Xianlu

Chapter 148 Ancient Sword Xiu Xin Jin
This thought flashed in Xu Dao's mind, leaving only a little ripple.

Although he is now a casual cultivator, his future is bleak, but he is not really going to be a hammer here and a stick, thinking about switching to whatever he finds, it still needs to be a bit qualitative.

Besides, through the "Taibai Xijin Sword Pill Method" in front of him, he also has a lot of understanding of the school of sword immortality. If he directly transfers to sword immortality, it is not in line with his future plans.

While chewing on the Chinese characters of the Sword Pill Refining Method, Xu Dao thought to himself, "It turns out that compared to the way of immortality and martial arts, Qi Xiu takes the way of outer alchemy."

"The former two use themselves as a furnace to refine a great pill in the body and plant the seeds of longevity, while the latter uses the natal magic weapon as a furnace to refine a great pill outside the body. Once a sword pill is refined , Swallow it with your neck, even Dan Cheng has planted the seeds of longevity."

Inspired by the "Taibai Xijin Sword Pill Method", Xu Dao combined the exercises he had learned before, and immediately gained a lot of new insights in the knowledge of Taoism.

"It's no wonder that whether it's the way of immortality, martial arts, or sword immortality, the three paths have foundation building and golden alchemy. And in many Taoist books, they are collectively referred to as 'alchemy' from time to time."

Xu Dao realized in his heart:

"The so-called foundation building is to set up a furnace to build a cauldron. The white bone gold body and the ice muscle jade bone body in the Temple of White Bones are two different types of furnace cauldrons. Afterwards, the condensed evil spirit is refined, and the golden crow is cooked in the furnace cauldron. Jade rabbit, harmonize yin and yang, dragon and tiger, until a great elixir that is perfect, bright, clean and without loss is refined, this is the elixir, which can be used to seek longevity."

In an instant, Xu Dao was delighted, the fog in his mind dispelled, and he saw a wider perspective on the road of cultivating the Tao.

Holding the scabbard of his sword, he paced among the stone piles, with an obvious look of joy on his face.

Suddenly, Xu Dao froze his body, lowered his gaze, and looked into his hand, only to see that the scabbard he was holding in his hand had already cracked and turned into pieces of jet-black pieces, like rust.

With Xu Dao's light force, he could no longer grasp the scabbard, and the scabbard was completely broken and turned into debris.Fortunately, he had already recorded the content of the exercises in his heart at this time, without missing a single word.

After clapping his hands, Xu Dao shook off the powder from his hands. He bowed to the skeleton he had dug out from the stone wall, and said in his mouth, "Thank you, senior, for leaving the formula."

After thinking about it for a while, he called the cuttlefish sword, dug a big pit on the spot, and then swept all the bones of his predecessors that had been broken into pieces into the pit, and buried them on the spot. Favor of the law.

After these things were done, Xu Dao glanced at the tunnel being dug, but couldn't suppress his curiosity after all, and secretly said:
"Let's study the formula first, get a general idea of ​​how to refine the sword pill, and then go to find the dragon's vein. Anyway, the dragon's vein is there, and it won't run away."

After the decision was made, Xu Dao immediately found a clean place around and sat up cross-legged, with his eyes slightly closed, he began to ponder over the key points of the exercises just memorized word by word, comprehending the general idea.

After about half a moment, he gradually opened his eyes.

Xu Dao summoned Mo Yufeijian, with a look of enlightenment in his eyes:

"It's no wonder that the entire exercise is engraved on the scabbard, but there is no visualization picture left. It turns out that this sword cultivation method is closer to the ancient sword cultivation inheritance."

Before the Tang Dynasty, sword repair was only one of many weapon repairs, and it could not represent the entire group of weapon repairers.

And at that time, the outer alchemy said that compared with the inner alchemy and immortal martial arts, it belonged to the top-notch path of the leftist way. Maybe each had its own power, but none of them could live forever and could not prove the way.

It wasn't until during the Shengtang period that a sword cultivator proved to be a long-lived man, and he was lifted up from his house and ascended to the throne, and the outer alchemy was passed through.Afterwards, many sword celestial beings were born, and the sword celestial beings became one of the orthodox paths of cultivation, alongside immortal martial arts.

So far, weapon cultivators have also been called sword cultivators, and their path of practice is collectively called "Sword Immortal".

As for why this Dao is not like Immortal Dao or Martial Dao, it is directly called Sword Dao... There seems to be some theory in it, but because of Xu Dao's shallow knowledge, he still doesn't know the truth.

And when the Sword Immortal One had not yet formed, the sword cultivator inheritance was different from other inheritances, and there was a proverb circulating in it: I have learned from those who have gone before and taught those who have come.

