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"Lie down!"

Looking at the departing figure, Xu Fan stood there dumbstruck. He only managed to utter two words for a long time, but in the end, he had no choice but to take out another piece of silver and throw it on the table.

After an hour, Xu Fan, who had been given the Overlord's tea, returned to Yan Xia City. He went straight to a few large medicine stores to purchase a large number of common herbs, then returned to Liu Da Feng's residence. Coincidentally, Liu Da Feng had actually managed to get a few Spirit Accumulating Grass and Spirit Guiding Grass from the auction house in the past few days.

Xu Fan gave the majority of his silver and gold to Liu Da Feng, telling her to continue searching for and purchasing various Spirit Grasses. Afterwards, he left some high-level Qi Training Powder for Liu Da Feng, then returned to the cave to cultivate.

Because there was still quite a bit of Body Refining Liquid left from the last concoction, and this Body Refining Liquid was helpful in repairing his broken meridians, Xu Fan decided to continue using his own methods to expand his meridians and train his Dantian to its limits.

This time, Xu Fan first soaked his naked body in the Body Refining Liquid, then ate a high-grade Qi Cultivating Powder.

As the high-grade medicinal pill entered his mouth, it instantly filled with fragrance as it transformed into a surge of surging spirit energy.

"Lie Cao, it's actually more than ten times stronger than the Qi Training Powder I took before!"

Xu Fan was astonished. The first time he had taken a high-grade medicinal pill, he had known that it was far more powerful than he had ever imagined.

Facing the surging flow of spiritual energy, Xu Fan didn't dare to hesitate in the slightest. He immediately began circulating the cultivation technique of the 'Exhibition Golden Arts' to refine medicinal pills.

As the pill was gradually refined, a vast amount of spiritual energy quickly gathered in his meridians. Immediately afterwards, Xu Fan controlled this vast amount of spiritual energy to quickly rush into his dantian.

Boom!

When the spirit energy rushed into his dantian, it caused a violent vibration. The strong impact almost broke through his dantian.

This fellow was quite bold. He was completely unaware of the danger of the Spiritual Energy rushing into his Dantian. If he had received guidance from his teacher, he would not have dared to ask him to do such a dangerous thing. This fellow could be considered blessed with great fortune. Fortunately, after his breakthrough in the Brahma Monarch Stars Body Tempering Scripture, the tenacity of his dantian had increased significantly. Otherwise, it was possible that he would break through his dantian and never reach the Immortal Path again.

However, Xu Fan was still covered in cold sweat. If his dantian were to shatter, then he would be finished. It would be very difficult for him to cultivate Qi for the rest of his life.

Even so, Xu Fan was so frightened that he immediately stopped refining the medicinal strength of the pill. Instead, he started circulating his body forging technique to absorb the medicinal strength of the Body Refining Liquid to restore his injured dantian.

At the same time, his dantian violently shook, and the true essence spirit energy rushed back into his meridians. Xu Fan's extremely powerful meridians all shattered with a bang.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Fan absorbed a large amount of the Body Refining Liquid's medicinal strength into his meridians, quickly repairing the damaged areas.

A vast amount of spiritual power was flowing through his meridians, breaking them. The strong medicinal strength of the Body Refining Liquid was closely following the flow of the spiritual energy to repair his broken meridians.

One shattered, one repaired, repeating over and over again over again!

The medicinal strength of the high-level Qi Cultivating Powder was extraordinary. Even after Xu Fan had absorbed all of the medicinal strength of the Body Refining Liquid in the metal barrel, he still hadn't been able to completely refine the medicinal strength of the pill. Xu Fan had no choice but to add more Body Refinement Liquid before continuing to refine his meridians and dantian.

After spending an entire two days, Xu Fan added two more times with the Body Refinement Liquid before finally refining all of the medicinal strength of the high-level Qi Cultivating Powder. In the end, Xu Fan channeled all of the spirit energy he had gathered into a torrent and sent it into his Zifu, allowing the entire Primal Chaos Seven Star Tower to absorb it all.

With the help of the high-grade Qi Refining Powder and the Body Refining Liquid, Xu Fan's body forging technique cultivation speed had clearly increased.

The effects of training his dantian and meridians were also very obvious. Half a month later, Xu Fan, who had been constantly cultivating, stopped. The Spirit Accumulating Grass and Spirit Guiding Grass had already matured in the Chaotic Tower.

This time, there were a total of six batches of pills. He had succeeded in concocting one batch, obtaining eighteen high-grade Qi Cultivating Powder and six middle-grade Qi Cultivating Powder. Compared to the first batch, the progress was very clear.

