Chapter 310: Ice Soul Divine Stone
In the early morning, fog shrouded the mountain gate.
After Ning Daoran and other new disciples finished their meal, they stood upright in the courtyard in groups of fifty, waiting for the managers and stewards at the outer gate of Lieyang Taoist Palace to come and select people.
This group of people were indeed extremely picky, just like selecting livestock in the market, they looked at the bone age, the spiritual root attributes, and even the quality of the teeth.
The fifty people were quickly picked away one by one, and in the end only a dozen young men including Ning Daoran were still waiting.
Some of the young men have already shown signs of impatience and anxiety. They have already learned some secrets in advance from their guides. The sooner the outer disciples are picked, the better, as this means that they have better physique and talent.
And the outer disciples who are left behind and still unwanted by anyone will most likely become menial servants. If they become menial servants, their path to becoming immortals will be extremely slim, and they may only be reduced to tools used by the inner disciples, being driven around at will and having no dignity at all.
"Uncle Master, this is it."
Outside, the voice of an outer sect manager was heard, and immediately, all the outer sect disciples who were waiting looked over with anticipation.
A hunched figure appeared at the circular archway. He was an outer sect elder wearing a grey robe, who was in the late stage of foundation building. He looked very old and frail, as if he might have to eat at any time.
Wu Qingyuan, the elder of the outer sect medicine garden, was once praised as a natural farming saint. As a result, he really had been growing spiritual medicines and spiritual rice for more than a hundred years. The Taoist Palace did not waste his talent at all.
"Why are they all fire spirit roots?"
Wu Qingyuan scanned the area and finally stopped at Ning Daoran: "Huh? It turns out to be a mixed spiritual root. In addition to the fire sensitivity reaching the fifth level, the wood sensitivity has also reached the sixth level?"
He was overjoyed, pointed at Ning Daoran's nose and said to the steward beside him with a smile: "This boy is like me, let's pick him!"
"good."
The steward looked at the list and said, "Ning Cheng, you will go to the medicine garden with Uncle Wizard to take care of the spiritual herbs and plants. Are you willing?"
That's very much my wish.
Ning Daoran stayed in Lieyang Taoist Palace with no intention of making great progress, breaking into the inner sect, or learning the true teachings. He was just waiting for the opportunity. Historically, the people guarding the medicine gardens in the major sects were the least noticeable. It just so happened that he also needed a place to practice the Dragon Demon Heart Sutra properly, so the medicine garden was simply not his second choice!
"Disciple is willing!"
"Very good, follow Uncle Master!"
…
Wu Qingyuan summoned a flying boat and carried Ning Daoran across the mountains.
He was hunched over, leaning on a cane, and said without turning his head: "Xiao Ningzi, this Lieyang Taoist Palace is not like the outside world. There is a restriction every five miles, and a formation every ten miles. You can't run around day or night, otherwise you will be beaten to death if you are caught~~~"
Ning Daoran's scalp tingled: "Yes, Grandpa... Oh no, it's Uncle Wizard!"
Soon after, we arrived at the medicine garden.
There are more than ten layers of restrictions on the outside, and there is also a third-order formation hidden underground. Although the formation has not been activated, Ning Daoran can naturally find it at a glance with his cultivation level.
Wu Qingyuan was in charge of Medicine Garden No. 66, which had only two houses. Wu Qingyuan himself sought peace and quiet by living in the courtyard at the back, while Ning Daoran's residence was the gatehouse at the door, which was very simple and could only provide shelter from wind and rain.
Fortunately, he didn't care. After all, his place of cultivation was Lingpu Cave Heaven, so he didn't have any requirements for the accommodation environment outside.
Wu Qingyuan handed over the forbidden jade slips for guarding the medicine garden, plus a thick book of spiritual medicine care notes, and then waved his hand and left: "You take good care of the medicine garden, I will go and play."
