Chapter 159: Forming the elixir and suffering the calamity!
On the way back to Xianchen Sect, Li Xiuchang began to study the Dao Heart Seed in his sea of consciousness.
The Dao Heart Seed was originally in the shape of a kitchen knife, but after Li Xiuchang fiddled with it for a while, it changed into the shape of a flying sword.
Later, it changed into a spear, a stick, a long whip, a meteor hammer, and even a frying pan, a spatula, a fire tongs, a pair of scissors...
A thousand changes!
Li Xiuchang had an inspiration. In the future, the Dao Heart he cultivated could be called "The Heart of Ten Thousand Daos".
This is much better and more impressive than "The Heart of a Kitchen Knife" and "The Heart of Equality".
However, although Li Xiuchang's Dao Seed has many changes, the actual effect has not changed.
It does not mean that changing into the shape of a flying sword can allow Li Xiuchang to master the Sword Heart and enjoy the blessing of the Sword Dao.
The Dao Heart is the condensation of the will of the Great Dao. In the initial stage, its main function is to provide combat power enhancement.
The same sword move, the Mingxin Sword Cultivators are more powerful than ordinary sword cultivators, this is because of the blessing of the Sword Heart.
Even though Li Xiuchang's current Dao Seed is only a prototype of Dao Heart, it also has a good bonus effect, making him stronger than before when using a kitchen knife in combat.
The point of strengthening Li Xiuchang's Dao Seed is mainly reflected in the "equality" effect.
It is said that all beings are equal, but the effect must have an upper limit. He certainly cannot make Jindan cultivators and Qi training cultivators "equal".
But it is not that the Equality Dao cannot do it, but that Li Xiuchang cannot do it now. His understanding and development of the Equality Dao has not reached that level.
However, if he has the complete blessing of the Heart of Ten Thousand Daos at this time, it may not be impossible to give it a try.
Not to mention making Jindan cultivators and Qi training cultivators "equal", at least he can try to make Jindan cultivators and foundation building cultivators "equal". In that case, he can chop Jindan cultivators just like chopping foundation building cultivators, and there is no difficulty.
Dao Seeds are ever-changing and can be transformed into various forms. The main function is to allow Li Xiuchang to get the blessing of the Equality Dao when using any weapon, that is, any weapon can be distorted into a kitchen knife and enjoy the blessing of equality of all beings.
Of course, the original kitchen knife is the best and most suitable for the "Equality Path".
After the test of the Heart-Searching Sword, Li Xiuchang sorted out a systematic "Equality Path". With the Heart-Searching Sword gifted with Dao seeds, it is not difficult to condense the Dao Heart after returning.
Many Mingxin sword cultivators in the Sword-Searching Sect have cultivated the Sword Heart in the Foundation Establishment Period.
However, Li Xiuchang's top priority at present must be to form a pill.
After he forms a pill, he will condense the Heart of Ten Thousand Daos, and his strength will have a leap. With the third-level body refining, even if he is in the early stage of the Golden Core, he is not a weakling among the Golden Core cultivators.
If he builds his own life magic weapon, ordinary Golden Core late stage cultivators may not be his opponent.
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After a few days of flying, the Lingbao Tower Ship arrived at the Xianchen Sect.
At this time, the disciples in the sect did not know that Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi had shown their divine power in the Sword-Searching Sect on the other side of the Xianyin Realm, doubling the face lost for the sect and slapping the Sword-Searching Sect in the face.
Therefore, the two returned with honors, and there was no scene of disciples from the sect lining up to welcome them, which made Zhang Wanzhi feel quite regretful, like walking at night in brocade clothes.
Li Xiuchang didn't care about these things, and hurried to the ground-level medicine field.
He built a shed in the ground-level medicine field as a place for his daily practice.
The spiritual energy here is rich and there is no need to pay extra spiritual stones. It is also out of the sight of the neighboring brothers, which is a suitable place for forming pills.
This time, Li Xiuchang formed the pill mainly by storing mana in the body, and the concentration of external spiritual energy is not so high, so he did not borrow the practice room of Brother Wang Long, nor rent the spiritual vein room of the sect.
The concentration of spiritual energy in the medicine field is almost enough.
Li Xiuchang closed his eyes and adjusted his state. Looking inward, he could see that his two dantians were filled with solid mana mixed with blocks and powder.
The first step of forming a pill is to compress the whole body's mana into a solid form.
Li Xiuchang has completed this step in advance.
He can skip the first step and go directly to the second step, which is to operate the Dan-forming Method, compress the mana twice, and condense the prototype of the golden elixir.
Most cultivators will use the magnetic Yuan Dan in this step, swallowing the magnetic Yuan Dan in advance to temporarily contaminate the solid mana with magnetism, making it easier to attract each other and condense into a pill.
But Li Xiuchang has too much mana to use, and has a high tolerance rate, so there is no need to take the magnetic Yuan Dan.
Medicines are three-point poisons, and taking pills will more or less add impurities to the mana, which will affect the quality of the pill.
Li Xiuchang did not take the foundation-building pill when he was building his foundation before, which also gave him a higher starting point when he was forming the pill, and his mana was more refined, and the quality of the pill was naturally higher than others.
In addition, his mana is of high quality and large quantity, and he is practicing the top-level skills compiled by three neighboring brothers. With Li Xiuchang's foundation, if he uses the Nine-Turn Golden Pill Method to form a pill, he can easily form a top-grade golden pill.
This is still the case without cheating.
If the mana reserve of the second dantian is taken into account, Li Xiuchang will definitely become the Nine-Turn Golden Pill.
So the Nine-Turn Golden Pill is not challenging for him.
He wants to try to break through the limit and surpass himself.
In addition to hard work, he can achieve his current achievements because he has a strong heart that dares to challenge himself.
