Chapter 1486 9 The Supreme Elder of Youzong

Especially in the past few decades, he has won a lot of fame in Broken Sky City, and is ranked among the best even among the casual cultivators.

Many of the people Lai Piqiu interacted with were monks from powerful forces.

It can be said that there are great scholars among the people who talk and laugh, and there are no unlearned people among the people.

Zhang Xuan intentionally or unintentionally began to ask him about the matter of the Supreme Elder of Jiuyou Sect.

"I wonder if Fellow Daoist Lai Piqiu has any dealings with the Jiuyou Sect?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"Of course, we have some dealings with the Jiuyou Sect. A large portion of my Dao Ziyang Pills will also be sold to the Jiuyou Sect."

"I heard that the supreme elder of Jiuyou Sect is very mysterious and his cultivation has reached the peak of refining emptiness. I wonder if it is true or not?" Zhang Xuan continued to ask.

Lai Piqiu laughed and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhang, your information is a bit outdated. The peak of the Void Refining Realm was 20 years ago. Now, the Grand Elder of the Jiuyou Sect has already advanced to the Half-Step Fusion Realm."

Zhang Xuan was shocked when he heard this. He stood up from his chair and even spilled the Immortal Brew in his hand. "What? Are you sure he has advanced to the half-step fusion stage now?"

Lai Piqiu nodded and said, "Of course I'm sure. I've even had the good fortune to meet that Grand Elder. This Grand Elder of the Jiuyou Sect was truly blessed. Just when his lifespan was almost over, he was able to pass through the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Evil Path and obtain the Sun Soul Birth and Nine Palace Formation. Unfortunately, his Life Bridge wasn't strong enough, and the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Evil couldn't merge. Furthermore, I heard that when this Grand Elder attempted to merge, he suffered a massive backlash and sustained serious hidden injuries. I'm afraid he won't be able to achieve the fusion in this lifetime."

Henry Zhang took a breath after listening to this information.

At that time, Ye Xingchen was surrounded by six people at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm, but he managed to escape. Moreover, the forces of these 33 Tianhe Rivers did not even come to cause trouble for Ye Xingchen.

The only explanation is that in the ancient star ruins, Ye Xingchen killed all six cultivators at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm.

Of course, Ye Xingchen probably paid a huge price to kill these six peak-level Void Refinement cultivators, and one of the prices he paid was probably that he would not be able to advance to the Fusion stage in this lifetime.

However, his life was finally saved, and he escaped safely from the Ancient Star Ruins and returned to the Jiuyou Sect.

He is also a hero-level figure!

Zhang Xuan pieced together the entire story based on the information provided by Lai Piqiu. Seeing Zhang Xuan's astonishment, Lai Piqiu said, "When I first heard that the Nine Nether Sect's Grand Elder had reached the Half-Step Fusion stage, I was just as surprised as Fellow Daoist Zhang. What is a Half-Step Fusion stage? It's a cultivator who's only half a step away from achieving Fusion. At least on the surface, aside from Elder Rong Xiao, no one in the entire Broken Sky City is a match for this Nine Nether Sect's Grand Elder. As for the Nine Nether Sect, we craftsmen should make friends with them. Would you like me to introduce you to them later?"

Zhang Xuan quickly shook his head and said, "That's not necessary. Fellow Daoist Lai Piqiu, you know me. I have always been relatively low-key. Even in Broken Sky City, many people don't know that I am a spiritual plant master. Moreover, I have a cooperation with the Ye family. It is not appropriate to make friends with other forces."

Lai Piqiu glanced at Zhang Xuan, nodded slightly and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhang is absolutely right. It's me who didn't think it through."

At this time, after three rounds of drinks, the atmosphere became more harmonious.

Zhang Xuan's mind was full of thoughts. He knew very well that the situation in Broken Sky City had become more complicated because of the advancement of the Supreme Elder of Jiuyou Sect.