Good fellow, he is actually a hands-off boss! Ning Daoran was a little speechless, so he wandered around the medicine garden and found that there were large areas of purple blood ginseng, ground ganoderma, and heart-condensing grass in the medicine garden. Although they were only second-level herbs, these three herbs were the main ingredients of the foundation-building pill!
It is indeed the Lieyang Dao Palace! A sect at the level of the top ten immortal gates is different.
Ning Daoran secretly speculated that based on the reserves of spiritual medicine in this medicine garden, the Lieyang Taoist Palace would definitely not be short of Foundation Establishment Pills. In other words, no matter whether they were inner or outer disciples, as long as they reached the standards for Foundation Establishment, they could basically get a Foundation Establishment Pill!
This is also the reason why Lieyang Taoist Palace has Nascent Soul, as well as a large number of Golden Core and Foundation Establishment cultivators. The abundance of resources means that the disciples of Lieyang Taoist Palace don’t need to worry about the Foundation Establishment Pill at all, and they may not even need to worry too much about the Luochen Pill!
"I'm... "
Ning Daoran was speechless. If the Chaos Sect also had such a foundation, the senior sister back then and the junior sister today would not have had such a hard time. Even many of the deceased brothers and sisters might not have needed to wander around. They could have stayed in the sect and naturally advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage, or even the Golden Core stage.
The breeze swayed the herbs, many of which were ripe and their seeds were blooming.
Very good, Ning Daoran showed two rows of snow-white teeth. It was just right for him to supplement the essence of Lingpu Cave Heaven. For example, the main ingredients of the Foundation Establishment Pill. Ning Daoran could take half of the seeds and plant them in Lingpu Cave Heaven. No one would notice. At most, he could say that they were blown down by the wind and no one would care.
He swept through the area quickly and collected half of the seeds of most rare spiritual medicines.
The feeling of stealing from an employer was so pleasant that he felt very satisfied.
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The next day, early morning.
"Xiao Ningzi!"
Early in the morning, Wu Qingyuan kicked open the small door of the room, threw a small bag to Ning Daoran, and said, "I have brought back your outer disciples' things for you. Keep them well and practice well!"
"Okay, thank you Uncle Wizard!"
Ning Daoran opened the bag and found a lot of treasures inside.
A jade talisman for the identity of an outer disciple, a storage bag, four sets of outer disciple clothes, one hundred spirit stones, a mid-grade magic weapon, and a jade slip that copied a part of the Nine Yang Furnace Secret Art.
"I'll go..."
After Ning Daoran bid farewell to Wu Qingyuan, he immediately checked the contents recorded in the jade slip, but was slightly startled. What was recorded in it was the first four chapters of the Nine Yang Furnace Divine Art!
The Nine Yang Furnace Secret Art is divided into six chapters. According to the rules of the Lieyang Taoist Palace, outer disciples can practice the first to fourth chapters, while inner disciples add the fifth chapter. As for the sixth chapter, it is also the most important chapter, covering such peak mental methods as "Nine Yang Returning to One" and "Nine Suns in the Same Sky", so only true disciples and the palace masters and deputy palace masters of all generations are qualified to practice it.
After obtaining the sixth chapter, you will have the complete Nine Yang Furnace Secret.
However, what he practiced in Chaos Sect back then was only the first three chapters of the Nine Yang Furnace Secret Art.
Thinking of this, Ning Daoran thought of the elder Gong Yang Yan who was practicing the True Yang Furnace Art, and of Senior Brothers Lin Sheng, Lin Zhuojun and others, and tears suddenly appeared in the corners of his eyes.
Comparing yourself to others will only make you angry! Great elder, brothers, it turns out that the outer disciples of the Lieyang Dao Palace have a much more complete cultivation method than ours! He silently made up his mind that after he obtained the complete Nine Yang Furnace Divine Art and cultivated it to the point of returning to its original state, he must simplify the mysteries in it, modify it slightly, and develop a new True Yang Furnace Art, and then secretly pass it to the people of the True Yang Peak of the Chaos Sect, so that the Eastern Wilderness Cultivation World will know that the True Yang Furnace Art of my Chaos Sect is also invincible! Thinking of this, he felt a little better!
