Fairy, return my flying sword to me

Chapter 12 Five Elements Golden Elixir

Lin Jian, with sweat all over his forehead, dragged Chun Xue away and fled.

When they were alone, he let go of Haruyuki's arm. "Well said. Don't say it next time."

Although it feels great to have a substitute, Lin Jian is afraid that even his master may not be able to protect him if he really angers everyone.

I've been walking on thin ice all the way. Do you think I can still reach the other side?

Chunxue clenched his fists, still unconvinced. "Didn't you say you were going to help Senior Brother refine the elixir? Aren't you going to feed these idiots?"

Lin Jian looked at the cherry lips behind Chunxue's veil, and couldn't understand how such vulgar words could come out of such a beautiful mouth.

"That's an order for the Pure Yang Sword Sect. It has nothing to do with our Zheng Yang Sect." Lin Jian rolled his eyes, patted Chun Xue's arm, and led the way forward. "Let's go quickly, or my brother will be waiting anxiously."

"So what?" Chunxue caught up with Lin Jian and followed closely behind him. "Even if they all dislike you, I still believe in you. Don't worry, you will become a cultivator more powerful than them, and even more powerful than anyone else in the entire Zhengyang Sect!"

I glanced sideways in the woods and found that the pair of watery eyes were full of focused trust.

Because I was too close, I looked stupid and like a goose...

"Then I really thank you, but we can't lose a cent of our one million."

"Huh?" Haruyuki's expression froze. "Did you figure this out?"

"No." He walked on his own in the woods.

He saw something else, "How do you know about the Four Sects Competition?"

It seems that those people just now didn’t mention this?
If there was any...it was only yesterday's morning class.

"Ahaha!" Chunxue ignored the conversation and strode forward. "Hurry up, hurry up, my brother must be waiting anxiously."

Lin Jian didn't expose him, but just reminded him as they walked, "Legs are on people's bodies, I can't control where they go. But I'm not the only one who lost my flying sword, I don't know where those people are found..."

Chunxue staggered and glanced around guiltily.

Fortunately, no other unlucky guy came out with a piece of broken iron to fight her.

After walking across the Rainbow Bridge and through the dense forest, a mahogany attic with white aura constantly wafting out appeared before their eyes after turning the corner.

Haruyuki twitched her nose as she stepped forward, "Sunlight dew, green jade leaves..."

Reaching the door and pushing it hard, Haruyuki, frowning in thought, finally sniffed out the last scent. "Gold Essence Stone?"

"Expert!" A broad figure emerged from behind the huge alchemy furnace.

Chunxue frowned beautifully, "You, Qingyuye, are getting old."

"It's your nose that's not working, little sister."

Lin Jian finally managed to pull Chunxue behind him before he could cause trouble again. He looked at the broad figure before him with a smile on his face, "Big Brother..."

My senior brother has a square face and looks kind and honest.

"It's Ajian, you're finally here... What's this?" The eldest brother, who was busy and sweating, looked at the ordinary-looking and dressed mortal girl behind the younger brother, with a questioning look in his eyes.

"I rescued a mortal when I went down the mountain these two days. Since she was alone and helpless, I let her follow us. She can also help when we pound the medicine later." Lin Jian held Chunxue's arm tightly from behind, not daring her to talk nonsense again.

After many troubles along the way, Lin Jian gradually began to doubt whether it was a wrong decision to bring her along.

"Is that so..." The eldest brother muttered, then discovered something suspicious, "No... How could a mortal be so familiar with these herbs?"

"Ah, that's how it is..." Lin Jian's mind raced, and he quickly added, "Her family was in the medicinal herb business before the incident. It was because they became so big that someone murdered the whole family..."

Lin Jian seemed depressed as he spoke, as if he didn't want to talk too much about the sad past in front of the "person involved".

Sure enough, the eldest brother with a simple and honest face did not ask any more questions after hearing this.

He just looked at Lin Jian and smiled enthusiastically, "Hurry up, my furnace of pills is almost done, but the materials for the next furnace are not ready yet."

"Let's get started." Lin Jian strode forward, and without the eldest brother's instructions, he found his position with ease.

Pounding the herbs. What's the most troublesome part of alchemy?

Is it temperature control?

Is it refining?

