Chapter 734 Revisiting Yuanhe Mountain

The jade slip records the alchemy process and the problems encountered, from which one can gain a deeper understanding of the medicinal properties.

Understanding the pharmacology behind changes in the properties of medicine is far more important than increasing one's proficiency in alchemy; this is what a qualified alchemist should do.

Ji An first organized all the steps for refining the Five-Colored Pill, which he would continue to improve in the future.

He recorded his guesses about the medicinal properties separately, and after verifying their accuracy, he organized them into jade slips specifically for storing this type of information.

Time flies by, and two hours have passed in the blink of an eye.

Ji An nodded with satisfaction, put away the jade slip, and after refining it a few more times, he would be able to fully master how to refine the Five-Colored Pill to perfection.

He took out the Five Elements Pill, put it in his mouth, tilted his head back and swallowed, feeling the pill fall down his esophagus into his stomach, and then began to circulate the Five Elements Cycle.

The nascent soul sat upright in the Guanghan Palace, its movements mirroring those of its original body.

The elixir was quickly refined, the veins on the surface of the Five Elements Divine Palace shone brightly, and golden magical energy crystals condensed rapidly before being transported to the upper dantian.

At the same time, the soul power contained in the pill was also refined and sent upward to the dantian, shimmering with silver light.

The magical crystals and soul power merged and were completely devoured by the nascent soul.

When the elixir was completely refined, Ji An let out a long breath.

In just a few hours, he achieved what would take ten years without taking any pills. It should be noted that his speed of refining spiritual energy is much faster than that of an ordinary Nascent Soul Stage 1 cultivator.

"External factors have a great impact on the speed of cultivation. Dharma companions, wealth, and location—no wonder wealth ranks above the cultivation center."

He stood up with a sigh. The small world was a top-grade third-tier spiritual vein, which he could enjoy all by himself. Even so, it was still far inferior to a single pill.

That being said, fourth-tier pills are made from fourth-tier spiritual fruits and spiritual herbs and medicines that are over two thousand years old. It is normal for refining one pill to be equivalent to ten years of arduous cultivation.

I'm very tired today, and my mind is quite exhausted. Ji An took some medicinal mud and applied it all over his body before starting to practice the Immovable King Kung Fu.

A faint crimson-gold light appeared above his head, shooting straight into the heavens, and the manifestation of his vital energy became increasingly apparent.

After breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, his life force fire became much stronger, and he felt that he was improving much faster during practice.

He is still using the third-grade top-quality medicinal mud, mainly based on the principle of not wasting it.

When practicing the Immovable King Technique, physical energy is consumed rapidly, while the recovery speed of spiritual consciousness is accelerated.

When practicing the Five Elements Revolving Scripture, one's spiritual energy is rapidly consumed, but the speed of physical recovery is accelerated.

These two techniques complement each other, but they are far from achieving the level of a 'perpetual motion machine'.

After exhausting most of his energy, Ji An slowly finished his practice and went to the stone house next to him to release the Spring Breeze and Rain Technique.

After taking a comfortable bath, he put on a brand-new Taoist robe, walked out of the house, rode a cloud to the white earth, and landed in the Vajra Bodhi forest.

He found an exceptionally thick and strong spiritual tree, then focused his mind on his dantian and connected with the stone tortoise:

"Refine the Dao essence to upgrade the spirit wood to the fourth rank."

The stone tortoise appeared above the spirit tree, and the patterns of the Eight Trigrams of the Primordial Chaos appeared on the ground. Silver spiritual energy threads surged and quickly wove into a cocoon of light.

This is to prepare for breaking through to the Vajra realm in the future, at which point a fourth-tier spiritual fruit will be necessary for it to be effective.

Ji An wasn't sure if he could cultivate to the Vajra Realm, since he hadn't followed the original techniques, but breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm in terms of physical strength should be no problem.

If you accumulate enough refined essence of the sun, you can eventually reach the level of a Nascent Soul Body Cultivator. You might not have the blood-soaking fighting ability of Body Cultivators, but you'll at least be more resilient.

Furthermore, when the spirit wood is upgraded to the fourth-grade low-level, the talisman it nurtures will also be upgraded in grade.

Just think about it, a fourth-tier Gengjin Divine Thunder Talisman is enough to pose a threat to an enemy in the early Nascent Soul stage.

Ji An did not wait there; he flew straight to the Gathering Yuan Tree and lay down on the rattan chair to rest.

Over the next few days, he used the stone tortoise again to ripen another batch of spiritual herbs and fruits for refining the Five-Colored Pill, and planted the obtained spiritual seeds in the next batch.

Once all these spiritual seeds have matured, five batches of medicinal herbs can be obtained.

Finally, Ji An refined two pills, one of ordinary quality and the other of superior quality.

This refining process may not have resulted in a significant improvement, but it validated many of our predictions and is of great importance.

Ji An continued his efforts, expediting another batch of materials and refining three Five-Color Pills, all of them of the highest quality.

During this period, all the five-colored flowers on the Gathering Yuan Tree will mature, and eighteen more batches of Five-Color Pills can be refined.

Ji An planted another batch of spirit seeds. Now that the spirit herbs in the spirit field have matured, they can consume all the five-colored flowers.

Red Copper Mountain.

Inside the cave, Zhang Zeye took out many array flags and more than a dozen array plates, and introduced them:

"These are the materials for the Xuan Turtle Armor Formation. At least six formation plates are required when setting up the formation. The number of other formation plates and flags can be increased or decreased according to the actual situation."

The more array flags used, the stronger the array's defense, but the more high-grade spirit stones it consumes.

He grinned and said, "I was being nosy. For a True Monarch, this little bit of spirit stone consumption is nothing."

