The crimson red color was like a solid mist, covering the mountain. Gu Qing followed the slightly winding stone road and turned into a phantom, moving quickly down the mountain like a gust of mountain wind.
Less than a moment passed.
Gu Qing once again passed by the area where the feminine young man Fu Peiyan was stationed.
But he didn't stop at all.
He just slowed down his steps, nodded to him from afar, and walked straight past.
Although Gu Qing was sure that the feminine young man who called himself Fu Peiyan was an old friend, he didn't have much intention to explore it.
If this cultivator recognizes him and wants to have some friendship with him, he will naturally take the initiative to talk to him.
If the practitioner does not recognize him, or recognizes him but does not have any thoughts of friendship, then it is better to do less than to do more, so why bother with him.
The feminine young man Fu Peiyan nodded back to Gu Qing and looked at Gu Qing's leaving figure with a slight twinkle in his eye.
"It seems that fellow Taoist Qing left so quickly. This trip is a bit disappointing?" Fu Peiyan said suddenly.
Gu Qing paused and turned around.
He ignored the two Qi Refining cultivators who were following him from a distance and were frightened to stop by his turning back. Instead, he looked at Fu Peiyan.
Gu Qing narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "Qing is indeed a little disappointed. How can this Chilingfang not be disappointing! I don't know, Fellow Taoist Fu, what can you teach me?"
Across the endless mountain wind, Fu Peiyan, several hundred feet away, looked at Gu Qing calmly.
His complexion was a bit strangely red, reflected by the dense red surrounding the mountain.
"This is also reasonable." Fu Peiyan withdrew his gaze, looked at the red mist surrounding the mountain on one side, and continued to send a message to Gu Qing, "This Chiling Fang is just a name. The three shops on the mountain, Especially the shops selling elixirs are just for show.”
"Let the casual cultivators in the southeast of Qianchuan County know that only by joining a certain sect or family can they find a way out and obtain the elixir for improving their cultivation. If they do not join a certain orthodox sect or family that has been conferred by the Great Li Imperial Court, , we can only go outside the borders of the Great Li Kingdom to seek opportunities for improvement."
Fu Peiyan said, a trace of sarcasm flashed across his face.
This trace of sarcasm quickly disappeared from Fu Peiyan's face, and he sighed: "This world of cultivation in the Great Li Kingdom is not controlled by a group of compassionate gods and immortals. As long as we cultivate peacefully, we can escape from life and death. In the final analysis, it is just like the worldly world, it is just exploitation at every level, the weak and the strong are always the most natural."
Gu Qing listened with a strange look in his eyes.
"Fellow Daoist Fu heard these words from Mr. Qing, but I don't know why?" He got straight to the point and asked directly without saying a word of greeting.
As for what Fu Peiyan said, he had already thought of it when he visited Chilingfang earlier. He had seen this kind of thing many times and it was nothing new.
"Fellow Daoist Qing is a smart man. I believe that Friend Qing has guessed Fu's thoughts." Fu Peiyan paused and said to Gu Qing.
"It seems that Fellow Daoist Fu is trying to recruit Qing to join his gang?" Gu Qing jumped onto the relatively flat rock beside him and stood with his hands behind his back.
Fu Peiyan smiled slightly.
"It's appropriate to join the team..." His tone was calm and eloquent, "To be honest, when Fu Mou saw this fellow Qing Daoist, he knew that fellow Daoist Qing should be a casual cultivator. At least, in this big city There are no affiliated forces in Liguo, and the Luoyan Valley where Fu was born does not have many restrictions on the guests and ministers within the sect."
"Even among the various forces in the cultivation world in Ganchuan County, I, Luoyan Gu, am notoriously loose. I will definitely not treat my guests as pigs and dogs raised by ordinary people like other forces. Drive at will."
"Even if Fellow Daoist Qing does nothing, as long as he enters Luoyan Valley and is willing to take action when the properties under my control in Luoyan Valley are attacked, he will receive a bottle of second-grade elixir as an offering every year."
Fu Peiyan said, looking at Gu Qing with a little expectation.
Gu Qing raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
His eyes looked a little thoughtful, and after a moment, he nodded and said, "Qing will consider this matter!"
