The Wandering Immortal

Chapter 19 The Magic of Saving Lives

Wood-based magic generally falls into two categories: Yang wood, which governs growth and is used to heal people, and Yin wood, which governs sinking and is highly poisonous.

"Do you want to learn how to kill or how to save lives?"

Qinghe replied without hesitation, "Naturally, I should learn how to save people first."

"The pill you refined earlier is called the Rejuvenation Pill. Its main function is to regulate qi and blood and stimulate the body's potential. There is also a wood-type introductory spell called the Rejuvenation Technique, which has roughly the same effect as the Rejuvenation Pill."

Jiang Yuan then explained the incantation and tricks of the Rejuvenation Technique, which essentially involved transferring one's own Yang Wood spiritual energy to another person to help them heal. In the early stages, when one's magical power was not strong enough, one needed to touch the other person's body with one's hands. Once one's magical power was advanced, one could transfer spiritual energy remotely.

The key to this spell is how to gather and control spiritual energy without dissipating it. For Qinghe, who possesses a spiritual vein for gathering spiritual energy, this should not be difficult.

At night, Qinghe meditated for an hour in the inn, then guided the abundant wood spiritual energy in her spiritual veins to her dantian, and began to try to condense her magic power to cast the Rejuvenation Technique.

An hour later, Qinghe felt she could give it a try. Where could she find someone to treat her?

Jiang Yuan picked up a knife and made a cut on a fleshy part of his arm, instantly tearing the skin and causing blood to flow freely.

Qinghe was startled, and the true energy she had just gathered naturally dissipated.

Jiang Yuan wasn't surprised. As a therapist, he knew he would encounter countless bloody scenes in the future, so he had to be as firm as a rock.

The young master's recklessness annoyed Qinghe, who wanted to wrap Jiangyuan in a handkerchief.

Jiang Yuan pushed the handkerchief away, "Use the Rejuvenation Technique."

Qinghe then understood Jiang Yuan's intention, calmed her mind, and once again gathered her true energy.

Once the true energy was gathered in the palm and pressed against Jiang Yuan's wrist wound, the bleeding stopped and the skin began to heal. In just the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, the knife wound was completely healed, leaving no scars except for a little bloodstain.

Qinghe exclaimed in disbelief, "The rejuvenation technique, it's done already?"

"This is just the beginning. When the Rejuvenation Technique reaches a high level, it can clear the meridians and heal internal injuries in others, and has the miraculous power to bring the dead back to life."

A novice cultivator, with an encyclopedia of cultivation at his side, naturally couldn't resist pestering Jiang Yuan, wanting to learn even more.

"My lady, you mustn't be impatient. There are so many family magic techniques. Even if you study for a thousand years, you might not be able to learn even one or two tenths of them."

"How could someone live for a thousand years?"

"You possess a Spirit Gathering Vein, which will add thirty years to your lifespan. Even if you stop cultivating, living to a hundred years old will not be a problem. If you can establish your foundation, your lifespan will increase to two hundred years. If you form a Golden Core, your lifespan will be five hundred years. If you condense a Nascent Soul, you can live for over a thousand years."

Qinghe was stunned, overwhelmed with emotion.

Jiang Yuan didn't say anything after that. For an ascended great power, the Nascent Soul stage is just the beginning. If it takes three to five hundred years to condense the Nascent Soul, then there's no way to talk about the Great Dao.

"Now that we have entered the immortal sect, we are no longer the same as mortals. This is what is meant by the difference between immortals and mortals. Logically speaking, the two of us should go into seclusion in the mountains and forests, or join an immortal sect."

"It's just that the two elders of the Guan family and I have many karmic entanglements. To resolve these karmic entanglements, we need to let nature take its course."

"Even if we were to take care of them in their old age and see them to their end, it would only be a matter of one or two decades, which is insignificant to the Xiu family."

What Jiang Yuan didn't say was that if his body was truly unusable, his karmic ties with the Guan family elders would naturally be severed.

However, since there is such a chance to be resurrected, it will not be that simple. Let's wait and see.

