Chapter 234

In the spacious and tall cave, eight giant square stones were placed around. A rhinoceros general, broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, over a zhang tall and wearing full armor, stood to the side. In the middle was an alchemy furnace, and standing next to it was a large rooster in Daoist robes, hands tucked in.

Luo Seng held his long sword, staring directly at General Rhino.

This yaoguai was not only over a zhang tall but also possessed infinite strength. Those square stones, each weighing who knows how many tens of thousands of jin, he could actually push with brute force. Such a yaoguai, even if Luo Seng's martial arts were high, he did not know how he would win if he fought him.

The fox stood beside the alchemy furnace, tilting its head and staring at this large rooster, which was only as tall as a person, wondering how this chicken grew so big.

The junior sister stood to the side, her face blank, her mind empty, yet she was directing General Rhino to push the giant stones.

"Ah!!"

They saw this giant yaoguai bend over, hands supporting the giant stone, teeth clenched, legs pushing against the ground, veins popping on his head, and roars erupting from his throat.

Originally, one could only see skin and fat on his body, but with this exertion, his muscles bulged and knotted, erupting with unimaginable power.

The giant stone was actually moving on the ground with a rustling sound.

The stones on the ground were all ground to pieces.

"Push it here."

The junior sister, referring to the Bagua diagram for the time being, directed General Rhino to push the giant stones to different directions.

And her expression remained blank; she did not understand how her senior brother could think of this method in such a rush and even push it to her to do.

"This one to here..."

Her mouth did not stop.

Her peripheral vision could not help but glance not far away—

Lin Jue was checking the alchemy materials to the side.

The first thing he looked at was this gold essence.

This was a round bead, only the size of a thumb, golden and bright, weighing about two liang in the hand.

However—

Lin Jue loosened his hand.

The gold essence seemed to instantly become extremely heavy, falling rapidly.

"Boom!"

A small pit was smashed into the stone floor, gravel splashed, and cracks appeared suddenly.

It weighed several hundred jin the moment it left his hand.

"Top-grade gold essence."

I don't know if this is the top-grade gold essence in the northwest direction that the senior mentioned, but it is probably the top-grade gold essence in Long Wang's hands that the one in the Lady Yao Hua cave spoke of.

Although Lin Jue had always used "using gold essence to forge weapons" as an excuse, his main purpose was to gather the "four qian of top-grade gold essence" for the Four Directions Five Elements Golden Elixir. If it were just for forging weapons, there would be no need to find such good gold essence.

Now it is considered complete.

Lin Jue revealed a look of contemplation.

Then he went to check those heavenly treasures.

Long Wang had been entrenched here for many years; I really don't know how many heavenly treasures he had collected.

This is certainly not all of them. If there were truly top-of-the-line ones, he would have swallowed them long ago, or kept them and not brought them over.

However, just here, there were hundreds of categories, and some categories were very numerous, just simply packed in boxes or simply sealed with spiritual aura, piled into a small mountain, and most of them were not common heavenly treasures.

Lin Jue selected slowly.

Not only were there spiritual plants he often used for alchemy, but he even saw thousand-year-old Ying wood, spiritual wood from a tree yaoguai. I wonder if some tree yaoguai came to the banquet and couldn't afford a gift, so he just produced and sold it himself.

They are all good things...

"Daoist Lin."

The sound of footsteps with claws colliding and rubbing against the ground walked over and stopped behind him.

"How is the selection? Can it gather enough yin/yang and five elements here?"

Lin Jue turned to look; it was that large rooster in Daoist robes, holding a whisk. It was as tall as a person, its voice gentle, and his fox was following it firmly, staring at it the whole time.

"It can gather enough."

"Then the Daoist should choose, and I will fetch them for the Daoist."

"Alright."

Lin Jue then selected some spiritual plants belonging to different yin/yang and five elements categories, deliberately avoiding the ones he liked, and asked the rooster to take them over.

"Daoist Lin, the King has left all those living people for you. When will you use their fingernails and hair? If you use them early, you might catch up to the King's birthday banquet tomorrow."

"Like the essence blood, use them before the elixir is formed."

"Hmm..."

