Chapter 25: Alchemy Upgrade, Cultivation Breakthrough First Update

  "Let me show you something good," said Yang Lei.

  "What good stuff, hurry up and bring it out." Yang Yue heard that there was good stuff, and she quickly urged him on. She was certain that if Yang Wei said it was good stuff, it must be something that could help her increase her own strength, nine times out of ten.

  "Look, it's this one." Yang Lei took out a Frostfire Emblem.

  Yang Yue took it and looked at it: "What's so special about this? It's just a Fire Snake Talisman."

  Yang Lei smiled slightly and reminded her, "Second sister, since I said it's a good thing, it's naturally not just the Fire Snake Talisman. Take a look at what's on the other side."

  With a puzzled expression, Yang Yue flipped the Huo She Fu over and then widened her eyes: "This... this is Bing Zhui Fu, no, there are three star symbols on it, how... how is this possible."

  "Anything is possible." Yang Lei said with a smile.

  "How...how did you do it?" Yang Yue stared at Yang Lei in a daze, as if he were some kind of monster. He had drawn talismans on both sides of the paper, something that no one had ever accomplished before. And now her own brother had actually succeeded, how could she not be astonished?

  "I just tried it out and it actually worked, but I haven't tested its power yet, I'm waiting for you, Second Sister, to come and try it out." Yang Lei said to her.

  "Alright, I'll try." Yang Yue tore open the talisman in her hand, "Go."

  In an instant, the Ice Fire Seal transformed into a dazzling light that shot forward at high speed, followed by a deafening roar. As the smoke and dust dissipated, a massive crater appeared on the originally flat ground, with a diameter of over 50-60 meters. This was enough to demonstrate that the power of this seal was several times stronger than the single Fire Snake Seal. With such power, if it were to hit a person... without being in the Martial King realm, it would be certain death. Even a Martial King wouldn't dare to forcefully withstand it. If one were to suddenly unleash over a dozen such seals during battle, they would absolutely win without fail.

  "This is incredible, this seal is really powerful." Yang Yue looked at the large pit in front of her and muttered.

  "Second sister, this seal is still passable, I call it the Ice Fire Seal. Hehe, if we use this seal in the big competition this time, our chances of winning will greatly increase. If we add the Vajra Seal and the Earth Shield Seal, we can be invincible! Yang Lei has already imagined himself getting first place in the competition and obtaining that rich reward."

  "This talisman consumes too much true energy, it's three times that of the Fire Snake Talisman. At most, I can only cast five of them before reaching my limit, or else my body won't be able to handle it." Yang Yue shook her head, this talisman's power was indeed extremely great, but its consumption was too high, if not for the assistance of medicinal pills, she wouldn't be able to use even a few.

  "Isn't there still the Revival Dan?" Yang Wei smiled and said, this Revival Dan is a good dan that must be kept at home for robbery, under the Martial King, even if the consumption is huge, one dan can fully recover.

  "Can you refine the Huiqi Dan?"

  Huiqi Dan is a very good medicine for recovering true energy, and it's also a ninth-grade Xuan-level medicine. However, this Huiqi Dan is the Zhao family's signature medicine, and apart from the Zhao family being able to refine it, there has never been any news of anyone else on the mainland refining or selling it.

  "Not for now."

  The pill formula for Huaiqi Dan is available in the alchemy system, but unfortunately, I don't have enough authority to use it yet. If my alchemy skills can be upgraded to intermediate level, then maybe I'll be able to refine it.

  "You're still talking." Yang Yue rolled her eyes, feeling extremely disappointed.

  "I don't have it now, but that doesn't mean I won't have it in the future. There's still a month left, no need to rush." Yang Lei secretly calculated in his heart, if he could refine the Di Yuan Dan, he should be able to raise his alchemy skills to intermediate level, and even if not, he could just refine more pills, accumulating small amounts into a large amount.

  "How could you possibly get Dan Fang, that's the Zhao family's signature, don't think things are too simple." Yang Yue didn't believe it at all, how could the Zhao family's Dan Fang be leaked out, if it was that easy, others would have known long ago. "However, we can go to Changfeng Commercial House to buy some Hui Qi Dan."

  The Huiqi Dan, a ninth-grade Xuan-level pill, is indeed a high-grade pill, and its price is not low at all. One Huiqi Dan requires 300 taels of gold, and it's not sold one by one, but in sets. A set of twelve Huiqi Dans costs 3,000 taels of gold, which can be said to be expensive to the extreme.

  "Go buy it, or forget it, it's too expensive."

  "Can you refine it yourself if you don't go buy it?" Yang Yue stared straight at Yang Wei, with a look that seemed to say "do you have any other way".

  "Isn't it still a long time?" Yang Lei smiled and said.

  "It's also okay if we can't get it then and have to go buy it again." Yang Yue thought for a moment, feeling that Yang Wei was right, and it wouldn't be too late to go buy it later.

  Yang Lei then took out ten Ice Fire Talismans, five Fire Snake Talismans and five Ice Cone Talismans, handing them to Yang Yue: "Second sister, take these talismans first, just in case something happens, you'll have a way to defend yourself."

  "How about you?"

  "I... I'm fine, and so is he." Yang Lei said with a smile.

  "Didn't Yang Tian come looking for you yesterday?" Yang Yue suddenly changed her tone and looked at him with a serious expression.

  Yang Lei's heart skipped a beat, what did she mean by that, was she interrogating herself? That's right, after all, she and Yang Tian were only half-siblings, while Yang Tian and her were full siblings born to the same mother.

  "He came, but I drove him away." Yang Lei's tone became very indifferent.

  "Really came, you okay little brother?" Yang Yue looked at him with a concerned face.

