The Path to Immortality

After answering dozens of questions, it was not until the sky was about to get dark that Elder Qiu refused the other foundation-building cultivators' desperate requests to stay and left.

In the quiet lecture hall, it took more than ten breaths before it suddenly returned to its previous bustle and noise.

"As expected of Elder Qiu, your understanding of foundation-building and golden elixir is probably only second to the five golden elixir ancestors."

"The Taoist's words are wonderful! Today I know the mystery of the great way!"

"Oh, good, I understand!"

"I have gained a lot, a lot!"

"I didn't remember some of the previous content about the foundation of the Tao, which is really a pity! Which Taoist friend has a record, can you repeat it a little?"

"I just regret that I can't listen to this lecture every day."

Amidst the chaos, Fang Ping glanced at the photo beads in his sleeves and smiled.

After hearing about the specially arranged lecture this time, he took the time to go to the Treasure Pavilion to buy several high-quality photo beads for backup.

Now, this foresight has been greatly rewarded.

"After returning, I must revisit it several times a day."

Thinking of this, he put away the image bead, separated the crowd, and left the lecture hall.

Just as he flew a short distance away, a figure behind him caught up with him: "Master Fang Dan, please stay."

It was Zhou Lingyu.

"What a coincidence, I didn't expect that fellow Daoist Zhou also came to listen to Elder Qiu's lecture."

Fang Ping slowed down and waited for this person to catch up and talk side by side.

Zhou Lingyu said with a little regret: "Elder Qiu was also expected to impact the golden elixir in the past, but unfortunately his luck was a little worse. How can I miss such a senior's lecture?"

After answering Fang Ping's question, he continued: "I originally planned to visit Master Fang Dan's cave after the lecture, but I didn't expect to meet him by chance, which saved me a trip."

"That's indeed a bit of a coincidence, but I don't know what fellow Daoist Zhou wants to see me for?" Fang Ping said.

Zhou Lingyu said a little embarrassedly: "I recently collected a batch of medicinal materials for refining Yiqi Pills, and I want to ask Master Fang for help. I wonder if Master Fang is free recently?"

This made Fang Ping a little surprised.

He remembered clearly that Zhou Lingyu once said that he was not talented and had exhausted his potential after being promoted to the foundation-building stage. In the past few decades, he has been stagnant in the early stage of foundation-building and has basically given up cultivation.

Why did he suddenly think of asking him to refine Yiqi Pills today?

Zhou Lingyu seemed to have sensed Fang Ping's doubts, sighed, and said: "It's hard to explain this matter, but the main reason should be that he felt the danger... Master Fang, you also know about the Ten Thousand Demons League. It may come to Liang State one day. If I really fight with the demons, I am afraid that my cultivation in the early stage of foundation-building will be a life of death."

In the face of life and death threats, even though Zhou Lingyu, who had long been discouraged, wanted to struggle with his remaining strength.

Even if he still can't reach the middle stage of foundation building, he can accumulate more mana, and maybe he can save his life at the critical moment!

After a few breaths in silence, Fang Ping nodded and said, "If it were someone else, I might refuse him if he came to my door at this time. But since Brother Zhou has asked, I must help him."

Seeing Fang Ping's agreement, Zhou Lingyu showed gratitude on his face and quickly handed the prepared medicinal materials and commission fees to Fang Ping.

Until Fang Ping's figure left and disappeared in the sky, Zhou Lingyu stood for a while before turning around and flying back to his cave.

Under the dim starlight, his figure looked a little more relaxed than when he came.

………

After returning to the cave of Lingbao Peak.

Fang Ping did not rush to refine the Shengyuan Pill, but took out the Liuying Pearl and spent several days to review Elder Qiu's explanation repeatedly.

Every time, he looked very carefully and attentively, but every time he gained something different.

It can be said that it is always new.

Only after he thoroughly understood the content and every detail of the lecture, and completely matched it with the Great Sun True Method he practiced, did he return his attention to the previous task.

Try to refine Shengyuan Pill!

Shengyuan Pill can be used by cultivators in the early and middle stages of foundation building to improve their cultivation.

Even some foundation building cultivators who can't get better pills are still using Shengyuan Pills to practice until they enter the late stage of foundation building!

Because it requires a hundred-year-old spiritual medicine as the main material, the cost of each furnace is extremely high. Ordinary first-level alchemists dare not easily try to refine this kind of spiritual medicine.

Once they fail continuously, their years of accumulation will be wasted.

Only senior first-level alchemists who have been immersed in the way of alchemy for many years dare to try to refine this kind of medicine after spending time repeatedly pondering the pill formula.

Long before the foundation building, Fang Ping was already able to skillfully refine the foundation building pill.

After the foundation building, with the help of a powerful spiritual consciousness, Fang Ping's alchemy skills have improved to a certain extent.

Three months ago, he used a piece of purple vine he accidentally received in the market and the dried yang fruit he exchanged from the small circle of the other courtyard sect to personally refine a furnace of [Purple Yang Pill].

It was the Purple Yang Pill that was not as good as the Foundation Building Pill, but it was still the dream of countless Qigong cultivators and could increase the success rate of foundation building by 10%!

If it was said that the Foundation Building Pill was still forcibly refined by the Yuan Ding, then after refining this furnace of Purple Yang Pill, Fang Ping could be regarded as an out-and-out senior alchemist.

The difficulty of refining the Shengyuan Pill is slightly lower than that of the Purple Yang Pill, so it is naturally no problem for Fang Ping now!

As various spiritual medicines were put into the Yuan Ding after being processed, Fang Ping sat cross-legged in front of the Yuan Ding, pinched the magic formula, and hit the scorching sun true fire.

The Fiery Sun True Fire, which was close to perfection, burned fiercely. Under Fang Ping's precise control, the light golden flame easily raised the temperature in the Yuan Ding to the right level.

There is no need to elaborate on the process of the first two hours.

For the several major difficulties in refining Shengyuan Dan, the most difficult one is how to extract the medicinal power of the hundred-year-old spiritual medicine as much as possible.

This requires a high level of control over the temperature and the power of the flame.

If it was Fang Ping before the foundation building, it might be a bit difficult to overcome this difficulty, and he would need to use the Yuan Ding to repeatedly trace back until he became proficient.

But now Fang Ping, handling this process, feels like lifting a heavy weight with ease.

The light golden Fiery Sun True Fire is not only enough for refining, but even a little too powerful, so Fang Ping needs to hold back a little.

And the changes and melting of the temperature and medicinal power during the period no longer need to rely on repeated tracing back and gradually exploring the rules. With the powerful divine sense, he can accurately grasp the changes at any time.

The improvement of these two aspects of ability is no less than directly raising Fang Ping's attainments in alchemy to a small realm.

It was not until he entered the difficulty of suppressing the conflict of medicinal power that Fang Ping failed because of his unfamiliarity with the first attempt.

"No wonder I always feel that my alchemy talent is not good. It turns out that I chose the most difficult path at the beginning."

"If I could borrow the earth fire to refine the elixir at the beginning, and wait until I have spiritual consciousness after building the foundation, and then try to refine the first-level elixir, my previous path to improving the alchemy would never be so difficult."

Fang Ping was thoughtful.

However, it is not without benefits to start with the difficult and then the easy.

It is precisely because of the solid foundation laid by countless backtracking and practice before that he can try to refine the Shengyuan Pill so easily now.

Not to mention, if he does not rely on his alchemy attainments to refine the fine-quality foundation-building pill, with his qualifications of four spiritual roots, even if he can successfully build the foundation, he will most likely miss the perfect foundation.