Chapter 123

Chen Jingzhai was not interested in the families of his beautiful maidservants. It was just that he did not have a target for the time being, so he did not mind wandering around the Pulao Kingdom. After staying in Guangling City for three days, Chen Jingzhai went to other states.

In the time that followed, he satisfied the maidservants’ requests to return home. After wandering around, they happened to visit the few big states in the Pulao Kingdom. During this period, they also encountered sect disciples, but Chen Jingzhai did not alarm them. After fulfilling his beautiful maidservants’ request, he steered his bamboo boat towards the sea.

The Pulao Kingdom had five continents facing the sea, and the eastern state was called the State of Qiong. The state capital of the State of Qiong was one of the seven counties, Donglai County.

Chen Jingzhai temporarily resided in this county city and even spent money to buy a small residence. The mortal money was provided by the four beautiful maidservants. After they returned to their homes, they left behind a lot of resources. It was normal for them to take some gold and silver in exchange.

After settling down in Donglai County, Chen Jingzhai also began to come into contact with mortal cultivators. They were all descendants of rogue cultivators. They had their own circles.

There was even a street in Donglai that only cultivators could enter. There were also formations and restrictions at the entrance of the street, and there were soldiers patrolling around.

Chen Jingzhai brought his maidservants around but nothing caught his eye. The shops on the streets here were run by rogue cultivators, so the goods they had were not impressive.

Elixirs, magic items, talismans, puppets, formations, and so on, were all first-grade. There were few Grade 2 items that could be found. They were basically unavailable on the street. However, some sea beasts attracted Chen Jingzhai’s attention. The sea beasts from the Eastern Ocean could be decomposed into flesh, blood, and alchemy materials. Some of the materials could even be used to refine elixirs.

There was also a spiritual restaurant on the street that specialized in cooking meals with the flesh and blood of sea beasts. It was not that Chen Jingzhai’s appetite was acting up, but he was attracted by the blood essence of the sea beasts. After buying two intact sea beast carcasses with spiritual stones, he secretly stored them in the divine stone space. As expected, the carcasses of the two sea beasts were quickly digested, and the divine stone space also changed a little.

Hence, he decisively spread the news and made his appearance as an alchemist.

He took out a large number of Grade 1 elixirs in exchange for the carcasses of Grade 1 sea beasts or materials from the ocean. He did not limit them to spirit plants or treasures of the ocean. If the quality of the ocean treasures was high, he could even provide Grade 2 elixirs.

After the news was released, the first people to visit were not rogue cultivators, but people from the Dao Cheng Division. After determining the quality and quantity of the elixirs, the Dao Cheng Division’s commander of Donglai County paid him a visit.

Chen Jingzhai did not change his appearance, nor did he reveal his background when he met him.

He had reached an agreement with the Dao Cheng Division of Donglai County as a Grade 2 alchemist. The Dao Cheng Division would provide the medicinal herbs or sea beasts that Chen Jingzhai needed. Chen Jingzhai, on the other hand, only needed to refine 40% of the elixirs that the other party needed.

“Forty percent is high,” Hong Fu said after the other party left. “There are no reliable alchemists in the Pulao Kingdom. A normal thirty percent success rate is already a surprise.”

“My goal is not alchemy, but a large number of sea beasts.” Chen Jingzhai smiled and said, “As long as I can achieve my goal, 10% is nothing. As long as this 10% can bring more sea beasts, that works for me.”

“I understand!” Hong Fu nodded and said no more.

They were only Chen Jingzhai’s maidservants. Although they also belonged to the Luo Sheng Sword School, their fates were already bound to Chen Jingzhai. Naturally, Chen Jingzhai was their leader and they did not dare to disobey him.

Moreover, it turned out that Chen Jingzhai was not wrong at all.

The additional 10% success rate made the Dao Cheng Division of Donglai County ecstatic. After the commander returned, he got someone to send over a large number of medicinal herbs and the carcasses of sea beasts they had in stock.

Chen Jingzhai handed over the existing elixirs at the agreed price. That alone was enough to reassure the Donglai Division and keep them cooperative.

