Born with immortal seed

Chapter 100 Dan Cheng
The deepest part of the Alchemy Hall.

In the center of the alchemy chamber of the third-tier earth fire, there is a purple-gold alchemy furnace, standing on three legs, with thirty-two fire crows engraved on it. Four alchemy apprentices stand beside the furnace, which is the same height as themselves, sweating profusely, using fire control techniques to maintain a stable fire.

Although the fire in this place is stable, it often takes dozens of days from the start of the furnace to the completion of the pills, and there are always some unexpected things that can happen.

Twenty-seven days later, the Purple Gold Alchemy Furnace began to shake violently, and six streams of swirling alchemical energy surged up, frantically drawing away the earth fire, which appeared to be running out of steam.

It was just as the alchemy was about to be completed, and the elixir was taking shape.

"Edict!"

Tan Changkong stretched out his withered arm and pointed it at the Purple Gold Furnace. The thirty-two fire crows spewed flames to stabilize the fire.

At the same time, complex incantations were cast into the purple-gold alchemy furnace, making the swirling alchemical energy increasingly condensed. With a soft hum, the furnace roared open.

call out!call out!call out!
A streak of golden light flew out, and Tan Changkong swiftly collected the refined pills into a warm jade box using his unique pill-collecting technique.

The air was filled with the fragrance of medicinal herbs, and the entire alchemy room was permeated with the aroma of elixirs.

Inside the jade box lay six golden pills, each the size of a longan, smooth and warm like jade. Upon closer inspection, one could see tiny patterns on the pills, which even seemed to be shifting and changing.

It's like six flawless works of art.

Tan Changkong closed the warm jade box with satisfaction, instantly sealing the medicinal fragrance inside.

"Congratulations, teacher! Six pills were produced in one batch, with not a single one wasted... Your mastery of Foundation Establishment Pills has reached a superb level, and you can step into the third-level alchemist at any time."

An unremarkable young man witnessed the entire process of refining the Foundation Establishment Pill in the alchemy room.

By comparing it with my own refining techniques, I gained a lot of new insights.

"I'm getting old. Give me another ten years to refine a third-tier pill formula... After I'm gone, the Alchemy Hall will be handed over to you."

With a hint of melancholy and reluctance, Tan Changkong realized that failing to become a third-tier alchemist was a lifelong regret.

"You must remember this: other pills don't matter. You must put your utmost effort into the Foundation Establishment Pill, making the most of every ingredient."

"You can now produce four pills in one batch, which is a huge difference from producing six. In the long run, this could even affect the sect's inheritance, so it should not be underestimated."

"And this Imitation Immortal Fire Crow Furnace, I will pass it on to Han Qingni after I pass away, so that she can also improve her fire control skills."

“Teacher, I already have my own alchemy furnace… The Imitation Immortal Fire Crow Furnace is your personal spiritual artifact. Keep it in the clan. In case a descendant of your family has a talent for alchemy, wouldn’t that be perfect for use?”

Before Han Qing established his foundation, he studied alchemy under Tan Changkong.

Although he had not formally become a disciple, he always treated him with the respect due to a disciple, and even after he successfully established his foundation, he did not change his attitude and remained respectful.

The Imitation Immortal Fire Crow Furnace is a high-grade spiritual artifact that Tan Changkong commissioned to be forged thirty years ago in order to break through to the third-tier alchemist level. He went to Zengguang Immortal City and spent a great deal of effort to have it crafted.

With this alchemy furnace, Tan Changkong's alchemy skills were greatly enhanced.

"Should we leave it to those good-for-nothings and let the alchemy furnace gather dust...? The only promising one, Qin'er, doesn't have any talent in alchemy and isn't suited for this path."

The fire had subsided, and Tan Changkong waved for the alchemy apprentices to leave.

"You don't need to say more, I've already made up my mind... Other items will be passed down among the relatives."

"Teacher, did you leave one Foundation Establishment Pill for Xiaoqin this time?"

"I'll bring this up with the sect leader later; I'm sure he'll give me that face."

Tan Changkong gestured to Han Qing to remain calm, as arrangements had already been made.

He then handed over several jade slips, which contained his life's experience in alchemy.

There is no formal master-disciple relationship between Tan Changkong and Han Qing, but their relationship is one of master and disciple.

