Behind the side of the courtyard where Li Yan lived, there was a small path that meandered towards an unknown place on the mountain top. The path was not wide and could only accommodate two people side by side. It was paved with small stones.
The dark bamboos are still swaying on both sides of the path, and Xiaozhu Peak is full of a sea of dark bamboos. Standing in it, it feels like the bamboo waves are like the sea.
The black bamboos on both sides of the path are not the thick black bamboos near the front mountain and the courtyard where Li Yan lives. Each one is only as thick as a finger and more than one meter tall. They look like young bamboos and willows. The breeze blows through the branches and sways them lightly, making a rustling sound...
This is the halfway point of the Xiaozhu Peak that reaches the sky. From time to time, a few white clouds will slowly float out from these thin bamboo forests, and the next moment they will float away into the distance...
Li Yan was walking on the path. The floating white clouds occasionally brushed against his waist and head, then disappeared into the bamboo forest on the other side of the path. He seemed to be walking in the clouds.
Li Yan was thinking about the problem as he walked.
He would come here every few days to the back mountain. The place he wanted to go was about twenty miles from the Mozhu courtyard where he lived to the top of the mountain.
There was a platform there, which was a good place for him to practice martial arts some time ago.
Back to more than half a year ago, when Li Yan first started practicing, his progress in both martial arts and magic was relatively normal. However, after he had practiced for about ten days, a series of things happened that he could not understand, and even said were weird.
First, the improvement of his spiritual power slowed down while he was practicing the exercises, and it would often take several days for him to make a little progress. At first he thought this was normal. After all, Lin Daqiao had also told him that the practice of exercises would not be smooth sailing, and it was common to encounter bottlenecks.
But in the following period of time, no matter how hard he tried, the growth of his spiritual power was as slow as a turtle. Sometimes, there was no movement at all for several days in a row. If he stopped practicing, his spiritual power even showed a downward trend. This shocked Li Yan, and he realized that something might be wrong.
Li Yan initially thought that there was something wrong with his technique, and quickly entered his sea of consciousness. However, no matter how he pondered the formula of the Guishui Sutra word by word, he ultimately did not find any problems, and he checked for a long time but to no avail.
At the same time, during this period, something strange happened to his practice of immortal arts. The "Cloud and Rain Technique" that he had been able to summon with some ease began to work inconsistently.
Then some strange phenomena occurred when he released the magic. Several times he finally released the "Cloud and Rain Magic", but before he could be happy, the next moment the rain turned emerald green.
After it landed on the ground, green mist rose up. When the green mist disappeared, many fine potholes appeared on the originally hard ground. These small pits were about an inch deep and of varying depths, obviously looking like they had been corroded.
Seeing this, Li Yan was a little confused. He carefully performed the "Cloud and Rain Technique" again to see what was happening. However, after performing it several times in a row, he could not release the magic.
So, unwilling to give up, Li Yan continued to use his magic, and finally succeeded again. However, this time the "Cloud and Rain Spell" almost made Li Yan's eyes fall to the ground.
What fell from the dark clouds was not rain, but a strange blue mist, which was about to fill the entire courtyard. Li Fang was so scared that he quickly released his magic power to protect his body.
This time, the magic power in his body did not fail at the critical moment, and it really protected his whole body. This made Li Yan feel a little relieved. He quickly took out his badge, opened the gate and escaped.
He didn't know what the blue mist was. He was clearly performing the "Cloud and Rain Spell", so it should have been a shower of rain.
He peeked around outside the yard. Half an hour later, the strange blue mist finally dissipated. When he entered the yard, he was at a loss again.
The stone table and stone benches that were originally in the middle of the yard have disappeared without a trace, and the bamboo branches and leaves extending above the courtyard are curled and wilted. The bamboo houses are still intact, but the color of the black bamboo on the surface has turned a little gray, as if they have lost their spirituality.
However, the courtyard wall and the formation were in good condition, which made Li Yan feel relieved. But after he walked around the courtyard, his face fell. The spirit stones supporting the operation of the formation at the four corners of the courtyard had been consumed a lot.
He had observed before that when the array's protective function was activated, the spirit stone would only become slightly dimmer after four or five days. However, the spirit stone he had just seen yesterday was not just slightly dimmer, but had become at least three or four points dimmer.
