Volume 2: The Demonic World Chapter 345 Dan
In the dilapidated corridor of Taihe Temple, Lin Qianxing's eye between his eyebrows was shining with golden light, and he was holding Guan Yusheng on his shoulders. The two were moving forward slowly.
"You mean, his intention is not revenge?" Guan Yusheng said.
"How fresh, who can't see it?" Lin Qianxing complained, and then said to Guan Yusheng: "Except you."
"Did you scold me?" Guan Yusheng said with his eyes wide open.
"This is not an insult to you, it's just an affirmation of your IQ." Lin Qianxing said.
"Thank you." Guan Yusheng smiled when he heard it.
Lin Qianxing had nothing to say and could only give a thumbs up.
"He is a very smart man. I have read his story. He is definitely not the kind of person who likes to dwell on trivial matters. So I don't believe that he would hold a grudge for more than a thousand years just because he was exiled from an academy and was determined to come back to fight with the academy to settle the cause and effect." Lin Qianxing explained, shaking his head.
"Then what is his real purpose?" Guan Yusheng asked again.
"A ceremony." Lin Qianxing said, "This is the only possibility. He is holding a ceremony to promote himself through the academy and the officials of Dazhi Country. The academy also knows this, but for the sake of that fourth-level corpse puppet, they are willing to be fooled, or in other words, accept this deal?"
"Ritual?" Guan Yusheng frowned and said, "You mean, he is not yet at the fourth level? But how did he create that fourth-level corpse puppet?"
"Isn't it normal that the level is lower than the works you created? When I was at the second level, I could create third-level artifacts at will." Lin Qianxing said.
"That's right. I also mixed third-level potions when I was at the second level." Guan Yusheng nodded.
As he was walking, Lin Qianxing suddenly stopped, then turned in another direction and ran into a wall, scaring Guan Yusheng so much that he exclaimed, "Watch the road!"
Surprisingly, Lin Qianxing just walked through the wall and entered a cemetery.
There are endless graves in this cemetery, with accumulated bones everywhere. The ground is paved with bones, some of which are human bones and some of which are those of other exotic animals.
After Lin Qianxing stepped on it, it collapsed and cracked, turning into countless broken bones, and Lin Qianxing's foot also sank into the broken bones.
Buzz~!
The jet behind Lin Qianxing activated, spurting out a stream of golden particles, allowing him to walk lightly above the corpses.
"How many lives has he killed? The thickness down there must be half a meter!" Lin Qianxing complained.
"These bones clearly look fresh, how come they broke like this?" Guan Yusheng asked puzzledly: "The 'qi' in them is gone, has it been sucked away? What does he want to do?"
"I heard from that pretentious guy Zhuang Ji that there was a special third-level Taoist position in Taihe Temple called the Alchemist." Lin Qianxing said.
"Pill?" Guan Yusheng said suddenly.
It is different from the elixir that Lin Qianxing came into contact with in the main world.
The refining of elixirs in this world is not simply a mixture of various materials. It is the combination of yin and yang and the harmonization of medicinal properties that ultimately form the elixir.
This method, in this world, is more like medicine than pill.
Dan has a special meaning in this world.
[Alchemist] is also a special Taoist position.
When they make elixirs, they have to consider the right time, right place, and right people.
Every time the furnace is opened, the time must be right, the state of mind must be right, the materials and techniques are all unique, the person refining the elixir and the person taking the elixir must also be right. Only when heaven, earth and man are united can one truly successfully create a furnace of elixirs that contain the spiritual power of heaven and earth.
In order to wait for an opportunity to open the furnace, some of their alchemists would prepare for several years or even decades.
Their elixirs are no longer a means to assist in spiritual practice, but they use elixirs to cultivate themselves.
The Dao of Alchemy is their Dao.
Lin Qianxing was willing to get involved in this matter this time. All his plans of looking for Zhuang Ji's knowledge and wanting to learn from the corpse puppet were fake.
His real purpose was to learn how to become a Taoist priest.
Lin Qianxing wanted to use this to verify his own alchemy skills and make great progress.
After searching for traces on the white bones for about a quarter of an hour, Lin Qianxing saw a platform built of bones. On the platform, Mu Cheng was staring at the empty sky in a daze. In front of him was a fist-sized white skull floating in the void.
"You're here, sit down." Mu Cheng seemed to notice Lin Qianxing, and turned his head and smiled at Lin Qianxing.
Lin Qianxing was not polite either. He stepped forward and sat opposite Mu Cheng. He also picked up Guan Yusheng from his shoulders and threw him beside him.
Guan Yusheng was not satisfied with Lin Qianxing's rough hands and feet, but he didn't dare to say anything.
"Is this your pill?" Lin Qianxing asked, pointing at the white skull.
"Yes, it will be done soon." Mu Cheng nodded.
"Can you explain it for me?" Lin Qianxing asked again.
"I thought you would come up to snatch it or stop me. You are smarter than I thought." Mu Cheng said with a little approval: "You are worthy of being a powerful person from the upper realm."
Hearing this, Guan Yusheng's eyes widened and he looked at Lin Qianxing with some disbelief.
Is he a powerful being from the upper realm?
"I can see that its veins seem to be connected to everything around it." Lin Qianxing said.
