C13 Danzong

When Fang Bai arrived at the Dan Sect, he finally understood the meaning of Men's smile.

The majestic, spectacular, never-ending buildings showcased the former glory of the Dan Sect, but it was in ruins now. Looking around, one could tell that many of the buildings were in a state of disrepair and could collapse at any moment.

"Let's go."

Xu Shan was the first one to walk towards Dan Sect, Fang Bai laughed bitterly and followed after him. Maybe what he had decided to do was wrong, and Tian Ji Sect was gone.

The two of them passed through layers of buildings. Putting aside the silhouettes, even the marks of humans could not be seen.

"Senior Brother Xu, how many disciples do we have?" Fang Bai asked in a low voice.

"One hundred thousand!" Xu Shan's smug expression was clearly seen on his face.

A hundred thousand?

Fang Bai was secretly speechless. There were only a population of a million within a few hundred kilometers of Yun Shui City, and Tian Ji Sect alone had so many disciples.

"What about the Dan Sect?"

Xu Shan smiled coolly, but didn't say anything. He extended a finger.

"Ten thousand?" "That's not all." Fang Bai had never cultivated the Pill Path before, but he understood that cultivating it required a huge amount of resources. The number of herbal medicine s used up by ten thousand disciples was a terrifying number.

Xu Shan laughed and gently pointed.

"A thousand?" That's good too! "

Pill Path was different from martial arts, it had very strict requirements on talent, no matter how strong Tian Ji Sect was, they would not waste so much resources, if not, pill refiners would not be so sought after.

Xu Shan laughed: "It's one hundred. Including some of the elders in Dan Sect, there's a total of two hundred and forty-five people in the entire Dan Sect. You're the two hundred and forty-sixth person."

"What?"

Fang Bai could not help but be speechless. Pill s were very important to every sect, not to mention the Tian Ji Sect s who had a hundred thousand disciples. The Pill s that these disciples required for cultivation would naturally be trained by the Dan Sect's pill refiners.

One hundred thousand against two hundred and forty-five, wasn't this way too much?

With the fall of the Dan Sect, the prosperity of the Tian Ji Sect would also decline. Could it be that they were unable to consider this point?

Of course, these were not what Fang Bai had to worry about. What he was worried about the most was that if he joined the Dan Sect, he would become a Puppet that could not cultivate.

Both of them came to the open space in front of a hall. It seemed that no one had tidied up the plants in a long time. It was rare that there was a clean path in the middle. The two of them walked along the path.

Pill Hall!

The handwriting was simple, the signboard was mottled and there was a gigantic pill furnace in the hall. A messy haired Old Man was looking at the pill furnace with his full attention, occasionally adding a Zhenqi.

The fire raged, the Zhenqi raged, it seemed like it was the critical moment. Xu Shan made a gesture of silence, and the two of them waited.

Old Man stood up with his back facing the two, his small and skinny body suddenly stood up, and started revolving rapidly around the pill furnace. Both of his palms moved at the same time, as Zhenqi was injected into the pill furnace, and a strange medicinal fragrance spread throughout the hall.

At this time, Old Man's face was completely red, his eyes shone brightly as he suddenly stopped in his tracks, and threw a Essence and blood into the furnace.

Bang!

A loud sound came out from the pill furnace and a burnt smell dispersed out. Old Man's face was ashen as he sat on the ground and muttered: "Where did the problem go?"

After a long while, the Old Man turned around and asked coldly, "Who let you in?"

Xu Shan's face froze as he bowed and said, "Meng Zong, I have brought the new disciples of the Dan Sect with me. Please instruct me."

"A new disciple?" Old Man muttered, "The Pill Path has declined and no disciple has joined for more than ten years. Forget it, you should just take him with you! "

"This …" Xu Shan laughed bitterly, "You heard it too. Let's go."

"Wait!"

Fang Bai said respectfully: "I am sincere towards the Pill Path, senior, please grant my wish!"

"I'll help you?" Old Man sneered and stood up. His skinny body became tall and big, "The Pill Path has fallen, Dan Sect used to have thousands of disciples. There are less than three hundred left. When they first entered the Dan Sect, every one of them had vowed solemnly that they wouldn't be able to hold on and would be able to run away without a trace in the end.

How do you want An old fellow like me to believe you? "

Pill Path was extremely difficult, even more difficult than martial arts. Cultivating martial arts required talent, refining pills even more so. Ordinary people would struggle for their entire lives, but they would still be unable to break through to the Mortal Realm.

Moreover, while martial arts can extend one's lifespan, Pill Path can't. Manpower sometimes runs out, and no one can resist the temptation of living for a lifetime, placing their entire life on the Pill Path.

After concentrating, his lifespan increased by several folds, and he finally had the qualification to continue walking forward. Yun Shui City didn't even have a single Ning Shen Stage, which showed how difficult it was to concentrate.

With a limited life, how could a martial artist waste time on concocting pills?

"This disciple is willing to swear on the Soul that I will never betray the Pill Path!"

The Soul Oath normally did not have any binding force on warriors, it would only appear when a warrior was focusing. However, if they went against the Soul Oath, if they focused their attention, it would result in a disaster.

No one dared to rashly swear on the Soul, and no one dared to go against the Soul Oath.

"Then you can stay and try. I hope you don't regret it." After the Old Man dismissed Xu Shan with a wave of his hand, he continued, "Go and clean up the pill furnace."

Fang Bai began to clean the pill furnace and started his painful journey.

