From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 313: Zhou Tian Xing Chen Talisman and Jiu Jian Yuan

The island in the middle of the lake was shrouded in clouds and mist. A sky-shaped cloud car was circling in the sky, attracting the surrounding water vapor and turning it into floating clouds.

The floating clouds are like cotton balls, floating motionlessly on the island in the middle of the lake, allowing the sea wind to blow them, as if they have taken root.

Beneath this layer of clouds, the tiny dots of light are like stars. To be more precise, they are like the stars in the sky, just like a star map.

These starlights appeared around a unicorn, as if they were captured by a starlight cover, and there was a star map on the spherical cover.

"Junior brother, what's wrong with you?" Yu Shuyang looked at Li Taiping in front of him and asked in surprise.

Compared to the last time we met, Li Taiping had become much smaller, almost the size of an ordinary old ox, and his hair had become shorter, getting rid of his elephant-like appearance.

"Brother, this is the Zhoutian Star Talisman I refined. It needs to communicate with the stars in the sky, and it cannot be stored in the Xuanqiao yet.

"See you again today, Senior Brother. You possess a pure and profound energy, and possess a sense of Dao that is both real and illusory. I'm sure you've made great progress in your cultivation," Li Taiping asked respectfully.

The two brothers had been separated for four years, and they felt a little strange when they met again. However, as they talked, they felt that their personalities had not changed.

"I have thoroughly comprehended the Weichen chess manual and realized a Taoist technique for refining the real and the fake. Have you broken through to the ninth level?" Yu Shuyang asked his junior brother happily.

Li Taiping is of the bloodline of the Si beast, and he insists on practicing in the form of a beast, so his training is ten or even a hundred times slower than that of other monsters.

Li Taiping nodded his head and said with a smile: “It was also last year that, with the help of Master Yang, I refined all the star symbols and broke through to the ninth level.

"Brother, how are you progressing in alchemy? Perhaps you've made the Golden Elixir and the Elixir of Immortality?"

When Yu Shuyang left Hushan Island, he brought Qifeng and Wanjia with him specifically to learn alchemy.

This was the deal Yu Shuyang made with Yin Chenzi. He chose Yin Chenzi as his teacher, and Yin Chenzi taught him alchemy with all his heart. Another condition was that he accepted two disciples from the Qingqiu Fox Clan.

Yu Shuyang chuckled and said, "Since I came to the Fox Country, apart from studying two alchemy books, I have spent the rest of my time in seclusion practicing.

He just came out of retreat three days ago. Speaking of alchemy, perhaps the Wan family can succeed. He has studied under Master Yin for two years and should be able to open the furnace to make elixirs."

At that time, the candlelight spirit Wanjia had mixed fire properties, and was commented by Li Taiping as being unable to make elixirs and could only make fire to cook.

Unexpectedly, over the years, he slowly harmonized the nature of fire and refined the wood fire, star quail fire, military fire and candle fire into the Four Spirits Flame, and his Dharma image was the Four Spirits Quail and Phoenix.

Li Taiping nodded involuntarily and praised: "Wan Jia is indeed worthy of the name Mingxi, but I underestimated him in the beginning.

"Brother, how come you came here alone, and didn't see Wan Jia, Qi Feng and the others? Didn't they say there were still one or two hundred foxes?"

Yu Shuyang did not hide anything and told how he captured General Wu Qiang and how he dealt with Tui Yunque after receiving the letter from Li Taiping.

Li Taiping didn't think much of what he heard, but instead became very curious about the Saoxia boy and said, "Brother, that Saoxia fairy robe is what you are wearing, right?
I remember it was given to you by Master Yang, but I didn't expect it to be refined into a magic weapon so quickly."

Li Taiping listened to Yu Shuyang's suggestion and prepared to use magic weapons to carry the fortune of the Dharma lineage, so he specially refined the Zhoutian Star Talisman.

The Si Beast Clan had no habit of refining magical instruments in the past. It was only when Li Taiping started to refine them that he realized how difficult it was.

