"Don't bother, stop it!"
Mi Shuhua waved his hand quickly, "Any land with earth fire is mostly occupied by sects or cultivating families, which is not something that we, casual cultivators, can get involved in."
Just ask for some conditions.
He really can't solve the earth fire.
Seeing Luo Chen pursed his lips, Mi Shuhua shook his head and smiled.
"You, why do you think so much? You can't force you to have high-grade pills. As long as you can refining middle-grade chalcedony pills stably, you can make more and more money in the future. If it doesn't work, I'll just give you the entire middle-grade or high-grade pill furnace in the future. "
If high-end technology can’t overcome it, why should we choose to keep improving on the low-end?
This old guy is quite shrewd.
Luo Chen spread his hands to show that he had listened.
"Besides, when I ask you about Earth Fire Fiend, I mainly want to remind you."
Mi Shuhua looked serious and said with a warning tone: "When the monks are not building foundations, it's best not to come into contact with too many things related to evil spirits. You can't control it."
"Huh? What do you say?"
"The evil spirit is too destructive. If it accidentally enters the body, it will have a serious destructive effect on the Dantian meridians and even the refined spiritual power."
"If you want to live a few more years, don't touch that thing."
Luo Chen blinked, is there such a thing?
He didn't know.
Moreover, when he was refining the elixir before, he used the Evil Control Technique to guide the Earth Fire Evil, and he didn't feel any discomfort at all!
…
Luo Chen didn't know if Mi Shuhua had deceived him, so he asked this question when he and Wang Yuan were having dinner.
Wang Yuan's answer surprised Luo Chen.
"The evil spirit is indeed harmful to Qi refining monks."
"But it depends on what kind of monk it is."
Wang Yuan ate the meat slowly and said at the same time: "Any monk who focuses on refining qi is best not to come into contact with evil spirits, unless after establishing the foundation, the spiritual consciousness can be released and the evil spirits can be accurately detected when the evil spirits enter the body."
"But we Qi Refining monks can barely see inside, and with the use of spiritual eyes, can't we detect evil spirits?"
Wang Yuan glanced at him and said, "You have killed someone before!"
Luo Chen was stunned. As a glorious time traveler and immortal cultivator, he must not be exempt from vulgarity!
"Killing people will also accumulate evil spirits, but they are invisible evil spirits and are usually called divine evil spirits."
"Then have you noticed the evil energy on your body?"
This time, I asked Luo Chen.
He really didn't realize the evil aura on his body.
But he also believed what Wang Yuan said.
Anyone who kills too many animals will accumulate evil spirits. Even a butcher who kills pigs will often give people a feeling of fierceness.
If you look into it deeply, it definitely didn't happen suddenly, but it was accumulated through the process of killing again and again.
In other words, the few tribulation cultivators Luo Chen killed might have really brought some evil aura to him.
But he never found out.
The topic had reached this point, and Luo Chen asked him about the last sentence.
"Monks who focus on refining Qi will be harmed by evil spirits, but other monks will not?"
"Physical refiners don't."
Wang Yuan slowly ate another piece of meat. He pointed at himself and said, "Like me!"
Luo Chen was startled.
"Why do you think my cultivation progressed so quickly?" Wang Yuan said lightly: "The reason is that I use evil energy to hone my spiritual power and then polish my body."
To hone spiritual power?
Isn’t that what we need to do in the later stage of Qi refining to purify spiritual power?
Luo Chen really couldn't sit still now, "Can evil energy be used to purify spiritual power?"
"Of course you can. The evil spirit is so fierce and evil that there is no external substance left. Once a wisp of evil spirit enters the body and is properly controlled, it can continuously wear away the impurities in the spiritual power."
"But won't that damage the monk's body?"
"Then what do you think of my physical condition?"
Luo Chen suddenly realized.
Wang Yuan's physique, even before he refined his Qi, was already extremely powerful.
The secular martial arts masters talk about powerful qi and blood and a healing body.
From the time when Wang Yuan first created the palm technique of Mountain Breaking and Tablet Palm, it can be seen that his physique has been tempered a long time ago.
And after starting to practice Qi refining, under the tempering of spiritual energy, I am afraid that I will become stronger and stronger.
