Time flies, and more than ten years have passed in a flash.

During this period, the battle situation in Qinghai gradually became clear. Xuanmen suffered successive defeats in Qinghai, resulting in extremely heavy casualties and the loss of many heavily-garrisoned islands.

Reports of defeat have spread to the rear again and again. So far, nearly one million Xuanmen monks have been killed or wounded. No matter where you go in Yuanxian City, you can hear discussions about the battle situation on the Qinghai front line.

People are now in panic. There is news that the Qingzhou Xuanmen Alliance has planned to abandon Qinghai and retreat to the interior.

There is also news that the senior officials of Xuanmen took the initiative to send people to negotiate with the Mubei demon, and offered to withdraw from Qinghai in exchange for the two sides' willingness to rule the world and stop the war, but the Mubei demon refused.

All kinds of rumors have spread throughout the streets and alleys.

Regardless of whether the rumors are true or false, one thing is certain, Xuanmen may not be able to sustain it for long in Qinghai. This is the consensus of almost everyone.

The fact that Fenghua City began to deploy various formation restrictions and defense lines also supported this point.

In the dim room, the green flames in the pill cauldron were burning brightly. Tang Ning concentrated on observing the changes in the pills and adjusting the size of the flame.

After a long time, he patted the alchemy cauldron, and a round pill spit out from the mouth of the alchemy cauldron. It was the third-level low-grade Huang Yuandan.

After decades of refinement and attempts, he finally succeeded in refining a Huang Yuan Dan ten years ago.

From then on, he studied hard every day and went to the alchemy room whenever he had free time. He stayed there for more than ten days. As more and more Huang Yuan Pills were successfully refined, his skills became more and more mature. Nowadays, there are already

The success rate is four to five out of ten.

Tang Ning moved her hand and took the elixir into her hand. Feeling the surging spiritual power contained in it, she nodded with satisfaction, turned around, threw a pill on the desk into the elixir cauldron, and continued to refine it.

To refine Huang Yuandan, it is necessary to dissolve the pills with fire veins of level 3 or higher, and then use the own pill fire to draw the main medicine and auxiliary ingredients into the pills.

The so-called elixir fire refers to the spiritual fire generated by the golden elixir in the Linghai cave.

The green flame in the alchemy cauldron is the third-level top fire vein Youkun Fire. It is more than enough to dissolve the pills made from Qianyuan Fruit and Cloud Frost Grass. In this alchemy room, one thousand souls are required to be paid every day.

It can be used only for stone fee.

Until around noon the next day, Tang Ning finished refining the last pill on the desk, wiped the sweat from his forehead, put away more than ten pills in the wooden box, and left the room.

Outside is a straight and deep corridor with numerous stone chambers on both sides, all of which are dedicated to alchemy.

After walking through several corners and many long corridors, they arrived at the spacious hall. A man wearing "Fengyun Chamber of Commerce" clothing stood in front of the desk. When he saw Tang Ning approaching, he smiled and said:

"What do you need, fellow Taoist?"

Tangning turned her hand over and handed him a black token.

The man took the token, picked up a book on the desk, and flipped through it: "This time, fellow Taoist monks used Alchemy Room No. 46 for a total of 12 days. The fee was 12,000 spirit stones and the refund fee was 18,000 spirit stones."

Shi, are fellow Taoists leaving now?"

Tangning turned her hand over and handed him a black bottle: "Replace this bottle of Huang Yuandan and the remaining spirit stones with Thousand Yuan Fruit and Cloud Frost Grass."

The man took the black bottle, opened it, took a look, and said: "There are a total of thirty Huang Yuandan, fifty-four thousand spirit stones, plus the remaining eighteen thousand spirit stones, a total of seventy-two thousand spirit stones. It needs to be exchanged for

Equal parts Thousand Dollar Fruit and Cloud Frost Grass?"

"Yes." Tang Ning responded. According to the market price, thirty Huang Yuan Dan is 60,000 spirit stones. However, if sold to a shop, it will definitely be 10 to 20% lower than the market price. According to the market conditions, if sold to other shops, the price will be even lower.

Up to two percent.

