This was the first time that Leng Mushi ran out to find Xiao Mian when he was sweeping the stone steps.
At this time, all the disciples had gone to the night class, and there were very few people walking on the stone steps of Taichu Mountain. Xiao Mian was quickly cleaning the steps with the spiritual power in his feet, and he was in a hurry to finish cleaning so that he could go find Leng Mushi.
"Xiao Mian!" Leng Mushi called him from a distance. Xiao Mian paused, turned his head and looked up, and saw Leng Mushi running very fast as if he was being chased by a dog, but his steps on the stone steps were very steady, and his speed was so fast that he almost left an afterimage.
Subconsciously, he threw away the broom and opened his arms, but Leng Mushi stood firmly in front of his arms, less than an arm's length away. Xiao Mian lowered his arms slightly disappointed, and Leng Mushi grabbed his drooping arms and asked with a slight breath:
"Have you had dinner tonight?"
Xiao Mian stood at the foot of the stone steps and looked up at Leng Mushi. The smile on his face gradually widened and he shook his head. "Not yet. I was thinking of bringing it over to eat with you after we're done."
Finally, the two of them cleaned up quickly and went to the Five Grains Hall for dinner.
They went together to the cliff where they used to meet to test drugs.
I haven't been here for a while, and the weeds here have started to grow wildly again because no one has pulled them out.
Leng Mushi had something on her mind, so she sat down and started eating the medicine she had just made today like eating beans.
This medicine was made with inspiration from Xiao Mian's paralyzing mushroom chopsticks. A very small amount of those mushrooms were used, supplemented with herbs that can soothe the mind. After taking it, it is very helpful in calming overly excited emotions.
It is a must-have medicine for traveling and training. It can control the emotions driven by the special abilities of monsters and beasts, or suppress the inner demons. After taking it, people will feel as if they have reached the ultimate state, and all the four elements are empty and they have lost their passion for life.
He can remain calm even when being disemboweled, and stay in bed even when in purgatory.
Leng Mushi named this elixir—Elysium Pill.
Of course, eating too much will make you stupid and numb, but Leng Mushi needs to stay calm now to accept the fact that her master and senior brother are not one person pretending to be two people, but two people pretending to be one person.
Xiao Mian felt that something was wrong with Leng Mushi since they were eating. Her appetite was not very good today and she ate two bowls less than usual.
After sitting down, Xiao Mian watched her eat the pill. Without asking what it was, he took it and put it into his mouth. Then he sat next to Leng Mushi and asked, "What kind of pill is this today?"
Leng Mushi finished a handful and her mood had calmed down. She turned her head to look at Xiao Mian, "I added the mushrooms you used to make wontons for me two days ago to this Ji Le Dan. Try it. I have preserved the original flavor of the mushrooms to the greatest extent possible."
Xiao Mian chewed it carefully, then nodded, "It does taste like mushrooms, but... it doesn't seem necessary."
"Don't you like mushrooms?" Leng Mushi looked at him puzzledly.
Xiao Mian didn't like it, as he made the wonton for Leng Mushi. But when he thought that Leng Mushi preserved the flavor of the mushrooms because he liked it, Xiao Mian immediately started to like it.
He stuffed all the pills into his mouth, chewed with his cheeks puffed out, nodded with a smile and said vaguely: "Good..."
Leng Mushi smiled and took out another handful from the storage bag. "Don't worry if it tastes good. I still have a lot. I refined a large furnace of them. They are all top-grade pills."
Xiao Mian's narrow eyes narrowed into a slit of joy. He took the pill from Leng Mushi's hand and sat opposite her to eat it.
The joy in his heart was accompanied by inexplicable needle-like pains in his heart, which made him feel painful and happy, and his mouth was numb.
But soon, after the effect of the medicine took effect, the emotions of both people seemed to be stripped away and suppressed.
They spoke face to face, but there was no expression on their faces, only their mouths moved, like a pair of emotionless puppets who had to get together to chat.