"Of course, when evil spirits enter the body, it not only requires a strong body, but also a perseverance to fight against it."
"The path taken by a Qi Refiner is to refine Qi as the main task, with Spirit Refining as a supplement. However, as a Body Refiner, body refining is the main task, with mind refining as a supplement."
"If the will is not strong, the pain caused during the body training process will be unbearable by ordinary people."
Very rarely, Wang Yuan spoke for a long time.
There is no intention to show off, just a simple statement of facts.
He looked at the slightly disappointed Luo Chen and shook his head: "I can also teach you how to use evil energy to polish your body and temper your spiritual power. But I don't recommend you try it, because it is really painful."
As for physical fitness, Luo Chen actually always thought that he was not bad.
Normally, spiritual rice and monster meat are eaten frequently, and Peiyuan Spiritual Liquid also has the effect of strengthening Qi and blood and washing away physical impurities.
It is precisely because of these factors that he was able to master Xiaoyaoyou very quickly with the Mountain Breaking Tablet Palm.
But compared with Wang Yuan, it really pales in comparison.
Even Wang Yuan said it was very painful, just imagine how terrible it is when the evil spirit enters the body.
But he was still unwilling to give in. If he couldn't use it now, wouldn't he be able to use it in the future?
After he reaches the ninth level of Qi refining, he will be able to increase his physical strength and try to enter the evil spirit into his body again.
Wang Yuan did not hide his secrets and directly told Luo Chen word for word the method he had mastered.
"Mingshen destroys evil?"
"Well, after I reached the pinnacle of martial arts, I personally killed a big demon in the martial arts world."
When talking about the past, Wang Yuan's tone rarely sounded a little sad.
"After killing him in the devil's cave, I got his inheritance, which included this Mingshen method of destroying evil."
"At that time, I understood why my formerly highly respected senior had become a big demon causing trouble in the world in just a few years."
"He found a place with evil spirits, and with two decades of martial arts knowledge, he created this martial art called Ming Shen Breaking Evil. He used the evil spirits to refine his body, then refined the energy, and forcibly transformed martial arts into immortality.
"But it was the evil spirit that entered the body, coupled with old age and physical weakness, and over the years, my mind was lost and I fell into the devil's path."
"The reason why I was able to embark on the path of spiritual practice was more or less because of that senior's influence."
From these past events, it is not difficult for Luo Chen to imagine how happy Wang Yuan was in the world of martial arts.
Practice martial arts and become innate.
Enter the devil's cave and kill the devil.
And the big devil who was killed may have had a very glorious past experience.
Two years of martial arts experience, that's one hundred and twenty years.
If you include the youth who did not practice martial arts, I am afraid that the big devil is also one hundred and thirty-four years old.
At this age, he is almost older than most monks in the Qi Refining Stage.
Shaking his head, Luo Chen picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
Just as I was about to take a bite of the food, I realized that all the meat on the table was gone!
All gone!
No wonder Wang Yuan stopped and talked to him so much that he finished all the meat in a long time.
But his previous movements had always been "slow and slow"!
Luo Chen rolled his eyes and asked the waiter to serve a few more plates of meat.
He had just received the dividends and was still very wealthy.
This store is also newly opened in Dahefang, and they are offering discounts. It’s really exciting today!
While waiting for the dishes to be served, Luo Chen casually handed over a jade bottle.
"This is the chalcedony elixir that was recently refined. Even among the middle-grade elixirs, it is the one with the best appearance and potency."
"Brother Wang, take it and try it."
Wang Yuan smiled and was about to say that he didn't really need this kind of elixir, but it was hard for Luo Chen to have such a desire.
But as soon as his expression changed, he continued silently.
Next, the two of them drank and drank the meat of monsters and beasts, and they didn't separate until the evening.
…
"Blood Burning Pill, a first-level elixir derived from the Blood Evil Pill?"
"Shall I find someone to try the effect?"
In the secret room, Wang Yuan looked at the two red pills with a look of emotion on his face.
He originally thought that Luo Chen had given up on the second-level elixir recipe since there had been no news from Luo Chen for so long.
But he didn't expect that he would always keep it in mind.
Although he still hasn't refined the blood-emitting elixir, he has worked hard to deduce a first-order elixir from the same source.
