The choice to come to Luoyang City was not Lin Qinghen's.
The Shen family is the most aristocratic family in Xizhou. Most of the cities in Xizhou, big and small, have connections with the Shen family. He didn't know much about it and didn't make a decision immediately.
This place was actually chosen by Yin Jiuxiao.
He didn't say much about why he chose this place.
It was a good choice, a good place, and Lin Qinghen didn’t ask any more questions.
He hadn't been out of the Tear City for a long time. After he had rested for a while, he couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart. He left everyone else behind, took Yin Jiuxiao with him, and headed straight for the big market.
This trip not only dealt with the major events between the forces, but also fulfilled his mission of obtaining elixirs.
The types of spiritual plants in the North State are limited. If you want to find more spiritual plants, you have to come to the West State.
Lin Qinghen's task of improving the pill formula has made some progress in the past two months.
What inspired him was the new influencing factor of the system update - extra output. Lin Qinghen had already selected two pill recipes. The production time of Xuan-level pills was longer, about two hours, and each furnace could only produce six pills, but according to the 1.6% yield rate, Lin Qinghen quickly got the extra pills.
The mechanized system produces extra pills, and each one is of the highest quality. From Lin Qinghen's perspective, this extra output is more like a "critical hit" of the system's pill production. Compared with the normal output of pills, it has a stronger spiritual power and better efficacy, and after testing, it has additional abilities.
The Sword Soul Pill was specially made for the Yin family. In addition to the explosive bonus, the additional product also gave the sword a temporary paralyzing effect, and the people injured by the sword tip became slow in movement; as for the Shenxin Powder, it not only improved concentration, but also added additional enhancement capabilities to the product.
The improvement is obvious, but the quantity is small.
Lin Qinghen analyzed the elixir in comparison with the ordinary ones and felt that the extra elixir seemed to have some difference besides being more compact and condensed in structure. And it was different from the raw materials, as if there was something extra.
Inspired by this point, Lin Qinghen purchased a large number of extra elixirs that were accidentally obtained by some alchemists, and then made comparisons.
This type of elixir is even more varied, and the concept and system of the extra elixirs produced by alchemists are two different things. The formation of most of these elixirs is due to the uncertainty of the materials or the imbalance of the proportions, which leads to temporary distortion, and most of them are similar to defective products.
Lin Qinghen pondered it, then did some probability statistics and found a type of Xuan-grade elixir with extra output. Now that he is the president of the Alchemist Association, he has every right to do this.
After repeated research, Lin Qinghen finally had a goal.
He felt that the path to substantial improvement of the pill recipes should not be the refinement of the steps or the ratio of the original materials, but the fact that the raw materials of some pill recipes were not the most suitable for each other, resulting in the inability to achieve the best fusion and performance.
The system task says "materials of the same quality" rather than "materials of the same quality".
Those pills with high extra output that he screened out were breakthroughs, and he had found the bull's eye among the vast number of Xuan-level pill recipes. After repeated comparisons, he found out which type of raw materials were most likely to have problems, and Lin Qinghen had to look for suitable substitutes.
However, there are so many spiritual plants, and this research direction is destined to be a job that requires both brainpower and physical effort.
It is no longer enough to rely on book knowledge alone. Although Lin Qinghen's perception is subtle, he has to find and try them one by one, and that's it now.
The big market in Luoyang City is really rich, especially the medicine market. Lin Qinghen just thinks that all the information here is pleasing to him, but he held Yin Jiuxiao and didn't take a step. Just when they looked at the materials that were not available in Beizhou, they ran into a bustle.
It seemed like someone was arguing in front.
"… Get out of here! What kind of rubbish are you selling? How dare you try to trick me?"
It sounded like a little girl's voice, and it sounded menacing.
There were people gathered in circles over there. Lin Qinghen tiptoed and could only see the back of a figure. He listened to the discussion of the people next to him and knew what was going on.
"This little girl is going to be in trouble," the people around Lin Qinghen who came to watch the fun muttered, "How can an outsider here reason with others?"
This place is not as big as the medicine market in Tear City. Lin Qinghen is strict and has punished severely. After a few times, no one dares to make trouble.
It is common for outsiders to sell inferior materials as good ones, especially since there are so many people in the city recently, so it is natural for them to cheat newcomers. This girl is a young alchemist, and she knew she was being cheated as soon as she saw this.
