"Within five years, any martial artist who finds the following herbs and delivers a set of herbs to me can ask me to refine a set of heaven-tier elixir for free. There's no restriction on the grade, and you have to prepare your own ingredients!"
After a round of careful selection, Ling Dong accepted a total of twelve requests. Following which, Ling Dong announced the reward of alchemy and asked the Heaven Realm martial artists to help him search for four precious herbs!
"Earth Dragon Whisker, Bright Hero Powder, and Silver Moon Leaf. For each of these three herbs, you can ask me to refine a heaven-tier elixir for free once! In addition, if anyone can find a ripe Fire Crystal Fruit, you can ask me to refine a heaven-tier elixir for free twice for each fruit. This reward is valid for the next five years! "Ling Dong said.
Once Ling Dong said this, those martial artists who weren't chosen by Ling Dong and Yuan Chen to refine the elixir became excited. Although they knew that those herbs were hard to find, having hope was better than having no hope at all!
According to Ling Dong's promise, as long as they found the herbs and delivered them, they would be given priority to refine the elixir. This was much more generous than the other two veteran Elixir Kings.
Seeing that those martial artists agreed and started to inquire about the four herbs that Ling Dong announced, Ling Dong smiled with satisfaction. This was the effect that Ling Dong wanted!
If these martial artists could help him find these herbs in a short period of time, Ling Dong's plan to increase his strength would be able to start smoothly!
To put it bluntly, Ling Dong's plan to increase his strength was related to elixirs! The Earth Fiend Sculpting Grade Elixir that Ling Dong refined previously was also a type of elixir that could increase one's strength.
It could increase the cultivation of martial artists who were below the ninth grade of the Earth Realm by one level! Ling Dong's plan was to give his father, grandfather, himself, Gao Yuan, Liu Yaoguang, and even Qiu Qingyi, Tu Bai, and the others a Earth Fiend Sculpting Grade Elixir. This way, their cultivation would be able to increase by one grade in a short period of time.
Using Ling Dong as an example, Ling Dong was currently at the 7th grade of the Earth Fiend Realm. After consuming the Earth Fiend Sculpting Grade Pill, his cultivation would be able to break through to the 8th grade of the Earth Fiend Realm! But this kind of Earth Fiend Sculpting Grade Pill, in a martial artist's entire life, it would only be effective once they took it.
However, there was a type of pill that was different. Not only could it increase one's cultivation rapidly, but it could also be consumed continuously. This type of pill was the ancient golden pill that Patriarch Stargazer had once given Ling Dong — the Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill!
What was even more coincidental was that Ling Dong had once obtained the Ancient Golden Formula in the Residence of Ten Thousand Stars. The formula for the Ancient Golden Pill was recorded in the jade scroll called the Ancient Golden Formula.
Although there were many extremely powerful Ancient Golden Pills recorded in the ancient golden prescription, and there were even Ancient Golden Pills that could directly increase the strength of a Heaven Realm martial artist, Ling Dong still felt that the Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill was the most effective after reading it several times!
The Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill was not like other pills that could only be used once to increase one's strength. It could be consumed continuously if one was below the peak of the Heaven Realm! Moreover, the herbs needed to refine the Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill were much easier to find than the herbs needed to refine other pills!
At least, Ling Dong had heard of the herbs needed to refine the Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill. However, this was the first time that Ling Dong had heard of the herbs needed to refine the Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill!
The threshold to refine this kind of Ancient Golden Pill was very high. At the very least, one had to be a Heaven Alchemist to refine it. However, Ling Dong had just broken through to become a Heaven Alchemist, so refining the Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill was now on his agenda!
Ling Dong had discussed the twenty over herbs needed to refine the Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill in detail with Yuan Chen. Although most of them could not be bought in the herb shops, the Yaoguang Empire had them in storage.
Ordinary people could not buy those herbs at all. However, if an Alchemy King wanted to use them, no one would dare to stop him. Of course, even if an Alchemy King wanted to use the herbs, he had to pay a certain price to the empire.
This was one of the privileges of an Alchemy King!
As for the remaining seven or eight herbs, when Ling Dong and Yuan Chen were screening the Heaven Dipper Realm experts' requests to refine pills, they had also deliberately selected the pill formulas with these herbs to accept the requests!
One had to know that the pills that these martial artists asked Alchemy Kings to refine were all extremely precious. The herbs used were naturally extremely precious. It was very likely that Ling Dong's herbs would be included in them!
Needless to say, Ling Dong had really found a few of them! These martial artists who asked Alchemy Kings to refine pills usually had to hand over four to six to seven sets of herbs to get a finished pill.
However, with Ling Dong's current pill refinement rate, he could definitely save a few of the herbs.
With this solution, there were still four herbs missing. They were the four herbs that Ling Dong had offered a reward for. Among them, the Fire Crystal Fruit with the highest reward was one of the main ingredients for the Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill.
If he could gather the herbs for the Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pill and refine a few sets of pills, Ling Dong's strength would be able to increase rapidly. A cauldron of these Ancient Golden Pills would produce 12 pills!
Back then, when Patriarch Stargazer gave Ling Dong three Moonlight Heavenly Replenishing Pills, Ling Dong still remembered the feeling of his cultivation increasing rapidly after refining the pills in the Pandemonium!
After busying himself for an entire day, Ling Dong finally got rid of all these martial artists. In the end, there were 12 Heaven Dipper Realm experts standing behind Ling Dong and Yuan Chen, making a total of 24 people!
