At the beginning, because of the reason for writing this lengthened story, I didn't update it this morning, and I will reveal a little secret to you, this chapter has laid a lot of foreshadowing for the plot later in the story, so be sure to watch it well when you read it............

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Lu Zhe immediately began to intensify his cultivation of alchemy after recovering from his injuries, and the three-year alchemist conference was imminent, although Lu Zhe had no interest in these fame and fortune, but after learning about a special thing from Ya Xuan, he couldn't help but be tempted to participate, after all, the temptation was too great, this temptation was to participate in the World Alchemy Conference held in Danfu every thirty years, and the qualification was to win the championship of the regional alchemist conference. Lu Zhe wants to compete with masters from all over the world, so he has made up his mind to win the championship this time.

After ten days and ten nights of intensive training, Lu Zhe's alchemy has now reached the senior level of Siding, he originally wanted to sprint to Wuding in one go, but God made people, he rushed for three days and three nights and did not break through the threshold of Siding senior alchemist, and was rejected by Wuding.

"Damn, why is it so difficult for this Wuding Alchemist to cultivate?" Lu Zhe pushed away the medicinal materials in front of him and complained, and after saying that, he lay on the table.

Ya Yan cleaned up the medicinal materials he had pushed across from him, and said with a smile: You have done a very good job, if the Wuding Alchemist is so good, wouldn't all the people running all over the street be Wuding Alchemist?

"I said, senior sister," Lu Zhe said.

"What's the matter?" asked Ya Wan with a smile.

"How long did it take you to become a Wuding Alchemist," Lu Zhe raised his head and looked at Ya Yan and asked.

After hearing Lu Zhe's question. Ya Yan's forehead lifted slightly, and her eyes rolled. After thinking for a while, he said: It took me three years to rise from one to four. It took me three months to go from Siding to Wuding, but you spent ten days and ten nights to upgrade from Siding junior to Siding senior, senior sister, I am really envious and jealous.

Lu Zhe smiled proudly: That's it, you don't look at who your junior brother and I are.

Ya Yan smiled and said: You are my little junior brother Lu Zhe, who else can you be?

"Yes, I am myself" Lu Zhe sat up and said loudly.

"Alright, let's start practicing, there are ten days left before the Alchemist Conference. With your current alchemy, it is estimated that you will be eliminated after the second round," Ya Xuan put away the medicinal materials in front of her and urged.

Lu Zhe began to put the medicinal materials on the table in front of him into his own ring, these medicinal materials were the materials he used to practice alchemy this time, he asked while pretending: Senior sister, you keep saying that I can't pass the third round, how many rounds of competition are there in this alchemist conference?

Ya Qian thought for a while and said: It depends on the competition system of the conference, the general alchemy conference is a four-round elimination system, and the last round is the championship and runner-up competition. Then the loser in the previous round competes for third place, and that's roughly what it looks like. There will be a special person to explain to you at that time, so don't worry about it.

Lu Zhe let out an "oh", then packed all the medicinal materials on the table and left the inn with Ya Xuan. Return to the deep mountains and old forests to continue practicing. As for why he wanted to do alchemy in the deep mountains and old forests, it was because alchemy needed to be quiet, and the hustle and bustle would distract the alchemist. In this way, it is easy to blow up the tripod, and once the tripod is fried, it is not a joke. Therefore, their first intensive training was carried out in the depths of the mountains.

In an open field deep in the mountains, this is where Lu Zhe strengthens his training. Lu Zhe took out the dragon yin ding from the ring and put it away. Then take out all the medicinal materials that were collected just now and put them on the ground, and throw a cluster of flames into the fire inlet under Long Yin Ding, Wen Ding omitted this step, and directly started alchemy!

Ya Yan sat on Lu Zhe's right to guide him, she was far away from Lu Zhe, this was what Lu Zhe asked her to do, saying that it would affect him if she was too close, but in fact, Lu Zhe was afraid that the high temperature generated during alchemy would hurt his skin. She sat aside and watched Lu Zhe put the medicinal herbs around her into the ding in an orderly manner, and then discharged the refined medicinal residue, and her movements were like flowing water.

Time passed quietly minute by minute, like a distant river. In the blink of an eye, the rising sun was already slightly slanting to the west.

