Falling into Demonhood

Song Wen used his Flight Technique to slowly and leisurely fly towards Clearpeace Mountain.

For Song Wen, the Du Clan's acquisition of the Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal Mine was good news.

The Su Clan is already showing signs of West Mountain.

An established Golden Core Lineage was being bullied Du Clan the newly emerging Golden Core Lineage, and could only swallow its anger.

When he arrived at the gate of Clearpeace Mountain, it was already noon.

There were several times more guards at the mountain gate than usual, including a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator.

During his guard duty, Song Wen spotted a familiar face: Su Shan!

Song Wen walked up to Su Shan and handed him his identity token.

Upon seeing that it was Song Wen, Su Shan did not take the identity token but waved his hand and said...

"Alchemist, please come up the mountain; you don't need to examine it anymore."

Song Wen smiled and said, "Thank you very much, Brother Su Shan."

Putting away the token, Song Wen headed up the mountain. Once he was out of sight of the guards, a cold smile appeared on Song Wen lips.

As he approached Su Shan, he smelled a faint odor of rotting corpse on him. The smell was faint, but Song Wen, who had dealt with corpses for many years in the Corpse Demon Sect, was very familiar with it.

It seems that Su Shan couldn't resist the temptation and has begun to try cultivating demonic secret techniques.

However, judging from his appearance, he probably hasn't even mastered the basics yet.

As Song Wen continued upwards, he arrived at the Alchemy Chamber, where he saw Su Huayue sitting upright in a chair.

Su Huayue's face was icy, and her tone was extremely unfriendly when Song Wen entered.

"Alchemist, you requested three days' leave and should have arrived at the Alchemy Chamber at Chenshi (7-9 AM) today, but it's already noon."

Song Wen cursed his bad luck under his breath.

As he entered the Alchemy Chamber, he noticed that the woman had a sour face, clearly in a very bad mood, and he had just run into her bad luck.

Squeezing a smile, Song Wen said.

"I had a very pleasant conversation with an old friend and missed my return time. I hope Steward Su will forgive me."

Su Huayue said coldly.

"Recently, the Lineage urgently needs various healing and qi-replenishing pills. Since you don't know how to refine these pills, we'll have to ask other Alchemist to do it."

"You will need to replace the other Alchemist in refining Qi-Gathering Pill. Your Qi-Gathering Pill task will be increased by 50% this month."

The smile on Song Wen's face slowly faded.

"Deacon Su, this is not what we agreed upon originally."

"Bang!"

Su Huayue slammed her palm heavily on the stone table beside her, instantly turning it into a pile of dust.

She glanced at the Alchemist coming and going in the Alchemy Chamber and said loudly.

"The Su Clan has provided you with generous treatment, but now that the Su Clan is facing some trouble and needs your help, you are all making excuses and shirking your responsibilities. Do you think the Su Clan is weak and easy to bully?"

Instantly, the entire Alchemy Chamber fell into complete silence; you could hear a pin drop.

All the Alchemist who came and went stared blankly at Su Huayue.

Seeing Su Huayue's angry expression, Song Wen thought to himself: It seems that the Du Clan has really pushed the Su Clan to the brink. The fact that they are speeding up the refining of healing and qi-replenishing pills is probably in preparation for a major battle with the Du Clan.

Song Wen's smile remained unchanged.

"Steward Su, please don't be angry. Now that I've become an alchemist in the Su family's alchemy workshop, I'm naturally a member of the Su family. I should do my best to serve the Su family. Even if I have to work day and night, I will complete the alchemy tasks."

Su Huayue glanced at Song Wen, and her anger subsided slightly.

Yesterday, Elder Su Wenshi ordered that the Alchemy Chamber must refine a large quantity of various healing and qi-replenishing pills within one month, and that other pills must not be reduced.

Upon receiving the order, Su Huayue instructed the Alchemist in the Alchemy Chamber to produce an extra amount of pills this month.

Upon learning that they would have to refine extra pills without receiving Spirit Stone as compensation, most of the visiting Alchemist showed great resistance.

This made Su Huayue feel very bad.

The original intention was to make an example of Song Wen to warn other Alchemist, but unexpectedly, Song Wen immediately backed down.

Having Alchemist to obey is always a good thing.

