Chapter 491: External Medicine for Jin Dan, Changes of Life and Death, Great Expansion of Five Virtues

At this time, Qian Chen has already formed a Jin Dan three times, condensing two first-rank Golden Cores—the Innate Taiji and the Five Elements Heaven Escape—within his physical body. In his main body, the Dao Dust Pearl, there is even a wisp of Supreme Dao essence transformed into the likeness of the Dao Venerable, which is the Supreme Dao Venerable Pill condensed from Dao nature.

These three Golden Cores were carefully chosen by Qian Chen, each representing Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and even the Supreme Great Dao, serving as the pill heads transformed from the foundation of the Great Dao.

Compared to the Four Symbols, Eight Trigrams, Heavenly Gang, and Earthly Sha, these three Golden Cores are closer to the origin of creation.

The Dao Dust Pearl is the spirituality cut out by the Supreme before merging with the Dao. It contains everything and is vast to the extreme, almost the transformation of the Great Dao. Only with the ability to manipulate creation can one have a glimmer of certainty in refining this pearl.

And to cultivate the manipulation of creation, Qian Chen must, at the moment of Jin Dan formation, form a Jin Dan in three turns in one breath, melting Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and the Supreme Great Dao into one furnace, and refining a Jin Dan in the Dao Dust Pearl. This pill is formless and shapeless, filling the Dao Dust Pearl, like the Heavenly Dao, grasping the pivot of Yin-Yang, operating the creation of the Five Elements. It is the most profound Origin Pill Qian Chen has ever refined in his life.

The difficulty of this is far beyond the Heavenly Emperor Dragon-Controlling Pill!

Now Qian Chen has only gathered the three main medicines, but how to evolve the Five Elements and Yin-Yang afterwards and melt them into the Supreme Great Dao still has many difficulties.

"When a Dao Sect cultivator reaches this step, they should conceive a great medicine in their body that is compatible with their own magic power. This medicine is the essence of the human body, transformed from the life of the practitioner."

"There is wisdom, courage, benevolence, integrity, and other spiritual emotions condensed from the three souls; there is the essence of the Five Elements and the Innate Five Elements Qi gathered from the internal organs; there is even the feedback of the original heart of the vow after the Buddhist sect makes a vow and achieves it through ascetic practice; even the demonic path at this pass will use various stimuli to let their own spirit generate corresponding demons, to be subdued by their own demonic nature."

"Only in this way, combined with various external medicines for Jin Dan formation, whether picking spiritual herbs, swallowing gold and stone, or refining gods and demons—can one gather internal and external medicines into one furnace and refine a Jin Dan, Sarira, or Life-Bound God and Demon!"

"I want to form a pill with the Nine-Turn Pill Method. Now that my cultivation has reached the point where the water is full and overflowing, the three Jin Dan great medicines are all ready. What is missing now is the external medicine for Jin Dan formation that will melt the three Golden Cores into one furnace, fuse the three Golden Cores of different essences, resolve the various difficulties, and promote the three-turn Jin Dan formation!"

Regarding the pass of Jin Dan formation, ninety-nine percent of the cultivators in the world can only follow the records of the predecessors and ancestors who opened the path and left classics, conceive corresponding great medicines in their bodies, and then travel across the five lakes, four seas, and eight wildernesses to find external medicines to cooperate with Jin Dan formation!

They can only follow the map to find the horse, and do not understand the principles within.

Only a very small number of cultivators who have a very deep understanding of alchemy are not transcending the fences of their predecessors, but customizing a method of Jin Dan formation according to their own cultivation.

Qian Chen has the "Supreme Alchemy Book," the source of alchemy in the world, in his hand, so he is a leader in this path. In his mind, he instantly swept through the various medicinal properties of gold, stone, grass, wood, and even human thoughts in the world. In his hands, gold, iron, spiritual minerals, vital energy, vows, human thoughts, spiritual herbs, grass, wood, and even flesh, blood, demons, and monsters—nothing cannot be used as a pill.

And what materials in the world has he not used to refine?

