Chapter 209 Great Sun Fire
In just a few days, Ji An made enough pills for the Rock Armor Bear for six months.
He pressed the jade slip to his forehead, pondering the contents of the theory of the mutual assistance of the five elements in spirit beasts.
The secret method is indeed obscure and difficult to understand, but it is not entirely incomprehensible.
He has a broad knowledge of the Five Elements magic and has achieved considerable success in it. Nine Dao seeds have been nurtured in his acupoints. If he obtains the Ren Water Dao seed in the future, he will be perfect.
He pondered the meaning of "fire produces earth" carefully. The literal explanation was that fire burns and turns into ash, but he felt that it was not quite right.
Everything in the universe is in a cycle, encompassing everything in the world.
If you look at any one part in isolation, there's always a sense of disharmony.
Water nourishes wood, wood burns to produce fire, and ashes turn into dust and mud when they meet water, nurturing fertile soil.
Fire does not exist in isolation, so the formulas for making pills mostly contain wood-elemental ingredients, with fire-elemental spiritual items used as a catalyst.
Using the power of the wood element to make lamp oil and fire element materials as wicks, they are burned to create fire, thus purifying the fire element bloodline of the beast tamer.
This is only the first step. Next, we need to use the power of the formation to draw on the earth's veins, and at the same time, use the cooking fire power within the beast's body to nourish the earth element bloodline. Only in this way can we achieve harmony and complement each other.
Ji An felt a flash of inspiration and took out the jade slip containing the Spirit Sealing Technique to study it.
This spell has a profound understanding of the Five Elements' generating and restraining relationships, and it is quite helpful in understanding the theory of mutual support among the Five Elements.
After a long while, Ji An let out a soft sigh:
"It's more tiring than my own spiritual practice."
To achieve a state of harmony between fire and earth in the bloodline of the Rock Armor Bear, a proper balance must be maintained.
It sounds simple, but in practice, the dosage of the pills needs to be adjusted at any time.
We cannot use the pure bloodline pills on the Rock Armor Bear yet; we must wait until the magic array is in place.
At dusk, the cold pool shimmered with light, the shaded areas were emerald green, and the setting sun cast its slanting rays on half of the pool, making it appear orange-red.
A gentle breeze rippled the surface of the pond, shattering the reflections.
Ji An practiced the water control technique, and the water flow changed in countless ways under his control.
The blue water turtle squatted on the shallow water nearby, with a layer of floating ice beneath it.
The beast tamer could not fully control the demonic power, and the aura that escaped easily condensed water into ice.
Ji An caught a small fish about the length of a finger and tossed it to the blue water turtle.
The blue water turtle accurately opened its mouth and grabbed the fish's head, taking a bite and chewing slowly and carefully, displaying a calm and unhurried demeanor.
The golden retriever suddenly popped out from underground, barking urgently:
"Squeak!"
It straightened its body like a squirrel, its front paws moving rapidly.
Ji An frowned slightly, not understanding what had happened.
He took out the Beast Taming Token, about to communicate with the Spirit-Seeking Rat, when a shrill and ferocious scream came from not far away.
"Aww!"
He turned his head and saw the rock-armored bear rushing forward, with a large swarm of white jade bees attacking it from time to time.
"thump."
The rock bear jumped into the water and swam frantically toward them.
The white jade bees didn't let it go, stinging it until it screamed in pain.
Ji An channeled his magical power, using a cold wind spell to disperse the swarm of bees.
Sensing his presence, the swarm of bees rose up and buzzed away.
"What happened?"
Ji An looked at the rock armored bear, whose head was swollen like a pig's head, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had already guessed the general idea of what had happened.
The golden retriever burrowed into the ground and disappeared. The bear cub roared angrily, aggravating its injuries and letting out another wail.
Through the blood pact, the little bear gave a rough description.
The honey smelled so tempting that the little bear wanted to eat it, but he was afraid of being stung.
The golden retriever, a good friend, said that the rock bear has thick skin and flesh, so the white jade bees can't sting it at all, and offered to go out and keep watch to avoid being discovered by its owner and others.
The naive rock bear believed it and excitedly ran to the vicinity of the beehive, ready to have a feast.
As soon as it poked its bear paw into the hive, it received a warm response from the white jade bee colony.
How could a bear cub at only the first level of Qi Refining possibly be a match for a swarm of bees? It could only run away with its head in its hands, only to be chased and killed by the bees.
If your good friend can use earth magic, he can immediately escape.
Ji An realized that Rock Armor Bear had been completely tricked.
The golden retriever is a Foundation Establishment stage demon beast; it wouldn't be too difficult for it to steal honey.
The little bear is too young to understand the wickedness of a rat.
The blue water turtle slowly swallowed the spirit fish, completely unconcerned about anything else.
"Gah!"
Grey-feathered sand geese circled overhead, emitting gloating calls.
It had just seen the Rock Armored Bear and the Spirit-Seeking Rat sneaking into the Mulberry Field, so it flew in the air to observe and witnessed the whole thing.
"You dared to sneak a bite!"