"If fellow Taoist Qing has thought about it, come
Just look for Fu here, and Fu is expected to guard here for another three years. "The expectation in Fu Peiyan's eyes subsided, and he cupped his fists at Gu Qing and said.
Gu Qing clasped his fists in return, turned around and walked down the mountain.
'Luoyan Valley...' Gu Qing repeated these words in his mind as he descended from this huge red peak...
He glanced at the still bright sun in the sky, turned around, and flew towards the red mountains on one side.
At the moment, his goal is naturally to attack the core.
To attack the core formation, a lot of preparations need to be made.
In view of the previous experience of breaking through the late foundation building stage and understanding divine will, it should be impossible to break through the core forming stage in the stone tablet space.
Even if it can be done, it is very likely to create some hidden dangers.
Therefore, the first thing to do before trying to form an elixir is to find a stable place where you will not be disturbed.
It would be best if the retreat place you find has enough spiritual energy from heaven and earth. If it is some kind of paradise, it would be even better.
More importantly, those three elixirs that can increase the chance of success in breaking through the pill formation should be prepared as much as possible.
Such as the Ningyu Pill that Gu Qing had taken before.
Taking this Jade Pill will advance your body's cultivation to the perfection of the false pill realm, and then try to form the pill, which will increase the chance of half forming the pill.
Although, a half percent chance of success sounds a bit low.
But once ordinary fake elixir monks can break through the elixir formation, they will immediately live to a thousand years. With such a leap in life levels, this Jade Pill can increase the chance of breaking through the elixir formation by half, which is quite good.
In addition to this Jade Pill, the second type of pill that can increase the success rate of breaking through the pill formation is some kind of pill.
It's a kind of elixir called "Five-Colored Jade Zhi".
This five-color jade mushroom is a fourth-level elixir and the main ingredient in refining several fourth-level elixirs. It is extremely valuable and many monks in the middle and late stages of elixir formation are eager to use it.
Rumor has it that this five-color jade jade can suppress the inner demon tribulation and soul-destroying catastrophe faced by monks who are trying to break through the pill formation, and increase the chance of the monks breaking through the pill formation by 20 to 30%. It is really a magic pill for forming pills.
The so-called inner demon tribulation and soul-destroying tribulation are two of the five tribulations that monks have to go through to break through the cultivation of alchemy. The other three tribulations are the earth fire tribulation, the sky wind tribulation, and the three or nine heavenly thunder tribulations that may still be caused. ——Of course, the Three-Ninth Heavenly Thunder Tribulation will not be triggered at all unless the monk kills too much or does something against heaven.
The remaining four tribulations of inner demons, soul destruction, earth fire, and heavenly wind are tribulations that every monk who has successfully formed a pill will experience. When a monk tries to break through the pill formation, after the four tribulations are over, he can transform into a pill formation. Monks, if there is a calamity that cannot be overcome, the body will die and the Tao will disappear. In addition to the Ning Jade Pill and Five Color Jade Zhi.
The third thing that can increase the chance of forming an elixir is also an elixir.
It may be called "Yuqing Guiyuan Pill" or "Sancai Fuhu Pill", which are all variations of some ancient elixir.
Whether it is the 'Yu Qing Gui Yuan Pill' or the 'Sancai Fuhu Pill', they are both pills that can increase a monk's chance of forming a pill by 15% to 20%.
However, since it is a variant of the same ancient elixir, only one of the elixirs can be taken, and only one pill can be taken.
How much the chance of forming an elixir can be increased is determined by the quality of the elixir and the monk's use and refining of the elixir's power.
'Three things... plus a place for peaceful retreat...' Gu Qing flew through the air above the red mountains, turning around in a circle over the mountains that stretched for thousands of miles.
The vague glances from all around focused on Gu Qing and then quickly moved away.
The monks who live in this red mountain range that stretches for thousands of miles are basically in the Qi refining stage.
The monks in the foundation building stage are already very rare, and one or two can be seen here and there. They are only in the early stage of foundation building, and they are concentrated in the first and second levels of foundation building.