Lu Zhe looked at the medicine residue in front of him, scratched his head, and had a puzzled expression. This is a Wuding Bronze Pill, it is the simplest of all the Wuding Pills, and the function of this Pill is to check whether you are qualified to become a Wuding Alchemist, Lu Zhe is stuck by this pill, he is already refining this pill for the fourth time, the first three times have failed, this time he failed at the last moment, if he can't refine this pill, even if he participates in the Alchemy Master Conference, the chances of winning are not good. But failure is failure, there is nothing to say, Lu Zhe checked the slag burned into black carbon over and over again, then thought about the reason for this failure, turned his head and said to Ya Xuan: Senior sister, are there any herbs for refining?

Ya Yan touched her own ring, and after a flash of light, a bunch of new medicinal materials appeared in front of Lu Zhe's eyes.

"This is the last herb, if you fail again, there is really no way" Ya Yan looked at Lu Zhe and reminded.

Lu Zhe nodded, and said very seriously: Don't worry, if you fail again this time, I will ......

"Just marry me!" said Ya Yan suddenly. After speaking, he looked at Lu Zhe with a smile.

Lu Zhe's face turned red, and he hurriedly said: Senior sister, don't tease me, I'm annoying.

"The heart is disturbed, but you can't refine the elixir," Ya Xuan suddenly put away her playful expression and said in a straight voice.

Looking at Ya Di with a serious face, Lu Zhe felt for the first time that she was quite imposing when she became serious, he nodded and said: Don't worry, senior sister, I will never do.

"That's good," Ya Yi immediately regained her sweet smile.

Lu Zhe sat cross-legged in front of Long Yinding again, and after a cluster of flames was thrown into the fire inlet, he began the final refining. It's a matter of success or failure!

The sun slowly sinks to the west, and the evening of the setting sun blooms with incomparably brilliant golden rays. The rolling green mountains turn golden in the sunlight, and the babbling streams shimmer like gold.

Lu Zhe was still sitting there alchemy. He has now reached the most critical step, Cheng Dan!

Ya Yan sat on the side, and her nervous palms were sweating.

Birds fly back to the nest in flocks in the afterglow of the setting sun, and fish swim happily in the creek. Suddenly I heard a loud bang! The birds scattered in fright, and the fish swam away in fright.

Lu Zhe stood on the ground, his right hand clenched tightly, the lid of the dragon yin ding fell not far from his right hand, and purple smoke was rising from his palm and the dragon yin ding.

Ya Yan ran in front of him in a few steps, looked at him and asked with concern: Are you okay, junior brother?

Lu Zhe smiled at her, and then slowly opened his right hand. A pill the size of a purple cherry lay in the palm of his hand.

Looking at the purple pill in Lu Zhe's palm, Ya Yan immediately shouted excitedly: "Ah, junior brother, you have succeeded. After speaking, she rushed over and hugged Lu Zhe tightly.

"You succeeded, junior brother, congratulations," Ya Yan said happily while hugging Lu Zhe tightly.

Lu Zhe hugged her in a circle and said: Yes, I succeeded, I finally succeeded.

"Great. Go back today, senior sister, cook a few side dishes, and reward you well," Ya Xuan said happily after she stopped.

The smile on Lu Zhe's face froze directly when he heard this, and after a while, Lu Zhe let go of Ya Xuan. said very seriously: You see this is such a senior sister, what about you, you have worried a lot about me in the past few days, right?

Ya Yan nodded. Dao: That's right.

"That's it" Lu Zhe's eyes rolled, and said: How about letting the little junior brother show a few hands tonight?

"How can that work? It's you who succeeded in alchemy, not me. I should have cooked for you, so why did you cook for me in reverse?" Puzzled.

"No, no, no, I definitely can't trouble Senior Sister anymore, this matter is settled, let's go back" Lu Zhe made a final decision, and then hurriedly went over to bury the medicine residue on the spot, and walked in the direction of Liuyun Country after taking Long Yinding back into the ring. Ya Yan ran over and put her arm around him, and said, "In that case, then I'm not welcome."

"Don't be polite to me, senior sister" Lu Zhe breathed a long sigh of relief, and returned to Liuyun Country accompanied by Ya Xuan.

After returning to Liuyun Country, Lu Zhe bought some vegetables on the street and then borrowed the kitchen of the inn to fry a few side dishes.

Ya Yan nodded, and then feasted.

Lu Zhe looked at the gobbling Ya Yan with a smile, unbuttoned the white apron, paused the chopsticks on the table, and began to eat. After a while, the delicacies were all eaten up, Ya Yan burped happily and said: I didn't expect the little junior brother to cook so well, but it is still a little worse than your senior sister and me.

