Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 733 Five-Colored Pill

The plaque above the Niwan Palace reads "Guanghan Palace," radiating a serene and beautiful light.

Ji An clearly felt that his nascent soul was being nourished, his divine soul power was becoming purer, and its strength was also slightly improved.

"It's not easy."

He exclaimed that it takes several months of moon dew to condense into a single drop of moon essence, but fortunately, the effect was still quite good.

For Nascent Soul cultivators who lack methods to nourish their souls, the benefit of spending half a quarter of an hour each day is something to look forward to.

Ji An's heart stirred, and his nascent soul once again formed a hand seal. The crimson light spots flying above the main hall converged into his middle dantian; this was the Sunset Spirit Essence.

At the same time, the golden spiritual liquid floating in the primordial fire of the lower dantian converged in; this was the Bing Fire Metal Essence.

The morning dew from the middle dantian fell into the lower dantian and merged with the Bing fire metal essence, and then the evening spirit essence merged into it.

The fused liquid rapidly produced numerous tiny bubbles, undergoing an extremely violent 'chemical reaction'.

The volume of the spiritual liquid kept decreasing until it finally condensed into a single drop the size of a mung bean, round and golden, resembling a sun shrunk countless times. This was the essence of the sun.

The spiritual liquid left the middle dantian, flowed back to the lower dantian, and fell into the primordial fire, where it dispersed with a roar.

The flames of the primordial fire surged high, and the heat rose from the dantian, rapidly spreading to the limbs and bones.

Ji An clearly felt that the silver bone marrow in his body had become thicker, and more golden blood had condensed.

Moreover, the muscles and fascia become stronger, and the skin becomes firmer and more resilient.

Sun essence is the best supplement for body refinement, and its effect is much better than the medicinal mud refined from Vajra Bodhi fruit.

Moonlight tempering the soul and sun essence refining the body are two methods that comprehensively transform Nascent Soul cultivators.

Ji An felt completely refreshed, and his mind became much more open. He got up and rode on a cloud, where colorful light shone under the moon.

Back in his cave, he took out the gourd stone and probed it with his divine sense.

The figure vanished in the next moment, leaving only the gourd-shaped stone floating in mid-air, radiating spiritual light.

After entering the gourd world, Ji An took out several puppets that he had sent out to clean and cook from the Void Stone.

Ayun was the first to regain consciousness and immediately assigned tasks to the other puppets. The puppets could communicate with each other through a special method.

Just then, Ji An caught a glimpse of a flash above his head, just like being blinded by a reflective piece of glass while walking down the street in his previous life.

He immediately looked up and saw a five-colored flower hidden among the leaves, revealing half of its white petals, radiating a crystal-clear brilliance that far surpassed that of the other flowers.

"Could it be"

Ji An was overjoyed and immediately flew up into the air on a cloud, arriving next to the five-colored flower.

He carefully parted the leaves that were covering the flower and saw that all five petals were shining brightly. He couldn't help but smile. The five-colored flower was ripe!

Based on the actual situation in the small world, after the first five-colored flower matures, the rest will gradually mature in the next few days.

Ji An probed the Void Stone with his divine sense and found a pure white jade box, which he then put the flower inside.

He then searched carefully for a while and found that three more five-colored flowers had matured, which he carefully collected.

He put the jade box into the cave stone, rubbed his hands together, and laughed:

"It's time to prepare to refine the Five-Colored Pill."

He flew on a cloud to the sky above the blue spiritual field and landed next to a purple soul succulent.

After checking the Daoist aura values ​​by connecting with the stone tortoise, the following command was issued:

"Refine the Dao essence and accelerate the maturation of the spiritual medicine to two thousand four hundred and fifty years of medicinal age."

The Five-Colored Pill is at least a fourth-grade low-rank pill, mainly refined based on the grade of the five-colored flower. A fourth-grade low-rank five-colored flower is paired with a spiritual fruit of the same grade or a spiritual herb with a medicinal age of two thousand four hundred years.

