Chapter 162: The Formation of the Dan Alliance, the Waste Pill Becomes a Precious Pill (1/2)

In the morning, Li Yan got up with Xiaolan's help, had breakfast, and then set off for the [Abandoned Alchemy Room].

Li Yan was not a gentleman. After accepting the person that day, he asked someone to warm the bed at night.

This made Xiaolan, who was following him, walk without the same fluency as yesterday.

After all, it was the first time. Even if she had cultivation, she was still missing something. It was normal that she was not very adaptable.

On the way, Li Yan actively greeted some alchemists who had drunk with him last night.

In the face of Li Yan's initiative, no matter what these people thought in their hearts, they had to give face on the surface, and they all smiled and greeted Li Yan.

Last night, Chen Mingzhi invited Li Yan to [Baifeng Restaurant] for dinner. Naturally, it was impossible for only the two of them, but also other young alchemists in the Alchemy League.

Most of the alchemists came from alchemy families, and the few remaining alchemists also had a force behind them.

There were very few alchemists like Li Yan who came from other places specially in the entire Wangcheng Alchemy League branch.

Therefore, everyone else was very curious about why Li Yan made this choice.

Li Yan explained that he wanted to pursue a better alchemy environment, hone his alchemy skills, and hope to become a fifth-grade alchemist in his lifetime.

And when Li Yan finally said that an alchemist who did not want to be the leader of the Alchemy Alliance was not a good alchemist.

Some people's eyes lit up, and they immediately moved their seats to the side of Li Yan, looking like they wanted to have a detailed chat.

Some people looked disdainful, secretly mocking Li Yan for not knowing his own abilities.

More people were calm, thinking something in their hearts, and they did not easily reveal it.

They were all elites cultivated by big families, and they all had scheming, but because of their personalities, they were either deep or shallow.

So, Li Yan made a few friends at this banquet, and also had some dirty things with some people.

Of course, Li Yan did not care about these things. He cared about some Alchemy Alliance intelligence that these people accidentally revealed during their chats, as well as the latest intelligence on the battlefield.

After the party, Li Yan summarized what these people said with his powerful memory.

First, the various information of the Wangcheng Danmeng branch.

In the Wangcheng Danmeng branch, the power structure starts from the deputy leader at the top and ends at the bottom.

There are also three levels in the middle: elders, principals, and stewards.

In the entire Dazhou Dan Master Alliance, there is only one leader, two deputy leaders, and fifteen sub-leaders.

The leader is naturally in the Danmeng headquarters of Yaodao, and the two deputy leaders are in the two strongest branches under the headquarters.

In addition to the one in the Wangcheng Danmeng branch, the other is in the Danmeng branch of Wuqindao.

The other sub-leaders are scattered in the Daocheng Danmeng branches of various roads.

It is worth mentioning that the location of the Danmeng headquarters is not fixed, but depends on which Danmeng alchemist has a stronger alchemy level.

Every fifty years, the eighteen roads will each send four to five alchemists to the Danmeng headquarters to compete in alchemy.

Which one has the strongest level, then the Danmeng headquarters for the next fifty years will be located in that road.

The Great Zhou was founded more than 1,200 years ago. For the first 300 years, the Dan League headquarters had always been in Wuqin Dao, because the winners were from the Tianwu Dynasty, and their alchemy skills were much better than those of the Great Zhou.

Later, after 300 years of baptism, the older generation was almost dead.

The younger generation was gradually assimilated by the alchemy environment of the Great Zhou, and their alchemy skills naturally declined, and then they were defeated by the alchemists of other Daos of the Great Zhou with richer experience.

So, for the middle 800 years, the Dan League headquarters was in Xuanfeng Dao.

Until the last 100 years, the alchemists of the Medicine Dao rose and won the title of the Dan League headquarters for two consecutive terms.

As for the other Daos, they were just runners-up, which can be seen from the number of people they sent.

The Medicine Dao, Xuanfeng Dao, and Wuqin Dao, three Daos can send five people, one of whom is a fifth-grade alchemist, while the other Daos can only send four people at most, and the strongest alchemist is only a fourth-grade.

