The Path to Immortality

Fang Ping certainly knew that a Qi training disciple who had never had any relationship with him before would not make this foundation-building cultivator change his mind.

He did not pester him shamelessly, as that would only annoy the other party.

He bowed and saluted, and after a long while, he stepped lightly and left the cave.

Watching Fang Ping leave, Taoist Yun Yi sighed softly.

"He is a good seedling who is diligent in learning. He also knows etiquette, knows when to advance and retreat, and is willing to work hard."

"It's a pity that he only has four spiritual roots... He can't build a foundation. It's all in vain."

"If only he had two spiritual roots!"

………

After the three months of darkness finally ended, Fang Ping flew back to the cave of Yunyang Peak again on his sword. Under the warm sunshine and the warm wind from the mountains, he actually felt as if he was in another world, and felt a sense of relaxation that he had not felt for a long time.

There was no way. The ancient Taoist texts were too difficult to learn, and the pressure and assessment homework given to him by Taoist Yun Yi were full, which made him exhausted physically and mentally.

"Fortunately, I have learned something."

"Thanks to the guidance of Taoist Master Yun Yi, although my attainments in ancient Taoist texts are still shallow, I can try to interpret and deduce them by myself by comparing what I have learned and the handwritten notes I copied."

He stood on the top of the mountain on his sword for a long time without moving. Only when he relaxed completely did he take a deep breath and fly to his cave.

After studying for so long and spending so much effort, it is time to test whether my gains are worth the effort.

After feeding Dahei as usual, Fang Ping entered the study and took out the silver foil page from the storage bag, which came from the owner of Canglanjiang Water House and originally belonged to the Jindan cultivator Tianfeng Patriarch.

Before learning ancient Taoist texts, this silver foil page was like a heavenly book, and he could not understand anything.

But looking at it with his current eyes, the situation is completely different.

"...Talisman...Nourishment...Sword Qi...Seed..."

He skipped over some relatively simple characters that could be preliminarily interpreted, and roughly browsed the contents recorded on this silver foil page.

After several hours of preliminary interpretation, Fang Ping let out a sigh of relief and had a guess in his mind.

"If I am right, this silver foil page may contain a powerful spell."

He still needs more time to interpret and ponder what it is and how to practice it.

But the current result undoubtedly makes him excited.

What Fang Ping was most worried about before was that this silver foil page only recorded some insignificant trivia.

In that case, although his efforts to learn the ancient Taoist text would not be in vain, at least it would not be converted into benefits in a short time.

Now that it is basically confirmed that it is a spell, it makes people look forward to it.

The spell found in the cave of the Jindan Patriarch and written in the ancient Taoist text, no matter how you think about it, it can't be a common one. It is most likely a powerful secret method!

"Let's set a small goal for the time being. Within a year, while I can still ask Taoist Yun Yi for advice, I will fully interpret the spell recorded on the silver foil page."

After making a decision, Fang Ping calmed down and pondered word by word from the beginning.

………

The spells on the silver foil pages are destined to take time to determine.

With a clear deadline, Fang Ping adjusted his time allocation appropriately and rearranged his daily schedule.

Cultivation is the main focus, and the alchemy is supplementary. The remaining time is used to interpret the silver foil pages. As for the formation, it can only be put aside for the time being.

Occasionally, when there is still free time, he will go out with Liu Wuchen, Jiang Yucheng and other senior brothers to exchange cultivation experience, and by the way, learn about some of the sect’s recent developments from them.

The days can be said to be extremely fulfilling.

Perhaps it is because of the ultimate torture of learning ancient Taoist texts, now looking back and reviewing the [Jiang’s Alchemy Secret Record] that he bought before, he suddenly has an illusion that "it is actually quite simple".

In just a few months, his attainments in alchemy have improved a bit.

He can easily refine the top-grade basic elixir [Blood Coagulation Pill] recorded in the Jiang’s Alchemy Secret Record.

The [Qingxin Pill] that was exchanged from the Inner Gate Sutra Pavilion was also successfully refined after dozens of furnaces of backtracking not long ago.

This success gave Fang Ping a lot of confidence, and he finally started to refine the [Peking Yuan Pill].

Peiyuan Pill is suitable for cultivators in the late stage of Qi training, which can improve cultivation and has a much better effect than the medium-grade basic pill [Ningyuan Pill] that Fang Ping could refine a long time ago.

But because of this, it is also very difficult to refine, and it is one of the best among the first-level spiritual pills.

Fang Ping only studied it roughly and felt the difficulty of this pill.

"Let's go to the market first and get all the materials!"

Fang Ping, who hadn't been to the market for a while, simply changed his appearance, first disposed of a batch of pills that he had accumulated recently in batches, and then rushed through the various shops in Luoyunfang.

He went to three spiritual herb and alchemy shops one after another before he gathered all the materials.

"It cost nearly three hundred spirit stones to make only twenty portions of Pei Yuan Dan materials..."

The money spent on alchemy is really like a bottomless pit.

After pondering the recipe and pharmacology of Pei Yuan Dan, Fang Ping put out the Yuan Ding and prepared to try it a few times as usual, experience it himself, and then come back to carefully summarize his experience.

This is different from the various spirit pills he had made in the past.

The process of refining Pei Yuan Dan requires a spirit water called [Yuan Zhenye].

Only with this spirit water as the base can the medicinal power and essence of various spirit herbs be fully extracted.

Fortunately, Yuan Zhen Liquid is just one of the most common spiritual waters. The difficulty of refining it is roughly the same as that of Ning Yuan Dan, or even slightly easier.

For him now, it is naturally not a difficult problem.

Relying on the recollection of Yuan Ding, he successfully refined the first bottle of Yuan Zhen Liquid after only six or seven failures.

This kind of spiritual water has a long shelf life. In order to refine more at one time and save trouble in the future, Fang Ping refined all the materials of 20 portions of Yuan Zhen Liquid in one breath and laid them out neatly in two rows.

With this preparatory step, he officially started to refine Pei Yuan Dan.

According to the requirements of the pill recipe, after pouring a bottle of Yuan Zhen Liquid into Yuan Ding, Fang Ping then put in various spiritual herbs and medicines in turn.

"Fire!"

Fang Ping urged his magic power and shot out a ray of scorching sun true fire.

As an inner disciple, Fang Ping can already borrow the sect's earth fire to refine pills.

The stability and firepower of the earth fire are better than his first stage scorching sun true fire.

However, borrowing the earth fire also consumes the sect's contribution.

Fang Ping must try to use his own true fire first. If it doesn't work, it won't be too late to borrow the sect's earth fire.

"If I have the seventh level of Qi training now and cultivate the Fiery Sun True Fire to the second stage, refining Peiyuan Dan will surely be much easier."

But Fang Ping didn't expect to succeed at once, and he didn't worry about the loss of failure. He just adjusted the flame and temperature in the Yuan Ding step by step to promote the refining of Peiyuan Dan.

According to his speculation, there is nothing special to pay attention to in the initial stage of refining Peiyuan Dan, which is roughly the same as the initial stage of Ningyuan Dan.

It will take at least a quarter of an hour before encountering real problems and various failures.

But what surprised him was that the abnormal tremor appeared in the Yuan Ding not long after the first furnace of Peiyuan Dan was refined.