Chapter 30: The Best Elixir
After returning from the incense burner peak, Zhao Di flew to the White Deer Pavilion almost every day. There have been countless strange deeds and wonderful material exercises in the immortal cultivation world for tens of thousands of years, Zhao Di is very interested in these, and he also wants to find a trace of this Qiankun Xiaoding and his previous life in the classics. In addition, he really didn't dare to take out Xiao Ding from the stone house to cultivate the elixir for cultivation, so he simply spent most of his time in the White Deer Pavilion.
Bailu Pavilion, also known as Bailu Cave, is built in a natural cave in Bailu Peak, with an area of almost half of the entire peak, which is much wider than the entire Newcomer Valley.
It's a pity that the White Deer Pavilion is only open to outer disciples on the first floor, and the second floor and above are only open to inner disciples or foundation building period monks.
However, the number of books on this first floor is also very impressive, with more than tens of thousands of books. Half of them were made of jade slips, and some were written on paper or animal skin silk scarves.
Although Zhao Di has the ability to never forget, even if he reads ten lines at a glance, these books are enough for him to read for a year and a half.
After a few days of casual reading, Zhao Di divided the first layer of the collection into four categories.
One is the basic exercise method book. There are thousands of books and more than 100 kinds of Qi refining period basic exercises here, and there are even several kinds of cultivation exercises of the alien spirit root. Zhao Di saw more than a dozen basic exercises in Liuyunfang City, all of which were found in this White Deer Pavilion. It is worthy of being a famous sect, with thousands of years of accumulation, and even the basic exercises are so comprehensive.
But these basic exercises were of little use to Zhao Di. The "Chasing the Waves" he is learning now is a basic technique that has been passed down for more than a thousand years and has been repeatedly proven to be relatively quick to practice, and he will definitely not do anything stupid to change the basic practice to cultivate. Although there are many basic exercises here, the most suitable ones for most monks to use and practice are only the dozen or so that are the most widely spread.
This kind of book Zhao Di just read the beginning and immediately put it aside.
The second category is books that introduce information on various common materials, elixirs, and places of interest in spiritual practice. There are quite a few such books, but there is quite a bit of repetition between each book. Zhao Di just picked out a dozen more detailed books, and ignored the rest.
The third category is books that introduce skills such as talismans, refining tools, alchemy, and formations, which are the least, only more than a hundred, and they are all very roughly recorded. But these things are the most practical, and Zhao Di has not let go of them and studied them one by one.
The books in the fourth category are all biographies and anecdotes. It is a classic written by some immortal cultivators about all kinds of strange things encountered in their cultivation careers and commentaries on certain things. These books are the most numerous, and the most disorganized. But it is the type that Zhao Di sees the most.
Among them, there is an ancient jade slip named "Wang Lun on Dan", which especially attracted Zhao Di's attention. This is a monk named Wang Lun, who wrote some books about the effects of several pills 10,000 years ago. The more than a dozen elixirs mentioned in the jade slip were all unheard of by Zhao Di, but I am afraid that they have long disappeared in the immortal cultivation world. However, Wang Lun's grading of pills in the jade slip deeply attracted Zhao Di.
In this jade slip, Wang Lun divides the pills into four grades: waste pills, inferior pills, finished pills, and superb pills.
The so-called waste pill is a great mistake in alchemy, which causes a change in the surname of the medicine, and the resulting poisonous surname pill must not be taken. Inferior pills are pills that are not well controlled during alchemy or the opening time is not accurate, and the medicinal surname is lost. The inferior pill has almost no effect after taking it, and taking too many of them will also make the monk's body develop a certain amount of resistance, which is also a kind of pill that is not very useful.
As for the finished pill, it is a panacea in the usual sense.
The grading method of these pills is roughly the same as what the shopkeeper of "Miao Dantang" in Liuyunfang City said, but Wang Lun also proposed another pill - the best pill, which made Zhao Di startled.
It is recorded in the jade slip that it is rumored that when the ancient monks were refining the elixir, if the elixir raw materials used were for a long time and the medicine surname was excellent, there was a very low probability that a superb pill could be refined, probably less than one in ten thousand. Only those specialized alchemists who only refine one or two pills in their lifetime have the opportunity to refine tens of thousands of pills of the same kind, so that it is possible to see the generation of a superb pill in their lifetime. The vast majority of alchemists had no idea of the existence of the Ultimate Pill at all, let alone ordinary monks.
