Chapter 138 Kitchen Knife and Armor
Li Xiuchang spent 1 Daosui to exchange for this "36 Changes of Golden Elixir".
After reading this method of forming an elixir, he suddenly realized why no one could practice this method of forming an elixir, because no one would really commit suicide!
The name of the 36 changes of the golden elixir is implicit. It should actually be called "36 cracks of the golden elixir" or "36 disasters of the golden elixir".
Its main principle is that after the golden elixir prototype is condensed, the remaining mana is transformed into a series of "elixir disasters" to strike the golden elixir prototype.
Every time a disaster is struck, a crack will be left on the surface of the golden elixir, and the mana that has turned into an elixir disaster will be completely integrated into the golden elixir to strengthen the quality of the golden elixir.
This method is more dangerous than the "Nine-turn Golden Elixir Method", but the advantage is that the upper limit is higher.
Every time the golden elixir undergoes an elixir disaster, it may break, which is a great test of the solidity of the golden elixir, that is, the quality of the mana of the condensed golden elixir.
After the golden elixir undergoes an elixir disaster and cracks appear, it needs to be consolidated with mana, and both consolidating the golden elixir and forming an elixir disaster require mana.
Therefore, the "36 Changes of the Golden Pill" requires more mana than the "Nine-turn Golden Pill Method".
But as long as you endure 27 pill tribulations, you can strengthen the golden pill to the same level as the nine-turn golden pill. If you endure the full 36 pill tribulations, the quality of the golden pill will surpass the ninth grade and enter the non-existent tenth grade!
However, it is said that the creator of this method had to give up after only enduring 27 pill tribulations, and finally formed a ninth-grade golden pill.
Li Xiuchang is confident that the quality of mana and the total amount of mana are his strengths.
Especially the latter, Li Xiuchang has various plug-ins to bless him, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there is no one before him.
Since the creator of this method can practice it, he believes that he can practice it too.
At least the ninth-grade golden pill is guaranteed.
So Li Xiuchang feels that he can try it.
Of course, whether to try it or not should be considered when the pill is about to be formed later.
If the preparation is not sufficient, he may also consider the more reliable "Nine-turn Golden Pill Method".
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Li Xiuchang began to accumulate mana on a daily basis, and through the self-circulation of the exercises, he continuously absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and converted it into mana.
And he transferred all the solid mana in the main dantian to the second dantian for storage.
Because the speed of self-cultivation was too slow, he also supplemented it with various elixirs to restore mana to speed up the efficiency of accumulating mana.
His goal was to fill the two dantians with solid mana and then start to form elixirs!
In the process of accumulating mana, he did not delay doing other things, such as farming, raising ghosts, and pickling meat, and even often took time to study new dishes.
He wanted to research more new things and save them in preparation for the impact of the annual preaching list.
In addition, the business of the Four Immortals Merchant Alliance was also good. The members tasted the sweetness in the first cooperation, and more smoked spirit meat was continuously transported to the other three major immortal gates through the Ye family channel.
In the local market of Xianchen Sect, Senior Brother Wang Long also made a fortune by selling first- and second-level smoked spirit meat, and he was about to collect enough spirit stones to buy foundation-building pills.
Li Xiuchang also sold the new flying boat to the other three major immortal sects through the Four Immortals Business Alliance.
The deluxe version of the new flying boat was in short supply in Xianchen Sect, and the noble version was a bit hard to sell. Through the channels of the Four Immortals Business Alliance, Li Xiuchang also helped Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi sell several noble version flying boats.
As the days passed, Li Xiuchang also kept observing the growth of the giant Youhan grass and the giant Golden Halberd Rhinoceros Beetle eggs.
The giant Youhan grass grows much slower than ordinary Youhan grass, but under Li Xiuchang's diligent fertilization, it has also grown into a ten-foot-tall tree.
Li Xiuchang plans to transplant it to the ground-level medicinal field to accelerate its growth.
The Golden Halberd Rhinoceros Beetle eggs, this thing is a pure gold-eating beast, it is still in the egg stage, and it swallows gold like dirt.
Li Xiuchang buried dozens of spiritual stones in the soil around the insect eggs every day, otherwise the spiritual energy contained in the soil of the medicinal field alone would not be enough to support its growth.
That is to say, Li Xiuchang is wealthy. If it were another foundation-building cultivator, even a golden elixir cultivator might not be able to afford it.
This made Li Xiuchang feel lucky that he only added three inches to the length at that time. If he added more length, he might not be able to afford it.
Except for the growing appetite, the insect eggs themselves did not change much, and it was unknown when they would hatch.
