Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 423 Breakthrough to the Mid-Stage of Purple Mansion [Subscription Request]

The spiritual power contained in the "Mountain Soul Pearl" is too huge. Zhou Chun estimated that it would be much more difficult for the stone to digest it than to digest a third-grade low-grade demon pill.

Therefore, he was prepared to wait for ten or eight years.

After sealing the spirit beast room, I didn't pay much attention to it.

Two months later, Luo Qingni's Golden Elixir Ceremony was grandly held at "Qingni Residence".

It is said that on the day of the ceremony, there were more than thirty Jindan-stage cultivators who came to congratulate, and nearly two hundred Zifu-stage cultivators.

This shows how great the influence of such a Jindan-stage alchemy master is, and also shows how wide Luo Qingni's network of contacts is.

It is not difficult to understand why she was still hesitant and did not easily accept top-level spiritual materials such as the spiritual wood core.

Although Zhou Chun did not go to the scene, after hearing about the grand scene that day, he was deeply moved and felt somewhat fortunate for his previous tentative behavior.

Fortunately, when he saw that his gift delivery failed, he took a backup plan to remedy the situation in time. Otherwise, if the gift was really returned, it would have greatly affected the friendship between the two.

After the Golden Elixir Ceremony, Luo Qingni announced that she would go into seclusion again to concentrate on refining her natal magic weapon.

After Zhou Chun learned about this, he renewed the rent for his cave for another five years, and then devoted himself to cultivating and honing his own magic power and practicing secret techniques.

There is no time in cultivation, and five years passed in a flash.

After five years of meditation, Zhou Chun felt that the barrier of his realm had become very loose. After another year or two of meditation at most, he should be able to break through in one fell swoop.

At the same time, after these years of practice, he finally mastered the secret attack technique "Golden Gang Slash".

Zhou Chun was very satisfied with the power of the secret technique "Golden Gang Slash".

After his testing, he found that once this secret technique was activated, its power was no less than that of a top-grade third-level spell.

After his cultivation breaks through to the middle stage of Purple Mansion, the power of his secret technique will be further enhanced.

Moreover, this secret technique itself has three levels. Now Zhou Chun has only successfully cultivated the first level and can perform the "Golden Gang Slash" once.

If he cultivates to the second level, not only can he perform the "Golden Gang Slash" twice, but the power of the secret technique will also be enhanced.

If one could cultivate to the third level, he would be able to cast the "Golden Slash" three times, and its power would be comparable to that of a fourth-level spell!

It can be said that Tianyuan Fairy City is indeed a holy place for cultivation. As long as you have spirit coins, many things here can be easily bought.

The gold energy needed for Zhou Chun's practice and the high-quality gold energy needed for practicing secret techniques are sold in many shops here and can also be pre-ordered.

If Zhou Chun was willing to spend money, he could also rent a cave that was specially designed for Jindan-stage cultivators to practice. The concentration of spiritual energy in the cave was no worse than that of the caves of Jindan-stage cultivators in Qinglian Temple.

It's just that the cost here is too high.

The rental of the cave that Zhou Chun is using now is as high as 45,000 spirit coins for ten years, which is simply burning money.

If he had not made several large fortunes in succession, he probably would not have been able to afford such expenses even with the support of the Zhou family.

"According to the time, Brother Luo should be out of retreat by now!"

A thought flashed through Zhou Chun's mind, and he immediately sent a communication talisman to Luo Qingni to inquire about the situation.

As a result, within a quarter of an hour, Luo Qingni's reply came.

Then he stood up with a happy face, packed his things, and went to visit Luo Qingni's cave.

When Zhou Chun arrived at "Qingni Residence", he saw Luo Qingni again after several years and found that the aura on the other person was even stronger, giving him a sense of extreme danger.

Obviously after refining her natal magic weapon, Luo Qingni's strength increased greatly.

At this time, after the two of them exchanged greetings, Zhou Chun half-jokingly said, "Daoyou Luo has finally come out of retreat. Zhang has been looking forward to it day and night for all these years, hoping that Daoyou will come out soon!"

