Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 915: The Second Treasure
Above the thirty-three heavens is the Tushita Palace in the Heaven of Lihen.

This place is the residence of Taishang Laojun, but its style does not have the slightest trace of the pure and peaceful atmosphere of an immortal, but rather it is magnificent and golden.

Under the plaque with the three characters of Tushita Palace carved on it, clouds and mist locked the jade door, and white cranes circled the red steps. The jade buildings and treasure pavilions were filled with auspicious air; the tiles were made of glazed tiles, and the seven treasures were shining...

When Chu Tai, who had received the three-fold honorific titles of Taiyi Riyue Emperor, Taiyi Qingtong Zhenjun, and Supreme Saint for Saving Suffering and Delivering from Disasters, walked to the door, a boy with a pair of drooping hair buns and wearing a gold and silver Taoist robe came out, saluted Chu Tai, and asked, "How come you are here, Taoist?"

"I am here to see the Lord."

Chu Tai said so, and the gold and silver boys hurriedly welcomed him in, and along the way they kept carefully observing the emperor behind them.

The seemingly obscure action was very clear in Chu Tai's eyes.

But it’s not that the gold and silver boys are stupid. They were created by Laojun using the gold and silver energies when he was refining the elixir. They usually burn fire and refine elixirs in the Tushita Palace and seldom communicate with outsiders.

The few who can enter the Tushita Palace are either in high positions and powerful and are too lazy to argue with the gold and silver boys, or they have something to ask of Laojun and are naturally quite polite to the gold and silver boys.

Under such circumstances, although the Golden and Silver Boys were enlightened for quite some time, they did not grow much mentally, otherwise they would not have been teased by Sun Wukong at will in the future.

Of course, in Chu Tai's eyes, this golden and silver boy is also a major product of Laojun's exploration of spirituality.

If a large amount of emotional communication can accelerate the development of spirituality, then can pure, ancient spiritual precipitation give birth to a purer innate spiritual light?

This kind of exploration, which was taught to Chu Tai by the Immortal Emperor of Heaven and Earth, using the memories and emotions of countless living beings to stimulate the spiritual gestation and then attract the spiritual light of the ancestor of the Supreme Dao, can be said to have taken two completely different directions.

Judging from the performance of the gold and silver boys, Laojun's exploration was probably a failure, or the time was too short and there was not much effect.

Thinking of this, Chu Tai followed the two boys inside.

After passing through the portal, as Chu Tai expected, he entered another world.

This world is the embodiment of the power of Taiqing Heaven, but outsiders who enter it can only see jade towers, golden palaces, and elixir pavilions, with exotic flowers and plants growing freely, rare and precious animals running around, and the fragrance of elixirs and medicines making people intoxicated.

But in the eyes of Chu Tai, who had already understood the essence of the Three Pure Ones, the interior of the Tushita Palace overlapped with the Bajing Palace and Tushita Palace he had seen before. In the middle of the layers of palaces was a huge cauldron.

An old Taoist priest, with moral articles flowing in his mind, sat on top of the wind and fire. He held a palm-leaf fan in one hand and made hand seals and gestures with the other, constantly adjusting the fire.

"The Emperor's presence has brought glory to my humble alchemy room. However, the time for this furnace of elixir has come. Please wait for a moment, dear guest!"

Hearing this, Chu Tai didn't say much. He found a place to sit down and watched Laojun make the elixir.

He knew very well that the other party must be aware of his arrival, so he specially asked the gold and silver boys to go out to lead the way, and also to refine and collect the elixirs at this time, which must have some hidden meaning.

Even if all of the above was Chu Tai's overthinking, being able to watch Laojun making the elixir with his own eyes was a huge gain.

He looked around carefully. Although Laojun called this place the Danfang, it was actually a palace, full of luxury and nobility. Even the containers used to store elixirs, hold clean water, and preserve cinnabar were extraordinary. They were all top-grade magic weapons that condensed the embryonic form of Tao fruit.