"Test medicine?"
Wang Yuan smiled softly, turned around and left the secret room.
Arriving at Jiao Hall, he summoned his men.
"Today, Gang Leader Mi has decided to establish a stronghold in Taishanfang."
"I don't want to delay. You all will follow me to Taishanfang tomorrow morning and ask the Cheng family whether they will allow Chu Clan to come."
"If you don't give in, a fight will be inevitable. Everyone, be prepared!"
…
"Mingshen destroys evil!"
"The mind is clear and the nature is clear, and the mind and spirit are unified."
"Rather than saying it is a method of tempering evil spirits, it is better to say it is a secret method of tempering divine will."
After careful consideration for more than a dozen times, Luo Chen came to this conclusion.
As for what divine will is, Luo Chen understood it as divine soul and will.
As for souls, monks are almost all involved.
Because spiritual consciousness is born from the soul, it is the foundation for monks in addition to refining qi.
As for will, this is easier to understand, as it is something that almost all living beings have.
A weak-willed person will be frightened by others' glance.
A person with a strong will can remain calm even if he is cut to pieces by a thousand swords.
What that represents is great tolerance for pain, sadness, despair and other negative emotions.
Luo Chen still doesn't dare to use Mingshen to break the evil spirit to guide the evil spirit into his body. In Wang Yuan's view, his physical fitness is far from qualified.
And polishing the body is not something that can be done overnight.
Therefore, Luo Chen first planned to practice this method of destroying evil spirits.
Not much else to say, let’s improve our will first.
And how to improve willpower?
Ming Shen Breaking Evil is very simple as mentioned above, fight against negative emotions!
Does Luo Chen have negative emotions?
More or less, but definitely not much.
After all, refining elixirs and cultivating every day, there is no life or death crisis, and there is no need to hide in Tibet, it can be regarded as a happy cultivation of immortality.
But no, you can create it!
The simplest negative emotion is pain.
Following Ming Shen's method of breaking evil spirits, Luo Chen mobilized a small amount of spiritual power and came to an acupuncture point on his feet.
Yinlingquan point is an acupoint on the Spleen Meridian of Foot Taiyin.
This acupoint is a joint point of the entire meridian. The qi and blood of the spleen meridian gather here. Once the qi and blood are blocked here.
The slightest touch will cause severe pain.
Taking a deep breath, Luo Chen blocked the spiritual energy.
"Hey, it's okay!"
"It seems that I, Luo Chen, am also a person with a strong will!"
…
Early the next morning, Gu Caiyi got up early.
After washing up, he left the courtyard and called Luo Chen to have breakfast with him.
The two were walking on the foggy street, chatting casually about the many decisions made by the gang yesterday.
Suddenly, Gu Caiyi looked at Luo Chen with a frown.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you limping when you walk?"
"Hey, it's okay! It's really okay!"
Luo Chen said with a normal expression.
But when Gu Caiyi looked at the veins on Luo Chen's forehead that pulsed from time to time, she still felt something was strange.
…
…
Luo Chen underestimated the skill of Ming Shen Sha Sha.
I didn't feel it at first, but as the Qi and blood became blocked, the feeling of soreness and pain became more and more intense.
Moreover, this is only the first acupuncture point.
According to Wang Yuan, a full thirty-five more will be involved in the follow-up.
The Yinlingquan point on the sole of the foot is just the easiest one.
Luo Chen felt a little numb when he thought that there were so many acupuncture points waiting for him to stimulate one by one.
But Luo Chen can also understand why this technique is so demanding.
Whether he is a martial arts master or a cultivator, his body is already very strong.
To make them feel pain is no longer something that can only be done by ordinary external forces. We can only think of ways from within.
With repeated stimulation of acupoints, a person's pain tolerance threshold will continue to increase.
In other words, the will is getting stronger and stronger!
Only a strong enough will can endure the pain of evil spirits entering the body.
The so-called "breaking" does not mean to break the evil spirit, but to break the pain caused by the evil spirit.
At the beginning, the big devil found the place of evil energy, but not the place of spiritual energy.
Therefore, he could only use evil spirits to stimulate his body and refine the energy somewhat passively.
It's a pity that he was old and frail, and he couldn't resist the erosion of the evil spirit after all.
