Chapter 647 Time flies

After returning to Qingxuan Sect, Zhang Zhixuan worked non-stop to refine the foundation-building pill.

After this war, Zhang Zhixuan refined more than 60 furnaces of foundation-building pills in just a few years.

Luo Ziyan had been refining foundation-building pills for Qingxuan Sect for more than 200 years, but she only refined 40 furnaces of foundation-building pills. In terms of experience in refining foundation-building pills, she was far less skilled than Zhang Zhixuan.

After refining more than 60 furnaces of foundation-building pills, Zhang Zhixuan's success rate has stabilized to more than 80%. He almost caught up with the fifth-level top-grade alchemist, greatly reducing the cost of refining foundation-building pills.

After returning from Da Zhou, Zhang Zhixuan refined 40 furnaces of foundation-building pills.

Unknowingly, time passed like flowing water, and three years had passed.

After three years of refining pills, the foundation-building pill reserves of the sect's general affairs hall have exceeded more than 300 pills.

In addition to the foundation-building pills refined last time, Qingxuan Sect is estimated to be able to cultivate 300 foundation-building cultivators in the past sixty years, greatly enhancing the sect's foundation.

Unfortunately, this is a one-time deal. If you want to lay a solid foundation, you still have to rely on planting chalcedony and gold ganoderma and increase investment in the spiritual medicine garden.

After the destruction of Hongshan Sect, Qingxuan Sect opened a new spiritual medicine garden on Taihong Mountain and planted some golden ganoderma seedlings.

But it may take eight or nine hundred years for these seedlings to mature.

Even if you rely on the spiritual plant secret method obtained from Tianyuan Sect, it can only save one-third of the time. If you want to use this batch of golden ganoderma, you still have to wait for five hundred years.

Now the only thing you can rely on is the underground cave of Dafang Island. Some of the chalcedony and gold ganoderma planted by Qingchan have begun to mature intermittently.

Unfortunately, the scale of the spiritual medicine garden in the underground cave of Dafang Island is not enough, and it is not as good as the spiritual medicine garden in Qingyang Mountain. It is really a drop in the bucket.

This time, seven fifth-level spiritual medicines were found from Shenmu Sect. These seven fifth-level spiritual medicines can be used for alchemy. Unfortunately, without the fifth-level high-quality spiritual medicines, Zhang Zhixuan cannot improve his alchemy skills.

These seven fifth-level elixirs have different effects. There are healing elixirs such as Biyun Dan and Buyuan Dan, as well as elixirs such as Dundi Dan and Yuanci Dan for escaping through refining.

The most valuable one is Hanxi Dan, which is an elixir that increases mana and is suitable for cultivators who mainly practice water spirit roots, ice spirit roots, and wood spirit roots.

Among the eight golden elixirs of Qingxuan Sect, only Hanyan, Qingchan, and Lu Hongniang are suitable for taking.

After reaching the golden elixir stage, elixirs that can directly increase mana are already relatively rare. Among the eleven fifth-level elixir recipes of Qingxuan Sect, there are only two elixirs that increase mana.

It takes a long time to refine the fifth-level elixir. It took Zhang Zhixuan another five years to refine these seven elixirs.

Although Zhang Zhixuan is a fifth-level middle-grade alchemist, the success rate of refining the fifth-level lower-grade elixir is not good, generally only 30%.

The success rate of 30% is just enough to make sure that there is no loss.

However, fifth-level elixir is relatively rare on the market, and most of them are out of stock.

The sect has a mature fifth-level alchemist, which is also very beneficial to the sect's high-level cultivators.

Qingxuan Sect has two fifth-level alchemists, but Luo Ziyan only made a fifth-level low-grade elixir by chance. Unlike Zhang Zhixuan, who has more than a dozen fifth-level elixir recipes, she wants to improve her alchemy skills to Zhang Zhixuan's level. It will take at least one million merits and a hundred years before it is possible.

After refining the elixir, Zhang Zhixuan left the Dundi Pill and Yuanci Pill in the sect's treasury in exchange for merits.

The Buyuan Pill and Biyun Pill were sent to Tianchan Cave and given to Liu Guyan for healing.

It has been eight years since Liu Guyan failed to break through the Nascent Soul, and her injuries have healed by 50%.

Even if the Buyuan Pill and Biyun Pill are slightly lower in grade, they can still play a role in her injuries and save a few years of healing time.