The most precious of them are the purple gold and red gourd and the mutton-fat jade bottle held by the gold and silver boys. Both of them have Taoist fruits condensed in them. When placed in the Dongji Chenguang Heaven, they are definitely second-grade treasures, only slightly inferior to the cloud chariot given by True Lord Shiqing.

Of course, those two things are far inferior to the banana fan in Laojun's hand and the Bagua furnace in front of him.

The palm-leaf fan is the embodiment of the yin and yang energies, and has the power to sort out the universe, change the two energies, and even create the heaven and earth. The Bagua furnace is even more powerful.

It is made of purple gold all over, with three legs and four ears. The lid of the furnace is like a pagoda, and all nine floors are surrounded by a mysterious yellow aura. The outside is decorated with the Eight Trigrams, representing the eight major images of heaven, earth, wind, thunder, water, fire, mountain, and marsh. It looks like a cauldron, but in fact it is a piece of heaven and earth, containing a nearly complete set of Qiankun Eight Trigrams Taoist fruits. Combined with the banana fan, it is a first-class treasure, comparable to the Tianren Ding that Chu Tai left in the Dongji Chenguang Heaven.

At this moment, there seems to be a faint red light and rising flames in the furnace, but in fact it is the circulation of vital energy, the changes of yin and yang, and the manifestation of nature.

Those who are really capable of observing the changes in the furnace can see that the world is moving the vital energy as Laojun moves it, sorting out the changes of yin and yang, gradually precipitating various changes, and sublimating into golden elixirs.

The process of the formation of those golden elixirs is also a series of celestial immortal methods. The speed of the fire is just like the movement of the alchemy practitioners around the body, collecting the essence of the sun and the moon in the heaven and earth to achieve their own supreme Taoist fruit.

It seems like he is refining the golden elixir, but in fact he is cultivating the prototype of the Tao fruit.

Therefore, the golden elixirs in the cauldron were constantly beating, absorbing and exhaling the vital energy in the furnace. They evolved individually with the changes of yin and yang, but they also resonated with each other and tended towards unity.

"Old Master has a good method."

Chu Tai began to praise him, and the old man laughed and said, "They are just some tricks to manipulate the vital energy, which cannot compare to the mercy of the emperor. Now that the elixir is ready, would you like to taste it?"

As he spoke, he waved the palm-leaf fan in his hand, and the yin and yang energies rose and fell. The energy in the elixir rolled, and wisps of elixir energy turned into clouds and evaporated, stirring up the mysterious yellow energy surrounding the cover of the Bagua furnace.

The next moment, the sound of Tao echoed all around, and golden light burst out.

The gold and silver boys beside them were well prepared. One of them tilted the mutton-fat jade bottle with the mouth of the bottle pointing to the void, and the other opened the purple-gold-red gourd and aimed it at the Bagua furnace. Suddenly, countless vital energies surged and split into two streams like rivers flowing into the sea. The golden elixir automatically fell into the gourd, and many elixir and miscellaneous gases gathered into the bottle.

Laojun stretched out his hand, took the gourd, poured out a golden elixir, swallowed it, and nodded with satisfaction: "The fire is just right."

As he spoke, he poured out another one, put it on a jade plate, and asked the boy to bring it to Chu Tai, saying, "Your Majesty, would you like to try it?"

Chu Tai was not polite and picked up the golden elixir to examine it carefully.

Just as he had seen before, this Nine Revolutions Golden Pill was called an elixir, but in fact it was also a small Taoist fruit.

Among them, Yin and Yang are the center, and the Tao of Taiqing is the foundation, deducing the mysteries of Hunyuan, Liangyi, Sancai, Sixiang, Wuxing, Liuhe, Qixing, Bagua, Jiugong, etc.

Each and every golden elixir contains a foundation of all of the above principles. Anyone who takes it can comprehend the mystery from it, condense the embryonic form of the Tao fruit, and then shed their mortal bodies, achieve an immortal body, and enjoy eternal life.

