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"How are the seven?"

After silently guarding them all night, Gao Xiaolan reported in the morning that the seven had already woken up.

"They're all awake, but they're weak all over, as if all their energy and spirit have been drained."

Hearing that the seven were alright, just weak, Xu Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's already a blessing. It's good that they're alright. It seems the Mystic's plan was successful. The blood marks on the seven didn't worsen overnight."

"I just don't know how the Mystic is doing?" Gao Xiaolan said worriedly.

"Don't worry, the Mystic's style is very steady. Please trust my heart's judgment. If anything happens to us, the Mystic will be fine. His aura fluctuations, luck fluctuations, etc., are all too stable. As someone who knows him well, I've never seen him fluctuate violently, like a rock!"

In Xu Ruyi's heart, Xuan Huang was like a mountain, and also like an insulator.

Indeed, although they haven't had much contact, they can barely be considered acquaintances with Xuan Huang. Every time they meet, Xuan Huang has made great progress.

And the things he asks them to do are very reassuring.

"I just don't know how the Mystic is doing? Did he completely solve it, or just temporarily delay it?"

Gao Xiaolan still felt that Director Xu was too trusting of Xuan Huang, and said, "Director, after all, it's a Tier 2 Wraith. It's already incredible that the Mystic was able to delay it. I believe the Mystic will be able to completely solve Tier 2 Wraiths in the future. Now, the Mystic is still in a period of rapid growth."

"Not necessarily..." Xu Ruyi said: "Minister Gao, haven't you forgotten the Three Wraith Rat Brothers? This trio combined is no less than a normal Tier 2 Wraith."

"Didn't the Mystic say he was going to exile and suppress them? He didn't completely kill them, did he? I think so," Gao Xiaolan said.

"Director, the Mystic is here."

At this time, the two heard the report from their subordinates.

The two exchanged glances and quickly went out to greet him.

"I have lived up to everyone's expectations and solved it." Xuan Huang looked at the two people approaching with a smile.

The expressions on their faces changed rapidly, unable to hide their surprise.

"Mystic, have we completely gotten rid of the trouble of the Wraith Blood Mark?"

Xuan Huang said: "You can say that. Although I haven't completely killed the Wraith Blood Mark Wraith, it's not far off. I already have a way to completely kill this Wraith."

"So, Mystic, you have a way to deal with Tier 2 Wraiths?" Gao Xiaolan suddenly asked, her eyes filled with eager anticipation.

"Yes, it was a blessing in disguise. In the future, Tier 2 Wraiths will not be able to run rampant in Nan City."

Xuan Huang gave a definite answer, but then said: "However, you two must keep it a secret. After all, as you know, I'm in a lot of trouble and I'm still being hunted down."

"Haha..."

The dark clouds parted and the sunlight shone down, and the two couldn't help but laugh.

There was no better news than this. A Transcendent cultivator could solve Tier 2 Wraiths, which was of epoch-making significance.

Spirit Masters naturally had a limp when it came to controlling Wraiths.

One was that they didn't dare to completely let go for fear of losing control, and the other was that if they used them too frequently, they would easily be eroded.

The magic stones refined by Xuan Huang before had already greatly benefited the Nan City Town Evil Department. But now that Xuan Huang could kill Tier 2 Wraiths and was not afraid of being distorted and eroded, the significance was too great.

It must be said that the two were pleasantly surprised and felt sad at the same time.

It was still better to be a Transcendent oneself. Transcendents didn't care about the restrictions on the use of power, and they weren't afraid of distortion, and they could become stronger with each battle, which was too enviable.

"Don't worry, Mystic, we will definitely keep it a secret and make sure that those organizations and individuals with ill intentions will never return."

The two naturally agreed to Xuan Huang's request to keep it a secret.

"How are the seven?" Xuan Huang then asked.

Gao Xiaolan: "Mystic, don't worry, the seven only feel weak all over and their spirits are weak, but there are no other major problems. They even told the seven that they had gotten rid of the Wraith, and although the seven were weak all over, they were much more energetic. Innate hope is the best healing holy medicine."

After talking for a while, Xuan Huang left.

Returning to Qingyun Mountain, Xuan Huang looked at the remaining blood mark.

Before, the Heaven and Earth Furnace had advanced and refined a total of six, and Xuan Huang had not completely refined the remaining one.

Leaving it behind to lure out the Wraith Corpse was the purpose. If this one was refined by the Heaven and Earth Furnace, it wouldn't increase much.

He wanted to maximize the benefits.

However, it was too hasty to fish for the Wraith Corpse now. Xuan Huang still had more important things to do.

The Wraith Corpse wasn't in a hurry, it was just a matter of time.

These days, Xuan Huang often used the Heaven and Earth Furnace, and he discovered the current predicament of Qingyun Mountain.

That is, many of the resources needed by cultivators are temporarily in short supply.

It was his fault for not thinking of it.

