Chapter 458

Nie Qianyu and Fei He didn't know about Zhang Xiaohua's ambition. They only thought that he was ashamed and comforted him. Zhang Xiaohua smiled and said goodbye to Fei He with the muddy herbs in his hand. Nie Qianyu lived in the peach blossom forest. Seeing that it was late, she didn't go back to the inner valley with Zhang Xiaohua. They agreed to meet the next day and then left reluctantly.

After returning to the pill room, Zhang Xiaohua didn't hurry to start concocting pills. Instead, he carefully read the prescription of the "Fasting Pill" sent by the Rejuvenation Valley and pondered over the herbs except for the sealwort. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was in line with the theory of the five elements. However, plants and trees were all of the wood attribute. It would be difficult to regard a herb as of the metal attribute.

Of course, this was something that no one could solve in ten thousand years. Zhang Xiaohua couldn't figure out the mystery in a short period of time. Therefore, he had to study it slowly.

Zhang Xiaohua takes out a Jade Slip and writes down the prescription of Fasting Bolus. He also writes down some of his experiences and puts it in his pocket. Then he comes to the Earth Fire. When he was collecting the sealwort just now, he has already thought of the jade box to store the precious herbs. He might as well refine it now.

Zhang Xiaohua took out the green jade coffin lid from his money pouch and looked at it carefully. Previously, he had only suspected that it was some kind of formation artifact. Now, looking at the patterns on it and the faint Yuan Qi, combined with the blacksmithing he had just learned, he was certain that it was a formation artifact made using blacksmithing techniques.

Although he didn't know what kind of formation it was, since it was a formation that harmed people's lives, he had to destroy it no matter how precious it was.

Zhang Xiaohua took out a small sword from his pocket and drew a line on the jade board. A piece of jade fell out. Zhang Xiaohua wrapped it with his Divine Sense and sent it into the groove. Then, he put the small sword away and threw the jade board aside. He turned on the Earth Fire and started concocting. The concocting of the jade box was not troublesome. Only the magic formation carved on the six sides was a little complicated. He had to be careful. After all, he had to keep the Primordial Qi of the herbs. Otherwise, what was the use of it?

After a short while, Zhang Xiaohua stopped concocting and a square jade box was completed. Zhang Xiaohua waved his left hand and kept it. He opened it and was very satisfied. Then, his right hand concocted a more complicated concocting technique. However, it was not the concocting technique in the "Weapon Refining General Principles". After his right hand concocted the concocting technique, he hit the lid of the jade box. When the concocting technique hit the lid, a layer of bright light flashed. It was as though the jade box was immersed in water and the entire jade box was wrapped up. When the light disappeared, the jade box had lost its lid. It looked like a complete piece of jade. It was exactly the same as the jade box of the "Carefree Heart Sutra" that Zhang Xiaohua found in the library of the Misty School.

This concocting technique was a type of restriction left behind by Venerable Fire-dragon. It was used to restrict the jade box.

Ever since Zhang Xiaohua obtained the restriction jade slip, he knew that the jade box in the Misty School was restricted by someone else. He had always wanted to make an identical item but he did not have a jade box. Now that he knew how to refine weapons and had the materials, how could he not make one to satisfy his craving?

However, was it too extravagant to use a jade box like his to store medicinal herbs? That was not a problem that Zhang Xiaohua was willing to consider. This young master has many jade boxes. I'll refine two of them. One to store medicinal herbs, and the other to store jade boxes. Is that okay?

Zhang Xiaohua used his right hand to conjure a concocting technique and used his finger to point at a certain spot on the jade box. The top of the jade box dispersed and with a flash of light, it returned to the jade box with a lid. Zhang Xiaohua nodded his head slightly. This was the technique of an immortal.

After putting the refined jade box into the money pouch, Zhang Xiaohua lowered his head and looked at the jade board that had two corners damaged. He simply used his small sword to cut the jade board into two and put half of it back into the money pouch while throwing the other half onto the earth fire. Immediately after, Zhang Xiaohua sat cross-legged and concocted a concocting technique with his left and right hands, hitting the earth fire and the melted jade liquid. In the time it took to eat a meal, Zhang Xiaohua had made more than ten jade boxes of different sizes in batches. He then took out the money pouch and with a wave of his hand, he put all of them into the pouch.

After refining the jade boxes, it was still early. Zhang Xiaohua walked to the side and moved the cauldron that had been thrown to the side to the groove. After the cauldron was hot, he placed his right hand on the protruding part of the cauldron and slowly controlled the temperature of the cauldron. According to the records of Rejuvenation Valley's pill recipe, he threw the sealwort and several other herbs into the cauldron one by one. He then placed his other hand on the protruding part and sent his divine sense into the cauldron to refine the Fasting Pill. Not long after, the essences of those herbs were refined and mixed into powder. It was the correct result recorded in Rejuvenation Valley's pill recipe.

Looking at the pinch of powder with a medicinal fragrance in the cauldron, Zhang Xiaohua inwardly laughed. This was clearly medicinal powder. It would have been better to call it "Fasting Powder". Why did he have to spend so much effort to knead it into a round ball and call it "Fasting Pill"?

After refining Rejuvenation Valley's "Fasting Powder", Zhang Xiaohua was too lazy to tidy up. He placed the cauldron there and casually extinguished the earth fire.

Walking to the side of the bed, the grass praying mat was still there. Zhang Xiaohua sat down and scanned the outside with his divine sense. He took out his pill cauldron from his money pouch. Stroking the already shrunken pill cauldron in his hand, Zhang Xiaohua couldn't help but think of the days when he used to learn alchemy on the deserted island. In the blink of an eye, he hadn't refined alchemy for more than a few months.

