From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 302 Two Phoenixes Return to Their Nest
The Grand Alchemist's residence and the practice room.

Yu Shuyang's mind returned to his body, and it took him a long time to wake up from the influence of Xuanwu Avenue.

The calamity of tiny dusts creates water, and as the water is refined into finer details, the spiritual and dharma charms mixed in the mysterious water are peeled off layer by layer, and finally a glimpse of the Xuanwu Avenue can be seen in the mysterious gate of the kidneys.

As Yu Shuyang recalled bit by bit, he thought about what he saw before he lost consciousness and was influenced by Xuanwu Avenue - Zhenlong.

It has dark brocade scales and is in the shape of a dragon banner. Although it is called Zhenlong, the dragon banner looks more like a piece of brocade. The dragon banner is either a coiled dragon or a dragon-shaped banner.

Yu Shuyang practiced the Xuanwu Water Method, starting with Kidney Water, avoiding the occupied North Water and the Black Water that was not tolerated by the Heavenly Dao. After breaking through the gate, he saw the Xuanwu Avenue, which proved that this method was feasible.

He looked at the Xuanwu Avenue, and the last person he saw was Zhenlong, which was his future path of cultivation, so he couldn't help but pay attention to it.

As Yu Shuyang pondered over it bit by bit, especially after he had just experienced the subtle water refining and saw the gods of the two kidneys, the white deer of the turbid yang essence, and the black turtle of the clear yin energy, he couldn't help but have more associations.

What could this dragon that looks like a piece of cloth be?

Relying on his intuition, he vaguely felt that it was related to the kidneys. Thinking of this, Yu Shuyang opened the divine pupil between his eyebrows and looked inward at the kidneys in his body.

This time, when he looked inward, he made a surprising discovery: there was a little white light in his left kidney, and the blood vessels connected to the kidney were indeed like deer antlers. There was a little clear air in his right kidney, which he breathed in with his nose.

The so-called essence and qi are the essence of the left kidney and the qi of the right kidney. To refine the essence into qi is to reverse the turbid essence and return it to pure qi. It is the white deer and the black turtle that carry life.

After Yu Shuyang carefully observed and repeatedly looked inside the two kidneys, he finally discovered something similar - the renal membrane.

The dark blue scales are the color of the kidneys, and the shape of the dragon banner is the membrane outside the kidneys. It looks like cloud clothes and can also be regarded as a dragon banner.

After Yu Shuyang figured out that the image of Zhenlong was taken from the kidney membrane, it became much easier for him to comprehend the true form of Zhenlong. Just like when he collected the Nine Yang Divine Water to refine the Nine Yang Mysterious Water Turtle, it also had the inheritance of the Yang Water Fish as its foundation.

Later, he refined the Five Ding Yin Fire Mysterious Snake. He saw the thunder and fire in the heavenly thunder tribulation and deduced the technique. He then refined the thunder and fire to refine the Five Ding Yin Fire Mysterious Snake.

Yu Shuyang stopped looking inwards and explored the mysterious acupoints again, looking at the spiritual rhyme and the dharma rhyme that had been stripped out, as well as the mysterious water that had been grasped by the subtle one.

Inside the mysterious cavity, there was a void and chaos with only three rays of light, namely: the Xuanwu Turtle Book True Shape Talisman, the Taibai Axe True Shape Talisman, and the Heavenly Wind, Rain and Snow Bottle True Shape Talisman.

The three true-form talismans each emitted a ray of light, converging into a virtual image of a Dharma image, which was the Dharma image that Yu Shuyang was refining - the Beitian Xuanwu Jinfeng Dharma Platform.

The altar has been refined by the Mysterious Water Qi and the Mysterious Water Evil, and has begun to transform from virtual to real, with a sense of "texture". It only needs to be filled with the Mysterious Water Qi, and then it can be used like a magic weapon.

Next to the altar, there are three other phantoms: the Nine Yang Mysterious Water Turtle, the Five Ding Yin Fire Mysterious Snake, and the Five-Colored Divine Light Palm. These are the three Dharma images that Yu Shuyang has separately sacrificed and refined.

At this time, the Five-Colored Divine Light Palm had been stripped off and had no connection with the Black Tortoise Book's True Shape Talisman. The shape of the palm also began to dissolve and slowly turned into a peacock feather.

Next to the feathers there are several tiny magic rhymes, namely a golden monkey hair, a black snake scale, a blue-black snake scale, and black and white water droplets.

The monkey hair is transformed from the power of dusk, influenced by Taibai Changgeng's monkey appearance. The black snake scales have a black aura, which must be due to the black water snake.

The dark blue snake scales represent the power of Guixu, presumably influenced by the Winter Wind God Xuanming. The black and white water droplets should be Tianyi True Water and Xuanming True Water.

