Longzang

Chapter 663 Quitting Impulsive Hand Touch
The first batch of Peiyuan Xiaodan pills were produced. Wei Yuan checked the quality of the pills and found them to be quite good. So he waited another half month until he had 50,000 pills in stock. Then he wrote a notice and ordered people to copy it and post it on the bulletin boards of major cities.

The announcement was simple: effective immediately, military merits could be exchanged for Lesser Vitality Pills for those of commoner rank and above in the Azure Realm. At this point, Wei Yuan decided that Lesser Vitality Pill sounded better and would be used as the official name.

Each person is limited to one redemption per month. It is also noted that beginners should take one per month, as excessive amounts may be harmful.

The announcement caused an instant uproar among the mortal inhabitants of Qingming. It meant that the gate to Body Forging was now open to them. Moreover, the announcement did not limit the number of items that could be exchanged. With millions of civilians and hundreds of thousands of families in Qingming, almost every household had enough military merits to exchange for a few.

Because there were no restrictions on the quantity and the requirement that the items be consumed on the spot after being exchanged, the common people, with their common wisdom, quickly realized the value of military merits and became cautious and hesitant.

Now that there is no war, it is not as easy to accumulate military merits as before. Many families have thought it over carefully and left the opportunity to their children under the age of ten, hoping that they can make further progress on the path of cultivation.

The major merchants stationed in Qingming naturally sensed the business opportunity and immediately purchased a batch of Lesser Qi-Nourishing Pills at a high price. After testing and trial consumption, they found that the quality of these pills was quite good, uniform, and almost without any fluctuations.

At first, the caravan members didn't pay much attention to the Lesser Qi Cultivation Pill itself, but they saw in it the profound level of Qingming's alchemy. After inquiring, the caravan members learned that Xu Henshui, the next abbot of the Creation Temple, was now residing in Qingming. Suddenly, everyone realized the source of Qingming's high-quality pills.

Wei Yuan maintains strict secrecy regarding the alchemy workshop, weapon forging workshop, and brocade weaving workshop, forbidding any unauthorized personnel from approaching. Anyone who does so, regardless of who they are, will be immediately apprehended and imprisoned, their fate unknown. No amount of pleading will change anything.

The Danfang was filled with Wei Yuan's Dao Foundation Establishment warriors, and over five hundred of them were used up in one go. Now Wei Yuan himself only has a little over one hundred mobile warriors left. Therefore, there is no issue of leakage.

Furthermore, the only ones who know the inside story are the disciples of the Creation Audience, but these alchemists are all wealthy and have eccentric personalities, so trying to bribe them would be asking for trouble.

As the Lord of the Azure Netherworld, Wei Yuan was undoubtedly the number one in the younger generation in terms of Dao Foundation and Heavenly Skill. His Dao Foundation was unparalleled, and he could support an entire galaxy with a single continent. Yet, even this could not subdue these alchemists. Only when Wei Yuan refined the Great Sun Morning Glory Pill with three patterns, surpassing Xu Henshui, did he truly win the favor of the alchemists.

The caravan naturally had its own way of estimating value. Based on previous cases of using Qingming military merit and the exchange ratio for other goods, they finally calculated that the exchange price of Qingming was 30% of the current market price.

They immediately swarmed forward like sharks smelling blood, trying every possible way to find an opportunity.

After arranging the pill exchange, Wei Yuan felt there was nothing serious to do, so he went into the Void Heaven to collect chaotic energy piece by piece. However, the saying "practice makes perfect" had no effect on Wei Yuan at all.

With human surveillance monitoring the entire process, after several attempts, Wei Yuan's progress in constructing the magic array and extracting the Chaos Blade was already close to perfection, leaving no room for further improvement.

After a month of absorbing Qi, Wei Yuan felt he had taken another firm small step forward on his long journey of cultivation, spanning two thousand three hundred years. But before he could even rejoice, he saw several streams of immortal spiritual energy soaring upwards amidst the smoke and fire of the mortal world, and then an extremely blazing fire aura rose up, almost reddening half the sky!
Supported by these few strands of immortal spiritual energy, the human world gradually expanded, becoming much larger, and directly gave a new estimate: Wei Yuan's cultivation path increased directly from 2,300 years to 2,700 years. After deducting the remaining lifespan, Wei Yuan still owes more than 2,000 years.