As for the Hanxi Pill, it was naturally given to Qingchan and Hanyan to take.

After taking the Hanxi Pill, Hanyan lived up to everyone's expectations and broke through to the third level of the Golden Core.

Qing Chan's cultivation also advanced by leaps and bounds, advancing to the ninth level of the Golden Core, reaching the peak of the Golden Core stage.

Qing Chan completed the Golden Core stage of cultivation in just 110 years.

This progress has far exceeded that of his previous life.

With Liu Xuanyan's qualifications, she also spent 150 years of hard work at this stage.

After breaking through to the ninth level of the Golden Core, she has recalled 70% to 80% of her memories of her previous life. Her magical powers have improved greatly.

Even Liu Guyan, who had attacked the Nascent Soul and refined the Purple Sun Sky Fire, was a little inferior to her.

During the eight years that Zhang Zhixuan was refining the elixir, the Qingxuan Sect gradually withdrew from the Southern Wilderness and gathered its strength into several fifth-level spiritual veins.

Except for Zhongxuan Mountain, which is close to Qingyang Mountain, many fourth-level spiritual veins in the sect have been abandoned.

The cultivators and mortals on the Black Mountain Spiritual Vein, which Zhang Zhixuan has been managing for many years, have also withdrawn to Lushan County.

Yuan Yanlai of Xuantong Mountain was escorted by Gu Xuanzhou, and his cultivation was sealed by Liu Lingjun. He took his monks to Qingyang Mountain to practice.

Because Yuan Yanlai could not take action, there were only two golden elixirs, Jin Laozu and Lu Hongniang, on Qingyang Mountain, and their strength was slightly weak against the Yuanying monster. Zhang Zhixuan, Qingchan, and Hanyan all practiced in Qingyang Mountain temporarily, and gave the underground cave of Lingjing Mountain to Liu Lingjun.

In the past eight years, Qingxuan Sect monks have traveled to many places.

Jin Laozu and Lu Hongniang went to Dazhou in person and finally bought three sets of medium-distance teleportation arrays.

With these three sets of medium-distance teleportation arrays, the three fifth-level spiritual veins of Tianchan Cave, Lingjing Mountain, and Qingyang Mountain are interconnected. In addition, the Qingxuan Sect's magic weapon Tongling Jade Book can quickly reinforce any spiritual vein in danger.

Relying on the three teleportation arrays, the situation in the southern part of Yu State has finally stabilized.

When the Qingtong demon king of the Poison Dragon Pond found that Liu Lingjun had left, he was immediately ashamed and angry. He quietly left the Poison Dragon Pond and prepared to attack the Qingxuan Sect's spiritual veins, but found that the spiritual veins, big and small, had already been deserted. Even the immature spiritual medicines on the spiritual veins were all looted.

The Qingtong demon king explored Qingyang Mountain for a while, and Liu Lingjun immediately appeared on the top of Qingyang Mountain. Liu Guyan also teleported from Tianchan Cave to the vicinity with the Ziyang Sky Fire Talisman.

Seeing this scene, the demon king immediately fled back to the Poison Dragon Pond in a panic, not daring to go deep into the heart of Yu State.

Unable to gain an advantage from Qingxuan Sect, the demon king could only direct his anger at the Yu State.

The monks of Baihong Mountain were almost wiped out by the demon king, and only a few senior members escaped by relying on the teleportation array on the top of the mountain.

The three sects of the Yu State had no choice but to shrink greatly, and the three sects reluctantly chose to merge under pressure.

Relying on the union of the three sects, they blocked the Qingtong demon king and defended a fifth-level spiritual mountain.

Most of the spiritual veins of the state of Xi were extinguished and fell. The mortals in the state lost the protection of the cultivators and could not prepare for evacuation many years in advance, so they lost 70% to 80% in a short period of time.

The population of the three sects of the state of Xi exceeded 20 million. Facing this disaster, 30% migrated to the state of Song, and a small number drifted to the states of Yu and Pei.

About several million mortals were lost on the way of migration.

Such a heavy loss immediately shocked Zhang Zhixuan secretly.

In this world of cultivating immortals, although mortals have the opportunity to become immortals, their fate is like duckweed.

Without the protection of powerful cultivators, they are in dire straits all the time.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhang Zhixuan deeply understood the cruelty of this world.