Chapter 492
Now that Tu Fang was the sect leader, he was exceptionally busy, as the first monastery was enormous, and there were too many tasks for him to handle .
The original first monastery’s residents had been ordered by the monastery head to leave with nothing, and she had said that any violators would be killed . Under those circumstances, who would have dared to take anything?
However, that didn’t mean they had to be nice . Although they hadn’t touched anything, they were still able to give Tu Fang some trouble .
For example, the keys to some storehouses had been lost, or a warehouse’s account books might have been destroyed by ‘rats’ . These kinds of matters were plentiful .
The new residents already had much less manpower than the original residents . Now Tu Fang was in over his head, but there was no way around that . He could only work all day and night, taking inventory of the storehouses . Otherwise, if he didn’t even know what kind of resources were within his own monastery, that really would be a joke .
There weren’t enough Elders to handle all the work, so some disciples were forced to help .
But there was at least one piece of excellent news . The first monastery’s resources were extremely plentiful, and the pay for the working disciples was over a hundred times what it would have been in the 108th monastery .
There were some people who immediately leapt to go work as well . But they all knew what kind of person Tu Fang was . If you were going to be paid, you had better do work . But if you did work hard, you would definitely be paid generously .
Once Long Chen and the others returned, they also got busy . Guo Ran went to work on the blueprint Long Chen had given him .
As for Meng Qi, she was busy merging with Long Chen’s spiritual seed . Although this seed was now hers, it still had Long Chen’s imprint on it . She needed to work to merge with it until their connection was flawless . Only then could she control her Spiritual Strength perfectly .
But what delighted her was that the spiritual seed was much, much stronger than her expectations . As soon as it began to merge with her, it began to rapidly grow . It was already much stronger than her old soul root .
It was like the seed of heaven-reaching tree . As long as the earth was fertile enough, it could grow to the peak of the world .
That made Meng Qi incredibly grateful to Long Chen, and she swore to herself that she would work hard on cultivating . She would be like Chu Yao, and protect Long Chen in the future .
Tang Wan-er was also busy . Long Chen had asked Tu Fang to lend him an immense underground warehouse .
This warehouse was hundreds of meters wide . Long Chen placed the huge Wind Spirit Crystal within it . It was a good thing the first monastery’s warehouses were made of special material and incredibly sturdy, or it would have instantly blown up from the Wind Spirit Crystal .
Tang Wan-er and Little Snow were sitting in front of the Wind Spirit Crystal, studying the terrifying fluctuations from within it .
Tang Wan-er had already refined an ocean’s worth of wind spirit stones, and she already had a foundation when it came to wind . That was the only reason Long Chen dared to allow her to study the Wind Spirit Crystal’s energy .
The difference between wind spirit stones and the Wind Spirit Crystal was immense . If a wind spirit stone’s energy was like a puddle, then the Wind Spirit Crystal’s energy was like a raging sea .
Without a certain foundation, it was impossible to comprehend the profound and mysterious fluctuations within the Wind Spirit Crystal .
As for Little Snow, he had consumed the Barbaric Wind Beast’s Neidan, and his wind energy had become even purer . Most terrifying of all, as a Magical Beast, his wind energy was shockingly forceful .
After the final battle in the secret realm, everyone had been completely exhausted . Only Little Snow had still been filled with energy . It could be seen how terrifying he was .
Long Chen hoped for the two of them to comprehend some of the wind mysteries within the Wind Spirit Crystal, raising their comprehension .
As for Gu Yang, Song Mingyuan, Li Qi, and Yue Zifeng, they had all entered seclusion to cultivate . There was an immense number of Bone Tempering Pills in the first monastery, and Long Chen had them first consume those .
Although those medicinal pills were trash in Long Chen’s eyes, there was no harm in consuming them . It would just be less efficient .
Currently, Long Chen didn’t have time to refine pills for them . So he had them consume these ones first, and when he finally had time, he would refine more pills for them .
Long Chen went to see Tu Fang, asking him to give him a list of which disciples had come to support him at the risk of their lives .
Seeing Tu Fang was curious, Long Chen said the following: those who could follow him in life and death were his brothers, and he definitely couldn’t mistreat his own brothers . He would raise them with his full ability .
From Tu Fang, he learned there had been a total of 347 disciples who had come with him to the first monastery . He gave Long Chen a list of names .
Looking over that list, Long Chen couldn’t help smiling . At the same time, he was filled with emotion .
He didn’t recognize the majority of the names on that list . But those people had all been hot-blooded enough to abandon their own lives to follow them in life and death . There was only one word to call such people: brothers .
Since they were brothers, they should follow each other in life and death, sharing wealth and happiness . Now that the life and death crisis had passed, Long Chen definitely wouldn’t let them lose out .
Long Chen returned to his residence . Tu Fang had set up that place for him, and it was extremely spacious . There were even disciples guarding the perimeter so that no one would disturb him .
