"I think I've left you two little guys behind..."
A voice full of frustration but extremely gratifying came from behind Chen Mo and Chu Wushuang. When they looked back, they were both startled.
"Master! Why...are you like this?" Chu Wushuang said in shock.
Chen Mo looked at the clean old man Sun Xing. His neat white hair was messed up. There seemed to be burnt marks on his right side. His nose was bruised and his face was swollen. His broad white robe was damaged in many places, and his left leg was scratched by a sword. There were light red scars, and some tiny drops of blood were faintly oozing out, not to mention how embarrassing it was.
Sun Xing limped back to the main seat and sat down. He breathed a long sigh of relief and then said leisurely: "Oh, it's not because of you that I got beaten up by that crazy woman. You must work hard to practice. Don't What a waste of my hard work!"
"Yes!" Chen Mo and Chu Wushuang replied in unison.
"Wushuang, you go back first. I have something to say to Chen Mo." Sun Xing motioned for her to avoid, and the latter nodded and respectfully withdrew.
She knew that if nothing unexpected happened, Old Man Qingjing would accept Chen Mo as his second apprentice, that is, her...junior brother.
She could feel that her master valued Chen Mo. She had lived in Xianyun Valley for nearly half a year, and she had never seen Sun Xing in such a miserable state. How much hardship had she endured in front of her former master?
Of course, she didn't know that this was exactly what Sun Xing did on purpose, in order to let their two apprentices understand how difficult it was for him. Otherwise, they could clean up their affairs before meeting again, and avoid damaging Sun Xing's relationship with his apprentice. The image in my mind.
"Chen Mo, come here." Sun Xing asked him to come closer with an unquestionable tone, pinched the pulse of his left hand, probed slightly, and nodded thoughtfully.
"You have practiced before, am I right?" Sun Xing suddenly said something.
Chen Mo didn't expect that with just a short touch, Sun Xing could tell that he had possessed spiritual power. This made him feel a shiver in his heart, and he quickly explained: "Yes, this junior once was..."
Sun Xing raised his hand, indicating that Chen Mo did not need to continue: "I have guessed nine out of ten, including the origin of the fate-defying pill in your arms, but these are not important. I only want to ask you one question today. , you should think it through before answering."
Chen Mo cupped his hands and said, "Senior, please speak!"
Sun Xing looked directly into Chen Mo's eyes: "Do you really worship me as your teacher? Or... you just want the Qingqing Pill?"
Without thinking, Chen Mo directly handed the Fate-Resisting Pill to Sun Xing from his arms, and at the same time knelt on the ground: "As long as the seniors treat each other with sincerity, the juniors will sincerely worship you as their teacher, and there will be no intention of repeating this fate-defying pill." The Life Pill is the property of the junior family, so I ask the seniors to keep it for you!"
When Chen Mo lowered his head, he had already analyzed Sun Xing's words thoroughly in his mind. The qualifications he had shown before were enough to make Sun Xing want to accept a disciple, but he might be afraid that he would leave after giving him all his money, or that he would eat Huaqing. The elixir slips away, that's why I ask this question.
What he said was all to reassure Sun Xing. What's more, he didn't have a good place to go now. It was not a bad thing to be able to practice with this casual alchemist.
Of course, these are all based on the fact that Sun Xing sincerely accepts disciples. If he uses blood essence to make elixirs and other evil ways, it is another matter.
Sun Xing laughed, obviously happy that Chen Mo understood the meaning of his words. He waved his hand and said, "What do I want from a junior like you? Take it back quickly."
"This..." Chen Mo looked confused.
"What's the matter? I just became my disciple and now I don't want to listen to what I have to say?" Sun Xing said with a smile.
Chen Mo was overjoyed and quickly kowtowed to him three times respectfully: "Disciple pays homage to master!"
"Okay!" Sun Xing looked excited. He flipped his hand and threw a thread-bound classic to Chen Mo: "This is some of my master's experience in growing medicinal herbs and purifying elixirs. You go back first to observe and adjust your body." , Seven days later, I will personally take action as a master to seize the fortune of heaven and earth and open a furnace...Hua Qing Dan!"
Even though Chen Mo was prepared, when he heard the words "Hua Qing Dan", he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and said, "Thank you, Master, for the elixir!"
"It doesn't matter, I am a teacher for the sake of your senior sister." Sun Xing changed the topic and then said: "Have you ever heard of the Seven Kingdoms Rogue Cultivator Conference?"
"Rose Cultivator Conference?"
Chen Mo had really heard that when he was still in Qinfeng County, the old man Li Qing once said that he should go to the top ten in the casual cultivator conference and grab a life-defying pill. Now Sun Xing I also mentioned this matter, is there any connection?
Sun Xing saw Chen Mo's confused look, so he said: "As the name suggests, the Rogue Cultivator Conference is naturally a large-scale event that all low-level casual cultivators in the cultivation world of the seven countries can participate in. This conference is held once every ten years and is held by the seven countries in turn. .”
"The place we are going to this time is the Yan Kingdom that borders our Chu Kingdom. The old Yuanying monster Li Tianlong is personally in charge. He is a casual cultivator himself. He has gone through many hardships to cultivate to the Yuanying realm, so he has become a A leader in the casual cultivating world.”
