Jingming heard Chen Ang's explanation from the side. He was clear about some things, but there were some concepts that he had never heard of before. He was greatly touched after listening to it, so he patiently asked for guidance.
Chen Ang saw that Meng Xiashang was also confused, so he explained to them and said with a smile, "Refining a cauldron of pills destroys the spirit herbs that Heaven and Earth loves and consumes the fate of all living beings. Therefore, Heaven and Earth are jealous of it, and it consumes the fate of external cultivation. In the Mystic Door, when we refine pills, we either use external cultivation to offset it or suffer external calamity … "
"But if we look at it from another perspective, all living beings need to consume the nourishment of Heaven and Earth! Why aren't Heaven and Earth jealous? "
"I think it's because of the creation of Heaven and Earth. The virtue of Heaven and Earth creates but doesn't possess. It provides for all living beings and treats them equally … How can Heaven and Earth not be jealous of us if we want to possess, plunder, and take the nourishment of all living beings to worship ourselves? Therefore, following the virtue of Heaven and Earth, we walk the path of creation and take the spirits of all living beings to create Heaven and Earth. By taking Heaven and Earth and using Heaven and Earth, we won't be limited by calamity and will receive feedback from Heaven and Earth instead. "
Master Jingming nodded as he listened. He exchanged glances with Meng Xiashang and was greatly touched.
Meng Xiashang was puzzled. "If the path of creation is used for Heaven and Earth, what can we cultivators get? If we return the pills we refine to Heaven and Earth, what can we get from the results of refining pills? "
Chen Ang said with a smile, "That will depend on the cultivator's wisdom! I'll teach you a method called Path of Interception.
"So this is the path of creation that Junior Brother Chen mentioned. It's indeed profound." Master Jingming sighed and said, "It's a pity that people's hearts are blazing. Refining a flying sword in the unorthodox sect usually requires tens of thousands of kilograms of fine iron, and they have to use spirit herbs to wash it every month. Those who don't have enough cultivation will have to resort to special methods or use the blood of spirit birds and beasts to restrain the spirits and increase the spirituality of the flying sword. For example, the Hundred Spirit Immortal Slaying Sword that Sect Master Wutai cultivates.
"You can either take the core elixir of an insect or a demonic beast that has cultivated successfully and use it to refine the edge of the sword to increase its power and add supernatural abilities. You can even summon the Extraterrestrial Demons to restrain the demons and Yin Demons. Its power is generally unimaginable, just like the Sky Demon Fairy Slaying Sword that the Wutai Sect Master practiced."
"There's even more. He used the blood of children to refine flying swords and Dharma treasures. He is truly a heinous person. The Nine Yin Soul Sword and the Nascent Soul Sword that he cultivated are things that we cannot tolerate," Jingming shouted fiercely.
"Even the fellow Daoists of Emei Mountain … Ascetic Dhuta has to gather the essence of the five metals in order to forge an invisible sword. He has to gather 3,600 types of spirit herbs. At the very least, he has to use several million kilograms of refined iron and five metals to forge the sword. No wonder all the seniors had to abandon their Magic Treasures before ascending so as to avoid being implicated. It turns out that these worldly possessions are really a type of burden when it comes to ascending. "
Chen Ang smiled and said, "Of course, I'm not trying to make all of you be timid and lose the freedom of immortals. Instead, I'm trying to inspire all of you not to be limited by worldly possessions and to be able to take and let go. For example, you used the five metals to refine the purple gold alms bowl and prepared to use it to get rid of demons. You have the chivalrous spirit of our generation, which is admirable. " Chen Ang nodded and smiled at Jingming.
Then, he turned to Meng Xiashang and said, "I'm not criticizing you for being greedy. I just want to take this opportunity to let you understand the way of choosing and letting go. I want you to understand the principle of our generation being good at using things, how to make use of them and how to create the resources that the world provides for us."
Upon hearing that, Meng Xiashang smiled bitterly and said, "Senior, do you know that ever since I asked for the Dispersion Pill's recipe, I've treated it as my life's most precious treasure? There are more than hundreds of rogue cultivators in the unorthodox school who are also stuck with impure magical powers like me and can't improve. Among the dozens of fellow Daoists in the unorthodox school that I know, none of them are not greedy. If it wasn't for the fact that I can only make one pill per furnace, I wouldn't have alienated them."
"How many of us cultivators in the unorthodox school can't even smell a pill's scent in our entire lives? Spirit pills are hard to come by, not to mention the recipe, just the various spiritual herbs that I used to refine the Dispersion Pill took me more than ten years to gather. There are many rare varieties that I had to exchange with others. I worked so hard to gather a furnace of ingredients, and I was so cautious that I couldn't even wait for the fire to go wrong. How would I have the time to think about other things? "
Meng Xiashang sighed and said, "If that wasn't the case, why would I be stuck with a furnace of pills? It's because this furnace of pills is really important to me, and I can't tolerate anything else … "
"Then, are you still willing to give it up?" Jingming asked, "If we wait until Junior Brother Chen returns, the medicinal properties will be changed, and the Dispersion Pill will no longer be able to purify one's foundation magical power! Do you really want to give up after so many years of hard work? Now that this Dispersion Pill has been refined and purified by Junior Brother Chen, there won't be any future troubles. If you want it, I'll give up my pride and beg Junior Brother to give it to you … "
Looking at Jingming's sincere eyes, Meng Xiashang lowered her head and remained silent for a moment. Suddenly, she lifted her head and smiled sweetly, "Master Jingming, you're still trying to tease me. Xiashang already understood the logic that senior said. Hard work will only be useful if the path of Dao is correct. If I deviate from the path early on, no matter how much hard work I put in, it'll be useless. I'm no longer willing to lose my way for the shortcut of the Dispersion Pill. "
"Alright!" Jingming nodded.
"This Huandan still needs to be refined into a pill embryo, and then with the Dispersion Pill as the tip, it will be transformed into the Second Spirit Restoring Pill." Chen Ang said to Meng Xiashang, "Refining pills is hard work. I'm still not good at controlling the fire, so I'll have to trouble Junior Sister to help me."
Meng Xiashang didn't know if there were any 'inadequacies' in Chen Ang's control of fire, which was like refining fire like water and creating a thousand spiritual flames, but since Chen Ang had asked, of course, she didn't dare to decline. Chen Ang arranged a hard job. When Chen Ang was refining pills, she was in charge of shaking the Elixir Cauldron and using her own power to probe into the fire to refine the pills.
A Dispersion Pill, which was thirsty for by the people of the unorthodox sect, was placed at the side. It was being dragged by a brocade tray, but none of the three of them had the time to take a look at it. They were all busy surrounding the Elixir Cauldron. Jingming was handling all kinds of spiritual herbs to prepare for Chen Ang, while Meng Xiashang was carrying the big gourd and using her own vital Qi to shake it.
The Elixir Qi in the Elixir Cauldron that had yet to disperse seeped into her mana, nourishing her mana and spirit.
Chen Ang, on the other hand, was controlling a round of spiritual flames in the Elixir Cauldron to dissolve the medicinal liquid. Under the refinement of mana, the originally complicated medicinal properties of the spiritual herbs were slowly growing and purifying under the dual pressure of the spiritual flames and mana. Some of the complicated and subtle medicinal properties fell into the lower layer of the Elixir Cauldron to be prepared, while the required pure spiritual properties turned into Qi of vitality and settled on the upper layer of the Elixir Cauldron.
As stalks of spiritual herbs were thrown in, the spiritual herbs in the Elixir Cauldron gradually evolved into the origin of the Qi of vitality of this world.
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