Inside the cave dwelling, which was covered by dense prohibitions, there was a steaming atmosphere and a pill furnace was floating in the flames.
Shen Lian sat cross-legged in front of the alchemy furnace, making hand gestures. A crisp buzzing sound came from the furnace, and there were flashes of spiritual light. The rich aroma of medicine echoed in the cave.
"out."
As the furnace lid opened, a string of crystal clear Origin Spirit Pills emitting scorching heat flew out.
There are ten in total, eight of top quality and two of medium quality.
After the eight pills flew out, they fell directly into the jade box beside Shen Lian.
There are already forty-six black pills in the jade box. This kind of black pill is called Crimson Flame Pill. Like the Origin Spirit Pill, it is a spiritual pill for daily practice by late Golden Core and Perfect Golden Core cultivators.
To advance from the late Jindan stage to the great perfection of Jindan, a huge amount of mana is required.
Since advancing to the Golden Core stage, excluding all the busy affairs, Shen Lian can advance to a small realm every 20 to 30 years, which is quite fast.
Take the perfection of the late Jindan stage as an example. Normally, a Jindan cultivator who breathes in the spiritual energy emitted by the third-grade superior spiritual vein can advance within sixty to seventy years, and is considered a person with fast cultivation.
More monks need hundreds of years to hone their magic power bit by bit before they can advance to perfection.
The perfection of a Jindan cultivator is more about having flawless magic power and an unparalleled spiritual perfection.
Therefore, Shen Lian originally wanted to go into seclusion directly, but in order to be able to reach the golden elixir perfection realm in one fell swoop, he still started to refine the elixir.
After all, who gave him this condition?
After being busy for several months, including the leftovers, he prepared a total of forty-six Crimson Flame Pills, thirty-four Origin Spirit Pills, and one Dragon Marrow Phoenix Yang Pill.
After activating the spirit gathering formation that was close to his body, Shen Lian first took a Crimson Flame Pill and completely concentrated on practicing.
…
In the blink of an eye, two and a half years passed.
Shen Lian refined the two elixirs, Origin and Crimson Flame, into his body in one go. Compared with other cultivators with inferior spiritual roots, his spiritual roots' absorption rate of the elixir power was almost impeccable.
At this moment, the magic power in his body was just one step away from reaching the peak of the late Golden Core stage.
There was no rush to take the Dragon Marrow Phoenix Yang Pill. The perfect spiritual roots could indeed absorb the medicinal power quickly, but for a cultivator, it took a lot of effort to transform the medicinal power into magic power.
Shen Lian was like a donkey pulling a mill, practicing his skills cycle after cycle and purifying his magic power.
This process was very boring, and nearly two years passed like this.
…
When Shen Lian was nearly five years into his retreat, he was in Canglan Mountain, tens of thousands of miles away.
A dazzling spear light tore through the space above Canglan Mountain, and a bright blood flower bloomed in the sky.
Under the double cover of dazzling spear light and resplendent blood flowers, in the crack of the sky, a monk dressed in colorful clothes and looking as handsome as jade had his chest torn by a golden dragon.
Then, the cultivator wanted to escape, but found that most of his body had been swallowed by the golden dragon, and even his sea of consciousness was shrouded by the golden dragon.
Just like this, he watched his soul being sucked away and devoured bit by bit by the golden dragon, and felt his death coming to an end bit by bit.
In Canglan Mountain, a blue-black dragon over a thousand feet long was coiled in the air, its eyes staring at the void in all directions.
"Jie... Welcome to Canglan Mountain."
…
Two more days passed.
Canglan Mountain is tens of thousands of miles away.
In an ordinary jungle, two figures dotted on the leaves like butterflies. Judging from their body shapes, they could be identified as a man and a woman.
The man among them was surrounded by a blood mist and his features could not be seen clearly.
The woman was wearing a black gauze dress, had a well-proportioned figure and eyes as bright as stars.
"I didn't expect that even a banished immortal envoy would come to Canglan Mountain in person."
A hoarse voice came out from the blood mist, "Could it be that the Exiled Immortal Tower is going to change its business?"
The female cultivator's beautiful eyes were teasing. She didn't care about the man's words. Instead, she asked, "Fellow Daoist, how do you think about what we talked about last time?"
The man in the blood mist shook his head gently, "I am used to being an idle wanderer. The Exiled Immortal Tower is too kind to me."
"You have been stuck in the early stage of the Nascent Soul for a long time, right? Fourth-level spiritual medicines are rare even in the seven major sects of Tiannan. Moreover, you still have a spiritual body that has not been fully activated. The research on spiritual bodies by my Exiled Immortal Tower is second to none in the entire world of immortal cultivation."
The blood mist trembled slightly and the man gasped a few times.
"Fellow Daoist, there is no need to provoke me. It is enough for me to cultivate to the current level."