He added fifty years of drug use to make the drug more effective.

If you want to refine a mid-grade fourth-tier Five Elements Pill, you only need to increase the medicinal herbs' age by five hundred years.

Some medicinal herbs are difficult to accumulate such a long medicinal lifespan and will slowly wither away at some point, which is an important reason for the scarcity of fourth-tier pills.

The stone tortoise appeared above the spirit herb, weaving a blue cocoon of light.

Ji An waited nearby, then took out the jade slip containing the formula for the Five-Flower Elixir and began to study it.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the light cocoon shattered into a sky full of blue light. The fact that the spiritual herb completed its transformation in such a short time indicates that it was not far from maturity to begin with.

The stone tortoise returned to his dantian, and he reconnected with it, discovering that the wood element Dao rhythm had decreased by twenty-six points, a completely acceptable value.

He estimated that, based on this intensity, it would take about 300 points of various Daoist principles to harvest a batch of raw materials.

Ji An put the Purple Soul Su into the wooden box and began the long journey of obtaining spiritual medicine.

Besides the elixirs, several fourth-tier spiritual fruits are also needed, including the Golden Radiance Fruit, the Dark Night Fruit, and the Phoenix Fruit.

It can be said that the cost of refining a batch of Five-Color Pills is extremely high, but the fact that enough materials can produce five pills is some consolation.

It took Ji An four hours to gather all the various spiritual herbs. During this time, he only went out once before sunrise, and spent the rest of the time in the small world.

Three days later, Ji An, having rested and recuperated, was ready and summoned the Blazing Sun Furnace and the Frost Moon Furnace from his dantian.

Because some spiritual fruits and medicines are of the yang nature, refining them with the Blazing Sun Furnace yields better results, while those spiritual medicines of the yin nature require the Frost Moon Furnace.

Finally, when refining elixirs, using the Frost Moon Furnace will yield better results.

Because the key to cultivation throughout the Nascent Soul stage is to enhance the energy of the Nascent Soul, which is of the Yin nature.

However, this does not mean that improving one's magical power is unimportant. Cultivators must cultivate both body and mind to achieve the status of an immortal. It's just that the Nascent Soul stage focuses more on cultivating one's nature.

Ji An closed his eyes, carefully recalled the pill formula, and then took out the Nightfall Fruit to begin refining the divine essence.

He had experience refining this kind of spiritual fruit, so he did what he was familiar with first before tackling the tough challenges.

Although the Five Elements Sect has elixir recipes, it has very few recorded refining techniques, perhaps because no alchemist in the sect's history has ever personally refined such elixirs.

The spiritual roots of heaven and earth are extremely rare. The Five Elements Sect once had a Jade Tree of Azure Sky, a spiritual plant of the wood element. Unfortunately, the sect was destroyed before it could be cultivated to the fourth level.

The seeds of the Heavenly Spirit Tree can only take root and sprout in a suitable environment, and how to cultivate them is a mystery. Without the experience of predecessors, it is difficult to cultivate them to a high level by just exploring.

This is a very heartbreaking thing. If the Five Elements Sect possesses the spiritual root of the Azure Jade Tree, the Calabash World will most likely welcome a second spiritual root of heaven and earth.

According to the records of the Five Elements Sect, for a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root to condense into a seed, it must be at least at the fourth-order top-grade level. I don't know if this is true.

The Frost Moon Furnace hovered in the air and slowly grew larger. Ji An activated the Netherworld Bone Fire and began to work.

Having prior experience in refining, he skillfully refined nine kinds of divine essences, including the Nightfall Fruit and the Phoenix Fruit.

Two days later, he extinguished the spiritual fire of heaven and earth, stood up, and half-reclined in the wicker chair, and said:

"Ayun, make tea and light the incense."

