Currently, Wang Daoyuan's success rate in refining the Core Condensing Pill had already reached 60%.
Even if he continued to practice, there was not much room for improvement. It was time to start refining the Soul Strengthening Pill.
Refining the Soul Strengthening Pill required a total of fifteen spirit herbs, two more than the Foundation Building Pill. The difficulty of fusing them was not small.
The difficulty of refining the Foundation Building Pill was mainly that the medicinal properties of the three main ingredients were too strong. The difficulty of extracting the essence and fusing them was not what ordinary spirit herbs could compare to.
Although the medicinal properties of the Soul Strengthening Pill's main ingredient were far inferior to the Foundation Building Pill, fusing the essence of fifteen types of spirit herbs, the requirements for refining pills were not low.
With his divine sense cultivation that far exceeded those of the same level and his solid foundation in refining pills, he could still handle it.
Refining the third cauldron of Soul Strengthening Pill, he successfully refined a pill.
After that, he spent a few more days refining ten cauldrons of Soul Strengthening Pills, with a success rate of 35%.
With a success rate of more than 30%, he could be considered a Tier 2 high-grade pill refiner and had the qualifications to refine the Foundation Building Pill.
In this half a year, the Liang Family's little tricks had been unceasing. The Wang, Yang, and Meng Families frequently encountered sneak attacks by rogue cultivators.
Three months ago, the Yang Family caught a few rogue cultivators who came to sneak attack and reported to the Netherworld Sect, using the Truth Talisman on the spot.
Under the effect of the Truth Talisman, these rogue cultivators said that it was the Liang Family who ordered them.
However, Liang Liang was a member of the Netherworld Sect's foreign branch, and the foreign branch was strong.
The battle between the Liang Family and the Wang, Yang, and Meng Families was a battle between the foreign branch and the family branch.
In this battle, both sides could be said to be evenly matched. The three families were harassed until they were exhausted.
The Liang Family paid a huge price to buy off rogue cultivators, but they did not gain any advantage.
Both sides exhausted their strength, and no one could gain an advantage. This was what the local branch was happy to see.
The local branch sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight. The family branch that Yang Yong was in was completely not a match for the foreign branch.
The foreign branch used their strength to suppress this matter, forcefully explaining that there was insufficient evidence and that they could not conclude that it was the Liang Family who ordered it. It was also possible that someone wanted to frame the Liang Family.
After this matter blew up, the incidents of rogue cultivators sneak attacks decreased a lot.
However, the good times did not last long. After only a month of peace, the territories of the three families became lively again..
In these two months, the Wang Family's territory suffered more than a dozen sneak attacks.
Most of the areas that had been attacked were in the southeast and north of Jade Spring Peak. The western area that Wang Daoyuan was in charge of had not been attacked.
The Wang Family had long since made preparations. They had distributed Level Two Spirit Talismans to the guards of the various industries, so there were no casualties.
On the contrary, it was the rogue cultivators who ambushed the Wang family's businesses that suffered heavy losses every time.
On this day, Wang Daoyuan was refining pills in his cave.
The Soul Chasing Bee suddenly sent a signal saying that there was an abnormal situation in a mine northwest of the Jade Spring Peak.
This mine produced grade one cinnabar, unlike the Wang Family's mine that occasionally produced grade two cinnabar.
The quality of the cinnabar produced by this cinnabar mine was average and the scale was small, so the clan had never placed much importance on it.
According to the report of the soul-chasing bees, a few suspicious characters had appeared near the cinnabar mine and had been circling around it.
They were well hidden, and the clansmen guarding the cinnabar mine did not discover them.
However, while they could hide from the cultivators of their families, they could not hide from the Soul Chasing Bees.
Since they knew that they were here to scout, it meant that they were not raw melon eggs. They were probably repeat offenders who often did this kind of work.
If a few people had come just to scout, there would definitely be a lot of them when the actual battle began.
Wang Daoyuan had not fought for half a year, so he could use this group of people to exercise his muscles.
Based on the principle of being lenient to the enemy, he still sent a message to his grandfather, telling him to make preparations.
If the other party had a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and he could not hold on, his grandfather would be able to quickly come to his aid when he sent out a distress signal.
