Chapter 274:

Chapter 274 – Variables
Building a fire and setting up a furnace, the same alchemy steps, different alchemy techniques.

Chen Fei’s expression was grave, compared to the three-piece version, compressing the Spirit Snow Dan into two pieces in one furnace was also a huge challenge for Chen Fei.

This was not simply reducing one, but rawly forcing the medicinal power of one of them into the other two, while also ensuring the stability of the other two Spirit Snow Dan.

This was fundamentally different from the kind of alchemy that was of insufficient caliber, resulting in only two Spirit Snow Pills being produced in one furnace, with all of the remaining medicinal properties going to waste.

“Boom boom boom ……”

The originally stable Dan furnace began to tremble and shake slightly, and the intense medicinal clashes in the furnace triggered air currents that crashed against the furnace walls, emitting dull sounds.

Chen Fei’s brows were slightly furrowed as his mind power was galvanized to the extreme, continuously unraveling the nodes of medicinal clashes and allowing them to fuse into the Dan Pill. If there were outsiders present at this moment, seeing such an alchemy scene, they would definitely think that the furnace was about to explode.

And the state of the furnace at this moment was indeed somewhat similar to blowing up the furnace.

It was just that other people’s furnaces were in an uncontrollable state, unable to say when they would blow up, and unable to stop them from blowing up. The furnace in front of Chen Fei, however, was still in a controllable state at the moment.

The appearance of the furnace blowing up precisely indicates that the intense medicinal conflict in the furnace at this moment has reached a level that the furnace is unable to suppress.

“Buzz ……”

The shaking of the Dan Furnace became more and more violent, Chen Fei’s frown also became deeper and deeper, looking at the Dan Furnace gradually becoming reddish, after hesitating for a moment, Chen Fei could not help but let out a slight sigh.

The rapidly changing mind power suddenly turned around, and the already violent medicinal clash within the Dan Furnace was reduced by several percent at once, and then the entire Dan Furnace began to become calm.

The medicinal fragrance filled the air, then converged, and in the end disappeared.

Until half an hour later, Chen Fei expressionlessly opened the lid of the furnace and took out the three Spirit Snow Dan.

The refining was successful, but the attempt failed, Chen Fei ultimately did not complete the version of the two Spirit Snow Pills.

“The strength of the furnace is insufficient, although this furnace is not bad, it is still quite a bit worse, if you want to refine two Spirit Snow Dans, it is estimated that you need a Spiritual Artifact level furnace.”

Chen Fei looked at the Dan Furnace in his hand, the Dan Master Alliance’s supporting Dan Furnace was actually already very good, after all, it could refine Spirit Dan normally.

However, for that intense medicinal clash just now, this kind of Dan furnace, was still slightly weak, the only thing that would work was a Spiritual Artifact grade Dan furnace.

With the speed at which Chen Fei was earning money today, buying a Spiritual Artifact and saving up a little would not be a problem. However, a Spiritual Artifact grade furnace was not easy to buy.

As far as Chen Fei knew, in the Dancer’s Union, there were only two or three pieces of this level of furnace, and each one of them was very precious and would not be sold at all.

As for letting someone refine a Dan Furnace Spiritual Weapon, because the demand itself is low, the refining method is nearly none, it is estimated that one can only rely on the accumulation of time to let the Dan Furnace rise from a semi-Spiritual Weapon to a Spiritual Weapon.

But exactly how long it would take in the midst of that, it would be completely impossible to say.

“The furnace is a problem, but the bigger problem is that these spirit herbs are not enough to support this intense collision of medicinal properties. Either upgrade the age of the spirit herbs, or add materials similar to the Guile Beads.”

Chen Fei rubbed his chin, it seemed that in a short period of time, it was unlikely that he would want to refine two versions of the Spirit Snow Pill. This was because of the two problems that had to be solved at the same time in order to accomplish such a refining.

And now, Chen Fei could not solve either one.

“Forget it, this is already good enough nowadays, one must not be too greedy.”

Chen Fei’s expression regained its calmness as he took out the ordinary Spirit Snow Pills that he had originally prepared and submitted them to the Dan Master Alliance.

