Chapter 130: Settled in Wangdao Fairy City
Chapter 130: Settled in Wangdao Fairy City
After receiving their share of elixirs, Shi Chen and Liang Ruyan arrived at Wangdao Fairy City through the teleportation array. The first thing they did was to visit the city lord stationed there.
The city lord stationed here is in the fusion stage. He is from the Yanlie clan of the Chiyan Continent and is the clan leader with the highest cultivation level, Huo Lie. He leads 5,000 cultivators of the Yanlie clan to support Dongzhizhou.
The one who received the two men was a member of the Yanlie clan who had reached the eighth level of the late Jindan period. He was Huolie's grandson-nephew and served as the commander of the city defense corps of the Xiancheng garrison.
After entering the office hall, we were led to a tea room by the receptionist.
Sitting in the tea room was a male cultivator with fiery red skin, slightly yellow hair, a resolute face, and wearing a black and gold robe. He was holding a teacup and looking at the two of them.
"I am Huo Yao from the Yanlie Clan of the Chiyan Continent, and I serve as the commander of the city defense corps of Wangdao Fairy City. I have received your transfer orders, and I will arrange your appointments. Fellow Daoist Shi is a fourth-rank alchemist, so I will assign you to the general logistics department of the fairy city and take over the alchemy team. As for Fellow Daoist Liang, I will assign him to my city defense army and command two hundred cultivators. Do you think this arrangement is a good one?" Huo Yao said with a smile after putting down his teacup.
"We'll follow Brother Huo's instructions." Shi Chen and Liang Ruyan looked at each other and replied in unison.
"If you two fellow Taoists have any requests, you can raise them." Huo Yao looked at Shi Chen and said gently.
"Fellow Daoist Huo, if possible, I would like to take up a position in the Dan Palace, completing the military elixir refining every month. You can arrange others to take charge of other office management." Shi Chen put forward his idea.
"That's fine, but Fellow Daoist Shi will still be in charge of the Dan Palace. He will be the main palace master and won't have to manage the affairs on a regular basis. There will be a deputy palace master to coordinate the affairs. I wonder if this is a good idea?" Huo Yao thought for three breaths and asked.
"Okay." Shi Chen nodded in agreement.
Huo Yao looked at Liang Ruyan beside him and said, "Does Brother Liang have any requests?"
"Let Brother Huo arrange it. I have no requirements." Liang Ruyan looked at Shi Chen and said.
"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to take you two to familiarize yourself with the environment." Huo Yao said with a smile, "Huo Zhen, take the two fellow Taoists to take over. The two fellow Taoists can choose the first-class cave abode themselves."
A female cultivator in a fiery red silk dress came in from outside the tea room and took the two people away.
He first took the two of them to the location of the first-class cave, and after they chose the cave, he led them to the Dan Palace.
Huo Zhen was a female cultivator at the ninth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage. She brought Shi Chen to the Dan Palace and went up to the top floor of the Dan Palace. At that time, a male cultivator at the first level of the Golden Core Stage was waiting at the door.
"Master Dan, this is Fellow Daoist Xian Lili, the deputy hall master of the Dan Palace. Fellow Daoist Xian will introduce the situation of the Dan Palace." Huo Zhen introduced.
"Please, Brother Huo Zhen, lead the way." Shi Chen said.
"It's not a trouble. I will send Fellow Daoist Liang to the city defense army. Please come on, Fellow Daoist Liang!" Huo Zhen said.
After Huo Zhen took Liang Ruyan away, Shi Chen followed Xian Lili to a large room that occupied most of the fifth floor.
"Friend Shi, this is the main room of the Dan Palace. You can handle official business here. Opposite is my auxiliary room. I am usually in there." Xian Lili said.
Shi Chen walked into the room, which was divided into two side halls on the left and right, with the main hall in the middle.
"If there is no important matter, I usually don't come here. From now on, the affairs of the alchemy team will be handled by Fellow Daoist Xian. If you have any questions, please contact me. The monthly military medicine refining and spiritual medicine can be delivered to my cave. Is this okay with Fellow Daoist Xian?" Shi Chenhuan said after taking a look.
