Immortality begins with becoming a master weapon refiner

Flames and light rose from Gu Qing's hand, spinning rapidly, like a drill continuously drilling deeper into the ground.

He hadn't taken the troubles with the Gao family's team to heart, and now that they were dealt with, he could finally focus on treasure hunting with peace of mind, feeling much better.

As he went deeper, the closer he got, the clearer his spiritual senses became.

"A treasure of the fifth grade."

Several days later, upon personally arriving before this treasure, even though there was still a barrier separating them, they could not contain their joy at the bountiful harvest.

This fifth-grade gourd vine is definitely the most treasured possession of the Mountain Moving Sect.

There were a total of seven gourds of different colors.

Although it is not yet mature, it is not far off, and it is expected to be fully mature in one or two hundred years.

Despite sensing the restriction with his divine sense, Gu Qing unexpectedly gleaned a great deal of information from it, perhaps even information prepared for the Mountain-Moving Ape.

It not only describes the detailed effects of this treasure, but also how to care for it.

"Indeed, each one is a potential top-tier magical treasure."

The first one, a purplish-gold color, is called the "Gourd of Nourishing Elixir." It has naturally formed Daoist elixir patterns and has the effect of nourishing elixirs to enhance their advancement. It is somewhat similar to the Golden Stone Treasure Bottle, but its foundation is clearly better.

The second one is purplish-red and is called the "Blood Soul Gourd". It can absorb the blood of all living beings and refine it into Blood Soul Poison Sand of different qualities. Using it to polish the body can quickly improve blood essence and vital energy, provided that one can withstand this poison sand that can turn a person into blood.

The third one is purplish-white and is called the "Dao-Slaying Gourd". It can activate its innate Dao patterns, cut through the shackles formed by laws and principles, and even cut off the cultivation of others, which is very domineering.

The fourth one is purplish-blue and is called the "Wind-Stabilizing Gourd". As the name suggests, it can suppress all evil winds and evil spirits in the world, making them stop and ineffective.

The fifth one is purplish-yellow and is called the "Longevity Gourd". It can nurture the Dragon and Tiger Divine Essence Liquid, strengthen the foundation and cultivate the source, replenish lifespan and prolong life, and can also greatly enhance the life essence of cultivators and increase the potential of the physical body.

The sixth one, purple-green, is called the [Netherworld Gourd]. It contains a space that can absorb all the evil spirits and ghosts in the world and refine them into a Yin Yuan Pearl. Ghost immortals can greatly increase their cultivation by consuming it.

The seventh one, purplish-black, is called the "Chaos Gourd." It can absorb the power of yin and yang and refine it into chaotic energy, making it exceptionally effective.

The seven treasure gourds are roughly equivalent to the embryos of seven magical treasures.

Among them, the [Slaying Path Gourd] and the [Chaos Gourd] are the two treasure gourds that Gu Qing believes have the greatest potential.

In terms of quality, a gourd vine of grade five should also produce a gourd of grade five, belonging to the level of spiritual treasures that reach the heavens.

However, it produced far too many offspring.

This caused the Daoist essence to be spread out, resulting in slower formation and a significantly reduced effect. From the perspective of a weapon refiner, although these seven gourds were fifth-grade low-level treasures, they were far inferior to a spiritual medicine like the Myriad Poison Fruit.

Ultimately, it can be summed up in just four words.

"Inherent deficiencies!"

If only they were used to refine treasures, they could only produce top-grade magic treasures at most. Gu Qing was not satisfied with that. Judging from the age, they were probably planted during the Mountain Moving Sect period and have not yet matured.

A real dragon lives its entire life from birth to death, but this thing hasn't even grown up yet; it's truly outrageous.

But the effects of the seven magic gourds were extremely appealing to Gu Qing.

He planned to first transplant it to the Jinyun Secret Realm and nourish it with a large amount of spiritual liquid. In the future, if he found other fifth-grade treasures, as long as they were compatible with the treasure gourd, he could refine a true heaven-reaching spiritual treasure.

"Seven potential stocks".

