The topic of Shenhua Xianning came to an end. Qin Ran and Mr. Zhai drank a few cups of tea, ate some snacks and fruits, and chatted about other topics.
I don’t know if it’s been a while since Mr. Zhai had such a chat with anyone. He was quite interested and even took out the chessboard to play chess with Qin Ran.
"Mr. Zhai can refine fourth-grade pills..." Qin Ran asked, "Does he already become a fourth-grade Qigong practitioner?"
"No." Mr. Zhai sighed, "Those of us who make pills have to face the pain of breaking through the realm throughout our lives. Using pills to improve our cultivation will always have a weak foundation, and it is inevitable that we will lack stamina when breaking through the realm. I have been stuck at the level of a third-grade Qigong practitioner for hundreds of years."
"Sir, you look very young..." Qin Ran said halfway, then reacted and smiled, "Sir, you are actually very young too, it's still early. You will definitely be able to break through in the future."
In the cultivation system of Tianhai Realm, only those who cultivate the body will be limited in lifespan. The first and second grades are all irrelevant to mortals, and it is not until the third and fourth grades, which is equivalent to the Nascent Soul Transformation, that the lifespan will be significantly improved.
The lifespan of Qigong practitioners is generally very long, no different from that of the cultivators in Lingnan Region.
As for the soul cultivators... they are all cultivating their spirits and souls and don't care about the lifespan of their physical bodies at all.
Therefore, even if Mr. Zhai may be several hundred years old, he is still very young. Isn't the Yuanying stage of several hundred years old the time of youth?
"Not really..." Mr. Zhai sighed, "I'm old now."
Qin Ran did not ask more questions about this issue. After he placed the chess piece on the board, he asked, "Sir, you can refine a fourth-grade elixir with your third-grade cultivation. Your alchemy skills must be very high... May I ask, sir, how do I refine a fourth-grade Dragon Breath Pill?"
Mr. Zhai's hand holding the chess piece trembled when he heard this, and he looked up at Qin Ran: "Island Master really going to ask Brother Li to help him refine the Dragon Breath Pill?"
"Haha... I can't hide it from Mr. Zhai." Qin Ran said with a smile.
Mr. Zhai dropped the chess piece in his hand, and he sighed, saying, "In fact, even with my cultivation level of a peak third-grade Qigong practitioner, I still find it difficult to refine a fourth-grade Whale Breath Pill. Brother Li is a second-grade practitioner, and even if he practices Qigong and Spiritual Refining, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to refine a fourth-grade Dragon Breath Pill?"
If Qin Ran remembered correctly, the island owner said that Mr. Zhai judged that he could refine the fourth-grade pill, so the island owner came to him to refine the Dragon Breath Pill.
But he smiled and sighed, "The island owner has invited me, and I can't refuse. So I have no choice but to ask Mr. Zhai for help."
Mr. Zhai picked up a white chess piece and rubbed it in his hand, his face looking rather heavy.
"If Brother Li really wants to refine the Dragon Breath Pill..." After a long while, he slowly spoke, "You have two major difficulties."
He looked at Qin Ran and placed his pieces on the chessboard. "First, how to deal with dragon blood. A true dragon is a divine beast. Even if it is just a drop of its blood, it is not something you and I can easily bear. How can you extract all the impurities of the dragon's brutality and divinity from the dragon's blood while being suppressed by the true dragon? If any of it is not extracted cleanly, not to mention whether the elixir can be successfully refined, other spiritual medicines will also be contaminated by the dragon's blood.
"Secondly, this pill is called Dragon Whale Pill. Why isn't it called Dragon Breath Pill and Whale Breath Pill? It's because after the two pills are refined, they have to be used as ingredients to refine a new pill. And because the two pills have to be integrated into one, the potency, properties, quality, etc. of the two pills must be absolutely consistent. Once there's a mistake, the pill will fail."
He finally said, "When fusing the elixir, you need to withstand the suppression of dragon breath and whale breath at the same time... Although I can complete this step, if you make a mistake in that step, not only will the elixir be damaged, but I may also die."
Qin Ran's expression suddenly turned serious.
But...it was none of his business whether Mr. Zhai lived or died. What he was thinking was, using elixirs as medicinal materials to refine elixirs? It was a very novel idea, and it was worth studying.
"The key is to extract the dragon blood..." he said, "In addition to using alchemy techniques and elixir to purify the dragon blood, can't we use other medicinal materials to balance the dragon blood?"
Mr. Zhai shook his head and explained to Qin Ran, “This pill itself needs to ensure that the medicinal properties and efficacy of other medicinal materials are not suppressed by the dragon blood. The proportions, medicinal materials, and age ratios are all absolutely accurate. If medicinal materials that suppress dragon blood are added at this time, then it is unknown what changes will occur between the newly added medicinal materials and the original medicinal materials.
