Chapter 89 An unexpected surprise
Chapter 89 An unexpected surprise
A month later, Wei Zhong looked at the two colorful golden bamboo umbrellas in front of him with satisfaction.
Wei Zhong finally used the only two thousand-year-old golden thunder bamboos to refine two treasure umbrellas.
I don’t know if it’s because of my increased proficiency, but I didn’t fail in both attempts.
One lower-grade third-level sword and one mid-grade third-level sword should be enough to handle most of the thunder tribulation.
At the critical moment, there is also a secret method to backup.
Now the treasure umbrella for dealing with the heavenly thunder disaster is ready, and the elixir that assists in forming the elixir, the Dust-Reducing Pill, has also been prepared. The only thing lacking is cultivation.
Wei Zhong folded his treasure umbrella and continued to practice.
It took three years to successfully enter the ninth level of foundation building, and another six years to complete most of the ninth level of foundation building.
Wei Zhong estimated that it would take another half a year to complete the foundation building.
At this time, you need to prepare the final means of substitution, the secret art of transformation.
Wei Zhong had no idea how many times he had read the jade slip that recorded this secret technique. He knew all the steps by heart and was very familiar with them.
With a blow to the chest, Wei Zhong suddenly vomited a large amount of blood, some of which was flashing with spiritual light, which was where Wei Zhong's essence and blood were.
After being hit by this hammer, Wei Zhong's face turned pale instantly. Even though Wei Zhong's foundation-building cultivation was close to perfection and his physique was nourished by the spirit wine and was no less than that of a foundation-building cultivator, he still felt very uncomfortable.
But this is a necessary step in refining a substitute incarnation.
The blood spurted out, half suspended in the air. Wei Zhong gathered a large amount of spiritual power on his fingertips, and then used his fingers as a pen, the spiritual power as ink, and the blood as paper to start drawing runes.
Wei Zhong was not unfamiliar with this technique. He had already mastered it very well when he was refining weapons.
Now it's just a change of scene.
His fingers moved in the blood, drawing black runes. As the runes became more and more complete, they connected with each other, and the scattered blood gradually took on a vague shape of a little man.
But this shape is not stable, as if it is about to collapse.
Wei Zhong took out a hundred-year-old purple crystal lotus and threw it into the blood.
Then a small vortex formed in the blood, sucking the half-human-sized purple crystal lotus into it.
Under the effect of this lotus, the shape of the bloody man gradually stabilized.
The little man was about half a foot long, covered in blood, without any fur, and with no facial features and limbs. It could only be said that he barely had a human form.
Wei Zhong did not continue to refine it, as this was a key point specially recorded in the jade slip.
The substitute blood body is not a human being, nor is it a clone, but a substitute carrier composed of part of the flesh and blood, spiritual power and soul of the cultivator.
Wei Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, and what followed was the most important part of this secret technique.
"Distract yourself!"
This step may be a bit difficult for ordinary people, but it is different for Wei Zhong.
Wei Zhong was familiar with this method when he was practicing the Jingshen Stab before. He cleanly cut off a piece from his spiritual consciousness and threw it into his bloody body.
Wei Zhong instantly felt an ambiguous connection with his blood body.
The blood body refined by such a crude method can only be used to replace disasters and cannot be used as an incarnation.
The limbs were mutilated, and the spiritual energy was running around in a disorderly manner all over the body. Even the consciousness that was divided into it was in a daze.
It is impossible to drive it to make any action at all.
At this point, Wei Zhong’s most important secret technique to deal with the heavenly thunder disaster was completed.
Putting it aside, Wei Zhong took a soul-nourishing pill, and then began to serve various spirit wines, including Luoyuehong, which nourishes the mind, Yuzhizui, which supplies spiritual power, and the second-level Qingluozui, which nourishes the body.
Wei Zhong recovered his condition in the most luxurious way, and then devoted himself to practice again.
After four months, Wei Zhong's foundation was complete and he could start to formally form the elixir.
After asking Xie Linghua to take care of the spiritual island and leaving some cultivation resources for her, Wei Zhong planned to leave.
The latter was somewhat surprised by Wei Zhong's behavior: "Master, are you planning to leave the island for a while?"
Wei Zhong nodded: "My cultivation has hit a bottleneck recently, so I plan to find a place to have a good retreat. It may take a long time, so I will leave the affairs of Yunxia Island to you."
Xie Linghua was surprised to know that Wei Zhong was about to form a pill.
"Master, just rest assured and retreat. I'll leave everything to Ling'er."
Wei Zhong nodded and left the island.
This time, one needs to find a sacred place to form the elixir. Although the level of the sacred place in the cave has reached the standard for cultivation, it is not suitable for forming the elixir to deal with the heavenly tribulation.
