This is how immortals are cultivated

[Host, you have a new encounter]

The quietly burning candle flame suddenly began to flicker, and a cold wind rushed into the cave from outside, causing the temperature of the already cold cave to drop a little.

As the flickering candlelight gradually stabilized, a figure came into the cave.

The figure was wearing a dark blue Taoist robe, and wherever he passed, insects and ants fled in panic.

Li Qingming closed her mouth, but her rapid breathing revealed her current state. Wu Yuanshuo was so frightened that he huddled up in a ball.

However, the figure passed the stone prison where the two were and came straight to Fang Suichu's stone prison.

With a creaking sound, the door of the stone prison was opened.

The figure came in front of Fang Suichu, and with the help of the faint candlelight, he could already make out the outline of the figure. Fang Suichu knew that this was the person who bought "him" from the human resources market and brought him to the mountain.

Fang Suichu wanted to say something, wanted to do something, but as a hand grabbed the back of his neck, Fang Suichu could do nothing.

He only felt a piece of hard, cold ice pressed against the back of his neck, all the body heat was taken away, and his blood seemed to be solidifying into ice.

Is this really human?

Even a corpse wouldn't be this cold, right?

Fang Suichu had no ability to resist and was picked up by the Taoist priest like a chicken and taken out of the stone prison.

When the Taoist priest left the stone prison where Fang Suichu was and passed by Wu Yunshuo's cell, the girl who was originally curled up in fear like a trembling little animal was lying on the stone prison fence.

"Bad guy, let go of Brother Suichu!"

The Taoist priest stopped and then turned his head stiffly.

An extremely ordinary face, extremely pale, without a trace of blood.

His eyes were gray, and Wu Yuanshuo was so frightened by the gaze of these gray eyes that her body was shaking, but her soft and not very strong little hands still held on to the fence tightly.

"Don't worry...it's only a matter of time before you all get to know each other."

The Taoist priest uttered these words, his voice as stiff and cold as he was, and then continued walking.

"Brother New Year's Eve!"

Fang Suichu was carried past Wu Yuanshuo's cell. This was the first time he actually saw the girl's appearance.

She is indeed cute and lovely, and makes me feel pity for her.

All Fang Suichu could do now was to use his stiff cheek muscles to force out a smile that was uglier than crying, to comfort the tearful girl.

At the same time, he cursed this crappy and brain-dead system again in his heart.

How could this be a fortuitous encounter? It's clearly a death sentence.

PS: I really don’t know what to write, so I’ll just write something original.

Chapter 2: Chang Yin Guan

Fang Suichu was carried out of the cave by the Taoist priest. This was the first time Fang Suichu saw the sunlight since he came back to life.

However, the sun hanging high in the sky could not bring Fang Suichu even a trace of warmth.

The Taoist priest walked on a rather casual path carved in the mountains, and white mist filled the dry and dark woods around him.

After walking for five or six minutes, we finally arrived at the Taoist temple where the Taoist priests were staying. Although it was a Taoist temple, it was in a state of disrepair. On the plaque in front of the courtyard was written the word "Chang Yin" in black cinnabar.

【Changyin Temple】——This is the Taoist lineage to which Taoists belong.

However, although it is a Taoist sect, its dilapidated appearance and lack of popularity make it more like a wild fox Zen occupying a strange temple.

The mottled door was open, and before entering, Fang Suichu saw a black rectangular object filled with an ominous aura.

It is commonly known as "ten-layer tile" or "ten big pieces", which is the so-called coffin.

When Fang Suichu entered the courtyard, he saw even more coffins. They came in all shapes and sizes, neatly arranged throughout the yard. Many of them still had traces of dirt on them, clearly having been dug out from the ground.

Although he knew that the Taoism practiced by the Taoists in this world was not normal, Fang Suichu still felt a chill down his spine when he saw such a strange Taoist temple.

The Taoist temple is a two-courtyard structure. The Taoist priest took Fang Suichu and walked straight through the outer courtyard full of coffins and entered the inner courtyard.

The inner courtyard is much smaller than the outer courtyard. There is no coffin in it, only an old locust tree and a large incense burner covered with copper rust.

