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Chapter 406 Aftermath
"To be honest, sometimes I envy Brother Qin."

"Without any ties, I can go wherever I want, free and easy!"

"Unlike me, even though I have reached the fourth level of alchemy, I still have to consider family factors most of the time, and I am bound by concerns."

Su Yuqing said with emotion.

"Then when does Brother Qin plan to return to the Southern Wilds?"

"It will be within these two years. The last batch of spiritual rice in the spiritual field has not yet matured, but it will be soon." Qin Ming said.

"Brother Su, to be honest, there is an important reason why Qin is so anxious to return to the Southern Wilderness this time."

Su Yuqing was puzzled when she heard this: "Oh?"

"I'm sure Brother Su has also noticed that the situation near the Five Elements Mountain has become extremely chaotic."

"If I don't leave now, I'm afraid I'll be affected."

Immediately, Qin Ming told Su Yuqing about the Five Elements Mountain Market and the surrounding situation.

After a long time.

Su Yuqing looked solemn, and said thoughtfully: "I didn't expect that even the transformed monsters of the monster race would be dispatched."

"A few days ago, I also heard that the Weidao League dispatched two Yuanying Zhenjun, most likely to deal with this matter."

"It seems that Brother Qin is very wise. He made preparations for evacuation early on."

"It's just two hundred acres of spiritual farmland. Even though it belongs to the fourth-level branch, it has to be abandoned."

"Alas! There must be many people coveting this secret realm of Qingyuan Sect. After it comes out, there will be a bloody storm."

"Brother Qin, it would be a good idea to stay out of the spotlight for a while and return to the Southern Wilderness to prepare for the Infant Condensation Project."

"I originally wanted to keep you in the Su family, but once the war starts, the Su family will definitely not be able to escape the fate of being drafted into the army."

"After thinking about it, let's just forget it."

Qin Ming smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Brother Su. I guess I can only wait until later."

"By the way, Brother Qin, do you still have any doubts about refining the Infant Condensation Pill? I recently broke through the fourth-level alchemy skills and got some new insights." Su Yuqing asked after taking a sip of spiritual tea.

Hearing this, Qin Ming would definitely not miss this opportunity to learn, so he humbly asked for advice again.

"Just as Brother Su expected, I am still a little unsure about a few key points."

"Tell me now, I will take this opportunity to answer all your questions at once." Su Yuqing said.

"Thank you very much, Brother Su." Qin Ming bowed and thanked him.

Su Yuqing waved her hand: "Why should we be polite? I have received so many valuable things from you."

"By the way, before that, Brother Su, can you prepare a table of wine and food for my three pets?" Qin Ming asked with a smile.

Su Yuqing was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly and immediately ordered the servants outside to bring a large table of wine and food and place it in the backyard.

There is a wide variety of fine wines and delicacies, almost everything you could want is available.

After Qin Ming released the three Sky-Devouring Rats, they ate and drank happily.

Otherwise, when he goes back, this guy will complain that he had a good meal but didn’t bring them with him.

Qin Ming sent his spirit pet away, then went back to discuss alchemy with Su Yuqing.

"I haven't seen you for a long time. Brother Qin's pet has grown to such a level. I am really surprised." Su Yuqing looked at the three spirit beasts feasting outside.

"Haha! Just three foodies. Sorry to have laughed at you, Brother Su." Qin Ming said casually.

In the next few days, Su Yuqing explained to Qin Ming some of his experience in alchemy, as well as various precautions when refining the Ningying Pill.

After the two of them exchanged and discussed, Qin Ming had new insights into alchemy, and his success rate increased a lot.

Qin Ming even has a certain grasp of the fourth-level alchemy.

Seven full days passed before the two of them ended their discussion.

The three beasts, the Sky-Devouring Rat and the Black Water Crocodile, have been either eating and sleeping, or sleeping and eating, these past few days. They are being served with delicious food and drinks every day, and they are living a very comfortable life.

This day.

The Sky-Eating Rat was picking his teeth with a bamboo stick. When he saw Qin Ming coming out of the cave, his expression brightened and he asked with his teeth bared:

"Master, what are we having for dinner tonight?"

"Hasn't it finished yet? We should almost go back." Qin Ming glared at it.

Subsequently.

Qin Ming took the three spirit beasts back to the small spirit realm, turned to Su Yuqing and said, "Brother Su, you don't have to see me off. I believe we will meet again one day."

"Then take care, Fellow Daoist Qin." Su Yuqing walked out of the cave and saw Qin Ming off.

"I wish you a long and healthy life."

"Brother Su, see you later."

After saying goodbye to Su Yuqing, Qin Ming turned into a green rainbow and returned to Litian Fairy City.

After attending the ceremony, Lao Jia and his friends from Jingxue Pavilion returned to the shop two days ago.

Qin Ming secretly found an opportunity and met Hua Tianxiong outside the Immortal City.

He pulled Hua Tianxiong into Xiaoling Realm.

Hua Tianxiong smiled and handed a storage bag to Qin Ming, saying respectfully:

"Master, these are the last few spiritual materials you want. They are all in here."