Grass and wood pills, vital energy pills, gold and stone pills, luck pills, vow pills, demon and monster pills...

Whether it is Dao, Demon, God, Buddha, Demon, or Ghost, he has studied every path of Jin Dan formation.

So, in just a flash of thought, Qian Chen skipped the acquired materials such as grass, wood, gold, stone, and even human thoughts and demonic monsters.

Because the pill he wants to refine is endowed with Dao nature, the creation of the bell—Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and the Supreme Great Dao are all extremely metaphysical foundations of the Great Dao. Using acquired objects to melt them will only muddy their essence.

And what were the three pill heads that Qian Chen refined now made of?

The Innate Taiji Pill was refined from Innate Yin-Yang Qi...

The Five Elements Heaven Escape Pill was refined from Five-Colored Divine Light—between heaven and earth, there are very few vital energies that can exceed the quality of these two innate vital energies!

And the Supreme Dao Venerable Pill was refined from the Dao nature obtained by gathering the changes of human hearts from both Dao and Demon sides, melting the luck of the Nine Dragons, gathering the luck of the gods, and then extinguishing all the false decorations.

Calculating this way, the external medicines that can help Qian Chen impact Jin Dan formation are very few!

"The Supreme Dao Venerable Pill does not need to be considered. It is the primer that triggers the Dao Dust Pearl. The spirituality of the Dao Dust Pearl itself comes from the Supreme Dao Ancestor. Unless I can get a bit of spirituality cut out by the Primordial Dao Ancestor and the Lingbao Dao Ancestor to make a Three Pure Ones into one Qi, there is no material in the world that can assist it as a monarch and minister!"

"Refining a bit of 'Morality' to combine with Dao nature will do..."

"And the essence of the Innate Taiji Pill is Yin-Yang Qi. This pill is the pill head of the second turn. After the Five Elements are melted into Yin-Yang, Yin-Yang complements each other to form Taiji, melting the Supreme Dao Venerable Pill of the third turn. Therefore, the external medicine of this pill needs to trace back to the Great Dao and use Yin-Yang to transform into the Dao... It can cooperate with the external medicine of Yin-Yang, which must be the principle evolved from Yin-Yang—"

"Movement and stillness? Movement and stillness are the pivot of Yin-Yang, but they are still a bit far from the foundation of the Great Dao!"

"Water and fire?"

"Although water and fire also have the charm of Yin-Yang, they have already fallen to the level of the Five Elements. If the Supreme Dao Venerable Pill is the first turn and the Innate Taiji Pill is the second turn, the Great Dao produces Yin-Yang, Yin-Yang produces Five Elements, and the Dao Dust Pearl is refined into this physical body of mine, it can be considered. But this time it is Five Elements transforming into Yin-Yang, Yin-Yang transforming into the Great Dao, so the external medicine of the second turn needs a more metaphysical principle!"

"Thunder? Thunder is the pivot that operates Yin-Yang. If one cultivates the Yin-Yang Dao with thunder methods, it is suitable, but to trace back to the origin of the Great Dao with Yin-Yang, it is far behind!"

"Truth and illusion? Even less suitable..."

"Life and death!" Qian Chen's eyes lit up: "Life and death are one of the most metaphysical changes of Yin-Yang, and this method is the easiest. Just die once when refining the Innate Taiji Pill in the second turn."

"This physical body is death, the Dao Dust Pearl is life. There is life in death, and death in life, letting my physical body decay, bloodline sink and scatter, spirit transform into a Yin ghost, while the true spirit guards the Dao Dust Pearl, still pure Yang. In this way, Yin and Yang, after turning once between life and death, can knock open the mysterious pass of life and death and thoroughly refine the Innate Taiji Pill!"

"And this physical body is dead, and the only reliance of my cultivation base has become the Dao Dust Pearl. In the third turn, I can take the opportunity to refine my cultivation base into the Dao Dust Pearl, thus completing the three turns of the Jin Dan and achieving the Yang Spirit!"