How can this be compared!

Let's talk about the Wangcheng Danmeng branch. The deputy leader with the highest power and status is named Xiao. He is not Xiao from Dan Wang Xiao's family, but another Xiao.

This Xiao family and Dan Wang Xiao's family are both first-class alchemy families in Wangcheng. It is said that they were one family five hundred years ago. Later, because the two big brothers of the Xiao family had different alchemy concepts, they split up.

Therefore, the people of these two families have always been in love and hatred.

Li Yan did see the two families' incompatibility at the dinner party of [Baifeng Restaurant].

But no matter how they are incompatibility, they always have an ancestor.

So don't flatter in front of one Xiao family member and say something bad about another Xiao family member.

This will not only flatter the horse's leg, but also offend both families at the same time.

There is indeed such a person. Li Yan heard a Xiao family member at the dinner party say it as a joke.

This person is called Xiao Nantian. Because he admires Li Yan's views and because Li Yan's surname is Xiao, he is very friendly to Li Yan.

After a few words, in the atmosphere of mutual catering, the two naturally became friends.

Some words can be said.

Below the deputy leader are five elders, two of whom are from the Xiao family, one is from the Xiao family, and the remaining two are surnamed Ji and Yao.

Although the Ji family is not an alchemy family, as a royal family, its collection of alchemy recipes and alchemy books is more than any other alchemy family.

Therefore, as long as there are members of the Ji family with alchemy talent, their achievements will generally not be bad.

The last elder surnamed Yao is not simple either. He is not from Wangcheng, but from Yao Clan of Yaodao.

He is from the Daozhu Clan of Yaodao. For some reason, he did not join the headquarters of the Dan League of Yaodao, but came to the branch of Dan League in Wangcheng instead.

Below the elders are the principals. The principals manage part of the affairs of Dan League and have considerable power.

There are twelve principals in total. The one with the greatest power is the principal who manages the acceptance of tasks. He can almost be regarded as the sixth elder.

Below the principal are the deacons. A principal will have multiple deacons under him. Their role is to assist the principal in handling affairs.

The lowest level is naturally the clerk. As soon as you hear the name, you know that they are dedicated to clerks and have no power.

The clerks are scattered throughout the Dan League. Most of the clerks have deacons as their immediate superiors, while a few of them have elders as their immediate superiors.

Like the [Abandoned Dan Room] where Li Yan stayed, this place is neither important nor unimportant. If it is unimportant, it may cause big trouble.

The leaders didn't like this kind of troublesome and unprofitable job, so they pushed it to the Alchemy League.

When the leaders of the Alchemy League didn't take it, they had to hand it over to the elders.

Anyway, the elders of the Alchemy League were all relatively free, refining pills every day and giving lectures when they were in the mood.

Therefore, although Li Yan was an officer, his immediate superior was an elder, and this elder was none other than Xiao Zhenyun.

After knowing this, Li Yan couldn't help but sigh that his luck was really good. Not only did he achieve his set goals as soon as he came to the Alchemy League, but he also avoided many troubles.

At the dinner party, he heard more than once that someone complained about the deacon above him, treating him like a cow or a horse.

Although they are the young masters of the major alchemy families, who wasn't when the deacon was young?

In fact, some of them are the elders of these young masters, so they dare not disobey them at all, otherwise they will not only be criticized in the Alchemy League, but also continue to receive education on respecting elders when they go home.

After drinking the special alchemy wine made by [Bai Feng Restaurant], everyone envied the free-spirited alchemists outside.

If it weren't for their family's arrangement, they wouldn't want to work in the Alchemy League.

Now, they want to leave the Alchemy League, and the first one who disagrees is their family, and they can't disobey their family.

However, in Li Yan's opinion, these people are a bit whining.

Ordinary alchemists are not qualified to join the Alchemy League. If Li Yan hadn't been in the innate realm at a young age, and hadn't accidentally won the favor of Xiao Zhenyun, the elder of the Alchemy League, it would not be so easy to get a job in the Alchemy League.

