Peeping into the Immortal Road

Chapter 99: Top-Grade Alchemist
When Ji Chang and Yuan Yixiao arrived at Cangyufang Market, it was almost dusk.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the streets of the city, covering them with a layer of golden glow.

In the distance, the rolling mountains under the reflection of the sunset look like a magnificent painting.

The market town seemed to have regained its past prosperity, with shops lining both sides of the street and various shouts and bargaining sounds coming one after another, making the place extremely lively.

But according to Ji Chang's understanding, the situation of Cangyufang City has not been very good in the past two years.

Because it was originally established jointly by the Chen family and the Qian family.

After the Wang family regained control of Jiaozhou's immortal cultivation world, the status of Cangyu Market declined rapidly and it was no longer the most prosperous market in Jiaozhou's immortal cultivation world.

In today's Cangyu Market, there is a market manager and a manager who is a cultivator from the Wang family.

Another market manager and other deacon positions fell back into the control of the Qian family.

Compared with the previous situation where all the managers, stewards and deacons in the market were controlled by the Chen family, the Qian family's current situation seems to be much better.

However, the actual situation is not so. The Qian family has suffered heavy losses in the past two years. Nearly 40% of the cultivators have been purged by the Wang family because they were too deeply involved with the Chen family.

The Cangyu Market is not as good as before. Now, the Qian family doesn’t know how long it will take to recover.

Ji Chang and Yuan Yixiao followed the bustling crowd and walked towards the main hall next to the archway of the market town.

Their appearance did not cause much waves among the crowd. Even though the Cangyu Market was no longer as prosperous as it used to be, there were still an endless stream of monks coming in and out every day.

Ji Chang stepped into the gate of the Fangjisi again. The scene before him was not much different from two years ago. It was still so grand.

However, the atmosphere in the hall seemed a little deserted, no longer as lively and bustling as before.

Ji Chang looked around and found that the layout of the hall remained the same without many changes.

While queuing with the crowd and waiting to apply for identity documents, Ji Chang's spiritual sense spread out and swept across a signboard not far away.

The above regulations are basically the same as in the past and have not changed much.

The only noticeable change was the style of the certificate ring.

The new ring design is rougher, with more hollow parts, and it is obvious that more savings have been made on materials.

This subtle change, however, invisibly indicates the changes that have taken place in Cangyufang City in the past two years.

"next."

Ji Chang walked forward and registered his identity.

"Name?"

"Han Lin."

"Cultivation?"

"Eighth level of Qi refining."

"..."

When Ji Chang paid the spirit stones in exchange for the certificate ring, he suddenly felt something in his heart.

His spiritual sense detected a familiar figure sitting in a room on the second floor of the Fangji Division.

"Qian Huacheng?" Ji Chang was slightly surprised.

Unexpectedly, after several years, Qian Huacheng had a second spring and became the deacon of the market again.

Recalling the first time he stepped into Cangyu Market twenty years ago, Qian Huacheng was the deacon of Lingtian Division and was in a very glorious position.

However, as the Chen family rose to power, Qian Huacheng's status plummeted and he became an ordinary clerk in the Fangjisi.

And now, he has become the deacon of the Fangjisi again.

……

After obtaining their identity documents, Ji Chang took Yuan Yixiao to rent a cave in the core area.

In the Cangyu City, it is normal for someone with the cultivation level of the late stage of Qi Refining to live in a cave in the core area.

This was also one of the reasons why Ji Chang deliberately showed his eighth level of Qi Refining when registering. Similarly, only by setting up a spirit gathering array in the cave in the core area of ​​the market town can a second-level spirit vein environment suitable for Ji Chang's practice be created.

This time, Ji Chang chose the top-level A-grade cave without hesitation.
With his level of cultivation, he wouldn't encounter any threats in Cangyu Market, and he didn't need to be as cautious as he had been in the past.

After settling everything, Ji Chang called Yuan Yixiao over and asked her about her tribesmen.

"Do you have any way to get in touch with your people?"

Hearing Ji Chang's question, Yuan Yixiao frowned slightly and fell into deep thought. After a while, she slowly opened her mouth to answer.

"Senior, ever since my people were captured by the Chen family and taken to Zhuya Mountain, it has become extremely difficult for them to contact the outside world."

"The Chen family has very tight control over them, almost cutting off all communications with the outside world. And now Zhuya Mountain has been besieged and sealed off by the Wang family. It will probably be extremely difficult to contact them."

She paused, as if she had thought of something, and continued.

"However, a few years ago, when the Chen family had not yet closed the mountain, I heard that some of the clan members successfully escaped from Zhuya Mountain."

"I can try to contact them and ask them if they left any loopholes when setting up the formation for the Chen family."

After listening to this, Ji Chang nodded and said nothing more.

He had left a spy mark on Yuan Yixiao, and he would be able to detect any unusual movements or thoughts on her part.

……

Time flies like an arrow, and time flies like an arrow.

In a flash, more than a year has passed.

On this day, Ji Chang sat cross-legged with a black alchemy furnace placed in front of him.

The flames in the furnace jumped and the temperature gradually rose. Along with the roar of the fire, a medicinal fragrance spread.

As time went by, the temperature inside the alchemy furnace reached a critical point.

Suddenly, a crisp explosion sounded, and the furnace cover was lifted by a strong airflow. A red pill emitting a hot breath flew into the air.

The surface of this pill is covered with fine lines, as if it contains infinite vitality.

It exudes a strong medicinal aroma, and the mere smell makes people feel refreshed.

This is the top-grade elixir, the Boiling Blood Pill, a top-grade elixir that can stimulate the potential in a cultivator's body and improve the cultivator's qi and blood in a short period of time.

Elderly cultivators at the ninth level of Qi Refining often swallow this kind of elixir to overcome the Qi and blood barrier.

Ji Chang looked at the Boiling Blood Pill in front of him, and a hint of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

He finally raised his alchemy skills to the ultimate level, which meant that he had completely mastered the alchemy heritage left by his master, Master Mo Dan.

Although Master Mo was only a first-class upper-grade alchemist, the alchemy inheritance he left behind reached the ultimate level.

Originally, if Ji Chang wanted to reach the level of refining top-grade elixirs, it would take at least ten years.

However, over the past year, due to the lack of foundation-building techniques, Ji Chang devoted all his energy to alchemy.

In addition, his cultivation had broken through the foundation-building stage, and he possessed the powerful aid of spiritual consciousness, which was of significant help in alchemy.

This allowed him to reach the ultimate level of alchemy skills so quickly.

He waved his sleeves lightly and put the Boiling Blood Pill into an exquisite jade bottle.

Then, he took out a book on the detailed explanation of the formation and began to read.

In addition to the alchemy skills, he also inherited the Yuan family's formation from Yuan Yixiao.

He didn't spend much effort, nor did he spy secretly. After just showing a little interest, Yuan Yixiao took the initiative to hand it over to him with both hands.

The Yuan family's array inheritance has also reached the first-grade ultimate level. Combined with the second-grade spiritual veins, they can barely arrange a quasi-second-grade array.

This is also the reason why the Chen family enslaved the Yuan family cultivators to help them set up a clan protection formation in Zhuya Mountain.

Although it was only a quasi-second-level formation, under the leadership of Chen Biqi, a foundation-building cultivator, it was not something that the Wang family's foundation-building cultivators could easily break through.

(End of this chapter)