Chapter 22 Fire Refining and Water Washing

Chapter 22 Fire Refining and Water Washing

Chapter 22 Fire Refining and Water Washing

"gentlemen?"

Chu Tai looked at Taoist Fu Guang with some surprise. After three years of getting along with him, he thought he knew Taoist Fu Guang well enough. Based on his past personality, he shouldn't have such extreme thoughts.

"You will be in charge of the Dharma lineage in the future, so you will have to clean up the mess. Although Wodan is one of the few Jinhua disciples who successfully escaped from the sect's cave heaven alienation process like me, since he practiced magic and refined ghosts with mortals, we have the obligation to correct the chaos, not to mention..."

Taoist Fu Guang's eyes darkened slightly. "After I figured it out in front of the ancestor's statue yesterday, I divined for you. Although I cannot predict your future, by calculating the changes in the fate of Tianmen and Wodan, I can roughly figure out that the fate of the two is entangled with you. If you cannot subdue or kill the two, you will definitely be disturbed in the future."

"Is this the reason why you are about to ascend to heaven? In order to predict the future, you borrowed the power of the ancestors. No, the inheritance of the Jinhua lineage is almost cut off, and the cave heaven that took thousands of years to build has also been alienated. The ancestors who ascended to Daluo Heaven in the past could not send down spiritual responses without enough incense to guide them. So, sir, you are using the good deeds you have accumulated in the past and the mental power accumulated from chanting scriptures to guide the light of heaven, and borrow the power of a certain immortal who is in line with your principles, and use this as a basis to deduce the future?"

Chu Tai's focus was on another point beyond Fu Guang's expectations. He opened his mouth but didn't know how to respond.

Just as Chu Tai said, part of the reason why he turned to the path of immortals was because when he had previously done divination, he discovered that the destinies of Tianmen God and Taoist Wodan were entangled and difficult to see clearly, so he borrowed the power of his ancestors who had ascended to Daluo Heaven in the past, trying to sort out the relationship, which led to his own alienation becoming even more serious.

Finally, Taoist Fu Guang said softly, "In the past, our Jinhua Sect also had ancestors who ascended to Daluo. Although most of them were limited by their cultivation and borrowed the power of certain Dao Lords and Immortals when ascending, they needed to serve in the corresponding Dao Palaces after ascending, and it was difficult for them to send down spiritual responses on their own. But compared to people without any foundation, I will not be excluded too much when I go up. On the contrary, if you can achieve something and revive the Taiyi Jinhua lineage, I will also benefit."

"Okay, it's getting late. Now go to Shanyin and collect 300 high-quality pine needles from the 500-year-old cold pine trees. Today I will teach you some of the secret weapon refining techniques of the Jinhua Sect."

As he spoke, Taoist Fu Guang pointed in the direction of Shanyin and said, "By the way, now that you have entered the sixth level, you can fly in the clouds. This time you are collecting pine needles as a lesson. According to the current time, there should still be dew on the pine needles. The time you traveled, the dew on the pine needles, and the spiritual charm they contain will be used as the basis for judgment."

"There are less than 600 top-quality cold pines. If we collect 300 of them at once, we will definitely suffer a great loss of vitality..."

Chu Tai didn't leave immediately, but was a little worried.

That cold pine is a spiritual root in Xiaping Mountain. It can condense one or two pine needles containing spiritual charm every year. It can be said that the vitality accumulated in a year is all in the pine needles.

Like the Chenxiang Stream in Shanyin, the Red Maple Forest in Shanyang, and the Hulu Rock, they are all spiritual materials cultivated by Taoist Fuguang during his years living in Xiaping Mountain. Chu Tai usually collects dew from pine needles to make medicine, but he has a fixed amount for fear of damaging the spiritual energy.

Taoist Fu Guang didn't care. "In my early years, I specially introduced the spirituality of cold pine into pine needles because the spiritual charm of this pine wood is unique and has a hint of coldness. Pine needles can be used as instruments after a little warming. It's only a matter of time to collect pine needles. According to your usual level, as long as you pay attention to collecting 300 pine needles, you won't damage your foundation. Also, you have to be careful, the dew won't stay for long..."

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai walked outside the hall, made hand gestures to draw the wind, and slightly spread his hands, like a roc spreading its wings. He suddenly soared into the clouds, and then clear air gathered, and clouds rose, carrying him to the shade of the mountain.

