Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 299 Three Layers of Flame

Ji An continued to steer the flying boat forward, pointing at the Red Cloud Pine Forest and said:
"The lava cave where the Green Leaf Red Lotus is located is right where the pine forest meets the foot of the mountain. Fire crystal ants patrol the passage.

These monster insects are quite aggressive, so everyone please be careful later."

Some of the soldier ants patrolling the passage are at the Foundation Establishment stage. The demon insects have very small brains and are very stubborn. They don't know what fear is.

When they encounter an enemy entering their territory, they will charge forward without thinking, and will not fall into chaos unless the leader of the tribe is beheaded.

What he meant was that everyone should show mercy and not kill the demon ant by mistake.

The flying boat circled over the pine forest, and Ji An introduced:

“This spiritual field is approximately fifty acres, of which three acres are second-grade, mid-quality spiritual fields.

There are currently eight second-grade medium-quality plants, and there are two at the entrance of my cave, for a total of ten plants.

There are 160 second-grade, low-quality spiritual pines. I plan to reduce the density of the pine forest to 20 trees per acre in the future."

With the Zhurong Divine Fire Curse, he felt that the number of second-level spiritual pines would increase.

A glint of hope flashed in Ye Changqing's eyes. One day, perhaps the grand occasion he had once envisioned would actually come true:

'Cultivate all into second-level spiritual pines!'

Jia Yu nodded continuously and said with a smile:
"The sect has the most disciples practicing fire-based techniques. With the addition of the second-level spiritual objects handed in by my junior brother, the stock of fire-based spiritual objects in the treasure pavilion has increased year by year.

This phenomenon is expected to continue for another 20 to 40 years, and it’s something that has never happened before.”

Before the demon disaster broke out, there was never a sufficient supply of fire-type spiritual objects, and the supplies were exchanged one after another within seven or eight months of being stored.

A large number of disciples died in demon and devil disasters, and the demand for spiritual objects decreased a lot. However, the spiritual objects that can be obtained through planting have not only not decreased but have increased year by year.

Once the order in Xizhou is stabilized, the sect will surely enter a period of rapid development.

In fact, if you think about it, the world of cultivating immortals is very cruel. Later cultivators step on the corpses of their predecessors, which is why there is prosperity from generation to generation.

Han Yan looked down at the earth. The flying boat seemed to be traveling through fiery clouds. The scenery was unique and beautiful.

"I was wondering if I could create a recipe for an elixir using pine nuts as the raw material."

Just now, she quietly asked Ge Ying and learned that the current appearance of Chiyan Peak was not inherited from the legacy of the predecessors, but was created after Junior Brother Ji came in.

At this moment, she had enough confidence that Chiyan Peak would become more prosperous. It was just a matter of time.

The other party is only seventy years old now. During the foundation-building period, he practiced longevity techniques such as Qingmu Changchun Gong, and he still has another five hundred years of life to squander.

In the future, more and more second-level spiritual pines will surely be cultivated. It would be such a waste to use these pine nuts only as spiritual objects for refining!
Jia Yu raised his eyebrows when he heard this and said solemnly:

"You should give it a try! Pine nut production is very high and we harvest it every year."

Although the spiritual energy and medicinal power contained in pine nuts are relatively small, the quantity is sufficient!

Just calculating the output of Chiyan Peak, there are always 50,000 kilograms every year, and the output will inevitably increase year by year.

If we can test out a pill that can improve cultivation, it will greatly alleviate the shortage of fire-type pills.

Han Yan pondered and said:
"I will report to the Qin Gong Hall after I return and ask for support from Senior Brother Zhang."

The sect is very supportive of the act of testing new elixir formulas because it means huge benefits.

Usually the sect will provide raw material support, but a detailed pharmacological report is required.

She turned her slender white neck and asked:
"Junior Brother Ji, since you have a colony of fire crystal ants here, how is the pine honey production?"

She thought that after refining the essence of pine nuts, she could add pine honey to harmonize the medicinal properties.

Ji An thought for a moment, "Second-level low-grade pine honey weighs over 400 kilograms, while second-level mid-grade pine honey weighs only 40 to 50 kilograms."

Pine honey can also be used as medicine, but the dosage is small and it is not taken seriously.

Most of the pine honey is left in the ant nest to feed the fire crystal ants, and the pine honey in the warehouse is used for barbecue.

Han Yan pondered for a moment and said:

"In the future, we may need a lot of pine honey. I hope you can support me when the time comes."

Jia Yu interjected:
"If refining the elixir requires a large amount of pine honey, I will increase the small merit exchange rate for pine honey."

If the value of the materials is confirmed, the 'purchase price' must be increased.

"No problem," Ji An smiled gently and said:

"Senior Sister, you have the ability to test new pill formulas. I admire you!"

After so many years of development, the world of immortal cultivation has a complete range of various elixir recipes.

Being able to research new elixir recipes requires very high standards from an alchemist. Without profound pharmacological knowledge and rich experience in refining, it is impossible to do this. He is far from that.

