Taihuang Star Seal

Although Ding Chen's strength soared again after taking a pill of [Eight Spirits Gathering Mansion Pill], he still decided to keep a low profile and hide himself.

Firstly, because he was only at the fifth level of the Awakening Meridians Realm, he did not have a complete chance of winning against Xiao Zhenxiong, who had already entered the Condensing Spirit Realm.

Secondly, as long as Xiao Zhenxiong’s illness has not been cured and as long as Ding Chen is still in the City Lord’s Mansion, the Luo family will be safe!

In this situation, even if Ding Chen took the risk of killing Xiao Zhenxiong, he would still have to spend time, effort, and money searching for cultivation resources everywhere.

It would be better to save Xiao Zhenxiong's life first, continue spending his money and improve your own cultivation. Why not?

So, after the medicinal effect of the [Eight Spirits Gathering House Pill] was fully exerted, Ding Chen began to give acupuncture to Xiao Zhenxiong again.

"Chichi!!"

As the last injection was given, a large amount of golden mist was immediately discharged from Xiao Zhenxiong's ears and nostrils.

These were exactly the "residual gold poison" that Xiao Zhenxiong had inhaled into his body when he used the "Five Metals Summoning Spirits" method to forcibly break through the "Xuan Xiu Ling Jie".

Xiao Zhenxiong felt much more relaxed again and was overjoyed: "Hahahaha, good, very good!"

"This city lord can feel that this third wave of treatment is still very successful."

Just a moment ago, Xiao Zhenxiong was still feeling the pain for having spent nearly 1.5 million gold to purchase all the materials.

But now, the immediate healing effect made Xiao Zhenxiong forget all the pain of "heavy bleeding"!

Ding Chen pretended to be weak and lay down on the recliner, breathing heavily and said, "I, I have suffered too much damage this time, I must rest for a few days."

"Remember to increase the quality of your daily 'monster meat'."

Xiao Zhenxiong couldn't help but twitch his eyes when he heard this: "Do you want to improve the quality of 'monster meat'?"

"Your daily food cost me one thousand gold coins now. If you increase it further..."

"Doesn't that mean you have to earn three to five thousand gold coins every day?!"

Even Xiao Zhenxiong, the "city lord", had never enjoyed a monster meat meal of such high standards!

At this time, Ding Chen lazily picked up a piece of paper and pen, and while writing and drawing, he spoke again: "Also, you have to prepare the materials for the next pill as soon as possible."

"This pill is called [Eight Spirits Soul Refining Pill]..."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhenxiong shuddered unconsciously.

According to his previous experience, the monster meat that Ding Chen regarded as a "tonic" was only worth a small amount of money.

The pills he had to take with the "acupuncture" were truly terrifyingly expensive!

Xiao Zhenxiong recalled that in recent days, in order to gather the materials needed to refine the [Eight Spirits Gathering Pill], he had spent more than 1.5 million gold like water!

After all this trouble, even if Xiao Zhenxiong was not "penniless", he didn't have much money left...

After a while, Ding Chen threw the written list over.

Xiao Zhenxiong just took a rough look and layers of cold sweat began to flow down his face.

"A bunch of medicinal herbs that are two or three hundred years old?!"

"The crystal core of a 'high-level demon beast' with eight attributes, as well as a complete corpse with bones and flesh?!"

Let’s not talk about anything else, just the eight high-level monster crystal cores…

According to the "crystal core explosion rate" of one to two out of ten after the death of a monster, you definitely won't be able to get so many crystal cores unless you kill a hundred of them.

The strength of high-level monsters is already comparable to warriors at the eighth or ninth level of the Awakening Veins Realm!

It is not easy to hurt such a powerful being, let alone kill it.

Therefore, Xiao Zhenxiong knew very well that this complete set of materials could not be obtained without spending several million gold!

But the problem was that he had almost used up all his savings over the years in order to break through the "Spirit Condensation Realm".

Plus later on, I bought the materials Ding Chen needed to make the elixir...

Nowadays, Xiao Zhenxiong's wallet can be said to be cleaner than his face!

"Mr. Xiao, you still have the energy to sit here in a daze? Go and collect these materials quickly!"

Ding Chen suddenly said: "Remember, your injuries won't wait for anyone."

His words were like a wake-up call, waking Xiao Zhenxiong up immediately!

"Yes, yes, my injury won't wait."

"With just one last step, this city lord can escape the death calamity brought to me by the 'Five Metal Summoning Spirits'!"

"From now on, as a person in the Condensed Spirit Realm, won't the sea be wide enough for fish to leap and the sky high enough for birds to fly?!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Zhenxiong's eyes were full of determination: "If the money is not enough, I will use my cultivation and official position as 'mortgage'."

"To some extent, the promise and face of a 'Spirit Condensation Realm' expert are still quite valuable!"

"As long as I can get through this difficult time, the gold I borrowed will be repaid double in a few years!"

"As for the 'high-level crystal cores' and medicinal herbs that are hard to find in Tieyan City, we can go to the nearby 'high-quality city' to purchase them!"

"Anyway, I have to finish it within a month no matter what... No, be cautious and give that kid some time to refine the elixir."

"I must gather all the materials within twenty-five days!"

Just when Xiao Zhenxiong was about to rush forward with full energy.

Sima Zhong, who was standing by, suddenly took out a set of materials for the [Xingmai Pill] from his backpack and placed them in front of Ding Chen.

"While you are waiting for the materials, you have nothing to do anyway, why don't you try to refine the [Awakening Pulse Pill]?"

"No matter what the quality of the [Xingmai Pill] you finally refine is, this building owner will buy it at the market price and ensure that you will not suffer any loss!"

"Or, you can also refine other types of pills. Just tell me what materials you need."

When saying this, Sima Zhong had tried his best to appear calm enough.

But how could the burning fire of greed deep in his eyes escape Ding Chen's perception?

Ding Chen thought to himself, "This guy probably wants me to try to make some 'conventional' pills after seeing my alchemy skills."

"This will allow you to get a glimpse of my level of alchemy skills, and at the same time, you can get a feel for me and see how many alchemy recipes I have mastered..."

Ding Chen, who has figured out the key, naturally would not be stupid enough to do hard labor.

So, he shook his head calmly: "I don't know how to make the Awakening Pulse Pill. I have never made it before."

"I don't know anything about other recipes."

"You know nothing? Humph, do you think I'm easy to fool?!"

Sima Zhong frowned and said aggressively, "Then how do you explain your previous refining of those 'Eight Spirits Something Pills'?"

"Those..."

Ding Chen said nonsense in a serious tone, "To be honest, when I was three or four years old, I was suddenly captured by a crazy old man and taken to a cave one day. He then forced me to learn how to make elixirs from him step by step."

"But the only things he taught me were the four recipes for healing the 'Five Metals Soul Summoning and Tribulation Injury' pills."

"That crazy old man sometimes talks to himself: He wants to use the 'Five Metals Summoning Spirits' method to create tens of thousands of 'Spirit Condensation Realms' and form an invincible army..."

"Unfortunately, after he taught me the four kinds of pill recipes, he suddenly died."

"That's why I was able to see through Xiao Zhenxiong's illness at a glance in front of the City Lord's Mansion that day!"