Taoist Fu Guang in the back touched his chin and revealed the slightest smile.

This ability to ride on clouds and mist is considered one of the standard features of a cultivator who has condensed the sixth-grade true qi. Most of the sixth-grade true qi contain mysteries. Even the heavy earth energy of Wuxu can offset the suction force of the earth's turbidity and float up into the air, moving with the wind as long as it is driven according to the formula. The Nanyan Cave Fuxiyao true qi condensed by Chu Tai is a fifth-grade true qi, which has the seven characteristics of "clear, spiritual, yang, pure, brilliant, clean, and alive". At this moment, Chu Tai is exerting the characteristic of "clear".

Moreover, Chu Tai was surrounded by clear clouds and mist, without any flames, which clearly showed that he had made great achievements in the way of "clearness".

"It seems that the ability of [Wanderer] has been of great help to Chu Tai in mastering his own abilities. I originally reserved a little too much time."

Thinking of this, Taoist Fu Guang's smile widened, and he stood up and walked towards the sunny side of the mountain.

On the other side, Chu Tai, who came to the side of the cold pine on the cloud, also saw the full appearance of the cold pine growing on the cliff for the first time.

The trunk is straight, the branches are thin and hard, the pine needles are dark green, and there is a wisp of cold air flowing around the tree crown, allowing the morning dew like stars to be preserved on it for a long time.

In the past, Chu Tai had to use ropes and other external objects to slowly descend from the cliff and collect the items carefully.

Now, with the help of the breeze, Chu Tai stretched out one hand beside the cold pine, clasped his thumb on the middle section of his middle finger, and slightly spread out the remaining three fingers, like a blooming orchid. With a little force on his fingertips, he picked off a handful of pine needles without any dew falling on them.

The thumb is slightly raised, and the clear air is rolled up, and the pine needles are suspended around him. The arm is stretched out again, and he continues to pinch off several pine needles covered with dew using the "Zhe Lan Fu Lu" technique. Every time he does this, the moment when the thumb is hooked on the middle section of the middle finger, it will coincidentally fall on the key point of the pine tree's spiritual energy operation. While picking off the pine needles, it will not damage the cold pine's vitality.

However, doing so would inevitably take more time. Half an hour later, Chu Tai finally collected enough pine needles. He turned back to the hall and saw Taoist Fu Guang processing a piece of gourd vine.

Taoist Fu Guang glanced at the pine needles around Chu Tai, pointed at some of the newly sprouted pine needles and said with a smile, "I asked you to collect 300 top-quality pine needles, but you didn't want to collect any more. Look at the quality. It's a bit inconsistent with your past achievements."

Chu Tai didn't care and said, "Anyway, I need some materials to try my hand at. Aren't these pine needles just right?"

Hearing this, Taoist Fu Guang said nothing more. He put down the gourd vine in his hand, picked up a handful of pine needles, opened his mouth and spit out a soft breath of true Qi: "There are two ways for us in the Jinhua lineage to refine magic tools. One is fire refining, and the other is water washing."

As he spoke, the vital energy blown out by Taoist Fu Guang penetrated into the pine needles in his hand, and with the dew on them as attraction, reorganized their shapes, turning them into jade-like pine needles that fell into Chu Tai's hands. He let Chu Tai feel the changes while continuing to explain.

"The essence of water washing is to use the true Qi as water to neutralize the material's physical and spiritual properties, turning it from tangible to intangible, making it easier for us to subsequently cleanse its quality and purify its spiritual and physical properties. Except for when refining some extreme magic weapons or magic weapons that tend to explode, it will not be strong enough, but it can be used to refine most treasures."

"Therefore, the water washing method is more suitable for cultivators who practice the Yin Soul Chapter of the Taiyi Jinhua Celestial Secret Chapter. Most of their skills start from the kidney palace, with their vital energy flowing downwards, collecting Ren and Gui water energy and the essence of the moon. For example, the Beixuan Yinjing Yingtiantu practiced by Wudan is a typical example. It collects Xuanying dark water energy, condenses the sixth-grade Beixuan Guishui Qi, and sublimates the fifth-grade pure Yin Huachen Tiansui true Qi."

(End of this chapter)