To put it bluntly, if a mortal swallows the golden elixir, he can be transformed into a celestial being without any side effects. It is extremely mysterious.

Of course, the mortals who are promoted in this way have the same problem as those born celestial beings. They only know their own abilities but not why they are so, and it is even more difficult for them to make breakthroughs in subsequent practice.

But this is a problem of being promoted too quickly, or being born with certain abilities that make it difficult for an individual to calm down and study.

It was a personal problem, not a problem with the elixir. And this was just a golden elixir, which had not undergone the Nine Transformations. If it really had, I'm afraid one pill would be enough to achieve the second-grade or even first-grade Dao fruit.

If it was the Nine-Revolution Golden Pill that was personally refined by the legendary Supreme Taoist Ancestor, it would probably be a golden pill that belonged to one Taoist master.

After understanding this, Chu Tai swallowed the golden elixir, and the strands of vital energy replenished his incarnation and strengthened his foundation.

"As expected of you, Laojun, this elixir is amazing."

Faced with Chu Tai's admiration, Laojun was obviously in a good mood and started chatting with him.

"Emperor, you came back this time, why didn't you go back to Qingxuan Mansion of Dongji Miaoyan Palace first? Why did you come to my place?"

"Of course I came here to seek treasure!"

Chu Tai chuckled, spread his hands, shook his sleeves, and said, "You know my origins, Laojun. At the moment, I am penniless. Not to mention magic weapons, I don't even have a weapon to protect myself. I came here to bother you and ask for a few treasures that are handy to you?"

"How many? They're handy!"

Laojun almost jumped up, pointed at Chu Tai and said, "If it were an outsider, it would be fine, but with your cultivation level, if you want to be able to use it, apart from the fan in my hand and the stove in front of you, which one can you dare to use? No, no!"

Looking at Laojun's sullen face and waving his hands in disgust, Chu Tai still greeted him with a smile.

"Don't be stingy, Laojun! In this world, among all living beings in the three realms, who doesn't know that you, Laojun, are the ancestor of alchemy and ironmaking? If you don't have any treasures, others will have none even less. Laojun, Laojun, don't refuse! Just pick up a few useful ones and give them to me."

As he spoke, Chu Tai deliberately changed his body shape, transforming into the appearance of a young boy. He took a step forward and pretended to pull Laojun's sleeve.

At first, Laojun was so angry that his beard was about to stand up, but Chu Tai's shameless change of expression made the golden and silver boys beside him stunned. Laojun was also a little helpless and sighed.

"The treasures I have here are either in accordance with the destiny of heaven, or the Emperor of Heaven ordered to mobilize the destiny, or someone used the destiny of the four directions and the treasures of heaven and earth to customize and refine them. They are all in a certain number."

As he spoke, he touched Chu Tai's head and said lovingly: "But you are right. Apart from here, you can't find many handy things anywhere else. Well, well..."

The Lord stretched out his hand and summoned the sheep-fat jade bottle from the silver boy's hand, handed it to Chu Tai and said, "I can give you this treasure, but you have to promise me one thing."

Chu Tai glanced at the tearful Silver Boy, pretending not to notice, and stared at Laojun and asked, "What's the matter?"

"This is what I use to hold clean water. It will also be used by my disciples and grandchildren to make a living. I give this to you. When my disciples hold ceremonies to save the dead, you need to help them."

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai immediately understood what Laojun meant. This was not just a gift of a treasure. It was clearly a portion of the immortal energy in the many worlds of the Taiqing world being allocated to him to help him consolidate his position.

Chu Tai would naturally not miss such a benefit, and bowed as a disciple, saying: "When I first entered Taoism, it was you, Laojun, who introduced me to the immortal sect, so I can be considered your disciple. Your disciples and grandchildren are also my juniors. They want to lend me strength, so how can I, as an elder, refuse?"

As he spoke, he took the bottle in his hand, turned his wrist, and transformed it into a glass treasure bottle.

When the Silver Boy saw this scene, he couldn't help sobbing softly.