The woman chuckled, "If you are really content, why come to Canglan Mountain?"
"Let me guess. Since you didn't join my Exiled Immortal Tower and came to Canglan Mountain, you have most likely joined another force."
"The Ten Thousand Races Alliance?"
"Ascension Tower?"
"Or is it Tsutenkaku?"
The man in the blood mist remained silent.
The woman's expression turned into a sneer, and her eyes gradually became colder.
What the blood mist man said was not important; what he did was important.
If you really want to be a free and easy person who is content with what you have, you would never come to Canglan Mountain.
"Then, fellow Daoist, have you discovered anything? Although you and I belong to different camps, we can cooperate on the matter of Canglan Mountain."
"I just arrived and I haven't found anything."
The blood mist man shook his head slightly, "Why don't you give me some pointers, Brother Li?"
"I haven't received accurate information either, but I heard that the Tongtian Spiritual Ship built by Canglan Mountain has made great progress."
The blood mist man shook his head, "I also heard the news and was ordered to come here to investigate, but Canglan Mountain is a burial ground. It's easy to get in but difficult to get out."
"Fellow Daoist, how is the construction of your family's Sky Patrol Spirit Ship going?"
At this time, the female cultivator suddenly asked.
The blood mist man shook his head gently, "Daoyou, why bother to test me? I am just a minion, how can I know what the higher-ups are doing? What's more, where is my spiritual ship?"
The female cultivator looked at the man in the blood mist.
For decades, she has always wanted to recruit the man in front of her into her team, but she didn't expect that he already had a partner.
Those who are interested in the Canglan Mountain Spiritual Ship are most likely from the Ten Thousand Races Alliance.
Ever since the road to ascension became difficult, cultivators in various major cultivation circles have tried their best to ascend. After a period of evolution, various forces have emerged.
The Alliance of Ten Thousand Races is a powerful force that encompasses hundreds of major immortal cultivation worlds and almost all races.
But precisely because the business is so big, there is fierce infighting within the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races. They claim that all races have formed an alliance to ascend to the heaven together, but in reality there are constant internal calculations and each race is fighting on its own.
Canglanshan was once a member of the Ten Thousand Races Alliance. Later, he saw that the alliance was too chaotic, so he withdrew from the alliance and returned to the Tiannan Continent to build his own super spirit ship.
The origin of the Canglan Spirit Ship is the Sky Patrol Spirit Ship of the Ten Thousand Races Alliance.
Otherwise, if there was any movement on the Canglan Spiritual Ship, the Ten Thousand Races Alliance would not be able to help but come and investigate.
Speaking of which, the Ten Thousand Races Alliance claims to have gathered the essence of all races in the world of immortal cultivation, and the Sky Patrolling Spirit Ship it builds should be stronger and better than the Canglan Spirit Ship.
Unfortunately, the opposite is true.
The major ethnic groups within the Ten Thousand Races Alliance fought each other and divided up the ancient books and manuscripts that the alliance brought back from the Five Elements Immortal Palace.
The original intention was to gather the essence of all ethnic groups and work together, but unexpectedly, due to racial differences, each ethnic group hid their own and wanted to take it for themselves.
You cheat me and I cheat you, and it seems sweet on the surface.
This is a completely irreconcilable contradiction.
"Canglan Mountain is a den of dragons and tigers. With our strength, we will die if we go in. We need to take it slow."
The female cultivator spoke softly, saying that the Tiannan Immortal Cultivation World was located on the fringe of the entire Immortal Cultivation World, and the Exiled Immortal Tower had very weak power here. The Exiled Immortal Envoys assigned to the fringe were not valued in the tower.
In addition, there is no love-filled atmosphere in the Exiled Immortal Tower.
Several decades ago, an old pervert came back from the southern continent. Luckily, he found a talented female cultivator with five spiritual roots. She immediately caught the attention of a senior official in the building.
The old pervert got the elixir and is now in seclusion. Once he comes out, he will most likely advance to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.
By then, her status in the Tiannan Continent will be seriously affected.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have gone to so much trouble to win over others to consolidate her position.
"How about you and I work together?"
"good."
The blood-colored and black spiritual mist rolled up, carrying the two figures and quickly disappeared into the clouds.
…
Thousand Hills City.
This is the sixth year of Shen Lian’s retreat.
He sat cross-legged in the cave, his chest rising and falling regularly, and he was completely immersed in spiritual practice.
“Hoo-hoo.”
The turbid air was expelled from his mouth, and Shen Lian woke up from his cultivation.
After several years of secluded practice, the five elements of magic power in his body have been honed to perfection, and he is only one step away from achieving the great perfection of the golden elixir.
“Buzz!”
With a buzzing sound, a pill with dragon patterns and phoenix shadows flew into Shen Lian's mouth.
