47: sudden wealth

Due to Huang Ruoxuan's heavy losses, there was a shortage of manpower. To replenish it, they would have to wait for the next batch of Cultivators. Thus, out of Lin Feng's batch of over a hundred Cultivators, only sixty remained after the baptism of this battle.

The area each person had to guard could only increase significantly. After the baptism of this battle, these Cultivators had all experienced life and death, and understood the importance of Cultivation. They no longer had their previous lax attitude, and everyone emulated Lin Feng's diligent Cultivation.

The Cultivators stationed here no longer had the previous sense of ease; it wasn't that they didn't want to, but their lives were more important!

Currently, the Cultivators on duty were seizing every moment to Cultivate, all to improve their Cultivation faster and to have a greater chance of survival when future wars occurred.

After resting, Lin Feng organized the spoils of war from the Evil Path's surprise attack on the Cultivators. In this battle, Lin Feng obtained seven or eight high-grade Magical Artifacts, ten low-grade Magical Artifacts, and also some Medicinal Pills and Talismans. After tallying the Spirit Stones, he acquired over four thousand Spirit Stones in total from this battle.

Roughly calculating, including the Storage Pouches, if all these items were sold, even if the purchase price was much lower than the selling price, Lin Feng estimated that he could get eight or nine thousand Spirit Stones just from the Magical Artifacts.

At this point, Lin Feng couldn't help but exclaim, 'A man cannot get rich without unexpected wealth; a horse cannot get fat without night fodder.' My hometown people truly did not deceive me! This unexpected wealth came too suddenly. Looking at these items, Lin Feng suddenly grew fond of this place.

What worried Lin Feng was that while these items were obtained quickly, he also needed to be alive to keep them. Therefore, Lin Feng did not relax his Cultivation. In the days that followed, Lin Feng diligently Cultivated, and his Body Refining Cultivation once again improved, entering the Late Stage of the first rank.

After entering the Late Stage of the first rank, Lin Feng's strength did not increase further, but his defense significantly improved. Originally, Lin Feng's Physical Body was only somewhat tough compared to ordinary Cultivators, but now, after trying it out, Lin Feng found that ordinary mundane world swords and blades would have difficulty breaking through his defense.

However, this defense was only against the mundane world. Lin Feng still couldn't directly withstand ordinary Magical Artifacts. Compared to before, Lin Feng's vitality was now stronger. If Cultivators of similar strength were attacked by Magical Artifacts, others might die on the spot, while Lin Feng might only be severely injured.

Lin Feng was already very satisfied with this point. Another month passed in a flash, and Huang Ruoxuan found Lin Feng.

She gave Lin Feng two Jade Slips, encouraging him to Cultivate diligently and not neglect Cultivation for Alchemy. After expressing his gratitude, Lin Feng examined the two Jade Slips.

Upon seeing them, Lin Feng was overjoyed. The Pill Formulas for Qi Gathering Pill and Qi Condensation Pill, which he had been yearning for, were now in his hands. If these two Pill Formulas were in Liuyun Market, Lin Feng's year of effort might not have been enough to obtain them. Yet, Lin Feng acquired both Pill Formulas in just three months since arriving here.

During his last few days on duty, besides Cultivating, Lin Feng no longer crafted Talismans. Instead, he devoted all his attention to the Pill Formulas. Lin Feng was not short of Spirit Stones now, and he planned to use this vacation to thoroughly research the Pill Formulas and improve his Alchemy skills.

Soon, Lin Feng's batch of Cultivators rotated out. In the nearly two months that followed, the Evil Path launched another surprise attack, but it did not target the section Lin Feng was guarding. Thus, Lin Feng had no gains, leaving him both relieved and a little regretful.

Lin Feng returned to the camp to rest. Upon arriving at the Alliance Headquarters, he first checked the market for Magical Artifacts and found that Magical Artifacts here were 20% cheaper than in Liuyun Market, but Medicinal Pills and Talismans were 20% more expensive.