The Guan family has already left the Five Ridges, and as more and more villages have sprung up, there will be no more great danger. It's better to slow down.

The climate in Lingnan was very different from that in Wuling County; it was hot and humid, and clothes and bedding needed to be changed. So they stayed in a small town.

While we're at it, let's also find out if anyone is selling their estate.

Qinghe needs to cultivate, so living in a big city would be inconvenient. A small town or farmhouse on the outskirts of the city would be most suitable. Once she has settled on a place to stay, it won't be too late to go to the Great Buddha Temple to exchange incense money.

……

Jiang Yuan also had some ideas about cultivating healing magic for Qinghe, but it wasn't the right time to tell her yet.

Since we will definitely have to rely on Qinghe for the next few years, we should teach her some ways to protect herself.

I draw a few basic talismans every day, and I can still infuse them with some magic power at the second level of Qi Refining.

One day, Jiang Yuan asked, "In these past few months in the Five Ridges, what do you hate most about the mountains?"

Qinghe was taken aback. "Of course it's thorns. Every time I pick herbs, my clothes get torn, and I don't even dare to tear them with my hands. It's so annoying."

Jiang Yuan chuckled, "Among wood-type spells, there is also a Thorn Spell, which is effective against low-level demonic beasts or cultivators."

"Using thorns in a battle?"

Jiang Yuan then taught Qinghe the incantation for the Thorn Technique, a spell that was much more difficult for her than the Rejuvenation Technique.

It is necessary to use the yang wood spiritual energy to cultivate thorns, and also to infuse the poisonous thorns with yin wood spiritual energy.

Thorns need soil to grow; they can only thrive where there is soil.

The initial step was to have Qinghe in the room cultivate a potted plant that was about to wither, and to infuse it with wood spirit energy from a distance.

Two days later, the potted pine tree was full of vitality and lush green.

Next, you cast a spell on a flowerpot that only contains soil, and whatever grows is what you get.

If one can instantly make grass and small flowers grow in a pot, then the technique of transmitting wood elemental energy remotely is already proficient.

Grass growing in a pot is always because there are seeds in the soil. But if thorns were to grow out of thin air, that would be creating something from nothing, and that is the true power of magic.

It took Qinghe more than ten days to finally grow a thorn from the flowerpot. After the spell was withdrawn for half an hour, it disappeared on its own. Only then did the thorn spell begin to take shape.

To reach a practical level, one must be able to instantly unleash several thorns, each winding half a meter long in a single breath, before it has any real value.

It took Qinghe more than ten days to grow three or five thorns with a simple gesture, but she could never integrate them with the poisonous thorns.

Jiang Yuan knew he couldn't rush things. The transformation of spiritual energy into yin and yang was a bit beyond the scope of a cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining. The first thing he could do was to slow down the enemy, which would have practical value in combat.

Fortunately, after this period of hard training, he was able to control his wood elemental energy freely, and his rejuvenation technique had also greatly improved.

Old Steward Chen had inquired in all the nearby towns, but there were no suitable estates to buy. His family members had also adapted to life in Lingnan. Jiang Yuan decided to travel a few hundred miles further to Guangzhou, the largest city in southern Guangdong.

The Guan family, consisting of eighteen people, resumed their caravan journey.

Jiang Yuan traveled at a leisurely pace, stopping frequently, and found that Lingnan was becoming increasingly chaotic.

At first, some robbers caused trouble, robbing people in broad daylight. Later, the soldiers at the checkpoints also began to openly solicit bribes.

Bandits can certainly use some tricks to scare them away, but the government troops dare not offend them casually. If they stir up a hornet's nest, they will have nowhere to hide and can only pay to avoid disaster.

But the closer we got to Guangzhou, the more something seemed wrong. We were having trouble every day, so something serious must have happened.

Jiang Yuan had almost run out of money. He finally found a Buddhist temple with thriving incense offerings and wanted to exchange some incense money, but the monk there said that the exchange of incense money was suspended.

(End of this chapter)