No! It's medicine!
Prepare a variety of raw materials!
Before each elixir is actually refined, it needs to undergo simple basic processing, such as being ground into powder, mashed into mud, or undergoing various other treatments.

This most basic yet most complicated preparatory work takes up most of an alchemist's time in making pills.

Therefore, every alchemist would often recruit some apprentices to do odd jobs under the guise of teaching.

Unfortunately, even the eldest senior brother is just an amateur alchemist who has just graduated, and Lin Jian is actually his informal apprentice.

Chunxue, who was pulled by Lin Jian, looked at all the facilities in the alchemy room with a sharp look, especially the cabinets containing various finished pills.

Sensing this guy's ulterior motives, Lin Jian gritted his teeth and whispered a warning while pounding the medicine in his hand, "Don't mess around! This is my senior brother's private alchemy room. Everything inside is his personal property. If anything is lost, he'll kill you."

Haruyuki, with ulterior motives, shrank his head with a sense of ulterior motive and argued with a naive attitude, "I'm that kind of person! Huh?!"

Isn't it just to steal some elixirs that can help me recover faster? Otherwise, it would be very troublesome if some unreasonable bad guys came to find me.

It’s a pity that I didn’t find any good stuff after scanning around. It’s so boring!

"Dudu!"

"Dudu!"

In the huge alchemy room, only a monotonous sound could be heard for a while.

The eldest brother was concentrating on controlling the fire temperature by the stove and had no time to pay attention to anything else.

Chunxue seemed to be tinkering with it honestly for less than half an hour, but after a moment's glance, he had an idea.

"Hey! What kind of elixir is Senior Brother practicing?"

Lin Jian glanced at her sideways, "Didn't you say you know a thing or two about alchemy? This is the Spiritual Root Creation Pill."

"This is the Spiritual Root Creation Pill?" Chunxue frowned. "Are these the only ingredients?"

"Yes." Lin Jian touched the three ingredients at hand. "Sunlight Dew and Jade Leaf are auxiliary ingredients. The remaining main ingredients are Gold Essence Stone, Jade Bamboo, Ice Heart Lotus, Flame Heart, and Loess Ganoderma Lucidum according to the Five Elements."

After making medicine for the senior brother for a long time, Lin Jian was still clear about this basic knowledge.

"Huh?" Chunxue stared at him in disbelief. "You guys still categorize spiritual roots according to the five elements?"

"How else can we divide it? Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium and boron?" Lin Jian raised his eyebrows and looked at her.

Back when he first entered the world of immortal cultivation, he wanted to transform himself into a bomb immortal with his hydrogen and oxygen spiritual roots to blow up the entire world of immortal cultivation. Unfortunately, his master searched through all the classics but couldn't find out what the so-called hydrogen and oxygen spiritual roots were.

So the Bomb Immortal's plan had to be shelved with regret.

Could it be that now...

"We haven't made that distinction in our place for a long time." Chunxue flexed her fingers, taking the opportunity to be lazy and evasive. "Look, even though they're both wood spiritual roots, there's still a distinction between Jiamu Yang and Yimu Yin. Generalizing is very biased."

A cultivator's spiritual roots are never some kind of concrete existence with absolute characteristics, but rather an aggregation of the cultivator's own various tendencies towards the natural environment of heaven and earth.

Using the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth to divide people, we may be able to conclude that a certain cultivator is more inclined to fire, while gold and earth are not bad either, but he is very resistant to water and wood.

But if we classify it from a more practical theoretical perspective, we may conclude that this cultivator's true qi is more suitable for explosive output rather than gentle healing and saving lives; it is more suitable for practicing the bold technique of absorbing the heaven and earth rather than self-cultivation of slowly transforming spiritual energy.

From the perspective of the Five Elements Theory, it is a useless chaotic spiritual root that does not manifest the Five Elements, but in the eyes of the Upper Nine Realms, it may be an innate spiritual absorption holy body that can absorb any spiritual energy.

There are no useless spiritual roots, only masters who don’t know how to find their characteristics.

I used to think this so-and-so senior brother could really make Spiritual Root Creation Pills, but it turns out he’s a fake! (Crooked mouth)

"By the way, what kind of spiritual roots are you?" Chunxue, who was explaining scientific knowledge to Linjian, suddenly looked at Linjian with bright eyes, and a new idea popped up in his mind.

(End of this chapter)