  Seeing Yang Yue's concerned eyes, Yang Lei felt warmth in his heart at the same time, and a wave of self-blame, he actually suspected her.

  "It's okay, sister, I'm fine. I just brought two Martial Artist realm guards with me, and one Fire Snake Talisman took care of them, but..."

  "Don't worry, little brother. I'll go and explain to Mother for you. Mother is a reasonable person." Yang Yue thought he had hurt Yang Tian and was worried that his mother would blame him, so he quickly comforted him.

  Yang Lei shook his head and said, "I'm not worried about that, I'm just worried that Yang Tian will come to me again for trouble. If so, I might not be able to hold back and will finish him off."

  "I'll just go and tell mom, you can rest assured." As for Yang Tian, this older brother of hers, Yang Yue was extremely disgusted with him. Every day he would hang out with a group of good-for-nothings, doing nothing productive, only knowing how to bully the weak, his innate talent wasn't bad, but unfortunately he was lazy and didn't cultivate diligently, and now he was only at the 7th rank of martial arts.

  When Yang Yue said this, Yang Lei smiled slightly at her, "Thank you, Second Sister."

  "You've said it before, don't say thank you, but you still did." Yang Yue said with a pout.

  "It was my fault, it was my fault."

  "Hmph, knowing your mistake is good enough. Hurry up and cast the seal, I want to see how powerful the Vajra Seal you create is." Yang Yue said.

  Yang Lei shook his head, "Not today, I have something to attend to."

  "What's wrong?" Yang Yue suddenly remembered that today was the anniversary of Yang Wei's mother, Luo Wanqing's death. Indeed, there was no time. "Sorry, brother, I forgot."

  "It's nothing," said Yang Lei.

  "Shall I accompany you to pay respects to your aunt?"

  Yang Lei looked at her and nodded: "Okay."

  …………

  Local Dan

  As a local Dan as a second-class elixir, refining it is not an easy task. After all, he had previously refined the seventh-grade yellow-level elixir with great difficulty and a very low success rate. Of course, this time with the Purple Dragon Cauldron, compared to before, it's much better, plus the Purple Fluid Fruit, if luck is good, it should be possible to succeed in one go.

  After putting all the medicinal materials into the Purple Dragon Cauldron, Yang Lei finally picked up a purple pulp fruit, hesitated for a moment, and still put it in. If those high-level alchemists knew that Yang Lei used extremely precious purple pulp to refine the humble Earth Yuan Dan of the second grade of Xuan stage, they would probably scold him for wasting it.

  Alchemy

  A spark rose up, and Yang Lei continuously inputted his true energy.

  A moment passed, and the purple dragon cauldron remained as usual.

  Half an hour passed, and the system still didn't send any successful message. Yang Lei was getting anxious, with his true energy being consumed greatly.

  An hour had passed and he was almost at his limit, the true energy in his dantian was almost depleted.

  Ji Qi Dan

  Yang Lei quickly swallowed an Air-Gathering Pill.

  "Ding! Congratulations, player's local Dan refining successful, experience +50,000, Qi Gong value +500, points +500, proficiency increased."

  "Ding, congratulations player, alchemy skill upgraded."

  "Ding, congratulations player level up."

  Open the purple dragon cauldron, inside are arranged fifteen crystal-like white dan medicines.

  Fifteen, he didn't expect that he would actually refine fifteen Earth Yuan Dan at once. The quality of these Earth Yuan Dan was obviously top-notch, ten percent complete dan. Yang Lei estimated that the effect of these Earth Yuan Dan wouldn't be much worse than those ordinary earth-grade dan medicine. This was a Xuan-stage second-grade ten percent complete dan.

  I didn't expect the level to be upgraded, Wu Shi fourth stage, which also means that I have already entered the middle period of Wu Shi. This Wu Shi third stage entering Wu Shi fourth stage is a breakthrough, and the combat power has increased by at least one fold. In this case, can I cultivate Four Kills as One? Yang Lei looked forward to it infinitely, if he could complete Four Kills as One, then even if he didn't use talismans, he could win against Wu Wang first stage.

  The art of alchemy has reached intermediate level, so refining the Xuanjie Dan medicine should be much easier. Refining this second-grade Xuanjie Diyuan Dan using the Zilong Ding, even without adding the Zixiang fruit, my success rate should also be around 50%. However, I already have enough Diyuan Dan, fifteen pills are enough for me to break through a level, and it shouldn't be a problem entering the fifth rank of Wushi.

  Picked up fourteen red pills, leaving one, opened mouth and swallowed it down.

  The potent medicinal power spreads throughout the body, reaching every part of it.

  The Xuan Yuan Jue continued to revolve, one cycle of heaven and earth, two cycles... Finally, the true energy throughout his body burst open the acupoints.

  Breakthrough! The sixth layer of the Xuan Yuan Secret Art has been achieved.

  Yang Lei opened his eyes, and at this time, the true energy in his body had increased by at least twice or even more compared to before.

  Feeling the surging true energy within his body, Yang Wei believed that he could now handle a late-stage Wu Shi, and even a Wu Shi Dà Yuán Mǎn had a chance to win.

  Got up and came to the courtyard.

  Fengdao Qi Sha, seven forms practiced once.

  Then comes two killings combined into one, three killings combined into one.

  After practicing all of them once, Yang Lei lightly shouted: "Four Kills Combine into One."

  Failure after failure.

  This made Yang Lei feel depressed, he had already entered the middle stage of Wu Shi, but still couldn't use the Four Kills in Unison.

  Four kills combined into one, combat power increased by 416 times. I am now a mid-term martial artist, and with my own thick qigong, it's not impossible to deal with an early-stage Martial King.

  But... but unfortunately, it's not easy for the four killings to merge into one. The air value is still far from enough.