Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 149 Silver Armor
After bidding farewell to Wei Songnian, Ji An returned to the cave and his body-refining technique broke through to the silver armor level today.

He began to prepare the potion, and then weighed various metal powders in strict proportion, added them into the potion and stirred them evenly.

The medicinal mud prepared this time looks much better, with a light silver color and a radiant glow.

The smell is not pungent, and even has a light fragrance with a slight cooling feeling.

Ji An took off his Taoist robe and inner clothes. After a year of body training, his muscles had begun to take shape.

Although I can't catch up with those weightlifting fanatics, I have all the abdominal and back muscles I should have.

He applied the medicinal mud on his body. Because he wanted to break through, the mud he applied this time was as thick as a finger.

He used his spiritual sense to feel the thickness of the medicinal mud on his body and tried to make it even. When he finished applying it, he looked much fatter.

Ji An practiced the body refining technique, absorbing the golden spiritual energy from the medicinal mud, and immediately felt a sharp breath seeping into his skin and muscles.

The medicinal mud was like icy mud, and the chill penetrated into the bone marrow, as if standing naked on the top of a snow-covered mountain with a cold wind blowing like a knife.

The spirituality in the metal powder was aroused by the technique and continuously entered his body.

He felt as if countless steel needles were piercing him, and he couldn't help but tremble all over.

This feeling is so sour and refreshing.

Ji An gritted his teeth and endured the pain as he continued to practice his skills. Countless tiny dots of light lit up in the medicinal mud, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.

Physical cultivation itself is much more difficult than magic cultivation, but there is one advantage. The muscles, bones and skin that have been trained will have strong defensive capabilities even without activating the skills, and will have greater resistance to harsh environments.

When the human body suffers pain, it always feels that time becomes very long. Ji An tried his best to practice the exercises over and over again.

We must not relax our resolve, otherwise the breakthrough will be interrupted and we will have to endure the same pain again, which will cause both mental and physical damage.

The cold feeling gradually faded away, and Ji An felt hot all over again, and his internal organs felt like they were burning.

The medicinal mud is very breathable, and a large amount of heat escapes from the pores, causing mist to rise in the cave.

Ji An lost his sense of time and endured the torment of ice and fire.

He felt his skin getting tighter and tighter, and his muscles began to squeeze and contract.

I don’t know how long it took, but the pain receded like the tide, and it seemed as if infinite power rose from under my feet.

Ji An clenched his fists, and the medicinal mud on his body flew off like dry powder that had lost its moisture. A sense of power that could blow up everything arose spontaneously.

This feeling of power came and went quickly, and was followed by an endless feeling of hunger.

His internal organs played a symphony, and it seemed as if a tiny black hole had appeared in his stomach, greedily devouring everything around it.

He even felt that those organs were disappearing, every cell in his body was howling with hunger, and his hair was shaking constantly.

Ji An's legs went weak and he fell to the ground.

He used his trembling hands to perform the object control technique and grabbed a medicine bottle.

"Thank Daozu, I still have the Bigu Pill."

Ji An was grateful for his good habit from the bottom of his heart. Although he seldom took this kind of pill, he always kept a few of them with him.

He poured out all the pills and randomly stuffed one into his mouth.

When the hunger subsided a little and his body regained some strength, Ji An stood up shakily and grabbed his Taoist robe and put it on.

After walking out of the cave, he used the flying shuttle to rush towards the cold pond at the foot of the mountain.

"Yuhan Yulian, quickly bring some fresh fruit and meat jerky. Also, stew a large pot of rabbit meat right away."

Ji An shouted that even after taking the Qigong pill, he still felt that he could swallow a cow.

"Yes, Uncle Master, please wait a moment."

The two sisters looked at each other, and although they didn't know why the other party did this, they still carried out the order very decisively.

The elder sister went to get the jerky, while the younger sister collected the dried rabbit meat, rinsed it several times, put it into the pot, lit the charcoal and stewed it.

Ji An turned into a glutton and ate up all the food Xia Yuhan brought. He then ate half a pot of spicy rabbit meat before he felt his body recover.

"Oh, it feels good."

He breathed a sigh of relief, and only then did he have the leisure to look at the results of his body training.

The skin becomes more delicate and elastic, the original bronze appearance becomes ivory white, and a closer look gives it a metallic texture.

It's not just the skin, his muscle density has increased a lot and he is more explosive.

He sighed in his heart:
"What a pity, the tricky method can't refine bones and organs, otherwise I would be invincible."

Half a year has passed.

In the cave, the earth spirit fruit trees were laden with yellow fruits the size of pecans, and a faint fragrance filled the air.

The peel is crystal clear and shiny, just like jade.

Ji An took a deep breath and felt relaxed all over.

"Squeak."

The golden retriever jumped excitedly around the Earth Spirit Fruit Tree. It had been waiting for this day to come for a long time.

A ripe fruit fell from the spiritual tree and was about to hit the ground.

The golden retriever used the Earth Walking Technique and disappeared from the spot. When it reappeared, it had already caught the fruit steadily with its two front paws.

"Squeak."

He turned his head and let out an excited cry, looking at his master, as if to say:

'It's time to deliver on your promise.'

Ji An smiled, bent down, stretched out his hand, and said:
"Be good, you can't eat this one." This fruit was produced by a top-quality fruit tree and needed to be left for the golden spider to eat.

