Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 201 Eighth Level of Qi Refining
In a blink of an eye, several months passed, and the sect's cardamom pill was finally successfully developed.

Taking the opportunity of going to Qingfengfang to promote Doukudan, Song Xian took Su Zhirou to Luoyun Sect to visit Wen Yiren, and reiterated that he would sell Yuxiangdan in other major markets in Xijiang County by cooperating with Luoyun Sect shops.

After his well-reasoned lobbying and the offer of a 40% to 60% profit split, Wen Yiren finally agreed.

This matter itself is beneficial to her. The more Yuxiangdan is sold, the more she will get.

Don't underestimate the 30% dividend. If it develops well, a shop in the market may earn more than 10,000 spirit stones. Even for a cultivator who is building a foundation, 10,000 spirit stones per year is by no means a small amount.

As for asking the Luoyun Sect shop to make some space for the sale of Yuxiang Dan, given Wen Yiren's status in the Luoyun Sect, it would only take a word from her.

Of course, Su Zhirou is a factor here. Even if Wen Yiren is acting entirely out of her own interests, if it weren't for Su Zhirou's relationship, Song Xian would hardly have the opportunity to meet her, let alone discuss this matter with her in detail.

Only Wen Yiren can make the decision on this matter. If it is Xiao Ling, she will definitely not be able to make the decision.

Even if Xiao Ling conveyed the message to Wen Yiren, she would not agree.

This is the case with many things. If there is a messenger in between, even if the messenger relays the words of both parties truthfully, the effect will inevitably be much worse than if the two people talk face to face.

After getting Wen Yiren's nod, Song Xian immediately sent someone to recall Feng Yan from Humen City and asked her to lead a team to Xijiang County to sell Yuxiangdan and Doukoudan.

The Luoyun Sect also has shops in the Xijiang County market. If they can gain a foothold in the shops in the Xijiang County market, it will be a qualitative leap for the development of the sect's Yuxiang Dan.

As for the shops in Humen City Market, they were handed over to a woman named Xu Ruping.

This person is a female cultivator recruited by Feng Yan after she arrived in Humen City. She is her right-hand man in Humen City.

Song Xian had already given her full authority over the affairs of the shop, which of course included personnel matters. Since she had recommended him, Song Xian would not interfere. He just ordered someone to recall the woman named Xu Ruping and had a long talk with her.

In the 165th year of the 3rd Jia of the Dao calendar, Hunyuan Zong sold Yuxiangdan to the county market in Xijiang for the first time.

In the same year, Cardamom Dan was also put on sale at Qingfengfang.

Time flies, and a few years have passed in a hurry.

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Bianxia Town is as peaceful as ever, and Hunyuan Sect is becoming stronger and stronger in its orderly development. Its momentum can even be described as soaring.

Feng Yan lived up to expectations and led the team to open up the situation in Xijiang County Market.

In the first year, 1,300 Yuxiang Pills were sold in the market of Xijiang County.

The second year, they sold 2,800 pills, and the third year, they sold 3,500 pills.

In the fourth year, 4,300 pieces were sold.

The number of wealthy ladies and young ladies in Xijiang County is larger than that in Bianxi City. With first-class eloquence and excellent sales skills, the sales of Yuxiangdan in the market of Xijiang County have repeatedly broken new records, and more are sold every year.

In addition, Hunyuan Sect has also started to conduct business in other cities by cooperating with Luoyun Sect shops. There are five cities under the jurisdiction of Xijiang County. Except for Bianxi City and Humen City, Yuxiang Dan is now sold in the other three cities.

Among them, the Luoyun Sect shop in Anyuan City Market was the first to sell Yuxiang Pills. Its person in charge was Mu Hong. Last year, the Anyuan City shop had sold 1,800 Yuxiang Pills.

The market in Tianshui City opened later than that in Anyuan City. The person in charge is Zhou Hao, who was recommended by Feng Yan. He is a direct disciple trained by the sect. He once went to Xijiang County with Feng Yan to open up the market. After being transferred to the shop in Tianshui City Market, his performance is also good. Last year, he sold more than 1,500 Yuxiang Pills.

The last shop to open was the Yuexian City Market Shop. The person in charge was also a recruited independent cultivator named Wang Meilin who was recommended by Feng Yan. She sold more than a thousand Yuxiang Pills last year.

In addition, the sect's cardamom pills have gradually opened up the market in Bianxi City.

Last year, more than 1,200 pieces of cardamom pills were sold in Qingfengfang. This year, the cardamom pills have been shipped to the market in Xijiang County for sale. The exact number sold is not yet known.

As of last year, the sect's spirit stone income reached over 100,000, and after deducting various expenses, there was a surplus of 60,000 each year.

There are now as many as 150,000 spirit stones in the sect’s accounts, and Song Xian’s dividend alone last year was 6,000 spirit stones.

In recent years, Hunyuan Sect has been constantly recruiting soldiers and the number of people in the sect has reached nearly a hundred.