Wei Zhong had many options for the third-level spiritual land. He could borrow the spiritual land from the Ling family, which the Ling brothers and sisters would surely not refuse. He could also go to Yuelan City and rent a third-level cave from the Yunji Chamber of Commerce.
But Wei Zhong rejected it after some thought.
Looking towards the towering mountains in the distance, Wei Zhong flew away with the Luo River on his back.
For Dan formation, if you can choose a fourth-level spiritual land, there is no need to choose the third level.
Arriving at the valley filled with clouds and mist, Wei Zhong bowed and said:
"Senior Tan Tai, stop nagging!"
A black-robed figure flew out from the forest. It was Tan Tai Lin.
The other party looked at Wei Zhong in confusion, only to see that he was still at the foundation-building stage, and asked:
"There are still nearly seven years until the agreed time. Why are you coming to my valley when you haven't formed your elixir yet?"
"Although I want to form a pill, I lack a third-level spiritual place. That's why I thought of the location of your cave. I'm so shameless and would like to borrow your spiritual place for use."
After hearing what Wei Zhong said, Tan Tai Lin was stunned for a moment, with a hint of disbelief in his eyes.
But after a few breaths, he burst into laughter:
"Good boy, no one has ever dared to borrow spiritual land from me. You are the first one."
Wei Zhong listened to his laughter without changing his expression, and continued to look at the other person straight.
Tan Tai Lin waved his sleeves and brought Wei Zhong to the sacred place behind the courtyard, which was exactly where Wei Zhong had been refining the elixir last time.
"The concentration of spiritual energy here has reached the fourth level. You can form the elixir here."
After leaving these words, he disappeared from Wei Zhong's sight again.
Wei Zhong felt the rich spiritual energy around him and felt a little happy.
"It is indeed a fourth-level spiritual land, more than enough for Dan formation."
Instead of rushing to break through, Wei Zhong took out a handful of formation flags and scattered them around. The formation flags were connected to each other, forming a semicircular golden light shield above Wei Zhong's head.
This is a formation specially made by Wei Zhong for Ling Ziwei. This formation has no defensive effect at all.
Moreover, with the Nascent Soul cultivator Tan Tai Lin by his side, Wei Zhong was not worried about being disturbed during the Dan-forming process.
The only function of this formation is to shield and warn.
Block the sight and various detection methods such as spiritual consciousness to prevent the monks outside from spying on the internal scenes.
This can be regarded as Wei Zhong's way of keeping his own secrets to a certain extent.
Of course, this formation is not strong enough to prevent Nascent Soul cultivators from investigating. Even the consciousness of Foundation Establishment cultivators can easily break through this formation.
But the clever thing is that if someone peeks inside, no matter what means are used, the formation will collapse instantly, alerting Wei Zhong.
In the courtyard, Tan Tai Lin saw Wei Zhong setting up the formation with a strange look on his face. His spiritual sense spread, and he wanted to see what Wei Zhong was doing.
But before it touched the formation, the powerful consciousness of the Nascent Soul cultivator had already pressed down the golden spiritual light shield, causing it to be slightly dented.
Tan Tai Lin instantly understood Wei Zhong's intention, retracted his consciousness, drank a cup of spiritual tea, and murmured, "Interesting boy."
Inside the formation, Wei Zhong watched the spiritual light shield sink for a moment and then recover, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Tan Tai Lin gave up the idea of spying.
Sitting cross-legged, Wei Zhong closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing. He spent half a day adjusting his state to perfection, and then took out a Dust-Reducing Pill.
This pill is of top quality. Wei Zhong has been refining this pill for so many years, but has only produced two pills of top quality.
The one in my hand right now is one of them.
After taking the pill, Wei Zhong immediately felt his muscles trembling and streams of foul air were discharged through the tiny orifices in his body.
This is the medicinal effect of the Dust-Reducing Pill.
From the moment a person is born, his body is corroded by the foul air of the world, and his innate nature no longer exists.
The Dust-Reducing Pill is used to remove the turbid air from the body, making the cultivator's physique as close to the innate body as possible, so as to increase the probability of forming a pill.
The top-grade Dust Reduction Pills have the most abundant medicinal power and the best effect. The chance of forming a pill is also a few points higher than that of the middle and lower-grade ones.
Under this condition of a half-step innate body, Wei Zhong began to practice "Spring and Autumn Water Refining Art" and took the first step to condense the real elixir.
As the technique was put into practice, the spiritual energy around was continuously attracted to Wei Zhong, and a huge spiritual energy cyclone appeared in the sky.
The swirling spiritual energy blew away the fog between the valleys and formed a huge spiritual energy funnel between the towering mountains.
