Chapter 658: Discussing Dao on Xiachiu, Nascent Soul Pill Formed

One year later.

West of Long Yuan Island, a lush green area.

When the breeze blew, nimble birds danced gracefully.

Looking closely, there were no birds at all, but rather peculiar flowers and plants connected by vines. Because their fluttering bodies resembled the cut tails of divine birds, they gave the illusion of birds.

This was the Divine Shen Yuanwei Tail!

A white figure walked through the flowers, breathing and forming seals, casting pill arts, and picking flowers into a basket.

His movements were very slow and light, for fear of damaging the Divine Shen Yuanwei Tail in the slightest.

One, two, three, four... a total of twelve fourth-tier Divine Shen Yuanwei Tails!

The rest were basically not mature enough, their age was not enough, only about second or third tier.

Sang Jinghe stood outside the spirit field, watching the white-robed Daoist slowly walk out from the path.

When he got close, he said respectfully: "Congratulations, Senior, on the bountiful harvest of spirit herbs!"

Luo Chen looked at the glowing medicinal herbs in the bamboo basket woven from special vines, and couldn't help but smile.

He praised Sang Jinghe: "You have worked hard. I remember when I transplanted this patch of Divine Shen Yuanwei Tails, there were only eight fourth-tier ones. In the short nine years in your hands, four more have appeared; you have truly helped me a lot."

Sang Jinghe was flattered, but still humble: "Junior dare not take credit; this is because the spirit soil of Long Yuan Island is fertile and extremely suitable for the growth of medicinal herbs..."

The two walked at a moderate pace on the path, talking about the situation on Long Yuan Island.

Come to think of it, since taking over this island, Luo Chen had been concentrating on cultivating in the abyss and hadn't yet understood the island in detail.

Usually, it was mostly left to Seeing Tianxuan and Sang Jinghe to manage.

At this moment, under Sang Jinghe's narration, he knew what kind of treasure land this was.

Natural spiritual energy accumulated in the depths of the abyss, and when it leaked out, it first permeated the soil.

There were also countless dragon worms that had been constantly loosening the soil for thousands of years, secreting special mucus.

Over time, the soil on this island mostly possessed considerable spiritual energy.

Just fourth-tier spirit soil alone, there were seven types!

Third-tier ones, about twenty-one.

Below the third tier, there were countless, spread across every corner of Long Yuan Island.

And because of the different properties of the spirit soil, many strange spirit herbs and flowers grew on these soils.

Some spirit herbs with considerable spiritual energy were mostly eaten by the dragon worms here.

Like when Luo Chen first entered the abyss, the three third-tier dragon worms he encountered were those that had eaten several high-tier spirit herbs after the Fallen Abyss Dragon Sect left, forcibly breaking through their realm.

But there were also some spirit herbs that dragon worms were naturally not fond of, which luckily survived, and their grade was not low.

These spirit herbs were currently growing sturdily under Sang Jinghe's care.

At this moment, as names were reported one by one, Luo Chen gradually had a count in his heart.

Especially corresponding to the pill books and pill formulas he had read during this time, he slowly outlined a combination of medicinal herbs to assist in condensing the Core.

Finally.

Sang Jinghe sighed with both joy and regret:

"This island is truly a rare blessed land in the world!"

"Even if it is not so suitable for immortal cultivators to cultivate, if viewed as a specialized spirit herb garden, Long Yuan Island would definitely make countless Nascent Soul sects fight to the death for it."

"It's just a pity that these dragon worms don't understand the method of spirit plant cultivation, guarding a treasure land for thousands of years without knowing how to use it reasonably."

Luo Chen listened with a smile, and his heart gradually had the same idea.

Back when the Luotian Sect was on Danxia Mountain, they initially operated pill and medicinal herb businesses.

In order to plant medicinal herbs, they also spent a lot of effort on spirit soil and spirit fields.

They once introduced green-scaled fish from the Li family of the Qinhua River to use the fish's feces to cultivate spirit soil.

But even so, they could only cultivate relatively ordinary first-tier spirit soil.

Unlike Long Yuan Island, where spirit soil was everywhere, it could be called a blessed land for spirit planters!

