Immortal Clan: Starting from Managing a Blessed Land.

Chapter 45: Concealing the truth and building a foundation in secret

And Zhong Nianhua is also developing well.

He successfully passed the sect trial of Shangjin Sect and became an outer disciple.

He also became very successful with his skills in talismans and alchemy, and had abundant resources for cultivation.

He had reached the fourth level of Qi training a year ago and his progress has been steady.

Only Xiaopang was not having a smooth time.

I was stuck at the small bottleneck for a long time when I was upgrading from the third level to the fourth level of Qi training.

When it comes to things like bottlenecks in cultivation, external forces can only provide assistance, but you will mostly have to figure it out on your own.

Shang Ting couldn't help him either.

Fortunately, his combat experience on the front line of the mine tempered his Taoism and improved his combat effectiveness.

Shang Ting saw him half a month ago and he was in high spirits.

It is estimated that I will be able to break through the bottleneck within a year, and after another year of practice, I will be able to advance to the fourth level of Qi training.

Shang Ting's gaze moved from the table to the alchemy cauldron on the ground, and his thoughts returned.

"I am now at the sixth level of Qi training, and my mana is enough for me to refine some first-level peak pills."

Shang Ting thought to himself.

Generally speaking, the quality of the pills that an alchemist can refine is closely related to his own strength.

Except for a few geniuses, most alchemists in the Qi training stage cannot make elixirs of the second level foundation-building realm.

Firstly, my level of alchemy is shallow and I have no experience.

Secondly, my cultivation and magic power are not enough to support it.

Shang Ting is currently in the middle stage of Qi training.

Although he is a third-level alchemist, he is limited by his realm and cannot make second-level pills such as the Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, he could easily make high-level and peak-level elixirs.

The furnace was lit and white smoke rose.

Shang Ting took out a mahogany box from his storage bag.

It was the two hundred year old Jade Liquid Flowing Gold Flower!
Shang Ting did not hesitate and went straight into the alchemy furnace to start refining it.

It’s because the elixir he wants to refine this time is extremely important.

It is a first-level top-level elixir, [Hua Ling Pei Yuan Dan]!
The medicinal effect is simple but important: strengthening the body and increasing the success rate of the cultivator's half-complete foundation building!
Again, it only works once.

Shang Ting added a fire to the bottom of the alchemy cauldron, the temperature rose, and the progress of alchemy suddenly accelerated.

Looking at this alchemy cauldron, his eyes were dim:
"With the addition of this 200-year-old Jade Liquid Flowing Gold Flower, the pill's effectiveness will be greatly enhanced, and the success rate of foundation building can be increased by 10%."

There is no doubt that it was prepared for Uncle Haoran.

Whether his foundation building is successful or not is related to the survival of the entire business.

Uncle Haoran is very powerful and has a solid foundation.

Coupled with that excellent quality foundation-building pill, the head of the family, Shang Rucai, believes that the success rate of foundation-building is over 70%.

But it's still unstable.

Add to that this [Hua Ling Pei Yuan Dan], it’s more than 80%.

By then, Shang Ting will have removed most of the evil and dark energy from Uncle Haoran's luck, and he will basically be able to win.

"Grumpy"

For Shang Ting now, it would take a lot of energy to refine a first-level peak elixir.

Take a Qi-restoring pill to replenish your magic power.

Until three hours later.
It was already half dark outside.

The room was filled with the aroma of medicine.

For ordinary people, just smelling it is enough to make them feel relaxed and refreshed, and nourish their bodies.

"call out!"

As the simmering in the furnace reached a critical moment, the aroma of medicine in the nose was just right.

Shang Ting grasped the timing precisely and used a burst of spiritual power to freeze the entire alchemy cauldron!

When the fire of the elixir is extinguished, cover it with a copper lid to lock in the heat.

Use the residual heat in the cauldron to refine this Flower Spirit Pei Yuan Pill until it is pure.
Another quarter of an hour later.

Shang Ting opened the copper lid, the sweet fragrance of the flower spirit overflowed, and the elixir had been refined.