For an entire month, Fang Bai spent six hours every day memorizing the shapes and medicinal properties of the various herbal medicine, and then spent another four hours concocting pills for the Old Man.

only had eight hours left to eat, drink and sleep. These were the eight hours for cultivation and sleep.

Fortunately, when Old Man was in a good mood, he would bestow Fang Bai with two pills, which made his cultivation not too far off. In just one month, he had broken through six meridians.

In this one month, Fang Bai had diligently and earnestly memorized more than three thousand herbal medicine, causing the Old Man's attitude towards him to greatly change. While he was refining the pill, he would give a few pointers from time to time. Fang Bai could not understand what he was trying to say, so he memorized it.

On this day, Old Man was training a furnace of Ling Ling Dan, Spirit Gathering, Qi Gathering.

Qi Gathering Pills were used by Tong Mai Warriors to condense Zhenqi. On the other hand, Ling Ling Dan could speed up the rate that Qi Gathering Realm Warriors could absorb the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.

"They're all a group of Good-for-nothing, and they're just these Pill, yet they're being personally trained by the An old fellow like me!" Old Man scolded as he controlled the pill furnace. From time to time, he would give Fang Bai pointers. To him, refining Ling Ling Dan was too simple.

Now, Fang Bai had experienced the pain of the Old Man. As a high ranked Mortal Realm alchemist of the Dan Sect, he had to refine all the Pill with Qi Gathering Realm.

A hundred thousand disciples of the Tian Ji Sect and over two hundred people of the Dan Sect. Even if they kept refining pills everyday, they wouldn't be able to keep up with the rate of consumption. Dan Sect became a pill slave, no wonder no one was willing to join Dan Sect. Some of the Core Sect Disciple also ran away earlier.

Hence, it was not strange. Old Man's attitude towards Fang Bai had changed greatly. Cultivating an additional pill refiner naturally allowed him to have more free time.

Once another batch of Ling Ling Dan was out, not only did Old Man's complexion not improve, it became even more unsightly, and he impatiently said: "Next batch, you go train."

"Huh?"

Fang Bai was immediately stunned. The process of refining the pellet was different from the other things: from the initial refining, fusion, gathering of pellets, to the completion of the pellet, every step had to be grasped with extreme precision.

Although Ling Ling Dan were Common Tier Pill, they were not something that even a Common Tier Pill Refiner could refine so easily, let alone Fang Bai who had never even trained a batch of the simplest Pill.

"You don't want to learn?"

"Yes!"

"Then what are you still saying?" Old Man glared at Fang Bai and said, "You have been watching for a month, you should have learnt it even if you were a pig."

"Ugh …"

Fang Bai secretly cursed, "If it's really as easy as you say it is, then wouldn't it be a pill refiner running all over the place, and you even need to personally train to do it?" Of course, he didn't dare to say these words out loud, so he just wanted to give it a try.

Slowly, Fang Bai calmed himself down and placed the herbal medicine in front of him. The Violet Sieve Flower, Dream Leaf Grass, Three Leaves Grass, Ku Lan Root, and Green Fruit Seed. After confirming that the five herbal medicine s were correct, Fang Bai started to carefully think back to the process of refining the Ling Ling Dan.

Condensing, merging, gathering, and refining pills. After repeating each step several times in his mind, Fang Bai was ready to make his move.

Taking a deep breath, the first thing he did was to throw the Violet Sieve Flower into the furnace. The Zhenqi was poured into the furnace, and under the high temperature, the flower quickly melted into a pool of medicinal juice.

Fang Bai concentrated and carefully removed the impurities from the medicinal juice. If he did not remove them cleanly, he would either not be able to condense the pellet, or the effects of the Pill would be greatly reduced.

Many Pill's grades and ranks were mostly because they had an incorrect grasp on the medicinal properties. Either the initial impurities had not been removed completely, or when they were fusing, the medicinal properties of the different herbal medicine had clashed.

However, these were not the things that Fang Bai was thinking about right now. Even if he could cultivate the lowest ranked Pill, it would still be a blessing in disguise.

Next were the Dream Leaf Grass, the Three Leaves Grass, the Ku Lan Root, and the Green Fruit Seed. For beginners, fusing with others is the hardest part. The effects of herbal medicine are too hard to grasp.

At this time, Old Man looked towards the cauldron and secretly nodded, quietly watching Fang Bai's actions.

"Fuse!"

Fang Bai split the Zhenqi into five parts, and at the same time, controlled the juice of the five herbal medicine s to gather together. Just as the Three Leaves Grass juice was about to fuse together, the speed of the Zhenqi was not fast at all.

He was finished, he had failed!

"Idiot!" The Old Man shouted in anger: "With your little Zhenqi, you want to control five herbal medicine at the same time, do you think you are using Qi Gathering Realm?"

Fang Bai had a bitter face. He had previously seen the Old Man merging together at the same time and thought that this was already what he should be doing.

"Forget it." Old Man waved his hand, "I can't blame you, your cultivation is indeed low, to be able to do this is already not bad. In the next three months, you must focus on your cultivation and at least open up to eight meridians, do you understand? "

Three months, from six to eight?

Even if Fang Bai was a Dao Seeking expert in his previous life, he did not have the confidence to achieve it. The Ren Du Meridian and the Du Meridian were two meridian that were the hardest to open in a person's body, it would be considered good for an ordinary person to be able to open them in four or five years.

"Don't worry, I have some Pill that you can use. Three months is a bit tight, but it's not impossible. " After saying that, the Old Man passed a jade bottle to Fang Bai.

Receiving the jade bottle, Fang Bai walked out of the Pill Hall and returned to his own residence.