Just because it is refined in this shop, the resale price in this shop is only 10% lower than the market price.

"Okay, please wait a moment." The man said and waved. Not far away, a woman who was also wearing the uniform of the Chamber of Commerce and standing on standby walked quickly and saluted: "Mr. Wu, what do you want me to do?"

"Seventy-two thousand spiritual stones, exchange them for equal parts of Thousand Yuan Fruit and Cloud Frost Grass. You go and get them for this fellow Taoist."

"Yes." The woman responded and left.

Not long after, Fu returned and handed a storage bag to Tang Ning: "Senior, twelve copies of Thousand Yuan Fruit and twelve copies of Cloud Frost Grass are all here. Please check them."

Tangning took the storage bag and searched inside with her spiritual consciousness.

Inside are neatly stacked twelve egg-sized orange-red spiritual fruits and twelve beads of one-foot-long silver-white spiritual herbs, which are the two main herbs of Huang Yuandan, Qianyuanguo and Cloud Frost Grass.

This is a third-level elixir with a maturity period of twenty-five years. The price is 3,000 spirit stones for one portion, and two portions are 6,000 spirit stones.

A mature Qianyuan fruit is generally two liang in weight, while a cloud frost grass is about one or two taels in weight, and the difference is only one yuan at most.

According to the dosage ratio of medicinal herbs, one Thousand Yuan Fruit and Cloud Frost Grass can refine ten Huang Yuandan.

In the past, when Tang Ning was refining elixirs, she would get free elixirs and herbs directly from the Qianyi Sect, which could save a lot of costs.

But now that he has left the sect, there is no longer a free supply of elixirs and herbs, so he has to spend spirit stones to buy these herbs.

With his current skills, the success rate of refining Huang Yuandan with ten herbs is only 40%. Excluding the cost of the elixir, the cost of the alchemy room is equivalent to the amount he has been able to barely make a profit until now.

He has invested millions of spiritual stones in this area before, which is why there are few alchemy and weapon refining experts among casual cultivators.

The initial investment in these techniques is too large and takes a long time. Without the support of the sect or the forces behind them, it is impossible to bear such expenses.

Strictly speaking, Tang Ning is not a casual cultivator. At least he has a salary of 300,000 spiritual stones per year.

"If you think there is no problem, fellow Taoist, please sign here and pledge it!" The man handed him the booklet in his hand and said.

Tang Ning signed the signature on it and left the main hall. After walking for a day, she returned to the Sixth Column station room, went to the stone bed, and fell asleep soon after.

When he woke up, it was already the evening of the next day. He stretched out, sat cross-legged, and practiced with his eyes closed. A few days passed by in a blink of an eye.

Tang Ning left the room, came to a stone hall, and walked straight in. There were seven or eight people sitting inside. He and a few others nodded slightly and immediately took their seats in a remote corner.

As time went by, many people came to the temple one after another.

About a quarter of an hour later, two men and a woman came in from outside.

The leader is wearing the costume of Taixuanzong, and is Huang Yuanjin, the captain of the first team directly under the Sixth Column and Five Columns. The woman on the left behind him is wearing the costume of "Qingquan Zong" and is the inspector Qiu Baiping of the first team directly under the command. The man on the right is wearing the costume of "Baoxianzong"

, is directly subordinate to Zeng Gan, the deputy captain of the first team.

The three of them walked to the top and sat down. Huang Yuanjin said: "All fellow Taoists are here. The task given to our column this time is to patrol the city. Our team is specifically responsible for the inspection of "Fangyuanli" and "Jinxuanli" for a period of time.

It’s three months.”

"There is another matter. Due to the heavy casualties among the monks in the frontline legions, Fenghua City deployed a large number of manpower to support Qinghai Qingxian, resulting in Fenghua City having insufficient troops and empty defenses."

"The headquarters has decided to transfer some people from the several legions stationed in Yuanxian City to Fenghua City to supplement the teams with incomplete structures. The specific list will be issued soon. Fellow Taoists, please be prepared."

"When the order comes, everyone on the list will have to go to Fenghua City to serve as additional soldiers."

As soon as these words came out, the palace suddenly became noisy, and everyone was whispering to each other.

