Chapter 157: The Art of External Alchemy Gold and White

The ancient immortals once said:

The medicine of immortality, the Dao is in the divine pill.

Golden liquid returns to the pill, immortal brilliance flows, flying high and soaring to the heavenly hill, gold and white things are formed in an instant, when the male and female are chaotic and different...

The great medicine in the cauldron is lush with nine colors, combining Yin and Yang, containing the eight powers of the Cloud Flower Dragon Paste, which can make the mystic Qi linger for its use.

Mercury, lead, and tin, changing in a thousand ways.

As for the merit of the upper saint returning to the pill.

It is the height of the mystic spirit, the nether body changes, the dragon brilliance shines.

It can make those who eat the pill ascend to the Han landscape to climb, roam the cloud ridge and be carefree, the face produces jade light, giving birth to strange hair, up to spitting water and rinsing fire, flying without wings, dividing into ten thousand changes, all can be done at will!

Its spirit is difficult to record, its mystery is difficult to leave behind.

The great spiritual essence, cannot be fully described!

Therefore, although the art of external alchemy gold and white is not comparable to orthodox immortal Dao cultivation, if one is not a person who enters the mystic and has great awakening and inspiration, one can never rely on this external alchemy art to pick the longevity position.

But it is also a method of nourishing life that separates the Dao from the secular and analyzes the three poles, which is highly praised by upper true high cultivators, and the Dao study is prosperous.

When the external alchemy divine medicine is combined and refined.

There are also six fears, three taboos, and five avoidances, which are very cumbersome.

Among them, if there is only a small mistake, the jade liquid that originally nourishes life and protects life in the cauldron will either turn into residue and mud.

Or the medicinal properties will change.

Becoming a fierce poison that can make cultivators rot their stomachs and intestines, and lose their souls and lives!

At this time.

Seeing Chen Hang reach out to lift the furnace lid.

Cui Jingzhong, who was originally sitting leisurely at the jade table, holding a volume of alchemy books and shaking his head, also suddenly became energetic.

He gently put down the bamboo slips in his hand, walked on tiptoe to Chen Hang's side, held his breath, and his eyes shone with essence.

"Boom!"

The true Qi that flew out from Chen Hang's crown just covered the furnace fire.

That pile of fiercely burning firewood suddenly emitted a crackling sound like a barrage of thunderbolts, as if it had been stimulated by something; the fire surged several times higher, and the flames darted about like snakes, with even greater momentum!

Seeing this scene.

He was not in a hurry, just wrapped the fierce fire Qi with the white true Qi like a bolt of silk, not letting it escape from the bottom of the furnace, like wrestling, slowly grinding it away.

After dozens of breaths.

Until the crackling sound gradually lowered, and finally became inaudible.

And the tongue of fire also became weak, leaving only a few star fires, rising and falling on the charred iron-like hard wood.

Seeing this, Chen Hang showed a smile on his face, chanted a "solution" formula, and lifted the furnace lid with his right hand that had been pressing on it!

A strange fragrance was released, spreading in the air.

The fragrance was like a jar of aged wine, rich and intense, intoxicating people.

After inhaling it, a slight dizziness struck, and the limbs felt soft.

But soon, after the last flame on the firewood disappeared.

The rich fragrance turned into a faint herbal fragrance, lingering around, if there is or not.

After taking this medicinal fragrance into the body, he felt refreshed, his five internal organs were at peace, his blood flowed and moved, and his strength increased slightly.

"Very good, very good! This quality is not bad!"

Cui Jingzhong took a few deep breaths, narrowed his eyes, smacked his lips, then leaned over to look into the cauldron, and understood in his heart, bowing to Chen Hang and laughing:

"Xiao Xiao Shixiong Chen, your aptitude is indeed extraordinary, worthy of being a cultivation genius! Now that the great medicine is completed, only the last few steps are missing, first remove the poison, then divide the fetus!"

At this moment in the furnace cauldron.

The previous medicinal herbs, gold, and stone materials were all gone.