"What do you think of the efficacy of this medicine?" Leng Mushi asked Xiao Mian with a face longer than a donkey.
Xiao Mian ate the most. He hesitated for a moment and said slowly and evenly, "I think it's amazing, but I can't express it..."
Xiao Mian looked at Leng Mushi and said, "You are such a genius. I think it doesn't matter if I die here now. Do you understand?"
Leng Mushi: "I think I understand a little bit, it's just that I always want to jump off the cliff. I think I'm invincible and I won't die from falling. Is there something wrong with me?"
"Let's go back," Xiao Mian said with the last bit of his remaining rationality, "I'm afraid we'll commit suicide later."
Even at this time, Leng Mushi still stubbornly took out a small notebook to record the amount of medicine they both took and the time from when they felt happy and peaceful to when they felt hopeless.
Finally, it was done. The two of them held hands and walked towards Cangshengyuan like a pair of wandering souls floating in Taichu Mountain.
"You should go to Cangsheng Court as well. With my senior brother watching over us, at least nothing will happen to us tonight." Leng Mushi's sense of direction was a little slow, so he immediately took out a notebook to record his loss of sense of direction.
Hearing this, Xiao Mian said, "Of course I can, but I'm afraid that your senior brother will not only not stop me from doing something stupid, but will even clap and laugh when he sees me doing it."
Leng Mushi turned around, her face expressionless as a mask, "Why?"
Xiao Mian and she had the same mask, "He hates me."
Leng Mushi paused for a long time before continuing to pull Xiao Mian up the stone steps. "In this situation, let's not discuss too complicated issues. My brain can't react."
Xiao Mian said "Oh" and followed Leng Mushi closely. Seeing the two people holding hands, he wondered, "I think I should be happy, but why can't I be happy?"
Xiao Mian said: "It's not accurate to call this pill the Extreme Bliss Pill..."
Leng Mushi stopped talking. The two of them walked for a long time and arrived at the barrier gate of Cangshengyuan. At this time, if an acquaintance saw their slow and sluggish movements, he would definitely be scared. They were just like two puppets.
Leng Mushi took out the jade pendant, opened the barrier, and pulled Xiao Mian in.
She walked slowly to the door of the house. All the monsters and beasts in the yard stretched their necks out curiously to look. They were very sensitive to changes in people, but their minds were very limited, so they could not understand what was going on and did not dare to rush forward to test and attack.
Walking steadily to the door of the cottage, Leng Mushi raised her hand to push the door, but Xuan Zhu had already opened it.
Seeing the two of them standing at the door with sad expressions on their faces, Xuan Zhu was stunned at first.
The next moment, he frowned again when he saw the two people holding hands together, but he raised his hand and pinched Leng Mushi's wrist, and probed into her spiritual power for a moment, then he couldn't help but curl his lips.
"What illness do you two have? Why are you running around in the middle of the night taking so many bliss pills?" Xuan Zhu sneered, "It's a miracle that you can come back alive..."
He looked at Xiao Mian, who said in an eerily flat tone, "Let go."
Xuan Zhu raised his eyebrows slightly, let go of Leng Mushi's wrist, then walked to his side curiously and raised his hand to knock on Xiao Mian's head.
"Oh, you've been drugged and become stupid, but you're still so protective of your food," Xuanzhu said as if testing whether a melon was ripe, again and again. Xiao Mian raised his hand to grab Xuanzhu, but how could he possibly catch him in his current condition.
Leng Mushi blinked and looked at them, wanting to say something but not knowing what to say.
Finally, Xuanzhu had enough fun and let the two people into the house. However, when he went into the cellar to get the antidote, he found that the two people were gone from the house.
He looked around in confusion and finally saw two people lying on the ground at the back of the yard where mushrooms were growing.
They lay side by side on the ground very peacefully, with a thin layer of dirt on their bodies. It seemed that they had made a mistake and mistook themselves for two mushrooms.
