Chapter 171 Dan Cheng
Chapter 171 Dan Cheng
Thousands of colorful lights flew over Qingzhou and arrived in Yuzhang.
Seeing the mountain gate in sight, Cheng Xinzhan stopped and looked back.
"Fellow Daoists, let's just drop you off here. If you go any further, I'll have to invite you into the mountains for tea. There's no room for so many of you to sit in my cave."
Everyone laughed when they heard this, bowed and said goodbye, saying, "I hope Master Cheng can complete the golden elixir as soon as possible and gain infinite life."
Cheng Xinzhan kept raising his hand to see them off, and only returned to the mountain gate after everyone turned around and left.
The mountain gate was already on high alert. After all, thousands of people coming in droves could easily cause misunderstandings. Huo Jingyan was also startled. When he saw that it was Cheng Xinzhan who had returned, he laughed and scolded.
"You're back now, why are you making such a big fuss?"
Cheng Xinzhan bowed and begged for mercy.
"Are you preparing to form the elixir?"
Huo Jingyan asked seriously.
Cheng Xinzhan nodded.
"Well, come back to the clan!"
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After returning to the sect, Cheng Xinzhan went to the place where the bamboo stele was hidden first, but still could not see any trace of his master. He went back to Wuyou Cave to report his safety, and then went to Yuanyin Temple in Pingdingshan, where Deputy Sect Leader Dong was.
The position of deputy headmaster of Chunyang Temple is still vacant. Dong Jiaozhu holds two positions, namely, the deputy headmaster of Meizhi Mountain and the deputy headmaster of Lotus Blessed Land. As for Master Tongxuan, although he is still his own master, his main responsibility now is to manage Yujing Peak. This is why the headmaster asked Master Dong to go to Juqu Mountain to express gratitude three years ago instead of Master Tongxuan.
Sect Leader Dong led me out of the sect, and now that I'm back, naturally he wants to come and greet me.
Dong Shouren was very satisfied to see Cheng Xinzhan. He pulled him to sit down and talked about the recent developments of the sect and Haoran League. He also gave some pointers on the matters of Dan Jin. After chatting for a while, he let him go.
He left the Yuanyin Palace and turned a corner into the Sanqing Palace.
Ji Hehe smiled happily when he saw Cheng Xinzhan coming back.
"It's earlier than I thought."
Cheng Xinzhan returned,
“With the experience of locating the acupoints in Li Ting last time, it actually didn’t take too much time to locate the acupoints and open the acupoints for the spirit to enter the body this time. It was completed half a year ago. The main reason was that I wanted to learn more from Master Chengchu and Taoist Nengyue and interpret the classics, so it was delayed for another half a year.
"Until the beginning of spring, the ice and snow melted, the spring breeze thawed, and all things revived. I thought this was the perfect time to create the golden elixir that would bring vitality to the soil and water, so I came back."
Ji Hehe nodded, "Okay, okay, let's do it. Well, let's go to Wufu Mountain to make a pill. There are a lot of spiritual energy there, and there are immortals watching over it."
Cheng Xinzhan agreed and the time was set for five days later.
After returning to Wuyou Cave, Cheng Xinzhan did not repeatedly deduce the formation of the elixir. Instead, he emptied his mind and body, chasing cats and dogs, tending to the medicinal fields, and playing the piano and music.
Five days later, he arrived at Wufu Mountain.
Come to think of it, I haven't been here for many years. When I came back, I found that the place has changed a lot. There are ancient trees and gurgling water everywhere. It doesn't look like a new mountain created more than ten years ago. Instead, it seems like it has existed here for thousands of years.
Outside the spring breeze is chilly and the ice has just thawed, but here the sky is already green with the sound of cuckoos.
He walked up the mountain in the shaded path in the direction he remembered. When he reached the familiar hillside, he saw the hut built by Master Tongxuan, which had not changed at all. Master Qu was sitting there, and a few green birds landed on his shoulders and knees, chirping.
Opposite Lu Peng is the seedling of ginseng fruit tree. Cheng Xinzhan was surprised to find that it was no longer suitable to be called a seedling. It was lush and green and three feet tall. It was already a small tree!
The small tree was glowing with colorful light. When Cheng Xinzhan approached, he felt that his five internal organs were all refreshed.
He walked up to Lu Peng and bowed.
"Meet Qu Zu."
A few bluebirds that were preening their feathers were startled by him and flew away with their wings flapping.