These spiritual and magical auras were stripped away and returned to their original forms. Yu Shuyang had to drive them all out of the mysterious acupoint.

The best way is to refine it into a magical instrument to carry the magic rhyme.

Like two water droplets, he could just refine them into the Dragon Carp Wanfa Bell, and refine them together with the Dragon Carp, just in time to cooperate with the Dragon Language Spell to pray for rain.

Monkey hair can be refined into the Bailin Zhanyuan Sword. This power of dusk just matches the Chensui Zhanyuan secret method, and it may even add a bit of murderous intent.

As for the remaining five-colored divine light, black, and Guixu, Yu Shuyang couldn't help but think of the last magic weapon of the Black Water Mystic Snake Technique - the Soap Carved Flag.

He had never thought about refining this treasure, and he had never collected the materials for refining it. It was not easy to refine it now.

Speaking of flags, he actually had a ghostly artifact in his hand, which was the soul-guiding flag that controlled the entry and exit of the Xuanming underworld. This object was not a magical weapon, but a ghostly secret treasure.

After thinking it over again and again in his mind, he did not dare to touch this treasure lightly, for fear that if he damaged the key to the mysterious underworld, the loss would outweigh the gain.

The key to refining the soap-carved flag is the flagpole and the flag. The flag is made of cloud silk and can temporarily replace the dark cloud sky gauze.

Refining the evil silk was very simple for Yu Shuyang. Even weaving it into cloth was something he knew about the secret technique of Nüxu - the Tianxing loom, and he could also learn to weave cloth like Li Taiping had woven the Beidou Tiangang carpet.

The only trouble was the flagpole of the soap-carved flag. Yu Shuyang didn't have any good wood, and the only ones he could use were the lightning-struck peach wood and the core of the ghost-faced peach tree.

The former were various kinds of lightning-struck wood that Yang Fuzi collected from all over the desolate sea after the thunder disaster. Yu Shuyang also took some at that time, thinking that he could use them to refine magic tools that day.

The latter was given to him by the Book Fairy Ghost Monkey. When he wanted to refine the Soul-Guiding Banner, he needed Yin wood to make the banner pole, so he asked the Ghost Monkey for some.

Both of these spiritual woods are okay, but they are not compatible with the Soap Carved Flag. The Soap Carved Flag is a magical weapon of the Water and Cloud Dao. If you want to choose a spiritual wood, you should start with the Cloud and Water Dao.

The most suitable one is actually the Yunwu tea tree planted by the tea tree spirit Yunhua. This tree is right in the cloud and water, and is nourished by the wonderful energy of Donghua's clouds and mist.

But Yu Shuyang didn't have any in his hands. After all, the spiritual tea trees were all alive and well, and he couldn't cut them down. Especially the spiritual tea trees that Yunhua used to set up the cloud and mist formation, those were all used to cultivate spiritual root treasure trees.

After much thought, he found a substitute, which was the Ruomu tree planted in the Xuanming underworld.

The Ruomu tree grew from the core of the peach tree in Taodu. It is considered a sacred tree that supports the sky in the underworld. The crown of the tree is pregnant with the afterglow of the setting sun, and the sunset flowers that bloom are eaten by ghosts and monsters, so that they will no longer be afraid of the sun and fire.

He didn't need to cut down the Ruomu tree. He just needed to cut a branch and make a flagpole about one foot and two inches long.

Thinking of this, Yu Shuyang took out the soul-guiding banner, attracted the two energies of Xuan and Huang, and his mind transformed into a turtle, snake, and cloud, carrying the Sweeping Cloud Fairy Robe and entering it.

He has many magical weapons on his body, but only two of them can be moved by a wisp of divine heart, namely: the Sweeping Cloud Fairy Robe and the Yin-Yang True Shape Fan.

Yu Shuyang wanted to go to the underworld to cut off the branches of the Ruomu tree. He couldn't do it with just his mental strength, he also had to rely on the power of magic weapons.

The Saoxia Fairy Clothes followed the turtle, snake and cloud into the underworld. When they arrived in the underworld, without the oppression of the power of the heaven in the world of the living, the virtual magic weapon could also act like a real magic weapon.

Then, a stream of light appeared and the fairy robe of Saoxia transformed into a little Taoist boy in colorful clothes. The boy's facial features looked 70% like Yu Shuyang.

"Why did you bring him here?" Yu Shuyang asked in surprise.

The boy Saoxia was holding a bird's egg in his hand. Before he transformed into a human, the scorched bird's egg was suppressed in his robes and would not be noticed or discovered.

"Master, I have to suppress him!" said the boy Saoxia with a pout.