In order to refine a magic tool into a magic treasure, the magic prohibitions must be refined to perfection. To do this, the refined magic prohibitions must either comply with the Gang prohibitions or the Sha prohibitions.

This requires that the spiritual texts used to refine the magic ban must be fluent. The magic ban is formed by the collection of spiritual texts. If the spiritual texts are bloated or incomplete, the magic ban finally refined will also be inflexible.

In order to refine the Zhoutian Star Talisman, Li Taiping had to decipher the star prohibitions one by one and break them down into pieces of spiritual texts.

If it weren't for Yang Fuzi's help, Li Taiping would probably have to wait another hundred or eighty years before he could refine more than a thousand star talismans like he is now.

To refine a magic tool into a magic treasure, thirty-six levels of Gangjin must be perfected, and seventy-two levels of Shajin must be perfected.

Now it seems that it is more difficult for Li Taiping to refine the Zhoutian Star Talisman into a magic weapon than for him to cultivate to the first level of Pint Tribulation and ascend to heaven. More than a thousand star talismans are really too many.

Seeing his junior brother's curious face, Yu Shuyang took off his Taoist robe. He also wore a wind-catching net robe inside the robe to prevent his naked body from being exposed.

"Junior brother, just take it and have a look, but are you having any difficulties in refining the magic weapon?" Yu Shuyang asked as he handed over the magic robe.

Li Taiping half-squatted, holding up the Sweeping Cloud Immortal Robe with his two front ox hooves and looking at it, saying, "It's this star talisman that I'm wearing. I want to sacrifice and refine it into a magic weapon to carry the luck of the Dharma lineage."

Yu Shuyang laughed heartily and said, "Junior brother, you are confused because you are in the situation. You are practicing the Beidou ritual.

When refining magic weapons, the Big Dipper should be the main focus. If you follow your method of refining, all the stars in the sky can be refined into talismans, and then upgraded to a magic weapon.

Isn't this just refining a Starry Sky? What's the difference between this and opening up a new level of Starry Sky?"

Refining a weapon into a divine talisman is different from ordinary weapon refining. Instead, it is similar to the Tianfengyunche, which is a weapon refining technique that combines weapon and method.

For the subsequent refining and improvement of the Zhoutian Star Talisman, you have to slowly refine each star talisman to perfection, and finally combine them into a talisman magic weapon.

“Brother, my lineage inherits the An Tian ritual, which is not limited to the nine stars of the Big Dipper, but more than 1,200 major stars in the Zhoutian.

"It carries not only the inheritance of the Dharma lineage, but also the oaths pledged by the Dao Alliance, the Heavenly Dao, and the ancient gods. To transfer the Dharma lineage's fortune, even the oaths of alliance must be transferred as well," Li Taiping explained.

Among the ten lineages of the Taoist Alliance, the ritual lineage is the most important. The reason is the oath to heaven, which is also the source of the ritual ability to summon gods. To put it simply, it is casting spells on behalf of heaven.

This was the first time Yu Shuyang had heard of this, and he couldn't help but frown and said, "Junior brother, if that's the case, you can only recruit more disciples.

Give these stars to the disciples to sacrifice and refine, and finally combine them into a talisman of the stars in the sky. The momentum is so huge that it is frightening.

If you can do it, you can be called the Grandmaster of the Star Dao, but I don’t know if you dare to do it.”

Yu Shuyang was shocked when he finished speaking. According to this idea, the Zhoutian Star Talisman he refined was completely a star treasure.

By then, the essence of all the stars in the sky will be absorbed, and even the star gods will be controlled. It will be basically the treasure of the Lord of the Stars.

Li Taiping, who was standing by, was completely stunned when he heard this. He had never thought of this at all. But after being reminded by Yu Shuyang, he suddenly understood.

"This is the fortune of the time. My teachings should flourish! My teachings should flourish!"

Li Taiping suddenly jumped up, mumbling non-stop. It took him a while to calm down. Then he explained to Yu Shuyang with excitement.

"Brother, let me see if this is the case. You want to build the Tokaido Temple, and I have to teach the Star Talisman and accept disciples.

