Chapter 645

"The ancient pill in that bronze bottle was unearthed from an ancient Buddhist ruin in the Northern Wei of the Central Lands!"

At this moment, the cultivator behind the stall suddenly broke the rules here and opened his mouth to explain: "The porcelain jar is a relic from the cave of a Core Formation cultivator. We have already opened it; it is some medicinal paste from rotted elixirs. But the patronized alchemist noticed that the medicinal paste seemed to contain rich medicinal properties, so it wasn't disposed of!"

"That jade bottle is stolen goods sold to us by a rogue cultivator. According to our investigation, it might be the harvest from robbing and killing a true disciple of a major sect. As for that jade box, it was also collected! Its origin is a mystery!"

"This piece of amber was discovered when we were cutting down a spirit plant while harvesting the Ten Thousand Green Secret Realm. At that time, we even had cooperation with the Hua family of your Flowing Clouds Island!"

Hua Daier looked up at him vigilantly, not understanding why he would suddenly intervene to help her...

The cultivator smiled and said, "Don't be so suspicious, little girl! We have long had cooperation with your Hua family; we are still willing to help with this little favor!"

Qian Chen suddenly smiled from the side and said, "My friend, this is just a little game between us to test our eye for treasures. For you to intervene like this can hardly be called helping!"

The cultivator nodded and said, "The gentleman is testing his junior; it was our overstepping! But the reason I took the initiative to point it out is also to ask the gentleman to explain it to me. Our organization makes a living by identifying pills and refining medicine, collecting elixirs in various ruins and caves, hoping to find the legendary immortality pills! We can't just not know what we've sold, right!"

"Of course, for the bottle the gentleman has chosen, not only will we not withhold it, but we are willing to offer it with both hands, as a fee for the identification!"

Qian Chen shook his head and said, "She is the one choosing, not me..."

Hua Daier hurriedly scanned it several times with her spiritual sense, reached out to hook the elixir sealed in the amber, and said to the cultivator behind the stall with a vigilant face, "How much?"

The cultivator raised a hand, signaling that it was a gift for her!

Hua Daier had a face full of grief and indignation. This was encountering a forced gift! She didn't expect that besides herself, someone else had also discovered Uncle Li's extraordinary nature. She hadn't paid, so could the elixir still be hers?

She had originally wanted to hang around with the senior and take advantage, but she didn't expect that even elixirs would have people fighting to give them away. Was this trying to snatch her opportunity?

Qian Chen casually took the amber from Hua Daier's hand and asked her, "Tell me, why did you choose this piece of amber?"

Hua Daier hurriedly explained, "Because I probed with my spiritual sense, that bronze bottle, although heavy, gave my spiritual sense a feeling like a needle prick, just like being electrocuted. It didn't look like a spirit pill. And the medicinal paste in that porcelain jar had sufficient medicinal qi, with a rich medicinal scent, but the medicinal properties were very messy! The jade bottle gave my spiritual sense a feeling that the medicinal qi was very thick and powerful, but it had a feeling of fire-impatience... The jade box gave my spiritual sense an extremely sharp feeling, with a stinging sensation!"

"Only the elixir in this piece of amber has a continuous vitality!"

"This piece of amber is not an elixir at all!"

Qian Chen nodded with satisfaction upon hearing her account, turned his head to the cultivator behind the stall, and said, "The spirit plant you cut down, was it a Tree of Heaven?"

The cultivator of the mysterious organization was slightly startled, cupped his hands and said, "I won't hide it from you, sir, it was indeed a Great Ailanthus!"

"In ancient times, there were Great Ailanthus trees that took eight thousand years for spring and eight thousand years for autumn. They also have fragrant ailanthus and stinking ailanthus. The flowers, leaves, and fruits of the fragrant ailanthus are excellent spirit medicines, mostly used for refining elixirs, and the wood also emits fragrance. It is a fragrant wood that overcomes a hundred poisons and a hundred insects, and is also an excellent spirit material. But the stinking ailanthus is bulky and doesn't fit the ink line, its small branches are curled and don't fit the compass and square, and when placed on the road, craftsmen don't look at it. Its flowers and leaves also stink, so alchemists don't use it."

"The stinking ailanthus is the Tree of Heaven!"

"Because the flowers and leaves of the fragrant ailanthus can be used as medicine, and the wood is also a heavenly treasure that overcomes gu-insects and a hundred poisons, it was hated by cultivators who use poison and was also harvested by other cultivators, so it went extinct very early! But the Tree of Heaven survived because of its uselessness." Qian Chen sighed and said: "It can be seen that the usefulness of uselessness is boundless. As long as you are a piece of trash, no one will use you!"

Hua Daier looked thoughtful, revealing a look of deep agreement.