To put it simply, the inheritance of sword cultivators in ancient times was not listed in writing, had few disciples, and did not open altars to teach dharma, but taught disciples by sword, and it was often passed down from generation to generation.

The specific method is that a certain sword cultivator dies. Although his body is rotten, the sword in his hand is made of gold and iron, which can last forever in the world. The path of sword repair.

Moreover, because many sword cultivators can inherit the natal magic weapon of the previous generation, they can quickly comprehend it with the help of the legacy in the sword weapon at the beginning, and then they can extract materials from the magic weapon to refine their own natal sword weapon.

In this way, compared to other orthodox traditions, although sword cultivators were rare in ancient times, they passed on in a single line, and many sword cultivators could not find successors before they died.But even if it is separated by three or five generations, or even thousands of years, as long as the inheritance of the sword is not broken, its inheritance will not be considered severed, but it is often passed on from generation to generation.
It is said that the sword cultivator existed before the Xianqin, and after going through the Xianqin and Shenhan dynasties, there was finally someone holding a sword to prove the way during the Tang Dynasty, shaping the name of the sword fairy, and establishing the sword fairy lineage.

At this time, the inheritance of sword cultivators also absorbed the inheritance of other instrument cultivators, and disciples spread widely, and sects were established, until, like the way of immortality and martial arts, a method of inheritance based on swordsmanship was formed, and it finally flourished.

Xu Dao pondered the method in his mind, secretly said:

"Although this "Taibai Xijin Sword Pill Method" has been passed down in writing, it has not been passed down through visualization diagrams. If future generations only have the method but not the matching inherited swords, they will not be able to practice this method."

Because the "Taibai Xijin Sword Pill Method" is different from the general method of alchemy, in the process of practice, Taoists don't need to find the corresponding treasures of heaven and earth and refine them into it.

But it only needs to continuously absorb the energy of gold and iron according to the formula, and purify the sword.

Once Xinjin is extracted from the sword weapon, it is similar to the way of immortality and martial arts to plant spiritual roots in the body, which can be used to build foundations, shape meridians, and be promoted to a real magic weapon.

After that, it will continue to absorb the gas of gold and iron, and it can also use evil gas and gang gas to refine it, and further purify the sword until the nine meridians are complete. If everything is ready, you can refine the seeds of longevity.

In order to achieve the above effects, ordinary magic tools are obviously not qualified, and a sword embryo must be smelted out with specific techniques, the ratio of pills, or even a coincidence, which can be used properly.

Before the path of sword immortality has been completely formed, the gates in it, let alone the later inheritors, even the sword cultivators who established the first generation of inheritance, it is difficult for each of them to refine a second qualified sword embryo.

This is also the main reason why Gu Jianxiu's inheritance is not written, accepts fewer disciples, and does not open altars to teach Dharma. It is not because he does not want to, but because he is incompetent.

This disadvantage was not resolved until there were Taoists among the sword cultivators.

Therefore, although there is no visualization map in "Taibai Xijin Sword Pill Method", the cuttlefish sword in Xu Dao's hand has already played the role of a "visual map", which can guide, or directly let Xu Dao cross the threshold of entry, and practice skills Law.

"This method is brilliant if you say it is not brilliant, but it is very in line with Gu Jianxiu's demeanor. He strives for the essence and is not too complicated."

After Xu Dao sorted out all this, he was secretly amazed in his heart.

Only with a sword in hand can you get started; without a sword, the formulas are useless.

It is exactly between the ancient sword cultivator's inheritance method and the current sword cultivator's inheritance method.

"In this way, the senior who left me this formula is very likely to be a Taoist during the Shengtang period, when the Sword Immortals were in the ascendant." Xu Dao understood in his heart.

After chewing "Taibai Xijin Jianwan Method" in his mind, he has already understood many key points in it, even because the formula is not very complicated, he doesn't even need to use the wordless talisman.

It was because the cuttlefish sword had already helped him solve all the difficulties in getting started, and after that, he only needed to absorb the energy of gold and iron and temper the sword body as described in the exercises.

This made Xu Dao feel weird: "Draining gold and iron to transform hard gold... If it is not the first step to get the right method, it is to dissipate all the traces of the past in the cuttlefish sword, so that the Taoist can refine it with essence and completely transform it into a sword." For my own use, I almost thought it was a way to purify metal materials for others.”

There are many kinds of metals in the world, which can be divided into Geng and Xin, and Geng and Xin are the ancestors of metals. The two sides of gold and iron, the essence of which is almost yin and yang, is the essence of gold.

Among them, the Geng metal is in the yang, and its nature is rigid. There is a saying in "Drip Tiansui": "The Geng metal has evil spirits, and the vigor is the most."

Xinjin is warm and clear, it is yin, like pearls and jade, shining brightly, precious and self-respecting, it is soft steel, also a needle point, knife and scissors utensils, bright and sharp, can be used to repair timidity, and it is opposite to Gengjin.

