Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 19 Magical Powers

Since the transformation of the Taichu Purple Apricot tree, the routes of spiritual energy flowing within the tree have gradually become a thousand times more complicated.

Until now, the flow of spiritual energy within the tree has reached a relatively stable level.

Although the natal object is an extension of the cultivator's body, it is ultimately different from the body.

Yi Dong vaguely felt that the spiritual power flow route of the Taichu Immortal Apricot Tree should be an imperfect magical power.

If this magical power is in his body, regardless of whether he can use it, he should be able to roughly understand the effect of this magical power.

However, no information related to the magical power could be sensed in the body of the Taichu Immortal Apricot, and one could only roughly guess that it was related to the Immortal Apricot that formed once every thousand years.

Many of the spiritual beasts in the world are gifted with magical spells, and even some of the spiritual beasts with noble bloodlines have gifted with supernatural powers.

Spiritual plants have various miraculous effects, and the routes of spiritual energy flowing through their bodies are naturally not simple. Many of them contain innate spells and magical powers.

Now, Yi Dong no longer has the information about the Taoist temple, and he cannot access the knowledge about supernatural powers in a short period of time. For the time being, he can only study supernatural powers on his own.

In fact, there are many discussions about great and small supernatural powers in the ancient cultivation methods.

However, after research, the Taoist temple discovered that these magical powers were basically just in name only and were essentially spells with stronger effects.

The magical powers of the ancient cultivators and those of the modern cultivators are completely different concepts. Figuratively speaking, if the small and big magical powers of the ancient cultivators are compared to carts and horse-drawn carriages, then the magical powers of the modern cultivators are supercars. Although both are cars, they are completely different orders of magnitude.

Therefore, Yi Dong would rather study Taichu Zixing's magical powers than collect ancient cultivation techniques to study those so-called magical powers that are ambiguous and have not even explained their basic principles.

Yi Dong studied supernatural powers, not because he wanted to develop them at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Instead, he wanted to learn the operation of spiritual power in the process of studying supernatural powers, explore new spiritual power circuits, and intertwine stronger spiritual power circuit patterns to improve the efficiency of his skills.

After refining the Taichu Immortal Apricot, Yi Dong gained a talent he called "supernormal comprehension."

It can be imagined that Taichu Xianxing’s supernatural powers are probably related to his understanding.

If it can help you gain further understanding, that would naturally be a good thing.

But if the effect of the supernatural power overlaps with the talent, or even the effect is covered by the talent, then there will be little use in nurturing this supernatural power in the future.

If given a choice, Yi Dong would naturally want to develop a magical power with great destructive power.

What prosperous times? He only believes in the sense of security that firepower brings him.

Unfortunately, he had no choice.

Yi Dong picked up the jade slips one by one and began to record the routes of the spiritual power flowing within the tree.

The human body is hundreds of times smaller than the trunk of the Taichu Immortal Apricot tree. Moreover, most of his body is fixed with the spiritual power circuits of the exercises, and he can only separate a part of the area to nurture supernatural powers, just like hanging a fruit on the spiritual power circuit tree in the body.

Turn the spiritual power flow route into a spiritual power circuit, and then shrink it thousands of times.

As you can imagine, this is a huge project that will take hundreds of years, and in the process, he will have to constantly test the effects of each spiritual power circuit, and use various materials to experiment in the outside world. Ultimately, he will have to build millions of spiritual power circuits together, which will consume a lot of resources.

Yi Dong was worried that none of the laboratories in the intermediate Taoist academy were used to study magical powers.

Not to mention that he is the only one doing research at Zijin Mountain.

"Perhaps Dongfanghong can help as an experimental assistant."

Thinking about it, Yi Dong was not in a hurry.

These days, knowledge is priceless.

Just like the knowledge in the Taoist temple, a lot of it cannot even be bought with spirit stones.

It can be imagined that after he developed his magical powers, let alone making them public, even if others spent millions of spirit stones, they would not be able to buy the fruits of his labor.

Even if he has descendants in the future, he will not pass on all the knowledge of his supernatural powers.

Therefore, since Dongfanghong wanted to have access to knowledge about supernatural powers, even if it was just a superficial exposure, Yidong also wanted to see if this person had any intention of staying in Zijin Mountain.

As for making Dongfanghong a Taoist partner.

That's not necessary.

In this era of moral decline, it is hard to say that the relationship between Taoist partners is deeper than the one-night stand between the women in The Little Red Mansion.

Male cultivators may have hundreds of beauties in secret, and some female cultivators may have tens of thousands of male lovers in secret.

In the fairyland, there are many long-lived people, and indifference and even coldness are the main themes of society.

time flies.

Zijin Mountain gradually began to decline.

After Yi Fan arrived at the upper Taoist academy, the Yi family in the county city showed signs of rising.

Yi Ye, one of the six powerful people in the Yi family, has connections with most of the people in the Yi family of Zijin Mountain.

These people are either Yi Ye’s children or Yi Ye’s grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.

In the past, the Yi family’s resources were concentrated, and even though they had a close relationship with Yi Ye, they could not get enough resources, so they came to Zijin Mountain.

However, now, Yi Fan has become a student of the Higher Taoist Academy, and can be said to be a reserve immortal official.

More business channels in Quncheng are open to the Yi family.

Because of the rumor that Yi Hao possessed a spiritual body, Yi Ye changed his Taoist partners more frequently and had more children.