Don't you think this is a coincidence? Is it a stroke of luck? Maybe this is my chance to spread my influence."

Li Taiping rarely got so excited. Today's incident was something he had never witnessed before. The Si Beast Clan was a single-lineage family, and their cultivation methods were practiced alone. Before then, they had never sacrificed or refined magical instruments, nor had they accepted disciples to pass on their teachings. They were like borrowing the name of the Green Ox ancestor to help protect and witness the Heavenly Dao oath.

"Junior brother, this matter needs careful consideration. The students currently enrolled by Tōkaidōin are all from the Qingqiu Fox Clan.

If you want to recruit more disciples, you have to wait a little longer, lest the lineage of Dharma be entangled with the Qingqiu Fox Clan again." Yu Shuyang hurriedly persuaded.

Then, Yu Shuyang recounted in detail what he had learned in the past few days, such as the six fox demons of the Qingqiu fox clan, the Fox Kingdom and the ancestral land of Qingqiu.

Li Taiping listened slowly, and had some thoughts in his mind. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Brother, since you and Master Yin want to run the Donghai Daoyuan.

We cannot just teach the thirty-six sacred scriptures. We should also teach the hundred arts of cultivating immortals like Xiyu Academy does. This way, our studies will not be in vain.

When I was refining the star talismans, I could also pick out some odd and miscellaneous stars and let them help me refine the magic bans.

This way, we can cast a wide net in the early stages. If there are suitable ones, we will take them in. If there are no suitable ones, we will wait for subsequent students."

Yu Shuyang agreed after hearing this and nodded, saying, "Junior brother, this is a good idea. I was thinking that just teaching the Taoist scriptures would be a bit monotonous.

By the way, we will teach them the hundred arts of the immortal sect. In this way, just like the Taoist Alliance taught the Dharma in the early years, when they return, whether they practice or produce, they will gradually become closer to the Taoist Alliance."

At this point, Yu Shuyang and Li Taiping became excited. Following this line of thought, they added details bit by bit and discussed for quite a while before they came up with an outline.

Before they could discuss it further, they felt the island beneath them tremble, and a vibrant vitality emanated from the soil.

"The earth veins are now connected again. I believe the Yin Master and Yang Master should have emerged from the seabed. Let's go and welcome them.

By the way, senior brother, there is an old monkey on the ship on the west coast who is delivering the ship to you. He heard that we are going to build Tokaidoin, and he has been drawing blueprints along the way.

I think this old monkey is asking for a lot, so you better be careful and don't get cheated by him, Senior Brother." Li Taiping couldn't help but remind him again.

Li Taiping, Yang Fuzi and the others all came on the Chi family's ship. The old monkey came all the way from Yatou Mountain to Hushan Island under the pretext of delivering a Dharma ship.

When he heard that Li Taiping and his companions were going to Qingqiu Island, he took the initiative to call a ship to take them there. Especially after he knew that they were going to establish Tokaidoin on Lake Heart Island, he contacted Yang Fuzi and asked him to help draw the blueprints.

Yu Shuyang chuckled and said, "That old monkey from the Chi family only has a hundred years left to live, and he wants to seek a elixir that will allow him to break through to the fourth level.

His foundation of Taoism was infected by the Yuan Qi of humanity, and no one knew how he managed to break through to the fifth level of cultivation.

According to Master Yin's intention, he was ignored and asked to go to the inland of Jiuzhou to find the human race and practice the human way to become a saint.

Since he's here again, we can find out how he achieved the breakthrough to become a demon immortal. Many of us in the Dao Alliance have had our Dao bases infected, and none of us can break through to the fifth level of cultivation."

Yu Shuyang has a special plan for the ancestor of the Chi family. In addition to asking him to help build the Taoist temple, he can also provide cover for Ruwei's stripping of the human Yuan Qi.

According to Shuiyue Wutong's plan, he would wait until the Huangliang Taoist Palace was repaired, and then he would take on the task of stripping Yu Shuyang of his human Yuan Qi.