Ji An slapped the bear hard on the back, which elicited several more screams.
He made a hand seal and released a beginner-level detoxification technique.
The effect wasn't strong, but it was still a consolation.
Ji An originally wanted to use the Rejuvenation spell, but fearing that the Rock Armor Bear would forget the pain once it recovered, he decided to let it suffer for a few more days so that it would learn its lesson.
The white jade bee does not leave a stinger when it stings; it only injects venom.
After a brief treatment, he waved for the bear cubs to leave.
The cries of pain startled Xia Yuhan. Feeling a pang of sorrow, she found some medicinal mud for treating insect bites and bandaged the rock bear.
Ye Changqing landed his flying shuttle at the edge of the cold pool and saw the Azure Water Turtle lazily sunbathing. He exclaimed in surprise:
"Is this also my junior brother's tamed beast? It looks quite unique!"
He had never seen a monster with light blue skin and a tortoise shell before.
He squinted and noticed the ice floes floating next to the turtle, which surprised him even more.
"This is what we got from Heilongtan a few days ago."
Ji An responded, at which moment he suddenly felt a sense of absurdity.
He and Liang Qiu killed the parents of the Azure Water Turtle, and now the Azure Water Turtle has recognized him as its master. The world has gone mad.
"Tsk tsk, some mutated monsters are far stronger than their counterparts. I think this one has potential."
The water-type monster mutated into an ice-attribute monster. Once it breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, its attacks will be inflicted with cold poison.
The longer the battle lasts, the more its power will be revealed.
"It only has potential; who knows how long it will take for it to grow."
"If it weren't for the Tianyuan pear seeds given to me by my senior, I wouldn't have had much confidence in raising them."
Ji An smiled and extended his hand, saying:
"Senior brother, please come inside to talk."
The Heavenly Origin Pear promotes the growth of aquatic monsters, which is the source of his confidence in raising the Azure Water Turtle.
He feeds the blue water turtle a small piece of Tianyuan pear every few days, and it grows rapidly, now doubling in size.
Once it breaks through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, it should be able to usher in the next round of ripening for the Heavenly Origin Pear.
The two entered the stone house and sat down. Xia Yuhan took out dried mulberries and dried meat to treat her guests.
Ye Changqing ate two pieces of dried meat and laughed:
"The seeds of the Tianyuan Pear are not particularly rare; Junior Brother, you can always find them if you want to."
Growing Tianyuan pears isn't a big deal; as long as the spirit field is fertile enough, it's fine.
The challenge lies in planting pear trees and getting them to bear fruit in a short period of time.
In the future, with so many high-level spiritual plants in Crimson Flame Peak, raising and taming beasts will become extremely easy for Junior Brother.
He quickly calculated the produce of Crimson Flame Peak in his mind: the Green Vine Tree produces wood-elemental spirit fruits, the Spirit Peach, Spirit Apricot, and Dragon Blood Tree produce fire-elemental spirit fruits, the Heavenly Origin Pear produces water-elemental spirit fruits, and the Earth Spirit Fruit Tree produces earth-elemental spirit fruits.
If we find another type of metal-elemental spirit wood, then the spirit wood here will have enough of the five elements.
Other spirit farmers in the sect are only good at cultivating one or two types of spirit plants. For example, Ge Ying is good at cultivating wood and fire element spirit plants, while Lin Mao is good at cultivating earth element spirit plants.
In the past few hundred years, the sect has only produced this one prodigy, who is currently proficient in cultivating four kinds of spiritual plants.
Ji An gently shook his head and said:
"Senior brother thinks too highly of me. I have too many beasts to keep, and I have no plans to raise another one now."
He didn't raise productive demonic beasts like spirit silkworms; his combat-type beasts were all gold-devouring beasts, which required even more resources to cultivate quickly.
With his current financial situation, he can't afford to suffer any setbacks.
"That's because you haven't encountered anything better yet. If you were to encounter a demon beast or rare beast with a Heavenly Bloodline, I don't believe you wouldn't be tempted."
Ye Changqing took out several array plates and said:
"The magic array has been completed."
"So fast? Only half a month."
Ji An was overjoyed and took the array plate to examine it.
"It was also luck; the day after you told me, a formation master came to ask if I had any missions."
If a Rock Armored Bear with both Fire and Earth elemental bloodlines were properly trained, who knows how ferocious it could become.
"Then it depends on whether the problem of blood ties can be solved."
"I have confidence in my junior brother."
After seeing Ye Changqing off, Ji An summoned Golden Fur and Rock Armor Bear, and together they searched for a place with abundant spiritual energy at the foot of Crimson Flame Peak.
This place is very close to the underground caves, making it convenient for tempering one's bloodline.
Array masters need to draw array patterns on a small area of array plate, making the creation of arrays quite difficult.
Setting up the formation is much simpler; you just need to bury the formation plate in the corresponding ground according to the formation diagram, which requires almost no thought.
Ji An buried the array plate, made hand seals to activate the array, and a faint yellow halo lit up.
As he stepped into the area covered by the array, he felt wisps of earth-elemental spiritual energy surrounding him.
