EBE Chapter 266 Iron Star City
Chapter 266 Iron Star City
The cultivation world of Gunzhou, the Kingdom of Wuqiu.
In the desert, yellow sand swirls everywhere.
A large tribe of several thousand people, nestled in the yellow sand.
Inside the stone house, Lin Changsheng's white clothes were spotless, seemingly out of place in the dusty surroundings.
Before him, a pill furnace as tall as a person spun rapidly. After a dozen breaths, the lid opened, and three crystal-clear pills flew out and landed steadily in his hand.
The three pills were perfectly round and plump, with a pleasant aroma. One of them was even slightly larger, with a stronger fragrance and a more lustrous surface.
"Three Tengxue Pills, two of which are genuine and one is of superior quality. Not bad, not bad, this batch has performed exceptionally well."
Lin Changsheng looked at it with satisfaction, then took out two different porcelain bottles and placed the premium and genuine pills separately.
After loosening my muscles a little, I stepped out of the stone chamber.
A wave of sweltering heat hit me, and the air was filled with fine sand particles.
This is the daily climate of most areas in the cultivation world of Gunzhou.
Dry, high temperature.
Outside, a young woman in the late stage of Qi Condensation, dressed in animal hide clothing, waited respectfully.
The woman had dark skin, and her shapely arms and waist were exposed, giving her a wild and beautiful appearance.
This is a unique and exotic world, different from the cultivation world of Jiuze Continent or Qianzhou.
"Brother Lin, this is the annual salary for the first half of the year issued by the tribe."
"My brother said that if Master Lin can produce more Tengxue Pills in the second half of the year, he will provide additional resources."
The woman gazed at the young man's ethereal and composed demeanor, her eyes momentarily lost in thought, a hint of admiration in them.
"I'm almost at my limit in refining pills right now. I'm afraid I won't be able to earn the resources your brother promised."
Lin Changsheng smiled warmly, his gaze falling on the girl in front of him. Suddenly, he took out an exquisite square wooden box from his bosom. After opening it, a pearl-like oval pill lay quietly inside.
"Ah Yue, this is the 'Youth Preservation Pill' that I learned to refine by compressing my cultivation time. Unfortunately, I haven't mastered it yet, so it doesn't look very good, but its effects are almost the same as the genuine pill."
Upon meeting Lin Changsheng's gaze and being handed the wooden box, the pretty face of the young girl, A Yue, instantly flushed crimson.
"Brother Lin, you work so hard refining pills every day, don't worry about refining pills for me anymore, take more time to rest."
Despite her words, the girl still accepted the wooden box with a touch of shyness.
Her cheeks flushed even more, and she jogged away.
“Brother Lin, the earth vein fire in Iron Star City will stabilize in the second half of the year. At that time, I will ask my brother again to find a way to recommend you to rent the fire vein.”
From afar, the girl's caring voice could be heard again.
As he watched the innocent girl walk away, Lin Changsheng's gaze gradually deepened.
"In order to rent the earth vein fire and refine the Golden Core Pill as soon as possible, I have no choice but to make a small use of A-Yue."
Lin Changsheng sighed.
Two years ago, he came to the cultivation world of Gunzhou to inquire about the Earth Vein Fire.
Although I remember that 'Tian Du Zhenren' had also set foot on the land of Gunzhou.
However, they only used this place as a transit point and did not stay for long, so they did not obtain any useful information about the ley line fire.
After much inquiry, Lin Changsheng learned about the Earth Vein Fire a year and a half ago in a gathering place for cultivators called 'Iron Star City' in Wuqiu Kingdom.
Unfortunately, the earth's ley fire here is unstable and difficult for humans to control.
Each period lasts seven or eight years and is an active cycle, during which only about six months are available for normal use.
Furthermore, to use this ley line fire, one needs recommendations from local sects, merchant guilds, and prestigious families.
Unfortunately, the cultivators of Gunzhou have some similarities to those of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom in the cultivation world of Qianzhou. They are simple and fierce, and extremely xenophobic.
Lin Changsheng only decided to target the 'Chitao' tribe where A Yue lived after much searching.
A few years ago, the old chieftain of the Chitao tribe was hunting monsters in the desert when he was surrounded by a swarm of sand scorpions. In order to help the young tribesmen escape, he sacrificed himself.
The new clan chief is A-Yue's older brother, A-Wei.
The Chitao tribe possesses profound body-refining techniques, and body-refining is a prevalent practice within the tribe.
Therefore, it is often necessary to use the Blood-Turning Pill in order to meet the requirements of physical cultivation.
With the old clan chief's sacrifice and the new clan chief's succession, during this turbulent period, the clan's only near-third-tier alchemist was also poached by a rival tribe.
Just then, a young alchemist from Jiuze Continent traveled here and met A Yue. At the girl's invitation, he temporarily stayed in the Chitao tribe's territory.
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On this day, Lin Changsheng was honing his alchemy skills in the stone chamber.
Suddenly, a thought struck him, and his gaze drifted leisurely in a certain direction.
Lin Changsheng took out an incarnation talisman, disguising himself as someone left in the stone chamber. He then merged into the sand beneath his feet, enveloped by a pale yellow aura emanating from an earth escape talisman.
In Gunzhou, there are countless countries like Wuqiu Kingdom, most of which are buried by sand.
With the blessing of the third-tier Earth Escape Talisman, Lin Changsheng felt as if he were in his element.
More than half an hour later.
A tremendous commotion was coming from the depths of a deserted place.
A crimson centipede with a dark red body and a pair of thin wings on its back.
A sharp-eyed, exceptionally handsome crow.
Surrounded by a swarm of crimson demonic ants, each a few inches long and also bearing wings on its back.
When Lin Changsheng arrived, he saw the two great demons under his command being besieged.
The desert was littered with dead crimson demonic ants, and the two demonic beasts each bore some wounds, but fortunately, they were not in any immediate danger.
Underground, Lin Changsheng faintly sensed the aura of a mid-stage third-tier demon.
Its aura was exactly the same as that of these crimson demonic ants, but many times more powerful.
"As expected, many ants can kill an elephant. It seems that these crimson demon ants have caused the Crimson Centipede and the Wind Crow quite a bit of trouble."
Lin Changsheng's expression gradually became serious.
(This is the second update, so I don't recommend staying up late to wait~)