novelhk Chapter 114 Beast Tide 16
Chapter 114 Beast Tide 16
After leaving the ship's deck, the group strolled around the city, listening to stories in a teahouse. The most popular figure these days was none other than Immortal Lord Qianli, whose domineering power during the beast tide was legendary. Besides his past suppression of a million demon soldiers, new tales of his exploits emerged during this beast tide.
When the Qian trigram arrives, the beast tide subsides, the city is at peace, and the people are tranquil.
The people were quite envious after hearing this. They couldn't help but think of the two Venerable Lords of Guiyuan Sect who were on par with Immortal Lord Qianli. Their Guiyuan Sect also had two Venerable Lords.
Speaking of this, we must mention the contracted beasts under the two Venerable Lords, Xuanze and Jinyuan, who are quite famous throughout the Guiyuan Sect. They are efficient, powerful, and always putting out fires!
If their contracted beasts are this strong, they can't even imagine how strong their masters must be. It's a pity that both Venerable Lords are in seclusion during the beast tide.
Besides Qianli Immortal Lord and his disciple, Li Weixin has also performed exceptionally well, earning the nickname "Little Qianli." His ranking on the continent's genius list has risen rapidly, and he is said to be in the top ten now.
Cheng Jiu and Gong Yu, who had interacted with Li Weixin before, secretly thought to themselves that Li Weixin probably wouldn't be happy to hear this nickname.
The three exchanged glances, their eyes flashing with seriousness. They knew that all three of them, along with Li Weixin, were disciples of the Venerable Lord, and their master had Xuanze and Jinyuan backing them up!
What about these disciples of the Venerable One? They all became disciples around the same time, so when people mention Li Weixin, they might think of the three of them.
They can't afford to be too weak! They're all disciples of the Venerable One, so who's weaker than whom?
With this thought, a fierce fighting spirit ignited behind the three of them.
Just as the three of them had thought, when they talked about "Little Qianli", they talked about the disciples of the two Venerable Lords of Guiyuan Sect. Li Weixin and the others felt that he was a true disciple of Venerable Lord Qianli.
They also praised Cheng Jiu highly. The people of Youlan City and Kaiyang Town had all witnessed Cheng Jiu's strength, but they did not know who that girl was.
When Xuanze arrived, they immediately understood what Wen Sishu had said: the powerful female swordsman was a disciple of Qingxu Venerable, who was also a powerful swordsman.
Of course, this is just one person's opinion. Many people doubt whether Cheng Jiu is really that powerful. At most, this incident suggests that Cheng Jiu's strength is not weak. They don't think the beast tide in the countryside is that strong.
What was it that silenced them, and made them marvel at Cheng Jiu's status as a disciple of the Venerable Qingxu?
Someone like Cheng Jiu, who can refine a large quantity of top-grade pills of high quality, is probably someone that everyone in the cultivation world pays attention to and knows about!
Putting aside those who seek pills but don't know how to refine them, even those who do know how to refine pills will initially think it's impossible, and then be greatly shocked after confirming it! It's too abnormal. If refining pills were that easy, there wouldn't be so few alchemists, not to mention that Cheng Jiu's pills are of a high grade!
How could there be an alchemist in this world who could achieve a 100% success rate in making pills?
They must have lived too long to hear such outrageous things.
In their words, Cheng Jiu alone overshadowed the entire Medicine King Valley.
The Medicine King Valley actually tacitly admitted it. It wasn't that the Medicine King Valley Sect Master didn't want to deny it; all alchemists had been paying close attention to the pills produced by the Guiyuan Sect, and it was easy to identify, since Cheng Jiu only produced top-grade pills.
In fact, Medicine King Valley had also secretly promoted its own genius to compete against Cheng Jiu.
In just one day, the genius gave up. He exploded. And even without his explosion, the gap between him and Cheng Jiula had widened even further!
Almost every sect knew about Cheng Jiu's output of pills during the beast tide—nearly ten thousand pills. Who else could do that?
Even the disciples in Medicine King Valley who secretly harbored resentment were suppressed. How can this compare? Nearly ten thousand pills! Even livestock couldn't produce that many!
It can only be described as abnormal. Some people even predict that Cheng Jiu will become the number one alchemist in the cultivation world in the future. There are so many geniuses in the cultivation world, but it has been a long time since a number one alchemist has emerged who can convince everyone.
Even when Qingxu Venerable Lord became a ninth-grade alchemist at a very young age, breaking the record for the youngest person in the cultivation world to become a ninth-grade alchemist.
However, many people still disagreed, believing him to be a heretic and criticizing the unpalatable nature of his elixirs.
They secretly excluded him from the competition for the title of the number one alchemist. Mainly because he was a sword cultivator; if a sword cultivator became the number one alchemist, what would become of their reputation as alchemists?
But they didn't consider one thing: although Cheng Jiu has a wood spirit root and can refine pills, Cheng Jiu essentially considers himself a sword cultivator.
