Chapter 188 (2/2)
Long Chen nodded . “I’ll have to trouble senior apprentice-brother . ”
That person took Long Chen’s medal . Seeing his points sharply drop, Long Chen’s heart dripped blood
Taking back the medal, that person opened the shelf and took out a jade tablet from beneath the tome . Handing it to Long Chen, he said, “This is a spirit jade tablet . Inside is the information of the tome . The content will only remain in the jade for three days .
“If you still haven’t learned it after three days, you can come get a new one here one more time . But if you fail to learn it twice, then you won’t get any further help . ”
Long Chen nodded . If you really couldn’t learn it after two tries then you really were useless . He suspected the second opportunity was most likely only for those who lost or damaged the tablets .
After saying thanks, the three of them didn’t waste any more time there . Seeing things they wanted but not being able to buy them was a kind of torment .
Although Tang Wan-er hadn’t touched her personal points, as the leader, she had to at least keep some savings in reserve .
The faction’s points had basically all been used up by Long Chen . Tang Wan-er didn’t even dare look at anything else for fear that she wouldn’t be able to control herself .
Once the three of them walked out of the Xuantian pavilion, Tang Wan-er told Long Chen, “We’ll go get some new talent to make up the numbers .
“Currently our faction has seventy-nine members, so we can get twenty-one more . We must get top elites .
“During the trial, there were a great deal of people who hadn’t joined any faction yet managed to pa.s.s .
“Most of those are only outer disciples with only a couple rare inner disciples . But even twenty-one outer disciples will be able to boost our strength . ”
Long Chen said, “You and Guo Ran go get more people . I have to hurry up and prepare to refine medicinal pills . We can’t stall the matter of increasing everyone’s strength .
“Also, when you go get new members, it isn’t strength that is important . Perseverance and determination are the most important things . Also, they definitely must be loyal .
“And also, if you end up finding someone as weird as Guo Ran, don’t let him join . Just having one such person in our faction is enough . ”
Guo Ran was speechless while Tang Wan-er laughed . She brought Guo Ran over to the Xuantian plaza . That was where the majority of the people who had yet to join a faction were .
Long Chen directly returned to the immortal cave . Seeing Qing Yu was present, he told her to go the plaza as well to help recruit people .
After all, those recruits would be their eternal companions, so it was extremely important to pick properly . Having more people helping out with the recruitment would be best .
Once Qing Yu left, Long Chen took out his pill furnace as well as a large pile of medicinal ingredients . Extending his hand, a light red flame soared into existence .
“It’s been a while since I’ve refined pills . I better not screw up… I only got one set of ingredients . ”
Once he finished warming the furnace, he increased his flame strength, beginning to slowly place the medicinal ingredients in the pill furnace .
What gladdened Long Chen was that his alchemy arts seemed to have sunk deep within his bones . He was not the slightest bit out of practice . And because his cultivation base had risen, his Spiritual Strength had also increased, allowing him to have even greater control than before .
Two hours later, he lifted the lid and saw a longan-sized medicinal pill .
That medicinal pill didn’t have any l.u.s.tre . It looked like a rusted old ball of copper . But Long Chen smiled .
“This Fire Gathering Pill’s quality is not bad . ”
Putting away the Fire Gathering Pill, he once more began refining medicinal ingredients . But this time he wasn’t refining pills, but a kind of medicinal liquid .
That medicinal liquid was red as blood and was strangely viscous . Only once that liquid changed color three times did Long Chen stop his flame .
Once the medicinal liquid in his pill furnace cooled off, Long Chen took out the Flame Salamander’s Neidan and gently began to drip drops of that liquid onto the Neidan .
The egg-shaped Neidan began to crazily absorb the medicinal liquid . Its original white color began to darken into a blood-red .
As the Neidan’s color changed, a terrifying heat began to circulate within it .
By the time all the medicinal liquid had been absorbed, the Neidan had become extremely bright . The fluctuations coming from within it were incredibly intense, like a volcano on the verge of erupting .
“Ok, the fire-attribute energy has been completely activated . I hope I can manage to absorb the runic power within it as well . ”
Long Chen hesitated a moment, and then decided to leave the immortal cave . Closing the door, he hurried to the back of the mountain .
Finding a secluded place, he took out the Neidan and swallowed the Fire Gathering Pill he had just refined .
As soon as that medicinal pill entered his stomach, it immediately dissolved . A light heat flowed through his meridians .
Long Chen looked within him and saw his meridians had been plated with a layer of gold . It was a protective membrane for the insides of his meridians .
That was why Long Chen had never absorbed the Flame Salamander’s Neidan up to this point .
Even someone as powerful as him didn’t dare absorb it without this medicinal pill’s a.s.sistance . A Flame Salamander’s Neidan whose energy had barely been used at all contained a flame that could heavily injure his meridians .
It was a third rank Magical Beast’s beast flame, and it was also number ninety-seven on the beast flame rankings . Long Chen didn’t dare be careless .
Furthermore, what Long Chen wanted wasn’t just the beast flame . He wanted something even stronger than a regular beast flame .
Taking a deep breath, he adjusted himself into his peak state . Placing his hands atop the Flame Salamander’s Neidan, he began to circulate his spiritual qi, absorbing the violent energy within the Neidan .