Xuan Zhu rolled his eyes and found Leng Mushi's rules in the house. Seeing that she had always used this thing as a photo stone, Xuan Zhu thought it was really a photo stone.
law:…
Xuan Zhu poked it around, "How do I activate it? Do I need to inject spiritual energy into it?"
Law silently started taking photos and recorded the two "human-shaped mushrooms" buried in the pile of mushrooms.
Early the next morning, Leng Mushi woke up in a warm and soft bed, and Xiao Mian woke up in a damp and cold pile of mushrooms.
In the second half of the night, Xuan Zhu was afraid that something might really happen to the two of them, so he fed them both the antidote. When Xiao Mian got up, his body was stiff. After all, no one would get well after lying on the wet ground all night.
He circulated his spiritual power on the spot for a while before he felt better and got up.
As expected, Leng Mushi was still sleeping in bed.
It was getting light outside, and he and Xuanzhu met at the door.
Xuan Zhu looked at him sideways and raised his eyebrows, full of provocation. Xiao Mian was too lazy to pay attention to him. When not in front of Leng Mushi, he was too lazy to even maintain the superficial peace. He walked out of the door and headed towards the outside of Cangshengyuan.
After Leng Mushi woke up, she casually asked when Xiao Mian left. After Xuan Zhu told her, she went straight into the cellar to make the elixir.
This bliss pill has too many adverse effects, and she needs to make some improvements.
Xuanzhu has been helping her, reading books, and at the same time preparing to refine the rejuvenation pill that can only be refined by high-level wood spiritual roots.
The effect of the rejuvenation pill is very strong. It consumes a large amount of wood spiritual power and is extremely difficult to make. This kind of pill is in short supply in the world of cultivation, because only one pill can instantly restore half of your vitality even if you are seriously injured and dying.
While Leng Mushi was refining the elixir, she was also helping Xuan Zhu, after all, she also had wood spiritual roots.
Moreover, she also evolved a recipe for a low-level rejuvenation pill based on Xuan Zhu's recipe. Its effect is naturally not as good as the rejuvenation pill, but it is a common medicine. Low-level cultivators can carry it with them and eat while fighting. They don't need to consume spiritual energy to heal minor injuries, so it is more practical.
Xuan Zhu looked at her pill recipe and couldn't help but laugh and shook his head.
"If you had become my disciple before me, I'm afraid my master would never have accepted me as his disciple..."
Xuan Zhu sighed: "You are able to use these five spiritual roots so freely. With time, when you have achieved great success in cultivation, no one in the world will be your rival."
Leng Mushi had no expectations for this prospect. She just wanted to get the things in front of her done. Hearing this, she said calmly, "Then I'll borrow your good words, Senior Brother."
Xuan Zhu smiled, "Are you now able to accept the state between me and my master?"
Leng Mushi actually wasn't quite able to do it, and didn't quite understand it. She asked Xuan Zhu how he did it, but Xuan Zhu didn't tell her clearly.
He only said: "It's better for you not to know. This is not a good thing. You have five spiritual roots. You only need to practice free use and suppression. There is no need for such extreme methods."
Leng Mushi guessed that the reason they did this was because Hua Yanyue was unable to refine the Rejuvenation Pill which required extremely rich wood spiritual power. However, pure wood spiritual power could not make a pill either. Wood spiritual power was more suitable for practicing swordsmanship.
But if the wood spiritual power is supplemented by the fire spiritual power, it can create a elixir that can revive the dead and save the life of a cultivator in times of crisis.
Her school may be the most unorthodox school in the world, but it is also the school that is most willing to do anything for the vitality of others.
Although Leng Mushi still didn't know exactly how Senior Brother Xuanzhu and Hua Yanyue had achieved the goal of having two souls in one body, she was already certain of the reasons why they did so.
And because Leng Mushi was born with five spiritual roots, the laws would help her suppress other unnecessary spiritual roots when she needed it, so refining pills was so efficient.
However, she has recently begun to think about a problem. She cannot always rely on the laws. She must try to learn to suppress and use other spiritual roots on her own.
