Pursuing Longevity With an Immortal Mansion

Chapter 266: The middle stage of foundation building (two chapters in one)

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.

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

"Five Elements Spiritual 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 establishing the foundation, he had been paying attention to the news about the Jin Jing Dan recipe, but there was not much progress. I only know that this elixir must exist among the high-level officials of the Zongmen Sutra Pavilion.

Now, it is so easy to get it.

Sure enough, some treasures are extremely difficult for low-level monks, but they are easy for high-level monks to obtain. This is true for the Foundation Building Pill, and the same is true for the Gold Forming 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, and planting conjectures and experiments."

"Changes in the medicinal properties of Centella chinensis mixed with red blood ginseng, and preparation experiments."

"Changes in medicinal properties of red blood ginseng mixed with ice crystal lotus, preparation test of different proportions of the two."

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

"Speculations on the effectiveness of the Soul Cleansing Pill, and the guessed direction for the subsequent improvement of the pill recipe."

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 Jiejin 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 content includes alchemy techniques, alchemy experience, and possible difficulties encountered during the alchemy process, etc., which belongs to the alchemy inheritance.

The former is more similar to an experimental manual. Except for several alchemy recipes, there are few descriptions of alchemy techniques and experiences. They are basically data records of changes in medicinal properties among various spiritual herbs.

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

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

But 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 innovation and intensive research that the world of immortality can develop to this point?

Liu Yu sat upright in awe and continued to read.

"What a shame, Hao Shou has been trying for hundreds and dozens of years, but he still hasn't been able to achieve the soul-purifying elixir!"

"My life is about to end, and my wishes have not been fulfilled. I will always regret it in heaven and on earth~"

"I couldn't bear to have my whole life's work buried with my broken body, so I left a book of elixirs to pass on to future generations."

"If anyone who comes after you has the same ambition, I hope to continue to deduce the unfinished parts of Soul Cleansing Pill."

"On the day when the elixir recipe is completed, please burn a copy in front of the locust tree as a memorial to my departed soul."

"I have wasted a hundred years, addicted to alchemy, and have not yet achieved immortality. 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 wrote a few lines of scrawled handwriting, and the signature was Baicao Zhenxiu.

Zhenxiu is the honorific title of the foundation-building monk.

In ancient times, Foundation Establishment monks were usually called Zhenxiu, Jindan monks were called Zhenren, and 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. But he spent all the time after building the foundation, and still only half of the formula was deduced.

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 admiration comes from admiration. 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 to truly adhere 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 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 available are no longer the same as those during the Qi refining period. And relying on the big platform of Yuanyang Sect, there is always some hope in collecting them.

At least some of them can be collected.

Thinking about what he did during the apprenticeship ceremony, there was nothing too wrong in the end. Liu Yu got up and went to the practice room to start daily practice.

With the help of the Yangshen Pill, the practice of the Shen Shen Mystic Technique 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 scope of the consciousness has been increased from seven miles to seven and a half miles, and continues to increase at a stable speed.

As their cultivation improves, the advantage of some monks who have strong innate spiritual consciousness will gradually be erased, but Liu Yu has improved in both elixirs and techniques, and this advantage will always be maintained.

Use it as a trump card to give your opponent a big "surprise" at critical moments.

At present, the cultivation level has reached the peak of the early stage of foundation building. Due to the magic fire refining, part of the mana cultivation level has been lost, but it will not take long for him to practice again.

Perhaps because of the three times of magic fire refining, Liu Yu felt that the barrier between the early stage of foundation building and the middle stage of foundation building was not strong.

Even if you don’t take the pill, you are confident that you will be able to break through in one or two years.

After taking a Qing Yuan Pill, Liu Yu, who was refining his skills, suddenly had this thought.

…

One year later, there was a training room in Cailian Mountain Cave Mansion.

Insert a bunch of "calming incense" containing one hundred spiritual stones into the incense burner, pop out a wisp of foundation-building true fire from your fingertips and light it.

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

A year has passed, and part of the mana cultivation that was lost due to the demonic fire refining has been completely cultivated back, and it is purer and has reached the most perfect state at present.

This sitting lasted three days and nights.

It wasn't until the early morning three days later that a piece of red cloud shot out from Dongshan, and the figure who had been sitting quietly for a long time did not move.

After adjusting his essence, energy, and spirit to their current relatively perfect state, Liu Yu suddenly opened his eyes, as if there was divine light flowing in them.

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

Although even without taking elixirs, relying on his pure magic power and solid cultivation foundation, he can break through this obstacle within a year or two, Liu Yu does not lack spiritual stones and is willing to use spiritual stones to reduce this grinding time.

To him, spiritual stones are just external objects after all. If they are not used to improve his cultivation, then there is no point in having more of them.

It's totally worth spending a few spiritual stones and minus a year or two of ink painting skills. There is an immortal mansion to ripen the spiritual grass, refine the elixir and sell the spiritual stone, and you can earn back it quickly.

Although the realm-breaking elixir to break through the bottleneck is precious, it is not so expensive that spiritual stones cannot be purchased, so it is not painful to use it.

With the Red Flame Pill in his stomach, Liu Yu was not in a hurry to refine the medicine, but instead first mobilized his whole body's magic power to attack the invisible shackles that blocked his improvement.

The hidden spirit technique stopped operating, and the spiritual pressure from the whole body was released without reservation.

In terms of strength, it is not inferior to ordinary monks in the middle stage of foundation building!