Only a mass of soft medicinal mud the size of a human head remained, bright yellow in color, bright and beautiful, with bursts of fragrance.

Chen Hang bowed to Cui Jingzhong, rolled up his sleeves, formed a poison-removal magic seal from the "Bao Yang Alchemy Point Casting Seven Return Cinnabar Decision," and with a splash, a mass of virtual clear Qi shook off his shoulders, falling slowly onto the medicinal mud in the cauldron.

Re-soup, pouring, drawing and adding, grinding, bathing, pointing, preserving nature...

These are all the refining steps when the external medicine becomes a pill.

The poison removal and fetus division mentioned by Cui Jingzhong are naturally no exception, but this is indeed a method that can only be performed after the medicinal mud takes shape.

Most of the pills in this world have residual poison hidden in them when they are first conceived.

Or fire poison, or medicine poison, or water poison, or sand and stone poison.

If this toxicity is not removed early when entering the abdomen, it will inevitably hide in the body shell, and over time, it will become a chronic illness, damaging the Dao foundation.

Therefore, the step of removing the residual poison is called "poison removal."

As for fetus division.

It is to knead the medicinal mud into a pill shape, so that the medicinal properties can be injected evenly.

Because no matter how much medicinal property is chaotic, it will ruin the pill.

Not one point more, not one point less.

Only then is it the right way to divide the fetus...

Cui Jingzhong was a Cave-Mystic cultivator, and his "Precious Yang Alchemy Point-Casting Seven-Return Cinnabar Art" was the culmination of his life's work; the methods recorded within it, such as extracting toxins, were naturally extraordinary.

Only seeing the mass of virtual clear Qi shaken off Chen Hang's shoulders, just rolling lightly on the medicinal mud, it was stained with a layer of turbid black charcoal color.

After two more rolls, the originally empty body became incredibly heavy, tottering, and the color could no longer see a trace of clarity.

Chen Hang waved his large sleeves, scattered the turbid clear Qi in the air, formed the magic seal again, operated a clear Qi, and continued to fall toward the medicinal mud in the furnace cauldron.

After repeating this more than a dozen times.

The residual poison in the medicinal mud was finally completely worn away, and there was no trace of damage stored in it.

At this time, he drank low, lifted his true Qi, took the bright yellow medicinal mud to the air, and chanted the magic formula in his mouth.

After half a moment of adjustment and sorting, he pointed his hand virtually, shot out a machine that was almost imperceptible, and hit the medicinal mud!

In an instant, there was a loud bang!

But seeing the medicinal mud suddenly burst, countless round, full, bright yellow pills were divided, and after jumping in the air for a while, they fell like rain, scattering!

Seeing this, Chen Hang smiled slightly, took out a few green jade porcelain bottles, shook them in the air, and sealed them all without missing one.

And it was full, actually filling four bottles.

"This pot of medicine could have refined a full 150 Treasure Yellow Pills... I am still lacking in skill, only getting 120."

No need to count deliberately.

Chen Hang already knew the effect of this furnace fire.

He shook his head, handed the porcelain bottle in his hand to Cui Jingzhong, and said:

"Xiao Xiao Shixiong Cui, please taste it, and see how my achievement is this time?"

Cui Jingzhong on the side hurriedly reached out to take it, took one at random, took out a Treasure Yellow Pill, rubbed it slightly to check, and then swallowed it into his belly.

After a while.

A smile appeared on his face, his eyes shone, and he sincerely praised:

"The essence is pure, the Qi is smooth and the blood is active. When entering the abdomen, it is as fine as a turtle's breath, inaudible, moving without sound, and then the medicinal property permeates from the essence, strengthening the body and essence, and it is like placing the body shell in boiling water, warm and melting, very wonderful! Very wonderful!

Xiao Xiao Shixiong Chen, the medicinal property of this pot of Treasure Yellow Pills has reached the point where it cannot be improved!

Even if I took action myself, I would only be able to stabilize the heat and refine the 150 pills with a gentle fire, and I couldn't do any more!"

Cui Jingzhong handed the porcelain bottle with a smile, Chen Hang took it, poured one out in his palm, and swallowed it.

