The elixirs in the world of cultivation are more powerful than those on Earth, but they come at a price.

The first thing to do is to collect spiritual herbs, beast blood, beast pills and other materials that gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The second thing to do is to have an alchemist.

Medicinal materials are rare, and alchemists are even rarer.

The alchemy process is extremely complicated and requires understanding, patience, and talent. Therefore, an alchemist must be a fire cultivator, but a fire cultivator may not necessarily be able to become an alchemist.

Gu Fan's spiritual roots are poor, but she has some talent in alchemy, so she can live a stable life in the outer sect with her alchemy skills. The senior cultivators look down on her, but those outer disciples who have been stuck in the Qi Refining stage for many years look up to her, and some even want to pursue her as a Taoist partner.

Talent is talent, but due to the limitation of Gu Fan's cultivation level, her efficiency in alchemy was not very good. After sitting cross-legged in the alchemy room for an entire afternoon, her spiritual power was finally exhausted, and she only managed to refine two furnaces of ten flesh-growing and blood-replenishing pills.

The red pill is as red as blood, with a faint glow flowing on its surface, which is very beautiful.

Without considering making money or anything like that, Gu Fan likes to refine flesh-growing and blood-replenishing pills the most, because these are the highest-level pills she can refine. The refining process and results make her feel particularly accomplished. For things like hair-growing pills and scar-removing pills, Gu Fan would only start refining them purely to earn merit points on Earth.

After putting away the pills, Gu Fan contacted Fenghuo while walking towards the bedroom.

Fenghuo: "Has Fanfan come out of seclusion?"

Fenghuo's handsome and frivolous face automatically appeared in his mind. Gu Fan smiled and said, "Well, I came out of seclusion and refined two furnaces of hair growth pills. I'm just too lazy to move. I happen to have some food here, so I won't go over tonight. You don't have to wait for me."

Fenghuo: "Okay, have a good rest and see you tomorrow morning."

Gu Fan entered the bedroom. Her empty dantian urged her to practice quickly like a hungry stomach. Gu Fan did not delay. She pulled the curtains and sat on the yoga mat to practice.

The five elements of spiritual power surged towards her. The woman in the darkness looked peaceful, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.

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The next day, Professor Ma personally brought people to build an artificial "snow mountain" for Gu Fan.

Professor Ma, surrounded by green mountains and clear waters, has thick and lush black hair, looks ten years younger, and has a bright and sincere smile on his face.

"Xiao Fan, where do you want to build the snow mountain?"

Look, even the name has changed.

Gu Fan then changed his name to "Uncle Ma".

Gu Fan had chosen the location long ago. There was a hillside behind her villa.

The renovation process was quite complicated, so the construction team was busy. Gu Fan invited Professor Ma to the living room to talk.

Not long after, the surveillance installation team contacted by Menglianying and Fenghuo also arrived, and Gu Fan went over there to take a look again.

Apart from dealing with these trivial matters, Gu Fan spends the rest of his time either refining pills or practicing, and even Xinghe and the others rarely see him.

Finally, on the evening of July 14th, Gu Fan came to Villa No. 2 for dinner. She would set off for An City with Lu's army the next day, and she had to understand the situation.

"Fanfan, besides alchemy, do you have no other interests?" Meng Lianying looked confused as to what Gu Fan was doing. "I seriously doubt you would have come to see us tonight if we weren't leaving tomorrow."

Gu Fan: ...

Fenghuo walked out of the kitchen carrying two dishes and posed a question: "You refine pills to make money, but you're not short of merit points right now, are you? Why are you working so hard? If I were you, after wandering around for so long, I would definitely visit all the fun places in the base first after arriving."

Although Xinghe, Qingteng and Taishan did not say anything, their eyes expressed the same meaning.

Gu Fan had no choice but to explain: "In fact, in addition to refining pills, I am also practicing the use of supernatural powers in preparation for this trip."

Fenghuo smiled, revealing his white teeth: "Practicing superpowers, that's easy. Next time we'll practice with you, it'll be much faster than if you practice alone."

Gu Fan's mind moved. Yes, fighting consumes more spiritual energy than refining pills, and it can also improve combat skills. Why didn't she think of it before?

However, when she was in the sect, she was protected by the sect's rules and was safe. Now that she has come to the unfamiliar Earth, the sense of crisis forces her to make progress.

"Okay, I'll spar with you guys when we get back from An City."

Fenghuo smiled maliciously: "Don't worry, I will know how to handle it."

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It was still dawn when Gu Fan set out with the Xinghe team and headed outside the base to meet up with the Lu family army.

Gu Fan learned from Fenghuo and the others that there are now three bases in China. When the chaos of the end of the world passed and stable order was restored within the three bases, the strong men from the three bases held a joint meeting and decided to use the three bases as the center and have the armies of each base gradually clear out the monsters on the surrounding continents.

This is a long task, but it is also the only way for humans to regain their freedom. Otherwise, if they hide in the base, humans will sooner or later perish because their reproduction and growth rate lags far behind the monsters.

The clearance plan has been formulated for twenty years, and each base has been steadily implementing it according to the plan, and has achieved initial results.

Just talking about the Jiangnan base, the four armies will take turns to go out on missions twice a year. Each time, one army will send out half of its troops, and leave half of its troops to guard the base with the other three, combining offense and defense and taking turns to gain experience.

