Chapter 366: Alchemy on the way

Ye Ling followed Lu Qiuju, bypassed the Essence of Lihuo, and went deep into the Sky Fire Cave. Most of the fire-type spiritual flowers and herbs he saw in the cave were above the tenth level.

Lu Qiuju said that these spiritual herbs were specially cultivated by the ancestors of the Chixiao Immortal Sect in order to maintain the rich fire spiritual energy in the Sky Fire Cave and maintain the growth of the Sky Fire Tree.

Ye Ling spread his spiritual sense and saw that these fire-type spiritual herbs were indeed not rare. They were all recorded in the spiritual herb atlas, and they were still young. The longest survival was only a few hundred years, and had not yet reached the category of top-grade.

Surrounded by the fire-type spiritual flowers and herbs in the cave, there stood an ancient tree with tangled roots. Only a pomegranate-sized fiery red flower bud was hanging on the treetop, emitting dazzling fire spiritual energy!

"Is this the Sky Fire Tree? There is only one Fire Flower?" Ye Ling used his spiritual sense to check carefully, but did not find the second one.

Lu Qiuju nodded and smiled, "Of course! It is precisely because the Fire Nether Flower is rare and the Heavenly Fire Nether Fruit it produces is also very limited, so the ancestor attaches great importance to it and ordered me to come here every month to cut off the faster growing branches and leaves, so that the Fire Nether Flower will bloom more brilliantly and produce Heavenly Fire Nether Fruit earlier."

While speaking, Lu Qiuju took out a fifth-grade top-grade water spirit scissors, carefully cut off the lush branches and leaves of the Heavenly Fire Nether Tree, tied them up and gave them to Ye Ling: "Since the branches and leaves of the Heavenly Fire Nether Tree can be used as medicine, I will cut more for Brother Ye. Anyway, the ancestor will not blame you if he sees fewer branches and leaves."

Ye Ling responded silently, secretly took a branch of the Heavenly Fire Nether Tree into the Immortal Palace Jade Pendant, and planted it in the Immortal Palace Spirit Field of Zhaixing Cliff.

The field power of the spiritual field quickly dissipated, while the branches sprouted and grew at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Ye Ling's soul body replenished the spiritual field with spiritual stones at any time. The branches gradually grew to more than ten feet high, then reached two feet, three feet, and finally formed a flower bud on the treetops, which bloomed rapidly! It grew thousands of times faster than the Heavenly Fire Tree in the Heavenly Fire Cave!

In order to replenish the field power as soon as possible, Ye Ling changed the medium-grade spiritual stones to high-grade spiritual stones and threw them into the spiritual field one after another. The fire and dark flowers finally shone as brightly as the sun, and finally produced the Heavenly Fire and Dark Fruits the size of longans! They were red and hanging on the branches, so cute.

When the Heavenly Fire and Dark Tree stopped growing, Ye Ling picked the Heavenly Fire and Dark Fruits and stored them in the cabin in the Star-Picking Cliff of the Immortal Mansion. His mind withdrew from the Immortal Mansion Jade Pendant, and his soul returned to his body.

Seeing that Lu Qiuju was still cutting branches and leaves for him, Ye Ling hurriedly said, "Enough! With so many branches and leaves as medicine, we can refine a lot of fire elixirs."

Lu Qiuju stopped and said with a smile, "That's good. I have been delayed here for two days. I have to return to Chixiao Xianmen to report! Otherwise, the ancestor will punish me, and my position as a trusted disciple will end. I wonder where Brother Ye is going. Is he going back to Tiandan Xianmen?"

Ye Ling shook his head. He killed the third young master Zhou Mingde and the sixth young master Zhou Minghui of the Zhou family, as well as the residual soul of Zhou Chong, all of which shocked the Zhou family and the two major immortal gates!

Although no one could have imagined that the killing of the Golden Core Stage Elder Zhou of Chixiao Xianmen was done by a fourth-level foundation cultivator like Ye Ling, but Zhou Yuan and Zhou Xingwu, the two Golden Core old monsters, might still suspect him. If he went back now, wouldn't it be like sending his head into the tiger's mouth?

