Chapter 17: Portrait

Chapter 17 Portrait
“What a handsome stance!”

Jianliang’s eyes brightened slightly, and just as he was about to continue, he realized that Chen Fei had already desperately run towards the outside of the alley. Jianliang smiled coldly and was just about to chase after him to continue killing the man when suddenly a sound came from the courtyard.

Jianliang frowned slightly and hesitated for a moment before turning around and rushing back into the middle of the courtyard.

A few moments later, Jianliang re-stood on the courtyard wall, the cuffs of his clothes now stained with blood. Jianliang looked around and could no longer see any sign of Chen Fei.

Jianliang’s face was expressionless, it felt as if he had just seen that person somewhere, but with a stance like that, if he had really seen it, he was afraid that it would be so impressive that he shouldn’t forget it.

Jianliang frowned slightly, the night wind blew, and the person had already disappeared in the same place.

A mile away, Chen Fei hid in a corner, making sure that the person didn’t catch up before letting out a slight sigh of relief.

This luck was too much, to have encountered this group of mountain bandits within the city, that family just now was afraid of a bad outcome. Facing that group of mountain bandits, Chen Fei was unable to protect himself, saving others was completely impossible.

“Somewhat complacent.”

Chen Fei muttered, just now, if it wasn’t for the Great Perfection of Body Technique, which had almost become instinctive, Jianliang’s slash, Chen Fei wouldn’t have been able to dodge it no matter what.

“Cultivation is ultimately too low.” Chen Fei raised his head, looking at the direction of the courtyard just now, “The stance technique has to continue to be iterated, the two are not conflicting, they even complement each other!”

Not going to the dark market right away, tonight was afraid to be uneventful, Chen Fei planned to wait until tomorrow night to find that stall owner.

Early the next morning, Chen Fei came to the medical center, he heard the medical center in an uproar.

“What happened?” Chen Fei was puzzled.

“Last night, several large families in the county were exterminated, and I heard that blood was shed all over the ground.” Liu Jun came to Chen Fei and whispered.

Chen Fei frowned slightly, last night, he only thought that the group of mountain bandits had only chosen one family, now it seems that this is directly coming to sweep the county ah.

“The county magistrate is furious and has issued a large bounty, as long as useful information is provided, a bounty of one hundred taels will be given.”

Liu Jun continued, some stupidity among his eyes, after all, one hundred taels of silver is undoubtedly a huge sum of money for those of them, whether they can see such a large amount of money in this life is a question.

Chen Fei was also somewhat moved, but immediately suppressed it.

That group of bandits, Chen Fei now can not afford to provoke. And the county government said to give one hundred taels, in the end how much can give, is also an unknown, more likely to bring themselves into danger.

However, just like this, it is too cheap for that group of bandits.

And if no one suppresses the bandits, I’m afraid that after a while, the group will come back to the county to commit crimes, and then Chen Fei may still be in danger.

After encouraging Liu Jun a few times, Chen Fei went to the Dan room and started to refine the Qi and Blood Pill.

After refining a few more stoves today, Chen Fei would be able to raise the experience value of the Grass Returning Dan to the Proficient level, and then he could start formally refining the Grass Returning Dan.

A quarter of an hour later, the furnace opened and five entire Qi Blood Dan lay in it, and on the panel, the experience value of the Grass Returning Dan was +5.

According to the number of qi and blood pills that came out of the furnace, the experience value was calculated, if not for this, Chen Fei would not have been able to raise the experience value of the Grass Returning Pill to its current position within a few days.

Putting the Qi and Blood Dan into the pill bottle and simply cleaning the furnace, Chen Fei refined the second furnace of Qi and Blood Dan without any distractions.

Third furnace, fourth furnace, fifth furnace.

The entire five furnaces of Qi and Blood Pills were refined, and Chen Fei couldn’t help but exhale a mouthful of turbid breath.

Even though it was a Grand Perfection Qi and Blood Pill technique, continuously refining it like this was still somewhat exhausting. Chen Fei glanced at the panel and a small smile appeared on his face.

