The fire under the Dragon Merchant Star Cauldron was burning. Seeing that the fire was getting weaker, Zhang Yan, who was sitting on the cattail hassock, picked up a few sticks of firewood and placed them under the cauldron.
After Princess Linya gave him the Five Elements Divine Sand, he went to Ai Zhongwen to exchange for a lot of herbs. A few days later, Luo Xiao opened the cauldron to refine medicine. Within ten days, he had refined no less than a thousand elixirs and gave them all to him.
Luo Xiao sorted out the remaining herbs and threw them into the cauldron. Finally, he jumped into the cauldron and told Zhang Yan to cover the cauldron. Every day, he would use the fire to refine medicine. Every seven days, he would open the cauldron.
Luo Xiao did not dare to try it at first, but this Dragon Merchant Star Cauldron was something that could only be found by luck. As long as the method was stable, he could rely on the power of the cauldron to boil the medicine. The medicine would enter the internal organs, wrap up the Primordial Qi, wash away the impurities, and activate the vitality.
According to Luo Xiao's instructions, Zhang Yan first used a small fire to boil the medicine. Every seven days, he would open the cauldron and change the herbs. Every time, a layer of dead skin would be shed from Luo Xiao's body. At the same time, he had to pour out a whole cauldron of black residue. Every time he refined, Luo Xiao's Qi dynamic would become stronger. This was an eye-opener for Zhang Yan.
Now, the third seven days had passed. According to Luo Xiao, he needed to use a fierce fire to attack the cauldron. However, the day of opening the cauldron was right in front of him, but there was no movement in the cauldron. He could not identify the faint Qi dynamic either. He did not know if it was because the cauldron was overcooked or it was not fully refined.
Without Luo Xiao's instructions, Zhang Yan did not dare to open the cauldron. He only cared about his own cultivation.
In this one month, he practiced his Qi day and night and swallowed a large number of elixirs. These days, the elixirs he ate every day were equivalent to the total amount he had taken in the past.
As he concentrated on his training, the Yuanzhen Qi in his body became more and more condensed. His Qi, which was originally as lively as an ape, was now as tame as a crouching bull and as stable as a black tortoise. It lay peacefully in the orifice of his Dan. The state of "Yuancheng entering Zhen" gradually stabilized. At this moment, he felt that he could already proceed to the next step of the incantation.
He picked up the Record of Mystic Essence Internal Meditation. Although he had read this book for a long time, he still read it carefully again. Then, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the broken jade in his sleeve. His consciousness sank into the doppelganger.
As his cultivation increased, the jade seemed to have become somewhat different from before.
Originally, the jade was misty, and it was impossible to distinguish up, down, left, and right. It was as if there was nothing else in the world except oneself. When the doppelganger walked in the jade, it was also illusory, swaying unsteadily.
But now, he felt as if he was in a vast space, and there was a difference between up and down.
Zhang Yan looked up. Above him was an illusory cloud of clear air, but below his feet was thick and turbid as if he was stepping on solid ground. If he looked at it according to the evolution of Hongmeng, at the beginning, the jade could be described as "chaos like a chicken, the doppelganger in it". Now, it could be described as "clear air rising, turbid air falling, Yin and Yang divided into two, heaven and earth beginning to settle".
Originally, when his consciousness entered the jade, he could still feel that it was only a fake doppelganger. But at this moment, when his consciousness occupied the jade, all his thoughts and feelings were as clear as real, and he could not distinguish the inside from the outside at all.
Zhang Yan seemed to have understood something. It seemed that because his cultivation increased, the situation in the jade changed, and the doppelganger became more and more real.
As he pondered, he continued to walk in the broken jade. However, the space here was incomparably vast, and there seemed to be no end to it.
He thought to himself, it seemed that the secret of this broken jade was far more than what he saw. But the only thing that mattered was to increase his own cultivation.
At this moment, he was not in the mood to study it deeply. The doppelganger sat on the ground, took a posture of five hearts facing the sky, and began to silently circulate the mental cultivation method on the "Wonderful Record".
According to the incantation, the person who cultivated needed to raise one Qi dynamic, then split it into two, two into four, and separately circulate it into the four meridians. These four Qi dynamics all had different methods to circulate, and there could not be the slightest deviation.
Although Zhang Yan was mentally prepared, the difficulty at this moment was far beyond his imagination. He tried his best to control it, and barely managed to take the first step. However, when he reached the second step, his mind was careless, and the Qi dynamic immediately became chaotic, and randomly scattered to various parts of his body.
His heart suddenly shook, and his consciousness returned to the main body. When he looked back, he found that the doppelganger had been seriously injured by the Qi dynamic and had fallen to the ground. If the main body was cultivating at this moment, it was likely that his foundation would have been injured.
He shook his head, took a deep breath, and his consciousness entered the jade again. As his thoughts changed, the doppelganger that had fallen to the ground with serious injuries stood up again.
After thinking about it, he felt that he had not mastered the previous part of the Qi circulation, so he simply let the doppelganger's body return to the moment before he started cultivating.
For the second time, he started from the beginning. This time, he paid special attention to the control of the Qi dynamic. However, according to the incantation, he needed to raise another four Qi dynamics. Not only did he need to circulate the first four Qi dynamics repeatedly, but he also could not relax for the last four Qi dynamics. After persisting for almost an hour, he finally could not control it, and the doppelganger that was barely holding on suddenly vomited blood and died.
Zhang Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, and calmed his mind. He threw away all distracting thoughts, and once again let the doppelganger in the jade sit up.