The monsters living there were all startled by this strange spiritual energy and fled in panic. The mortals living in the forests in the mountains, seeing this strange phenomenon from afar, all knelt down on the spot, clasped their hands together, kowtowed repeatedly, and chanted: "The mountain god has appeared, the mountain god has appeared..."
"It's started!" Tan Tai Lin held the teacup in his hand, looked at the place where the spiritual energy gathered, and murmured: "The movement is really big, this kid is not practicing ordinary methods."
Wei Zhong, the person involved, was sitting cross-legged on his spiritual eye with a look of pain on his face. The surrounding warning arrays had already been broken by the impact of the spiritual energy, but Wei Zhong no longer cared about that.
The huge amount of spiritual energy surged in, almost bursting Wei Zhong's body. Wei Zhong could only desperately practice the "Spring and Autumn Water Refining Art" to refine the continuously pouring in spiritual energy.
Fortunately, Wei Zhong was proficient enough in the "Spring and Autumn Water Refining Art", and drops of liquid gathered in his dantian.
In just over ten breaths, the liquid spiritual power in Wei Zhong's body expanded by twice its volume.
As Wei Zhong continued to refine spiritual energy, the liquid spiritual power in his dantian increased, to the point where even his dantian could no longer contain it.
It seemed as if the dantian was about to explode with the large amount of spiritual energy in the next moment.
Wei Zhong knew that this was the most critical moment to condense the true elixir, and his spiritual consciousness immediately surged out from his sea of consciousness and began to help compress the liquid spiritual power in his dantian.
As the spiritual power in the body was constantly squeezed, a ball of floc-like spiritual power suddenly appeared, like a ball of black cotton in black ink, inconspicuous.
But just as this ball of floc-like spiritual power appeared, the liquid spiritual power that was about to burst the Dantian instantly found a breakthrough and began to stick to it.
It was as if there was a whirlpool in it, sucking the liquid spiritual power into it.
In the blink of an eye, the liquid spiritual power in Dantian was completely absorbed.
Wei Zhong hurriedly accelerated the refining of the spiritual energy that was pouring into his body from all directions, but this speed was far less than the speed at which the liquid spiritual energy in his dantian disappeared.
'How can it consume so much spiritual energy to condense a true pill?'
Wei Zhong directly took out the Yuzhizui and poured it into his mouth, but even the Yuzhizui used for daily practice could not fill the lack of spiritual power at this time.
Wei Zhong simply took out the Haoyuan Pill which was only used by Jindan cultivators. After taking the pill, a surge of spiritual energy instantly emanated from his stomach.
The pill lasted only five breaths before Wei Zhong consumed it.
'Not enough, not enough.'
Wei Zhong took out another one and threw it into his mouth. At the same time, he took out his only two top-grade spirit stones and crushed them instantly.
The rich spiritual energy immediately enveloped Wei Zhong completely.
After this effect, the gap inside the Dantian was slowly filled, and a solid true pill prototype finally condensed in Wei Zhong's body.
It slowly rotates in Wei Zhong's Dantian, constantly absorbing the newly born liquid spiritual power to strengthen itself.
Wei Zhong watched the golden elixir gradually grow from the size of a thumb to the size of an egg.
The completely black true pill contains powerful spiritual power fluctuations that far exceed those of the same level.
'Is this the true elixir that belongs only to Jindan cultivators?'
Wei Zhong looked at this real pill and couldn't stop feeling happy and excited.
"Is the Dan formation going to be completed now?"
But just as Wei Zhong was overjoyed, there was a click and a crack appeared on the real pill.
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Before Wei Zhong had time to react, cracks began to appear around him continuously, like a stubborn stone with its outer layer peeled off. Wei Zhong's true elixir was constantly breaking and shrinking.
In a panic, Wei Zhong looked inside the shattered True Pill and found some dents.
'Could this be due to the lack of timely supply of spiritual energy when the True Pill was formed?'
But there was no time to think. In a few breaths, the real pill would completely collapse, and the surging spiritual power would spread from it, which would directly burst Wei Zhong.
Its power is probably no less than the self-detonation of the true elixir in the body of a Jindan cultivator.
Wei Zhong's attempt to form the elixir had undoubtedly failed, and he failed at the first step of condensing the true elixir.
But at this moment, Wei Zhong was not thinking about how to reduce the damage to his body caused by the failure of Danjie, but how to survive this crisis.
As his mind turned, a ray of inspiration suddenly emerged in Wei Zhong's mind.
"Krypton level once."
I almost shouted in my heart as the fluorescent light appeared in front of my eyes.
"Half-step to the Core Formation Stage, down to the ninth stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage, increasing lifespan by thirty years."
