Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Tang Ning took out the herbs from the storage bag and placed them on the chopping board. He opened the cabinet on the right side, where Angelicae Sinensis, Polygonatum and other auxiliary medicines were arranged in full. He took out the required side medicines and mixed them into powder to make pills, and then shook them. Fire handle.

Not long after, a red flame emerged from under the alchemy cauldron. Upon closer inspection, there was a hint of earthy color in the flame.

The name Earth Lung True Fire is taken from the flames three thousand feet underground. It has the effect of dissolving spiritual power. It can speed up the fusion of the medicinal properties of pills when refining elixirs. Therefore, it is deeply loved by alchemists in the spiritual world.

This alchemy room is not cheap. It costs ten spirit stones every day. When he first came here, he paid five hundred spirit stones as a deposit.

Seeing the flames rising, Tang Ning dropped the pills from the left hole, put his right hand on the right hole, and used his spiritual power to turn the fire into fire. His consciousness felt the changes in the pills and the main medicine in the alchemy, and controlled the temperature of the flames. Use spiritual power to pull it, so that the main medicine powder and the pills can be integrated.

After a long time, only a slight sound of "Zi" was heard. He frowned, left the alchemy cauldron with his right hand, patted it lightly, and a black elixir spit out from the dragon's mouth and fell into the wooden box below.

Before he could pick it up, the elixir turned into powder with a "pop" sound. The thin sound inside the elixir cauldron just now was due to the temperature being too high, the inside of the elixir disintegrated too quickly, and the main ingredient was not fully absorbed yet. Integration, even if it is finally completed, can only be a waste elixir.

Tang Ning did not rush to continue refining, but closed her eyes and rested for a while, carefully thinking about the feelings of the talent below and the reasons for the failure. After a while, she started refining again.

He is still at the stage of refining Qi Condensing Pills. In the past two months, he has only succeeded a handful of times, with a success rate of less than 10%.

There is no way, elixirs cannot be made with just one recipe, otherwise there would be so many alchemists in the world who would remain at the level of first-level elixirs for the rest of their lives.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to elixirs. It relies on the accumulation of massive experience. Of course, talent is also very important. The former determines the lower limit of an alchemist, and the latter determines the upper limit.

The so-called stupid bird flies first on the elixir.

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The Aurora Boat passed through the clouds and fog, carrying everyone towards the Luoyun Mountains. At the battle of Xuanyue Mountain, the war between the three sects of Xuanmen and the four sects of Demon Sect finally ended after half a year.

Xuanmen finally recaptured the Xuanyue Mountain Spirit Mine and set up a defensive array. The sound transmission array was also renovated and six Jindan monks were sent to guard it.

Although the Demon Sect withdrew from Xuanyue Mountain, in the blink of an eye it seized four small spiritual mines controlled by Xuanmen as a basis.

Both sides suffered heavy losses in this battle, and Xuanmen was unable to recapture the four spiritual mines, so they had to give up for the time being and return to their sects to cultivate.

Not long after, the Aurora Boat passed through the sect formation and arrived at Qianxing Mountain. Everyone got off the boat and returned to their headquarters.

Inside the cave, Wei Xuande leaned on the railing, threw the bait in his hand into the lake, looked at the fish vying for food, and sighed slightly.

After the integration of the Blood Bone Sect and the Corpse Puppet Sect, its strength has greatly increased. With the addition of the Crescent Sect and the Youmei Sect, its overall strength is not much weaker than the three Xuanmen sects. If the Demon Sect had not withdrawn this time, it would have been If the stalemate continues, it is really uncertain who will end up with the Xuanyue Mountain Spiritual Mine.

Obviously, the Demon Sect sent a "goodwill" signal and did not want to fight with Xuanmen to the death and lose both sides, so they withdrew from Xuanyue Mountain and captured four spiritual mines in the blink of an eye.

Its actual value is no lower than that of the Xuanyue Mountain Spiritual Mine.

The annual output of each of its spiritual mines is approximately 200,000 spiritual stones, and the sum of the four spiritual mines is equivalent to the output of the Xuanyue Mountain spiritual mines.

If it were in the past, let alone the four spiritual mines, even if the Demon Sect made a slight provocation, they would be beaten to the point of running away. However, things are different now. The Demon Sect's power can compete with them. Since we have been given this step, we can just accept it. If the donkeys at the foot of the slope are defeated, is it possible that they really want to hold each other to death, beating them until they are dead and injured, and taking advantage of others?

After this battle, the Demon Sect and the Xuan Sect are fighting against each other. The situation in Xingang will not change in a short time. If the leader of the Canhua Sect in Laogang can be promoted to Yuanying, it will naturally change the current situation. situation.

But this is impossible. Among the three monks of Xingang Xuanmen, he is the most profound in cultivation, and he has been stuck in the late stage of the Golden elixir for more than a hundred years. Let alone breaking through the Golden elixir, even if he cultivates to perfection, he still has a long way to go. long distance.

He entered the late stage of the Golden Core a hundred years ago, but his cultivation soon stagnated. He encountered the Tribulation of Sighs and was trapped for a hundred years.

Otherwise, why would he leisurely feed fish and birds every day? It's really because he can't make any progress in his cultivation.

During the Qi refining stage, every time a monk reaches the third, sixth or ninth level, when his spiritual energy is overflowing, he will hit a bottleneck.

But once you enter the foundation building stage, this kind of cultivation bottleneck will be encountered at any time during cultivation. The cultivation world calls it the Sighing Tribulation.

This calamity is different from that of a Qi refining disciple whose spiritual energy is overflowing and the container of his body cannot contain it.

This is a bottleneck in the state of mind. Monks practice without counting the sun and the moon, sometimes sitting for several years at a time.

