Chapter 731: Elixir and Array

Here, the purple energy was like silk and threads, spiraling and rising, appearing ethereal, rising and falling like the tide. The peaks, standing like scales, appeared in turn in the thick purple clouds, and the brilliance of the array rushed straight into the sky, illuminating everything brightly.

The pavilions and kiosks in the center floated on the purple energy, beautiful and magnificent. The True Person in white and gold patterns drove the light and came, followed by a junior who looked like a graceful scholar. The purple energy on both sides automatically parted, revealing long and transparent purple jade steps.

The Ziyan Sect disciples who met on both sides, even if they didn't recognize this True Person, bowed their heads one after another, only standing up after the True Person had gone far. Li Ximing silently nodded in his heart: 'The Ziyan Sect truly has a long inheritance, and its etiquette is quite strict.'

This visit was not only for the Xuan Yue sect matter. There were many things for the two families to get familiar with and talk about. Li Ximing had not intended to come alone, but his own direct descendants were either in seclusion or healing, and the remaining one or two had to preside over major events. After picking and choosing, it was still most suitable to bring Cui Jueyin, a direct descendant from Chongzhou.

'Those retainers are embarrassing to bring out. Although Ding Weijian is qualified, he suffered some injuries. What's more, he lacks smoothness and hasn't seen the world. It is still this Cui Jueyin from the Chongzhou direct line who is most suitable.'

At this moment, a female cultivator driving cloud energy flew over, her feather clothes light yellow, the silk ribbon at her waist dancing, and the colors were gorgeous.

"Greetings, Zhaojing True Person!"

This female cultivator performed the ceremony, and the True Person in white and gold patterns in front responded quite politely, asking:

"Is True Person Senior Tinglan here?"

Li Ximing had communicated with the Ziyan Sect quite a few days ago, confirming that True Person Senior Tinglan had returned to Ziyan before coming on this trip. It was just a topic of conversation, but the yellow-clothed female cultivator said:

"My True Person returned to the Blessed Land half a year ago. Originally, she was scheduled to go out on the 22nd, but after reading the True Person's letter, she stayed for a few more days and sent this junior to wait here."

She led the way in front. Purple smoke rose and permeated. Li Ximing tilted his head and said softly:

"This is the Ziyan Immortal Sect, the Green Pine Sun Dao lineage."

These words were said to Cui Jueyin who was following behind. The youth's posture was upright, looking at the purple energy in the mountain range with slight surprise, responding respectfully.

Cui Jueyin was a stranger in the sea, but no matter how secluded he was for a year or a half, he certainly had some understanding of the Three Sects and Seven Gates. Li Ximing was a Zifu, and he only mentioned this sentence because he regarded him as his own junior. If it were an ordinary retainer, where would he get a bit of attention? The three of them went deep all the way and landed on the palace floating on the purple energy. The purple energy became more and more intense, the spirit mechanism was majestic, and some special spirit energy seemed to flow down the steps under their feet, drifting like smoke.

Although the Ziyan Sect was only one of the Seven Gates, its foundation was not shallow. This mountain gate was called a Blessed Land, extremely magnificent. Chongzhou Island was also a good place, but compared to this Ziyan Blessed Land, it was far worse. Cui Jueyin looked quite in awe.

And the "Purple Qi" Dao lineage was rare in the sea. Demonic cultivators occasionally saw it, but this kind of righteous path that was ethereal and floating had never been seen. Cui Jueyin's gaze swept over this drifting purple energy, feeling even more mysterious and formidable.

The yellow-clothed female cultivator brought everyone to the highest point, but there were no more palaces, only a smooth and transparent purple jade platform. The purple energy here had already slightly revealed a bright yellow color, shuttling back and forth under their feet.

Only then did a laugh be heard:

"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Zhaojing!"

Li Ximing saw a woman standing on this platform, but she was different from the usual purple-clothed attire of the Ziyan Sect disciples. She wore an autumn-fragrant yellow satin skirt and robe, painted with butterfly patterns, looking very gorgeous. Her face was beautiful, her eyebrows were very thin, and the corners of her eyes were dotted with blue, making her appearance look very beautiful.

'This True Person Senior Tinglan... looks like someone who likes to dress up.'

