Chapter 195 - 195 188 Peculiar Movement of the Snake Swarm!

195: Chapter 188: Peculiar Movement of the Snake Swarm! (Begging for Monthly Tickets) _1 195: Chapter 188: Peculiar Movement of the Snake Swarm! (Begging for Monthly Tickets) _1 Lv Zhong was dissatisfied, so he produced two more batches of pills in a systematic and orderly manner. However, he was frustrated to find that these two batches of pills had failed again! “How could this be?” Lv Zhong found it somewhat incredible. Although it was his first time refining pills, with the memory and guidance of Plague God Lv Yue, he should not have made so many batches of waste pills! Lv Zhong’s brows were furrowed deeply. To calm his mind, he sat on the ground and started to rethink the placement steps of the medicinal herbs and the control of the heat during the pill refining process. “There’s nothing wrong!” Lv Zhong opened his eyes and stared blankly at the pill furnace. If the method and steps of pill refinement were correct, then he had to find the answer from the source! With that thought, Lv Zhong placed the medicinal herbs used to refine the lower-grade Fixed Color Pill in front of him one by one. For a time, over a dozen kinds of medicinal herbs including wild ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, Huang Jing, Goji berries, and Lilies began to emit a strong fragrance. All of these medicinal herbs were freshly harvested by Lv Zhong from the medicinal fields of the Profound Yin Demon Sect, and their appearance and quality were much better than the medicinal herbs on the market. With these herbs, combined with the Appearance Stabilizing Liquid secreted by the Age-Locking Bugs, it should be easy to refine several batches of lower-grade Fixed Color Pills. But… Lv Zhong curled his lips crookedly, looking at the herbs placed on the ground. At the same time, his Spiritual Sense began to invade these herbs. The moment his Spiritual Sense invaded, Lv Zhong suddenly understood why he had failed to successfully refine the pills three times in a row. The Earth was indeed different from the Era of Gods, the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy was getting poorer and poorer. Furthermore, a large amount of impure energy was beginning to appear. Sёarch* The Nôvel(F)ire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. This made these medicinal herbs not as pure and unadulterated as before. It was like adding a few drops of salt to a bowl of clear water. Although it looked like a bowl of clear water, it had essentially become a bowl of salt water. So, if what you need is clear water, you must find a way to remove the salt from the water! The same goes for this! If Lv Zhong wants to successfully refine the Fixed Color Pill, he must first purify these medicinal herbs and remove their impurities! “I see!” After realizing the reason for the previous failure in refining the pills, Lv Zhong nodded quietly, revealing a slight happy smile on his face. Although refining the Fixed Color Pill is much more difficult now than in ancient times, and the steps are much more complicated, Lv Zhong doesn’t mind. Purifying the medicinal herbs can also train his mental strength and even his Spiritual Sense. Prior understanding the key to the Fixed Color Pill, Lv Zhong got prepared for another round of pill refinement. This time, however, Lv Zhong first purified the medicinal herbs in his hand, using the secret of pill refining to remove their impurities. The following methods and steps went very smoothly! Indeed! His batch of Fixed Color Pills was a great success. There were thirty-six pills in one batch, each as red as blood, looking like a hawthorn bean. The smoothness carried an infinite fragrance, which was tempting to the mind. Lv Zhong takes out one and tests its medicinal efficacy on himself. Through the monitor of Spiritual Sense, Lv Zhong reckoned that this Fixed Color Pill could keep an ordinary person’s looks unchanged for at least thirty years. In other words, if you take this Fixed Color Pill at the age of thirty, you can still have the most mature and attractive looks at the age of sixty. “Although it’s not a true Immortal Pill of Eternal Youth, but being able to guarantee thirty years of youthfulness, such a pill is already extremely Against-the-Heavens in modern society.” Lv Zhong broke into a smile, such a pill was absolutely an irresistible temptation to women. With the existence of the Age-Locking Bug, Lv Zhong could use the Appearance Stabilizing Liquid secreted by the Age-Locking Bug to refine many pills. For example, the