After Shen Yuan uttered the word "Yellow River", Sun Lanyu's original joy at receiving the Dragon Palace's edict completely turned into fear.
The Yellow River and the True Dragon, these two words can be combined into one. There is no doubt that there is only the Yellow River Dragon Palace in the entire Xuanhuang Realm.
Although everyone puts the Four Rivers in the same position, Sun Lanyu, who was born into a clan of servants in the Jidu Dragon Palace, knows very well that the differences in levels between the Four Rivers are far greater than outsiders imagine.
In particular, the Yellow River Dragon Palace, as the first of the Four Rivers, has a long history and heritage. The River God who once ruled the water creatures in the previous generation came from the Yellow River.
If the Heavenly Court had not intentionally weakened the influence of the Yellow River and supported the other three Dragon Palaces, the Four Dragon Palaces would not have existed at all.
The Yellow River Dragon Palace is the common ruler of all aquatic creatures in the world.
Today, the Jidu Dragon Seal has appeared in a secret place within the Yellow River, and there is a real dragon guarding it. This almost means that the Yellow River Dragon Palace has fully intervened in the affairs of the Jidu Dragon Palace.
"Could it be that the Yellow River Dragon Palace has begun to be dissatisfied with the Jidu Dragon Palace?"
"Or maybe the Yellow River Dragon Palace has been cut off from the Heavenly Palace for ten thousand years, and is preparing to take back the authority of the leader of the aquatic tribe, and the first target is the Jidu Dragon Palace?"
At this moment, Sun Lanyu looked at the Dragon Palace Decree in his hand and he no longer had the previous enthusiasm.
Now, in his eyes, this Dragon Palace decree has become a nuclear bomb that could explode at any time.
This involves a struggle between the two dragon palaces. If a small character like him is involved, he will surely be crushed to pieces.
Sun Lanyu did not doubt the truthfulness of Shen Yuan's words.
Because the Dragon Palace Edict can determine the authenticity of information, every word of Shen Yuan was confirmed by the Dragon Palace Edict.
Even if we take a step back and say that other information could have been deliberately fabricated by Shen Yuan, the news about the real dragon could never be forged.
Sun Lanyu felt a chill in his heart and regretted immensely for taking on this task.
"If I could go back a few hours, I would never get involved in this matter even if I was beaten to death."
Sun Lanyu clenched his teeth, his eyes turned red, and he didn't know what to do for a moment.
"That's right! Since he knows so much information, maybe he can help us find a solution!"
Sun Lanyu's eyes lit up, and he quickly sent a message to try to continue using intimidation and inducement.
However, the next moment, the huge red exclamation mark was once again imprinted in Sun Lanyu's eyes.
"From today on, this pond will be called the Yellow River Spirit Pond."
Shen Yuan pointed seriously at the huge stone he had just carved by the pond and introduced it to the fish and the cat in front of him.
Shen Yuan casually built the Yellow River Spirit Pool to create trouble for Sun Lanyu. He didn't care what Sun Lanyu and the Jidu Dragon Palace behind him would think and directly put him on the blacklist.
Since the Sutra Library and the Enlightenment Array have already been built, there is no need for Shen Yuan to continue to focus his energy on the Tao Forum.
If Sun Lanyu hadn't insisted on making threats, Shen Yuan wouldn't have spent so much time and effort to come up with these things.
For Shen Yuan, the most urgent task at the moment is to sort out what he has gained from the Wen Dao Forum.
Thinking of this, Shen Yuan immediately returned to the house, ready to try some preliminary learning while tidying up.
Having just been promoted to the Qi Transformation Realm, Shen Yuan does need to supplement some basic knowledge in the cultivation world.
But what Shen Yuan didn't expect was that it would take more than a month just to do the initial organization and study.
In front of the stone table in the courtyard, the weather has gradually turned cooler, and the leaves of the jujube tree have gradually turned yellow and fallen off. The leaves have fallen to the ground and formed a layer of carpet on the floor.