"These things are really hard to get. Some of them are not even produced in Dajin. We can only use the channels of the Merchant Alliance to get them from other places thousands of miles away."

“It’s quite a hassle.”

"Well, you did a good job." Qin Ming took the spiritual material, opened it and took a look, then nodded with satisfaction.

He could see that Hua Tianxiong was also doing his best.

Then, Qin Ming took out a jade bottle and threw it to him, saying:

"Within the next two years, I will return to the Southern Wilderness. You will continue to hide in Dajin."

"The two Divine Wood Pills inside should be more than enough to allow you to break through to the late Golden Core stage."

Hua Tianxiong was startled at first when he heard this, then he took the jade bottle with both joy and worry.

What worries him is that his big backer is leaving.

The good news is that with two sacred wood pills, my cultivation can be further improved.

"Master, are you leaving Dajin?"

"How about... How about I go with you? I'm willing to be at your side, hehe!"

Ever since Hua Tianxiong witnessed Qin Ming's methods, how could he not recognize who the real powerful one was?

After hearing this, the Sky-Eating Rat not far away couldn't sit still and couldn't help saying, "You little girl is so full of nonsense and you're always at my service."

Hua Tianxiong smiled knowingly, feeling a little embarrassed.

Qin Ming thought for a moment and said:
"You don't have to go with me. With these two pills, you will be able to advance to the late Jindan stage. Even if a war breaks out in Dajin, you will be able to protect yourself."

"In addition, Elder Qian of the Lihuo Palace will also protect you. As long as you control your temper, your safety won't be a big problem."

"Besides, I'll let you stay in Dajin. You will definitely be of great use in the future."

"You can't just ignore the huge business you've worked so hard to run."

Hua Tianxiong nodded in agreement when he heard this, and said no more.

"Then I will follow the master's arrangements."

He has been up and down in the business world of immortal cultivation for many years, and after so many years, he helped Qin Ming collect spiritual materials.

From what he saw and heard, he also figured out some clues. Qin Ming might have big plans this time. He might be trying to refine some extremely powerful elixir.

People only knew that Su Yuqing of the Great Jin Dynasty had amazing attainments in alchemy, but he knew that Qin Ming's alchemy skills were not much inferior to those of the Sultan.

No one can match his spiritual plant attainments. In the small spiritual realm alone, the high-level spiritual plants that are rarely seen in the world of immortal cultivation are enough to make people look up to him. "Well, you go ahead. Also, please help me take care of Jingxue Pavilion."

"My subordinates know."

……

A few days later.

Qin Ming returned to the Wuxing Mountain Market through the teleportation array away from Tianxian City.

As soon as he returned to the market, he could feel that the atmosphere was very different from before.

Inside the Yufeng Tower.

Qin Ming learned from Han Yuan and the other two that even the teleportation array in Fang City would be closed soon.

"Alas! Fellow Daoist Lu shouldn't have come back."

"Just a few days ago, the disciples of Lihuo Palace and the people of Shendao Mountain had several conflicts in the market town, and they almost came to blows."

"It has made us all very anxious. Unfortunately, both parties are Yuanying forces of Dajin, so it is not easy to offend them."

Han Yuan sighed. It was obvious that the market had changed so much, and he had heard some rumors.

"To be honest, Lu came back this time just to leave."

"It's just that we have to go back to the Southern Wilderness."

"After all, it's been decades since Lu came out, and I still miss my hometown a little bit~"

"But before I leave, I still have to harvest the spiritual rice in the spiritual field. After all, those Jade Emperor spiritual rice took Li Lan nearly ten years of hard work." Qin Ming explained, holding a wine glass.

Han Yuan suddenly realized, "That's true. A hundred acres of Grade 3 Jade Emperor Spiritual Rice is a huge fortune, and its value is inestimable."

There was a hint of envy in his words.

"I came to see Fellow Daoist Han this time because I wanted to ask specifically if there are any ships in the market that will return to the Southern Wilderness Cultivation World in the near future?"

Han Yuan smiled and said, "Brother Lu, you have asked the right person. All the ferries in and out of Dajin are now under the management of our Weidao League."

"In recent years, as the Great Li Demon Sect's invasion of the Great Zhou has deepened, many fleeing monks have poured into the border of the Great Jin, and some have even sneaked across the border."

"The control over ships is now much stricter than before. If you want to leave by ship, you have to go through a complicated identity verification procedure before you can board the ship."

He immediately took out a booklet, which was densely packed with detailed records of all the major businesses in the Great Jin Dynasty and the registration of merchant ships traveling to various places.

Han Yuan flipped through the booklet and pointed to one place and said:
"Friend Lu, the next merchant ship heading to the Southern Wilds is the 'Tianlan' of the Jintian Trading Company, which will depart in a year and a half."

Jintian Trading Company?

This name sounds familiar.
Qin Ming was stunned when he heard this. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly remembered that the Lu Huayuan he met when he attended the Su Yuqing Danwang celebration a few days ago was from Jintian Trading Company.

The journey from Dajin to the Southern Wilderness Immortal Cultivation World is extremely long, and one has to start from the Black Sea route and return along the original route.

