From the family treasure tree to build an eternal family

Chapter 147 Main Ingredient
The Foundation Establishment Pill Refining Method was a promise the Tong family made to Xue Fanyu.

The young man, who had been so confident, smiled bitterly and then went limp: "Patriarch Xue, I'm sorry I lied to you, I didn't know."

"Ok?"

Xue Fanyu frowned, a murderous glint flashing in his eyes.

The young man came to the Xue family with no intention of leaving alive. He had achieved his goal of taking revenge on the Lan family: "I am indeed a candidate for the Tong family's alchemy inheritance, but I am not a direct descendant and do not know the method of refining Foundation Establishment Pills."

I have some elixir formulas and refining methods that my family has researched, as a way of thanking Patriarch Xue.”

As he spoke, he spat out the "Flame Erosion Pill".

Members of the Tong family often carry a Flame Erosion Pill hidden in their mouths, so that it can spontaneously combust at any time and prevent enemies from searching their souls.

Knowing he could not leave, the person willingly allowed his soul to be searched.

Without saying a word, Xue Fanyu grabbed the man's head with his hand.

After a while, he used the Soul Searching Technique to refine the person's soul, and indeed there was no method for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill.

"Alas, the methods of refining ordinary first-grade pills used by the Tong family are almost useless to me."

he thought.

It's not entirely useless; some parts of it can be used to improve one's own first-grade elixirs.

The reason Xue Fanyu wanted to obtain the method for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill was not because the Xue family was incapable of refining it, but because the required "price" was too high.

The Foundation Establishment Pill greatly increases the probability of breaking through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, making it a miraculous pill that can defy fate.

How could such a miraculous elixir be made without a price?

The only difference is the cost.

The Xue family's Foundation Building Pill requires a very special "main ingredient".

Mortals seek wealth, while immortals seek immortality.

Among magic talismans, artifacts, beast formations, and all arts and crafts, alchemy comes first.

...Everything can be used as medicine.

This is a doggerel written by the ancestor of the Xue family, who started the alchemy practice. It consists of four lines, each with ten characters, for a total of forty characters.

Later, it became part of the Xue family's generational naming system.

His theory of alchemy was that everything in the world could be used as a material for alchemy.

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At this moment, deep within Yunze Mountain.

The mountain with the densest fog is called "Black Swamp Mountain".

Elsewhere, the mist is white, but here it appears grayish-brown.

"Hurry up! Stop dawdling!"

"Hurry up if you don't want to die!"

"..."

A group of middle-aged and elderly female nuns dressed in identical clothes escorted a group of young girls to the scene.

These girls were around seven or eight years old, and the older ones were no more than eleven or twelve.

They had already experienced various frights and torments on their way here, and by the time they arrived, they had no strength left to resist. They were like walking corpses, being urged forward.

Deep in his eyes lingered a lingering fear and confusion.

They didn't know what purpose they had served by being captured and bought, nor did they know where the road ahead, shrouded in gray fog, led.

They stopped at a spring.

The spring on the cliff gurgles out black water, which flows down the rock wall and gathers into a black stream that flows into the distance.

The dark spring water emitted wisps of black mist, which mixed with the surrounding thick fog, making it even more murky and dirty.

"Take off your clothes and stand in the black fog, quick!"

Although the girls had already been beaten, they still dared not make a move.

They were still far from the black mist, but they could feel the burning sensation in the air.

The female cultivators stopped wasting time and took action themselves.

Fortunately, they were all female monks, and the girls did not feel shy in front of the opposite sex.

However, when they were pushed into the black mist emanating from the spring, they immediately let out screams and cries of pain.

The black mist was poisonous, like sharp needles piercing into their skin.

Someone crawled out of the black fog crying out, only to be kicked back in.

In a short time, the girls' bodies and faces were scalded, blistered and oozing pus, a truly pitiful sight.

Some people couldn't bear the pain of the toxins' corrosive effects and fainted.

Just then, a figure descended from the sky.

Xue Yimiao's divine sense swept over the girls: "Are there any promising talents in this batch?" A female cultivator with a full head of silver hair and at the ninth level of Qi Refining respectfully replied: "Master, there is one with five elemental roots, who is eight years old."

As she spoke, she pointed to a thin girl in the black mist.

The girl was also in great pain, kneeling on the ground.

"Good, nurture him well."

Xue Yimiao nodded slightly and then left.

After she left, the girls were taken away from the black mist.

They were all poisoned beyond recognition, with only a few remaining conscious and enduring excruciating pain.

"Come and drink the medicinal soup. It is made from spiritual plants and can detoxify and heal your current pain."

Someone was feeding the girls bowls of medicinal soup.

A miraculous thing happened: after drinking the elixir, the girls' pain disappeared, and their rotting skin scabbed over at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After a while, all that remained for them was a faint pain and psychological trauma.

The girl with the five elemental roots underwent the most significant change after drinking the medicinal soup; she was almost completely restored to her original state.

Not all girls are so lucky.

Several people died because they couldn't withstand the toxic fumes.

Some people also had difficulty absorbing the spiritual energy and medicinal power after drinking the elixir soup...

On the first day that this group of more than fifty people arrived at Yunze Mountain, several of them died.

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Xue Yimiao walked along the stream where the black springs converged and came to see a pool of water several meters in diameter.

The water in that pool was all black and poisonous.

Thick wisps of black mist drifted from the pool into all directions.

The black mist was already a deadly poison, yet several people were soaking in the misty pool.

A young girl sat cross-legged in the pool, most of her body submerged below the surface, with only her fair neck and head visible above her collarbone.

The highly toxic black pool water seemed to have no effect on her.

She breathed deeply and circulated her qigong.

Xue Yimiao sized up the people in the pool.

Of all the girls sent in the same batch, only a few survived.

Of all the things she was most satisfied with, it was "Nightmare": that girl was already a shoo-in to become the main ingredient for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill.

As for the others, they might become the main medicine, or they might become the "female cultivators" who work for the Xue family, capturing people outside for them.

The Xue family has invested a great deal of resources in the women who have survived to this day, and they are reluctant to let them die easily.

Of the two or three hundred girls, only a few survived, and each of them has their own value.

The cost of cultivating a master medicine practitioner and enabling the Xue family to refine a Foundation Establishment Pill is neither too high nor too low.

If the lives of two or three hundred mortals could be exchanged for a Foundation Establishment Pill, countless Qi Refining Perfection cultivators and Foundation Establishment families would flock to it.

However, this is a shady method of demonic cultivation that cannot be openly practiced, and can only be carried out in secret.

Xue Yimiao observed for a moment longer before turning and leaving.

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In the pool, Nightmare opened its eyes.

She had just noticed Xue Yimiao observing her, so she hadn't opened her eyes even after finishing her cultivation. She hated that person.

In the Xue family, these girls who were being trained had no names, only code names.

No one is allowed to mention the past, including their names.

She could hardly remember the name anymore; no one had called her by that name for ten years.

With a splash, she stood up from the pool and walked out.

Using her spiritual energy to dispel the black water stains on her body, she put on her clothes and went to collect her own elixir and spirit stones.

After soaking in the poisonous pool for cultivation, one must take a elixir to detoxify.

Shortly after she stood up, another girl behind her also stood up.

Nightmare received a spirit pill and a spirit stone, and encountered a girl who was also receiving a spirit pill.

"Silver Bell, here's a spirit stone for you."

Nightmare has a special status, so he can receive an extra spirit stone.

"Thanks."

Yinling accepted the spirit stones. Her constitution was weak, and she couldn't eliminate the toxins in her body by relying solely on spirit pills.

(End of this chapter)