In comparison, Wang Yuan is much luckier.
After achieving martial arts innateness, he started to practice this technique.
Later, he came to Dahefang and came into contact with the world of immortality. He was able to absorb enough external free spiritual energy.
With the two complementing each other, he truly embarked on the path of a body refiner.
"Logically speaking, Mingshen Breaking Evil can be considered a cultivation technique, but why is there no entry displayed on my panel?"
"Is it because I haven't really started yet?"
Bearing the severe pain all the time, Luo Chen thought about this problem.
At the moment when he was distracted, a burning smell came out.
"Hall Master, this chalcedony pill failed."
"Ok, I know."
Luo Chen's expression remained unchanged, and he waved his hand to signal them to stop what they were doing and prepare for the cleaning work.
After leaving the alchemy room, Luo Chen frowned.
He can still bear the severe pain caused by stimulating the acupuncture points.
However, the distraction had a negative effect on alchemy.
Although the proficiency of Chalcedony Pill has reached the Grandmaster level, even the Grandmaster level has a failure rate as high as half.
But the furnace of elixir just now did not fail after the elixir was completed.
It was a failure caused by being distracted by a small detail before it was completed.
“It seems like I’ll have to pay more attention in the future.”
Luo Chen has never thought about giving up practicing this skill. Even if the evil spirit has not entered the body yet, he must persist.
Because it involves will and even the subsequent soul.
To be honest, Luo Chen is not very optimistic about his own will.
For a person who grew up in a safe country, it is a joke to say how strong-willed he is.
Perhaps a failure in an exam or a job loss will make people depressed.
Even though it has been almost two years since I traveled back in time and I have been practicing every day, it is just because of my perseverance.
Luo Chen aims to live forever!
The pursuit of immortality is bound to go through an extremely long journey of years.
On this journey, I have to go through countless ups and downs.
If you don’t have a strong enough heart, sooner or later you will get lost on the path of spiritual practice.
Now that he had this technique that could temper his soul and sharpen his will, how could he give up?
In comparison, several alchemy attempts failed.
Totally acceptable.
Moreover, the Poshan Gang will bear the consequences of failure.
In the end, it was only the income from a few or dozens of spiritual stones that was shared with him.
Minutes and seconds passed slowly by while refining the pill.
In the evening, when counting the finished products and raw material consumption of Chalcedony Pill, Sikong Shoujia found that the failure rate was a bit high today.
In the past, at the end of the day, the rate of pill formation was always about half.
But today it is less than 30%.
Luo Chen's explanation for this is simple.
"My practice is not going well, and I am quite troubled, which makes me feel uneasy when I am refining the elixir. When I adjust, my condition will return."
Sikong Shoujia nodded, he believed this statement.
…
The cave is filled with spiritual energy.
A figure sat cross-legged on the futon, lips opening and closing.
With a deep breath, two transparent tornadoes were faintly swallowed into the belly.
Luo Chen opened his eyes and was satisfied with the end of today's practice.
The progress has progressed a little further, getting closer and closer to the eighth level of Qi Refining.
When his eyes fell on the ground, he saw that the pot of moonlight grass given to him by Fu Xiuxiu was growing extremely vigorously.
It used to be only a few centimeters tall, but now it's the size of his palm.
"It seems that the large amount of wood spiritual energy gathered by the spirit gathering array is also very beneficial to the growth of this elixir!"
With a sigh, Luo Chen put on his coat and walked out of the cave.
Following the specially opened underground tunnel, he soon arrived at Changyin Mountain.
The Lengxi Lingjue was operating normally, and Luo Chen felt refreshed while breathing the fresh air in the mountains.
Stepping out of the narrow opening, Luo Chen walked outside.
He planned to explore Changyin Mountain.
Of course, this is the territory of monsters, and they must not be arrogant.
Luo Chen just planned to explore the outside world a little bit, at least to get familiar with the surrounding environment.
Even if he encounters danger in Xianyue Valley in the future, he will not panic and choose a way out if he uses the underground tunnel to escape here.
The cunning rabbit still has three burrows, so Luo Chen naturally has to find more safe habitats for himself.
The scope of exploration this time is not large, only five miles.