Those spirit stones will definitely not be enough to last until the end of the month. At most, the spiritual energy in them will be completely used up in about ten days.
Only then did he realize that it was not that the courtyard wall was fine, but that there was a formation protecting the wall. The blue mist was blocked by the formation, so a lot of spirit stones were consumed.
After Li Yan felt sorry for the spirit stone for a while, he was also afraid. He looked at the dense pits on the ground and the disappeared stone table and stone bench, and thought about what would happen if the corrosive rain or the weird blue mist wrapped him up.
Just thinking about it gave him the creeps!
After a long while, Li Yan, who had calmed down, was still thinking about his strange magic skills. Could it be that the Guishui Sutra he was practicing could not use these magic skills
But this thought only flashed through his mind before he rejected it. Dong Fuyi never said that the Guishui Xianmen's skills needed to be paired with special immortal arts. If that were the case, he would definitely put both the skills and the immortal arts together in his sea of consciousness.
So is there something wrong with the magic itself
Of course not. Those magic arts are the most common magic arts. Both Uncle Gu who guards the pavilion, and the eldest and seventh senior brothers have said so.
Since it's not a problem with the magic technique, then there must be something wrong with my body. The only problem with my body is the "fragmented poisonous body" that I can't touch.
After thinking it through, Li Yan slowly relaxed, and finally couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that he had to go find the fat master, otherwise this matter would definitely not be solved.
Regardless of whether he was reluctant or not, he had no choice but to ride his magic weapon and fly towards a place in the bamboo courtyard.
Half an hour later, Wei Chongran stood in Li Yan's courtyard, looking at everything in front of him, then looked at Li Yan again, without saying a word, he paced to the side of the densely packed pits, squatted down, and reached out to touch the pits on the ground.
Li Yan was so scared that he wanted to stop it, because there were still dry green water stains in those small pits. He had seen how corrosive the rain water was.
But the next moment, Wei Chongran's fingers had already been placed in those small pits, but there was no green mist rising as Li Yan had imagined.
Wei Chongran wiped some dry water stains on his fingers, looked at them in front of his eyes, and then put them under his nose to smell them. He twisted his fingers, and a light green mist rose from his fingertips and disappeared in an instant. Then, before Li Yan could react, his master stood up, waved his hand in the air, and then a few strange blue wisps rose from the white mist of the courtyard wall formation and quickly gathered towards his palm.
Li Yan looked carefully and found that these were the blue mists released by his previous spell. He didn't expect that there were still some left in the courtyard, but he didn't intend to remind people again this time.
Having seen Wei Chongran's methods before, he had guessed that these strange things released by his spells might not pose any threat to others. Moreover, he had already described the whole process and results on the way here.
Sure enough, after Wei Chongran sucked those wisps of blue mist into his palm, the blue mist swirled in his palm, as if trying to break free, but it was unable to escape.
Wei Chongran clenched his palms, closed his eyes, opened his eyes after a moment, and when he opened his palms again, the blue mist had disappeared. Then he thought about it again and looked at Li Yan.
"This should be the consequence of your poisonous body. I have read about this in the classics before. This kind of physique will form a deadly poison in the body. The two kinds of poisonous rain just now...
Oh no, it should be said that it is rain composed of five highly poisonous substances. The first kind of rain is composed of 'phosphorus tobacco' and 'spotted leaf green water'; the second kind is composed of 'blue horse tassel', 'aconitum leaf' and 'purple electric centipede tail'.
It's just that these poisons, which were originally made from herbs and monster materials, can actually be produced by you. I have only seen the horror of the disintegrating poisonous body in the classics before, but today is the first time I have actually seen it. It is really amazing, really amazing!"
Wei Chongran said twice in the end that it was amazing, and what he said was true. Only three people have been able to cultivate this poisonous body in the past hundreds of millions of years, and the last one was tens of millions of years ago. This shows how precious it is. Otherwise, how could Li Yan, with his mixed spiritual roots and physique, have been able to join the giant Wuliang Sect.
Wei Chongran had only seen some descriptions in classics before, and had never seen him with his own eyes. After seeing him today, he began to pay attention to this disciple.