After the people from the Dao Cheng Division left, Chen Jingzhai stored all the sea beasts in the divine stone space. In the divine stone space, the sea beasts were spread out like a carpet, and a large amount of blood energy dissipated. At a speed visible to the naked eye, these sea beasts shriveled up.

Sensing that the third divine pattern had grown a little, Chen Jingzhai withdrew his divine mind and shook his head.

A first-grade sea beast was still somewhat unsatisfactory. Fortunately, there were enough of them. Since they were useful to the divine stone space, he would continue collecting them!

He reached an agreement with the Dao Cheng Division to deliver a batch of elixirs every thirty days.

Chen Jingzhai then began his seclusion training. He was either refining elixirs or refining cultivation techniques. It was rare to have such a peaceful time, so naturally, he focused on cultivation.

Unfortunately, sorting out the cultivation techniques required a lot of time, and the Foundation Establishment cultivation techniques were extremely crucial. This determined the path ahead for him. He had to be cautious about it.

After handing over two sea beasts in succession and obtaining a large number of elixirs, the Dao Cheng Division was extremely satisfied. They did not deny Chen Jingzhai’s request to purchase cultivation techniques. In any case, the cultivation techniques that Chen Jingzhai wanted were not high-level. Many cultivation techniques were of the Foundation Establishment Plane and below in the Dao Cheng Division.

The Dao Cheng Division was not afraid that Chen Jingzhai would go back on his word, nor did they harbor any ill intention toward Chen Jingzhai. After all, a Grade 2 alchemist was not one to be trifled with. In particular, someone like Chen Jingzhai who was able to refine a large number of elixirs was like a rare treasure to them. Naturally, it was only normal that they would satisfy his request.

The commander of the Dao Cheng Division of Donglai County even personally called upon the resources of other counties. A large number of sea beasts, medicinal herbs, and some cultivation techniques were sent to Chen Jingzhai’s small courtyard. Every time, the Dao Cheng Division would obtain many first-grade elixirs. The entire Dao Cheng Division benefited greatly.

Chen Jingzhai originally wanted to rest in Donglai County and plan his hard skills for the future. He did not expect such a gain. It made him really happy. His divine stone space had also changed greatly because the Dao Cheng Division had sent so many sea beasts. For this, he even specially taught his beautiful maidservants how to refine elixirs.

Without hesitation, he bought four Grade 1 cauldrons from the Dao Cheng Division and instructed his beautiful maidservants to refine elixirs. Each of them learned to refine a type of elixir first.

He did not teach them the Elixir Extraction and Purification Scripture. He only used his experience to guide them in refining. With his guidance and a large number of first-grade herbs, In just 53 days, they could already refine a type of elixir.

After they got the hang of it, their success rate of each batch was also 40%. When their success rate reached 50%, Chen Jingzhai asked them to learn other elixir types from each other, so each of them taught the others how to refine another type of elixir. In this way, each of them could refine four types of elixirs.

Chen Jingzhai’s method saved him a lot of time. With his maidservants sharing the workload of refining elixirs, he had more time to study cultivation techniques.

The Meditation Plane cultivation techniques that he had collected at a price were not worthless in his eyes. Every cultivation technique represented a thought. Every thought might be his future. Just like that, more than half a year passed.

Chen Jingzhai gradually became a famous alchemist in Donglai County. The strange thing was that everyone called him Alchemist Chen, but they did not know his real name.

He was not only working with the Dao Cheng Division. Some rogue cultivators would also find strange sea beasts or treasures to trade for his elixirs.

As the rogue cultivators spread the word, Alchemist Chen’s reputation rose. As time passed, not only did Chen Jingzhai sell elixirs, but he also sold Grade 1 magic apparel. The spirit silkworms that Hong Chan had cultivated for three years finally began to spit silk. The quality of the spirit silk was already higher than that of ordinary magic apparel.

When Hong Chan had successfully woven her first magic robe, she could not believe her eyes! This was because she had actually woven a superior-grade magic robe.

After that, Hong Chan continued weaving more magic apparel. Similarly, the subsequent magic apparel she made was also of superior Grade 1 quality. Only then did she realize that the silk quality from the spirit silkworms that they had raised for three years was extremely high.

Although the magic robes were only Grade 1 items, they were still extremely rare.