Wang Lun also described the so-called best pill in the jade slip: the spiritual power is abundant, several times or even more than ten times that of the ordinary finished pill, and the quality of the pill is also relatively transparent and translucent.
Zhao Di was shocked in his heart, the description of this superb elixir was very consistent with the elixir cultivated by his mysterious Xiaoding, could it be that he obtained the superlative elixir?
It is also recorded in the jade slip that Wang Lun himself has never taken the best pill, but he has heard from a monk who has taken this kind of pill that because the spiritual power contained in the best pill is too abundant, it would be a waste if it was only used to improve his cultivation. This rare elixir is very effective for monks when breaking through bottlenecks. If you break through the bottleneck and take such a top-grade pill, the possibility of success is greatly mentioned.
Zhao Di nodded secretly in his heart, the things recorded by the monk ten thousand years ago coincided with what he thought. When he took the best elixir cultivated by Xiao Ding, he really rarely felt like he had encountered a bottleneck. Usually, as long as you cultivate enough spiritual power, you can smoothly advance to the next level. It was precisely because of this that he was able to cultivate from the fifth layer of the Qi Refining Period to the eleventh layer in just over three years. In other monks, just because of the bottleneck of the tenth layer, it is possible that they will be stuck for two or three years and they will not be able to cultivate an inch.
Now that he affirmed the miraculous effect of the best elixir, Zhao Di adjusted the order of taking the pills in the future, he planned to take the ordinary pills promoted from the inferior pills as much as possible during his usual cultivation to improve his cultivation, and when he needed to hit the bottleneck and break through his cultivation to the next level, he would take the best elixir. In order not to take too much of the best pill in normal times, but when it hit the bottleneck, the so-called anti-drug surname was produced, and the opportunity to break through was missed in vain.
When Zhao Di entered the house for almost a month, he really received a notice from the sect and was assigned as a refining disciple, asking him to immediately go to Zhaoyin Peak to report to Uncle Kuang.
"That old man Ma is still creditworthy, and he really did things properly after receiving the spirit stone. Zhao Di thought like this on the way to Zhaoyin Peak. For this kind of direct exchange of interests, Zhao Di still welcomes it, and it is much easier to deal with than those hypocrites who are duplicitous and secretly playing tricks. However, the number of the latter is much higher.
After Zhao Di flew for a few hours, he had just arrived near Zhaoyin Peak, which was wrapped in dense clouds and mist, and was attracted by the symbol of Zhaoyin Peak, Zhaoyin Spring. This is at the foot of Zhaoyin Peak, a spiritual spring formed by the collection of countless streams between the mountain walls, and it is also one of the three major spiritual springs of Kuanglu Mountain Range, which is famous for its crystal water quality and pure taste. There are several lush Lingcha trees growing around the Lingquan, which is the famous Yunwu Lingcha in Lingcha. There is a delicate four-corner pavilion on the side of the spiritual spring, occasionally there are monks who love the way of tea drinking, gather here in twos and threes, boil the cloud and mist spiritual tea with Zhaoyin spring water, talk about the Tao while tasting tea, but also be happy and happy.
Zhao Di saw that there were already two Qi Refining Stage cultivators waiting here in the small pavilion, and it was estimated that they were also outside disciples who had been assigned to refining disciples.
One of them, Zhao Di, also knew Ma Gao, who put forward the statement of "Taixumen's Four Great Immortal Cultivation Families".
Ma Gao also recognized Zhao Di, and said hello from afar. Zhao Di immediately landed next to the small pavilion and put away the flying feather magic weapon.
"Brother Zhao, you have also been assigned to the refining disciple?" asked Ma Gao after giving a salute.
Zhao Di also bowed to the two monks and replied, "Yes, the two Daoists are the same, right?"
"Hehe, this shows that we have a good fate, and we must support each other in the future! Brother Zhao, this is Fang Fu Fang Daoyou. Brother Fang, this is Zhao Di Zhao Daoyou. Ma Gao introduced the two.
Zhao Di and the monk surnamed Fang also hugged each other and saluted, and they both said that they were lucky.
Ma Gao said again: "I arrived a moment earlier than the two Daoists, and I have already sent out a transmission note, presumably a passage will open in a while, allowing the three of us to enter this hidden peak." This Hidden Peak is worthy of being the main place of refining alchemy of this sect, and this large-scale forbidden magic array that envelops the entire peak is open all year round, and it is said that even the monks of the Dan Stage cannot easily break through the formation and enter. ”
The three of them looked at the mountain peaks with thick clouds rolling in front of them, each thinking in their hearts, and was speechless for a while.