While Chen Fei was cultivating intensely, the conflict between the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and the Divine Flame Sect had also cooled down slightly from white-hot.

There had naturally always been skirmishes, but those kinds of large-scale fights had begun to gradually become less frequent.

And the Divine Flame Sect’s actions against various small sects had also yielded results. After some of the small sects were destroyed, many of the sects that were farther away from the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect ended up turning towards the Divine Flame Sect.

If they didn’t fall over, they would really be uprooted by the Divine Flame Sect, and if they wanted to merge into the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, the Divine Flame Sect wouldn’t even give them a chance to relocate.

With nowhere to run and no way to go, after the Divine Flame Sect promised something, these small sects ended up entering the Divine Flame Sect, continuing to grow the strength of the Divine Flame Sect.

The Divine Flame Sect continued to nibble towards Immortal Cloud City, acquiring more benefits and resources to control into their own hands. The Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, on the other hand, was gradually contracting, concentrating its strength on more important regions.

Back then, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect was able to control so many regions, and apart from the fact that it did have quite a few people, it relied more on the deterrence of its reputation, so that other sects did not dare to compete with it.

And now that the Divine Flame Sect had arrived, the deterrent of its reputation no longer worked, and some regions naturally couldn’t be defended.

If the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect had to defend every region, the greater likelihood would be that it would be broken by each and every one of them, because you simply couldn’t figure out where the Divine Inferno Sect would concentrate its forces to attack.

Wanting every place, the end result could be getting nothing. To be a human being, you have to have trade-offs, and the sect is naturally even more so.

The onlookers can see clearly, and the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect itself can naturally see clearly.

The outside world has been disturbed, Chen Fei, as always, in accordance with their own rhythm of cultivation. After cultivating the Dan formula of the Spirit Snow Dan to great perfection, Chen Fei directly exchanged the Dan formula of the Luo Er Dan in the Dan Master Alliance.

The Luo Er Dan could be considered an advanced version of the Spirit Snow Dan, the Spirit Snow Dan could be given to the entire realm of the Orifice Practicing Realm, and both possessed considerable effects. However, in actuality, most only martial artists in the early as well as middle stages of the Orifice Practicing Realm would take the Spirit Snow Pill.

Even martial artists in the middle stage of the Orifice Practicing Realm would give up the Spirit Snow Pill and use the Luo Er Pill instead if they had enough money on hand.

This was a spirit elixir that had a more pronounced effect than the Spirit Snow Pill, Chen Fei had not taken it and thus did not know the exact effect yet.

“Luo Er Dan simplification in progress…simplification successful…Luo Er Dan → Spirit Snow Dan!”

Directly spending seven Yuan Stones, Chen Fei simplified the Luo Er Dan successfully. And the result of the simplification was just as Chen Fei had predicted, lassoing towards the Spirit Snow Dan.

Chen Fei had been refining the Spirit Snow Dan every day lately, which in disguise, allowed him to continuously increase the proficiency of the Luo Er Dan formula. At the same time, Chen Fei had already stopped the refining of Fei Ling Dan, as the silver taels earned from Fei Ling Dan no longer meant much to Chen Fei.

This was because he had told Chi De Feng long ago, and Chi De Feng did not have any objections to this result. Nowadays, the wealth that Chi De Feng possessed was already enough for him to live in Immortal Cloud City with peace of mind until his old age.

And with a friend like Chen Fei, Chen Fei would be able to help him out if he really encountered any problems in the future. This was what made Chi De Feng feel most at ease.

After all, not everyone could have a friend at the Orifice Practicing realm.

How many clans and families, who had been working very hard, would only end up getting a thin favor from an orifice realm?

In the first month after the Spirit Snow Pill was completed, the orifices in Chen Fei’s body grew once again, and all of a sudden, the growth was two, reaching the level of seven orifices.

This number of orifices had already surpassed the first Orifice Practicing Realm Lu Zhichun that Chen Fei had killed.

And Chen Fei’s rate of progress was far from stopping.

