Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 175 Alchemy and Wine Sales

Of course, Phoenix and her friends were not trying to refine Zhurong. Not to mention them, even Taishang Laojun had a hard time refining him using the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace. Phoenix just wanted to refine away the remaining spiritual energy that was brought out of Zhurong's body due to the evil spirit.

Zhurong's body and that little bit of remaining spirit are two different things.

"All the evil karma I have committed in the past is due to endless greed, hatred and ignorance. Fan the fire quickly, don't stop, fan it quickly, fan it quickly!"

"Continue to refine him for 49 days! The Jade Maiden of Xuanjin pours out her divine water, and the fragrant purple mist fills the Taoist temple."

Phoenix also learned Ksitigarbha's method, chanting scriptures and issuing orders at the same time without any delay.

She was extremely busy. She had to perform the ritual of salvation, watch the fire, and control the overall progress. She was so busy that the nine child workers were also forced to run around in circles.

"Whoa!"

"Quack!"

The eldest and the second oldest were exhausted and wanted to rest for a while. The hatred between the Golden Crow and the Witch Clan had weakened a little due to the continuous high-intensity labor, so they wanted to go out and play for a while.

Phoenix then promised them, "After we refine these remaining spiritual energies like this, they will most likely condense into a drop of the Ancestral Witch's blood. We can absorb it together then, and we'll make a killing this time."

It is unlikely to refine Pangu's blood essence, as they do not have the means, but a drop of the ancestor witch's blood essence is almost the same. The Phoenix Stone can absorb it, let alone the ancestor witch's blood essence, which can be absorbed as well. The Golden Crow is a little worse, but drinking some soup is also possible.

"Waaaagh!" A low roar came from the Nine Dragon Divine Furnace.

The eldest and second oldest turned around and stared at her blankly.

Phoenix: ".Keep fanning! Fanning! Don't stop!"

The closer the time gets to the deadline of 49 days, the more violently the Nine Dragon Divine Furnace shakes.

The nine Golden Crow spirits all showed fear. This guy is too powerful. If we can't do it, should we just run away?
"Don't run, stay at your post! Never relax until the last moment!" Phoenix took out the Sky-Repairing Stone, turned it into a huge mountain, and pressed it directly on the furnace cover.

During the last three days, she continuously spewed scorching sun fire into the furnace. The nine golden crow spirits also detonated their fire seeds, injecting even more violent golden sun flames into the furnace.

When the 49th day was up, there was no sound in the furnace, and Fenghuang and the nine child laborers stopped their work with tired faces.

The "boss" looked at Phoenix, as if asking, what should be done next?
What should I do next? How would I know? Let me do some divination first!
Without the River Map and Luoshu, we can only go by our feelings, and the result of the Phoenix divination is auspicious.

She thought for a moment and said, "You all stay away, I'll turn on the furnace!"

The Nine Dragons Divine Fire Furnace has reached its limit, and refining it further will not make any difference. Now we have to open the furnace and see the results.

Phoenix signaled the child workers to stay away and pushed open the furnace cover.

A murderous aura came towards me.

This was the last breath absorbed by the Ancestral Witch during the catastrophe. Even she could not absorb it, so she hurriedly dodged. After a while, the evil spirit dissipated.

After some effort, Phoenix finally moved Zhurong's body out.

It was almost as she expected. After refining for 49 days, the body of the ancient witch was not damaged at all. Not only that, some of the places that were scratched by the fire dragon had even healed.

The fragment of the Chaos Bell pierced deep into her body, but after she used all her strength, she was able to pull it out bit by bit.

This one is the most valuable, but she has no use for it right now. She put the fragments directly into the Cuiguang Liangyi Lamp, and then wrapped the corpse with three layers of scriptures for salvation inside and outside to prevent any residual consciousness from being born in the corpse.

The corpse was of no use to her, so she planned to hand it over to Daji to see if she could get some benefits in the underworld.

Then she called nine child workers over, and the highlight of the day began.

A drop of bright red, with Taoist texts engraved on its surface, a gem-like pill slowly floated up.

