Chapter 576 Ancient Alchemy

In the past five years, Wu Yan has been in seclusion and has not practiced most of the time. His main energy has been on the three classic heavenly books and the Shennong Herbal Classic that he brought back from the Liehai Sutra Hall.

After several years of painstaking research, Wu Yan asked himself that his knowledge of cultivation should be extremely extensive in this lower world. Especially after studying these three heavenly books and a volume of Shennong Herbal Classic, he felt a sense of sudden enlightenment when comparing them with the large number of ancient books he had read in the Tianzhou Continent before.

Many things that he felt ignorant of before now feel extremely clear.

What made him even more excited was that these three heavenly books were indeed closely related to the Dao Yanlu in his sea of ​​consciousness. After he read all the copies of the three heavenly books several times, these skills and classics were not only firmly remembered in his mind, but the contents of these heavenly books were also automatically recorded in the three ancient books Dao Yanlu.

If that were the case, it would not be a big surprise for him. After all, the cultivation manuals recorded in the three heavenly books are all the sect manuals of the three holy places in ancient times, and the texts and content information recorded are all the common texts and thinking habits of ancient times.

There are great differences between the contemporary cultivators and the ancient cultivators, whether in the texts they use or in their understanding and thinking habits of the way of heaven. If contemporary cultivators want to understand these ancient books, they must spend a lot of effort and time to consult various written books.

Wu Yan completely skipped these unnecessary troubles because of the Dao Yan Lu. Because after the contents of the three heavenly books were recorded in the three ancient books Dao Yan Lu, these things seemed to have been understood by him long ago, and he could understand them deeply without thinking too much.

Especially the Human Dao Yan Lu and Earth Dao Yan Lu, which had been successfully refined by his Yuan Shen, he understood them more deeply and subtly.

What's even more regrettable is that because he inherited three ancient sacred books from the three holy places, Wu Yan had no difficulty understanding the various ancient spiritual medicines, spiritual herbs, pill recipes, alchemy techniques and other strange contents recorded in the Shennong Pharmacopoeia.

It is no exaggeration to say that in terms of the insights into the various cultivation knowledge and customs of the ancient immortal world, I am afraid that no one in the world can match Wu Yan.

In the past few years, Wu Yan has been obsessed with the study of ancient alchemy. He has sent people to collect dozens of different alchemy furnaces and alchemy cauldrons of various sizes from all over Xumi Sea several times, and collected various pill recipes and pharmacopoeias for comparison and research between ancient and modern times.

After a lot of comparisons and explorations, he suddenly discovered that the alchemy of the world has declined to an extremely terrible state. No wonder there are fewer and fewer cultivators who can break through the realm with pills.

To some extent, for those monks with outstanding talents, even without the assistance of elixirs, they can easily cross the realm barrier, and the decline of alchemy will not have much impact on them. But for those monks with ordinary or even poor talents, it will definitely have an immeasurable impact.

Nowadays, there are only a few monks who can break through the shackles of the realm, advance bravely all the way, and cultivate to a high level, and most of them are monks with excellent spiritual roots. And the vast majority of monks with three spiritual roots, four spiritual roots, and even five spiritual roots, if they do not rely on the assistance of external elixirs, even it is difficult to build a foundation, let alone form a pill and condense an infant.

In ancient times, it was not unreasonable to advocate external alchemy, use external objects to make elixirs, and use external elixirs to help impact the realm. Because the qualifications of the monks in ancient times were even worse than those in the current world of immortal cultivation, but the monks who could cultivate to a profound realm in ancient times were many times more than now.

In the current world of immortal cultivation, whether it is refining magic weapons or refining elixirs, cultivators rely on internal alchemy, using the true fire or elixir fire cultivated in the body to condense magic weapons and refine elixirs. Only when refining low-level elixirs will they use external spiritual fire. This has certainly improved the precise control of elixir essence and spells to a certain extent, but it has also increased the consumption of one's own mana and essence, causing one's essence to leak out in vain, so that it is necessary to make up for this loss by collecting external objects, which is even more unprofitable.

As we all know, in the world of immortal cultivation, the evaluation of the elixir grade is divided into three grades, four grades and twelve levels.

The lower grade is the spiritual elixir, which is divided into four grades: lower, middle, upper and extreme. The middle grade is the immortal elixir, which is also divided into these four grades. The upper grade is the god-level elixir, which is also divided into these four grades.

Among the twelve-grade elixirs, the spiritual-grade elixirs are suitable for cultivators below the stage of transformation of spirit, the immortal-grade elixirs are suitable for cultivators from the stage of transformation of spirit to the stage of fusion, and the god-grade elixirs are suitable for cultivators who are in the stage of great success.

In the current world of immortal cultivation, no one can be seen who can refine immortal-grade elixirs. The immortal-grade elixirs taken by those powerful cultivators are all obtained from the secret realm of ancient ruins.

However, when a cultivator is impacting the Yuanying stage from the late stage of the great perfection of the Jindan stage, it is said that as long as there is a suitable top-grade spiritual elixir, the chance of successfully breaking through the barrier can be greatly increased. But this is only relative to those cultivators with better spiritual root qualifications.

For those cultivators whose spiritual root qualifications are not very good, or even very poor, they must rely on the corresponding lower-grade immortal-grade elixirs to support them through this dangerous barrier.