"In this way, not only does the spirit go from life to death and from death to life, which can refine pure Yang, but even the second turn of my Jin Dan is the turn of Yin-Yang and the refining of life and death, which is more natural than any other pill-turning method."

Qian Chen thought the more he felt it was suitable. If it weren't for the fact that the lifespan of this physical body was still long, waiting for the end of life to die, and turning the pill because of death, it would be even more consistent with the Great Dao of life and death.

However, this act of treating life and death as external medicine and turning the pill of life and death is extremely dangerous. If one is not careful, one will play out of control!

If ordinary cultivators learn from him, going from life to death is simple and easy, but ninety-nine percent of them will not be able to live, and the best outcome is only to turn to cultivate ghost immortals.

The reason Qian Chen dares to have such a crazy idea is that his main body is the Dao Dust Pearl, which is essentially immortal. Just use the Taiyin Refining Form technique to entrust the true spirit to the Dao Dust Pearl. There is no need to spend thousands of years re-refining the divine form. At the third turn of Jin Dan formation, when testifying to the Yang Spirit, the spirit that has transformed into a Yin ghost will transform into pure Yang. At that time, refine the body back again.

And one can also use this to cultivate Taiyin Refining Form!

"So, I have to find a scapegoat to kill me at the moment of Jin Dan formation!" Qian Chen found a small notebook and seriously recorded his 'external medicine for cultivation.'

"Should I find the cheap parents of this body? Take the opportunity to end the karma?"

Qian Chen seriously considered for a while whether to continue to test a certain spiritual pearl, return the flesh to the father, return the bones to the mother, and thoroughly end the karma of the past!

But this kind of thinking is too insane. Qian Chen still has a trace of guilt for the parents of his predecessor. Ending the karma like this is too heartless.

It is better to spend some trouble to revive the remnant soul of the original owner after achieving the Dao.

"Borrow your body, bear your karma, when I achieve the Dao in the future, there will be redemption!" Qian Chen sighed and said: "But I am Qian Chen after all, not Li Er!"

"In this way, life and death are external medicines. I just need to prepare the various things for Taiyin Refining Form. I also have some clues about the external medicine for the first turn of Five Elements transforming into Yin-Yang..."

Qian Chen made some preparations very early. There are very few great powers in the world who melt Yin-Yang and Five Elements into one furnace. Except for a certain great power of the Dragon Clan and a certain God Venerable who achieved the Dao with the path of Heavenly Stems, only Daoist Zou Yan in ancient times could describe his Dao!

Daoist Zou Yan melted Yin-Yang changes into the Five Elements, achieving 'Five Virtues Beginning and End.'

Yin-Yang change is 'Luck,' Five Elements origin is 'Virtue.'

That is, Yin-Yang change promotes the operation of Five Virtues, so the operation of Five Virtues can naturally evolve Yin-Yang changes...

Before leaving Jiankang, Qian Chen went to find Cui Dan and used the pill method of the Five Elements Heaven Escape Pill, including the external medicine for Jin Dan formation, the pill-forming formula, and a whole set of methods to exchange for a part of the chapters of the "Heavenly Expansion Five Virtues Profound Scripture."

And Cui Dan, at the time of the Demon Tribulation, was following Qian Chen's arrangement, so he was able to escape a death tribulation. When Qian Chen revealed this intention, he intended to tell Qian Chen all the "Heavenly Expansion Five Virtues Profound Scripture" he knew, but Qian Chen knew that this scripture was the secret transmission of the Cui family, not obtained by Cui Dan alone, and not something he alone could dispose of, so naturally he would not make him embarrassed.

With Qian Chen's vision, he could naturally see that the most suitable Jin Dan formation method for Cui Dan was the Five Elements Heaven Escape Pill.

Immediately, he used this pill method to exchange with the Cui family for a part of the scripture of the "Heavenly Expansion Five Virtues Profound Scripture" that did not involve specific methods.

At this time, taking out this scripture, Qian Chen silently recited it, operating the Five Elements Divine Light to feel the various principles within.

