Chapter 88 Experience
Chapter 88 Experience
Time flies, and half a year has passed in a flash.
Chen Yuan's cultivation had reached the peak of the Qi Refining Stage, but he had made no progress and had spent all his time refining magical instruments.
He has many magical weapons on him, including the Scarlet Sky Sword, the Seven-Star Blade, the Fixed Light Mirror, the Silver Gang Sword, and the Purple Bee Needle, all of which are extremely powerful.
Four of them were recently acquired by Chen Yuan. Only by practicing them carefully can he use them as easily as his own arms in a fight.
Fortunately, it is relatively easy to refine magical instruments. Chen Yuan uses his magic power to nourish them every day. After four months, except for the Seven-Star Blade which is more difficult to control, he can control the other magical instruments at will.
During this period, Mo Jingchun sent Chen Yuan another purple-leaf lotus.
Chen Yuan refined four Fuling Pills and gave two to Mo Jingchun.
In addition, he drew starlight into his body to restore his magic power.
If you are short of elixirs, take an elixir-making task, refine three furnaces of Yuhua Pills, secretly intercept a few of them, and earn good merits.
On this day, after Chen Yuan drew the starlight into his body, he swallowed the last Yuhua Pill in his hand and sat in meditation to practice.
After his magic power was fully restored, he walked out of the cave and went to the Alchemy Pavilion.
Two months have passed since the last time I refined the Yuhua Pill.
The medicine has run out, so it's a good time to replenish some.
Chen Yuan had come to the Alchemy Pavilion many times to receive tasks and was very familiar with the disciples on duty in the Alchemy Pavilion. After receiving the tasks with ease, he took the spiritual herbs distributed by the disciples on duty and came to the Earth Fire Hall.
The person on duty at the Earth Fire Hall today was the short and fat disciple that Chen Yuan met when he came to take the alchemy test.
He still regards Chen Yuan as a disciple of a certain alchemy master in the Alchemy Pavilion. He believes that Chen Yuan has a great chance of becoming an alchemy master and successfully building a foundation in the future, so he is extremely respectful to him.
"Junior Brother Chen, you came at the right time. The Earth Fire Room with the strongest Earth Fire power is just empty..."
Faced with the diligent short and fat disciple, Chen Yuan just smiled indifferently and didn't take it to heart.
It was this attitude that made the short and fat disciple even more humble.
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This time, Chen Yuan received an alchemy task. It took him twenty-one days to refine three furnaces of pills.
After more than a year of learning, his success rate in refining pills for the late stage of Qi Refining has increased to 70%.
A total of twenty-one Yuhua Pills were refined this time. Chen Yuan handed the mission token, identity jade card and ten Yuhua Pills to the disciples on duty, and kept eleven.
After checking, the disciple on duty transferred twenty good merits to Chen Yuan’s identity jade card and handed it back.
Chen Yuan took the jade token and walked out of the Alchemy Pavilion.
As soon as he reached the door, two disciples came in, talking and laughing.
"Junior Brother Wen, how could you believe what old man Geng said? The ancient books in the Sutra Library have been read countless times by senior brothers of all generations. How could there be any secrets left until now?"
"Hey, Senior Brother You, don't say anything. For some reason, the spiritual energy in the spiritual medicine garden that I was on duty at has been disordered many times in the past year, and several purple-leaf lotuses have been destroyed inexplicably. I and several senior brothers have had a lot of merits deducted from us by the Alchemy Pavilion, and our progress in cultivation has slowed down. I was confused for a moment and wanted to find some clues about ancient secret realms and cultivators' caves to report to the sect in exchange for some merits. I believed the nonsense of that old man Geng and stayed in the Sutra Pavilion for two days. I never thought that he, a foundation-building cultivator, only knew how to brag..."
The two people's voices reached Chen Yuan's ears. He had an idea and drove the flying boat towards the Sutra Library.
After he became a disciple, he never went to the Sutra Library again. If he had not met these two disciples today, he would have almost forgotten about Old Man Geng who was guarding the Sutra Library.
This person has a very bad reputation among the disciples of Lingyun Sect. Senior Brother Yuan, Mo Jingchun, and the two disciples he met today all look down on him and do not have the slightest respect for him just because he is a foundation-building cultivator.
But Senior Brother Yuan and Mo Jingchun said that Old Man Geng had entered the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain and obtained a five-hundred-year-old spiritual herb that was enough to refine a Jindan elixir. He exchanged it for a foundation-building pill from the sect and successfully established his foundation.
Mo Jingchun mentioned this matter when he was chatting with Chen Yuan, and it caused a sensation at the time.
The secret realm of Dongxu Mountain is extremely dangerous, and disciples from various factions are ruthless in their fight for spiritual herbs.
Ninety-nine percent of those who can get out of it unscathed and gain something are people with great skills.
But Old Man Geng had just entered the tenth level of Qi Refining at that time, but he took out a five-hundred-year-old spiritual herb and many other hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, which surprised everyone.
After he exchanged for the Foundation Establishment Pill, someone had the idea of taking it.
But Old Man Geng hid in the mountain gate and practiced until he reached the peak of the tenth level of Qi Refining. He took the Foundation Establishment Pill and successfully established his foundation in one fell swoop.
After making the leap from a carp to a dragon, Old Man Geng was very self-aware and did not expect to continue improving his cultivation. He immediately became a deacon disciple.
But he was born as a casual cultivator, without any special skills, shallow connections, and low strength. He accepted several sect missions that required fighting, but failed all of them. In the end, he was exiled to the Sutra Library, where he ended up living out the rest of his life.