What if the law disappears one day
Another thing is that she wants to forge a natal alchemy furnace for herself.
Cultivators all have the concept of a natal sword, but in fact, alchemists also have the concept of a natal alchemy furnace.
However, there are very few alchemists in the world of cultivation nowadays, and most of them are low-level alchemists, and very few have their own natal alchemy furnace.
A great alchemist, when practicing to the end, does not achieve elixir like other cultivators, but uses his inner elixir to turn into a furnace in his inner mansion, and uses his inner breath and meridians to nourish the furnace. According to the records in ancient books, in the end, the heaven and earth are the medicine and his body is the furnace, and nothing in this world cannot be refined.
Leng Mushi knew that Hua Yanyue was only in the initial stage of transforming her inner elixir. She only saw the furnace shape and could not refine anything. However, she had already reached the middle level of the Rizhong cultivation level, so the furnace-shaped inner elixir was kept in her inner palace.
Of course, this kind of bullshit letter has long been regarded by the world as an exaggerated myth. People who can truly cultivate to this level have never been heard of throughout history, and no one would believe such a statement.
But Leng Mu's poems and letters.
Ever since she learned about the mutual generation and restraint of medicinal properties and entered the door of alchemy, she could sense the faint connection between medicines, and felt that the spiritual power of cultivators in this world and the demonic power of demons all contained energy and were not dead objects. She began to believe the absurd records in those ancient books.
Monsters use demonic energy as the basis for their cultivation; demons use demonic energy as the basis for their cultivation; cultivators use spiritual energy as the basis for their cultivation; and the spiritual plants and immortal herbs in this world use vitality as the basis for their growth. All of these are tangible, and can even be extracted and utilized.
And no matter which one it is, spiritual power, demonic energy, and demonic energy are ultimately nurtured by vitality, just as the five elements in this world are mutually generated and restrained. The purer the spiritual root of a cultivator, the stronger the vitality.
Everything in this world is shaped by vitality.
Alchemy is to extract the vitality from those spiritual plants and the vitality from the blood of those monsters and beasts.
What alchemists do is to seal up vitality in the form of elixirs and then use them on people who need vitality.
That's why Leng Mushi dreamed of using the flesh and blood of the demon spider as medicine, and actually refined a pill that could control the demon spider.
But in fact, it was not control, but the demon spider sensed the demonic energy and vitality sealed in the elixir, which belonged to it. Its intelligence was not enough for it to distinguish that the elixir had left its body, and it still regarded it as a part of its body.
The part that Leng Mushi used as medicine happened to be the legs of the magic spider, which is why they were driven.
However, there are very harsh conditions for controlling the pill. It must be made by a creature that can be deceived, and it must be made by a person with vigorous vitality that can overcome the creature's control.
Therefore, Leng Mushi can only test the magic spider at this stage and has no intention of attacking other demons and beasts because she is still too weak.
But there is no harm in thinking about it. When Leng Mushi lets his mind run wild, he is often shocked by himself.
If the alchemy practitioner is really strong enough, using the heaven and earth as medicine and humans as furnace, then even among all things in this world, is there anything that cannot be extracted, refined, and controlled
Therefore, the Dao of Alchemy is the ultimate Dao among all the Daoist methods in this world.
The reason why alchemy is difficult to practice is that even if one has understood and seen through everything, and one's mind is able to coexist with the heaven and earth and shine with the sun and the moon, in reality one still has to guard the broken alchemy furnace day and night to prevent being blown to death by the riot of spiritual power when the furnace is opened.
Even if you look up and see the vastness of the sky, there is still a deep abyss under your feet. If you are not careful, you will fall into it and leave no trace.
Dan Xiu is a traveler who carries a heavy load and walks in the mud and rugged terrain, and on the cliffs. Even though he sees the end is within reach, he still has to take one step at a time.
Throughout the ages, there are many alchemists who have gained glimpses of the great Dao, including Hua Yanyue, Xuan Zhu and Leng Mushi.
