Extracting all things: My attributes grow infinitely.

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

For the past six months, Jiang Chuan has barely stepped out of the alchemy room, having been studying Meng Yangyu's alchemy techniques.

The lifelong accumulation of knowledge of a third-level Earth Fire Alchemist cannot be fully digested in a day or two.

The more than thirty kinds of precious pill formulas alone are enough for an ordinary alchemist to study for several years.

Not to mention those two incomplete formulas for the Mystic Elixir.

Even though it was incomplete, the alchemy principles it contained still greatly benefited Jiang Chuan.

On this day, as usual, he was refining pills on the second floor when Amu gently knocked on the door and handed him a pale gold communication jade talisman.

Jiang Chuan took the jade talisman, probed it with his divine sense, and then raised an eyebrow slightly.

Underground gatherings are about to begin again.

He placed the jade talisman on the table and pondered for a moment.

The ten mid-grade spiritual artifacts I bought at the last gathering have long been devoured by the Starry Sky Treasure Mirror. After the Treasure Mirror was upgraded to high-grade, its appetite became even more astonishing. To continue to improve, the ordinary items on the Myriad Immortals Mirror are far from enough.

Moreover, he had accumulated contribution points for more than half a year.

It's time to spend it.

The valley was still shrouded in that swirling fog.

Jiang Chuan was wrapped in a large gray robe, his face completely covered by the hood, and his aura was extremely restrained.

To outsiders, he was just an ordinary-looking rogue cultivator, no different from anyone else in this gathering who didn't want to reveal their identity.

He chose a stone table at the back and sat down. His gaze swept across the room, and he roughly counted that there were seven or eight more figures than last time.

The host was still the same cultivator shrouded in mist, his voice manipulated by magic, making it impossible to discern his gender.

The transaction began quickly, with treasures being presented one after another, and bids rising and falling.

Jiang Chuan observed quietly.

Occasionally, when they come across one or two suitable spiritual materials, they casually quote a price and acquire several auxiliary materials needed for refining precious pills.

He only straightened up slightly when the free trade began.

"I have some of the latest intelligence from the Southern Region, covering several major recent events. It's priced at 300 contribution points!"

Without saying a word, Jiang Chuan allocated his contribution points and accepted the jade slip.

He probed with his divine sense, and after a moment his brows furrowed slightly.

The intelligence report mentioned this.

Recently, several prominent families within the Great Qian Dynasty have announced that their disciples have broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, including Ye Wanxia from the Ye family.

In addition, there is a vague record that the Crimson Lotus Sect seems to be plotting some major operation involving ancient ruins, but the specific details are unknown.

The undercurrents in the southern region were even more turbulent than he had anticipated.

The transaction continued for about an hour. Jiang Chuan made several moves, spending nearly 20,000 contribution points to exchange for a batch of spirit materials of good quality.

He figured he had done enough and was about to get up and leave when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of his eye.

That sturdy-looking weapon refiner.

Last time, I bought three mid-grade spiritual artifacts from him and even borrowed his Spirit Appraisal Disc to examine the Azure Sea Mystic Pearl.

Jiang Chuan's gaze lingered on him for a moment, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual about the other person's aura, he looked away and stopped paying attention.

Tie Xuan sat at the stone table in the far corner, toying with a bronze ring in his hand, looking nonchalant.

But those eyes beneath the hood never left Jiang Chuan from the moment he stepped into the gathering.

Six months.

He had been waiting for this day for a full six months!

After the gathering ended that day, he began to investigate Jiang Chuan's identity by following the divine imprint left on the Purple Lightning Mountain-Suppressing Box.

I thought he was just an ordinary disciple who got lucky and found a real treasure.

We'll find out if we investigate further.

The other party was actually a Spirit Fire Alchemist from the top-tier alchemy room of Yuanling Mountain!

The discovery that he was a top-tier alchemist, and a specially selected alchemist from the Class A alchemy room, excited Tie Xuan so much that he barely slept for half a month.