Fixed Color Pill just now, and the Rejuvenation Pill in the legend, and even the Life-Span Pills that were very tempting to cultivators in the legend. The efficacy of these pills doesn’t seem to help Lv Zhong’s cultivation much. However, Lv Zhong can use these pills to earn a lot of money and even exchange them for Spiritual Stones from cultivators in the Cultivation World, and then indirectly absorb the energy in the Spiritual Stones to enhance the strength of himself and his subordinate bugs. Moreover, the Fixed Color Pill, Rejuvenation Pill, Life-Span Pills, coupled with the effect is extremely amazing. It can instantly make people regain their youth, and keep their looks unchanged forever. Such things can definitely make people crazy. It can also bring a lot of wealth to Lv Zhong. At the same time, Lv Zhong can gradually improve the physical constitution of his family members so that they can practice cultivation along with him. Moreover, for cultivators, Wealth, Companions, Law, and Land are indispensable. The so-called Wealth refers to money, Spiritual Stones, medicinal herbs, equipment, and Magical Treasures. Companions refer to Daoist companions and friends. Law refers to the Cultivation Method. Land refers to the territory and power. … With the existence of the Age-Locking Bug, Lv Zhong has one more chance to get stronger. It allows him to gain more wealth and gather more like-minded friends or Daoist companions. And with more wealth, it is not impossible to get a superior Cultivation Method. And with money and wealth, power and territory can be established! **************** In two days, Lv Zhong refined five batches of pills in total. Two batches of Fixed Color Pills, one batch of Rejuvenation Pills, one batch of Life-Span Pills that can extend life by ten years, and one batch of Love-inducing Elixir. However, if these five pots of pills were to leak into the mortal world, they would definitely cause a huge uproar. But, through Lv Zhong’s eyes, they were just substandard, low-grade pills. Having stayed on the mountain for two days, Lv Zhong was starting to get bored. Packing up his things, including an ordinary pill furnace which he put into the Plague God Pearl, Lv Zhong later went on to modify the array on top of the mountain, making the mountain protective array on Anle Peak more potent, before he leisurely walked down the mountain. It was early August now, and the peak tourist season on Nanyue was during the months of August, September, and October. Thus, more tourists were starting to arrive at Nanyue. Of course, this Anle Peak was located a bit off the structural cluster, and thus wasn’t classified as a primary tourist destination within the Nanyue district. Consequently, not many people visited it and those who did were generally well-acquainted with this area from either Yan City or Xiangnan Province. However, today was different because just as Lv Zhong stepped out of the mountain protective array and hadn’t walked for 10 minutes downhill, he surprisingly found a touring group. And what bewildered him more was that in this group, there were evidently seven or eight blond, blue-eyed foreigners, whereas the person walking at the front appeared like a nearby villager. Lv Zhong could call out his name even though his face seemed familiar to Lv Zhong. He guessed that this group of people had hired him as a local guide. This Anle Peak was a very insignificant peak, decoupled from the main tourist area of Nanyue. The phrase, “work for three months, live for three years” is a common saying among the farmers in the Nanyue scenic area, but the villagers here weren’t as affluent. Otherwise, when the Lv family was buying a house in Sangtang Town, a suburban area of Yan City, they wouldn’t have felt so tight-fisted. A group of foreigners came to such an offbeat mountain area? “These foreigners must be idle. they’re venturing here?” Lv Zhong shook his head secretly, intending to leave. Mountain paths of Anle Peak were very secluded. Apart from the nearby villagers, very few people would climb up the mountain. This was because now that hunting and deforestation are banned, it is very difficult to find a way up the mountain. Of course, both Lv Zhong and the folks from the Profound Yin Demon Sect were not ordinary people. They have high climbing skills, so climbing up the mountain is straightforward for them. Just as Lv Zhong took a step to bypass this crowd, the middle-aged man who Lv Zhong had found to be a bit familiar took note of Lv Zhong, and his eyes lit up. He couldn’t help but