at the heroic young man in front of him, Gu Yong couldn't help but take a breath.

"I guess that's how people from the outside world feel when they see our clan's genius!"

Shaking his head, Gu Yong secretly sighed in his heart: "Alchemist, the division of talents is really cruel! The talent of the flesh can be changed, but the talent of the soul... is determined by heaven!"

The ancient clan has no shortage of soul skills, but the profound soul talent plus the fire and wood attributes... are too rare.

Just like in a fighting skill book, the time spent on practicing varies greatly from person to person. The same is true for the efficiency of practicing soul skills and even absorbing the essence of the soul.

If the soul origin that can enable Lin Yuan to break through to the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Realm is given to Mu Gu to absorb, he will probably not even be able to reach the late Heavenly Realm. The Soul Palace has a lot of soul origins, but it is not generous in this regard. This is also one of the reasons.

Fortunately, as time travelers, Lin Yuan and Xiao Yan are both top-notch in this regard.

On the other side, Gu Zhen sensed this vast soul power and his face changed immediately.

A year ago, when he went to Canaan College to welcome Xun'er back, he felt Lin Yuan's soul power. Although he had expectations for his soul improvement, no matter what, Lin Yuan's current soul power... was far beyond a year ago!
"Miss, Miss, you really gave... everyone a condition that is almost impossible to achieve!"

Gu Zhen sighed deeply, and slowly gave up the idea of ​​pursuing Xun'er...

What the uncle and nephew Gu Zhen were thinking had no effect on Lin Yuan at all. At this moment, he was completely focused on refining the medicine.

The refining of an eighth-grade elixir is extremely complicated. There are hundreds of medicinal materials. It is not easy for ordinary alchemists to control them to float in the air, let alone refine them. Even for Lin Yuan, it requires a lot of concentration.

One after another, high-grade medicinal herbs rich in energy were continuously thrown into the medicine cauldron.

The green flame in the cauldron perfectly extracts the pure medicinal power needed from the herbs. Clusters of pure medicinal power are suspended in the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron, densely packed and filled with astonishing energy fluctuations.

Although the Xuanmai Fushi Pill is an eighth-grade four-color pill, it is not a big problem for Lin Yuan now.

His soul power has improved a lot compared to before. Therefore, although the refining work is quite cumbersome, in Lin Yuan's hands, it is still as smooth as flowing water.

As the refining process progressed smoothly, time began to slowly pass...
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Eastern Region, the ancient holy city.

In the center of the ancient holy city, there is a huge lake. The lake is extremely clear, but at a glance, you can't see the end. The depth of the lake makes people feel a little creepy.

With the lake as the center, hundreds of figures in black armor surrounded it, holding spears and standing upright.

Their sharp and cold gazes kept sweeping around, and powerful auras above that of Dou Wang emanated from these people.

These hundreds of people are the elite Black Annihilation Army of the ancient clan; this place is the space gate leading to the ancient world.

Suddenly, ripples appeared in the calm lake, and a terrifying spatial fluctuation spread from the bottom of the lake. The next moment, a bright beam of light shot out from the bottom of the lake.

Upon seeing this, the stationed Black Yan soldiers all bowed their heads respectfully at the same time, as if they had a tacit understanding.

The brightness of this beam of light represents the status of the general. A beam of light that is so bright must be from a very important person in the clan.

"Rumble--"

The space slowly tore open, and after a while, a black space door leading to the unknown depths appeared in everyone's sight.

"Whizzing--"

One after another, black shadows broke through the air from inside the door and stood neatly by the lake. A strong and murderous aura erupted like a volcano. The two old men in the lead stood casually, and the vast aura of Dou Zun permeated out.

After a moment, a slender figure in green emerged from the space gate, raised her jade feet lightly, and landed on the lake.

That elegant and beautiful face finally appeared in the sunlight.

The moment the girl's peerless face appeared, everyone except the two Dou Zun elders knelt on one knee respectfully in front of the girl!

The contemporary first bloodline of the ancient clan, Gu Xun'er, appears here!

Everyone looked at her with respect, looking at this girl who had only undergone a blood test once to determine her absolute status in the ancient clan. Everyone was looking forward to the day when her bloodline would be fully developed and she would inherit her father's glory and status.

Gu Xun'er's eyes moved and glanced at the dark space door. A playful smile flashed in her eyes. There... there were several familiar auras.

"The news has spread, and they have all caught up... Very good!"

She smiled faintly and looked towards the direction of Yongning City. Her clear eyes became a little deeper. "Lin Yuan, I owe you a favor, but you need to prove that you can bear it. This time, I want to help Brother Xiao Yan see your true colors!"

With her mind made up, Gu Xun'er tilted her head to look at everyone, and a clear voice rang out: "Everyone, set off, the destination is Yongning City!"

(End of this chapter)