Ji An waved his hand and said solemnly:

"I was poor once too, so I won't waste spirit stones."

When I first entered the sect, even a hero like me was stumped by a single spirit stone.

Zhang Zeye nodded in deep agreement. Before the Chaoyuan period, he had lived a very frugal life for over a hundred years.

Only those who have loved understand the weight of affection; only those who have been drunk know the strength of wine; only those who have been poor know the value of a precious stone.

"Sawano, demonstrate the effect of the magic circle."

"Okay, we need to find a spacious place outside."

Zhang Zeye waved his hand, storing the array flags and array plates into the Cave Void Stone, and led the way outside. The two walked out of the cave and rode on the clouds to find a pile of rocks.

"True Lord, you see, there are requirements for the order in which the six basic array plates are placed."

No matter how they are arranged, these array plates can be connected to form a closed loop. I have marked the array plates with numbers: A, B, C, D, E, and F.

The array plate number A should be placed due east, number C due south, number E to the west, and number F to the north.

Place B between A and C, and place D between C and E; the positions are arbitrary.

Overall, the array must be arranged according to the order of the Heavenly Stems.

There are no requirements for the location of a standard array; it can be arranged according to the actual situation.

The array flags were placed outside the array plate, spreading outwards in a spiral pattern.

Zhang Zeye made a hand seal, and the magic array was activated. The array plate and array flags disappeared, replaced by a blue light screen, and the sound of waves could be heard.

The sound grew fainter and fainter, and the light emanating from the magic array also weakened.

Soon, the sound and light disappeared together, and the location of the magic circle turned into a mountain of rocks.

Ji An raised an eyebrow slightly, clapped his hands, and laughed:

"It also has the effect of a mimicry array, which is wonderful."

The magic circle can be hidden, which can save a lot of trouble.

Zhang Zeye nodded proudly and explained:

“From the third tier onwards, all magic arrays possess mimicry effects to varying degrees.”

A fourth-order magic array is a true magic array; I wonder if I will have the ability to create such an array in my lifetime.

According to the Five Elements Sect's heritage, the fourth-order formation is connected to spiritual veins below and to the sun, moon, and stars above, thus its strength is enhanced in all aspects.

More importantly, it can draw energy from spiritual veins and stars to maintain the energy consumption of the magic array, which can save a lot of spirit stones.

Ji An encouraged him:

"If you have a dream in your heart, achieving your goal won't be so difficult. By the way, what level of cultivation is needed to refine a fourth-order magic array?"

"At least the late stage of the Golden Core realm is required. I estimate that it would be better to reach the ninth level of the Golden Core realm before trying, otherwise it would be too wasteful of materials."

As Zhang Zeye spoke, he used a hand seal to close the magic array, added some array plates and array flags, and then activated the magic array again to demonstrate.

After a moment, Ji An raised his hand and said:

"Okay, I understand how to do it. How much more work do I need to do?"

"Two thousand two hundred merits will suffice."

Ji An handed over the jade token and joked:

"Don't ask for less, or you'll be the one who suffers."

Zhang Zeye smiled innocently, "I gained valuable experience while refining the magic array for the True Lord. It was clearly a gain, not a loss."

The two returned to their cave and chatted for a while before Ji An took his leave.

Several days later, Ji An found his way to the outer area of ​​Yuanhe Mountain.

He did not ride on auspicious clouds of five colors, nor did he wield any magical treasures; doing so would have drawn too much attention and would not have conformed to the principle of keeping a low profile.

Stopping about thirty miles from the outermost sphere of influence of Yuanhe Mountain, Ji An found a low mountain ridge.

Twisted trees are everywhere, their branches covered in lumps that ooze a dark green, viscous liquid that stretches in the wind.

He summoned Big Yellow and Golden Retriever, activating two Cleansing Talismans.

"You two, dig out a cave dwelling, which only needs one main room and two small rooms."

Digging the cave was a piece of cake for the two earth-elemental beasts. They found a suitable location and immediately began working, completing the task in just two hours.

The cave was only eight feet high, which was a bit short, but Ji An wasn't here to enjoy himself, so he didn't care.

He took out two Earth Spirit Fruits and joked:

"These are the last two mid-grade third-tier spirit fruits. If you don't break through to the Golden Core level soon, there won't be any more spirit fruits to eat."

In the small world, there are no low-grade spirit trees, and unless they are replanted, there will never be a third-grade mid-level earth spirit fruit again.

Due to their cultivation levels, the two beasts were unable to enjoy the high-grade third-tier spiritual fruit.

The two beasts looked a little aggrieved. They chewed the spirit fruit haphazardly a few times and swallowed it, then stared longingly at their master.

Ji An ignored them, placed new high-grade spirit stones into the core array plate of the Xuan Turtle Armor Formation, and then activated the array.

"You two guard the magic array. If a lightning tribulation occurs or there is any other emergency, go and notify me immediately."

Big Yellow growled, and Golden Retriever wagged its fluffy tail, as if in agreement.

Ji An grasped the gourd-shaped stone in his hand, probed it with his divine sense, and entered the small world.

He suddenly remembered something and found an irregular yellow jade-colored stone the size of an egg in the cave stone.

This was a gift from Lin Lan. It didn't look like a mineral; he hadn't been able to figure out what it was when he was at the Golden Core stage.

Ji An pulled a chair to the table and sat down, focusing his spiritual sense to probe into it.

This time, the divine sense weakened much more slowly after entering the stone, allowing for a gradual exploration of its structure.

Although the exploration was slow, there were signs of success.

He shouted, "Ayun, light the incense and brew a pot of Jade Dew Golden Bud Tea."

(End of this chapter)