He, Luo Chen, could not stay on Long Yuan Island for his whole life; he would definitely leave in the future, and at that time, this spirit soil could not be wasted. If he could thoroughly refine the Penglai Eight-Corner Pavilion, perhaps he could take away most of the spirit soil.

During the conversation, the two had already left the Divine Shen Yuanwei Tail herb garden.

"Take good care of the remaining Divine Shen Yuanwei Tails, and don't be negligent." Luo Chen instructed.

Sang Jinghe bowed and cupped his fists, "Senior, rest assured, Junior understands."

Luo Chen smiled, "In addition, have the seven types of medicinal herbs you mentioned earlier, such as the Golden Cotton Thorn Flower and the Chuxi Fruit, picked in ten mature portions and sent outside the Green Wave Pool."

He didn't mention what he wanted these spirit herbs for, and Sang Jinghe didn't ask much.

Only when they parted did Luo Chen add an extra instruction.

"Being immersed in spirit plant cultivation is good, but don't let your cultivation fall behind."

Sang Jinghe was stunned.

He was the successor cultivated by Sang Jiugong with great effort, so his cultivation was naturally not bad, already at the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone to Ziling Island alone.

But in his view, his value to the Qingyang Demon Lord was to help the other party cultivate medicinal herbs, and his ninth-layer Foundation Establishment realm was not worth mentioning.

Yet he didn't expect the other party to instruct him not to go astray.

For a moment, Sang Jinghe felt a bit moved in his heart.

Great figures are used to being strict, and occasional concern always catches people off guard and makes them feel grateful.

Luo Chen didn't care what the other party thought; he carried the bamboo basket, rode the clear wind, and flew towards the Green Wave Pool.

Passing by Xiachiu Mountain, he stopped his footsteps.

Looking from afar, countless rosy clouds fell into that mountain peak, hence the name Xiachiu Mountain.

On the mountain, someone was inviting him.

Luo Chen smiled slightly and diverted his path to Xiachiu Mountain.

As soon as he reached the top of the mountain, looking at the beautiful scenery in the distance, Luo Chen couldn't help but feel his eyes light up and his heart refreshed.

It was truly a vast sky and sea, ten thousand acres of green waves, rosy clouds like fabric, and tired birds like clouds!

Han Zhan greeted Luo Chen and sat him down opposite him.

Blue stone as a table, fine wine as a companion.

Tilting his head slightly, a mouthful of clear wine went down his throat, as if he had drunk ten thousand rosy clouds.

"Tsk..."

"Senior truly has a good mood, drinking wine and enjoying the scenery every day, how carefree. Unlike me, sitting alone in the cold abyss, not knowing the day."

Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief; he hadn't been this comfortable for a long time.

Han Zhan didn't care about his exclamation.

"I am adapting to my body now and cannot cultivate excessively; otherwise, do you think I wouldn't want to cultivate hard?"

"But you..."

Han Zhan glanced at the bamboo basket placed beside the blue stone.

"In the first half of the year, you harvested all the mature fourth-tier Purple Monkey Flowers, and today you personally harvested the Divine Shen Yuanwei Tails. It seems that refining the Nascent Soul Pill is already on the agenda, right?"

Luo Chen smiled slightly, "Senior's eyes are like torches!"

Afterwards, he paused and said slowly: "Does Senior still remember the matter you promised me back then?"

"What matter?" Han Zhan asked casually.

Luo Chen was not angry that the other party had forgotten, and said seriously: "Back then, Senior mentioned that after I refined the Nascent Soul Pill, you would tell me your insights on taking the Nascent Soul Pill."

"Oh, that!" Han Zhan was surprised, then looked at Luo Chen in wonder, "Looking at it this way, you are quite confident in refining the Nascent Soul Pill; you've come to ask in advance."

The other party didn't suspect the lack of his divine soul foundation.

With his current attainments in pill refining, low-tier pills were easy for him, and fourth-tier ones just required a bit more effort.

Even if the Nascent Soul Pill, an ancient pill formula, was more complex, at worst, he would invest ten achievement points to make a foolproof consideration.

Seeing Luo Chen's firmness, Han Zhan didn't decline, and simply borrowed the wine's spirit to state the insights of taking the Nascent Soul Pill back then one by one.