"The commander of the Huoyao Legion has already told me that Fellow Daoist Shi can make his own decision. I will send someone to deliver the monthly military elixirs to Fellow Daoist Shi's cave. If Fellow Daoist Shi has any questions, you can ask me." Xian Lili said respectfully.
After Shi Chen and Xian Lili exchanged communication symbols, they returned to his cave. His cave was a small courtyard with five rooms, a two-story main room, side rooms on the left and right, and a storage room.
Shi Chen converted the left side room into a alchemy room, the right side room into a kitchen, the first floor of the main house into a reception room, and the second floor into a living room.
The courtyard is about two hundred square meters, with stone paved roads and spiritual herbs, flowers and trees scattered around.
Coming to the living room on the second floor of the main house, there was a second-level spirit gathering array set up inside. The spiritual energy gathered was acceptable. Shi Chen rearranged a third-level spirit gathering array. The spiritual energy gathered was 20% thicker than before. With normal practice, he could reach the third level of Jindan in three to five years.
Shi Chen chose to be transferred to Wangdao Fairy City for a reason, but he did not explain it to Liang Ruyan.
He needs a spiritual vein of the third grade or above to practice. It is understood that the fairy city on the coastal front has a fourth-grade spiritual vein, which is now occupied by sea monsters. Shi Chen wants to sneak into the occupied fairy city and find a way to extract the spiritual vein of the fairy city.
The South Sea Fairy City has fewer sea monsters, and there is only one sea monster in the Spirit Transformation Stage under its command. As long as Shi Chen finds an opportunity and enters the location where the spiritual vein is suppressed, he is confident that he can extract a spiritual vein.
This confidence is based on his formation decree, which has reached the fifth level.
The defensive formation of the South Sea Fairy City is only of the fourth level. As long as it is arranged properly, the spiritual vein can be obtained without anyone noticing.
Shi Chen stayed in seclusion in the cave for three months. He did not go out and received a year's task of refining military medicine pills, ten furnaces per month, a total of one hundred and twenty furnaces per year. He also took on additional pill refining tasks.
He needed to accumulate military merit to exchange for the elixir recipes for advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, as well as the spiritual medicine in the recipes, at least thirty copies, for a total of 230,000 military merits. Currently, he only had a little over 10,000 military merits left, less than one-tenth or one-twelfth of his total. He could only refine large quantities of elixirs and hand them in to earn military merits.
After completing the military duties for the year, he continued to take on military tasks to refine elixirs, and mobilized the entire fairy city's golden elixirs and spiritual medicines, so that the fairy city's storage of spiritual medicines was exhausted, and there were only enough to refine 300 furnaces of elixirs for the golden elixir stage.
After three months, he had finished refining the elixir he had, and he had no choice but to stop refining pills. He handed over the mid- and low-grade elixirs and earned over 80,000 military merits.
After resting for a few days, Shi Chen started his own plan to survey the situation of the South China Sea Fairy City and extract the spiritual veins of the Fairy City.
When he arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, he wanted to meet with the supreme commander stationed there and find a reason to leave the fairy city.
"I already know your purpose, but I still hope that Master Alchemist will stay in the Immortal City. Although we are in a ceasefire period now, the Sirens will still attack humans in the wild, so Master Alchemist should consider the situation." The fusion cultivator Huo Lie advised.
"Thank you for your concern, Commander. My cultivation has stagnated now and I need to gain some insights before I can break through the bottleneck. I have decided to go out and look for opportunities." Shi Chen said firmly.
"If Master Shi Dan is in any danger, you can contact the Immortal City. We will arrange for the monk army to support you as soon as possible." Seeing Shi Chen's insistence, Huo Lie had no choice but to agree and arrange some measures to protect Shi Chen.
"Thank you, Commander. If I encounter any difficulties, I will contact Xiancheng as soon as possible." Shi Chen was a little moved and thanked him.
After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Shi Chen came to the Dan Palace and went up to the fifth floor.
He found Xian Lili and explained that Shi Chen would not be in Xiancheng for the next six months or so, and that he would be in charge of all Dan Palace affairs. He also hoped that he could help purchase the Yingying Dan elixir.
Xian Lili was a little surprised, but he still promised Shi Chen that he would help look for the elixir for the Infant Transformation Pill. If there was any, he would intercept it and give it to Shi Chen.
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