Han Yan smiled implicitly, "I don't deserve your praise, Junior Brother. Perhaps this isn't a new recipe. Refining pills must use local ingredients, which have obvious regional differences.

In places like those near large lakes and oceans, the main ingredients for elixirs must be water-based spiritual medicines."

The flying boat slowly landed at the foot of the mountain, and Ji An pinched his fingers to open the magic ban.

A cave entrance was revealed where the dark rocks used to be. You could see luminous pearls inlaid on the rock walls of the passage, and giant fiery red ants as long as arms were crawling on the ground.

Ji An released his own scent to cover up the scent of others, "Follow me closely, and try not to get close to the Fire Crystal Ants."

In fact, he could communicate with the queen ant and ask the ant colony to stop attacking, but he wanted the ant colony to keep guarding the passage at all times.

Ji An took the lead and walked in front. When he saw Hanhan blocking the way, he kicked him to the edge of the passage.

Everyone filed in and soon reached the entrance of the lava pool.

A simple sealing array was set up here to isolate the internal and external auras.

Ji An opened the magic ban, and a wave of heat mixed with rich fire spiritual energy rushed towards him.

Ge Ying felt a little uncomfortable, as the spiritual energy conflicted with her cultivation method.

Groying's expression remained unchanged. The environment here could not move him at all. The others all looked very happy.

Everyone used their magic power to float above the lava pool. The green lotus leaves were particularly eye-catching in the crimson environment.

The lotus leaves and stems emit a green glow, and the vigorous breath of life is leaping in. The lotus pods are dark green with light red flame patterns on them.

If you look closely, you can see that these lines are actually moving slowly.

At this moment, a flame as big as a candle appeared in the middle of the lotus pod and disappeared in a flash.

"Hey, did you see that?"

Han Yan's tone was filled with ecstasy. She felt her heartbeat suddenly quicken and her chest rise and fall.

Jia Yu's eyes widened:
"Of course I saw it!"

Ge Ying whispered, "I see."

There was a special gentleness in her words, as if she was afraid that her voice would be too loud and disturb something.

Ji An was also excited, breathing faster, "This is the first time I've seen flames jump out!"

The leaping flames just now were divided into three layers: the inner flame was emerald green, the middle layer was bright red and crystal clear, and the outer flame was faintly white.

This spiritual plant of heaven and earth has clearly lived out its third life, which is why it can produce the three-layer Blue Lotus Heart-Burning Fire, the best of the best.

Each life of the Green Leaf Red Lotus can accumulate nine hundred years of Taoism, which means that it is about to accumulate twenty seven hundred years of Taoism.

Ye Changqing and Ge Luoying looked at each other. They didn't know much about this spiritual plant and didn't understand why everyone was so excited.

Ge Luoying sent a voice message: "Grandma, why are the uncles so happy?"

Ge Ying simply recounted the information about Cui Ye Hong Lian, causing Ge Luo Ying's expression to change in shock.

Han Yan stared at Cui Ye Hong Lian without blinking and asked:
"Junior Brother Ji, when did the lotus wither?"

"About four years ago, I remember that after I broke through to the ninth level of foundation building, I discovered that the lotus had withered."

Han Yan quickly calculated in her mind, and then smiled foolishly:
"Junior brother has now practiced the cultivation magic of the Chaoyuan period. Perhaps it will only take more than two hundred years to mature the precious lotus."

Two hundred years later, the veteran Chao Yuan period cultivators in the sect will either break through to the Golden Core stage or die.

At that time, she was only over 300 years old and was definitely one of the most senior cultivators in the sect.

The spiritual fire of heaven and earth is of great use to both alchemists and weapon refiners, but the Blue Lotus Heart-Burning Fire is more suitable for alchemists.

There is a great hope of getting a chance to absorb the Green Lotus Burning Heart Fire.

It definitely won’t take two hundred years. Ji An touched his chin and stared at the lotus pod with deep eyes.

The patterns on the lotus pod are flowing quietly, like a slowly rising flame.

Ge Ying felt the fire spirit energy becoming more and more vigorous, and the immortal veins began to feel a burning sensation. He said:
"I feel a little unwell, so I'll go back outside and wait for you."

Ji An came back to his senses and said, "We've seen all the spiritual plants. Let's go together."

He opened the magic ban and everyone flew out of the lava pool.

Han Yan was the last one to fall behind. When she reached the cave entrance, she looked back affectionately.

She secretly made up her mind to practice harder and constantly improve her alchemy skills so that she would have a better chance of getting a spot in the future.

The flying boat circled the Red Flame Peak and headed westward. At this time, the setting sun was round and orange, and the golden-red mist on the top of the mountain had already dormant, giving people a special sense of tranquility.

Jia Yu pointed downwards and said:
"It's a waste to grow these iron birch trees here. We should plant more valuable spiritual trees."

Ji An smiled and said:

“This is the shady side of the mountain, and planting other spiritual plants would affect their growth.

The forest land in the south of the mountain where the purple and black yang trees are planted can be replaced with other tree species, but the Red Flame Peak is currently the sect's main source of spiritual charcoal and cannot be easily moved."

