Chapter 21 Over a Hundred Bottles of Overflowing Qi Pills

During the two months Chen Li spent waiting for the children to be born, he cultivated the Profound Shadow Ice Art to Major Achievement.

The speed of the frost condensing sword he wielded had increased several times compared to when it was at Minor Achievement, and the cold air lingered for up to half a minute wherever the sword passed.

To practice sword techniques, he even leveled a small hill within Black Magpie Mountain and built a martial arts training ground called the Dao Seeking Platform.

At the Dao Seeking Platform, Chen Li had just finished sword practice, tidied up his things, and went to inspect the spirit rice fields and the Spiritual Plant fields.

The spirit rice had been growing for six months and was doing well, looking lush and green, and the Spiritual Plant in the Spiritual Plant fields had also sprouted, each one neatly arranged.

It would take time for them to mature and be harvested; it would be even better if there were some Opportunity for rapid ripening later!

At one of the spirit fields, Brother Ox was casting the Weeding Technique. Seeing Chen Li coming to inspect, Brother Ox used the Weeding Technique with lightning speed.

"Brother Ox, not bad. How is your learning of the Sowing Technique coming along?"

In a short while, Brother Ox demonstrated the Sowing Technique and earned the title of Genius Ox again. Consequently, Chen Li decided to increase Brother Ox's workload by having him learn three spells simultaneously: Fire Pellet Technique, Granary Storage Technique, and Harvesting Technique.

Brother Ox lay on his back with all four hooves in the air to protest, "I am an Ox!"

Chen Li declared, "Protest invalid!"

A day later, Brother Ox was utterly disheveled. Chen Li had tossed these three spells at him and lectured him relentlessly, "You stupid Ox, you're driving me crazy!"

After teaching Brother Ox, Chen Li went to see the two little ones in the Concentric Heart Hall. Seeing Chen Li, the two little ones babbled and cooed. Chen Li teased their cheeks with his fingers and spent some time bonding with them.

Having consumed a batch of qi overflowing pill seized previously, and with Chen Li's help in comprehending the Second-Rank Formation, Zhu Lingyue had now advanced to a Second-Rank Formation Master, and her cultivation had reached the Third Level of Qi Refining.

"Husband, I can take care of these two. You should go focus on Alchemy!"

Chen Li intended to use five-hundred-year-old herbs, meant for Foundation Establishment Stage, to refine qi overflowing pill for the Qi Refining stage!

This required diluting the medicinal potency of the herbs first before proceeding to Alchemy, which required some finesse. Therefore, he needed to go into secluded meditation for a period.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Wife!"

Inside the Immortal Cave, Chen Li took out a five-hundred-year-old Luoyan mirror-breaking spirit grass, used his Qi to cut off a small piece, and then placed it into the Pill Furnace, using the Fire Control Technique to evaporate some of its medicinal potency.

Ten minutes later, after it had evaporated sufficiently, he took out herbs under one hundred years old, added them in, then formed hand seals, controlled the fire, and condensed the pill!

The first batch failed to condense because the medicinal potency was too diluted.

The second batch failed to condense because the medicinal potency was too concentrated.

The third batch failed to condense because the medicinal potency was slightly off.

The fourth batch, with the medicinal potency just right, successfully condensed into pills!

A burst of loud laughter erupted from the Immortal Cave! One could vaguely hear, "This Old Ancestor is truly a Genius Alchemist!"

Chen Li had once again upheld his self-proclaimed title of Genius Alchemist. However, after the success of the first batch, he rode the wave of his hot streak and continued refining.

At the Beast Hunting Sect's main hall, the two chairs on the high platform represented two Nascent Soul Cultivators, while the nine chairs below represented nine Golden Core Cultivators.

At this moment, two people were sitting on the nine chairs below.

One had the cultivation of an Early Stage Golden Core, and the other was at the Middle Stage Golden Core.

The one with Early Stage Golden Core cultivation was the Law Enforcement Elder of the Hunting Hall, muscular and rugged in appearance, named Jin Yue.

The one at Middle Stage Golden Core was the Pavilion Master of the Alchemy Pavilion, with flowing hair and a faint fragrance, named Gui Qiutang.

The two spoke in hushed tones and even cast a sound-insulation barrier.