Li Xiuchang has already decided to give up the "Nine-Turn Golden Pill Method", a common method of forming a pill, and choose the "Thirty-Six Changes of Golden Pill" with greater risks and higher upper limits.
There is no difference between the two methods of forming a pill in the step of condensing the prototype of the golden pill. Li Xiuchang began to operate the pill condensation method to compress the mana in the main dantian!
First compress part of the mana, instead of directly compressing all the mana in the dantian.
An invisible pressure acts on part of the mana, forcibly squeezing the powdered and blocky mana together, which makes a gap appear in the originally full dantian.
The pressure continues to increase, and the scattered powdery mana and blocky mana are forcibly compressed into one.
In this process, Li Xiuchang constantly controls more mana to be integrated,
More and more mana participates in the compression, which also leads to more and more free space in the dantian.
After half a day, Li Xiuchang compressed one-third of the mana in the dantian into a small black ball with a diameter of about one inch.
"Not yet successful!"
Li Xiuchang can feel that this is just forcibly compressing the blocky mana and powdery mana into one, but there is no qualitative change.
Still need to continue!
Once the Dan-forming method begins, it cannot be stopped.
The Dan-forming must be completed in one go, otherwise the Dan-forming opportunity will be missed.
Li Xiuchang continues to compress the condensed black mana ball.
This time he did not add more mana, but just repeatedly compressed the black mana ball.
This process was slow and no obvious progress could be seen. From the surface, the black mana ball did not change significantly due to Li Xiuchang's compression.
But Li Xiuchang still mechanically repeated this process. After an unknown period of time, Li Xiuchang suddenly felt the pressure lighten. The black mana ball, which was originally about an inch in diameter, began to collapse and quickly shrank into a black ball the size of a fingertip.
At this time, it looked obviously different. Although it was still a black mana ball, it was shining with metallic luster.
Li Xiuchang knew that he had completed the second step of forming a pill.
The prototype of the golden pill had been successfully condensed.
If he gave up forming a pill at this time, he would become a fake pill cultivator.
Although he had expected it, Li Xiuchang still felt a little regretful when he looked at the black prototype of the golden pill in his dantian.
Other people's golden pills were all golden, but his was black. Can this still be called a golden pill?
It is more appropriate to call it a "black pill".
Fortunately, Li Xiuchang has always been a pragmatist. As long as it is strong enough, it doesn't matter if it looks ugly.
Moreover, the black golden elixir has a different kind of calmness and a special beauty, and it is actually not ugly.
The prototype of the golden elixir has been formed. The next step is the most important step, which is to improve the quality of the golden elixir!
If he follows the "Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Method", Li Xiuchang now only needs to use the remaining mana in his dantian step by step to operate and strengthen the golden elixir.
He still has two-thirds of the mana in the main dantian and a whole dantian of mana in the second dantian.
There is no need to increase the length of the mana. Just with these mana reserves, the nine-turn golden elixir is stable.
But next, these mana will turn into a pill calamity that strikes the golden elixir!
The thirty-six changes of the golden elixir can also be called the thirty-six calamities of the golden elixir.
However, this calamity is not a thunder calamity, but just an energy shock.
Li Xiuchang began to try to brew the first pill calamity.
As Li Xiuchang operated the "36 Changes of the Golden Pill", part of the mana in the Dantian was transformed into an energy attack and struck the black golden pill.
Crack!
With a very slight crisp sound, a clear crack appeared on the black golden pill!
Li Xiuchang immediately felt that his golden pill showed signs of collapse and instability.
Once the golden pill was broken, he would fail to form the pill this time, and his cultivation would also fall.
Li Xiuchang immediately mobilized part of his mana to repair the golden pill.
After a while, the cracks on the golden pill were repaired and the state returned to stability.
Li Xiuchang could feel that the original golden pill prototype had improved slightly in quality and total mana after experiencing a pill tribulation.
Then he repeated the previous steps and struck two pill tribulations one after another.
The damage caused to the golden pill by the next two pill tribulations was smaller and smaller, and the cracks were less obvious.
It was obvious that the quality of the golden pill was improved, and its ability to withstand pill tribulations was also stronger.
Originally, after enduring three pill tribulations, the prototype of the golden elixir officially became a first-grade golden elixir, but Li Xiuchang's black golden elixir only endured two pill tribulations and transformed into a first-grade golden elixir.
This was obviously due to the foundation that Li Xiuchang had accumulated before. He did not take the foundation-building pill when he was building his foundation, which also added to the quality of the elixir.
At this point, Li Xiuchang was already a real true elixir cultivator.
The pill tribulations continued. When it came to the fourth pill tribulation, Li Xiuchang clearly felt the increase in the power of the pill tribulation.
Every three pill tribulations were a step, and the power of the subsequent pill tribulations would increase step by step, but as long as the golden elixir was not directly shattered by a single blow, Li Xiuchang, who had sufficient mana as a backing, could still use mana to repair the golden elixir as before.
This was also the reason why he dared to try the dangerous pill formation method of the 36 changes of the golden elixir.
Every time a pill tribulation fell, Li Xiuchang would immediately use his magic power to repair it, and then proceed to the next pill tribulation...
In this continuous alternating cycle, the quality of the golden elixir gradually improved, and the energy contained in it became more and more terrifying, but the size was slowly shrinking!
And the luster on it became more and more obvious.
Soon, Li Xiuchang took on 24 pill tribulations without any danger!
Although the power of the pill tribulation became stronger and stronger, the quality of the golden elixir also became higher and higher, and it did not pose any threat to Li Xiuchang.
So far, Li Xiuchang has become an eighth-grade pill.
At this time, the golden elixir is only the size of a fingernail, and the luster on it flows, like a black gem.