"My Nascent Soul Pill was obtained from the ruins of ancient immortal cultivators; it was old, and much of its medicinal power had been lost. When I took it, it almost made me fall short. Fortunately, my foundation was deep, and supplemented by other Nascent Soul-forming resources bestowed by Tianfan City, I luckily succeeded in one go. I remember that the Nascent Soul Pill was extremely spicy in the throat, and when it was refined, the medicinal power was still extremely condensed, not entering the acupoints, not stagnating in the meridians, just drilling into the Qi Sea. After entering the Qi Sea, it didn't disperse, but thoroughly wrapped the Core and began to constantly permeate..."

Luo Chen listened earnestly, not missing a single bit.

Especially some taboos, he had to repeatedly verify with Han Zhan.

After the Nascent Soul Pill is refined, the medicinal power must never be forcibly differentiated.

When it infects the Core, one must borrow this power to achieve the unity of essence, Qi, and spirit, forming the omen of the three flowers gathering at the top!

Finally.

Han Zhan drank a mouthful of wine to moisten his throat.

Putting down the wine glass, he also looked at Luo Chen seriously.

"Actually, in my opinion, your foundation is so deep that few of the Core Formation generation in the world can compare. Especially, I observe your constitution, aggressive like fire, majestic and upright, as if born a true flame!"

"Although I don't know what changes have occurred in your body."

"But in this situation, perhaps you don't need to rely on the Nascent Soul Pill, you have a seventy or eighty percent chance of success, no need to seek external objects!"

A seventy or eighty percent chance of forming the Nascent Soul is terrifyingly high.

Few people in the world can reach this level of foundation in the Core Formation stage.

Even for those known as Heaven Spirit Root cultivators who have no bottlenecks before Soul Transformation, in reality, when condensing the Nascent Soul, the success and failure rate is only fifty-fifty.

Luo Chen naturally knew the situation of his own body.

After soaking in the Spirit-Shaping Sacred Spring, he possessed the Five-Element Heaven Spirit Body comparable to a five-element Heaven Spirit Root!

Even if this Dao body was reshaped because the physical body underwent Nirvana, the new Fire Spirit Body was still a rare and excellent constitution in the world.

With this constitution, combined with his foundation, the chance of successfully forming the Nascent Soul greatly increased.

But!

"If there is a ten-out-of-ten certainty, why begrudge a pill? If I fail because of that two or three out of ten chance, how can I be worthy of the countless white bones that died at my hands along the way."

Luo Chen said lightly.

Han Zhan nodded, unable to refute.

After a conversation, the sun had already set, and the moon was in the middle of the sky.

The rosy clouds were gone, with only the clear wind and bright moon as companions.

Han Zhan filled Luo Chen's glass again, and at the same time raised his own glass, his face full of emotion.

"Seventy years, right!"

"Since you and I drifted to the North Sea, more than sixty years have passed."

"At that time, you were just entering Core Formation, and I was a wisp of remnant soul. Now, you are about to form the Nascent Soul, and I have reshaped my body; both of us have hope for the Great Dao."

"Thinking back now, the past is truly like smoke!"

"Come, toast to these seventy years of wind and moon!"

Luo Chen raised his glass and clinked it with his.

He couldn't feel that sense of vicissitudes, because he was less than two hundred years old, and he was in the prime of his cultivation path; how could he talk about wind and moon and sigh at the vicissitudes.

But he also felt heavy in his heart.

Seventy years, he didn't know if his old friends were good or bad now.

Just at this moment, the sound of crashing waves rang out.

Under the moonlight, a sturdy figure leaped from the sea, soared into the air for a moment, and then fell back into the vast sea.

Luo Chen's gaze condensed.

It was Hei Wang!

After walking on the edge of death, he had been reborn.

Now his momentum was becoming more majestic, and he had the aura of a great demon fighting the ocean!

"You have to work hard, otherwise your spirit pet might walk ahead of you!"

Beside his ear came Han Zhan's light laughter.

Luo Chen pursed his lips and nodded slightly.

Hei Wang's progress was unexpected, but also reasonable.

Luo Chen's years of cultivation had already given him a solid foundation.