When Luo Qingni heard what he said, her eyes slightly blinked, and she said leisurely, "Something unexpected happened in the middle, so it was delayed for two more years. I'm sorry to have kept Fellow Daoist Zhang waiting for a long time."

"Haha, Zhang was just joking, Brother Luo, don't take it seriously."

Zhou Chun smiled, and immediately looked at Luo Qingni and said, "I wonder when Daoist Luo will be free to help Zhang start refining the elixir."

"Since Qing Ni has come out of retreat, she is naturally available at any time. If Fellow Daoist Zhang is in a hurry, today is also fine."

Luo Qingni answered seriously.

Zhou Chun heard this and quickly waved his hand and said, "That's not necessary. Zhang has waited for so many years, and it doesn't matter if we wait for half a day. How about starting tomorrow?"

"You can do anything!"

Luo Qingni nodded slightly and agreed immediately.

So Zhou Chun stayed for a while, discussed with her about the elixir to be refined, and then said goodbye and left.

Early the next morning, Zhou Chun came to "Qingni Residence" again and followed Luo Qingni into her alchemy room.

Although the two of them currently have a good relationship, in order not to test her human nature and to show her trust, Luo Qingni still took the initiative to ask Zhou Chun to accompany her in refining the elixir.

This time she was going to help Zhou Chun refine four batches of pills, three batches of "Foundation Building Pills" and one batch of "Essence Enhancement Pills".

Zhou Chun has not yet gathered enough main materials for the rest of the pills, so he is temporarily unable to refine them.

Luo Qingni admitted that she had not refined the "Foundation Building Pill" many times, but with her current alchemy skills, refining this grade of pill can be said to be a piece of cake.

The first batch of "Foundation Building Pills" was refined in just seven days, and eight pills were produced, which was considered normal performance.

Then after a day of rest, Luo Qingni began to refine the second batch of "Foundation Building Pills".

Another seven days passed, and the second batch of "Foundation Building Pills" came out, also producing eight pills.

Then he continued to rest for another day and began to refine the third batch of "Foundation Building Pills".

Maybe it was because of the foundation laid by the first two batches of "Foundation Building Pills", when the third batch of "Foundation Building Pills" came out, Luo Qingni performed beyond her normal level and made nine pills at a time!
In this way, the three furnaces of "Foundation Building Pills" allowed Zhou Chun to harvest a total of twenty-five elixirs, far exceeding expectations.

"Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission. Fellow Daoist Zhang, please count the pills first. Qing Ni will start refining the 'Zeng Yuan Pill' after three days of rest."

After removing the formation shield and walking out of the alchemy area, Luo Qingni handed the nine freshly-made "Foundation Building Pills" to Zhou Chun, then went back to her bedroom to rest.

Alchemy is a very mentally and physically demanding task. After refining three batches of "Foundation Building Pills" in a row, even for a Jindan stage cultivator like Luo Qingni, the mental and physical consumption is considerable and he must rest for a few days before he can return to full strength.

Zhou Chun also returned to his own cave.

Three days later, Zhou Chun visited again and witnessed Luo Qingni refining the "Zengyuan Pill".

Compared to the "Foundation Building Pill" taken by Qi Refining cultivators, the difficulty of refining the "Essence Enhancement Pill" is undoubtedly much greater.

According to Luo Qingni, if she was still at the Purple Mansion stage, it would take at least 49 days to refine a furnace of "Zengyuan Pills".

Because just refining the impurities and the remaining spirits of the monster contained in the third-level monster pill would take up a lot of her time and energy.

However, now that her cultivation has broken through to the early stage of the Golden Core and she has possessed the Golden Core True Fire, this time should be shortened a lot.

Luo Qingni just raised her hand and waved, and the demon pill of the snake-lizard monster was thrown into the pill furnace.

Then she opened her mouth and spit out a ball of emerald green fire that fell to the bottom of the furnace and began to refine the demon pill in the furnace.

