Chapter 597

A blazing sun hung high in the southeast. Above the sea of clouds, a small sword was shuttling back and forth in the air. It was as if the small sword had a mind of its own. Just as the small sword was shuttling through the air, two light red rings suddenly descended from the sky and swiftly wrapped around the small sword. In an instant, the small sword seemed to have lost its vitality and fell rapidly. But just as it fell three feet, the two rings suddenly trembled and flew up into the sky, landing directly into a cave on a nearby mountain peak.

Then, a tall young man dressed in a green robe walked out, holding the jade ring and small sword that had just entered the cave. Standing at the entrance of the cave, he looked down at the jade ring in his hand and then looked up at the pure white sea of clouds. His eyes were full of expectation.

This person was Zhang Xiaohua, who was practicing alchemy on Tian Mu Peak.

Zhang Xiaohua had already memorized the flying sword sword manual from the Jade Water Sword, but she had never had the time to practice it. Now that she had some free time to refine the "Bone Coagulation Pill", she used her divine sense to instruct the small sword to practice above the sea of clouds. At the end of the practice, Zhang Xiaohua had an idea and took out the refined "Dragon Binding Ring", wanting to test its power. As expected, although the small sword was very nimble, wherever Zhang Xiaohua's divine sense reached, the Dragon Binding Ring also followed. The small sword actually had no place to dodge. Of course, this was because Zhang Xiaohua was operating the two things herself, so it was inevitable that she was experimenting. But even so, it was still quite powerful.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaohua was looking at the sea of clouds, thinking about the "Imperial Wind Technique" that she had been practicing for ten days. In these ten days, Zhang Xiaohua practiced in the pill room when she had the time while refining pills. Now, she had just started practicing. According to the jade slip, once she practiced the Imperial Wind Technique, she would be able to fly in the air and ride the wind. But with her current cultivation, she really didn't dare to jump out of this cave and step into the sea of clouds.

"If I can step on these continuous white clouds and ride the wind, I'm afraid my cultivation would be like that of an immortal!"

Zhang Xiaohua sighed with emotion. "Moreover, after the Imperial Wind Technique, there's the Flight Technique. How much people yearn for it."

"Aiyo, I suddenly thought of something. The nineteen Fragrant Peaks are so far apart that it's difficult to even communicate with each other. Could it be that during the Immortal Dao, the various peaks relied on flying techniques to move around?"

In an instant, Zhang Xiaohua seemed to see a scene of light shooting in all directions.

"OMG ~" Zhang Xiaohua shook her head and said, "What are you talking about? How can I believe in the Ranger Biography?

Even if I can master the Flight Technique, the journey from here to Shixin Peak is more than ten days. How can my True Qi be enough? "

"Sigh, I wonder if I'll be able to see second brother's figure on Shixin Peak!"

At this time, Zhang Xiaohua wished she could grow a pair of wings and fly to Shixin Peak.

"Calm down, calm down. Haste makes waste. As long as I'm in Fragrant Religion, I'll get the news of second brother sooner or later."

Zhang Xiaohua comforted herself slowly. She knew that even if she could enter Wuming Hall and become an outer disciple, she would not have the opportunity to enter Shixin Peak. On the contrary, she would fall into the eyes of some people, which would cause a certain difficulty in her actions.

"I, Shaoxia, will never do things that make a fool of myself." Zhang Xiaohua said to herself.

"Aiyo, it's getting late. Let's see the elixir in the furnace. This is the first batch of elixir refined with the 'Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace'. It must be successful. At least it'll be the best."

Zhang Xiaohua went into the Elixir Room. Inside the Elixir Room, there was a faint medicinal fragrance. The Earth Fire under the Elixir Furnace was burning fiercely. The True Samadhi Fire in the Elixir Furnace was getting brighter and brighter. It surrounded the elixir liquid and burned it. The elixir liquid that was rotating very fast earlier gradually stopped and only rotated faintly.

Zhang Xiaohua went to the Elixir Room and penetrated her Divine Sense into the Elixir Furnace. Seeing the elixir liquid, she was relieved.

The "Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace" was indeed a good thing. Just by looking at the rotation of the elixir liquid and the formation outside the elixir liquid, Zhang Xiaohua knew that the "Bone Solidifying Elixir" only took ten days to be refined. It was three days less than refining the "Pulse Nourishing Elixir".

In the process of refining the elixir, the changes of the elixir liquid were even more different than before.

The elixir of the "Bone Solidifying Elixir" was mixed together at the beginning like the "Pulse Nourishing Elixir". The elixir of the five elements was mixed together and the elixir of the five elements was gradually formed into a mature elixir. However, from the second day onwards, the elixir of the five elements gradually became distinct and formed the shape of two small fish. Their heads and tails were connected and mixed together. The rotation of the elixir liquid was like two fish chasing each other. What made Zhang Xiaohua the most dumbfounded was that at the point where the two fish touched, there was actually a faint starlight!

The starlight faintly showed signs of flowing, surrounding the two fish and constantly rotating. However, the starlight was so subtle that Zhang Xiaohua's divine sense could not see it clearly. However, for the two different elixirs, Zhang Xiaohua had a little idea in her heart. Within the Heavenly Way, Zhang Xiaohua knew that other than the Dao of the five elements, there was also the Dao of Life and Death, which was the Dao of Yin and Yang in Qi Huang. When these two different elixirs were first formed, Zhang Xiaohua's divine sense had also observed some clues. On one side of the elixir was the "Fragrant Soul Wood" refined in the Kan Furnace, as well as the elixir from the Qian Furnace, Gen Furnace, and Vibration Furnace. On the other side, the elixir was the "Iron Bone Grass" refined in the Exchange Furnace, as well as the elixir from the Kun Furnace, Xun Furnace, and Li Furnace. In other words, the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace's Eight Trigrams could also be divided into two, Yin and Yang.

