Chapter 1084: Clouds Steaming and Mist Gathering Nurture Strange Methods, Alchemy Dao Connects and Five Turns Complete

Under the green cliff, the brilliant glow sprayed out, and under the sunlight, it was like strands of golden thread woven into a piece of cloud glow.

Every moment, the cloud glow was twisting, and the cloud scripts resembling characters were constantly changing.

Besides Shen Bao and Jiang Shang, many other cultivators were also sitting in meditation under the green cliff.

They watched the immortal dancing with a sword on the cliff wall early in the morning to comprehend the sword Dao, and watched the clouds steaming and mist gathering in the evening, brilliant and gorgeous, containing some mysterious Dao method.

Pei Erke of the Hedong Pei family had once used the Heavenly Star Dharma Eye to watch this piece of cloud glow.

He comprehended the strange phenomena of cloud qi gathering into characters in more than a dozen blessed lands.

It seemed he had broken through some secrets!

With a wave of his hand, he evolved a great method, hitting a piece of fire cloud and golden glow, containing the firepower that had been condensed and hammered to the extreme.

If slightly contaminated, it could melt gold and iron, and ordinary cultivators would be left without even bones if they encountered it.

Finally, Pei Erke left words: "This piece of cloud glow contains an extremely powerful fire method, which can condense true fire seeds into glow, adding a trace of yin and yang as one's wish. The explosion can burn everything, and the gentleness can not leak at all. It is a very high inheritance."

"It's a pity that my Heavenly Star Dharma Eye can only obtain three-tenths of its subtlety. If Wang Rong of the Wang family were here, he would be able to peek at another three-tenths!"

"These cloud glows are all exquisite inheritances in the Dao Sect. It's a pity that the cloud scripts are unpredictable and fleeting. The stars in the blessed land are illusions, and it is impossible to calculate and crack the secret of the cloud scripts based on this..."

Many of these cultivators came from aristocratic families, so they had also learned the most obscure talismanic characters of the Dao Sect—Cloud Scripts.

Many people spread out rice paper, watching the cloud glow here, and when they saw a character clearly, they would wield a brush to record it.

In this way, they pieced together several remnant books, comprehended them day by day, and even exchanged them with each other, wanting to crack the secrets within.

Shen Bao watched Jiang Shang in a daze there.

He himself only had a headache looking at that piece of cloud glow, so he quietly left and mingled among the surrounding cultivators.

His mouth was quite clever. He took the initiative to find several cultivators nearby who were not from aristocratic families to chat, and soon became good friends.

He even gathered those loose cultivators together, exchanged the formulas they had comprehended, and worked together to crack the mysteries within.

Those who dared to stay and comprehend the Dao Sect Cloud Scripts were at least extraordinary in knowledge and skilled in literature among the loose cultivators.

Shen Bao himself did not understand this path.

But he was quite quick-witted. Every time he communicated with others, he stubbornly remembered many of other people's insights, and thus used this person's insights to deal with that person, and used that person's insights to respond to this person.

No one could expose him!

After gathering everyone together, he even connected the insights of those people, and instead became the one among these people who had the deepest comprehension of this piece of cloud glow!

When night fell and the cloud glow was collected into the green cliff, Shen Bao walked over smilingly holding a piece of jade paper, and said to Jiang Shang who was spitting and meditating on the ground: "Look! My first attempt at means, and I have gathered three-tenths of the characters comprehended by the people here."

"It's a pity that those aristocratic families look down on me and have their own circle for communication, otherwise I could have gathered seven or eight-tenths of the cloud scripts recorded in everyone's hands in one day..."

After saying that, he whispered: "I have already tested today that among those aristocratic families, there is a Cui Luo from the Boling Cui family, who is quite ambitious and has already taken a fancy to my means of befriending these loose cultivators."

"I can break through from him and get the research from the aristocratic families!"

As he spoke, he spread the jade paper on the ground, pointed to the dozens of crooked characters on it that looked like rising cloud qi, and said: "How is it, is it useful to you?"

"This paper is all Jade Heart Talisman Paper made by the Cui family, which is only used for writing supreme talismans. Ordinary paper may not be able to imprint all the insights of the cloud scripts..."

Jiang Shang lowered his head and took a look, then closed his eyes to verify with the vague group of cloud qi he had comprehended in his heart.

He shook his head helplessly: "They are on the path of literature and law, and I am on the path of alchemy. Everyone's direction of comprehension is different, but it is difficult to correspond."

"Alchemy?"

Shen Bao said: "Don't be muddled by alchemy! Starting with this kind of literature and law is the righteous path for cultivators of past generations to comprehend the natural Dao laws."