In the third month, the number of orifices in Chen Fei’s body reached eleven, and at the same time, redeeming the Thousand Silk Technique, Chen Fei cultivated the third layer to perfection and began to cultivate the fourth layer of the Thousand Silk Technique.

As for the original Thousand Origin Heart Locking Technique, Chen Fei had reversed it and incorporated it into the Thousand Silk Technique.

The Dancers Union’s Thousand Silk Secrets had a total of nine layers, with a level of profundity far greater than the Thousand Origin Heart Locking Secrets that Chen Fei had fused, thus the reverse fusion, after retaining the essence of the Thousand Origin Heart Locking Secrets, was more capable of utilizing the power of the Thousand Silk Secrets.

The third layer of the Thousand Silk Skill allowed Chen Fei’s mind power to differentiate even more finely, while the effect of growing his mind power began to gradually reveal itself somewhat.

The Thousand Silk Skill was a mind power technique cultivated by dan masters, and its main function was to divide the mind so that they could control their mind power more freely.

And in order for the mind to divide more, besides precise techniques, the simplicity of the mind power was also essential. Thus, the further the Thousand Silk Skill technique progressed, the growth of the quenching of the mind power was also one of its functions.

“At this pace, I’m afraid that the number of orifices will have to exceed the control of mind power first. By then, the orifices won’t be able to be raised this quickly!”

In the secret room, Chen Fei sensed the strength of his mind power. The growth of the orifices also had a certain benefit to the mind power, and as the number of orifices came to eleven, Chen Fei’s mind power grew quite a bit.

At the same time, the part of the Zhen Dragon Elephant Zhen Shen, although it was mainly interlinked with the fleshly body and qi and blood to enhance it, it was ultimately related to the mind power, thus it also quenched quite a bit of Chen Fei’s mind power, allowing Chen Fei to resist the encroachment of the outside world’s mind power.

With this iteration, the growth rate of Chen Fei’s mind power was already not slow, but it was obvious that Chen Fei’s orifices were growing at a much faster rate.

Two orifices a month, if other people knew about it, they would probably be able to scare people to death. Previously, opening one orifice a month was already exaggerated enough, but now the speed was even more perverse.

It was also because it was so fast that even though the mind power was not growing slowly, it was obviously not possible to be as fast as this level of orifices, unless Chen Fei was able to find a spiritual elixir to grow his mind power.

And like taking Spirit Snow Dan right now, taking a Spirit Dan that grew his mind power, so that he could keep up with the growth rate of the orifices.

But obviously, this was impossible. The pills to grow heart and mind power, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect did not even commission them from the outside world, all of them were refined by themselves, and Chen Fei did not even have the chance to refine them if he wanted to.

Practicing the Orifice Realm, a realm in the God Refining Realm, the Heart and Spirit Power, was too crucial and too difficult.

Meanwhile in this month, after simmering and practicing for almost a year or so, Chen Fei finally raised the proficiency of the Heavy Elemental Sword to the Perfection Realm.

The number of sword beads within the sword array had once again doubled to the level of forty, and the gravity within the sword array had become even deeper, with a slightly weaker cultivation, it was nearly impossible to move an inch within the sword array.

Chen Fei did not move, continued to cultivate in silence, while thinking about how to make the mind power grow rapidly. Thinking about it, it seemed that the only way to have a little hope was to go to the Heart Trickster Realm and get something similar like the Heart Trickster Stone.

However, Chen Fei hadn’t planned on taking this step yet.

Time passed in an instant, and when the number of Chen Fei’s orifices reached thirteen, the sect issued a task to Chen Fei.

Even if he wanted Chen Fei to cultivate and settle down again, it was unavoidable that Chen Fei would still have to step forward to carry out the mission when there was a shortage of manpower in the sect.

After all, Chen Fei was at the Orifice Practicing Realm and was the mainstay of the sect.

Chen Fei was ordered to head to the Mo Yang Villa, fifty miles outside of Xian Yun City!
At the same time a message suddenly came out from the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect that someone within the sect was planning to attempt to break through the Harmonization Realm.

(End of chapter)