Seeking Immortality

"Ding~Ding~Ding~" Xu Qingfan came to the door of Lu Huayan's room, first tidied his clothes, and then knocked on the door with his fingers.

"Is it Qingfan? Come in." An old voice came from the door.

"Yes." After hearing Lu Huayan's voice, Xu Qingfan responded respectfully, and then gently pushed the door in.

In the room, a figure sat cross-legged on the bed. Behind the figure was a window, and the dim sunlight outside the window projected on the figure through the window, and the face of the figure became more blurred under the backlight.

When Xu Qingfan pushed the door in, he stood respectfully in front of the bed. He raised his head slightly and glanced at the figure, and couldn't help but let out a slight "Ah!" scream.

It turned out that the figure sitting cross-legged on the bed was his master Lu Huayan. However, compared with the last time Xu Qingfan saw him, Lu Huayan's image at this time was even more aging. His body became even thinner, the thin white hair on his head was almost completely gone, his face was covered with wrinkles and age spots, and the bags under his eyes almost covered half of his face! This image was simply an ordinary old man who was about to die.

Only those eyes were still sharp and bright, but he didn't know if it was Xu Qingfan's illusion, he always felt that he saw deep despair in those eyes.

No wonder Lu Huayan didn't come out to meet his disciples for so long, it turned out that he had aged to this extent.

"Master, you...?" Xu Qingfan saw Lu Huayan's appearance at this time, his heart was full of worry, and he asked hesitantly.

"It's nothing, birth, aging, illness and death, it's just fate." Lu Huayan said lightly. Although Lu Huayan said it very calmly, Xu Qingfan knew that Lu Huayan actually cared about these things very much.

"Master, you will definitely be able to improve your skills and become young again." Xu Qingfan looked at Lu Huayan's serious aging at this time, and for a moment he didn't know what to say, so he could only comfort him like this.

"You have finally broken through to the Bigu stage." Lu Huayan ignored Xu Qingfan's consolation and started talking about Xu Qingfan's situation.

"I have failed Master's hope and have only made some progress until now. I have never been able to help Master." Xu Qingfan said with some shame.

"Don't say that. It's already very good that you can cultivate to the Bigu stage in ten years. I also took seven years to reach the Bigu stage. As for the fact that the "Withering and Flourishing Art" you practiced has never been able to help me, maybe it's the so-called destiny. If God wants to kill me, what can I do?" Lu Huayan's voice was slightly sad.

"Master..." Xu Qingfan wanted to comfort Lu Huayan, but he didn't know where to start.

"Generally speaking, there are three major barriers for cultivators when they are practicing. The first one is the breakthrough from the Qi Refining Stage to the Bigu Stage. Under this barrier, more than half of the cultivators will stop at the Qi Refining Stage for their entire lives. Once they break through, they can use the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish themselves, and their cultivation speed will advance by leaps and bounds. It will not be difficult to go from the early Bigu Stage to the late Spiritual Silence Stage." Lu Huayan did not stay in sadness for too long, but continued to talk about Xu Qingfan's cultivation.

"Yes, I understand."

"In the Qi Refining Stage, cultivators use the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to train themselves; in the Bigu Stage, cultivators use the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish themselves; in the Spiritual Silence Stage, they use the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to transform themselves. Although you cannot retain the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in your body, you can use the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to refine the Mu Yi Qi in your body and make it your own Mu Yi spiritual energy. Then you must remember to always use your Mu Yi spiritual energy to train, nourish, and transform your body. Only in this way can you increase your life span. You must remember this."

"Yes, I remember it."

After hearing what Xu Qingfan said, Lu Huayan nodded with satisfaction. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he asked, "After you broke through to the Bigu Stage this time, did you find anything special when practicing "Withering and Flourishing Art" again?"

After Xu Qingfan hesitated for a while, he described to Lu Huayan the situation of the gray dead spiritual energy in his body running uncontrollably after he rescued Jin Qinghan that day, and then the Mu Yi spiritual energy was generated during the running.