Among these 24 Heaven Dipper Realm experts, the strongest was at Heaven Dipper Realm Level 6, the lowest was at Heaven Dipper Realm Level 2, and most of them were at Heaven Dipper Realm Level 3 or Level 4.
However, there was not a single Heaven Dipper Realm expert who was at the peak of Heaven Dipper Realm! Thinking about it, which Heaven Dipper Realm expert who was at the peak of Heaven Dipper Realm wasn't the leader or the upper echelon of a large force? There really wasn't much to worry about when it came to pills!
As for these 24 Heaven Dipper Realm experts, Ling Dong and Yuan Chen's arrangement was very simple. Ling Dong secretly sent two Heaven Dipper Realm experts to South Mountain County to protect the Ling family for a period of three years!
Including the two Heaven Dipper Realm old ladies that Ling Yuanshan had taken in as servants, there were already four Heaven Dipper Realm experts protecting the Ling family. Ling Yuanshan had the Soul Chasing Arrow, so it wouldn't be a problem for him to take on two or three Heaven Dipper Realm experts if he caught them off guard. In addition, Ling Dong had left behind many talismans before he left. Under normal circumstances, the Ling family's safety shouldn't be a problem!
Similarly, Yuan Chen also secretly sent two Heaven Dipper Realm experts to be stationed in his fief, Jade River County! Among the remaining 20 Heaven Dipper Realm experts, what was announced to the public was that 16 of them would take turns to protect the two Pill Kings, Ling Dong and Yuan Chen! As for the other four, they were assigned to various places to handle matters!
Although Pill Kings were extremely noble, it wasn't as if there weren't any evil people. There had been one or two cases where Pill Kings had been robbed or killed. On this point, no one could find fault!
However, only Yuan Chen and Ling Dong understood that the 20 Heaven Dipper Realm experts gathered by the two Pill Kings had already attracted the attention of the empire!
Originally, an Elixir King and a dozen Heavenly Dipper Realm martial artists wouldn't have much influence on the empire. However, the two of them were in the same boat. This force was almost comparable to the number of Revered Imperial Protectors in the empire.
In the past few days, Ling Dong's sharp senses had discovered that there were Revered Martial Artists roaming around the Pill King Palace.
However, Ling Dong didn't care at all. If he didn't leave some force behind to intimidate them, there would be people in the empire who would plot against him, especially those princes. Ling Dong still couldn't figure out why the Second Prince, Bi Jing, had sent people to spy on him for half a year!
However, when he actually saw Ling Dong, the Second Prince, Bi Jing, didn't say anything!
In the quiet room, Yuan Chen sat respectfully opposite Ling Dong and said carefully, "Master, that person in the palace sent a messenger to deliver a message. He said that he will hold a banquet in the palace to celebrate you and me in a month's time. At the same time, he will officially confer you the title of King, the military seal, and so on. In addition, he will also discuss matters regarding the empire's alchemy!"
"A month? That's good too! During this month, you should focus on alchemy. If you have any questions, feel free to look for me! "Ling Dong said.
Hearing this, Yuan Chen revealed an excited expression and hurriedly nodded his head. It was really rare to see such a master who was not stingy with imparting knowledge!
After Yuan Chen left, Ling Dong took out the Formation Plate of the Five Elements Square Minor Teleportation Formation that he had obtained from Zhang Bingzheng. After putting it in place and installing the crystal, he activated the Minor Teleportation Formation and sent a letter to the Ling family and the True Gang Sect respectively, asking if they were safe.
The Minor Teleportation Formation Plate was kept in the Interspatial Ring, so it couldn't receive any letters. Normally, Ling Dong would take the initiative to send a letter every ten days to half a month. However, on the other side of the Minor Teleportation Formation, there was always someone guarding it!
After a while, the Ling family sent a letter back through the Minor Teleportation Formation, saying that the family was safe. It was written in Ling Yuanshan's handwriting, and the ink on it hadn't even dried yet!
However, the letter from the True Gang Sect that followed made Ling Dong's expression change drastically. There were only six words in the letter that the True Gang Sect sent back through the Minor Teleportation Formation. "Something has happened in the Sect. Return quickly!"
"Could it be that the Hidden World Star Palace is attacking?" Ling Dong didn't stay any longer and went to look for Yuan Chen. After leaving behind another Minor Teleportation Formation, Ling Dong left the Imperial Capital with Liu Yaoguang and went straight to the True Gang Sect!
As for the Heaven Realm martial artists, Ling Dong didn't bring any of them with him. He left them all to Yuan Chen. To be honest, if the Hidden World Star Palace really launched a large-scale attack, these people would only be cannon fodder in front of the Hidden World Star Palace's experts!
Basically, those who could be Ling Dong's bodyguards for three years for an elixir were like Ling Dong in the past, Heaven Realm experts who had come from the grassroots!
Not long after Ling Dong left Brilliance City, the news reached the residence of the Second Prince, Bi Jing, who had been keeping a close eye on Ling Dong's whereabouts.
After confirming that Ling Dong had left without a single Heaven Realm bodyguard, the Second Prince, Bi Jing, who had been frowning in his residence, was shocked. Then, he became extremely excited.
After pondering for a moment, he passed down a few orders. "Pass down my orders. Send the four top-notch scouts to follow Ling Dong from afar! Also, send out all the men I've hired over the past few days! "
"Pill King Ling, Pill King Ling, I was just worried that I wouldn't be able to deal with you with so many Heaven Realm experts. You've given me a great opportunity! What a great opportunity! "The Second Prince, Bi Jing, laughed heartily in his residence. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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