Chapter 41: Chapter 41: Blushing, Red Eyes (Please Follow this Story)_l
Translator: 549690339
Because cultivators transport spiritual Qi and consume elixirs, their appearance and age are often not proportional.
Therefore, in the Immortal Cultivation World, the last thing you should do when judging a person is to judge them by their appearance.
Ruo Chen doesn’t know what the Spirit Root attribute of Gu Caiyi is.
But when he was chatting with Bai Meiling, he asked others about their age.
He remembers that Gu Caiyi was already thirty-seven years old.
Being at the eighth level of Qi refinement at the age of thirty-seven is considered neither good nor bad. She definitely has aptitude, but it’s not amazingly good either, otherwise, she would have already been accepted into a sect.
However, to his surprise, in just a few days of not seeing her, she had already broken through to the ninth level of Qi refinement.
This left Luo Chen very shocked.
“How did you manage to do it, did you consume an elixir?”
“Hehe, you’ve hit the nail on the head.”
Gu Caiyi pursed her lips, “For some reason, there have been quite a few new faces in The Great River District recently, including many at the Foundation Establishment Stage.”
“The Zhong Ding Family and our Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion are the most frequented places by them”
“To us cultivators at the Qi Refinement Stage, the elixirs that are precious are nothing in the eyes of the Foundation Establishment Cultivators. We performed a new dance recently and pleased a Late Stage Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator. He casually rewarded us with a bottle of Dusting Pills.”
Luo Chen’s eyes widened, “Dusting Pills!”
“It seems you’re not as ignorant as you appear!”
Of course, Luo Chen is not so naive as to not know about Dusting Pills.
These are top-grade elixirs for those at the Qi Refinement Stage with effects of transcending the mortal world and transforming into dust.
The potency of one pill far exceeds that of same level Qi Nurturing Pills by several times! Its selling price is even tenfold higher!
In cases when low-level cultivators can’t find Foundation Establishment Pills, they often use Dusting Pills attempt a breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Although the effect is not nearly as good as the Foundation Establishment Pill, it does help to some extent.
“We got a bottle of Dusting Pills, with each of us getting one. As the lead dancer, I got two.”
Gu Caiyi laughed proudly: “I’ve been staying at the Feathers Clothes Building for these past few days, and with these two pills, I’ve broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refinement.”
“Hey, does your Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion still accept people?” Luo Chen sounded a bit sour, with envy in his reddened eyes.
“What are you going to do, play the pimp?”
“Nonsense, I’ve always been talented from a young age, excellent in both singing and dancing!”
“Alright, enough joking around.” Gu Caiyi became serious, “I wanted to tell you, there might be some incident happening in The Great River District soon because of so many unfamiliar cultivators. Be careful when you go out and make sure you don’t offend anyone you shouldn’t.”
Luo Chen nodded emphatically.
Outsider cultivators are the most feared.
They don’t have their roots here and don’t care much about the various rules in The Great River District.
Sometimes, they kill out of anger and then flee by thousands of miles, making them unreachable to the Yu Ding Sword Sect stationed cultivators.
During the quiet night, Luo Chen thought about the day’s events, feeling a mix of emotions.
Others easily broke through to the ninth level of Qi Refinement, only one step away from Foundation Establishment.
Yet, he was still struggling at the fourth level of Qi Refinement.
The huge gap really makes one feel rather uncomfortable beneath the forced smile.
However, despite the sourness, Luo Chen was still happy for Gu Caiyi.
This woman has been taking good care of him since he moved in here.
She would usually greet him when coming in or going out, giving him, a nobody in the Immortal Cultivation World, a sense of existence.
When she discovered his predicament regarding Alchemy Equipment, she used her network to connect him with low-cost, high-quality Pill Furnaces.
Now that Gu Caiyi had made a breakthrough, he should naturally be happy for her.
“But, I cannot be complacent.”
“These recent days of ease seem to have dulled my motivation.”
“Gu Caiyi’s talent must be better than mine, and she is still working hard to earn resources for her cultivation. I’m just a Five Spirit Roots Cultivator, with only a few decades of lifespan left, and even my stock of Qi Nurturing Pills is down to a single bottle.”
“What right do I have to live without worry?”
Starting tomorrow, I must work even harder!
A brand-new Pill Room.
A Purple Cloud Bronze Furnace, especially for Pill Refinement.
The Allure Pill Refinement Technique, with the proficiency now reached the second stage.
Never before has there been such a wonderful start!
Everything is ready, now all that’s left is to light the fire!
With a solemn look on his face, Luo Chen skillfully casts a fireball, igniting the firewood placed in the fire pit.
The flames blazed, rising high and, within a short period of time, heating the modest Pill Room to a roiling heat.
Immersed in it, Luo Chen seemed not to feel anything, instead throwing the properly processed ingredients into the Pill Furnace one after another.
Furthermore, he was making magic hand gestures, activating the Purple Cloud Bronze Furnace.
The simple patterns inscribed on it glowed slightly, as though they were breathing.
Even though the Purple Cloud Bronze Furnace is only a Lower Grade First Order Magic Tool, it still is a Magic Tool.