Jiang Shang nodded: "The spirit of heaven and earth evolves into the true patterns of the Great Dao. The cloud glow has become cloud scripts, dragon and phoenix scales and feathers also have dragon chapters and phoenix seals, and there are turtle patterns and bird seals, insect books and erosion texts, and even the most mysterious tadpole heavenly books, which are said to require reflecting the stars to comprehend... Literature and law is naturally the righteous path to comprehend the Great Dao of heaven and earth!"

"But this righteous path is not necessarily suitable for everyone!"

"In the Dao books left by Master Zhen, there is the Dao of alchemy. He burned fire for ten years and practiced spirit eye magic for three years before he could observe the fire color and understand the heat. Then he picked medicine for ten years, read alchemy books bitterly, during which he opened his nose orifices, could distinguish medicinal properties, and then tried to refine pills with spirit herbs with simple medicinal properties."

"Breaking through hundreds of Dao scriptures in this way, and knowing the medicinal properties by heart... only then could he perceive the changes in medicinal properties from the medicine fragrance emitted by the alchemy furnace. Finally, he opened his tongue orifices, could taste the shortcomings of the fire heat of the spirit herbs in the pills, and constantly adjusted."

"After another thirty years, he finally entered the righteous path of alchemy!"

"But when he met Senior Qian Chen, he couldn't even understand what kind of pills people refined. The eldest son of the Wei family was still cursing Master Zhen for delaying him before he died."

"After I entered the path by practicing the alchemy books left by Master Zhen, I didn't dare to be slightly distracted by the outside for the first ten years, until I felt that I had penetrated all the alchemy books comprehended by Master Zhen, only then did I dare to pursue the alchemy Dao left by Senior Qian Chen..."

"In those ten years, I went to the Wei family every day and served as their guest alchemy master."

"You thought I was taken in by the Wei family as a running dog, but in fact, I have been looking for the alchemy Dao legacy of Senior Qian Chen."

"Before and after the pill was formed in the Shi Fang Garden that day, I asked countless servants of the Wei family, inquired about the list of spirit herbs in the Wei family's medicine storehouse whose medicinal properties were inexplicably emptied. I even saw with my own eyes the remains of the spirit herbs that were stolen and only left with empty shells. This still alarmed the head of the Wei family, Wei Lecheng."

"But he didn't care, instead he handed me a remnant of the 'Shi Fang Alchemy Book' collected by the Wei family."

"Having obtained the 'Shi Fang Alchemy Book' in this way, plus the 'Three Corpse Notes' written by Master Zhen before he died, I finally peeked at a point of the exquisite alchemy refined by Senior Qian Chen in the past."

"The saying goes: 'When I refine elixirs: the hundred ghosts of the netherworld steal and offer medicine; the essence of plants and trees is obtained through insect rot!'"

"Six Dings sweep and sprinkle, Six Jias fan the wind; Five Poisons as gods, sit and guard the furnace. Five Immortals load charcoal, Tai Shang looks down. Heavenly Essence probes down..."

"Master Zhen tested medicine with his own body, only then did he comprehend the secret of the three corpses and hundred insects in the human body stealing the vitality of great medicine before he died, and peeked at a corner of the inner alchemy Dao."

"And the Wei family first perceived the secret of the hundred ghosts stealing medicine, and had a volume of notes finally sent by the Wei family City God, only then did they slightly touch a little fur of the alchemy refined by Senior Qian Chen."

"Finally, after twenty years, I finally finished organizing the 'Shi Fang Alchemy Book'!"

"I dare not say that I have obtained a point of the essence of Senior Qian Chen driving the hundred ghosts to steal medicine and using the three corpses and hundred insects of the human body to refine pills."

"But I have finally entered the alchemy Dao!"

"The beginning of the alchemy Dao, as Master Zhen said, lies in observing qi! It's just that Master Zhen only knew how to look at fire color, smell pill qi, and taste pill flavor. After the tempering of hundreds of furnaces of pills, I finally connected the five senses and understood the Dao of observing qi. In my eyes, there is no longer fire color, medicinal properties, or pill qi, but only primordial qi."

"Only then did I finally step into the primordial qi alchemy Dao that Master Zhen could never step into in his life."

"And the next step of the primordial qi alchemy Dao—sensing, is the subtlety of integrating and penetrating the spirit, the so-called spirit is a kind of spirit pregnant and transformed by primordial qi!"

"Sensing primordial qi, integrating spirit, only then can one point the three corpses and hundred insects in one's own body into gods one by one with spirit pills."