However, the Qi-refining disciples in the sect were unaware of the inside story and were quite in awe of this legendary foundation-building cultivator.
Some people, having read too many legends, plays and novels about worldly things, even think that he is a hermit like the Sweeping Monk, and they flatter him a lot.
Later, some disciples who entered the sect through the Ascension Conference heard about the legendary deeds of Old Man Geng and went to the Sutra Library to ask for advice on how to enter the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain. Old Man Geng was not shy and taught everyone everything he knew with great enthusiasm, but he charged a lot of spirit stones.
However, the experience of entering the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain is extremely precious, and Old Man Geng is a foundation-building cultivator, so it is reasonable for him to collect some spirit stones.
But after the next trip to Dongxu Mountain, almost all those who believed in Old Man Geng’s experience died in the secret realm.
The few survivors were extremely angry and went to find Old Man Geng to demand an explanation from him.
It turned out that they followed the experience taught by Old Man Geng and joined forces to search for spiritual herbs after entering Dongxu Mountain, but they suffered heavy casualties. These few people were lucky enough to survive.
At the same time, someone spread the news that Old Man Geng was weak and had failed repeatedly in sect missions.
From then on, Old Man Geng became notorious, and he could only barely maintain his dignity by relying on his status as a foundation-building cultivator.
He also had to provide for the cultivation of his grandson who lived in Lingyun Market, so he continued to use the experience of the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain and the ancient books in the Sutra Library to deceive the new disciples.
Every year there are people who are fooled. Some are just getting started and have no idea of the inside story, while others know that what Old Man Geng said is exaggerated, but they are still self-important and think they can find opportunities hidden in piles of old papers.
But as time went by, Old Man Geng became more and more famous in the Lingyun Sect, and the number of people deceived by him became fewer and fewer.
I didn't expect to meet someone who was fooled by old man Geng today.
When Mo Jingchun talked about old man Geng, that slightly mocking expression reappeared in front of Chen Yuan's eyes.
Mo Jingchun had been to the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain and knew how dangerous it was. He looked down upon people like Old Man Geng who relied on luck to pick up spiritual herbs and then spoke nonsense.
But Chen Yuan was somewhat interested in Old Man Geng. It seemed a bit far-fetched to explain that he was able to escape from Dongxu Mountain unscathed and pick up rare spiritual herbs simply by using the word "luck".
Moreover, the disciples who believed in Old Man Geng's words did make no discoveries in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain. They just suffered heavy casualties because the restrictions they encountered were too powerful.
In more than seven months, Chen Yuan will enter the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, it is not a bad thing to know more information about Dongxu Mountain.
Anyway, the twenty or thirty spirit stones that Old Man Geng collected were just a drop in the bucket for him.
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The Alchemy Pavilion was not far from the Sutra Library. Chen Yuan drove the flying boat and arrived outside the Sutra Library in just half a quarter of an hour.
Just like the day he entered the sect, the Sutra Repository was still deserted with few visitors.
He folded up the flying boat, stepped in, and came in front of Old Man Geng.
He was leaning back in a recliner, holding a book with a yellowed cover in his hand, flipping through it out of boredom.
Seeing Chen Yuan coming, he put the book on the table in front of him, smiled kindly, and said:
"My nephew, do you want to enter the Sutra Library to read the ancient books?"
Chen Yuan stopped and bowed to Old Man Geng:
"Disciple Chen Yuan, meet Uncle Geng. I came here to ask Uncle Geng about the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain."
When Old Man Geng heard this, the smile on his face became even kinder:
"This is easy to say. For only thirty low-grade spirit stones, I will pass on all my experience of entering Dongxu Mountain to you, and I hope you will gain a lot in Dongxu Mountain."
Chen Yuan touched his storage bag, and thirty more spirit stones appeared out of thin air on the table in front of Old Man Geng.
"Thank you, Uncle Geng."
Old Man Geng's eyes lit up, and he immediately raised his hand and put the spirit stones into the storage bag, as if he was afraid that Chen Yuan would go back on his word.
"Cough cough!"
He cleared his throat and said:
"I had just entered the tenth level of Qi Refining, but for the sake of the Foundation Establishment Pill, I still ventured into the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain. My nephew should know that Dongxu Mountain is extremely dangerous. Not only are there many monsters blocking the way, but the disciples of various sects are also like crazy, fighting and fighting, and snatching spiritual herbs."
"My cultivation is shallow, so I am naturally no match for them. I can only avoid them and walk to secluded places, hoping to pick up a few rare spiritual herbs in exchange for a foundation-building pill."
"At first, I picked up a few hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, but they were the most common ones and not very valuable, so I could only go deep into Dongxu Mountain. I deliberately waited for a few days until everyone else entered the core area of Dongxu Mountain, and then I set off to avoid the fighting."
"After I entered the depths of Dongxu Mountain, I was very lucky and found an extremely secret spiritual medicine garden with a weak restriction. I picked a 500-year-old spiritual herb and a dozen 100-year-old spiritual herbs, then returned to the outskirts of Dongxu Mountain and hid until the secret realm was opened. I presented the spiritual herbs to the sect in exchange for a foundation-building pill, and successfully built my foundation."
Old man Geng spoke leisurely and described in detail his experiences after entering Dongxu Mountain.
After hearing this, Chen Yuan frowned.
What Old Man Geng said was so bizarre that it sounded like fabricated nonsense.
Dongxu Mountain is an ancient secret place with monsters everywhere. How could there be a spiritual medicine garden there?
I have something to do this afternoon, so the second chapter may be a little late.
(End of this chapter)