Among them, there are still fourteen registered disciples, twenty-one non-combatants, and fifty-eight combatants.

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At the mountain gate of Qingyuan Sect, Song Xian walked out of the dim training room. The moon was already high in the sky outside. His cultivation had successfully broken through the eighth level of Qi Refining. If he continued at this pace, he would be able to achieve the Great Perfection of Qi Refining in another ten years.

After leaving the training hall and returning to the house, he did not see Su Zhirou. He called the maid to ask and found out that she was still practicing the Xuanyuan Zhenjing technique in the secret room.

She originally practiced a low-grade earth-level wood-attributed technique called the Rejuvenation Sun Technique.

This technique can only be practiced to the initial stage of Golden Elixir at most. Naturally, it cannot compare to the Xuanyuan Sutra. However, she has been practicing this technique for many years. If she gives up practicing this technique and turns to practicing the Xuanyuan Sutra, all the previous years of practice will be wasted.

The Golden Core Realm was too far away for the two of them now, so Song Xian didn't plan to let her switch to practicing the Xuan Yuan Sutra at first. It wasn't until a few years ago when the Puppet Hall refined the wolf-shaped puppet that Song Xian made up his mind to let her switch to practicing this skill.

Because in order to control the puppet, one needs to practice techniques to enhance spiritual awareness, and must practice the art of splitting the soul.

A wolf-shaped puppet is equivalent to the combat power of a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining. Now that we have this resource, it would be a pity to give it up.

Not seeing Su Zhirou, Song Xian had nothing to do, so he went to the side room and started making talismans.

In the past few years, in addition to practicing, he basically spends some time every day to make talismans. He has mastered no less than ten methods of making first-grade high-quality talismans. Recently, he has been studying second-grade low-quality talismans.

Among the second-grade low-quality talismans, the flying talisman belongs to the most basic and simplest category. It has only five types of pattern structures and is an auxiliary talisman. Compared with other combat-type second-grade talismans, the pattern structure and spiritual power distribution structure are relatively simple.

Even so, he has tried many times, but still not once has he succeeded, and it can even be said that he is far from successful.

To make a second-level flying talisman, one needs second-level talisman paper, ink made from the essence and blood of second-level low-grade flying monsters, and spiritual liquid melted from the flesh and blood of the wings of second-level flying monsters.

All the items on the table have been neatly arranged one by one. Song Xianru is holding the mysterious brush in his hand as usual, tracing the patterns on the talisman paper. It can be seen that he is struggling very hard, and every movement is extremely slow, as if he is carving words on stone with a knife.

Making a second-level talisman consumes more spiritual energy, and there can be no mistakes.

Song Xian concentrated intently on carving the talisman. The room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, the only sound being the subtle movement of the pen tip across the talisman paper. After an unknown amount of time, he paused. He had only drawn less than half of the talisman's lines, but they were already completely deformed. The chaotic aura of spiritual energy assaulted the paper, warping it.

Song Xian took a deep breath, put the discarded talisman paper into the storage bag, closed his eyes and rested for a while.

Then he started trying to make a flying talisman, but still gave up halfway. At this time, there were already slight sweat on his forehead, and his spiritual power had been consumed by nearly half.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, put away the tools for making talismans, went to the backyard, and began to practice magic.

As he put his hands together, the fire-attributed spiritual power gathered in front of him, forming a fire circle about ten feet in size. The fire circle slowly rose and suddenly exploded, and dense flames shot out like a rain of fire.

This is the intermediate fire-based magic, the Fire Rain Technique, which has now been cultivated to the advanced stage.

With his current level of cultivation, he only masters mid-level fire techniques, which is honestly not enough.

If he really were to fight with a cultivator of the same level, he would definitely suffer a great loss with the techniques and power he currently possesses.

The book of Five Elements Techniques that I got before did record many exquisite fire and earth attribute magic skills, but like the magic skills taught by Zhang Shilin, they all required constant research and practice.

He has spent most of his time in the training room in recent years, studying the art of making talismans, handling sect affairs, practicing the Xuanyuan Sutra, and occasionally working on puppetry. He really doesn't have that much energy and time.

All I can do is to spare some time every day to practice these techniques.

He didn't stop until his spiritual energy was almost exhausted. When he returned to the main room, Su Zhirou was already waiting for him inside.

"Husband." Seeing him come back, Su Zhirou immediately went to greet him. She had now broken through the seventh level of Qi Refining. The couple had been married for eight years and could be considered an old married couple.

Over the years, the two have never been apart for a single day. They practice in their respective training rooms during the day, and no matter how late it is at night, they will wait for the other to return, and then fall asleep in each other's arms.

"I have broken through to the second level of the Xuanyuan Sutra today." The two of them sat down, snuggling together, and Su Zhirou snuggled into his arms.