Initially, it was just like drinking a group of empty wind and fog, and there was nothing strange.

But soon.

A warm feeling flowed through his limbs and bones, making his heart and spirit clear, and his blood and Qi happy.

Chen Hang closed his eyes and carefully observed this change, and after a while, he opened his eyes and couldn't help but chuckle.

The pill he refined this time is called Treasure Yellow Pill, which has the function of increasing blood Qi and nourishing the physical body.

For cultivators in the Qi Cultivation Realm, it is a genuine spiritual pill, with expensive value.

And if Foundation Establishment true cultivators swallow this pill, it also has some benefits, which can nourish true essence and activate blood Qi around the body.

Although for his current physical cultivation, these Treasure Yellow Pills are just better than nothing, and cannot provide any nourishment.

But being able to independently refine this pill without Cui Jingzhong's assistance on the side.

It is enough to show that his alchemy attainment is far from what it was before.

If it were in the Xuanzhen Sect.

Just relying on this skill of refining Treasure Yellow Pills.

Chen Hang could enter the Service Room to seek a position and become an alchemist of the Xuanzhen Sect.

However, for techniques such as alchemy, gold and white, talisman books, arrays, and sword Dao.

The Xuanzhen Sect has always been very tightly hidden, always only passed down privately between master and apprentice, only passed down by word of mouth, and far less refined and high-level than the "Bao Yang Alchemy Point Casting Seven Return Cinnabar Decision," with every word being a pearl.

Thinking of this.

Chen Hang couldn't help but put down the pill, bowed solemnly to Cui Jingzhong, who was smiling, and thanked him.

"Polite! Xiao Xiao Shixiong Chen is polite again!"

Cui Jingzhong was startled, hurriedly reached out to support him, and said:

"With your root nature, Xiao Xiao Shixiong, you will definitely be able to carry forward my alchemy book in the future. What is there to thank? It is too polite!

In the final analysis, Xiao Xiao Shixiong should thank you!

In the future, when you become an ancestor, and then say that you have studied my Cui Jingzhong's alchemy book, if it spreads, I don't know how many people will admire the art of external alchemy gold and white. At that time, my face will be very bright, and I will die without regret!"

After the two looked at each other and smiled.

Looking at Chen Hang, who was modestly waving his hands, Cui Jingzhong was also envious and couldn't help but say again:

"In just seven days, Xiao Xiao Shixiong Chen, you actually refined external medicine like Treasure Yellow Pill... It's not that I want to boast, but with this aptitude, it is far better than me. You are indeed a true alchemy genius!"

Chen Hang shook his head and said: "It's just a fluke, that's why I succeeded. I really don't deserve such praise from Xiao Xiao Shixiong Cui."

He knew his own affairs.

Although it was seven days on the surface, with the "True Yizhen Yizhen Fa Jie" in hand, the time had already passed for more than three months.

In these few months, he penetrated the entire volume of "Bao Yang Alchemy Point Casting Seven Return Cinnabar Decision."

With Chen Hang's current aptitude washed by "Tai Shi Yuan Zhen."

Although difficult.

It is not impossible to do.

And because of the True Yizhen Yizhen Fa Jie's characteristic of imprinting external objects, whether it is gold, stone, or medicinal herbs, they are endless and inexhaustible.

After repeated attempts, training, and implementation, the proficiency was finally brushed up.

But in just seven days.

He could be familiar with medicinal properties and gold and stone properties, understand the monarch, minister, assistant, and envoy, advance and retreat, and use fire taboos, and refine a pot of high-quality Treasure Yellow Pills.

This is a terrifying feat that is almost impossible to achieve in Cui Jingzhong's eyes, and he therefore regarded Chen Hang as a god and praised him endlessly.

But in Chen Hang's view.

It is nothing more than a difficult hardship day and night...

"It seems that 'Tai Shi Yuan Zhen' has indeed greatly improved my aptitude. If it were before Foundation Establishment, even if I entered the Yizhen Yizhen Fa Jie to practice, I fear I would not have been able to easily understand the 'Bao Yang Alchemy Point Casting Seven Return Cinnabar Decision'."