Before and after this life-and-death tribulation, he first soaked in the Spirit-Shaping Sacred Spring, then absorbed the blood of millions of dragon worms, especially since there was a drop of Luo Chen's precious tongue-tip essence blood, which contained the vitality of the Tai Sui and Luo Chen's source power.

When he swallowed the fifth-tier Stone Dragon remnant soul, not only did he come back to life, but even the last short board was filled.

Over the past year, hiding in the depths of the sea, he was clearly undergoing some kind of transformation!

But Luo Chen had no time to pay attention.

The things on his hands were more urgent.

Apart from daily polishing his magic power and advancing his cultivation, moving step by step towards the Great Perfection of Core Formation, Luo Chen put all his energy into pill refining.

Not just the Nascent Soul Pill, but also the Condensing Liquid Pill!

This pill originated from one of the thirty-six pill formulas of Mingzhao Heaven, specifically used for Foundation Establishment cultivators to advance to Core Formation.

Its efficacy was not as good as the Mingyuan Pill Luo Chen took back then, but it was more universal and more suitable for ordinary immortal cultivators.

Clearly, the human, demon, and devil pill formulas left by the Heaven-Refining Demon Lord did not pursue extremes, but sought universality.

Luo Chen hadn't refined pills for some years.

The main materials for the Nascent Soul Pill, after he processed them himself, still needed some time to settle.

In this gap, in order to get used to the three re-refined pill refining tools, Luo Chen started to try his hand.

For him, refining more of the past pills had no meaning.

Simply, he set his sights on the pill formulas left by the Heaven-Refining Demon Lord.

The Condensing Liquid Pill was undoubtedly a good choice.

The medicinal herbs that Sang Jinghe had been specially asked to collect were the main materials needed for the Condensing Liquid Pill.

The missing parts could be supplemented by his savings.

After trying his hand time and time again, Luo Chen not only became more and more proficient with the new pill refining tools but also began to harvest Condensing Liquid Pills one by one.

This day.

In the abyss, Luo Chen stood outside the thatched hut, looking at the ten cyan pills in his hand, and nodded with satisfaction.

This was the third batch of successful Condensing Liquid Pills.

Added to the previous ones, there were thirty in total!

If placed in the immortal cultivation world, it could allow thirty Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivators to attempt to form the Core.

Moreover, the medicinal power of the Condensing Liquid Pill was quite neutral and peaceful, enough to increase the success rate of forming the Core by twenty or thirty percent; if combined with a good method of forming the Core, the success rate would be about fifty percent!

If he were still in the Luotian Sect, this batch of Condensing Liquid Pills would have great use.

It's just a pity that it can only be shelved now.

Luo Chen put them all into a green-skinned gourd; he intended to keep them, and when he returned to the Eastern Wasteland in the future, this batch of pills would be enough to revitalize a sect.

Yes, an excellent pill refiner is just that awesome!

The power of one person is enough to revitalize a sect!

Thinking about it, Luo Chen took out three more from the gourd and put them into a jade bottle.

Afterwards, he sent out a sound transmission.

Before long, Seeing Tianxuan entered the abyss from the outside.

"Give this to Sang Jinghe."

Seeing Tianxuan was a bit curious, and after Luo Chen instructed her a few words, she understood the purpose of the pills.

"Just consider it a reward for his diligent work for me all these years!"

Luo Chen said so.

Seeing Tianxuan suddenly realized; Master had always been like this, never treating those who worked for him unfairly.

Not to mention how surprised Sang Jinghe was to receive three Condensing Liquid Pills.

Luo Chen, having thoroughly familiarized himself with the new pill refining tools, finally started refining the Nascent Soul Pill.

Various auxiliary materials that had been prepared long ago were taken out by him for final processing.

The Divine Shen Yuanwei Tail was dried to preserve medicinal power, and the Purple Monkey Flower was soaked in spirit liquid to reduce toxicity.

Finally, it was the Five-Element Lotus Platform!

Luo Chen carefully took out the Five-Element Lotus Platform from the Penglai Eight-Corner Pavilion.

As soon as it appeared, this object was restless, with a posture of wanting to escape.

If the Heaven-Mixing Cauldron could still be activated, relying on its power to suppress the five elements, this lotus platform would definitely not dare to act rashly.

