nucmednet Chapter 94 Canglan Peak 5
Chapter 94 Canglan Peak 5
The next morning, Cheng Jiu did a thorough cleaning in his yard.
There were only her and her master on Canglan Peak, so her residence was quite large.
A misty fog rose from the mountainside in the morning. This place is located on the back mountain of Guiyuan Sect, situated on a spiritual vein. It is also one of the places with the densest spiritual energy in Guiyuan Sect.
Canglan Peak was surrounded by an array, preventing birds and beasts from entering, while spiritual vines and plants grew freely in the forest.
Cheng Jiu walked through the forest, breathing in the fresh air, and began his cultivation for the day.
After a long absence, she discovered today that there was actually a cold spring here.
Located in a cave behind the mountain, the spring water is clear and cold, made from the melting snow and ice on the mountain.
The land around the cold spring is collectively fertile, but because of the concentration of cold spiritual energy here, only some cold-resistant plants grow.
Cheng Jiu looked at the black soil, and his hands couldn't help but itch.
She summoned the little cloud beast and the little black dragon.
One person and two beasts began digging. The black soil accumulated by the cold spring over many years did not smell bad; instead, it had a refreshing earthy fragrance.
Cheng Jiu, the little black dragon, and the little cloud beast dug the cold spring until it was completely enlarged before reluctantly stopping.
She transported the soil to the open space in front of her house, first using the Earth Movement spell to cultivate the ground, then spreading mud dug from the Cold Spring.
Next came the sowing. Cheng Jiu had run out of seeds, and after the harvest, he had sold them directly to the Offering Hall of Medicine Peak without taking them back. Now, if anyone wanted to plant, they would have to go to the Offering Hall again to buy seeds.
However, Cheng Jiu felt it was too troublesome and wanted to give up just by thinking about it. For her, who just wanted to stay at home, even a short journey was too far for her.
Because she wanted to be lazy, she didn't want to go to Medicine Peak. Fortunately, the spiritual energy here was abundant, and there were many spiritual plants in the forest, so she could use the local resources.
Guiyuan Sect enjoys a spring-like climate year-round. Although it doesn't have the same seasonal changes and diverse varieties as Yaowang Valley, Guiyuan Sect is still a place where medicinal herbs grow.
I wandered around the forest and found quite a few kinds of spiritual plants. The seeds of the fruits were easy to collect; quite a few were already hanging precariously on the branches.
Since Cheng Jiu grew them herself, she wanted them to look nice. She has a slight obsessive-compulsive tendency and wanted to grow fruits of every color, but she also wanted them to be neat and tidy.
The fruits here are of inconsistent colors. In addition, she also has to consider their toxicity and medicinal properties. Some fruits cannot be planted together. For example, this purple-fleshed fruit cannot be planted with the red-fleshed fruit next to it.
Purple Heart Fruit is poisonous and emits a faint poisonous gas. If one's strength is low, prolonged exposure to its fumes can easily cause dizziness, but it is not life-threatening; at most, one will experience hallucinations for one or two days.
In stark contrast, hawthorn berries are a healing fruit. Just the aroma of the fruit is enough to refresh the mind and body.
For cultivators of lower strength, keeping a red fruit on hand is similar to keeping a white bird blood fruit on hand for higher-level cultivators; both are highly effective life-saving fruits.
If these two plants are planted together, they are likely to fight each other, either the red fruit will become stained with the purple fruit, or the purple fruit will become stained with the red fruit.
Of course, there is another possibility: a blunder by a fellow from Medicine King Valley.
This guy did it to be lazy and also to prove that two fruit plants could coexist.
So he mixed purple and red berries in the land he rented. Some of the purple and red berries died, but whenever one died, he would plant another one in the same spot.
Under his strong pressure, the purple and red berries he planted were successfully intercropped and grew very well.
According to the senior student who conducted the test, the medicinal effect was three times that of ordinary purple heart fruit and red fruit.
Therefore, the acquisition price was quite high. This guy originally thought he could make a fortune with this skill.
Purple Heart Fruit is the main ingredient of Illusion Pill, and Red Fruit is the main ingredient of Illusion Breaking Pill. As a result, the people who used this batch of Red Fruit and Purple Heart Fruit to refine pills were almost dumbfounded.
It was supposed to be a hallucinogenic pill, but the effect was three times better than a hallucinogenic pill. It was supposed to be a hallucinogenic pill, but the final effect was ten times stronger than a hallucinogenic pill.
Those who refine hallucinogenic pills are alright; at most, they make a mistake during a duel and lose.
But those who refine the Illusion-Breaking Pill are in trouble, because they certainly won't be wary of the pills they refine.
In order to test the effects of their pills, some disciples would try enhancement pills like the Illusion-Breaking Pill.
That day, demons danced wildly in Medicine King Valley, and what's most amazing is that not all fruits had the opposite effect.
Therefore, anyone who uses his fruit to refine the Illusion-Breaking Pill is simply relying on luck.