Ji Xianren Chicken silently noted it down.

Lin Jue naturally saw it, but did not care.

Long Wang letting this Ji Xianren Chicken come here was partly to monitor them, and partly, most likely, to steal the craft. This just happened to let him consume the physical strength and magical power of these two capable generals.

"Daoist Chicken, the matter of the Dao of alchemy is not that simple," Lin Jue smiled and said, "May I ask how to use this alchemy furnace?"

"Face the dragon head on the furnace body, hold the left ear and chant the spell to make it smaller; hold the right ear and chant the spell to make it larger. The spell is: Ruyi Alchemy Furnace, changing without end."

"Many thanks."

Lin Jue then walked forward.

He walked around the alchemy furnace, found the dragon head, faced it, found the left tripod ear, held it and chanted the spell, and it indeed became smaller. He touched the right tripod ear, held it and chanted the spell, and it indeed became larger.

This is truly magical.

Then he changed it to its largest size, a zhang wide, much larger than the largest alchemy furnace in the Alchemy Pavilion of Fuqiu Peak.

Lin Jue looked a bit surprised.

"Please light the fire."

"Alright!"

Ji Xianren Chicken nodded and pointed with a spell.

With a boom!

A spiritual light shot out, like sunlight, and with a boom, a cluster of spiritual fire lit up in the furnace, occupying half of the furnace.

"Such strong solar essence! Great Sun spiritual aura! Could it be that this is the legendary Solar Spirit Fire, Daoist Chicken?"

"It is!"

"This is truly a good fire for alchemy!" Lin Jue said nonsense, "Daoist Chicken, the fire does not need to be too big, just occupy the whole furnace; however, it cannot stop for a moment, otherwise the elixir will be ruined."

"..."

Ji Xianren Chicken frowned.

What does it mean it doesn't need to be too big, just occupy the whole furnace? This furnace is a zhang wide!

But it had heard from General Rhino about the medicinal effect of that immortal elixir. Even this brute was so shocked, and it seemed the King was actually willing to send people to capture General Rat for the sake of this elixir, so it knew the spirit elixir was extraordinary. Such a spirit elixir naturally could not be refined casually, so it gritted its teeth, raised all its magical power, and pointed its whisk at the alchemy furnace.

"Boom!"

The fire in the furnace flared up, sending out a wave of heat, accompanied by the most yang and most rigid Solar spiritual aura.

The fox could not help but retreat.

These two really have high skills.

Lin Jue could not help but think so.

"Rumble..."

The giant stones beside him were still moving slowly, making a startling movement, and the ground seemed to be shaking.

General Rhino was covered in sweat, panting, and had managed to move the eight square stones to the appropriate places.

"Now, do not use these eight stones to gather the spiritual aura of mountains and rivers and the essence of heaven and earth; just use them to isolate the overly thick water vapor here. Earth covers water, which can ensure the balance of the five energies here. This is related to the timing of heaven; it must be changed every half an hour."

The junior sister said seriously, secretly shocked by General Rhino's strength.

Rolling her eyes, she added: "If the General is too tired, you can let trusted yaoguai soldiers push them; don't tire yourself out."

"No need!"

General Rhino sat down on his butt to rest and said in a deep voice.

This did not exceed the junior sister's expectations at all—

Such an immortal elixir, how could it be easily known by others?

The junior sister hummed and nodded, refraining from looking at her senior brother, but her peripheral vision saw her senior brother turn around and look at her.

He seemed to feel her wit.

The fire in the furnace gradually rose. Lin Jue first put in the silver, which quickly melted into silver water in the alchemy furnace, and then put in the other alchemy materials one by one.

At first, Ji Xianren Chicken still wanted to steal the craft, watching intently, but after a long time, it discovered that this was indeed not something an outsider like itself could easily learn.

For this elixir, Lin Jue did not use forty taels, nor fifty taels, but after checking the quality of the silver, he put in more than forty taels. For this, he not only picked many pieces of broken silver, but one piece of silver was also cut into pieces, clearly extremely precise.

And those ten types of heavenly treasures were each different; some had sufficient spiritual aura, some had poor spiritual aura, some had good appearance, some had poor appearance, and even for the same type, there were subtle differences between different plants.

