Eternal Life: Talent Grows with Age-Chapter 270 - 176: Lu Mansion Marriage Proposal!

Half a month later, Platinum Immortal City began issuing many demon-clearing missions on behalf of the Gu Family.

The demonic disaster from Purple Ice Lake had already started impacting the surrounding towns, and since Platinum Immortal City fell under the domain of the Supreme Profound Sect, they naturally had to eradicate such threats.

Clearing out demons would earn a reward from the Supreme Profound Sect, making many loose cultivators willing to risk their lives to take the missions.

"Alchemist Lu, have the pills been refined yet?"

Several patriarchs came looking for him.

Lu Chang’sheng handed over the prepared pills to them.

Many disciples from their families were also taking on the demon-clearing assignments.

Train soldiers for a thousand days, use them for an hour. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Faced with such an opportunity, of course they wanted a share of the spoils.

This was the helplessness of being a clan disciple.

While enjoying resources, they also had to fulfill their obligations.

Most of the pills in Lu Chang’sheng’s hands were healing pills, increasing the survival chances of their family disciples in the demon-clearing fights.

"Fellow Daoists, take care." Lu Chang’sheng sent them off, watching the patriarchs leave in the distance.

Except for the Qu Family, these families had little industry outside of their clan, at most holding a few shops in a marketplace.

As for things like medicinal fields and mines, those were basically monopolized by the bigger families.

The best properties were, of course, owned by the Supreme Profound Sect.

So, for missions ordered by the Sect with enticing rewards, naturally they gave it their all.

"I heard that this time the Supreme Profound Sect is offering nine Foundation Establishment Pills as rewards."

Lu Chang’sheng had heard Lin Yan mention this; Foundation Establishment Pills can only be refined by at least a tier-two alchemist.

When bringing this up, Lin Yan’s face was both excited and a little regretful.

"My teacher is, after all, a Qi Cultivation level seven cultivator. It’s perfectly normal for him to yearn for a Foundation Establishment Pill. Unfortunately, there are just too many contenders for it this time."

Lu Chang’sheng thought to himself.

Though Master Baiyun was a tier-two alchemist, he still couldn’t successfully refine the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Being a tier-two alchemist was only the lowest qualification to attempt it, but the pill’s ingredients were so rare, and the odds of success for an ordinary tier-two alchemist were just too low.

Without enough materials for multiple attempts, even Master Baiyun wouldn’t dare try lightly.

Otherwise, it would all end in vain, like drawing water with a bamboo basket.

Moreover, there were now quite a few level-nine Qi Cultivators in the mountain gate. With Lin Yan only at level seven, he still had a long way to go in late-stage Qi Cultivation and would hardly be able to get a Foundation Establishment Pill from Master Baiyun.

"Perhaps that’s the reason my teacher isn’t all that invested in this."

"Foundation Establishment... is just too far away."

Lu Chang’sheng sighed.

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Day after day, Lu Chang’sheng fully immersed himself in his cultivation.

Every so often, he attended his teacher’s lectures.

Lin Yan’s classes now covered at least the basics of mid-grade first tier pills.

At this point, Lu Chang’sheng noticed that the other disciples had begun to show signs of difficulty understanding the material.

He understood that his senior brothers’ mastery in alchemy was at minor achievement in one or several tier-one pill formulas.

After a few careful observations, he judged that his eldest senior brother was likely close to reaching great success in one of the tier-one formulas.

Lu Chang’sheng kept this to himself, deliberately not making a show of it.

During this stage, he didn’t intend to stir up trouble or split his attention.

"Right now, the focus is to master the Qi Storage Pill to great success, then raise my cultivation to mid-phase Qi Cultivation, and push my alchemy level to rank B."

Rank B resources are far more abundant than rank C. If Lu Chang’sheng wanted to shorten his cultivation period, he’d have to acquire as many resources as possible and maximize variability.

"Resources are the most powerful factor in reducing cultivation time!"

He threw himself into it with everything he had; every day was just alchemy, lectures, and cultivation.

Utterly routine.

With increased investment from three families, Lu Chang’sheng’s resources made a big leap. He spent a portion of his spirit stones on buying alchemy jade scrolls, gaining something new every day.

He was drawing closer and closer to achieving great success with the Qi Storage Pill.

"Give it two years and my Qi Storage Pill will reach great success. Once I use the Elixir Ascension Technique, I’ll be able to refine high-grade tier-one pills."

Lu Chang’sheng couldn’t help but smile slightly at this.

He’d have over an eighty percent chance of success—enough to meet the main requirements for a tier-B alchemist.

Getting there so fast was partly because he never lacked resources, but also because his Immortal Dao Root Bone had improved.

It was only an increase of one point, yet it shortened his time in alchemy and cultivation alike.

This cultivation progress brought him inner peace, but other matters weren’t so pleasant.

First, Daoist Ruyi’s health was clearly faltering, as if she might collapse at any time.

And then, there was Lin Yan.

For some reason, lately Lu Chang’sheng often found Lin Yan staring off into space—strange behavior for a late-stage Qi Cultivator.

"Teacher’s body is having problems."

Lu Chang’sheng thought to himself.

It wasn’t hard to guess, but as for the severity, he had no idea.

That evening, after Lu Chang’sheng finished refining a batch of pills under Lin Yan’s guidance, he saw Lin Yan slumped in a chair, head bowed—seemingly fallen asleep from exhaustion.

Lu Chang’sheng didn’t want to wake him, and so waited quietly at his side.

After a while, Lin Yan suddenly woke, saw Lu Chang’sheng still standing by, paused in silence, then said, "How did the pill refinement go?"

"It’s finished."

Lin Yan took the pills, only then realizing they’d already cooled significantly.

He didn’t dwell on it, and instead examined the pills, a glimmer of surprise flickering in his eyes.