"When refining pills, not only manipulating firepower, but also directly interfering with the combination of primordial qi with one's own spirit, refining primordial qi pills."

"Although it is still too far from Senior Qian Chen sensing the spirit of heaven and earth and summoning the hundred ghosts to steal medicine."

"But it can be considered that I have already entered the door."

"As for further sensing the three corpses and hundred insects in others' bodies and picking them to refine pills, it is almost a miracle."

"When I tried to mention it when communicating with other alchemy masters, everyone said that I heard it from hearsay, and such alchemy skills would not even be available if immortals descended to the lower realm..."

"As for further, Six Dings sweep and sprinkle, Six Jias fan the wind; it is divine alchemy."

"Master Zhen also had a rough understanding, but to truly achieve it, one must formally enter the Dao Sect, receive the register and obtain the Dao position."

"Five Poisons as gods, sit and guard the furnace; it is the skill inside the alchemy furnace, emphasizing that the alchemy furnace is like heaven and earth, suppressing it with the five elements. I am still quite far from this. Five Immortals load charcoal, Tai Shang looks down; it is the great secret of the alchemy Dao stealing the creation of heaven and earth. Unless I achieve a First-Rank Jin Dan, it will definitely be difficult to achieve the secret of creation."

"The final Heavenly Essence probes down is the true Jin Dan Great Dao, mysterious and infinite. I have only comprehended a little fur now, but it is difficult to speak of it."

"Therefore, this line: When I refine elixirs, the hundred ghosts of the netherworld steal and offer medicine; the essence of plants and trees is obtained through insect rot!"

"Six Dings sweep and sprinkle, Six Jias fan the wind; Five Poisons as gods, sit and guard the furnace. Five Immortals load charcoal, Tai Shang looks down. Heavenly Essence probes down..."

"It is the general outline of the 'Shi Fang Alchemy Book'!"

"Any sentence contains the supreme truth of the alchemy Dao."

"Such words, I will not easily tell others word for word, it is only you who can hear the true alchemy Dao legacy from me!"

Jiang Shang smiled.

Shen Bao was in a daze for a long time, and only then did he suddenly realize: "No wonder my alchemy method could still compare with yours for the first ten years. Later, you advanced by leaps and bounds, making me think that my natural talent was too poor, and I gave up in despair! So you found the true legacy!"

"You..."

He pointed at his good friend, slapped his thigh, and said annoyedly: "You hid it so deeply!"

Jiang Shang shook his head: "Little Leopard, you have higher comprehension and are smarter than me."

"In the past, when learning Master Zhen's alchemy books, I only touched the edge in the fifth year of what you comprehended in the first year, but your mind is too mixed! You want to learn everything and practice everything."

"I only refined pills for the first ten years, while you not only refined pills, but also learned fist and foot martial arts, and practiced various magic."

"And just like now, every time you go out, you are surrounded by friends. You teach me a magic, I teach you a trick. People are willing to teach you things, but I can't! I can only study the Dao books left by Master Zhen bitterly, reading books under the plum tree until dusk every day..."

Jiang Shang raised his head, his eyes full of sincerity: "Seeing you have so many skills, how could I not envy you."

"But I know my comprehension is not very good, I can only walk to the dark on one path diligently..."

Shen Bao did not speak for a long time, suddenly grabbed that piece of jade paper, and was about to tear it to pieces.

Jiang Shang hurriedly stopped him, carefully spread out the jade paper recording the cloud scripts, and said: "This is also everyone's hard work, why do you want to tear it?"

"It's all other people's insights, without a bit of my own things, why keep it?"

Shen Bao's tone was light, and he was disheartened.

Jiang Shang persuaded: "Little Leopard, everyone has their own path. Can't melting other people's things into one furnace and making choices be considered your ability? Is there really no insight of your own in this?"

"It is the same comprehending this mist. I obtain its purity with the alchemy Dao, and you gather the wisdom of the crowd to obtain its breadth. It is hard to say which is light and which is heavy!"

After Jiang Shang finished speaking, he told the truth he comprehended from the cloud glow with the alchemy Dao.

"At first, I dripped spirit medicine into my eyes and observed its color with the alchemy Dao eye technique. I only felt that the firepower was hidden, although it manifested as cloud glow, but in fact, the pieces of golden glow were manifested by extremely condensed firepower."

"The color change of the golden glow contains changes in firepower. Yin and soft, fierce, condensed, dissipated, a strand of golden glow firepower actually changed thousands of times in a breath, so there are strands of glow like flowing golden silk. But what secrets are hidden in these firepower changes, I have no way to comprehend."