During this period, Liu Dafeng came to the cave twice, but he didn't receive any Spirit Accumulating Grass. He only received two Spirit Drawing Grass and two Spirit Medicines that could be used to refine a Qi Training Pill.

Liu Da Feng told Xu Fan that a lot of people were currently buying spiritual herbs in the city, and after Xu Fan received the news, he smiled. Everything was within his expectations, so he told Liu Da Feng to stop buying these two spiritual herbs and switch to other strange things.

At first, Xu Dafeng only wanted Liu Da Feng to purchase items that had Spiritual Qi fluctuations. However, Liu Da Feng was temporarily unable to sense it, so she could only tell that Liu Da Feng wanted her to purchase items that the auction house could not identify.

In addition, Liu Da Feng's training also didn't slow down. In the past half month, with the help of the Superior Grade Qi Cultivation Powder, he actually showed signs of breaking through to the first level of Qi Cultivating Stage.

In the following time, Xu Fan didn't come out of the cave. He continued to hide in the cave and cultivate his Dantian and body to its limits.

Just like this, another half a month passed. The Spirit Accumulating Grass and Spirit Guiding Grass that Xu Fan had planted in the Seven Chaos Tower matured once again, and he stopped his cultivation to start his third attempt. However, because the supplementary ingredients for the Qi Training Pill had not been gathered yet, the pill that Xu Fan had refined this time was still Qi Training Powder.

This time, Xu Fan had refined a total of thirty batches, and finally succeeded in refining eight batches. He obtained one hundred and fifty high-grade Qi Cultivating Powder, and seventy middle-grade Qi Cultivating Powder; his success rate had just barely risen to the third level.

"NND, refining pills is indeed a profession that burns money. I have only succeeded in 10 batches out of a total of 50 batches. The cost of the herbs should be close to 10 million taels of silver. I wonder when I will be able to raise the success rate to 7 or 8 levels."

Xu Fan sighed slightly as he greedily thought to himself.

In fact, what this brat did not know was that it was already pretty good for him to buy these spiritual herbs with ten million silver taels. In the eyes of cultivators, these worldly possessions were not even worth mentioning.

At the same time, this fellow didn't know that with his alchemy results, if the cultivators in the cultivation world were to know, they would definitely think that this fellow was a genius in alchemy. Not to mention the success rate, the Qi Cultivating Powder alone was enough to shock the cultivation world.

After all, even the Spiritual Medicine Sect, which was famous for their alchemy skills, had a hard time refining high-grade Qi Training Pills.

However, these things happened after Xu Fan entered the cultivation world. Only then did he realize the great value of the high-grade Qi Training Powder that he had refined.

"..."

Cultivators had no sense of time. In the blink of an eye, four months had passed.

On this day, the cave that had been closed behind the stone wall for several months was finally opened again.

For the past four months, Xu Fan had been in the stone room of the cave, cultivating in seclusion.

This fellow practiced three different types of cultivation techniques at the same time and studied the incomplete 'Wave Breaking Sword Tactic' in his free time. At the same time, he continued to refine pills several times.

In these four months, aside from the Qi Cultivating Powder and the Blood Coagulation Pills, Xu Fan also managed to refine three batches of Qi Cultivating Pills and five batches of Qi Returning Pills. However, in this period of time, Xu Fan had already used up all of the spiritual herbs that Liu Da Feng had brought him, as well as all of the spiritual herbs that he had on him.

Through these few months of continuous alchemy, Xu Fan's gains were enormous. Not only did his success rate increase to around forty percent, he even managed to produce hundreds of pills. The number of pills he had on him now could be considered a true rich person among cultivators in the Qi Cultivation stage.

Currently, on this guy's body, there were a total of 35 high-grade Qi Refining Pills, 11 medium-grade Qi Cultivating Pills, 300 Qi Cultivating Pills, 150 medium-grade Qi Cultivating Pills, 80 high-grade Qi Returning Pills, 27 medium-grade Qi Restoring Pills, and 210 high-grade Qi Cultivating Pills. The quantity and quality of these pills was shocking!

Not to mention that the majority of these medicinal pills were high-grade. If word of this got out, the cultivation world would definitely be shaken. Of course, one could only imagine Xu Fan's fate.

It was worth mentioning that after four months of practice, although the Brahma Monarch's Stellar Body Tempering Scripture hadn't broken through to the second layer, Xu Fan had still cultivated it to the peak of the first layer's middle stage. At any time, he could break through to the late stage, and it could just be considered as godly speed.

Although the body forging technique improved very quickly, Xu Fan's cultivation realm was still at the peak of Qi Disciple level 3. However, the total amount and quality of his true essence had improved by several times.