ask, “Young man, wait a moment. Are you Zhong Ge’er, right?” Zhong Ge’er was Lv Zhong’s nickname. “I am Lv Zhong.” Lv Zhong halted, looked back at the middle-aged man, and asked, “May I ask who you are…?” Hearing Lv Zhong admit this, the middle-aged man laughed and said, “I am San Heizi from Xinglong Village. You may not recognize me. Once, I was bitten by a mysterious centipede. It just happened that I ran into your grandfather to treat me, but you scared off my two little magpies…” With his explanation, Lv Zhong indeed recalled him. However, the San Heizi he remembered was a very naive, simple-minded young man, while the current San Heizi seemed much older. As Lv Zhong recollected, San Heizi led a very poor and hard life in the past. He was so unlucky, always stuck with misfortunes. His mother was down with bowel cancer, and as a result, he couldn’t find a wife even when he was in his late twenties. He didn’t go out to work but stayed in the village to take care of his sick mother, for over a decade. To scrape together money for his mother’s treatment, he would occasionally trap some game to sell, in exchange for some medicinal and living expenses. After he had managed to collate enough money for his mother’s bowel resection operation, he would often take prescriptions from the Lv Family. The Lv family elder saw the hardships he was living with, and so for his mother’s medicinal herbs, Lv’s grandfather always provided them to him in half sale, half chess… “So, it’s you. Uncle Heizi. Have you stopped hunting wild animals and changed to leading tours?” Lv Zhong revealed a smile towards San Heizi after recognizing him. San Heizi grinned and said, “I was preparing to enter the mountain to hunt some wild animals, but leading tours is just a way to earn a bit more…” Just as San Heizi and Lv Zhong were casually chatting, the leader of the tourist group walked out discontentedly, yelling furiously at San Heizi, “Darn country bumpkin, I paid you to lead this tour and find the mysterious, lost Anle Temple, not chew the fat… A darn country bumpkin? A fire of anger flashed across Lv Zhong’s face; nevertheless, as long as the group didn’t provoke him, he wouldn’t recklessly teach anyone a lesson. Yet, when he thought about how these people were looking for Anle Temple, Lv Zhong was surprised again. This was because Anle Temple hadn’t disappeared but was hidden within Profound Yin Demon Sect under the cloak of the protective mountain array. Listenting to the team leader berating and yelling mercilessly, a spark of fury suddenly flashed in San Heizi’s eyes. But since he was middle-aged now and had to consider more in his approaches, plus San Heizi’s nature was to be too honest. Since he had taken the group’s money, it was only right for him to work hard for them. At once, San Heizi awkwardly said to Lv Zhong, “Zhong Ge’er, Uncle Heizi is busy today, sorry about this. When I’m free, Uncle Heizi will go to your old house to find you. Recently, Uncle Heizi got a strange little wild animal. I think you liked those little things when you were young, hehe, I’ll bring it to you then…” After finishing his words, he did not wait for Lv Zhong to respond and rejoined the group. But right at that moment, a sharp scream pierced the quiet from the front of the tourist group, followed by one of the foreign women who collapsed directly onto the ground. “Ah, snake…, snake…, so many snakes…” Everyone in the crowd screamed in terror, then instinctively turned around and ran. Huh? Lv Zhong turned his head to look and was shocked to find that over a dozen long snakes had suddenly slithered out of the path he had previously walked. The types of these snakes varied greatly. There were Golden Ring Snakes, Silver Ring Snakes, and several Bamboo Green Snakes commonly found nearby. But, Lv Zhong noticed that in this group of suddenly appeared poisonous snakes, there were three different types of venomous snakes. One was a golden Eyed Snake, one was a bright red-blooded little snake only as long as chopsticks, and the last one was a strange snake covered in black fur on its head! These three snakes were definitely terrifyingly highly toxic snakes! However, they, just like the other dozen or so venomous snakes, were rushing towards the tourists. Seeing these dozens of colorful venomous snakes charging towards them, the tourists couldn’t help but become nearly hysterical. They didn’t even notice that the behavior of these snakes was quite peculiar… PS: Thanks to brothers like Lu Xiang, Muddy, Windy, and chz040602, etc., for their rewards. (