Occasionally when he encounters some potentially dangerous places, he will take the initiative to take out the spent chalcedony beads and throw stones to ask for directions.
If the situation is not right, retreat immediately.
When the sky gradually turned white, Luo Chen returned to Xianyue Valley knowingly.
The exploration situation today was okay, and most of the nearby conditions were determined.
And he found that there were far fewer demon wolves nearby than before.
I don’t know if too many died in the civil war, or if they moved to other places.
Before going up, Luo Chen followed his usual routine to clean up any evil spirits that might be contaminated in the mountains.
In this process, it is natural to avoid the trace of spiritual power on the shoulders.
"Huh?"
With a slight sigh, Luo Chen's face gradually darkened.
The last time I checked, although this spiritual power was pure, it was actually in a state of overflow and had a tendency to gradually weaken and dissipate.
But this time, he found that his spiritual power was back to its original state.
A high-level power has its own legend of ever-lasting magic power and endless life.
But in the relatively low-level foundation building stage, he had never heard of any means of permanent spiritual power.
In other words, this restored spiritual power was only recently supplemented by new spiritual power from the same source.
"Yesterday?"
"Mi Shuhua didn't just come to me to talk about the Earth Fire Fiend. I'm afraid he secretly used means to consolidate this spiritual mark."
Without any hesitation, Luo Chen instantly locked onto the truth.
Luo Chen sighed as the weather was uncertain.
That old man, really keep an eye on him!
…
Ten days later.
"Fifty-seven pills are collected, forty-one are low-grade, and sixteen are medium-grade."
After spitting out this number, Sikong Shoujia was surprised. To prevent mistakes, he counted again.
But no matter how many times I count it, the number of pills on the plate is still the same.
He couldn't help but ask: "Hall Master, why is the elixir formation rate lower today than yesterday!"
you ask me?
Luo Chen glanced at him expressionlessly, turned around and left.
Nonsense, he stimulated another acupuncture point last night and it hurt him like hell.
Being able to manage the alchemy today is already considered a conscientious one.
I'm sick at work, so I shouldn't praise him for coming. Why do you blame me for leaving him here?
"Luo Chen!"
"I am the master of the hall. I don't need to explain too much to a layman like you about alchemy."
After saying that, he went directly into the stone house and activated the formation.
He didn't bother to explain, but Sikong Shoujia couldn't sit still.
Not to mention his share of the profits from the Alchemy Hall.
It was only five days ago that his son had a late morning ceremony and truly became the son-in-law of the Mi family.
The income from the alchemy hall is closely related to his son's future cultivation resources.
Now that the income is less, he is more anxious than anyone else.
There was no nonsense. After get off work, he went straight to the Mi family's land and met Mi Shuhua.
"Gang leader, the number of completed elixirs in the elixir hall this month is a bit low!"
"Um?"
Mi Shuhua seemed to have just returned from abroad, and his face looked a little tired.
He rubbed his brows and asked about the situation.
"In a total of eleven days, Luo Chen only refined 820 low-grade chalcedony pills and 357 medium-grade chalcedony pills."
"Compared with the previous few months, this quantity is almost 20% less!"
After hearing this data, Mi Shuhua couldn't help but become serious.
"Luo Chen, do you have any explanation?"
Sikong Shoujia replied: "He said that his practice was not smooth and his mind was restless, so that he could not concentrate when refining the elixir."
Problems caused by spiritual practice?
Mi Shuhua narrowed his eyes slightly and stroked his beard subconsciously.
Luo Chen does not have the five spiritual root qualifications, so it is normal for him to encounter problems in his practice.
Nothing like this has ever happened before!
There may also be a possibility that the alchemy path has encountered a bottleneck. Last time, he mentioned that he wanted to use the Earth Fire Demon to increase the level of the elixir.
If the breakthrough fails, the technology will regress instead?
Mi Shuhua also doesn’t know the specific situation.
It is really difficult for outsiders to give a thumbs up on the technical work of alchemy.
Mi Shuhua thought for a moment and said, "He is a smart man and will definitely adjust. We need to give him more time."
"Besides, you should bring him good news tomorrow."
While speaking, he handed over something.
Sikong Shoujia looked at that thing and his eyelids jumped involuntarily.
(End of chapter)