Especially after the breakthrough of the body forging technique, it played a crucial role in the cultivation of the Golden Art and the enhancement of the Dantian's limit.

Under Xu Fan's continuous practice, the true essence limit within his dantian had also greatly increased, and his meridians had widened by quite a bit. In this situation, with his current cultivation of the peak of the third floor, he could continuously use fireballs twenty-five times in order to exhaust the true essence within his dantian. Compared to before, his true essence had increased by four times.

Such dense and vigorous true essence spirit energy was something that even ordinary cultivators at the 5th level of the Refinement Stage wouldn't be able to possess.

At the same time, thanks to the combination of his continuous cultivation of the [Three-Nine-Nine Refined Divine Technique] and his continuous refining these past few months, Xu Fan's soul had also become almost twice as strong. The spiritual sense of the host soul had already reached a distance of 150 feet. Such a distance was comparable to the spiritual sense of a peak early Foundation Establishment cultivator.

In addition, the thirteen thoughts within Xu Fan's Violet Palace had all grown to the size of a fist. Regardless of shape or size, they were all extremely condensed.

Currently, there are only two months left before the Cultivation Faction takes in disciples. I have already broken through the limit of the capacity of my dantian to contain Zhen Yuan in the 3rd level of Qi Cultivating Stage, and even the quality of Zhen Yuan has been refined to a very high level. I'm afraid that even a 5th or 6th level Qi Disciple may not be as pure and strong as my own Zhen Yuan force.

Xu Fan examined the results of his cultivation for the past few months. At the same time, he pondered over his future arrangements. This guy was very satisfied with the results of his hard work.

But after a while, Xu Fan changed his mind and thought, "Although my dantian's capacity and the quality of my true essence's spirit energy have increased by quite a bit, if I can't break through to the fourth level, then there's no point in continuing to cultivate. Now that I'm even cultivating the 'Wave Breaking Sword Tactic', the only things I can continue to cultivate and improve are body forging technique and three to nine times divine forging technique." In this period of time, quite a few medicinal pills have been refined. It's time to go out and try their luck, to see if they can find cultivators at a higher level than them to inquire about the state of their cultivation, or if they can go directly to those large clans to try their luck. "

The Xu Fan of now, regardless of strength or experience, was already on a completely different level. As a result, he secretly decided to leave the stone room and try his luck.

At this time, Xu Fan's mind flashed with inspiration. That's right, wasn't the Xu Family a big family as well? A few months ago, that damned bitch Xu Tong had cancelled her search. Could it be because cultivators had come to the Xu Family? Hmm, why not just head back and settle the Xu Family's matters as well?

Xu Fan made some calculations in his heart before resolutely putting away the pill bottles on the stone table. Finally, he decided to leave the cave.

"I don't know if I'll have the time to come back here and refine pills in the future, so I might as well take the pill furnace with me. I have plenty of space to do so anyway."

Standing up, this fellow took a look at the pill furnace in the stone room. With a thought, the pill furnace disappeared in the next moment.

Then, this fellow looked at the earth fire in the stone room and thought to himself, "I wonder if I can take this fire with me. If I can also take the earth fire back into the Seven Chaos Pagoda, then I won't have to worry about using earth fire when I try concocting more pills in the future."

Thinking up to here, Xu Fan sent his divine sense into the earthfire, only to discover that there was no way for it to be stored within the Chaotic Seven Star Tower.

"Why can't I accept it? That's right, this earth fire is actually not a thing, but an energy form. "

Xu Fan was somewhat enlightened. His heart skipped a beat, and the next moment, the Chaotic Seven Stars Tower appeared in his hands. Immediately afterwards, he covered the earth fire with the Chaotic Seven Stars Tower, then began to cast a spell.

"Withdraw!"

After the time it takes to burn an incense stick of time, the raging earthfire slowly began to grow weaker and weaker, and then it suddenly vanished. The entire earthfire was completely absorbed by the chaos tower.

"F * ck, he's too fierce. I don't need to worry about refining pills anymore, right?"

Xu Fan was overjoyed. With a thought, he entered the Seven Chaos Pagoda.

"This is?" "Where's the earth fire?"

However, when Xu Fan entered the Primal Chaos Seven Stars Tower, he was stunned. The tower still only contained a small patch of lush green spirit grass and a piece of barren land.

Xu Fan thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "Earth Fire belongs to energy, but the Chaotic Seven Stars Tower is like the vast sea, not only can it absorb its own spirit energy, it can also absorb the various energies in the world. Xu Fan thought for a moment, then said," Earth fire belongs to energy, but the Chaotic Seven Stars Tower is like the vast ocean, not only can it absorb its own spirit energy, it can also absorb the various energies in the world.