During this process, one could vaguely see wisps of black smoke floating out of the alchemy furnace. In mid-air, they transformed into the appearance of a snake-lizard monster, roaring towards the sky, as if resenting the injustice of the heavens.

But Luo Qingni just blew gently and the black smoke was blown away.

Zhou Chun was not surprised at all when he saw this scene.

Not to mention that the snake-lizard monster was just a wisp of residual thought in the demon pill and had no ability to harm people at all. Even if the real snake-lizard monster soul was here, Luo Qingni, a Jindan stage cultivator, could easily shatter it with just a word.

However, after witnessing this scene, he couldn't help but think of the rumors in the world of immortal cultivation.

It is rumored that if the alchemist does not have good skills and fails to thoroughly purify the residual spirit of the monster, the elixir made from the inner elixir of monsters may contain the residual spirit of the monster after it is made.

If a cultivator swallowed such a pill, he would easily go astray while practicing meditation.

Therefore, when taking this kind of medicine, you should check it carefully to avoid harming yourself.

The sun rose and the moon set, and in the blink of an eye, thirty-two days had passed.

On this day, Luo Qingni, who had been slowly nurturing the elixir, suddenly increased the power of the elixir fire, and then quickly made hand gestures to condense the elixir.

Not long after, as she performed the magic formula to collect the pills, the lid of the furnace instantly flew upwards, and seven rays of light flew out from it, turning into seven round pills that fell into the jade bottle in her hand.

Then she looked down at the pills in the jade bottle and nodded slightly, saying, "Seven pills have been made, one more than most of the time. It seems that the increase in cultivation has indeed significantly helped improve the level of pill refining. The pill fire is indeed the most suitable true fire for pill refining!"

Then he extinguished the fire, removed the formation shield, and handed the pill to Zhou Chun.

"Seven pills have been made. It seems that Brother Luo's alchemy skills have improved again. Congratulations."

Zhou Chun took the pill, looked at it for a moment and put it away, then congratulated Luo Qingni with a smile on his face.

"It's just a change brought about by the improvement of cultivation. It can't be considered a real improvement."

Luo Qingni waved her hand gently, without any sign of complacency.

After saying that, he looked at Zhou Chun and asked, "In a few days, Qing Ni should go to Master Ge Yun to exchange the pill formula. What do you think of that proposal, Brother Zhang?"

The proposal she mentioned was naturally about refining the "Dragon Spirit Pill".

After hearing what she said, Zhou Chun suddenly felt depressed.

In the past few years, while Zhou Chun was practicing in seclusion, he naturally did not forget to find Master Ge Yun to make elixirs.

But until now, he still hasn't been able to get a top spot.

Obviously, just as Luo Qingni said, Master Ge Yun is now busy trying to reach a higher level in alchemy and has no time to take such a small order.

Now that Luo Qingni mentioned this matter again, Zhou Chun pondered for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Well, then Zhang will take out two demon pills for Luo Daoyou to refine, and see the results first!"

He has three dragon-born demon beast demon cores, and they are one each of the third grade, low grade, medium grade, and high grade.

Of course, he couldn't give the most precious third-grade top-grade demon pill to Luo Qingni for training, unless Luo Qingni's first two furnaces of pills could produce pills stably.

Seeing that he agreed to make the elixir, Luo Qingni smiled and said, "Haha, then Qingni would like to thank Daoist Zhang for his trust. As a token of my gratitude, I will not charge Daoist Zhang for the elixir this time."

She once said that she was willing to refine three batches of pills for Zhou Chun for free, which just happened to correspond to the previous three batches of "Foundation Building Pills".

Therefore, according to the rules, a fee will be charged for refining the "Zengyuan Pill" this time.

Now, because Zhou Chun agreed to give her training, she waived the fee this time, which could be considered as a way of repaying Zhou Chun.

This made Zhou Chun feel better.

He then said, "Zhang doesn't know what other ingredients are needed for the Dragon Spirit Pill besides the inner pill of a third-level dragon-born monster. If we want to make the pill, then we'll need Brother Luo to use his connections to help gather the other ingredients."