On this day, Li Xiuchang was thinking about new dishes, and suddenly received good news from Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi that his weapon was finally made!
In a blink of an eye, it has been almost three months, and Li Xiuchang has been looking forward to it for a long time, and it can be said that he has finally waited.
He can understand it, after all, it is made of sixth- or seventh-level materials, and it is not a weapon, but also a set of armor. It only took three months. It was very fast.
If other refining masters made a rough embryo of a spiritual treasure, it would be normal to take three years, not to mention three months.
But the key is that every time Li Xiuchang went to see Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi, he was either playing chess or drinking tea and wine. He lived a carefree life. I don’t know when he spent his time forging.
Li Xiuchang couldn’t wait to come to No. 1, Donggeng District. The gate was open and Zhang Wanzhi was waiting for him in the house.
Zhang Wanzhi saw Li Xiuchang’s anxious look and slowly took out a knife from the storage bag.
A bright kitchen knife!
The handle was made of the bones of a lion and tiger monster, and the blade was made of sixth-level Buddha heart steel. It looked plain and unpretentious, but the cold light flashing at the blade made people dare not look directly at it, as if if they looked at it more, the sharpness would cut their sight.
The blade was about three feet long and about one and a half feet wide.
As a kitchen knife, this size was a bit too big. It was not suitable for cutting vegetables, but it was just right for chopping people.
Zhang Wanzhi explained: "This kitchen knife is just a rough embryo now, a semi-finished product. It has no formation patterns engraved on it and no restrictions incorporated into it. It will definitely be able to change in size when it is finished.
"You can just use it first. It should be pretty good for cutting people. Don't use it for cutting vegetables yet."
Li Xiuchang took the kitchen knife in his hand and waved it twice, which was very handy.
The weight of the blade is just right, and there is no feeling of being light and weightless that Li Xiuchang worried about.
It seems that Brother Zhang Wanzhi should have added other materials, otherwise if it relies solely on Buddha Heart Steel, it will definitely affect the feel.
The animal bone knife handle felt so good in his hand that Li Xiuchang couldn't put it down.
He now wishes he could go out and find a demon cultivator to try the sword, but unfortunately, demon cultivators are rare resources and not so easy to find.
"Okay, don't just test the sword, let's take a look at this armor."
Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi took out another piece of armor.
The main body of this armor is made of Buddha Heart Steel, and the joints are covered with liger hides and connected with animal tendons. It looks relatively ordinary, but its defensive power is visible to the naked eye.
Li Xiuchang tried it on and didn't feel restricted at all. His movements were not affected at all. The weight of the armor was almost negligible, as it was as light as nothing.
"There is no need to wear it in the sect normally, but when I wear it when I go out on a mission, it feels really hard to die."
Li Xiuchang now has too many trump cards to save his life, and he found that this is not good either.
Once a person feels that it is difficult for him to die, he can't help but have thoughts of committing suicide.
For example, right now he really wants to wear armor, carry a kitchen knife, and go out to slay demons.
Zhang Wan knew: "This armor is also a semi-finished product. You can wear it first. When it is finished, it should be directly attached to the body surface. Not only can it protect the whole body, but it can also make you feel nothing."
"It's very useful now." Li Xiuchang said that he was not picky.
"The kitchen knife and the armor don't have names. You can name them yourself."
Li Xiuchang scratched his head and said: "Since this kitchen knife can cut people and cut vegetables, why not call it a 'bone-chopping knife'."
Zhang Wanzhi thought the name was not very good, but he didn't say anything. He just asked: "Where is the armor?"
"Is the armor called... Immortal Armor?" When it came time to come up with a name, Li Xiuchang's mind went blank.
Zhang Wanzhi rolled his eyes and opened his mouth to help him come up with a good name, but after opening his mouth for a long time nothing came out, so he could only nod his head: "Then I'll call him Immortal Armor."
He thought that it would be too late to rename them after he completed the bone-cutting knife and immortal armor and turned them into spiritual treasures.
"That's right." Zhang Wanzhi said, "I won't return the remaining scraps to you. Just treat it as compensation for the materials I posted."
"Yes. If it's not enough, senior brother, feel free to deduct it from the profits from my flying boat business."
Li Xiuchang naturally wouldn't have any objections.
To create the prototypes of these two spiritual treasures, the materials he provided alone were definitely not enough in terms of variety. Zhang Wanzhi must have made up for some miscellaneous materials.
After leaving Zhang Wanzhi, Li Xiuchang felt like he had been playing games in his previous life. He had just changed into a set of top-quality equipment and couldn't wait to play a dungeon or find someone to try his hand at PK.
