Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Time flew by like a flash, and two years passed. Tangning had been waiting to enter the trial area again, kill monsters, and get the magic crystals, but there was no news. When Fang Liting came to inspect the herb garden, he couldn't help but ask. road.

"Didn't the leader say that he would reopen the trial ground last time? Now two years have passed, why has there been no movement?"

Fang Liting glanced at him: "Others are afraid to avoid you, but you are still thinking about dying?"

Tangning paused for a moment: "Well, no...don't you want to determine when and make more preparations? You can't avoid it anyway."

"The leader said that the trial ground will be opened regularly, but he didn't say when exactly. Didn't I tell you last time? Those monsters enter from the cracks in the alien space. It is very difficult for them to cross the space. They need to find it. A stable space node. The monsters in the last trial area have been almost eliminated by you. You have to wait for the next batch of monsters to enter before the trial door can be opened again to let you go. Instead of being in panic all day long, it is better to seize the time to practice. ”

Tang Ning was speechless. After thinking about it carefully, this was really the case. The leader indeed only said that the demon eradication operation would be held regularly, but did not specify how often.

After seeing off Fang Liting, he left the herb garden and drove the purple gourd to a house in Diezhang Peak.

The door of the house opened, and a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes walked out. It was Mu Pingbo who went up the mountain with him.

He succeeded in transforming into the mortal world first and entered the Alchemy Department. He had always been above him in cultivation before, but then he encountered a bottleneck and was delayed for several years at the sixth level of Qi refining. Last year, he finally broke through to the seventh level of Qi refining. Now, He is an alchemist from the Alchemy Department.

Tang Ning had frequent contacts with him when he was in the herb garden. At that time, although he was in the alchemy department, he was just a handyman disciple, helping the alchemist to run errands and do odd jobs. Since he was transferred to Fang Liting's place, the two of them have been together. We lost contact, and now that his long-time daughter-in-law has become a mother-in-law and an alchemist, she has found him again.

Although Mu Pingbo has become an alchemist, he has little information in the alchemy department, has a low status, and has received very few resources.

The Alchemy Department is a large department with more than 100 people, including seven Foundation Establishment monks. The medicinal herb resources they receive from the department every year are far from enough for alchemy. Moreover, he has just become an alchemy master and is not familiar with his skills. , the failure rate is very high, so there is even more shortage of herbs, so we found him.

Let’s do this! Speaking of which, he also has a certain responsibility. In the past, those alchemists were able to purchase medicinal herbs at low prices, which were enough for refining medicine. Since he consolidated various medicinal herb gardens and sold them outside, the share available to Alchemy Department disciples has been limited. After Fang Liting took over, she went even further, sometimes even selling no medicinal herbs to them privately.

At this time, some people from the Alchemy Department approached Tang Ning as the "manager" of the Alchemy Department. They believed that Tang Ning must have a way to get the needed herbs, and Mu Pingbo was not the first, nor the last.

Based on the principle of kindness, Tang Ning would basically agree to them. Of course, if the portion was too large, he would give some discounts. He catalyzed many mature medicinal herbs through green spiritual power, and he also happened to sell them to them, although the value was a little lower.

Every time someone from the Alchemy Department came to him to make a list of herbs, he would go to various herb gardens and buy some privately according to the herbs needed on the list to avoid suspicion.

Those alchemists couldn't buy the herbs they needed in other herb gardens, but they could get them here in Tang Ning. They actually had no doubt about this, because everyone in the Herbology Department knew that Tang Ning was responsible for the thousands of various herbs sold every year. They thought it was normal to keep some privately, and even managed the herb garden. The reporter suggested that the disciples of the Alchemy Department go to him.

"Hey! Tangning, why are you here?" Mu Pingbo asked in surprise.

Tangning smiled and handed him a storage bag: "I brought you the herbs you mentioned last time for refining the Wanling Pill."

Wan Ling Dan is a pill that monks take in the late stage of Qi refining to improve their cultivation. It is quite difficult to refine it for Mu Pingbo's level. He tried several times without success. The pill department issued it to him. The herbs have been used up.

And he was not willing to just refine low-level elixirs, so he had no choice but to find someone in the Herbal Medicine Department to buy some privately. He first went to Chang Jian, who planted the Wan Ling Dan formula herbs in the herb garden managed by Chang Jian.

But Chang Jian told him that the herbs were gone, and the remaining ones had to be handed over to Corey. He recommended him to find Tang Ning and said that Tang Ning could get them. Everyone in the herb garden still thought that Tang Ning was responsible for selling the herbs to others. Call the shots.

Little did they know that he had already been sidelined and now he was just an errand boy.

In fact, Chang Jian also had a surplus of those herbs, but he just didn't want to sell them to the Dan Yao Department at a low price.

In this way, Mu Pingbo contacted Tang Ning and often bought medicinal herbs from him privately. Tang Ning remembered the old friendship and might give others a discount, but she always responded to his requests.

Mu Pingbo took the storage bag: "Hey! I can just go over and get this. Why do you have to go there?"

