Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 646: Chapter 268: The nine realms of the Blood River, the oppressed Luo Chen_2

Whether it pertains to Tendon Changing or Marrow Washing, even unblocking channels, or even opening up human body acupoints after entering the Golden Core Period.

Why would Qi Refiners concentrate on body refining when they can passively enhance their physique during cultivation?

Decline, is the trend of this era!

As for the powerful methods mastered by Body Refiners?

Visible Power? Hidden Power?

They, the Qi Refiners, also have techniques, magic items, arrays, talismans to replace those, and even more convenient, they have even greater power.

No one would abandon the easy to seek the difficult.

During their conversation, the flying boat quickly entered Tianlan Peak.

At the time of farewell, Wang Yuan gave Luo Chen a beast skin as thin as cicada wings.

”I’ve thoroughly researched this ’Sky Roc Transformation’. You take it and have a look when you have some free time!”

Luo Chen nodded after taking the beast skin.

After Wang Yuan left, Luo Chen, carrying the remaining three people, arrived at the Second Order Lower Grade Immortal Mansion he had previously occupied.

It’s now occupied by Min Longyu.

But he had just consolidated his realm and would spend this period in Danxia Peak, discussing with Duan Feng how to refine the magic item embryo and complete his array disk.

So, the Immortal Mansion was temporarily unoccupied.

Conveniently, Murong Qinglian had reached the Finalization of Qi Refinement and was attempting to break through to Foundation Establishment.

It made sense to let her use it.

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Arriving at the entrance of the mansion, Luo Chen used the spiritual secrets of opening the array and quickly did so.

Murong Qinglian went in and had a look around before expressing satisfaction.

”What a great place!”

”It’s a pity it’s too expensive.”

Even a Second Order Lower Grade Immortal Mansion costs a thousand spirit stones a month.

For a common Foundation Establishment Cultivator, their normal monthly income is just two or three thousand Spirit Stones.

In other words, one-third or even half of at least a month’s income is tossed into the massive sinkhole of rent!

Perhaps someone would say, why not stay away from the Second Order Spirit Land and still cultivate?

But only after a True Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage realistically appraises the difference between the First and Second Order, then they will insist to toss their spirit stones into this sinkhole.

The cultivation speed between the two is as different as night and day!

Take Li Yixian as an example for instance.

She has been in Foundation Establishment for twenty or thirty years in The Great River District. After entering Foundation Establishment, she couldn’t continue progressing past the second layer.

But after coming to the Tian Lan Immortal City, she only rented an Immortal Mansion for a year and advanced to the third layer of Foundation Establishment.

If not, she wouldn’t have been selected by the Yun Merchant Alliance to be an elder.

Did her talent increase to allow such a rapid improvement in cultivation speed?

No!

It’s just that the external cultivation environment had changed.

Luo Chen laughed and said, ”Sister-in-law, if you’re satisfied then it’s good. When you reach Foundation Establishment, the Luo Tian Creed will adjust your salary, and you can also rent a mansion in Tianlan Peak.”

Murong Qinglian was about to accept the offer.

But when her gaze fell on Qin Liangchen, who was wandering around the room, her words changed at the tip of her tongue.

”Renting a mansion is really a big expense.”

”In reality, cultivators aren’t cultivating non-stop every day. In the spare time, the spiritual Qi of the mansion can be a bit wasted.”

Luo Chen raised his eyebrows slightly, having a vague idea of what she wanted to say.

”What do you mean?”

Murong Qinglian brushed her hair over, ”Now the Luo Tian Creed has several true cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and under your leadership, there will probably be more in the future.”

”If everyone rents a mansion, a lot of spirit stones will be wasted unnecessarily.”

”As far as I know, Tianlan Peak only prohibits subletting of mansions, but not renting a mansion together as a family or friends.”

Only upon hearing this did Luo Chen fully understand her point.

”Sharing a mansion?”

Murong Qinglian nodded, ”Yes! Rather than wasting, it’s better to reasonably utilize each time period. After all, the thing that we’re refining and absorbing is just the Earth Vein Spirit Qi of Tian Lan Immortal City, so there’s no need for us to be heartbroken.”

”Also, there’s one more thing, Chairman, I must mention to you!”

From the previous ”Xiao Luo”, it seamlessly switched back to ”Chairman.”

This meant that the upcoming talk would involve formal business.

Luo Chen became grave and silently waited for her to continue.

”The Luo Tian Creed is prospering with bright prospects. Yet as of now, it’s just getting started.”

”We haven’t seen the profits from the spirit fields yet, the business of selling magic tools in the Equipment Hall is still consuming the spoils of war saved before, and the take from the market in Biyou Valley needs time to increase.”

”As of now, the one supporting the Luo Tian Creed is still the elixirs you’re refining, Chairman.”

”Under these conditions, the financial burden of supporting four, five, or even more Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the future will be immense!”

”As far as I know, any organizations that can support more than five Foundation Establishment Cultivators have thousands of Qi refinement stage cultivators under their command at the very least!”

”Our Luo Tian Creed, with our few hundred people, simply cannot afford it. What has been squeezed is actually the value of you, the Chairman!”

Murong Qinglian spoke slowly.

The latter part of her statements sounded particularly grave.

Luo Chen, who was listening to them, had his facial expression change continuously.

He remembered the time in The Great River District. Meters wide, Uncle Mi Shuhua was supporting him alone with the thousands of Qi Refiners from Broken Mountain Gang.

Wang Haichao was the same.

With his own Pill Refinement Technique, his pressures were lesser than theirs by a significant amount.

But even so, he wouldn’t be able to sustain the consumption of so many Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the future!

By then, it wouldn’t be them supporting Luo Chen, but rather Luo Chen himself supporting them!

In the end, the Luo Tian Creed has just developed too rapidly!

Especially, it has also absorbed a group of Qi Refinement Stage elite cultivators from The Great River.

In addition to his own generosity, this led to a sudden surge in the number of cultivators reaching Foundation Establishment as soon as they arrived in a resource-rich place like Tian Lan Immortal City.