You know, the benefits of the Alchemy League are not ordinary. Even if Li Yan is an officer, his monthly salary is 20 kilograms of inferior spirit beads.

In addition, Li Yan chose to work in the [Abandoned Alchemy Room], and he also has a compensation of 10 kilograms of inferior spirit beads every month, which is 30 kilograms of inferior spirit beads a month.

This is still the salary. Normally, the alchemists of the Dan League do not charge for meals, and they can get a 20% discount on the pills of the Dan League. The price of the medicinal materials of the Dan League is the cost price.

Moreover, the medicinal materials can be bought on credit, and there is no need to pay immediately.

Just like Li Yan received the task yesterday, he immediately asked Xiaolan to get 30 sets of medicinal materials for [Earth Element·Qi Replenishing Pill], and he could buy on credit directly with Li Yan's alchemist badge.

With such a good treatment, how many alchemists would not envy it?

Unfortunately, most of the positions in the Dan League are occupied by the major alchemy families in the royal city, and only a few unimportant positions will be left for some young and promising alchemists.

Ensure the vitality and creativity of the Dan League.

In addition to further understanding the organizational structure of the Dan League, Li Yan also obtained a lot of the latest news about the battlefields of the two countries.

Among them, there are two big news closely related to the alchemist group.

First, the court placed a second large order of pills with the Dan League, of which ordinary pills accounted for 80% and spiritual pills accounted for 20%, with a total of one million.

The first big order has only been delivered by the Dan League about 70%.

These alchemists who have received elite education since childhood, after a thorough analysis and asking their family bosses, all came to a conclusion - the court is going to fight a protracted war.

If the court wants to fight a decisive battle, it will not use so many pills.

Because once the two countries fight a decisive battle, with the lethality of the masters of the Condensed Realm and the Xiantian masters, a large number of soldiers and low-level officers in the acquired realm will die.

Last time, and in the last decisive battle between the two countries, the number of troops that survived was less than 20% of the original number.

In such a battlefield full of slaughter, how could so many pills be needed?

On the contrary, in the tug-of-war between the two countries, not many people died, but a lot of time was spent, so naturally a large number of pills were needed to maintain the daily practice and fighting of the soldiers.

These things can be deduced based on the previous experience of the war between the two countries.

However, only the big families that have continued to have such records have such records. This is also because the children of these families, even if they do not work in the court, will not be bad in political vision.

Second, the court began to recruit military alchemists, and the treatment was generous.

Take the first-grade alchemist as an example. The monthly salary is 50 kilograms of inferior spirit beads. Even if you don’t make pills every day, you can still have military merits.

Once you start making pills, the more pills you make, the more military merits you will have.

Military merits are hard currency in the army, harder than spirit beads.

Of course, this is the treatment of formal alchemists, and alchemist apprentices do not have such good treatment.

The monthly salary is paid in silver, and only when refining pills can there be military merits, and there are no military merits at other times.

Even so, there are still a lot of alchemy apprentices rushing to join, after all, silver may not be too short for alchemy apprentices.

However, they are very short of military merits that can be exchanged for various alchemy classics and recipes.

Some alchemists in the Alchemy Alliance have also begun to be tempted, such as Chen Mingzhi who invited Li Yan.

However, the reason why he wants to become an alchemist with the army is not what Li Yan had previously guessed, but to exchange for a spiritual fire.

This time, the Great Zhou really spent a lot of money. In order to attract formal alchemists to join, seven yellow-level lower-grade spiritual fires and one yellow-level middle-grade spiritual fire were added to the military's military merit treasury.

Chen Mingzhi got this news, so he had the idea of ​​joining the army as an alchemist.

Not only Chen Mingzhi, but also some alchemists who originally thought it was very dangerous to go to the battlefield were tempted.

This is also the reason why the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty has to spend a lot of money. Without the temptation of good things, these alchemists who have a lot of wealth will not take risks at all.

When the alchemist is of low grade, the spiritual fire can only play a role in improving the success rate of alchemy.

