Immortal Palace Longevity

The alchemy book Li Changkong handed to Liu Yu was about two inches thick and had a yellowish surface. It looked extremely old.

"Book of Herbal Pills"

Four large characters scrawled casually were written on the surface of the alchemy book.

Looking at the first page, there is a long row of catalogs, with the words Jie Jin Dan Fang clearly written at the top.

"Five Elements Spirit Fruit", "Hunyuan Fruit" and "Purple Nether Root"

Liu Yu opened her eyes wide, quickly turned to the corresponding page according to the catalog, and browsed the prescription with some excitement.

It takes no effort to get there even if you wear iron shoes.

After the foundation was established, he had been paying attention to the news about the Jin-Jin elixir prescription, but there was not much progress. He only knew that the high-level officials of the sect's Sutra-Tibetan Pavilion must exist.

I never thought it would be so easy to get it now.

Sure enough, there are some things that are extremely difficult for low-level monks to obtain, but are easy for high-level monks to obtain. This is true for the Foundation Establishment Pill, and the same is true for the Gold Formation Pill.

Liu Yu quickly memorized the prescription in his mind and sighed slightly.

Then he flipped through the book of Baicao Dan.

"Observations on the habits of Sanyuan fruit, as well as conjectures and experiments on planting."

"Changes in the medicinal properties of Centella chinensis and red blood ginseng, and experiments on their mutual combination."

"Red blood participates in the medicinal properties and changes of Ice Crystal Lotus, and the preparation test of different proportions of the two."

"The changes in the medicinal properties of Requiem Grass and Purple Heart Snow Lotus, and the feasibility of using them as main and auxiliary drugs."

"Conjectures on the effectiveness of the soul-cleansing pill, and conjectures on how to perfect the pill recipe in the future."

The Book of Baicao Alchemy records the detailed medicinal properties of dozens of second-level spiritual herbs, as well as the changes in their combinations, as well as several complete second-level elixir recipes, including Jinjie Dan.

The content of this alchemy book is very different from the content of the Qingzhu Alchemy Sutra.

Putting aside the alchemy recipe, the latter includes alchemy techniques, experience in alchemy, and difficulties that may be encountered during the alchemy process, etc., and belongs to the inheritance of alchemy.

The former is more similar to an experiment manual. Except for several kinds of elixir recipes, there are few records of alchemy techniques and experiences. Some are just data records of the changes in medicinal properties of various spiritual herbs.

Liu Yu was moved when she saw this, and couldn't help but respect him.

It can be seen that the monks who wrote the Baicao Alchemy Book want to innovate and create new elixir recipes from scratch. Compared with the vast majority of monks who are dedicated to improving the art of alchemy, their ambitions are not unreasonable.

Every pill formula in the world of cultivating immortals, even the first-level low-grade pill formula that is only effective for monks in the early stage of Qi refining, is the result of countless experiments, and even requires a fleeting flash of inspiration before it can finally be perfected and matured.

And the monk who wrote this elixir book actually wanted to create a new elixir recipe on his own.

I really don’t know if he is a genius in alchemy? Or an arrogant lunatic?

But no matter what, this spirit is still worthy of admiration. After all, this monk is not just a fantasy, but a rigorous and determined action.

Or maybe it is precisely because of the existence of "geniuses" and "madmen" who like the essence of things that the world of immortality can develop to this point?

Liu Yu sat upright in awe, and then continued to read.

"Alas, Haoshou has been struggling for hundreds and dozens of years, and has been building the foundation for 180 years, but the soul-purifying elixir has not been completed after all!"

"My life is about to end and my great achievements have not been completed. I will always hate him in heaven and on earth~"

"So I left a book of alchemy to pass on to future generations."

"If those who come after you have the same ambition, you can continue to deduce the unfinished business of the soul-purifying pill."

"On the day the elixir recipe is completed, please burn a copy and inform my deceased soul."

"I have wasted a hundred years, addicted to alchemy, and have not yet achieved the immortal path. Even if I die, I will have no regrets."

At the end of the elixir book, there is a half-deduced recipe for a soul-cleansing elixir. The author also wrote a few lines of scrawled handwriting, signed Baicao Zhenxiu.

Zhenxiu is the honorific title of the Foundation Establishment monks. In ancient times, the Foundation Establishment monks were called Zhenxiu, the Golden Elixir monks were called Zhenren, and the Nascent Soul monks were called Zhenjun. But nowadays, foundation-building monks rarely use this honorific title.

According to Baicao Zhenxiu's idea, the soul-purifying pill should be able to remove impurities in the soul and enhance the "essence" of the soul. However, he spent all the time after building the foundation, and the prescription was still mediocre.

It has been passed down from ancient times to this day, and it is still not perfect.

After reading the Baicao Dan book roughly, for some reason, Liu Yu suddenly felt a little shocked.