"Under his leadership, the Rogue Cultivator Conference went from being ignored at the beginning to now being well-known among all the casual cultivators in the seven countries. This person has contributed a lot to it. After the Rogue Cultivator Conference started, there were also some people in the venue who were dedicated to the casual cultivators. The existence of the trading market provided by cultivators is a time, and these casual cultivators can communicate with each other in it, which can be regarded as a benefit to the casual cultivators."
"And what I want to say is exactly the arena competition and elixir competition in this casual cultivator conference. The reward for the top ten is the fate-defying elixir you just took. I hope you can become a low-ranking person." Alchemist, help your senior sister Chu Wushuang to get a life-defying pill back."
Chen Mo asked: "Master, is it difficult to get the Fate-Resisting Pill?"
This question has troubled him for a long time, but he still has no answer.
"It's not hard to find." Sun Xing said: "Except for the main medicinal material of the Ming-Defying Pill, Wutengmu, the rest of the refining medicinal materials are common elixirs. Even a master can do it by opening a furnace of the Ming-Defying Pill."
"But the cultivation sects of the seven countries have united and strictly controlled the output of black vine wood. Only their sect disciples and their cultivation families are eligible to enjoy it. We casual cultivators can only get a fate-defying pill by chance. , so you can imagine how rare this elixir is." Sun Xing said leisurely.
"The top ten in the arena competition will also be rewarded with Fate-Resisting Pills, but you have a Yin-vein constitution, your practice is slower than that of a normal monk, and you have no advantage in fighting, so I don't plan to let you participate. You and your senior sister will do your best. Just prepare for the elixir competition. It’s best to get two pills, but you have to have one as a guarantee. Do you understand me, disciple?”
"Yes." Chen Mo responded: "Disciple has noted it down."
...
Late at night, Chen Mo did not rest, but looked through Sun Xing's experience on medicinal herbs. It could be seen that he really taught everything he had. Decades of hard work were all gathered in this classic. Chen Mo read with gusto and also Understand the basic process of alchemy.
The first step is to take care of the medicinal herbs and let them grow until the end of the year. Then they are picked to purify the medicinal herbs and condense the medicinal liquid. The last step is to carve out the spiritual array to activate the power of the alchemy furnace, and the elixir is made in this way.
It was said that, but actually doing it was another matter. Fortunately, after seven days, Chen Mo could observe it on the spot, which made him slightly excited. If this was left to the Guta Sect, how could he have the opportunity to observe the techniques of a top-grade alchemist at close range?
When Chen Mo stayed, he really had the idea of learning some skills from Sun Xing. Being able to refine the elixirs in the Qi Refining Stage was a low-grade alchemist. Sun Xing, with his cultivation in the Foundation Establishment Stage, could actually refine the elixirs in the pill-forming stage. Qing Dan, what does this mean? His alchemy journey can be regarded as a gift from heaven!
"My own Yin spirit power is a problem..." Chen Mo muttered to himself.
Before Sun Xing asked Chen Mo to come back, he also informed him of the pros and cons of Yin Spirit Power. Yin Spirit Power is a mutated type of spiritual power. Let’s talk about the advantages first. Yin Spirit Power is endless and is better than the advantage in quantity. For example, Compared with the tenth-level Qi-refining monks who have also undergone marrow cleansing, the Yin-line monks have three times more Yin spiritual power in their bodies than those at the same level, and the quality is also much higher than ordinary spiritual power. This directly affects the range and power of the spell.
But the disadvantages are also obvious, because each level contains too much spiritual energy, which also leads to the slowness in absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It takes at least three times as long as other people to practice one level.
This is very likely to happen: two people start practicing cultivation at the same time, one is a Yin Meridian monk, and the other is a Marrow Cleansing monk. Maybe after the Marrow Cleansing monk reaches the tenth level of Qi refining, the Yin Meridian monk is still spinning around on the sixth level of Qi refining. , the high-level spells that can be used at the tenth level of Qi refining cannot be used by Yinmai cultivators.
But the fairer point is that the total amount of spiritual power between the two is equivalent.
"Yin spiritual power is extremely rare, even if the veins are acquired. Ordinary spiritual sense cannot detect your true cultivation level. It can only be detected after you have established the foundation, or if you are two realms higher than you." Sun Xing said. Still echoing in his ears, Chen Mo smiled bitterly at this moment: Is this really a blessing in disguise... Why do you feel inferior to ordinary monks?
If possible, he really doesn't want to need this Yin spirit power. Without him, the progress of cultivation will be slow! It takes years of the monkey to take the fate-defying pill! When you are forty or fifty years old?
Chen Mo straightened his mind, put down the classics, turned back to the wooden bed and began to meditate. He wanted to listen to Sun Xing's words and prepare for taking the Huaqing Pill seven days later.
Time flew by, and seven days passed in a flash, and the date agreed with Sun Xing came. During this period, besides reading the classics, Chen Mo meditated and did not have time to leave the house to meet Chu Wushuang.
At this moment, he came to the wooden house under the waterfall and saw Chu Wushuang, who had arrived earlier than him. He bowed slightly to her: "I've met senior sister."
Chu Wushuang looked back, still with a face that she would not let strangers approach. Even though Chen Mo had become her junior brother, she nodded slightly, which was considered a return gift.
"They're all here, good... Then let's get started."
Sun Xing walked out from behind the wooden house. The tragic appearance of seven days ago was long gone, and he regained his immortal demeanor. He walked towards the alchemy furnace, took a look at the burning of the earth fire inside, and said to the two of them with a smile.