Upon hearing this, Luo Qingni immediately agreed and said, "That's easy to say. As long as Daoist Fellow Zhang is willing to pay for the spirit coins and the thousand-year-old spirit medicine, Qingni will do her best to help Daoist Fellow gather the relevant materials as quickly as possible."

After the two of them reached an agreement, Zhou Chun said goodbye and left.

Luo Qingni's efficiency was indeed fast. After only two months, she informed Zhou Chun that she had exchanged the recipe for the "Dragon Spirit Pill" and began to mobilize her connections to collect other materials. According to her, the most difficult material to collect for the "Dragon Spirit Pill" was the inner pill of the third-level dragon-born monster. The rest of the materials were not particularly valuable or hard to find, except for two common thousand-year-old spiritual medicines.

Therefore, it is not difficult to collect the materials for two furnaces of pills.

The difficulty now is that Luo Qingni Dan has just been obtained, and it needs to be carefully studied and comprehended before it can be refined.

After all, she only exchanged for the elixir recipe. Master Ge Yun would definitely not give her the tips and relevant experience on refining the "Dragon Spirit Pill".

Zhou Chun was not in a hurry, so he let her comprehend and study slowly. He also renewed the rent of the cave for another five years, and practiced silently to make a breakthrough towards the middle stage of Purple Mansion.

Two years later, Zhou Chun, during a routine attempt to break through the barrier, suddenly and effortlessly broke through the realm barrier and officially reached the middle stage of Purple Mansion.

"Huh, I finally succeeded! This was really not easy!"

Inside the cave, Zhou Chun woke up from his meditation and felt the sudden increase in his magical power. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

Speaking of which, these ten years or so could be described as the most stable ten years since he embarked on the path of cultivating immortals.

He had never been like in the past ten years when he was not distracted by any external affairs and could concentrate on his practice.

Especially during the ten years when his cultivation was stuck at the realm barrier, he became a complete ascetic monk, working hard to hone his magic power and practice secret techniques every day, but his cultivation had not made any progress.

This kind of practice is not only a refinement of magical powers, but also a refinement of one's mind and character.

If I were unable to calm down and silently endure the feeling of loss that comes from practicing diligently every day but not making any progress in my magical powers, it would be difficult to achieve the breakthrough I have today.

There is no doubt that this practice that lasted for more than ten years has been a baptism for Zhou Chun's entire practice mentality.

The original impetuousness in his heart was completely washed away during these ten years of practice.

At this moment, he was no longer like when he first came to the Great Zhou Kingdom, only wanting to seek opportunities everywhere to improve his magical powers and break through the realm as soon as possible.

He gradually understood that sometimes increasing magical power too quickly might not be a good thing.

Being down-to-earth and practicing diligently are the foundation for those who practice Taoism.

External forces such as elixirs can be used, but they must not be regarded as shortcuts.

There are no shortcuts in life, and there are no shortcuts in spiritual practice!

"I wonder what the stone is like now. If you count the time, it has been dormant for more than seven years. It should have changed a little by now!"

When Zhou Chun thought of this, he immediately opened the closed door of the spirit beast room and checked the situation.

It would have been fine if he hadn't looked at it, but once he did, he was stunned.

The stone that was originally lying in the spirit beast room has now disappeared, and there is a huge mud-yellow stone egg in the spirit beast room!
The stone egg was oval in shape, nearly two meters long and more than ten meters high.

"The stone...it turned into an egg!"

Zhou Chun looked at the stone egg in surprise. Through the contractual connection between him and his spiritual pet, he was able to confirm that the golden-armored rock turtle stone was inside the stone egg.

But the question is, how was this stone egg formed?
The original size of the stone is even bigger than this stone egg!

"It seems that the 'Mountain Soul Pearl' is really compatible with the stone. Maybe this time when it breaks through and evolves, it will give me another different surprise!"

After silently looking at the stone egg for a long time, Zhou Chun also figured out some clues and couldn't help but sigh with anticipation.

