Mortal Mage

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The melodious sound of the piano echoed in the cave.

Zhang Mingxuan sat cross-legged on the cushion, gently stroking the storage ring on his finger, and searching inside the ring with his spiritual consciousness.

In the space inside the ring, the jade slips were spread out and arranged in vertical rows.

Glancing over, green jade slips accounted for more than half, with some jade slips of other colors scattered in between.

It seems that the green jade slip is large enough to contain most of the skills.

After all, most of the exercises are textual information, with some memory guidance from the creators.

He threw away a large number of green jade slips and screened them again.

There are more than a thousand colorful jade slips left, with purple being the most common.

After pushing the purple jade slip away again, only a hundred or so jade slips of different colors were left.

Among them, white jade and yellow jade slips occupy the largest proportion.

After screening again, only three jade slips as cold as ice were left.

The Ice Jade Jade Slip is second only to the Yoguang Jade.

"First, let's see what's stored in the jade slip."

Zhang Mingxuan took out three ice jade slips from the storage ring and probed into them with his spiritual consciousness.

He still imprinted a back door of the trap in the blank jade slip, hid his spiritual consciousness in it in advance, and then began to copy the jade slip.

A thought appeared in my mind again.

"This jade slip cannot be copied. If you copy it forcefully, the original jade slip will be erased."

Ignoring the information on the jade slip, he raised his hand, circulated his spiritual power, and forcibly copied the jade slip.

A moment later. "Bang, bang, bang, bang" the four jade slips in front of him were all blown to pieces and turned into jade slag.

The three blank jade slips in his hands emitted a long fluorescent light.

It became.

The spiritual consciousness gradually penetrated into the jade slip.

The first one:

Compendium of Herbal Medicine

The second one:

Rune Essentials

The third one:

《Shan Hai Zong Jing》

Zhang Mingxuan's mouth twitched.

The names of these three jade slips obviously have nothing to do with martial arts or mental methods.

I thought it was some advanced martial arts technique that required such a fine jade slip.

It doesn't look like good stuff.

The divine consciousness probed into the first jade slip, which listed rows and rows of patterns of immortal herbs. After the patterns, detailed small characters indicated the value of this immortal herb, its growing environment, etc.

"Encyclopedia of Immortal Grass?"

He murmured something in his mind, and his spiritual consciousness penetrated into the "Compendium of Immortal Herbs". He began to read it carefully, and his expression gradually became serious.

The patterns and descriptions of various magical herbs come to life.

Its form, properties and effects were recorded in detail.

These contents were far beyond his understanding and were areas he had never touched before.

According to the text at the end of the jade slip, there are as many as a hundred methods for refining Peiyuan Pill alone, and there are countless methods for refining Foundation Building Pill, and the types of herbs required are also very different.

I continued reading and suddenly everything became clear.

It turns out that as long as you understand the basic medicinal properties, the recipe for the pill is not fixed.

The immortal-grade foundation-building pill was also derived from this.

Looking back, I found that it not only recorded common elixir recipes, but also seemed to contain many rare elixir recipes that had been lost for a long time.

It is truly a treasure trove that alchemists always dream of.

The list of editors at the end of the book includes nearly a hundred names of alchemists, as well as revisions by many pharmacists and poison masters, and recipes collected and provided by countless independent cultivators.

The number of cross-border areas and the extensiveness of the organization are staggering.

Zhang Mingxuan pursed his lips, suppressed his inner excitement, and carefully put the jade slip into the ring.

The second jade slip, "General Classic of Mountains and Seas", is a book on monsters, spiritual beasts, and an encyclopedia.

He specifically looked for records about the flying beast.

「Flying beast:

Personality: Gentle and kind, especially loyal when tamed, mild and not angry, follows the master like a shadow.

Uses: Excellent mount, males can travel 3,000 miles a day, females are fast and enduring.

Diet: Eats weeds and likes things that are full of spiritual energy.

Size: An adult flying beast weighs 800 to 1,200 kilograms, has a large and agile body, and can be up to 15 feet long.