Lu Zhe said with a smile while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks: Yes, yes, senior sister is the most powerful. When he returned from sending the dishes and chopsticks back to the kitchen, Ya Yan was already asleep, Lu Zhe looked at her and smiled, and then opened the window.

Tonight is a beautiful night with a bright moon and stars.

Lu Zhe turned over on the roof. The twilight fell like a great net of gray and covered the whole land, which was already asleep, and the deserted streets were silent except for the gentle breeze and the occasional barking of dogs.

The night is quiet, and everything on the earth falls asleep. Lu Zhe is lying on the roof admiring the moon, the moon tonight is very round, big and bright, if Lu Zhe is a tender man and happens to like to drink, he will definitely enjoy the moon and drink, maybe he will improvise a poem. Looking at Lu Zhe, he suddenly took out a purple silk scarf from his arms, this silk scarf belonged to Xue Ling'er, once he was tired, Xue Ling'er used this silk scarf to wipe his sweat, and since then he has put this silk scarf in his arms, and then forgot to return it to her when he was leaving.

Lu Zhe pointed the silk scarf to the moon and looked at the moon through the silk scarf, the moon was hazy, the breeze blew, and the silk scarf fluttered with the wind.

"Are you okay?" Lu Zhe looked at the silk scarf in front of him and whispered to himself.

"I wonder if she's looking up at the moon at the moment?" Lu Zhe's voice became lower and lower, and in the end, even he couldn't hear it clearly.

The breeze stirs the leaves and makes a "rustling" sound.

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"Squeak, squeak" The monkey Xiaobai sat on a branch and nibbled on the fruit. Xue Fei'er came to the bottom of the tree out of breath and shouted at Xiaobai: You monkey. But I finally got caught up with you, and I was exhausted. She panted with one hand on her waist.

"Let's click". Xue Fei'er suddenly felt something hit her, and looked up. I saw the monkey Xiaobai squatting on the treetops grinning non-stop, dancing with his hands while laughing, and standing upside down with his hands, looking very happy.

"You monkey dare to hit me with a fruit core, you wait, wait until I catch you, you feel good," Xue Fei'er scolded as she began to climb the tree. Seeing that she was serious, Monkey Xiaobai hurriedly ran to the other end of the tree, and then jumped onto another tree and smiled at Xue Fei'er. It was gone in the blink of an eye.

"Sister, stop chasing, take a rest," Xue Ling'er said with a smile while sitting on the stone bench next to her.

Xue Fei'er pointed at the place where the monkey Xiaobai disappeared, said something in her mouth, and then came to sit down next to Xue Ling'er. Xue Ling'er made him a cup of tea and said, "Come, rest and rest, why can't you get along with a monkey?"

Xue Fei'er didn't get rid of her breath yet, and drank all the tea that Xue Ling'er made for her in one go. Said angrily: This splashing monkey, when I catch it, I have to peel its skin.

Xue Ling'er smiled, like a lily blooming in the night, and said: If you really peel off its skin. When Brother Lu Zhe comes back, he won't fight with you.

As soon as Xue Fei'er heard Lu Zhe's name, her anger suddenly disappeared, and she whispered: Since this is the case, spare this splashing monkey from death, but the death penalty can be avoided and the living crime cannot be escaped. I'm going to give it a good look!" she said as the fire came up again, and her voice grew a lot.

Xue Ling'er's smile remained unchanged. Dao: Where do you say Brother Lu Zhe is now?

"Who knows where he is? He has been gone for more than a year without any news. Is there such an unsympathetic friend as him?" said Xue Fei'er angrily.

"Maybe he's busy, after all, the day of the bet is coming," Xue Ling'er thought as she held her apricot cheeks.

"But even if he's busy, he's not so busy that he doesn't even have time to write a letter, does he know how much you miss him, sister," Xue Fei'er said in an uneven tone.

In fact, Lu Zhe didn't think about writing a letter to Xue Ling'er, but he really didn't know what to write, and every time he picked up the pen, he didn't know how to write. Anyway, he can't write about how unlucky he is, so it makes people feel like he is complaining, and he can't write about how hard he is, so it feels like he is boasting, and he can't write about his life and death, he doesn't want Xue Linger to worry about him. It's better not to write than to write nonsense, this is Lu Zhe's consistent style, he doesn't like to deceive people, and he doesn't like to deceive the people he likes.

"It's about to be the day of the gambling contract, and when he completes the agreement, he should be back," Xue Ling'er looked at the moon and said lightly.

"If you're talking about where that little ghost is Lu Zhe, I can tell you that he's in the Liuyun Country right now," said the sixth oil as he walked over, his ice-colored hair beautiful in the light of the moon.