According to the general, Wu Yanyin's spiritual root qualifications are considered to be excellent, but because the practice he practices is too special, he also needs lower-grade immortal-grade elixirs to successfully break through the barrier.

The two Jian Yuan Dan in his hands were actually lower-grade immortal-level pills suitable for sword cultivators to take to break through.

However, these two lower-grade immortal-level Jianyuan Pills were what Wu Yan was going to use to develop and refine new Jianyuan Pills. When he got these two pills, he had made up his mind that he would only take them if he could refine the same pills, otherwise, he would never take them.

Compared to him, his three senior brothers actually needed this lower-grade immortal-level Jianyuan Pill more.

In the past few years, he has been trying to refine various different pills based on the external alchemy techniques he learned from the Shennong Pharmacopoeia, but unfortunately, not to mention the lower-grade immortal-level pills, he has not been able to refine even one of the best spiritual-level pills.

The reason for this situation is nothing more than the lack of various handy tools and materials suitable for refining this kind of pill.

The Shennong Pharmacopoeia clearly stated that if you want to refine spiritual-level pills, you must have a handy spiritual-level alchemy cauldron, two different stable spiritual-level flames of yin and yang, and two different spiritual-level liquids of yin and yang.

Over the years, Wu Yan has been shuttling between Earth Flame Peak and True Water Peak, and has successfully refined the spiritual-level Yin Fire contained under Earth Flame Peak, and the spiritual-level True Yang Water in True Water Peak.

But even so, he still needs a stable spiritual-level Yang Fire and a spiritual-level ****. With these necessary auxiliary spiritual materials, he must also have a spiritual-level alchemy cauldron.

Ordinary cauldrons are likely to explode before the elixir is successfully refined due to the use of different spiritual fires and spiritual waters, let alone refining elixirs?

Unfortunately, over the years, he has sent reliable disciples to search the markets in various places in the Xumi Sea Xiuxian Realm, but he has not been able to buy a suitable spiritual-level elixir furnace or cauldron.

The large amount of elixir furnace and cauldron residues piled on the ground in the cave just now is the best proof.

What's even more pitiful is that the monk Baicao, who is known as the master of alchemy in Xumi Sea, and a Dharma-phase Arhat monk who was named the Supreme Elder in Xumi Sect, only has a spiritual-level alchemy furnace in his hand, which he collects as a treasure and never lets outsiders take a look at.

Not to mention the harsh conditions for refining immortal-level elixirs.

Without an immortal-level cauldron, immortal-level Yin-Yang flames, and immortal-level Yin-Yang liquid, it is impossible to refine immortal-level elixirs.

He does have immortal-level liquid, which is the Moonlight Spirit Liquid. But in order to help old man Ji Guitian remove the toxins accumulated in his body over the years, he has used up all the Moonlight Spirit Liquid in his hands.

In fact, as long as there is a suitable cauldron, there is no need to worry about the corresponding liquid. Because, whether it is a spiritual-level cauldron, an immortal-level cauldron, or a god-level cauldron, they all have the special function of collecting spiritual water of corresponding quality.

When he learned this, Wu Yan once suspected that the furnace of heaven and earth in his sea of ​​consciousness was not just a soul-soothing artifact, but was most likely the furnace used by Daozu to refine immortal pills.

Being able to collect moonlight spirit liquid and absorb the most essence of immortal green soil in the soil is a magical power that only immortal-level furnaces can possess.

But strangely, when Wu Yan learned the immortal-level control of the tripod recorded in Shennong's Pharmacopoeia, he found that the furnace of heaven and earth in his sea of ​​consciousness did not react at all when he used it.

This made Wu Yan even doubt that the furnace of heaven and earth was not an immortal-level cauldron, but a divine-level cauldron?

But the highest level recorded in Shennong's Pharmacopoeia was only the immortal-level control of the tripod and the immortal-level control of fire. If you want to refine immortal-level pills, you must find a suitable immortal-level cauldron and immortal-level flame.

After repeated research, Wu Yan discovered that if he and Xuan Yazi wanted to reach the Nascent Soul realm, they had to take a low-grade immortal pill called "Rong Yuan Dan" in ancient times to have a high chance of reaching the Nascent Soul realm.

Of course, for Wu Yan, if he didn't have this low-grade immortal "Rong Yuan Dan", he could also reach the Nascent Soul realm by taking Jian Yuan Dan.

The recipes of Rong Yuan Dan and Jian Yuan Dan are also recorded in Shennong's Pharmacopoeia, and even the refining methods are recorded in detail.

Unfortunately, there are only recipes and refining methods, but the various immortal materials for refining these two pills are all things that only existed in ancient times and have long been extinct in the world. Where can he find them?

Perhaps only in the space fragments of some relics handed down from ancient times, but where can he find such broken space fragments?

Maybe it can only be found in the core secret hall of the Dragon Palace Water Mansion or the Daode Palace Secret Realm? In the past few years, Wu Yan has repeatedly thought about this possibility. After all, such extinct ancient spiritual objects can only be found in those ruins and secret realms.

If this guess is true, then he has nothing to hesitate about. Going to the Dragon Palace and Water Palace in the Abyss Sea is the first choice for this expedition.

He has the Black Dragon Scale and the Green Ox Gold Order. Since the two secret realms will be opened at the same time, it means that as long as he can enter the Dragon Palace, he will have the opportunity to enter the core secret hall of the Moral Palace.