Chapter 470
Chapter 470
Finding the attributes of every single herb was not something that could be done in a short period of time, or even in a few years. It could only be done slowly and using an extremely long period of time.
As for the question of how herbs that were originally of the wood attribute could have attributes of the five elements, Zhang Xiaohua had some vague ideas. For example, the Scarlet Fire Grass was red in color, and there was no vegetation growing in its surroundings. Even the soil would turn to stone, so it was obviously of the fire attribute. The two main ingredients of the Crimson Flame Pill, the Crimson Pearl Grass, complemented the fire attribute Scarlet Fire Grass, so it was definitely of the water attribute.
Of course, there were even more herbs that could not be directly identified from their appearance, so it was impossible to directly determine their attributes.
The Qi Practitioners of the Path of Immortals were very resourceful, and they had come into contact with many more herbs than the Qi Practitioners of the Path of Immortals. If Zhang Xiaohua did not use any special techniques and only tried using his stupid method, who knew when he would be able to tell the difference?
And how could the Art of Herbal Medicine be able to clearly identify the attributes of dried herbs?
Firstly, there were limited types of herbs. Secondly, different people would fall sick every day. It was very easy to obtain results through large amounts of practice. Even so, the Art of Herbal Medicine had only reached its current scale after several thousand years.
Zhang Xiaohua engraved the pill recipe and her own experiences into the jade slip. After expending some of her spiritual sense, she stowed the jade slip away and began to cultivate the God's Guide.
Ever since she began using her spiritual sense to write jade slips, Zhang Xiaohua knew that apart from true qi, the spiritual sense was extremely important in the path of immortality. She had only just come into contact with the path of immortality, so she might have to use her spiritual sense in many places in the future. As a result, she cultivated the God's Guide every day.
After a while, she finished replenishing her spiritual sense. Zhang Xiaohua felt that her spiritual sense had improved slightly, and the God's Guide had also improved slightly. Just as she was about to stand up, Zhang Xiaohua suddenly thought of the mnemonic chant recorded in the appendix of the God's Guide jade slip to conceal her cultivation and spiritual sense.
When Zhang Xiaohua saw it that day, she didn't think much of it. The Way of Immortality that she cultivated was just a legend in Jianghu. No one had seen it before. It would only appear when she used the Way of Immortality to fight with others. How could anyone discover it on a normal day?
This incantation was completely useless to him.
Now that his mind was moved and he thought of this, he felt that something wasn't right.
After a period of time, he would have to spread the Incense Cult alone.
The Aroma Sect was a colossus. It was a super sect with a legacy of ten thousand years. When Zhang Xiaohua was at Huan Xi Manor, she had not felt the power of its legacy. But when she arrived at Rejuvenation Valley, she found that even a small faction like Rejuvenation Valley had old men like Elder Zhang, as well as some people she had never seen before. As a sect, the Aroma Sect had stood tall in Jianghu for ten thousand years. How could it not have its own heritage?
Who knew if there were some old monsters hidden in the Aroma Sect that were over a hundred years old?
Moreover, it was the legacy of the Way of Immortality. Perhaps they had some secret method to see through a person's cultivation. She was unlucky to be seen through. However, she was going to the Aroma Sect under the banner of Rejuvenation Valley. Nominally, she was the son-in-law of Rejuvenation Valley. Wouldn't that be causing a lot of trouble for Rejuvenation Valley?
Therefore, for her own sake, she still had to comprehend the mnemonic chant to conceal her cultivation and spiritual sense.
Taking out the jade slip, Zhang Xiaohua carefully read it for the first time. The mnemonic chant was very long, about two thousand words. It was abnormally cryptic. Zhang Xiaohua read it carefully but didn't learn anything.
He couldn't help but smile wryly. Well, the average cultivation method of the Way of Immortality was not easy to understand or practice. The difficulty of concealing one's cultivation could be imagined.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaohua's heart skipped a beat. She remembered that when she first started cultivating the "Carefree Heart Sutra", it was abnormally simple. There were many things in the cultivation method that she didn't know how to understand. But after entering the Way of Immortality for several years, her aptitude seemed to have improved greatly. For example, the art of alchemy and the art of refining weapons. Although it was not easy, she could understand it carefully. Although she didn't have a master to guide her, she could still master it. Could the cultivation method of the Way of Immortality make people smarter?
"Ai, who cares, isn't it good to be smart?" Zhang Xiaohua thought to himself. "Who cares how it becomes smart? It's more important to comprehend the mnemonic chant."
Then, Zhang Xiaohua closed her eyes and pondered the first part of the mnemonic chant word by word.
In the blink of an eye, when Zhang Xiaohua stood up again, the sky had gradually darkened. Zhang Xiaohua sighed. Time was too short. She hadn't comprehended anything and the day was about to pass. How good would it be if she could find a place to cultivate alone and ignore the trivial matters of the world?
But then, this thought was strangled. Her mother, father, and other family members, Ou Yan, Qiu Tong, Wen Wenhai, and the others, dreams, oh, and Nie Qianyu, all of them entered her mind. Zhang Xiaohua shook her head and couldn't help but smile. "The world is so beautiful, why don't I miss it?