These outside Alchemist are like a disorganized mess. As long as a small portion of them are appeased and they obediently accept the extra Alchemy tasks, the other Alchemist will have no choice but to follow suit.

Su Huayue tossed a cloth bag to Song Wen.

"Here are the ingredients for five Qi-Gathering Pills. You must refine three of them before you can leave the Qi-Gathering Pill Alchemy Chamber."

"Yes!"

Song Wen carried the cloth bag and headed towards the Alchemy room at the back.

He thought to himself, "This woman is ruthless."

Although refining a batch of Qi-Gathering Pill generally only takes two or three hours, it is absolutely impossible for an ordinary Qi Refining Middle Stage cultivator to leave the Alchemy room without two days to refine three batches of Qi-Gathering Pill at once.

Alchemy is extremely taxing on spiritual energy and mental strength. Qi Refining Middle Stage cultivator needs time to meditate and recover spiritual energy and mental strength after refining each batch of Qi-Gathering Pill.

For Song Wen, who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage, this was naturally not an issue.

He completed the refining of all three batches of pills in just six hours, and still had two portions of medicinal materials left.

However, Song Wen did not leave the Alchemy room immediately; going out at this time would surely arouse suspicion.

When Alchemist are Alchemy, accidents such as furnace explosions are inevitable. To prevent these accidents from interfering with Alchemist in other Alchemy rooms, the Su Clan has set up protective formations and spirit-isolation formations in each Alchemy room.

He took this opportunity to study the 'Bloodburst Pill' in the Alchemy room.

Song Wen sat cross-legged, and Zhang Kou swallowed a Bloodburst Pill.

As the Bloodburst Pill entered his stomach, Song Wen's blood surged instantly, giving him a sensation of boiling blood and a strange fighting spirit rising in his heart.

A powerful spiritual force arose from within his body. Guided by the existing spiritual force, this newly generated spiritual force obediently entered his meridians and then returned to Song Wen's Dantian.

His cultivation level improved rapidly in a short period of time. Although he failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, he was not far off.

Song Wen's eyes lit up.

The effects of this Bloodburst Pill are unexpectedly good; no wonder it's considered a panacea for life-threatening situations.

About half an incense stick later, Song Wen noticed that the spiritual power in his body was beginning to weaken rapidly. Perhaps because Song Wen had not been fighting anyone, after a few breaths, the spiritual power returned to normal and stopped weakening.

At the same time, his vital Essence Blood were also significantly depleted.

These are the side effects of taking the Bloodburst Pill.

However, the loss of his Essence Blood did not cause Song Wen any discomfort.

Song Wen rested his chin on his hand, lost in thought.

The spiritual power boost from the Bloodburst Pill only lasts for half an incense stick's time, and this spiritual power cannot be refined.

This is quite different from the effect of the Blood Qi Pill, which enhances spiritual power that can be refined, thereby permanently increasing cultivation level.

The main ingredient of the Bloodburst Pill is not a spiritual herb, but the Essence Blood of a third-tier Demon Beast. The reason it can temporarily enhance a cultivator's cultivation level is that it temporarily transfers the power contained in the Demon Beast's Essence Blood to the cultivator.

When the power contained in the Essence Blood of Demon Beast is exhausted, its increased cultivation level will naturally diminish.

To permanently improve one's cultivation level, one must find a way to refine and absorb this spiritual energy, making it truly exist in the Dantian.

To refine the 'Bloodburst Pill' that permanently enhances cultivation, we definitely can't use the Essence Blood of Demon Beast as the main ingredient anymore; we must find a spiritual herb to replace it.

The first thing that came to Song Wen's mind was Blood-Red Vine.

As the main ingredient in the Blood Qi Pill, the Red Blood Vine has the effect of consuming Essence Blood to generate spiritual power.

However, the Red Blood Vine is only a first-tier spirit medicine. Even if a pill can be successfully refined using the Red Blood Vine instead of the Essence Blood of Demon Beast, its medicinal power will probably not be very strong.

Suddenly, a glint of light flashed in Song Wen's eyes, and a look of joy crept onto his face.

"Perhaps I can find a second-tier spirit medicine similar to the Red Blood Vine to use as the main ingredient."