There, he took out some medicinal ingredients, but then suddenly clapped himself in the head . He had actually forgotten to go get a good pill furnace from the storehouses .
“Wait, I probably won’t have to go there . ” Long Chen suddenly thought of something and took out a spatial ring . That was a simple ring, with a sparkling gemstone embedded into it .
That gemstone was sometimes called storage stone or spatial stone . It had its own space inside it .
Looking at that spatial ring, Long Chen smiled, thinking of Guo Ran .
Guo Ran was like Long Chen and was extremely brazen . He dared attempt all kinds of crazy ideas .
Long Chen was the only one who knew the secret behind Guo Ran’s armor, because Guo Ran had once shown off his brilliant idea to him .
He had actually taken the spatial stones within spatial rings and directly embedded them into his meridians .
He had embedded a total of sixteen spatial stones in the meridians all over his body . That way, with just a thought of his Spiritual Strength, the armor within those spatial stones would instantly cover him .
That was also why Guo Ran’s armor seemed like magic, and others were unable to see how he put it on .
He had set up special components on each of the spatial stones so that the armor would instantly assemble . Even Long Chen had been completely astonished by Guo Ran’s smarts .
Other than the armor, those spatial rings also contained his consumables, and he could replenish them at will .
Shaking his head, Long Chen had no choice but to admit Guo Ran really did come up with quite a few crazy ideas .
However, this spatial ring in front of him was a bit special . There was an exceptionally exquisite flame pattern on it, and within the ring itself was an indentation of a small tower .
That was naturally the Pill Tower’s marking . The owner of this ring had been Huo Wufang .
This was Long Chen’s battle spoils . When he had thought of the pill furnace just now, he had also thought of this spatial ring .
“Oh? There’s still a spiritual imprint? Hehe, so that little fellow hasn’t died yet . Truly worthy of congratulations!”
This spiritual imprint was something that could be left behind on certain objects by people with strong enough Spiritual Strength .
If such an object stayed with its owner for a long period of time, then it would form a kind of resonance, and as long as the owner didn’t die, the spiritual imprint wouldn’t fade .
Furthermore, that spiritual imprint would be like a faithful guard dog . If anyone else tried to open the spatial ring, it would attack them .
Finding out that Huo Wufang hadn’t died made Long Chen smile with gratification . I wonder who is happier, him or Yin Wushuang .
Long Chen snorted, and his Spiritual Strength directly erased Huo Wufang’s spiritual imprint .
Perhaps that spiritual imprint might be able to cause some trouble for others, but Long Chen could erase it with a wave of his hand .
Opening the spatial ring, Long Chen couldn’t help jumping in shock . This spatial ring actually had a subsidiary life space attached to it . In other words, it could be considered a life ring .
But this life ring was far better than the one he had obtained before . It was actually three thousand meters wide, and was like its own world .
“He actually built a palace within his spatial ring . What an idiot . ” Long Chen sneered upon seeing the world within the spatial ring .
But after looking inside the palace, he understood that Huo Wufang had treated this palace as a treasurehouse .
There were all kinds of weapons, secret arts, and bottles of treasures piled within it . He hadn’t expected that idiot to be so obsessive . He had actually arranged everything incredibly neatly .
Outside the palace was a medicinal field with many precious herbs . Quite a few of them had new soil beneath them, which indicated Huo Wufang had most likely obtained them within the Jiuli secret realm .
“Hehe, nice, nice . I’ll transplant them into the primal chaos space . ” Long Chen was delighted upon seeing the medicinal ingredients . That fellow truly was rich . There were hundreds of rare medicinal ingredients here, many of which he didn’t have .
To pill cultivators, medicinal ingredients were like their lives . No matter how many they had, it wouldn’t be enough . Originally, Long Chen had been planning on waiting a bit and patiently going through what else Huo Wufang had, but he had overestimated himself . He ended up directly transplanting all of them first .
That took him quite a few hours . Not only had he transplanted the medicinal ingredients, he had even moved the palace into his primal chaos space .
Plunk . A certain object rolled out of the palace .
“Pill furnace!” Long Chen cried out with delight .
Originally, this ancient bronze pill furnace had been placed atop a platform in the palace . When he had moved the palace, it had ended up shaking the palace, and the pill furnace had fallen off, rolling out .
“Based on the handles and pinholes, this is actually a peak fifth tier pill furnace!” Long Chen’s eyes reddened .
The pill furnaces he had been using had all been second tier pill furnaces and incredibly rotten . They were so terrible that he didn’t even dare use his full strength when using them . And even so, his pill furnaces were like firecrackers, blowing up one by one .
But with a fifth tier pill furnace, he wouldn’t have to worry about that anymore . He could refine pills with his full strength .
A fifth tier pill furnace could refine fifth tier medicinal ingredients without problem . In fact, it could even refine sixth tier medicinal ingredients .
“Hahaha, time to get to work!” Long Chen laughed and immediately began refining pills .