"So I observed the sunset glow of the setting sun again, because the evening glow is caused by this piece of golden glow and the afterglow together."

"Then I saw the sun primordial qi, which was purified bit by bit by countless changing firepowers in that piece of golden glow, turned into extremely pure sun true fire, and integrated into the golden glow!"

"At this time, I comprehended that the golden glow is a mysterious and extreme fire method!"

"It can melt one's own magic power into the fire and turn it into glow."

"Then spit out the glow, the firepower is contained within, slowly refining various true fires, refining sun true fire from the sun primordial qi, refining essence from ordinary flames, improving firepower, and refining into a further fire seed."

"This kind of fire method is extremely mysterious, devouring ten thousand fires, refining fire essence into glow, it is a first-class arson method!"

"The essence of the golden glow is a kind of firepower, a change that is mysterious to the extreme, melting and penetrating the rigidity and softness, yin and yang, virtual and real, size, cold and heat of the firepower, only then can it be refined into a piece of glow."

"Starting from the red glow, once the fire heat is pure, raising the yang fire to the extreme can turn into green glow, and penetrating yin and yang, rigidity and softness, and melting the firepower into maturity, can turn into white glow."

Jiang Shang pinched a magic formula, released the alchemy fire he had refined, scattered it at will, let the firepower dissipate, and it turned into a piece of red glow when it was fluffy.

That glow was all points of alchemy fire spreading, with yin and soft power hidden inside, woven by countless firepowers.

Although it was not as high in temperature as pure alchemy fire, it was like a maggot attached to a bone. Once contaminated, one couldn't even feel the burning, and the skin would be torn and flesh would be torn, burning straight into the bone.

And as the red glow circulated, the operation of the firepower inside became more and more complex, and gradually a strand of green color spread out.

The green glow appeared, and Shen Bao was terrified, only feeling that the piece of green glow floating between Jiang Shang's fingers, the hidden danger, made his instinct to sense danger jump.

His spiritual sense touched it slightly, he didn't feel severe pain, but there was a kind of numbness, burning that point away!

"This thing!"

Jiang Shang hit a strand of green glow and changed it again, condensing the firepower to the extreme. The green glow rolled, flowing like water. At the most rapid flow, a trace of white glow, as if it were silk, was extracted.

At this time, Shen Bao didn't have that feeling of heart-jumping.

But he knew that it was not that the white glow couldn't threaten him, but that the firepower had been completely condensed and restrained, and his spiritual sense could no longer perceive it.

At this time, the sun finally rose, a strand of sunlight fell, and the purple qi inside was immediately refined by the white glow.

It was stained with a strand of purple.

Jiang Shang collected that strand of purple glow into his qi sea, and Shen Bao felt his scalp go numb.

Such terrifying firepower, once it erupted in the dantian, I'm afraid even the spirit would not be able to escape, and it would be burned to ashes in an instant!

Jiang Shang saw his worry and smiled: "The most mysterious part of this 'Golden Glow Burning Heaven Formula' is the firepower that can be manipulated at will!"

"I suspect that this piece of cloud glow was formed by a strand of firepower leaking when a senior immortal of the Louguan Sect was refining pills. Using it for attack is inferior, using it for refining pills is the true subtlety."

"I turned the alchemy glow three times and refined a strand of white glow. In this way, spitting out the sun's purple qi can turn into purple glow."

"Not only will it not hurt myself, but it can also nourish the spirit and burn and refine magic power. Just this strand of purple glow, do you know how much my magic power has been purified?"

Shen Bao stared: "How much? You have always paid attention to the purity of magic power, your Dao foundation is also supreme, and you have walked steadily in the sensing pass. In this way, being able to purify a strand is already..."

"Thirty percent!"

"How much?" Shen Bao stood up.

Jiang Shang sighed: "After accumulating in the alchemy Dao for so many years, until I encountered the opportunity left by the senior immortal of the Louguan Sect, I truly stepped onto the supreme method, and only then did I know how exquisite the true legacy of the Dao Sect is!"

Shen Bao sat down immediately, his eyes brighter than usual: "Teach me! Jiang Shang, you must teach me!"

"It's not so easy to teach. Don't look at my alchemy glow turning three times a day as if it were done in one go, but in fact, it is the accumulation of sixty years of burning fire."

"You haven't experienced the torture of alchemy fire control that is like manipulating firepower to thread a needle. This kind of exquisite skill is enough to delay you for decades before you can enter the door."

Jiang Shang did not hide the difficulties.

Shen Bao thought of the torture Jiang Shang went through when refining spirit pills with high difficulty.

