The Wandering Immortal

Chapter 90 Jade Marrow Sword Pill
Li Shouzhong has always respected Shen Wangzhi. They have explored together several times and he has never shown any bias. Now that Shen Wangzhi has inherited the mantle of a Nascent Soul cultivator, Li Shouzhong naturally wants to join him.

Jiang Yuan also made the implications clear. The two of them had gotten into a lot of trouble along the way, especially after being tricked by that thieving monk, which offended the Buddhist Tantric sect. If Li Shouzhong were with them, it would be dangerous.

So he gave Li Shouzhong a general direction, including a talisman to contact Shen Wangzhi, and suggested that Li Shouzhong take a detour to the southwest of Luofu Mountain, from which it would be most convenient to reach the small island in the South China Sea.

Li Shouzhong is a seasoned veteran and a very cautious person, so he is unlikely to make any mistakes.

Jiang Yuan gave the level-five gold-type demon core he obtained from Dafengkou to Li Shouzhong.

Li Shouzhong was extremely grateful. They had entered the Great Wind Pass many times in the past few years, but had only obtained two level-four gold-type demon cores. With this level-five demon core, they would be able to form a golden core.

After staying in Li Shouzhong's cave for only one day, Jiang Yuan and Cui Qinghe took their leave.

Li Shouzhong did not try to stop him; he himself was prepared to abandon the cave dwelling and head south immediately.

Jiang Yuan and his companion traveled eastward along the Tianshan Mountains, originally intending to explore the vast grasslands and perhaps even venture to Changbai Mountain to seek their fortune. However, after acquiring so many treasures and causing some trouble along the way, they felt it would be safer to disappear for a while.

Jiang Yuan then discussed with Qing He the idea of ​​opening a temporary cave dwelling in Tianshan to handle some matters first, and Qing He naturally had no objections.

Jiang Yuan specifically sought out a small canyon in the southeastern part of Tianshan Mountain. It had no spiritual veins or opportunities, and ordinary people rarely could enter it.

The two worked together to dig a small cave, which was completed in just two days. Inside were only five stone chambers, and a small stream flowed through the cave, making it convenient to use water.

An illusion array was set up in front of the cave entrance, and a defensive array was also set up inside.

First, take out the Soul-Nourishing Wood and plant it by the stream, maintaining it with a wood-type array and illuminating it with a spirit stone array.

Cui Qinghe spends half an hour every day encouraging the tree to grow, mainly to make the tree more vibrant.

That old ghost planted a living soul-nourishing tree in the middle of a pitch-black maze, with the ground full of stones. Even after hundreds of years, it still lived like a potted tree, which was a complete waste.

After dealing with the Soul-Nourishing Wood, Jiang Yuan cut open the head-sized piece of strangely cold jade stone and found a fist-sized piece of icy jade marrow. Fortunately, a defensive array was set up, and the entire inner wall of the light screen was covered with a layer of frost.

If it were a nurturing magic weapon, it wouldn't require this many.

Jiang Yuan then cut the Frost Jade Marrow again, using only the walnut-sized piece in the middle to refine it into a nourishing magic treasure, and replaced the smaller one on his forehead and spiritual platform.

There was still quite a bit of Frost Jade Marrow left, so Jiang Yuan refined a set of sword pellets, a total of twelve, each about the thickness of a finger.

Jiang Yuan's natal magic weapon in his previous life was a single-element heavy water pearl generated from his body. It was the size of a fist but as heavy as a small mountain. It could freely divide into twenty-four sword pellets, each of which could destroy cities and mountains.

While the Frost Jade Marrow can't compare to One Yuan Heavy Water, probably no one in this small world would be so extravagant, mainly because they're used to using Sword Pill.

Qinghe watched Jiang Yuan practice with the sword pellets in the formation and realized that her husband's technique for controlling the Emei daggers was derived from the sword pellets. Unlike flying swords, which had to be divided into front and back, the sword pellets were flexible and agile.

With twelve sword pellets, there are many possible combinations and variations. Whether for defense or offense, they can be transformed into various formations. In addition, their extreme cold makes them quite powerful.

