Qin Xuan spoke each word, ignoring the blood splattered all over him.
"Deal with all these people."
After giving his orders, Qin Xuan strode into the Medicinal Garden's Council Hall.
Qin Hu waved his hand, then followed Qin Xuan into the hall.
"Young Clan Leader, these are the spoils of this battle, please take a look!"
After searching all the corpses on the ground, Qin Hu handed the items to Qin Xuan.
Qin Xuan glanced at the contents of the qiankun rings, then waved his hand, giving the items back to Qin Hu.
"Distribute these to everyone, and tell them the Family appreciates their meritorious service in guarding, these items are their reward."
This time, the Li Family came fiercely, and although most of the Qin Family's guards were indeed afraid.
However, despite their fear, they did not falter at the crucial moment, which greatly pleased Qin Xuan.
Since that was the case, Qin Xuan could not mistreat them.
Rewards and punishments, that is the essential means to win people's hearts.
"Have everyone clean up the corpses and prepare the medicinal materials; the caravan should be arriving today."
Qin Xuan said, a little worried about the situation back at the Family.
After all, normally, someone in Fire Wind City should have made a move last night.
"Is Young Clan Leader worried about the Family? As long as Clan Chief is here, those rats won't even think about targeting our Qin Family."
Qin Hu said confidently; he was naturally most aware of Qin Yuan's strength.
Qin Yuan was a Peak Heaven Profound Realm Ninth Level expert, and with the founding ancestor's decree, the Qin Family would surely be as stable as Mount Tai.
"I hope so."
Qin Xuan nodded, looking at the already bright sky outside, Qin Xuan pondered.
"Elder, where is our Medicinal Garden? I need some medicinal materials, so I'll go pick some out."
Although he didn't know why Qin Xuan needed medicinal materials, since Qin Xuan, the Young Clan Leader, asked, Qin Hu naturally wouldn't refuse.
"Young Clan Leader, please follow me."
He followed Qin Hu to the Qin Family's Medicinal Garden.
Qin Xuan looked around, and nearly eighty percent of the entire valley was filled with medicinal materials.
An extremely rich aroma of medicinal materials wafted out.
"What a good place!"
Qin Xuan praised, then walked into the Medicinal Garden.
"Young Clan Leader, why don't I call a Family pharmacist over? They all understand various medicinal materials and can help Young Clan Leader distinguish their age and medicinal properties."
Qin Xuan waved his hand.
"Elder, don't worry, I'm not here to cause trouble; I recognize all these medicinal materials."
As an Alchemist, Qin Xuan already had some understanding of most medicinal materials, so he wasn't worried about not recognizing them.
Entering the Medicinal Garden, Qin Xuan's gaze swept over each Spiritual Plant.
"Most of the medicinal materials are too young; they might not be enough for refining grade three Medicinal Pills, but refining grade two Medicinal Pills should be no problem."
The difficulty of refining grade two Medicinal Pills naturally far exceeded that of grade one Medicinal Pills, requiring not only strong Mental Energy but also more demanding Alchemy techniques.
These days, Qin Xuan had been contemplating refining grade two Medicinal Pills, but due to a lack of suitable medicinal materials and being busy guarding against enemies, he hadn't refined any.
Now that he finally had time, Qin Xuan first came here to select suitable medicinal materials.
After a round of selection, Qin Xuan chose the medicinal materials and was about to leave.
"Eh?"
Suddenly, Qin Xuan exclaimed in surprise.
There seemed to be something wrong with that Spiritual Plant.
There was a fiery red herb, with seven leaves and seven petals, each petal and leaf as red as blood, as if flames were burning.
"This is... Seven-Leaf Seven-Flower Grass. What's abnormal about it? Why does the Refining God Cauldron keep reminding me?"
Qin Xuan looked, but couldn't find anything unusual.
Qin Xuan reached out and turned over a leaf.
The herb carried a trace of heat.
"This is a mutated herb!"
Looking at the patterns on the back of the leaf, Qin Xuan was instantly shocked.
