0p0 Chapter 170 Gathering
Chapter 170 Gathering
"Roar! Roar!" The giant ape was burned by the flames in the sky. As soon as it came into contact with the burning parts of its body, it immediately slapped its palms on the burning parts and roared loudly with extraordinary anger.
"The artistic conception of gold! Human, you actually realized the artistic conception of gold with your Nascent Soul cultivation. Ah! Let me go, let me go!" The giant ape discovered the difference in the flames and roared for mercy.
"If my cultivation is not strong enough and you catch up with me, will you let us go?" Shi Chen said calmly.
"My ancestor is the Sky-Lifting Giant Ape. I beg you to let me go this time. I will never be your enemy next time." The giant ape continued to beg for mercy.
"Humph! That's not much to say..." Shi Chen realized something was wrong, and quickly turned around and flew towards the flying boat, then said, "I'll let you go this time, but don't let you fall into my hands next time."
The magic stopped, the flames disappeared, Shi Chen stepped onto the flying boat and flew away at high speed.
The flames on the giant ape's body were extinguished, revealing burnt wounds so deep that the bones were visible. The five elements of gold invaded the cut wounds, preventing them from healing.
A quarter of an hour later, a Taoist in a gray robe flew over from a distance and stood above the giant ape. Looking at the mess on the ground after the battle, he sent out his spiritual sense to sense the giant ape half lying below.
The burnt and cut wounds all over his body could not heal. He stretched out his hand to brush away the five elements of gold spiritual power in the giant ape's wounds.
The gray-robed Taoist said, "Mountain Ape, now you know your own shortcomings. You can't even defeat a human cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage. Go back and practice hard. If you wander around again, I will break your legs."
"Yes, ancestor! Mountain Ape obeys your command." The giant ape stood up, half-knelt and lowered his head and said.
"Come back with me. Don't leave the mountain until you reach the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm." said the Taoist in gray robe.
"Yes, ancestor. But, ancestor, are you going to let this human race go just like that?" The giant ape said unwillingly.
"I have just comprehended the basics of the true meaning of gold. Such a human genius usually has protectors. I don't want to start a war, and the Beast King doesn't want to start a war either. The Sirens are now testing the human race again. Let's wait and see. Don't ask any other questions. Go back!" said the Taoist in gray robes. When he said the last word "go back", his figure had disappeared.
The mountain ape also stood up, looked at the direction Shi Chen left, and left quickly.
After walking about eighty or ninety miles, Shi Chen no longer felt the demon king chasing him, so he slowed down and moved forward slowly.
A day later, after flying out of the territory of Qingming Mountain, Shi Chen stopped the flying boat and checked the injuries of Liang Ruyan and the other person. They were found to be stable and they would be able to recover after a month of rest.
"Madam, you're awake." Shi Chen helped Liang Ruyan up and said, "I'm late and made you two suffer."
"Husband, I'm glad you're back safely. We didn't suffer. When we were in Dongzhizhou, it was even more dangerous than it is now, but we were able to escape the disaster." Liang Ruyan said happily.
"Husband, we miss you so much after being separated from you for a few years. We are glad that you come back safely." Xu Qianying said while hugging Shi Chen's arm, and snuggled up to Shi Chen.
"I miss you too. Fortunately, I'm blessed with good fortune and everything is fine." Shi Chen said gently.
"Should we go back to Qingxuan Sect now, or go to Dutan Fairy City?" Liang Ruyan asked.
"We won't go back to the sect for the time being. Let's go to the Poison Pond Immortal City first. I will get some opportunities there. You can come with me to practice together." Shi Chen stroked the backs of Liang Ruyan and the other person and said gently.
"We'll listen to our husband." Xu Qianying blushed as she was touched.
A month later, Shi Chen rented a cave in the high-grade cave area of Dutan Fairy City. He put up a sign at the door of the cave for alchemy, refining pills for the Golden Core and Yuanying stages. The success rate of the pills was 40%, and he occasionally produced medium-grade pills.
At the beginning, some Jindan cultivators came to him with spiritual medicines, and Shi Chen refined pills for them one by one. No matter whether they were pills for cultivation, healing pills, or pills to restore spiritual power, they were all delivered at 40% of the finished product. A month later, Shi Chen's cave was crowded with people, and every day there were more than a dozen Jindan or Yuanying cultivators waiting for Shi Chen to refine pills.
