Chapter 156 The golden elixir is formed

The river of stars flowed, and another year passed for the Spiritual Root testing.

Three months after Chen Li emerged from seclusion, he chose to enter seclusion again, relying on the Spiritual Qi released by the life spirit flower to cultivate his Early Stage Golden Core cultivation to its peak.

Then, he planned to wait another two years to collect another batch of ripened Thousand-Year Lotus Dew Grass and wind marrow flower, refine them into lotus dew pills and marrow essence pills, and see if he could then break through to the Middle Stage Golden Core!

The drunken dragon bamboo still needed seven or eight years to reach the ten-thousand-year mark, so he would need to wait a bit longer before he could pursue all three goals simultaneously.

Zhu Lingyue also began researching the refinement of the golden core formation.

Chen Li gave Zhu Lingyue hundreds of ripened Thousand-Year wind immortal flower, Spirit Calming Flower, and Blazing Fire Grass.

Now, ripening the qi overflowing grass was rare; they mostly used it to ripen some five-hundred-year or thousand-year Spiritual Plants.

There were already over eight thousand bottles in the Pill Refining Residence's storage; they simply couldn't use it all.

Chen Li told Zhu Lingyue to casually try refining the golden core formation; if she succeeded, great, if not, they would examine it together after he came out of seclusion.

The golden core formation that the Loose Cultivator Li Daoan pursued until his death, the missing wind immortal flower, was as common as Mortal things before the Chen family—easily attainable, something to be casually experimented with!

Inside Zhu Lingyue's Immortal Cave, although Chen Li told her to try casually, facing so many thousand-year Spiritual Plants, worth tens of millions of Spirit Stones, her hands couldn't help but tremble.

She applied her full concentration, giving her utmost effort to refine the golden core formation.

She used the earth vein fire purified by Chen Li to fire the furnace, a Fourth-grade Cauldron, and began refining the golden core formation according to the Pill Formula!

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Time flowed swiftly, and another two months passed.

Those three Foundation Establishment Demonic Path Cultivators never appeared anywhere in the Nanwu Kingdom again; there was no movement whatsoever.

Some people speculated, perhaps they returned to the East Sea Archipelago, having completed their mission?

Some vigilant Foundation Establishment Immortal Clans gradually returned to normal operations.

Chen Songxuan traveled back and forth to the Prefecture City shop.

Chen Songyan publicly announced his advancement to the Late Stage Qi Refining, outwardly claiming to be at the Seventh Level of Qi Refining.

His true cultivation was Early Foundation Establishment Stage; claiming Seventh Level of Qi Refining for a Three Spiritual Roots Cultivator at that level was quite reasonable.

On this day, Chen Songyan was teaching Chen Baizhao in the Immortal Learning Tower.

"Father, I have learned the Heart Returning Art!"

Seeing Chen Baizhao learn a Dharma Art in just one day, Chen Songyan was once again struck. He himself had to be held down by Chen Songli for seven or eight days before finally learning it.

"My eldest daughter is truly intelligent!"

Although Chen Songyan felt struck, he was very proud of his eldest daughter.

"Father, how many days did it take you to learn it back then?"

Chen Songyan felt awkward and vaguely replied, "It was also about a day or two!"

"Oh, Great Aunt said Father always takes several days to learn things. So Great Aunt was lying!"

Chen Songyan almost spat blood, staggered, and nearly lost his composure. "Don't listen to your Great Aunt; she was just tricking you!"

"Oh, alright. Then, Father, do you know Formations? I have some questions. Little Aunt is proficient in Talismans and also knows some Formations!"

Chen Songyan: ...

In the Concentric Heart Hall, Chen Songmei took a complexion fixing pill and said to Chen Songli, "Sister, I have prepared everything!"

"Mmm. Bring the Three-Flower Cat. Are all the items sufficient?"

"They are all sufficient!"

"Good. During this journey throughout the Nanwu Kingdom, follow my instructions!"

"Yes, Sister!"

After leaving Yuanwu Prefecture, Chen Songli outwardly appeared as Seventh Level of Qi Refining, and Chen Songmei as Fourth Layer of Qi Refining, both having changed their appearances.

Chen Songmei was very excited.

Chen Songli, looking at the innocent Chen Songmei, also smiled inwardly. This time, she would let her witness the cruelty of the Mortal world and the deceit among Cultivators.

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In the Artifact Refining Residence, Chen Songxiao refined seven or eight Fifth-grade thunder shields, then resolutely chose to enter seclusion to advance his cultivation.

He went to the Pill Refining Residence to get Medicinal Pills.

In the Pill Refining Residence, Brother Ox was refining pills nearby.

When he saw Chen Songxiao enter, he let out a muffled sound.

"Uncle Niu, what pill are you refining?"

Brother Ox used Spiritual Qi to form the shape of a breakthrough pill.

"Uncle Niu is amazing. All of us grew up eating the Medicinal Pills refined by Uncle Niu, haha."