Gu Qing leaned down at the end of the east side of this red mountain range, glanced at the simple palace in front of him, and stepped into it.
This red mountain range is densely covered with mountains.
Cave.
From these dotted caves, you can see the steam that is always steaming, so hot that it distorts the light, and bursts of burnt, fragrant, or more complex smells.
Layers of layers of mixed colors, mainly red and fiery, and thin clouds floating in the corners of the red mountains, gathering the steaming smoke coming out of these caves.
According to Gu Qing's opinion, there should be monks refining elixirs in these caves all year round to form such a wonderful scene.
Gu Qing stepped into the simple palace. There was only an old man with white hair sitting on a wicker chair, holding an ancient book in his hand and reading through it.
This white-haired old man has a baby face, a short figure, and a childlike face. He is dressed in a wide navy blue robe. He hides his cultivation aura very well, but no matter how well he hides it, his cultivation at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, Still couldn't hide Gu Qing's feeling.
"The upper-class Fire Cave, thirty middle-grade spiritual stones in one year, the medium-grade Fire Cave, three middle-grade spiritual stones in one year, the low-grade Earth Fire Cave, thirty low-grade spiritual stones in one year, I don't know if you want to rent it Which one?" The white-haired old man asked Gu Qing without raising his eyes.
Compared with the underground fire caves in other directions, the quality of the underground fire in the underground fire cave on the east side of the mountain is worse even if it is of the same level.
Therefore, since the white-haired old man was sent here by his family to retire, he has never rented out a few underground fire caves.
The Earth Fire Cave is a unique cultivation resource in this mountain range.
This mountain range has been a continuous volcano for many years. It erupts every few years. The magma blocks the sun and makes the surrounding area lifeless.
About a thousand years ago, the Dali imperial court sent people to flatten the volcano and seal more than a dozen fire veins underground. They also moved in many people, planted various trees, and transported many animals. Only then did the mountains near this mountain range Hundreds of thousands of miles away, the dead air of the past has been swept away and it has become full of vitality.
The so-called blocking is worse than sparing.
Although there are more than a dozen fire veins sealed, naturally they cannot be blocked blindly. Otherwise, when it breaks out, hundreds of thousands of miles around will be turned upside down and turned into a world of fire.
There are countless experts in the Dali imperial court, so they naturally thought of a way to solve the hidden danger, which is to set up a large spirit gathering array in this mountain range, dig countless underground fire holes, and draw the underground fire to be consumed all year round, so as to vent the dozens of fire veins below. , the accumulated fire power.
Once the Earth Fire Cave was completed, this mountain range naturally turned waste into treasure and became a gathering place for many monks who needed the help of Earth Fire to make alchemy.
In the beginning, many alchemists used the scorching earth fires that burned day and night in the many earth fire caves in this mountain range to refine many third-grade or even fourth-grade elixirs, making this mountain range once the largest in Ganchuan County. One of the gathering places for alchemists.
But all things must come to an end.
After thousands of years of consumption, most of the fire veins below this mountain range have withered away. Only three of the original sixteen fire veins are still supplying ground fire upwards as before.
But how can the earth fire supplied by three fire veins compare with the earth fire supplied by sixteen fire veins? After being dispersed into many underground fire holes, the intensity naturally dropped a lot uncontrollably.
As a result, this caused the number of alchemists gathered in this mountain range to drop sharply, and their quality also dropped by an incredible amount.
To this day, the only people gathered in this mountain range are alchemists in the Qi refining stage, a few alchemists in the early stage of foundation building, and Qi refining and foundation building monks who seek these alchemists to refine elixirs.
"High-grade fire cave, rent for a month." Gu Qing stood at the door with his hands behind his hands, looked at the simple palace for a few times, and spoke in a calm tone.
"One Jiazi?" The white-haired old man on the wicker chair stood up immediately, looked at Gu Qing, and his expression changed. .
Gu Qing did not deliberately hide his cultivation aura, so this white-haired old man could tell at a glance that Gu Qing was a foundation-building senior with unpredictable cultivation.
"Senior, if you want to rent a high-grade fire cave for a period of time, you only need one thousand five hundred medium-grade spiritual stones." The white-haired old man put away the ancient book in his hand, came to Gu Qing's side, and spoke respectfully .