The metal refined by the Taibai Xijin Sword Pill Method is Xinjin, taking the meaning of flexibility from gold and iron, and refining it into a Yinjin sword weapon.

Such a treasure is naturally very rare.

Just by refining a little bit of Xinjin, the sword in Xu Dao's hand can be promoted to a real magical weapon, not to mention waiting until he refines the entire flying sword into Xinjin.

At that time, its value will be unimaginable, and it will be a top material that can be directly used to refine various golden elixirs.

If Xu Dao really completely purified the cuttlefish sword in his hand into a sword made of Xinjin, he might have to be wary of others taking his sword and use the cuttlefish sword as a material for refining treasures.

But it's still too early to worry about this, he thought in his eyes, and called the cuttlefish flying sword to him.

Looking at the black flying sword, Xu Dao thought to himself:

"This sword has been handed down to me, and it may have lasted for more than a thousand years, or even thousands of years. This sword is hidden in the dragon's evil cave, and has been blown by the evil wind, even if there is a stone wall as a barrier , it is rare that it has not decayed, and the traces inside have been erased, so I don't need to polish it specially."

Thinking of this, Xu Dao frowned slightly, looked at the pit next to the corpse where the corpse was buried, and guessed in his heart for a moment:

"Perhaps the cuttlefish sword was originally a magic weapon-level flying sword. It was only because of the long time, the wear and tear of the evil wind, and the loss of too much metal and iron energy in it, that it degenerated into a rough embryo of a magic weapon, not a magic weapon. A real magic weapon."

Looking at the tunnel he hadn't dug yet, he expected: "It seems that these stone walls in front of me are also artificially made and sealed up, which can barely play the role of isolating evil spirits."

Thinking about it, Xu Dao guessed that the cultivation level of the corpse in the stone was mostly between the early and middle stages of foundation establishment, and the other party should be trying to collect evil spirits here, condensing evil spirits into the middle stage of foundation establishment.

It's just that he didn't know whether it was because of an accidental madness, or because of other reasons such as injuries, the other party just sat here.

Before he died, he reluctantly engraved the exercises on the scabbard that he carried with him, and sealed himself with stones to isolate the evil spirit, in an attempt to pass on his family's orthodoxy.

Now, after thousands of years, the stone wall where this person was buried has been corroded and pierced by the evil wind and evil spirits, cracked open, and his bones have been petrified.

But the sword in the other party's arms was passed down tenaciously, and was washed into the dark river by the water, and was obtained by others, until it attracted Xu Dao and got its inheritance.

After thinking about it for a while, Xu Dao felt that his conjectures were not far-fetched.If this were not the case, it would not explain what he found in the cave.

For a while, Xu Dao felt a lot of regret in his heart.

If he could come here sooner and dig out the cuttlefish sword, maybe there will still be the legacy of his predecessors in the sword, which can give him a lot of benefits.

Or maybe the cuttlefish sword itself has a strong aura of gold and iron, and fortunately there is still gold in it, which belongs to a high-grade magic weapon.If Xu Dao gets it, if he turns to become a Sword Immortal, he will definitely not have to worry about building a foundation.

It's a pity that he came too late, the inheritance is still there, but the accumulation of the previous generation of sword cultivators has disappeared, and he has to accumulate everything from scratch.

Xu Dao sighed on the face, and comforted himself silently in his heart: "It's not too late, it's not too late."

"If it's really late, the scabbard might be broken, and the words on it are blurred, so the sword embryo can only be used as an ordinary magic weapon, and it's a waste of money."

It is already a great opportunity for him to get a sword cultivation technique that can form alchemy.

It is said that when Xu Dao first obtained the exercises, he guessed that the steps related to alchemy in "Taibai Xijin Jianwan Method" were omitted or castrated.But now it seems that it is not certain, it may be that the previous sword cultivator has not formed the alchemy himself, and has not studied the specific method of forming the alchemy at all.

Or, is it a case of both?

There were too many thoughts in his mind, Xu Daozuo guessed and guessed again, his head hurt from thinking about it.

He slapped his forehead for the last time, and said in his heart: "It doesn't matter what his background is, let's practice it first. Anyway, I don't enter the way of swordsmanship. I just use it as an assistant to refine a magic weapon that is suitable for use."

At the same time, Xu Dao secretly said in his heart:

"Besides, although this method has the possibility of forming alchemy and refining a magic weapon, it is extremely simple and has no matching swordsmanship moves. It can only be used against the enemy with sharp energy... It is really just like I thought, it seems to be purifying metal."

"If there is a day when you can refine the magic weapon, it will be great to use it directly as a material for refining the treasure."

Xu Dao's mind was steady.

(End of this chapter)