Chapter 42

Chapter 43: Watching the Tigers Fight from the Mountain

It had been nearly three and a half months since Li Sanlei, Lei Ren, and Qian Xing entered the underground gale cave.

Sixty miles away from Blackstone City, outside a stone castle called Iron Fortress, two groups of people were fighting to the death with all their might.

The cries of battle shook the heavens, and bodies lay strewn across the field.

Each group had about 1,500 people, evenly matched. One side was the regular army dispatched by Blackstone Castle, and the other was a group of Chen people covered in white mist and black fur.

The dead and severely injured Chen people had their white mist dissipate, revealing their bodies covered in black fur, with faces that resembled a combination of human and lizard faces, and hands that looked like lizard claws!

Five miles away from the battlefield, on a small hill, four figures with ruddy faces stood, enjoying the bloody battle with great interest.

One of the three men with a Daoist hairstyle said to a young man dressed in short clothes, with messy shoulder-length hair and a three-inch beard, "Fourth Brother, do you see? This is the final test of the beginner's mission. Only those who survive this final test can pass the beginner's assessment."

The man with messy shoulder-length hair nodded eagerly, "Third Brother is right. We can wait until they are both exhausted from fighting, then go down and pick up the spoils. For now, we just need to watch the tigers fight from the mountain."

In his heart, he grumbled that if it weren't for the selfless sharing of the experienced seniors of the Dan Ding Sect, who summarized their experience in the arena into a small booklet for every disciple to study, there wouldn't be your big mouth boasting.

This man with messy shoulder-length hair was none other than Qian Xing.

After successfully capturing the Wind Lung Chima, Lei Yue was overjoyed. This ten-thousand-year-old spirit creature would definitely be handed over to the sect, and Qian Xing wouldn't get a single bit of it. Even giving Qian Xing the Cold Ice Technique and the first five levels of the Dan Ding Sect's Ninefold Purple Fire Technique, along with some alchemy essentials, couldn't compensate for the enormous value of the ten-thousand-year-old spirit creature that Qian Xing should have received.

Therefore, Lei Yue took the initiative to call Qian Xing "Fourth Brother," and Qian Xing was overjoyed, naturally agreeing.

Moreover, he had also drunk a spoonful of a nutritious-looking soup.

Seeing the anxious expressions of the yellow little man and the black little horse as they disappeared into the stone basin, Qian Xing knew that these two things must be valuable. Fortunately, the little man couldn't speak human language yet.

The main body of the Wind Lung Chima's spirit root was found near the area responsible for Lei Peak. It was a plant about four feet tall with a black stem and black roots, and yellow leaves the size of two human palms. Each leaf had nine branches and was as thick as a human palm.

There were a total of eighteen leaves, and at the top were five purple fruits the size of silkworm beans.

The entire spirit root was surrounded by a thin layer of blue and red gas, not a single bit of spiritual energy leaking out.

No wonder the three Lei people, who had searched for countless spirit herbs, couldn't find a single trace of the Wind Lung Chima.

After finding the Wind Lung Chima, Lei Yue didn't rush to leave. Instead, he took out an ancient-looking alchemy furnace and settled down on the spot, teaching Qian Xing some basic knowledge of alchemy.

With Qian Xing's current cultivation level, he was only at the Second to Fourth Rank of the Innate Martial Artist. The innate ability to control Hellfire from the tiger-headed fire gun demon's core couldn't be fully digested by the Ninefold Purple Fire Technique, and he could only use it instinctively. When he used the left side of the Hellfire, he was only at the Fourth Rank of the Innate Martial Artist.

Therefore, Qian Xing was only suitable for refining pills suitable for Innate Martial Artists.

Refining pills started with learning to distinguish the properties of various herbs. Different herbs had different properties, some being the main ingredient, others being the auxiliary. The slightest difference in quantity mattered.

Next was the issue of the Eight Trigrams positions in the alchemy furnace. Different types of pills needed to be placed in different positions in the furnace, which was crucial.

In the past, Laozi's Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Primordial Morality Furnace, which could refine anything in the world, failed to refine Sun Wukong.

This was because the raw materials for the pills were dead, but Sun Wukong was alive. In the Eight Trigrams, there was a "Wind" position specifically for the Primordial Three Pure Fire and the Primordial Gale Wind inside the furnace. Sun Wukong hid in that position, not only avoiding being refined back into the two gourds of spirit pills he had stolen, but also achieving an indestructible body.

Of course, with Laozi's status as a Perfect Saint, he could have easily added a prohibition, making the monkey immobile and refining him back into the stolen spirit pills.

Thus, whether this was an unintentional oversight or a deliberate act became a topic of permanent debate among Laozi's alchemy fans in the Three Realms.

Lei Yue used this story to teach Qian Xing that if any living creature was added to the raw materials for alchemy, he must not forget to add a magical prohibition to prevent a repeat of Sun Wukong's mistake.

Next was the issue of fire control during the alchemy process. The intensity of the fire varied at different stages. Sometimes a gentle fire was needed, and sometimes a fierce fire. Generally, when the pill was almost complete, the external fire was hard to control, and the cultivator's own true fire had to be used. The quality of the cultivator's true fire directly determined the final quality of the pill!

In this aspect, it was no exaggeration to say that the Dan Ding Sect's Ninefold Purple Fire, although ranked as medium in power among cultivation techniques, was one of the purest flames.

The last point was that the three Lei people wanted to test the effectiveness of Qian Xing's inherited Hellfire from the higher-level fire gun demon in alchemy. After all, demons from Hell had never refined pills; only some ascended demon cultivators in the Demon Realm used demon fire to refine demon pills.

With great care, Qian Xing, following the secrets taught by the Lei people, gradually inputted the Hellfire into the alchemy furnace, condensing the liquid raw materials into pills.

This batch of pills was the Threefold Pulse Transformation Pill, specifically for expanding and transforming the body's meridians.

However, not too many raw materials were used. As Lei Hai said, if the pills were refined poorly, the responsibility would be his own.

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