The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 42: Li Qing divides the treasure, and the foundation-building battle (two in one)

The layout of Li Qing's cave is very simple.

In the middle is his living room and the quiet room for retreat. On the left is an alchemy room, and on the right is a storage room for various spiritual plant seeds.

Li Qing led them to the alchemy room on the left.

In the middle of the alchemy room was an alchemy furnace, in which a fire was lingering, calcining a jade pill. The jade pill was also extraordinary, with a faint fragrance emanating from it.

Li Qingyuan was about to give instructions to the three people in person, but suddenly the magic power in his dantian surged and he almost couldn't hold it back.

He didn't care about anything else and sat on the purple jade cushion on the stage. He calmed down the power in his dantian, pointed at the three yellow jade cushions below and said, "Sit down!"

The three of them looked at the cushions lined up in a row and looked at each other in bewilderment.

Li Ying took a step back and sat on the third cushion. He leaned forward and said, "Li Ying greets Master!"

Li Zhao went straight to the first cushion, but was blocked by Li Wei. He could not help but argue: "I am older than you, so I should sit in the first seat."

Li Wei held Li Zhao's legs tightly and retorted in a low voice: "We are relatives who have not been related for eight generations, what is the point of talking about seniority? I can refine middle-grade pills, so I should sit in the first place."

The two of them stared at each other, and there seemed to be sparks in their eyes.

After a lot of arguments and tug-of-war, no matter what reasons Li Zhao gave, Li Wei always responded with "I can refine mid-grade pills".

Li Zhao finally lost his temper, but fearing that Li Qing would get impatient, he took a step back and said, "Please go ahead!"

Li Wei smiled and bowed to him, then sat on the first cushion. Li Zhao then sat on the second cushion, and they all bowed in unison, "Greetings, Master!"

Li Qing observed the behavior of the three people, but did not comment. He only said, "I have been studying alchemy since I was sixteen, for more than forty years. I have been a first-class top-grade alchemist for nearly twenty years."

"In the past twenty years, I have been building my foundation one by one, and my alchemy skills have never been passed down. Now that I have sorted them out, they are all in this furnace in front of me."

Following his gesture, Li Wei and the other two looked towards the furnace where the jade pill was being burned.

Li Qing did not keep the secret: "This alchemy furnace and alchemy fire are my personal belongings, and the jade elixir is also the result of my skills. Since you three are my disciples, you can each choose one."

"Li Wei, you come first!"

Li Zhao had been thinking about Li Qing's Danhuo two months ago. Now that he heard that Li Wei was the first to choose, he regretted it so much that his intestines turned green. He could only glare at the other party.

Li Wei was not in a hurry, and asked first: "Master, may I ask, what are the magical properties of these three treasures?"

Li Qing couldn't help but laugh and said, "I'm just a Qi training cultivator and a first-level alchemist. How can I be called miraculous?"

"It's just that this furnace has been through several smelting processes and is considered solid even among the top-grade magic tools of the first rank. Ordinary fire from the elixir will not cause the furnace to explode."

"I nurtured this pill fire bit by bit. If you are willing, you can extract different kinds of fire from it. In addition, there is also pill energy in the fire. If used properly, it can also improve the quality of the pill."

"As for this jade pill, it was made by me recently, and the material is very ordinary. There is nothing special about it, it just records the various fire conditions and spiritual energy changes when I was making the pill. If you study it carefully, it may be helpful."

After listening to him, Li Wei pointed at the furnace without hesitation and said, "I'll take this furnace. It looks more durable!"

Li Zhao had already chosen the Dan Fire, and before Li Qing could ask, he said, "Then I choose the Dan Fire."

Li Qing nodded slightly and said to the remaining Li Ying: "Then this jade pill will be yours, okay?"

Li Ying naturally had no objection.

After all, Li Zhao and Li Wei have always been valued by Li Qing. I am not very outstanding at ordinary times, and no matter how you look at it, it seems that I am just making up the numbers.

Seeing that the three had no objection, Li Qing made a gesture with his fingers with a solemn expression.

Then there was a muffled "bang" sound, and the lid of the alchemy furnace was opened, and a red-hot jade pill fell into Li Ying's palm.

The fire in the jade pill was clearly still burning, but Li Ying didn't feel it was hot when he held it, just slightly warm.

He was not in a hurry to comprehend the magic of the Jade Pill, but bowed solemnly: "Thank you, Master, for imparting this treasure to me."

Li Qing nodded and pointed again. The fire in the furnace burst out and spread into red clouds all over the room. Then it gathered into a fist-sized fire and fell in front of Li Zhao.

Of course, you can't take this Dan fire rashly.

Li Zhao happily took out the alchemy furnace, stored the fire, and pasted a few sealing talismans on it to prevent the fire from leaking out. Then he thanked Li Qing.

As for the last alchemy furnace, Li Wei put it into the storage bag without any hesitation.

Li Qing waited for the three of them to pack up before he took out three jade slips: "What is recorded here is what I have gained from refining pills over the years."

