The Path to Immortality

Unlike the successful discovery of the life story of Tianfeng Patriarch, there are very few contents about the ancient Dao text in the outer sect's Sutra Pavilion.

Fang Ping stayed in the first floor for two whole days, searching through the relevant bookshelves, and only found sporadic introductions. But there was not a single word about the specific interpretation and interpretation of the ancient Dao text!

This made Fang Ping very regretful.

"Is it on the second floor of the Sutra Pavilion?"

But as far as he knew, there were not many classics on the second floor, mainly some fine spells and exercises.

Perhaps, he could only wait until he entered the inner sect and go to the inner sect's Sutra Pavilion to look for it.

As one of the five major sects in Liang State, the Sutra Pavilion of the inner sect has collected countless classics collected by the sect for more than two thousand years, which can be said to be vast and boundless. Among them, there must be content about the interpretation of the ancient Dao text.

"It seems that there is no way to interpret that silver foil page in a short time."

Fang Ping could only give up the plan temporarily.

………

The day he left the Sutra Pavilion.

Liu Wuchen, who was investigated by the Law Enforcement Hall because of the deaths of several outer disciples, finally got rid of the trouble with the testimony of several accompanying disciples such as Gongsun Qing and Dong Xiangtian.

This outer sect master was also very good at dealing with people. Knowing that Fang Ping almost died at the bottom of the river, he specially wrote a letter after returning, not only expressing his apologies again, but also sending a pill recipe that he got from somewhere with the letter as compensation for the plan going wrong.

This pill recipe is called [Bingxin Pill].

This is a medium-grade basic pill, and the difficulty of refining is roughly the same as that of Ningyuan Pill.

After swallowing, it can make the cultivator's mind as cold as ice, and it is easier to resist the negative effects of illusions and charms.

Fang Ping, who has completely mastered [The Beginning of the Alchemy Dao] and was worried that he had no way to advance in the alchemy Dao, was very satisfied with this timely pill recipe.

Putting away the pill recipe for the time being and preparing to study it later, Fang Ping took out the basic beast control method left by the owner of the Water Palace from the storage bag.

In the previous siege of the Black Scaled Dragon, he had witnessed the power of this monster with his own eyes, and he was already a little impatient to cultivate his own spirit beast.

As one of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, taming beasts is actually a very sophisticated skill.

But Fang Ping did not plan to study it in depth for the time being, and only focused on how to contract and hatch the Black Scaled Dragon eggs.

These practical knowledge are relatively easy to master.

After only a few weeks of meditation, he had a preliminary understanding.

According to this method passed down by the Spirit Beast Sect, the most convenient and practical way to contract a spirit beast is a blood contract.

That is: when performing the contract method, drip the cultivator's blood on the monster egg. After hatching in this way, the spirit beast will inherently feel close to the cultivator, and the chance of backlash is greatly reduced.

But the blood contract method also has a shortcoming.

Because there is a weak mental connection between the cultivator and the spirit beast, if the spirit beast dies in battle, it will also cause certain damage to the cultivator.

If only one or two spirit beasts are contracted by blood, this kind of collateral damage is not serious.

If a cultivator specializes in the art of controlling beasts, and multiple beasts he controls die in succession, the damage to his mind will be fatal.

"I just covet the combat power of the black-scaled dragon, and I have no intention of training more beasts. This defect is not a big deal for me." Fang Ping nodded secretly.

After reviewing the blood covenant formula, he released the black-scaled dragon egg, which contained abundant vitality, from the beast bag.

He silently recited the formula, gathered his magic power, and performed the blood covenant formula.

After a while, a complex contract pattern appeared on the black-scaled dragon egg, flickering slightly, with a faint sign of establishing a connection with Fang Ping.

Fang Ping seized the opportunity, urged his magic power, and forced a drop of scarlet blood from his fingertips and dripped it onto the black-scaled dragon egg.

The blood covenant pattern immediately burst into a bright light, stabilizing the previous vague connection.

After a few breaths, the pattern disappeared again and sank into the egg.

"Success!"

At this moment, Fang Ping clearly felt that the unhatched black-scaled dragon larva in the egg had established an invisible connection with him.

This connection was completely dominated by Fang Ping. In a moment, he could order the black-scaled dragon to do anything, and even control its life and death at will.

With this connection, Fang Ping could even vaguely know the time required for the black-scaled dragon egg to hatch.

About four or five months!

If Fang Ping actively provided it with mana, it could speed up the process to a certain extent.

"A powerful spirit beast with at least the strength of the tenth level of Qi training after maturity, the future is promising!"

Fang Ping patted the black-scaled dragon egg with satisfaction, and then put it back into the spirit beast bag.

Returning to the study, Fang Ping took out the jade slip that recorded the complete second-level formation inheritance from the storage bag.

Looking at this inestimable jade slip, his expression changed and hesitated.

Previously, Liu Wuchen used the small five-element formation to encircle and suppress the black-scaled dragon, which left a deep impression on Fang Ping, allowing him to see with his own eyes the great power of the formation.

Now there is a complete second-level formation inheritance in front of him, it would be a lie to say that he is not tempted.

But he has already majored in the alchemy and invested a lot of time. Do he have to practice a skill that is more difficult to learn than the alchemy?

After all, the talent requirements of the formation will only be higher than that of the alchemy!

When checking the life story of Tianfeng Patriarch, this Jindan Patriarch practiced both talismans and formations, and was rampant for a while, but was eventually dragged down and failed to achieve Yuanying, which also touched Fang Ping a lot.

His own qualifications will only be worse than that Jindan Patriarch who was born as a casual cultivator.

Logically speaking, he should not be distracted anymore.

"It's just... this is a complete second-level inheritance of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals after all!"

Holding the jade slip, Fang Ping smiled bitterly, feeling extremely conflicted in his heart.

With Yuan Ding around, he actually had a great advantage in the alchemy path.

In many cases, there is no need to spend a lot of time trying to figure out the difficulties again and again, and you can just start trying and making mistakes, thus saving a lot of energy and resources.

In this case, if he squeezes a little, he actually still has some room to spare.

In addition, Fang Ping currently does not have a more advanced alchemy inheritance, so he is somewhat unable to make progress in his alchemy attainments.

Several reasons combined caused Fang Ping to struggle for a long time before he finally made a decision.

Understand this array inheritance!

But there is a premise.

That is: Cultivation and realm always come first, followed by alchemy.

On the basis of the first two, if you have remaining time, you can also practice the formation path.

As long as he understands the priorities and does not put the cart before the horse, Fang Ping believes that he will not make the same mistakes again.

After clarifying this point, Fang Ping did not hesitate anymore. He picked up the Jade Slips of the Formation Dao and began to study them word for word from the most basic content.

………

After a month of preliminary reading and speculation, Fang Ping had a rough impression of the battle path.

As is generally recognized in the world of cultivating immortals, the formation path is profound and obscure, and it is not easy to achieve something.

Take the most basic low-grade [Mysterious Formation] mentioned at the beginning as an example.

This formation consists of four layers of restrictions and a total of thirty-six formation patterns.

The formation pattern is the foundation of the formation, and contains the principles of heaven and earth in this world.

Various basic formation patterns are combined to form a resonance with each other, and by stimulating the power of heaven and earth, a restriction can be formed.

Different restrictions have different effects. For example, the enigma formation consists of four restrictions: generating fog, blocking enemies, and changing.

Therefore, if you want to set up a formation, you must first understand the function of each formation pattern.