The Immortal Pill

After looking down at the chip, Xiao Hua mentally rolled the chip into his spatial dimension. A moment later, he emerged, and the chip recorded the method of its use, as well as the location of the Immortal Market. With this item, Xiao Hua could enter the Immortal Market of Helan Que. However, after a brief check of his nascent soul body, Xiao Hua gave a wry smile. Shuo Bing was right; his injuries were quite severe. With his current condition and his understanding of Yunmeng Marsh, it would be very difficult for him to escape.

"I should find a place to rest first!" Xiao Hua thought, preparing to leave.

But as he turned, Xiao Hua stopped again. He looked at the continuing fire rain nearby and the peaks where golden fireballs were still falling, then chuckled, "The most dangerous place is the safest. This is the lair of the Exploding Beasts and the Toad-faced Toads, so I doubt any other immortal beasts would dare to come here. As for that Yuanzi, if he dared to return, he wouldn't have left today. Moreover, even if he doesn't leave Yunmeng Marsh, this place has no further value, so he wouldn't come back. Isn't it best for me to cultivate here?"

Because of the golden fireballs, Xiao Hua activated the Mi Tian Ring to conceal himself and observe from a distance. The Soul Suppressing Bell that Yuanzi had left him was already safely stored in his spatial dimension. After about an hour, the golden fireballs and fire rain began to subside. Xiao Hua flew closer and looked at the pitted mountain peaks, finally understanding the origin of the marks on the stone walls.

Entering the cave, Xiao Hua sighed at the chaotic spatial aura within. He collected the remains of the Exploding Beasts and Jing Sheng's shattered Hundred-Gathering Pouch. As for Jing Sheng's corpse, Xiao Hua carefully buried it.

The cave originally had a strange odor, but the spatial explosion had dispersed it. Xiao Hua found a clean spot, sat down cross-legged, and took out Jing Sheng's Hundred-Gathering Pouch to examine its contents. Jing Sheng didn't seem to be as good at managing household affairs as Chu Yu. Furthermore, the pouch was damaged, and its contents were not plentiful. Besides some immortal crystals, there were scattered immortal beast carcasses and several Ink Immortal Pupils. Of course, like Chu Yu, Jing Sheng also had a few strange and peculiar items.

Looking at a bronze-colored chess piece, a half-zhang-long flagpole, and a blood-stained iron piece, Xiao Hua felt a sense of kinship, as if he were seeing his past self. When he was very young, he had loved collecting these discarded trinkets.

Xiao Hua had intended to carefully examine the origins of these unknown items, but after taking an Ink Immortal Pupil into his spatial dimension to look, Jade Slip Xiao Hua simply tossed these items into the dimension and ignored them. This was because the Ink Immortal Pupils contained simple refinement methods for immortal talismans, immortal pills, and immortal artifacts. One Ink Immortal Pupil even contained a cultivation technique called Muscle Washing Art!

Although the Muscle Washing Art looked like a very basic and crude technique, it was still the first cultivation technique Xiao Hua had obtained in the Immortal Realm, so Jade Slip Xiao Hua excitedly accepted it and began to study it carefully.

After finishing, Xiao Hua withdrew his consciousness from the spatial dimension and mused, "This Jing Sheng cultivated Nascent Soul, and the technique he obtained is also suitable for me. However, this Muscle Washing Art is divided into four layers, with each layer describing how to open a meridian within the nascent soul body and how to use the physical body to temper immortal spiritual energy within the new meridian to form immortal power. This is completely useless to me! Not to mention that I don't have a physical body, but even if I did, the meridians within my nascent soul body are identical to those of the physical body, so there's no need to open them! Therefore, Jing Sheng's Muscle Washing Art is inferior to Chu Yu's immortal techniques."

Thinking this, a thought flashed through Xiao Hua's mind, but when he tried to recall it, he couldn't. Xiao Hua had encountered this situation before; he knew that the opportunity had not yet arrived, so he decided not to dwell on it and picked up the Ink Immortal Pupils for refining immortal talismans, immortal pills, and immortal artifacts.

