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Ye Chen swept his Astral Body toward Little Tanuki and found that its Psyche had greatly improved and was now much higher than the lioness. The gap between it and Mingyuan was also not that big. However, Little Tanuki's Psyche still needed a long way to go before achieving Astral Externalization.

Succeeding in alchemy for the first time, Ye Chen was quite excited. It was very difficult to make progress in his Astral Body if he cultivated alone and after reaching the Tenth Level, the cultivation of Celestial Chi was also very slow. It was not possible to break through attainment levels like before. However, increasing his cultivation while refining pills was not a bad method.

Earthly Venerable and Heavenly Venerable Rank experts were able to reach that level by accumulating a large number of medicinal pills. No matter how great a person's gift in cultivation was, without the help of medicinal pills, it was impossible to cultivate to Earthly Venerable or Heavenly Venerable Rank and above. This was also why there were very few commoner disciples who suddenly emerged and most prodigies usually came from martial arts families. It was because the resources the two sides could use were different.

Since he had prepared enough materials, Ye Chen continued to refine pills. With a successful experience, the following trials grew much smoother. Ye Chen's Astral Body recorded every subtle change that had happened during the process and slowly improved through practice.

Without the guidance of a teacher, Ye Chen could only rely on the notes left behind by the owner of the armguard and use the ancient alchemy methods to refine medicinal pills. He worked extremely fast and if the refining process went smoothly, a batch of pills could be produced in about five hours.

Now that there was a certain success rate, Ye Chen placed one thousand portions of materials at once and started to refine pills. Five hours later, he had successfully refined three medicinal pills.

The success rate was three percent but the success rate for ordinary alchemy was two percent to ten percent!

However, these three pills made Ye Chen very excited because the pills that he had refined were not ordinary Chi-amassing Pills but Soul-amassing Pills as a result of abnormal changes!

The value of a Soul-amassing Pill was greater than tens of thousands of Chi-amassing Pills!

According to the records on the data, using the ancient alchemy method to refine pills, it would only be possible to get a Soul-amassing Pill after refining tens of thousands of pills. However, Ye Chen had managed to produce Soul-amassing Pills consecutively! Ye Chen tried to find out the reason. Could it be that his Astral Body caused an abnormal change in the medicinal pill?

That was only a guess that could not be verified. If Ye Chen could refine Soul-amassing Pills, he would earn a large profit. One Soul-amassing Pill was much more precious than the Earth Quintessence Pill refined by the Master Apothecary!

Ancient alchemy methods were still very mysterious. Ye Chen felt that his eyes were opened to a new world full of countless mysterious and unknowns waiting for him to explore. In contrast, ordinary alchemy was not as interesting. However, if there was an opportunity, Ye Chen still wanted to learn ordinary alchemy from the Master Apothecary Xuanyi. If he could combine the two to improve the ancient alchemy method, there may be greater development.

While Ye Chen was assiduously studying ancient alchemy, the clansmen were also busy in the valley.

Ye Moyuan took a group of young and strong clansmen to the cultivated fields outside the forest, preparing to grow food while looking after the forest.

During this period, Ye Moyuan listened to Ye Chen and did not let anyone enter the forest. The clansmen did not believe that something like Lingzhi could grow just like that but as time went on, they also became curious about the situation in the forest.

"Uncle Moyuan, it's been nearly a month. I wonder what's going on in the forest." A few younger clansmen looked curiously into the woods.

"The Chief said before that we can't go in. If you want to enter, you need to consult the Chief first," Ye Moyuan said firmly.

"But…" Although the group of youngsters was very curious, they did not enter the forest.

Looking into the forest, it was filled with fog that hindered their vision. Their line of sight was just a patch of white.

Thinking about it again, the clansmen could not help but shake their heads. How could something like Lingzhi just be grown like that?

A gust of wind blew and the air in the woods drifted along, carrying a faint aroma.

"How fragrant!"

"You're right, it smells really good!" A group of clansmen stopped what they were doing. That was not the fragrance of flowers but the medicinal aroma of a kind of physic.

White-Fungus did not give off such a strong aroma and only high-grade physics like the Blood-Fungus would. Furthermore, just one or two stalks of Blood-Fungus would not emit this level of fragrance. There had to be many! At this time, the crowd started to clamor.

"Uncle Moyuan, go and find the Chief quickly!"

"I'll get the Chief immediately!" Ye Moyuan's beard shook and he hurried over to Ye Chen's residence.

"I'll look for Granduncle and Elder Chief!" A young clansman quickly ran off.

The remaining clansmen stood outside the forest and constantly peeked into the forest.

"Guys, quick, look over there!" One of them excitedly pointed into the forest.

The other clansmen looked over following the direction he had pointed and saw a stalk of Blood-Fungus growing on a piece of wood at the edge of the forest. The Blood-Fungus was sparkling and glowed with a red luster and was about the size of Little Tanuki's ear. An average Blood-Fungus could only grow this big even after hundreds or thousands of years. According to its current color, it should have grown for more than a month.

"A Blood-Fungus. It's a Blood-Fungus!" The clansmen were excited.

"Look over there!"

"There too!"

"What kind of Lingzhi is that? It doesn't look like a White-Fungus!"

A group of clansmen walked along the edge of the forest, looking hard with their eyes wide open. They did not look carefully before so they did not find the Lingzhi. However, now that they were looking closely, they were amazed. There were so many just growing at the edge of the forest. Just what would it be like in the forest?

Smelling the faint medicinal aroma in the air, they felt like their ailments were swept away and their spirit refreshed.

Soon, a large group had gathered outside the forest.

"Granduncle is here!"

"The Elder Chief is here!"

When Ye Changxuan, Ye Zhantian, and the others arrived, the crowd was in a commotion.

"What's going on?" Ye Changxuan looked at the people.

"Granduncle, the Chief really grew Lingzhi!" the crowd spoke noisily, looking excited.

"Has Little Chen arrived?" Ye Changxuan asked. He also did not dare to enter the forest now. Ye Chen said before not to enter the forest casually. If they went in, it would be troublesome if they damaged something.

Ye Changxuan and the others looked into the forest according to the direction pointed by another clansman. He indeed saw a few Blood-Fungi as well as some unknown Lingzhi and was immediately excited. That was a Blood-Fungus. A Blood-Fungus that had only grown for two or three months could easily be exchanged for hundreds of Chi-amassing Pills, not to mention that they had so many here!

"The Chief is here!"

Everyone's eager gaze swept over and gathered on Ye Chen.