But whether intentionally or unintentionally, not a single fallen leaf from the jujube trees fell on the stone table beneath the trees.
The branches and leaves swaying gently in the breeze accurately avoided falling onto the stone table to avoid disturbing Shen Yuan who was standing in front of the stone table.
At this moment, Shen Yuan was holding a delicate knife and carving an exquisite puppet head.
The knife imbued with magic power easily cut the wood in his hand, embellishing it with exquisite inscriptions. The palm-sized puppet began to develop a different kind of vitality.
After a long time, he slowly put down the knife and slowly placed the puppet head in his hand on the puppet body that had already been made beside him.
Simple circular joints connect the arms and thighs, and wooden mechanical parts transmit power through gears. On its back, a huge spirit gathering formation is constantly absorbing and exhaling the rich spiritual energy around it.
As the puppet's head returned to its place, the puppet seemed to be endowed with some kind of alien vitality, and its joint-driven arms began to slowly rise.
“Crack!”
Suddenly, a dull shattering sound was heard, and a crack spread directly from the puppet's arm to the chest. The alien vitality on the puppet disappeared instantly.
The inscription collapsed and the entire puppet was completely damaged.
Seeing this, Shen Yuan couldn't help but frowned and sighed:
"Sure enough, ordinary wood is still not enough to support the making of puppets."
Shen Yuan waved his hand, and a space crack appeared, swallowing all the puppet remains.
After doing all this, Shen Yuan slowly stood up and looked at the jujube tree whose yellow leaves were slowly falling.
“There is no time limit for cultivation!”
Shen Yuan sighed softly.
More than a month has passed since the Sutra Library was built and the Enlightenment Array was obtained.
During this month, Shen Yuan did not go out, but began to classify and organize the more than 11,000 volumes of cultivation classics and documents, selecting those that he could use to learn the hundreds of arts of cultivation.
Among the more than 10,000 cultivation books, there are corresponding introductory books on weapon refining, alchemy, formations, talismans, spiritual plants, and puppets. However, the lower-level skills often involve the core secrets of many books, so they are basically incomplete. After learning this, Shen Yuan gave up the idea of studying in depth.
After all, Shen Yuan's research into the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation was essentially just to complete the main quest, and he would only need to dabble in the six major categories of immortal cultivation skills.
In the areas of refining equipment, refining pills, formations, and spiritual plants, Shen Yuan can be said to have made considerable progress.
The first thing was refining equipment. Shen Yuan knew very well that it was impossible for him to specialize in a single cultivation skill, so he was prepared to specialize in a certain direction during his research.
Since there is the Hutian magical power that can create storage magic tools, Shen Yuan naturally chose to make storage magic tools.
In fact, the production of storage magic tools is not a very difficult skill in cultivating immortals. The real difficulty lies in the need for void mines to open up space.
However, the reserves of void ore are scarce, and several times of spiritual energy depletion have made the current void mines almost completely abandoned. They can only be collected from outer space, which also leads to the scarcity of storage magic tools.
In order to make better use of the limited remaining void ore, the master weapon refiners showed their skills and left behind many techniques for making storage instruments, striving to use the least amount of void ore to create larger and more stable storage instruments.
The ideas left by these weapon-refining masters gave Shen Yuan great inspiration. In addition, Shen Yuan did not need to consume precious void ore to open up space, so he had no scruples about practicing and producing in this area.
Through repeated experiments, Shen Yuan gradually mastered the inscriptions and formations that stabilized the space, and tried to integrate them into the Hu Tian magical power.
With the study of those space inscriptions and formations, and the use of spiritual objects to create storage instruments, Shen Yuan was able to easily get started in the art of instrument training, and his understanding of the Hutian magical power also made a step forward.
During this process, the enlightenment and blessing brought by the Saint Enlightenment Array played a huge role in Shen Yuan, allowing Shen Yuan, who was originally only average in terms of comprehension, to become a genius in refining equipment.
As for the way of alchemy, Shen Yuan does not have so many shortcuts to take. For alchemy, Shen Yuan only has two words prepared.