When the alchemist is promoted to the fourth grade, it will be a must.

Because the fourth grade and above spiritual pills are very complicated to refine, without a spiritual fire that can change the temperature at will, the chance of success is pitifully small.

But the spiritual fire cannot be inherited. After a person receives the spiritual fire, the spiritual fire will communicate with the person's true qi.

When a person dies, the true qi disappears, and the spiritual fire will also dissipate between heaven and earth.

It is precisely because of this that all alchemists who aspire to become high-grade alchemists will pursue a spiritual fire of their own.

Turning his sight back, Li Yan brought Xiaolan to the [Abandoned Alchemy Room] with ease.

When no one is in the [Abandoned Alchemy Room], there are guards outside to prevent some people from stealing the waste pills.

When the two guards saw Li Yan coming, they hurriedly saluted and said respectfully: "Greetings to Master Xiao Dan."

Li Yan nodded, as a greeting, and then said: "You can go down."

After saying "yes", the two left the place.

Li Yan threw the key given to him by the Dan League to Xiaolan, and ordered: "Clean up the inside, and then you can go back and rest, after all, you were tired for half a night last night."

Hearing this, Xiaolan blushed, took the key shyly, and carefully opened the door of the [Abandoned Dan Room].

After observing the environment inside, she went to the personal area.

Obviously, there was only one place for her to clean.

Li Yan waited for a while, and he went in after Xiaolan cleaned up.

This was obviously much cleaner and tidier than when Chen Mingzhi was there.

After Xiaolan left, Li Yan couldn't hold back his excitement and came to the abandoned Dan area.

"Keep calm."

A spirit came from Li Yan's original body, and the clone's suddenly enhanced mental power suppressed the excitement in his heart.

After looking around for a long time and finding nothing suspicious, Li Yan finally pinched a black and gray waste pill and placed it in front of him.

"With you little cuties, I don't believe that the [Five Directions Five Elements Reincarnation Gong] can't be cultivated to perfection."

After saying that, Li Yan swallowed the waste pill, which was regarded as poison in the eyes of others.

After entering Li Yan's body, the waste pill instantly turned into a stream of spiritual energy and was stored in the mysterious space in the clone's body.

The impurities in the pill remained in the clone.

Li Yan patted his stomach, and the true energy vibrated, and the impurities were discharged from his mouth and appeared on Li Yan's palm.

"The black slag is no different from the waste pills that were burned in the spiritual incinerator?"

Li Yan compared the residue left in the incinerator with the residue just discharged in his hand. There was not much difference.

It can be completely indistinguishable from the real thing.

"In this way, my flaws will become smaller and smaller."

Li Yan smiled with satisfaction.

Throwing all the waste pill residues in his hand into the alchemy furnace, Li Yan began to continue swallowing the waste pills.

However, Li Yan did not swallow the pills randomly, but had a certain pattern.

He needed to find the gold, wood, water, fire and earth in the waste pills, provide a single five-element pill, and then take it all at once, so that the spiritual energy in the mysterious space always maintains the balance of the five elements.

This will make it more convenient and faster for Li Yan's body to convert the spiritual energy into true energy, and it will not waste spiritual energy.

If there is too much spiritual energy in one of the five elements, if the extra spiritual energy is not discharged, it will occupy the position of the dantian, causing the true energy to circulate poorly.

This is not something that the cautious Li Yan can accept.

In the end, he is likely to disperse the excess spiritual energy, which causes waste.

Therefore, in order not to cause waste, Li Yan needs to screen out spiritual pills with different spiritual energy attributes.

With Li Yan's knowledge of alchemy and memory, as long as he tried a waste pill and determined the spiritual properties of the waste pill, he would be able to accurately lock on to this waste pill based on its smell and appearance the next time he encountered it without trying it.

So, Li Yan began to pick out the waste pills he needed from the baskets of waste pills and sort them out.

When he encountered a waste pill with rare spiritual properties, Li Yan would put it in a bamboo basket separately and keep it for refining in the incinerator.

