Chapter 15: Ghosts and Shadows
013-04-27
In a large stone room, the fire is blazing, and under hundreds of bronze furnaces, the red stove is burning. Hundreds of fires made the stone chamber extremely hot.
But in such a sweltering heat, no one dared to make a sound.
Chu Chuan carefully sensed the changes in the Dan furnace, concentrating on controlling the furnace fire, constantly entering one handprint after another, and did not dare to have the slightest negligence.
This is the fourth round of alchemy class, and it is the first time that the real people of Toad Palace have asked them to refine a grade of elixir, and the first two times they have refined are all mundane pills.
The mudra is called Danyin, which is the ultimate technique of alchemy, and its function is to reconcile the aura in the medicinal materials. If there is no Dan Seal, even if you can practice the pill, it will be useless, of course, it is more likely that the aura conflict will cause an explosion.
There was a light explosion sound on the side, this was an explosion caused by someone who failed to use the Dan seal to successfully reconcile the aura of the medicinal materials, fortunately, the medicinal materials used in the twelve pins of pills did not contain much aura, and there was a senior brother on the side to support it, otherwise the explosion would definitely be more than that.
Chu Chuan was engrossed in the slightest, not affected in the slightest, and carefully sensed the changes in the Dan furnace. The medicinal materials in the Dan furnace had already been melted into liquid medicine and kicked out the magazines and mixed together, and when he arrived here, Chu Chuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The most difficult and complicated process is over, and the next step is to bake the liquid medicine into a pill shape.
A strange fragrance began to come out of the Dan furnace in front of Chu Chuan, making the Toad Palace Zhenren who was looking around the audience couldn't help nodding slightly, and then walked over, the furnace lid flew up, and the still steaming Dan Pill flew out of the Dan Furnace and fell into the hands of the Toad Palace Zhenren.
A total of twenty-two pills of rǔ白sè translucent pills exude a fragrance similar to that of Xiang Rì Aoi. Toad Palace Zhenren nodded and said, "The quality is acceptable, not bad, you can use it yourself if you refine it yourself." ”
The real person of the Toad Palace also knew that Chu Chuan's spiritual root was not good, and it would be difficult to have great achievements in the future, so he had a lot of pity for him, if it weren't for the fact that the Dao Zang Hall stipulated that the lecturer could not help the Dao seed in private, the real person of the Toad Palace really wanted to give Chu Chuan some of the pills he had refined that would help him cultivate.
Chu Chuan thanked the real person of the Toad Palace, took a porcelain vase and accepted the twenty-two Xiao Pei Yuan Dan. There was a transmission from the real person of the Toad Palace in his ears: "Chu Chuan, you can refine more pills in the future, and earn points while exercising your ability, and when you finish selecting courses, there will be a point system, and the more points you have, the greater the benefit to you." ”
Although the real person of the Toad Palace knew that it was impossible for a person from a family of cultivating immortals like Chu Chuan not to know about the Dao, he still couldn't help but send a message to remind him.
Chu Chuan's heart warmed, although he was in an unprecedented predicament, he still had people like Toad Palace Zhenren, Xiao Chen, and Shanyue Zhenren who wanted to treat him well, which was really a blessing.
In the refining class afterward, because refining weapons was more difficult to get started than alchemy, Qiushui Zhenren did not let Chu Chuan refine magic weapons, but had other evaluation methods, even so, Chu Chuan's performance was still very good.
Then there is the assessment class of talismans, formations, beast taming and mechanism techniques, except for mechanism skills, Chu Chuan's talent in other aspects is only unsatisfactory.
Because Chu Chuan's talent in mechanism techniques was still inferior to alchemy and alchemy, in the end, Chu Chuan chose the three disciplines of swordsmanship, refining and alchemy.
As for the others, Xiao Chen chose swordsmanship, spells, and beast taming, Changsheng chose spells and beast taming, Song Ming chose swordsmanship and spells, Lai'an chose spells and alchemy, Wang Tiezhu chose swordsmanship and talismans, and Shi Daniu chose spells and beast taming.
Compared with the other eight, animal taming is the easiest, so most of the people choose to tame animals.
After that, Daozang Hall gave each person a jade plaque, specifically talking about the content of the point system, and Chu Chuan began to enter a new cultivation life.
The rì of cultivation is as plain as water, and it is half a year in a flash. Chu Chuan pounces on martial arts, swordsmanship, alchemy and refining weapons every day, although this kind of life is far from the happiness and hatred and chic wanton he imagined before, but Chu Chuan is also willing.
