Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 633 Information about the Ruins

Ji Anquan devoted himself to body training, and the ground vibrated with every step he took.

With each exhale from the nostrils, white smoke appeared, like scalding hot steam.

The body's Qi and blood surge along five pathways, converging into the Five Elements Divine Palace.

The veins on the surface of his Shenfu (a point on the forehead) emitted a faint glow, and pale golden 'blood energy' flowed out of Shenfu and gathered at the Tanzhong acupoint. This blood energy was his own divine will.

The golden pill began to rotate at a uniform speed, its surface shimmering with silver light.

Inside the Golden Core, divine thoughts and will penetrate its core, contributing to its growth.

Ji An's body was moving, but his mind was as calm as a still lake, without any ripples.

Between movement and stillness, a wonderful rhythm is emerging.

The puppet ran over holding a bird's wing and held up two fingers.

Ji An felt that he had exhausted most of his energy, so he stopped. He saw the puppet's gestures and realized that it had taken two hours for the bird wings to recover to their flesh and blood state.

He took the bird's wing and examined it, finding no blood flowing from the broken part.

"Two hours have passed. Can a creature petrified for so long really come back to life?"

Ji An muttered to himself, he didn't think so.

He flicked a flame from his fingertip, burning the bird's wings. He then went into a wooden hut and used the Spring Breeze and Rain Technique to bathe in the nourishing spiritual rain, which relieved muscle fatigue.

He changed into an ochre-yellow Taoist robe and sat down to meditate under the Soul-Nourishing Tree. The clever puppet lit the sandalwood incense for nourishing the soul.

Ji An took out a Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pill and swallowed it, then began to circulate the Five Elements Cycle.

Perhaps due to excessive consumption, or perhaps due to increased cultivation level, the effects of this elixir have slightly decreased.

His body was like a highly efficient and precise machine, and it only took him a little over two hours to refine the elixir.

Without the spiritual energy supply from the pills, the spiritual energy in the small world quickly converged towards him, forming a vortex of spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy in the spiritual field was extracted and absorbed into his body along with the spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy was refined into magical crystals, which nourished the golden core and the primordial fire, and also sustained the stone tortoise.

The Five Elements Spiritual Liquid was also refined in the Divine Palace, flowing into the Middle Dantian, where it was greedily absorbed by the Golden Core.

The third-grade high-quality spiritual vein can fully meet his cultivation needs, and long-term cultivation here can also make up for the loss caused by the reduced effect of pills.

At Chen Shi (7-9 AM), Master Feiyun landed and, looking at the cultivators outside the cave, cupped his hands and smiled:
"The spirit trees here are growing so well; I saw that many have reached the third level."

"Having spent sixty years cultivating so many high-grade spiritual plants, fellow Daoist can actually earn quite a few spirit stones by renting out the cave dwelling."

She didn't know that the spirit wood here was from the second harvest, so Ji An decided to correct her, saying:
"In just thirty years, after returning from the Misty Mountain region, I sold all the spirit trees I had initially planted to the Golden Puppet Pavilion."

"Ah! Really?"

Master Feiyun was no longer calm. This planting ability was comparable to, and even stronger than, the best late-stage Golden Core cultivator in the Divine Wood Sect.

Ji An nodded, "Do you think I would deceive you, fellow Daoist? Go to the Golden Puppet Pavilion and inquire to find out the truth."

This is not the place to talk. Please come inside the cave to discuss this further.

"Fellow Daoist, please don't misunderstand. I really didn't expect your planting skills to be as exquisite as your alchemy skills."

The two entered the cave and sat down. The puppet brought out a pot of spiritual tea and two kinds of pastries, namely white jade honey osmanthus cake and purple gold honey osmanthus cake.

Ji An specially brought the puppet out of the small world to decorate the place, otherwise it would look too deserted.

"The conditions are rather simple, please don't mind, fellow Daoist."

Master Feiyun smelled the aroma of the tea and said:
"The conditions for a mid-grade, third-tier Yunding Silver Needle Tea are by no means simple."

She is quite knowledgeable about spiritual tea and can distinguish its grade and quality simply by smell.

Ji An revealed a proud smile, "As you can see, fellow Daoist, I have considerable experience in the art of cultivation. Back in the Western Continent, I cultivated many third-tier spiritual plants for my sect."

Although we have now come to Zhongzhou, we still maintain contact with the sect, and our fellow disciples bring us spiritual tea, spiritual fruit and other spiritual plant products.

Fellow Daoist, please try these pastries; they possess a unique and profound flavor.

His words clarified the origin of his "agricultural products," and he also spread this rhetoric to familiar cultivators. As long as he sold less, it wouldn't attract too much attention from others.

"I see. Fellow Daoist has a truly good relationship with your sect."

Master Feiyun used his object control technique to pick up a piece of pastry, put it in his mouth, covered his mouth with his hand, and began to chew. He felt the sweet fragrance overflow in his mouth, and his saliva was produced spontaneously.

She swallowed the pastry and said:

"Using mid-grade third-level honey to make pastries, Fellow Daoist's style does have the air of a top-tier Nascent Soul sect."

Within her family, she rarely had the opportunity to eat pastries made with third-grade honey, and such pastries were not considered stingy for entertaining guests.

Ji An scratched his head. "That doesn't sound like a compliment."

"How can this not be a compliment? Fellow Daoist, you're overthinking it."

