Chapter 60: Refining Magical Treasures and Passing on the Stick Technique
Chapter 60: Refining Magical Treasures and Passing on the Stick Technique
"Leave now."
Chu Tai stretched out his hand and wiped away the aura he left here, then walked away with Guo Shan.
During this period, Chu Tai also cast a spell to release many paper people, which dispersed and flew away in order to confuse others.
The two walked for two days and found a place to sit down before Chu Tai began to count the gains and losses.
Among the several magic weapons, the Golden Light Flowing Beads and the Seven Yin Evil-Removing Banner were left to Guo Shan by Chu Tai. They did not participate in this battle and were unharmed.
The three magic weapons, the Jinxuan Danxia Banner, the Taiyi Changming Lamp and the Liuhe Circle, are of high quality, and there is basically no change as they have not collided head-on with other magic weapons.
The Red Maple Sword Bag and the Eight Diagrams Gourd Whisk have suffered some damage, but they are within the tolerable range and will be fine after two days of warming up.
Only two magic weapons, Su Chen Qing Mang and Chen Xiang Jian Wan, were seriously damaged.
Chu Tai picked up the agarwood sword pill, looked at the golden lines emerging on the surface of the sword pill, and sensed it slightly.
"Fortunately, it's not a big problem. It's just that when I sent the Dao Fruit fragment into the body of the crying spirit, it absorbed a little of the power of the Dao Fruit fragment, and was also affected by the crying spirit's true qi. I just need to refine it a few more times..."
Afterwards, Chu Tai picked up the Su Chen Qing Mang again. Compared with before, many of the 108 cold pine needles now had a faint blood aura surrounding their surfaces, which was obviously caused by being polished by the opponent's true Qi during the previous fight.
Chu Tai activated the Nine Springs Yin Jing Mengbo Qi within him, and after grinding away the blood and energy bit by bit, he frowned slightly.
"The materials used in the initial refining were still too poor. Some of their essence had been worn away. They will need to be refined again for three or four months..."
Chu Tai put away the Su Chen Qing Mang and took out the fragment of the Tao Fruit left by Taoist Fu Guang.
As a product of the alienation of the true Qi accumulated from hundreds of years of Fu Guang's practice, the fragment of Tao Fruit in Chu Tai's hand played a decisive role in this battle.
But because of this, this Dao Fruit fragment was contaminated by the power of the other Dao Fruit fragments in the crying spirit's body, and its essence became somewhat unstable, and a lot of its inner spirituality was also consumed in the process.
But after Chu Tai suppressed it with the Donghuang Bell and analyzed the essence of the other two Dao Fruit fragments, the original problems turned into good things. After Chu Tai took them out, he simply cast a spell to reinforce the essence, and then began to sort out this harvest.
Compared with the losses, Chu Tai's gains can be described as huge.
First are the two newly acquired Dao fruit fragments [Shami] and [Coroner], then the magic treasure Filial Piety Banner left by the mourner, and finally the "Jie Ming Tu of the Crimson Palace Flying Fairy" left by the predecessor of Taiyi Jinhua Sect.
Among these gains, the most valuable one is "The Diagram of the Explanation of the Crimson Palace Flying Fairy", which not only records the inherited method of the Taiyi Jinhua Sect, but also the senior's insights into the practice of yang soul and yin spirit.
Next are the two Dao fruit fragments of [Shami] and [Coroner], both of which are treasures that can allow ordinary people to ascend to heaven in one step.
The lowest level Filial Piety Banner is also a powerful magic weapon.
After Chu Tai took it out, he did not pay direct attention to the white paper hanging from the top. After careful observation, he determined that these things were made of ownerless ashes and grave soil, and they needed to be combined with the skills of the crying spirits to be somewhat mysterious.
After Chu Tai confirmed this, true fire appeared in his hand, which directly burned the decorations on the filial son banner, turning it into something similar to a long stick.
Tap gently, observe the texture, and inject mana into it to sense the changes.
Chu Tai was basically certain that the flagpole of the filial son banner should be made of some kind of Yin wood that had grown for more than a thousand years.