Cultivation is cultivation. Entering the world is also cultivating the heart. Dao follows nature, Dao follows nature! "
Then, she felt the true qi in her body surge violently. Zhang Xiaohua was overjoyed and hurriedly took out a jade talisman to set up a formation around the pill room. Then, she took out two origin stones. After thinking for a moment, she threw out the Crouching Ox Stone and sat cross-legged on it. It was rare for her to cultivate the Carefree Heart Sutra during the day.
Ever since Zhang Xiaohua entered Rejuvenation Valley, she had been persistently comprehending the Dao of Heaven and made up for her lack of understanding of the Dao of Heaven with the Qi Huang Art. She also continuously improved in the areas of pill refinement and weapon forging. Most importantly, she had to refine starlight and absorb origin qi every night to cultivate the Carefree Heart Sutra. Her accumulation in these few months was quite deep, so when she gained something in her temperament, her mental cultivation method also improved.
In the dimly lit pill room, Zhang Xiaohua's face was expressionless. She held a piece of origin stone in each hand and all the pores on her body opened up, greedily absorbing the surrounding origin qi. When the origin qi in the pill room was completely absorbed, the origin qi in Rejuvenation Valley rushed toward the pill room.
And now, Zhang Xiaohua's speed of drawing qi was very fast. Although the origin qi in the valley was much more than outside, it was too thin for Zhang Xiaohua. If Zhang Xiaohua greedily absorbed it, it would most likely cause irreparable harm to the medicinal herbs in the valley.
At this moment, the results of Zhang Xiaohua's daily hard work in comprehending the Dao of Heaven appeared at this moment. The refined origin qi in her body and the circulating vital qi in her meridians gradually changed under the influence of the Dao of Heaven. These changes were almost undetectable, but it was also these changes that caused Zhang Xiaohua's entire body to be branded with traces of the Dao of Heaven.
Didn't the Qi Huang Art mention the theory of the five elements? The five organs in the body were all of the five elements, and the five elements were some kind of rule of the Dao of Heaven. Under Zhang Xiaohua's comprehension of the Dao of Heaven, her body gradually showed signs of conforming to the Dao of Heaven. Although these signs were extremely small, they caused a chain of changes, such as the absorption of vital qi and origin qi.
The Crouching Ox Stone that Zhang Xiaohua was sitting on originally had a fixed speed of the Qi of Heaven and Earth that was being drawn into her body. However, due to the slight change in the way that Zhang Xiaohua absorbed the origin qi, the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the Crouching Ox Stone suddenly seemed to have been summoned by something. It surged out of the Crouching Ox Stone like a tide and crazily poured into Zhang Xiaohua's pores.
The origin qi in Rejuvenation Valley surged into the elixir room, but this meager amount of origin qi could no longer attract Zhang Xiaohua's attention, so she did not absorb it. When the wild origin qi in the Crouching Ox Stone entered her body, it immediately submitted to the radiance of the Dao of Heaven. It followed the meridians in her body and flashed in a regular pattern. It seemed slow but was actually very fast, sometimes fast and sometimes slow.
After an indeterminate amount of time had passed, countless rays of starlight shone down from the night sky, penetrating through the stone walls and enveloping Zhang Xiaohua's surroundings. At this moment, the starlight was surging. The refined starlight fused with his meridians, fused with his primary energy, and fused with his transparent bones. As the starlight fused with his bones, the red dots gradually increased in number, almost imperceptibly.
In the Mud-pill Palace, the layer of golden array talismans on the Essence of Herbalism suddenly sped up and emitted a mysterious wave. The starlight outside Zhang Xiaohua's body also seemed to have been summoned and was directly drawn into the golden talismans without any refinement.
The talismans that had absorbed the starlight emitted a faint radiance. After spinning a few times, fine golden rays of light were emitted from each talisman and entered the tiny core in the middle of the Essence of Herbalism.
The core became more stable and the Essence of Herbalism seemed to have been replenished. It was mobilized more powerfully and there were faint traces of the Dao of Heaven in its movements.
Everything was so harmonious. Under the enlightenment of the Dao of Heaven, she was progressing in an orderly manner.
She cultivated until dawn. Zhang Xiaohua opened her eyes. The flame in her eyes flickered abnormally.
Zhang Xiaohua put away the Crouching Ox Stone and pocketed the vitality stones. Only then did she check her cultivation level.
This check was not a big deal, but it really made Zhang Xiaohua's jaw drop. Previously on the deserted island, he had broken through to the sixth level. Then, he had slowly wandered around the early stages of the sixth level. He had not broken through for a long time.
However, he also knew that this was a transition from the early stages of the Qi Refining stage to the middle stages of the Qi Refining stage. It was a change in the way of cultivation and could not be rushed. Earlier, there had been various signs of a breakthrough. That was why he took out the Crouching Ox Stone yesterday and wanted to raise his cultivation level to the middle stages of the sixth level. But now, after a brief check, the vital energy in his body was surging. His vital energy flowed freely in his mind. The bottleneck of the seventh level was faintly visible.
Was this not a sign of the peak of the sixth level?
Could it be that last night's cultivation had directly skipped the middle stages of the sixth level?
Zhang Xiaohua was a little incredulous. Ever since he started cultivating, he had always been down-to-earth, taking one step at a time. This sudden big step was not something he was used to. So, he immediately sat down cross-legged and carefully observed to see if there was anything strange.
After a long examination, he did not find anything wrong. Everything was normal. However, he felt that there was something different from before. He felt that this normal was not the same as before.
Suddenly, he laughed. He understood what was going on.
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