Chapter 45

Cui Dan and the old servant had once looked at the Qi of this house outside. This place was desolate and abandoned, and had long since lost the vivid Qi of the Feng Shui situation. They thought that the house must be gloomy and the primordial Qi was biased towards Yin and turbid. But after entering, they found that this place already had a universe inside. Except for the outer courtyard that was destroyed by the Meishan sect monster, they didn't know how it was.

The inner room where Qian Chen was located was circling with a faint, pure, and miraculous fragrance.

In the empty room, under the eaves of the four corners, there were several spiritual fungi that were either bright red or dark purple, budding on the waste wood... These spiritual fungi were small, cute, and vivid.

It was enough to prove that the Feng Shui of this place was great.

"No wonder Father said to me, a mountain doesn't have to be high, it is famous if there is an immortal. A river doesn't have to be deep, it is spiritual if there is a dragon. This saying comes from the Supreme Daoist Scripture, and it is not a fake scripture falsely named by later generations. It turns out that a high-level expert opening a furnace to refine pills... can really change the Feng Shui of a place. In the past, Master Ge refined pills on Baicao Mountain, washing the pill tripod with spiritual springs every day, and the pill water flowed through the whole mountain for decades... After Master Ge ascended, Baicao Mountain has produced various spiritual medicines for thousands of years, and even a great sect of external alchemy—Baicao Sect—has risen."

"I originally thought this was a legend falsely claimed by the Baicao Sect in order to climb up to Master Ge."

"Now it seems that the wind comes from an empty hole, not necessarily without cause!"

"These spiritual fungi have sufficient medicinal properties, but the heat is still shallow. They are obviously born by bearing the medicinal Qi..." Cui Dan was just thinking this when he saw Qian Chen casually pick up another bright red pill, with medicinal Qi supporting the spiritual pill like a spiritual fungus, and throw it into the ground, instantly disappearing into the soil.

Seeing this scene, the hands Cui Dan placed on his legs grabbed his trousers involuntarily. The old and stable Wu Bo just wanted to say some polite and flattering words, but when the words reached his lips, seeing Qian Chen's natural and luxurious behavior, he completely forgot what he wanted to say, and just opened his mouth unconsciously, and a trace of suspicious crystal dripped from the corner of his mouth.

Qian Chen was not deliberately showing off his wealth...

It was because spiritual fungi are born from Qi. Qian Chen had used this place as a pill room for more than forty days. Every day, he nurtured the primordial pill and tempered the medicinal Qi. Naturally, he would change the environment, especially when the primordial pill was nurtured. It was equivalent to a cultivator achieving a seventh-rank Core Formation. Originally, there was a huge external scene, which was the result of the primordial pill nurturing and the heaven and earth sensing.

At that time, the miscellaneous Qi of the primordial pill overflowed, forming various strange phenomena, among which was sensing the Yin Sha Qi underground, turning it into harmony, and completely changing the Feng Shui of this area, which is the external scene—combining Yin Sha, the blessed land is naturally formed.

There are also various spiritual fungi that turn into medicinal Qi and fall to the ground, hundreds of spiritual fungi of various colors, which will sprout in this place—the spiritual fungus auspicious scene, hundreds of medicines grow together.

There are even countless monsters and spirits that have benefited from this Qi and transformed—blessing monsters and spirits, all living things.

These three types of Core Formation external scenes will naturally settle the cause and effect that Qian Chen formed with the Yin Sha, primordial Qi, and monsters of this place because of refining pills. This is the way of heaven and man sensing, because Qian Chen lost the primordial Qi of heaven and earth in this place when refining pills, so there are spiritual fungi born naturally; because he emptied the Yin Sha earth vein, so he had to combine the remaining Sha Qi to form a Feng Shui blessed land; finally, he took away the opportunity of the monsters in this place, and compensated in a certain way in the dark.

But these Core Formation external scenes and pill refining miscellaneous Qi were all refined into spiritual pills by Qian Chen with secret methods.

So in order not to destroy this kind of heaven and man sensing external scene and not form cause and effect in the dark, Qian Chen first crushed the pill into jade dust to nourish a group of monsters and spirits, giving them compensation for another opportunity. Then he threw the red sun pill with the heaviest Yang and harmony Qi into this place. This pill Qi entered the ground and would naturally follow the path of Yin and Yang to find the remaining Yin Sha Qi.

Such Yang and harmony essence, by absorbing the remaining Yin Sha, will turn into a red essence fungus and sprout from the place where Qian Chen broke the earth crust.

As the red essence fungus absorbs the remaining Yin Sha Qi and gathers the primordial Qi of heaven and earth, it will naturally transform the evil Qi of this place into a blessed land, and at the same time nourish the other spiritual fungi transformed by medicinal Qi. In this way, without moving, the external scenes of heaven and man sensing are all cleverly restored. When all cause and effect are settled, it also leaves a rare spiritual medicine production place for later people.

Even the original owner of this place can benefit greatly—at least after Qian Chen leaves, the local Daoist academy will definitely spend a lot of money to buy the house from the original owner and transform it into a fungus room.

This can also be considered the rent that Qian Chen settled.

It's just that this kind of truth involves the good and bad luck in the dark, and those who can perceive it are all Daoist scholars with extremely keen sensing. Many side paths and left paths often complain about their lack of blessings, but they don't know that those who can enter the Great Dao from ignorant mortals, who doesn't have some luck? It's just that these blessings and luck are often consumed in the process of the side paths and left paths consuming the creation of heaven and earth and plundering resources without knowing it.