“Boom!”
In an instant, bursts of rumbling sounds came from his body, and the two kinds of light and shadows of dragon and phoenix turned into two different energies and rushed into various parts of his body.
The medicinal power of the elixir was integrated into the Dantian sea, enveloped by the colorful elixir energy in the golden elixir, and began to quickly assimilate into the five elements of magic power.
Even though it was a lower-quality Dragon Marrow Phoenix Yang Pill, its medicinal power was as powerful as the ocean, and soon the two phantoms of the dragon and the phoenix filled up the sea in the dantian.
The five-colored golden elixir slowly rotates in the dantian, and the five-colored elixir energy continuously washes away the medicinal power.
Shen Lian's whole body was slightly swollen. He tried his best to practice the Five Qis Converging to the Origin Gong, channeling the medicinal power in his body bit by bit.
“Buzz!”
When he still wanted to make a breakthrough in one go.
There was a buzzing sound inside the body.
Breakthrough.
Without feeling any strong obstacles, Shen Lian advanced to the Golden Core Great Perfection realm naturally.
The vast magic power was flowing through the body like an ocean, and the medicinal power that had not yet been transformed into magic power was being rapidly assimilated by the Dan Qi.
Shen Lian seemed to feel his whole body trembling, as if his whole body was being thoroughly baptized by magic power.
Golden Core Perfection is the last small realm of the Golden Core level. It consumes the most resources and naturally brings far more improvement to the cultivator than the early and middle stages of the Golden Core.
The more you consume, the greater the feedback you will get after advancing.
At this moment, he felt that his energy and spirit suddenly rose to a state of vigor, just like the grass on the earth after the rain, breaking through the ground and bursting with life force.
Many Jindan cultivators can reach the late Jindan stage if they have enough resources, but if they want to advance to the great perfection of Jindan, they need opportunity.
At this moment, in Shen Lian's dantian sea, the colorful magic power was like an ocean. As the golden elixir rotated, it created a five-colored vortex in the center of the magic power.
And in the center of the vortex, where the five colors converged, there was a slight hint of black and white.
Even though this bit of black and white was very blurry, Shen Lian could feel the power of yin and yang from it.
Once you advance to the great perfection of the golden elixir, yin and yang will evolve?
This made Shen Lian a little confused.
After thinking carefully for a long time, he still had no clue.
Finally, a conclusion is drawn.
As a great monk who has achieved great perfection in spiritual roots and has branched out into branches, he is a person of extraordinary talent.
After settling for a long time and allowing the magic power in his body to stabilize, Shen Lian began to carefully check his condition after the breakthrough.
The strength of the divine consciousness reached 72,000 feet.
Compared with the late Jindan stage, it has increased by 14,000 feet.
This time the increase is a bit big.
In addition, the Dantian sea expanded again during the breakthrough process.
It can be said that although he has advanced to the Golden Elixir Perfection Realm, he actually still needs to replenish the expanded Dantian sea.
According to normal practice, it would take several decades to replenish one's magic power to the perfect level, and that is assuming there is no shortage of practice resources.
In fact, for many cultivators who have reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core, practicing to this level is equivalent to completing the practice, and there is no chance of reaching the Nascent Soul level at all.
At this time, Shen Lian looked inward at his Dantian sea and found that the Dan Qi surrounding the Five Elements Golden Elixir had changed greatly compared to before.
The Dan Qi before was like fog, but now it is like fire.
He gently twisted his fingers, and a wisp of Dan Qi gathered between his fingers, and immediately turned into a burning ball of five-colored spiritual fire. He took out a third-level black gold stone.
“Sizzle!”
A sizzling sound was heard, and the third-level black gold stone quickly melted into liquid.
Then, Shen Lian exhaled a breath of five-colored spiritual light, which merged with the five-colored spiritual fire. The black gold stone turned into molten liquid and began to wriggle rapidly. Bubbles burst from the liquid and black gas rose.
A dark golden black gold crystal the size of a bean soon precipitated from the fist-sized black gold stone melt.
Black Gold Crystal, a fourth-level ore.
"ha……"
Looking at the fourth-level black gold crystal in front of him, Shen Lian wanted to laugh.
He can purify fourth-level ore!
The various improvements after the advancement made Shen Lian ecstatic for three days, but he finally calmed down.
Advancing to the Great Perfection of Golden Elixir, only one step away from Nascent Soul.
Moreover, it was unexpected that the Yin-Yang seeds evolved in the body first after the advancement.
"With my magical power, I can almost control a fourth-tier spiritual treasure. Although I haven't advanced to a fourth-tier weapon refiner, I can integrate some fourth-tier ores into the Five Elements Warship to improve its quality."
"Also, the previous seven-colored gourds, wine jugs, etc. should also be upgraded."
(End of this chapter)