This sudden turn of events chilled Wei Yuan to the bone. He hurriedly checked and discovered that the nine new immortal orchids given by Xu Henshui had sprouted simultaneously at that moment, officially taking root in the mortal realm. The instant the immortal plants developed sentience and took root, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth converged, and the mortal realm received an incredibly powerful surge of spiritual energy.

The fire-elemental immortal energy came from the Flame God Flower that Tianyu brought from the Desolate Realm. This flower had been half-dead and devoid of life, and Wei Yuan thought he had been tricked again, but little did he know that it would deliver a major blow at this very moment!
Wei Yuan stood there for a long time, then shook his head with a wry smile, determined to endure it. He absolutely could not raise immortal plants again until he solved his cultivation problem!

Knowing that his lifespan was nearing its end and he hadn't yet completed the next realm, Wei Yuan repeatedly warned himself to refrain from his impulsive actions and made numerous solemn vows. Just as he made up his mind, Wei Yuan suddenly received a message from the girl Yin Yang: the stone Tian Yu had sent, known as the Primordial Mystic Plant, was showing signs of life, seemingly beginning to develop, but it was extremely weak and could stop at any moment.

Wei Yuan's figure flashed, and he instantly arrived beside the girl Yin Yang from outside the void. At this moment, the ancient mystic plant seed was lying quietly in the center of the Yin Yang Furnace Formation. Wei Yuan carefully sensed it and found that there was indeed a bit of life force being gestated inside, but this flame of life force was too dim and could be extinguished at any time.

At that moment, Wei Yuan had a sudden inspiration. His hands moved faster than his brain, and he took out the Xuan Tian Purple Qi and flicked it onto the Xuan Zhi Seed!

A glimmer of life, like firewood, immediately began to burn steadily and grow stronger, showing clear signs of gestation and sprouting.

Before Wei Yuan could even feel happy, he inwardly cried out in alarm!
The stone sphere was covered with cracks, and boundless light shot out from the cracks. The entire human world and the surrounding void trembled, and the sound of the Great Dao could be faintly heard from beyond the heavens.

A surge of primordial energy erupted, soaring straight into the heavens, showering down boundless primordial energy that nourished the mortal realm. Thus, in a short time, the mortal realm experienced a cycle of growth, followed by a new one.

Wei Yuan's cultivation path has soared to four thousand years.

Suddenly, tribulation clouds appeared in the sky, a dark and churning mass, and in the blink of an eye, bolts of lightning rolled down. The tribulation clouds were above the Primordial Mystic Plant, and Wei Yuan had initially thought that the immortal artifact had encountered trouble and was about to undergo tribulation, but he never expected that all the lightning bolts would strike him!

In the blink of an eye, Wei Yuan was charred black from the blow, and his primordial spirit underwent a significant tempering.

After a barrage of heavenly lightning, Wei Yuan finally remembered the solemn oaths he had just sworn. Fortunately, the Heavenly Dao seemed to be more lenient this time, and did not escalate or intensify the tribulation lightning for Wei Yuan.

The girl looked at Wei Yuan with suspicion, not understanding why he had been struck by lightning, but knowing it couldn't be anything good.

Wei Yuan was powerless to explain. He weakly watched the ancient mystic plant seed slowly crack open, hoping that this thing was worth his extra thirteen hundred years of arduous cultivation.

At this moment, on the edge of the Witch Domain, Shengxin said to Huixin, "This is the Eastern Wilderness. It looks very barren, and it is indeed very barren. The Chosen One we are looking for is hiding here."

Hui Xin sighed, "Really? We've been searching for months."

Sage Heart was somewhat embarrassed and tried to make amends, saying, "I definitely won't make the same mistake again this time! If you don't believe me, I can..."

Before he could even swear an oath, a sudden chill ran through him. Looking up, he saw a gray-white bolt of lightning striking down on him, and Shengxin was so terrified that his soul almost left his body!

(End of this chapter)