The golden boy next to him panicked when he saw this and wanted to speak to comfort her, but he didn't know how to start.

Especially at this moment, the purple gold and red gourd is still in Laojun's hand and may be given away. Thinking of this, Jin Tongzi's eyes were filled with tears.

Seeing this, Laojun smiled at Chu Tai and said, "You took someone's treasure, now you have to comfort him."

"You, old man, are really calculating. You want me to help your disciples and grandchildren, and you also want me to comfort your boy. If I remember correctly, your purple gold and red gourd is produced by the fairy vine under Kunlun Mountain. Why don't you give me the vine as well so that I can have something to sprinkle water on? Otherwise, I won't be able to comfort your boy."

"Before you get the things, you call me Laojun, Laojun. After you get the things, you are Laogong? Well, if you want the vine, I will give it to you and let you see what you can do."

As he spoke, a green vine flew out from Laojun's sleeve and fell into Chu Tai's hand, turning into an empty green feather branch, which was inserted into the glazed treasure bottle and turned into a treasure.

Looking at this thing, Chu Tai felt satisfied. He stretched out his hand and lightly tapped the void. Strands of vital energy fell down, and an illusory shadow emerged from the glazed treasure bottle.

After the treasure appeared for a moment, an illusory Taoist fruit emerged from the treasure bottle. When combined with the illusory shadow, it turned into a new mutton-fat jade bottle.

Chu Tai weighed it twice, handed it to the silver boy and said: "Look, your treasure is back."

The silver boy looked at the glass vase with the empty green feather branch in Chu Tai's hand, and then looked at the mutton-fat jade bottle stuffed in his palm. He was stunned for a moment, looked at them carefully for a long time, and whispered: "Although it seems to have lost some of its mystery, how come both of them look real?"

"Of course it's all true."

Laojun looked at the treasure in Chu Tai's hand and said with emotion: "You little rascal, you asked me for help, but your skill of turning the virtual into the real is no worse than my skill of refining pills and forging iron."

"This is not because you taught me well. If I hadn't seen your method of refining the elixir and tasted the mystery of the golden elixir, I wouldn't have thought of such a method after seeing these two boys."

Hearing this, Laojun pointed at Chu Tai with a palm leaf fan and said with a smile: "You, you learn really fast. You have learned all my tricks."

Chu Tai smiled without saying anything, but he was quite respectful to Laojun. This man really passed on some of his hidden knowledge to Chu Tai.

The method he used to separate the mutton-fat jade bottle was to imitate Laojun's previous method of refining the elixir.

Directly cultivate a new, tiny prototype of the Tao fruit in the glazed treasure bottle, and then use the Kunlun Immortal Vine as the foundation to obtain some of the power of Shao Siming from the original body and the Donghuang Bell.

Then, using the embryonic form of the Tao fruit as the foundation, he absorbed part of the essence of the mutton-fat jade bottle and the many immortal fortunes transferred from Laojun. He then used Shao Siming's ability to [revive] the Tao fruit and borrowed the power of the Kunlun Immortal Vine to repair an incomplete Tao fruit, which he used as the foundation of the glazed treasure bottle in his hand.

The relatively complete mutton-fat jade bottle Taoist fruit was separated again, combined with some of the mutton-fat jade bottle's essence, and transformed into a new carrier to carry the corresponding Taoist fruit.

To put it simply, the mutton-fat jade bottle in the hand of the silver boy is the original treasure bottle, which has about 70% of the original essence, but after being repaired by the [Resurrection] Tao Fruit, it has 90% of the original mystery.

In Chu Tai's hand is a combination of 30% of the origin and Dao fruit of the treasure bottle, the newly refined treasures of the Kunlun Immortal Vine, the immortal destiny, and the repaired Dao fruit of the [Resurrection] Dao fruit. It has about 80% of the mystery of the original mutton-fat jade bottle, and it is not suitable to leave Chu Tai's hands in a short period of time. The advantage is that it can be cultivated and improved normally in the future, and gradually refined from the virtual to the real.

(End of this chapter)