Chapter 88: Dan Condensation
Two more days passed, and Qin Ran learned the pupil technique of the illusion world, so he planned to go out to make a pill.
As night fell, he packed up, put on a dark suit, walked out of his room, went to the corridor, and jumped over the railing in one step.
In mid-air, he turned around and looked to the side. Outside the kitchen of the wooden house, on the side of the small brick house, that is, outside Zhuifeng's room, under the old locust tree, there was a stone statue of him.
This statue is very ugly. Let's not discuss aesthetics and knife skills. Just talking about its appearance, it looks like something that has been made after three years of learning modeling. It is a freak.
It's very creepy to put it there at night.
Yes, that's right, this is the cat scratching board that Li Shiyin carved out of stone for Zhuifeng.
"What sin have I committed!" Qin Ran looked up at the sky, wanting to cry but without tears. He had to stretch his body, step on the wind, fly out of Danfeng, and quickly leave this sad place.
"Hey? What is Dad doing so late at night?"
In the innermost room, Zhuifeng opened his eyes in the darkness. A pair of black but bright eyes appeared in the darkness. He saw Qin Ran's figure disappear through the big hole in the door. He was very curious.
Thinking of this, he jumped out of his cat bed, pounced forward, merged into the darkness, and followed Qin Ran's scent.
To form a pill, to put it simply, is to knead the mana in the dantian, with the cyclone as the center, and rub out a pill.
From this aspect, there is only one problem, that is, the cyclone and mana are both energy, and they are all the energy absorbed by a cultivator in the foundation-building period. It is obviously too difficult to gather these energies and compress them into a pill.
When doing such an important and difficult thing, and when outsiders cannot help and you can only do it by yourself, it is best to find a safe and suitable place, close down, and make long-term plans.
Originally, as a sect member, Qin Ran was the most suitable and safest to form a pill in the sect. But he was too cautious and only wanted to hide, not to expose himself. In addition, he just found out that someone had set up a trap against Daojianmen, so he didn't dare to make a pill in the sect.
So going out and finding a wretched place to make a pill was Qin Ran's current choice.
After leaving Danfeng, Qin Ran flew low along the edge of the Hengduan Mountains and soon came to a big river. The big river was the mother river of the Northern Chu State, named Cangjiang. He jumped into the river, used the water-like years, assimilated into water, and then went upstream to the source of Cangjiang.
The source of Cangjiang is at the northernmost part of the Hengduan Mountains. This is the highest point of the Hengduan Mountains. Conservatively estimated, it is 10,000 meters. The top of the mountain is covered with snow all year round. After the snow on the mountain melts, it eventually converges into the source of Cangjiang.
Qin Feng naturally had no intention of going to the top of the mountain to survive the catastrophe. He stopped at the foot of the mountain, jumped out of the river, restored his human body, and put on the black clothes.
He found a flat boulder on the shore, checked around and found no threat, then flew as high as he could, opened his pupils, and searched a wide area.
The illusion world is actually a technique to develop the potential of the eyes, so although it is not a special technique for night vision and farsightedness, it still has certain night vision and farsightedness abilities.
After confirming that there was no one nearby - to be honest, it was really difficult to find someone in such a broken place - Qin Ran fell from the air and began to arrange the formation around the boulder.
After arranging the formation, he checked the things in the Qiankun bag again, and after confirming that there was nothing missing, he prepared to form the elixir.
But after he sat cross-legged on the big rock by the river, he always felt uneasy, as if the arrangements he left were still insufficient and not safe enough, so he stood up again, made some arrangements nearby, and then returned to the big rock to officially start forming the elixir.
The so-called elixir formation would be better described by another word, that is, forming an egg. Condensing all the mana in the body as the egg white and eggshell, and then placing one's own soul into the egg as the yolk, a golden egg is formed.
The shell of this golden egg, which is condensed by mana, provides protection and nutrition for the soul hatching, and after the soul hatches, it is the Nascent Soul.
Of course, to condense the mana in the body into an eggshell, and break through from the foundation-building stage to the golden elixir stage, this breakthrough process does not require the soul to be placed in the golden elixir.
Transferring the soul into the golden elixir is an extremely long process, which will last from the early stage of the golden elixir to the middle stage of the golden elixir. When the soul is completely transferred to the golden elixir, the golden elixir begins to hatch the soul, and this stage is actually the late stage of the golden elixir.
However, even if it does not involve the soul, it is already difficult enough to just condense the mana, because it requires the cultivator to have absolute control over the mana in the body.
For most cultivators, absorbing enough mana to form a pill requires them to do everything they can, and they can do anything to increase their cultivation, such as natural materials, treasures, and elixir techniques.
The Dan-forming stage is so far away, so what about tempering the cyclone, condensing the mana, and increasing the control over the mana, is too far away for them.
Therefore, how important is the barrier-breaking pill that can help the Dan-forming stage, and how important is the alchemist...
Of course... All of the above are not a problem for Qin Ran, because he has been preparing for the Dan-forming stage since he just started to build his foundation.
If a talented player like Li Shiyin is allowed to grow wildly, she will become a Dan-forming cultivator within five years, and then spend a long time in the Jindan stage, looking for the opportunity to form an infant throughout her life.
So how many years has Qin Ran been waiting for the foundation-building stage?
Stayed there for twenty years.
Few direct disciples of Daojianmen would wait for twenty years to build their foundation, and even until the master passed away, they were still in the foundation building stage. The disciples in the same batch as Qin Ran have either died, or have been enrolled in a higher sect, or have become the backbone of Daojianmen.
Huang Feiyu, strictly speaking, is a disciple in the same batch as Qin Ran. However, they did not enter through the normal Daodao Ceremony. They were disciples who were accepted by the first seat through the back door. Before being injured, Huang Feiyu, as the direct disciple of the first seat of Jianfeng, was indeed the backbone of Daojianmen.
Therefore, others had formed a pill and left early, and only Qin Ran was still in the foundation building stage.
On the one hand, he was really afraid of forming a pill. He was afraid of forming a pill and afraid of crossing the tribulation, so he was not 100% sure, and he did not want to cross the tribulation; on the other hand, he knew that he was not talented, so he needed to accumulate foundation.
Now Qin Ran has decided to form a pill, so is he 100% sure?
No.
Because of Li Shiyin's arrival and the outbreak of the Devouring Demon Willow, he needed to protect himself and his apprentice in the upcoming crisis, so he had to form a pill.
In his plan, he was also prepared to endure for decades, and form a pill when he was fifty years old, accumulate his foundation, quietly build a holy land for overcoming tribulations, and find magic tools and spiritual materials to refine pills. He must have a 100% chance.
On the day of accepting a disciple, he did not lie to Li Shiyin.
And now, if he wants to form a pill in advance, he is only about...
98% sure.
"Alas..." Qin Ran was worried, and looked up at the dark sky, always feeling unsafe.
98%, not 100%, means there will be accidents.
But after a moment of hesitation, he still gritted his teeth and began to use his magic power...
Fight!