Qiu Shi is the top disciple among the younger generation of this immortal cultivation family. This time, the family also spent a lot of money to enter the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower.
Although Qiu Shi is nearly ninety years old, he is still considered to be a young generation for foundation-building cultivators, not to mention that Qiu Shi has also reached the false elixir realm.
It's just that the martial arts practiced by their family is very evil and vicious, requiring one to harm one's body in exchange for great power. Therefore, they cannot maintain their youth like Li Wuyi and the others, and they look like they have reached middle age.
Qiu Shi had stayed in the Beiming Demon-Suppressing Tower for nearly two years. He had just returned to his family some time ago and then chose to practice in seclusion.
After coming out of seclusion yesterday, he immediately requested to meet the current head of the family in order to get his help.
The current head of the family was already a mid-stage Jindan expert, but after a night had passed, he sent a message to the purple-robed old man who was the ancestor of the family early this morning, saying that Qiu Shi had brought something out of the tower, and he had tried many methods but could not decipher the clues given in it.
When the purple-robed old man heard this, he didn't take it seriously at first. He knew about the North Ming Demon Suppression Tower. Those foundation-building cultivators were only active on the first and second floors. What treasures could they have? The good stuff had been divided up over the long years.
However, the purple-robed old man also knew that Qiu Shi was a leader of the younger generation and the hope for the family's future. He had to obtain his permission and used a large amount of family spirit stones before agreeing to Qiu Shi's entry into the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower.
But then he thought that since it was something that even the current head of the family couldn't crack, he became interested in it. Since he had nothing to do these days, he asked the current head of the family and Qiu Shi to come over together.
At this time, the current head of the family was also very upset, hating himself for not paying attention to the silver paper that Qiu Shi brought back at the beginning. Therefore, many people saw Qiu Shi coming to see him, and now he could not do anything to Qiu Shi.
If I return the silver paper to Qiu Shi, the spiritual restriction on the surface of the silver paper has been lifted by me, and Qiu Shi will most likely get the news inside. If I put the restriction on it again, Qiu Shi will have studied the silver paper long ago and will be able to see the difference at once. Wouldn't that be a clear evidence that there is something fishy going on
Moreover, Qiu Shi was also a person valued by the ancestor, so when he returned to the family from the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower, the ancestor also knew it.
The fact that Qiu Shi came to find him could not be hidden from the ancestor, whose spiritual awareness always covered the entire family. After thinking it over again and again, he decided that since he could not get the secret of the silver paper, he might as well give it to the ancestor.
Qiu Shi finally learned the content of the message on the silver paper from the patriarch. He regretted taking it out at that time. Although he was the grandson of the current patriarch, in front of such a treasure, even his own father would forget all family affection. But it was too late to regret now.
The old man in purple was indeed knowledgeable. After some testing, he guessed that the essence and blood of the "Immortal Phoenix" mentioned in the silver paper should be the silver paper itself.
Afterwards, the family ancestor asked the current head of the family to leave, and asked Qiu Shi to go to his secret room. He did not really want to give Qiu Shi a drop of "Immortal Dark Phoenix" blood after condensing it, but wanted to inquire about the whole process in detail.
Because he already knew that there were as many as ten drops of the "Immortal Phoenix"'s" blood essence, he first wanted to find out the whereabouts of the other nine pieces of silver paper and who got them; secondly, he wanted to guess more clues from Qiu Shi's words. It can be said that everything he did was for his own consideration, and he didn't think of leaving blessings for future generations at all.
"Tell me in detail how you got this thing. Don't hide anything about the people you met or what happened. The more detailed the better."
The old man in purple reached out and took the silver paper in his hand, playing with it carefully, with his eyes still on the silver paper most of the time, while he said in a deep voice, he had no intention of returning it at all.
He seemed to have long forgotten what he said in front of all the family disciples when he let Qiu Shi enter the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower: "The prosperity and continuation of the family needs to be fought for. The candidates for entering the tower this time have been decided... The opportunity is up to each person, and the treasures obtained can be disposed of by themselves, but you must swear a blood oath to never betray the family in this life..." and so on.
After a full hour, Qiu Shi walked out of the secret room with a lost heart. However, his face was extremely calm and he did not dare to show any resentment at all. The secret door behind him closed tightly with a loud bang.
In the secret room, the purple-robed old man closed the door tightly and immediately activated the formation restriction. Then, he cast another set of spells at the silver paper in the air...
Just a few days later, the old man in purple had disheveled hair and red eyes, and the silver paper in the air remained the same, without any change.
"I have reached the stage of false infant, and am only half a step away from forming an infant. My elixir fire is enough to refine all the known things in the world. Even the earth fire used by some large sects to refine elixirs and tools is incomparable to mine. Why is it that it has no effect on this thing at all? Does it require the infant fire of the Nascent Soul stage or the strange fire between heaven and earth to do this?"
The purple-robed old man muttered to himself in a daze, not knowing how to deal with the situation for a moment...