After sending the message to his grandfather, he tidied up his cave and headed for the cinnabar mine.
After arriving at the cinnabar mine, he did not immediately reveal himself. Instead, he hid nearby and observed the background of this group of people.
Using Wood Escape, he hid in a large tree and observed the situation in secret.
Before long, five rogue cultivators appeared in his field of vision.
These five people were all at Qi Refinement Level Five or Six. Dressed as rogue cultivators, they were rather ordinary.
The only abnormality was that their hair and beards were all red.
Upon closer inspection, one could even see that their beards and hair were mostly red and the roots were black.
Their beards and hair were dyed red.
The cultivation world did not have the habit of dyeing their hair. In the area of Mount Huiyan, there was only one power that dyed their hair red — the Red Beard Bandits.
The leaders of the Red Beard Bandits were a pair of twin brothers who were born in the northern area of Mount Huiyan.
These two brothers were said to have demonic bloodlines and were born with red hair. When they reached adulthood, even their beards were fiery red.
They were very talented in cultivation and reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment before the age of seventy.
Their current cultivation level was uncertain. Some said they were still at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, some said they were at Foundation Establishment Level Nine, and some said they had already broken through to the Zifu Realm.
Perhaps these two brothers really did have demonic bloodlines and were bloodthirsty. No matter where they were in the mountain, there was no place for them.
The two of them recruited rogue cultivators and formed a power that specialized in robbery.
Because the two brothers had red hair and beards, people called the power they formed the Red Beard Bandits.
Unexpectedly, this group of people liked this name and had a habit of dyeing their hair and beards red.
The Red Beard Bandits hid in Mount Huiyan and were generally active in the northern part of the mountain. They were wanted by the various powers in the northern part of the mountain.
About a hundred years ago, they stretched their hands to the south of Mount Huiyan and caused many massacres.
Afterward, the Underworld Sect beat them up several times and even issued a warrant for their arrest.
For the past hundred years, the Red Beard Bandits had not dared to cause trouble in the southern part of the mountain.
Wang Daoyuan was unsure if these people were hired by the Liang Clan or if they saw that the area was chaotic and wanted to fish in troubled waters.
No matter what the situation was, this was not a small matter.
He immediately sent a letter to the clan and reported the situation at the Cinnabar Mine to the clan leader.
Five Red Beard Bandits left the Cinnabar Mine with Wang Daoyuan following them in secret.
This matter was rather troublesome. The Red Beard Bandits had been causing trouble in the northern part of the mountain for more than a hundred years. Even the Underworld Sect's warrant for their arrest failed to eliminate them.
Once they fought and killed a few Red Beard Bandits, they would bear a grudge and the Wang Clan would be in danger.
These people did not care about the rule that cultivators were not allowed to kill mortals. If they bore a grudge, the Wang Clan would not only have to protect the clan's property, but also the ordinary clansmen.
If the two leaders of the Red Beard Bandits had really established the Violet Palace, the Wang Clan would be in danger of being exterminated.
To prevent the Red Beard Bandits from taking revenge on the Wang Clan, Wang Daoyuan changed into the Liang Clan's green Daoist robe. It was even embroidered with the Liang Clan's emblem — Blue Cloud Peak.
Back then, the Liang Clan's cultivators injured Blackie in Qingxi Village and were forced to hand over their storage pouches after being subdued.
This Liang Clan's Daoist robe was stolen at that time.
This robe did not take up much space, so he placed it in the thatched hut in the spirit pearl's space along with the storage pouches. He did not expect it to come in handy now.
To prevent being recognized, he used a disguise technique and changed his appearance to resemble Liang Zilong.
Wearing the Liang Clan's robe and outside the Wang Clan's territory, any conflict with the Red Beard Bandits would be blamed on the Liang Clan first.
When the Red Beard Bandits killed, they did not care if the victim was innocent or not. They would kill first and see if they killed the right person.
If they killed the wrong person, they would move on to another clan.
As long as they saw that their opponent might be from the Liang Clan, their first target would be the Liang Clan.
If the Red Beard Bandits were causing trouble in the Underworld Sect's territory, the Underworld Sect would quickly send people to eliminate them.
By then, no one would have the time to investigate whether the Liang Clan had killed the Red Beard Bandits.
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