In the blink of an eye, seventeen years had passed since Zhang Yan started his closed-door training.
On this day, the sound of rolling stones was heard from the small pot mirror. It was like the beating of a drum in the sky.
Zhang Yan sat cross-legged on the jade couch with his palms facing the sky while the vital energy on his body surged. The baleful qi in his body was like smoke that surged out and filled the entire bamboo building before dispersing outwards to cover this entire area of the heavens and the earth. But in the blink of an eye, his entire body seemed to be enveloped by thick clouds, and his figure could barely be discerned.
Then, streams of brilliance flashed out from the thick mist and clouds. First, there was a gilded halo of light. In just a flash, it emitted a dense and sharp aura. It cut through the bamboo building and shot out a thousand feet away. The sound of air tearing and the aura dragging, the cold light shone through the sky, and it only disappeared after a while.
After the golden light faded away, a cluster of jade-green light appeared once more. It rose higher and higher until it pierced the clouds. Then, it spread out in all directions like a curtain. There were thousands of them, and they hung down to the ground before rolling up again. They were endless and full of vitality.
The light flashed for a moment and then slowly disappeared. At this time, the sound of water was heard again. There was a blue light floating in the fog. It was like the surging tide, but also like the monstrous waves. It rushed and surged with great momentum.
About an hour later, the rain stopped and the sky turned green. Under the clear sky, a red glow burst forth and a ball of flames burned fiercely like the rising sun. The bamboo building was touched by this fire and with a bang, it immediately turned into ashes, leaving only black ashes that filled the sky and scattered down.
The fire jumped for a while and then stopped. What replaced it was a ball of thick yellow light. With a slight movement, a mound of earth was lifted up from the bamboo building. It was like a mound. In a moment, it rose to a thousand feet high and was as majestic as a mountain.
The five lights flashed one after another. It went back and forth for a hundred times before it finally stopped.
Zhang Yan pushed the Dan Evil away and revealed himself.
At this moment, his eyes were bright and his spirit was high. The robe on his body was fluttering. After this seclusion, he finally gathered all five elements true light.
It turned out that he used fourteen years to deduce the Five Elements Cultivation Method, but it took him another three years to fuse them together. He used the remnant of the jade to deduce it repeatedly, and got rid of a lot of redundant and complicated details. Finally, he refined them into one, and became a mystical technique until today. He could move with his heart like he was moving his fingers.
Once this technique was completed, his battle prowess increased greatly. Naturally, he was overjoyed.
It was important to know that the five elements were complete. Once one's cultivation reached a deeper level, it would be able to derive all sorts of wonderful effects. It couldn't be compared to before.
However, his Tai Xuan Five Elements Zhenfa was only a small success, and there were still many flaws. If he wanted to achieve great success and return to the ancient Tai Xuan Sect, there was still a long and bumpy road ahead of him.
The Grand Competition of the Sixteen Sects was almost over. There were 39 years left, and the next step was to condense the True Seal of spiritual power.
Zhang Yan was not in a hurry to cultivate. Instead, he cast a spell, and a water mirror appeared in front of him, reflecting all the disciples in the cave abode.
The mirror spirit noticed his movement. It also came out, and waited by the side, quietly waiting for instructions.
Zhang Yan looked for a moment. When he saw that everything was stable and there was no change, he was relieved. He waved his hand and summoned the mirror spirit. He said, "How many acupuncture points has Yanyi burned?"
The mirror spirit bowed and said, "Master, Liu Niangzi has burned 32 acupuncture points ten years ago. Now he is in seclusion, and I don't know how much progress he has made. As for those 36 acupuncture points, it takes longer to burn them. I think he needs more time."
Zhang Yan nodded with relief. If an ordinary disciple could burn more than 20 acupuncture points, he would not wait any longer and would condense the elixir into a pill. However, Liu Yanyi still stopped at the acupuncture point. That was to stabilize the foundation, so that the grade of the pill would be higher in the future.
After receiving his secret technique, he didn't know how far his eldest disciple could go.
He himself had experienced this dangerous stage, and he knew that the step of condensing the elixir had to be very careful. If there was a slight mistake, there would be no turning back.
He pondered for a while and felt that if he waited until he entered the third stage of Core Transformation, then he would have a much higher chance of helping her condense the elixir.
After thinking about it, he waved his hand and dismissed the mirror spirit. Then he reached into his sleeve and took out two jade boxes. Inside the boxes were the True Seal Talisman that Zhong Muqing and the Sect Leader gave him.
In this True Seal, there was a trace of the consciousness and essence of the senior master, who had already pointed out the path ahead. When the disciple wanted to condense the True Seal, he only needed to follow the path of the senior and refine it step by step. There was no need to waste much effort.
It could be said that if a cultivator obtained the sect's inheritance, it was not easy to cross this stage, but compared to the danger of melting medicine and condensing the elixir, it was much easier.
However, Zhang Yan had condensed the first stage of the elixir. Whether or not he had a teacher to guide him, he had no predecessor's method to learn from.
He thought to himself, "To think that the two seniors in the sect did not have any method to learn from, but they were still able to force their way out. They are really amazing."
Other than the founder of the Qincang School, there were two other seniors who also condensed the first stage of the elixir. However, it was by chance, and it might not be as they wished to do it again.
As for condensing the True Seal, they had the help of a magic treasure left behind by the founder of the sect, so they did not leave any method of condensing the spiritual energy in this world.
When the great change in the Qincang School happened a hundred years ago, this magic treasure was taken by the fierce person, so this path was considered to be cut off.