Qi Refining Stage elixirs and a large portion of Foundation Establishment Stage elixirs all require spiritual charcoal.

He couldn't change the tree species until the sect found a better alternative.

Enjoying the treatment of the sect is an obligation.

The sect couldn't find a high-quality "supplier" like him before, and it will be even less likely to find one in the future.

Passing through the iron birch forest, everyone saw a silver ocean and golden floating islands. The evening breeze brought the sound of metal clashing.

Ji An stretched out his hand and pointed forward, as if he was pointing out the world:
“The ones with silver leaves are copper-veined mulberry trees, there are 195 second-grade low-grade spiritual mulberry trees, and 7 mid-grade spiritual mulberry trees.

I heard from Wu Yan of the Beast Taming Hall branch that this is where 20% of the sect's high-level golden-bearded silkworms are raised."

“In the glittering golden area, there are black-leaf sword bamboos, 158 second-grade lower-grade spirit bamboos, and 8 mid-grade sword bamboos.

It's not as good as the sect's medicine garden right now, but there's hope of surpassing it in the future."

The person in charge of planting the black-leaf sword bamboo in the sect's medicine garden is Lin Mao, who has reached the late stage of foundation building and has practiced the Thick Earth Return to Origin Mantra to the extreme level.

In addition, the sword bamboo was planted in a second-grade superior spiritual field, which gave it advantages that he could not match.

Now the spiritual field of Chiyan Peak has been upgraded to the second-grade medium grade. Combined with his perfect-level Huanglong Zengyuan Technique, it is no problem to make up for the difference in the grade of the spiritual field.

Jia Yu took out the gourd, took a sip, and said with a smile:

"I often hear Senior Brother Zhu say that after the sect planted the Black Leaf Sword Bamboo, it greatly accelerated the speed of nurturing the spiritual power of the Metal Element Spiritual Instruments, and also made the flying sword-type magical instruments refined from them more popular among the disciples.

From now on, our development will be less constrained by Falling Maple Valley."

In the past, the sect had to purchase a large amount of spiritual plant resources from Luofeng Valley every year. Now, the types and quantities of resource gaps are decreasing, which is an inevitable phenomenon.

Ye Changqing nodded in agreement, "The number of high-level spiritual farmers in the sect has already restricted the development of the Weapon Refining Hall and the Beast Taming Hall. I heard from the Hall Master that the sect plans to set up a separate hall to be responsible for cultivating spiritual farmers."

Jia Yu nodded, looked at Ji An, and smiled mysteriously:
"The ancestor has already agreed to this matter and is planning to establish a Sinong Hall, which will have the same status as the Danding Hall.

Preparations are currently underway, and once we have a clear plan, the Spiritual Farmers will be independent from the various temples."

Ji An was stunned. This was the rhythm of the job.

If the sect established such a hall, he would definitely go in and take up a position there.

Even if you are not the hall master, you must have the title of deputy hall master.

There is no way. It is not right for the only spiritual farmer in the Chaoyuan period not to enter the Sinong Palace.

He grinned, hoping there wouldn't be too many trivial matters in the future.

A clear cry came from the sky, and a golden-winged eagle swooped down and circled around the flying boat.

The beast's crest hairs stood upright, painted a faint red by the setting sun.

Ji An reached out his hand from the flying boat and stroked the feathers on its neck. The golden-winged eagle neighed twice in comfort and flew back into the sky.

Han Yan raised the corner of her mouth slightly and said:

"The Golden-winged Eagle is the most popular flying beast in the sect.

I also have one. Back then, in order to obtain a bird egg, I helped Senior Sister He refine more than a dozen furnaces of elixirs."

The shuttle returned to the cold pond. Jia Yu shook the gourd with a regretful expression:

"There's not much spirit wine left."

"I'll add some for my brother."

Ji An didn't dare to fill it up, because who knew how big the capacity of the other party's wine gourd was!

"I'm so sorry," Jia Yu handed over the gourd very naturally.

"Fellow Daoist Ye, give me your wine gourd as well."

Ji An said, we can't favor one over the other.

Ye Changqing handed over the gourd readily and said with a smile:
"I'm a very down-to-earth person, so I don't use polite words like 'I'm sorry.'"

Jia Yu laughed and scolded:

"You old Ye Zi! You're so rebellious that you actually mocked your uncle."

Everyone chuckled and the air was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Ji An handed the gourd to Wei Songtao and said:

"Each of them should be filled with 200 kilograms of second-grade low-grade pine nut wine, and then take out two small jars of second-grade medium-grade spirit wine."

Wei Songtao took the gourd respectfully and walked quickly towards the warehouse.

Ji An sent another voice message:

"Cuihua, go to the orchard and get thirty dragon blood fruits and put them in gift boxes. Put four in two gift boxes and two in the rest."

Master and Senior Brother Ye took gift boxes with four fruits, while the other brothers and two Chaoyuan-stage monks took gift boxes with two fruits.

Zhang Cuihua bent her knees slightly and walked towards the orchard.

(End of this chapter)