"The changes in between must be an astronomical figure that is difficult to calculate."
Qin Ran was someone who often played around with pharmacology, and he understood the meaning of Mr. Zhai’s words.
"It seems that there are too many difficulties in refining the Dragon Breath Pill." He sighed.
"I don't know how much time the island master has given you. If it's long enough, I suggest you reach the third level of Qi training first." Mr. Zhai said, "Or you can find a way to suppress the dragon blood without affecting the efficacy of other medicines."
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Qin Ran replied: "The island owner said one or two years..."
Mr. Zhai looked at Qin Ran and played several moves before saying, "Don't worry about it. He can wait for eight or ten years."
“…” Qin Ran was speechless.
Mr. Zhai was a very skilled chess player. Qin Ran was completely defeated in several games. Both sides lost interest.
After resigning to defeat in another round, Qin Ran stood up and looked at the bookshelves on both sides. He was surprised to find that the bookshelves on the third floor were filled with cultivation methods. There were visualization methods, breathing methods, and qigong methods.
He pointed to the books on the shelf and asked Mr. Zhai, "Sir, can I take a look at the books on the shelf?"
Mr. Zhai looked up, smiled at Qin Ran, and said, "Brother Li is from the Seven Islands, so he must have seen countless magical techniques. I'm sure you are not interested in these crude techniques."
...This means rejection.
Well, how could someone just show others their treasured martial arts skills?
Qin Ran sighed in his heart, and secretly hated: "I am from the Land of Immortals! I have never seen the skills you have here! I don't have much knowledge..."
"What do you mean by vulgar martial arts?" He shook his head and said, "Mr. Zhai is wrong. In fact, there is no difference between high and low martial arts, only between the people who practice them."
"Then go ahead and read it!" Mr. Zhai said with a smile, "But you have to be careful. If you read too much of the exercises, you may go astray."
“…”
Qin Ran looked at Mr. Zhai and saw the faint smile on his face. Then he realized that Mr. Zhai, who was always very serious, was playing a joke on him.
He shook his head and reached out to take a book on Qigong from the bookshelf.
Daoyin Gong is the practice method used by Qigong practitioners.
The technique that Qin Ran got was called the Tidal Guiding Technique.
He took the book and stood beside the bookshelf to read. It didn't take long for him to finish reading the book on Qigong.
After putting the technique back on the bookshelf, he frowned, not knowing whether it was because this technique was too low-level, or because the Qi-guiding technique of the Tianhai Domain was itself relatively low-level, this "Tidal Guiding Technique" was far less sophisticated than the cultivation techniques of the Lingnan Domain.
After a pause, he changed to another Qigong technique, but after reading it, he found that it was still a very crude technique.
This continued for four or five books, and Kieran could draw a rough conclusion that the guiding skills of the Tianhai Domain were far inferior to the cultivation techniques of the Lingnan Domain.
So he gave up watching the Daoyin exercises.
After searching carefully on the bookshelf again, Qin Ran finally found a legendary visualization method used to cultivate the soul and refine the spirit.
The visualization method he got was called "The Great Sun Visualization Method". When he opened the first page, he saw a picture on both sides of the book - a huge sun rising from the sea level.
This painting was extremely vivid, lifelike in the truest sense of the word. And it must have been painted with a special technique, because even if it was just a picture on a book, Kieran could feel its temperature and even its brightness.
He turned to the second page, which taught how to practice using visualization diagrams.
After carefully reading the second page, Qin Ran turned back to the first page. He looked at the picture on the page, slowly closed his eyes, and replayed the picture in his mind.
As he sketched the picture in his mind, his sea of consciousness seemed to really turn into the sea, and at the edge of his sea of consciousness, a huge sun rose up.
…exactly like the picture on the page.
After the sun rose in the sea of consciousness, his soul residing in the sea of consciousness was illuminated by the light emitted by the sun, and he suddenly felt warm all over, as if his real body was basking in the sun.
"Getting stronger!!"
Qin Ran sensed that under the shining of the sun in his sea of consciousness, his soul was getting stronger little by little. Although the increase was small, it was indeed getting stronger.
He couldn't help but feel ecstatic.
"Although I am just a clone, I can also practice and become stronger... In this sea, I can shout out 'one piece'! I want to be the Pirate King!"
However……
He was happy for less than two seconds when he suddenly felt a burning sensation on his body. Then, he felt as if he was thrown into the fire, and his whole body was burning with pain!
"What's going on?!"
He was horrified. Just as he thought, he was just a clone and this body was just water. How could he feel pain?
He soon realized that it was not his body that was hurting, but his soul!