Because it was rare to condense the first stage of the elixir since ancient times, not many people paid attention to it. Later on, when Zhang Yan condensed the first stage of the Golden Elixir, a few people in the sect who had experienced the change on that day thought about it Just Now, and they were faintly on guard, realizing that the fierce person might have done it on purpose that day.
Although Zhang Yan did not have the help of a magic treasure, he had the remnant of the jade, so he was not afraid.
Although he was full of confidence, when he did things, he was still extremely careful. To form the True Seal, he had to first understand the profoundness of it.
He took a deep breath, reached into his sleeve, and grabbed the remnant of the jade. His mind sank, and he began to deduce.
What he was deducing now was not only the two True Seals, but also the method of condensing the seal from the Luo Academy. There were more than three hundred methods, and they were all left behind by the seniors in the Qincang School.
He was also very lucky that he joined the Qincang School. After ten thousand years of accumulation, he had such a deep foundation. If it was a small sect, it would be good if he could find a few methods.
But even so. Most of these methods were inferior methods, and there were very few intermediate methods. There was not a single superior method.
He just wanted to explore the theory and find out the differences and similarities. He did not want to use it as a reference, so there was not much difference between the good and the bad.
Time slowly passed, and another two years passed in the small pot mirror.
In the jade, Zhang Yan had deduced for close to a hundred years. Apart from trying to condense the true seal that Zhong Muqing and Sect Leader Qin gave him, he also practiced the three hundred methods to condense the true seal one by one. Just Now, he stopped.
At this moment, his understanding of the true seal was so deep that no one in this realm could compare to him.
He understood why the true seal was condensed like that, what it was long and what it was short of.
The Dharmic Power True Seal that Zhong Muqing had given him was ever-changing. If one used this method to condense the true seal, one would be much faster than normal people when cultivating abilities and techniques, and it would greatly increase one's combat strength.
The true seal that the Sect Leader gave him gave him all the branches, and only the main one was left. It could be said that there was only one path.
Both of these techniques had their merits.
Zhang Yan guessed that the person who left the true seal was someone who loved to fight. Just Now he would walk this path.
As for the Sect Leader's true seal. If he focused on cultivating and broke through, he would be far better than others. His future achievements would be immeasurable.
However, that didn't mean that there were no fighting techniques within. It was just purely based on formations. Compared to the former, it was much lacking.
The former focused on techniques, the latter focused on the Dao, so it was hard to say who was better and who was worse.
At this moment, Zhang Yan had an idea of what path he should take. He wasn't prepared to copy the former, but to open up a new path.
He straightened his body, his mind sinking into the jade once more. He started to practice what he was thinking about.
However, this time, the time he spent was much longer than he had expected.
Even with the hard work from before, he used a year, which was forty years in the jade. He tried many times and went through many setbacks. Just Now he was able to deduce a technique to condense the true seal.
However, at this step, he faced something weird.
Every time he used this method to condense the true seal, the result would be different.
After carefully searching for the reason, he understood. He thought to himself, "So, when condensing the true seal, even if there is a small difference, it will lead to a different result. There is no fixed method to follow."
Since that was the case, he decided not to waste any more effort. He kept the jade and sat on the meditation mat, picking up the technique.
The golden pellet under his stomach was guided, it shook and gathered all the vengeful energy in its body. It followed the method of condensing the true seal and started to revolve.
In an instant, the golden core that seemed like glass emanated a five colored and brilliant light, and then an illusory and indeterminate True Seal floated up from it. It was dazzling like rosy clouds, translucent, crystalline, and enshrouded in mist, and there were countless talismans, bird scripts, and erosive texts floating up into appearance.
When the seal became more and more real, the Talisman Seal Script Script became more and more clear and endless essence was born from it.
Zhang Yan's spirit couldn't help but be excited. This essence Qi was formed when condensing the True Seal. If he could use it in time, he could greatly improve his cultivation method and abilities. After a Core Formation cultivator passed this stage, their strength would suddenly rise by a level.
He knew that he had cultivated quite a few Dao techniques, but there were only a few that could truly defeat the enemy. The "Five Elements True Method" was the foundation of his Dao cultivation, and it was the most important part. If he could improve on this Dao technique, that would be for the best.
Because of this, without hesitation, he immediately channeled the spiritual Qi into the technique and continued to push it up.
This technique climbed step by step and its power also increased.
When Zhang Yan almost suspected that this technique would swallow all the essence in one go, his body trembled. He found that if he continued to improve, the progress of this technique would be very slow. He controlled the momentum and no longer wasted essence on it. Instead, he tried to improve the Purple Heaven Thunder Technique.
This technique was indeed very powerful. Up until now, he had not seen anyone who could contend against it head-on. He had planned to strengthen this technique a long time ago.
Zhang Yan's dan had reached the first grade. The essence was boundless like the sea. When the Purple Heaven Thunder Technique could no longer evolve, he found that there was still a lot left.
He roughly estimated that the Five Elements True Method had absorbed more than half of his Essence Qi, which was about 60%, while the Purple Cloud Godly Thunder had absorbed 20%, leaving 20%.
If he didn't use up all of this Essence Qi when he condensed the True Seal today, it would slowly dissipate after the seal was formed. Therefore, he didn't hesitate to choose the "Billowing Cloud Technique", the "Mysterious Yellow Dragon Capturing Hand", and the "True Freedom Technique" respectively and poured his Essence Qi into them.
After an unknown amount of time, when the essence was used up, the true seal that was originally uncertain suddenly shook and condensed into a solid form. It then fell into the golden dan and disappeared.
At this moment, he was in a trance. When he woke up, he suddenly stood up and circulated his xuan technique. He couldn't help but laugh.
At this moment, he had already condensed the true seal and entered the third grade of the core transformation realm!
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