Features: Its shape is like a streamline, its limbs are strong, and it can run fast. Its color is silver-gray or snow-white, and it shimmers with light. It has long ears on its head, and it can hear sounds from far away, and it is extremely alert. Its eyes are like gemstones, and it has excellent vision, and it can tell the direction even in the dark.

Continue to explore the third jade slip, "The Essentials of Runes".

Wherever the eyes reach, runes of various shapes unfold like a scroll. Behind the runes, the word "ant" details the purpose, properties, and drawing techniques of the runes.

An encyclopedia of runes.

There are hundreds of thousands of runes included. Despite the large number, the jade slips still have detailed annotations for the commonly used runes, which number only about 1,500 or so.

This is similar to language.

There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese characters, but only more than a thousand are commonly used, and the same is true for such a huge number of runes.

After taking a quick look, Zhang Mingxuan understood everything.

He carefully put the jade slip into the ring for future use.

Although extremely shocking, the contents of these three high-level jade slips were not what he needed right now.

"The advanced jade slips do not necessarily contain advanced techniques. It is just that the amount of content recorded is much larger, so a larger carrier is needed."

He murmured softly for a while, then casually took out seven jade slips from the ring.

He didn't have high expectations, as long as it was a technique he could practice, it would be fine.

It was still a jade slip being copied, broken into pieces.

After inspection, it was found that six of the jade slips contained skills that required specific spiritual roots to practice.

All that was left was a spear technique jade slip in his hand called "Thirteen Spears of the Rapids". (PS: Sword techniques, spear techniques, body techniques, fist techniques, palm techniques, etc., are all considered techniques.)

"These six jade slips require too high spiritual roots."

Zhang Mingxuan raised his head and looked with a somewhat lost expression at Huo Xian who was kneeling beside the alchemy furnace with her legs exposed and playing the piano.

Hao Feng stroked the xylophone leisurely and responded, "Just now I saw the master's face was full of joy, and I thought the master had found something suitable for him."

Zhang Mingxuan shook his head and dropped the jade slips in his hand onto the ground, looking disappointed. "Although the skills in these six jade slips are all of the immortal grade, they require pure spiritual roots to practice. If you have mixed spiritual roots, it is extremely difficult to practice. And although this "Thirteen Spears of the Torrent" has no requirements for spiritual roots, it is a mid-grade skill."

After hearing this, Hao Fen smiled charmingly and said, "Haha, Master, you know that many small and medium-sized sects were founded by relying on a low-grade technique."

"Maybe I'm a little too proud. A mid-level technique is a mid-level technique. At least it can protect me."

Zhang Mingxuan stood up from the mat, then took out the Silver Moon Spear from the storage ring, held it in his hand, and inserted the jade slip of martial arts techniques at his waist.

He probed the jade slip with his consciousness. Inside the jade slip, a burly man holding a silver spear in his hand bowed and spoke to Zhang Mingxuan, "I am the one who comprehended the "Thirteen Spears of the Torrent". Because I comprehended the Thirteen Spears, my original name has been abandoned. I call myself Thirteen Spears, but my brothers and sisters are used to calling me Thirteen Fragrances." The man in the jade slip looked a little embarrassed after he finished speaking. After a pause, he continued, "To thank the elders, protectors, and deacons of Yuqing Sect for their careful teachings over the past thousand years, today I will share my "Thirteen Spears of the Torrent" that I comprehended with the sect's library to help my brothers and sisters."

"This spear has three styles: Rapid Stream, Breaking Waves, and Raging Waves, with a total of thirteen moves. Although it is a mid-level technique, it still requires extremely strong internal strength and precise control to ensure maximum power. The three styles are interconnected, and each step is a killing move. There is no retreat but only progress."

After the voice transmission, the man in the jade slip began to demonstrate.

Suddenly, one could see numerous gun shadows, as powerful as a torrent hitting rocks, and each gun thrust seemed to have the power to split mountains and crack rocks.

In a flash, the three-style demonstration was completed.

Zhang Mingxuan watched it over and over again before he started practicing with a gun.

