Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 426 Dan Cheng
When the Lord and Que Wu saw the three of them like this, they secretly exchanged glances and were very satisfied.

The treasure hall of the clan is not accessible to any clan member. Leading these three people in is intended to make them greedy and make them work hard to make pills for the clan!

After all, if you want people to do something, the two most effective methods in this world are coercion and inducement. As for something like alchemy, if you use coercion, it is not impossible for the alchemist to mix something into the elixir that will make the person die immediately after taking it but make him live a life worse than death afterwards. Therefore, it is naturally better to use inducement to deal with the alchemist!

In this way, the three of them stayed in this side hall. In the first ten days, Pu Yanlan did not start to refine the elixir. She just asked Que Kun to get the elixir formula for her to study. After a careful look, Pu Yanlan invited Que Kun and others to come and ask questions. Que Kun and others looked down on this female alchemist who was only in the early stage of the golden elixir, but after being held two meetings by her, they immediately became convinced.
"This woman has made unique achievements in alchemy. She must be from a famous sect!"

Gu Shiyi and Lao Ma had nothing to do, so they started wandering around the nearby sea. The people of the Juque tribe needed their help, so they were polite to them. Except for some confidential places on the islands that were not allowed to enter or exit, the rest of the people did not stop the two of them.

So the two of them began their sightseeing in the Demon Eye Sea. This place is located overseas, and the Juque people have lived here for a thousand years, forming a unique maritime ethnic culture. The various buildings, clothing, and food are different from those on the mainland and also from their original continent. Gu Shiyi and Lao Ma traveled everywhere and lived a very free and easy life.

The days of fun passed quickly. Three months later, after Pu Yanlan carefully pondered the recipe and simulated it in her mind countless times, she felt that she was 70% to 80% sure, so she planned to start refining the elixir. She called Gu Shiyi and Lao Ma back, and then drove Que Kun and others out of the side hall. Que Wu came over after hearing the news, and Pu Yanlan said to him,

"Please forgive me, Lord Right Pillar. There are secret methods for alchemy. Although I am willing to make elixirs for nobles, the secrets of my sect cannot be shown to others. This is the teaching of my master, and I dare not disobey!"

Que Wu naturally knew the common rules in the cultivation world. Seeing Pu Yanlan's insistent expression, he felt dissatisfied but helpless.
"We can't offend her too much at this moment. If she refines the elixir, it's fine. If not... we can deal with it later!"

When all the people of the Dangque Clan left the side hall, Pu Yanlan and Gu Shiyi released their spiritual senses and found that there was indeed no one else around the side hall. Pu Yanlan breathed a sigh of relief and was about to speak to Gu Shiyi, but Gu Shiyi made a gesture, winked at her, and asked,
"Yan'er, are you sure about this pill?"

Pu Yanlan blinked and understood. She thought for a moment and said,
"It's really hard to say, fifty-fifty!"

Gu Shi said,
"Fifty-fifty is already pretty good. According to what the Right Pillar said, his clan members can only succeed in one or two out of ten batches of pills. Your 50% chance is already quite amazing!"

Pu Yanlan smiled and said,
"I haven't really tried it yet, so I'm just estimating. I need to practice it for real to know..."

As he spoke, he walked to the bronze tripod, reached out and touched it, then turned around and motioned for Gu Shiyi to come over and take a look. Gu Shiyi and Lao Ma walked over and looked carefully with their hands behind their backs. Gu Shiyi said,
"This big tripod looks pretty good..."

He winked at Pu Yanlan again.

However, it’s far worse than what we have at home!
Pu Yanlan sighed,
"This big tripod is great, but it's a pity that it won't last long..."

Gu Shiyi said curiously,

"How to say?"

Pu Yanlan pointed at the dragon pattern on the tripod and said,
"Look... when this cauldron was first refined, a dragon soul should have been sealed inside it as the spirit of the cauldron. Unfortunately, the dragon soul in the cauldron has almost disappeared. I don't think it may be because Que Kun's alchemy skills are not good enough, but it is probably because the cauldron has lost its spiritual energy..."

"Oh?"

Gu Shiyi raised his eyebrows,
"Will the spirit sealed in the cauldron also disappear?"

Pu Yanlan sighed,
"For a high-level magic weapon like this, if it has a spirit sealed inside, it needs to be nourished. The Juque clan only knows how to use this cauldron to refine pills, but they don't know that the cauldron needs nourishment. If it is on land, it needs to find the ground fire to nourish it a little bit, and if it is on the sea, it needs to find the underground mountain fire at the bottom of the sea to nourish it. It's a pity that they don't seem to know how to nourish it. They only know how to use it, not how to nourish it. They ruined a top-level magic weapon!"

"Then...are we still using this cauldron to make pills?"

Pu Yanlan blinked at her and said,

"We don't have a better tripod, so let's try this one first. Even though it has lost its spirit, it's still a top-notch magical tool. It's just that the success rate of refining pills will be much lower!"

"Okay, let's try it first!"