It seemed that for the balance of spiritual aura, the amount of each material he used was different, and he almost used his hands to weigh them.

It had neither this skill nor any idea how much weight of each material he used.

And the order of throwing in each material was also different.

It seemed to be related to the timing of heaven.

The knowledge in it was too deep.

Not to mention that it still had to focus on controlling the fire, not daring to let it go out, and had no other thoughts at all.

Time passed bit by bit.

The alchemy fire in the cave did not go out all night, and the rumbling sound almost never stopped.

Ji Xianren Chicken's magical power and energy were slowly consumed, and it ate many heavenly treasures to replenish them, only then being able to maintain the fire. Even though General Rhino had divine strength, he gradually became exhausted. Every time he rested, he would inevitably collapse against the wall, even taking off his armor.

A short three days felt like three years.

Three days later, the spirit elixir was about to be formed.

Long Wang came here in person to watch.

They saw Lin Jue sitting cross-legged in front of the alchemy furnace, the junior sister holding a fan, fanning him from the side, and Ji Xianren Chicken sitting to the side maintaining the fire, already very tired.

Lin Jue was relaxed, opened his eyes, and asked:

"Has the King captured that rat yaoguai?"

"This... I am sorry, Daoist! When I went to find that rat yaoguai three days ago, he had already disappeared!" Long Wang said. "But the Daoist need not worry; I will certainly avenge the Daoist."

"..."

Lin Jue smiled and said nothing.

Long Wang probably promised that rat yaoguai the same thing back then, right?

"The elixir is about to be formed!"

"Hard work, Daoist!"

"I am not tired; the most tired are Ji Xianren Chicken and General Rhino," Lin Jue said, pausing, and immediately stood up. "The timing is almost here! Only the fingernails and hair of people are missing, and a drop of a yaoguai's life essence blood!"

"Use mine!"

Long Wang glanced at the exhausted Ji Xianren Chicken and General Rhino, immediately walked out, circulated his energy and magical power, opened his mouth, and spat out a red blood bead.

Long Wang's face turned slightly pale, and he waved it toward Lin Jue.

On the other side, General Rhino also personally dragged over a group of shivering singing girls, dancers, and mortal people, treating them like livestock, cutting off their hair, clipping their fingernails, putting them in a basket, and handing them to Lin Jue.

Lin Jue first pointed his finger, making Long Wang's essence blood fly into the furnace. With a hiss, the essence blood met the spiritual fire, naturally blooming with extremely strong spiritual aura, and then he poured the things in the basket into it.

A strange smell wafted out from the furnace.

The spiritual aura also became a bit strange.

"This is..."

Long Wang looked at Lin Jue.

"No need to worry. After all, other materials were used to replace the spiritual aura of mountains and rivers, the essence of the sun and moon, and human energy. It is normal for there to be some strangeness. After the elixir is formed, it will recover."

Lin Jue covered the furnace lid and let the spiritual fire burn.

Under the spiritual fire, all strange smells were disappearing rapidly, and the spiritual aura extracted from those heavenly treasures gained the upper hand again.

Not long after, he opened the lid again.

At this time, some bright red medicinal liquid had formed in the furnace, emitting astonishing spiritual aura.

Lin Jue took out an elixir bottle and pointed his finger.

Casting a spell to form the elixir!!

The elixir, carrying a scalding temperature, flew up one after another.

"Fuyao!"

The fox understood and, tilting its head, spat out a mouthful of cold air as black as ink.

The elixir passed through the cold air and cooled rapidly. When it fell into the bottle along the bottle mouth, only a few clinking sounds were heard, and it had already become very hard.

"It's done!"

Lin Jue offered the elixir bottle.

Long Wang immediately took it and looked down.

Inside were indeed four pills, the same as the previous one, all the size of a little finger's fingernail, silver-white all over, with a layer of mist on them, possessing astonishing medicinal fragrance, and revealing astonishing spiritual aura and mystery.

If it's not the Spirit Origin Pill, what else could it be!?

"It really is done!"

Long Wang was overjoyed!