The original repairer

The days passed uneventfully, and Qisha Market was as bustling as ever. During this time, Shi Chen would refine pills, practice, and then study the monster hide every day. His life was peaceful and uneventful.

The number of independent cultivators in the market town increased dramatically during this period, and the reason for this was still the elixir resources.

Within a radius of 500 miles, there's a first-tier alchemist here who's offering pill-making services. No other market offers this advantage. Furthermore, within a 2,000-mile radius, there's absolutely no other alchemist who can guarantee a 60% yield of finished pills, with a success rate of over eight. This is the only one.

Shi Chen paid no attention to the casual cultivators waiting for appointments, refining ten furnaces of elixirs for them every day. High-level elixirs were reserved first, and low-level elixirs were placed later. Every seven days, he would refine one day of low-level elixirs.

He hadn't counted the number of low-grade spirit stones he'd earned during this period, but it was probably around 40,000 to 50,000. Huang Qi's cultivation had already reached the late stage of Qi training, and the development of the Foundation Establishment Pill needed to be put on the agenda. With the sect's quota for Foundation Establishment Pills, it might take 20 to 30 years to get one.

After discussion, the three decided to seek the recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill from the sect. They were bound by the sect's restriction and were required to complete the sect's task of refining twenty furnaces of Foundation Establishment Pills every year.

The sect's elixir refining task is to supply the spiritual medicines by the sect, and the elixirs must be handed in at a success rate of 30%. The more elixirs you hand in, the better the sect's reward.

Before applying to learn the sect's foundation-building pill recipe, they need to prepare some spiritual medicine according to the foundation-building pill recipe.

A casual cultivator who has reached the perfection of Qi training will collect spiritual herbs for foundation-building pills and look for alchemists who can refine foundation-building pills, seeking the opportunity to refine them, break through the shackles of Qi training, and become a foundation-building cultivator.

A month later, Du Liangpeng came back. This time, he was accompanied by a skinny old man. He was only five feet three inches tall, with sunken eyes, a thick nose, and purple lips.

"Hello, Master Alchemist. I am Mo Yan. I have taken the liberty to follow Fellow Daoist Du to visit me. I really want to discuss the art of alchemy with you." The thin old man Mo Yan said in a hoarse voice.

"Please forgive me, Friend Mo. I am not the sect's alchemist. The sect has its own rules, which cannot be explained in words. I hope you can understand." Shi Chen refused.

"Friend Shi, please don't refuse yet. We are just exchanging experiences, not studying the inherited alchemy skills of the sect. For example, the experience of making elixirs, the experience of changing the fire of the elixir, and the experience of making elixirs. Mutual exchanges will help improve the alchemy skills of alchemists." Mo Yan said with a smile.

"Excuse me, Friend Mo, where did you learn the art of alchemy from? As a disciple of a sect, do you have the sect's imperial decree to communicate the sect's teachings?" Shi Chen said coldly.

"Why do you want to be so selfish, fellow Daoist? I am just a casual cultivator with no knowledge of alchemy. I just want to communicate with you. I hope fellow Daoist Shi can help me fulfill my heart for alchemy." Mo Yan said kindly.

"Haha, my alchemy skills are very low and I haven't made any achievements. If Fellow Daoist Mo really wants to learn the art of alchemy, you can go to the Alchemy Hall on Lingdan Peak of Qingxuan Sect and discuss the art with high-level alchemists." Shi Chen said.

"The Alchemy Hall of the Qingxuan Sect is indeed what we admire, but we have no way to get in. I am very lucky to meet Master Shi. Since you are the alchemist of the Qingxuan Sect, are you willing to discuss Taoism with me?" Mo Yan said.

"If you are like this, please go back!" Shi Chen ordered him to leave.

"Don't be anxious, Fellow Daoist Shi. Fellow Daoist Mo is also eager to see people's hearts. I came here this time because I wanted to talk to you about what happened last time." Du Liangpeng stepped forward to smooth things over.