After understanding the market, since he had many items to sell, Lin Feng went to the Alliance's Magical Artifact Pavilion and sold all the Magical Artifacts he had, keeping only one Eight Trigrams Mirror. This item was a high-grade Magical Artifact obtained from a Cultivator who was killed while climbing the city wall.

Because the Magical Artifacts were sold as a package to the Magical Artifact Pavilion, the price was suppressed by another 20%, selling for seven thousand Spirit Stones. Lin Feng finally sold several unused Storage Pouches and the Talismans he had accumulated over the past three months at another shop, obtaining an additional four thousand five hundred Spirit Stones.

After this trip, Lin Feng acquired over eleven thousand Spirit Stones. Adding the Spirit Stones he had previously obtained, Lin Feng now possessed a total of sixteen thousand low-grade Spirit Stones.

With so many Spirit Stones, Lin Feng dared not go out, fearing being targeted. He immediately purchased some Spirit Medicine for crafting Pigu Pills and a batch of Spirit Medicine Materials for Siling Pills within the camp. As for Qi Gathering Pills and Qi Condensation Pills, although Lin Feng had obtained the Pill Formulas, he did not plan to craft them yet.

The crafting difficulty of these two Pill Formulas was many times higher than the previous two. Lin Feng intended to first improve his Alchemy skills. Lin Feng had only just learned Pigu Pills before coming here, so he planned to improve his skills with these two Medicinal Pills first.

Behind the Alliance Headquarters, there was an Alchemy room set up for Cultivators to refine Medicinal Pills, created by powerful Alliance Cultivators who harnessed earth fire. Lin Feng spent a total of two thousand Spirit Stones on the two types of Materials this time. Therefore, at the Alchemy Room in the Alliance Headquarters, he immediately spent one hundred Spirit Stones to rent it for a month.

These Alchemy rooms also varied in quality. Since Lin Feng was only refining the lowest-grade Medicinal Pills, he did not plan to use a good earth fire room. He found an ordinary earth fire room and entered to begin refining Medicinal Pills.

He first refined the Pigu Pills he had already learned, finishing all the Materials that cost over a thousand Spirit Stones in one go. This time, Lin Feng was a bit rusty in the early stages, so his refining was slow, and the success rate of forming Medicinal Pills only maintained the 30% given by the entries.

However, in the later stages, Lin Feng used his Spirit Rhinoceros Eye to monitor the control of his magical power and heat, slowly improving and becoming proficient. Later, not only did the success rate of forming Medicinal Pills improve, but his speed also nearly doubled. Lin Feng spent fourteen days increasing the Pigu Pill success rate to 35% and nearly doubling his speed.

These days, Lin Feng's mental energy was greatly depleted, so he rested directly in the earth fire room for a day. After Lin Feng recuperated his energy, he began to attempt refining Siling Pills.

Siling Pills are Medicinal Pills primarily for Spirit Beasts and Spirit Insects. The medicinal power of this pill is much greater than that of Pigu Pills, but Yao Beasts have strong consumption abilities, so the requirements for this pill are not high. Spirit Beasts can generally accept Medicinal Pills mixed with some pill toxins, unlike Human Cultivators who have extremely high demands for Medicinal Pills. This pill mainly tests the Alchemist's ability to condense the medicinal power of Spirit Medicine; other aspects are even simpler than Pigu Pills.

Since Lin Feng had gained some experience refining Pigu Pills, after failing completely for the first three days, he successfully refined a batch of Medicinal Pills on the fourth day. With the success of the first batch, Lin Feng became more and more skilled in subsequent refining. In the following ten-odd days, Lin Feng continuously refined Siling Pills.

Until a month later, Lin Feng had also mastered Siling Pills, and the success rate reached 35%. Lin Feng still had medicinal ingredients, but reluctantly, he extended his rental for five more days to finish refining all the medicinal ingredients.

After finishing the refining, Lin Feng looked at the Medicinal Pills in his hand. Lin Feng carefully estimated that this time refining Medicinal Pills, he could earn three times the cost for Pigu Pills. However, for Siling Pills, due to early waste and not-so-rapid improvement later on, for a thousand Spirit Stones, Lin Feng could only earn five hundred Spirit Stones.