Most powerful forces, upon obtaining high-level resources, will go to great lengths to refine them into pills that can enhance their cultivation; otherwise, where would all those strange and unusual pill formulas come from?

Ji An pointed to the pastries on the other side of the plate and said:

"Try the pastries here, they taste different."

Both types of pastries are made with pearl red rice, and are dark red in color, making them indistinguishable in appearance. "Then I must try them," Master Feiyun said, using his telekinesis to pick up a piece of pastry and slowly chew it.

"The honey used is different, and its quality is obviously higher, it's top-grade third-level honey, fellow Daoist is truly extravagant."

A moment later, her expression showed even more surprise, as she sensed that the Fire Elemental Palace was being nourished by the substances in the pastries.

Suddenly, Master Feiyun felt that he could no longer see through his opponent. How could the opponent's sect be so powerful?

Ji An gently shook his head, "These things have been accumulated over many years. Each Golden Core cultivator in the sect can be allocated some, and most of them are kept to exchange for resources."

I was reluctant to use them, but since you've come today, please bring out your treasured possessions.

"I am flattered," said Master Feiyun, his eyes crinkling like crescent moons, clearly pleased.

The two chatted happily, eating and talking at the same time. Before long, all the pastries on the plate disappeared, most of them ending up in Master Feiyun's stomach.

Her face flushed slightly as she began to get down to business:

"Fellow Daoist possesses the Azure Lotus Burning Heart Flame. Our family wishes to collaborate with you on refining pills such as the Qi Cultivation Pill and the Golden Foundation Pill. The collaboration method is similar to that of the Certification Association. Would you be interested?"

Even if the quality of such pills that enable breakthroughs to higher realms is slightly better, some cultivators will benefit from them.

If it weren't necessary to reserve some medicinal herbs for the family's alchemists to refine, she would have preferred to give them all to them for refining.

"Of course I'm willing, but what kind of reward are you prepared to offer, fellow Daoist?"

Ji An readily agreed, saying he was willing to refine any elixir as long as the reward satisfied him.

Master Feiyun did not answer directly, but instead asked:

"What kind of reward do you desire, fellow Daoist?"

She found it hard to express the reward she had prepared, but the pastries made with top-grade amethyst honey of the third rank had quite a shock to her.

"I ask for nothing more than the Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pill, or the entire set of Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pill ingredients."

To maintain rapid improvement in cultivation level, it's impossible without taking drugs.

"Fellow Daoist has actually advanced to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, congratulations!"

However, the Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pill is a mid-grade third-tier pill, the Nourishing Essence Pill is only a low-grade second-tier pill, and the Golden Elixir Pill can be considered a low-grade third-tier pill.

"If you wish to use the Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pill as payment, I request that payment be settled only after the amount of one pill has been received."

Master Feiyun's meaning was clear: work first, then pay; Ji An would bear more risk.

Ji An nodded, "No problem, but I have a request: the payment must be settled on the spot after the conditions are met."

"make a deal."

The two negotiated the details and finally signed a commission agreement.

Both parties agreed to use 40% as a baseline to protect the rights and interests of the medicinal material suppliers.

The extra pills belong to the alchemist, and it is agreed that two Golden Core Pills or twenty Qi Cultivation Pills can be exchanged for one Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pill of the same grade.

Ji Anlue was at a disadvantage by doing this, but who could blame him for wanting the Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pill even more?

Master Feiyun put the agreement away and said:

"I will relay the message back to the family, and there will be a reply within a month. At that time, other family members will take over my role in contacting you, fellow Daoist."

This collaboration is just the beginning; I believe there will be broader cooperation in the future.

“I’m really looking forward to it,” Ji An smiled politely, then asked:
"Fellow Daoist, could you give me a hint as to how many batches of pills you can refine each year?"

If it takes two or three years to collect enough Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pills, his expectations will be greatly reduced.

Master Feiyun smiled sweetly, keeping everyone in suspense:
"As long as you can guarantee the quality of the pills, orders will come in continuously."

The family will receive many alchemy commissions. As long as the quality of the pills is recognized by the client, the family can get more orders and then resell them. The family can essentially get something for nothing.

She figured the clan leader would reserve a quota for training his own alchemists and then send more orders here.

Seeing that he couldn't get a clear answer from the questions, Ji An changed the subject:

"I have consulted a map of Zhongzhou and found that the Phoenix Dance Mountains are more than 20,000 li southwest of the Myriad Transformations Mountains. Is your family paying attention to the situation there?"

"The Myriad Transformations Mountain Range?" Master Feiyun understood and said:

"Fellow Daoist, are you perhaps considering trying your luck at the Five Elements Sect ruins?"

This ruin is a popular place for independent cultivators and small factions to explore because it has been explored many times, and detailed maps are available for sale in the cultivation world.

As long as you avoid dangerous places and avoid conflicts with cultivators, your safety is still guaranteed.

Ji An didn't hide his purpose and nodded generously:

"Yes, the Five Elements Sect was once a top-tier sect in the cultivation world. Anything I obtain could benefit me for many years."

"If you enter the ruins, you may be disappointed, as almost everything of value inside has been looted."

Based on past experience, the sealing array of the ruins will loosen after a hundred years. However, if the demonic mist spreads to the Myriad Transformations Mountain Range, the ruins should be able to be entered earlier.

It is said that many twisted and bloodthirsty monsters inhabit the still valuable areas within the ruins. If you wish to explore, it is best to prepare in advance and ideally form a team with familiar cultivators.

(End of this chapter)