The three of them stopped talking nonsense. Gu Shiyi and Lao Ma began to carry the required natural treasures to the side hall little by little under Pu Yanlan's instructions, and processed the various raw materials carefully according to her instructions. While they were busy, in a hall far away from the side hall, the Lord sat opposite Que Wu with a gloomy expression. On the small table between the two of them, there was a huge conch. The tinkling sounds coming from the conch were the movements of Pu Yanlan and the other two in the side hall, while Que Kun and others were crawling on the ground with their sweaty foreheads pressed tightly against the ground.

"My Lord, please forgive me..."

"My Lord, I am guilty!"

The young Lord's face was as gloomy as water, his eyes twitched for a while, and he remained silent for a long time. After a while, he took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and then said,

"Forget it. This method of maintaining the tripod has not been passed down from our ancestors. It's not your fault!" They just said that. The bronze tripod was the clan's most precious treasure, but they had ruined it. As a result, the clan's descendants are now dying out, and they can only give birth to a pitifully small number of normal babies a year. If he didn't vomit blood, it would be because this lord is very cunning!

Everyone understood this truth, and they didn't dare to raise their heads. They crawled on the ground, wishing they could dig a hole and bury their heads in it. Que Wu also had a gloomy expression. After thinking for a while, he said,
"My Lord, now that things have come to this, we can only try to remedy the situation. From the tone of that woman, it seems that she is not without confidence. Who knows, maybe she has a way to save the situation!"

The Lord nodded and said,
"That's all!"

After saying that, he sighed and said,
"It is God's will that our clan will not be destroyed. Fortunately, Lord Youzhu has a good eye for talent and did not kill these three people. Otherwise... I am afraid today would be a hopeless situation!"

Upon hearing this, Que Wu hurriedly bowed and said,

"This is all thanks to... the Lord and our ancestors!"

The people outside were monitoring the movements in the side hall all the time. Que Kun and others prepared paper and pen, and wrote down what Pu Yanlan told the two inside. In the side hall, the three of them were refining the elixir seriously. Although Pu Yanlan guessed that the other party probably had other means to monitor the three of them, he did not hide anything and did what he was supposed to do. After everything was prepared, he started refining the elixir three days later.

Because the furnace had lost its spiritual power, the first batch of pills was ruined as expected. Pu Yanlan looked at the powder scattered in the furnace, but she was not disappointed. She took out some and put it to her nose to smell it, then licked it with her tongue, and then said calmly,

"Prepare another batch of raw materials... Grind the poison sac of the red-refined beast into powder, and add double the amount..."

Then came the second furnace, which took three days to refine. As soon as the furnace was opened, a sweet smell immediately filled the entire side hall.
"Done?"

Although Gu Shiyi didn't know how to make pills, he had helped Yan'er countless times. When he smelled the scent, he knew it was almost done. After the smoke cleared, Pu Yanlan raised her hand into a claw and took out a silver pill.

"Not bad, even though there is only one, but at least it worked!"

She placed the elixir on a jade plate beside her, and Old Ma came over to smell it.

"Why does this pill have a strange smell?"

Gu Shiyi asked in surprise,

"Isn't it sweet? Why is it smelling weird?"

Old Ma shrugged his nose and said,

"This pill smells sweet at first, but if you smell it carefully, there is a bloody smell inside..."

Pu Yanlan smiled slightly after hearing this.
"Old Ma's nose is indeed unusual. This elixir is called Huiling Pill by the Juque tribe. This Huiling Pill uses more than 400 kinds of raw materials, and the bloody smell is because of the addition of the Mu Shen Flower..."

Why do the people of the Juque tribe risk their lives to scrape the Mushen Flower? It is to use this flower as a medicine to draw out the medicinal properties of various raw materials. Because it is a monster born in the devil's land, it carries demonic energy. If others take it, the demonic energy will immediately invade their bodies. But the Juque tribe members are all half-human and half-demon, and taking this elixir will suppress the demonic energy in their bodies. If they are pregnant later, they can suppress the demonic nature of both the mother and the fetus until the child is born safely.

Pu Yanlan explained the properties of the medicine to the two of them, and then put the pill away.

"Let's refine another furnace!"

In this way, for a full month, Pu Yanlan refined nine furnaces of elixirs, four of which were unsuccessful and five were wasted, and a total of fifteen Huiling Pills were refined. When they opened the door to the side hall, a sweet smell rushed straight to the people guarding outside the hall. Everyone knew that they had already succeeded, and now when they smelled the smell, they all showed joy. The young lord came to greet the three people in person, and when he saw Pu Yanlan, he bowed deeply.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Pu!"

Pu Yanlan raised her skirt to return the greeting and said with a smile,

"Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission..."

After saying that, he presented a tray with both hands. On the tray were several jade bottles, which contained the life-extending pills that the Juque tribe had been thinking about. The Lord stepped forward and took them personally, and bowed to Pu Yanlan.
"Thank you!"

Pu Yanlan nodded,
"My Lord, refining the elixir consumes too much energy. The three of us need to rest for a few days. Please arrange a quiet place for us..."

"That's natural!"