It's just that the Heaven-Mixing Cauldron was now silent in the Qi Sea and could not be activated at all.

However, Luo Chen also had a backup method.

In the abyss, a huge formation was running in an orderly manner under the stimulation of high-grade spirit stones.

Countless spiritual energy was drawn, dividing the five elements in a quite regular manner, flickering with five-colored spiritual light.

If Min Longyu were here, he would definitely recognize that this formation was the famous Reverse Five-Element Spirit Array in the immortal cultivation world!

This formation draws the five elements, but it is to cut off the five-element spiritual energy!

Being in it, the five-element spiritual energy in the living body would be drawn away.

When the lotus platform entered the formation, the formation started instantly, and the Five-Element Lotus Platform felt its spiritual energy flowing outward, so it immediately closed its petals, not leaking a bit of aura.

"That's exactly what I want, you not daring to move!"

Luo Chen smiled slightly, holding a small knife made entirely of Profound Heaven Crystal, and walked up.

He only wanted the lotus platform itself, as for the five lotus seeds, they could not be used as medicine.

When a knife cut down, it immediately revealed tender flesh as white as jade.

"The quality of this lotus platform of mine is countless times better than the one collected by the Green Pill Valley back then, enough for me to use it as medicine more than ten times."

Luo Chen's brows and eyes were smiling, and the small knife in his hand waved faster and faster.

For refining the Nascent Soul Pill, Luo Chen had prepared for many years.

Not only collecting medicinal herbs, but also researching pill formulas, or improving pill refining techniques, it could be described as extremely cumbersome.

But when it truly came to refining, there were not many twists and turns.

Even less was it as grand as the Green Pill Valley back then, consuming countless manpower and material resources.

His medicinal herbs were of better quality, his pill refining technique was stronger than the Green Pill Valley's Supreme Elder Qing Danzi, and even the true fire used was far beyond the six strange fires prepared by the Green Pill Valley at that time!

If there was only one shortcoming, it was probably the pill refining tools.

Originally, the Heaven-Mixing Cauldron would be the best choice!

But it couldn't...

Every time he thought of the natal magic treasure that could not be activated, Luo Chen felt like a fish bone in his throat.

Fortunately, he had backup tools.

One cauldron, one furnace, one small pot.

These three pill refining tools included Luo Chen's own collection and those obtained from the storage bags of the Core Formation cultivators who died in battle.

With everything prepared, Luo Chen started formal pill refining.

To prevent accidents, he also spent an extra ten achievement points to enter the Nascent Soul Pill.

Only three months.

After destroying a pill refining cauldron and a small pot, Luo Chen harvested the treasure he had been thinking about for decades from the remaining pill refining furnace.

Ten Nascent Soul Pills!

Five colors intertwined, like sugar pills.

Falling into his hand, it was heavy, making one dare not be the slightest bit careless.

Luo Chen carefully checked the ten pills, from color to smell, to cloud patterns and medicinal power, and finally reached a result.

They were indeed at the fourth-tier low-grade level!

And the medicinal power was extremely thick, only a thread away from the fourth-tier mid-grade.

With such a pill formed, the quality of the Five-Element Lotus Platform itself accounted for the vast majority of the credit.

While happy, Luo Chen also had a bit of regret.

If he could refine it with the Heaven-Mixing Cauldron, relying on the magic treasure's effect of improving the grade of refined pills, perhaps he could cross that thread of natural chasm and reach the fourth-tier mid-grade level.

"I am being too greedy!"

Luo Chen, covered in smoke and fire, shook his head with a smile; for others, having one Nascent Soul Pill is a great stroke of luck, let alone he succeeded a full two times and refined ten Nascent Soul Pills!

And the quality was this good!

While smiling, Luo Chen's heart suddenly moved.

Pill quality not enough?

This kind of topic is a cliché for pill refiners, and there are many solutions.

Either supplement with other spirit herbs to achieve higher-grade effects.

Or re-refine, making it better and better.

And in Luo Chen's memory, there was another method that had a chance to improve the quality of the pills!

Even if it was a formed pill!

Thinking of that method, for a moment, Luo Chen's heart became restless. ===== CHAPTER 659 =====