Especially when he feels that his accumulation is thickening little by little every day, Chu Chuan always has a sense of steadiness. Although Xiao Chen had already cultivated the third level of qi cultivation at this time and entered the fourth level of qi training, and he himself had not even succeeded in cultivating the first level, which made him a little confused, but he quickly swept away this bit of melancholy, and then burst out with greater enthusiasm to learn swordsmanship, alchemy, and refining weapons.
Therefore, half a year later, although his cultivation is still at the first level of qi refining, the "Langya Sword Technique" has reached the third layer, which is the crown of everyone.
In terms of alchemy, he can already refine four twelve-grade pills, and he can also refine twelve-grade magic weapons, and entering the realm is considered fast among the tens of thousands of people.
This also made all the real people sigh, Chu Chuan has a very high talent in swordsmanship, alchemy, and refining, but the spiritual root is inferior, how can it not be regretted?
In the past six months, he has not always been so comfortable, many people will come to fight with Chu Chuan, Chu Chuan was quite easy to deal with at first, but two or three months ago, he gradually felt difficult, because the gap between his cultivation and others was getting bigger and bigger. If it hadn't been for his sword skills reaching the third layer, I'm afraid he would have been humiliated a long time ago.
Of course, Xiao Chen's deterrence of these people is also indispensable, his cultivation has reached the fourth level of qi training, and his entry into the realm of spells is also terrifying, and he can already use ten grade spells. subdued everyone in terms of strength, and the others, whether Pei Hejing, Li Mo or Chen Luoshui, were not his opponents.
Although Daozangtang is adjacent to Chang'an City, the mountains where it is located have been specially cultivated, and the number of low-grade heavenly treasures in it is not inferior to the top treasures such as the East China Sea, the 100,000 Great Mountains, Southern Xinjiang, and the Changbai Mountains.
However, there is no real person to support you when you enter the back mountain, and whether you can get the treasure depends on personal chance, not to mention whether you can get the treasure, and even life and death can only be left to fate.
That's right, entering the back mountain is life-threatening. Over the years, hundreds of people will die after each batch of Dao species enter the back mountain, and countless people will be injured, and in three years, at least thousands of people will die, and sometimes even thousands.
Although the back mountain is used to cultivate Dao species, there are already predecessors who have eliminated the more powerful demon beasts in it, but for people like Chu Chuan and them who practice qi one or two, there are still a lot of things that can threaten their lives.
Of course, in addition to the catastrophes that fell from the sky, the mutual fighting between the Dao species was also a major reason. Killing people is not allowed in the Daozang Hall, but there is no one watching in the back mountains, and no one will know the Tao if they kill someone.
At this time, it is very important to form a group, and the seven people in Chu Chuan's courtyard naturally act together, plus Zhu Xiang, it is eight people.
More than 10,000 people entered the mountain behind the Daozang Hall like a fish into the sea, without making a splash. Soon after the crowd entered the back mountain, it became more and more separated.
The eight people of Chu Chuan walked through the mountains and forests, because they were close to the Daozang Hall, even if they had already crossed a few mountains, they did not find many heavenly treasures along the way.
There are only five twelve-grade spirit stones in total, not to mention the mottled and low quality of the aura, and they are all water genus, which is not of much use to them. In addition, there are a few herbs, all of which are materials for refining the Twelve Rank Pills, but they are not bad for a cultivator of Chu Chuan's level.
These things are stored in the mustard seed sac, this mustard seed sac is distributed by the Daozang Hall, it looks like a small bag on the outside, but there is a space of thirty square meters inside, which is the most convenient for storage.
Soon, the sky darkened. For Chu Chuan, it was still very dangerous to walk at night, and as they gradually went deeper into the mountains and forests, the danger would increase, so they found a hidden place to rest, but they did not dare to light a bonfire. It is a deterrent for ordinary beasts, but it is like a guiding light for demon beasts.
Chu Chuan leaned against a tree trunk, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he was sharp. I climbed a few mountains during the day, and I was still a little tired.
The night breeze seemed to be a little silent, and among the people present, Xiao Chen's cultivation was the highest, and his spiritual sense was the keenest, and he was the first to feel that something was wrong. Although Chu Chuan's cultivation is far inferior to Xiao Chen, his swordsmanship is outstanding, and he has practiced the "Langya Sword Technique" to the third level, and he has the outstanding intuition of a swordsman, so he almost noticed something unusual at the same time.
Seeing the two of them, the others also jumped up and began to look around.
I don't know when dozens of ghost fire-like bright lights appeared in the black woods, and if you look closely, what kind of ghost fire is this, it is clearly the fierce eyes of more than a dozen demon beasts!
When the dozen or so demon beasts got closer, Chu Chuan and the others finally saw clearly. But it was more than a dozen ghosts and wolves covered in darkness, and their eyes were like ghost wolves with emerald phosphorus ghost fire.