Qu Xian also opened his eyes, smiled and asked him to sit down, saying,
"I heard from He He that you have been studying the Way of the Gods in Juqu Mountain for three years. How do you feel about it?"
Cheng Xinzhan replied respectfully, "The way of concentrating the mind is profound, and I have only gained a little."
If Zhenren Chengchu and Zhenren Nengyue were here, they would definitely say that Cheng Xinzhan was humble. If his progress was just a slight improvement, then there would be few people in Qushan who would say that they could understand the Huangting Sutra.
"Oh?"
Qu Xian smiled and said, "Although I am not proficient in the way of keeping the spirit, I know that the essence of keeping the spirit lies in "the harmony between man and nature, the unity of inside and outside". Since you have gained something, why do you scare away birds when you open your mouth?"
Cheng Xinzhan was stunned when he heard this.
Then he came to his senses and stood up to salute, "Thank you for your guidance, Master. I will remember the importance of concentration and humility."
As for the saying that a loud drum does not need a heavy hammer to hit it, Qu Zu only said it once and never mentioned it again.
"Sit down, sit down. I am just talking nonsense. I heard He He talk about your theory of golden elixir. It is about the nourishment of water from heaven and the growth of earth. It focuses on the fundamentals of longevity. I think it is very good. Next, you can just stay here and concentrate on forming the golden elixir. No one will come to disturb you. As for me, just pretend I don't exist."
Cheng Xinzhan said yes, and he also discovered that when Qu Zu said that he should just pretend he didn't exist, he was not saying it for fun. If he didn't look at the ancestor deliberately, he really wouldn't be able to feel this person so close to him. It was as if the immortal had turned into light and nothingness, and the flow of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth passed through him.
I'm still far from it.
Cheng Xinzhan alerted himself, then adjusted his breathing, took out the "Yu Ze Pei Lin Gang" given by the headmaster, raised his head and dripped it into his right eye.
When Yang Sha enters the body, it goes from the Yang Palace of the left eye to the Huangting via the "Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming", and successfully plows the courtyard. So referring to this experience, Cheng Xinzhan chose the route of Yin Gang entering the Huangting, which is also the "Shaoyin Kidney Meridian of Foot", one of the twelve main meridians.
The "Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian" belongs to the kidney and connects to the heart. The five elements are water, and the two principles are yin. It goes up to the "Yu Fu" point, passes through the kidney's large orifice, passes through the "Huang Ting", and also connects to the foot.
There is just one thing. The "Shaoyin Kidney Meridian of Foot" passes through Shuifu and Huangting, which is consistent with the Yin-Yang and Five Elements attributes of "Yu Ze Pei Lin Gang". However, the "Shaoyin Kidney Meridian of Foot" is different from the "Yangming Stomach Meridian of Foot". Its highest starting point is "Yu Fu", which is below the Twelve-story Tower and is still far away from the Right Eye Yin Palace.
Then Cheng Xinzhan used the "Ren Mai" and "Yin Qiao Mai" of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians to build a bridge between the Yin Palace and the "Yu Fu".
After entering the Yin Palace, "Yu Ze Pei Lin Gang" turned into a ball of wet rain and mist, and experienced the same fate as "Huang Ji Zheng Wu Sha". It was repeatedly beaten by hot lead, peach evil, cloud Gang, and flying swords, and finally turned into a green tiger. The green tiger was finally forced out of the Yin Palace and came to the "Jingming" acupoint on the "Yin Qiao Mai". Then it went down along the "Yin Qiao Mai" and turned into the "Chengjiang" acupoint of the "Ren Mai" near the 12th floor, and then went down along the "Chengjiang"-"Lianquan" line.
The first time is new, the second time is familiar. Cheng Xinzhan did not wait for Qinghu to enter the kidney orifice. He directly ordered Taiyin Emperor to come out of the water palace and ascend along the "Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian" to pick up Qinghu.
The Emperor Taiyin and the Linggang Green Tiger met at the Tiantu point of the Renmai.
Cheng Xinzhan interpreted the classics of the Way of Preserving Gods in Juqu Mountain, visualized various forms of gods, and his understanding of the inner gods has reached several levels. The spiritual charm and divine power of these inner gods in his body are also different from the past. The Moon God holds a sword, and the sword light is like a bright moon, rushing straight at Qinghu. Ling Gang is an extraordinary thing, which is a combination of the innate spiritual Yin Mother and the acquired rain and rain. It has its own heavenly power. At this moment, seeing the Moon God blocking the way, it roared and rushed over.