Only Li Ximing and Senior Tinglan had the opportunity to size each other up. Whether it was the Ziyan disciples or Cui Jueyin, they didn't dare to look directly at the Zifu. Not knowing what this True Person Senior Tinglan was thinking, Li Ximing only smiled and replied:

"Fellow Daoist is too polite... I heard the True Person's Dao title was beautiful, and now that I see the real person, it is truly such a fairy."

True Person Senior Tinglan laughed, nodded, and thanked him. Only then did she reply:

"I am originally a cultivator from the Qi land in the North. The attire is somewhat different from Jiangnan... I hope Fellow Daoist will not find it strange."

Li Ximing suddenly realized, and his heart immediately understood:

'Cultivator from Qi land? It seems this True Person Senior Tinglan is not from the Kan family... Qi land is the Gao family's territory. It should... not be from the Gao family, right?'

Li Ximing was still calculating, and this True Person Senior Tinglan had already opened her mouth, softly saying:

"My surname is Yi. I was originally a loose cultivator in Boli Prefecture. I received guidance from my master, True Person Senior Zipei, and cultivated divine abilities in the Blessed Land."

Li Ximing then nodded, and True Person Senior Tinglan continued:

"I have been running around for the past few years and am not often in the sect. I only saw this letter when I returned today, keeping Zhaojing waiting for a long time..."

Li Ximing didn't believe this at all.

'When Chang Xi was alive, he visited Ziyan several times, but didn't see half a person. Even when my family sent people to ask, there was no sound... Now that Chang Xi has fallen and a battle has been fought on the river, they have turned around and can be found.'

True Person Senior Tinglan, who had achieved Zifu as a loose cultivator, was not a simple character. Li Ximing didn't care either. After all, avoiding risks and gaining the greatest benefits was what everyone wanted. He only replied: "It doesn't delay matters... Finding the predecessor's traces is the first priority."

Hearing these words, True Person Senior Tinglan only smiled and nodded, not saying much. She raised her sleeve and swept it lightly. A table immediately appeared on this jade platform, integrated with the jade platform. On the table was a jade pot, the tea was boiling, and white mist rolled from the pot's mouth.

"Please!"

The two took their seats. Senior Tinglan asked: "Zhaojing seeking me, is it for the array matter of your clan?"

Senior Tinglan gave a good step. Li Ximing originally had this intention, so he nodded and said:

"My family has just been promoted to an immortal clan and is indeed missing a Zifu spirit array. Ziyan is a great sect of array methods, and the True Person is a master of array methods, so I came to ask for advice."

Senior Tinglan glanced at him and smiled:

"Fellow Daoist is not bad either."

In fact, Li Ximing had just broken through to Zifu, so his alchemy skills couldn't be counted as a master, and Senior Tinglan didn't have the ability to arrange a Zifu array alone. This reply made both of them smile. They didn't praise each other anymore, and Li Ximing said righteously:

"Please give advice."

Senior Tinglan nodded and said softly: "The key to a Zifu great array lies in three points. The first is the spirit objects in the array, the second is the foundation of the array, and the last is the divine ability and magic power of the cultivator who arranges the array..."

"The foundation of the array is spirit mechanism, earth veins, Grand Void, and the points in the array. Although they are extremely expensive, for us, they often don't count for much... And the difficulty often lies in... there are not many spirit objects suitable for arranging arrays, and the divine ability of the cultivator who arranges the array... cannot communicate and exert the wonders of various spirit objects."

Li Ximing pondered slightly, seeing Senior Tinglan say:

"It is necessary for your clan to have a Zifu spirit object first, and then invite me to see it. If it is decided, I also have one or two friends who can help. It will take about three to five years for the array to be put to use."

She paused, obviously thinking of the Xuan Yue mountain gate for the first time, pouring tea for Li Ximing, and said:

"If there is a Zifu array that can be moved, it will be much different. It is still necessary to go to your lake to take a look, comb the earth veins, fill the lake and open the mountain at the key places. Although it is a bit of a toss-up for a while, it is very fast to arrange, and it doesn't cost too much."

