Extracting all things: My attributes grow infinitely.

"The Flower Snake of the River Yin Society, at the second stage of Qi Refining?"

Jiang Chuan pondered for a moment, then instructed, "You should break through to the Qi Refining Realm first, and then do as they say. Don't arouse suspicion... Also, bring all your friends over for me to meet when you have time."

"Yes, Master!"

After receiving a definite reply, Ma Yuankui finally felt relieved. With his close friends succeeding him in this great undertaking, even in death, he could die in peace!

Jiang Chuan withdrew his thoughts and stopped paying attention to Ma Yuankui's affairs.

Despite the selfless contributions of Ma Yuankui and his friends.

But he can't just sit around and do nothing.

He opened the Mirror of Immortals, entered the task section, and prepared to find some ways to make money.

Click to open the task.

A dense array of information immediately appeared before his eyes.

[The C-grade alchemy workshop at Yuanling Mountain is recruiting alchemy apprentices. Applicants must practice Yang Fire-type techniques; cultivation level is not limited. The reward is 200 contribution points per year. This recruitment is ongoing (pinned).]

[You will need to take care of my two young spirit pets. Your cultivation level must be at least at the peak of Body Tempering. The period is two years. The reward is 400 contribution points.]

[Three fellow cultivators are currently exploring the Black Cloud Swamp together. If you are interested, please contact me directly. The reward is unknown, but you will receive at least one mid-grade spiritual treasure.]

Jiang Chuan's gaze swept over each one. Having undergone the baptism of worldview, he could already see the tricks and traps in these tasks at a glance.

It's not unusual for a pill refinery to recruit apprentices, but to keep recruiting them for an extended period is a bit outrageous.

So, Dan Tong is just a consumable item?

There's also the care of young spirit pets.

What is a spirit pet? It is a creature that needs to be bonded together from a young age and personally fed and cared for by its owner in order to cultivate its spirituality and loyalty.

The higher the grade of the spirit beast, the stronger its sense of belonging to its master during its infancy.

At times like this.

Who would entrust their spirit pet to a stranger to take care of?

unless.

The other party's purpose in issuing the task was not at all that.

And those who explore in teams—even a fool would know there's something wrong with that.

Jiang Chuan had a general idea of ​​what was going on and already had a set of criteria in mind.

Any task that requires face-to-face contact with people.

We will not accept any of these offers.

Any task with unreasonable compensation.

We will not accept any of these offers.

Any mission that requires leaving the territory of the Immortal Alliance too far away.

We will not accept any of these offers.

He was a newcomer, and his cultivation was only at the peak of Body Tempering. In the Heavenly Chapter Realm, he was not even considered an ant.

Before you have enough strength, it's better to earn less than to risk your life.

Moreover.

He also has connections with the Tu family.

With Tu Li around, he could uproot the entire Tu family at any time.

The only difference is that you do it yourself.

We should find someone else to do it.

If he were to find other helpers, the profits he could receive would definitely be greatly reduced, so Jiang Chuan preferred to wait until he broke through to the Qi Refining stage and then do it himself.

before that.

He needs to at least earn the rent for the cave dwelling first.

Jiang Chuan's gaze returned to the task list, and he quickly selected a relatively safe crafting task.

[Refine 1,000 portions of Mystic Spirit Liquid. No cultivation level or time limit required. Raw materials must be provided by the user. Reward: 200 contribution points. This task is valid indefinitely.]

The person who issued the task must be an alchemist.

According to the mission description, Xuanling Liquid is a material used to refine elixirs, which needs to be extracted from the raw material 'Xuanyin Grass'.

Xuan Yin Grass is a spiritual herb that grows in extremely yin places. It is sold on trading platforms for 100 plants for 10 contribution points.

If a single Xuan Yin Grass can be used to extract a portion of Xuan Ling Liquid.

The reward for this task is 100 contribution points.

not much.

But its strength lies in its stability.

The key is that he has the power to extract everything, so doing this kind of refining task is basically like picking up money while lying down.

With that in mind, Jiang Chuan no longer hesitated and directly accepted the task on the Myriad Immortals Mirror using his mental power.

The mirror surface shimmered slightly, and a pale golden mark fell into his identity token.

This indicates that the task has been successfully accepted.

Jiang Chuan then purchased a thousand Xuan Yin Grasses from the Wanxian Mirror.

He casually picked up a plant, used the Extraction of All Things technique, and amidst the flashes of golden light, the entire spiritual herb instantly transformed into a pure liquid.

Jiang Chuan nodded slightly: "The refining efficiency is indeed very fast."

A thousand xuanyin grass.

He finished refining it in less than ten minutes.

However, considering that submitting the task too quickly might attract unnecessary attention, Jiang Chuan did not rush to submit it.

He then accepted some similar tasks from the task list.

fortunately.

The inventory of this type of task is enormous.

He produced the tasks in batches and submitted them to different employers. This way, he could quickly accumulate contribution points without arousing suspicion, which was undoubtedly much safer.

……

At the same time.

Ma Yuankui also began his breakthrough in his own cave.

On the stone bed deep inside the cave, he sat cross-legged, palms facing the sky, holding a jade bottle in his palms.

The jade bottle is completely translucent, and you can vaguely see a thin, dark red thread of light moving slowly inside, like a mayfly trapped in amber.

These wisps of light are the Qi of the mortal world.

Jiang Chuan spent 500 contribution points to buy the ninth-grade, fourth-level innate spiritual energy.

Five hundred contributions.

It's not cheap.

However, this [Red Dust Qi] remained untouched in the Mirror of Ten Thousand Immortals for months.

Nine ranks and four levels.