On the steps in front of the incense burner, the main hall door of Changyin Temple was open. Although it was open, due to the wide eaves, the sunlight could not penetrate the hall at all, and all that could be seen was pitch black.

The Taoist priest, as stiff and cold as a corpse, knelt down at the bottom of the stairs and kowtowed respectfully towards the hall.

"Disciple greets Master."

The courtyard was silent, with only the Taoist priest's cold and stiff voice echoing.

Fang Suichu raised his head and stared at the dark hall, wanting to see what kind of monster this Taoist's so-called master was.

However, nothing came out of the dark hall.

There was only a "hissing" sound - an extremely sharp sound, like sharp nails rubbing against a metal plate. This sound gave Fang Suichu goosebumps.

But after hearing this voice, the Taoist priest got up from the ground as if relieved, and took Fang Suichu back to the side hall in the front yard.

In the side hall, many yellow cloth strips were hanging from the beams, with twisted talismans written on them in cinnabar.

There were also coffins placed in the side hall, but unlike the dozens of coffins placed in the yard outside, there were only six coffins here, and each coffin was made of iron, heavy and cold.

In the side hall, there were two joined wooden tables. On the left lay a corpse, its abdomen cut open, its internal organs emptied out. The corpse was a dark purple-black color, its face that of a young man. Yellow talismans, stained with blood, had been stuffed into each of its orifices.

The Taoist priest threw Fang Suichu roughly to the other side of the wooden table, just to keep him company with the corpse brother.

Fang Suichu is in a very bad condition now.

Before my predecessor was brought to this mountain, his lungs had already been injured, and during these days in the stone prison in the cave, he was corroded by the cold and gloomy air.

During the time when he was being carried out of the cave, the coldness emanating from the Taoist priest directly attacked Fang Suichu.

Although he couldn't even feel his own body temperature before, he could at least still feel it now, but Fang Suichu's body was still frozen stiff and he couldn't even move.

After throwing Fang Suichu onto the table in the side hall, the Taoist priest turned and left, leaving Fang Suichu alone with the corpse brother. The Taoist priest seemed to be preparing something and did not return until a moment later.

When he came back, there was a black gourd in the other person's hand.

Although Fang Suichu's body was still too stiff to move, he could at least move his lips.

"There are only two people in Changyin Temple?" Fang Suichu asked the Taoist priest who was walking towards him.

Hearing Fang Suichu's words, the Taoist paused. He did not answer Fang Suichu's question, but asked in return: "Aren't you afraid?"

"There's no point in being scared. Could it be that you're just going to scare me and then let me go?"

"He has some self-awareness."

"It's quite interesting when a fool becomes lucid before dying..."

The Taoist priest also discovered that the foolish boy who had bought two and got one free from the market suddenly woke up.

"But it's okay...it's okay to be a clear-headed ghost."

"To satisfy your previous question... Of course, Master and I are not the only ones in Changyin Temple. Aren't the rest of my fellow apprentices here?"

The Taoist priest, surrounded by six iron coffins, showed an extremely strange smile.

"Moreover, when Master reaches perfection in his profound arts and comes out of seclusion, I, Changyin Temple, will be able to truly receive a share of the blood salary... When the time comes, I will carry forward the power and naturally recruit many disciples."

The Taoist's voice suddenly stopped, and the cold right hand suddenly pinched Fang Suichu's neck very hard. Fang Suichu subconsciously opened his mouth to breathe.

"Boy, it's time to use you."

A drop of black liquid, emitting an astonishing chill that condensed the air into white mist, dripped out of the gourd and accurately fell into Fang Suichu's open mouth.

The Taoist priest then let go of his hand, and his cold gray eyes stared at Fang Suichu quietly, waiting for his change.

However... nothing happened.

The Taoist priest couldn't help but let out a slight exclamation and said:

"Interesting, boy, you have the talent. You can actually carry the corpse fluid extracted from the immersion pool of seventy-two resentful corpses with your bare body.

"You know, this is an extremely yin thing, and ordinary people can't do it."

"What a pity. If Master wasn't in seclusion right now, and you weren't the material for the great medicine he was preparing, you might have been chosen by Master and become my Seventh Junior Brother."

As he said this, the Taoist priest picked up Fang Suichu, who had no reaction, and walked out of the side hall.