Lin Qinghen looked back at Yin Jiuxiao and said with a smile: "What if an outsider wants to open a pharmacy here?"
“Oh,” the onlooker turned around and glanced at him, but he couldn’t see Lin Qinghen’s face clearly because of the hooded cloak because of the distance between them. “I’m afraid he’s going to lose a lot!”
As they were talking, the situation at the center became even uglier.
"What? Don't you know you have to leave after you buy it?" The vendor was quite arrogant. "You want to quit? Go out and find out who is in charge of this place. Little girl, I advise you to be honest and get out of here quickly, otherwise..."
He was very impatient and reached out to push the little girl, but he didn't know if the girl had some spiritual weapon on her, but he was stabbed by a force instead, and blood immediately flowed from his arm.
The vendor cried out in pain, then his eyes changed, and he cursed and called out a big man, who was obviously a high-level Xuan-level star with considerable spiritual power.
"If you dare to hurt me, you will leave today!"
The crowd just watched the fun and no one offered to help.
Lin Qinghen frowned, thinking that she was a deceived girl after all, and if she was really bullied while seeking justice, she couldn't just stand by and watch.
With Yin Jiuxiao's ability, he could help without being discovered. He tugged at Yin Jiuxiao's sleeve, but saw that he was not in a hurry.
"Qinghen is very anxious," he said, "the world outside is more complicated than you think."
The situation changed just as Yin Jiuxiao said.
Just when that group of ferocious people were about to drag the little girl away, they saw that she didn't look panicked at all. A spiritual light flashed on her body, as if a spiritual weapon was working, and she put up a barrier.
Then he flicked his sleeves, a black light emerged, and a large black dog suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the air. It looked like a spiritual beast, with sharp teeth and a mouth. It was at least above the earth level and extremely ferocious. It rushed towards those people and started biting them.
The crowd of onlookers took a step back. The vendor's men were bitten and retreated step by step. In the end, they could only swear: "Just wait!"
"Just wait and see who will be unlucky next time! If I see you again next time, I will peel your skin off and see if you dare to pass off inferior goods as good ones!"
The little girl snorted, looked at the backs of those people fleeing, and then called to the big dog: "Xiaobao, come back."
But the big dog abnormally did not listen to him this time. It moved its nose and sniffed the air around it, as if it sensed something.
Then it looked in the direction of Lin Qinghen, and under the order of its owner did not move too far away, but Lin Qinghen could feel the gaze of its puppy eyes.
The crowd dispersed a little due to fear, so Lin Qinghen finally saw the little girl's face clearly under the hood.
Wow, familiar face!
As for this big black dog... it's also a familiar dog.
This is Yuan Rongrong.
There were two people who bought his pills at that time. Lin Qinghen, who caused himself to be exposed, still doesn't know who the other person is. One of them must be her.
Now Lin Qinghen knew that the dog that he had fed with dried meat that time was her Dan-serving spirit beast, which was different from ordinary spirit beasts.
The Dan spirit beast is a heritage of a certain clan. It was transformed when it was a spirit embryo, and then formed a blood contract with a young alchemist. After being raised for a long time, its spiritual power level changes with the level of the alchemist. It can help with cultivation, and its greater role is to protect the alchemist. It is much more useful than some protective spirit tools with a certain number of uses, but it is also very rare.
Yuan Rongrong had discovered that her dog seemed to be staring at the man in gray. There were two people standing on the street corner, both of them deliberately covering their eyes. It was easy to overlook them at a glance, which looked a little strange.
This time she deliberately did not bring any guards with her, insisting on seeking justice on her own. She felt that Luoyang City was boring as soon as she arrived, and it was not a good place at all. However, Xiaobao's abnormal behavior immediately attracted her attention.
"Hey, those two guys over there—"
Yuan Rongrong pushed through the crowd and walked over there, but she was so close to them that the two people disappeared in a flash.
…What an amazing body movement!
Heavenly level
This medicine market is full of Xuan-grade materials, but how could we come across Tian-grade ones
It was Yin Jiuxiao who took Lin Qinghen away.
Lin Qinghen felt that it was such a coincidence that he met Yuan Rongrong again and was noticed by him for the second time. Fortunately, Yin Jiuxiao reacted quickly and took him away, otherwise it would not be a good thing to run into him at this time.
It's not a coincidence that the external affairs of Fuxin Miaofa have always been handled by the red-robed elder Yuan Jiang. He has a good relationship with the Shen family. After the blood transfusion of the alliance came out, he has been staying in Xizhou for the past few months to discuss matters.