Xu Fan's heart suddenly cleared up. In the blink of an eye, he thought, "Since that's the case, doesn't that mean that in the future, when he collects more Earthly Fire energy, the speed of change in the Chaotic Seven Stars Tower will be faster? I wonder what surprises the Chaotic Tower will receive when it absorbs enough energy? Will the stone door open?" Thinking of this, Xu Fan couldn't help but feel some anticipation.

Seeing the empty stone room and the earth fire that was no longer spewing out, Xu Fan couldn't help but laugh. F * ck, I've become a ghost and entered the village. Not a single blade of grass remains. This stone room can be considered ruined in the future.

An hour later, Xu Fan's gaze contained a trace of nostalgia as he glanced over the stone room. Shaking his head, he strode out of the stone cave.

The Xu Fan that walked out of the cave was now very different from the Xu Fan from a few months ago.

After the Brahma Monarch's Stellar Body Refining Scripture was cultivated to the first and middle levels, Xu Fan's temperament once again changed. The feeling it gave was that its depth was as deep as the ocean, making it impossible to see through its depth. It was also as transparent as the air, its entire body without any aura, allowing others to see through it with a single glance.

Xu Fan's entire aura was deep and serene. His skin was smooth and his face was like jade. Aside from the faint aura and flow around his body, he looked like a gentle and refined scholar.

In fact, this guy was originally at the peak of the 3rd level of Qi Cultivating Stage, but at this moment, because he had practiced the Brahma Monarch Stars Body Tempering Scripture, he had completely concealed his own aura. Even if a cultivator with a higher realm saw him, it would be difficult for them to recognize him as a cultivator.

"Not bad, not bad. Going out like this is a good cover for someone who doesn't know their background and doesn't expect to be a cultivator. Hehe, this is a good opportunity for a shaman."

In front of a stone wall outside the Yan Xia City, Xu Fan had a crafty smile on his face as he laughed. He waved his fist in a way that made people feel that he was extremely crafty and insidious.

"..."

The Drunken Immortal Tavern was the most famous restaurant in the Yan Xia city. Legend has it that there were immortals that once visited here, but got drunk because of their greed. Hence, it was named Drunken Immortal Tavern.

Xu Fan sat at a table near the window of the restaurant. He ordered seven or eight of the most famous dishes of the Drunken Immortals' Residence in one go, as if he was a reincarnated hungry ghost.

This fellow was truly worthy of being called a hedonist. He actually ordered seven or eight special dishes and even specifically ordered wine that was rumored to have once been drunk from immortals. The waiter who watched on at the side was stunned.

Xu Fan saw the waiter's gaze and didn't waste any words. He directly took out a fifty-tael banknote and threw it to the waiter, saying, "Here's a tip for you. Hurry up and bring me the food and wine."

"Tip?"

The waiter blankly looked at Xu Fan, completely not knowing what a tip was.

"Eh …"

Xu Fan came back to his senses. He had gotten used to it in his previous life, but he actually blurted out the tip. Seeing the waiter looking at him in a daze, he smiled and said, "This is what I gave you."

"Oh, ah!" Thank you, young master! "Many thanks, Young Master!"

Hearing this, the waiter was overjoyed. These fifty taels of silver was what he had earned from working in the restaurant for a year. His face was immediately filled with a smile as he quickly nodded his head in thanks with his mouth wide open.

Afterwards, the waiter's hands and feet were incomparably nimble, and he was very attentive to Xu Fan. He quickly filled up a table full of dishes and wine, and then said, "Young master, the dishes you've ordered are all here. Take your time, this little one will wait on the side. If you need anything, feel free to tell this little one."

Xu Fan nodded his head, but didn't put on any airs, and poured himself a cup. Seeing the waiter obediently standing at the back, he thought to himself, "This money is really something, I only got a single attendant for fifty taels of silver. My heart jumped, and I asked," Second Brother, what has happened in the city recently?

When the waiter heard Xu Fan's information, his interest was piqued. He excitedly told Xu Fan, "Young master, you've asked the right person. There's nothing that I, Cheng Ergou, doesn't know about the recent events in Yan Xia."

"Oh?"

Xu Fan nodded. "Then tell me, what have happened recently?"

Cheng Ergou immediately started spitting, but his waiter either said that the pretty widow from the east city was getting along well with the amorous Young Noble, or that the young miss of the Li branch house in the west city threw a ball for a bride, or that some Courtesan Belle from the Spring Red Garden was attracted to the Marquis Sun. When he mentioned such a beautiful affair, he was excited to the point that he seemed to have fallen in love with the pretty widow, or that the young miss from the outer clan had taken a fancy to him.