"No need to say more. The things have been returned to you and the conditions have been given. This is my utmost sincerity. If you cannot accept it, then please go back. You must abide by the sect's rules and regulations." Shi Chen said without giving Du Liangpeng a look.

The two were still about to say something, but Shi Chen directly opened the defensive restrictions of the cave. His meaning was very clear: I don’t want to talk to you today. If you know what’s good for you, leave on your own, or I’ll beat you away.

The two dusty men had no choice but to leave and return to the cave rented by Du Liangpeng. The thin old man Mo Yan was shaking, and his hands were tearing his face, revealing a fair and tender face. His body also grew nearly two feet taller, and he turned out to be a beautiful female cultivator.

"I told you no, but you still want to test it yourself. If we offend Master Shidan, none of us will be able to enter or leave this market." Du Liangpeng was not surprised to see Mo Yan remove his disguise, and said resentfully.

"This is also part of our test. If he is a deep-minded and vacillating person, can you trust him to cooperate? As long as the news of this matter leaks out, we will be hunted down endlessly by the Ji family. We can still deal with a few cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage, but if the Ji family's Jindan ancestor chases us, or they invite Jindan cultivators, then we will be caught in one fell swoop and there will be no way to escape." Mo Yan said hatefully.

"The condition for agreeing to his request is to obtain enough resources for us to cultivate to the late stage of foundation building." Du Liangpeng said.

"Ah! You are like this, being eaten to the bone, and yet you still want to thank others. Does he have to do whatever he says? Don't you think about how much profit there is in learning the elixir formula and being able to refine it? Our request is just a drop in the bucket." Mo Yan stomped his feet in anger and said.

"Unfortunately, among the alchemists and alchemy disciples we know, we have tested them many times, but none of them are sure that they can refine the foundation-building pill. They are all boasting, and the actual success rate is very low. Almost no cultivators ask them to refine pills." Du Liangpeng said worriedly.

"Okay, wait another half a month and we'll go talk. Next time I talk to him, I don't believe he won't be interested in the foundation-building pill formula." Mo Yan said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Just go and talk, don't have any bad thoughts. If he spreads our affairs out, you, me and the eight fellow Taoists outside will be finished. Before the Ji family arrives, the eight people outside will get rid of us first." Du Liangpeng said worriedly.

Shi Chen had no idea what the two men had been thinking. After they left, he was simply puzzled by the scent he'd picked up: a hint of rouge and powder. Could it be that Du Liangpeng had been to the Qinghua Building in the market town and hadn't cleaned himself after leaving? Or was this just a habit the skinny old man had? He brushed off the trivialities and continued his research.

After a month of research, Shi Chen hadn't made any progress in finding the effect of the gray-black demon beast hide. He'd tried drowning, burning, stabbing with swords, dripping blood, and every method he could think of, but nothing could break the hide, and there was no effect at all. Shi Chen almost wanted to throw it away, but then he thought, perhaps this was a great opportunity, and he refused to give it up.

In the training room, he pondered over the animal skin for a while, and finally put it aside and began to practice.

Qigong Jue is the most common practice in the world of cultivation. Those who practice this practice have no restrictions on spiritual roots. Any spiritual energy can be converted into spiritual power and stored in the Dantian. However, the efficiency is very low and the time required to practice the practice is relatively long.

Generally, there is a spiritual vein without attributes in the market town. The spiritual energy released from the spiritual vein is collected by the market town's spiritual protection formation and stored in the market town. The concentration of spiritual energy is 10% of that in the spiritual vein.

The spirit gathering array in the cave gathers the spiritual energy in the market town into the cave, increasing the concentration of the spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy concentration in a better cave can be 70% of that in the spiritual veins of the market town, and the specifications of the cave are also divided according to the concentration of spiritual energy.

As the steward of Dan Pavilion in Fangshi, Shi Chen lives in one of the top caves in Fangshi, with a concentration of 70% of spiritual energy from spiritual veins.