It’s just cultivating immortality, who isn’t a favorite of heaven?

After Li Zhixing joined the sect, he shared a lot of the work of taking care of the spiritual fields with Cheng Shuyan.

He no longer practiced the Li family's martial arts, and was taught the Hidden World Sect's martial arts by the Immortal Wuwei.

Speaking of it, among the four disciples of Wuwei Zhenren, only he can be considered the true successor of the Hidden World Sect, and the other three are practicing their own skills.

Therefore, Master Wuwei was extremely strict in his teachings to him.

After half a year, Cheng Shuyan successfully broke through to the fourth level of Qi training, and Li Zhixing was also close to the second level of Qi training.

Jiang Hongyue still works as a blacksmith every day.

Ji Qinglin still feeds the chickens every day.

The first batch of spiritual herbs planted by Cheng Shuyan was successfully harvested half a year ago, and now the second batch is also growing amazingly.

After the first batch of planting was successful, she also planted some in the space, and now the second batch in the space is almost mature.

In the past six months, the Hidden World Sect is no longer just a dilapidated courtyard.

Nowadays, there are more and more people, and I can no longer remember the courtyard.

After a few people discussed it, they built a few more courtyards around the small courtyard, dividing it into areas such as the sect's storehouse, library, and residences for several people.

Due to the limitations of the construction capabilities of a few people, the Hidden World Sect is now just six dilapidated courtyards.

The spiritual herbs harvested from the sect’s spiritual fields are all stored in the sect’s warehouse.

She had accumulated quite a few spiritual herbs in her space, so Cheng Shuyan wanted to learn how to make pills.

She has already reached the fourth level of Qi training and can slowly start learning how to control fire.

The problem now is that no one in the Hidden World Sect practices alchemy, so she can only figure it out on her own.

There was no rush in refining the elixir, so she bought a copy of "Basic Essentials of Alchemy" in the Lanxi Market, and practiced the art of controlling fire according to the instructions. After two months, she became quite proficient.

However, the Hidden World Sect did not have the underground fire that could be used for refining pills, and her cultivation level was not enough to support the refining of a furnace of pills, so she thought of renting an underground fire room in the market first.

True Man Wuwei had no objection to this. Instead, he stuffed most of the spiritual herbs in the warehouse into her.

"Don't be afraid of wasting it, just keep refining it. These spiritual herbs can't be sold for many spirit stones anyway, so it would be a waste to leave them alone.

If you can successfully refine these spiritual herbs, then you will have made the best use of them."

"Yes, thank you Master." She smiled sweetly in response.

Jiang Hongyue is an equipment refiner. After knowing that Cheng Shuyan wanted to learn alchemy, she made her an alchemy furnace that was large enough for her to practice.

Carrying the alchemy furnace given by his senior sister and the spiritual herbs given by his master, Cheng Shuyan came to Lanxi Market alone.

There are caves for rent for monks in Lanxi Market, some of which have underground fire rooms.

She went to the rental office and rented one of the caves.

"Fellow Daoist, this is your cave jade token. With this token, you can open the cave formation, but you need to provide the spirit stones required for the formation to operate."

"Thank you."

After taking the jade token from the steward, she planned to go to the cave.

"Friend Cheng, how are you?"

She looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was the young master of Linyi Pavilion - Qiao Muyun.

Cheng Shuyan didn't have a very good impression of this person, but since the other party took the initiative to greet her, she couldn't be impolite.

"Meet Senior Qiao."

"Miss Cheng, there's no need to be so polite. If you don't mind, just call me Brother Qiao." He glanced at the jade token in Cheng Shuyan's hand and asked:

"Miss Cheng, are you going to make an elixir?"

"Yes, Senior, I have gained a lot from the spiritual herb seeds I bought from your pavilion, so I thought about learning the art of alchemy."

She didn't want to have too much contact with Qiao Muyun, so she still answered politely.

"That's great. I have a copy of the alchemy experience of a senior in the Jindan stage. I wonder if you are interested?"

Qiao Muyun had a gentle smile on his face, looking harmless.

"Thank you very much, Senior. However, I don't have anything good to offer, and I'm afraid I can't afford to pay you the corresponding price. I can only let you down.

If you have nothing else to say, I will take my leave now."

The more Qiao Muyun acted like this, the more she dared not have anything to do with this person.

"Okay, please go ahead, young lady." Qiao Muyun stepped aside and made a gesture of invitation.

After Cheng Shuyan walked away, the Nascent Soul cultivator who followed Qiao Muyun appeared again.

"She is very wary of you. It will be difficult for you to gain her trust."

"Oh, it doesn't matter. As long as she shows up, I'll have plenty of opportunities."

A hint of interest flashed across Qiao Muyun's eyes, then he asked doubtfully:

"Have you found any trace of her in the past six months? And what are the backgrounds of her senior brothers and sisters?"

The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "Half a year ago, she was brought to the Li family in Ziyunling by a Jindan cultivator, and then she disappeared again.

As for her senior brothers and sisters, all we could find out was that they had bought property in Lanxi Market about three years ago, but few people knew about it.

As for where these people are staying or what factions they belong to, there is no news so far."

"This is getting more and more interesting. What kind of force is so mysterious? No wonder it's her. She's so mysterious. No wonder, no wonder!"

……

In the cave, Cheng Shuyan activated the formation provided by the market, and then set up a set of defensive formations prepared for her by Master Wuwei.

After all, the formation provided in the market is only of the lowest level, and she would feel more at ease if she added a layer of defense.

Qiao Muyun's appearance was particularly abrupt, as if he was deliberately approaching her.

This puzzled her. She was only at the fourth level of Qi training, and when they first met, she was even at the second level. Why on earth was this man targeting her?

I really couldn't figure it out, so I just put it aside and started meditating.

Before refining the elixir, one needs to recover to the best condition, otherwise it is very easy to exhaust the spiritual power during the refining process.

After adjusting his own state, Cheng Shuyan opened the earth fire chamber formation, took out the alchemy furnace and began to preheat it.

Following the method of refining Qi Condensing Pills as recorded in the Basic Essentials of Qi Training, she preheated the furnace to a certain temperature and then began to refine the spiritual herbs.

Spiritual herbs also contain impurities. The refining step is to remove the impurities from the spiritual herbs and leave only the essence for use as medicine.

She already had experience in practicing formations, and the principles were all the same, so she successfully completed the tempering step very quickly.

The difficult part is the next step - integration.

The spiritual power and five elements properties of the spiritual herbs required for a certain elixir may be completely different.

It was extremely difficult for her, a beginner, to combine these different spiritual herbs together.

If she wasn't careful, she might fail. Many times, when she was about to succeed, she failed because the spiritual energy was in chaos due to the conflicting properties of the spiritual herbs.

After repeated failures, she gained a lot of experience, and slowly, she finally succeeded in her first fusion.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye. After hearing the sound of furnace explosion in the cave rented by Cheng Shuyan for the umpteenth time, she finally smelled the fragrance of the elixir!

Looking at the four warm, white pills in his hand that exuded a faint spiritual energy, Cheng Shuyan couldn't help but smile foolishly.

Finally succeeded!