Since this was the case, what he had to do next was to get the Returning Ruins Grinding Wheel and the Tongtian Jianmu to advance to the second level.

Recently, many fierce beasts have been exchanged for points by the four major forces.

Some had their vitality absorbed, some had their souls absorbed, and some had their essence and blood refined... In short, there were various remnants and many corpses.

The least that was left was the flesh and blood of the fierce beasts that only had essence and blood left, after all, the Heaven and Earth Furnace was the most diligent and refined the most fierce beasts.

The Tongtian Jianmu and the Returning Ruins Grinding Wheel hadn't worked much.

Now, Xuan Huang beckoned.

In the western direction of the small world, mountains of fierce beast corpses piled up.

These were all exchanged for points by the cultivators of the Merit Hall.

"Work, work, how can you improve without work."

Xuan Huang urged the Returning Ruins Grinding Wheel and Jianmu.

The two were very obedient and wanted to improve, so they began to emit huge suction, and the mountains of fierce beast corpses were sucked in.

First, the Returning Ruins Grinding Wheel refined the fierce beasts that still had remnant souls, 'rumbling', and then condensed transparent soul liquid, which was condensed into pills by Xuan Huang's Heavenly Intent.

Then, the Jianmu tree roots refined the fierce beasts that only had life energy left, transforming the flesh and blood impurities and condensing vitality pills.

Like rain, they were quickly collected by Xuan Huang.

Finally, the Heaven and Earth Furnace condensed essence and blood, and then they were also condensed into pills by Xuan Huang.

Xuan Huang didn't care before, they were all essence and blood, but now it seemed unsightly, and it seemed more suitable to condense them into pills, so the essence and blood pills were born.

In about half an hour, the fierce beasts remaining in the small world were transformed into three kinds of pills under the refining of the three artifacts.

Soul pills for refining the spirit, vitality pills for refining qi, and essence and blood pills for refining the body.

And the three artifacts, especially the Returning Ruins Grinding Wheel and the Tongtian Jianmu, quickly absorbed a lot of true meaning.

All of them were transparent true meaning.

After refining the true meaning of the Wraith Blood Mark, Xuan Huang already understood that the true meaning of non-Transcendent creatures was transparent, as if it didn't exist, which showed how difficult it was for them to survive, just small transparencies.

First-Order Profound Transformation was gray. It had color, but the gray was dull and lifeless, looking pathetic, only slightly better than being transparent.

Second-Order Spirit Connection was black. It had the bearing of a black steed, with its own true essence manifested. Don't let the black fool you; black to the core is the black steed.

The existing fierce beast's essence, energy, and spirit were all transparent.

Although their effect was small and couldn't cause qualitative change, there was a lot of them. And a lot means the potential for qualitative change.

Therefore, the Jianmu and the Great Returning Ruins Grinding Disc were even more extraordinary, only lacking a sliver of opportunity, a trigger.

"The trigger is the Three Weird Rat Brothers."

Xuan Huang had already locked onto his target.

The eldest of the Three Weird Rat Brothers, Wu Deren, was at the Second-Order. His rat mouth and rat eye weirdness both possessed Second-Order essence.

He just needed the information on the advancement of the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and the Great Returning Ruins Grinding Disc, and then to devour the second brother's rat body and the third brother's rat tail.

Stacked together like that, not only would reaching the Second-Order be promising, but he could even reach the mid-stage of the Second-Order.

Solidifying true essence, 30% to 40% was a hurdle, 60% to 70% was also a hurdle, and the perfect 100% was an even bigger hurdle.

The rest, 1 to 3, 4 to 6, and 7 to 9, were just accumulation.

Having set the prices for the three types of pills, Xuan Huang summoned Sun Tong and had her take them to the Merit Hall.

Before long, the news spread.

Without a mistake, one first, one hair, one inside, one appearance, one exist, one see!

Soon, many people gathered in front of the Merit Hall.

"Spirit Soul Pill, a pill that can enhance the spirit soul, without impurities, only needing to be refined. Such a powerful pill! But ten merit points per pill is a bit expensive, isn't it?"

One cultivator pondered.

"It's not too expensive. You just need to work hard to kill fierce beasts in the wilderness. Besides, it's not like you can eat them without limit."

"Fellow Daoist, you've calculated wrong. It's twenty, after all, you still need to enter the White Bone Pagoda for trials. Otherwise, if your will doesn't reach the standard, just popping pills won't work."

This person pondered: "According to you, it's more than twenty, isn't it? You still need merit points to comprehend the Visualization Chart? Is this a cycle of consumption? Each is indispensable."

He was right. It was indeed a cycle of consumption, each indispensable.

"It seems it's very difficult for us rogue cultivators to improve in a cycle. Perhaps... it's not prepared for poor rogue cultivators."

