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After returning to the sect, Shi Chen went to the sect affairs hall immediately to cancel his out-of-town sect affairs assignment.

He presented the jade token of the completion of clan affairs issued by the Immortal City, successfully completed the clan affairs, and then applied to go out to visit friends, which was expected to take three years.

Normally, it takes ten days to apply for a visit to a friend. As long as the annual sect affairs are completed and the sect tasks for half of the applied year are completed in advance, you can leave the sect and travel outside.

As an alchemist, you need to refine ten furnaces of elixirs every year according to the grade, and you can get a certain contribution to the sect every month.

Refining the second-level elixir is no longer difficult for Shi Chen. During his three years away from home, he needs to refine fifteen batches of second-level elixir for the sect, and the number of successful pills must be no less than six.

He collected the clan jade token, went to the alchemy hall, got the elixir, and began to refine the Peiyuan Pill.

In just three days, Shi Chen completed the refining of thirty furnaces of pills with a high success rate. Only the last furnace of pills was wasted. The reason was that he had been concentrating on refining the pills for a long time, overusing his spiritual consciousness. In the final moment of trance, he mixed too much medicine and liquid, resulting in a useless pill.

He put away several bottles of Peiyuan Dan, and had the alchemy furnace cleaned by his alchemy apprentice. He quickly left the alchemy room and walked towards the clan affairs hall.

Every year, the sect duty that a second-level alchemist needs to complete is to hand in ninety low-grade pills, or forty medium-grade pills, or ten high-grade pills.

This time, Shi Chen handed in ninety low-grade Peiyuan Pills and one hundred and twenty medium-grade Peiyuan Pills, completing four years of sect duties in one go.

He had only been back for a few days when he had to leave the sect again to travel and visit friends. There weren't many people in the sect he was close to, but he still needed to visit them one by one and exchange favors.

Shi Chen carefully cooked six dishes in his lakeside cave to visit Senior Brother An. The two had a great conversation and agreed to visit Fang Qingling the next day.

The next day, he carefully prepared dishes and visited Senior Sister Qingling with Senior Brother An.

On the third day, he visited Senior Brother Lu with some snacks and spiritual wine.

Senior Brother Lu’s cultivation has reached the Golden Core level and is currently at the first level of the Golden Core. Last year, he applied to the sect for the Golden Yuan Pill, a promotional elixir, which allowed him to break through to the Golden Core level in one fell swoop.

Seeing Shi Chen's cultivation level at the third level of foundation building, Senior Brother Lu was also filled with emotion.

On the tenth day after returning to the sect, Huang Qi's brother and sister came to visit.

"Congratulations to Senior Brother Huang for entering the foundation-building stage. Congratulations to Senior Sister Huang for entering the foundation-building stage." Shi Chen greeted them at the entrance of the cave.

"Congratulations, Junior Brother, for having achieved the Foundation Establishment. Haha! Thank you so much for your care over the years." Huang Qizhen bowed sincerely.

"Brother Huang, you're being too formal. If it weren't for the unwavering support from Brother Huang and Sister Huang, Shi Chen wouldn't have achieved the success he has today in building his foundation." Shi Chen returned the greeting and said, "Okay, come in and talk. I've already prepared some side dishes, prepared some spirit wine, and cleared the bed for you."

Everyone gathered together for a day, and Huang Qi and Huang Ziying left Shi Chen's cave the next day.

Huang Qi's cultivation had already reached the second level of Foundation Establishment, and the Huang family was now unable to control him and Huang Ziying. Many of the lower-grade Foundation Establishment Pills refined in previous years had been exchanged for a large amount of resources.

Huang Qi took out several hundred medium-grade spirit stones and gave them to Shi Chen, but Shi Chen refused to accept them, saying that he now had more than enough resources for cultivation and was not short of spirit stones.

Huang Ziying's cultivation level is at the foundation-building stage. During the small banquet for three people, she looked at Shi Chen with affection from time to time.

He pretended not to see them and avoided their gazes one by one by toasting.

During the small feast, the three of them recounted their experiences over the past few years. Three years ago, Huang Qi, who had broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, had traveled to Xiongguan Immortal City in search of Shi Chen, but unfortunately, he was informed that Shi Chen had already left. He then searched for Shi Chen's direction for the better part of six months, visiting five or six markets, but to no avail. Finally, he had no choice but to return to the sect.