It was just a pity that the two met on a narrow road in Cheng Xinzhan's inner world. No matter the meridians, the meridians, the meridians, the acupoints, or the orifices, all stood on the side of the Moon God. When the Moon God slashed with a sword at this moment, it was the power of heaven and earth in the inner world. How could this green tiger stop it?
The Moon Goddess chopped the green tiger into pieces, and then condensed it again. It took seven times before she finally subdued the green tiger.
The emperor flew and sat on the back of the green tiger, with his right leg bent and crossed on the tiger's back, his left leg naturally stretched out and dropped, the sword horizontally placed on the right knee, his right hand pressing the hilt of the sword, his left hand hanging in front of his chest, forming the Taiyin Zhenshui Jue, looking both free and easy, but also with the solemn and precious appearance of subduing demons and monsters.
The Moon Goddess rode a tiger and rushed to Huangting, going down in the "Ren Mai", and when she reached the "Xuan Ji" acupoint, she held the sword and slapped the green tiger. The green tiger roared, turned left and crashed into the "Yu Fu" acupoint of the "Shao Yin Kidney Meridian of Foot".
Since Taiyin Emperor is the master of the kidney, his power becomes even stronger after entering the "Shaoyin Kidney Meridian of Foot". Qinghu's acupuncture points become faster, going down along the line of "Yu Fu" - "Yu Zhong", passing through eleven acupoints and reaching "Shang Qu".
It is worth mentioning that in the process of opening up these eleven acupoints, Cheng Xinzhan realized two new magical powers, one is the "Lingxu" acupoint magical power, and the other is the "Yindu" acupoint magical power.
After reaching the Shangqu acupoint, the Moon God patted the Green Tiger again and turned into the kidney palace. The moonlight in the kidney palace was like water and the kidney essence was like jade. The Green Tiger lowered his head and licked the jade. The rain water from the outside world and the kidney water from the human body inside blended here. Then, the Moon God led the Green Tiger out of the palace again. At this moment, the Huangting Palace was in front of him.
The Moon Goddess urged, and the green tiger roared and broke into the Huangting.
However, Huanglong Zhensha, who had lived in Huangting for a long time, had already regarded himself as the master of Huangting. When he saw a green tiger rushing in, he was immediately enraged and rushed forward with a wag of his tail.
The green tiger bowed its head to the Moon Goddess but was not afraid of the yellow dragon. Seeing the yellow dragon coming towards it with its fangs and claws bared, the green tiger also pounced on it and they wrestled with each other.
Seeing the Yang Dragon and Yin Tiger finally meet, Cheng Xinzhan breathed a sigh of relief, and what followed was the fusion of Yin and Yang.
However, he waited for a long time, but only saw that the yellow dragon and the green tiger refused to give in to each other, and they were fighting against each other, scratching and scratching each other, and were unwilling to coexist, let alone merge.
It's time to take action.
Cheng Xinzhan has practiced many furnace elixirs, so he naturally knows how to deal with the incompatibility of metal, stone and medicine. This knowledge is all about fire.
As soon as Cheng Xinzhan's mind moved, a ray of spiritual light flew out from each of the five palaces, just like when the Crimson Palace was first opened up. The five-colored spiritual light gathered in the Huangting, and after entering, it transformed into five-colored spiritual fire.
The yellow dragon and the green tiger were still fighting in the sea of fire, as if they were natural enemies.
Cheng Xinzhan was concentrating on manipulating the flames. The sea of fire in the Huangting was sometimes raging, sometimes low, sometimes bright red, and sometimes dark black.
Under the burning flames, the Yellow Dragon and the Green Tiger also slowly changed. First, the yellow one became yellower, and the green one became greener. This was because the impurities in the Gangsha were blown away by the flames and separated from the Gangsha itself. Then, the movement of the Yellow Dragon and the Green Tiger gradually slowed down, accompanied by the strange phenomenon of rain curtains and dust.
It was unknown how long it had passed before the yellow dragon and green tiger gradually dissipated their forms and transformed into two wisps of evil spiritual energy, one yellow and one green.
However, the two strands of spiritual energy separated as soon as they touched.
However, he was not in a hurry, and he continuously transformed the five elements of mana into furnace fire to smelt yin and yang. However, this was a huge loss of mana. Even if he used visualization and breathing methods to absorb air at the same time, the generation of mana was still not as strong as the consumption.