The way the seats were divided created space for the three mountain families to form an alliance, with the goal of holding more seats in their hands. He came here with the Shen family, wanting to test the Wu family's strengths.
What Yin Jiuxiao felt emotional about was that coming to the big market at this point in time seemed to be seeing the past repeating itself.
Coincidentally for him, it was around this time that he came out from under the Blowing Wind Cliff. After being spit out by the strange force under the cliff, it randomly chose a landing place, which happened to be near Luoyang City in Xizhou.
Yuan Rongrong was nothing. He knew that a great disaster would happen here soon.
The recent beast tides and demon cracks here are quite common. For example, when Lin Qinghen first arrived in the City of Tears, the city experienced a rat disaster. There were similar situations outside.
There are many forests in Xizhou and rich spiritual plant resources. The alchemist Shen family will take root here all year round. Outside the Luoyang City is the Luoyang Forest that stretches for thousands of miles, so there will be a beast tide every few years. This is a phenomenon that is bound to occur when some spiritual beasts reproduce too quickly and have no strong natural enemies, resulting in an overabundance of disasters.
Every year at this time, Luoyang City would send out bounty missions in advance to attract adventurers from all over the spirit world to come and handle them. In addition, there have been more and more small magic cracks outside the city recently, which has attracted many teams who want to make a fortune.
But what the Wu family, who ruled Luoyang City, did not expect was that this matter was not as simple as they imagined.
The small demonic cracks that suddenly appeared frequently recently were just a sign. About a day later, a huge demonic crack would appear not far from the city. The most powerful one chosen by the demon this time was a nine-star silver emperor fox wolf.
These spirit beasts were originally very intelligent, and that one happened to be the leader of the tribe. After going berserk, it became even smarter, and its strength suddenly expanded to the high-star level of the heavenly rank.
It used the special ability of the Silver Emperor Fox Wolf to activate its powerful bewitching ability, leading the spirit beasts in the beast tide to listen to its words, gather together and start attacking the city. Mixed with increasingly violent magic power, it almost destroyed Luoyang City.
Fortunately, there were people from the Shen family's Fuxin Miaofa here at that time, who came to the rescue at the critical moment. Yin Jiuxiao, who landed here, also showed his talents and attracted the attention of the Shen family's Fuxin Miaofa.
Although he failed to kill the most powerful Silver Emperor Fox Wolf, he managed to hold off the nearly collapsed defense line on the west side of the city when the beast tide attacked the city, and prevented the city center from being breached. By chance, he also saved his only daughter Yuan Rongrong, who came here with Elder Yuan Jiang of Fu Xin Miao Fa.
It seems that Yuan Rongrong was the root of the trouble at this moment. She was left alone when the city was in chaos and was stopped by the people led by the backer of this vendor. The other side had more people and the spirit beast beside her was injured and she almost lost her life.
Yin Jiuxiao pulled out his hand to save her, and then got in touch with the Fuxin Miaofa, and made friends with Wu Wei, the young master of the Wu family in the city.
He had no sincerity at that time, he was just using her to climb the ladder, now he had some emotions because of Lin Qinghen, but he didn't intend to show his softness to outsiders.
He was also lucky at that time. He was ambushed in the chaotic city and then successfully counterattacked, snatching an earth-level spiritual weapon from the other party. The silver magic weapon on Yin Jiuxiao's face now has the same effect. It can slightly change his appearance and the form of his spiritual marrow. It is a rare concealing spiritual weapon.
There are many spiritual essences in the sword system of the spiritual world. Yin Jiuxiao's sword was originally plain, and there were some changes compared to the Jiuxiao Jueyun Sword in everyone's previous impression. After a slight change, it became even plainer, so that they could not see his identity.
Now that the disaster is unavoidable, the best we can do is deploy in advance to save more people from being affected. This is also an opportunity for them who came here from the northern states.
Yin Jiuxiao was not going to give the Silver Emperor Fox Wolf to anyone else. Yin Jiuxiao, who had just crawled out from under the Blowing Wind Cliff, was at the level of about five stars on the Earth Rank at that time. Now they were one on the Earth and one on the Sky, and with the addition of the people who came with him, he had the ability to snatch the prey.
This time it wasn't himself that was at fault, it was Lin Qinghen that was at fault.