Two years ago, Huang Ziying reached the Foundation Establishment stage and dragged Huang Qi to Xiongguan Immortal City to search for Shi Chen. They arrived at Dutan Immortal City. By then, the strange phenomenon had already appeared in Dutan Immortal City, and the Thousand Poison Pond had been sealed off for over a year. They had no choice but to inquire about Shi Chen's whereabouts in Dutan Immortal City, but for over three months, there was no news.

They also knew that when Shi Chen went out, he usually changed his appearance and rarely revealed his true form, so he could only communicate with him through sound transmission notes. When they couldn't receive any news, they had no choice but to return to the sect and wait.

Shi Chen did not explain in detail what had happened, but only vaguely stated that after establishing his foundation in the Poison Pond Immortal City, he wanted to try his luck in the strange visions of the Thousand Poison Pond. Unexpectedly, the Qianjue Sect had monopolized the Thousand Poison Pond, so he could only practice in seclusion in the Poison Pond Immortal City. Later, the Poison Pond Immortal City was blocked, and he was able to escape only when he found an opportunity.

News came that the mayor of the Poison Pond Fairy City had been called back to the Qianjue Sect. Only one in ten cultivators in the fairy city remained. Those who could leave had already left, and those who were unable to leave could only continue to stay in the fairy city. The fairy city was no longer as prosperous as it once was.

After Huang Qi and his sister, Shi Chen's cave was visited by many guests, most of whom came to make friends or to ask for alchemy services.

At first, he patiently received the first few visitors and refused to offer to make elixirs for them. Later, as more and more people came, he had no choice but to announce his retreat, refusing to receive any visitors and refusing to be polite to them.

Shi Chen left a lot of pills for Huang Qi and his sister, including Qi training pills that he didn't need, and some second-level pills.

There were items of varying quality, low, medium, and high, estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of low-grade spirit stones. Aside from the elixirs used for cultivation, the rest could be exchanged for resources and spirit stones, and then used to purchase spiritual herbs, primarily those of the second rank or higher.

The elixirs needed to advance to the Golden Core stage must also be prepared. If the opportunity arises, one can also go to the market or immortal city outside the sect to bid for the Golden Core Pill recipe.

He was going to Dayuzhou to fulfill his promise to Xu Zijun.

Huang Qi and his sister wanted to go together, but Shi Chen declined. After some consideration, they agreed.

On the second day, Huang Qi brought hundreds of different second-grade spiritual medicines.

It has been about ten days since I returned to the sect. I went out to visit people for the first seven days, and then I practiced in the cave, or studied alchemy and practiced magic, waiting for the sect to approve my application. Unfortunately, no news came.

Now, eighteen days have passed since Shi Chen applied for the trip, and he still hasn't received the sect's decree of release, indicating that his application was intercepted.

Generally, disciples need the sect's permission before they can leave the sect to venture out. For disciples who hold positions in the sect, applying to go out is more complicated and requires handover or proper arrangements.

Shi Chen did not hold any position in the sect, nor did he have any sect duties. He even completed his duties two years ahead of schedule. His application to go out was intercepted, so there must be something wrong.

On the 20th, he went to the clan hall and asked the three deacons on duty, but did not get the answer he wanted. They all said perfunctorily that they would help check and help urge.

Another ten days passed, and I knew that there would be no response from the sect if I kept waiting. Even if there was a response, the final result would probably be that I would not be allowed to go out.

He packed up his things and prepared to go to the sect's teleportation array, teleport to the sect's border fairy city, take a caravan flying boat to the seaside fairy city, and then transfer to a cross-sea flying boat to the Dayu Continent on the other side of the sea.

If you travel without the sect's permission, you will be punished by the sect the next time you return, and the punishment will be double the sect penalty.

Shi Chen was not worried about the sect's punishment. Even if the sect work was five times or ten times more, for him, it would only mean spending more time refining pills.

He walked out of the cave, flew like the wind, and headed towards the sect's teleportation hall.

Arriving at the sect's teleportation hall, he quickly walked towards the deacon who was in charge of the teleportation array.