Living in Yellow Maple Valley, I steadily cultivate immortality with a daily divination!

Chapter 3 is another auspicious day! A secret technique!

Night had fallen, at the secluded courtyard on Xuankun Mountain.

Lin Chuan set up a simple concealment array inside the house. After injecting spiritual power, it would form a barrier inside the house that would prevent divine sense from probing.

Although it couldn't stop Foundation Establishment cultivators from deliberately probing, it was enough for the Qi Refining disciples' residence in Xuankun Mountain.

After confirming that the formation was effective, Lin Chuan carefully took out all of his gains for the day.

Three jade slips, the Azure Cloud Sword, the Azure Flame Cauldron, and the jade box were neatly arranged on a bamboo mat.

Lin Chuan's gaze first fell on the Azure Cloud Sword.

This azure blue flying sword is about a foot long, with a narrow blade that looks like solidified blue water, with shimmering light flowing across its surface.

The hilt of the sword is engraved with fine cloud patterns, and it feels cool to the touch, yet it exudes a faint spiritual energy.

"A top-tier magical artifact..."

Lin Chuan took a deep breath, and after a simple purification, he slowly poured his magic power into the Azure Cloud Sword, which suddenly shone brightly with blue light.

He manipulated the flying sword to spin it lightly in the room. Wherever the sword's edge passed, the air made a slight tearing sound. Its speed was several times faster than that of the Green Edge Sword!

"Incomparably sharp, swift as lightning..."

A look of satisfaction flashed in Lin Chuan's eyes: "With this sword in hand, I can even fight against a cultivator at the twelfth level of Qi Refining!"

In battles between cultivators, if the difference in cultivation level is not too great, the outcome often depends on external factors such as magical artifacts, talismans, and cultivation techniques.

The value of top-tier magical artifacts lies precisely in this.

Lin Chuan put away the Azure Cloud Sword and picked up the scroll of "The Hundred Herbs Elixir Classic".

The jade slip felt warm and smooth to the touch. As I probed it with my divine sense, a flood of information poured into my mind.

"Heart-Clearing Pill, Qi-Gathering Pill, Foundation-Building Pill... There are even several ancient pill formulas that have been lost for a long time!" Lin Chuan was increasingly shocked as he looked.

The alchemical texts not only record the methods for refining dozens of elixirs, but also contain Chen Tianhe's more than 100 years of alchemical experience, covering everything from material selection, fire control, elixir collection to elixir identification.

However, Lin Chuan only glanced at it briefly before putting it away.

"The art of alchemy is profound and extensive, and cannot be mastered in a day."

He muttered to himself, "The lifespan of a Qi Refining cultivator is only a little over a hundred years; the primary goal should be Foundation Establishment."

In the world of cultivation, alchemists are respected, but to achieve something, one needs not only talent but also enormous financial resources.

He practiced with countless spiritual herbs, accumulating experience through repeated failures.

Given his meager resources at the Qi Refining stage, it would be unwise for him to insist on studying alchemy.

"Once you have successfully established your foundation and your lifespan has increased to two hundred years, it will not be too late to consider this path."

Lin Chuan turned his gaze to the jade box.

Upon opening the box, five mid-grade spirit stones lay quietly inside. Each stone was the size of a pigeon egg, crystal clear, and its spiritual energy was far more concentrated than that of low-grade spirit stones.

"One of these is worth a hundred low-grade spirit stones..."

Lin Chuan carefully picked up one, feeling the surging spiritual energy fluctuations within it.

Adding the more than one hundred low-grade spirit stones in Chen Tianhe's storage bag, the total value has exceeded six hundred spirit stones.

This doesn't even include those few low-grade magic artifacts—a water-attribute short sword, a bronze mirror, and a set of flying needles. Although their quality is average, they can still be sold for a hundred or two hundred spirit stones in the market.

"To become rich overnight," Lin Chuan thought to himself.

Finally, his gaze fell on the three celadon porcelain bottles.

The bottle is labeled "Jinyuan Dan".

Upon uncorking the bottle, a delicate fragrance wafted out. Inside lay ten golden pills, each the size of a longan, their surfaces shimmering with a faint spiritual light.

"A pill personally refined by Chen Tianhe..." Lin Chuan took out one and examined it carefully in his palm.

The pill was slightly warm to the touch, with clear patterns, indicating it was of superior quality.