While Jiang Yuan was practicing with the sword pellet, Cui Qinghe prepared to refine a fifth-order transformation pill. Previously, under Jiang Yuan's guidance, she had already refined a Fire Spirit Mushroom into a fifth-order Fire Spirit Mushroom Pill, thus advancing her alchemy skills to the fifth rank.

After reaching the fifth rank in alchemy, it becomes impossible to hone one's skills by refining large quantities of pills. Whether each pill is successful or not, and its quality, depends on the alchemist's own cultivation level and understanding of the medicinal properties of the pills. Alchemists with good aptitude will be able to develop their own pill formulas after advancing to the fifth rank.

The Transformation Pill is actually not complicated, but the Transformation Grass is extremely rare, and you can't refine a thousand-year-old Transformation Grass all at once. If you fail and the furnace explodes, you won't even have time to cry.

For such a valuable fifth-tier pill, it is best to refine only one at a time.

Qinghe first extracted the effective components of the thousand-year-old transforming herb and sealed them in a jade bottle.

Then they would refine other medicinal herbs, adding the essence of the Transformation Grass when appropriate. Each pill took two hours to refine, and an array was set up in advance.

The production of a fifth-grade high-quality pill is quite a spectacle, emitting a strange light and spreading its fragrance for miles. If it is seen by high-level demonic beasts or human cultivators, it will cause trouble.

Pills of the sixth rank or higher can even trigger celestial phenomena, just like when a cultivator forms their Golden Core or Nascent Soul, with wind and clouds gathering and lightning flashing.

After Jiang Yuan completed the refining of twelve sword pellets and practiced for two days, he swallowed a fifth-grade Fire Mushroom Pill and went into seclusion to break through the fire-type acupoints.

It took about fifteen days to absorb the medicinal power of a fifth-order pill, during which time eight fire-type acupoints were opened.

Now, all eighteen acupoints on both sides of Jiangyuan Dinghuo Meridian have been opened, and Binghuo Meridian has been opened more than halfway. Even if he mainly cultivates pure fire-type spells, he will have reached the Golden Core level.

However, Jiang Yuan naturally dislikes using fire magic. With his Gui Water and Ding Fire spiritual meridians fully opened, he can already cast lightning magic almost instantly. What remains is to continue to open up the Ren Water and Bing Fire meridians to enhance the destructive power of both water and lightning magic.

In those fifteen days, Cui Qinghe obtained fifteen fifth-order transformation pills, which could not be described as priceless treasures.

If a Nascent Soul level expert captured a second or third-level dragon or a blue phoenix as a potential divine beast and wanted it to grow quickly, he would be willing to exchange a Nascent Soul level magic weapon for a Transformation Pill.

For a demon clan with a lineage like the Ten Thousand Mountains, they would naturally spare no expense to cultivate their own descendants with exceptional talent, allowing them to transform into human form at the third or fourth level, thus saving them at least a thousand years of arduous cultivation.

After refining sixteen fifth-grade pills in a row, Cui Qinghe felt that her cultivation had improved a lot, and her true energy had become more condensed.

The red lotus can be rolled into twelve flowers at once, or even a large one, with extremely strong explosive power.

Jiang Yuan laughed and said, "That's your illusion. It's just that the explosion was more powerful because of the wind-type supernatural power. He didn't open many fire-type acupoints, so he won't have much development in the future."

I still recommend that Qinghe focus on the wood element and supplement with the water element, and master the Ice Lotus and Wind, Flower, Snow and Moon skills. Her future prospects are much broader than those of the fire element.

Since Qinghe had already reached the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, Jiang Yuan passed on the original manual of the Nascent Soul level "Red Lotus" technique to her. After reading it, Qinghe understood that the proper Red Lotus technique involved condensing true qi within the body to cultivate an inner core.

Cui Qinghe had gotten used to the Green Fox Bow and had almost fully developed its killing power, so much so that it could actually pose a threat to the Tantric Arhats. However, the bow was too conspicuous and could be recognized by people wherever she went.

Jiang Yuan then thought that Qing He should refine a bow and arrow magic weapon of her own, since the materials were readily available.

(End of this chapter)