"Running on its own? That dead aura can actually breed Mu Yi aura while running? This doesn't make sense." After hearing Xu Qingfan's description, Lu Huayan frowned and muttered to himself. After a long time, he shook his head and decided not to think about it anymore. Then he suddenly took out a green wooden ruler about one foot and three inches long, a white jade bottle and a white jade slip from his sleeve and handed them to Xu Qingfan.

"You are now a cultivator in the fasting period, and you should have your own magic weapon." Seeing the puzzled expression on Xu Qingfan's face after he took the things, Lu Huayan explained.

"This... is this my magic weapon?" After hearing what Lu Huayan said, Xu Qingfan was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but say with surprise.

Lu Huayan looked at Xu Qingfan's surprised expression, and a slight smile appeared on his ancient face. He nodded and explained: "This wooden ruler is the remains of my body after I blew myself up with the mountain spirit wood monster that wanted to invade your body." Made from limb sacrifice, it not only has a blessing effect on your Muyi spiritual energy cultivation, but also can change the size and attack the enemy from a distance. It can also be regarded as an intermediate human-level magic weapon. This jade bottle is used. The magic weapon containing the elixir can prevent the leakage of spiritual energy to a large extent. And this jade bottle also contains twenty wood spirit pills, which I made using a wood Yi spirit root and the flesh and blood of the green dragon python. It can speed up the refining of Mu Yi's energy in your body. As for this jade slip, there are techniques for refining magical weapons."

After hearing Lu Huayan's words and feeling the strong aura emanating from the wooden ruler and jade bottle, Xu Qingfan suppressed the surprise in his heart and thanked Lu Huayan again: "Disciple, thank you Master for your gift."

"Get up, you won't go to the back mountain in the next few months. Retreat for three months, stabilize your current state, and also practice this magic weapon." Lu Huayan smiled slightly after seeing Xu Qingfan thanking him. He said after nodding his head.

"Yes, that disciple has retreated."

Hearing what Lu Huayan said, Xu Qingfan knew that his visit to the back mountain these nights had not been hidden from Lu Huayan's eyes, but it was not surprising. Lu Huayan was a master who had reached the Golden Core stage. Everything is under his control.

After saying that, Xu Qingfan exited Lu Huayan's room.

After Xu Qingfan left the room, Lu Huayan was left sitting cross-legged on the bed. Thinking back to Xu Qingfan's description, he wondered to himself: "What on earth is going on? That gray aura can actually give birth to Mu Yi's aura? Could it be that this Isn’t there something wonderful about Kurongjue that I haven’t noticed?”

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After leaving Lu Huayan's room, Xu Qingfan could no longer control his surprise. He stroked the magic weapon with overflowing spiritual energy in his hand and giggled. When Xu Qingfan was still admiring the mystery of immortal cultivators from myths and legends, he was fascinated by the mysterious Taoism and miraculous magic weapons of immortal cultivators.

Later, he was destined to enter the world of immortality and became an immortal cultivator. However, Lu Huayan taught him the fragments of a useless technique called "Kurong Jue". Not to mention the power is very small. And because he had to concentrate on practicing "Kurong Jue", he didn't even bother to study and practice various Taoist methods. So now although Xu Qingfan is an immortal cultivator, he basically does not have any magical powers that an immortal cultivator should have.

But now, he actually has his own magic weapon. How can Xu Qingfan not be surprised by this?

Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan could no longer bear the impulse in his heart and walked quickly towards his room, eager to sacrifice the first magical weapon in his life.

One hundred days later.

Xu Qingfan was sitting cross-legged on his bed, his body glowing with green Mu Yi spiritual light. He held his hands upward, and a green wooden ruler was suspended above his head. The green wood Yi spiritual energy continuously overflowed and echoed the spiritual light on Xu Qingfan's body.

Slowly, the spiritual energy in the wooden ruler began to blend with the spiritual energy on Xu Qingfan's body. There seemed to be an obstacle to the blending at the beginning, but as time went by, this obstacle could no longer prevent the blending of spiritual energy. After the two auras blended together, they turned into a cyan aura and began to grow slowly. Finally, the cyan aura slowly began to cover Xu Qingfan's entire body and the cyan wooden ruler. Under the glow of the cyan aura, the entire room was as alive as a primeval forest.