Anyway, the Huangliang Taoist Palace is far away in the dreamland. Even if the nine holy places of the human race want to cause trouble, they cannot enter the dreamland. When the time comes, the Taoist Alliance will discuss it with the nine human families in private.

Li Taiping didn't know what was involved and just thought he was here to ask for the elixir. He then said, "Brother, why don't you go to the west and meet that old monkey first.

Tuliu, Yunhua, Huang Bashan, Bai Qilang, and Shiyilang are all on the ship. They brought a lot of things from Hushan Island this time. I don't know if they have finished unloading them."

"Alright, when you meet Master Yin later, have him go pick up the foxes' ship and prevent it from being hijacked by the Dragon Girl who comes looking for us."

Yu Shuyang turned around and gave some instructions, summoning the cloud car in the air, which pulled him to the west coast of the island. Along the way, the cloud car continued to gather clouds.

The clouds in the sky above the island in the middle of the lake were getting bigger and bigger. These clouds were specially gathered by Yu Shuyang. He wanted to sacrifice and refine the Zhenlong Dharma Image, so he had to collect and refine the clouds as spiritual materials.

When they arrived at the ship on the west coast, they saw Tu Liu, Yun Hua and others unloading the cargo, which was full of wine jars. They looked at Yu Shuyang with confusion.

"Tu Liu, what are these?"

"Dharma Master."

"uncle."

As soon as Tu Liu and Huang Bashan saw Yu Shuyang, they surrounded him, followed by the two brothers of the Bai family and Yunhua.

"Master, these are wine and honey. They were saved on Hushan Island over the years. I brought them here specially for you to taste." Tu Liu introduced with a smile.

After saying this, he took out a chicken-fat yellow Ruyi from his bosom and said, "Master, this magical instrument has been refined to the thirty-third level of evil prohibition.

"From now on, no matter how much Five Zhi Medicinal Sha Qi you inject into the ritual, it will have no effect at all."

Yu Shuyang took the jade ruyi in his hand. The Ganoderma lucidum on the ruyi was as fresh as the real Ganoderma lucidum. There were thirty-three levels of evil prohibitions inside, and the earth of Wu and Ji was endless.

"The ritual was done well. It seems that the trickery has come to an end. All that's left is slow and hard work. However, the real soil has been refined." Yu Shuyang praised.

The Five Zhi Yao Cao Sword and the Hundred Scales Slashing Yuan Sword were both deduced by Yu Shuyang. Among them, the most troublesome one was the Five Zhi Yao Cao Sword, which was refined with reference to the Apricot Yellow Flag.

In order to refine Wu Ji Earth, he also took great pains to find the six-colored Ganoderma lucidum and Yaocao, and to offer sacrifices to refine the evil ban of Wu Ji Earth.

Yu Shuyang originally refined this sword because in his previous life, the Yi Mu Sheng Sword was broken, and its protection was broken by his three-life grudge partner, and his body was exploded alive.

For this reason, when he refined the two swords of killing in this life, he no longer studied Jia and Yi wood, but instead used Wu and Ji earth as the swords of life.

"You guys should move quickly. Is the ancestor of the Chi family on the boat?" Yu Shuyang asked Tu Liu.

"Master, ever since the ship entered Qingqiu waters, that monkey immortal has been staying in the cabin, seemingly drawing a blueprint.

"I heard from Master Yang that refining the Nine Daoist Temples seemed quite tedious, requiring three or five revisions along the way," Tu Liu explained.

Yu Shuyang was speechless after hearing this. He didn't expect that Yang Fuzi would actually build nine courtyards. It seemed that he had a lot of ideas.

The so-called nine-room courtyard is similar to the three-courtyard and five-courtyard houses. "Room" and "entry" are both standard nouns for building styles. For example, the Huangliang Dao Palace has a five-courtyard layout with two halls and three rooms.

The Nine Courtyards refers to a layout with nine main rooms connected along a central axis, also known as the Nine Stars in a Row. It is an extremely complex palace building.

　It feels like a stiff neck and my neck aches slightly.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)