"Father, why are you here?" said Xue Fei'er and Xue Ling'er in unison.

You Lao Liu laughed and said: Can't I come to see my baby daughter?

Xue Fei'er glanced at him and whispered: "We are hundreds of years old and still pestering us."

You Lao Liu heard Xue Fei'er's words at the tip of his ear, smiled hehe, and said: Did you two talk about Lu Zhe just now?

Xue Ling'er nodded and asked, "Father, you just said that Brother Lu Zhe is in the Flowing Cloud Country at the moment, what kind of place is there?"

You Lao Liu sat down and made himself a cup of tea, moistened his throat, and said: As far as I know, it is a landlocked country, sandwiched between several large countries and mountains, and it is a very chaotic place.

"What is he doing there?" asked Sheffield.

"A few days ago, I heard that old guy from Yi Simiao say that it seems that he went to find the medicinal materials for refining the 'Little Spirit Pattern Pill', and then he cultivated in the deep mountains over there," You Lao Liu thought about it for a while and said.

"Father, you just said that you met Mr. Yi a few days ago?" Xue Ling'er asked.

"Yes," replied the sixth oilman.

"Where?"

"West of Zhongheng?"

"How could Mr. Yi return to Zhongheng to the west?" Xue Ling'er said suspiciously.

"I heard that there has been a lot of trouble in the Dan Mansion recently, can he, as the lord of the mansion, not go back and take a look," You Lao Liu took a sip of tea and said slowly.

"Danfu?" Xue Fei'er muttered in a low voice, and then was relieved, and said, "Oh, I remember, it's the sect that created the alchemist hierarchy, isn't that place a holy place for alchemists?"

"I heard that this time it's not the outside world, but that they have some internal problems, whatever, as long as it doesn't affect us," You Lao Liu made another cup of tea and drank it.

"Mr. Yi is not by Brother Lu Zhe's side, who is by his side?" Mr. Ye?" Xue Ling'er asked.

"No, it's not Ye Laosan's guy, according to Yi Si Miao, it is his apprentice who is now by his side" You Lao Liu finished drinking the tea and said lightly.

Xue Ling'er thought for a while and said, "But I remember that you once said that Mr. Yi has never accepted apprentices casually, and he seems to have only one apprentice before Lu Zhe, could it be her?!"

You Lao Liu nodded and said, "That's right, it's her, Ya Xuan!"

"That!" Xue Fei'er jumped up directly after hearing this.

"How do you speak, people Ya Yan is enthusiastic, not sassy. I'll tell you, fortunately, Yi Simiao is not here now, otherwise he would dare to fight with me directly" You Lao Liu said angrily.

was scolded by the sixth oil, Xue Fei'er argued: But she really .......

"Really, what?" You Lao Liu interrupted Xue Fei'er's words and said: Ya Qian was picked up by Yi Si Miao when he traveled around the world, and since she was a child, Yi Si Miao regarded her as his own and taught her alchemy and medical skills, and now everyone is already a junior alchemist of Qiding, and you, you are just an eight-star great spirit master, you are embarrassed to say others.

"She's a lot older than me and naturally has a higher rank than me," Xue Feier then argued.

"Yes, she's a lot older than you, but people have reached the level of a spirit priest when you're so old, what about you?" said the oil old man slowly.

"I ......" Xue Fei'er was speechless for a while, and she had nothing to say.

Xue Ling'er handed the two teacups in her hand to the two of them, and said with a smile: Okay, don't make any noise, come and drink tea to dissipate your anger.

You Lao Liu took the teacup with a smile and said to Xue Fei'er: Look, your sister is still gentle and careful, this is the same as your mother, look at you again, like a boy.

"I'm me, I'm just like a boy, what's wrong?" Xue Fei'er said angrily, and after saying that, he slammed the teacup on the table, turned his head and ran.

"Sister," Xue Ling'er hurriedly called.

"Let her go" You Lao Liu put down the teacup in his hand and said lightly.

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The wind is always very cold at night, and blowing for a long time is not good for the body, Lu Zhe sat up from the roof, glanced at the silk scarf in his hand, and then put it back to his chest, turned over and jumped back to the room.

When she came to the room, Ya Yan slept very soundly and sweetly, Lu Zhe looked at her and smiled slightly, and then took out a set of bedding from the ring and spread it on the ground. He wants to have a good rest, because the long-awaited Alchemist Conference is about to be held, and he wants to recuperate well, and then compete in the Alchemist Conference. (To be continued......)