He learned from the "Hundred Herbs Elixir Classic" that the Golden Source Elixir is made primarily from Golden Thread Grass and Source Spirit Fruit, supplemented with seven kinds of auxiliary medicines. It is an excellent elixir for cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining to break through bottlenecks and improve their cultivation.

On the market, one of these is worth more than a dozen spirit stones, and there is no market for them.

"With this elixir, breaking through to the eleventh level of Qi Refining is just around the corner!"

He sat cross-legged, circulated the Fire Separation Technique three times, and only after his mind had completely calmed down did he take out a Golden Source Pill and put it in his mouth.

The elixir melted upon entering the mouth, transforming into a warm current that flowed into the dantian.

boom!

A surge of powerful spiritual energy erupted within his meridians, like a rushing river.

Lin Chuan's face flushed slightly as he formed hand seals, guiding his spiritual energy along the path of his cultivation technique.

With the Fire Separation Technique activated at full power, the spiritual energy vortex within his dantian spun rapidly, continuously devouring and refining the medicinal power.

One night passed.

As the morning light streamed into the room through the window, Lin Chuan slowly opened his eyes.

A glint flashed in his eyes, and his aura noticeably strengthened.

"Peak of the tenth level of Qi Refining, just one step away from breaking through!"

He felt the abundant spiritual energy within his body, and a smile appeared on his lips.

The Golden Source Pill was indeed extraordinary; one pill was equivalent to more than a month of his arduous cultivation.

If you take all three bottles and all thirty pills, you might be able to directly reach the twelfth level of Qi Refining!

Composing himself, Lin Chuan got up, walked to the window, and opened the wooden window.

Morning mist shrouded Xuankun Mountain, and the distant sound of the morning bell echoed melodiously.

Just then, a golden light appeared before their eyes:

Today's divination result: Minor good fortune.

[The divination reads: You are in a good mood. Feeling tired from cultivation, you went to the rocky slope of the Taiyue Mountains to relax, and found a cultivator's storage bag.]

"Another storage bag?" Lin Chuan raised an eyebrow.

Yesterday's incident with Li Yun is still fresh in my mind. Could there be something fishy about this storage bag on the rocky slope?

After a moment's hesitation, he decided to go anyway.

The divination result is slightly auspicious, so the risk should not be significant.

……

Luanshipo is located on the western side of the Taiyue Mountains. It is a desolate place with strange rocks everywhere.

The spiritual energy here is thin, with neither spiritual herbs nor demonic beasts. Only some low-level disciples occasionally pass by.

Lin Chuan rode the white feather and arrived an hour later.

Looking around, the ground was covered with gray-white boulders, some as big as houses and some as small as millstones, piled up haphazardly.

He landed at the edge of the slope, projected his consciousness outward, and slowly moved forward.

After walking for about half a mile, they found a gray storage bag under a huge rock shaped like a reclining ox.

The bag was half-hidden among the pebbles, and could easily be missed if one did not look closely.

Lin Chuan did not rush forward, but first observed his surroundings.

After confirming that no one was around, he gently used his Qingfeng sword to pry aside the rubble and snatch the storage bag into his hand.

Upon probing with divine sense, the space inside the bag was about three feet square, containing nothing but a few dozen low-grade spirit stones.

"Is that all the spirit stones you have?" Lin Chuan frowned.

He then carefully examined the storage bag itself—made of ordinary gray cloth, without any markings, with worn edges, as if it had been discarded for a long time.

"Perhaps someone carelessly lost it, and someone else took the valuable items, leaving only these spirit stones?" Lin Chuan guessed.

He put away the storage bag, searched the vicinity for a while, and after finding nothing else, rode the white feather back.

……

Back at the villa, Lin Chuan took out the spirit stones from his storage bag and counted them.

Forty-seven low-grade spirit stones, though not a lot, were still an unexpected surprise.

"Little by little, one accumulates; this is the path to immortality." He put it into his storage bag.

The next morning, as soon as he finished his cultivation, golden light appeared precisely on time:

Today's divination result: Very auspicious.

[The divination text reads: You encountered a bottleneck in your cultivation. You went to the Yuelu Hall to consult the classics and obtained a secret technique from a book called "Travels in the Southern Tiannan".]

"Another great fortune!" Lin Chuan's spirits lifted.

"Travels in the Southern Regions...Secret Techniques..."

He murmured to himself, a look of anticipation in his eyes.