This means that it is already at the lowest level of innate spiritual energy quality.

At this low rank, not only is the evolved divine power weak, but the spiritual energy itself is also mixed with many impurities. After refining, the body may be infiltrated by these impurities.

Unless absolutely necessary, no cultivator who has reached the peak of Body Tempering would choose to use such trash to break through to the Qi Condensation Realm.

But Ma Yuankui had no other choice.

His master's instruction to him was: break through to the Qi Condensation Realm as quickly as possible.

He has no right to be picky.

He held the jade bottle, his thumb pressed against the mouth, but hesitated to break the seal.

A rare flicker of struggle flashed in those empty eyes.

After a moment of silence, Ma Yuankui flicked his thumb and opened the stopper of the jade bottle.

The moment the bottle neck cracked open.

A thin, dark red wisp of light floated out of the bottle.

The light was extremely fine and faint, yet it seemed to possess life. As soon as it was freed, it desperately rushed towards the cave entrance, moving as fast as a red lightning bolt.

All innate spiritual energy possesses spirituality.

The higher the grade of spiritual energy, the stronger its spirituality. It is said that the first and second grade of innate spiritual energy can even take human form and cultivate to an extremely high level.

of course.

Naturally, those with ninth-grade, fourth-level spiritual energy are not qualified.

Ma Yuankui opened his mouth and inhaled sharply. The dark red filament of light didn't even have time to struggle before he swallowed it whole.

The moment the spiritual energy entered his body, his body trembled violently.

The path of cultivation is a journey of ever-changing heights.

The Body Tempering Realm forges a flawless Dharma Body. The so-called flawless means that the Dharma Body has been polished to its ultimate peak state, with its body forming a perfect circle, impervious to external evils and without leakage of internal energy.

At this point, mortal methods can no longer harm cultivators in the slightest. Even ten-thousand-year-old ice and a thousand-degree raging flame cannot leave even a white mark on their bodies.

But this only grants one the right to "accept" it.

I'm convinced.

What it absorbs is a wisp of innate spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

Everything in the world has energy.

Flowers bloom with vitality, leaves fall with vitality, mountains collapse and seas tsunamis have vitality, and the universe itself has even more vitality.

What a cultivator needs to do is to introduce a wisp of innate spiritual energy into their body, and then use their own true essence as the furnace and their Dharma body as the cauldron to refine that wisp of spiritual energy little by little into something that belongs only to them.

This is the true meaning of the word "to be convinced".

Through daily and yearly trials and tribulations.

Only when a cultivator has completely refined that wisp of innate spiritual energy into their own original energy, becoming indistinguishable from their Dharma body, can they be considered to have crossed the final threshold of the Qi Absorption Realm.

The moment the primordial energy is formed, it will evolve into a [divine phenomenon].

The strange and bizarre forms are incredibly varied.

It all depends on the laws of heaven and earth contained within the innate spiritual energy refined by the cultivator.

The supernatural powers evolved from ninth-grade spiritual energy may not be much stronger than ordinary spells, while the supernatural powers evolved from first-grade spiritual energy are said to be able to burn mountains and boil seas, and even reverse the laws of a region.

The higher the grade, the stronger the supernatural power.

vice versa.

Ma Yuankui was naturally aware of all this, but he showed no intention of stopping.

All the master wants is a servant who can break through to a higher realm. Whether the supernatural abilities are strong or weak, or whether there are any side effects, is not something the master needs to consider.

He only needs to carry out the orders.

Inside the cave, Ma Yuankui was enveloped in a faint, dark red halo, which draped over his skin like a thin veil and rose and fell slowly with the rhythm of his breathing.

He was refining that mortal energy.

The sun rises and the moon sets.

Time stands still in the mountains.

Two months is but a fleeting moment for a cultivator.

For the past two months, Ma Yuankui has been refining the dark red light thread that resides in his dantian day and night with his true essence.

Finally, one day two months later, Ma Yuankui suddenly opened his eyes.

A dark red aura suddenly surged from his body.

The shockwave, like tangible smoke, erupted from his body, swirling and condensing into layers of dark red mist within a radius of about ten feet around him.

Wherever the mist passed, the moss on the stone bed withered instantly, the faint spiritual energy in the air was tainted into a turbid gray-black, and even the lighting fluorite embedded in the wall made a hissing sound of corrosion, and was pitted and uneven in just a few breaths.

Nine grades and four levels of mortal qi.

Mystery: The illusions of the mortal world.

This miraculous effect can be powerful in some ways, but also useless in others.

It specifically counters the flawless Dharma body forged through perfect tempering.

Once the dark red mist touches the Dharma Body, it will seep in like a bone-deep infection, eroding the purity of the Dharma Body and causing flaws in its flawless form.

For cultivators who have reached the pinnacle of body tempering, this kind of divine ability can be considered their natural enemy.

However, its side effects are equally troublesome.

The illusions of the mortal world blur the lines between friend and foe.

While eroding the enemy, it also erodes its own Dharma body; the more it is used, the less stable its own foundation becomes.

to be honest.

This is a suicidal tactic that injures the enemy eight hundred while also harming oneself a thousand.

No wonder, no sane cultivator would use such trashy spiritual energy to break through to the Qi Absorption Realm...

Ma Yuankui stood up from the stone bed, looked down at the dark red mist surging in his palm, and felt the power within his body increase several times over, but his face showed no joy at breaking through to a higher realm.

He simply regulated his breathing silently, drawing back the illusions of the mortal world that had been released into his body, then straightened his robes and pushed open the stone door of the cave.

The crimson jade talisman was slightly warm in his storage bag.

It was a message from Senior Sister Flower Snake.

It's time to depart.