Jin Yue said, "Pavilion Master Gui, where are the extra dozens of foundation establishment pill you promised?"

Gui Qiutang floated five bottles of Medicinal Pill from his Storage Pouch and said, "These are the extra fifty foundation establishment pill. They are for your precious son with Five Spiritual Roots to use for Foundation Establishment; that should be enough!"

After checking them, Jin Yue smiled and said, "A pleasant cooperation this time. These corpses are all Late Stage Qi Refining Disciples who harvested over 60 Third-level Demon Beast. These Qi Refining Cultivator talents have potent medicinal power! It's enough for you to refine human pill for some time."

Jin Yue also floated out a Storage Pouch containing the corpses of Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Cultivators.

After checking, Gui Qiutang also laughed and said, "The cleanup was done cleanly, right? It won't attract anyone's attention, will it?"

Jin Yue said, "Rest assured, some survivors will be left behind; it won't attract the attention of others!"

"That's good. For now, let's not touch the Disciples of our own Sect first; I'm afraid of attracting the attention of the Grand Elder. Later, we need to collect some Foundation Establishment corpses, and the Medicinal Pill you want will not be shorted!"

Jin Yue joked, "Haha, rest assured! We can kill some Loose Cultivator Foundation Establishment or some Family Foundation Establishment. As long as we give a few foundation establishment pill to some Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan, some Foundation Establishment Cultivators who don't have much time left will offer themselves up for the sake of their families. There are quite a few signing up right now."

He continued, "Killing a batch of Loose Cultivator Foundation Establishment Cultivators won't lead to anyone seeking justice for them, so you can rest easy."

Gui Qiutang nodded in satisfaction, "Mm, until next time!"

Half a month later, in the Lu Family territory in Yuanwu Prefecture, inside the main hall, Lu Xilou looked at the two foundation establishment pill in his hand and then looked at Lu Shuiqing.

He asked, "Old Ancestor, these two?"

Lu Shuiqing did not explain, remaining silent for a moment. "You should proceed with Foundation Establishment. My time is running out!"

Lu Shuiqing looked at the Restriction placed within her body but did not tell Lu Xilou, her expression resolute.

Lu Xilou seemed to have recalled some rumor; tears welled up in his eyes, his face full of grief and indignation, with nowhere to vent.

"Rest assured, Old Ancestor. Xilou understands everything. The Lu Family's two-hundred-year foundation will never be severed!"

Lu Shuiqing nodded and waved her hand, signaling him to withdraw.

After Lu Xilou left, Lu Shuiqing gazed at the sky, her expression sorrowful, and muttered to herself, "I hope in my next life I won't be burdened by a clan. Being a free and easy Mortal would be fine too. I'm tired!"

Three months later, news came from Yuanwu Prefecture that the Lu Family head, Lu Xilou, had successfully achieved Foundation Establishment, and the Lu Family Old Ancestor, Lu Shuiqing, announced she would be in secluded meditation and would not see guests for ten years.

In Liangxi County, the Yunluo Anwang and the Chen Family all sent letters of congratulations and presented gifts for the Foundation Establishment success.

This time, the Lu Family widely invited the Qi Refining Immortal Clan within the prefecture to come to the Lu Family for the Foundation Establishment Immortal Banquet held for Lu Xilou. Not long after, Chen Li at Black Magpie Mountain also received an invitation.

Inside the Concentric Heart Hall, the two little ones were already able to crawl around. A month ago, Chen Li had already finished his Alchemy.

This time, he had refined a total of one hundred and twenty bottles of qi overflowing pill, which shocked even Zhu Lingyue. Chen Li tossed five bottles to the Green Ox, gave fifteen bottles to Zhu Lingyue, and kept the rest for himself to use for his Breakthrough to Late Stage Qi Refining.

With these five bottles, the Green Ox would have enough to break through to the Second Level of Qi Refining cultivation, and Zhu Lingyue would also be able to break through to the Fourth Level of Qi Refining cultivation.

"Husband, how did the Lu Family head achieve Foundation Establishment so quickly this time? How did they get the foundation establishment pill so fast? That's impressive!"

Chen Li was also puzzled, but couldn't think of why, so he said, "Perhaps they had some Opportunity; I can't guess either."

"Don't think too much about it; let's just go about our business."