I didn't know what time it was outside the cave, but I just felt that the strange Silver Moon Spear in my hand was becoming more and more convenient and smoother to use.

Every move was tried and corrected over and over again.

Afterwards, as his moves became faster and faster, he no longer had time to demonstrate and compare with the man in the jade slip, so he simply threw the jade slip to Hao Fen, letting Hao Fen use his breath to open the jade slip and help him compare and correct.

It was not known how much time had passed before Zhang Mingxuan's stomach growled and he put away his gun and stood up.

At this moment, the Silver Moon Spear in his hand was like an extra arm, waving it like a shadow following him everywhere.

"According to the jade slip, the master should have already mastered it by now."

Zhang Mingxuan deeply agreed with this. Although he had mastered every move, when he performed them, there were many flaws due to his unstable body movements.

After putting away the gun, he sat cross-legged in the cave and continued to practice Dong Huazi's secret of longevity.

Although the jade slip of the Dharma method was extorted by Qing Ling, the entire Dharma method only had more than 5,000 words, which he had memorized long ago. But he was unable to build a foundation at the moment, so he could only practice the first few chapters repeatedly.

Raise your palms and start the movement, snap your fingers together and regulate your breathing.

"After refining the Qi to form, the five Qis converge to the origin, and the three Yangs gather at the top of the head. When the power is fully developed, the body is forgotten, and the three fields repeat..."

Zhang Mingxuan muttered to himself and recited in his mind, while regulating the circulation of Qi throughout his body, and began to sort out the chaotic internal breath bit by bit.

The spiritual energy in the cave is extremely pure, and it at least possesses a mid-grade spiritual vein. With his current level of cultivation, there is no need to set up a spirit gathering formation. The spiritual energy in the cave is enough for him to practice.

Little did he know that according to the rules of Xuantian Sword Sect, a servant who had not yet established his foundation was not qualified to live in this Yellow Cave No. 1.

The melodious piano music started again.

After Lao Fen finished playing one song, he started playing another.

Zhang Mingxuan didn't know whether it was day or night outside the cave. He just tried his best to clear and straighten out the chaotic spiritual power suppressed in his dantian.

Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, wind, thunder...

After all the spiritual power was sorted into each meridian, his chaotic dantian slowly opened up like the sun shining through the clouds.

A fist-sized sea of ​​qi floats in the dantian.

He felt that there was still some chaotic spiritual power remaining in his body, so he opened his eyes and stood up again. He threw out the Silver Moon Spear from the storage ring and poured the remaining spiritual energy in his body into the gun. After a series of "whooshing and buzzing" movements with the gun, the suppressed spiritual energy finally dissipated.

He made a gun flower movement with his right hand and used his left hand to flatten his palm to regulate his breathing.

"Hu" a long and continuous stream of foul air was exhaled heavily from the mouth.

Zhang Mingxuan opened his eyes.

At this time, there was no residual mixed spiritual power in his body, only the true energy in his dantian.

When the sound of the zither faded, Hao Fen raised his chin, looked at Zhang Mingxuan, and said softly, "Master, Yu Shitao outside the cave has looked for you many times over the years."

Zhang Mingxuan's body froze, and he turned his head to stare at Hao Fen, and asked in surprise, "These years? How many years?"

"Master has been practicing spearmanship for six months and the method for a year and a half, so it has been two years already."

"Two years?"

Zhang Mingxuan exclaimed and walked quickly to the stone door of the cave.

The stone door opened with a rumble.

Looking around outside the cave, the trees on both sides of the cave entrance have indeed become much thicker.

"Master, is there anything I forgot to remind you of?"

Hao Fen followed behind Zhang Mingxuan.

Zhang Mingxuan shook his head slightly and sighed, "I just never thought that time would pass so quickly." After he finished speaking, he suddenly turned around and returned to the cave again.

At this moment, a few rays of starlight from the sound transmission jade slip flashed in front of him.

After a moment of confusion, he reacted.

In the sect's cave, in order to prevent disturbance, the breath will not leak out after the entrance is closed. Therefore, if the sound transmission jade slip cannot find the breath, it cannot find the person and will wander around the interface.