The Taoist priest returned to the cave along the same route. When he came back, he heard sobbing sounds in the cave.

The girl was crying quietly, while another woman was comforting her.

When Li Qingming, who was comforting Wu Yuanshuo, saw the Taoist priest who had returned in a short time, his voice suddenly stopped and his breathing became heavy again.

She is very smart and has a much broader vision than her two fellow inmates.

She obviously thought of the reason why the Taoist priest came back - perhaps one material was not enough and another was needed.

However, what she feared did not happen, because she then saw Fang Suichu, who was unconscious in the Taoist priest's hands. To her surprise, Fang Suichu, who was already dead in her eyes, was thrown back into the cell.

Unlike Li Qingming who was stunned, Wu Yuanshuo, who had been sobbing silently with his head buried between his knees, immediately stood up and lay on the fence between him and Fang Suichu's stone prison when he saw Fang Suichu coming back.

She called Fang Suichu's name in a crying voice.

She tried hard to stretch her arms towards Fang Suichu, but because of the fence, she couldn't reach him.

"Xiao Shuo, don't get too close to Fang kid yet... We don't know what his condition is."

"Hey, Fang kid, are you dead?" Li Qingming came back to his senses and spoke from the side.

But Wu Yuanshuo obviously didn't listen to Li Qingming's words, and tears flowed down his face.

But at this moment, a hand held her outstretched hand.

The hand was huge, holding her small hand in its palm. At the same time, the hand was very hot.

"I'm fine..."

In the dim candlelight, Wu Yuanshuo saw Fang Suichu's smiling face and the blood boiling inside. Fang Suichu's fair and handsome face turned crimson.

Chapter 3: Hundred Days of Foundation Building

"Fang boy, are you really okay?"

Li Qingming heard Fang Suichu's voice and couldn't help but ask again.

Most of the human taxes and blood taxes bought by the monks as materials were directly consumed, but it is not ruled out that they were used to plant strange creatures and practice evil magic.

If it is the latter, it will become extremely dangerous if it is strangely invaded and contaminated by some kind of curse.

Fang Suichu was too lazy to pay attention to this woman.

In fact, he felt like there was a ball of charcoal in his abdomen, and his internal organs seemed to be burning. Before, because of the invading Yin Qi, it had not yet manifested itself, but now it completely erupted.

Something huge was being released from the abdomen to all parts of the body.

It is not a weird thing that distorts and pollutes the body and mind, nor is it a poison that burns the heart and destroys the body.

It's good stuff.

Because Fang Suichu felt that as the heat dissipated, the cold injury in his lungs, the cold air in the cave, and the cold poison left by the strange Taoist priest when he touched him all dissolved as quickly as ice and snow.

Fang Suichu recalled the moment not long ago when the Taoist priest dripped the so-called extremely yin corpse fluid into his mouth. The system prompt sounded in his mind:

[As a newly-minted disciple, your luck is very bad. The master is currently in seclusion, so the eldest brother will be passing on the skills on his behalf.]

[But before teaching this technique, you need to build a foundation]

[As the saying goes, a tall building starts from the ground; how high it can be depends on how deep its foundation is.]

[Fortunately, you are gifted and intelligent, and have earned the appreciation and love of the senior brother. The senior brother has bestowed upon you a precious elixir to help you quickly establish a solid foundation in the Dao.]

You took the 'Tian Gang Zheng Yang Pill' given to you by your senior brother. This pill is made from the essence and blood of thirty-six of the most ferocious and fierce beasts in the Tian Gang. It can help increase a large amount of Qi and blood.

[Congratulations, host! You have truly taken the first step in your cultivation. 'Building the foundation for a hundred days, nurturing the holy fetus.']

Current Realm: Hundred-Day Foundation Building

Thinking about the system's prompts and combining them with his current physical condition, Fang Suichu already understood something.

The system is working.

Under the influence of the system, it was clearly dragged away to be used as consumables, but going there became the so-called "teaching of skills by senior brothers".

It was clearly an extremely evil poison that could easily kill him, but under the system's 'adventure' it turned into a 'precious pill' with overwhelming medicinal power that could increase a large amount of Qi and blood.