"Ding Ding Dang Dang"

An invisible ripple swept across the room, as if a strong wind had passed through it, causing many appliances to tremble and make various sounds.

With Liu Yu as the center, the dust on the ground spread and dispersed in all directions under the invisible force.

Only the smoke from the burning incense was unaffected.

Liu Yu's mind sank into his body, and he controlled the activated liquid mana to start from his Dantian and go to the eight extraordinary meridians, running the great circulation of the fourth level of Qingyang Gong.

Liquid mana travels through the meridians, at a relatively slow speed at first.

But after a big week was completed, the speed increased in vain and became faster and faster. It was not until it reached three times the initial speed that it stabilized and stopped increasing the speed.

A thin stream of sweat broke out on Liu Yu's forehead.

The fast-moving liquid mana puts a huge burden on the meridians and the physical body.

However, his physical body has been enhanced by the Dragon Blood Fruit and is already 10 to 20% stronger than ordinary foundation-building monks, so it is still within the tolerable range.

If it were an ordinary foundation-building monk, he would never dare to easily increase the speed of his magic power to three times as fast when clearing the level, otherwise the meridians would be damaged and the success of the level would be undone.

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

If the obstacles between realms are compared to a dam, then the power of cultivation is the water flow. Only when the dam is broken can the water flow to the next place. The faster the mana moves, the stronger the impact of the water flow, and the easier it is to break through the dam.

About an hour later, the thirty-six major celestial cycles that usually took three hours to complete were completed, without any increase in mana.

Because Liu Yu's magic power and cultivation have reached the limit of the early stage of foundation building, and there is no way to increase it. Just like a small water bottle, it has been filled with clean water and the bottle cap has been capped.

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

The cycle of thirty-six great weeks was completed, and Liu Yu launched a brazen attack on the invisible obstacles!

The mana begins to circulate along the route of the fifth level of Qingyang Kung, the middle stage of foundation building. But after running for a certain distance, the speed dropped sharply. It was much slower than the initial speed, and it continued to slow down, and in the end it almost stopped.

It is as if there is an invisible force exerted on the new meridians, making it extremely difficult for the mana to move forward. As time goes by, it seems that there is insufficient "power" and will stop.

it's time!

Liu Yu's thoughts flashed through his mind and he immediately began to refine the power of the Red Flame Pill.

In his belly, the vermilion red Red Flame Pill began to "waste" in circles, and was refined into a violent and restless medicinal power. Just like a ball of red smoke that keeps rolling, it has a tendency to spread to the internal organs.

Liu Yu did not dare to carelessly restrain his mind, and controlled the mana to carry the power of the Red Flame Pill and run along the fifth level meridians of Qingyang Gong.

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 partially eliminated, and the operation becomes smoother.

The time passed extremely slowly when crossing the barrier. More than a quarter of an hour passed. Liu Yu was sweating more and more on his forehead, and more than half of the meridians on the fifth level of Qingyang Kung were cleared.

But at this critical moment, the "red smoke" is becoming increasingly rare, and it is almost exhausted, and it is in a stalemate.

At this time, the most essence of the Red Flame Pill was refined and turned into an orange-red smoke. This "smoke" was still and extremely gentle, exuding a warm and soft fire-attribute aura.

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

Liu Yu flashed this idea, and then controlled the fire spirit power to join the rush.

The effect of this soft fire spiritual power is really extraordinary. It passes unobstructed and easily eliminates invisible obstacles. The liquid follows suit and circulates through the meridians on the fifth level of Qingyang Gong.

"boom"

As if there was a silent snap, the obstacles in the early and middle stages of foundation building disappeared.

Half a quarter of an hour later, before the special fire spiritual power dissipated, Liu Yu once again encouraged the magic power to speed up, and finally completed a great cycle of the fifth level of Qingyang Gong.

If this time is unsuccessful, the Red Flame Pill will be in vain, and you will have to start over again next time.

Fortunately, that didn't happen.

After the invisible obstacles disappeared, Liu Yuben's spiritual pressure was not inferior to that of ordinary mid-stage foundation building, and it climbed upwards again. The Dantian has also been expanded to accommodate more mana.

Opening his eyes, Liu Yu quickly picked up a jade bottle in front of him, opened the cork, poured out a pill and swallowed it, then closed his eyes and started refining.

After reaching the middle stage of foundation building, the effect of Qing Yuan Pill becomes much weaker, but the Yang Yuan Pill taken in the middle stage of foundation building can already be refined, and it is seamless at this time.

The elixir enters the stomach and is quickly refined into pure spiritual energy. It is transformed into mana as it circulates around the sky, and then is tempered by the Qingyang Demonic Fire, and finally returns to the "lake" in the Dantian.

After the first celestial cycle is completed, the obstruction has completely disappeared, so the exercise returns to its normal speed.

"Huhuhu~"

Three hours later, the green light on Liu Yu's face suddenly disappeared, and then she opened her eyes.

"Middle stage of foundation building!"

A smile appeared on Liu Yu's face, and then she carefully experienced the changes after the breakthrough.

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

Spiritual herbs and elixirs, disciples working in spiritual fields, strange beasts, insects and ants in the woods.

The entire Cailian Mountain and every plant and tree within nine miles around it are all reflected in the divine consciousness, as clear as the lines on the palm of your hand.

This kind of range is close to the peak level of ordinary monks' foundation building.

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PS: It has been revised to chapter 30. The plot has not changed, but the description has been improved.