The cultivator seemed unable to hear the sarcasm in Qian Chen's words, still smiling and nodding frequently.

Qian Chen threw the spirit pill sealed in amber to Hua Daier and said, "This is not an elixir, just a wisp of spiritual energy sealed by a lump of resin in ancient times! It condensed into amber over time, and I don't know who excavated it!"

"However, that person knew the goods, knowing that although this lump of amber sealed ancient spiritual energy, it lost the stable environment that gestated the amber, so that wisp of spiritual energy would gradually dissipate, so they sealed it into a Great Ailanthus tree to continue nourishing it!"

"Now, that wisp of primordial qi inside, as the amber was buried deep in the earth veins, absorbing spiritual energy, and nourished in the body of the Great Ailanthus for several hundred years, has already condensed into a point of Innate Jia-Wood Essence. It is Innate Primordial Qi, even more marvelous than an elixir!"

At this moment, even the cultivator behind the stall couldn't help but be moved.

A wisp of spiritual energy, even if it came from ancient times, was nothing. After all, not everything ancient is valuable. Picking up a stone in the Earth Immortal Realm now, its origin is also ancient! Only things that were valuable in ancient times would be more valuable when passed down to the present. Ancient spiritual energy, even if passed down to the present, is worth nothing!

But hearing Qian Chen say this, it seemed that the spiritual energy in the amber not only didn't dissipate after so many years, but was constantly absorbing spiritual energy to gestate, transforming into a mouthful of Innate Primordial Qi!

As such, it is a divine object for Foundation Establishment. If used for cultivation, it is probably worth many supreme-grade spirit pills.

Hua Daier was even touching that piece of amber, looking through the pale yellow amber body at the pill of qi gestated by the ancient spiritual energy. She suddenly closed her eyes, sensed carefully with her spiritual sense, and when she opened her eyes, she whispered, "Uncle Li, you said if this amber is opened, will the spiritual energy inside dissipate?"

"Of course it will dissipate!"

Only then did Qian Chen reveal a smile of appreciation: "So I give you three choices. One, go back and find someone to set up a Spirit-Gathering Array. This mouthful of primordial qi will transform into an incomparably huge amount of spiritual energy, enough for you to use for a month! Second, find a magic treasure with space, take the amber inside to break it, and enjoy it slowly. Third, refine this mouthful of qi into a pill and keep it!"

Hua Daier pondered repeatedly, suddenly handed the amber to Qian Chen, shook her head and said, "Uncle Li, we agreed before that only if I bought it with my money would I get half. Now that I didn't pay, this piece of spiritual energy amber doesn't have my share..."

"But this is what you picked!" Qian Chen smiled: "It wasn't what I chose, right?"

Hua Daier had a serious face, shook her head and said, "It wasn't what I picked! Uncle Li, if I'm not mistaken, these five kinds of spirit pills are all worth a lot. No matter which one I picked, there would be something to say. So it still depends on Uncle's eye for treasures, and it has nothing to do with me!"

Qian Chen nodded slightly and said, "You are indeed intelligent... That's right, the one in the bronze bottle is the Buddhist Thunder-Sound Pill, a Buddhist pill cast by mixing purple copper with secret medicine, sealing a divine ability."

"As long as you swallow the elixir into your abdomen, you can activate the Thunder-Sound divine ability sealed in the copper bead, transforming into rolling thunder sounds, shaking your muscles, bones, and marrow. At the same time, the secret medicine sealed in the copper bead will gradually seep out, tempering your physical body. It is a strange martial arts elixir!"

"The medicinal power of this purple copper mixed with secret medicine cast by Buddhist secret methods is incomparably lasting, and it also has this Thunder-Sound divine ability, which is also a seed that can be merged with the secret transmission of Buddhist martial arts—Lion's Roar—having the marvelous effect of sudden enlightenment like a head-on infusion of nectar. Therefore, this secret medicine is for when Buddhist Lion's Roar cultivation reaches minor success and the accumulation is thick, one can use this Thunder-Sound Pill to break through the barrier, temper the physical body, transform the chest and abdomen, and push Lion's Roar to great success!"

"After great success, one can also use Lion's Roar to lead this copper bead to resonate, emitting medicinal power to temper the physical body!"

"Even if the medicinal power is exhausted, at this time, because this bead has been swallowed into the lung aperture for a long time, it has a trace of nourishment and sensing, and can also be refined into a magic treasure that increases the power of Lion's Roar—the Thunder-Sound Bead!"

"Therefore, this pill is a divine ability pill, a physical body medicine, and a magic treasure embryo. It is a rare triple spirit pill! It has three functions: law, pill, and treasure!"