Picking up the eight Qi dynamics, he carefully controlled them. However, not long after, his doppelganger fell again and again.
However, he did not know that this was only the beginning of the training.
The fourth time, the Qi dynamics were clearly under his control, but they suddenly and inexplicably went out of control, and randomly scattered, causing him to die from a chest pain.
The fifth time, when the two Qi dynamics merged, because one was in front of the other, they could not converge at the acupuncture point at the same time, and his chest split open and he died.
The sixth time, when he restrained the Qi meridians, because the Qi dynamics were too turbid, it entangled outside the acupuncture point for a while longer, and his lungs burst and he died.
The seventh time …
Repeated failures, repeated attempts.
The more Zhang Yan practiced, the more shocked he became. No wonder Shi Shoujing said that there were many divergent paths in this Daoist book, but the complexity of the Qi dynamics traveling in the meridians was far beyond his imagination. The Qi of Yuanzhen stopped or stayed, passed through or moved, rushed or stopped, sometimes spiraled up, sometimes slowly descended, and almost all of the three hundred and sixty-five major acupuncture points in the body were taken care of.
The most annoying thing was that you clearly knew how the Qi dynamics traveled in the meridians, but you just could not control them, especially towards the end, when you had to control one hundred and eight Qi dynamics to travel back and forth in the meridians. If there was a slight deviation in the Qi dynamics, it would cause all the previous efforts to be wasted, and the doppelganger's death would become more and more unsightly.
Xuanmen's techniques mostly focused on the state of mind, and not on control, but this Daoist book took the aspect of traveling along the meridians to the extreme, as if it wanted to merge all the methods of Qi circulation into one.
Just by practicing the first part of the incantation, he had tried all kinds of ways to die with broken meridians, reversed flow of zhenqi, and backlash of internal organs no less than one hundred and fifty times. It could be imagined how abnormal this incantation was.
Zhang Yan shook his head. There was almost no shortcut to this kind of multitasking, and he could only rely on repeated attempts to increase his proficiency.
Moreover, because every death was an incomparably real experience, he could not help but secretly laugh at himself. He estimated that after he finished practicing this Daoist incantation, he would be able to achieve the level of a master in Qi deviation.
He believed that those cultivators who had never come into contact with this Daoist book, if they did not have the protection of their masters, they would most likely die on the spot.
It was no wonder that Luo Xiao said that this book would easily attract the jealousy of the heavens. If anyone could master this book without relying on any external objects and only relying on their own talent and comprehension, not only would the heavens not let them go, if it was possible, Zhang Yan also wanted to throw a lightning bolt and strike that person to death.
He used more than a month to hone his control of Qi, which was almost equivalent to his doppelganger in the jade for ten months, and only then did he become familiar with the entire set of Qi circulation.
Up until now, he did not know how many times his doppelganger had died.
Fortunately, he had a strong will, if it was someone else, they would probably go crazy from the boring Qi circulation.
But on the other hand, it was not that Zhang Yan did not gain anything from this cultivation. At least this book almost included all the methods and techniques of Qi circulation in the current cultivation. He believed that at this moment, there was almost no one in the same cultivation who could compare to him in terms of Qi circulation control.
But in this more than a month, there was no movement from Luo Xiao in the treasure cauldron. Could it be that he was really dead?
Zhang Yan stood up and was about to go and find out when he suddenly heard a voice in his ear. "Is Zhang Yan here? Come out and talk. "
He could not help but shiver. He took two steps out of the cave residence and saw a handsome cultivator in white standing in the air in front of the plank road.
Ning Chongxuan!
Zhang Yan calmly cupped his hands and said, "Senior Brother Ning."
He quickly calculated in his mind. He did not know why Ning Chongxuan came here to find him. Could it be that he had found out about Luo Xiao?
Impossible, if that was the case, he would have rushed in long ago.
Ning Chongxuan glanced at him, suddenly stepped forward and put his hand on his shoulder. "It's not convenient to talk here, follow me."
Zhang Yan only felt his vision blurred. When he saw the surrounding scenery again, he had already appeared at the top of a lonely peak, and under his feet was a bottomless abyss. His body just swayed slightly, and he adjusted from the initial discomfort and stood firmly again.
Ning Chongxuan nodded and praised, "Very good, a cultivator should reject external things and only keep one's true self. You need to know that all kinds of obstacles are born from the heart. If the heart is unstable, the spirit will not be born."
His current look was very different from the day he left, and there seemed to be a hint of appreciation in his eyes. Zhang Yan did not know what he was playing at.
"I have searched back and forth in this mountain for two months, but I still haven't found any trace of the snake demon. I think it is either seriously injured and dead, or hiding somewhere. But I will return to the mountain gate soon and have no time to look for it. You are the only cultivator on this peak. When I leave, it may come out to harm you. So I will give you something that will definitely save your life."
Ning Chongxuan pointed with his finger, and a jade light flew into Zhang Yan's sleeve. In a hurry, he could not see what it was.
"Go, remember to keep your heart. If there is fate in the future, I will introduce you to an immortal master."
Ning Chongxuan stretched out his hand and pushed. Zhang Yan's body slightly swayed, but he did not feel anything. When he looked up, it turned out that he had returned to the foot of the Stargazing Peak.
But at this moment, he did not know that shortly after he was taken away by Ning Chongxuan, a figure came to the door of his cave residence and looked inside. Suddenly, his face lit up with joy, and he dashed in.
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