As the process of forming the elixir progressed, a small dot gradually appeared in the two fish-shaped elixirs, just like a fish's eye. The elixir in this small dot was the essence of the other elixir. These small dots of elixir were also wrapped in starlight.

This made Zhang Xiaohua ponder deeply. Yin and Yang were opposites, mutually reinforcing and restraining each other. A solitary Yang would not give birth, and a solitary Yin would not grow. Only with Yang in Yin and Yin in Yang could it be the Dao of all things.

And this elixir also went from medicinal herbs to elixir, from elixir to elixir, from elixir to elixir, from elixir to elixir, from elixir to elixir. It was precisely within the harmony of Yin and Yang, from nothing to something!

This realization was akin to a bolt of lightning in Zhang Xiaohua's Dao heart, illuminating the Heavenly Dao in Zhang Xiaohua's Dao heart. At that time, Zhang Xiaohua immediately sat down on the ground, no longer caring about the precious "Bone Condensation Pill" in the cauldron in front of her, and directly comprehended this rare enlightenment. Before entering secluded meditation, Zhang Xiaohua habitually held the vitality stone in her hand.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaohua's cultivation was still shallow. Although she was comprehending the Heavenly Dao, it only took her three days to awaken from her secluded meditation. At this time, Zhang Xiaohua's cultivation had taken a huge step forward, from the peak of the sixth layer of Qi Refining to the seventh layer of Qi Refining. However, a lot of the vitality in the vitality stone had been absorbed.

Of the eighteen layers of the "Carefree Heart Sutra", the first six layers were for the initial stage of Qi Refining. As long as one could step into the threshold of Qi Refining and absorb enough vitality of Heaven and Earth, their cultivation would improve. From the seventh layer onwards, the role of one's temperament was highlighted. Progress at this time could not be made up by pure vitality of Heaven and Earth. Only when one's comprehension of the heart sutra made a breakthrough could one enter the next layer of cultivation.

Zhang Xiaohua had already reached the peak of the sixth layer of Qi Refining when she was concocting pills in Rejuvenation Valley. However, the transition from the sixth layer to the seventh layer of Qi Refining was the transition from the initial stage of Qi Refining to the middle stage of Qi Refining. It was also the transition from quantitative cultivation to comprehension of the heart sutra. It was the most difficult transition. When the Dao of Immortality was flourishing, who knew how many heavenly prodigies had broken through the threshold of Qi Refining, but they were stumped by this transition in comprehension, and their cultivation stagnated at the initial stage of Qi Refining for the rest of their lives.

This could be considered the second great challenge of the Dao of Immortality.

Now that Zhang Xiaohua had obtained the "Eight Trigrams Violet Gold Furnace", she had witnessed a new method of concocting pills. She had introduced the theory of the eight trigrams into the five elements, and when she was gestating the pill, she had combined the yin and yang of the Dao of Heaven, gaining a deep understanding of how yin and yang nurtured all living things. This understanding directly pushed her understanding of the Dao of Heaven to a new level. Furthermore, she held a vitality stone in her hand, so her meridians very naturally drew a vast amount of vitality from the primal stones into her body. According to the "Carefree Heart Sutra", her cultivation directly rose from the initial stage of Qi Refining to the middle stage of Qi Refining.

This improvement seemed accidental, but it was actually inevitable. Zhang Xiaohua comprehended the Dao of Heaven every day, absorbing the vitality from the vitality stones every night, and cultivating the "Carefree Heart Sutra". She was accumulating every day, and with the accumulation of time, it was only a matter of time before she went from quantitative to qualitative. The gestating process of the "Eight Trigrams Violet Gold Furnace" was merely a catalyst.

Of course, after emerging from closed-door cultivation, Zhang Xiaohua didn't have the time to check her cultivation. Instead, she hurriedly sent her spiritual sense into the furnace to check the medicinal liquid. Fortunately, apart from the "tiny bit of medicinal liquid" that had expanded countless times, almost half the size of the fish outside, there weren't many other changes. Only then did she check her cultivation and discover that she had actually advanced to the middle stage of Qi Refining. This made Zhang Xiaohua overjoyed. She immediately circulated her true qi through her brand-new meridians a few more times. Only after she was completely familiar with it did she stop.

In the next few days, it was the crucial moment for gestating the pill. Other than practicing the levitation technique and comprehending the Dao of Heaven, Zhang Xiaohua didn't dare to distract herself with other matters. She even temporarily stopped practicing talismans and formations, afraid that she would enter closed-door cultivation again and miss the best opportunity to form the pill.

As a matter of fact, after practicing her sword technique and testing the Dragon Binding Hoop for a bit, Zhang Xiaohua hurriedly returned to the furnace.

At this moment, of the two fish shaped medicinal liquids, the other type of medicinal liquid was almost as much as the previous type of medicinal liquid, each taking up half. Simply speaking, the composition of the two clumps of medicinal liquid was basically the same.

There was only a slight difference.

And this trace of medicinal liquid was all gathered at the edge of the two clumps of medicinal liquid, wrapped together by faint starlight.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaohua's expression turned solemn. He took a deep breath and circulated his True Qi to his fingers. Both of his hands formed a series of hand seals and sent the final spell of the Pill Nurturing Technique into the medicinal liquid. As the spell was sent in, the faint red True Samadhi Fire drilled into the medicinal liquid and burned toward the edges of the medicinal liquid.

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