But I admire him, he knows his abilities and abilities, and he has no idea of ​​perfecting the recipe at this time.

What's more, for him, learning alchemy is only to improve his cultivation and strength, rather than truly adhering to the alchemy itself. It is absolutely impossible to waste too much time because of uncertain things.

Put the Baicao Dan book into the storage bag.

Liu Yu sat there in silence for a long time.

Then he sent out a few transmission notes and asked Jiang Qiushui and several of his subordinates to collect the spiritual herbs needed to refine the golden elixir.

Although the spiritual grass used to refine the golden elixir is very rare and hard to find.

But now Liu Yu's level has improved a lot, and the manpower and material resources that can be used are no longer the same as those during the Qi refining period. And with the large platform of Yuanyang Sect, there is always some hope that at least some of them can be collected.

Thinking that what he did during the apprenticeship ceremony was not inappropriate, Liu Yu got up and went to the practice room to start daily practice.

With the help of the Nourishing Pill, the practice of the Shen Shen Mystic Method is now relatively smooth. In addition, Liu Yu has always adopted a cautious and conservative strategy in the cultivation of Yuan Shen, so there were no problems.

With the nourishment of the Spirit-Nursing Pill and the tempering of the Divine Preservation Magic, the current range of spiritual consciousness has been increased from seven miles to seven and a half miles, and continues to increase at a stable speed.

As the cultivation level increases, the advantages of some cultivators' innate strong consciousness will gradually be eliminated, but Liu Yu has improved in both elixirs and skills, and this advantage will continue.

Use it as a trump card to give the opponent a big "surprise" at a critical moment.

At present, the cultivation level has reached the peak of the initial stage of foundation building. Because of the magic fire refining, a part of the mana cultivation has been lost, but it will not take long to cultivate it back.

Perhaps because of the magic fire refining, the mana is much purer than other cultivators, Liu Yu feels that the barrier between the initial stage of foundation building and the middle stage of foundation building is not solid.

Even if he does not take elixirs, he is confident that he can break through it in one or two years.

After taking a Qingyuan Pill, Liu Yu, who was practicing and refining, had this thought.

…

One year later, in the cave house of Cailian Mountain, the practice room.

Insert a bunch of "calming incense" worth 100 spirit stones into the incense burner, and a wisp of foundation building true fire pops out from the fingertips to ignite it.

After burning incense and bathing, Liu Yu sat down on the futon, closed his black and white eyes, and began to adjust his state.

A year passed, and part of the mana that was lost due to the magic fire refining has been completely cultivated back, and it is more pure and has reached the most perfect state.

This sitting lasted for three days and nights.

It was not until the early morning of three days later that a red glow shot out from the east mountain, and the figure who had been sitting for a long time began to move.

After adjusting his essence, qi, and spirit to the current relatively perfect state, Liu Yu suddenly opened his eyes, and there seemed to be a gleam of light in his eyes.

Then without hesitation, he picked up the jade bottle containing the Red Flame Pill in front of him, poured out the pill, and raised his head to swallow it.

Although even if he did not take the pill, he could break through this obstacle within one or two years with his own pure mana and solid foundation of cultivation, but Liu Yu did not lack spirit stones, and was willing to use spirit stones to reduce this grinding work.

For him, spirit stones are just external objects after all. If they are not used to improve cultivation, then there is no point even if there are more.

It is totally worthwhile to spend a few spirit stones and reduce one or two years of ink painting. With the immortal mansion ripening the spirit herbs, the spirit stones can be earned back quickly by refining and selling the pills.

Although the breakthrough pills that break through the bottleneck are precious, they are not to the point where spirit stones cannot be purchased, so there is no regret in using them.

After the Red Flame Pill entered his stomach, Liu Yu did not rush to refine the medicinal power, but first mobilized his whole body's magic power to attack the invisible shackles that blocked the improvement of his cultivation.

The Hidden Spirit Technique stopped working, and the whole body's spiritual pressure was released without reservation. In terms of strength, it was no less than that of an ordinary mid-stage foundation-building cultivator.

"Ding Ding Dang Dang"

An invisible wave swept across the room, and many utensils trembled and made various noises. With Liu Yu as the center, the dust on the ground spread and drifted around under the invisible force.

Only the curling smoke from the burning incense was not affected.

Liu Yu's mind sank into his body, controlling the active liquid mana from Dantian to the eight extraordinary meridians, and running the fourth level of Qingyang Gong's Great Zhoutian cycle.

The liquid mana traveled through the meridians, at first at a relatively slow speed. But after a Great Zhoutian was completed, the speed increased in vain, and it became faster and faster. It was not until it reached three times the initial speed that it stabilized and stopped increasing in speed.

A thin sweat appeared on Liu Yu's forehead.

The fast-moving liquid mana brought a great burden to the meridians and the body, but his body was strengthened by the dragon blood fruit and was already 10% or 20% stronger than that of ordinary foundation-building cultivators, so it was still within the range that could be tolerated.

