Wet viviparity

Chapter 350 Stone Brain, Iron Remains
On a winding mountain road, carts covered with coarse cloth were pulled to a hidden village in the mountains.

The village was utterly silent, without a sound even in broad daylight. Only when the cart-carrying convoys arrived would seven or eight Taoists emerge from the gate and work together to untie the ropes on the carts.

"Brothers, another group has arrived."

Those who were escorting the cart came forward and bowed.

The Taoists in the village pulled the cloth apart, and saw that the cart was full of stones, which were bluish-white in color and as smooth as cream.

Among the Taoists, there was an older one who wore an iron crown and carried a magical crane. He stretched out his hand and rubbed the stone, and the hard stone skin was rubbed off into fine powder.

"Talc from Qiyang City!"

The Taoist priest Tieguan was surprised for a moment and said.

"Brother, you have a good eye. It is the talc from Qi Yang City. It is not easy to transport it here." The people next to the convoy complained.

Taoist Tieguan ignored the complaints of these people and counted the talc one by one. The people around him complimented him, "Brother, you are indeed the one that Master trusts the most. Your rigor alone is beyond the reach of us."

"Go wash up first."

Taoist Tieguan said something to the people in the caravan, and then delivered the stone to the village.

In this farm, there is a large open-air venue, which is about 20 to 30 acres in size. The sound of clanging and hammering can be heard frequently here, and there is a lot of dust in the air.

Inside, there are many high platforms with a radius of ten feet. On each platform, there are people holding chisels, awls and other tools, carefully knocking on the stone, or more precisely, the talc.

There are iron cranes standing around each platform.

The claws and beaks of this kind of cranes are the color of cast iron. Breaking rocks is a piece of cake for them, but now they are staring at the work of the people on the stage.

It is obvious that the people on the stage are not monks, nor are they independent people. They are just ordinary people who have been recruited here to perform high-intensity labor, and their mental state is already quite bad.

As new talc was brought in, the stones were quickly moved to the platforms.

The Taoist priests put on their veils to block the dust from their mouths and noses, and said in a nasty voice: "Put down those inferior spotted talcs and deal with this batch of Qiyang talc first."

The Taoist priest with the iron crown held the whisk in his arms and walked between the platforms.

Seeing the dust growing thicker in the venue, he flicked the whisk in his hand gently. Immediately a gust of wind swept past, sweeping away the dust, and his vision around him suddenly became clear.

"Brother, your righteousness free-hand technique has become more and more exquisite."

"I'm afraid that the tiger eye who practices this technique on the mountain may not be more powerful than you."

"Yes, yes, Senior Brother is a man of great talent. It's really a waste of your talent to stay in this place all day."

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Hearing these compliments, although Taoist Tieguan was secretly happy, he still said in a serious tone: "The talc workshop in this village is related to Master's success in making pills. I was sent here because Master trusts and loves me."

As soon as he finished his humble words, he couldn’t help but say, “But my righteous free-hand fighting is not as wonderful as Tiger Eye. After all, he is a beast who has cultivated into a human being, and he is naturally good at wind.

If I have to compete, I should compete with that golden boy."

The Taoists looked at each other, not daring to talk about that person casually.

Tiger Eye is a monster that has transformed itself into a human being, and is naturally on the contempt chain.

But that Jin Tong was a genuine Dragon and Tiger master, with Heguan and the Jindan Zhenren of Huoxu Cave behind him. In terms of seniority, he was at the same level as their master, the master of Huotie Temple.

"It's open, it's open."

Suddenly, a thin man on a high platform, holding up half a piece of talc, shouted ecstatically.

"Bring it here."

The eyes of the Taoist priest Tieguan shone with brilliance, and the Iron Crane below the stage spread its wings and leaped, its long legs like cast iron, stretched out in the air above the stage, grabbed the half piece of talc, and handed it to the Taoist priest Tieguan. In the chiseled talc, there was a yellow stone shaped like a goose or duck egg, with overlapping shells outside. The yellow shell was covered with cloud patterns, which was a sign of good fortune. This was the Stone Brain Ganoderma, often called Stone Brain.