Those who are unlucky will fall into an illusion, while those who are lucky will escape unscathed.
These junior disciples couldn't even tell what the effects of the pills they refined were.
To know the effects of the pills you've refined, you either have to test them on yourself or have a specialized body cultivator test them.
Because so many disciples were infected, it attracted the attention of the sect elders.
With the help of the sect elders, the source was successfully found. When the elders saw the lush and mixed red and purple fruits, they almost fainted from anger.
The sect leader of Medicine King Valley was also alarmed. He had always thought of himself as an enlightened person, after all, his great-aunt had gained the respect of the people of Medicine King Valley and was accepted by Medicine King Valley when he was in office.
But seeing his disciple's performance, he realized he had been too conservative!
Especially since this disciple was an outer disciple, meaning he didn't have a dedicated master, he had no one to shift the blame onto. His behavior was a clear mockery of the competence of his teacher.
That day, all the elders who had taught him felt utterly humiliated.
How could someone who claims to be an alchemist be thinking this?
How could he not know such basic common sense!
Finally, these red and purple fruits were burned, although it was later proven that their effects were indeed several times greater than ordinary fruits.
However, because these two fruits grow together and are infected to different degrees, they can easily produce fruits that are both illusory and can easily cause people to fall into hallucinations.
These two kinds of fruits are usually supplied to junior disciples, who cannot distinguish between them, so they are of little use and can easily cause misunderstandings.
My brother was also punished by the elders who taught him to copy the Great Compendium of Spiritual Plants a thousand times and the clan rules ten thousand times.
You must understand that this is the Grand Compendium of Spiritual Plants of Medicine King Valley. Putting aside everything else, it includes at least 80% of the spiritual plants currently known in the cultivation world.
It's been over a hundred years since this guy did this, and supposedly, he still hasn't finished copying it.
Cheng Jiu didn't ask; he had only overheard the disciples' admonition at the Gongshi Hall. As for why the people at the Guiyuan Sect's Gongshi Hall knew so much about the Medicine King Valley disciples, and even used it as a negative example to inform new disciples, he didn't know.
It can only be said that, to some extent, the five major sects really don't have any secrets.
We picked fruit, as well as some spirit flowers and vines.
Actually, Cheng Jiu also wanted to plant some eggplants and other vegetables.
Unfortunately, the sect didn't sell these seeds; they could only be obtained from Qingli City.
As for why she didn't go, it's the same thing again: she didn't even want to go to Yaofeng, so why would she want to travel all the way to Qingli City?
Some were sown directly from seeds, others were transplanted, and she also cut down some trees to serve as trellises for the spirit vines.
The little cloud beast flew in the sky with a gurgling sound, and following Cheng Jiu's instructions, a light drizzle began to fall.
The spiritual plants on the ground swayed merrily in the rain. The little cloud beast looked at the lush green seedlings below and found it very amusing. It wandered around in the sky, making sure that every seedling absorbed enough water.
Cheng Jiu took out the medicinal bead and buried it in the ground. Some spiritual plants that had been improperly transplanted or planted were revitalized with the help of the medicinal bead.
Seeing that things were almost done, Cheng Jiu summoned back the little cloud beast.
A row of spirit fruits was planted, with opposing spirit fruits planted on both sides, and spirit flowers in the middle. These spirit flowers were colorful and very beautiful.
The spirit fruits, round and plump, hung from the branches, exquisite and beautiful. The area was surrounded by a fence, with spirit vines climbing on it. A simple little medicine courtyard was thus completed.
Cheng Jiu didn't have many elixirs left in her ring. Most of them were refined by her master and placed in her ring. Cheng Jiu had been used to eating them since she was a child, so she didn't mind them.
Since the little cloud beast and the little black dragon finished consuming the elixirs she refined and some pills purchased from Medicine King Valley.
After the two little ones accidentally tasted a pill refined by Venerable Qingxu, they absolutely refused to enter her ring again, showing great resistance to these pills. So these pills were left behind.
Of the 200,000 jin of spirit beast food she had previously purchased, only about 1,000 jin remained.
After resting here for a few days, she will have to go to the market to buy food for her two young masters.
This time in the forest, in addition to looking for transplanted spiritual plants, I also collected quite a few spiritual plants, which are just right for setting up a furnace to refine pills, although the variety may be relatively small.
But for the little cloud beast and the little black dragon, that was extremely gratifying.
The two obedient creatures squatted to one side, their Azure Flame and Jade Heart Fire assisting Cheng Jiu in refining pills.
Jin Yaocheng was really too poor, even though Cheng Jiu and Yingyue had taught the students the alchemy method invented by the Medicine Ancestor.
In fact, most of the time, Cheng Jiu taught how to turn spiritual herbs into powder, which would be more efficient and have a higher utilization rate.
For Cheng Jiu and his group, this is the most basic thing, so there is no need to use the Azure Flame Jade Heart Fire.