'During the subsequent ritual refining process, a lot of cold and yin materials must have been used to make this treasure have the ability to imprison the vitality and knock down the magic weapon. The internal magic prohibition is also very compatible with the practice of the Crying Spirit lineage.'
"After processing, it is quite suitable for Guo Shan. But before that, I need to complete a physical cleansing to cleanse the impurities left by the many predecessors. Then I have to teach Guo Shan a stick technique..."
Chu Tai weighed the wooden stick in his hand, and his true energy turned into a cloud of light that purified the flagpole and made it sparkle with spiritual light, without damaging the magical prohibitions inside.
This is a method of water washing, but it does not use the true qi as water to neutralize the material's physical and spiritual properties, but penetrates into the material to explore its essence, making it easier to subsequently cleanse its quality, purify its spirituality and physical properties, but without damaging the original prohibitions inside. While Chu Tai was cleaning the flagpole, he also taught Guo Shan the Taiyi Xuanwu stick.
This stick technique emphasizes the combination of hardness and softness. When performed, it has the agility of a snake and the steadiness of a turtle. The coordinated body techniques make the footsteps move with the speed of the wind, and the figure looks like a black tiger patrolling the mountains, unstoppable.
The most important thing is that this stick technique is different from the iron whisk technique that Chu Tai learned.
Chu Tai learned martial arts so that he could deal with petty thieves without having to use magic.
At the same time, it also prevents some physical cultivators and martial arts cultivators from being knocked down by a slap from the opponent when fighting with you in close combat.
But Guo Shan is different. Guo Shan's brain is not sharp enough and he learns slowly. Many of the methods in Chu Tai's hands are either inherited from the Taiyi Jinhua lineage or involve the magic system, and are not suitable to be taught to him.
After much thought, martial arts is more suitable.
After all, Taiyi Jinhua Sect is an immortal sect, and martial arts are only a minor part of it, so there are not so many rules in teaching it.
Even if Guo Shan returns to Hezhong Village in the future and plans to stay there, there will be no problem.
At the same time, during the heyday of the Taiyi Jinhua Sect, there was also a precedent of Taoist soldiers turning into true disciples, which gave Guo Shan a relatively free position.
The only problem was that Guo Shan's learning speed was too slow. The five infant spirits following him had learned very well, but he was unable to string his moves together. Chu Tai was so angry that he couldn't help but stomped his feet a few times.
And every time this happened, the tall Guo Shan always stood by at a loss like a child who had done something wrong.
"Hey!"
With a long sigh, Chu Tai had no idea what to do with such an attitude. He could only calm down and continue to teach him the many essentials.
Until the two found the former Hezhong Village in Yuxi County.
It is a pity that the village has now disappeared. When the severe drought hit, almost everyone in the village fled, leaving only the ruins of houses and broken walls.
There were many abandoned fields outside the village. Chu Tai stood in Ru, looking at the dry river, and knew the reason why the village disappeared.
"Is this the effect of a battle between learned people in this world?"
Chu Tai's eyes narrowed slightly, and while he was thinking, he heard a sound behind him.
"Master? Am I home?"
Guo Shan, who had become even more dazed since he found Hezhong Village, spoke much more fluently.
"Yes, you are home now. You can take out your parents' remains now and we will rebury them."
Hearing this, Guo Shan hurriedly took out the remains of his mother and the ashes of his father, which Chu Tai had found during the battle at the Wang family by relying on his breath perception while searching for Xin Qing.
He held the black umbrella to cover the two objects, stood there in a daze, and asked, "What should I do next?"
Looking at Guo Shan, who was not sure whether to be more sober or more demented, Chu Tai took him and, following the guidance of the scent, found the location of the Guo family cemetery and reburied the remains of his parents there.
Afterwards, Chu Tai left, leaving Guo Shan alone there to clear the weeds and worship his ancestors.
On the second day, Guo Shan, whose aura had become calmer, continued to leave his hometown with Chu Tai.
(End of this chapter)