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

After leaving Guiyuan Mountain, Li Qing and Zhang Chong exchanged communication tokens and then returned.

Before returning to Kunpeng Blessed Land, Li Qing went to the secret realm of the Netherworld Fruit Tree and visited Mang Tong who was guarding the place.

At this time, the crystal banyan tree, which had formed a forest of one tree, had stretched for several acres under the blessing of the forbidden magic circle.

The Li family members set up camp in the forest, relying on the nodes of the magic circle, patrolling and escorting to eliminate possible risks.

After all, it is just a second-level secret realm. No matter how extravagant the magic is, it is difficult to mobilize Dan-forming demon cultivators to come and cause trouble.

Therefore, this place is temporarily impregnable.

Li Qing fell into the forest. Before the patrolling tribesmen could react, Mang Tong had already sensed it.

"My Lord, long time no see!" Mang Tong said in a muffled voice.

Li Qing greeted him and asked casually, "Has anyone suspicious approached recently?"

The entire forest shook slightly, as if Mang Tong was shaking his head: "No. But this secret place seems to have undergone some bad changes."

Li Qing frowned slightly, and at Mang Tong's suggestion, used his spiritual sense to sense the forbidden magic circle outside the secret realm.

Soon, an evil aura seeped out from the magic circle, but it was purified by Mang Tong and did not have time to spread.

Li Qing sensed it for a while and found in surprise: "This aura has faintly reached the third level. Could it be that the demonic Netherworld Fruit Tree inside has been promoted?!"

In the crystal banyan tree forest, white light flickered: "Yes, I feel so. Its aura is very dangerous, as if it could rush out at any time!"

Li Qing noticed Mang Tong's uneasiness and comforted him, "Hold on a little longer, I will soon form a pill. After I succeed, perhaps I can eliminate the trouble forever."

He paused and looked at Li Hu next to him: "Little Hu, have you been guarding here with the cats for this period of time?"

Li Hu agreed straightforwardly: "I will listen to the ancestor. I have learned a lot from listening to the lectures these days, and it is a good opportunity for me to retreat here and reflect on it."

Li Qing did not waste any time. After rewarding the tribesmen on duty, he flew away.

He first went to the secret realm of wild beasts guarded by the Sang family, and happened to meet Sang Yuwan who came for inspection.

The two sides had some exchanges.

Li Qing was shocked to find that this secret realm had also undergone unpredictable changes, and the aura had become dangerous, but it was not yet at the third level.

Sang Yuwan left another second-level dragon species to keep the previous one company, and then returned to Xuefeng Lake with Li Qing.

Before parting, Li Qing invited him to a small gathering at Kunpeng Blessed Land in a month, and also sent a communication talisman to Niu Xinjing.

This time, after breaking through to the Jindan stage, Li Qing’s true cultivation level, which he had been hiding, could no longer be hidden.

In just a few decades, he broke through from foundation building to core forming, which was a bit too extraordinary even for someone with earth spiritual roots.

Only the legendary spiritual roots can achieve such progress.

But Li Qing’s qualifications are no secret, he is just a mid-grade spiritual root!

Opportunity moves the heart.

Except for Sang and Niu, with whom he had a deep friendship and shared interests, Li Qing did not trust any of the other Jindan and Zhuji masters he was familiar with.

Naturally, they would not be invited to watch the ceremony.

It was already May when we returned to Kunpeng Paradise. The summer solstice was approaching.

Li Qingxian and Chao Yin worked together to deduce the integration of the three waters and soon achieved this goal.

After Chao Yin and Asun had perfected their foundation-building stage, he then devoted all his energy to refining the "Suzaku Lihuo Pill".

Over the years, Li Qing's attainments in alchemy have reached the peak of the second level, but cultivation has taken up too much of his time and he has not delved into further research.

Ah Zao also made rapid progress. With the advantage of Nirvana Fire, he was able to refine a second-level high-quality elixir.

