The Money Power of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect

After returning safely to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Jiang Xuan locked himself in his room and began studying the alchemy heritage of Lao Jun day and night.

Because it was a system reward, Jiang Xuan initially grasped the essence of this heritage with great ease.

However, problems arose just as quickly.

He had mastered the methods of alchemy and memorized the necessary materials, but it seemed that the materials required to refine those immortal pills could not be found anywhere on the Douluo Continent!

With the techniques but no suitable medicinal herbs, how was he supposed to refine immortal pills?

Fortunately, beyond the techniques, the alchemy heritage of Lao Jun also allowed Jiang Xuan to understand some of the fundamental principles of the Dao of alchemy.

This enabled him to replace the immortal herbs that could not be found on the Douluo Continent with medicinal herbs that were much weaker in potency but could actually be sourced.

Even so, gathering a complete set of alchemy materials was still extremely difficult.

After all, although those substitute herbs were far inferior to the originals in potency, they were essentially priceless treasures on this Douluo Continent.

A rough estimate suggested that even with the wealth of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, they could collect at most about ten sets of materials.

Clearly, the standard for the configuration needed to be lowered further.

Just like that, clutching the ancestral medicinal herb codex of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and studying painstakingly for several days, Jiang Xuan finally managed to reduce the configuration of the herbs to the theoretical minimum through deduction.

As the saying goes, all things are difficult at the start; now that he had the minimum configuration, he could officially begin alchemy once he gathered the materials.

As for how to gather them...

That would naturally be by asking his future father-in-law!

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, main hall.

Since returning from the Star Dou Forest, Jiang Xuan had locked himself in his room for seven full days.

Although he had told Ning Rongrong before his seclusion not to worry about him.

But with so much time passing, Ning Rongrong was ultimately unable to suppress the worry in her heart and came to seek psychological comfort from her old father.

Seeing his daughter take the initiative to come to him, Ning Fengzhi was initially quite happy, but he did not expect the first sentence out of her mouth to be an expression of concern for another man:

"Dad, why has brother Jiang Xuan been in seclusion for so long this time? Could something have happened to him?"

Although Ning Fengzhi himself thought highly of Jiang Xuan, at this very moment, he still felt the displeasure of seeing his own cabbage being arched by a pig.

However, at that exact moment, a voice that both father and daughter were very familiar with drifted in from outside the hall:

"Uncle Ning, are you busy?"

Hearing this, Ning Rongrong froze for a moment, then a smile instantly bloomed on her face:

"It's brother Jiang Xuan! He's finished his seclusion!"

It seemed his little cotton-padded jacket was truly about to be worn away by someone else...

Sighing helplessly, Ning Fengzhi quickly leveled his mindset and put on his usual gentle expression:

"It's Jiang Xuan, I'm free now, come in."

Hearing Ning Fengzhi's voice from inside the hall, Jiang Xuan walked straight in.

Seeing that Ning Rongrong was also there, he smiled and greeted her before stating his intentions directly to Ning Fengzhi.

He had assumed Jiang Xuan coming to see him wasn't a big deal, but after hearing his explanation, Ning Fengzhi was immediately startled:

"What? You say you want to try alchemy?"

Seeing Jiang Xuan nod, Ning Fengzhi immediately frowned:

"Why the sudden thought? Can you tell me about it?"

He naturally couldn't tell Ning Fengzhi the truth, so Jiang Xuan thought for a moment and used a whim as an excuse, stating that he just wanted to try it out because of his martial soul and that it wouldn't affect his soul power cultivation.

This reason fit the impulsive mindset of a young man, which Ning Fengzhi understood well, so after only a slight hesitation, he nodded in agreement:

"Since that is the case, there is no harm in letting you try. It just so happens that our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's treasury contains many rare medicinal herbs. I will give you the key and let Rongrong go with you."

Although Jiang Xuan had long expected Ning Fengzhi to agree, he hadn't expected his father-in-law to be so generous!

The fact that he could open the treasury that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had passed down for hundreds, if not thousands of years, showed that Ning Fengzhi truly regarded him as one of their own...

Oh no, he should be regarded as a son-in-law.

There was nothing more to say; Jiang Xuan immediately bowed solemnly to his father-in-law to express his gratitude.

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, treasury.

Looking at the dazzling array of treasures in the vault, Jiang Xuan felt no ripples in his heart.

The collections here, while enough to stir greed in the hearts of the vast majority of soul masters on the continent, were truly not worth mentioning to Jiang Xuan, whose twin martial souls were both top-tier innate spiritual treasures.

It was no exaggeration to say that even if all the treasures on the entire Douluo Continent were added together, their value might not compare to a single brick from his Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Therefore, he only took a hurried glance before putting aside other thoughts and heading straight for the medicinal herb storage area.

As it happened, the alchemy materials he needed could all be found here!

Making a rough estimate, the herbs stored here were probably enough for him to perform alchemy a hundred times.

Truly worthy of being the sect with the strongest "money power" on the Douluo Continent...

After thinking about it, Jiang Xuan conservatively took three sets of materials first.

He had intended to return for more after successfully refining the pills, but to his surprise, Ning Rongrong, who was following along, was not satisfied:

"Brother Jiang Xuan, why are you only taking so little? Is such a small amount of herbs really enough for you to refine medicine? I have observed how the alchemists supported by the sect refine medicine, and the herbs those people need for each session are at least twice as much as what you've taken, brother Jiang Xuan!"

Jiang Xuan had originally thought he had taken too much, but after hearing Ning Rongrong's words, he realized he had actually taken too little.

Needless to say, since the host didn't mind, he would just take what he needed!

After taking the herbs and returning to his room, Jiang Xuan tossed the treasury key to Ning Rongrong, who had followed him.

Regarding her proposal to watch him perform alchemy, Jiang Xuan thought about it seriously and did not refuse, but he did put forward one requirement:

Watching was allowed, but she could only look; before he finished the alchemy, she must not disturb him.

Being allowed to stay and watch was already Ning Rongrong's greatest wish, so she naturally would not refuse this requirement.

Seeing Ning Rongrong agree, Jiang Xuan signaled for her to hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign outside the door and then close it.

Once everything was ready, Jiang Xuan took out the herbs, summoned his Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul, and enlarged it.

After igniting the Six-Ding Divine Flame inside the furnace with the fire control technique brought by his second soul skill, he used his soul power to control the herbs and cast them into the furnace one by one.

However, despite having a good grasp of the theory, he discovered after actually starting that alchemy was not as simple as he had imagined.

Because after he cast these herbs into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, a single lapse in his concentration caused the heat to become too intense, directly burning all the herbs he had just added into ashes...