Chapter 43: A Bit Expensive for the Teacher

Seeing Cui Yu so sensible, Ji Ji Liuli was very satisfied and said: "If there are precious medicines, show them to me before taking them. Try to find more types. The influence of each precious medicine on your Dao Foundation is different, and how to match them makes a big difference. This is also related to the Dao path you will choose in the future, which is very critical."

Cui Yu nodded emphatically.

After seeing Cui Yu, Ji Ji Liuli went to check on Bao Yun.

Cultivating the "Jade Toad Gazing at the Moon Diagram" together, Bao Yun's visualization diagram at this time is five zhang, slightly smaller than Cui Yu's, but her root bone is extraordinary, her Qi luck is magnificent, and the visualization diagram is still expanding, far from reaching the limit of potential, and there are strange phenomena in the visualization diagram, like a god and demon world.

Compared with Cui Yu and Bao Yun, Wei Yuan's progress was quite slow, and Ji Ji Liuli was quite dissatisfied, deciding to be a bit fierce.

After class, Wei Yuan followed Ji Ji Liuli to the Council Hall as usual. Ji Ji Liuli found the medicine in Xu Xu Henshui's medicine cabinet, refined it into a medicine powder at will, poured it into a wooden bucket, and then said: "Strip, what are you waiting for?"

Wei Yuan gritted his teeth, took off his clothes, and stepped into the large bucket that looked like it was filled with plasma. After entering, he immediately shivered. This bucket of plasma-like medicinal soup was colder than the ice sea.

An hour later, Wei Yuan's little face was already blue with cold, and the medicinal soup in the bucket had turned into clear water.

When examining Wei Yuan again, Ji Ji Liuli gave a "huh," looking a bit surprised. She turned around Wei Yuan, checked him carefully from top to bottom.

After the examination, Ji Ji Liuli frowned and thought, for a long time before shaking her head, saying: "Strange, why has your root bone become floating again? I should have cleaned up a lot of impurities last time."

Ji Ji Liuli thought for a while, but had no clue, so she said: "You go back first, I need to check the classics."

"Is the problem big?" Wei Yuan asked.

Ji Ji Liuli looked up, looked at Wei Yuan's serious and uneasy little face, and said: "It's not a big problem, it's just a bit expensive for your teacher."

"Ah?" Wei Yuan didn't understand.

Ji Ji Liuli thought about the prescription while waving Wei Yuan out of the Council Hall, saying: "This is not something you need to worry about, go back and cultivate hard, don't be lazy!"

After leaving the Council Hall, Wei Yuan didn't go home immediately, but went to the Bosi Hall nearby. Bosi Hall is a place for Taichu Palace to collect classics, consisting of a continuous stretch of palaces. Wei Yuan entered the main hall of Bosi Hall and saw several reception desks in the hall, each with a deacon disciple behind it.

Wei Yuan came to the reception desk specially for issuing primary classics, handed over his identity jade plate, and said: "I want to borrow the cultivation insights of the 'Jade Toad Gazing at the Moon Diagram'."

That disciple was a bit surprised and asked: "This is a general cultivation method, didn't your teacher teach you?"

However, he just asked casually and didn't intend to interfere with Wei Yuan's cultivation. After taking the identity jade plate, he hurried into the back hall. A moment later, he returned, already holding two pieces of jade paper in his hand, saying: "This copy is the insight written by Fenhai Zhenjun Tunyue who created the 'Jade Toad Gazing at the Moon Diagram,' and the other is the cultivation insights of several disciples with the highest achievements in the past, which should be helpful to you."

"You can borrow it for seven days, you can copy it, but you must not spread it. The rent is seven taels of immortal silver, which has already been recorded in your account."

Wei Yuan was startled. These few books cost half a year of his monthly silver? Although it was owed for the time being, the owed immortal silver also had to be repaid! Wei Yuan wanted to return all these books, but the others who were in class together were

Wei Yuan recalled something else and asked, "Senior Brother, do you have any information on Heart-Cleansing Pills?"

That Senior Brother's expression changed instantly: "Heart-Cleansing Pills? Why are you asking about that? That is absolutely not something you should be thinking about!"

Wei Yuan said, "I was just listening to my elders chat, and they mentioned that Heart-Cleansing Pills are exceptionally precious, so I got a bit curious. I wonder how many immortal silver taels one costs?"