"One records the recipe for the elixir, one records the secret trick, and the last one contains some of my thoughts on alchemy. You three can take turns reading them."

Li Zhao was a little puzzled: "Can't we use the jade slip to make three copies?"

Li Qing laughed and scolded, "Just do as I say. Why are you talking so much?"

Li Zhao was scolded, but he was not discouraged. He discussed with Li Wei and Li Ying for a while and decided who the jade slip should belong to.

Seeing that they had reached an agreement, Li Qing waved his sleeves and said, "In that case, I will pass on all my skills in alchemy to you. Now go!"

The three of them looked at each other. Although they felt it was a bit strange, they did not dare to say much. They took their gains and left Li Qing's cave.

After the three people left, Li Qing sat quietly on the futon for a while, and suddenly called out: "Azao!"

Ah Zao, who was enjoying himself in the spiritual pool outside the door, seemed to have sensed something. He opened his mouth and swallowed the red algae and Cordyceps sinensis. Spiritual fire flowed throughout his body and he turned into a red light and flew towards the alchemy room.

Li Qing took A Zao into his dantian, and the green wood magic power in his body circulated in his meridians and acupoints like a surging torrent.

Then the sound of wind was heard, and a blazing spiritual fire burned fiercely from Qingmu's magic power, enveloping Li Qing.

The experience of using spiritual fire to make elixirs in the elf world suddenly came to Li Qing's mind.

An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he circulated the spiritual fire to transform it into a furnace, melting himself in it, as if he was refining a furnace for his physical body.

The flames turned from orange to white as they swirled around Li Qing, but did not hurt him at all. Instead, they slowly healed all the hidden injuries he had accumulated from his Qi training to his failure in building his foundation.

As a result, all his illnesses were cured and he became light and healthy.

Li Qing only felt a sense of lightness all over his body. The damage to his foundation caused by the failure of building the foundation was finally completely repaired at this moment.

He took a long breath, extinguished the spiritual fire, and used up his magic power. He looked inside his dantian and saw Ah Zao lying on the red algae cordyceps, sleeping soundly.

On the filamentous leaf veins in the center of the Cordyceps, there are dotted with sesame-sized flower buds that are about to bloom, as if they are just waiting for an east wind to fill the room with fragrance.

Li Qing did not wake it up. He got up and left the alchemy room, returned to the quiet room where he was in seclusion, and activated the cardinal talisman to set up the restriction.

He took out the black crystal fruit given by Li Fang, hesitated for a while, and kept it close to his body: "No hurry! No hurry! Ah Zao's chance to break through is over there, and my chance should be over there too!"

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After that, Li Qing lived in seclusion and rarely went out. Apart from refining elixirs at Li Family Spiritual Peak, he went to the other side to take care of the newly sprouted Nine Mysterious Fruit Trees. The first batch of spiritual lettuce planted by Asun was already mature.

Li Qing asked Li Wei to harvest the fruits and take them to the market to sell. All the spiritual stones earned were given to Asun for him to use at his will.

It built a small nest near the lettuce and Cordyceps sinensis, like a bird building a nest. When it was not practicing on weekdays, it would sit in the nest and chew on the spirit stones.

It also asked Li Qing to build a similar spirit stone nest for Acao in the spirit pond outside the cave.

Unfortunately, Acao didn't like the hard little nest of spirit stones. Instead, she became more and more dependent on Li Qing and would sleep in his dantian for eight hours a day.

The remaining four hours are divided up every day. Sometimes he comes to play with Asun and enjoys being fed by Li Wei.

Sometimes he would go find Li Zhao and the other two and play tricks on them when they were refining pills, but he would always inadvertently spit out two breaths of spiritual fire, which made the pills they refined even better.

This gave Li Zhao and the other three both a headache and a fondness for it, and they soon became like Li Wei, obsessed with finding new red algae plants for it.

As more red algae spiritual plants were collected by everyone, the amount of the same essence absorbed by Algae naturally increased as well.

But just like Asun, who always felt a breath short of leaving the flowers, Acao also failed to make the buds bloom.

Two days before the one and a half month period.

The three foundation-building monks from the Great Zhou court finally found the location of the Spirit Fish King.

That spirit fish king seemed to be much stronger than the one Li Zhuang encountered. Not only did it have the strength of a mid-stage foundation building cultivator, it could also draw on the spirit veins of Xuefeng Lake and, with the help of the power of heaven and earth, fight against a large number of foundation building cultivators.

"Boom——"

Outside Lingfeng, the Xuefeng Lake is surging with waves and the turbid waters are emptying.

More than a dozen powerful magical powers collided and surged at the junction of water and sky, and even affected the surrounding sacred peaks.

Li Qing mobilized his magical power and, together with Li Fang who came to assist, activated the cardinal talisman and started the Small Five Elements Soul Returning Formation.

Other Li family cultivators also took their positions and used the power of the formation to protect the many spiritual plants on the spiritual peak.

The five colored lights of white, green, dark red, and yellow turned into a five colored compass in the sky above the Li Family Spiritual Peak, slowly rotating, resisting and absorbing the surging aftermath of the magic power.