Thinking of this, Chen Hang couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

And Cui Jingzhong on the side saw that his expression was always plain.

Even if he understood the entire alchemy book in seven days and refined Treasure Yellow Pills, he did not show a trace of pride or arrogance.

His eyes widened, and his admiration deepened.

"Xiao Xiao Shixiong Chen's state of mind is really calm. If Little Qiao Junior Sister did this, she would definitely boast about how powerful she is. I fear I wouldn't have peace in my ears for half a month..."

Cui Jingzhong laughed first, then his face became slightly serious, as if he remembered something urgent, and said in a deep voice:

"However, there is one thing, although it is not very appropriate, Xiao Xiao Shixiong Chen still needs to listen to it in his heart."

"Please speak, Xiao Xiao Shixiong Cui."

Cui Jingzhong sighed and said: "The art of external alchemy gold and white is ultimately difficult to achieve longevity. Even if Chen Chen Shidi's aptitude is very good, you must not be too obsessed with this path. If you delay orthodox cultivation because of this, it is putting the cart before the horse, and Xiao Xiao Shixiong will truly be unforgivable...

This was what the Zhenjun once said to me.

It's just that my aptitude is mediocre, and even my Cave-Mystic cultivation was obtained by borrowing external force to take pills, which has already overdrawn my future potential. This life is destined not to achieve anything big, I cannot enter a major sect, I don't have a superior true Qi Dao foundation, and as for high-grade Golden Core, it is even more illusory.

Before my lifespan ends, I can practice the side-door Primordial Spirit method, or go to the two Western states to find the fortune that can transform myself into a superior external Dao celestial being...

That is the greatest fortune, and I dare not think about anything else."

Cui Jingzhong looked quite helpless, finally looked at Chen Hang, and said solemnly:

"Chen Chen Shidi's aptitude is far better than mine, remember not to learn my story! Just treat the art of external alchemy gold and white as an auxiliary Dao method, and never treat it as orthodox!

Valuing techniques and neglecting the Dao will only lead to a pile of ashes in the end! It will be too late to regret!"

The reason Cui Jingzhong gave this advice.

One is that he saw Chen Hang's alchemy aptitude was extraordinary, fearing that he, a young man, did not know the depth, and would inevitably make the same arrogant vow as he did in his early years to refine the immortal divine pill.

In this way, it would inevitably delay orthodox cultivation.

And the second is.

It was Chen Hang's diligent appearance of staying up all night and not closing his eyes for these seven days, which truly shocked Cui Jingzhong.

He really couldn't understand how a Foundation Establishment cultivator could have such vigorous learning and energy?

Actually, his spirit was not tired all day, and he didn't release the book from his hand, just like a madman.

Cui Jingzhong was afraid that Chen Hang would be led astray by his temporary interest, and would devote himself to alchemy, abandoning his mystic skills.

If Qiao Yubi saw this scene after leaving the retreat.

Even if he grew mouths all over his body, he would not be able to explain it clearly...

At this time.

Cui Jingzhong saw Chen Hang nod in agreement, and his attitude did not look like a fake pretense, showing that he had listened to his painstaking advice.

The tight heartstrings finally relaxed slightly, and he laughed loudly.

"Go! Go! After refining pills for seven days and nights, Chen Chen Shidi, you should go out for some air. It just so happens that I will teach you how to refine Red Lead Great Return Pill next. I am still missing a few medicinal herbs here, so I need to go to the warehouse to get them."

Cui Jingzhong grabbed Chen Hang's shoulder and led him out of the hall, saying:

"Chen Chen Shidi, go with me, and just happen to see the scenery of Jin Gu Cave! Lest the Zhenjun leaves the retreat and summons you, you are still being smoked in the alchemy room. That would be too inappropriate!

Now Qiao Ting should be learning the zither at Little Plum Mountain. We will walk to White Sun Waterfall. Although it is a bit of a detour, we don't have to run into that little enemy."

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