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Several months have passed since Bai Zichen returned from the Five Sacred Mountains Temple, and he has finally felt that the first layer of the Five Crystal Glass Body has reached perfection.

No matter how long one contemplates and meditates on the five-crystal divine iron in one's sea of ​​consciousness, the physical body cannot be strengthened even further.

The experiment was conducted using the least lethal peach wood sword, the Demon-Slaying Sword. Without applying any magic, the sword's sharpness was used to stab the arm.

When the Five Crystal Glass Body was operating at full power, a metallic clanging sound was heard the moment the flying sword touched its body.

Five-colored spiritual light exploded, followed by a sharp pain, leaving a faint white mark on the skin without any blood.

"It's like I'm wearing a high-grade defensive magic weapon, providing all-around protection without any blind spots... Once the second layer is completed, I estimate I'll be comparable to a Foundation Establishment stage body cultivator."

Bai Zichen could sense that if the Demon-Slaying Peach Wood Sword were to exert even a little more force, it would slash through his body and cause injury.

He had, of course, already read the cultivation method for the second level of the Five Crystal Glazed Body.

Similar to the first level, one needs to condense a fifth-order spiritual material, Glazed Fire Jade, in one's sea of ​​consciousness, and then use it to strengthen one's physical body.

After cultivating to the second level, one can possess some of the characteristics of the Glazed Fire Jade, absorbing magical power, encompassing over 99% of all spells in the world.

Its function is somewhat similar to the Hundred Refined Heavenly Silk Armor he is currently wearing, which can share the damage.

The second layer of the five-crystal glass body can absorb and mitigate nearly half of the damage when it suffers damage not exceeding its maximum tolerance.

Only a few extremely special supernatural powers, which are not part of the Five Elements, can break the properties of the Glazed Fire Jade.

However, based on the experience of Elder Ge, who had the fastest cultivation speed besides Bai Zichen, it took twelve years to enter the second level and one year to complete it.

The other predecessors generally took even longer.

Based on this calculation, he didn't have time to invest so much energy in a body-refining technique before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, so he could only try it superficially and put it aside for the time being.

Besides meditating and cultivating to increase his magical power, he first chose two sword techniques to study in his spare time.

The trip he participated in to inherit the stone tablets of the Five Sacred Mountains Temple yielded only mediocre results for all participants, including those from the Qingfeng Sect.

Bai Zichen made a special trip to the Transmission Hall. Apart from the Soaring Dragon Mantra inherited by Huo Feiyan, which was stored in the third floor, the rest of the inheritances were left in the first and second floors.

The inheritances handed over by those cultivation families were equally worthless, and even the sects had no interest in exchanging them.

In the end, the contribution points given were so low that many families couldn't even exchange for a single treasure and left empty-handed.

Of all the cultivation families, only the Fire Phoenix Mo Clan has yet to make a move and has not sent anyone to hand over their inheritance.

"The Soaring Dragon Mantra is completely different from the Divine Forging Technique. The latter is a method of cultivating divine consciousness, while the former is a technique for utilizing divine consciousness."

As Bai Zichen's true disciple, he could read the beginnings and summaries of the cultivation manuals in the three levels.

"There are few techniques for using divine sense, and you can still find a few in the Transmission Hall... but there is no method for cultivating divine sense, at least not in the third level."

After cultivating the Tenglong Mantra, one can systematically master the methods of divine sense protection and divine sense injury, instead of relying solely on superhuman divine sense strength as one does now.

It was placed on the third floor of the Transmission Hall, with a learning requirement of 200 sect contribution points.

Because Bai Zichen chose the Five-Crystal Glass Body, he is not eligible for the free exchange for the time being and can only put it aside for later.

"The Foundation Establishment Pill requires 10,000 sect contribution points, which is definitely not enough to collect in time using the normal mission process... It seems I'll have to borrow from others."

Each true disciple is entitled to use a Pure Yang Qi Sha (a type of magical energy) free of charge.

Bai Zichen had already cultivated the first level of the Five Crystal Glazed Body, and his physical strength was comparable to that of a cultivator who specialized in body cultivation, so naturally he would not exchange for the Pure Yang Gang Sha.

The Foundation Establishment spiritual item was exchanged for 1,500 sect contribution points within the sect. With the rewards from this trip to the Five Sacred Mountains Temple, he now had a total of 1,700 sect contribution points in his True Inheritance Token.

(End of this chapter)