A young man became unhappy. It was precisely the local tyrant youth from before. He said, "Have you ever thought about it being your own problem? Have you worked hard these past few days? If you don't have enough merit points, isn't it because you didn't work hard enough? Where is it expensive? It's not expensive at all..."

The more the crowd listened, the more familiar it sounded, as if they had heard it somewhere before, making them easily angry.

"Isn't that the local tyrant, the Herbal Medicine Prince?"

Some people seemed to recognize him.

"That's right, it's that bastard. He's here to be sarcastic again."

The crowd was very depressed, but few refuted him.

Because what this little prince said was somewhat correct.

The rogue cultivators who went to the wilderness to kill fierce beasts had no objections and even felt the price was acceptable, even more than enough. After all, one fierce beast could be exchanged for quite a few merit points.

Only those who dared not go to the wilderness and had no special skills didn't have enough merit points.

This led to a lack of confidence.

Everyone was fighting for their lives to earn merit points for cultivation, while they were complaining because they dared not go to the wilderness, which didn't feel right.

This wasn't a peaceful world. Ordinary people's complaints would be noticed.

In this dangerous world, complaining without working hard would only be despised.

This was an even more competitive world, a world where people truly risked their lives.

The four major powers were all smiles, finally having corresponding pills.

Essence blood was even condensed into pills. It wasn't very elegant for the dignified major powers to always drink blood.

"Go, exchange for as much as you can. The pills won't be wasted," a high-level figure from the Daoist sect instructed.

"Go, exchange for pills as much as possible... It's just that the artifact refiners haven't continued to refine storage artifacts. We need storage artifacts the most right now, preferably large storage artifacts that are ten meters square. There are no roads in the wilderness, so transporting the harvest back requires even larger storage artifacts," the Buddhist sect said.

"Exchange as much as possible, exchange as much as you can. Our secretly allied troops also need to cultivate, and the government also needs strong individuals to guard the area. There was no way before, but now, starting from Nanshi, the government needs to re-establish rules and take on the responsibility of protecting ordinary people... A chaotic and disorderly world is too unfriendly to ordinary people. Mystics also don't like such a world. Our Confucian sect wants to fulfill the duty of protecting more people," a high-level figure from the Confucian sect said.

The Confucian sect had a semi-official nature, or rather, the nearly vanished officialdom was now the Confucian sect.

For a time...

Due to the appearance of the three types of pills, the Merit Hall was bustling with activity.

The cultivators exchanged the merit points they had accumulated, and Xuan Huang gained many more fierce beasts, medicinal herbs, and even obtained a particularly extraordinary gourd seedling.

A gourd seedling that was very close to transcendence.

When it was sent to Xuan Huang's hands, Xuan Huang actually saw luck.

Thick luck was condensed on a small gourd seedling, which was truly rare.

This seedling was only less than twenty centimeters tall and was in the seedling stage. Even so, its essence had reached near transcendence.

The thick luck on it allowed it to not lose control.

After some deduction, Xuan Huang understood everything.

It was said before that the myriad realms were merging.

The myriad realms were not just Blue Star's imagination.

Or people's imagination, but a reflection of the myriad realms that already existed.

This led to many existences common to the myriad realms having great luck condensed on them.

Xuan Huang didn't know about luck before, but after the trip to Nanshan, he confirmed its real existence.

Twisted luck was also luck? Misfortune, disaster, and the like were originally manifestations of luck, so good luck and auspiciousness were also luck.

Perhaps there were too many fantasies about gourds, or perhaps there were too many magical gourds in the myriad realms.

This led to this gourd seedling being born with great luck, whether it was protected by companions from the myriad realms or maintained by fantasies about gourds.

It appeared before Xuan Huang, a person who could bring it protection and growth.

Was it the effect of Xuan Huang's luck?

Or was it the effect of the gourd's luck?

Perhaps it was the combination of the luck of both?

Xuan Huang planted the gourd next to the Jianmu. Because Qingyun Mountain's heavenly secrets were stable, after the gourd seedling was planted, it quickly stretched out its branches and leaves. The twenty-centimeter vine began to grow rapidly.

The Jianmu sensed it and grew a branch beside it, giving the vine a place to climb.

The gourd seedling nimbly wrapped around the branch, emitting an aura of affection towards the Jianmu. The Jianmu's branches and leaves swayed, accepting the gratitude of the new little brother.

...That should be the situation. Xuan Huang didn't quite understand the emotions between plants.

However, he could clearly feel the changes in the gourd vine.

"Within a month, this gourd vine will definitely step into the First-Order Transcendent level?"

Xuan Huang was very sure.

"Perhaps it will be the first transcendent spiritual plant in this world. I hope you can go further and achieve spiritual roots."

There were definitely transcendent plants in this world, but they were all twisted, more suitable to be called demonic plants, strange trees,妖草, and evil flowers.

A spiritual plant should be the first.

"It's just that I don't know what kind of fruit this gourd vine can bear? Like those in fantasies?"

Xuan Huang wasn't sure.

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