Before the development of alchemy, there were records of people taking stone brains and achieving the state of corpse transformation.

Since ancient times, only when the body and soul are united can one transcend and become a celestial immortal. Those who are separated from their body and soul, and whose corpses are transformed into matter, are not true immortals. They can only be compared to the real people of today, that is, those who have achieved the status of Yin gods.

Nowadays, the art of alchemy has been innovated, so this thing is no longer needed to make the elixir.

However, if one wants to create the top-grade Cang Jindan in the Cang Tian Dao Mai, one needs this stone brain as the main ingredient to refine it into a precious elixir in order to purify the Yin quality.

Taoists gathered around the venue and said, "Looking at the color of the auspicious cloud shell, I'm afraid there isn't much stone brain in it."

Taoist Tieguan sighed, "The shell of the stone brain is like porcelain, with irregular shapes and round shapes. When it is in the shell and has not yet solidified, it is still turbid water. After a long time of solidification, it has several colors, such as blue, white, or yellow. After many years, it turns red, and then gradually turns purple.

The auspicious clouds on the yellow shell of this stone brain are faintly red, which is not bad. "

As he said this, he put away the stone brain and said, "I will give it to the master. With this stone brain, we can finally complete our mission this year."

"I want to become your disciple. I want to become your disciple."

The man on the stage who opened the stone brain, with a mouthful of yellow teeth and a white upper body covered in sweat, said in a supplicant manner: "The immortal master once said that the one who opened the stone brain can make a wish."

"Don't worry." Taoist Tieguan knocked the stone brain in his hand and said with a smile: "With such a great achievement, the master will definitely fulfill your wish."

After saying this, Taoist Tieguan gave a look to the Taoists around him. The Taoists on the left and right understood what he meant and invited the man on the stage to a side courtyard and killed him on the spot.

In the mountains, the Taoist priest Tieguan was holding a stone brain and riding an iron crane to the sky, heading towards the cave where his master was in seclusion.

When he was halfway through the flight, he saw a fishy wind blowing from outside the mountain, making a strange buzzing sound. In the blink of an eye, it had already hit him. He shouted bravely, "What a monster! How dare you invade Taiping Lingshan!"

Just as he finished speaking, he heard poisonous breath coming from the wind, and a sour smell hit his nose. Just as he was about to hold his breath, his body became stiff due to the poison and fell down along with his iron crane.

In the fishy wind, there was a constant cackling sound. Seeing that the Taoist's iron crane was about to be smashed into a pulp, he took the mist outside his body and scattered it down, then scooped up the man and the crane like casting a net to catch fish.

"Would you like to have a snack?"

Seeing the people and cranes covered in the fog net, their eyes shone brightly in the fishy wind, like a pair of lanterns, and their mouthparts under their poisonous claws were drooling.

"Forget it, Grandpa doesn't like me eating people."

There is a temple in the mountain, and there is a cave in the temple.

This cave is called "Xieyun Cave" and is the place where the temple owner "Tie Yuzi" practiced seclusion and cultivation.

One day, the Taoist saw that the disciples in the village had not come to see him for a long time, and he became confused and suspected that something had happened in the village, so he broke through the gate and summoned the old iron crane demon in the temple.

"Lao He, go check the manor for me."

"Don't look at it."

The old crane pointed in the direction of the manor in the temple and said, "I have already gone to see it. I don't know where a monster came from. It has occupied your manor and taken all my descendants."

"Then why don't you tell me?"

"That monster has some background. More importantly, he seems to have a magic weapon in his hand. He captures anyone and any monster he sees in this mountain. Even if I tell you, it will be useless."

"magic weapon?"

Tie Yuzi's eyelids jumped, and he asked without thinking, "Is it the demon from Yunyu Temple, or from the five demon camps under Nanlao Mountain?"

"neither."

Lao He's voice was solemn, and he said with certainty: "He was from the mountain, from a master on Taiping Mountain. He came from the southeast, and many monks suffered along the way."

(End of this chapter)