What the old man in purple didn't know was that before he refined this piece of silver paper, at different times and in different regions, some Nascent Soul cultivators were also refining a piece of silver paper, some were using the alchemy fire to refine silver paper, and there were also very few people who possessed some kind of strange fire between heaven and earth, and were also refining a piece of silver paper.
Could it be that these silver papers had appeared in the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower before? However, none of the foundation-building monks who received them could glimpse the secrets. They could not even open the spiritual restrictions on the surface of the silver papers. Some people were helpless and sought help from their elders, but once they took out the things, they no longer owned them. Only then did they realize the importance of the silver papers, and even the elders gave up their face and did not mention it.
Of course, there were also a few people who kept the silver paper silently, as if they had never received it. They were all smart or cautious people, and would only open it themselves when they had the opportunity in the future.
But no matter which phenomenon it was, all the methods they used on the silver paper ended in failure. Even the two Nascent Soul cultivators could only put the silver paper into their storage bag in dejection, hoping for the day when they would have the chance again.
Two days later, Li Yan in the cave stared blankly at the silver paper in the air that looked normal, and felt dizzy. In the past two days, he had been consuming his spiritual power and consciousness day and night, constantly refining the silver paper.
But no matter how he increased the power of the fire, in the end there was no result at all.
"Does it require the Dan Fire of the Golden Core Stage or the Earth Fire used in refining elixirs to condense it into blood essence again?"
Li Yan thought so, but he didn't know that his idea had already been put into practice by some people. If Li Yan knew that even a Nascent Soul cultivator took action but ultimately failed and sighed in frustration, he wondered if he would be depressed to death. After all, he had three pieces of silver paper in his hand.
However, as ignorance is bliss, Li Yan became happy instead, because the more difficult it was to refine the silver paper, the more likely his guess was to be close to the truth. These three pieces of silver paper should be formed from three drops of the essence and blood of the "Immortal Dark Phoenix".
"Do I have to go back to the sect and rent an alchemy room at Laojun Peak?" Danhuo Li Yan would not think about it for the time being, because that would require asking a Jindan cultivator for help. As soon as the thought came to his mind, Li Yan extinguished it.
So his first thought was to rent an alchemy room and use the powerful power of the earth fire to refine silver paper.
Although Earth Fire is not one of the rare and unique fires in the world, the power and quality of the flames produced by good fire veins are almost the same as those of Dan Fire. It is bred by the fire essence of heaven and earth.
When the four major sects were first establishing their sects and choosing locations, besides spiritual energy, underground fire was the most important factor. This was the most fundamental condition for a large sect to refine pills and weapons. Poor underground fire could not support the use of a large sect at all, and a section of the fire vein might be refined away in just a few years. What's more important is that the underground fire produced by a good fire vein, the elixir and magic weapon refined with it, with the same raw materials, the final result is also unsatisfactory.
It is said that when the Wuliang Sect and the Shibuyuan were first established, they were unable to find a suitable and excellent fire vein after hundreds of years. In the end, they mobilized several Nascent Souls and displayed their peerless magical powers to move the excellent fire veins they found from other places to the underground of the sect.
Li Yan sighed helplessly. It seemed that he had to rush back to the Wuliang Sect as soon as possible. This matter was more important than refining his own magic weapon.
The reason is that Li Yan believes that as long as he refines these three drops of "Immortal Dark Phoenix" essence and blood, his cultivation will definitely have a big leap in a short period of time. He certainly cannot form a golden elixir, but his physical body should have unexpected improvements.
As for refining the magical weapon of my life, Gui Yi Water-Finning Thorn, I still have two main materials missing, and this cannot be completed in the short term.
Li Yan then planned to collect the three pieces of silver paper, sort out other things, and then leave this place, but suddenly his hand stopped in mid-air, and then he slapped his forehead fiercely, "The busier I get, the more confused I am. Isn't there still the Lihuo Xuanhuang fan?"
At this time, Li Yan thought of the Li Fire in the Xuan Huang Fan. Even the Bright Fire Qilin, a fire spirit, was afraid of the Li Fire.
But the next moment he laughed bitterly in his heart, "Alas, even if it is possible, that little bit of Lihuo is too little, it is not enough at all."
But this is only one method, so Li Yan certainly wanted to give it a try. As his spiritual consciousness moved, the Lihuo Xuanhuang Fan appeared in his hand.
Li Yan did not hesitate. He just quickly wiped the fan bone with his two fingers, and a beam of fire shot out and hit a piece of silver paper the next moment.
But to Li Yan's disappointment, after a while, when the fire had gradually dissipated, the silver paper remained the same as before.
"Is it because there are too few Lihuo, or is it because the power is not enough?" Just now, Li Yan just did it for testing, so he only used a very small amount of Lihuo. In his opinion, this is like a doctor treating a patient. As long as the method is right, even if the medicine is small, at least some difference can be seen.
So Li Yan no longer wasted the Li Fire. He wiped the fan bones with his two fingers again. This time, all the Li Fire in the fan burst out. A ball of red flame gushed out and wrapped a piece of silver paper in it in an instant.
Li Yan's spiritual consciousness penetrated directly into the Li Fire, staring at the silver paper without blinking. The Li Fire burned for half an hour before slowly dissipating.