Ordinary Seven-Leaf Seven-Flower Grass was just a common herb, but if it became a mutated herb, its value would be much higher.
"Seven-Leaf Seven-Flower Grass is normally unremarkable, often used in Alchemy only to provide fire attributes, but the fire attribute of this herb is simply too strong."
"It's abnormally strong!"
Qin Xuan pondered seriously.
"This herb must have absorbed fire attributes from somewhere, otherwise, there's no way it would have so many fire attributes."
"So, there might be a Fire Vein nearby?"
To become an Alchemist, one needed to refine their own flame.
"I suppose I can follow this Seven-Leaf Seven-Flower Grass to find this Fire Vein."
Immediately, Qin Xuan began to search for this Fire Vein.
Digging up the Seven-Leaf Seven-Flower Grass, Qin Xuan hadn't dug very deep below it when he saw a stone door.
"This is..."
Qin Xuan looked at the stone door in confusion, then, as he looked at it, he was suddenly surprised.
This stone door was sealed when the Qin Family established the Medicinal Garden.
The reason was precisely because the fire attribute inside was too strong.
"Click!"
Opening the stone door, a wave of scorching heat instantly rushed out.
Behind the stone door was a downward sloping passage.
"That's right, it must be this way!"
Qin Xuan said with some excitement.
He took a deep breath, then followed the passage downwards.
As he continued to advance, the heat waves also became more and more intense.
Two hours later, the surrounding passage began to narrow, and the rock walls all around started to turn slightly red.
Looking at the already reddened rock walls, Qin Xuan couldn't help but gasp.
How strong must the flames below be to scorch the rock walls red from such a distance?
After a while, he stopped.
In front of him was a large bronze door, but at this moment, the door was a fiery red.
The bronze door was shrouded in a Formation.
Looking at this ancient-looking bronze door, Qin Xuan was also stunned.
This thing looked strange no matter how he saw it.
"This door doesn't look like something set up by Fire Wind City."
This bronze door didn't seem like a contemporary work; it looked like something left by people from a very long time ago.
"It seems that someone knew there was a Fire Vein below here a long time ago, and sealed it with this Formation and bronze door."
"The things inside here are not simple; let's go in and take a look."
This bronze door was sealed with a Formation, but with Qin Xuan's Formation attainments, this Formation was naturally nothing.
Without much effort, Qin Xuan unraveled the Formation, pushed open the bronze door, and walked in.
"Boom!"
A wave of heat rushed towards Qin Xuan.
Light enveloped the surroundings, making it impossible to see clearly.
After adapting for a moment, Qin Xuan looked forward, and was instantly dumbfounded.
Directly in front of him was a massive, seemingly endless lake of lava.
Within the lake, flames and magma churned incessantly.
"This, is this a Fire Vein?"
Even after being scorched by the Refining God Cauldron, Qin Xuan was sweating profusely at this moment, as if one more step forward and he would be melted by the lava.
"It's rare to have three types of Earth Vein Fire appear in one place simultaneously."
Qin Xuan murmured.
In the lava at this moment, one could see a red lotus, a small purple grass, and a small green tree constantly bobbing up and down in the magma.
"How can there be such things in the lava?"
Qin Xuan looked down in astonishment.
The temperature here was so high, how could this red lotus, small grass, and small tree be in there?
"These red lotus and similar things are actually just Incarnations of the Earth Vein Fire; these three are the three types of Earth Vein Fire, and the surrounding magma is formed after these three Earth Vein Fires melted."
"Normally, even Earth Vein Fire would be dispersed around, but how could so many Fire Veins converge here? This is too abnormal."
"There must be something here that attracts them."
Qin Xuan looked at the lava, and suddenly his gaze was drawn to a white object.
Then, Qin Xuan noticed that it was a white seed.
"What is that?"
Qin Xuan didn't recognize this thing, but soon, the information left by Xuanji Empress automatically popped up.
"This, this is a Fire Seed, my luck has arrived!"