Breaking the restrictions and carefully transplanting the plant took Gu Qing a month to barely complete.

Planting gourd vines in the center of three giant Enlightenment Tea Trees, allowing the vines to twine around the tea trees, might allow them to absorb their Daoist essence and make up for their innate deficiencies.

It was quite a hassle, but by employing the Jinyun Ancestral Artifact Method, seven innate artifact seals were inlaid to allow the gourd vines to absorb the natural creations and principles of this place, thus artificially deepening their essence.

That would be barely acceptable.

Doing so would damage the essence of the Jinyun Secret Realm, and in the long run, it would even risk its collapse. However, compared to the potential of the seven treasure gourds, it is insignificant.

Furthermore, the void array set up by the Jinyun clan can transform the power in the void, which can balance the consumption of the treasure gourd.

At most, it will no longer increase the spatial breadth and spiritual energy concentration of this place, which is still acceptable.

"Perfect." After returning to the outside world, Gu Qing continued to search for treasures. When he encountered Mountain-Moving Apes, he would carefully select them and send many pairs of Mountain-Moving Apes into the secret realm.

This unique spirit beast is beneficial to the secret realm.

If the earth's veins are properly regulated, the growth rate of the spiritual veins will also accelerate.

as time flows.

A large number of spiritual herbs and treasures were discovered by the Yun clan team. Gu Qing transplanted the sixth-grade treasures that he liked into the Jinyun Secret Realm, and gave the ones he didn't like to Xiaobai and Guhuoniao.

He was single-mindedly searching for the "Heart of the Earth's Veins".

Gao's team was captured by him with a score of zero, and victory seemed certain no matter how you looked at it, so he pocketed an extra lot of stuff.

Until one day a year later.

At the western end of the deserted island, following the ley lines all the way to their source, we finally discovered the base camp of the Mountain Moving Apes, which is also the central area where the ley line nodes converge.

"A sixth-rank ape king?"

From afar, this Monkey Mountain stands out majestically, its internal pulsations resembling a heartbeat—the very pulse of the earth's veins. In addition, there are numerous other top-grade earth-element treasures, such as mountain veins.

Gu Qing was extremely envious.

Taking away the heart of the earth's veins will weaken the veins of this place for a period of time, and even with the help of the Mountain Moving Apes, it will take more than a hundred years to recover.

Therefore, to obtain the treasure, one must fight the ape king.

Gu Qing couldn't resist the urge to touch her hands.

It flew straight up.

"I've heard that the Mountain-Moving Ape clan possesses the power to move mountains when they reach adulthood. Would you be willing to test your physical prowess against me?"

"Human race?"

Although the Mountain Moving Sect disappeared tens of thousands of years ago, and these monkeys and their descendants have multiplied for countless generations, their lineage has never been broken.

This race has been domesticated for a long time, unlike ordinary demonic beasts that are bloodthirsty and murderous. They can even be described as polite. They know what their responsibilities are and continue to uphold them.

The ape king, whose normal height reaches ten meters, walked over.

Looking curiously at the tiny Gu Qing, he said...

"Could it be an immortal from the Mountain Moving Sect?"

"No."

"You must have met human cultivators in the last fifty years, right? Yet you haven't had a face-to-face conversation with any of them?"

As a sixth-grade spirit beast king, the Yun and Gao clans couldn't just kill it without saying a word. The Mountain-Moving Ape's abilities were also very suitable for maintaining the secret realm's environment.

We should choose cooperation.

“We talked about it. They said the Mountain Moving Sect has been destroyed, but you seem to have a similar aura.”

Gu Qing suddenly realized, it was because of the magic gourd...

There is a good chance.

"Let's have a contest of physical strength. If I win, hand over the Heart of the Earth Vein to me."

To everyone's surprise, the Ape King shook his head.

"No, the Heart of the Earth Vein is a rare treasure nurtured by our clan through generations of hard work. It cannot be used as a gamble."

You, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, actually didn't fall for it.

Gu Qing picked at her nails, feeling somewhat embarrassed. (End of Chapter)