The spiritual stones to buy the medicinal herbs have been paid for a long time ago. Nowadays, there are very few medicinal herbs in the elixir department for private sale. They all pay first and then buy the goods.

The two of them entered the room, Mu Pingbo closed the door and said with a smile: "You are a noble person who never goes to the Three Treasures Palace for anything. You must have something to do here this time! Tell me! I will do my best within the capacity of our relationship."

"What a noble man! I really envy your elixir department. I would be happy if you could transfer me to the elixir department to study alchemy. Who doesn't know that elixirs are the most profitable. If nothing else, just this Wanling Dan. It only costs ten spirit stones. One furnace is three hundred spirit stones. How much does it cost? The market price is about one hundred and thirty spirit stones. If you buy it privately in our sect, you can buy a furnace of vitality pill herbs for only thirty or forty spirit stones. Quantity, what is there in the Herbal Medicine Department? If I hadn’t secretly sold some elixirs and herbs to you behind the sect’s back, I would have had to drink the northwest wind.”

Mu Pingbo smiled: "That's not a bad thing. I'm just a member of the elixir department. You are the person in charge of the herbal department. How can you compare? Having said that, elixirs may appear to be hugely profitable, but in fact they are also very risky. Yes, if it is not cultivated within the sect, how can outside cultivators learn to refine elixirs, let alone the Wan Ling Dan, I have failed five times and have not succeeded yet. "

"If you switch to casual cultivators without the support of the sect, who can support this kind of consumption? Although the profit of the elixir is high, the initial investment is very large, and most people cannot afford it. I can barely cope with it, and there is far from any profit. , refining Wan Ling Dan requires ice-cold fire veins, and entering the ice-cold fire vein elixir chamber requires ten spirit stones, and it can only stay for one day, so the cost is still very high.

Tang Ning said: "I heard that Senior Sister Su Lin has succeeded in establishing the foundation, and the Alchemy Department has another foundation-building monk."

"Yes! I heard others say that before Senior Sister Su Lin established the foundation, you gave her a complete set of foundation-building items, which were valuable. Senior Sister Su refused politely and gave them to Senior Brother Xu Shi. Is it true or not?"

When Tangning heard about this, she couldn't laugh or cry. After he left after meeting Su Lin that day, rumors spread that he wanted to eat swan meat, so he showed great courtesy and gave her a set of foundation-building items.

Su Linwan refused and gave it to Xu Shi on the spot. He left with a dark face, saying that he had a nose and eyes, and his movements and expressions were lifelike.

Even Fang Liting heard about it and asked about it when inspecting the herb garden.

There is no doubt that this is what Xu Shi did. He received a set of valuable items and accidentally let it slip while talking to people. Maybe he felt ashamed and embarrassed. He told the whole story, cutting off the beginning and ending, and recounted the whole thing in a nutshell. As a result, the rumors became more and more outrageous, and it became the version that Tang Ning was now angry about because she couldn't pursue it.

"There is such a thing, but it is different from what you think. I met Wu Datong, a disciple of the Hushan Division who was dying in the trial field. He asked me to give those things to Senior Sister Su Lin. That day I went with Senior Brother Xu, but Senior Sister Su was unwilling to accept it. After some persuasion, she accepted it and then gave it to Senior Brother Xu."

"Oh, that's it. I'll tell you that you are not such a gentle person."

"I heard that your department distributed magic crystals a few days ago. Can this magic crystal really improve the success rate of elixir refining?" After chatting for a while, Tang Ning turned to the main topic.

Mu Pingbo said: "That's right, several senior uncles in Core have been studying for more than a year and finally found the correct way to use magic crystals. Adding magic crystals in the process of refining medicine is indeed easier to condense elixirs. At the beginning, several senior uncles followed the instructions The common alchemy methods have been tried in various ways but to no avail.”

"In the end, Uncle Cheng Buyi used the Five Zang True Fire method, which was once popular but later declined, to discover that it can dissolve magic crystals and emit a black spiritual power. This black spiritual power in the elixir furnace just offsets the effects of the elixir condensation. The conflict between various medicinal properties balances the resistance of various elixirs to heat, thereby condensing the elixir."

"We have been focusing on heaven and earth spiritual fire before, using various heaven and earth spiritual fires to refine elixirs, such as ice-cold fire veins, earth lung true fire, purple flame true fire, etc. The temperature of these spiritual fires is too high, and when it reaches a certain At the critical point, magic crystals tend to melt at the touch of a finger. The real fire of the five internal organs is the real fire in the human body. It is relatively mild and stable and can just dissolve the magic crystal. "

"Magic crystals are the crystallization of monsters' cultivation. The environment in which they grow up is very different from ours. According to several uncles' speculation, the black spiritual power in the magic crystal is the spiritual power of their world. As for why it can help condense pills, It’s unknown.”

"Several uncles have done more than a hundred experiments. Although these magic crystals can help the elixir condensation process, they are only effective for low-level elixirs in the Qi refining stage. They speculated that it may be because the monsters are weak in cultivation and the magic crystals are It was caused by insufficient spiritual power, so the magic crystals were distributed and all alchemy disciples were required to learn the Five Zang True Fire Alchemy Technique from now on.”