In an instant, the violent spiritual power in Wei Zhong's body dissipated like a deflated ball, and the broken black true pill also disappeared without a trace.
Tan Tai Lin in the outside world saw that the spiritual energy cyclone in the sky became unstable for a moment, and realized that something had happened to Wei Zhong's Dan formation.
In the blink of an eye, the spiritual energy cyclone completely dissipated, and the teacup in his hand was abandoned, turning into a puff of black smoke and escaping to the back of the yard.
When I saw Wei Zhong, I saw blood oozing from the corners of his mouth and his expression was listless. I knew that he was seriously injured after failing to form a pill.
"How is it? Is the injury serious?"
Wei Zhong wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve and said:
"It's just a failure in forming the elixir. It's not a big problem. Don't worry, senior. I will definitely form the elixir within the agreed time."
After saying this, Wei Zhong rearranged the spiritual light shield again.
Tan Tai Lin was amazed, wondering why Wei Zhong did not show an obvious look of loss like other cultivators after forming a pill. Instead, he looked a little enlightened, as if he understood the key to it.
"I was right about the person," Tan Tai Lin sighed and was about to leave.
Suddenly, Wei Zhong behind him unveiled the spiritual light shield and said:
"Senior, do you still have high-quality spirit stones? Can you exchange some for me?"
Tan Tai Lin twitched his lips: "You lent me the spiritual land, and you want to lend me the spiritual stones?"
But in the end he did not refuse and threw out ten high-quality spirit stones.
Wei Zhong took it, threw a storage bag over, and then bowed slightly, saying: "Thank you, senior."
Tan Tai Lin took it and probed it with his spiritual sense, and immediately found a wide variety of mid- and low-grade spirit stones. After a rough estimate, it was worth about 180,000 low-grade spirit stones.
According to the current exchange ratio between mid- and low-grade spirit stones and high-grade spirit stones, it can be exchanged for about fourteen high-grade spirit stones.
This is considered to be higher than the price of ten high-quality spirit stones given by Tan Tai Lin.
"Is this the rental fee for four spiritual lands? Not bad, not bad. You are a junior who knows the general situation," after praising in a low voice, Tan Tai Lin returned to the courtyard and continued to sip tea and practice.
Wei Zhong, who had obtained the top-grade spirit stone, returned to the spiritual light shield, wiped the blood that he had deliberately left at the corner of his mouth, and his expression changed, and the listless look on his face disappeared in an instant.
Recalling the danger he had just encountered when he was forming the elixir, Wei Zhong showed a trace of fear on his face.
'Fortunately, I reacted quickly, otherwise I would have become a cultivator who died in the first step of forming the true elixir.'
Before, I had only heard of monks being seriously injured at this stage, but I had never heard of anyone dying directly at this step.
Most of the foundation-building monks who are trying to form a pill die from the inner demon tribulation and the heavenly thunder tribulation, because these two tribulations are the most lethal hurdles.
Taking a deep breath, Wei Zhong looked at the panel.
【Name: Wei Zhong】
[Cultivation: Foundation Building Level 50 (%)]
【Shouyuan: 255/305】
The half-step Jindan retreats back to the ninth level of foundation building, which instantly eliminates the risk of Jindan failure and at the same time increases lifespan by thirty years. This is a huge profit no matter how you look at it.
Recalling the failure of Danjie just now, Wei Zhong has guessed the reason for the failure.
The supply of liquid spiritual power was not timely enough, resulting in the failure to lay a solid foundation for the true elixir, which led to the subsequent failure.
'As long as I make up for the shortcomings here, I can successfully form the elixir.'
Thinking about this, Wei Zhong couldn't help but think of Yao Zhengsheng, the young master of the Qingmu Sect who practiced the same martial arts as him.
'He also used the Spring and Autumn Water Refining Art to form the elixir. Did he also consume a large amount of high-level elixirs, top-grade spiritual stones, and form the elixir in a fourth-level spiritual land like me?'
Wei Zhong was confused.
'Or is it that the Spring and Autumn Water Refining Technique has a different effect on me?'
'Is it the influence of the Dao of Time and the Treasure Record of Time, or is it that I am too proficient in this method, which led to this situation?'
Wei Zhong couldn't figure it out, but he knew it was a good thing.
It takes so much spiritual energy to condense the prototype of the true pill, which shows that Wei Zhong has a very solid foundation and his spiritual power quality and quantity are far beyond ordinary people.
Even after forming the elixir, this leading advantage will be maintained...
Then Wei Zhong took out the blood body he had refined.
"Now that I have failed to form a pill, I cannot attempt it again in a short period of time. This substitute for the calamity has become a problem."
Don't worry, everyone, the next chapter will be successful.
(End of this chapter)