After comprehending for half a month...

On this day, the meditation room was dark and lightless. Qian Chen suddenly opened his eyes, and the five-colored divine light behind him operated like a wheel, gradually melting into one, turning into black and white. But this black and Bai Qi only appeared briefly, and soon turned into Hunyuan again.

In the chaos, a point of white light fell on Qian Chen's life-bound sword embryo.

Where the white light passed, the sword embryo seemed to have been washed once, and the Qi machine became more and more restrained!

"So this is the Five Virtues!"

The Five Virtues were evolved by Zou Yan from merit, and merit is a certain law of heaven and earth that only existed after the Supreme merged with the Dao.

Following heaven is merit, responding to luck is virtue!

This thing is just a bit of heavenly favor added to the body in the dark, like luck, it is an existence that ordinary cultivators cannot see or touch, even more unpredictable than luck. Only with extremely profound Dao methods can this invisible heavenly favor be refined from the dark.

It can be said that refining merit is one of the highest transmissions of the Three Teachings.

The Louguan Dao that Qian Chen inherited is the direct lineage of the Supreme Dao. The method of refining merit he knows is of course the top transmission among the Three Teachings.

There are five kinds of merit in the Dao Sect!

The easiest merit to refine is Yin Merit. After sentient beings die, their souls turn into ghosts, and their own merit will turn into Yin Merit, protecting their soul body, and even turning into the magic power of the soul, protecting their reincarnation.

Therefore, Yin Merit is the easiest to transform. Even any Dao Sect cultivator, by reciting the "Duren Scripture" with a trace of magic power, can turn merit into Yin Merit, and can even pass Yin Merit to their blood relatives, or protect their descendants in the dark!

This is the method of bearing in the Dao Sect!

Next is Good Virtue!

Clarifying the heart is merit, seeing the nature is virtue. As long as one clarifies the heart and sees the nature, one can turn merit into Good Virtue, which is the merit practiced by most Buddhist sects. This is a light of nature, which can suppress inner demons. Internally, it can clarify the heart and see the nature, tempering the Dao heart. Externally, it is the righteous Qi, filling the sky!

Above that is Fortune Virtue.

Refining merit into Fortune Virtue is a number of Qi that turns bad luck into good luck and has endless fortune. Fortune Virtue Qi can reduce tribulations, transform good fate, and resolve karma. But refining merit into Fortune Virtue is already a profound transmission among the Three Teachings. The side doors and left paths in the world do not have such transmissions, and rogue cultivators are even less aware of it...

Refining merit into Fortune Virtue can change luck, and good will be rewarded with good.

But those who can accumulate merit in the world are very rare. Most of the Dao Sect only mentions the Yin Merit of bearing, and rarely mentions Good Virtue and Fortune Virtue.

Although the Buddhist sect often mentions merit, either the merit mentioned is only the reward of Yin Merit, or the theory of merit mentioned has become extreme and demonic. If one accumulates according to this, not only is there no merit, but it makes one's temperament more extreme, and there is quite a lot of evil karma!

Wanting to refine merit into Fortune Virtue is at least a cultivator of the direct transmission level of the Dao Sect praying for luck for it, so wanting good to be rewarded with good is also very difficult!

Above Fortune Virtue is 'Merit'!

Refining the merit in the dark into tangible merit is the fruit of merit above the divine path.

Besides merit, it also requires the vow power of sentient beings' gratitude and blessings. With this vow power stimulated by the thoughts of sentient beings, combined with the merit of following heaven and the virtue of responding to luck, refined by the method of the divine path, one can refine a divine power that makes people get what they want. This merit can make wishes come true, can be golden words, and can even be directly exchanged for the corresponding divine path fruit position.

As long as the 'Merit' is sufficient, it is not impossible to testify to the God Venerable in one step, but the merit required for this is almost the merit of saving the world.

And the most mysterious fruit of the Dao Sect refining merit is—Morality!