Yu Shuyang was at a loss for words and asked, "When will this Jiao Ming bird hatch?"

The boy Saoxia chuckled and said, "That's a long time ago. He was reborn from the nirvana of the osprey and the phoenix. It takes the same time as hatching a phoenix egg, at least eight hundred years and at most three thousand years." The incubation time of a phoenix egg is extremely long. For example, it takes eight hundred years for the Dapeng to hatch, while the Qingluan, Fire Phoenix, Red Phoenix and Colorful Phoenix all need three thousand years.

After hearing this, Yu Shuyang was speechless. What was the point of suppressing the bird egg? When it hatches, maybe it will be able to escape the calamity and ascend to heaven.

"Then don't hold it all day long. Throw the egg onto the crown of the Ruomu tree later. It's a good opportunity for you to cut a branch for me." Yu Shuyang said to Saoxia Tongzi.

There is a bird's nest on the crown of the Ruomu tree, which was once built by the Youchang bird. Speaking of the Youchang bird, Yu Shuyang looked around.

In the blue sky of the underworld, I saw a dim yellow sun hanging in the west, and a tiny dark moon hanging in the east.

This is how it is in the underworld. The sun and the moon shine together, and there is no such thing as rising in the east and setting in the west. The only thing that changes is the reflection of the Milky Way shimmering in the Qingming Tianhe River.

The Qingming Sky River is the clear water dripping from the crown of the Ruomu tree. It gathers into a sky river in the Qingming clouds, reflecting the virtual image of the Milky Way in the starry sky.

When refining the Xuanming Five Qi Pill earlier, Yu Shuyang refined the Xuanyin Five Qi and used the five qi to replenish the Xuanming Dark Earth. The current Qingming Cloud Qi was refined using the original Xuanyin Biluo.

Nowadays, in the Xuanming underworld, in the Qingming void, a dark sun and a dark moon shine at the same time. The vitality in the underworld is extremely strong, and the abundant ghost rice in the ghost fields can be harvested once a month.

Because Yu Shuyang had never collected taxes, the twenty-one ghost tribes in the underworld were able to have enough food to eat, the number of dead souls and wild ghosts decreased significantly, and the number of ghost beasts increased.

At the same time, there are no longer just three or two demons and ghosts with cultivation. It can be seen that there are many more traces of demons and ghosts practicing in the underworld.

Due to the early layout of the Wenqu Temple, the ghost beasts mostly transformed according to the four animal-shaped gods in the temple. Therefore, the ghost beasts mostly appear in the form of a unicorn, a yellow tiger, a leopard, and a qilin.

Later, the Tai Sui Dragon God Temple was built, and another dragon shape appeared. However, compared with the first four animal shapes, there are much fewer dragon shapes. After all, the Tai Sui Dragon God Temple is far away on the Jiuyin Mountain, too far away from the twenty-one ghost tribes.

If there were no Nine Yin Warm Yang Spring on the Nine Yin Mountain, which could guide the ghosts of premature infants, babies and mothers, cleanse their blood and turn them into ghosts, there would probably be few ghosts on the Nine Yin Mountain.

Looking at Jiuyin Mountain again, it is obvious that it has grown much taller and bigger. Just look at the Yintao Forest given to him by Shentu. It now looks like a small peach forest, which could have covered half of the mountain.

Yu Shuyang looked everywhere, especially the spiritual roots that he cultivated with the help of the magic of several gods, such as the disaster plum, disaster date, leopard-spotted apricot, five-yellow plum, and green peach, all of which were growing well.

It seems that these five spiritual roots have been cultivated. Next time he returns to Hushan Island, he can try to transplant them.

What surprised him most was the moon pod, a bean grass that grew in response to the phases of the moon. When it grew in the world of the living, it was mostly used as a lunar calendar.

The growth of moon pods is like this: starting from the beginning of the month, a pod grows every day. After the middle of the month, a pod falls every day. If it is a cloudy day and the moonlight is not bright, the pods will wither and die on the branches.

Therefore, by planting this kind of moon pod, you can only harvest fifteen moon pod beans at most in a month, and the beans contain extremely weak lunar power.

The monthly pods now grow like soybeans. They no longer grow in the first half of the month and fall off in the second half. Instead, they grow at the beginning of the month and fall off at the end of the month. They are no longer affected by moonlight.

Now the moon pod has completely changed from a bean grass to a Taiyin spiritual plant, becoming a kind of moon bean, which can be used as food for ghosts like Fengyou ghost rice.

Yu Shuyang finally found the reason for the increase in ghost beasts and demons. It turned out to be the moon pod grass. Compared with the Fengyou ghost rice that can only fill the stomach, the moon beans are much more useful.