"This bottle of Thunder-Sound Pills has about a dozen or so, enough for a sect's martial cultivators to temper their physical bodies and practice martial arts! Although this pill is only useful for Buddhist techniques, Buddhism likes to spread the law, and Northern Wei martial arts are eight or nine out of ten from Buddhism, and Lion's Roar is not a secret transmission, so its value is still the highest among these five kinds of elixirs!"

Hua Daier lowered her head in frustration, probably feeling that she hadn't passed Qian Chen's test.

But the cultivator turned his head to look at the bronze bottle on the stall, and couldn't help but reveal a look of joy.

This bottle of Thunder-Sound Pills, if sold to Northern Wei, would probably be enough to make a small sect go bankrupt. Even those generals and pillars of Northern Wei who practice Buddhist martial arts would probably be tempted to prepare such marvelous medicine for their descendants!

This would be of great use to their organization's development in Northern Wei.

Buddhist pharmacology spread overseas, although not as good as the Supreme Dao of the Dao Sect, it was also a peak of its time. Many Buddhist secret medicines and great pills are incomparably precious and are not easily granted to others. However, the Thunder-Sound Pill is a great pill that has long been lost. I'm afraid Buddhist people would be willing to exchange it at a great price, even willing to take Buddhist secret medicines to exchange!

Qian Chen looked at the pitiful Hua Daier, just smiled, and continued: "The medicinal paste in this porcelain jar is a treasure in the alchemist's furnace—Eight-Treasure Soil!"

"Below the alchemist's furnace is a sea of divinity, which is where the pill dregs fall after the pill is condensed, and it needs to be cleaned again after alchemy. But if the alchemist's alchemy attainment is good, the fallen pill dregs don't have much poison, but instead have a rich medicinal scent, so there is no need to always clean it. And the elixirs refined by the alchemist, if the medicinal properties conform to a certain monarch-minister assistance, can combine with each other, and the accumulated pill soil will gradually gestate medicinal properties, having the marvelous effect of assisting pill condensation in the furnace and increasing the success rate of pill condensation!"

"Such pill dregs becoming soil is called Treasure Soil!"

"Those that are often refined into a kind of elixir, the pill dregs are a kind of medicinal property precipitation, and those that are beneficial to this kind of elixir are called One-Treasure Soil. Two kinds of pill dregs mixed are called Two-Treasure Soil. For every additional kind of medicinal property, there are requirements for the next kind of spirit elixir to be refined by the Treasure Soil. Repeating the previous few is fine, but if you want to refine a new kind of spirit elixir, you have to consider whether it can fuse with the medicinal properties of the Treasure Soil!"

"Therefore, adding one treasure makes it one layer harder..."

Qian Chen casually picked up the porcelain jar, lifted a thread of the bottle cap, and smelled it closely: "Yuan-Nourishing Pill, Yuan-Solidifying Pill..."

"This Treasure Soil has eight kinds of medicinal properties. If you use this soil to re-enter the furnace for nourishment and refine these eight kinds of spirit elixirs, you can increase the success rate of Core Formation by at least twenty percent, and it also has the effects of reducing pill poison and increasing the success rate of pill condensation. When an alchemist refines those eight kinds of spirit elixirs, their alchemy technique will go a step further, and a master can exert the power of a grandmaster!"

The cultivator smiled and said: "If the gentleman has taken a fancy to this item, I am willing to offer it with both hands!"

Qian Chen glanced at the porcelain jar and returned it to the stall, saying: "But this Treasure Soil of yours is about to die! It must be found by an expert to be re-nurtured before it can warm the furnace!"

"Treasure Soil leaving the original furnace, wanting to re-enter the furnace, is a three-point risk. The Treasure Soil in this porcelain jar must have been taken out and sealed by an alchemist who knew he couldn't refine elixirs for a long time! It has been away from the furnace for at least a hundred years. Wanting to nurture it back to life... even if an alchemy grandmaster comes, there is only a three-point certainty! Difficult!"

Joke... wanting to make him owe a favor, mere Eight-Treasure Soil? It would be about the same if the Eight-Trigrams Furnace was brought over...

Has Qian Chen ever failed in refining elixirs? What kind of trash is Eight-Treasure Soil? It still needs pill dregs to nourish!

Qian Chen would never refine such pill soil in his life! How many elixirs would he have to deliberately refine into waste to produce so many pill dregs?

"The one in the jade bottle is an elixir for Core Formation cultivators to take to impact Nascent Soul! With Thousand-Year Phoenix Crown Flower as the main medicine... I estimate it was refined by some cultivator for their own breakthrough. The pill poison is three points, and the fire qi is thick... It's also a piece of trash that wastes spirit medicine!" Qian Chen said with disdain.

"The jade box is also not a pill box, but a sword box for a sword cultivator to put sword pellets. There is a wisp of residual sword qi inside, but there are two pills remaining in the box. One is the Condensing Jade Sword-Washing Pill to wash away the filth on the flying sword, and one is the Hundred-Flower Fragrance Pill to nourish the flying sword's spirituality..."