Sometimes I feel boring, sometimes I am high-spirited after practicing a magical power, or I am satisfied with my ambition to make great progress. This kind of ups and downs and instability in the state of mind will cause stagnation in cultivation, and the spiritual energy cannot be stored in the spiritual sea after being refined. acupoint, and had to let it drain away.

To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to the hole in the Linghai Point being blocked by a wooden block. It is like a bottle that was originally able to hold a bottle of water, but in the end you only filled half of the bottle and was filled with wooden blocks. As a result, the new water flow cannot flow in.

The spiritual world calls this the Sighing Tribulation.

The Sighing Tribulation that a monk encounters is more serious than the bottleneck in cultivation. The bottleneck in cultivation is simply the overflow of spiritual energy and the body's container cannot hold it. There are elixirs in the world specifically designed to deal with bottlenecks in cultivation, which can increase the chance of breaking through the bottleneck.

There is no external force to help with the Sighing Tribulation, and it can only be resolved by chance. But opportunity is the most mysterious thing. What kind of experience, gains and losses can be called opportunity?

From ancient times to the present, no one can make a standard definition.

He feeds fish and birds every day in order to maintain a peaceful mind and explore the wonders of integrating with all things in nature, so as to seek mysterious and mysterious opportunities.

Zhuang Xingqian walked slowly behind him: "Master, everything has been dealt with."

Wei Xuande nodded. In this battle, two golden elixir monks from the Qianyi Sect were killed. Dozens of foundation-building disciples died. The Qi-refining disciples were hopeless. Although they regained the Xuanyue Mountain Spiritual Mine and achieved a nominal victory, they lost a lot of money. It can't be said to be tragic.

Especially the Golden elixir monks. These people are the top fighting force of the sect. If they die, one will be missing. With the scarcity of resources in Xingang, it is extremely difficult to train a Golden elixir monk. Since the war with the Demon Sect, many people have died one after another. Kill three people.

If these people die in battle, the sect must take care of their funerals. Those who have descendants must compensate their descendants, and those who have no descendants must also arrange for their disciples and descendants. Those foundation-building monks and direct relatives must also pay corresponding compensation.

"Master, since the Demon Sect has occupied the four spiritual mines, will it attack other spiritual mines next? The manpower of the spiritual mines alone does not seem to be enough to withstand the Demon Sect's offensive." Zhuang Xin said.

"The Demon Sect will not launch a new round of offensive so soon. They also need to recuperate. Do you know why they want to withdraw from Xuanyue Mountain?"

"Probably because we quickly built a defensive formation after occupying Xuanyue Mountain. If they attacked the formation, the losses would be too great, so they settled for the next best thing, abandoned Xuanyue Mountain, and moved to other spiritual mines."

Wei Xuande said: "Qian'er, you only know one but not the other. The problem cannot be so simple."

Zhuang Xingqian frowned and said, "Could it be that there is another hidden secret? What does master mean? Is there an internal dispute? Or is it?"

"Everything in this world has its own cause and effect and cannot be analyzed as a separate incident, especially when it involves the interests of the sect. Why are we fighting to the death with the Demon Sect? It is not to compete for cultivation resources, but to consider our own interests."

"My disciple doesn't quite understand what the master said. Our battle with the Demon Sect is naturally for cultivation resources. It is for this reason that they will capture the spiritual mine, but what does this have to do with their withdrawal from Xuanyue Mountain?"

"Let me ask you, during the battle at Xuanyue Mountain, how powerful was the Demon Sect compared to my Xuan Sect."

Zhuang Xingqian pondered for a while: "At the beginning, the Demon Sect was very powerful, and all the disciples sacrificed their lives. We were defeated in several battles. Later, it seemed that our willingness to fight was not very high. Since we occupied the spiritual mine, they attacked Fang several times. Many people started to flee as soon as they came into contact.”

"Then why do you think that's the case?"

"Probably because of its loose internal organization. After all, there were conflicts between the various branches and the main altar. After several wars, there were a lot of casualties. No one was willing to consume the power of their own faction. In this way, there were disagreements among the top leaders and there was no unified order. The disciples They were forced to fight with us, so they had no intention of fighting and retreated as soon as the battle began."

"What you said is good, but it is not the main reason. The reason why the combat effectiveness of the Demon Sect monks dropped sharply in the later period is because their senior officials did not want to fight to the death. Even the Golden Core monks were perfunctory and collapsed in one battle. The disciples below could not do anything for them. Fight to the death?"

"Don't the Demon Sect want to get that spiritual mine? Why don't the higher-ups try their best? They will benefit the most from taking the spiritual mine."

"Do you know why the Demon Sect has repeatedly made trouble in recent years, integrating internally, counterattacking Xuanmen, and occupying mountains and dominating mines?"

"Master said that it was because of the large-scale invasion of the Demon Clan that various Xuanmen sects sent a large number of elite disciples to Liangzhou to resist the Demon Clan, which resulted in an internal emptiness. The Demon Clan sent people to bewitch the Demon Sect to join forces with them. The Demon Clan looked outside and the Demon Sect was entrenched. Internally, they jointly put pressure on Xuanmen to obtain their maximum benefits, and the Demon Sect, seeing that the Demon Clan has achieved great results, borrowed the power of the Demon Clan to integrate itself internally, and also wanted to take this opportunity to get a piece of the soup. "

"Then tell me why the Demon Sect wanted to take advantage of the power of the demon clan to take action, but it had been dormant and hiding in rat holes before."

"Of course it's because the force is weak, and the Demon Sect alone is not enough to compete with Xuanmen. Therefore, we have to rely on the power of the demon clan to contain most of Xuanmen's forces before we are willing to attack."