Chapter 71: Alchemy to Replenish the Earth Veins
Chapter 71: Alchemy to Replenish the Earth Veins
Yangjing Spring Water, Yinsui Water Ganoderma, Xushan Crane Knee Grass, 300-year-old Cloud Red Ganoderma, 500-year-old Salvia miltiorrhiza, 700-year-old Toad Essence made from Toad Vein...
Chu Tai looked at the many materials that were brought to him.
Under the watchful eyes of Taoist Dachun, he took out the Taiyi Changming Lamp and used the lamp to burn the three-legged Tai Chi Bagua purple copper furnace left by the Corpse King. The fire slid across the inside and outside of the furnace, burning it purple-red all over, and the Bagua patterns on the furnace body sparkled.
"Guo Shan."
Chu Tai shouted, and chanted the spell again. Guo Shan, who had the hell of fire inside him, stepped forward, holding the Taiyi Changming Lantern in one hand and the Jinxuan Danxia Banner in the other. He poured his magic power into the two, which turned into flames and ignited the alchemy furnace.
Chu Tai flicked the whisk in his hand, and the medicinal herbs placed beside him flew into the air one by one and fell into the alchemy furnace.
The hand gestures changed, the whisk was swung, and the flames in the alchemy furnace changed randomly, gradually evolving into a small illusory world.
As the flames burned, many medicinal herbs dissolved into liquids. Under the tempering of magic power, the medicinal properties and spiritual energy inside slowly separated and grew, gradually becoming purer.
Chu Tai sent the mixed medicinal properties into the lower layer of the alchemy furnace for precipitation, while the pure and wonderful vital energy in the upper layer gradually condensed into a fetus under his control.
Seeing that the cooking was almost done, Chu Tai took out a large piece of processed Yangshengzuiyin vine and threw it casually into the spiritual fetus.
Yang energy rises, Yin energy settles, dead energy recedes, and vitality returns.
He took out the corpse pill again and sent it into the spiritual fetus where life and death, yin and yang were intertwined.
The flames rose, refining the form and substance of both the spirit fetus and the corpse pill.
The whisk was swung, and the nectar and cinnabar that had been prepared long ago poured into it. After weakening the dryness, Guo Shan was allowed to go aside to rest.
At this time, the corpse pill had already merged with the spiritual fetus, turning into a bright and precious pill, floating in the center of the pill furnace like a bright pearl, emitting a faint spiritual light and wisps of strange fragrance. Just by sniffing it, Taoist Dachun felt that his magic power had become a little more refined.
Looking at the elixir that was surrounded by clouds and exuded a sense of perfection and purity, like a bright moon surrounded by colorful clouds, Taoist Dachun asked in an almost yearning tone: "Is this the elixir?"
"It's still early. We want to repair the earth veins and rebuild the world, not just refine elixirs. How can it be that easy? Now it's just the embryo of the elixir. I just need to stimulate the excess medicinal properties inside..."
As Chu Tai spoke, he swung his whisk again to disperse the miscellaneous air around him. Then he placed one hand in front of his mouth, opened his mouth slightly, and exhaled a breath of Nanyan Cave's Fuxiyao Zhenqi, in which all the seven major characteristics of "clear, spiritual, yang, pure, brilliant, clean, and life" were manifested and fell into the elixir.
Stimulated by this, flames rose around the elixir, and the medicinal liquid settled below also boiled. Wisps of colorful mist rose up, and under the stimulation of the flames around the elixir, they turned into auspicious clouds and spread in all directions.
At Chu Tai's feet, Ganoderma lucidum grew around Taoist Dachun.
The caps of these Ganoderma lucidum are thick, the cloud patterns are clear, and the medicinal fragrance is strong, indicating that they are perennial magical medicines and not ordinary Ganoderma lucidum.
Among them, the one growing at the foot of Guoshan Mountain is as big as a millstone, with clouds and mist rising from its surface. If it grows naturally, it will take at least three hundred years.
It can be said that Chu Tai's move directly created a small Zhifang.
"This is the real magic method of alchemy. Normally, I just burn the herbs with fire!"