If it were an ordinary foundation-building cultivator, the mana speed during the breakthrough would never dare to easily increase to three times the speed, otherwise the meridians would be damaged, resulting in the failure of the breakthrough.

The mana of ordinary foundation-building cultivators is not pure enough, and it is difficult to increase to three times the speed. Generally speaking, two times is the limit.

If the obstacles between realms are likened to a dam, then the cultivation of mana is the water flow. Only by breaking through the dam can the water flow flow to the next place. The faster the mana runs, the stronger the impact of the water flow, and naturally the easier it is to break through the dam.

About an hour later, the thirty-six large Zhoutian cycles that usually take three hours to complete have been completed, but the mana has not increased at all.

Because Liu Yu has reached the limit of the initial foundation building in terms of both mana and cultivation, and there is no more to increase. Just like a small water bottle, it is already filled with clear water and covered with a bottle cap.

Only by breaking through the obstacles and expanding the volume of the container can more water flow be released.

After the thirty-six large Zhoutian cycles were completed, Liu Yu launched an attack on the invisible obstacles!

The mana began to run along the middle stage of the fifth level of Qingyang Gong, but after running for a distance, the speed dropped sharply, much slower than the initial speed, and continued to slow down, and in the end it was almost stopped.

It was as if an invisible force was exerted on the new meridians, making it extremely difficult for the mana to move forward. As time went by, it seemed that the "power" was insufficient and was about to stop.

It's time!

Liu Yu thought and immediately began to refine the power of the Red Flame Pill.

In his abdomen, the vermilion Red Flame Pill began to "lose" in circles, and was refined into a domineering and special medicinal power, like a group of rolling red smoke, with a tendency to spread to the internal organs.

Liu Yu did not dare to be careless and gathered his mind. He controlled the mana to carry the Red Flame Pill's medicinal power and circulated it along the fifth level of the Qingyang Gong meridians.

This "red smoke" seems to have a miraculous effect on the invisible obstacles to the operation of mana. The liquid mana carries it, and the obstacles to progress seem to be eliminated, and the operation becomes smooth.

The time of the breakthrough passed very slowly. After more than half a quarter of an hour, Liu Yu's forehead was sweating more and more, and the meridians of the fifth layer of Qingyang Gong were also more than half open.

But at this critical moment, the "red smoke" became scarcer and scarcer, and it was about to be exhausted, and fell into a stalemate.

At this time, the most essential part of the Red Flame Pill was refined and turned into an orange-red smoke. This "smoke" was very gentle and quiet, exuding a slightly warm and soft fire attribute.

"Is this the special fire spiritual power in the Red Flame Pill?"

Liu Yu flashed this thought, and then controlled this fire spiritual power to join the breakthrough.

The effect of this soft fire spiritual power is really extraordinary. It is unobstructed wherever it passes, and it easily eliminates invisible obstacles. The liquid followed and circulated in the meridians of the fifth layer of Qingyang Gong.

"Boom"

As if there was a soundless crisp sound, the obstacles in the early and middle stages of foundation building disappeared.

Half a quarter of an hour later, before the special fire spirit power dissipated, Liu Yu encouraged the mana here to speed up the operation, and finally completed a large Zhoutian cycle of the fifth level of Qingyang Gong.

If it fails this time, then the Red Flame Pill will be wasted, and the next breakthrough will have to start again. Fortunately, that didn't happen.

After the invisible obstacles disappeared, Liu Yu's spiritual pressure, which was not inferior to that of the general middle stage of foundation building, rose again. The dantian also expanded to accommodate more mana.

Opening his eyes, Liu Yu quickly picked up a jade bottle in front of him, opened the bottle stopper, poured out a pill and swallowed it, then closed his eyes and began to refine it.

After reaching the middle stage of foundation building, the effect of Qingyuan Pill was much weaker, but the Yangyuan Pill taken in the middle stage of foundation building could already be refined, and it was just right for seamless connection at this time.

The pill entered the stomach and was quickly refined into pure spiritual energy. With each cycle, it was transformed into mana, and then tempered by the Qingyang Demon Fire, and finally returned to the "lake" in the dantian.

After the first cycle was completed, the obstacles had completely disappeared, so the operation of the technique returned to normal speed.

"Huhuhu~"

Three hours later, Liu Yu's face was full of green light and then disappeared in an instant, and then he opened his eyes.

"Middle stage of foundation building!"

Liu Yu smiled, and then carefully experienced the changes after the breakthrough.

Five miles, six miles, eight miles..., the consciousness spread in all directions, and it did not stop until it reached nine miles.

The entire Cailian Mountain, and every blade of grass and tree within nine miles of it, were all clearly visible in his consciousness, just like the clear lines on the palm.

This range is close to the peak of the foundation building of ordinary cultivators.