When Xu Fan heard this, he immediately stopped: "Other than these, is there anything else?"

Cheng Ergou saw that Xu Fan was not interested in his words, and said with an embarrassed smile, "Young Master, other than these, nothing major has happened."

Xu Fan was somewhat speechless. He took out another fifty-tael banknote and threw it to Cheng Ergou. Waving his hand, he said, "Alright, I understand. You can leave for now."

He received the banknotes with both hands, and was about to leave when he suddenly said, "Young master, there have been a lot of important people in Yan Xia city recently. The city is not peaceful, and from time to time, there will be murders in the city. I presume young master is from outside the city, so if young master has nothing to do, it's best for you to go out as little as possible."

Xu Fan's interest was piqued. Smiling, he asked, "What big shot?"

Cheng Ergou said mysteriously, "Almost everyone from the five families of Chu Yun is here."

"Five families?" Xu Fan gaped.

Cheng Ergou replied, "It's' Xia Xu Jiang Qi Qin ', one of the five great families. However, I heard that the second place, the Xu Family, was lonely half a year ago and seemed to have been replaced by the Zhao Family."

Xu Fan calmly said, "I've heard of the Xu Family in Dragon City, but which four are the other four families?"

"I know that very well!"

Cheng Ergou patted his chest, and said: "The Xia Clan is the Xia Clan of the Central Capital, and is also the emperor's family of our Chu Yun Country. The remaining four families are the City Lords of our Chu Yun Country's four great cities, the Dragon City's Xu Family, but I heard that the Dragon City's Lord had already been bestowed by the Emperor to the Zhao Family. "As for the remaining four noble families, the Jiang family is the Mayor of Tiger City, the Qi family is the Mayor of Wind City, and the Qin family is the Mayor of Cloud City."

Xu Fan thought to himself, "The young master Jiang and Miss Qi we met last time at the tea house must be from the Jiang and Qi families of the five big families. No wonder they're so arrogant."

Seeing that Xu Fan didn't make a sound, Cheng Ergou paused before continuing, "Currently in Yan Xia City, other than the people from the Xu Family from Dragon City, the other four great clans, including the people from the Zhao Family, have all come out. It's very lively. I also heard that they came to Yan Xia City for the sake of joining some cultivation sect in two months' time. I wonder if there really are immortals in this world, Young Master, could it be that you came to Yan Xia City to join some cultivation sect as well? "

Xu Fan smiled, but didn't say anything. Although Cheng Ergou did not think much of the Immortal Cultivation Sect on the surface, but the expression on his face betrayed him. Cultivators had always been mysterious in the mortal world, who wouldn't yearn for the path of cultivation and immortality?

Seeing Xu Fan's unfathomable appearance, Cheng Ergou couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that Young Master really came to Yan Xia City to join that Immortal Cultivation Sect?"

Xu Fan shook his head and smiled, "I just came to play with soy sauce."

However, this fellow said in his heart that he was right. If it wasn't to find out how to break through to the 4th level of the Qi Cultivating Stage, why would he add me to the Sect of Immortal Cultivators? Who knew what the conditions and restrictions were for joining these cultivation sects?

Cheng Ergou was stunned. "Soy sauce?"

"Oh, I mean I'm here to see the show."

Cheng Ergou scratched his head and laughed awkwardly, "Young master's words are indeed strange, but seeing young master's generous actions and extraordinary clothing, I believe he is not an ordinary family's young master. I, Ergou, have received young master's generous gift today, so I might as well say a few more things.

Xu Fan smiled faintly. He had already achieved his goal and didn't want to continue chatting with Cheng Ergou. He took out another one hundred taels of silver and handed it over to Cheng Ergou. Smiling, he said, "Okay, I understand. You can go now."

"Thank you, young master!"

After Cheng Ergou left happily with the silver notes, Xu Fan poured himself a cup of wine and fell into deep thought.

After hearing the news a few times, Xu Fan couldn't help but guess if the Five Great Families and the Five Great Cultivator Sects were just a coincidence. Otherwise, these people from the Immortal Cultivation Sect wouldn't have taken the initiative to go to the major families. Previously, when they saw Young Master Jiang and Miss Qi in the tea house, they seemed to have taken the matter of joining the Immortal Cultivation Sect lightly, as if it wasn't difficult at all. From the looks of it, the five great clans of the State of Yun were indeed connected to these mysterious cultivation sects.

Just as Xu Fan was thinking to himself, a somewhat familiar figure suddenly flashed in front of him, then sat down across from him at the table.

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