Chapter 92: Chapter 92: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron

Talisman Master Shen took the ancient pill without looking at it and handed it directly to Li Jizhou.

“Dear brother, I see from your face that you are a person with deep fortune. If you can open an ancient Fixed Face Pill, I will give you two thousand spirit stones on the spot!”

Li Jizhou smiled slightly, but didn’t say much. His magical power condensed slightly in his palm,

and the spirit stone ore shattered in response.

The aura of the ancient pill instantly leaked out.

“I’m afraid I’ve disappointed Brother Shen. It’s just a Tier One Middle-Level Upper-Grade Qi Replenishing Pill, worth at most twenty spirit stones,” Li Jizhou said with a smile.

“What a pity, what a pity. It seems I still lack that fortune. It dragged you down, dear brother. Come, a cup of wine to change our luck!” Talisman Master Shen tossed the pill to the vendor nonchalantly.

The vendor hurriedly took out twenty spirit stones and handed them to Talisman Master Shen.

Afterward, the three of them took Talisman Master Shen’s flying ship back to the Upper City District.

“Dear brother, today I will let you taste the craftsmanship of my humble wife!”

Soon, Li Jizhou entered the Shen Mansion.

Inside, it was lively with many women around.

Li Jizhou, besides needing to be constantly on guard, always suppressing his trump card, and guarding against poison with his dual medical poison cultivation,

found this drinking session to be quite pleasant. During the feast, Shen Zian recalled his struggles and shared the early hardships of his cultivation journey.

He spoke of being unable to break through the Middle Stage of Qi Cultivation at over thirty, nearly giving up on the immortal path as his Dao heart almost shattered.

He also shared some of his experiences and insights from when he established his Foundation Foundation.

Moreover, he let each of his eighteen concubines toast to Li Jizhou, showing a great desire to befriend him.

This made Li Jizhou speculate but remain uncertain.

Fortunately, there were no signs of anything harmful to him for the time being.

After three rounds of drinks, the host and guests were all pleased,

Shen Zian specially arranged for a beautiful concubine to escort Li Jizhou back home, but Li Jizhou politely declined and took his leave.

Back at his residence, he reviewed the day’s interactions with Shen Zian.

The only possible reason might be his identity as a skilled Pill Master.

It’s a kind of early investment.

Ordinarily, a Tier Two senior Pill Master’s status and position are incomparable, and they are mostly worshiped within the sects with great benefits, making it difficult for a loose cultivator to associate with them.

Especially a high-tier senior Pill Master capable of refining Foundation Establishment Pills with a high success rate, which is a strategic resource that regional ruling forces must control.

Although Li Jizhou is currently a Tier One Pill Master, he has already become an Honored Guest Elder at Miaodan Tower and has the strength to reside in the Upper City District.

The potential is clear at a glance!

Of course, this is just Li Jizhou’s guess. The specifics depend on future interactions.

Putting these thoughts aside, Li Jizhou hung up a sign of “In Seclusion, Do Not Disturb” and began to study the Little Fire Spirit with full concentration.

According to the records of Cyan Ox Wanderer, when a Fire Spirit is first born, it is naturally lonely and helpless, with no ability to protect itself, making it very timid. If it encounters an inexplicable crisis, it will use its own essence as a means of attack.

This kind of attack is equivalent to suicide.

Once the essence is exhausted, the spirit body dissipates, returning to the heavens.

Even if it’s not completely drained, any consumption requires a long time to recover.

“A long time…”

Li Jizhou frowned slightly. If the Fire Spirit cannot recover its essence and advance to a Tier Two Fire Spirit, he would not be able to refine premium Foundation Establishment Pills by himself.

The Dan fire he condensed from practicing the Flame Phosphorus Skill is only top-grade, making it difficult to ensure the success rate and quality of Foundation Establishment Pills.

At the age of thirty-four, he is about to complete the Qi Cultivation Seventh Level.

Under normal circumstances, in five years, he would reach the peak of Qi Cultivation Ninth Level and could establish his Foundation Foundation.

Standing on the threshold of establishing his foundation at forty, the hope for Core Formation is great.

However, this is only for ordinary Qi cultivation practitioners,

whose life span is generally only one hundred and twenty years. At forty, they are in their prime, with the best physical vitality, divine soul, and spiritual sense. Establishing the foundation before then can lock in these attributes to lay a solid foundation for future Core Formation.

After forty, physical vitality and divine soul begin to ease, and after sixty, they start to decline. Even if one is lucky enough to establish a foundation, there is almost no possibility of Core Formation.

Moreover, the time taken to establish the foundation can generally reflect the person’s spirit root talent.

However, Li Jizhou now, completing the Qi Cultivation Seventh Level, already has a lifespan of one hundred sixty-three years.

Forty is still very young.

So he is not in a hurry.

“Ten years!”

Finally, he decided to give the Fire Spirit ten years, and himself ten years.

If, after ten years, the Fire Spirit still shows no promise, he will accept the quota from Miaodan Tower.

In the days to come, Li Jizhou stabilized his cultivation while feeding the Little Fire Spirit with eternal spring magical power.

Now, the residence is located on a Tier Two Upper-Grade spirit vein, where the spiritual Qi is even more abundant. For Li Jizhou’s practice of the Evergreen Skill, it takes only one and a half hours each day to reach the limit, leaving more free time.