However, there are very few people who can stick to their original intentions, resist the temptation of refining pills at a higher level, and focus on improving themselves.
There is no such thing as a dead horse when you try to climb a mountain. Once they have caught a glimpse of the unparalleled ability of alchemy to control vitality, there will be endless numbers of people who cannot help but go astray. The Wanzong Wu Gu and even the Qi Bi Puppet Clan, if you trace their roots back to the alchemy practitioners, they all started out as alchemists.
The natal alchemy furnace that Leng Mushi wanted to refine now was naturally not the inner palace alchemy furnace. After all, that level of cultivation was too far away from her. She was only at the middle level of the Star Realm now.
If one wants to become a great power, one must go through the four levels of cultivation: Star Level, Moon Level, Sun Level, and Heaven Level. Each level includes the lower level, middle level, upper level, and peak level.
Each level above the Moon Level of the cultivator is extremely difficult, and the accumulated spiritual power required is vaster than the vast ocean.
Each level of advancement also involves virtue, luck, and opportunity, but the most important thing is to stick to your original heart.
There are five elements in the sky and seven emotions in human beings. It is so difficult to achieve these.
Leng Mushi didn't want any method of rapid promotion at all. She just wanted to get an external natal alchemy furnace that she could carry with her, so that she could refine the endless elixirs she had deduced within the range that she could control.
But this is also difficult. Her golden spiritual root is as weak as a newborn baby, and the materials for refining the natal alchemy furnace are not easy to find.
So in the final analysis, she was just daydreaming. Leng Mushi sighed and did not tell Xuanzhu about this arrogant idea. Instead, she went to find the law that had not spoken for many days during the interval between opening the furnace, and said, "Teach me how to suppress and use other spiritual veins in my body."
Leng Mushi said with a wooden face: "How do you think I will help you find that bastard Fenlian, break up her and her new husband, and bring you two together?!"
Rule: ... Have you gone crazy from refining elixirs
Leng Mushi: "You two were so good together before, bickering and quarreling all the time, I always thought you two were a couple! She flirted with you all day long, then turned around and found a new young man, and didn't come home all day, aren't you angry?!"
Sensing that Xuanzhu had come down the cliff at the back mountain and was not there, Fazhi could not help but be so angry at Leng Mushi that he spoke in human language: "What on earth do you think of me and that dead man's skin? Why would I, a stone, be so desperate to stick to a dead man's skin?"
The law was so angry that his voice became sharp: "I! I'm almost dying of joy these days! If you dare to bring her back, I won't suppress your spiritual roots for you!"
Leng Mushi quickly changed the subject, faster than turning the corner: "That can't be possible. You and I are good brothers. If you don't like her, how can I go find her!"
"Then will you teach me how to suppress other spiritual roots?" Leng Mushi held the law and gently pressed it against her face, almost pouting and sucking it. Her gentle gesture was as if she was holding not a stone, but a fragile and tiny newborn baby.
The law is that a stone cannot have a small lump, but the stone body trembled obviously, and after a moment, it said earnestly: "Your current cultivation cannot be suppressed, you must advance first, to the initial stage of the moon."
Leng Mushi: “…”
"Then how can I advance?" Leng Mushi said, "I can't steal my master's rare elixirs. After all, you saw her making the elixirs. She has two souls in one body. It's not easy. She's neither male nor female all day long."
The rule said, "You will level up by following the plot. It has been more than four months since you entered the sect. Before that, you spent a month as a candidate disciple in Feihe Academy. In total, you have been in Taichu Mountain for more than five months. In another seven months, a full year after you entered the sect, a senior disciple will take you out for training. By then... Do you still remember the plot of jumping off the cliff in the secret realm? You will level up after you jump."
Leng Mushi: "Honestly," she walked to the table and slammed the rules on it, "Is there no book at all? You lied to me about everything, right? Who are you? Who sealed you in this stone? Why do you want to stay by my side? What is your purpose in driving me to get close to Xiao Mian?"
