Longevity Thunder Ancestor

Chapter 711 New Alchemy Challenge
The two stopped beside a cave on the top of the mountain. Qi Ran sighed and handed a circular array plate to Ning Fa:

"Fellow Daoist Ning, this is the control disk of this cave.

We will be neighbors from now on. If you have any problems, just come to me, hehe."

After saying that, he clasped his fists towards Ning Fa and flew away.

Ning Fa also smiled. He had some good feelings towards the enthusiastic Qi Ran.

Then he closed his eyes and sensed the pure spiritual energy coming towards him, with a look of satisfaction in his eyes.

The annual rent of nearly thirty thousand spirit stones was not paid in vain. The concentration of the spirit veins on the top of the mountain had reached the third-grade upper level, and was even more pure and abundant than some of the same-grade spirit lands he had experienced before.

He looked at the emerald green bamboo forest and the waterfall cascading down beside the cave and couldn't help but smile.

Maybe this is where he lives for a long time.

The first thing he did after entering the cave was to use his spiritual sense to check it carefully, and then replaced it with his own defensive restrictions. Only then did he feel at ease.

Not long after finishing, Ning Fa's expression changed, and then he cast a spell towards the cave gate. Then a beautiful figure walked into the cave. It was Jiang Xueting.

"Senior Ning, congratulations on moving in here." Jiang Xueting said with a respectful smile on her face.

Ningfa smiled and nodded at her.

At this time, Jiang Xueting said cautiously: "Senior Ning, since you are a puppeteer, I wonder if our Jiang family can come to you to make puppets in the future?"

"Of course." Ningfa said with a smile.

Hearing this, Jiang Xueting immediately smiled brightly, then very tactfully stood up and said goodbye without staying any longer.

Ningfa showed a faint smile.

Jiang Xueting is very smart. She created the puppet just as a pretext. Her purpose should be to keep some connection with this senior master.

He had a good impression of this woman and had no intention of breaking off the friendship.

Then Ning Fa's expression became serious. He aroused his Moon God Heart and used his greatest spiritual power to carefully explore the Luoxia Island.

With his full strength bursting out at this moment, the power of his spiritual consciousness has reached a hundred miles.

This was already comparable to the range of the spiritual awareness of an early Nascent Soul cultivator, but he still hadn't sensed that special aura of thunder spiritual energy.

After a moment, Ning Fa withdrew his consciousness, looking a little tired, but with confusion in his eyes.

After a long time, he shook his head. There was no rush for this matter. The most urgent task now was to recover from his injuries immediately.

Now we have excellent spiritual veins, but it is not enough, we also need a sufficient supply of elixirs.

Although he still has some third-level elixirs that can improve his cultivation, the number is not large.

Because when he went to the Ancient Immortal Island before, he had a premonition that something might happen to his trip, so he refined a large number of pills and distributed them to his relatives and the sect.

Now he no longer has enough finished pills or spiritual materials for refining pills.

Thinking of this, Ningfa didn't even bother to rest, and immediately got up and headed for the upper island of Jinchang Island not far away.

In order to facilitate his actions, he had already revealed the cultivation level of the early stage of Jindan.

When he re-entered the city gate of the upper island, the same city guard from yesterday appeared. He saluted Ningfa with a look of surprise and fear.

Ning Fa naturally didn't bother to argue with him and went straight to a nearby shop.

More than an hour later, Ning Fa walked out with a frown on his face and a look of surprise. Then he immediately entered another shop nearby.

Two hours later, he came out of the fifth shop with a confused look on his face.

In these shops, he did see quite a few pill recipes, and most of the elixirs were indeed not available in the Cangyuan immortal cultivation world.

But the problem is that the main ingredients of these pill recipes are actually the inner elixirs of various high-level monsters, and different pills require different types of monsters.

He even got the recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill, which was roughly the same as the Foundation Establishment Pill in the Cangyuan Immortal Cultivation World, except that some key ingredients were replaced with the inner pills of some specific monsters.

This made Ning Fa, who was used to using various spiritual herbs and medicines to refine pills, stunned.

If you think about it practically, it is understandable. After all, although the Jiulong Sea is not small in area, most of it is sea area, and there should be no particularly large land, so the number of spiritual herbs and medicines may not be as many as in Cangyuan.

However, in the Jiulong Sea, the sea monsters are almost endless.

Therefore, it is very likely that in the long course of history, the ancient cultivators of the Nine Dragon Sea slowly replaced the spiritual herbs and medicines in various alchemy recipes with the inner elixirs of monsters, forming their own unique alchemy system.

However, this brought a very serious problem to Ning Fa, because this fundamental change in the main material for alchemy made some of his alchemy techniques unusable.

For example, a very important step in alchemy is the extraction of spiritual herbs, which here becomes the refinement of the inner elixir of monsters.

In other words, a lot of Ning Fa's knowledge of alchemy was useless here, which gave him a headache.

Although he believed that the Duyuan Heavenly Book should be able to trace the origin of the monster's inner elixir, the problem was that once the spiritual materials reached the second level or above, source points would be consumed, and third-level spiritual materials would consume even more.