Is her sword cultivation not high? She has already comprehended the Law of Wood, which is considered the pseudo-sword dao realm. She is just waiting to truly cultivate her own sword dao seed, and she will be able to easily take this step and enter the sword dao realm.
So when she heard the praise for her alchemy skills from below, Cheng Jiu's face froze. Although she also liked alchemy, she was essentially a sword cultivator, so it wouldn't work!
She couldn't go on like this. How could a disciple of the dignified Venerable Qingxu be known throughout the cultivation world for her alchemy skills? It was too disrespectful to her proper duties!
Tomorrow she will also go to the city gates to fight the beast tide, to let these guys know that she, Cheng Jiu, is a sword cultivator, a powerful sword cultivator!
Alchemy was always just a side job for her!
She was alright, but Gong Cheng and Gong Yu had been fighting against the Savage Beast Tide. Every senior and junior brother in the Savage Land was a genius. Moreover, being within the sect, they had no reputation outside and only had a promising future.
But their master went into seclusion, while they did not! They couldn't let the world think that they were unworthy of being called disciples of the Azure Sun Venerable.
Young people always care about what others think, but when they get older they become seasoned veterans and won't care about these people's opinions anymore.
Zhao Wenqi, who was standing to the side, saw everything clearly and thought to himself, "But this is good. Our Youlan City has gained another group of people who are doing their best to help us. Does that mean I can rest for a few more days?"
He immediately felt that bringing them here to listen to storytelling was an incredibly wise decision.
Back at the Guiyuan Sect's residence, the courtyards surrounding Wen Sishu had already been cleaned up, looking brand new and filled with rich spiritual energy, even using a spirit-gathering array.
The room is decorated with orchids and other flowers for people to enjoy. The room is exquisite and comfortable, with every item on it being beautiful. The bed has been made of the newest and softest material to ensure that people can get a good rest.
Cheng Jiu and Ying Yue's courtyard also has an alchemy room, which shows the care and thoughtfulness of the person who arranged the courtyard.
Back in the courtyard, Yan Xuan had already distributed the pills needed in the city to the two people, and had also sent over some spiritual herbs. The two people could hand them over to Hua Lian after they finished refining the pills; there was no need to rush.
There are only a few types of pills, and they are all pills that Cheng Jiuchang refines.
Before nightfall, Cheng Jiu had finished refining all the pills. For a skilled craftswoman like her, she could refine three batches of pills at once.
Literally, she had wanted to do this for a long time, but in the Medicine Peak Hall, and especially during the beast tide, An Qi probably wouldn't let her do it. An Qi valued stability more than high-efficiency alchemy.
In fact, almost all alchemists in the mid-stage of alchemy, except for Cheng Jiu, have downgraded their alchemy grade by one level in order to pursue a higher success rate. If they were to refine pills of their own grade, the success rate would be too low; the battlefield cannot afford to wait, and the Medicine Peak cannot withstand such a drain.
Although it was his first time doing this, Cheng Jiu seemed quite adept at it, using three types of fire, one of which was controlled by the Azure Flame Heart Fire.
Of course, Cheng Jiu really wanted it to learn to control its distraction and create clones, but the Azure Flame Heart Flame couldn't learn it or do it in a short time. After all, for anyone refining pills, one pill furnace and one strange fire are enough.
Unlike Cheng Jiu, who actually wanted to control three alchemy furnaces.
The second alchemy furnace was controlled by Cheng Jiu himself using earth fire.
The third alchemy furnace was controlled by the little black dragon using dragon flames.
These past few days of intense alchemy have made Cheng Jiu feel that she has mastered it. Putting aside everything else, her spiritual sense for processing pills is exceptional. She processed all these spiritual herbs in one go without even breaking a sweat.
Cheng Jiu didn't need to pay too much attention to the Azure Flame Heart Fire; it was an old fire that had been refining pills for countless years, and its power was already at a high level.
Cheng Jiu mainly focused on his own alchemy furnace and the little black dragon's individual situation, while occasionally observing the alchemy furnace of the Azure Flame Jade Heart Fire.
Soon, three batches of pills were refined, with Cheng Jiu and Qingyan Bixin each producing nine top-grade pills in their respective furnaces.
The little black dragon's were somewhat inferior, with only four top-grade pills, while the rest were all high-grade.
Cheng Jiu was very satisfied. After all, it was three times the efficiency in such a short time. As for her own legend, she didn't care.
She's a sword cultivator, you know. It's already amazing that she's mastered swordsmanship like this, okay?
The little black dragon was somewhat disappointed. It had helped Cheng Jiu refine many pills before and knew their grades. Of the three pills, the one it produced by controlling the fire was the worst, and its mood couldn't help but drop.
Cheng Jiu stroked its head to comfort it: "This is our first time refining pills, and it's already very good! With more practice, we'll definitely be able to refine three batches of top-grade pills. Mo Yu, let's work hard together!"