Li Yan would also put some waste pills with mixed spiritual attributes into a bamboo basket with waste pills containing rare spiritual attributes, waiting for refining.

Some of the waste pills containing a single five-element spiritual energy were of high quality and contained a lot of spiritual energy, so Li Yan would put them separately.

Such waste pills must be taken with several waste pills of other attributes to maintain the balance of the five elements.

Suddenly, Li Yan was stunned after eating a waste pill.

He immediately searched for the waste pill he had just eaten in a basket of waste pills, and soon he found one.

He tentatively crushed the whole waste pill, and after looking at the contents of the waste pill, Li Yan had a bitter smile.

After seeing the contents, he understood: "These people are really persistent, and I don't know which alchemist is behind them, and they actually make this kind of black-hearted money."

It turned out that Li Yan ate a waste pill without any spiritual energy, and after checking the same kind of pills later, Li Yan found that this type of waste pill was full of waste materials without spiritual energy.

This means that this waste pill is fake.

There are people who fake waste pills. Sure enough, no one will miss any business opportunity.

"I hope there are not too many of these pills."

Thinking of this, Li Yan couldn't help but feel depressed.

Later, Li Yan selected a basket of waste pills. There were more than a thousand waste pills, but only 20 or 30 were found. Fortunately, the situation was not too serious.

When Li Yan was about to select the second one, the person who delivered the waste pill came to the door.

After Li Yan opened the door, the servants who delivered the waste pills respectfully saluted Li Yan and said, "Meeting Master Xiao Dan."

"Okay, bring the things here, one by one."

After Li Yan spoke, these servants lined up and handed the wooden box containing the waste pills to Li Yan for inspection.

During the inspection, Li Yan found the fake pill again, so he took it out in public, but soon put it back, as if it was just an unintentional act.

In fact, in the process of taking and putting, Li Yan had already secretly and quickly glanced at these servants.

What surprised Li Yan was that six of the eight servants showed a moment of astonishment on their faces when Li Yan picked up the pill.

This made Li Yan realize that there was something fishy behind this matter, and it was better not to get involved at this time.

So, he calmly counted the waste pills in the hands of the eight people, and after finding that the number was correct, he let them leave directly.

If he exposed this matter at this time, the benefits he could get would be extremely limited. After all, he had just joined the Dan League and had basically no foundation.

In this situation, not only would some people be jealous and slander him, but he would also offend the person behind the scenes.

Li Yan didn't want anyone to disturb him from happily eating waste pills.

Compared with the improvement brought to him by a large number of waste pills, the benefits brought to him by exposing this matter could be completely ignored.

Of course, not exposing it now does not mean that it cannot be exposed in the future.

As long as the timing is right, this matter will bring him the maximum benefit.

Soon, it was noon, and Li Yan's get off work time was over.

Li Yan only ate 240 waste pills today, and the spiritual energy of a waste pill is equivalent to one-third of the original spiritual pill.

Li Yan is a five-element true qi, not only has the five-element attributes, but also has a very high quality of true qi, so 30 waste pills are equivalent to the amount of true qi increased by a warrior who cultivates fire true qi and eats a fire spiritual pill.

Converted, it is equivalent to saying that Li Yan only ate eight pills.

The reason why he didn't eat more is that there is not enough time, most of the time is spent on selecting waste pills.

Second, there is another clone providing a lot of spiritual energy to the main body. Li Yan is worried that too much spiritual energy will make the main body's dantian overloaded.

Linjiang City, the main body, it's time to receive spiritual energy once a day.

When the spiritual energy provided by the two clones all entered the dantian, Li Yan found that there was still a lot of space in the dantian.

The clone in the snake's belly cannot increase the spiritual energy supply, otherwise the super eye snake will be killed, and then Li Yan will lose a stable spiritual energy mine.

The clone in the King City Dan League can completely increase the intake of waste pills.

"The clone in the Dan League is progressing smoothly, but the clone that infiltrated [Red Blood Covering Zhou Army] is not progressing smoothly."

Li Yan's original body now cast his eyes on the clone of [Red Blood Covering Zhou Army].