I Have the Alchemy Emperor in My Head - Chapter 1679

1679 The Zodiac Fiends
However, to make the Sky Demon Pill, there were many kinds of medicinal herbs needed. Some of them could be found in Chu Yunfan’s herb mountain, but needed to be purchased from other places, and they would not come cheap.

Fortunately, Chu Yunfan could put up the task of purchasing these herbs in the Merit Hall and get others to help him collect the herbs. Things would be much simpler this way. If Chu Yunfan had enough money, he could even put up this mission to all of Grand Xia. Just like the Lone Star mission, it would be a mission given to the various major powers. However, the amount of wealth required was enough to bankrupt Chu Yunfan overnight.

The spirit stones used in Grand Xia were no longer middle-grade spirit stones. Only ordinary itinerant cultivators who had no family would use low-grade spirit stones for cultivation. For the ten great sects, their disciples used middle-grade spirit stones for cultivation at the very least, and the exchange ratio between middle-grade spirit stones and low-grade spirit stones was at an astonishing 1:10,000.

Not many people used low-grade spirit stones as there was a considerable amount of impurities in them. Absorbing them was much more troublesome than absorbing middle-grade spirit stones. Whether it was efficiency or value, they were far inferior.
Chu Yunfan only had 10,000 middle-grade spirit stones in total. Of course, this was without counting his treasures. But even under such circumstances, he felt that his wealth was stretched thin and could not afford his secluded cultivation.

Chu Yunfan decided to take on some missions and soon chose a mission at Merit Hall.

“Take down the Zodiac Fiends who are running amok.” Chu Yunfan glanced at the mission description and found that it was just right for him.

The Zodiac Fiends were a group of bandits who ran around committing crimes in Grand Xia. They had committed numerous crimes. To avoid the pursuit of the Six Fan Academy of the Imperial Court, the Zodiac Fiends had fled to a large prefecture near the Flying Celestials.

Of course, the Zodiac Fiends didn’t dare to come to the Flying Celestial Prefecture where the Flying Celestial Sect was located. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be here to seek refuge, but to die.

The Flying Celestial Prefecture was the core of the Flying Celestial Sect, and that was how the Flying Celestial Prefecture got its name. The sect viewed this place with utmost importance and sent countless disciples to protect the prefecture. Once they discovered any bandits, they would kill them immediately. Even if the bandits were lucky enough to kill the first wave of disciples, they would immediately attract a second wave.

If the fringe disciples could not solve it, the inner disciples would take action. If the inner disciples could not solve it, the true disciples would take action. If the true disciples could not solve it, the grand elder and even the sect leader would step in.

There was no evil force that could survive in the Flying Celestial Prefecture. Therefore, they could only wander around the few prefectures near the Flying Celestial Prefecture, which had become a rare paradise. The Zodiac Fiends were one of these bandit organizations. They were named after the twelve zodiacs, but they committed heinous crimes.

It was written clearly on the recommended strength that it was best for elite disciples to take action. This mission was not recommended for inner disciples. Almost all of the Zodiac Fiends were Observers, and it was even said that the leader of the Zodiac Fiends, Dragon Fiend, had already reached the Void Interpretation Stage.

This mission was not something that ordinary inner disciples could handle. Several groups of inner disciples had tried to take down the Zodiac Fiends, but they all failed. From this, one could see how difficult this mission was.

Because of the Zodiac Fiends’ rampage, the Flying Celestials’ higher-ups were furious and intended to send a true disciple to personally eliminate the Zodiac Fiends. After all, even though it wasn’t in the Flying Celestial Prefecture, it was just around it. What was the difference between this and being in the Flying Celestial Prefecture?

Chu Yunfan accepted the mission without batting an eyelid.

As the disciple from the Merit Hall watched Chu Yunfan’s departing figure, he sighed. “Has he gone mad? He clearly shouldn’t can’t handle this mission.”

“Maybe he thinks that he’s invincible because he killed Lone Star,” someone said.

“Who cares? When he has suffered enough, he’ll know why we recommended elite disciples to take this mission.”

Chu Yunfan didn’t know what the Merit Hall disciples were saying about him. He headed straight for the Zodiac Fiends.

The Flying Celestials’ intelligence network was very powerful, and he soon found the Zodiac Fiends’ location. He soon learned why the Zodiac Fiends were able to run around and commit crimes for so long without any problems. It turned out that their base was in another dimension, and this dimension took the shape of an airship. They often hid inside the airship, and as long as they didn’t go out, very few people could find them.

In addition, the Zodiac Fiends understood that there were countless experts in the world, so they never attacked the real experts, only ordinary civilians. However, it was precisely because of this that Grand Xia was truly enraged. This was because the foundation of Grand Xia was these commoners. No one knew if there was an unprecedented genius hidden among these dead commoners. To Grand Xia, the slaughter of civilians was more infuriating than the fights between ordinary martial artists. Therefore, when they encountered such a situation, the perpetrators would all be killed without mercy.

Although the Zodiac Fiends hid very well, they could not hide from Chu Yunfan. In an instant, he found many of the key points to enter the array. Soon, he entered the airship. What he saw next made him explode with anger.

On this airship, one could see beautiful girls lying naked in a pool of blood everywhere. The Zodiac Fiends had captured these girls for their yin energy to nourish their yang energy. They sucked these girls to death, turning them into dried corpses. Under such circumstances, their cultivation progressed rapidly. These people looked strangely shaped and very strange.

Chu Yunfan looked around and saw at least a thousand beautiful virgins being sucked to death.

“You’re courting death!” Chu Yunfan said coldly.

“Who is it?”

Chu Yunfan’s sudden appearance finally caught the attention of the Zodiac Fiends.