At the beginning, I cleaned the Sutra Library and completed the incomplete skills.

“The quality of these Qi Refining and Yuan Nurturing Pills is indeed quite good.”

“Junior Brother Li's alchemy skills are getting better and better.”

Miao Chenfeng smilingly accepted the pills.

Then, he took out a storage bag filled with spirit sand and handed it to Li Lan.

Since mastering the basic alchemy techniques,

Li Lan, while satisfying his own needs,

would give the extra Yuan Nurturing Pills to Miao Chenfeng to sell, in order to earn some cultivation resources.

The latter was naturally happy to see this.

After all,

the intention of the Spirit Plant Peak Elder was to make the best use of everything.

Now, seeing that Li Lan was so sensible,

and proactively providing value to the Miao family before even reaching the limit of cultivation in the incomplete 《Chaotic Origin Five Elements True Scripture》 technique,

he was naturally very satisfied.

Overjoyed,

Miao Chenfeng then lent him a low-grade alchemy furnace as encouragement.

After the transaction,

Li Lan didn't plan to stay any longer.

He turned around and was about to leave.

At this moment,

Miao Chenfeng stopped him.

“Junior Brother Li, don't be in such a hurry to leave.”

“Your sect contribution for this year hasn't been handed in yet, right?”

Miao Chenfeng felt quite helpless about Li Lan always delaying his sect contribution until the last moment.

Other outer sect disciples couldn't wait to take on more tasks to show off in front of the elders,

hoping to gain more attention from them.

But Li Lan was different.

He was like an invisible man, not competing for tasks.

He rarely showed his face in public, basically only active in four fixed places: the Scripture Pavilion, the Art Pavilion, the Green Stone Market, and the Bamboo House.

In the past two years, he had become even more extreme, not going anywhere.

He would only come to him when he occasionally lacked materials.

A disciple like this, let alone being valued,

it was estimated that many outer sect elders had even forgotten that Guangji Temple had a person named Li Lan.

Miao Chenfeng couldn't understand.

Knowing that there was no future path, Li Lan still cultivated so tirelessly, what was he trying to achieve?

“You have good skills. Senior Brother has a job here with generous rewards. Would you like to consider it?”

“Don't worry, this time there are seven outer sect elders leading the team, guaranteeing safety.”

Li Lan's eyes flickered slightly, his expression unchanged.

He asked casually as if inadvertently:

“What exactly is this mission? It actually requires seven Foundation Establishment cultivators to go out together?”

Miao Chenfeng said:

“Junior Brother Li, you also know the sect rules. I can't reveal too much of the specifics.”

“What I can tell you is that this mission is aimed at the Lingxiao Sect.”

“Didn't you already form a feud with the Lingxiao Sect in the Immortal Trace Valley?”

“This time, you might be able to resolve it yourself.”

Li Lan raised his eyebrows, and asked doubtfully:

“Doesn't the Human Emperor Palace have rules strictly prohibiting mutual killing between righteous paths?”

“How dare the elders make such a big move?”

Miao Chenfeng rolled his eyes at him.

“Hey, you don't understand this, do you?”

“The Human Emperor Palace is busy with everything, and it's impossible to personally run to this remote place in the Peach Blossom Mountain Range to watch.”

“It's just a little friction, it doesn't matter.”

“How about it? Come with Senior Brother.”

“After it's done, you can get a second-grade medicinal pill recipe.”

“You are already familiar with refining Yuan Nurturing Pills. If you want to take a step further in the path of alchemy, this second-grade pill recipe is essential.”

Miao Chenfeng believed that he had already seen through the other party's thoughts.

He threw out what Li Lan wanted most at this time.

But what he didn't expect was.

The latter refused without even thinking about it.

“I'm not going.”

“I thought about it, and the sect task of collecting herbs is easier to complete.”

“Maybe I'll be lucky this time and find another fifteen-year-old Azure Frost Evening Primrose.”

After Li Lan heard that seven Foundation Establishment cultivators were leading the team.

He had already made up his mind to stay far away.

The incident in Jiuhua County made him understand a truth.

Risk and safety are relative.

A task with Foundation Establishment cultivators participating seems safer.

But in reality, it is almost equivalent to completely entrusting one's life to the other party.

Once an accident occurs, it must be a danger that only Foundation Establishment cultivators can solve.

He, a Qi Refining Level 2 cultivator, would hardly have the right to choose his own life or death from beginning to end.

After two sect missions,

Li Lan didn't plan to rely on anyone anymore.

This time, he planned to find some tasks that he could complete on his own.

But before that.

Li Lan had something more important to accomplish.

“Hey, Junior Brother Li, is there something you're worried about because of the Demonic Dao incident last time?”

“That was really just an accident. Since I can remember, this kind of accident has only happened once.”

“This time, there are seven Foundation Establishment Elders sitting in town, what else are you worried about?”

“How about this, as long as you go, I'll give you another second-grade pill recipe, how about it?”

“Don't you want to take another step forward in the line of alchemy?”

Miao Chenfeng believed that he had read countless people, and he was quite experienced in figuring out thoughts.

Seeing Li Lan's reaction was very different from what he had guessed, he was naturally very surprised.

Out of curiosity, he kept following the other party, constantly persuading him.

While he was patiently teaching, he observed Li Lan's micro-expressions, trying to analyze the reason from them.

But unfortunately.

Li Lan always kept his emotions hidden.

After following for a long time, Miao Chenfeng gained nothing.

Walking and walking.

Miao Chenfeng gradually noticed something was wrong.

This doesn't seem to be the way back to the other party's bamboo house.

“Junior Brother Li, where are you going?”

“To your family's spirit vein.”

Miao Chenfeng was stunned when he heard the words.

“What are you going to do at the spirit vein?”

“Naturally, I'm going to cultivate. The mana in my dantian is almost full. Now I can try to break through to the third level of Qi Refining.”

Miao Chenfeng was even more surprised.

“What? You're going to break through again?”

“Junior Brother Li, are you really a pseudo-spiritual root?”

“Why do I feel that in terms of cultivation speed, you are not much inferior to me, a true spiritual root?”

Speaking of this, Miao Chenfeng seemed to have thought of something.

He slapped his forehead and suddenly said:

“Hey, that's not right.”

“The spirit vein is forbidden for ordinary outer sect disciples to step into.”

“Last time, it was thanks to Uncle-Master Jian Chen's recommendation that I was fortunate enough to enter that Ding-numbered cave.”

“Can't it be that Uncle-Master Jian Chen asked you to come this time, right?”

Li Lan shook his head.

“That's not the case.”

Miao Chenfeng asked strangely:

“Then why are you here at the spirit vein?”

“Although you have learned Uncle-Master Zhao's alchemy insights, you can be considered half of his disciple.”

“But you can't enter the spirit vein just because of this.”

“You must know that in the face of sect rules, all cultivators must act impartially.”

Li Lan took out a jade token from the storage bag and shook it in front of the other party.

“This time I'm going in with this.”

Miao Chenfeng saw what it was at a glance.

It was the qualification token that was necessary to enter the spirit vein cultivation cave.

His eyes widened instantly, full of unbelievable brilliance.

“Junior Brother Li, you… how do you have this thing?”

Li Lan smiled lightly:

“Last time in Jiuhua County, I accidentally saw this thing and felt quite familiar.”

“Only after inquiring did I know that it was really the same thing that I got from Uncle-Master Zhao outside the spirit vein cultivation cave before…”