Over time, trouble is entangled, and the red dust of cause and effect wears away. Even if the Dao heart was originally firm and the nature was originally clear, it was covered with dust.

Those who can stand out are either those who are decisive in killing, slaughtering those entangled with their own cause and effect, with great determination and great perseverance to cut off cause and effect, plundering others' luck, and going straight forward, the true protagonist...

Or those who are cautious and careful, and often leave a line in their actions, the old rivers and lakes.

Cui Dan and the old servant were momentarily lost, but soon woke up. Even if this high-level expert's every move seemed to be done casually, there was a deep meaning in it. The old servant soon calmed down and restrained his appearance. He speculated with the machine heart of an aristocratic family, connecting it with the fact that the Cui clan often sacrificed and formed ties according to the customs of aristocratic families, which was often ridiculed by local powerful families... but in the end, it was the aristocratic family that calculated more deeply. Some seemingly disadvantageous actions ensured the continuation of the family.

On the contrary, those powerful families who were as greedy as tigers and wolves and acted roughly and violently often changed a batch in just over a hundred years.

And Cui Dan thought even more simply, but he vaguely sensed—the way of heaven, damaging the surplus to make up for the deficiency. The way of man, serving the surplus with the deficiency. And the way of heaven and man, it is the truth of circulation and endlessness... He didn't have the machine heart of the old servant, but he thought about his own cultivation, vaguely comprehending the way of man to strengthen himself and make progress, the way of heaven to be born without possession, and to follow nature... the miraculousness of the way of cultivation, which combines both heaven and man.

Cui Dan came back to his senses and saw Qian Chen looking at him with a smile. He hurriedly said: "The little one was rude, just because I heard from the Daoist academy that a high-level expert came to Wu Kang, made friends with foxes, and lingered here. So I had the heart to visit, and almost disturbed the senior's great event of refining pills..."

Qian Chen shook his head and laughed: "You waited outside the door, how can it be considered a disturbance. I don't know why the Cui young master came specifically. Could it be that you just want to see me?"

Cui Dan knelt and sat upright, his etiquette was extremely comprehensive.

Although he had some playboy Qi, after all, his family education was extremely strict, and his etiquette made people unable to pick a single mistake. He said respectfully: "The little one came rashly, one is to ask for Dao industry, two is to admire the high-level expert, and three is to have the heart to make friends..."

"Ask for Dao industry... you are also honest." Qian Chen picked up a pill like the blue sky, like throwing a child, clamped it between his index and middle fingers, pointed at Cui Dan and said: "Your foundation is not pure. I think you took a shortcut during Foundation Establishment. The heat was not pure, and you refined external medicine to force a breakthrough, so the sensing was somewhat mixed. Your true Qi is also not solid enough because of this!"

Only then did Cui Dan put away his indifference during this period, and realized why his mother was so angry, and even drove him out to travel as an official—since even the high-level expert said so, it seems that this carelessness when building the foundation really had a far-reaching impact.

He immediately smiled bitterly: "It was my impatience. I was instigated by someone and lost my persistence in my original heart."

The old servant Wu Bo was a little nervous. He had already seen that this was a great opportunity for his young master, and was afraid that Cui Dan would not know what was good for him and miss it. He hurriedly opened his mouth and said: "I don't know if there is a chance for remedy here, sir?"

"It's just that the foundation is simple." Qian Chen laughed: "Take this Bi Yuan Quenching Spirit Pill in my hand as an example. It is best at tempering true Qi and consolidating the foundation. If you take one, you can polish the Dao foundation, improve one rank, and even if you want to be perfect again, it will be simpler. It's just that the Dao foundation is easy to get, but the temperament is hard to seek... If you take this pill, will it erase the impetuosity in your heart?"

"If you have the heart that cultivation is easy, and even the Dao foundation can be made up for by external things."

"Forgive me for being blunt, this is probably slightly worse than the Dao foundation, and even more harmful. It's just that the Dao foundation is worse, you will waste ten years, and the polishing of your temperament will inevitably be pure. Only then will you be cautious in your future cultivation... What is the difference between having and not having spiritual pills?"

Qian Chen looked at Cui Dan, whose body trembled slightly, as if an electric current had passed through him, and saw him pondering for a long time, before he finally bowed convincingly: "Thank you for your guidance, sir. Before, I really had a proud heart. Today, seeing the great supernatural powers of the senior in refining pills and killing enemies, I truly had the heart to seek the Dao."

"Listening to your guidance again, I finally know that the recklessness of the past really had future troubles. The Dao is like a beauty, and a gentleman's heart of seeking and admiring should be cautious in words and deeds. This King Wen, be careful and cautious. If you are like a playboy in the capital, commenting and joking without taboo, this is frivolity, not seeking and admiring! For me, spiritual pills are really not a good thing. Please take them back..."

Qian Chen laughed again: "What I said before that there is no difference was just to test you."

"How can this ten-year waste have no future troubles? Not to mention the wasted time, just saying that polishing the temperament in this way, it seems calm and pure, but it actually loses its sharpness. Walking on thin ice, advancing courageously, the subtlety of this is really hard to say... Since you have already figured out the recklessness of the past, you should be alert from time to time in the future. What is the difference between having and not having this spiritual pill?"

Qian Chen threw the green spiritual pill to Cui Dan and laughed: "It's yours!"

Cui Dan didn't expect Qian Chen's style to be so heroic. He received the spiritual pill in a panic, and before he could thank him, he heard Qian Chen laugh: "If you want to repay me, I won't refuse... If you have any spiritual grain or food and water, just offer them. If you can have news of an Earth Sha Yin vein... I have other benefits for you!"