Zhang Xiaohua placed the pill cauldron on the open space in front of the bed. His hands formed seals and hit the pill cauldron one after another. The pill cauldron emitted a slight roar and slowly grew bigger until it was the right size. Zhang Xiaohua then stopped the seals.

However, Zhang Xiaohua's brows furrowed slightly. When he was refining alchemy on the deserted island, the sound of wind, water, and birds chirped constantly, so he didn't pay attention to this low roar. However, in this quiet pill cauldron, it was clearly out of place.

After thinking for a while, he took out a few jade talismans and placed them in the four corners of the pill cauldron to set up a formation to protect the pill cauldron. Only then did he feel relieved and formed seals to light the pill cauldron's fire. After familiarizing himself with a few seals, he recalled the process of refining the Fasting Pill. Then he waved his hand and the Solomon's Seal and other herbs that had been thrown to the side appeared in his hand. According to the pill cauldron's instructions, he threw the Solomon's Seal and other herbs into the pill cauldron in order. Once the herbs and soil were burned by the pill fire, the impurities inside immediately turned into smoke. Only the essences were left rolling in the pill cauldron. Seeing this, Zhang Xiaohua formed a few more seals and the medicinal powder slowly began to rotate in a regular manner inside the pill cauldron. At this time, Zhang Xiaohua used his divine sense to observe more carefully. The essences of the various herbs were not easy to identify, but there were faint embryonic forms of the five elements that were constantly promoting and restraining each other. The entire Fasting Pill was gradually taking shape.

Zhang Xiaohua did not dare to be careless. She only observed for a moment before focusing her attention on the incubation of the pills. After a while, the medicinal fragrance from the cauldron gradually dissipated. Zhang Xiaohua knew that it was time to pull out the pills. Following her heart's desire, she inserted a few spells into the cauldron. As if there was a soft sound in her heart, the main pill that had been slowly rotating just now was immediately divided into four small pills of even size and abnormally round. After pulling out the pills, Zhang Xiaohua did not use her spiritual sense to drive the pills. Instead, she used the Telekinesis Technique of Weapon Refining. With a wave of her hand, the four pills immediately flew into her hand.

Carefully looking at these abnormally round pills, the corners of Zhang Xiaohua's mouth curled up into a bitter smile. With one look, she knew that these pills could not be made artificially. It was destined that she would not be able to give them to Nie Qianyu. She then placed them in front of her nose and sniffed. The medicinal fragrance was extremely faint. She then took out the Fasting Pills that she had previously refined from her money pouch. With one hand, she compared the two pills. The shape of the two pills were exactly the same. However, the Fasting Pills that were made using only yellow essence had an extremely strong fragrance. She did not need to place them in front of her nose to smell them. Seeing this, Zhang Xiaohua's heart stirred. She released her spiritual sense and carefully compared the Yuan Qi of the two Fasting Pills.

Sure enough, the Yuan Qi of the Fasting Pills that she had previously refined was leaking. Although it was not much, it was still leaking. However, the Yuan Qi of the Fasting Pills that she had just refined was almost undetectable. When she used her spiritual sense to enter the pills, there was actually a faint formation that surrounded the pills. It should be this formation that prevented the Yuan Qi and the medicinal fragrance from leaking out.

Although the previous Fasting Pills were also wrapped in something similar to a formation, there were obviously some flaws. The Yuan Qi and the medicinal fragrance were leaking out from here.

Perhaps, this was the Innate Five Elements Formation formed by refining the pills?

Zhang Xiaohua naturally became suspicious.

After comparing the pills, Zhang Xiaohua placed the Fasting Pills that she had just refined into a jade bottle. Looking at the remaining yellow essence and several auxiliary materials on the ground, she lit up the alchemy fire in the alchemy furnace and refined the remaining medicinal ingredients into ten Fasting Pills. She then placed all of them into the jade bottle and hid them.

Seeing that it was still early, Zhang Xiaohua did not refine any more pills. Instead, she sat cross-legged and calmed her heart to comprehend the Dao of Heaven.

The next morning, Zhang Xiaohua woke up. She placed the cauldron back into the groove, removed the formation, and walked out of the alchemy room.

In the early morning, as the sunlight shone on the inner valley, all kinds of birds woke up early and chirped non-stop. Although there was no dense forest around the alchemy room, she could still hear the constant chirping of birds.

Zhang Xiaohua released her divine sense. Seeing that there was no one waiting nearby, she got into a fighting stance and practiced the Big Dipper Magical Fist. She only stopped when she had completed eighteen rounds of bone-tempering with the warm current. However, the fist technique that she had practiced in the past had lost its effect after only eighteen rounds of practice. Zhang Xiaohua felt very unsatisfied.

However, what could she do if she did not practice the fist technique?

Practice the flying sword?

The nameless swordsmanship only had ten moves. She had already mastered it. Moreover, if she practiced the flying sword in the Rejuvenation Valley, wouldn't it be obvious that she was a cultivator of the Dao of Immortality?

Thinking of the swordsmanship, Zhang Xiaohua suddenly remembered that when the Dalin Temple monk lost to her at the Misty School's Martial Arts Competition, he had promised to let her go to the Dalin Temple's Law Enforcement Hall a year later. Monk Chang Geng would teach her the Dalin Temple's Dharma Swordsmanship.

However, the one-year promise had already passed. Moreover, the Misty School had been destroyed by the Dalin Temple. Would Monk Chang Geng still admit to his promise?

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