That kind of confidence, doubt, fear, confusion, epiphany, doubt, madness, despair, numbness, perseverance, courage, ecstasy, confidence, doubt...

This set of cycles repeated I don't know how many times!

He couldn't help but shiver and said: "Then forget it, I have already walked my own path, it's hard to turn back and walk the alchemy Dao!"

Jiang Shang pondered slightly and said: "I have comprehended a lot of the fire methods contained in this alchemy glow. I heard that there are cloud glows in other places, which should contain many different things."

"Exploring with the alchemy Dao, I estimate that I can gain something."

"But just this piece of golden glow is enough for me to go further!"

"And to refine golden glow, one must accumulate the sky full of purple glow, at least more than ten thousand strands of purple glow that spit out the sun's purple qi, only then can one refine a strand of sun true fire golden flame and turn it into a strand of golden glow."

"But if I borrow the sun true fire contained in this piece of golden glow itself, perhaps accumulating ten strands of purple glow will be enough to start refining golden glow, saving ten thousand days of bitter work!"

"So I will stay here for these few days to try the alchemy glow five turns and refine a strand of golden glow."

"During this period, perhaps I can reverse-deduce the true text of the cloud scripts, simplify the essence, and write a formula, so that you can refine firepower and learn a fire method that specializes in a certain technique."

"Waving your hand to hit the glow, hiding the terrifying firepower inside, just like the wonderful method comprehended by Pei Erke earlier!"

"It's just that this fire method cannot improve firepower by itself, it can only refine the corresponding glow from the true fire. Without a fire seed, there is no glow! One must have a fire seed that can evolve sun true fire by itself to cast glow at will!"

Hearing that this fire method was exactly the same as the glow hit by Pei Erke, Shen Bao stood up in surprise, and hearing Jiang Shang's warning, he said blankly: "What do you mean?"

"It means that I can refine sun true fire and other innate true fires from ordinary fire and sunlight, turning them into golden glow, while you can only refine existing innate true fires and turn them into golden glow. Without a fire seed, there is no glow! One must have a fire seed that can evolve innate true fire by itself to cast glow at will!"

Jiang Shang said: "Pei Erke must also have a fire seed of the innate level to refine a strand of glow after roughly comprehending the method contained in the golden glow."

"That is at least a magic treasure level thing, do you have it?"

"Innate fire seed!" Shen Bao muttered: "I have been hanging out in the rivers and lakes for so many years, the only news I have heard about innate fire seeds is the Gan Li Seven Treasures Flame Light Pill auctioned overseas!"

"It is considered a spirit flame comparable to innate true fire refined from seven kinds of acquired fire seeds. It is said that it sold for a sky-high price..."

"Can only this level of fire seed refine golden glow? The aristocratic family is really a rich dog. Can we rob that Pei Erke once? When the time comes, I will take his fire seed, you take his pair of Dharma eyes, and our brothers will do a big job in the blessed land, then drift overseas, and never come back until we become Yin Spirits!"

Jiang Shang smiled: "What are you thinking?"

"This person can comprehend the true method of cloud glow in an instant and refine golden glow in an instant. It is at least a Second-Rank Jin Dan, and even a First-Rank Jin Dan is possible. If you and I go up, we are not robbing people, we are sending our lives!"

Hearing First-Rank Jin Dan, Shen Bao's eyes immediately became clear!

He lowered his head and looked at the jade paper in his hand, a flash of spiritual light flashed in his eyes, as if he had realized something: "After your point, I can probably see some things!"

"These cloud scripts change in thousands of ways, but they can't leave the word 'fire' at the root, so the change of cloud scripts is the double change of fire light jumping and cloud qi flowing when fire light passes through cloud qi. Because there are two variables, it is very difficult to crack!"

"In this way, I can probably summarize some things..."

Shen Bao suddenly smiled: "Sometimes, the process of comprehending formulas together is more valuable than the formulas comprehended."

"Relying on this thing, we can probably mix into the aristocratic family circle!"

"The information circulating between them is more valuable. Besides the green cliff, there are other strange phenomena in this blessed land. They must know more than we do."

"You stay here and comprehend the golden glow well, I will go and trick all these things out for you!"

Shen Bao drifted away.

In just a few breaths, he had already comprehended a cloud script, preparing to use this as a base to trick out the things mastered by the aristocratic families.

Jiang Shang knew that he was skilled in human affairs, and even without bait, he could dance with long sleeves and change out chips.

Now that he had such bait in his hand, he was never afraid of Shen Bao messing anything up.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1085 =====