No matter what his future achievements will be, his current poison skills should not be underestimated. Even a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage would be harmed if he is not careful.
Li Yan was shocked in another way. He didn't know whether the fat master in front of him had great magical powers, but he could easily control the rain and blue mist that he regarded as snakes and scorpions.
It disappeared without a trace, and did not cause any harm to others. Moreover, this master could identify so many poisonous ingredients just by touching them. How powerful and confident he was.
Wei Chongran thought for a moment and said to Li Yan.
“It’s normal for these phenomena to occur. They are problems that arise during the cultivation process of the Fragmentation Poison. I know a little about this, but I only know about the three major poisonous bodies.
How about this, I'll take you to get the records and summaries of the predecessors in the sect, which should contain more detailed information."
When Li Yan heard that there was a solution, he was of course very happy. He had already developed an interest in cultivating immortals, and he didn't want his path to immortality to be cut short just as he was entering it.
Next, Wei Chongran had a flash of spiritual light on his body, and without using any flying magic weapon, he wrapped Li Yan up and flew into the sky. Only then did Li Yan realize that a Jindan stage cultivator could take people flying so casually.
They went to the gray-clothed old man at Xiaozhu Peak, and then went to the treasure pavilions at Laojun Peak and Lingchong Peak to take out several jade slips and imprint them into Li Yan's sea of consciousness.
Li Yan also knew that the three ancient Zhongwangliang Sect's predecessors with dismembered poisonous bodies came from these three peaks.
An hour later, they rushed back. When Wei Chongran passed over the servants' office, he thought for a moment and then landed. The servants were working, and when they suddenly saw Wei Chongran coming, they couldn't help but bow down.
After Wei Chongran nodded, he ordered several errand disciples to help Li Yan move another set of stone tables and stone benches.
Wei Chongran's move shocked the group of chores disciples. They wondered why Li Yan's status was so important.
You know, for such trivial matters at ordinary times, let alone Li Wuyi's gang coming to say a word, even if they were informed by word of mouth, they would all be scrambling to do it. Unexpectedly, today it was the peak master who came to inform them.
Miao Wangqing, who was sitting in the main hall, also hurried over after hearing the news. After knowing that her master had come to give instructions on such a small matter, she couldn't help but look at Li Yan with her beautiful eyes flashing. For a moment, no one knew what she was thinking.
Miao Wangqing's gaze made Li Yan feel uneasy. In fact, this was not something Wei Chongran did on purpose. He just remembered that the stone table and stone bench in Li Yan's yard had been destroyed when he was passing by here with Li Yan back. He was afraid that Li Yan was not familiar with some things as he had just arrived, so he just said it on the way.
Seeing that the matter was done, Wei Chongran waved his sleeves and several spirit stones flew in front of Li Yan, which made Li Yan stunned. Wei Chongran smiled indifferently and asked Li Yan to collect them so as to set up a formation to protect the courtyard.
Li Yan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that his master was so thoughtful that he even thought about the loss of spirit stones in the courtyard protection formation. Now he only had a few spirit stones on him, so he couldn't be polite. He bowed and thanked him, then took the money.
This action made Miao Wangqing next to him even more surprised. It was not that the spirit stones given by Wei Chongran were special. They were just a few low-level spirit stones.
Not to mention a few spirit stones, even hundreds or thousands of low-level spirit stones are just a drop in the bucket for a Jindan cultivator. What surprised her was that although this master was not stingy, he would not give her a single spirit stone if she did not borrow it.
The Wuliang Sect wants these disciples to survive independently and earn everything through their own efforts. Only in this way can they cultivate capable disciples who can stand on their own. They will not get far if they rely on others to cultivate immortality.
Wei Chongran's actions gave Miao Wangqing a new understanding of Li Yan. At least in the eyes of his master, this junior brother had some weight.
Of course Li Yan didn't know that others would have so many thoughts after receiving a few spirit stones.
Seeing Wei Chongran walk away with his sleeves fluttering, Li Yan quickly said goodbye to his fourth senior sister who was looking at him curiously as if she had something to ask him. He was so busy at the moment that he had no time to chat.
Cultivation and advancement are what are important!