Chapter 27 Eight Years [Seeking Recommendation Tickets!]

"Miao Yin City is not in danger for now, but there will inevitably be conflict and battle in the future. Perhaps, I should also get used to and familiarize myself with the battles between cultivators."

Lu Qingfeng listened quietly, a thought arising in his heart.

Entering the path of cultivation, if one believes they can solely rely on alchemy, artifact refining, and such, to smoothly become immortal and revered, they are undoubtedly deceiving themselves.

Cultivation requires competition!

Since competition is necessary, battles are unavoidable!

Various techniques, divine skills, and magic artifacts are methods to protect the Tao.

Conflicts may determine victory or defeat, or life and death.

In the game, one can be resurrected or reincarnated after dying. In reality, if one loses their life to an opponent because they are not adept at battling, then everything ends.

"However, before that, I still need to master alchemy to ensure smooth cultivation."

"One must sharpen their tools if they wish to do their work well!"

"Artifact refining should also come before actual combat. The puppet technique—"

Lu Qingfeng pondered silently, thinking of the ten puppets he saw previously which still stunned him, when suddenly a system notification popped up—

[Congratulations, player, for joining Yuan Yi Guild, your current guild position is: Elder]

"Elder?"

Lu Qingfeng looked up at Mu Yuanyi, who happened to look back at him. He instantly understood that it must be Mu Yuanyi, acting with the authority of a guild leader, formally admitting him into the Yuan Yi Guild and appointing him as an elder.

The attribute list now also included a guild section.

Affiliated Guild: Yuan Yi Guild

Guild level: Level 6

Guild Ranking: 112 (Bingling Realm regional ranking)

Guild Members: 324

Guild Leader: Mu Yuanyi

Vice Leaders: Zhang Zong, Yu Bufan

Elders: Wang Tao, Lu Hongwen, Yue Ran...

Hall Masters: Ma Chang, Zhou Huan...

Deacons: Song Yun, Xiang Tianqiong...

Elites: ...

Members: ...

The guild information was extraordinarily detailed, perhaps related to Lu Qingfeng's high permissions. The Yuan Yi Guild had one guild leader, two vice leaders, and including Lu Qingfeng, five elders. Below them were several subordinates, mostly at the Foundation Establishment Stage, with the highest position being Hall Master.

Lu Qingfeng was surprised to find that the guild also had levels and rankings. Out of curiosity, he clicked to inspect them.

After a moment, Lu Qingfeng showed a sudden realization.

"The guild level is related to the number and cultivation levels of the guild members, as well as the tasks completed by the guild and its reputation within the region. Only by raising the guild level to 10, and having a practitioner at the Spirit Void Stage residing over it, can one start a sect and transform the guild into a sect!"

"As for guild ranking, it only lists within one realm. Bingling Realm has just started developing, with less than three thousand players and fewer than two hundred guilds; Yuan Yi Guild ranking 112 is quite mediocre."

Seeing this, Lu Qingfeng felt that the game atmosphere of 'Primordial' became a bit denser.

...

With the return of Mu Yuanyi and the others, Yuan Yi Mountain grew lively.

For Lu Qingfeng, not much changed, still dedicated to daily cultivation.

His alchemy room had begun construction.

Half a month later, the alchemy room was completed.

Lu Qingfeng leaped to become the third independent alchemy apprentice in Yuan Yi Guild to take charge of an alchemy room. He named this alchemy room 'Black Sand Alchemy Room,' in commemoration of the decades spent painstakingly practicing alchemy skills in Black Sand Town.

The specifications of Black Sand Alchemy Room were compared with Wang Tao's 'Purple Smoke Alchemy Room' and Yue Ran's 'Immortal Spirit Alchemy Room'—

Covering fifteen acres, it housed nine alchemy furnaces, including one Fourth-rank Talisman, two Third-rank Talismans, three Second-rank Talismans, and three First-rank Talismans!