Under the shining sun of the sea of consciousness, the soul seemed to be surrounded by flames. "What's going on?" His mind raced, "Has he gone astray? Is his soul too strong?"
Then he thought...
Big Sun, Big Sun, Big Sun Visualization Method! That must be the purest fire attribute visualization method. And he is water attribute!
He actually practiced the "Great Sun Visualization Method"!
After figuring it out, Qin Ran immediately forced himself out of the state of visualization.
But for some reason, it was extremely easy for him to be in the state of visualization, but it was really difficult to exit. Even if he opened his eyes, the sun would appear in his sea of consciousness intentionally or unintentionally, burning his soul.
He stood in front of the bookshelf and forced himself to concentrate for a long time before he completely drove the big sun out of his mind.
"It is said that every soul refiner will be extra cautious when looking at his first visualization method. This is because the first visualization diagram that a soul refiner sees is more likely to be imprinted on his sea of consciousness. Generally speaking, the first visualization method that a soul refiner sees will be his innate visualization method."
Mr. Zhai's voice suddenly sounded. Qin Ran turned around and saw Mr. Zhai sitting by the window, smiling at him gently.
"???"
That smile gave Qin Ran a huge sense of crisis: Mr. Zhai's words...did he discover something? !
Seeing Qin Ran looking at him, Mr. Zhai nodded politely. He smiled and asked Qin Ran, “I don’t have the talent for spiritual cultivation, nor have I practiced visualization. I learned all this from other places. I wonder if what I said is correct?”
Qin Ran came back to his senses, smiled at Mr. Zhai, and said, "Mr. Zhai is really knowledgeable. In fact, the soul refiners also call this phenomenon the first impression. It is indeed more conducive to the soul refiners' initial practice."
After saying this, he turned around and put the "Great Sun Visualization Method" in his hand back on the bookshelf. Although his face was still smiling, his eyes became deep.
After searching on the bookshelf for a while, Qin Ran found a book called "Taiyin Visualization Method" and a book called "Turbulent Waves Visualization Method".
He held two visualization methods in his hands, hesitated for a long time, and finally chose Stormy Waves.
Waves, no matter how you think about it, should be of water attribute.
Putting back the "Tai Yin Visualization Method", Qin Ran opened the "Turbulent Waves Visualization Method". The first page of the exercise, as usual, was the first visualization picture, which showed an endless sea. The sky was gloomy, the wind was howling, and the sea water began to sway slowly.
Is this a wave rising?
Qin Ran thought of the "Great Sun Visualization Method" just now. The first picture was a sunrise. He suddenly understood a little about these visualization methods.
He turned to the second page and read the introduction of the technique. Then, he carefully looked at the first visualization picture, memorizing every detail, and then he slowly closed his eyes.
Similarly, he drew that visualization picture in his mind. Slowly, his sea of consciousness turned into the sea again, dark clouds pressed down from the sky, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and waves gradually rose in the sea...
The soul in the sea of consciousness suddenly felt that the entire sea of consciousness became moist, as if he had really arrived at the seashore. He felt the moist breath hitting his skin, and there was also a comfortable feeling.
He looked at the movements in his sea of consciousness and knew that a storm was about to come.
This time it’s right.
Qin Ran waited for a long time, but there was no side effect, so he opened his eyes and continued to practice the visualization method in his hand.
The first picture shows the waves about to rise, the second picture shows the waves gradually rising, the third picture shows the stormy waves, the fourth picture shows the raging waves, and the fifth picture shows the clouds disappearing and the rain stopping.
Each visualization picture describes the five levels from the rise of waves to the end of waves.
Kieran read it carefully and memorized it all.
After putting back the "Visualization Method of Stormy Waves", he found another "Visualization Method of Starry Sky". He spent some effort to memorize it, but did not dare to practice it at all.
After obtaining the soul-refining technique, Qin Ran had nothing more to ask for. It was time to seek the Shenhua Xianning.
He said goodbye to Mr. Zhai and said, "Regarding the island master's Dragon Breath Pill, I still need to go down and comprehend more. Please don't blame me, Mr. Zhai."
Mr. Zhai said with a smile, "No, no, Brother Li, you are so young and heroic. I really admire you. Go ahead, go ahead!"
Qin Ran bowed, opened the door and went out.
Mr. Zhai, who was sitting by the window, watched Qin Ran walk out the door and close the door. After waiting for a while, he tilted his head and watched Qin Ran walk out of the library through the window.
He narrowed his eyes, and the ring in his hand swung, and several books appeared in his hand. They were all the books that Qin Ran read when he came to the library last time.
"Li Feiyu..." he murmured, "Who are you? Where are you from? What is your purpose?"
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