In the end, he chose to go out and go to the small village where the new devil lived in seclusion.
The main purpose was to collect elixirs, and to see if there were any evil heretics on the road who could let him try out the power of the new equipment.
However, it was a smooth journey and he didn't encounter any evil cultivators or monsters without any eyesight, which made Li Xiuchang feel regretful.
Just because the world is peaceful, demonic cultivators keep their tail between their legs, and monsters who do evil are afraid of becoming the contribution points of righteous cultivators, so they only dare to hide in the deep mountains and old forests.
Li Xiuchang went to the medicine field next to the village to collect a wave of elixirs and plant new elixirs.
In addition, he also received commissions from the mining of twenty miner wolf souls, many first-order frost black iron and second-order frost black copper ores, and a third-order frost black crystal mine.
He also removed all the hostility from the bodies of the miners' wolf souls to prevent them from turning into evil spirits.
After leaving the village, Li Xiuchang still refused to give up and took a walk in the mountains surrounding the village to see if he could find any monsters to practice with.
With his current strength, he is not afraid of third-level monsters at all, and he can escape calmly when encountering fourth-level monsters. In the surrounding mountains, people from the village have already raided them countless times. There are really big monsters above fourth-level. They have also been eliminated or expelled long ago.
As a result, after walking around, he only found a few first-order monsters, and Li Xiuchang was too lazy to do anything.
Finally, he met a second-level black bear spirit, but he didn't expect that the bear spirit ran away when he saw Li Xiuchang, turned into a black wind, and was about to run away.
Li Xiuchang followed up slowly, and the black bear spirit cursed in his heart: "Grandma, you are a bear. This demon has already hidden in the deep mountains and old forests. These righteous monks are so full that they have to come here to eliminate the demon."
Li Xiuchang increased his speed, caught up with the black bear spirit, and captured him with one hand.
The third-level body refining can capture the second-level monster with ease.
"Young hero, spare your life!" Xiong Jing showed no intention of resisting. "The little demon grew up eating honey and has never known the taste of human flesh. Don't kill the little demon."
Li Xiuchang suddenly felt bored, and the second-level monsters were indeed not qualified for training. He said, "Let me ask you, are there any evil-doing monsters around here? It's best to be a third-level monster."
"Ah?" The bear spirit looked thoughtful, a monster that does evil needs to be at the third level?
It really couldn't think of it, but when it looked up and saw Li Xiuchang's cold face, it thought to itself that if it couldn't answer, its life would be in danger.
He racked his brains and suddenly thought of something. His eyes lit up: "There is a level three four-legged snake in the mountains. It goes out to do evil once every ten years. Every time it disguises itself and changes its appearance, so few people know it. It has always pretended to be a good demon."
"How did you know that?" Li Xiuchang asked.
"The four-legged snake has a lover, my mother, the demon honey, who accidentally let it slip that year..."
"Where does the four-legged snake demon live?"
The black bear spirit pointed a direction for Li Xiuchang and told him the distance.
Li Xiuchang did not make it difficult for it. He let it go and flew straight to the demon cave of the four-legged snake demon.
The four-legged snake is actually a lizard. It can change its appearance. Li Xiuchang guessed that it was probably a chameleon spirit.
He flew all the way in the direction pointed by the black bear spirit and soon approached the entrance of the lizard demon's cave, but he did not expect that there were already two people guarding the entrance.
They were two Jindan-stage cultivators, both of them looked like young men, one of them was wearing a white shirt and was a bit thin, and the other was a strong man in shorts.
Seeing Li Xiuchang coming over, the two glanced at him, and seeing that Li Xiuchang was at the foundation-building stage, they didn't pay much attention.
Li Xiuchang heard from a distance that the two seemed to be arguing about something, and he was too lazy to care, but the two just happened to occupy the entrance of the demon cave, blocking his way.
Li Xiuchang had no choice, it was rare to come out to eliminate a demon, and he could meet fellow travelers.
Seeing Li Xiuchang stop, the young man in white asked: "Daoyou, are you also here to eliminate demons?"
Li Xiuchang did not answer but asked: "What are the two Daoyou arguing about here?"
The strong man said: "Daoyou, please judge, I obviously found this demon cave first, and this opportunity to kill the demon should be mine..."
The young man in white said: "Although you found the demon cave first, I broke the formation at the entrance of the cave."
It turned out that the two were arguing over the ownership of this demon beast.
Li Xiuchang decided to be a peacemaker: "My two Taoist friends, calm down and stop fighting. Just give this monster to me."