Only nine alchemy furnaces, nearly costing five low-grade spirit stones! In terms of spirit stone fragments, that's equivalent to five hundred portions, and in terms of Yellow Dragon Pills, a staggering fifty thousand pills!

Only a grand guild like Yuan Yi could afford such extravagance. Ordinary guilds would scarcely dare or even lack the resources to build an alchemy room of this caliber!

In such a large alchemy room, Lu Qingfeng alone couldn't use it all, so he recruited apprentices within the Yuan Yi Guild to staff the alchemy room.

Firstly, they could assist him, saving time processing herbs.

Secondly, it allowed him to train several alchemy apprentices, which was a way to give back to the Yuan Yi Guild. At the same time, he could also make a slight profit from his share of the earnings.

Mu Yuanyi building such a large alchemy room for Lu Qingfeng was probably not without this thought in mind. Lu Qingfeng did not oppose this, as it was mutually beneficial, and there was no need to refuse.

Time passed.

In this life.

Lu Qingfeng started even faster.

During his time in Black Sand Town, excluding the sixteen years delayed by unforeseen deaths. From his second reincarnation, Lu Qingfeng spent nearly ten years just to barely make a name for himself, mastering Fasting Pills and Yellow Dragon Pills, both enhanced low-level elixirs.

This time, Lu Qingfeng started with mastery over the refining of ten different types of elixir pills.

With Yuan Yi Guild handling the herbs and sales, all Lu Qingfeng needed to do was focus on alchemy.

Each day starting with morning cultivation.

Alchemy in the afternoon.

And in the evening discussing alchemy insights with Wang Tao and Yue Ran, time flew by swiftly.

In the blink of an eye.

Eight years had passed since Lu Qingfeng joined the Yuan Yi Guild.

...

In the Seven Mysterious Refining Room.

Lu Qingfeng stood in front of the refining furnace, with both palms tightly pressed against its walls.

"Wind Force Level 3, Fire Power Level 4!"

"Wind Force Level 6, Fire Power Level 9!"

"Wind Force Level 2, Fire Power Level 8!"

...

Lu Qingfeng's eyes were tightly shut as he spat out numbers. Beside him, surrounding the refining furnace, nine apprentices surrounded it, each with a bellows in front.

As instructed by Lu Qingfeng, the nine continuously adjusted the bellows to control the wind strength and temperature inside the furnace.

Even though these apprentices were practitioners of the Fetal Breathing Realm, sweat beads inevitably formed on their foreheads.

After about half an hour of delicate adjustments.

"Now!"

Lu Qingfeng suddenly opened his eyes and commanded all nine apprentices to stop. He pushed a handle nearby, and a booming sound emanated from the furnace, as if it were about to explode. A pipe on another side opened, spewing out bursts of high-temperature steam like sharp swords, dissipating outside the refining room.

Once the shaking subsided and the steam fully escaped.

Lu Qingfeng waved his hand, and the top of the refining furnace opened, releasing a puff of black smoke. After the black smoke dissipated, looking inside the furnace, a three-foot square alchemy furnace lay quietly at the bottom.

This alchemy furnace seemed to be cast from red copper, giving it an ancient and aromatic look!

Lu Qingfeng's face was somewhat pale, a result of overexerting his mental energies. With a hand seals gesture and Inner Breath surging, the alchemy furnace landed in his hand. Closing his eyes and probing with his Inner Breath, after a moment, a smile appeared on Lu Qingfeng's pale face, "Success!"

"Congratulations, Elder Lu."

Seeing this, the nine apprentices beside the furnace also showed surprised smiles.

Hearing the apprentices' voices, Lu Qingfeng took out three bottles of elixir pills from his waist storage bag and tossed them out, "Thanks everyone, take these and share them."

"Thank you, Elder Lu!"

The nine apprentices eagerly looked at the bottles, finding that they were indeed three full bottles, totaling thirty-six Yellow Dragon Pills. Everyone could receive four pills. Adding to the elixirs they received intermittently from Lu Qingfeng, this matched a year's worth of their income.