However, feeding the Little Fire Spirit is time and magical power-consuming, filling up the extra free time. The time allocated to refining other techniques hasn’t changed much.

Moreover, every once in a while, Li Jizhou would specially prepare some Illusory Spirit Powder for Guagua as a snack.

Otherwise, each time Li Jizhou fed the Little Fire Spirit with Evergreen Skill magical power, Guagua’s eyes, which were already bulging, would really pop out.

In addition, the nearby neighbors have gradually increased their repurchase of pills, with retail sales surpassing the task pills that needed to be delivered to Miaodan Tower. The profit from alchemy has greatly increased. With his current focus on refining Tier One Advanced Level pills, based on the success rate and the rate of top-grade pills, the average monthly profit can reach nearly five hundred Spirit Stones.

There’s basically no financial pressure, and some Spirit Stones can even be saved for planning the purchase of a Foundation Establishment Pill.

During this time, Li Jizhou also specially asked the steward Jin Mei to take his Celestial Secret Tower Jade Talisman to upgrade to a fifth-level quarterly report.

The scope includes the entire Qi Kingdom cultivation community.

It involves more forces, the content is more complex, and the perspective is elevated to overlooking an entire country.

Finally able to unravel and perceive the overall trend of the entire Qi Kingdom cultivation community.

Right on the upgraded first-quarter with the previous quarter’s report as a bonus, Li Jizhou unexpectedly saw an inconspicuous piece of news.

Within the Cold Wind Valley’s sphere of influence, Wutong Immortal City has been posting a long-term announcement since two years ago.

The title is: Clear Wind Bright Moon Pill.

“Clear wind has gone, bright moon remains,

Whether affection or grievance,

Years pass by, how can they withstand it?

Let past events drift away with the wind.”

Seeing this, Li Jizhou felt a sense of comfort for Pharmacist Zheng.

If he knew below, he could rest in peace.

In the face of time, emotions and grievances are meaningless.

They are not as enduring as a struggle for profit.

A year later, Li Jizhou, at thirty-five, stepped into the Qi Cultivation Eighth Level.

And what slightly surprised Li Jizhou was that, after a year of envy and jealousy, eating Illusory Spirit Powder daily, Guagua seemed to have reached the verge of a breakthrough. Its originally peculiar markings on its back had become very distinct.

Like an eye.

Moreover, its entire skin began to secrete a sticky liquid in various colors, eventually wrapping it completely.

Slowly sinking into the pond in the mansion, it fell into a deep sleep.

This result left Li Jizhou astonished.

In this world, demon beasts lack intelligence and cannot cultivate autonomously. They can only rely on bloodline talents to transform, which is greatly limited by their bloodline.

At most, they can consume some spirit medicine that accelerates their bloodline growth.

However, when they reach the limit of their innate talent, they can no longer advance.

Guagua was clearly just an ordinary spirit beast with at most a Middle Grade bloodline, and under normal circumstances, it was almost impossible to advance to a Tier Two demon beast.

Even those beast-controlling families with thousand-year legacies would need to pay an exorbitant price to make a spirit beast surpass its innate bloodline talent to advance, which generally isn’t worthwhile.

Therefore, beast-controlling families select spirit beasts for training just like large sects select disciples, prioritizing talent and bloodline. They generally don’t bother with those of low grade.

Initially, Li Jizhou took in Guagua just for the face value of a hundred Spirit Stones and also out of some concern for Xu Mei.

Eventually, he realized that Guagua was merely a tool for Xu Mei to use in a mysterious realm, discarded after use without care, and thus he didn’t pay much attention, keeping it by his side as a strategic tool frog.

He never expected it to advance!

A Tier Two demon beast can match a Foundation Establishment initial stage cultivator, and some with special innate divine abilities can even cause the death of a Middle Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator!

“It’s actually stronger than me now!”

“If Yu Ziyu, who once discarded Guagua like old shoes, knew that it had advanced to Tier Two, how would they react?”

Li Jizhou was very much looking forward to Guagua’s breakthrough.

Besides Guagua’s mutation, the latest update in the reports stated that Inverted Mountain was liberated by the three sects and five families.

The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance’s loose cultivators largely submitted and were treated well. Their apparent leader, Master Lu, was forcefully killed by the three sects’ elders, dying without a trace of soul!

Subsequently, the three sects announced the start of clearing internal threats in Inverted Mountain, prohibiting unauthorized entry.

“The Thunder Flame Sect’s underground treasury is finally about to be unveiled.”

“I wonder what heaven-defying opportunities will emerge?”

“However, it probably won’t be easy…”

Li Jizhou slightly shook his head. Before entering the mysterious realm, he also believed the rumors about the Thunder Flame Sect’s past events.

But after mistakenly entering a mysterious realm and witnessing the divine thought of the Thunder Flame Sect’s disciples from eight hundred years ago, he realized that things weren’t as simple as rumored.

However, he wasn’t concerned about that in the slightest!

After quickly scanning through the Inverted Mountain incident, his eyes swept across the report.

Suddenly, a single sentence on a small column at the edge of the report made him sit up straight.

It turned out that in recent years, the Celestial Secret Pavilion has been expanding to some small cultivation countries in the south.

The cultivators from those small cultivation countries would post some requests for help, hoping to get answers from a medium-sized cultivation country like Qi Kingdom.

And what Li Jizhou saw was a single sentence: “Seeking help from fellow cultivators, who can enlighten me on what ’hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron’ is?”

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