Gu Qing nodded slightly.
"First, take someone to see what a high-quality fire cave looks like..." Gu Qing turned around
He walked towards the palace and asked the white-haired old man who was following him, "By the way, I am a little curious about alchemy. Do you know where I can buy an alchemy furnace, some basic medicinal materials and prescriptions for alchemy?" ?」
"Ah? This... this..." The white-haired old man followed Gu Qing, stumbling a bit and not knowing how to respond.
Big beads of sweat flowed down the white-haired old man's forehead.
He was a little confused and didn't know how to respond to this senior's inquiry. After all, even the simplest elixir recipe was the lifeblood of alchemists. Since he came to this remote place to retire, he had never been exposed to anything like this. …
After thinking carefully for a while, the white-haired old man thought of something, his eyes lit up, and then he considered it and spoke.
"Senior, as far as I know, there are two places in this mountain range where alchemists often gather. One of them is located in the restaurant called 'Qiandan Pavilion' in the middle of this mountain range. "The white-haired old man said.
"That's where alchemists gather to trade pill recipes with each other?" Gu Qing's expression moved slightly and he asked.
"This... I don't know, little one." The white-haired old man said in a dull voice. As he spoke, he glanced at Gu Qing secretly, for fear of offending the foundation-building senior even the slightest bit of displeasure.
Living in this poor place in a remote area, there are not even a few Foundation Establishment monks to be seen all year round.
If there is a monk at the Foundation Establishment Realm who feels unhappy and takes action against him, it would be easier to crush him to death than crushing an ant to death, and there will be no one to stop him!
"Then thank you fellow Taoist." Gu Qing nodded thoughtfully and stopped asking.
What he mentioned about trying to make alchemy is naturally true.
The way of talismans is of little benefit to the advancement of cultivation.
Now that he has a long life, he has long wanted to try making alchemy.
Following the white-haired old man, they drove for twenty or thirty breaths. In front of Gu Qing, there appeared a row of dozens of caves that were obviously more luxurious and larger than the ones he had seen before.
The area on the east side of the mountain range was as deserted as a ghost.
Along the way, Gu Qing didn't see any other monks.
"Senior, this is the first-class underground fire cave." The white-haired old man pointed at the underground fire caves in front of him.
The underground fire caves here all lead diagonally underground.
Looking down from mid-air, it looks like dense honeycomb eyes.
"Based on the experience of this junior, the underground fire caves on the left have the highest quality of earth fire." The white-haired old man added, pointing to the three underground fire caves on the left, and said to Gu Qing.
"Then let's take this Earth Fire Cave." Gu Qing pointed to the Earth Fire Cave on the far left, flicked his sleeves, and 1,500 medium-grade spiritual stones were piled on the ground.
"This is a token of entering the underground fire cave. Please keep it, senior." The white-haired old man was overjoyed. He quickly collected the fifteen hundred pieces of middle-grade spiritual stones and handed over the three black stone talismans. Gu Qing.
"Senior only needs to pour spiritual power into this stone talisman to pass through the formation and enter the underground fire cave... One stone talisman can be poured into spiritual power three times. If senior goes out frequently in the future and uses up the stone talisman, he can Come again to look for this junior." The white-haired old man said, before saying goodbye and leaving.
Gu Qing took the three stone talismans and nodded.
He glanced at the white-haired old man's leaving back, and with a shudder of body and mind, he came to the Earth Fire Cave on the left, and activated his mana to pour into a stone talisman in his hand.
As Gu Qing poured in his mana, a strange wave spread from the black stone talisman to the Earth Fire Cave in front of him. In the Earth Fire Cave, a layer of ripples like a curtain of water appeared.
'The formation here is quite mysterious. Before it was revealed, even with my eyes, it was difficult to see it. "
Gu Qing's eyes flashed slightly, and he reached forward and pressed forward.
As the palm of his hand sank into the ripples like a curtain of water, a burning sensation appeared on Gu Qing's palm.
With a flash of his body, he entered the fire cave.
Gu Qing's eyes blurred.