The Flower Spirit Pei Yuan Pill was milky white, the size of a thumb, round and smooth. It was surrounded by a Flower Spirit Halo, which was formed by the collection of Flower Spirit Qi.

It exudes a rich spiritual scent, like golden wind and nectar.

When taken by a cultivator in the Qi training stage, it can build up the essence and strengthen the foundation.

Perfect.

Shang Ting smiled faintly: "Not bad."

Then he took the pill box and put the Hua Ling Pei Yuan Pill into the box.

After going out, he went straight to the inner city, to the owner's old house.

The courtyard is full of pear trees.

Before entering the house, Shang Ting smelled a scent of old age and decay.

He sighed in his heart, the old patriarch only had six years left to live and would soon die.

After entering the house, Shang Ting saw the old man directly.

He looked older than when they had discussed in the secret room two years ago.

However, the old man's body is still upright and not hunched over.

He came out of the house with his hands behind his back and said with a smile:

"Xiaoting, my grandson, what brings you here?"

Shang Ting smiled and handed over the pill box in his hand:

"Master, this is a [Flower Spirit Peiyuan Pill] that I refined. It was brewed from a 200-year-old precious herb. Taking it can increase the success rate of foundation building by 10%!"

"Oh?"

Shang Rucai's wrinkled face showed joy, and he quickly took it and said good:

"Good! Now your uncle Haoran has a better chance of successfully building his foundation!"

Shang Ting asked seriously:
"Master, when do you and your uncle plan to start building your foundation?"

Shang Rucai replied:
"Your uncle has recently reached the peak of Qi training and is in excellent condition. The decision was made on July 17, fifteen days later!"

"Then, should we directly start building the foundation with the protective formation, or should we build the foundation in secret?"

Shang Ting asked a very important question.

If the second-level protective formation of Shangjia City is activated directly, it will tell the Hu family that Shangjia has begun to build its foundation.

What will be competed at that time is the defensive power of the formation.

And if the foundation is built in secret, it means that the Hu family will be able to relax their attention after two years of foundation building.

Shang Rucai smiled faintly and shook his head:
"Of course you are building your foundation in secret. However, you have been practicing hard recently. I wonder if your clan has also made sufficient preparations."

He continued to explain, and Shang Ting learned that the clan had built a dark room that could largely block fluctuations in spiritual energy.

The one used inside is the first level peak [Hidden Spirit Array].

At the same time, it can also block external spiritual consciousness and breath perception.

By then, Shang Haoran will be able to build his foundation without any fluctuations.

It was just like the sounds of cultivation emitted by a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training, very common.

Only at the last critical moment of building the foundation and gathering the spirit will the second-level spirit vein inevitably be caused to vibrate.

But by that time, the first dozen hours or so that Shang Haoran spent on building his foundation had already passed.

It only takes two or three quarters of an hour to condense the magic power at the last moment and break through the foundation.

It took a lot of time for the Hu family to confirm their foundation and rush over to kill them.

By then, the second-level protective formation will be activated, and the head of the family and the ancestor of the Yao family will each entangle one person, and the matter will be settled directly.

The three foundation-building masters fought back against the two foundation-building masters of the Hu family. Shang Rucai planned to fight to the death and self-destruct in exchange for one foundation-building master of the Hu family.

From then on, the three companies returned to the same level and the crisis was resolved.

Shang Ting praised in his heart.

Such an arrangement could indeed conceal the truth and catch the Hu family off guard.

There has been no movement from the merchants in the past two years, but the two foundation-building masters of the Hu family have been patrolling day and night.

No matter how much patience one has, it will eventually wear out and the frequency of patrols has been reduced in the past six months.

Although this plan cannot be called a stroke of genius, it is effective.

After Shang Rucai and Shang Ting carefully studied every detail, they finally decided:
"Okay, then in the next seven days, let's make preparations in secret."

When Shang Ting returned home, he immediately used the fortune-seeing technique!
I saw the fortune map slowly unfold
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(End of this chapter)