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Chapter 23 Elixir and Breakthrough

In an abandoned building two kilometers away from the community, the gorgeously decorated rooms were already covered in dust.

After moving to a new residence, Lu Yan cleared out a small area near the window so that he could practice by drawing in the moonlight and spiritual energy.

Looking in the direction of the community, even though he was so far away, Lu Yan could still hear the angry roar of the zombie at the peak of Qi training.

Obviously, Lu Yan's decision to escape early after harvesting the zombie souls was a very wise one.

A large number of ordinary zombies gathered together, possessing the special power to absorb the moon's spiritual energy. This is a crucial resource for the extraordinary zombies who follow their instinct to absorb and exhale the moon's spiritual energy.

From the regional distribution of zombies in the city and the changes in the number of super zombies, it can be seen that the strength of super zombies is often positively correlated with the number of zombies in the area they control.

Lu Yan harvested the wandering souls of thousands of zombies, which was undoubtedly digging out the roots of the blood-bearded zombies. If he could not escape in time, a battle would be inevitable.

"It seems that I should go to a farther place to harvest the wandering zombies in the future. If I do it nearby, I will be targeted by the extraordinary zombies."

"The best method is to use the cover of night to let the resentful souls explore the surrounding situation and draw a map of the extraordinary zombies' territory so that they can be hunted and harvested during the day."

Muttering to himself softly, Lu Yan tapped the soul flag lightly with his index finger. The next moment, ghost fog rolled up, and twenty-seven resentful souls appeared in the room.

The room of more than 200 square meters instantly turned into a ghostly scene. Wicked and weird ghosts with distorted faces wandered in the room, and a cold aura continued to spread around them.

And in the center of the crowd of resentful souls, a tall and ferocious giant ghost was half-kneeling on the ground, like a ghost general from the underworld.

Ignoring physical means and attacking directly into the soul, these resentful spirits are born to be the purest killing tools.

With just a command from Lu Yan, these twenty-seven resentful souls can slaughter all the hundreds of zombies in the abandoned building.

Under the leadership of the main soul warrior, they can easily kill zombies in the middle stage of Qi training, and even fighting against zombies in the late stage of Qi training head-on is not a problem.

The number has increased from eight resentful spirits to twenty-seven, and this is just the harvest for today.

As the number of resentful souls increases, Lu Yan's speed in harvesting wandering souls will inevitably increase. At that time, the only thing that can be limited is the speed of refining the soul flags.

In Lu Yan's eyes today, the millions of zombies in this abandoned doomsday city are a huge treasure trove, with a huge number of wandering zombies waiting for Lu Yan to harvest.

By then, let alone the top-grade magic weapon, the Hundred Souls Banner, even the Thousand Souls Banner, which is comparable to the golden elixir magic weapon, will not be a luxury.

As for the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, it requires more than just low-quality souls. Even a million wandering zombies cannot support a Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

But in this vast world, there is more than one doomsday city.
There will definitely be more wandering zombies and more powerful supernatural zombie kings in the future. By then, Lu Yan will not lack high-quality supernatural zombie souls, and Lu Yan may not have the opportunity to refine a Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

However, for Lu Yan at the moment, even though the treasure house is right in front of him, he may not be able to eat it.

Lu Yan, holding the soul flag, maintained the scene before his eyes for only a minute before his face turned pale.

The Soul Flag's upgrade to a mid-grade magical tool required more mana, and controlling the twenty-seven resentful souls required a huge amount of mana. Just this short while had almost drained all of his mana.

In addition, controlling so many resentful souls at the same time also requires sufficiently powerful soul support.

He waved his hand to disperse most of the resentful souls, leaving only nine resentful souls. Lu Yan took out the spirit stone and whispered while replenishing his mana:

"No wonder the legendary demon cultivators who drive the soul flags are almost all at the foundation-building stage. If the number of resentful souls in the soul flag is too small to play its value, they can be easily killed with a snap of the fingers. However, once the number increases, the magic power and soul strength required will increase exponentially.

Abundant mana and the divine consciousness that can only be possessed during the foundation-building period are the greatest guarantees for driving the soul flag."

Lu Yan immediately became acutely aware of his biggest flaw at this stage. His cultivation was too low and his soul was not strong enough to unleash the full power of the mid-grade magic weapon Soul Banner.

"So the focus at this stage should be on training. Only when you have enough strength can you control more resentful souls."

With this thought in mind, Lu Yan took out something from his storage bag.

It was an exquisitely-looking porcelain bottle, which was exactly the bottle of elixir that was taken out of Shopkeeper Chu's storage bag earlier.

When Lu Yan killed Manager Chu and counted the harvest, he noticed this bottle of medicine.

However, Lu Yan had not started practicing at that time, and all his attention was focused on practicing the technique, so he naturally had no time to pay attention to the elixir. Over time, he left it in his storage bag.

After controlling the resentful spirits today, Lu Yan realized the importance of cultivation, and that’s when he remembered this bottle of pills.

From the outside, this bottle of elixir is no different from the low-level stuff that can be found everywhere in the Bamboo Forest Market. The truly precious elixir often needs to be contained in a special jade bottle to preserve its spiritual energy and medicinal properties, and there will also be the exclusive mark of the alchemist on it.

But as Lu Yan opened the porcelain bottle, rich spiritual energy instantly gushed out of the bottle.

After sniffing the fragrance of the elixir, a sense of clarity and purity flowed through Lu Yan's body, and a lot of his magic power, which had been consumed by the Soul Banner, was immediately replenished.

"This is a genuine first-class elixir, and it is also an elixir that increases mana!"

Lu Yan confirmed at a glance that this elixir was definitely not an ordinary one.

The reason why the elixir was held in a porcelain bottle was probably because the original jade bottle might contain information about the victim's identity, and Shopkeeper Chu did not want to leave any traces so he replaced it with a common porcelain bottle.

However, to be on the safe side, Lu Yan poured out a magic pill from the porcelain bottle, which was emerald green like jade.

Gently scraping off a layer of elixir powder, Lu Yan took it and tried to practice his skills. Then, that tiny bit of powder immediately turned into pure spiritual energy and flowed into Lu Yan's body, and his magic power was rapidly refined.

Feeling the changes in his body, Lu Yan's eyes lit up, and then he swallowed a elixir without hesitation.

Bathed in the moonlight coming in from the window, Lu Yan closed his eyes and began to practice. The surrounding spiritual energy seemed to turn into a whirlpool and madly poured into Lu Yan's body. Even the moonlight in the night sky was attracted, making the moonlight here even brighter.

After one night, the moonlight dissipated, the sun had risen into the sky, and the wandering zombies hid back in the houses.

But Lu Yan's cultivation still did not stop, and the vortex of spiritual energy became larger and larger.

In the sunlight, imperceptible traces of fire-attributed spiritual energy gathered around Lu Yan's body, and moved into the circulation of the Qi along with the breathing of the spiritual energy.

After several hours, the vortex of spiritual energy slowly dissipated.

As everything calmed down, there seemed to be a clear sound of shattering, and Lu Yan, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly stood up.

Second level of Qi training, breakthrough!
(End of this chapter)