Zhou Huan returned to the place where he had rested in Mingcui Valley in the past few days, and began to sort out the income from this trip to the northern mountains and forests.

Opening the storage bag, looking at the demon beast materials inside and a few jade boxes on the side, Zhou Huan said to himself: "The harvest is not bad, except for the condensing grass in the jade box, let's go and replace it with spirit stones." ”

Regarding the Qi Condensing Grass, Zhou Huan knew before that this was the main material of the Qi Harvesting Pill, thinking that his spiritual root was very poor, and if he had some talent in the way of alchemy, he could refine the pill by himself for cultivation.

The alchemist in the cultivation realm can be regarded as an important component of each sect, although the amount of spirit stone and spirit grass required to cultivate an alchemist is expensive, but each sect will still strive to cultivate. Zhou Huan thought that he had almost collected all the spiritual grass needed for the Qi Harvesting Pill in recent years, and he was only missing one Dan furnace.

Then Zhou Huan found that he was going to cross the moon in three days, so he turned his head and discussed with Fang Zheng on the side for a while, and the two decided to return early tomorrow morning.

Early the next morning, Zhou Huan stretched his waist, got up and marked the surroundings so that the two of them could come again next time.

After half a burnt incense, Fang Zheng used his true qi to urge the Qingye boat, and since it had just been refined, he just shook it up. Fang Zheng was a little embarrassed when he saw this, Zhou Huan couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, the two of them got on the flying boat, although the speed was not too fast, and they returned to Fang City smoothly soon after.

After entering the market, the two quickly went to Jubao Zhai. Seeing the fat shopkeeper accept the materials with a smile on his face, Zhou Huan thought for a moment and asked, "Shopkeeper Zhang, I would like to ask if your store has a Dan furnace for sale." ”

The shopkeeper of Jubaozhai is surnamed Zhang, and for more than a year, because Zhou Huan often exchanges spirit stones with him, he can be regarded as half an acquaintance. After listening to this, Shopkeeper Zhang thought for a moment and said: "It seems that Zhou Xiaoyou is a little interested in alchemy, and Benzhai does have some Dan furnaces, starting at three hundred low-grade spirit stones. ”

After hearing this price, Zhou Huan suddenly felt helpless, and said with a slightly wry smile: "Then I can only make plans later." ”

Shopkeeper Zhang didn't say anything after listening to this, he had seen too many young monks who wanted to make achievements in alchemy over the years, but most of them returned in vain, wasting resources and years in vain. For Zhou Huan, if he can concentrate on improving his cultivation, he will definitely be able to go further, because he deliberately said that the price of the low-grade Dan furnace was higher.

"Senior brother, you bought most of the spirit stones from the Qingye Boat before, and you take these spirit stones first." After Fang Zheng finished changing the spirit stone, the two walked out of Jubao Zhai.

"It's okay, there is a lack of spiritual energy in the mining area, you also need spirit stones to cultivate, and you can return it to me after returning to the sect." Zhou Huan is colorful.

Fang Zheng knew Zhou Huan's temperament, and seeing that he refused to accept it and didn't force it, he could only take the spirit stone back, and then said, "What is the next plan for the senior brother." ”

"Originally, I wanted to inquire about the refining method of the Qi Condensation Pill, but now it seems that the matter of alchemy has to be discussed in the long run, so let's go back to the mining area directly." Zhou Huan thought for a while and said.

It was much faster than the previous carriage, and an hour later, Zhou Huan returned to the mining area by flying boat.

I haven't seen each other for a month, the mining area is still as usual, nothing major happened, Pang Zhengyuan was bored and lazily fiddling with something in the courtyard, and after seeing Zhou Huan and the two come back, he cheered up a little and said: "Senior Brother Zhou, Senior Brother Fang, look at your expressions, did you successfully buy a flying magic weapon on this trip?" ”

"Yes, Senior Brother Pang." Fang Zheng summoned Qingye Zhou and let Pang Zhengyuan take a look.

"Yes, yes, this requires a lot of spirit stones, but it's a pity that I haven't cultivated much in the past few years, and I can't drive the flying magic weapon." Pang Zhengyuan's young heart is still a little yearning for flying magic weapons.

However, his mind came and went quickly, and after chatting a few words, he said to Zhou Huan with some pride: "Senior brother, Xiaohong has been taken care of by me, I have fed it a lot of iron rat meat this month, you can go and take a look." ”

"Then look at the results of the care of the junior and younger brothers." Zhou Huan said with a smile.

After Zhou Huan finished speaking, he walked to the snake nest on the side of the courtyard, looked inside, and saw that Xiaohong was resting, and had grown up a lot, the yellow ring belt on her body became more and more vivid, and her breath faintly reached the level of the second order of qi refining.

Zhou Huan sighed a little, it was only less than a year, and he was about to catch up with the level he had just started cultivating for several years, he entered the sect at the age of twelve, and before he arrived in the mining area, he only cultivated to the second level of qi refining for four years, although there was a reason why they often fed Xiaohong to eat demon beast meat during the period, but the bloodline of demon beasts still had too much advantage over the human race.

After watching it for a while, Zhou Huan thought that he could take Xiaohong to the Nanqing Mountains in the future, after all, in places like Lishui Stream, Mingcui Valley and the like, the cultivation of demon beasts is generally not high, which can help Xiaohong grow, and it will be a big help in the future, but before that, he has to go to Fang Market to buy a spirit beast bag first.

After chatting with Pang Zhengyuan for a few words, Zhou Huan returned to his stone house, cleaned up the house, and took out the gray gourd from the corner. Picking up the gourd, Zhou Huan thought of the previous distress in the valley, sighed, and then cheered up and began to cultivate as usual.