This thing is mysterious and mysterious, a thing that even Innate Dao Venerables cannot ask for. At Qian Chen's realm, how to use it is a huge waste. It is said that this thing can directly increase Dao practice and be refined into Dao fruit, which is the highest of merit.

Except for the few Dao lineages of the Dao Sect direct transmission that can touch it, even the other Buddhist and Demon sects, the merit refined is at most divine path merit!

And the Heavenly Expansion Five Virtues are the five kinds of merit refined from merit that Zou Yan comprehended.

This merit is combined with the Five Elements, and there are distinctions of Jin De, Wood Virtue, Water Virtue, Fire Virtue, and Earth Virtue... Obtaining the mystery of the operation of Five Elements and Yin-Yang is the best external medicine for Qian Chen's first turn of Jin Dan.

When Qian Chen entered meditation, he used the method of the Dao Sect, and his spirit felt the merit he had accumulated in the dark.

At this time, the various experiences he had gone through flowed through his heart—

In the Mountain and Sea World, he killed many demons and monsters, and finally, with a life-bound flying sword, he eliminated the Blood Demon, the great scourge of this world!

In the Earth Immortal Realm's light projection, in the Tang Dynasty, for the sake of the people of Chang'an and all living beings in the world, he saved the situation!

In the Qiongming World, he killed the Wisdom Wolf King, killed the White Bone King, saved the luck of the human race, and dueled with the Kong Que Great Bright King at Guzhu!

Even in the Earth Immortal Realm, Qian Chen once opened a Thunder Sea Demon Cave in the Yuan Magnetic Earth Aperture; killed the six great Yang Spirits of the Demon Path in the Jin Ling Cave Heaven; refined the Heavenly Emperor Dragon-Controlling Pill, saved Jiankang from the Demon Tribulation, stole the sky and changed the day to re-establish the national luck, and achieved the common people!

These things have merit to heaven and earth, and virtue to all living beings!

At this moment, a halo behind Qian Chen's head was complete. He pinched his fingers like a flower on his right hand, and then he understood clearly that his previous actions had accumulated no less than 30 million merit, but one-third of them were absorbed by an unimaginable existence and turned into the 'merit' he obtained in the Samsara Realm!

"The 'Morality' of the Samsara Realm!"

Qian Chen suddenly opened his eyes and said solemnly: "It can't really be morality!"

Qian Chen remembered that in order to test the Samsara Realm, he attached 500 merit behind the divine talisman and invited the gods of the Star Heaven to help him refine pills. He felt more and more that the mysterious Samsara Realm was not simple!

If the Samsara Realm really has a method of refining morality, the figure behind it cannot be separated from the Dao Sect.

"The Samsara Realm has extended its black hand to the countless realms of the cosmos and countless time and space! From the rise of the Kong Que Great Bright King in the Qiongming World and the destruction of the human path behind it, and the traces of the Samsara travelers intervening, the Samsara Realm does not distinguish between good and evil, but only disturbs the fate. No matter the merit or evil fruit, it collects them all!"

"In this way, the essence of its existence has reached a level that I cannot imagine for the time being. It has already grasped the existence behind merit, some more essential things!"

"But these are not what I can think of now. To explore the secret of the existence of the Samsara Realm, at least I must testify to the Nascent Soul to be qualified!"

"Now let's refine the Five Virtues first!"

Qian Chen silently recited the "Supreme Cave Profound Lingbao Immeasurable Duren Scripture," operated the magic formula, reflected the various merits he had performed in his heart, clarified the heart and saw the nature, and responded with his original heart.

These meritorious deeds did not violate his original heart!

Only then did he refine the bit of heavenly favor he was tied to in the dark into a mysterious and unpredictable power.

In Qian Chen's mind, the Ice Soul Divine Light he used to kill the wolf demon general appeared. A bit of murderous intent combined with merit, turned into a point of white light and was refined out. This point of white light drifted and fell on Qian Chen's life-bound sword embryo! It was the Jin De that was refined out...

There was also Qian Chen's act of sending the living souls in the blood river cultivated by the wolf demon into the netherworld.

