Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 137 Leather Refining
Ji An stayed overnight at Chitong Mountain and said goodbye to Zhang Yuanshan the next morning.

Then he drove the shuttle to Zizhu Mountain, which was the last stop of his trip.

Li Lingyu welcomed him into the cave with a strange smile on his face:
"Junior brother is such a rare guest."

The reputation of Monk Stone Turtle is widely spread among the many alchemists in the sect.

Ji An was puzzled:
"Why do you all speak in the same accent? Senior Brother Ye from the Work Hall, Senior Brother Zhang from the Red Copper Mountain, you all speak strangely."

This coincidence made him feel that something was happening that he didn't know about but everyone else knew.

"You haven't set foot outside of Scarlet Flame Peak in ten years. Isn't it reasonable to say that you are a rare visitor?"

"Uh, okay."

Ji An raised his hands. What the other party said made a lot of sense, and he was speechless.

He coughed a few times and took out a piece of talisman paper covered with cinnabar characters from his storage bag:
"Senior Sister, I'm here to ask you for help with two things.

The first thing is to help refine this kind of medicine.

The second thing is, I want to ask if you can refine other elixirs to improve my cultivation.

After the third level of foundation building, the effect of Qingling Pill has become increasingly poor and can no longer meet my needs."

Among the elixirs distributed by the sect to cultivators in the early stage of foundation building, only the Qingling Pill is suitable for him, and it is impossible to exchange it for other pills.

The other party broke through the third level of foundation building half a year earlier than him, and he is an alchemist. He should be able to refine an elixir to replace the Qingling Pill.

"Something happened and you thought of Senior Sister?"

Li Lingyu took the talisman paper and teased.

"Senior Sister, your words are not very kind. I have someone send the roasted pine nuts and high-quality spiritual charcoal to your cave every year, right?"

"There aren't enough pine nuts."

Li Lingyu blinked cunningly, and the fox tail behind him stood up.

"Or, I can use my spirit stones to buy more from my junior brother?"

Facing the other party's retreat to advance, Ji An shook his head:

"Starting next year, I will give Senior Sister a few dozen kilograms more every year, and if there are any good things, I will give them to Senior Sister to try."

The item is not worth many spirit stones, and as an alchemist, the other party is not short of these spirit stones. He probably wants to get the pleasure of being treated preferentially.

At this time, the most correct approach is to satisfy this little thought.

Li Lingyu nodded with a smile, carefully checked the contents on the talisman paper, and said after a while:
"This pill recipe is for refining the elixir needed for earth-based monster beasts. Judging from the medicinal properties, it should be used to break through to a higher realm.

Could it be that Junior Brother's Soul-Seeking Rat is about to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage?"

"Senior sister has a sharp eye. That's why Jinmao has been practicing Qi Refining at the ninth level for several years."

"I have no experience in refining similar pills. I don't know how many times it will take to refine them. Junior brother, be mentally prepared."

Ji An smiled and said, "Senior sister, you can feel free to refine it. I won't let you suffer any loss."

The refining of this kind of elixir is much simpler than the foundation-building elixir. The medicinal materials are all some tiger and wolf medicines, which are not rare and not expensive. He can afford the loss if one or two furnaces are wasted.

"I've started collecting herbs these past few days, and I'll probably be able to give you news in about half a month."

Li Lingyu took out an emerald jade bottle from his storage bag and said:
"Your current situation is that you've taken too many Qingling Pills and developed a drug resistance. Coupled with your realm improvement, the effect of the pills seems to have decreased significantly.

This is the Yunzhi Pill that I refined. Its medicinal power is only slightly better than the Qingling Pill. It is also a pill for the initial stage of foundation building.

If the Yunzhi Pill doesn't work, I'll be at my wit's end. You need to find an alchemist with more recipes."

She pointed to the stone door beside the wall:
"The quiet room is over there. Try refining one to see the effect."

This junior brother bought all the pills from her, and she began to calculate in her mind how many Qingling Pills he had eaten over the years.

Ji An poured out a pill from the jade bottle. The pill was light green with two white lines on it. The elegant fragrance made people feel refreshed.

He put down the jade bottle and said:
"I'll go refine the elixir and see how it works."

Two quarters of an hour later, Ji An walked out of the stone chamber with a smile, bowed and said:

"The effect of the Yunzhi Pill has met expectations. It should be able to support me to break through to the middle stage of foundation building. How many pills does Senior Sister have now? How much are they worth?"

The medicinal power of the pill should take an hour to be fully refined, but he couldn't keep people waiting for too long, so he came out early.

Li Lingyu waved her hand, a faint fragrance wafting from her sleeves:
"As long as you are satisfied, Junior Brother, please refine the pill completely first. Don't waste its medicinal power. Consider this a gift from me. I won't accept any spirit stones."

"I'm afraid Senior Sister will be impatient waiting," Ji An bowed and returned to the quiet room to refine the elixir.

By the time he finished refining the elixir, it was already noon.

The two of them ate and chatted, and Li Lingyu said:
"The price of the medicinal materials used to refine Yunzhi Pills is slightly higher than that of Qingling Pills. The internal price within the sect is thirty spirit stones per pill, and one will be given for every thirty pills purchased."

She has only been involved in the refining of Yunzhi Dan in the last two years, and the profit at this price is very low given her current level of skill.

"Yes, sixty."

Ji An took out 20 medium-grade spirit stones and sighed:
"The extra spirit stones will be used as a deposit for refining the demon beast breakthrough elixir. Senior Sister, I may have to buy elixirs on credit from you in the next few years."