This is still a little short of the right temperature for refining the "Suzaku Lihuo Pill".

But Li Qing didn't want to wait any longer, so he started the furnace immediately.

Sang Yuwan and Niu Xinjing both advised him, "A third-level external pill consumes a huge amount of spiritual materials, and it is not easy to collect them. It is better to wait a little longer."

"This external elixir is somewhere between an elixir and a magic weapon, but we invite all the alchemists and weapon refiners to come and discuss it together?"

Li Qing smiled and said, "Whether this pill will succeed or not is up to fate. I have made up my mind, so you two brothers don't need to persuade me anymore!"

In fact, he dared to take the risk because he had something to rely on, but he couldn't say it clearly.

Seeing that he was determined, Sang and Niu stopped trying to persuade him and instead helped to arrange defenses to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the situation and breaking in.

After all, if one has an external elixir in his body, he can be compared to a real person who has formed an elixir.

No hostile force, whether overt or covert, would want to see Li Qing have an additional third-level method.

After Li Qing expressed his sincere thanks, he began to refine the "Suzaku Lihuo Pill".

He first used his magical power of spiritual fire to bless the alchemy furnace, and after adjusting it to the best state, he suddenly opened the lid of the furnace.

After the furnace was opened, an inner elixir of a third-level fire-attributed spiritual bird that had undergone nine levels of processing fell into the furnace.

"Huhuhu..."

The raging Nirvana Fire then burned fiercely in the alchemy furnace, calcining the prepared inner elixir.

Li Qing and A Zao's Qi were connected, and they cooperated with each other to transfer the Nirvana Fire into the inner elixir, changing its form and charm bit by bit.

At the same time, Li Zhao and Li Wei, who were helping to refine the elixir, began to throw various rare spiritual materials into it according to the instructions.

These spiritual materials are divided into three types: wood, fire and water.

The wood spiritual material uses wood to generate fire, constantly cultivating the fire energy of the inner elixir.

The fire-attributed spiritual material further stimulates the fire in the elixir to the extreme, faintly revealing the true form of the Vermillion Bird.

As soon as it was stirred by the water-attributed spiritual material, the inner elixir became like a divine weapon being quenched, making a muffled "chi chi chi" sound.

The third-level inner elixir, which was already blazing with flames, became plain again, floating up and down in the fire.

In this way, after forty-eight rounds of rising and falling changes, this inner elixir became gray and dull, without any spiritual power manifesting itself.

Sang Yuwan, who was watching from afar, sighed: "Could it be..."

Niu Xinjing also frowned.

Li Qing seemed not to notice it at all, and began to make alchemy gestures with his hands, injecting layer upon layer of restrictions into this inner elixir.

"Crack——" Something seemed to crack.

Li Qing and A Zao injected their spiritual consciousness into it at the same time, and found that there was a phantom of a bird-shaped spirit bird in the inner elixir, which was constantly struggling.

It turns out that the essence of refining the "Suzaku Lihuo Pill" is to cultivate the true form of the Vermillion Bird in the pill, thereby seizing its destiny and making pills from pills.

However, Li Qing was not well prepared for this refining, especially his attainments in alchemy were far from enough.

Therefore, the true form of the Vermillion Bird, which is still in the making, appears to be congenitally deficient and difficult to truly take shape.

Li Qing looked solemn as he took out a handful of transparent front-facing crystals from his storage bag. There were faint flashes of red and gold droplets inside.

It is the sky stone from the elf world.

This thing was formed by the friction between the fragments of the world and the turbulence of the void. It is the essence of the world and has many wonderful uses.

The reason why Kunpeng Blessed Land advanced so quickly was also thanks to Li Qing’s investment in Tianshi.

Now, Li Qing also planned to deal with the shortcomings in refining the Suzaku Lihuo Pill in this way.

"Success or failure depends on this one move!"

(Wish everyone a happy New Year in the South!) (End of this chapter)