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Chapter 65: No Matter How Much You Refine, It’s Not Enough

After refining the small black gourd in an instant, Xu Huan immediately had an idea and took out 1.5 million gold coins from the two cubic meters of internal space.

The next moment, a small mountain of gold appeared on the table. Under the illumination of the yellow lantern fruit, each gold coin shone with golden light, illuminating the surroundings, making the entire room shrouded in brilliance.

"Hahaha, 500,000 gold coins' worth of materials, after being refined by this free 'alchemy boy', the ancestor, I made a net profit of one million gold coins. How cool!"

Staring straight at the small golden mountain in front of him, Xu Huan's eyes seemed to flash with charming golden light. His heart was relieved and he couldn't help laughing.

After paying back the material cost of 500,000 gold coins and deducting the share of 500,000 gold coins for Lin Daiyu, he still has 500,000 gold coins left, which is comparable to the legal tax revenue of the City Lord's Mansion for two years. This is simply too great!
It seems that the total amount of Tianzhen Pavilion's auction in one night is very large, but from this we can get a glimpse of the whole picture. The City Lord's Mansion should also collect a lot of tax revenue every year.

This is indeed true in theory, but in reality, in order to promote the development of remote cities, the imperial officials have opened the door to national chain neutral forces such as Tiangong Pavilion, Tianyifang, Tiandi Bank, Tianzhen Pavilion, and Adventurer's Guild. As long as they stay in the local area, they are all tax-free.

As for the other forces, legal taxes exceeding 200,000 must be handed over to the royal family and not to local officials.

……

Xu Huan stretched out his hands and counted the small mountain of gold coins with a smile for a while. After satisfying his desire to get rich quickly, he immediately had an idea and put the small mountain of gold coins into the Qiankun Ding for safekeeping.

"The Tongmai Pills are sold out, and the materials are gone. I have to wait for the new stock to arrive before I can ask the ancestor to refine them." Xu Huan's mouth cracked into a huge arc, and he touched his chin excitedly and muttered to himself, "I've satisfied my money addiction. It's time to use the Five Qi Marrow Washing Fluid and practice well."

As everyone knows, at the Qi Tu realm, one can only practice for two hours a day at most after countless blood and tears lessons from the ancestors. If one practices for more than that, the fragile Qi channels will not be able to bear it and will be easily damaged, which will lead to side stitches, and even death from going crazy.

Xu Huan was already familiar with this basic cultivation knowledge, because before he opened up his meridians, he practiced for more than an hour every day, drawing the energy of heaven and earth into his body, so as to awaken the Bagua Immortal Mirror.

"Whoo~"

With a long sigh, Xu Huan gradually calmed down his excitement. Then he flipped his right hand, thought about it, and took out the Five Qi Marrow Cleansing Liquid from the Qiankun Cauldron.

A fist-sized white porcelain bowl appeared out of thin air in Xu Huan's hand. At first glance, he saw that the bowl was half filled with thick black liquid. After taking a closer look, he was shocked to find that under the bright light, the surface of the black liquid in the bowl faintly showed a colorful luster.

Nodding slightly, Xu Huan looked at the Five Qi Marrow Washing Liquid in his hand, and recalled the naughty words Zhen Qiankun said when he handed it to him: Do you want to know how to use it? Beg me, beg me, and I will tell you, hehehe.

"Xianjing, Xianjing, tell me, how do I use this Five Qi Marrow Cleansing Fluid?" Xu Huan chuckled and chose to ignore Zhen Qiankun and directly asked the Bagua Xianjing.

[Replying to the master, there are three dosage plans.]

[1. Ingesting it directly, even just one drop at a time, will increase your cultivation through inhumane torture, and there's a 10% chance of exploding and dying.]

[2. Immerse yourself in water and soak your body. This will provide less pain and will not cause you to explode, but will waste the medicinal properties and significantly reduce the effectiveness of your cultivation.]

[3. Insert five incense sticks, representing the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Burn the incense and face east while practicing. This will not only eliminate the risk of pain or explosion, but also significantly improve the practice.]

Hearing the reply from the Bagua Immortal Mirror, Xu Huan twitched his lips in silence. What kind of wonderful medicine was this that had a built-in function to prevent outsiders from using it?

If someone took the first method and consumed it directly, they would probably explode and die instantly. If someone took the second method and practiced with it, the effect would probably be better than nothing.

And there is the most deceptive third method of taking the medicine. Who is smart enough to face east and burn incense for himself while taking medicine for cultivation?

It's not like burning incense during a sacrifice, this is just crazy...

Shaking his head slightly, Xu Huan stood up and walked to the meditation place in the corner of the room. He bent down slightly and placed the white porcelain bowl in front of the yellow cushion. Then he stood up and took out five thin, straight brown sandalwood sticks from the sandalwood cabinet beside him with ease. These sticks were used to calm the mind, help people enter a state of concentration or fall asleep.

"Snapped!"

Xu Huan followed the instructions of the Bagua Fairy Mirror and arranged five sandalwood sticks and inserted them upright into the white porcelain bowl.

"Huh?" Xu Huan exclaimed in surprise as soon as it was inserted.

After the non-burning incense stem under the incense was inserted into the Five Qi Marrow Cleansing Liquid, the thick, colorful black liquid seemed to have a life as if a switch was pressed, and it gradually squirmed along the incense stem all the way up, finally covering the five brown-yellow sandalwood incense heads, making them several times thicker, but still standing upright without falling down.

"It's amazing."

With a light sigh, Xu Huan immediately lit the incense.

As the incense head lit up, flames flashed, and wisps of colorful smoke slowly rose and swirled around, as if colorful clouds were descending to the earth and fairy air was floating.

Sometimes it gathered into a ball, and sometimes it spread out, covering everything around Xu Huan, making it hazy and dreamy.

Seeing this, Xu Huan hurriedly sat down, and sat cross-legged on the yellow cushion according to the posture of the Five Qis Converging to the Origin Technique, with his five hearts facing the sky, and he entered into a state of meditation in an instant.

Under Xu Huan's quiet mental perception, as he breathed in and out, the five-colored clouds floating in the air seemed to have found an outlet after they began to refine the five elements of thought energy floating between heaven and earth and entered his body. They followed closely behind and gently penetrated into his body one by one.

After a while, Xu Huan could sense without using his mind that the first meridian was gradually giving him a very pleasant feeling of fulfillment. It was the charming feeling of improved cultivation.

At the same time, there was also a slight tingling sensation, as if after the five-colored clouds transformed from the Five Qi Marrow Cleansing Liquid entered the body, the Qi channels were slowly torn and expanded by the powerful medicinal power, but then healed immediately, at a speed as slow as a snail, but it allowed the Qi channel capacity to slowly increase and the toughness to slowly increase.

As time passed, Xu Huan, who was in a perfect state of meditation, became more and more calm and peaceful. The meditation posture that most people would find very tiring and painful also became more and more comfortable to him. His breathing was very rhythmic, as if he had turned into a tree man, greedily absorbing the surrounding heaven and earth energy and the five-colored clouds and smoke, and no matter how much he refined, it still felt it was not enough.

……

The dark sky in the east seemed to be pierced by a sword, revealing a faint fish belly white and a barely perceptible trace of purple clouds.

A faint light filled the room, and with a breath from the young man, it dispersed the last wisp of colorful smoke floating in the air.

(End of this chapter)