Chapter 165 The Alchemy Boy
Looking at the old man in front of him, Xiao Lin felt a lot in his heart. If he couldn't get a higher-level elixir recipe and couldn't build a foundation, maybe a few decades later, he would be like Baili Wen and become a great person. The elderly.
If a cultivator in the Qi refining stage cannot build a foundation before the age of forty, then the probability of successfully building a foundation in his lifetime is extremely small. Of course, although the probability of building a foundation is small, it is not completely hopeless.
But if you are over sixty years old and have not succeeded in building the foundation, then your path of cultivation will be completely cut off. Even if you have elixirs and magical medicines, it will be of no use.
"In a few years, if the foundation is still not established, I will have no choice but to retire from the sect and return to the Immortal City to retire." Baili Wen said with a slight sigh.
"As long as there is still hope, senior brother, never give up. After all, on the road to immortality, everything is possible." Xiao Lin pondered for a moment before speaking.
"Thank you for your good words, but I have already looked away. Let everything go as it comes. But I don't understand, senior brother. I just joined the sect, why did you choose Qingzhu Peak as a place to practice?"
"Junior brother, I like peace and quiet, so I chose Qingzhu Peak where there are relatively few people. Is there any problem?" After hearing what the old man Baili said, Xiao Lin's expression froze slightly and he said.
A strange look suddenly appeared on Bailiwen's face, and after a moment he sighed: "It seems that no one has mentioned anything to junior brother since he entered the sect."
After taking a look at the expression on Xiao Lin's face, Bailiwen said with a wry smile: "The children of the clan in the sect are all of the same virtue. If I hadn't chosen Qingzhu Peak by mistake back then, I'm afraid I wouldn't be stuck on the foundation building bottleneck now. It’s been decades.”
"Junior brother should know that our Dancao Mountain is built on a large spiritual vein."
Seeing Xiao Lin nod, Baili Wencai continued: "But although the Qingdan main peak and the eight subordinate peaks are based on spiritual veins, there is a huge gap between them."
"The main peak of Qingdan has the richest spiritual energy, which is at least twice that of the other eight slave peaks. Therefore, the cultivation speed on Qingdan Peak is the fastest. However, we outer disciples are not qualified to practice on the main peak of Qingdan. The only ones with this qualification are The head of the sect, several outer sect elders and a group of core true disciples, of course, the thirteen golden alchemy master uncles and ancestor Tianyi also have this qualification."
"As for the eight major peaks, the richness of spiritual energy is very different. Among them, the three major peaks, Jinxia, Qinghuo, and Qijue, have the most abundant spiritual energy, followed by Hongluan, Ziye, and Yingyuan. The worst ones are our Qingzhu Peak and Qijue Peak. It’s Cuishui Peak.”
"Oh? Why is this? Aren't the Eight Great Cong Peaks also built on spiritual veins?" Upon hearing this, Xiao Lin asked with a surprised expression on his face.
"It's very simple." Bailiwen pointed to the spiritual field hanging hundreds of feet in the sky and said: "We have hundreds of acres of spiritual field in Dancao Mountain. Junior brother, have you seen it? The bottom layer is the largest, and the ones planted on it are They are all first-level elixirs. This low-level elixir has a short growth cycle and a large output. It is mainly used to train the alchemists of the sect, and the various elixirs refined are mainly provided to those who refine their Qi. Used by early outer disciples.”
Xiao Lin nodded. When he received the items from the sect, there was a jade bottle with a spirit-accumulating pill in it.
"I think junior brother has also received the Spirit-accumulating Pill issued by the sect. We outer disciples will receive five low-grade spiritual stones and one Spirit-accumulating Pill every month. These benefits will be provided until the foundation is established or the age reaches forty. ”
Hearing this, Xiao Lin was speechless. Once the foundation was established, low-level elixirs such as Yunling Pill would no longer be needed. Moreover, if the foundation could be established, the sect would probably provide higher-level training resources.
However, once the outer disciples reach the age of forty, they will also be deprived of the sect's benefits, which is a bit unkind. In the eyes of the sect, such disciples are no longer worth training, so they simply stopped the sect's benefits. , left to fend for itself.
Baili Wen obviously also belongs to the latter type of person. He showed a little dissatisfaction on his face, but then it turned into a face full of bitterness and continued: "And higher up in the air, there are still a small amount of The medium-sized spiritual fields are planted with second-level elixirs. The second-level elixirs refined from these elixirs are mainly used by the inner disciples and heads, as well as the outer elders. "
"It is rumored that the spiritual field at the highest point of Qingdan Peak is an extremely rare high-level spiritual field. It contains third-level elixirs that are almost extinct in the Tianlu Mountains. However, the disciples of the sect who are like that spiritual field are connected to it. There is no qualification to take a look, and the entire spiritual field has been placed with extremely powerful restrictions that even the ancestor of Jindan cannot break. "
After a pause, Baili Wencai shook his head and said: "But these spiritual fields are all the powerful seniors of our Dancao Mountain. They extract the spiritual energy from the underground spiritual veins to consolidate the formation restrictions above, and also through extraction The spiritual energy in the spiritual veins is used to cultivate elixirs, and Qingdan Mountain is the foundation of our Dancao Mountain. Naturally, it is impossible to extract the spiritual veins below it. Therefore, the spiritual energy that maintains the operation of the spiritual field comes from Qingzhu Peak and Cuishui. Extracted from the spiritual veins below the peak."
