Chapter 436 Soul Plate
The old valley master stuttered for a long time, and finally finished his words:
"This... this is the recipe!"
Elder Peng and several other elders were also shocked when they heard it. They all gathered around to look at the prescription, and then there was another round of exclamations.
“This is really a recipe!”
"It's a wonderful recipe I've never seen before!"
"So this is how the elixir can be made... Doesn't that mean..."
Yun Qingqing nodded:
"Yes, it is the recipe for the elixir. I guess the Medical Immortal Valley has been passed down for more than 2,000 years. There must be a successor to the elixir cultivation lineage, right?"
Sun Shijing and the elders were filled with tears:
"Yes! Yes! But the spiritual energy in this world is exhausted, strange fire is hard to find, and all kinds of natural treasures are extinct in large numbers... Without these, it is really difficult to practice alchemy..."
Yun Qingqing knew that this was a personal pain for them.
Originally, alchemy was the most prosperous branch of medical practice. Before the changes in the world, alchemy doctors were always the most respected among practitioners.
She pondered for a moment, then slowly said:
“In fact, the decline of alchemy cultivation is not just due to the depletion of spiritual energy.”
Sun Shijing looked at her unexpectedly:
"Why did Miss Yun say that? Is there any other reason?"
Yun Qingqing nodded:
"For alchemy, it is of course best to have abundant spiritual energy and sufficient resources, but these are not necessarily necessary conditions."
"The real reason for the decline of alchemy is probably that two thousand years ago, with the death of a powerful alchemy cultivator, a part of the core inheritance was lost."
Sun Shijing and the other elders were silent, looking thoughtful, and occasionally exchanged glances with each other, as if confirming something.
After a long while, Sun Shijing suddenly stood up and said:
"Miss Yun, can you please lend me a hand to talk?"
"Okay." Yun Qingqing stood up obediently and followed him out of the reception room, through the corridor, and finally came to a room.
When Yun Qingqing entered, she saw that this was a huge ancestral hall, with tablets densely packed in different areas, and a statue in the center of the innermost area.
Sun Shijing brought her to the statue. Yun Qingqing's eyes fell on the stone tablet in front of the statue, which stated that this person was the first master of the Medical Immortal Valley.
Yun Qingqing's gaze fell on the name and her eyes moved slightly.
Ying Quan is the one who is most proficient in the art of alchemy and medicine among all her disciples.
Sun Shijing first bowed to the first generation Valley Master, then turned around and bowed to Yun Qingqing and said:
"Miss Yun, could you lend me that ring?"
Yun Qingqing nodded, took out the jade ring and handed it over.
Sun Shijing picked up the ring and looked at it carefully, his expression complicated, sometimes happy and sometimes sad.
After a long while, he sighed, handed the ring back to Yun Qingqing, and said:
"Miss Yun, please look at this, it's in the hands of the statue of the first ancestor."
Yun Qingqing followed his gaze and found that there was indeed a ring engraved on the statue's hand, exactly the same as the one in her hand.
She mused:
"so……"
It turned out that this ring was specially left for her by Ying Quan.
Sun Shijing bowed deeply to her and said:
"Miss Yun, you don't know that this ring was given to Tang Yuandao by the previous Valley Master. There is only one ring. Why was it handed over to the previous Valley Master, and why was it given to Tang Yuandao? These were not decided randomly, but in accordance with the instructions of the first generation."
Yun Qingqing narrowed her eyes slightly:
"He worked out all these details two thousand years ago?"
"That's not the case." Sun Shijing said, "The first generation ancestor left behind ancestral teachings and a jade token, which were secretly passed down from generation to generation by the later valley masters."
"According to the ancestral teachings, when the jade token glows, the ring will be handed over to a specific disciple. The disciple's birth date was also left by the first generation ancestor, which is Tang Yuandao's birthday."
Yun Qingqing listened quietly, her eyes fixed on Ying Quan's statue, not knowing what she was thinking about.
After a long while, she asked softly:
"Is the jade token still there? Can I see it?"
Sun Shijing seemed to have expected her to ask, and he nodded immediately, opened the drawer of the altar in front of him, took out a jade plaque and handed it to her.
The moment Yun Qingqing took the jade token, her heart was already filled with turmoil.
That's the soul tablet.
Her own soul tablet.
In those days, almost everyone in the Xuanmen would leave a unique soul tablet in the sect.
The soul tablet will normally emit a faint white light, which means that its owner is fine.
If the soul tablet emits yellow light, it means injury or illness; if it emits red light, life is in danger.
If the light disappears and the soul tablet shatters, it means that the person is dead and even the Golden Immortal cannot save him.
Ever since Yun Qingqing sacrificed herself, she was certain that she would be the one to die. Logically, her soul tablet should have shattered long ago.
But now that she held the jade token in her hand, she knew that it was absolutely the same soul token she had had before.
This thing was not broken and was well preserved for two thousand years. It returned to his hands again, emitting a faint white light that represented safety.
Yun Qingqing stared at it for a long time, then looked up in a daze and looked at Ying Quan's statue.
This soul tablet seemed to explain why her disciples and Ji Xuanyuan expected that she would return to this world again.
But it also raises more questions.
Not only do they know they will return, they also have a way to calculate when they will return.
and……
Yun Qingqing's heart gradually tightened.
Her disciples did have some abilities, but they definitely weren't capable of bringing her back to life.
There would be no problem with the formation in which she sacrificed. Her body perished and dissipated, but her soul did not really disperse. This can only mean one thing.
Someone paid another price and replaced his soul.
What price did they pay?
Yun Qingqing had always thought that sacrifice was her own business and her own decision, until this moment, when she suddenly realized that there were so many unexpected things in it.
She had mixed feelings in her heart and didn't know what to feel.
"...Miss Yun? Are you okay?" Seeing that she remained silent for a long time and looked desolate, Sun Shijing couldn't help but ask with some concern.
Yun Qingqing collected her thoughts and shook her head slightly:
"I'm fine, thank you for telling me this."
Sun Shijing nodded slightly and said:
"Miss Yun, you are too polite. I am just following the teachings of my ancestors."
Yun Qingqing glanced at Ying Quan's statue again and sighed softly:
“This first-generation of yours was the most powerful alchemist in Xuanmen back then. No one among all the alchemists could match him. His strength even surpassed the second-placed one by a long way.”
"I think his cultivation method has not been passed down completely, otherwise even if the spiritual energy is exhausted nowadays, the current situation of medical cultivation should not be like this."
Sun Shijing listened to her words, his expression slightly changed:
"Miss Yun is so knowledgeable about medicine, could it be that you... have inherited the legacy of the first generation ancestor?"
Yun Qingqing smiled slightly:
"It's not quite right to say that, but I do master the same alchemy technique as him."
She certainly didn't inherit it from Ying Quan. After all, he learned his skills from her.
The reason why Ying Quan was able to take the position of the number one alchemist was because Yun Qingqing never told others that she was proficient in alchemy, so few people knew about it.
But Sun Shijing naturally didn't know this. He just became very excited after hearing what Yun Qingqing said:
"Really? ... Miss Yun, if you are willing to pass on your skills to our Medical Immortal Valley, I would like to take you as my master and follow you as the Valley Master!"
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