If the Grand Elder of the Jiuyou Sect heard that he had emerged alive from the Ancient Star Ruins, would he attack him?

Lai Piqiu said, "This Broken Sky City has always been a place where various forces check and balance each other. Although the Nine Nether Sect has a Supreme Elder who has advanced to the Half-Step Fusion stage, other forces will not sit idly by and watch. Moreover, as long as we craftsmen do our own duties and do not get involved in those disputes, we won't be in any big trouble."

Zhang Xuan nodded slightly and asked, "Fellow Daoist Lai Piqiu, besides mastering the Great Dao Purple Extreme Pill, have you tried to refine other sixth-level pills?"

After hearing Zhang Xuan's question, Lai Piqiu lowered his voice and said, "To be honest, I have also tried to refine the Dragon Scale Avenue Pill once."

Zhang Xuan deliberately showed a look of surprise when he heard this: "What? Dragon Scale Great Dao Pill, which uses Dragon Scale Immortal Ganoderma as the main ingredient, has Daoist Fellow Lai Piqiu actually refined it?"

Lai Piqiu nodded slightly, and said with regret, "It's a pity that refining the Dragon Scale Great Dao Pill is too difficult. I failed at the first step of refining the Dragon Scale Immortal Ganoderma, not to mention the subsequent steps of generating the Life Pill, evolving the Pill Pattern, and condensing the Pill Emperor Vision. With my alchemy talent, I'm afraid I may not be able to get started even if I refine it hundreds of times, let alone just this once."

Having the recipe for alchemy, but being unable to make the pills, and even reaching the ceiling and bottleneck of one's own alchemy, this sense of fate and regret is a big blow to an alchemist.

As if sensing the oppressive atmosphere, Lai Piqiu laughed heartily and said, "But this was a blessing in disguise. I heard that the Jade Dew Pill Sect's Grand Elder wanted to capture and kill the sixth-rank alchemist who could refine the Dragon Scale Great Dao Pill. Fortunately, I didn't succeed. If I had, I would have been captured by the Jade Dew Pill Sect long ago, and Fellow Daoist Zhang would probably never have seen me again. This is the advantage of having low talent. Sometimes, low talent is your greatest protection."

Henry Zhang nodded solemnly and asked again: "Besides the Dragon Scale Avenue Pill, has Fellow Daoist Lai Piqiu tried any other pill recipes?"

"In the past fifty years since I became a sixth-rank alchemist, I've been collecting various sixth-rank pill recipes. In addition to the recipes for the Dao Ziyang Pill and the Dragon Scale Dao Pill, I also collected a recipe for the Dao Ningshen Pill."

"Does this Great Dao Concentrating Spirit Pill use the Concentrating Spirit Immortal Grass as its main ingredient and have the effect of replenishing spiritual consciousness?" Zhang Xuan asked excitedly.

"Yes, it's the same as the Dao Ziyang Pill. It's easier to refine, and there won't be the problem of stealing the luck of other alchemists who have successfully refined the pills. I've been trying for a while now. Maybe in a dozen years or so, I'll be able to refine the Dao Ningshen Pill."

After hearing this, Zhang Xuan was immediately moved.

He planted a lot of spirit-concentrating herbs in his sixth-level spiritual field.

He had heard Fairy Ling Chen introduce earlier that this Spirit-Concentrating Immortal Grass was the main ingredient in refining the Great Dao Spirit-Concentrating Pill. He didn't expect to get the information about the recipe of the Great Dao Spirit-Concentrating Pill from Lai Piqiu so soon.

At that moment, Zhang Xuan said cautiously: "Fellow Daoist Lai Piqiu, you know that I am also very interested in alchemy. I wonder if this Dao Ning Shen Pill..."

Before Zhang Xuan finished speaking, Lai Piqiu threw a jade slip to him and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhang is my good friend. If I hadn't provided enough Purple Yang Mysterious Grass, I wouldn't have been able to refine so many Dao Purple Yang Pills. You can take this pill recipe."