This is a drop of the Ancestral Witch's blood, which was drawn out from his body bit by bit over countless years by many resentments and evil spirits. After the evil spirits were dissolved by the alchemy furnace, the originally pure blood would return to the body. Now it is intercepted and refined into a pill using mysterious methods.

Deng Chanyu possessed the abilities of refining weapons, setting up formations, transcending the dead, and refining pills. While absorbing them directly was somewhat difficult, treating them as some kind of natural treasure and refining them into pills was much easier.

One of the fundamental principles of Honghuang is to strive to strengthen oneself, and survival is the first priority.

There is no such thing as something from the enemy that we would rather destroy than use.

The Ancestral Witch hated Di Jun and Tai Yi to the core, but if you gave them the Chaos Bell, they would definitely accept it with great pleasure and would never say things like, "This is Tai Yi's companion treasure. We smashed the bell. We have to keep it even if we don't need it."

Like the Phoenix, the Golden Crow absorbs the abundant energy from the essence and blood, rather than absorbing the blood itself. Even a drop of essence and blood cannot change their bloodline.

The phoenix pierced the pill with its claws, and a rich energy slowly flowed out. She lay in the middle, and the nine golden crow spirits surrounded her, inhaling together.

To comprehend the seeds of Tao, one must have comprehension; to absorb the essence and blood of the ancestor witch, it depends on who has a bigger body and a higher level of Taoism.

Phoenix sucks wildly!

South County.

The clone was absorbing the energy from the blood of the ancestor witch, while the original body was chatting with Daji using paper figurines, handling government affairs and practicing at the same time.

Su Quanxiao hurried in to report, "Commander-in-Chief, the senior doctor from Xiqi has arrived in person."

Deng Chanyu named herself the governor. The Shang Dynasty did not have this official position and did not recognize it at all. She did not care as long as it worked in her own territory.

"Doctor? Is it San Yisheng? Please ask him to go to the side hall first."

After a cup of tea, Deng Chanyu met San Yisheng who came from afar.

After a few pleasantries, she asked bluntly, "Why did the Doctor come to Nanjun in person? Did something go wrong with our transaction?"

On the way here, San Yisheng took a look at the Deng family's territory and had a feeling that it was prosperous, especially Nanjun. The population here was not much different from that of Chaoge. In comparison, Xiqi had lost too much vitality in the war.

This senior official came with a request, and was very polite: "Grand Commander, please allow me to report. I'm here to discuss the prohibition of alcohol in Chaoge."

"Oh, I'd love to hear the details."

"The Shang Dynasty banned alcohol, which not only affected Chaoge but also Xiqi. We have more grain, and in the past we could make alcohol. Even if war broke out, we could still sell the alcohol to other places through traveling merchants. Now that alcohol is banned, we..."

San Yisheng looked embarrassed.

Xiqi's wine is a specialty that can still earn a steady income today. King Zhou banned alcohol, but no matter what his original intention was, the reality dealt a heavy blow to Xiqi.

He explained the whole story, and Deng Chanyu finally understood the reason.

Xiqi wanted to use the Deng family's channels to sell wine secretly.

The Deng family has grown strong, bringing together the four major military forces: the Deng family, the Huang family, the Su family, and the Li family. Their political group is somewhat similar to the future Guanlong aristocratic group.

The reactionary military group headed by the Deng family has been selling weapons to Xiqi. Alcohol is considered a specialty of Xiqi, so they have not gotten involved.

Weapons bring higher profits, so who would want to work so hard selling alcohol?

Now Xiqi wants them to enter this field as well, with the Deng family providing the channels and Xiqi providing the wine.

The profound wine culture of the Xia Dynasty could not be restricted by a ban issued by King Zhou. Not to mention King Zhou, even three thousand years later, sauce-flavored liquor technology is still a national treasure. Banning alcohol? Ban it!

Chaoge banned alcohol, so there must be merchants with deep connections selling alcohol to the many princes and nobles. The Deng family's entry into this market with Xiqi's alcohol would definitely cause a lot of trouble.

"Sir, selling the wine to Chaoge is not worth the effort. What do you think if I sell it to Shu?"

(End of this chapter)