As the days passed, Zhou Huan had been cultivating hard in addition to going back and forth with Fang Zheng to earn spirit stones, and during this period, Zhan Ping would occasionally teach some cultivation experience.

As Zhou Huan ran the basic five elements technique, he used his divine sense to look inwardly at the dantian in his body, and at this time, the gray cyclone in the center had recovered to about eighty percent of its original size, and the five-colored true qi around it completely filled the rest of the dantian, and his cultivation had already reached the level of perfection of the third layer of qi refining.

"I think I can break through in the near future." Zhou Huan finished his luck at this time, and nine months of diligent cultivation and gray qi made his cultivation grow rapidly, and today he was ready to go to Fang City alone. Zhou Huan, as he had done several times before, walked out of the stone house after putting the gourd away.

This month, it was Fangzheng's turn to manage the affairs of the mining area, and when he saw Zhou Huan walking into the courtyard, Fangzheng was a little puzzled and asked, "How can Senior Brother be free today?" As far as he knew, in order to break through as soon as possible, Zhou Huan had been cultivating more and more diligently in the past few months, and he usually didn't go out.

"I'm going to go to Fang Market today and buy some pills." Zhou Huan replied.

"It seems that the senior brother is about to break through, so the junior brother will take you over." Fang Zheng said with a smile after hearing this.

Zhou Huan waved his hand and said, "Senior brother still has to guard the mining area, don't bother, I'll go to Fuliu Town to take a carriage." After speaking, he walked to the snake nest on the side, and Xiaohong was slowly swimming away at this time.

Feeling Zhou Huan's breath, Xiaohong began to approach him, and Xiaohong was a lot older at this time, and the scales around her body were also full of luster. Zhou Huan opened the spirit beast bag and shouted a little red, and saw the red snake get into the bag, and then he tightened the mouth of the bag and hung the spirit beast bag on his waist.

Seeing that Pang Zhengyuan was not in the yard, thinking that he was going to the lake again, Zhou Huan said hello to Fang Zheng and walked to Fuliu Town alone.

Fuliu Town still hasn't changed much as before, and Zhou Huan has been here several times. After a short time, he came to the carriage shop and prepared to take the carriage to the vicinity of Fang City.

As soon as he got into the carriage, Zhou Huan heard a surprised child's voice, "Hey, it's the little brother." ”

Zhou Huan followed the sound and saw that the father and daughter who met for the first time in a carriage were opposite. After being stunned for a moment, Zhou Huan said with a smile: "It turned out to be Brother Qin and Little Sister, what a coincidence." ”

"It's a coincidence, Brother Zhou." Qin Teng also replied with a smile.

After that, Zhou Huan and Qin Xiaoshuang chatted and laughed on the way, which reminded him of his little sister, it has been almost ten years since he went up the mountain to cultivate, and he should go home to visit after he comes.

Seeing that he had gotten off the car before, Zhou Huan asked the driver to stop and prepare to leave.

"Brother Huan, are you an immortal?" Qin Xiaoshuang saw that Zhou Huan was about to leave here again, and asked with some curiosity. I heard Xiao Er from her restaurant tell her some stories about the immortals in Fuliu Town before, and she faintly felt that the good-looking little brother in front of her was very similar to what was said in the story.

"Xiao Shuang'er, I'm not an immortal, I just learned some skills." Zhou Huan laughed after hearing this.

"Okay, Brother Huan, you must come to my restaurant after you are busy, you didn't come last time you promised." Qin Xiaoshuang thought about it, pursed her lips and said.

"Okay, I'll go next month." Zhou Huan agreed, and after saying goodbye to the father and daughter, he walked straight towards Fang City.

Half an hour later, Zhou Huan came to a pharmacy called Baicao Pavilion near the center of Fang, Zhou Huan had inquired a few times before, and the best quality elixir in Fang City was sold here.

"Shop, how do you sell the Qi Dan?" Zhou Huan saw that it was his turn, so he stepped forward and asked.

"Sold by bottle, four pills in a bottle, a total of forty-five low-rank spirit stones." The shopkeeper replied in a flat tone.

After hearing this, Zhou Huan slowly took out the spirit stone and handed it over. These are almost all the spirit stones he had saved before, although he had expected the price of the Qi Pill before, but he was still a little distressed at this time.

After putting away the elixir, Zhou Huan came to the inn where he was staying, asked the store for a guest room, and walked in.

After a stick of incense, Zhou Huan felt that he had finished adjusting at this time, so he sat cross-legged on the wooden bed. Then he opened the cork of the medicine bottle and poured a Qi Qi Pill into his hand, which was turquoise and emitted a scent of herbs and trees.

Zhou Huan secretly praised the pill worthy of more than ten spirit stones, opened his mouth and swallowed it, and then held the spirit stone in one hand and ran the basic five elements trick.

As soon as the entrance took place, the Chong Ling Pill began to exude medicinal power into the body, and as time passed, the medicinal power of the whole body converged into the dantian.

Zhou Huan concentrated his divine sense, and felt that the dantian was slowly expanded at this time, and the five elements true qi absorbed and transformed gradually increased, but he keenly found that the speed seemed to be a little insufficient, so he immediately swallowed another pill of Qi Rushing Pill, and then continued to exercise.

After a while, the trend of dantian expansion began to slow down again, and Zhou Huan gritted his teeth and swallowed the remaining two grains together.

After a stick of incense, as the true qi in the dantian spread for a while, the dantian suddenly expanded by a few points, refining the qi at four levels, and Zhou Huan finally stepped through the threshold of the middle stage.