Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 337 Initial Communication

Chu Tai walked inside, squatted down beside the jade, and picked up a purple ying fairy. Before this plant became spiritual, it was mostly called dendrobium. It has a slightly cold nature and a sweet taste. It can strengthen yin and benefit essence, replenish internal deficiencies, make people light and prolong their life.

Similar to Polygonatum sibiricum, Dendrobium can generally condense its spirituality after ten years. After that, it can absorb water essence and turn dry soil into fertile soil.

However, unlike Polygonatum, the older the Dendrobium is, the colder its medicinal properties become. When it grows to a thousand years old, most of them need to absorb the energy of Taiyin before they can transform into a very yin elixir. Taking it can make people immortal, and combined with secret techniques, it can also protect the souls of the dead and bring people back to life.

The purple-ying fairy plant in Chu Tai's hand is a type of thousand-year-old Dendrobium.

"It is full of inspiration, but the principles are not complete. It has been forced to mature, and the medicinal properties have begun to dissipate..."

Chu Tai looked at the cultivator in the jade. At the moment, he was in a state of being sealed. His spiritual energy was leaking out every moment, giving birth to the surrounding plants. However, the spiritual energy and vitality of these plants were also shared by the cultivator in the jade and the other twelve cultivators to maintain their vitality.

Chu Tai carefully observed the layout of the entire medicine garden and discovered that the predecessors of Jinhua Sect had kept a trick up their sleeve. They used the natural changes of the growth and withering of plants and trees to help the thirteen Jinhua Sect monks who were trapped there, allowing them to slowly digest the laws and principles of the foreign land.

'Unfortunately, the problem before was that the laws and principles of the entire cave heaven were approaching the Great Heaven of Immortal Manifestation. This kind of small-scale self-adjustment can only simply maintain their rationality, and as time goes by, the effect will become weaker and weaker.'

'Now, the principles of the Dao in the cave have returned to a system closer to the Eastern Heaven of Light, and these natural changes will gradually play their original role and suppress the traces of the foreign land. However, these alienated spiritual medicines will probably gradually return to their original appearance over time...'

Chu Tai looked at many spiritual medicines that had obviously assimilated some exotic auras. Even with just a quick look, he could feel the very unique medicinal properties inside.

He thought about it, and while studying the other arrangements in the medicine garden, he planned to open up a new medicine garden specifically to store some new spiritual medicines produced in this medicine garden, in order to try to refine new spiritual medicines.

Moreover, while Chu Tai was doing these things, he was also observing the other thirteen people.

As the elites of Jinhua Sect who have survived to this day, these thirteen cultivators each have their own abilities and can respond to changes in the external world at the first opportunity.

After Chu Tai entered the medicine garden, he regained some of his spiritual awareness.

A female cultivator sitting in the lotus pond slowly opened her eyes. The jade fire ring above her head was spinning, rays of heavenly fire were dancing, and a hot breath was rising. The changes caused the exotic aura in her body to continuously leak out.

At the same time, a ray of golden light emerged between the female cultivator's eyebrows, guiding the vital energy in the cave that was tending to normal, helping her to suppress the fragments of the Taoist fruit that had formed in her body.

A young man leaning against a fire jujube tree opened his eyes second. The fire jujube tree next to him was a spiritual root, born from the mixture of Bing and Ding fire energy and the inspiration of the earth veins, containing the dual attributes of fire and earth.

The meaning of the law concluded within the fire date tree is also very unique, a concept similar to purification by burning.

Therefore, this fire jujube tree will bloom forty-nine flowers every ten years. Taking them can regulate qi and blood and nourish essence. After another twenty years, twenty-one jujube flowers will wither and twenty-one fruits will be produced. Taking them can enhance essence and nourish vitality. After another thirty years, seven fire jujubes will mature. Taking them can burn impurities in the body and strengthen the foundation.

Now, feeling the changes in the external vitality, the more than thirty red jade-like fire dates hanging on it turned into powder one by one, and strands of fire flowed out from the boy's acupoints, taking away a lot of exotic breath.

After he opened his eyes, he looked at Chu Tai with some doubts, and then his memory gradually came back, and he whispered: "Who are you?"

Chu Tai turned around and replied, "I am Tai Qing, the current head of the Taiyi Jinhua Sect."

"The current leader?" The female cultivator who woke up first frowned slightly. She had actually noticed something different about Chu Tai. She could feel the connection between the true Qi in his body and the cave heaven, but she couldn't be sure before.

At this moment, Chu Tai replied, sighed, and asked again: "How long has it been since the collision two days ago?"

"A hundred years have passed?"

"Only a hundred years? That's not right. According to the master's calculations, it would take at least a thousand years to refine the traitor Jinwu. How come the aura of the cave changed after only a hundred years? Is Jinwu dead?"

A middle-aged man next to the female cultivator slowly opened his eyes, flames dancing in his eyes, staring at Chu Tai.

"Golden Crow Square Cauldron? Here..."

Chu Tai raised the nine-section staff in his hand, on which hung a small square tripod, which made a dull sound.

"Hahahaha... Great, great... I never thought I'd have the chance to see this evildoer's retribution. Boy, quickly untie our bonds. I want to personally deal with this traitor!"

The man laughed heartily, and the fire cloud ring on his head spun wildly. Wisps of fire emerged from his forehead, and it seemed as if a cloud of light was about to form.

But the surrounding vitality shook, and the last young man in the lotus pond also opened his eyes, spit out a mouthful of blood, looked at the man, and scolded: "What are you doing! Don't you know that our Qi is connected now, and the true Qi is exchanged with each other, which is balanced but also restrained. You are circulating the true Qi so violently, do you think I'm not injured enough?"

The middle-aged man smiled sheepishly upon hearing this, and whispered, "Didn't you realize that the calamity has passed, so you want to get out quickly and give that traitor a good beating?"

As he spoke, the man looked at Chu Tai strangely and asked, "Why don't you do it?"

"According to Elder Danhua Yuque, although you are not seriously affected by the laws and principles of the foreign land, you still need to be checked."

Chu Tai's answer surprised the middle-aged man. He murmured in a low voice: "Who is Elder Danhua Yuque? Is there such a saying among us?"

"This Taoist friend Tai Qing should be talking about...wait...why didn't I think of inviting him?"

The young man with blood on his mouth was stunned in the middle of his speech. The female cultivator was the first to react: "It should be that several teachers concealed or erased their names, so that they can overlap with the cave world to resist the influence of foreign forces. And, didn't you find that we can't remember our names?"

At the end, the female cultivator's voice was a little low, probably guessing the fate of the teachers, but she still didn't give up, looked at Chu Tai, and asked: "Excuse me, fellow Daoist Tai Qing, where are the teachers now?"

"In order to help the two teachers suppress the alienation, the previous headmaster himself was corroded, so that the Golden Crow Square Cauldron seized the opportunity and polluted the foundation. In the end, he became immortal and severely damaged the Golden Crow Square Cauldron. As for the two teachers whose alienation was suppressed, I have not seen them, and there is no trace of them in the cave now. They must have ascended to heaven or transformed."

After hearing Chu Tai's answer, the thirteen people who woke up all looked unhappy. The middle-aged man couldn't help but ask, "You said earlier that Elder Danhua Yuque told you to check on us. Where is Elder Danhua Yuque now?"

"The last elder Danhua Yuque has ascended to Daluo Heaven. It was by taking advantage of the elder's ascension that we were able to draw on the magical powers of the ancestors of Daluo Heaven to cleanse the cave to its current state."

"So, you didn't actually play any role in this operation?"

(End of this chapter)