[Qin Hao: "I sent you some Spirit Liquid. Try using it first. This Spirit Liquid can preserve eternal youth, increase lifespan, and improve the success rate of alchemy. If you think it works well, you can ask your sect's Nascent Soul Ancestor whether they'd be willing to exchange Pill Recipes with me for Spirit Liquid!"]
Qin Hao had exchanged for this Spirit Liquid precisely to establish a connection with Wan'er's Wife.
Without this, directly seeking out Wan'er's Wife for a private chat would inevitably arouse her suspicion, and they had no common topic to discuss.
[Li Muwan: "Is it really that useful? You're not lying to me, are you?"]
[Qin Hao: "Of course I wouldn't lie to you. Who would bear to deceive a stunning beauty like you?"]
Seeing his praise, Li Muwan's heart immediately sweetened.
After all, the one praising her was a Young Prodigy.
He was only sixteen years old, yet he was already a Nascent Soul stage expert, and he was handsome and dashing.
A person like that would be considered the best possible choice for a dao companion no matter where he went.
[Li Muwan: "I'm nowhere near as good as you say. Sister Xue is the true stunning beauty!"]
[Qin Hao: "She's pretty too, but compared to Miss Wan'er, she falls far short!"]
[Li Muwan: "If Sister Xue finds out, she'll definitely get angry again. (covers mouth and laughs)"]
[Qin Hao: "This is our little secret."]
[Li Muwan: "Got it. I'll go get the Spirit Liquid and try refining pills with it first."]
[Li Muwan received the Red Packet sent by Qin Hao!]
The moment Li Muwan opened the Red Packet, an exquisite Jade Bottle appeared out of thin air in her hand.
Li Muwan was no stranger to the Red Packet function.
When she and Yao Xixue had first joined the Group Chat, they had studied its functions.
Yao Xixue had even used the Red Packet function to send her several Supreme Grade Spirit Stones.
Supreme Grade Spirit Stones were extraordinarily precious and incredibly rare. Not even the entire Huofen Kingdom could produce a single one.
Li Muwan opened the Jade Bottle. Inside was a crystalline, clear liquid that gave off dense spiritual energy fluctuations.
"So this is the Spirit Liquid Fellow Daoist Qin mentioned? Let's try it now!"
Li Muwan immediately summoned her Alchemy Furnace and attempted to refine a Grade 2 High-tier Spirit Pill, the Qizuo Pill.
This pill could improve a Foundation Establishment Cultivator's spiritual power cultivation and even expand the meridians.
Pills capable of expanding meridians were many times more valuable than ordinary pills.
A short while later.
"The pill is complete!"
Li Muwan held the round pill between her fingers and said happily, "When I usually refine Qizuo Pills, my success rate never exceeds forty percent. Yet this time, I succeeded on the first try!"
"However, a single attempt proves nothing. I'll need to refine more batches."
With that thought, Li Muwan continued refining pills.
She refined Qizuo Pills ten times in a row and succeeded seven times.
"It really can improve the success rate of pill refinement!"
With a wave of her slender hand, Li Muwan put away the Jade Bottle and went straight to find the Nascent Soul Ancestor, Lan Ruo.
Qin Hao did not wait long before receiving a message from Li Muwan.
[Li Muwan: "Fellow Daoist Qin, Patriarch Lan Ruo has agreed, but she said she would only trade if there were at least 1,000 drops of Spirit Liquid. How much do you have?"]
[Qin Hao: "I can initially trade 3,000 drops. There will be more if needed later. Also, I'd like to exchange for some Fourth and Fifth Grade Pill Recipes!"]
[Li Muwan: "Three thousand?"]
Li Muwan was stunned.
Patriarch Lan Ruo had personally verified the Spirit Liquid, and its effects were no different from what Qin Hao had described.
Patriarch Lan Ruo had said that if there was only one drop, this Spirit Liquid would not be particularly valuable.