Senior Tinglan's tea was unexpectedly good, at least much better than his Li Ximing's and True Person Chang Xi's. Li Ximing sipped his tea, feeling that Senior Tinglan was too enthusiastic about this matter, and asked:

"It turns out it takes so long. I originally wanted to ask Fellow Daoist to help, but it takes such a great effort..."

Senior Tinglan had been waiting for these words for a while, only replying: "Zhaojing, don't worry. I also need Fellow Daoist to make a move and help me refine an elixir."

"Refining an elixir?"

Li Ximing frowned: "Can't Fellow Daoist's divine ability refine it?"

For Zifu, one can pinch and pinch with a hand, and everyone can knead some elixirs. To the point of needing Li Ximing to make a move, this elixir was definitely not a simple commodity.

Once he asked this, Senior Tinglan nodded lightly, did not speak, and said to the yellow-clothed cultivator of the Ziyan Sect: "Danying, take this young friend to see the Blessed Land."

Cui Jueyin reacted immediately. Seeing Li Ximing nod, the two walked away quickly. The purple smoke closed, and only then did Senior Tinglan say:

"We who use divine abilities to refine elixirs only knead elixirs for Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining. It is not as good as you who practiced alchemy early. Bright Yang pushing up to the Grand Void is Yin-Yang balance. As long as we refine elixirs with all our strength, after a long time, the divine ability will inevitably affect the Bright Yang Mansion, and Yin-Yang will not be balanced. I have to entrust Heng Xing to exchange even for better Sui Yuan elixirs. These more formidable ones are beyond my reach."

She took out a jade slip, casually solved the secret method, placed it on the case, and smiled: "Trouble Fellow Daoist to take a look... to see if it can be refined."

Li Ximing did not expect this unexpected joy, took it to read.

"【Heavenly One Spitting Essence Elixir】"

Sure enough, this was a Zifu-level elixir, quite profound. It required the extremely precious Zifu spirit object 【Boundless Water Fire】 as a reconciliation, and the divine ability had to be refined 16,200 times before it could be formed with 【Heavenly One Pure Essence】 as the elixir body.

Li Ximing saw this and secretly gritted his teeth:

'Good you Ziyan Sect... truly rich and imposing. Senior Tinglan is not surnamed Kan, yet so generous. It is 【Boundless Water Fire】 and 【Heavenly One Pure Essence】. Even if I can get one of them, I can be happy for three days without closing my eyes...'

The rest of the main medicines of the elixir were not recorded, only the auxiliary medicines, the general technique, and the description of the difficulty of refining the elixir were written. There was no description of the effect of the elixir, but Li Ximing was an alchemist, after all, and had already realized it after reading:

"It is a "Mother Pin Shui" spirit elixir that seizes essence and gathers origin... It cannot be counted as a very righteous path..."

He pondered for a breath and asked:

"I must ask the True Person, are there any spirit objects of the 'Extreme Yin' or 'Xi Qi' type among the main medicines?"

"Naturally, there are none!"

Senior Tinglan saw that he did not immediately refuse, perhaps there was a play, and her attitude was much better. She smiled:

"I thought of it long ago! It is precisely because there is 'Mother Pin Shui' that it is incompatible with 'Heng Zhu', so Heng Xing fellow Daoist did not dare to refine this elixir for me. If there were things like 'Extreme Yin'... I wouldn't dare to let Fellow Daoist make a move."

Li Ximing knew why she didn't seek True Person Heng Xing. He weighed it for a while and secretly thought:

'The difficulty of this elixir is unprecedented. Fortunately, the difficulty lies in refining. At worst, there will be fewer formed elixirs, and more time will be spent, rather than a divine ability difficulty that cannot be overcome. It is not impossible to refine.'

He thought for a while and confirmed:

"Does Fellow Daoist have 【Boundless Water Fire】?"

Senior Tinglan nodded, ordered someone to take a large stone box from under the mountain, opened it with divine ability, and took out a mud pot from it, only palm-sized, with a smooth surface, engraved with many golden-white patterns.

This pot was just taken out and placed quietly on the case. It looked unremarkable to the naked eye, but in Li Ximing's spiritual sense, it seemed to explode with a thunderbolt. In his perception, water and fire were intertwined on this pot, and the spirit mechanism escaped as if avoiding a disaster star. A peak appeared out of thin air in the Grand Void.