"Tell the truth, now. I've almost guessed it. What do you want to achieve... Get out of the stone? If you had told me earlier, I might have been able to find a way to let you out. It must be uncomfortable to be trapped in there." Leng Mushi had an expression that showed that everything was under control.
law:…
"In the book you showed me, Xiao Mian and Leng Tianyin are a couple," Leng Mushi said, "but the truth is that Xiao Mian doesn't pay any attention to her, and she has been following Yi Tu all day recently. I think even if she wants to do something, she is doing it with Yi Tu, and Xiao Mian has nothing to do with it. This is all fake, right!"
Law: "… The heroine is going to get together with Yi Tu, why don't you intervene?"
"Why should I care?" Leng Mushi slammed the table and stood up, "I almost got together with the male lead, why didn't you care?!"
The law is silent.
Leng Mushi was about to knock it to pieces when it said, "You know nothing!"
Then there was no sound at all. No matter what method Leng Mushi used, it was like a real dead stone.
Leng Mushi didn't dare to go too far. After all, she now had to rely on the laws to suppress her other spiritual roots in order to refine the elixir, so she suppressed her anger.
Go back and continue to make the elixir.
She had originally planned to never provoke Xiao Mian and not follow the plot, but the situation is different now. Now she and Xiao Mian are good brothers.
Leng Mushi thought that this plot could go another way. As long as she didn't flirt with Xiao Mian forcefully, she had countless ways to leave the law speechless.
But that would be seven months later. Right now, her most urgent task was to focus on making medicine.
I used to hear people say that one day in the fairy mountains is equal to ten years on earth.
The description is naturally that for the monks, the years pass by in the blink of an eye at an astonishing speed.
However, Leng Mushi really did not expect that seven months would pass so quickly. There was no change of seasons in Taichu Mountain. The leaves of the spiritual herbs and plants had not yet fallen, and the new lushness had already covered the entire fairy mountain again.
Leng Mushi was busy refining and testing medicines all day long. She had to squeeze in time for eating and going to the toilet. She felt that there was not enough time every day. Apart from her senior brother and master who were sometimes men and sometimes women in Cangsheng Academy, the only person she had contact with was Xiao Mian.
Whenever they refined a new medicine, they would look for him, and when they had something they couldn't figure out, they would also look for him. All the food came from him. In the beginning, he helped to use the food boxes to go to the Five Grains Hall to bring back the food, and now he simply brought the ingredients to the Cangsheng Courtyard to cook for Leng Mushi.
During these seven months, Xiao Mian accepted a request for help from the common people and went to the mortal world to exorcise evil spirits. He was only away for ten days, but Leng Mushi missed him very much.
Xiao Mian did not disappoint her when he came back. He brought a lot of mortal snacks and even secretly brought the subdued evil spirit to Leng Mushi for research and use as medicine.
At this moment, there were only eight days left before Leng Mushi could follow the new disciples down the mountain for training. She was preparing the things she would bring, while Xiao Mian was squatting in the backyard, stewing a chicken for her using a small stove.
The fragrance drifted in through the window. Leng Mushi was a little absent-minded and kept looking outside.
Xiao Mian has grown a little taller. In the past six months, he has grown as fast as a bamboo. Now he is so tall and long-legged that he can half squat on the ground. Although Leng Mushi has also grown a lot, she is still far behind him. She often complains sourly that she can't reach Xiao Mian's head.
He was dressed in a plain white disciple's uniform, which set off his slender waist and straight back. His long legs were slightly bent as he was half-kneeling and leaning slightly. His long hair tied on top of his head was scattered, and was stained by the hot steam from the stewed chicken, which brought his celestial aura down to earth.
As if he noticed Leng Mushi's gaze, Xiao Mian turned around with a slight smile and looked at him. Leng Mushi suddenly felt that it was incredible - even this worldly atmosphere could not cover up the immortal's graceful figure.
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