Therefore, Ye Ling had already made up his mind to gain experience outside, avoid the limelight, and stay as far away from the Chixiao Immortal Sect as possible.

So Ye Ling smiled calmly and said, "I have received the mission of picking fire spirit herbs from the immortal sect, so I am naturally collecting herbs outside and will not return to Tiandan Immortal Sect for the time being. Does Miss Lu have a jade slip of the nearby map?"

Lu Qiuju said without hesitation, "Yes! It's a pity that the area around the Jiehuo Formation is really desolate, and there are no rare fire spirit herbs distributed. If Brother Ye doesn't mind the distance, he can go to Xishanzhou in the south, which is located in the southern border of Wu State. There are more fire spirit herbs there than in the sphere of influence of our Chixiao Immortal Sect! As long as he doesn't step into the Hundred Thousand Mountains and enter the Fire Barbarian Land, with Brother Ye's strength, he should be safe and sound."

Ye Ling's mind was shocked. He had seen the full map of the Wu Kingdom's cultivation world in the backyard of the Tiandan Immortal Sect's Sutra Pavilion. He knew that the southern part of Wu State was adjacent to the Fire Barbarian Land, but he didn't know that there were Hundred Thousand Mountains blocking it!

Ye Ling hurriedly took the map jade slip from Lu Qiuju and injected mana into it. The map of the southern part of Wu Kingdom drawn on it was much more detailed than the one marked by Tiandan Xianmen. From Lingfu Xianmen to Chixiao Xianmen, Chixiao City, Huoyun Ridge, and then to Tianhuo Cave tens of thousands of miles south, there was a large wilderness, extending all the way to Xishan and Xishanzhou. The southernmost end was the vast Shiwan Mountains, and then the Huoman Land!

"Haha, with this map jade slip, I can travel anywhere in the southern part of Wu Kingdom! Miss Lu, just go back and report. I will try my luck around. As for the fact that I have been to Tianhuo Cave, I hope Miss Lu will not tell anyone." Ye Ling arched his hands to Lu Qiuju and laughed, without specifying the direction he was going to.

Lu Qiuju nodded repeatedly: "Of course! Brother Ye, this is not something you can tell others. If the ancestor knew that I brought you in private, he would have to kill me!"

Ye Ling nodded in response, and the two of them went out of the Sky Fire Cave, passed through the Jiehuo Formation, said goodbye to each other, and went their separate ways.

Ye Ling looked back at Lu Qiuju stepping into the teleportation formation, and her figure disappeared. Then he turned south, riding the sixth-level demon dragon, and flew to the southern wilderness.

He sat cross-legged on the dragon head of the demon, listening to the whistling wind in his ears, swallowed two Baimai Lingdan, and began his daily practice. At the same time, he was secretly thinking: "I am going to the southern border. In addition to daily practice, I have to refine a lot of pills along the way to improve my alchemy skills! Only when you reach the level of a master of alchemy will you be deeply valued by the immortal gate. When I return to the Tiandan Immortal Gate, no matter how Zhou Yuan and Zhou Xingwu doubt and slander me, the ancestors of the immortal gate will definitely block it for me. After all, there are very few master alchemists in the nine immortal gates! No matter where you go, you are a very high-ranking existence!"

Ye Ling also knew that there were alchemists everywhere in the world, and there were also many master alchemists, but alchemy masters were very rare.

Even in the Tiandan Xianmen, which mainly practices alchemy, there are only two alchemy masters. One is the ancestor of the Xianmen, and the other is Elder Han from the Beishan of the Xianmen. He has been in seclusion for many years. Although he is not from a big cultivation family, Elder Han's reputation as an alchemy master ranks first among the dozen Jindan elders of the Tiandan Xianmen.

"With my cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building, if I can be promoted to an alchemy master, I can make Zhou Yuan and Zhou Xingwu, the two Jindan monsters, restrain themselves!"

When Ye Ling thought of this, he immediately took out the Qiyao Danlu and Liyan Danlu, placed them on the back of the sixth-level demon dragon, and took a large amount of spiritual herbs from the Zhaixing Cliff of the Xianfu, and made alchemy while traveling far away.