However, his newborn children did not grow up in a short period of time, and most of them ran away to Zijin Mountain. When the Yi family expanded, he was short of manpower, so he summoned people from Zijin Mountain back many times.

Two years later, there were less than a hundred cultivators on Zijin Mountain.

Most of those who left were unwilling to go back empty-handed and wanted to sell the spiritual fields and medicinal fields owned by the Purple Mountain Consortium to Yi Dong.

In this situation, Yi Dong asked Yi De and Yi Fu to lower the price as much as possible.

Yi Dong had no good feelings towards those who left.

If he tried to chase them away, he might feel a little guilty, but if they left on their own initiative, that would be a betrayal, so how could Yi Dong be soft-hearted?

Yi Liang and the other two did not leave.

It's not that they identify so much with Zijin Mountain, but simply because their share of the Zijin Mountain Consortium is just below Yidong's. It can be said that many of the spiritual fields and medicinal fields in the entire Zijin Mountain belong to them.

They probably won't get more when they go back.

Yi Liang and his two companions did not go back, but they lost a large number of supporters, and Yi Dong no longer took them seriously.

It was just as the three men thought, Yi Dong was just waiting for them to die of old age.

Even if they are promoted to the foundation-building stage, it doesn’t matter. They just have to wait another hundred years at most.

No matter what kind of successor the three of them cultivate, even if he cultivates it to the Golden Core stage, Yi Dong doesn't care.

According to the ownership documents of Zijin Mountain, apart from Yi Dong, these three people have the largest shares.

As long as the three of them die, the ownership documents will need to be changed a lot, and then Yi Dong will be able to easily take over Zijin Mountain under his own name.

This mild approach is safe and will not give outsiders such as the Mu family any opportunity to take advantage.

There are fewer Yi family cultivators on Zijin Mountain, but there are many more cultivators from Zijin Mountain.

Although Zijin Mountain College was facing operational difficulties, the spiritual energy of the entire Zijin Mountain spiritual vein was much richer than that in the county town. Many people with the qualifications to become immortal cultivators still wanted to enroll in Zijin Mountain.

As for mortal students, there are not that many.

The graduation system, however, is not that strict because Zijinshan University no longer has OEM business.

This year marks the seventh year since the establishment of Purple Mountain College and the ninth year since Yi Dong came to Purple Mountain.

Yi De and Yi Fu come to see Yi Dong.

"You can't even sell the spiritual rice?"

Yi Dong just wanted to laugh.

The seven great families only have these tricks.

Do they think that the only means left for Zijin Mountain is to sell spiritual rice?

"It's been two years, and you still haven't obtained the qualification to sell pills?"

Yi De and Yi Fu looked at each other and saw bitterness in each other's eyes.

Yi De said after careful consideration:

"We applied for ten versions of elixirs, including elixirs for body refining, qi refining, spirit refining and even mirror breaking. However, nine of them were not approved by the Quncheng Review Bureau, saying that we infringed on the intellectual property rights of others."

Upon hearing this, Yi Dong showed a hint of disdain.

What is intellectual property? This concept is somewhat similar to Yi Dong’s “intellectual property” in his previous life, but it is more overbearing.

Simply put, within the Immortal Kingdom, there are some large families spanning multiple states that have set up countless monopoly businesses.

For example, in the medicine business, there is so-called intellectual property.

In fact, just for the Qi-refining pill used by ancient cultivators in the early stages of Qi-refining, the Taoist temple has developed millions of methods of refining it.

The alchemy skills are not changing with each passing day, but in the research institutes of each Taoist temple within the fairyland, alchemy is becoming more and more sophisticated, and the method of refining a new elixir can be updated every three to five years. Since the spiritual material resources vary from place to place, the spiritual materials used in elixirs with the same name may vary greatly.

In this case, what intellectual property rights are there?
Of course, this kind of elixir is basically aimed at the group of ancient cultivators.

The modern methods of alchemy and refining are cheaper and more affordable than the old techniques of ancient practitioners.

It can be said that there are not many ancient alchemists and weapon refiners left nowadays.

Just like the reason why the traditional pharmacists and blacksmiths’ inheritance was basically cut off after the pharmaceutical factory and weapons factory came out in Yidong’s previous life.

The reason why Quncheng didn't allow Zijinshan to obtain a license to sell elixirs was simply because they wanted to deny him benefits.

But Yi Dong just refused to give any benefits.

He just wanted to see who could outlast whom.

Unexpectedly, after two years of hard work, Yi De and his team got this result.

Although the result was expected, Yi Dong still sighed that corrupt officials are a magical species that will not become extinct even if the world changes.

"Okay, what pills passed the review?"

"It has a similar effect to the Cao Huan Dan."

"very good."

Yi Dong instantly came up with three versions of the Cao Huan Dan recipe and their approximate proportions, and he would be able to research a more affordable Cao Huan Dan later.

Well, it is enough for only one kind of elixir to pass the review. From now on, Yi Dong will call all the elixirs of Zijin Mountain "Cao Huan Dan", and at most change the suffix, such as No. 1 or No. 2.

In theory, Cao Huan Dan is for spiritual beasts to eat, but Yi Dong can't stop others from buying it for their own consumption.

As for whether there will be an investigation, there are many idle people in Zijin Mountain anyway, and he, Yi Dong, does not need to step forward. The most serious thing is to go to court.

(End of this chapter)