Five furnaces of pills are made a day, and then the door is closed to visitors. Many Jindan cultivators at the first and second levels are waiting in front of the cave door, while those at the Yuanying level do not need to wait and directly hand the pills over to the hired female cultivators, set a date, and wait for the right time to come and pick up the pills.
The city lord of the Poison Pond Fairy City has been replaced. The current city lord is a cultivator of the first level of the Nascent Soul stage. He is very happy about Shi Chen's pill refining. Not only can his own cultivation of pills continue uninterrupted, but he can also contract a batch of pills for the sect and receive a lot of rewards from the sect.
As autumn turned to winter, Shi Chen had been refining pills in the Poison Pond Fairy City for ten months. He refined about two hundred furnaces of pills every month, and collected several hundred spiritual medicines for the Golden Core Stage cultivation, and about a hundred furnaces of spiritual medicines for the Nascent Soul Stage cultivation.
After completing the elixir that he had agreed to make with the city lord this month, Shi Chen stopped refining elixirs for others and started to refine the elixirs for the independent cultivators. It would take about ten days to finish refining them, and he would start to practice in seclusion.
In ten months, his cultivation level only improved by one level, to the third level of Nascent Soul. The elixirs he collected were enough for them to cultivate to a new level of cultivation. He was going to go to the Beast Skin Cave to practice, and take Liang Ruyan and the others to go into seclusion.
Shi Chen took Liang Ruyan and the other two to the animal skin cave. They were very surprised that such a fairy cave was obtained by their husband. Their husband must have great fortune.
The two were very excited and emotional, and they were obsessed with Shi Chen.
Shi Chen had no choice but to release Lu Le's magic weapon. The three of them practiced together for three days in the magic weapon space, like two phoenixes swimming alone in the dark sky.
When the three of them finished their dual cultivation, Shi Chen felt extremely refreshed. He was shocked by the unrestrained enthusiasm of the two and was satisfied with their various moves one by one.
The feeling is so intense that your soul will fly away.
Holding his old waist, Shi Chen walked towards the two of them, put his arms around their waists and walked out of the magic weapon space.
Liang Ruyan and Xu Qianying were both very shy, while Shi Chen was laughing.
"Okay, you guys can practice here. The five elements of spiritual energy here are sufficient for us to practice. I will refine the spiritual medicine into pills first. This batch of spiritual medicines refined into pills will be enough for us to practice for several years." Shi Chen said as he took out two cushions.
"Husband, what kind of refined cushion is this? It's so magical. Sitting on it, it seems that my consciousness is much clearer. I feel like my cultivation has loosened." Xu Qianying said as she sat on the cushion.
"This is the spiritual object I got after entering the center of the ink vortex. It is made of the spiritual stems of the Huangjing. It can help you calm your mind and concentrate, and enter enlightenment more easily." Shi Chen said with a smile.
"It's an invaluable treasure. With this treasure, our cultivation and Taoist practice can be twice as effective with half the effort." Liang Ruyan said happily with her eyes wide open.
"This is the Taiyi Golden Secret. If you practice this, you can cultivate to the point of transcending the tribulation," Shi Chen said, taking out a jade slip and handing it to Liang Ruyan.
The inheritance of Taiyi Jin Jue skills is engraved inside.
"I haven't gotten the fire-based skills yet. I'll give them to you when I get them." Shi Chen said to Xu Qianying.
"Husband, it doesn't matter. I can practice this Fire Source Kung Fu to the perfection of Spirit Transformation now." Xu Qianying said with a smile.
"When there is a better martial art, you have to change it. Otherwise, by that time we will have all reached the perfect state of cultivation, and you will only be able to reach the perfect state of Spirit Transformation." Shi Chen said, touching Xu Qianying's head.
"I'll listen to my husband and change it when there's something better." Xu Qianying said.
"You guys start practicing. After I finish refining the pills, I will also go into seclusion to practice. Now our cultivation is still too low, and we have no guarantee when walking in the cultivation world." Shi Chen said.
The few of them separated from each other. Shi Chen set up a spirit gathering formation and also issued a ban, so that they would not interfere with each other and practiced on their own.
Shi Chen began to refine the elixir, Liang Ruyan and Xu Qianying entered a state of retreat, and a cultivator who had achieved perfection in the Golden Elixir stage arrived from the Poison Pond Immortal City.