Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 213: Forming and Transforming the Golden Elixir

His physical training reached perfection in building the foundation, and even the dragon and tiger artistic conception that he created specifically to provide auxiliary effects for forming the golden elixir had a miraculous effect on the physical training of qi, blood and golden elixir.

Even if he stopped practicing, this perfect state of qi and blood would remain completely stable.

Although there are differences between Dharma cultivation and physical cultivation, they both lead to the same goal and we can see from this that the idea of evolving the dragon and tiger artistic conception through the bodies of all beasts is indeed effective.

Even if it is not as significant as in the body refining, it should be no problem to use it as an auxiliary to improve the success rate of forming a pill!

"This way, my chances of forming a pill will be even higher..."

Inside the cave, Li Ye, sitting cross-legged on the jade bed, thought about his cultivation again and said happily.

Since breaking through the late stage of foundation building, his magic power has shown signs of solidification.

Over the past ten years, thanks to his unremitting practice and the refinement of the spiritual essence of the void world, the more than two hundred drops of liquid magic power accumulated in his dantian have solidified to a degree of more than 10% and close to 20%!

Based on this calculation, in more than ten years, when his cultivation is complete, the progress of solidifying his magic power will be at least nearly 40%.

This proportion is already quite high.

If he could break through 50%, even if he didn't get the spiritual object to form the golden elixir, his possibility of breaking through by relying on the method of dragon and tiger working together would be higher than the probability of trying to form the golden elixir by using spiritual objects other than the five elements to form the golden elixir in the ordinary foundation-building!
And since the foundation-building stage can be assisted by the foundation-building pill, the core-forming stage should also be able to achieve it.

Although there are no corresponding elixirs to assist in forming the elixir in the world today, there are only some extremely suitable natural treasures.

But that doesn’t mean Li Ye can’t figure it out on his own.

Now, whether it is a breakthrough in the essence or a miraculous skill or even the realm of alchemy, he has them all.

Over the years, he has repeatedly studied the Bihu notes, analyzing and researching the secrets of Dan-forming contained therein, hoping to combine what he has learned to deduce a recipe for assisting Dan-forming.

If it can be accomplished, the chance is definitely better than waiting for the spiritual object to form a pill!

However, he had never personally experienced the changes, and perhaps he still lacked some relevant understanding. In this regard, Li Ye's research progress was quite slow, and the pill formula he produced still had many omissions.

The spiritual medicine required for this incomplete pill recipe was also a rare spiritual medicine of the third level. It was considered good enough to get one, and it was impossible to have any extra for experiments.

Even if one tries to cultivate and accumulate spiritual essence for alchemy experiments, the period required to obtain results will be quite long considering the maturity speed of third-level spiritual plants.

By then, he would have probably already completed his foundation building for many years...

This method can basically only be classified as the one where there is no way to obtain spiritual objects, and one has to rely on killing time and using the spiritual essence of the void to gradually increase the degree of solidification of magic power.

Although Li Ye's achievements in developing auxiliary elixirs for Dan-forming are limited, he has achieved some useful results in the opposite direction.

The elixir he derived by reverse deduction was named the Golden Elixir.

Not only does this pill fail to increase the probability of forming a golden elixir, but it will cause the incomplete golden elixir that has not been fully condensed to quickly dissipate and return to the original magic power.

It is a reverse attempt made in order to save one's life and potential for subsequent breakthroughs in case the breakthrough fails.

After all, the risk of breaking through the golden elixir is not small. Once the condensation fails, the backlash of the broken golden elixir's disintegration of true essence and magic power is enough to cause a great loss of the cultivator's cultivation on the spot, and even destroy the Dantian Qi Sea!
In the worst case, you will be seriously injured and lose the qualification to break through again, and in the worst case, you will die on the spot!
Li Ye's idea was to immediately dissolve the incomplete golden elixir and uncontrolled true essence after the failure of the breakthrough, and return it to the mana that he could bear. In this way, the backlash power would naturally be greatly reduced.

It would no longer cause irreversible and severe injuries to the cultivator. After all, unless one could obtain a spiritual fruit like the Five Elements Golden Elixir, even the combined efforts of many methods would still result in failure. Even if his vitality was strong enough to withstand the backlash, it would not sever his path, so it was still better to avoid it.

In this way, the Golden Elixir will be useful!

"However, the spiritual medicine required for this pill also exists at the third level, which is not easy to collect. I don't know if I can actually try to refine it once..."

Li Ye shook his head and couldn't help but complain:
"Why is it that the things needed to form a pill are becoming more and more?"

Having said that, he knew that most of these were just substitutes for each other. If there was really a sure thing, there would be no need to go through so much trouble!
"Never mind... it's unrealistic to acquire all of these spiritual items, but if I can get even one or two, I'll have more confidence. I'll just keep collecting!"

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Another six years passed.

The Wu State, based in Jiuding Valley, suddenly began to frequently harass the border of Jing State, occupying land and seizing resources.

The stable situation among the four countries was abruptly broken.

At first, it was just like usual, with friction between the border forces of the two countries.

They had long been accustomed to the various disputes arising from the many resources in this vague area, and were also accustomed to the hatred that had stained each other's blood.

But at the same time, as border areas, they also have a lot of trade exchanges with each other and have considerable conflicts of interest.

Unless it really involves a fight for extremely valuable resources, they actually suppress their anger and hatred towards each other, not wanting to disrupt the balance of the border and cut off each other's financial resources.

It was precisely because of this practice that the border forces of Yasukuni Shrine made a wrong judgment at the beginning.

They originally thought that the other party would follow the previous rules, but they were ambushed by the monks of the Wu State. Not only were a group of people slaughtered, but the monks of the Wu State also took the opportunity to occupy many resource points and spiritual places.

A considerable number of them are forces under the command of Qiandao Water City, or they themselves have sent people to occupy the mining areas!

Such an operation is no less than the losses caused by Qiandao Water City's repeated concessions to other countries and shrinking of its own power over the years!

It is almost equivalent to cutting a piece of meat directly from Qiandao Water City!

Behind these attacks, there are almost always figures from Jiuding Valley that are not well concealed!
Today, the host of Qiandao Water City is well aware of the art of advance and retreat, and has taken the initiative to cede unimportant resources in order to shrink his strength and make his forces more stable.

But if we don't strike back hard after being provoked like this, we will probably be immediately considered to be internally empty.

Not to mention that other Jindan sects might have some ideas and take the opportunity to attack them together and bite off some pieces of meat from them.

Even those forces within Yasukuni Shrine that had been suppressed and tamed by the bloody massacre in the past would become active and develop rebellious thoughts again.

If the situation really came to a head where both internal and external difficulties arose, even if Qiandao Water City had a Tier 3 Black Dragon to suppress it, it would probably still have to suffer huge losses before it could calm the situation down.

Therefore, Qiandao Water City immediately mobilized the islands in the lake and the Jingguo forces to launch a fierce counterattack against the invaders from the Wu State.

The conflict between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out and escalated rapidly!
(End of this chapter)