If he practices refining third-level pills a lot, it will definitely consume a lot of source points.

Moreover, this would inevitably waste a lot of time, and would probably delay his expected recovery from the injury a lot, which was something Ning Fa particularly could not accept.

After all, he was always concerned about Cang Yuan, and was thinking about finding a way to rush back after the baby was formed.

Ning Fa stood there, his face uncertain, but he soon made up his mind. No matter what, he still had to buy some spiritual materials for alchemy and try it out.

Half a day later, Ningfa flew out from the upper island, his face slightly darker.

This time on the upper island, he bought a third-level alchemist inheritance, which not only contained the alchemy experience of a third-level alchemist, but also included some third-level pill recipes.

Including some additional recipes he bought, he obtained a total of three third-level recipes for improving cultivation, and two more recipes for healing and recovery.

These alone cost him seventy or eighty thousand spirit stones, and he also bought ten pieces of a spiritual ingredient called Yuanyang Dan.

This pill is a third-grade intermediate-quality pill that can improve the cultivation of cultivators in the middle stage of Jindan.

In fact, he wanted to refine another third-level elixir with better medicinal effects, the Dragon Pill.

However, the main ingredient of this pill is the inner pill of a third-level dragon-like monster, which is too rare and difficult to find, so he can only settle for the second best and practice with the Yuan Yang Pill first.

Even so, the spiritual materials for these ten Yuan Yang Pills alone cost much more in spiritual stones than what he spent on the pill recipe. Even though he was wealthy, he couldn't help but feel a pang of pain.

After returning to the cave, Ning Fa did nothing and had a good rest for a day, then carefully comprehended the inheritance of the third-level alchemist.

About twenty days later, he began his first refining.

Ning Fa took a deep breath and walked into his alchemy room.

At this moment, he even felt a little nervous.

An hour later, there was a loud explosion in the room, followed by a bad smell.

This time the alchemy failed without any suspense, and not even a useless pill was formed.

Ning Fa smiled helplessly.

In fact, this failure was normal. After all, alchemy was about proficiency, and even an alchemy genius was no exception.

Ning Fa's expression straightened up, and after summing up his experience, he started refining for the second time.

This time I persisted a little longer, but still failed.

Ning Fa didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and he didn't rashly try to make the elixir for the third time.

He also knew in his heart that he was a little too impatient.

After all, Jiulonghai's alchemy system can be said to be completely different from Cangyuan's immortal cultivation world. It is naturally difficult for him to succeed in refining this highly difficult third-grade intermediate elixir right from the start.

The correct approach should be to start practicing with first-level pills, and only after becoming familiar with Jiulonghai's alchemy system, begin trying to refine high-level pills.

But although Ningfa understood this truth, he couldn't wait any longer.

After all, this process will take at least three years.

And these three years meant that he had to concentrate on refining the elixir without distraction, and had been using the Duyuan Heavenly Book to trace the source.

Under normal circumstances, this time would at least increase by several times.

But for Ningfa, for whom time is extremely precious, this is unacceptable.

He rubbed his chin and began to think of a solution, then his eyes lit up slightly.

Isn’t there another third-level alchemy master on this island?

With her guidance, this time could probably be shortened a lot.

It’s just that Chu Nian Yao is as cold as an iceberg, and it may not be easy to persuade her, but no matter what, we have to try.

Ning Fa immediately left the cave and flew westward, and another mountain to his west was where Qi Ran's cave was located.

This person was drinking tea leisurely on the top of the mountain. When he saw Ning Fa's flying light, a strange smile appeared in his eyes: "You can't help it so soon. You really came here for Fellow Daoist Chu."

Soon Ningfa arrived at the middle mountain, where the concentration of spiritual veins was the best.

However, this Luoxia Island was somewhat special. Qi Ran told him that in the past, this island was actually privately owned by Chu Nianyao's parents.

This couple was a famous immortal couple in the Jinchuan Islands. Both of them were Jindan cultivators. It is unknown how they managed to buy the island directly from Yujing Zhenjun.

But later, when the two went out, they never came back and there was no news of them since.

Chu Nian Yao resolutely sold the ownership of the island back to the City Lord's Mansion, in return the City Lord's Mansion mobilized its forces to find the whereabouts of her parents.

But decades have passed and there is still no clue, which almost means that the two people have died.

While Ning Fa was thinking, he had already arrived near Chu Nian Yao's cave. After sending out a sound transmission talisman, Jiang Xueting's cousin Zhou Qin soon walked out of the cave lightly.

There was a strange look in her eyes, and she had the same idea as Qi Ran in her mind. She obviously thought that Ning Fa came to Luoxia Island to see her master.

"I'm sorry, Senior Ning. Our master is in seclusion and has no time to meet with guests right now." Zhou Qin said with a hint of apology.

But in fact, she knew it very well that her master simply did not want to face the "pursuit" of this Senior Ning.

Ning Fa smiled calmly, then took out a pill bottle and handed it to Zhou Qin:

"Please ask Mr. Zhou to tell Mr. Lingzhi that I am here to exchange alchemy experience with her."

(End of this chapter)