A bit of merit turned into yellow light and fell, falling into the Xuanhuang Ruyi!

Qian Chen stood in Chang'an, and the scenes of protecting the human path constantly turned into fire-like light spots and flew out. The Industry Fire Red Lotus in Qian Chen's dantian flew out and received these light spots.

Operating slaughter, removing the various demonic obstacles that hinder the operation of heaven and earth, this is 'Jin De'; pitying all living beings, maintaining the operation of the netherworld, the reincarnation of all living beings' souls, this is 'Earth Virtue'; protecting the human path, guarding the human path civilization, supporting the human dynasty, this is 'Fire Virtue'!

Jin De was refined by Qian Chen into the life-bound sword embryo, bit by bit nourishing the sword embryo that entrusted the body, nourishing the spirituality within.

Xuanhuang Ruyi was also nourished by the Earth Virtue Profound Light, the jade quality became more and more warm, and the spirituality of the magic treasure was constantly growing.

Even the Industry Fire Red Lotus, which has the highest essence, was transforming towards maturity under the infiltration of Fire Virtue Profound Light, which was imperceptible!

"The virtue of the Five Elements is mysterious and unpredictable. Just temporarily entrusting it to the magic treasure has such spiritual response. In the future, when operating the Five-Colored Divine Light and turning the Five Elements Heaven Escape Pill into Yin-Yang, it will surely be of great help! It is indeed the best external medicine for my first turn of Jin Dan!"

Qian Chen felt the wonderful use of the Five Elements Virtue washing the magic treasure, and his heart was happy. Only then did he realize that this chapter of the "Heavenly Expansion Five Virtues Profound Scripture" that did not record specific methods was the essence of Daoist Zou Yan's lineage. The Cui family ignored the foundation of the Five Virtues and focused on the principles of the Five Elements, which was truly an act of buying the box and returning the pearl!

"It's just that among the Five Virtues, I have only comprehended Gold, Fire, and Earth Virtues. There are still Water and Wood Virtues, and I have only just had some clues, so I need to find another way to collect them!"

Qian Chen frowned slightly, thinking of another difficulty: "The Five Virtues refined from my own merit are best carried by a superior magic treasure."

"Although my life-bound sword embryo is a treasure of slaughter, it is also a vessel for carrying the Dao. Although there is a lot of slaughter, it is not contaminated with the acquired, and Xuanhuang Ruyi is refined from the Xuanhuang Divine Jade that opened the world, which is most suitable for carrying Earth Virtue. The Industry Fire Red Lotus is also a prototype of a spiritual treasure, a spiritual root nurtured by heaven and earth. These three things do not fall into the acquired, and can naturally carry the Five Virtues. But although my collection is not lacking in magic treasures of Water and Wood attributes, those magic treasures belong to the acquired, and it is really difficult to carry the Five Virtues!"

"Before, I couldn't refine Wood Virtue and Water Virtue. Although it was because my own performance of these two virtues was insufficient, it was also because of these reasons."

"In this way, I should choose spiritual objects that are not stained with the acquired, and additionally refine magic treasures of Water and Wood attributes!"

Now, there is still some time before the Jin Dan formation opportunity that Qian Chen calculated, so it is not urgent.

Refining the Five Virtues every day as homework is fine. It probably won't take two years to gather the external medicine for the first turn. But the magic treasure to carry Water and Wood Virtues and the method to refine these two virtues still need Qian Chen to spend more thought now...

Qian Chen silently operated the profound work, the five-colored divine light behind him rotated, collected the Gold, Fire, and Earth Virtues that were constantly refined into the three magic treasures, and then washed the three magic treasures to improve their essence. This took about a month of hard work. He noticed that the merit in the three magic treasures was becoming more and more mellow, and the other Water and Wood Virtues had not been refined, so he could not complete the work, so he decided to leave the pass!

In this way, Qian Chen thoroughly sorted out the key points of his Jin Dan formation, and everything was clear in his heart. The work was complete, and it was time to leave the pass! ===== CHAPTER 492 =====