He knew that some demon insects would spin silk into cocoons to wrap themselves up before evolving, and then bite through the cocoons to get out after successfully evolving.

The golden-armored rock turtle stone has now turned into a stone egg, which is undoubtedly a similar behavior.

This stone egg not only protects it, but also isolates it from the outside world, allowing it to concentrate on its transformation and evolution.

Despite this, Zhou Chun had no intention of moving the stone egg.

Because he knew one thing very well, that the golden-armored rock turtle, whose main attribute is earth, would be more likely to evolve successfully when it came into contact with the earth.

Not to mention that he is still in Tianyuan Fairy City. The spiritual energy of the spiritual veins under his feet is extremely rich, which is very suitable for a major realm breakthrough.

After taking a deep look at the stone egg, Zhou Chun closed the door of the spirit beast room again.

Next, Zhou Chun sent a communication talisman to Luo Qingni, asking about the refining of the "Dragon Spirit Pill".

As a result, Luo Qingni replied that she had not yet thoroughly comprehended and studied the recipe, and had no intention of blindly starting to refine the elixir.

Zhou Chun really liked her cautious and responsible attitude, so he naturally wouldn't urge her.

After all, he still has two "Yellow Crystal Pills" and seven "Zengyuan Pills" in his hand, so he is not short of pills to take for the time being.

So Zhou Chun returned to the practice room, took out a jade bodhi fruit and swallowed it.

His cultivation level was previously stuck at a realm barrier and he couldn't break through. He was worried that taking the medicine would be a waste, so he didn't take it.

Now that my cultivation has reached a breakthrough and I no longer have this worry, it is natural that I want to realize the effect of this item as soon as possible.

And this Emerald Bodhi Fruit is worthy of being the spiritual fruit that even Luo Qingni highly praises.

After Zhou Chun took and refined one pill, he discovered that not only had his spiritual awareness, which had just been enhanced due to his realm breakthrough, increased by nearly 10% again, but even his magic power had increased a lot, which was equivalent to a year of hard practice.

The key is that the increase in mana brought by this spiritual fruit is very moderate and peaceful. It is not as manic and superficial as elixirs. It is similar to the mana increase gained through meditation and practice.

After discovering this benefit, he immediately took another pill.

But after taking it for the second time, the effect was much worse.

The spiritual awareness only increased by about one thirtieth, but the increase in magical power was not much different, still about one year.

This completely put an end to Zhou Chun's original plan to take the third pill.

He planned to leave the remaining two to his two elders, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, as a token of filial piety from a younger generation.

Then Zhou Chun patted the storage bag on his waist again, and this time he took out a "Purple Crystal Bamboo Rice".

He has thirty-three plants of "Purple Crystal Bamboo Rice" in his hand, which are more precious than thirty-three thousand-year-old elixirs.

But this item was too precious and it would be easy to expose the fact that it was stolen, so he did not dare to take it out to exchange with others easily.

However, it is a pity to keep this thing in the storage bag.

Therefore, Zhou Chun is now preparing to taste the "Amethyst Bamboo Rice" himself to see what benefits taking it can bring to him.

If the benefits are considerable, he plans to indulge himself and eat all the "Amethyst Bamboo Rice".

High-end ingredients often do not require any cooking techniques and can be eaten raw!

After Zhou Chun took all the "purple crystal bamboo rice" from a seven-leaf purple bamboo grass, he stuffed it directly into the inner part and started chewing it raw.

The crystal-like "Amethyst Bamboo Rice" is actually very hard. It is not easy for ordinary Purple Mansion Stage cultivators to chew it if they eat it raw.

But no matter Zhou Chun's main technique is "Golden Tripod Mysterious Art" or the secret technique "Dragon Transformation", they both have a significant tempering effect on the body.

Now, based on his physical strength alone, he is no worse than some Jindan stage cultivators.

So he was still able to chew up the "purple crystal bamboo rice".

This spiritual item, which was originally only enjoyed by cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage, did not disappoint in taste.