[Alchemy: Grass Returning Dan (Proficient 2/1000)] “I can refine the Grass Returning Dan now!”

Because they valued Chen Fei’s alchemy skill, and also as a way to support Chen Fei’s alchemy, the medical center had purposely provided a free copy of Grass Returning Dan’s herbs to Chen Fei every day.

Now Chen Fei already had five copies of Grass Returning Dan herbs piled up by his feet, so if things went well, he would be able to get at least a few pills of Grass Returning Dan later on.

Chen Fei rested for an incense stick of time, then carefully cleaned the furnace and placed the herbs into the furnace one by one according to the Dan formula.

After all, this was the first time he had ever started refining the Grass Returning Dan, and for every change in the medicinal properties in the furnace, Chen Fei took it seriously and adjusted it.

A quarter of an hour later, the fragrance of the medicine began to permeate the Dan room, immediately overshadowing the residual fragrance of the Qi and Blood Dan.

Two quarters of an hour later, Chen Fei opened the lid of the furnace, and there was an elixir lying quietly within the furnace.

Chen Fei carefully took it out and carefully observed the Grass Returning Dan.

The outer layer of the elixir was not rounded enough, and when looked at carefully, there were still subtle herbs that were not fully integrated. All of these would affect the final effect of the Grass Returning Dan, and if it was sold, the price would be slightly lower.

But none of these flaws could hide the smile on Chen Fei’s face.

Even if the medicinal effect was a little worse, it was still much better than the Qi and Blood Dan. If Chen Fei could take one Grass Returning Pill every day, the time to break through to the Flesh Practicing Realm would also be drastically shortened.

The appearance of that group of mountain bandits had already made Chen Fei feel more and more insecure.

Opening his mouth and swallowing the Grass Returning Dan, Chen Fei plopped down on the ground and began to utilize the Wind Suspension Breathing Method. Chen Fei’s expression quickly became ancient, completely sinking into the cultivation state.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Fei woke up, the fatigue from refining pills just now had long since been swept away, and his entire body appeared to be in high spirits. Gazing at the panel, Chen Fei’s face could not help but reveal a smile.

[Realm: Skin Training (593/1000)]

The Grass Returning Pill had increased his cultivation value by a full 15 points, originally, under the Grand Completion Wind Suspension Breathing Technique as well as the Qi and Blood Pill, Chen Fei would still need close to a month before he could break through to the Flesh Training Realm.

Now that he had switched to using the Grass Returning Dan, although he could only take one capsule a day, the time required was only half a month, which was shortened by half.

Perhaps in the eyes of other martial artists, this reduction in time didn’t have much significance, after all, the price of the Grass Returning Pill was dozens of times that of the Qi and Blood Pill.

One Grass Returning Pill, ten taels of silver, childish, no bargaining!
This shortened half a month was completely piled up with silver, it was too extravagant.

But as a dan master, Chen Fei understood that the value of the herbs used in both was actually at most double the difference, and the rest was entirely the value of the skill.

And now, Chen Fei had mastered this skill.

“If I want to save up enough silver taels quickly, it looks like I’ll have to sell some Grass Returning Dan in the dark market.”

Chen Fei pondered in his heart, but the movements of his hands did not stop as he continued to refine the Drafting Returning Dan.

As night fell, the county office was brightly lit, when suddenly a stone flew in and smashed on the wall, making a muffled sound.

The magistrates heard the sound and realized that under the stone was an envelope, and inside the envelope was a portrait, and when you looked carefully, it was exactly what Jianliang looked like, lifelike and quite vivid.

A few miles away, Chen Fei, who had learned to sketch in his previous life, had already walked into the dark market and came to the bookstall.

Half an hour later, Chen Fei left the dark market, and in the parcel behind him, ten books of basic stance secrets had been placed, along with a book of high level stance secrets and a book of miscellaneous arts.

This miscellaneous art was a Transfiguration Art, not only could it change appearance, according to the secret book, practiced to a high level, the body shape could be changed.

(End of chapter)