In Lin Qianxing's observation with his divine eyes, this human head hanging in the air carried many things, which were extremely mysterious. Infinite veins extended from it, absorbing the spiritual essence of the surrounding bones. At the same time, it also continuously absorbed some power from the void that Lin Qianxing found incomprehensible, perfecting its own existence.
"This is my Tao, the perfect Tao that I have spent more than a thousand years to build." Mu Cheng said with some excitement.
It's rare to meet someone who knows the business, so he doesn't mind saying a few more words.
"More than a thousand years ago, I pushed the two Taoist positions of [Puppet Master] and [Corpse Master] to the peak, hoping to evolve a new path from them. But before I succeeded, the Palace Master of the Academy said that my research was too harmful to the world and banished me to the Taihe Temple, where I had to cultivate my character."
Mu Cheng recounted his past. He said, "After coming here, I realized that the academy was not for me to cultivate my character, but to see what I lacked and let me continue to perfect my Tao here. I obtained a new Tao position here, [Tao Child], and pushed it to the peak step by step, becoming a third-level [Alchemist], which took less than 20 years. The teachers who taught me all said that I was a genius."
"At this point I have done everything I should do. The last step is to make the elixir and achieve enlightenment."
"But finding the right time, the right materials, and the right place to make the elixir requires waiting for the right opportunity."
"I can't wait. I'm too talented. I want to go against the will of heaven. Man can conquer nature. The future will create opportunities that suit me..."
Speaking of this, Mu Cheng showed some emotion on his face.
"I am too smart. My wisdom has harmed me. Human power cannot be compared with that of heaven and earth. Taihe Temple was destroyed overnight. All the creatures within a hundred miles of Taihe Temple were harmed by the time and space I created. My teacher died to protect me..."
"I know, I was too impatient. The academy sent me to the Barbarian Territory and asked me to repent there."
"I calmed down and waited for the right opportunity. In the process, I mastered a new Dao position, [Battle Wizard]. It unexpectedly matched my Dao and allowed me to combine what I had accumulated."
"All that's left is to wait for the right opportunity."
"I'm waiting for an opportunity to start refining the elixir."
"Finally, more than a thousand years later, I saw the possibility, so I hurriedly calculated the location, looked for the right place, the right ingredients, the right time..."
"Use this Taihe Mountain as the furnace, their fighting spirit as the guide, these tens of millions of corpses as the auxiliary, the old temple master's head as the core, my wisdom as the source, and attract infinite spiritual energy. When noon comes, this elixir will be formed, and my Tao will be completed."
After finishing the story, Mu Cheng looked at Lin Qianxing and asked, "What do you think of this story?"
"It's a very interesting theory of alchemy. They are obviously completely unrelated things, but when combined together, they can be transformed into an elixir that contains 'truth'." As he spoke, an interested .
Compared to Lin Qianxing, Guan Yusheng next to him seemed a little confused.
He didn't really understand things like Dan.
After all, it is a very random thing.
For the same kind of elixir, the materials used in refining it twice may be very different, and it is uncertain when it can be refined again. If the time, place and people are not right, the whole furnace of elixir will be wasted.
It is a different matter from the medicine that can be produced repeatedly.
At this time, Guan Yusheng looked up at the sky and found that the sun had moved above their heads.
Wow!
A golden light fell from the sky and landed directly on the skull hanging in the void.
Under the illumination of the golden light, the skull turned bright golden, gradually became round, and turned into a golden pill. The power from the infinite web was continuously infused into it.
During this process, Lin Qianxing discovered some things that shocked him greatly.
"Our arrival and observation are actually part of your pill-making process?" Lin Qianxing said in surprise.
"Thank you for your observation, otherwise, it would not be Dan, but just white bones." Mu Cheng said with a smile.
"Cause and effect are connected, fate is the core, and the form is determined after observation..." Lin Qianxing nodded in sudden realization.
From the moment Mu Cheng calculated the timing for refining the elixir, everything that happened today was almost destined.
As long as there is no causal disturbance factor greater than himself, and he himself does not do other things, then his success in making the elixir is inevitable.
This is the way of alchemy of the [Alchemist] in this world.
The principles it covers are complex and profound, and are not as simple as just making elixirs.
In other words, the final alchemy is just a result.
The entire process of preparing to refine the elixir is the real core of alchemy in this world.
So it’s no wonder that old guys like Zhuang Ji and Deng Chen are unwilling to get involved.
If they prevent Mu Cheng from attaining enlightenment, the consequences they will have to bear will definitely be serious, and that would be asking for trouble.
Gradually, the golden light of the sun dissipated, and the golden elixir floated in the void, revealing an extremely tempting light.
Guan Yusheng stood up, as if he wanted to snatch it.
"It's useless to snatch it. This is his pill. After the pill is made, only he can eat it." Lin Qianxing held Guan Yusheng's little head and said, "Besides, you may not be able to touch it."
Guan Yusheng obviously didn't believe it and raised his hand to grab it.
Mu Cheng didn't stop him either.
Then Guan Yusheng's palm passed over the pill.
The golden pill seemed to be non-existent and was not touched by Guan Yusheng at all.
"How is that possible?" Guan Yusheng said with a little regret and confusion.
"I've already said it, that's his way." Lin Qianxing shook his head helplessly.
Mu Cheng took off the golden elixir with a smile, looked at Lin Qianxing and said, "Brother, please witness Mu Cheng's attainment of the Tao."
After saying this, he gently put the golden elixir into his mouth.