The Azure Flame had already had several masters, and through their exposure to alchemy, it had become very familiar with the craft, making it relatively easy for Cheng Jiu to control.
Soon, the first batch of pills produced nine grade five pills with nine patterns, which were quickly divided up by the little cloud beast and the little black dragon.
Having tasted the familiar flavor, the two little ones happily swayed back and forth.
Cheng Jiu regained her touch in alchemy. Having her own natal spirit fire made all the difference. Putting aside everything else, her control over fire, limited by her spiritual root, was still a minor weakness for Cheng Jiu.
But now she can focus on calming the herbs, the flames are controlled by the little green fire, and she only needs to communicate with it.
The efficiency was greatly improved. She refined the herbs for three hours in a row, and even after they were all used up, she still felt a little unsatisfied and was not tired at all.
After the little cloud beast and the little black dragon finished eating, they ran into the forest to play.
Cheng Jiu put away the pill bottle, tidied up the pill furnace, and took out the spirit-nourishing jade that he had prepared earlier.
The Spirit Jade is known as an external second spiritual root. Wearing it can not only improve the utilization of spiritual energy, but also gradually increase the purity of the spiritual root, eliminate impurities from the body, and improve the conversion rate of spiritual energy.
It can be said that wearing a spirit-nourishing jade with a corresponding spiritual root has countless benefits.
Cheng Jiu examined it carefully. She had previously intended to give the jade to her master so that he could forge it himself, since he was a ninth-grade weapon refiner and his skills were definitely superior to hers.
But when her master went into seclusion, her idea changed. She wanted to create a finished product to give her master a big surprise.
Now that she has it in her hands, she feels at a loss as to what to do with it.
The moment she saw the jade pendant, several design sketches flashed through her mind.
But when she finally got her hands on it and was about to start using it, she felt at a loss, as if she were wasting its potential.
She took out the wood-elemental spirit jade she had prepared for herself. Well, she might as well practice with her own jade first.
She examined it carefully, circling the room several times. How was she going to refine it?
Finally, she realized her own limitations. At the Golden Core stage, she could only refine a sixth-grade magic weapon at most.
Her master's skills were far inferior to hers, so she didn't plan to refine this jade.
She planned to use rune carving to guide and carve the jade, so as not to damage the jade's structure, convey her feelings, and enhance the jade's effect.
Once she had made up her mind, she got to work, taking out her talisman brush and carefully carving along the veins of the jade.
Some talisman cultivators also use jade to carve talisman plates, but this is an advanced technique. Each piece of jade has its own rules, and if it is broken or carved incorrectly, the jade will be ruined.
Cheng Jiu is quite sensitive to spiritual senses and has a great talent for it.
The higher the grade of jade, the more complex its veins, and it is easy to make a mistake if you are not careful.
During this period, you must be fully focused and not be distracted in the slightest.
The talisman brush slowly swished along the rugged veins, Cheng Jiuwan concentrating intently on the carving.
Such high-grade spirit jade cannot be carved in a short time.
It's impossible to complete it all at once, so we need to use formation techniques to set up some rune arrays on it to form a complete set of independent runes.
Having no experience, he barely managed to finish carving the runes on the jade. His spiritual energy was exhausted, and he lay on the bed, panting heavily.
No, no, I'll carve it tomorrow.
Cheng Jiu placed the jade within easy reach and sat cross-legged to cultivate and restore his mental energy.
She took out the jade pendant, and Gongcheng, Gongyu, and Yingyue went into seclusion.
Wen Sishu said that he had been detained by his master and that he needed to explain to his master the alchemy knowledge he had learned from Yao Lao.
Finally, Mao Hongsheng also broke through to the Nascent Soul stage and said that Senior Sister Yuqiu was seeking opportunities outside to break through and achieve Dao.
Several of his senior brothers have already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage and are serving as elders in the outer sect.
However, because his senior brothers went to the outer sect, his senior sister went out to seek opportunities, and the remaining senior brothers were also said to be in seclusion or going on training.
His grandmaster was not involved in affairs, but Tifeng could not be without someone to handle matters, and that person's status could not be too low.
Mao Hongsheng sounded like he was about to cry when he posted this. In the end, it was his turn to be the unlucky guy. Ever since he broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, his master had given up on everything and had all the affairs of the peak piled up in his courtyard.
Because he had been oppressed by his grandmaster since childhood, he was surprisingly adept at handling matters within the peak.
By the time he realized it, most of the things in the peak were piled up in his yard, and he spent every day dealing with them as soon as he opened his eyes.
He now desperately hopes that his senior sister can break through to the next level as soon as possible and rescue him from his predicament.
The last paragraph states that there were unusual movements in the desolate region, and the Heavenly Mystery Sect issued a preemptive notice.
Most of the sect's disciples are gathered in the wild regions to prepare for war, as there might be a beast tide this time.
He also led the disciples of Tifeng to fight against it.