Dragon King Hall's Legend

"No way? Is the Dragon King Hall preparing to leave?"

Everyone carefully pondered the deeper meaning behind Xia Ruochen's last few words, unable to suppress a shiver, they asked in a panicked tone.

"Haven't you noticed it yet?"

Xia Ruochen looked at the ignorant subordinates below the stage, his face somewhat unsightly, impatiently said: "Not long after the Dragon King's proposal to the Elders for the nationwide martial arts plan, he left Huaxia for Kunlun Ruins. A year later, he returned to further perfect the nationwide martial arts plan."

"During this period, the incidents of ferocious beasts rampaging have always been handled by the Dragon King Hall. We have been comprehensively implementing the nationwide martial arts scheme behind the scenes, expanding our influence and prestige. You could say we've always been enjoying the benefits while they, the Dragon King Hall, have been bearing the responsibilities."

"And when the Dragon King returned from Kunlun Ruins and discovered some shortcomings in our Great Xia Dragon Sparrow, such as the inability to self-sustain with elixirs and flaws in the nationwide martial arts, he was conducting improvements. However, he did not plan to implement it himself, instead handing it over to us again for execution..."

"They've always been uncompetitive, quietly shouldering their responsibilities, yet allowing us the benefits. Are they really foolish?"

"No!" Xia Ruochen's voice suddenly rose a few degrees, "They are not foolish. Instead, they have thoroughly prepared to gradually transfer the Dragon King Hall's power and responsibilities to us, the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow. Once we can stand on our own, he intends to lead the Dragon King Hall away from Huaxia to Kunlun Ruins!"

After listening to Xia Ruochen's words, everyone thought carefully, and their faces immediately turned even paler.

"So, since we can't retain the Dragon King Hall, we shouldn't continue to confront them with hostility. Instead, we should foster good relations, gain more benefits from them, and lessen the pressure when they leave."

"Otherwise, if right now we irritate the Dragon King Hall enough to make them walk away, can we, the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow, truly bear the heavy burden of defending Huaxia?"

Everyone was silent, no one dared to speak.

Yet in their hearts, they all thought, if the Dragon King Hall were to leave Huaxia now, many rebellious ferocious beasts still occupy its famous mountains. If they go berserk, Great Xia Dragon Sparrow at the Divinity Transformation Realm without the Fanxu Realm might not be able to withstand it.

At that time, all the good reputation currently enjoyed by the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow would provoke a more violent backlash, pointed at by thousands, leaving a notorious legacy.

Xia Ruochen looked at his subordinates with pale faces, not daring to speak anymore, and his expression slightly softened.

"Alright, enough of these bothersome matters. For now, our task is to cooperate with the Dragon King to perfect the nationwide martial arts plan, build good relations with them, and seize more benefits from it. I have just instructed all of our Great Xia Dragon Sparrow's talents with Fire Spirit Root to go to Yinlong Mountain to learn alchemy from the Dragon King!"

"Old Dong, what you need to do now is..."

Speaking, Xia Ruochen turned to a middle-aged man who appeared to be in his late forties or fifties, directing: "To supply the Essence Qi Pill for the entire nation, the Dragon King says we need at least a thousand cultivators with Wood Spirit Root, but so far our Great Xia Dragon Sparrow has recruited only over 700 such cultivators. It's insufficient; you need to find another 300 with Wood Spirit Root..."

Pausing for a moment, he added, "Of course, we can lower the moral character requirements slightly, but absolutely no one unqualified!"

"Also, we are now preparing for battle, heading to Qinling to capture this Dragon Vein Land as our Great Xia Dragon Sparrow stronghold, completing the task given by the Dragon King Hall!"

"..."

"Alright!"

"Understood, I'll get right on it!"

Listening to Xia Ruochen's instructions, everyone stood up with a mix of tension and excitement, starting to take action separately.

...

Yinlong Mountain.

At this moment, Mu Jinyu was unaware of Xia Ruochen's meeting with the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow and also perceived the preparation for their Dragon King Hall's departure.

Even if he knew, he wouldn't care much.

After all, he never intended to keep it a secret from them.

After over a day of attempts.

Mu Jinyu finally succeeded in crafting a pill furnace capable of independently refining Essence Qi Pills.

"Whoosh, whoosh!"

Mu Jinyu tossed a dozen spiritual medicines into the pill furnace, then closely observed the furnace's condition again.

Soon, the spiritual medicines entered the pill furnace, the lid closed, and the furnace began to draw the earth vein fire and started refining the medicinal liquid independently, with little loss of medicinal efficacy during the process.

Then, the medicinal liquid began to fuse together perfectly in sequence, without any premature combining of substances that could cause incidents.

Finally, the medicinal liquid solidified into a mass, further fused by the furnace's heat.

"Bang!!"

The pill furnace ceased absorbing the earth vein fire, halting the alchemy process, then the lid opened, revealing five Essence Qi Pills inside.

"Hmm... not bad... five pills formed, all of fair quality, adequate for use."

Mu Jinyu examined the five Essence Qi Pills within the furnace, noting each had only two Danwen, marking them as fair-quality elixirs, and nodded slightly, fairly satisfied with the result.

After all, these elixirs weren't crafted by human hands but were independently refined by the pill furnace using restrictions and formations, making the quality understandably a bit lacking, yet still acceptable.

Moreover, past elixirs, even those in Kunlun Ruins, mostly bore one or two Danwen, and people used them adequately. Now, although he had raised the quality, for something serving nationwide, there was little room for criticism.

After a day of work finally producing this pill furnace, Mu Jinyu stood and stretched lazily, taking no more rest but directly pulled countless mineral materials out of his storage bag and began crafting more pill furnaces and engraving restrictions.

"Bang!"

"Boom!"

"Boom boom!"

Minutes later, Mu Jinyu produced another pill furnace.

He became increasingly proficient, speeding up the creation process to about one pill furnace per minute.

A day later.

Mu Jinyu completed more than 1,500 pill furnaces.

"Hoo... exhausted, is a thousand pill furnaces enough now?!"

Mu Jinyu stopped crafting pill furnaces, stood up, stretched his back, and exhaled lightly.

Subsequently, he began calculating the productive yield of these furnaces within a day.

"Essence Qi Pills are relatively simple first-grade elixirs. Since the process is fully automated by the pill furnace, one batch takes about ten minutes, yielding roughly five pills per batch, that's five pills every ten minutes, thirty per hour, seven hundred twenty per day..."

"With a total of one and a half thousand furnaces running at full load, about one million and eighty thousand Essence Qi Pills can be produced per day..."

"A daily output of one million Essence Qi Pills might be a drop in the ocean for billions of people..."

Mu Jinyu said, frowning slightly, feeling he might need several more days of crafting pill furnaces truly to meet the demand. Yet, he felt too fatigued, muttering :

"But then, not all people need to consume Essence Qi Pills every day. Plus, once Great Xia Dragon Sparrow's alchemists are adequately trained, there will be mass production of Essence Qi Pills..."

After contemplating, Mu Jinyu ultimately admitted, with a sigh: "Alright, honestly, I'm just tired, wanting a break..."

"Well, since we haven't gathered enough Wood Spirit Root cultivators, and the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow has yet to capture Qinling, let's take a few days off before returning to work..."

Mu Jinyu stretched lazily and slipped out of the Inner Valley.