He stepped out of the magic circle, fed the bear a pill, and then threw it back into the magic circle.
The rock bear loved its environment and happily lay down on the ground to play.
The golden retriever tilted its head suspiciously and cautiously stepped inside.
After a few breaths, it felt a little uncomfortable, so it jumped out and used earth magic to run away.
This magic array is designed to be highly targeted, only applicable to demonic beasts with both earth and fire bloodlines; other types of demonic beasts will not feel comfortable.
Ji An carefully observed the rock-armored bear's reaction. He noticed that its fur was faintly shimmering with golden light, and the tuft of red fur on its chest was glowing red, which was very strange.
Seeing this, he exclaimed:
"That's what professionalism is all about."
The sect's secret techniques seem to be very useful, at least for my beast tamer.
About fifteen minutes later, the little bear crawled out of the magic circle and ran away in a flash.
Ji An nodded slightly and decided to refine the pills every three days and check the results every half month to determine whether the dosage needed to be adjusted.
Time flies, and years leave no trace.
The pine nuts on Crimson Flame Peak are almost ripe; half a year has passed.
Xia Yuhan tiptoed and peered at Sangtian, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, her face showing anxiety.
"Sister, what are you looking at?"
Xia Yulian walked over carrying a bamboo basket and asked curiously.
She dug up some fresh bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, intending to make a dish of braised venison with fresh bamboo shoots for lunch.
"It's almost noon, and Uncle-Master hasn't had breakfast yet."
Normally, Ji An's cultivation would end around 9:45 AM, but today, for some reason, it took much longer than expected.
Improving one's cultivation level is a gradual process; the increase in cultivation time will not suddenly increase this much.
Xia Yuhan was somewhat worried, suspecting that Ji An had encountered some mishap in his cultivation.
Xia Yulian put down her bamboo basket and looked into the mulberry field. She noticed that the usual shimmering green color was not there, and she became somewhat worried.
"Shall we go take a look?"
“I just rode the talisman bird to take a look from afar and didn’t find anything wrong.”
Because I was worried that my martial uncle was at some critical moment, I didn't dare to get close.
At this moment, Ji An felt as if he had transformed into a towering tree, growing vigorously and stretching his branches and leaves freely in the sunlight.
In the sunlight, wisps of almost invisible golden light were drawn into his nostrils along with the spiritual energy.
As the spiritual energy flowed through the immortal veins, it suddenly shone brightly for a moment when it passed through the Zhiyang acupoint.
After several cycles, the spiritual energy was refined into a drop of shimmering, vibrant magical power.
When the magical power flowed into his dantian and dripped into the sea of magical power, Ji An felt a tremor throughout his body and withdrew from his cultivation state.
He slowly exhaled, carefully savoring the rhythm he had felt during his cultivation.
What do plants need to grow? They need to take root in the earth, be nourished by rain, and, of course, receive sunlight.
The sun, representing Yang, transforms into the power of Bing Fire, providing vitality to all things.
Therefore, the spiritual energy that the Evergreen Wood Technique can draw upon is not three types, but rather four!
Ji Andun felt as if something strange was taking root and sprouting in his sea of consciousness, as if the universe had exploded.
The mysterious rhythm gradually dissipated, and he caught a glimpse of the shadow of the mulberry tree on the ground, which startled him.
Looking up at the sky, I realized that the sun was about to reach its zenith; it was noon.
When he came to his senses, he felt his stomach rumbling loudly, and hunger surged towards him like a rising tide.
Ji An grinned; he finally understood the significance of the Bigu Pill.
Today he started his cultivation at dawn and ended it near noon, extending his cultivation time to three hours.
Starting from the Chaoyuan stage, cultivators can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to replenish themselves, but the replenishment is still not enough to keep up with the consumption.
He can now meditate for three hours at a time. How long can those high-level cultivators last in one session?
If you don't take fasting pills and are bothered by hunger while cultivating, don't be too upset.
Ji An unleashed his magical power and flew towards the cold pool.
Xia Yuhan saw the familiar figure appear and shouted:
"Quickly, Uncle-Master is back, serve the dishes."
The two sisters rushed to the kitchen and brought out the spiritual food that had been kept warm in a food box.
Ji An devoured the food in a flash, then drank a glass of second-grade pine nut wine, nodded in satisfaction, and felt comfortable.
Aoki's Changchun Kung Fu improved once again, which made him very happy.
With a deeper understanding of the techniques and their divine meanings, the speed at which one refines spiritual energy will increase again, and the rate at which one's cultivation level improves will also increase.
A smile appeared on Ji An's lips as he wondered when he could break through to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, and whether he would do so before his senior brother Liu Yu.
Just as he was lost in his thoughts, a flying boat swept into Crimson Flame Peak.
On the flying boat, the female cultivator in the light green silk dress suddenly widened her eyes and exclaimed in a low voice:
"Why are there so many second-tier spirit trees here!"
Under the sunlight, the emerald green and fiery red shimmered, making them exceptionally eye-catching.
(End of this chapter)
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