It will take at least a year or two to get there.

If there is bad weather in the Black Sea, it will probably take even longer.

"Uh, Fellow Daoist Han, besides Jintian Trading Company, are there any other ships?" Qin Ming asked after a moment of hesitation.

Han Yuan continued to look down and said, "Further back, there is the merchant ship of Qilian Trading Company. However, their merchant ship has just returned from the Southern Wasteland. It will take at least five years for them to go to the Southern Wasteland again."

"Then let's go to Jintian Trading Company. Fellow Daoist Han, do you know how to get a boat ticket? I would be very grateful." Qin Ming said with a fist salute.

Han Yuan waved his hand and said, "It's just a small matter. Don't worry, Brother Lu. I'll take care of everything."

"Just come to me in a few days to get the boarding token."

Qin Ming immediately took out a bottle of medicine that he had obtained from some dead ghost's body and handed it to Han Yuan.

"This is a small gift from Mr. Lu. Please accept it, Fellow Daoist Han."

Han Yuan immediately blew his beard and glared, "Fellow Daoist Lu, you are looking down on me!"

"Being able to help a little in the end is worth the years we've known each other."

Under Qin Ming's repeated insistence, Han Yuan reluctantly accepted the bottle of pills.

But when he secretly opened the bottle cap and took a look, he was so shocked that his eyebrows jumped.

'Second-level high-quality elixir!'

For a moment, he was reluctant to leave Shopkeeper Lu.
After having a short gathering with Han Yuan and settling the return journey.

Qin Ming left the Wuxing Mountain Market and came to the spiritual field.

In the spiritual fields today, except for Li Lan's more than 100 acres of Jade Emperor spiritual rice, no other spiritual fields are planted.

Only a few spiritual farmers were left to guard the spiritual fields.

When Qin Ming came back, Li Lan was staring at the spiritual field in a daze, alone.

The situation in the Five Elements Mountains has been changing recently, causing people to panic. It was obvious that he had guessed something.

He also heard that Manager Lu of Jingxue Pavilion, along with Lao Jia and others, had all moved to Zhongzhou.

Only I have to guard the more than 100 acres of spiritual fields in front of me, and I am really looking forward to it.

Just when Li Lan was lost in thought, he saw Qin Ming coming back.

His eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurried over to bow and said, "Manager Lu, you're back?"

"Well, I think the Jade Emperor Rice will be harvested in a year or so, so I'll stay here with you."

"You don't have to worry too much. I will arrange for you and your family to go to Zhongzhou to meet up with Lao Jia and the others."

"Thank you, Manager Lu. I will never forget this for the rest of my life!" Li Lan was extremely grateful.

Qin Ming said calmly: "It's okay, you are the spiritual plant master of my Jingxue Pavilion, I will naturally not abandon you, you can rest assured to take care of the spiritual farm during this time."

Afterwards, he returned to the cave in Lingtian and resumed his daily practice.

In addition, Qin Ming also asked the Sky-Devouring Rat to keep an eye on the flowering progress of the Seven Wonderful Treasure Tree under the Five Elements Mountains.

Although Qin Ming had learned before that even if the sacrificial ceremony was started, it would take three years for the magic to make the treasure tree bloom.

But who knows, they might come up with some other way to speed up the process.

"There's still a year and a half before I leave, so there's still time."

"At least during this period of time, the war will not start."

Qin Ming pondered secretly, and spent the rest of his days practicing and studying his skills.

He had already studied the Blood Refining Demon Sect's fourth-level weapon refining inheritance "Magic Crafts" thoroughly, and was extremely proficient in all kinds of weapon refining techniques.

Combined with the "Art of Refining Treasures", his attainments in refining equipment are also improving rapidly.

The Blood Pagoda that he had planted in his natal spiritual plant Yin Yang Mysterious Vine using the [Spiritual Plant Treasure] entry had been completely repaired and was advancing towards the fourth-level spiritual treasure.

Time flies, and a year goes by in a flash.

This day.

Qin Ming is studying the "Yuansha Demon Seeding Sutra" because he has some interest in the "Yuansha Demon Body" in it.
The reason is that his current "Heavenly Demon Form Refining Strategy" has been cultivated to the perfect realm of True Elixir.

To go further, one must break the shackles of the physical body.

According to the description in this holy book of the demon race, if one wants to achieve sanctification of the physical body, one must absorb and refine the innate demon energy of a fourth-level demon saint.

Such harsh conditions were obviously difficult for Qin Ming to achieve.

Therefore, he focused his attention on the 'Yuansha Demonic Body', because Qin Ming already had the necessary conditions to cultivate this kind of demonic body, that is, the original demonic energy.

After some research, he found that it seems feasible to replace the innate demonic energy required in "The Heavenly Demon Body Refining Strategy" with the original demonic energy and combine it with the two supreme body refining techniques.

As for the origin of demonic energy, Qin Ming doesn't need to spend time looking for it.

Not only is there one in the Origin Magic Pearl, but there is also a [Origin Magic Energy] born on the Lei Yuan Ming Zao Tree in the small spiritual realm. There is simply too much of it.

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(End of this chapter)