So, Ning Daoran calmed down, stopped thinking about all sorts of things, and concentrated on practicing in the medicine garden.
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There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Time flies, and four years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Ning Daoran was 214 years old this year. After practicing intensively for a long time and practicing high-quality True Blood Pills, his Dragon Demon Heart Sutra had been steadily advanced to the twelfth level. His body was further tempered, and his foundation became extremely profound.
In addition, he adjusted his cultivation level of "Ning Cheng" to the seventh level of Qi Refining, and has already entered the late stage of Qi Refining.
Not long after he adjusted his realm, an outer sect elder came to the medicine garden and handed Ning Daoran a jade talisman, saying, "Ning Cheng, you have now been promoted to the late stage of Qi Refining. It is time for you to make some contributions to the Dao Palace. You have been given an opportunity to go to Hanpo Valley for training. Report to the outer sect before noon tomorrow. Don't be late or don't go, otherwise you will bear the consequences."
Ning Daoran held the token, looking confused.
"well……"
Not far away, Wu Qingyuan, who was holding a pile of purple jade rice straw, shook his head and said to himself: "It's time to go to the outer gate and pick a new person to take care of the medicine garden~~~"
"ah?"
Ning Daoran was speechless. I'm not dead yet. How can I say such things directly? "Uncle Wizard, what does this training in Hanpo Valley mean?"
"You'll know when you go there tomorrow."
Wu Qingyuan looked at him as if he were a dead person.
“…”
Ning Daoran was speechless for a while, but he was not worried. He was a great cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core, with a set of unique skills of returning to nature, and the twenty-one levels of the Evergreen Art and the twelve levels of the Dragon Demon Heart Sutra. He was afraid of nothing. He could go through mountains of swords and seas of fire, not to mention a mere Hanpo Valley, which he had been to before.
…
The next day, he put on the uniform of an outer sect disciple and went to the outer sect to gather.
There were about a hundred outer disciples gathered in the outer sect hall, and basically none of them knew Ning Daoran.
"Hey, this junior fellow looks unfamiliar. Which school is he from?"
"I?"
Ning Daoran said respectfully: "This senior brother, I am from Ningcheng, and I am from Medicine Garden No. 66."
"Medicine Garden disciple?"
The senior brother patted his shoulder with a look of heartache: "Junior brother, live well, it is better than anything else..."
Ning Daoran was speechless again.
Not long after, an outer sect elder in the late stage of foundation building appeared and said in a deep voice: "Listen carefully, Hanpo Valley is the forbidden area of our Lieyang Dao Palace. The training in Hanpo Valley is the only way for every Lieyang Dao Palace disciple. Don't be careless when you enter Hanpo Valley. You must use the Nine Suns Furnace Divine Art to resist the cold. Your target is the Ice Soul Divine Stone formed by the essence of heaven and earth in Hanpo Valley. Look carefully, it is this thing."
The elder took out an egg-sized azure blue gem. The gem was chilling and cold. The elder said calmly, "The more Ice Soul Divine Stones you get, the higher the points you will get in this training. When you have enough points, you can join the inner sect!"
Suddenly, a group of outer disciples were eager to try, their eyes shining.
"Hey, what is this Ice Soul Divine Stone used for?" a disciple asked in a low voice.
Immediately, a senior brother said in a deep voice: "When the Nine Suns Furnace Divine Art is cultivated to the later stage, the fire attribute power is too strong and it will form something called 'fire poison'. The Ice Soul Divine Stone is used to dissolve the fire poison."
"Oh, so that's how it is..." The disciple suddenly realized.
Ning Daoran frowned, and suddenly realized that it was the same inside and outside, and the ten major immortal sects would also let ordinary disciples be cannon fodder!
(End of this chapter)