Chapter 73

Regarding these people, Hu Donghan only casually asked a few questions and then ignored them. As for the people Liu Yiqing and Lu Jianwen brought, they were even more numerous than those brought by Niu Ergen. Although Hu Donghan felt a slight discomfort in his heart, he quickly let it go.

In Hu Donghan's view, Liu Yiqing and Lu Jianwen were clearly not fools.

They both naturally knew how much Hu Donghan valued Niu Ergen. Therefore, if they were to place people in the old medicine mountain, they would naturally first consult Niu Ergen's opinion before it would be their turn.

And indeed, everything unfolded as Hu Donghan had speculated.

Liu Yiqing and Lu Jianwen first accompanied Niu Ergen to select the people he wanted to take care of. Only after confirming that Niu Ergen was not just being polite did they proceed to place the people they wanted to settle in.

Following this, at Hu Donghan's command, these newly arrived laborers immediately began the "construction work" around the area as per Hu Donghan's requirements.

By the next morning, the situation around the wooden house was basically the same as that of the Spirit Medicine Mountain. A basement had been excavated under the wooden house as Hu Donghan had requested. In front of the wooden house, a two-acre medicinal field was protected by a fence.

After instructing Niu Ergen and the others to plant Lu Jiecao in the medicinal field, Hu Donghan dispatched the Spirit Medicine Ghost to cultivate the spirit medicines. He then instructed them to expand the nearby medicinal fields to four or five hectares and plant the spirit medicines needed for refining Qi Cultivation Pills. After that, he no longer paid attention and went to the basement to build the Ghostly Restaurant, then continued to nurture the ordinary ghosts.

After three days, the souls of the ordinary ghosts were well-fed and plump. Hu Donghan selected a spirit medicine called Chiyu Guo, which was only the size of a finger, to replace the body of the Spirit Medicine Ghost. He successfully completed the body replacement of the second Spirit Medicine Ghost, and during the body replacement, the second Spirit Medicine Ghost's grade also reached the lower-grade ghostly level.

Once the Spirit Medicine Ghost was formed, Hu Donghan directly named the two Spirit Medicine Ghosts through the Soul Board, calling the first one "Yao Yi" and the second one "Yao Er"...

After that, it was a time-consuming but less labor-intensive process of solidifying their forms.

He directly sent the new Spirit Medicine Ghost into the Ghostly Restaurant, and the rest was just a matter of adding wandering souls to the Ghostly Restaurant daily.

A month passed quickly. The cultivation of Yao Er was completed, and its soul body was very complete. As for Yao Yi, it also successfully broke through to the third level of Qi Cultivation, and its cultivation quickly caught up with Hu Donghan, who was taking intermediate-grade Qi Nourishing Pills daily to aid his cultivation.

During this period, Wang Ruolong came once, received the Lu Jiecao left by Hu Donghan, and then hurriedly left.

As for the situation in the old medicine mountain, it could only be considered as just being properly arranged.

After all, the old medicine mountain was quite large, and placing the cultivators in suitable locations was indeed a technical task. As for Hu Donghan, he also tried to let Yao Yi take care of the other spirit medicines suitable for refining Qi Cultivation Pills near the Lu Jiecao. The growth of these spirit medicines was indeed good, but since Yao Yi was only taking care of them as a side task, without the nourishment of medicinal fragrance and yin qi, their growth cycle was the same as that of normal spirit medicines, and it would take half a year to harvest them.

Initially, when Yao Yi could take care of the surrounding four or five hectares of medicinal fields, it indeed caught the attention of the Earth Fire Hall. However, after Elder Bu Yun came to inquire and learned that it would not affect the growth of Lu Jiecao, they no longer paid attention—after all, these four or five hectares of spirit medicines were not a big deal in the Earth Fire Hall.

Of course, after the cultivation of Yao Er was completed, Hu Donghan decided to focus on quickly cultivating a small amount of spirit medicines with Yao Er. This way, it would neither attract attention nor prevent Hu Donghan from quickly stockpiling some spirit medicines.

After all, with a growth rate accelerated thirty times, the benefits were indescribable.

After the third level of Qi Cultivation, cultivators should actually take Qi Cultivation Pills to cultivate.

However, during this period, Hu Donghan was busy with cultivation and the cultivation of Yao Er, and he could not spare the time. Now that he had some free time, he began to consider whether to let Yao Yi try refining Qi Cultivation Pills.

As for letting Yao Er refine Qi Cultivation Pills? That was temporarily impossible.

Although the incantations for controlling the Earth Fire and the hand seals for refining pills and the final pill collection incantation did not consume much spirit power, they still had certain requirements for spirit power and strength.

For example, to successfully use the pill collection incantation for Qi Cultivation Pills, one must have reached the third level of Qi Cultivation.

Otherwise, even if every step of refining the pill was successful, failing to collect the pill would render everything useless!

He then sent Niu Ergen to the Earth Fire Hall to collect the remaining five hundred free spirit medicines. Hu Donghan sat in the pill room, pretending to refine pills while actually cultivating, and gave Yao Yi the instruction to "refine the most and best Qi Cultivation Pills in the shortest time," then left it at that. He took intermediate-grade Qi Nourishing Pills daily and directly began cultivating.

The refinement of Qi Cultivation Pills was slightly more complex than that of Qi Nourishing Pills, with three more types of spirit medicines. However, the overall refinement time was the same.

Yao Yi, with the experience of refining Qi Nourishing Pills, mastered the basic fire control after consuming ten spirit medicines, then consumed another twenty spirit medicines to determine the timing for adding auxiliary herbs, and finally, after consuming fifty spirit medicines, successfully refined the first batch of Qi Cultivation Pills!

After the first batch of Qi Cultivation Pills was successfully refined, Hu Donghan did not rush to take them but continued to let Yao Yi refine pills, waiting for the appearance of intermediate-grade and even superior-grade pills.

Yao Yi continued to mechanically refine pills. However, since Qi Cultivation Pills were one grade higher than Qi Nourishing Pills, the refinement difficulty and optimization difficulty were both increased. It was not until the three hundredth batch of Qi Cultivation Pills that the first intermediate-grade pill appeared!

Since the first intermediate-grade pill had appeared, the frequency of intermediate-grade pills gradually increased. After all five hundred batches of Qi Cultivation Pills were refined, Hu Donghan obtained nearly a hundred intermediate-grade Qi Cultivation Pills. As for superior-grade Qi Cultivation Pills, he did not get any.

Of course, the number of normal lower-grade Qi Cultivation Pills exceeded four thousand, and the number of minor Qi Cultivation Pills was nearly ten thousand!

By the time all five hundred batches of Qi Cultivation Pills were refined, another half a month had passed.

Although he did not obtain any superior-grade Qi Cultivation Pills, the one hundred intermediate-grade Qi Cultivation Pills were enough for Hu Donghan's daily cultivation.

Taking one intermediate-grade Qi Cultivation Pill every three days, another half a month passed, and Hu Donghan's strength finally broke through, reaching the fourth level of Qi Cultivation, which was the middle stage of Qi Cultivation!

From joining the Yin Soul Sect to now, a full ten months had passed!

In ten months, Hu Donghan had fought step by step within the Yin Soul Sect and finally reached the middle stage of Qi Cultivation!

However, just as Hu Donghan felt secretly satisfied, Niu Ergen delivered an invitation to him. The content of the invitation was that Old Ancestor Shihun was going to formally take Hu Meier as a disciple...