Senior Tinglan said with some hope:

"I also have this Zifu spirit object. But 【Boundless Water Fire】 drives away spirit mechanisms, and it is very exhausting to control with divine ability. Does Fellow Daoist have confidence? If you want to refine elixirs with this fire, I am afraid you need to prepare some spirit elixirs for clearing spiritual sense."

But Li Ximing didn't care what 【Boundless Water Fire】 it was. His spiritual sense swept over, and the talisman energy did have a reaction. As long as it was fire, it couldn't escape the control of the talisman energy 【Valley Wind Leading Fire】. He, Li Ximing, never used spiritual sense to control fire, let alone consume it. Otherwise, how could he support the Li family's elixir consumption in his spare time? He only said: "As long as this main medicine is not a cultivator, and it won't do anything that violates my family's family training, it can be refined. It's just that my skills are not refined, and I am afraid the formed elixirs will not exceed three."

"Good!"

This True Person in autumn-fragrant yellow skirt and robe was somewhat pleasantly surprised by his confidence, and guessed in her heart:

'Bright Yang accompanies Li Fire, has the ability to control fire, but is not fire. Perhaps it has control over 【Boundless Water Fire】 that exceeds the ordinary...'

So she had a few more points of confidence in the person in front of her. True Person Senior Tinglan smiled and nodded, saying righteously:

"As long as Fellow Daoist can refine elixirs for me, and your clan has suitable spirit objects, then the array of Wangyue Lake will be handed to me... If... Fellow Daoist intends to move the Dharma array... it can also be handed to me, but the value is not equal, and I will compensate Fellow Daoist with something else."

His family had a full-elixir Zifu spirit object, but Li Ximing didn't intend to take it out for the time being. He breathed a sigh of relief first and raised his eyebrows:

"I have a doubt... The Chuting True Person of the Li Xia Xiao family has alchemy skills far superior to mine. Why doesn't Fellow Daoist seek him? Perhaps you can get quite a few more spirit elixirs, so as not to waste such a precious portion of 【Heavenly One Pure Essence】."

Knowing that Li Ximing had heard the name of 【Heavenly One Pure Essence】 since Qi Refining, this was a Zifu spirit water that could wash the immortal foundation and bring the dead back to life, also called Origin Water. Its preciousness was only worse than spirit objects at the level of 【Tai Yin Moon Brilliance】.

There were not many spirit objects that could save lives at critical moments, and not many that could be called bringing the dead back to life. What's more, the ability to wash the immortal foundation could simply let a cultivator who was not in the stream leap over the dragon gate, comparable to a Zifu direct descendant in terms of immortal foundation.

Once this elixir was refined, the 【Boundless Water Fire】 used for reconciliation could be left, but the 【Heavenly One Pure Essence】 would be gone. If it were Li Ximing, he would feel heartache to death...

He asked this, and True Person Senior Tinglan shook her head:

"I have thought about this predecessor... but I can't see him when I go, and I dare not believe him when I see him. Even if I grit my teeth and believe it, the price of refining elixirs is surprisingly high... This old man's thoughts are like an abyss, not as close as Zhaojing."

Li Ximing nodded, always feeling strange.

'Emotionally, I am a flat substitute, and I have something to ask for, so I am easier to talk to...'

True Person Senior Tinglan glanced at him secretly, laughed twice, and only said: "Fellow Daoist, don't think too much. My Ziyan needs to refine quite a few elixirs, and several friends are also suffering from this path. If this matter succeeds, there will be many elixirs to refine, and both our families will have great benefits in the future."

Li Ximing finished listening to her drawing a cake, and responded with yes, yes, good, good. Senior Tinglan pushed the jade slip and said:

"I will hand this jade slip to Fellow Daoist first. There are also some insights and experiences of predecessors in alchemy, which may be used as a reference for Fellow Daoist."

Li Ximing was quite moved by the Zifu insights in this jade slip, but he didn't move. He finally understood where the hidden strangeness came from:

"So Senior Tinglan seeing me was for refining elixirs, and it probably has nothing to do with Shanjie Prefecture... Kong Guxi, ah Kong Guxi... you are willing to give Shanjie Prefecture, but others may not look at it! I'm afraid you have to beg her to accept it!" ===== CHAPTER 732 =====