After the hard bamboo rice is chewed, it immediately produces a wonderful reaction with the saliva in the mouth. A faint sweet fragrance quickly spreads and fills the brain.

The bamboo rice that was swallowed was quickly decomposed into extremely pure spiritual energy and spread throughout the body.

After Zhou Chun closed his eyes and savored the moment, he slowly began to practice Qigong to refine the spiritual power in his body.

After an unknown amount of time had passed, Zhou Chun finally refined all the spiritual power released by the "Purple Crystal Bamboo Rice" in his body.

At this time, he carefully felt his own situation and found that the improvement in his cultivation brought by this "Purple Crystal Bamboo Rice" was actually not much.

It is roughly equivalent to three months of hard practice, which is far inferior to the previous Emerald Bodhi Fruit.

However, in addition to improving cultivation, "Purple Crystal Bamboo Rice" also has the effect of tempering the body.

Zhou Chun clearly felt that his body had been slightly strengthened. If he could continue taking it, his body would definitely be greatly strengthened.

As for the rumored longevity effect, he didn't feel it much. It might be because he only took one plant and the effect was not obvious.

Overall, it would be a bit too wasteful to eat the "Purple Crystal Bamboo Rice" by yourself. It would be better to exchange it for the thousand-year-old elixir.

Therefore, Zhou Chun did not continue to eat the remaining 32 "Amethyst Bamboo Rices", but carefully preserved them in a jade box, preparing to find an opportunity to sell them later.

This kind of spiritual object is durable and will not lose its medicinal properties even if it is preserved for a hundred years.

And a hundred years later, the matter of the ancient ruins will no longer be mentioned as often as it is now. By that time, Zhou Chun may have succeeded in forming the elixir and will have the confidence to trade this item with others.

After another half a year had passed, Zhou Chun, who was practicing in the secret room, suddenly changed his expression. He made a hand gesture and summoned a ray of fire to fall in front of him.

After he finished reading the contents of the communication talisman, his face suddenly lit up with joy and he quickly got up and left the cave.

Not long after, Zhou Chun arrived at an inn in the fairy city, and then met Lin Hongyu who came from afar.

"Junior greets Elder Lin."

In the room, when Zhou Chun saw Lin Hongyu, he immediately bowed to her.

"Zhengchun, there's no need to be so polite. This isn't our family's place, so there's no need for so much etiquette."

Lin Hongyu waved her hand, indicating that you're welcome.

Then, without Zhou Chun asking, she took the initiative to tell him the purpose of her visit.

"I came to the Great Zhou Kingdom this time to seek spiritual objects for Wan'er to help her open up the Purple Mansion. I also came to visit you and bring you some letters from home."

Having said this, he nodded to Zhou Chun with satisfaction and said, "Not bad, not bad. Zhengchun, you have broken through to the middle stage of Purple Mansion so quickly. If Daoyi and the others knew about this, they would definitely be very pleased."

When Zhou Chun heard her words, he did not show any complacency, but asked with concern: "I have been away from home for more than ten years. Is everything going well with the family?"

Hearing this, Lin Hongyu immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry, everything has been fine in the Zhou family for more than ten years. Daoyou Zhou and Daoyi have also written about the relevant situation in their family letters. You will understand after reading it."

After saying that, he handed him the letters written to Zhou Chun by several elders of the Zhou family.

Although Zhou Chun really wanted to know the contents of the letter, he did not open it right away.

At the moment, he just put the letter into his storage bag, and then said to Lin Hongyu: "I have been in Tianyuan Fairy City for more than ten years, and I have some understanding of the situation in the city. Is there anything that Elder Lin can do for me?"

"That's not necessary. I have received reliable information and know where to obtain the spiritual objects that will help open up the Purple Palace. You don't need to worry about it."

Lin Hongyu shook her head and politely declined his kindness.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun did not ask any more questions. He immediately patted the storage bag on his waist and took out the twenty-five "Foundation Building Pills".

“Then please, Elder Lin, take these foundation-building pills back with you and give them to my uncle and the others when you return to the family!”

(End of this chapter)