Taoist Dachun swallowed his saliva and almost couldn't help but stick closer to observe the changes in the alchemy furnace.
The next second, Chu Tai jumped up unexpectedly, and the Bagua pattern on the whisk in his hand changed and hit the alchemy furnace fiercely.
The hexagram changed, and ripples appeared on the ground under the feet of Dachun Taoist. The entire alchemy furnace was directly driven into the ground by Chu Tai and connected to the ground vein. "Dao...Dao...Dao...Dao...Fellow Taoist, what are you doing?"
Chu Tai's unexpected behavior left Taoist Dachun dumbfounded, but before he could wait for Chu Tai's answer, the changes on Guo Shan's side attracted his attention again.
There were wisps of earth energy and fire energy rising from the ground under Guo Shan's feet, burning away the grave energy in his body, as well as the many miscellaneous gases accumulated in the grave energy, and burning away the remaining soul of the Corpse King until only a little spiritual light remained.
In the end, what was rolling inside Guo Shan's body was the Gui Gen Jiu Yuan Tomb Qi after his promotion.
This change allowed Taoist Dachun to see some clues.
Chu Tai was not refining medicine at all. He was clearly using the name of refining medicine to precipitate the medicinal properties of many elixirs in the alchemy furnace, and then send them into the earth veins, allowing the medicinal properties to flow along the earth veins and nourish the local water and soil.
And it should be because Guo Shan had provided the furnace fire previously that he was able to obtain the feedback from the earth veins, saving several years of polishing and completing the transformation of true Qi in one go.
Taoist Dachun spoke in a daze.
"I thought I had seen through some of your alchemy techniques, but I didn't expect you to use the heaven and earth to make the elixir..."
"Daoyou Dachun, that's too much praise. I'm just taking advantage of the earth veins to make the elixir."
Chu Tai's answer made Taoist Dachun even more at a loss as to how to respond. He told what he had seen earlier in a somewhat confused manner.
"its not right!"
Guo Shan's answer made Taoist Dachun stunned for a moment. He turned around and listened to Guo Shan's explanation.
"It's not just about nourishing the land with the flow of the earth veins. The master told me some methods of alchemy in the past. He said that these methods of alchemy with the help of the earth veins are all tricks. Most of them are to control the fire and the alchemy furnace, bury it in the earth veins, and at the same time repair the earth veins, use the laws of the earth veins to drive the flame in the alchemy furnace to refine the elixir."
"But this kind of action will take a long time, at least nine years. According to the previous furnace of pills, it will take about thirty or forty years to refine it."
"The master said that in this process, the alchemy furnace benefits the people, which somehow offsets the loss of natural materials and treasures in alchemy. When the elixir is completed, not only will there be no external disasters, but there may even be help from heaven."
"The most important thing is that during the process of refining this elixir, if the land is impacted by any external force, the elixir furnace will naturally disintegrate, returning the fortune inside to the earth and saving all living beings."
Taoist Dachun was stunned by Guo Shan's words, and was even more convinced by Chu Tai. He bowed repeatedly to express his gratitude.
Chu Tai smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he had also gained a lot.
Taoist Dachun thought that this was Chu Tai's excuse, but Chu Tai himself knew that it was not false.
Just at the moment when the alchemy furnace entered the ground, the earth veins vibrated slightly, which was not in line with common sense, causing the earth energy to circulate and flow into Chu Tai's body.
This was totally unexpected, and Chu Tai was quite surprised that there was no record of this in the sect's scriptures. However, the Donghuang Bell in his mind just shook slightly, and the earth's energy was instantly digested and became a part of his magic power.
At the same time, ink ripples appeared in front of Chu Tai's eyes, and a paragraph of words emerged.
[Seventeen years - traveled around the world, buried corpses to cure plague, saved the dead, refined elixirs to repair the earth, blessed one side, gained two strands of blessings, and good deeds. Made friends with fellow Taoists, taught them good deeds, preached to the common people, and increased the Taoist affinity. The luck increased, the earth veins fed back, and the magic power increased by one century.]
The "ji" at the end of this chapter refers to twelve years.
(End of this chapter)