The Ink Immortal Pupils contained little information about immortal talismans, only recording the refinement method for a type called the Fire Flood Dragon Talisman. Seeing that the Fire Flood Dragon Talisman required splitting a strand of the Fire Flood Dragon's essence spirit and refining it into a jade crystal, Jade Slip Xiao Hua immediately lost interest. He would rather use the Five-Colored Divine Fire than torment the Fire Flood Dragon's essence spirit. Of course, regarding immortal talismans, the Ink Immortal Pupils only mentioned a few points, stating that low-grade immortal talismans were made of jade crystals, either by incorporating the essence spirits of exotic beasts, or by incorporating spiritual body clones, or by condensing powerful immortal techniques. As for the appearance of mid-grade and high-grade immortal talismans, the Ink Immortal Pupils made no mention.

"If only I could..." Jade Slip Xiao Hua pondered, stroking his chin. "I need to learn the method for making basic immortal talismans, and then get some jade crystals to refine the Du Tian Star Array, the Mao Ri Devouring Demon Immortal Array, and so on. Those are life-saving treasures!"

Thinking this, Jade Slip Xiao Hua gave another wry smile. Even if he understood the method for refining immortal talismans, what good would it do? Without a basic cultivation technique, he didn't have enough immortal power within him to utilize!

The Ink Immortal Pupils' records on immortal pills were clearly much more extensive than those on immortal talismans. In addition to introducing that immortal pills were divided into seven grades, with each grade suitable for different levels of immortals, they also listed representative immortal pills for each grade. What made Jade Slip Xiao Hua even happier was that the Ink Immortal Pupils also detailed a seventh-grade immortal pill called the Dust-Clearing Pill. This pill was specifically for newly ascended immortals and was used to stabilize their realm and immortal spiritual energy after cleansing and tempering their spiritual roots. Moreover, the refinement method seemed simple, and the immortal materials required were easy to obtain. Xiao Hua, being a master alchemist, had a general understanding after reading it. After mentally memorizing the refinement methods, he then looked at the introductions to the seven grades of immortal pills.

Besides the Dust-Clearing Pill, the seventh-grade immortal pills also included the Calamity-Averting Pill. This pill could regulate the chaotic immortal spiritual energy within an immortal, especially the negative effects caused by improper cultivation of basic immortal techniques.

The sixth-grade immortal pills listed the Spirit-Nurturing Pill, the Serene Tranquility Pill, and the Clarity-Enhancing Pill. After consuming the Spirit-Nurturing Pill, one could immediately generate immortal spiritual energy. Although its nourishing effect was not particularly good, it could provide low-level immortals with more opportunities to form immortal seals and cast immortal spells. The Serene Tranquility Pill was rather special, with only one effect: consuming it during cultivation could produce twice the result with half the effort, especially when cultivating mental techniques and comprehending the laws of heaven and earth. Due to its single effect and relatively high output, it was classified as a sixth-grade pill. The Clarity-Enhancing Pill only had its name listed, with no specific explanation.

"This Spirit-Nurturing Pill sounds similar to the Spirit-Nurturing Pill in the mortal realm, and its effects are similar to the Residue-Removing Pill. This Ink Immortal Pupil doesn't mention the Residue-Removing Pill, so I suppose the Residue-Removing Pill is considered low-grade!" Xiao Hua thought, continuing to read.

The fifth-grade immortal pills recorded the Star-Plucking Pill, stating that this pill was generally suitable for Golden Immortals and above. Its effect was to instantly stimulate the immortal spiritual energy within a Golden Immortal, causing them to step into the Five Elements and have half their bodies pass through the Nine Palaces, gaining immortal power beyond their current strength. However, the pill's effect was short-lived, and after stimulating their immortal spiritual energy, they would be extremely weak for a long time afterward.