Spend money!
Using the flesh and blood of the giant dragon monster in the Qi training stage to refine the most basic Qi and blood pill, there is no one more extravagant than Shen Yuan in the entire cultivation world.
In fact, Shen Yuan himself had no choice. The spiritual energy tide had just returned, and the spiritual plants were of low value and low yield, so he could not produce the materials for alchemy.
In order to complete the main task as soon as possible, Shen Yuan had no choice but to grit his teeth and choose to use the dragon's flesh and blood to make pills.
The flesh and blood of the more than ten-meter-long dragon was consumed rapidly, but Shen Yuan also made rapid progress in alchemy.
From the initial furnace explosion and waste of pills to the current state where one furnace of materials can make eight Qi and Blood Pills, Shen Yuan has successfully relied on his own financial resources to master the art of alchemy.
Strictly speaking, the art of formation is the most difficult of the six major skills, because it places the most emphasis on inheritance and talent.
But for Shen Yuan, the formation is actually the simplest.
With the blessing of the Holy Enlightenment Array, Shen Yuan's study of the array was as if he had divine help.
In addition, among the more than 11,000 volumes of cultivation books, there are more than 400 volumes that involve formations, which are enough to cover all basic formations and inscriptions. This solved Shen Yuan's worries and allowed Shen Yuan to successfully get started with formations half a month ago.
When it comes to spiritual plants, Shen Yuan has unique advantages.
For low-level spiritual plants, the most important thing is spiritual energy. As long as there is enough spiritual energy, they can withstand any environment and pests. And what the secret courtyard has the most is spiritual energy.
After burying the spiritual plant seeds that the Fu family had sent several times in a spiritual field opened up in the courtyard, the spiritual plants easily took root and sprouted under the rich spiritual energy.
Relying on the advantages of the spiritual field conditions, Shen Yuan successfully achieved the entry level of spiritual plant skills in the main mission.
At this point, among the six major skills, only talismans and puppets were left to be mastered.
In fact, Shen Yuan has also conducted sufficient practical research on these two types of skills in the past month. The real reason that bothered Shen Yuan and prevented him from getting started was the lack of materials.
Talismans require spiritual paper, spiritual pen, and spiritual ink.
Spiritual ink can be made from dragon blood, so Shen Yuan actually has no shortage of materials in this regard.
However, spiritual paper and spiritual pens require special skills and materials, and Shen Yuan can't find any usable substitutes at the moment.
As for puppets, Shen Yuan can certainly use extraordinary skills, but making puppets requires some special spiritual wood that can guide spiritual power.
And due to the size of the puppet, the amount of spiritual wood required is not small.
Considering the current level of recovery of spiritual energy tide, these spiritual woods are difficult to buy even if you have money.
In desperation, Shen Yuan could only make modifications based on his own experience in formation, hoping to create a puppet that could be driven by ordinary wood.
But the current results are obvious, such an experiment has failed.
“Among wealth, Dharma, land, and companion, wealth comes first for a reason.”
Shen Yuan sighed, the space in his right hand twisted slightly, and the next moment a gorgeous gilded invitation card appeared in his hand.
This is an invitation sent by Xue Mingzhi a few days ago. It is said that several hidden sects have cooperated with the demon clan to open a cultivation market in Yunfu Mountain, and this invitation is the one sent by the hidden sects to major families and geniuses.
The invitation sent by Xue Mingzhi was the one for the Xue family, but Xue Mingzhi gave it to Shen Yuan.
"The market? There should be quite a few good things there. It shouldn't be a problem to gather the spiritual objects needed for talismans and puppets.
But before I go, there are still some things I need to take care of.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the magic power in Shen Yuan's body boiled, and a large amount of spiritual energy began to rapidly flow into Shen Yuan's body. His long hair danced lightly in the wind.
As the invisible barrier was broken, Shen Yuan's aura suddenly changed, and the abundant spiritual energy instantly turned into magic power to fill his dantian.
The middle stage of Qi transformation, accomplished!