The Earth Spirit Fruit matured three months earlier than he expected, which meant he got the Apricot Yellow Flag even earlier.

"Squeak."

The golden retriever shook its head like a rattle and hid the fruit sideways. It knew very well what kind of fruit was most useful to it.

Ji An pointed at the top-grade Earth Spirit Fruit Tree and said:
“I can leave you some more of the fruits from these two spirit trees, but not the fruits from the top-grade spirit trees. I have a use for them.”

The golden retriever still shook his head and looked at his owner pitifully, with tears seeming to fall from his dark eyes.

He's still playing the victim, what a drama! Ji An grinned and took out the beast-controlling card.

Sometimes reasoning is useless and threats are needed.

The golden retriever's expression changed immediately. He held up the fruit he had picked up and called out flatteringly:

"Squeak."

Ji An took the fruit and felt its warmth to the touch.

He stroked the fur on the spirit-seeking rat's back and said comfortingly:

"You are only in the initial stage of foundation building now, eating top-grade fruits is a waste of medicinal power.

This year I'm going to plant a few more Earth Spirit Fruit trees, and in a few years, I'll have all the fruit I want to eat."

The golden retriever showed a silly and cute expression, blinked his black eyes and nodded.

Ji An walked out of the underground cave, took out a communication sword, and recorded the information with his spiritual sense:
"Senior Sister, the Earth Spirit Fruits are beginning to ripen. Please come to Scarlet Flame Peak to meet me soon."

He had not yet told Liu Suyun about the upgraded grade of the Earth Spirit Fruit Trees, and wondered what her expression would be when she saw the two top-grade Earth Spirit Fruit Trees.

The communication sword was activated and quickly disappeared into the sky like a silver flying fish.

The next day, at noon.

Liu Shuyun rode a colorful flying carpet and slowly landed beside the cold pond.

Today she was wearing a dark green silk dress with an emerald green belt around her waist. The belt fluttered in the wind, giving her a unique charm.

"The earth spirit fruit trees in my area have just shown signs of blooming, but the fruit trees transplanted by my junior brother have already borne fruit and matured. The influence of high-level spirit farmers on spirit plants is really enormous."

"That's called professionalism," Ji An continued with a smile:

"Sister, you must have flown all the way here. Let's go inside and sit down to have a cup of spiritual tea."

"There's no rush to drink the spiritual tea. I want to go check out the fruit trees now."

Liu Suyun waved her hand and patted the spirit beast bag on her waist:

"The Golden-spotted Spider is the beast I've put the most effort into. It's still very weak, and I want it to eat the fruit as soon as possible."

"Alright, Senior Sister, please come this way."

Ji An led his men to the underground cave and asked again:
"I don't know much about alchemy. Can't the Earth Spirit Fruit be refined into a pill and then fed to the Golden Spotted Spider?"

As far as he knew, the Earth Spirit Fruit could be refined into several kinds of elixirs for cultivators to take.

Liu Suyun shook her head and said:
"Junior brother, you may not know that the purest earth-type spiritual energy in the Earth Spirit Fruit Tree can effectively replenish the vitality of the golden spider.

After being refined into a pill, the effect is minimally improved due to the inclusion of other spiritual energies."

Eating it raw has a good enough effect, and adding additional auxiliary medicines when refining it into pills is a waste.

"So that's it."

Ji An suddenly realized that not all spiritual fruits would be more effective after being refined into pills. Some spiritual fruits would be more effective if taken directly.

Liu Suyun covered her mouth and smiled:
"Junior brother, you are a disciple of Ning Cuiya's lineage. Don't you plan to learn the art of alchemy?"

"There may be a chance in the future."

Ji An replied that once all the planting spells reached the level of great perfection, he should have time to work on other skills.

For now, it is enough to have the skills of planting and making talismans.

The two of them walked to the bottom of the underground cave. Liu Shuyun's eyes lit up and he smiled:

"Is this spirit-seeking rat my junior brother's beast? It's so cute!"

I saw the golden retriever squatting on the ground like a dog, with a few ripe fruits under its paws, its eyes staring at the fruits, and a crystal thread hanging from the corner of its mouth.

Before Ji An could answer, Liu Suyun sensed the aura emanating from the fruit tree and exclaimed:
"Top-grade Earth Spirit Fruit."

She flew to the spiritual tree, looked at the crystal fruits on the tree, and little stars lit up in her eyes.

Ji An walked up to him and said with a smile:

“Two top-quality fruit trees produced a total of 81 fruits, and two high-quality fruit trees produced a total of 76 fruits.

Senior Sister, how much vitality do you think the golden spider can recover?"

"It should be able to recover about 60%, but this is based on the effect of the spiritual fruits I planted. Using these fruits should restore more."

Liu Suyun replied that she originally only had one top-grade Earth Spirit Fruit tree, and could only produce more than 30 fruits every three years.

She judged that the golden-spotted spider needed to eat more than a hundred fruits to fully recover, so it would take more than ten years to produce spiritual silk again.

In another eight or nine months, the top-grade spiritual tree in her cave will also bear fruit. Combined with some other means, it is expected that the beast will produce spiritual silk this year.

The golden-spotted spider silk is the most valuable spiritual object in her hands. The sooner the beast recovers, the more important it is to her.

(End of this chapter)