"This is the power of foundation building!" Li Fang watched intently while desperately activating the Cardinal Talisman.

Li Qing was also trying his best to activate the Cardinal Talisman, but most of the pressure was taken over by Li Fang, and most of the time he only had to find and fill in the gaps.

He looked up at Xuefeng Lake, and saw a huge black-gold cauldron suppressing the lake in the center. It emitted a steady wave like a mountain, calming the turbulent waves of magic power.

Standing on it was a cultivator in black clothes and red armor, holding a ruler-shaped spiritual weapon in his hand. He waved out vast rays of mysterious light, forcing back several foundation-building cultivators.

Below the cauldron, two monks, also wearing black robes and red armor, were dragging a huge net together. In the net was a giant carp, about ten feet long and of a red-gold color, struggling hard.

This is exactly the spirit fish king that the Great Zhou court was catching and transformed from the dragon-whisker golden carp.

Around them, there were more than twenty foundation-building cultivators with surging auras. Some had already taken action themselves, while others were still eyeing them covetously, wanting to get a piece of the pie from the Spirit Fish King.

The cultivator in the middle forced back three powerful men of the same level and shouted angrily: "Zhu Yuan, Liu Zhaoqian, Taoist Yuan Ping, you are blocking my Great Zhou Xuan Palace from doing things, are you planning to rebel?"

Zhu Yuan, whom Li Qing had met several times, sneered and said, "The treasures of heaven and earth belong to the virtuous! So what about the Great Zhou Xuan Palace? Even the national master was not so domineering in his time!"

The black-robed monk urged the black-gold cauldron under his seat, no longer willing to negotiate: "How dare you! How dare you talk nonsense about the state master? You are simply courting death!"

Immediately, many foundation-building spells such as thunder, raging waves, and explosive fire collided violently in the air.

Li Qing was dazzled by what he saw, and before he could pay attention, a surge of waves swept over the Li Family Spiritual Peak.

"Crackle--" The formation was pushed to the extreme, like a taut string that was about to break.

Li Qing didn't dare to be distracted any longer, and activated the Qingmu magic power in his body to relieve the pressure on the formation.

"Ah Qing, your magic power is of extremely high quality!" Li Fang was surprised, "One strand of your magic power is equivalent to three or four strands of mine."

Li Qing did not try to hide it, and only said: "I have had some good fortune recently, and my magic power has undergone some transformation. It is much purer than before!"

Li Fang did not ask any more questions and focused on protecting the family's sacred peak.

At this moment, a masked monk in black clothes flashed out, spotted the weak point in the Li family's magic formation, drilled in, and then stabbed out with a sword.

"Oh no! There's a Tribulation Cultivator!" A Li family spiritual plant master only had time to scream before he was stabbed through.

Fortunately, he reacted in time, avoided fatal injuries, fell backwards, and barely saved his life.

Other tribesmen hurried over to support.

But unexpectedly, another robbery cultivator arrived. Taking advantage of the fact that Li Qing and the other two who were in charge of the formation were unable to get away, they entered the formation through the flaws and started killing those clansmen who looked like alchemists.

Li Fang's eyes were red with anger: "How dare you!"

Li Qing stretched out his hand to stop him, signaling him to be patient: "We are well prepared!"

The alchemists were shocked but not panicked. They all took out several small porcelain bottles from their arms and threw them in the direction of Jie Xiu.

With a crisp "crackling" sound, the small porcelain bottle was shattered by magic, and immediately red, green and black smoke filled the air.

Some cultivators were caught off guard and were touched by the smoke, and they screamed in agony. Even with magic power protecting their bodies, their flesh and bones were still consumed.

A cultivator of robbery quickly used magic to summon a gust of wind, but unexpectedly, after the multiple smoke particles were blown together, a slight explosion occurred.

Li Qing finally freed his hands. He clasped his hands together inside his long sleeves. A drop of fire essence dissipated from his dantian and turned into a raging fire that enveloped a dozen tribulation cultivators. Within two or three breaths, they were burned to ashes.

"Aqing! You actually have a second-level talisman with you?" Li Fang was surprised and happy.

Li Qing didn't bother to answer, and activated another drop of wood-attributed true energy, which turned into thunder and struck down, turning a dozen tribulation cultivators into charcoal.

"The wind is strong! Run!" A robbery cultivator was really scared, so he pulled his companions and ran out of Lijia Mountain.

Afterwards, all the numerous robbery cultivators ran away.

Li Qing did not explain too much about the "second-level talisman". After all, the more he said, the more mistakes he would make.

Li Fang did not ask any further questions and continued to operate the Small Five Elements Soul Returning Array.

Li Qingping was recovering from the shock of magic power caused by driving his true essence and casting foundation-building spells.

He looked at the two places where he had cast the foundation-building spells, then looked up at the gradually calming battlefield at Xuefeng Lake, and said jokingly in his heart: "Isn't this also considered as participating in the foundation-building battle?"

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