I don’t know how long it took, but the green wooden ruler suddenly made a long clear sound. In this clear sound, all the green spiritual energy that filled the whole room was quickly charged into the wooden ruler. Under the filling of Muyi's spiritual energy, the color of the wooden ruler became more green, as if it could drip water.

Just after Wooden Ruler absorbed all the cyan spiritual energy, Xu Qingfan suddenly experienced a surge of gray deathly spiritual energy. After leaving his body, this spiritual energy quickly charged into Wooden Ruler, and Wooden Ruler did not seem to resist this gray deathly silent energy. , and everyone who comes is welcome and accepted. In the end, after the cyan Muyi spiritual energy and the gray deathly silence spiritual energy were used to refine the wooden ruler, the color of the wooden ruler turned into dark blue, but the spiritual energy fluctuations on it were even better than before.

Finally, after slowly taking the gray deathly spiritual energy into his hands, "Hu~~~~~~" he took a long breath, and Qingfan slowly opened his eyes.

Looking at the dark blue wooden ruler in his hand, Xu Qingfan showed a satisfied look in his eyes. Suddenly, he pinched a hand with his right hand and pointed it slightly at the wooden ruler, and saw that the wooden ruler instantly began to fly quickly around Xu Qingfan, like a nimble bird.

Looking at the wooden ruler flying around him, Xu Qingfan nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly changed his hand again, and the wooden ruler stopped in front of Xu Qingfan. Then Xu Qingfan changed his hand and tapped it again, and saw that the dark blue wooden ruler instantly became several times larger. Xu Qingfan smiled slightly after seeing the various changes in the wooden ruler, dispersed his fingers, and the wooden ruler turned into its prototype and fell into Xu Qingfan's hands obediently.

"The technique I practice is "Kurong Jue", then from now on your name will be "Kurong Ruler"." Xu Qingfan stroked the surface of the ruler, feeling the faint aura exuding from the wooden ruler, and said softly.

As he spoke, Xu Qingfan put away the wooden ruler, stood up from the bed, walked to the door that had been closed for more than three months, stretched out his hand and slowly pushed the door open. The sunlight that had been rejected outside the door for a long time rushed in eagerly, filling Xu Qingfan's entire room in an instant, and Xu Qingfan's heart seemed to become bright all of a sudden.

This is the 100th day since Xu Qingfan's retreat. Since receiving Lu Huayan's instructions to retreat, Xu Qingfan returned to his room and began to concentrate on stabilizing his newly broken cultivation and refining the magic weapon given to him by Lu Huayan.

In the first fifty days of retreat, Xu Qingfan used the spiritual effect of a "wooden spirit pill" to not only stabilize his realm, but also greatly improve his skills. After another 49 days of refining the magic weapon, he finally refined the "withering and flourishing ruler" to the point where he could change at will and attack and defend at will. Moreover, in the process of refining the magic weapon, he also took his control of the spiritual energy in his body to a higher level.

Originally, with Xu Qingfan's skill, it shouldn't be so fast to refine a human-level intermediate magic weapon. It's just that this 'Withering and Flourishing Ruler' was made by Lu Huayan using the body parts of the mountain spirit wood monster that invaded Xu Qingfan's body after it exploded. It is of the same nature and origin as the Mu Yi spiritual energy in Xu Qingfan's body, so it was so smooth to refine.

Originally, Xu Qingfan followed the skills in the weapon refining method given by Lu Huayan, thinking that only Mu Yi spiritual energy could be used to refine this wood-attributed magic weapon, but what Xu Qingfan didn't expect was that it could be refined with the gray dead spiritual energy, and the speed was not slower than that of the Mu Yi spiritual energy. Even if the two spiritual energies were used alternately, the speed was faster and the effect was better. In this way, combined with the abnormality of the gray dead spiritual energy before, Xu Qingfan became more curious about the spiritual energy in his body.

"Let's go ask Master and see what he says." Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan walked towards Lu Huayan's room.

Who would have thought that when Xu Qingfan passed the main hall of Changchun Residence, the scene he saw shocked him. His originally excited mood due to the successful sacrifice of his first magical weapon suddenly turned cold.