Compared with his previous low-quality Spirit Iron Pot, it is clearly much better.
Luo Chen was fully focused on observing the changes of the herbs inside the furnace, with his Spirit Vision Technique already bestowed upon his eyes.
Even with obstacles, he could still sense the changes in the flow of spiritual Qi inside.
Not only that, he also occasionally opened the lid of the furnace to stir the materials inside with a wooden stick, to prevent burning at the bottom.
Soon, it was noon.
It was also the time to open the furnace.
The fire had been extinguished for half an hour, and the furnace temperature had also gradually dropped.
“Rise!”
Hand forming the Spiritual Secrets, the proficient Attraction Technique grabbed the remaining warm furnace cover in mid-air, slowly lifting it up.
A strange fragrance spread, mixed with a hint of seared scent.
With the enhancement of the Spirit Vision Technique, Luo Chen looked from afar, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
The first furnace of the Allure Pill had failed.
This was foreseeable. Everything was new, even if there was plenty of preparation, it was impossible to guarantee 100% success.
Luo Chen wasn’t discouraged in the slightest, picked up the shovel, and scooped out the residue inside.
After simply washing it, he left the Pill Room.
As soon as he went out, even at noon, he could still feel a refreshing sensation.
The temperature difference between the Pill Room and the outside was just too great.
At this point, Luo Chen couldn’t help but remember Sun Shou’s benefits.
Without saying anything else, under conditions of no possibility of heat reduction, this Reverse Room located in the center of the Ghost King’s suppression, at least brought him a little bit of coolness.
“Cook, take a bath, continue in the afternoon!”
After placing the rice in the steamer, he came to the corner of the courtyard, and, imitating Gu Caiyi, drew a bucket of water from the well using the Attraction Technique.
Splash!
He directly poured it onto his bare body.
“Comfortable!”
Luo Chen couldn’t help but moan.
While inside, he was so focused he didn’t realize it, but after coming out, he realized that the Pill Room was indeed a big furnace.
“It must be a problem with my design and materials, otherwise it wouldn’t be so hot.”
“If there was a disciple of Ailao Mountain to design the Pill Room for me, that would be great.”
After fantasizing for a moment, Luo Chen shook his head with a smile.
Where would he get the Spirit Stones to hire a disciple from a prestigious Great Sect to design a Pill Room for him!
The appearance fee, I am afraid, would have to start at at least a thousand or eight hundred!
After a simple lunch, Luo Chen gritted his teeth and went into the Pill Room again.
The second furnace, start refining!
“Is Xiao Luo home?”
“He’s busy, do you need something, Sister Caiyi?”
“It’s nothing, carry on with your work!”
“You’re refining pills again!”
“There’s no other way, I’m forced by life.”
“Stop making yourself sound so pitiful, I brought you a box of Qingyuan Cakes, eat them while they’re hot.”
“Leave them outside for now, I really can’t leave, I’m about to lower the heat and add the main material.”
“Then I’ll leave first, come out and chat when you’re done.”
In the afternoon, Luo Chen was staring blankly in front of the well, with a haggard expression.
Gu Caiyi walked out the door and happened to see this scene.
She walked up to him with a frown on her face, “What’s been going on with you recently, Luo Chen?”
“Nothing, just refining pills as usual.” Luo Chen came to his senses, rubbed his eyes, and quickly stood up.
“And you’re still saying it’s nothing, look at yourself.”
With the circulation of Qi Power, the remaining water traces on the ground merged into a Water Mirror.
Luo Chen lowered his head to look, only to see his own eyes were swollen, with heavy eye bags, lips chapped dry.
The disheveled hair, having broken free from the hair tie, adherently covered his face.
At first glance, seemed as though he had worked a month’s worth of overtime in front of a computer in his previous life.
Was this caused by the high temperature of a Pill Refiner?
Luo Chen was not quite sure, but in recent ten-day cycle of pill refining, he had tried his best to complete two furnaces a day.
The success rate was merely passable, it did not reach the expected 20% success rate, but it was much better than the beginner level.
It was just that refining pills required constant supervision with the Spirit Vision Technique.
It not only consumed the Spirit Qi, but it was also very tiring for the eyes, especially under long-term attention, it was extremely exhausting.
Not wanting to show weakness in front of a woman, Luo Chen casually changed the subject.
His gaze unconsciously fell on Gu Caiyi’s arm, a transparent white gauze, draping on it.
“Is this a newly purchased magic tool?”
“You have good taste!” Gu Caiyi lifted the gauze, said cheerfully: “A Foundation Establishment Cultivator named Fei Bowen gave it to me, an Ascendant Grade Defense Magic Tool.”
Luo Chen was taken aback.
An Ascendant Grade magic tool with defense attributes?
Could someone actually afford to give this away?
He asked: “Are Foundation Establishment Cultivators so rich? This magic tool is worth at least four to five thousand Spirit Stones, isn’t it?”
Gu Caiyi giggled,”Typical Foundation Establishment Cultivators aren’t rich, they might even be stingier than us, the Rogue Cultivators. But Fei Bowen is different.”
“Hmm? How so?”