The wealth of an alchemist is beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators; they are practically synonymous with riches!

Moreover, he also discovered that Jiang Chuan still hasn't accepted it.

With his cultivation at the fourth level of Qi Refining, dealing with a cultivator who hasn't yet submitted would be a piece of cake!

In his eyes, Jiang Chuan was no different from a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

He had been looking for an opportunity to make his move.

Unfortunately, Jiang Chuan almost never left the mountain, and Tie Xuan waited outside Yuanling Mountain for half a year but still couldn't catch a single opportunity!

Yuanling Mountain is, after all, an important place for the inner sect, with a Foundation Establishment True Person guarding it. Even if an outer sect disciple were incredibly audacious, he wouldn't dare to make a move in such a place.

Even today...!

It was already dusk when the gathering ended.

Jiang Chuan left the valley and, without lingering, sped along the mountain path he had come from.

Tie Xuan trailed far behind, his footsteps as light as a falling leaf.

The red copper ring on his finger emitted a faint glow, echoing the divine imprint left on Jiang Chuan's spiritual artifact half a year ago.

The mark was extremely well hidden, and even ordinary Qi Refining cultivators would find it difficult to detect.

Tie Xuan has already tricked no fewer than seven or eight unlucky people using this method.

Not a single mistake was made.

The fog ahead gradually thickened, and the dense forests on both sides of the mountain road turned pitch black in the twilight. The surroundings were desolate and silent.

It's now!

Without further hesitation, Tie Xuan swiftly formed a hand seal, and a faint, dark red mist surged around him, making him appear like a silent ghost, and he suddenly accelerated.

Jiang Chuan was walking into a mountain hollow when he suddenly stopped.

The mist from all directions seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand, suddenly surging and contracting inward, causing the space to distort violently, and the surrounding mountains and forests disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Instead, there was a vast, gray, empty space with no solid ground beneath your feet and no sky above, the walls shrouded in a layer of churning, dark red mist.

Array space.

Jiang Chuan raised an eyebrow and stood still.

This method looks familiar. Half a year ago, when Meng Yangyu used the Soul-Locking Array to trap him, it was almost the same approach.

"Fellow Daoist Lieyang, we meet again."

A loud voice came from deep within the fog.

Tie Xuan walked out slowly, his hood pulled back, revealing a kind and honest face, but his eyes gleamed with cunning and greed.

"Fellow Daoist, it seems there is no grudge between us."

Jiang Chuan turned around without changing his expression, facing Tie Xuan directly: "What you're doing violates the rules of the gathering."

"How much are rules worth?"

Tie Xuan chuckled and crossed his arms: "I must say, fellow Daoist, you've kept me waiting for quite a while! A full six months have passed before I finally got my chance!"

He took a step forward, the dark red mist around him churning even more violently. He chuckled and said, "How about this? I don't want to push things too far. If you obediently hand over the box, and the contents of your storage bag, I won't take more than half. We can then go our separate ways, how about that?"

Jiang Chuan was silent for a moment, then chuckled softly.

"What are you laughing at?"

Tie Xuan frowned slightly.

"I laugh at you for going to so much trouble to follow me, only to find out nothing about me."

Jiang Chuan slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers spread wide, and a ball of light quietly shone in his palm.

Azure, silver, and gold intertwined and flowed with light.

It unfolds slowly.

Wherever the tricolored light passed, the surging dark red mist melted and dissipated in large swaths, like snow being splashed with boiling water.

Tie Xuan's pupils constricted sharply, and he subconsciously took a step back: "Qi Refining Stage 3?! That's impossible! I clearly investigated your background. You've only been in the Immortal Alliance for a little over a year. How could a newcomer who hasn't even mastered Qi Refining possibly..."

He didn't finish his sentence because a halo of light appeared behind Jiang Chuan, blocking all his remaining words.

The Starry Sky Mirror rose and fell silently, its twelve luminous prisms slowly rotating. A newly formed star ring encircled the edge of the mirror, emanating a terrifying pressure that made the entire array space tremble!