Just like an old farmer tending his crops, he regarded the mysterious land as a field, and the spiritual roots he cultivated as his crops, which he would check every time he came.

He didn't know how others managed the underworld. Anyway, he had been letting it go and cultivating a group of spiritual roots. As for the ghost beasts and demons, he had no plans to train them into ghost soldiers.

Because of the appearance of the Beitian Xuanwu Jinfeng Altar, he has the ability to summon the Beitian divine soldiers and generals. In the future, after he has refined the altar and practiced talismans and spells, he will naturally have no shortage of magic soldiers and there will be no need to refine ghost soldiers.

On the other side, the boy Saoxia held the Jiaoming bird egg and flew straight to the crown of the Ruomu tree. This tree had become the sky-supporting tree of the Xuanming underworld. Not only did it look tall, it also had a trace of luck from the underworld.

It doesn't seem very high when viewed from below, but when it flies up, it is difficult to reach the treetops, as if the trunk is also growing.

Since Saoxia Tongzi possessed the triple Dao prohibitions, he could naturally feel the slightest trace of Dao in the tree and knew that it was impossible for him to fly to the treetops.

He is a magical spirit, different from humans and monsters. He looks conscious and speaks like a living person, but in fact he is the spiritual transformation of Taoism, which is different from the spirit of an object.

Saoxia Tongzi communicated directly with the Ruomu tree, using his own Dao prohibitions to communicate with the Dao traces on the tree body. Both he and the Ruomu tree had traces of Yu Shuyang's magic power.

When he communicated with the tree, he saw a branch of the Ruomu tree lowered, rolled up the Jiao Ming bird egg, and dropped it directly into the bird's nest on the treetop.

This bird's nest was built by the Youchang bird. To be more precise, it was built by the crow fairy in Taoliu Fudi who controlled the Youchang bird.

The Youchang bird is now the Mingri. Originally, it was a Youchang bird feather thrown in by the Crow Immortal, and later it turned into a Mingri. The Crow Immortal wanted to use it as a hook to fish out the Xuanming underworld.

Not wanting to be assisted by Yu Shuyang in launching a group of ghost sacrifices, he invited the two ghost gods Shentu and Yulei. Not only did they remove the divine thoughts in the dark day, they also pulled down all the fishing lines and hung them on the crown of the Ruomu tree to attract the half-demon souls.

As the Jiao Ming bird egg fell into the bird's nest, there was a strange sound, which attracted Ming Ri to fall into it as well, and a phoenix aura rose from the bird's nest.

There was a reason why the Crow Immortal built a bird's nest. He saw that Ruomu was a sacred tree that could be used to refine a phoenix nest to nourish the Youchang bird's feathers.

Some time ago, the Crow Immortal's divine consciousness was dispersed and driven away, and the Youchang bird feathers transformed into the Dark Sun, which had been hanging above the Qingming, shining on the underworld from time to time, and the original energy in the bird feathers began to be consumed.

If it continues like this, sooner or later it will be consumed and turned into a dark sun. Now the Jiao Ming bird eggs are put into the phoenix nest, and the phoenix energy will pull the You Chang bird feathers into the phoenix nest.

The Ruomu tree shook a little, and a one-foot-two-inch branch fell down. This branch contained a bit of original energy, which was not only infected by the power of sunset and dusk, but also contained a very weak power to support the sky.

The boy, Sweeping Clouds, came running over happily, holding the branch, and shouted to Yu Shuyang, "Master, I've got the branch back."

Yu Shuyang's mind became like a tortoise, snake, and cloud. He couldn't grasp the object for a moment, so he used his mind to explore it and said, "Why do I feel a trace of the Dao?"

"Master, this is the Dao mark specially imprinted in the body of Ruomu Tree. The wood has not grown yet and is extremely stupid. It will be given away with just a few words of coaxing." Saoxia Boy said with a smile.

Yu Shuyang nodded in satisfaction, then asked, "What happened just now? The bird's eggs chirped when they landed in the nest, and how did it attract Mingri as well?"

"That tree has a phoenix nest. When Jiao Ming Bird entered, it triggered the dispersal of phoenix energy. On that dark day, I saw a phoenix feather, which naturally pulled it back to the nest.

Who knows, the master might be able to harvest two phoenixes in the future. The Jiao Ming bird is a water phoenix, and the Ming Ri feather should be the You Chang bird, which is a fire phoenix.

"These two phoenixes, Water and Fire, are the work of nature among phoenixes. Like the essences of water and fire, they are the best at refining." "The Sweeping Cloud Boy introduced them cheerfully.

Yu Shuyang had no idea about the Erfeng bird. After all, it took three thousand years for a bird egg to hatch. It was possible that the bird had already escaped the calamity and ascended to heaven.

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