"That's great. I'll ask the Puppet Hall to send all the materials over, and then call Junior Brothers Wu Lian and Shen Fan to teach you the method of puppet refining. You can start with the snake-shaped puppet and practice slowly." Song Xian hugged her and stroked her soft black hair with his fingers.

A few years ago, Wu Lian gave him a wolf-shaped puppet and said that in the future he only needed to be responsible for the last two steps of puppet refining, and they would complete the other steps.

At that time, Song Xian was very happy and thought that this plan was great. It not only saved a lot of time, but also allowed him to control the puppets and enhance his own combat effectiveness.

But the result was not what he wished. Facts have proved that all skills in this world require hard work and are accumulated step by step. There is no shortcut.

After he got the wolf-shaped puppet, he quickly refined it, and the result was that the puppet's body collapsed.

Afterwards, Wu Lianguo sent several more wolf-shaped puppets that he had refined, but none of them were successful.

Repeated failures made Song Xian discouraged and he gradually realized the reason for his failure. After several people discussed it, they all agreed that it was because he knew nothing about the various holes inside the wolf-shaped puppet, so in the process of injecting spiritual consciousness, he could not accurately grasp the key points, resulting in blockage of spiritual consciousness and inability to integrate it.

To solve this problem, the answer is simple, which is to refine a complete puppet by yourself.

So Song Xian started from the beginning again, starting with refining a snake-shaped puppet and making his own puppet step by step.

With Wu Lian's guidance and Shen Fan's help, he avoided many detours. He didn't need to grope around bit by bit. He just had to follow the instructions of the two, imitate them, and refine the finished products according to the standards. This was much simpler than groping around for them.

In addition, Song Xian had studied it for a period of time before, so it didn't take him long to master the refining of the snake-shaped puppet.

After that, he spent a lot of effort on refining the wolf-shaped puppet. Fortunately, with the help of two people, he finally succeeded in refining a wolf-shaped puppet of his own.

Although he was not as good as the other two in terms of skills, as long as he could successfully refine this thing, it would be fine. It was not a consumable item, unlike elixirs and talismans, which required such a high success rate.

"Doesn't my husband know how to do it? Why do you need someone else?"

"I know a little bit, but my skills are not as good as theirs. You are a beginner in puppet refining, so you should find a better master. I am only half-baked to begin with, so what good will it do me to learn from me?"

Su Zhirou put her arms around his neck and pouted, "My husband is so good at making talismans, but he didn't teach me."

"Why do you want to learn that? It's a waste of time. Talismans can be used by anyone. I refined them and gave them to you. But puppets are different. If you don't refine them yourself, you can't use them. Besides, I taught you everything. You're as stupid as a pig. It took me so long to learn the simplest cleaning talisman."

As the two were talking, footsteps were heard outside. Xiaohong walked in with a meal, put it down and then walked out.

Song Xian took the bowl and chopsticks, filled a bowl with noodles, picked up a few noodles, blew on them a few times, and brought them to her mouth.

"Do you want to reconsider what I told you last time? Are you really not going?"

"No." Su Zhirou swallowed the noodles in one gulp, twisted a few times in his arms, and said coquettishly, "Husband, please don't mention this matter again. I will go wherever you are. Unless you go too, I won't go alone."

"Okay! If you don't want to go, then don't go. That's it, let Senior Brother Wenyuan go. Next time I'll talk to Wang Qian and find a way to get his first-grade, top-quality training room for you to use." Song Xian could only do as she wished.

Some time ago, news came that George Lam had reached the great perfection of Qi Refining.

Since her cultivation had reached a high level, she naturally did not need the first-grade training room in the Water Curtain Cave anymore. Therefore, Song Xian planned to give the training room to Su Zhirou and let her practice there.

Because her cultivation has reached the late stage of Qi Refining, and the training room she owns in Qingyuan Sect is a first-grade mid-quality training room.

With the cultivation level of the late stage of Qi Refining, using a first-level medium-quality training room will definitely slow down the progress of cultivation.

However, she was unwilling to go. The reason was self-evident. There was only one top-grade training room there, and only one person could use it.

Although Song Xian suggested that she go, he actually didn't want her to go and was in a very contradictory state.

If he really went there to practice cultivation, who knows how long they would be apart! Naturally, he was reluctant to leave.

But from a rational point of view, it would undoubtedly be better to let her go to that high-quality training room, but emotionally, he really didn't want to.

As early as when Su Zhirou first broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining, he had discussed this matter with Wang Qian, hoping to exchange training rooms with the other party. Qingyuan Sect had two first-grade top-quality training rooms, one was allocated to Song Xian, and the other one was naturally for Wang Qian to use.

He hoped that the other party could exchange the top-grade training room with Su Zhirou's mid-grade training room, and put forward some conditions, including subsidizing some spirit stones every month.

Wang Qian was naturally reluctant and refused the matter. He also didn't want to push the issue too far, so he never mentioned it again.

(End of this chapter)