He pressed his temples with his thumbs. He had been refining fourth-tier spiritual herbs and spiritual fruit essences for the past two days, which had consumed a lot of his spiritual energy, leaving his head feeling somewhat numb.

There are no fourth-tier Nether Moon Jade Trees in this small world, so we can only make do with third-tier top-grade spiritual tea.

A few days ago, he tried to refine the Daoist essence to improve the grade of the Azure Jade Tree of the Nether Moon, but found that the Daoist essence was no longer effective. For him, the Jade Dew Golden Bud Tea no longer had the effect of nourishing his soul, but it was still quite good for quickly restoring his spiritual consciousness.

Ayun smiled and nodded. She first took out the sandalwood soul-nourishing incense and lit it. The blue smoke spread out, and a peaceful and serene atmosphere filled the air.

The Soul Incense is of the fourth tier, which can meet Ji An's needs.

He closed his eyes and thought to himself:

'Fortunately, I still have the fourth-tier Soul-Nourishing Wood; otherwise, I wouldn't have any other means to enhance my soul's strength.'

This is one of his major advantages; otherwise, he could only improve his soul strength by condensing moon essence, which would put him at a disadvantage when facing Nascent Soul cultivators with higher cultivation levels.

Ayun rode the flying shuttle to the pond, grabbed a water jar, activated the water control incantation, and leaped into the water, quickly diving to the bottom to fetch water from the spring.

The quality of spring water affects the quality of spiritual tea; if better conditions are available, of course the best should be used.

As the grade of the small world's spiritual vein improved, the depth and area of ​​the pond also increased. Now the pond is eighty feet deep, and its water storage capacity is more than ten times that of a third-grade high-quality spiritual vein.

After filling the urn with spring water, Ayun quickly returned to the Juyuan Tree, poured the water into a pot, added a handful of Jade Dew Golden Sprouts, and lit the wind furnace.

Soon, a 'glug-glug' sound rang out, and the aroma of tea filled the air.

Ji An got up, drank a pot of spiritual tea, and rested for two or three hours until his depleted spiritual energy was fully restored.

He began refining the essence of the Moonlit Grass, a yin-type spiritual herb that required the Frost Moon Furnace.

The white outer flames of the Netherworld Bone Fire licked the alchemy furnace, while the purple inner flames appeared extremely eerie.

As the elixir slowly melted, the outer wall of the furnace revealed a spectacular view of snow-capped mountains at dusk. Ji An had no interest in admiring it; his divine sense was taut as he closely monitored the changes in the medicinal liquid.

With no existing experience to draw upon, he had to figure it out entirely through trial and error, which posed a considerable challenge for him.

It's a challenge not only for him, but for any alchemist.

The liquid would change color from time to time, which was a sign that the medicinal properties had changed. This part of the liquid needed to be separated immediately, while controlling the changes in the Netherworld Bone Fire.

And so, with great difficulty, he refined a snow-white crystal of spiritual medicinal essence.

Ji An didn't bother to check his results. He immediately took out a blank jade slip, closed his eyes, and began to review the situation.

He carefully recalled each step and summarized his experience, which became a valuable asset.

It took another three days for Ji An to finally refine the essence of all the materials.

High-level spiritual herbs are very difficult to refine, especially starting from fourth-level spiritual herbs.

The five-colored flower is divided into five petals, from which five kinds of divine essence are refined. Then, all the divine essences are mixed together according to the five elements and yin and yang to obtain ten materials.

Because it was the first time refining, the materials that could have yielded five pills were reduced to only three.

Ji An was very excited about this result; his initial goal was simply to obtain two pill ingredients.

He carefully placed the materials into different jade bottles and gave the instructions:
"Prepare a spiritual meal, make it more substantial."

Although he was able to abstain from grains, Ji An still liked to eat spiritual food every now and then, as the warmth of everyday life made him feel like he was still a human being.

Ayun curtsied and summoned the flying shuttle away.