Because there had been rumors before that Xuanmen would give up Qinghai and retreat inland. This time the Xuanmen Alliance headquarters made this decision and transferred the monks stationed in Yuanxian City to Fenghua City to supplement its garrison strength. There is no doubt that this is

confirmed this rumor.

That is to say, the senior officials of Xuanmen have already planned to abandon Qinghai, otherwise why would they need to replenish Fenghua City's defense force? If they really need to replenish manpower, they should be replenished by Qinghai's frontline team.

Once the Xuanmen Alliance abandons Qinghai and retreats inland, Fenghua City will undoubtedly become the frontline, and everyone will have to face a life-or-death battle with the Mubei demon.

"Fellow Taoists, please be quiet." Qiu Baiping said: "The specific transfer list is directly determined by the headquarters and is not decided by the regiment and column. Anyone may be transferred, even the legion commander is no exception."

"Senior Huang, when will the transfer list be finalized?" a man asked.

"It can range from within a month to half a year. The specific time has not yet been determined. I only found out about it when I attended the coalition meeting yesterday. The coalition leader asked us to try not to travel far in the near future, because we may go to Fenghua City at any time."

"Then after we are transferred to Fenghua City, will we still belong to the 19th Army Corps?" Another person asked.

"Of course you don't belong. You will belong to whichever team you are transferred to."

"Does this mean that the alliance will give up on Qinghai, and we will have to confront the Mubei demon head-on?"

"I know that many fellow Taoists are worried about this, but these are just rumors. At least the headquarters has not issued a clear notice to retreat to the inland, and there are still a large number of our troops stationed in Qinghai."

This matter caused a heated discussion in the hall, and everyone raised doubts one after another. About half an hour later, Huang Yuanjin said: "It's almost time to go to the alliance to assemble. Fellow Taoists, come with me!"

Everyone then filed out of the stone hall, and after a short while, they came to the meeting hall of the fifth regiment. There were many teams waiting here, and soon, a wind spirit ship came speeding over.

Everyone flashed and arrived on the deck of the warship. The Wind Spirit Ship carried everyone to the southwest and arrived at the place where the vehicle and ship docked.

The monks from each team boarded their own team's chariots and ships. Many warships sailed out of the curtain of light, gradually separated, and patrolled in the area responsible for planning.

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The sun was high in the sky, there were no clouds in the sky, and below me was the endless green. The huge warship burst into light and sailed through the sky, with silver-white lightning arcs shining all around.

Tangning sat cross-legged on the bow deck, closing his eyes and refining his Qi. After an unknown amount of time, the spiritual energy of a piece of Huang Yuan Dan was refined. He opened his eyes and took a deep breath. There were monks sitting cross-legged everywhere on the deck. Young Master

It is said that there are tens of thousands of people.

The flag of the Seventh Legion was flying on the bow of the ship, and the three characters "Gu Yue" were written on the flag sail at the end of the bed.

The sky above was filled with starlight, and it was already dark, but the light of the warship illuminated the surrounding world as if it were daytime. This was a thunder ship bound for Fenghua City, and the ship was carrying monks from various legions stationed in Yuanxian City.

These people were recruited by the headquarters to supplement the troops of the Seventh Army, and since then they have joined various teams of the Seventh Army.

The Seventh Army had previously had a head-on confrontation with Mubei's Ninth Army in Qinghai, resulting in heavy casualties. Due to the incomplete organization, they retreated to Fenghua City. They were there to fill the vacancies of the Seventh Army's dead and wounded monks.

Tang Ning looked around, watching the bustling crowds sitting cross-legged with their eyes closed, or gathering in groups of twos and threes to chat. Almost everyone had a slightly sad look on their face, and she sighed inwardly. It was obvious that there was a leopard in the picture.

From these people, we can see the state of the entire Xuanmen. Everyone does not want to fight against the Mubei demon and is as afraid of it as a tiger. On the battlefield, the brave will win when we meet on a narrow road. How can we win if we are so timid and avoid danger?

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Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh at himself. Even he himself was trying every possible means to escape from the front line, so who had the right to blame these people!
To be continued...