But if the quantity exceeded a hundred drops, it could be sold for an astronomical price. If it exceeded a thousand drops, then for alchemy sects like theirs, it could greatly increase the sect's strength.
Furthermore, if this Spirit Liquid was used alone for alchemy, the Spirit Pills refined would have effects far superior in both extending lifespan and preserving one's appearance.
In Li Muwan's view, if they could trade for three thousand drops of Spirit Liquid at once, then the Luohe Gate might truly have a chance to surpass the Yuntian Sect of nearby Chu, which was famed throughout the land for alchemy.
[Qin Hao sent a Red Packet!]
[Li Muwan received the Red Packet!]
[Li Muwan: "Hm? Why are there 4,000 drops?"]
[Qin Hao: "Three thousand drops are for the Luohe Gate to exchange for Pill Recipes. The remaining thousand are your reward, Sister Wan'er."]
[Li Muwan: "This is far too valuable. I can't accept it!"]
[Qin Hao: "If you won't accept it, then I won't make the trade!"]
[Li Muwan: "Such a precious gift... I don't even know how to repay you."]
[Qin Hao: "No need to be so polite, Sister Wan'er."]
Li Muwan did not know that Qin Hao had obtained all this by exchanging just ten Foundation Establishment Pills.
To outsiders, this Spirit Liquid was incomparably precious.
But Wang Mazi casually drank some whenever he had nothing to do, treating it like a beverage. Whenever he needed more, he only had to soak the Beads in water to obtain it.
[Li Muwan: "Wait, you're a Nascent Soul Ancestor, yet you're calling a minor Foundation Establishment Cultivator like me 'Sister'?"]
[Qin Hao: "Hehe, I'm only sixteen!"]
[Li Muwan: "That's infuriating. Absolutely infuriating."]
Li Muwan was considered highly gifted in the Luohe Gate, but compared to Qin Hao, the difference was like heaven and earth.
After the trade was completed, Qin Hao found Dao Xu again and began gathering materials for alchemy.
This time, Qin Hao planned to refine pills that could improve Nascent Soul stage cultivation.
Boom!
On this day, the entire Hengyue Peak suddenly shook violently.
Then, a voice as mighty as the heavens suddenly descended from above, echoing in all directions like rolling thunder.
"I am Piao Nanzi of the Xuandao Sect. Junior members of the Hengyue Sect, leave the Hengyue Sect at once!"
Upon hearing this voice, every Cultivator of the Hengyue Sect paled.
Streams of flowing light shot out from within the Hengyue Sect and arrived at the plaza before the main hall.
Even the two Core Formation experts who had been in seclusion appeared here.
One was an old man and the other an old woman. Both had white hair and looked incomparably aged. The moment they appeared, they gazed into the sky with dark expressions.
They both knew that the Hengyue Sect was likely doomed this time.
The Elder, Liu Wenju, called out, "Senior Piao Nanzi, may I ask what brings you to the Hengyue Sect?"
"You ask while knowing full well!"
At that moment, Piao Nanzi's figure appeared in the sky.
He wore purple robes, with a broad face, large ears, and a burly build. He looked quite imposing.
Piao Nanzi said, "All of your Hengyue Sect's Nascent Soul Ancestors have fallen on the Outer Realm Battlefield. You cannot hold Hengyue Peak. Rather than let another sect take it, you might as well give it to my Xuandao Sect!"
"Senior, the Patriarch who founded our Hengyue Sect established this sect atop Hengyue Peak. I'm afraid we cannot comply!"
The old woman said angrily.
"You refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit!"
Piao Nanzi's expression turned cold as he said calmly, "Watch this old man break your Mountain Protection Array, then I'll have a proper talk with you juniors!"
As his words fell, Piao Nanzi's body suddenly began expanding at high speed.
In the blink of an eye, he had transformed into a figure even taller than Hengyue Peak itself. Terrifying pressure radiated from his entire body, making him seem like a heavenly god.
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