Now that it's the chief steward of the small world, it naturally has to get all the puppets involved in any work that comes up.

Half an hour later, Ji An, having eaten and drunk his fill, circulated his cultivation technique to refine the spiritual food, and then lay down on the rattan chair and quickly fell asleep.

Ayun lit the sandalwood incense and placed it next to the rattan chair. The wisps of smoke and the swirling mist made the place hazy.

It came to a short distance away and waited quietly.

Sleeping for a whole day and night, even for a Nascent Soul True Monarch, sleep is irreplaceable after a long period of high-intensity consumption of divine consciousness.

Ji An woke up feeling refreshed. He stretched his limbs and laughed:
"Ah Yun, brew a pot of Enlightenment Tea, thank you."

The final refining of the Five-Colored Elixir is about to begin, and the Enlightenment Tea, which can accelerate thinking, should play a role in this process.

A genuine smile blossomed on the puppet's face, and it immediately went to prepare.

A moment later, Ji An drank a pot of fourth-grade low-level Enlightenment Tea and summoned the Frost Moon Furnace to begin refining pills.

He divided the materials into three equal parts. When encountering unfamiliar pills, all alchemists used this method to refine them.

Firstly, it allows you to accumulate experience, and secondly, it minimizes the losses if you fail.

Two hours later, the medicinal liquid in the alchemy furnace suddenly exploded, and the lid of the furnace was blown off.

Ji An swiftly activated his object manipulation technique to catch the flying lid, reassuring himself:
"Failure is the mother of success."

He was not discouraged; this was an essential step in refining elixirs.

He unleashed the Lesser Cloud Rain Technique, and spiritual rain poured down as he began to clean the alchemy furnace. Listening to the 'ding-dong' sound of the raindrops striking the furnace, he pondered the reasons for his failure.

He began by analyzing the medicinal properties, searching for the answer.

The second batch failed; we continued to analyze the reasons.

When it came time to refine the third batch, Ji An's mindset hadn't changed much. He was confident he could handle failure; at worst, he could just rush to finish another batch of herbs.

Half a day later, the inside of the alchemy furnace flashed with five-colored light, and a frost-white spiritual energy spewed out from the mouth of the dragon relief on the furnace lid.

As he slowly reduced the output of the Netherworld Bone Fire, he used his object manipulation technique to lift the furnace lid.

A five-colored pill spun rapidly as it flew out, its speed suddenly increasing, and in the blink of an eye, it soared into the sky.

His speed was so great, coupled with a lack of mental preparation, that he failed to capture the elixir.

Seeing that the pills possessed such spiritual power, Ji An grinned and said:

"You little punk, you think you can escape!"

As he stared at the pill, he let out a clear whistle. The earth unicorn poked its head out from the Gathering Yuan Tree and flew to his side on a yellow spiritual cloud.

The distant roars of dragons and tigers echoed back, and soon the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Fire Phoenix, and Black Tortoise flew back one after another.

Ji An pointed at the Five-Flower Pill, "Grab it."

The five magical artifacts emitted a soft chime, as if they were discussing a strategy.

Soon, the fire phoenix let out a cry and soared into the sky, and the other four magical treasures also flew up, forming a huge circle that approached the flying Five-Colored Pill.

Wu Hua Dan was very agile, but it couldn't withstand the 'encirclement and suppression' and was quickly defeated. It was caught in the mouth of the white tiger and sent back.

Ji An took the pill and noticed three white cloud patterns on it, indicating that it was a high-quality elixir.

"Haha, thanks for your hard work."

The white tiger let out a proud roar, and the other magical artifacts responded in kind.

He was in a good mood. He had a 20% success rate in refining the Five-Colored Pill on his first attempt, and he obtained a high-quality one. He was very satisfied.

Ji An placed the pill into a jade bottle, sat cross-legged on a futon to review the pill-refining process, and said that there was no rush to take the pill.

(End of this chapter)