Volume 1: The Decline of the Yue Family Chapter 6: Refining Dan and Seeking Collection Recommendations

  "Uncle Peak, I have a use for it, can you give me one?" Yue Cheng heard that the Yue family had a precious Ginseng and couldn't help but feel excited.

  "This time I'll just give you one, but don't tell your father or I'll be in trouble." Yue Zifeng glared at Yue Cheng with a bad temper and handed him a cyan-red elixir from the spatial storage bag on his hand. As for Yue Cheng, Yue Zifeng only had one daughter, so he was also very fond of Yue Cheng since childhood. However, the precious medicinal materials of the Yue family were all under his responsibility, if any went missing, Yue Zhishan would naturally blame him.

  "Thank you, Uncle Feng. I'll repay your kindness properly when I have the chance." Yu Cheng happily accepted the refined spiritual herb from Yu Zi Feng's hand. In fact, one-third of this amount was enough to refine a foundation-establishing pill, but Yu Cheng feared that he might fail in his first attempt at refining it, so he took three times the amount of other medicinal materials as well.

  "Repay me, you little brat, how are you going to repay me? It's better for you to learn from me and do business, that way I'll be happy." Yue Zifeng glared at Yue Cheng again, looking at the Yue Cheng in front of him. He thought he would be even more disheartened, but unexpectedly, it seemed like he had completely forgotten about the cancellation of the engagement. It looked like his nephew who came back to life after dying was different now. This was also why he was willing to give Yue Cheng the precious Ginseng, because he didn't want Yue Cheng to continue being disheartened.

  His nephew, since he was a child, due to physical reasons, was determined to be unable to practice internal energy and magic, and also couldn't become an alchemist. After that, he had been in low spirits all the time. This is not surprising, in this world where internal energy and magic are prevalent, being unable to practice internal energy and magic is a huge blow, basically making him a useless person.

  "Don't worry, Uncle Feng, I'll do as I say. By the way, Uncle Feng, is there a cauldron for refining elixirs here?" Yue Cheng smiled slightly, and in the past few days, he had not only practiced but also found some materials to understand some fighting energy and magic. He had long seen that Yue Zifeng's current fighting energy had been stuck at a bottleneck for a long time, and his fighting energy was empty and floating. If he could successfully refine these three medicinal materials himself, the foundation-building elixir would have a great effect on Yue Zifeng as well.

  "You really plan on refining elixirs, what exactly are you trying to do?" Hearing that Yue Cheng still wanted to refine the dan furnace, Yue Zifeng became even more perplexed.

  "This Uncle Peak, don't ask anymore, I'll tell you later." Yue Cheng replied, the alchemy furnace was a necessary condition for refining elixirs, and since he had nothing now, he naturally wanted to get it from Yue Subpeak.

  "Give it to you, use it up and return it to me immediately, or else my brother, who is also your father, will not forgive me." Glaring at Yue Cheng for a moment, Yue Zifeng once again took out a small tripod from his spatial storage bag and handed it over.

  Looking at the ancient bronze small tripod, Yue Cheng frowned again, and didn't think that Yue Zifeng would take out a good elixir tripod for himself, but this tripod was too poor, it's estimated that refining a slightly higher-grade elixir would cause it to crack.

  "Thank you, Uncle Feng. I'll leave first." Fortunately, the foundation-building pill wasn't a high-grade medicinal pill. Yue Cheng took the ancient bronze small cauldron from Yue Zifeng's hand and left the secret room. He then walked into the shop and picked up several ordinary medicinal pills to put in his pocket before leaving the shop with Su Xiner.

  "Don't you dare tell your father." As he watched the back of Yu Cheng disappear from view, Yu Zifeng couldn't shake off the feeling that his nephew had changed, but exactly what it was, he couldn't quite put into words.

  Back at the big house of his wife's family, Yue Cheng hastily ate something and then bid farewell to Feng Shu, saying that he would be staying in his room for three days and not allowing anyone to disturb him. Under Feng Shu's puzzled expression, Yue Cheng returned to his own room and only felt at ease after locking the door with a wooden bolt.

  Refining the elixir is most afraid of being disturbed, especially now that Yue Cheng is still in the initial stage of building his foundation, he must be even more careful. If it goes lightly, the refining will fail, and if it goes heavily, he will go mad from the fire entering his mind, not a single carelessness can be allowed. After making all the preparations, Yue Cheng sat cross-legged on the bed.

  He took out the medicinal materials needed for the Refining Foundation Pill from his body and placed them in front of him. Immediately, Yue Cheng also set up the ancient bronze tripod in front of him. All preparations were now complete, and he could begin refining the pill.

  Yue Cheng's expression turned serious, and he took a deep breath. If it weren't for his extraordinary cultivation level, he wouldn't dare to refine the elixir with his current abilities. Although the Foundation Establishment Pill wasn't a high-level elixir, it still couldn't be refined by someone in the early stages of Foundation Establishment. Generally speaking, without having reached the Open Heaven stage, no matter how low-grade the elixir was, one shouldn't even think about refining it - this wasn't something to be taken lightly.

  He hesitated for a moment, then activated the Hunyuan True Classic. His hands quickly formed several strange hand seals, and he slowly injected a thread of true energy from his body into his hands. Two strands of green mist instantly transformed into two flames that shot into the ancient bronze-colored furnace. In an instant, the ancient bronze color inside the furnace slowly turned red, and the temperature inside also became scorching hot, as if a fierce fire had been lit inside.

  This is the Supreme True Fire in the Huayuan Zhenjing, but now Yue Cheng's cultivation is too poor. When Lu Feng used the Supreme True Fire earlier, an area of dozens of miles around could be burned to ashes. The Supreme True Fire is entirely condensed from true energy, and the stronger the true energy, the greater its power. With Yue Cheng's current cultivation, he can only achieve this much; if not for the support of his extremely high realm, it would be impossible for him to condense the Supreme True Fire with his current cultivation.

  The cauldron inside was getting hotter and hotter, and the entire room was filled with a scorching atmosphere. Yue Cheng calmed himself down, then picked up the first medicinal material and threw it into the cauldron. As soon as the medicinal material entered the cauldron, Yue Cheng's face also turned pale, and several drops of sweat fell from his forehead.

  The medicinal materials in the crucible slowly withered, and then a flame surrounded the medicinal materials and started burning. The sound of rapid crackling filled the air inside the crucible. At this time, Yue Cheng's face turned pale again, as refining the medicinal materials would consume a lot of his true energy.

  Two hours later, a thumb-sized cyan appeared from the dan furnace, and the medicinal materials had been burned into ashes. This thumb-sized thing was the essence of those medicinal materials just now. Seeing this, Yue Cheng picked up the second herb again and threw it into the dan furnace to continue burning and refining.

  After such repetition for a day and night, except for the last elixir that had not been refined, all the medicinal materials had been refined by Yue Cheng. More than a dozen clusters of thumb-sized **floated at the very bottom of the alchemy furnace, looking very beautiful in color.

  Yue Cheng took a deep breath, then pulled out a few pills from his body that he had casually taken from the store. Although Yue Cheng didn't recognize these pills, he could identify the ingredients inside, which seemed to be supplements for true energy, so he had casually grabbed a few.