Outside the base, 120,000 Lu family soldiers have gathered, and the mercenaries who arrive one after another will be recruited according to their ability levels and attributes and accept the command of the army.

As soon as Gu Fan left the base, he was shocked by the huge crowd outside.

Not to mention the 120,000 well-trained and neatly uniformed soldiers, there are probably tens of thousands of mercenaries with special abilities.

Gu Fan asked Xinghe: "Why are there so many mercenaries?"

The mercenaries she understood were equivalent to the independent cultivators in the mainland of cultivation. They were more dedicated to their own cultivation than the disciples of the sects, did not like to be bound by the sect rules, and did not care much about the life and death of others.

Xinghe said, "First, following the army to kill monsters is much safer. Second, the merit points for accompanying the army on missions are doubled. Third, mercenaries also have their own families. The safety of the base is the safety of their families. Maintaining the base and expanding the scope of human activities is in the fundamental interests of everyone."

Of course, there are mercenaries who don't care about the base or don't want to take on such missions, but they are only a minority.

Most people have a blood feud with monsters.

It has only been fifty years since the end of the world, and the old people who survived in the base still remember those dark and terrifying years vividly. They tell their children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren about the happy and comfortable life in the free era, the terror of hiding from monsters when disasters struck, and the grief of losing their loved ones. Who can forget the panic and helplessness of becoming prey, and who does not yearn to return to freedom?

Whether ordinary people or those with special abilities, they all support and are willing to cooperate with the clearance plan of the three major bases.

Only when the monsters are confined to a certain range or even become extinct can humans escape from the huge cage of the base.

Gu Fan looked at the mercenaries outside the window who were cooperating with the army to disperse and form new teams, and didn't know what to feel.

The car stopped, Taishan put away the SUV, and the five people also lined up in the mercenary team.

The military personnel in charge of the organization held a tablet in their hands. The allocation of the mercenaries had already been arranged in advance. They just reported their names and went directly to the corresponding vehicles.

The five people in Xinghe are all A-level psychics, and they work together tacitly. The five of them form a vanguard team separately, and the army provides chariots.

Just as Lu Ya had promised, Gu Fan formed a rear medical team numbered "0186" with thirty-five C-level wood mercenaries.

The thirty-six of them boarded a white military truck, with a driver who was an A-level attack psychic and a co-driver who was an A-level defense psychic. In addition to the rear guard, these two people would specifically protect the safety of Gu Fan and the other thirty-six people.

Gu Fan felt the layers of order in the army, which was much stricter than the sect management.

After everyone was assembled, the army set off.

The medical team's location is in the middle of the army, which is the safest.

Gu Fan looked out the window and suddenly felt a little confident about the safety of this trip.

"Gu Fan, your name is Gu Fan, right?" A female mercenary in her thirties suddenly called her.

Gu Fan nodded.

The female mercenary smiled and chatted with her kindly: "Judging from your age, you must have just reached adulthood. Are your family members worried about you going out on missions at such a young age?"

Gu Fan said calmly, "My grandfather said that the younger you are, the more experience you need. Besides, we are the rear medical team, so we are the safest in the entire army."

Female mercenary: "Well, that's true. Every army attaches great importance to the protection of medical personnel."

If the attacking soldiers are fighting for their lives, then the medical staff are saving lives.

"I heard that the death rate of the Lu family army has always been below 1%, so it's even less likely for us to die."

Gu Fan was shocked. With an army of 120,000 to 130,000 soldiers facing so many monsters, the death toll in each expedition was no more than 1,500?

The other people in the car saw that Gu Fan was a complete newcomer, so they started to introduce to her the base army's combat methods.

First, the strong men of the army will rush to the battlefield in advance and install city-level protective shield devices around the battlefield. Once activated, monsters of other levels, except for S-level monsters, will be restricted inside and outside the isolation circle. Those outside cannot get in, and those inside cannot get out. They can only wait to be wiped out by the army.

The most critical part of the clearing plan is the setting up of a protective shield. Otherwise, when the army arrives, the monsters will run away, and all the efforts will be in vain.

The protective shield is also the most effective self-protection technology developed by humans after the end of the world. The three major bases all use protective shields to protect the bases, but the protective shields require a continuous supply of electricity. There is electricity in the base, and this external protective shield can only use a temporary generator for seven days.

In other words, the army only has seven days to clear any city. If the target monsters escape in large numbers, the mission will be considered a failure.

Gu Fan's heart was filled with emotion when he heard this. The function of the protective shield was no less than that of the sect's mountain protection formation. The people on Earth were truly powerful.

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Previously, it only took Gu Fan five days to reach Anshi with Lu Ya and Xinghe team. This time, the army set out at a slower speed, and on the ninth day, the army finally arrived outside the scope of Anshi.

The protective shield has an isolation area of ​​15,000 square kilometers. Lu Ya had already installed and started it in advance. After the army arrived at the deployed positions, Lu Ya temporarily cut off the power for ten minutes. After all the troops entered the protective shield, he immediately restored the power.

In this cleanup, monsters have the advantage in numbers, but humans have detection technology and thermal weapons.

The A-level vanguard army set out first with detection equipment to clear out the A-level monsters along the way.

The second wave of B-level superpower army sets off.

The largest number of C-level superpower troops are responsible for clearing out a large number of C-level monsters.

Gu Fan stayed in the medical team at the rear, and could only hear the sounds of artillery and gunfire in the distance, accompanied by the roars of beasts.

Soon, the first wave of wounded were sent over.