Brother Ox was very pleased upon hearing this and let out a few more muffled sounds, looking very proud!

Chen Songxiao entered his Immortal Cave and looked at the dazzling array of finished Medicinal Pills piled up.

He went to the section for mirror-breaking pills and took one hundred boxes!

"Uncle Niu, I'm going into seclusion!" Chen Songxiao said as he left.

Moo~~

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Time pressed on, and another half a year passed.

Inside the Great Sun Seed Cultivation Cave Mansion, Chen Li had absorbed the Spiritual Qi released by the life spirit flower for half a year.

As the Great Sun Seed Jade ripened, the age of the Three-Thousand-Year life spirit flower was nearing four thousand years, and the amount of Spiritual Qi released was gradually increasing!

After cleansing his Spiritual Root, Chen Li absorbed this pure Spiritual Qi with extremely high conversion efficiency.

As the life spirit flower released more and more Spiritual Qi, the other Spiritual Plants and trees in the Immortal Cave also benefited.

The nine flower buds of the chiyang spirit fruit tree had bloomed!

The nine flowers were as bright as the scorching sun, with crimson petals inlaid with purple patterns, adding a unique landscape to the entire Immortal Cave.

Chen Li glanced at them and continued his seclusion!

Inside Zhu Lingyue's Immortal Cave, after more than half a year, a pill with three golden patterns and a purely potent medicinal fragrance filled the entire Immortal Cave—the pill was out of the furnace.

The main body of the golden core formation was golden, the pill patterns were distinct, and the medicinal fragrance was purely potent; this pill was the golden core formation; it was a success!

Zhu Lingyue let out a long breath.

She had failed three times in refinement.

Each failure meant losing three thousand-year Spiritual Plants, equivalent to over three hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

She had wasted nearly a million Spirit Stones in total.

Every time she failed, Zhu Lingyue's heart would tremble a few times.

She would stop the furnace for one or two months before starting again, summarizing her experience and proceeding slowly.

This time, she finally succeeded!

She recalled a sentence Chen Li had once said: to become an Alchemy Great Master, one had to be piled up with Spiritual Plants; refining more would lead to success!

Alright, her husband was correct!

She sealed this golden core formation in an exquisite box and wrote in a book, the book's title: "Chen Family golden core formation Refinement Summary."

She refined a few more pills.

After coming out of seclusion, she first visited Xu Yunqiu and Lu Qinglan at Dongbai Mountain and Qishi Mountain, and then, half a month later, she chose to enter seclusion.

Inside her Immortal Cave, she took out the mirror-breaking pill and first pushed her cultivation to Foundation Establishment Perfection! ...

In a dense forest outside the Cultivation Market of the Beast Hunting Sect in the Taihu Mountain Range, one could hear Cultivators being robbed.

"You two, hand over your things, and I will spare your lives! Otherwise, you die!"

"Heh heh, why?"

"Haha, why? One is Seventh Level of Qi Refining, and the other is Fourth Layer of Qi Refining. Why? Because I am Ninth Level of Qi Refining!"

Chen Songli's expression was calm.

After Chen Songmei questioned him and received the answer, she burst out laughing.

To let Chen Songmei experience the cruel reality among Cultivators, Chen Songli and she bought a three-hundred-year purple monkey flower at a Spiritual Plant shop.

This was the main ingredient for Foundation Establishment.

After they bought it and left the shop, many gazes fixed upon them.

Outside the Market, only this Loose Cultivator at the Ninth Level of Qi Refining followed them persistently!

Chen Songmei had discovered the person behind them early on.

Since the Divine Sense of a Ninth Level of Qi Refining Cultivator was not as strong as an Early Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator, she wanted to see what this Ninth Level of Qi Refining Cultivator intended to do?

Chen Songli had long foreseen this, so as soon as this Ninth Level of Qi Refining Cultivator followed them, she knew what would happen next.

"Sister, this is the cruel Cultivation World, isn't it? I've truly experienced it today!" Chen Songmei transmitted her voice to Chen Songli.

"Haha, it's good that you experienced it. Do you understand Father's good intentions now?"

"I completely understand. The strong bullying the weak, the strong preying on the weak!"

"Mmm, very good!"

Chen Songmei took out her whip, and Chen Songli also took out her flame fire sword!

A moment later, this Ninth Level of Qi Refining Loose Cultivator was bound by the whip, and his legs were disabled!

At this moment, this Ninth Level of Qi Refining Loose Cultivator finally realized who he was facing; he had actually tried to rob two Foundation Establishment Cultivators—it was terrifying!

"Spare my life, Senior! I dare not do it again!"

"Two Seniors, I'll serve you like an ox or a horse, just don't kill me!"

"Noisy. Die!" Chen Songmei's expression turned cold, and then she swung her whip, wrapping it around the head and neck, and with a hard pull, the Loose Cultivator's head fell to the ground!