The fourth-grade immortal pills recorded the Spirit-Returning Pill. Refining this pill was something only Grandmasters or Taiyi True Immortals could achieve. To refine this pill, one needed the blood of the Nine Spirits from the Immortal Realm, combined with the Golden Flower, Silver Grass, Bronze Wood, and Iron Fruit from the four cardinal directions of the Immortal Realm. It also required forty-nine alchemical incantations, drawing in a large amount of immortal spiritual energy, simmering with gentle fire for three hundred years, then fierce fire for two hundred years, repeating this cycle twice for a total of a thousand years to form the pill. Upon consuming this pill, all Immortals of the Grand Unity level and below, no matter how severely injured, could heal their wounds in a short period. If they could calmly recuperate for three years, they could even recover completely. Due to the difficulty of refining this pill, and depending on the refinement time and the age of the materials, it was divided into: Low-grade Spirit-Returning Pill, effective only for Golden Immortals and below, with a recovery ability of only thirty percent; Mid-grade Spirit-Returning Pill, effective for Grand Unity Immortals and below, with a recovery ability of only fifty percent; High-grade Spirit-Returning Pill, not only possessing full efficacy but also being effective even for temporary injuries sustained by Taiyi True Immortals or Primordial Immortals.

The third-grade immortal pills recorded the Immortal-Merging Pill. The effect of this pill was specifically for newly ascended Taiyi Immortals or Primordial Immortals to condense their realm and immortal spiritual energy. Although it was not mass-produced, it could still be found. After consuming this pill, early-stage Taiyi Immortals and Primordial Immortals could completely transform within a hundred years, with a significant increase in strength.

The second-grade immortal pills recorded the Demon-Slaying Pill. This pill was refined by Primordial Immortals of the Immortal Venerable level. As the name suggests, the greatest effect of this pill was to help those undergoing tribulations resist attacks from extraterrestrial celestial demons. During the entire tribulation process, one only needed to deal with the powers of heaven and earth. However, this pill was also rare, and the materials required for its refinement were extremely difficult to obtain, with each refinement taking tens of thousands of years.

Upon reaching this point, Jade Slip Xiao Hua felt a sense of doubt. The seventh-grade Dust-Clearing Pill was recorded in detail, while the sixth-grade pills were already vague. By the fifth-grade immortal pills, it directly mentioned Golden Immortals consuming them, without specifying which pills intermediate-level immortals should take. Moreover, the higher the grade of the immortal pill, the more mystical its effects became. However, Xiao Hua had no time to ponder further. He frowned, his consciousness withdrew from the spatial dimension, and he activated the Mi Tian Ring almost without hesitation. A faint clear light poured out like flowing water, and Xiao Hua's seated figure rapidly disappeared. A few breaths later, on a distant stone wall, a tiny speck of clear light appeared, flew into the lair of the Toad-faced Toad, and transformed into a faint wood spirit phantom in the wind. The phantom looked around, identified the direction, and then turned into light, flying throughout the entire lair. Finally, the wood spirit landed at the spot where Yuanzi had previously taken the beast egg. A seemingly weak but intricate web-like divine sense swept over again, and Yuanzi's somewhat angry voice resounded sharply from the wood spirit's mouth: "This little nascent soul really took the remains of the Exploding Beast and the Toad-faced Toad's egg! And that mutated dead egg, if one were to mix the Flowing Waterfall Wood Thunder with the Exploding Beast's flesh and blood and refine it slightly, it could be made into a deadly weapon. I was negligent at the time and didn't notice, actually giving it to the little nascent soul. Now that I think of it, it's a bit late. Damn Shuo Bing, I will remember this grudge..."

After speaking, the wood spirit phantom, carrying a wisp of Yuanzi's primordial spirit, rushed towards the stone wall and disappeared without causing any ripples.

After waiting for a full half-hour, in another location, a faint clear light flashed, and Xiao Hua's figure reappeared. He narrowed his eyes and mused, "Yuanzi is still not giving up his wicked intentions. It seems that dead egg and the Exploding Beast's remains truly tempt him! However, he doesn't dare to return himself, so he used his primordial spirit to control the wood spirit. Heh heh, if my strength were restored, and I crushed this primordial spirit entrusted to the wood spirit with one hand, wouldn't Yuanzi be so angry he'd jump with rage?"

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