"I estimate the original owner was a female sword immortal!"

After introducing those five kinds of elixirs, Qian Chen turned his head to Hua Daier and said: "Now I have nothing of value on me. Since we are meeting as junior and senior, let this spirit pill be a greeting gift!"

Seeing that Hua Daier was still a bit hesitant, he smiled and said: "Why, do you think I am not worthy of being a senior?"

Only then did Hua Daier accept it, bowed gracefully and said: "Thank you, Uncle Li!"

"However, if you want to take out this pill of spiritual energy, you still have to use the three methods I mentioned..."

"Uncle Li, please tell me the third one!" Hua Daier's tone was firm. She seemed to have understood that those five spirit pills actually each had hidden dangers...

Although metalware is immortal, it will develop rust. The secret medicine is sealed in the copper bead. After such a long time, the bronze bottle was buried deep underground and received turbid qi, so there must be changes in medicinal properties, requiring re-washing and refining!

Eight-Treasure Soil needs to re-enter the furnace to re-nurture the soil.

Refined with Phoenix Crown Flower, the one for breaking through Core Formation should be Phoenix Blood Nascent-Condensing Pill. The pill poison and fire qi are both too heavy, requiring re-nourishment to fade away the toxicity and fire qi!

And that sword box, the most precious thing is that wisp of sword qi. If used improperly, it will also dissipate.

Therefore, choosing a spirit pill is one test, but how to use the spirit pill well is the true test!

"I will teach you a technique of condensing consciousness and a method of sensing. You will use this technique and method to contemplate and sense the mouthful of primordial qi in the amber every day, silently condensing it with your spiritual consciousness until it truly condenses into a pill, then open the amber, and it will naturally become a pill!"

Qian Chen smiled: "This is the third method of taking the pill!"

After speaking, he transformed his spiritual consciousness into a wisp of spirit-speech and transmitted it to Hua Daier...

Qian Chen thought to himself: "If it were the Thunder-Sound Pill, it would be a technique for refining magic treasures!"

"If it were Eight-Treasure Soil, it would be a technique for warming and nourishing the furnace!"

"If it were the Phoenix Blood Pill, it would be a secret technique for returning the pill to nourish and temper the pill's poison and fire!"

"If it were that wisp of sword qi, it would be a sword technique, plus this jade plate for entering the Supreme Louguan and becoming an outer disciple!"

"But among the five, you chose that piece of amber! It is the foundation for your Core Formation, obtaining a secret technique for condensing pills with spiritual consciousness, and at the same time, you can sense the Innate Jia-Wood Qi, exercise your spiritual consciousness, and also obtain an Innate Jia-Wood spirit pill to re-wash your foundation!" Qian Chen naturally saw long ago that Hua Daier was exactly a single-attribute wood spirit root!

He smiled slightly in his heart: "The foundation, aptitude, and fortune are all not bad. Although the temperament is slightly insufficient, it is still young and still has room for polishing... Not bad, not bad!"

He took Hua Daier and left that stall. The cultivator behind the stall looked at his back, his expression flickering slightly—having been forced to give away a spirit pill, this person had offset the pill money with the origins of the four precious spirit pills on his stall, even making him not only not lose out, but completely able to be said to have made a huge profit!

So unwilling to accept any favor from him...

That kind of rejection in the dark, the intention to draw a line, was naturally completely gone!

"This person must be an alchemy grandmaster, it's just a pity that he seems to have the intention to draw a line with us... The organization is still too secretive! Unless the true foundation is revealed, it is impossible to attract such a grandmaster!"

"Immortality pills... immortality pills! Things that even the First Emperor of Celestial Qin couldn't get in the past, can we really find them?"

The cultivator sighed in his heart, and pinched a jade talisman to transmit: "The person who can help you take out the elixir in advance has appeared. If you don't want to wait for the True Dragon Gall to be born and alert everyone in the Sea Market looking for you, you can only ask him to take action!"

"Our organization's price for acquiring the True Dragon Gall is absolutely the highest, and now we have given you this only opportunity..."

"I have already sent you this person's appearance and tracks! But our organization has already taken a fancy to this person. You can use him, but you must never kill him!"

Qian Chen took Hua Daier and continued forward, tossing the jade coins in his hand. At this moment, the six jade coins suddenly fell into a divination hexagram in his palm...

Qian Chen glanced at his palm, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, thinking: "Another 'robbery talent' has entered my urn!"

"As the saying goes: The True Dragon Gall splits and the Great Yin gathers, the broken mirror reunites and the tribulation is long! I want you to help me with wisdom, help me with cultivation... all are 'robbery talents', all are 'robbery talents'!"