I became an immortal by synthesizing plants.

one year later.

Exhausted, the Old Ancestor Qiyuan returned to Taojin Niangzhou.

Of course, his spoils this time were countless, including the corpses of countless fifth-tier ferocious beasts.

There are several hundred sixth-order Spirit Immortals, but only a dozen or so seventh-order Celestial Immortals.

There are only eight True Immortals at the higher eighth level, and each one was hunted down with great effort.

Ancestor Qiyuan purchased the locations of the ferocious beasts from countless forces, and it took him four or five months to hunt down eight of them.

The corpses of these ferocious beasts can only sustain the spiritual veins of Taojinniang Prefecture for a thousand years.

Unless the Ancestor Qiyuan occasionally goes to the Fourth Heaven to continue hunting ferocious beasts.

These eight eighth-tier ferocious beast corpses were captured and killed by Ancestor Qiyuan through countless means. Ancestor Qiyuan was also injured.

As for the ninth-tier beasts, they are beyond the reach of Ancestor Qiyuan. Moreover, the eighth-tier beasts are already difficult to find, and the ninth-tier beasts have not even been found by any means.

Back in the first hall, the ancestor Qiyuan rested for a month.

After learning that Chen Qingshan was looking for him, he went directly to the Mangrove Cave.

He can now sense Chen Qingshan's location anytime, anywhere, without having to search for him slowly anymore.

At this time, Ancestor Qiyuan was already infinitely close to the Golden Immortal realm, and his understanding of the laws was also more thorough.

After entering the mangrove forest cave, Ancestor Qiyuan came directly to Chen Qingshan.

During this year, Chen Qingshan also regained his understanding of the laws and directly broke through to the fifth level of the Golden Core Realm.

It is a realm that is advanced based on the Great Dao of Thunder.

If you use the Great Dao of Fire or the Great Dao of Life, you can only break through to the third level of the Golden Core Realm.

Chen Qingshan looked at Ancestor Qiyuan and asked, "Ancestor, has the matter of the ferocious beast been resolved?"

Ancestor Qiyuan shook his head and said, "This is a big problem that can't be solved. I've already sealed the teleportation entrance from Peach Blossom Valley to the Fourth Heaven, so there shouldn't be any major issues for now."

Chen Qingshan stopped dwelling on the issue and instead asked if it was possible to use the fortune of the two states to synthesize a new spiritual plant.

"Let's synthesize it. Anyway, we don't have anything major to do right now." After saying that, Ancestor Qiyuan immediately thought of Shanhe, who was still in seclusion, and changed his mind, saying, "Wait a minute. It's not too late to synthesize it after Shanhe comes out of seclusion."

Chen Qingshan could only nod, without dwelling on it further.

Ancestor Qiyuan gave Chen Qingshan six inner cores of seventh-tier ferocious beasts and the corpses of two seventh-tier ferocious beasts.

"Qingshan, take these for now, and ask me for more if you need more." After saying that, Ancestor Qiyuan left.

Before leaving, he asked Chen Qingshan to help the Crystal Vein Purple Star Spirit Seeds condense new spirit seeds.

Ancestor Qiyuan vaguely sensed that the era of great strife was coming, and the great calamity was about to begin.

The Chen family alone has produced top geniuses such as Chen Qingshan, Chen Qinghuai, and Chen Ruye in recent years.

Not to mention the rising power of Master Tianyang and his ilk.

They are all growing rapidly, as if preparing for the great battle to come.

As for Chen Qingshan, his whereabouts are now unknown. He stays in the cave, focusing on cultivating the Great Dao.

In the following years, Chen Qingshan received requests for weapon crafting from dozens of people.

Chen Qingshan also began to refine magical artifacts for them one by one.

Among them, the prepared Central Earth Flag, Plain Cloud Banner, Yuan Tu, and Abi were all sent out.

Except for a few items that are acquired spiritual treasures, all the rest are top-grade immortal artifacts.