"Why, even the richest men have their days of poverty?"

Li Lingyu didn't quite believe that the other party was a high-level spiritual farmer who had accumulated a rich fortune before building his foundation.

“Hey, after the spiritual vein of Scarlet Flame Peak was upgraded, there were more than a thousand acres of spiritual farmland. I contracted it directly, but the crops planted there will not be able to produce for a few years, but the rent to the sect cannot be delayed.

In the next few years, besides cultivation time, I'll be spending a lot of time tending to the spiritual fields, so my time drawing talismans will be compressed. "I see. Okay, I'll give you a credit limit of 3,000 spirit stones, no more."

"Okay, when I become rich in a few years, I will buy you some pills."

Li Lingyu was speechless. That’s it?

After leaving Zizhu Mountain and returning to Chiyan Peak, Ji An had finished what he needed to do.

Every morning he practiced martial arts to improve his cultivation and comprehend the divine meaning of the martial arts. During the day he pondered the Qingyang Talisman and the Liujin Jade Bone Body. Under the moonlight he became a hard laborer.

The schedule is full and I have returned to the state when I just moved into Chiyan Peak.

He mastered the Five Directions Spirit Gathering Technique and discovered that this technique was similar to the Soul Sealing Technique, requiring eight kinds of spiritual energy to advance.

However, it is much easier to improve than the Soul Sealing Technique, and the spiritual energy consumed is slightly higher than that of improving the Qi Refining Stage spell.

He spent a quarter of an hour every day practicing magic beside the golden-red mist erupting from the crater, extracting the essence of gold.

The spiritual power here was even more powerful, and he could not hold on for too long. Every time he came down from the top of the mountain, his skin was bright red as if he was drunk.

More than half a month passed like this, and Wei Songnian came to visit Chiyan Peak.

Beside the stone table in the cold pond, Ji An and his partner sat facing each other, the charcoal fire in the stove was blazing, and white smoke was curling from the kettle.

Wei Songnian took out a storage bag and two medium-grade spirit stones and said:
"Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission. I have bought all the spiritual items that Senior Brother needed, and I have a balance of 200 spiritual stones.

I just came back from Qingyun Fairy City and rushed here as soon as possible."

Ji An brewed some spiritual tea and picked up the storage bag: "Let me check the contents."

Since it involves the practice of martial arts, you cannot be careless and of course you have to check it carefully.

He took out the jade slip, checked the materials and weighed them, and after working for a while, he nodded:

"Yes, exactly. Thank you for your help, Junior Brother. How often will you visit Qingyun Immortal City in the future?"

"I'll go again next month, and it should be once every three or four months in the future."

Wei Songnian replied that this month he would integrate more into the sect's foundation-building circle, and then go to the family shop in Xiancheng to discuss what kind of goods to trade in the future.

Ji An took out a jade slip:

"There are some second-level spiritual objects recorded here. Junior brother, please help me find out if there is any channel to trade or exchange them.

Especially the spiritual silk called Golden Spotted Spider Silk, see if you can buy it in the Immortal City."

This is the material he lacks to refine the Apricot Yellow Flag. It would be best if he could get it as soon as possible, otherwise he can only trade and exchange it slowly.

Wei Songnian took the jade slip, read the information, and said with a smile:

"I tried my best to get some information, but they were all high-level spiritual objects. I don't think it will be easy to get any results in a short time."

"Just do your best. Come, have some tea."

The two chatted for a while, and Wei Songnian drank the tea, stood up and said:

"Brother, I still have to go back to set up the magic array and build the cave. There are too many things waiting for me to do. I'll take my leave first."

Ji An nodded:

"Business is urgent, so I won't keep you any longer.

After you are settled, I will invite you and your fellow disciples from the two nearby sacred mountains to come visit me."

"Ok."

Ji An flew to the mountainside on a shuttle, opened the magic barrier and entered the cave.

The energy of gold and fire is intense here, making it the perfect place for body tempering.

He took off his Taoist robe and inner clothes, leaving only shorts, revealing his slightly muscular body.

Take out the golden brown ore powder from the storage bag, prepare the required potion, and stir the powder and potion into a medicinal paste.

Occasionally, golden light flashed in the medicinal mud, as if the mud was mixed with gold powder, and it smelled like traditional Chinese medicine.

Ji An picked up the medicinal mud and applied it on the exposed skin.

The medicinal mud felt cool to the touch, which was beyond his expectation.

He used his spiritual sense to feel that no part of the medicinal mud was left out, and began to operate the Glazed Jade Bone Body to perform the first skin refining.

Ji An took up his stance and adjusted his breathing rhythm. Under the influence of his internal breath, his skin began to bulge and then flatten from his lower abdomen.

It was like waves rolling up and down, and the muscles were slightly deformed.

The cool feeling in the medicinal mud gradually turned into warmth, and soon began to become hot, accompanied by a pricking pain.

The pain was bearable, but continuous, seeping through the skin into the muscles.

As he breathed, tiny specks of light emanated from the medicinal mud.

Half an hour later, Ji An felt the pain completely disappear and realized that the medicinal mud had lost its effect.

The medicinal mud, which was originally as soft as mud, had now hardened. He moved his body, and the mud pieces fell off, revealing his red skin.

"No wonder not many cultivators choose to practice body training. Whether I practice the Qingyuan Sutra or the Qingmu Changsheng Gong, my body feels comfortable most of the time. But when it comes to body training, I never feel comfortable for a single moment."

Ji An rested for a while and checked the condition of his skin. He found that his skin could still withstand it, so he performed another skin refining.

(End of this chapter)