At this point, Xiao Lin finally understood. After he came to Qingzhu Peak yesterday, he felt that the spiritual energy here was much thinner than the main Qingdan Peak. He didn't pay too much attention to it at first.
Now he heard from Baili Wendao that it was caused by the continuous extraction of spiritual energy from the spiritual veins under Qingzhu Peak. This also made him understand why there are so few people in Qingzhu Peak. After all, who doesn't want to practice in a place with abundant spiritual energy? .
"Isn't there a golden elixir master who is in charge at the top of our Qingzhu Peak?" Xiao Lin once heard from the fat-faced inner disciple that all the eight major peaks have a golden elixir ancestor who is in charge. If the spiritual energy is really so thin , how could this Jindan Patriarch willingly sit on Qingzhu Peak?
"Hey." Hearing this, Baili Wen sneered, and then seemed to feel something was wrong. He looked around, and when he was sure that no one was around, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said softly: "The caves of several masters and uncles are all located in the mountains. At the top, there are special passages in the cave that directly lead to the spiritual veins of the mountain, and all the masters and uncles have spirit gathering arrays in the cave, so naturally there is no need to worry about lack of spiritual power. "
Nodding, Xiao Lin finally understood why the number of people in Qingzhu Peak and Cuishui Peak was so small, but he was not worried. The most important goal before him was to find a way to obtain the recipe for the Five Elements Spiritual Pill.
As long as he can refine the Five Elements Spirit Pill, whether the aura of the place of practice is rich or not has little impact on him. Thinking of this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but ponder for a moment.
"Senior Brother Baili, our Dancao Mountain is famous among the five sects for its alchemy, but I don't know what you need to do to become an alchemist? What abilities do you need?"
Since he had not seen the recipe for Five Elements Spiritual Pill in the reward catalog of Merit Hall, Xiao Lin put his mind on the alchemist. He thought that once he became an alchemist, the sect would always provide some Let him use the elixir recipe to refine the elixir.
When Baili Wen heard this, a look of surprise appeared on his face: "Is it difficult for Junior Brother Xiao to know how to make elixirs?"
"When I was practicing in the Immortal City, Junior Brother, I refined several batches of Spirit Accumulating Pills, but the success rate was horribly low. For this reason, Junior Brother, I spent several years of savings on it." Xiao Lin said, shaking his head with a wry smile.
"Junior brother has also refined the Soul-Refining Pill, which is quite remarkable. Although our Dancao Mountain is famous for its alchemy, the number of alchemists in the sect is actually not many."
"We have three great alchemists in Dancao Mountain. In addition to the old ancestor Tianyi, there are two others, namely Wu Daozi's uncle and Sun Changsheng's uncle."
"These two master uncles can be regarded as representing the two lines of alchemy in our Dancao Mountain today."
"Oh, is there any difference between these two veins?" Xiao Lin was surprised.
Looking at Xiao Lin, Bailiwen smiled and said: "Actually, there are no factions in alchemy itself. It's just that Uncle Wu was a casual cultivator, and he was also a true spiritual root cultivator. He also practiced in the cave back then. I picked the Purple Spirit Flower and got the Dao Dao Order to come to our Dancao Mountain."
"Uncle Sun is the grandfather of the current head of the Sun family, one of the top ten cultivation families in Dancao Mountain. Therefore, uncle Sun can be regarded as representing the power of the cultivation family."
When Xiao Lin heard this, a look of surprise appeared on his face. In this Dancao Mountain, there is indeed a certain gap between the cultivation family and the casual cultivators. Otherwise, there would not be any two-line alchemy system.
"Speaking of this, Junior Brother Xiao must have understood that with Junior Brother Xiao's background as a casual cultivator, even if he passes the alchemy test within the sect, he may not be able to be favored by Master Sun's uncle and become an alchemist. Boy, there is still great hope to become an alchemy boy in the lineage of Master Wu Daozi’s uncle.”
"The alchemy boy?"
Seeing Xiao Lin's slightly frowned brows, Baili Wen smiled and said, "Haha, senior brother, I have nothing to do today anyway, so I'll just explain it to you."
"It is unrealistic for our outer disciples in Dancao Mountain to become a second-level alchemist, unless you can really refine a second-level elixir like the Five Elements Pill, but as an outer disciple, the sect It is simply impossible to provide enough Five Elements Spirit Grass for the outer disciples to refine."
"So the outer disciples can only become an alchemy boy of the alchemy master, and improve their alchemy level by refining the spirit-accumulating pills used by the outer disciples in their practice. If they can build the foundation after that, they can get some alchemy resources. If you continue to improve your alchemy skills, as long as you can refine the five elements elixir, you can become an official alchemist."
"With the title of Alchemist, your status among the inner disciples of our Dancao Mountain will be greatly improved. Not only will your monthly benefits be double those of ordinary inner disciples, but you will also be able to assist Master Wu Daozi in refining some If the third-level elixir is favored by Master Wu Daozi's uncle, it is possible to become a true disciple, which will really make him reach the sky in one step."
"Senior Brother Baili, what are the conditions needed to become an alchemy boy?"
"There is an Alchemy Pavilion halfway up the Eight Peaks of our Dancao Mountain. You will know how to do it when you go there. However, I would like to remind my junior brother that it is not easy to become an alchemy boy. Once you fail the test, you will only It will be three years before I can take the second test.”