"Immortal silver? You have the nerve to ask! Are Heart-Cleansing Pills something you can buy with immortal silver?"

After a few sarcastic remarks, the Senior Brother saw that Wei Yuan looked earnest and said, "Heart-Cleansing Pills have the effect of clearing away the mental barriers of the Primordial Spirit. They don't just elevate one's foundation; they also improve one's comprehension. They are a holy medicine for young disciples to improve their foundations. A single Heart-Cleansing Pill has the potential to raise a human-rank Dao foundation to the earth-rank. It is said that three Heart-Cleansing Pills can allow an upper-rank earth-rank foundation to enter the heaven-rank. The higher the rank of the Dao foundation, the harder it is to improve, and the fewer precious medicines can have an effect. Since Heart-Cleansing Pills can provide improvement even for heaven-rank Dao foundations, do you think they can be bought with immortal silver?"

The Senior Brother spoke in one breath for a long time, glared at Wei Yuan, and added, "The Creation Temple can only open a few furnaces of Heart-Cleansing Pills every three years, totaling no more than a hundred pills. The palace has stipulated that they can only be exchanged for with merit; no other channels are allowed. If you had to measure them in immortal silver, hundreds of thousands would be a low estimate! Then again, if Heart-Cleansing Pills could be exchanged for immortal silver or treasures, do you think this pill would ever reach the mouths of ordinary disciples like us? This road to the heavens is something the palace has specifically reserved for everyone!"

Wei Yuan knew Heart-Cleansing Pills must be precious, but he never imagined they would be this precious. When Zhang Sheng took out three Heart-Cleansing Pills, he had only mentioned the name in passing before letting Wei Yuan use them. Thinking of this, Wei Yuan felt his heart grow heavy; he truly did not know how he could ever repay him.

Returning to his quarters, Wei Yuan immediately began to study the two sets of insights in detail.

Having spent three years with Zhang Sheng, Wei Yuan was very clear about what his teacher wanted: he had to strive for first place everywhere and in everything; taking second place was a supreme humiliation. Aside from being vain, loving to boast, and being short on cash, Zhang Sheng had no other flaws. Perhaps there were others, but Wei Yuan had yet to discover them.

Wei Yuan had entered the Grand Void Gate with the reputation of being first in the general examination and had received the favor of the founder, so he was originally quite arrogant. Who would have thought that as soon as he started cultivating, he would be hit with a heavy blow? His visualization diagram was slow to expand, and as for strange phenomena, that was out of the question. Half a month had passed, and not only had he been surpassed by Bao Yun and Cui Yu, who were also cultivating the Toad Gazing at the Moon, but many other classmates had also overtaken him.

As the head of the immortal sects, the Grand Void Gate was a gathering place for geniuses. Even the most ordinary cultivation techniques could be cultivated into something spectacular, and almost everyone had strange phenomena. Thus, having a strange phenomenon was nothing rare; the real competition was in ranking the phenomena. Among the six general cultivation techniques, anyone who only cultivated the most primitive template was destined to be at the bottom, and they would also earn a reputation for having poor comprehension and insufficient talent.

For example, Wei Yuan's toad, even if a lotus flower bloomed on its head, wouldn't be able to squeeze into the top half of the class. Cui Yu's toad was a deep, ghostly green—not only had its entire color changed, but a sword-lotus grew in front of it, and it held an immortal sword in its mouth. As for Bao Yun, it went without saying; her visualization diagram was a chaotic dance of demons, extremely ostentatious.

These past few days, Wei Yuan had finally understood: what do disciples of the Grand Void Gate compete over? Strange phenomena!

Therefore, under immense pressure, Wei Yuan dared not be stingy with his immortal silver and ran to the Bosi Hall to borrow books for reference. Although the "Toad Gazing at the Moon Diagram" was a general cultivation technique and both Zhang Sheng and Ji Liuli could give him guidance, Wei Yuan had already sensed that the problems he encountered during cultivation seemed different from others, so it was better to read more books.

Zhang Sheng had said: "Stones from other hills can serve to polish the jade of this one." Although others were certainly not as good as himself, there was always a benefit to seeing the shortcomings of others.

Moreover, ever since he had seen Fenhai Zhenjun Master Fenhai last time, Zhang Sheng had not appeared again, as if he did not want to see him.

Having not slept all night, Wei Yuan finished reading the two sets of insights in detail and actually discovered some problems.

(End of chapter)