Immediately, his vision was filled with a layer of red fire.
Inside the Earth Fire Cave, the furnishings are very crude.
.
A rough stone bed, about ten feet long and five or six feet wide, with no bedding on it. Beside the stone bed, there are equally rough stone tables and chairs, and a few slightly carved stone pillars, two or three feet high. , a depression was dug out in half, and pieces of crystal stones emitting red light were placed inside.
Sporadic heat was transferred from these crystal stones and fell on Gu Qing's body surface, causing him to feel slightly warm.
"Earth Fire..." Gu Qing's eyes swept over these things and then looked at the deepest stone wall of the Earth Fire Cave. A vertical depression was dug out of the stone wall. The bottom of the depression was On the stone platform like a lotus seat, a group of extremely stable crimson flames, about half a person's height, was burning quietly on the stone platform.
Gu Qing came to the front of the stone monument, on a raised futon-like stone pier, took out a brand new futon that still exuded the scent of cattails, placed it on it, and then sat down cross-legged.
He stared at the crimson flames for a moment.
"Alchemy is a vast and profound art. If you really want to try alchemy, you should first buy some jade slips that record the basics of alchemy..." Gu Qing withdrew his gaze and rubbed his eyebrows.
A flash of inspiration flashed in his hand, and he took out the Lingxu Island Order of Acceptance from the storage ring.
Gu Qing naturally drew out a ray of consciousness and penetrated into the Naxian Order.
The next moment, his brows furrowed tightly.
"Failed to enter the virtual world..." Gu Qing stood up and looked at the Naxian Order in his hand, his eyes changing.
"If this Da Li Dynasty is not too special, there is something wrong on Lingxu Island." After a long while, Gu Qing let out a long breath and put away the order.
'I can't use the Naxian Order to purchase the foundation of alchemy and prepare the pills needed to break through the alchemy..." Gu Qing started walking in the Earth Fire Cave.
The virtual world of Lingxu Island is his last way.
But now, this last road is abandoned!
Although purchasing the elixirs needed to break through the pill formation from the virtual world is only the next best option, the lowest option is much better than no choice at all...
After walking around in the Earth Fire Cave for a few times, Gu Qing paused.
He returned to the futon and sat down, looking inward at himself.
Previously, Gu Qing escaped from the stone monument space in the Gangfeng Layer, used the Tongshan Seal to protect his whole body, and forced his way through the Gangfeng Layer of more than ten feet before arriving at this large distance from the earth. Naturally, it took a lot of effort.
More than 60% of the mana in his body was consumed!
Fortunately, this is only a middle-grade spiritual weapon, the Tongshan Seal, which is relatively reliable. With enough mana infusion, it can protect him in the cold wind layer. Otherwise, his consumption will be even greater.
"No matter how high my cultivation level is, it will take some time to make up for the shortage of essence and blood... This is still based on the fact that my body is full of vitality..." Gu Qing's mind turned and he took out a top-quality spiritual stone. Hold it in your hand and start practicing.
The operation of the Foundation Building Chapter of the Great Five Elements Condensation Method has become a bit difficult since he entered the false elixir stage.
Not only when he was practicing, but also when he was using spiritual weapons and magic weapons, when he was using spells and magical powers, and when he was activating his magic power, he felt a little out of step, and there was an awkward feeling that he couldn't get rid of. .
He was not surprised by this.
Using the method of transporting spiritual power and mana will naturally be difficult.
In fact, he still doesn't know why he just entered the fake elixir for the first time, and all the spiritual power around him was turned into mana. This is obviously unreasonable. At least, there is no fake elixir realm monk he has ever encountered. Just like him, all the spiritual energy in his body is transformed into mana.
The foundation-building chapter of the Great Five Elements Condensation Method circulates over and over again in Gu Qing's body, 365 acupoints, and complex meridians.
Gradually, a layer of golden mana shrouded Gu Qing, like an illusory elixir, spinning around Gu Qing's figure, raising waves of wind in the earth fire cave.
The ground fire in the stone wall in front of Gu Qing swayed slightly in the wind, making the slightly blurred shadow behind Gu Qing sway unsteadily.