Ancestor Qiyuan was also arranging for cultivators within the clan to learn the arts of weapon crafting and alchemy.

They gave the clan members all the surplus and useless spirit fruits and spirit mines to practice with.

Once a spiritual fruit is refined into a spiritual pill, if it is properly preserved, it will not lose the spiritual energy and vitality it contains for tens of thousands of years.

Except for a few extremely rare or valuable materials that are not available, all others are open for exchange and can be used by clansmen.

The exchange system has also undergone significant changes. Contribution points, which were previously earned by completing tasks, guarding blessed lands, and exploring wilderness caves, can now also be earned through alchemy and weapon crafting.

However, the threshold is still quite high; the clan only accepts spirit pills and magic weapons of the third rank or above.

A third-tier spirit pill only yields one contribution point, a fourth-tier pill yields ten points, and subsequent pills increase tenfold.

The same applies to magical artifacts, except that a third-tier magical artifact can yield ten points, which is ten times that of alchemy.

Compared to alchemy, weapon crafting is more time-consuming, energy-intensive, and difficult.

Even Chen Qingshan, who was cultivating in seclusion within the cave, was summoned to the first hall by Ancestor Qiyuan.

Ancestor Qiyuan wanted Chen Qingshan to help the clansmen refine some magical artifacts.

"Qingshan, the clan wants you to forge a magical artifact in exchange for 100 million contribution points. What do you think?"

Chen Qingshan asked in confusion, "What use are my contribution points?"

Ancestor Qiyuan realized that he had not explained himself clearly, so he explained that he wanted to offer other clansmen 100 million contribution points in exchange for the opportunity to have Chen Qingshan refine a magic weapon.

As for Chen Qingshan's advantage, it is that he can freely take treasures and materials from the clan's treasury in the future.

Chen Qingshan nodded. Now he can cultivate while also refining weapons.

However, the final result of Chen Qingshan's discussion with Ancestor Qiyuan was that there would only be one opportunity per year for Chen Qingshan to exchange contributions for weapon forging.

After the discussion, Chen Qingshan returned to the Mangrove Cave.

Now, Chen Qingshan's cultivation of the Great Dao has almost reached a bottleneck, and he needs to comprehend the Great Dao of Thunder between heaven and earth.

However, thinking of the need to refine weapons for his clansmen, Chen Qingshan did not leave the Red Forest Cave.

After all, cultivation is something that cannot be rushed.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Chen Qingshan has already refined the natal spirit treasures for all those who repaired the earth veins back then.

In the past ten years, only three members of the clan who practiced alchemy have come to Chen Qingshan to have magical artifacts crafted.

They are all vessels used in alchemy.

Thinking that everyone should benefit from the same treatment, Chen Qingshan only crafted high-grade immortal artifact pill cauldrons for them.

As for the rest, Chen Qingshan prepared the materials for the Purple Gold Furnace and the Qiankun Cauldron, two alchemy cauldrons.

The Mountain and River Ancestor has also emerged from seclusion and successfully broken through to the Celestial Immortal Realm.

Inside the mangrove cave, the Mountain and River Ancestor had a cup of tea with Chen Qingshan. Under his witness, Chen Qingshan took out the ancient flower seed and an Arabian Veronica seed.

"Ancestor, is no one in the clan currently in seclusion to break through to the next level?" Chen Qingshan asked, holding two seeds.

Ancestor Shanhe nodded and said, "Ancestor Qiyuan has already ordered everyone to suspend their seclusion. Some who were about to break through to the Golden Core stage have already done so with the help of the clan."

The panel, unseen for decades, has reappeared.

[Can be synthesized]: Ancient Flower, Arabian Veronica

[Synthesis Cost]: Ten years' worth of fortune for the two states.

With a thought, Chen Qingshan noticed that the two seeds were slowly beginning to merge.

The moment the two seeds successfully merged, a fierce wind swept through the mangrove grotto.

The laws of heaven and earth descend upon the world, and the way of heaven bestows blessings.

Golden rays of light fell upon the successfully synthesized seed.