After a long time, Cheng Xinzhan's magic power in the five palaces was finally almost gone, but the two strands of evil spirit energy still showed no signs of fusion.
Qu Xian, who was sitting not far from Cheng Xinzhan, saw Cheng Xinzhan's current predicament and was ready to help this extremely outstanding junior absorb the five elements - this was only natural, otherwise why would he send this child to Wufu Mountain to form the elixir?
Because the five elements of spiritual energy here that have been absorbed and exhaled by the ginseng fruit tree are as dense as the thick fog in the early morning of late autumn. Also, only by taking action by myself can I ensure that a sufficient amount of the five elements of spiritual energy can penetrate into his body without disturbing the child's mind and transform into pure five elements of magic power.
But just as Qu Xian was about to attack, he noticed that Cheng Xinzhan suddenly opened his mouth, and there was a swallowing movement at the twelfth floor, and the left side of his neck was slightly swollen.
"Ouch—"
An ethereal and low sound like a flute came out of Cheng Xinzhan's mouth and lingered for a long time, accompanied by a huge suction force.
On Wuzhuang Mountain, the dense five-element spiritual energy was like a lake that was about to overflow, but at this moment a gap appeared on the lake embankment, and all the water poured into this gap. The spiritual energy torrent rushed into Cheng Xinzhan's mouth, and by the time it reached his mouth, the spiritual mist had condensed into spiritual liquid, pouring into his "Qishe" acupoint.
At the same time, in his five palaces, five inner gods made hand gestures and chanted incantations to draw out the spiritual energy in the "Qishe" acupoint, circulate it around the body, transform it into magic power, and then send it into the Huangting, transforming it into a flame that melts yin and yang.
This was exactly the magical power of "Qi She" and "Whale Breathing" that he realized when he opened up the "Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming", and he was using it at this moment.
Beside him, Qu Zucai raised his hand and put it down silently, with a satisfied smile on his face.
In Wufu Mountain, the roar of whales was heard five times, and Cheng Xinzhan's green and yellow energies in Huangting finally began to slowly blend.
Just when the Gang and Sha were blending and the Yin and Yang were united, it suddenly started to rain from the sky, with the Lu Peng where Cheng Xinzhan was located as the center. Grass grew wildly where there were grasses on the ground, and grass began to sprout where there were no grasses.
This vigorous vitality spread outward, all the way to the outside of Wufu Mountain.
When Cheng Xinzhan attacked the palace before, strange phenomena appeared in the sky. When Li Ting attacked last time, Ji Hehe was prepared and locked Huang Yun in the formation, but the earthquake still spread far away, so much so that even people in Juqu Mountain knew about it.
This time, Cheng Xinzhan formed the core, and Sanqing Mountain was on high alert, determined not to let outsiders know about the core formation phenomenon. Now that the evil is rampant and there is the ghostly Blood God Sect, they must not let this come to the fore.
So as soon as the majestic vitality burst out from Cheng Xinzhan, Qu Xian threw out the Yin-Yang Ring in his hand, and the magic weapon burst out with mysterious light, trying to lock this vitality. However, the vitality spread too quickly, and when it rushed out of Wufu Mountain, Qu Xian only stopped 60% of it.
At the same time, Ji Hehe, Shi Tongxuan and Dong Shouren were well prepared. The three of them attacked together, the Cloud Ban Formation was running at full power, and Pingdingshan was shining brightly, finally locking up all the vitality before it could break out of Sanqing Mountain.
But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, an even more powerful aura emanated from Wufu Mountain, where brilliant light shot up into the sky. All the disciples of Sanqing Mountain saw it. In the sky above the sect's forbidden area, a scene of dragons soaring and tigers leaping appeared. The dragon was a yellow dragon, and the tiger was a green tiger.
Outside Sanqing Mountain, it began to rain throughout the entire Yuzhang area.
In Sanqing Palace, Ji Hehe's gaze fell on the outside of Sanqing Mountain. Looking at the drizzling spring rain, he secretly rejoiced and thought: This child picked a good time, he went into seclusion at the Beginning of Spring and formed the elixir at Grain Rain. It was originally a rainy time, so no one should be able to see anything.
In the Lupeng at Wufu Mountain, Cheng Xinzhan looked inward and saw that in the Huangting Palace, all the yellow dragon and green tiger, and the five-colored sea of fire had disappeared. Only a perfect and round golden elixir was emitting bright light, illuminating the entire inner world brightly and transparently.
(End of this chapter)