The little black dragon let out a roar and nodded seriously.
In fact, the little black dragon's cultivation level was increasing very quickly. The main reason was that Cheng Jiu didn't want to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. She wanted to wait until she was older. Over the years, not only had she suppressed her cultivation, but the little black dragon and the little cloud beast had also been suppressing it. Otherwise, once the two little ones broke through, Cheng Jiu would immediately be able to break through to the Nascent Soul stage as well.
With increased cultivation, the little black dragon's control over dragon flames also improved. Otherwise, if the little black dragon's cultivation level were still so low, Cheng Jiu wouldn't have thought of refining three furnaces at once.
Proficiency can be gradually increased, and the number of top-grade pills in the Little Black Dragon Pill Furnace is also slowly increasing.
Once the pills in its alchemy furnace had completely transformed into top-grade pills, Cheng Jiu hugged it and the Azure Flame Heart Flame and celebrated properly. It was a major breakthrough, not only for the little black dragon but also for her.
With three batches of top-grade pills produced at once, Cheng Jiu asked, "Who else can do this?"
With such incredibly high and abnormal efficiency, Cheng Jiu lay on the bed after finishing refining the pills.
He took out the wooden spirit jade he had been carving. The dense inscriptions on it made the already verdant spirit jade feel warm to the touch and exude spiritual energy.
This was carved by Cheng Jiu during his spare time. Yes, even with such a complicated alchemy task and so many pills produced, Cheng Jiu still managed to find time to carve this spirit jade.
Everyone else thought it was nonsense, but Cheng Jiu actually did it.
As the last stroke was completed, the spiritual energy in the room gradually became abundant, with the wood spiritual energy constantly crowding out the space of other spiritual energies.
Immersing oneself in an environment of pure spiritual energy of the same element is an immense pleasure for cultivators.
The spiritual energy in the dwellings of those powerful cultivators is basically the same as their spiritual roots; there is no other spiritual energy, which is the result of their control and elimination.
Of course, over the years they will also change the surrounding environment.
Cheng Jiu also felt quite comfortable. In her opinion, although this piece of Wood Spirit Jade had many shortcomings, she was very satisfied. As a practice piece, she was extremely pleased.
With this piece of Wood Spirit Jade as a reference, she felt more confident about the Ice Spirit Jade she wanted to offer to her master.
She wore the jade pendant around her neck. The verdant jade was like a tranquil piece of emerald. She had also carved a concealing formation on it. At first glance, one would only think that Cheng Jiu was wearing a piece of emerald of quite good quality.
Lying on the bed, Cheng Jiu took out the communication jade slip. Li Weixin had sent a message saying that there was new gossip about his master.
Cheng Jiu didn't contact him at the time, but Li Weixin sent another message later, saying that he had been taken away by his master to learn how to make Tian Lei Zi and didn't have time for the time being. He said he would share with Cheng Jiu once his master released him.
Cheng Jiu felt a pang of guilt and gratitude upon seeing the message. She had been so busy these past few days that she hadn't had a moment to spare and hadn't had time to contact her gossip buddy. It turned out that her gossip buddy hadn't forgotten her at all. After all, Qianli Immortal Lord was still her master, so this was a risky gossip-sharing situation.
Good brothers for life! Sharing joys and sorrows, sharing hardships together! What a bond this is!
Seeing Cheng Jiu fall silent, Tian Lei Zi was mainly refined by cultivators with fire and lightning spiritual roots. It was very popular before, and even more popular during the beast tide. It was useless against high-level demon beasts, but it was quite useful against mid- to low-level demon beasts, a life-saving item.
In particular, the Heavenly Thunder Seeds refined by Immortal Lord Qianli are priceless and unavailable for sale. Moreover, Li Weixin is Immortal Lord Qianli's only disciple, and currently all of Immortal Lord Qianli's Heavenly Thunder Seeds have been handed over to the Li family for sale.
The Li family didn't dare to cheat Qianli Immortal Lord, and the Heavenly Thunder could bring them a large amount of income and connections, so they were extremely grateful.
With the support of her family, Li Weixin's resources have reached a new level.
The effect of the Heavenly Thunder Elemental is that the violent friction between thunder and fire elemental energies produces a huge explosion.
The Heavenly Thunder Seed refined by Immortal Lord Qianli even contained a trace of the power of the laws he comprehended, making it even more powerful. Cheng Jiu herself did not possess this, and the one her master prepared for her was not refined by Immortal Lord Qianli, but by an elder of the sect.
Cheng Jiu had witnessed Li Weixin's Heavenly Thunder Spear during the battle against the demons. In terms of power, even though both were of the same rank, Li Weixin's Heavenly Thunder Spear was of higher quality and stronger.
But regarding this explosion, Cheng Jiu vaguely remembered that there seemed to be something similar in his previous life.
We can do it later, right? She can refine weapons, make talismans, and set up formations.
It's not that it can't be done! Once she thought about it, she couldn't sit still.