Starting from the Tiger Demon Yaksha, the demon immortality

Chapter 344 354 Ginseng Fruit Tree? Good news arrives suddenly!
The surging medicinal power flowed through the meridians, and the light outlined the lines running through the hands and feet.

Ye Chengxiao and Wei He had unknowingly sat cross-legged, their auras becoming increasingly deep and solid.

“Military police. There’s nothing wrong with saying that.”

Li Cunxiao nodded upon hearing this; this was exactly what he intended.

"Now that everything in Wenzhou and Fuzhou is on track, with Master here, we are not afraid of local powerful families colluding with forces in Sichuan."

"The rest is nothing more than following the established procedures, building high walls and stockpiling grain, and training troops for war."

"Now that you are in charge of the drills for both the Dao soldiers and the regular army, I have no more worries and can start working on advancing to the Grandmaster level."

"Once the autumn harvest is delivered, Wang Jian's taxes are paid as tribute, and the elixirs escorted to the capital are finished being refined, I will begin my seclusion."

"When the time comes, you'll have to take charge for me."

"Therefore, we must have means to control the three armies, do you understand?"

Li Guangyi remained silent upon hearing this, his five fingers clenching the Bi'an Dragon Pearl tightly, clearly indicating his acceptance.

But my heart was not at peace.

Whether it's military police or supervisory teams, they all mean the same thing: it's a job that offends people.

Li Guangyi didn't care about this; instead, he was secretly saddened by his elder brother's change of heart.

Back in Chuqiu County, although life was tough, the two brothers could be happy for a long time as long as they had a good meal and a good piece of clothing.

However, as time went by, their status rose higher and higher, but Li Cunxiao's smiles became fewer and fewer.

Aside from being in front of himself and Ye Shuyi, he became increasingly profound and imposing day by day. Unless he revealed it himself, no one could guess what he was thinking.

Now, even Ye Chengxiao and Wei He, who started from humble beginnings, have finally become the objects of scrutiny and supervision.

These changes did not frighten Li Guangyi; instead, they only made him feel more sorry for his elder brother.

They were all forced into this situation by the times.

If possible, who wouldn't want to be carefree and innocent, and stay a child forever?

"Guangyi, you've worked hard."

We're all brothers, everything is understood without words.

Li Cunxiao didn't say much, he just patted his younger brother's shoulder lightly and walked out of the tent.

As he strolled through the camp, every soldier who saw him saluted with respect.

Even though the other party was not a tyrannical commander and did not usually beat or scold his soldiers, the White-Spear Soldiers always felt like mice seeing a cat when they saw him, and no one dared to be disrespectful.

"During this seclusion, my alchemy skills have improved again, and my control over spiritual energy and demonic energy has become more refined."

"If I break through now, I have at least a 70% chance of advancing to the Grandmaster level."

"But if we wait until this year's batch of pills is finished and sent to the capital, they will absorb the evil energy of these demons."

"With the help of the Vajra, the success rate will be 100%, 100%!"

Unbeknownst to Li Cunxiao, he rode the wind and ascended into the clouds, looking down at the golden rice fields in the mountains and valleys. Watching the busy farmers, a sense of accomplishment welled up in his heart.

He considered himself no saint, but he was willing to do anything within his power to make life better for the people.

A perfected Xuan Guan (mysterious gate) can only protect a few states, but a Grandmaster's body is enough to protect an entire realm.

If he becomes a Grandmaster in the future, then it is not impossible for the world to be at peace.

"The True Scripture of the Three Altars and the Sea Assembly can turn decay into magic, and use the Dharma forms of the three religions to evolve the Taoist temple of the earth immortals."

"But the prerequisite is that I must first transform all three main forms from spiritual forms into Dharma forms and elevate them all to the Grandmaster level."

"Otherwise, the strength will be uneven, and in the end, he will only be stronger than an ordinary grandmaster, but he will not be able to match a great grandmaster."

"The Haotian Spiritual Form is the most special. It does not need to be cultivated. It is enough to simply raise it to the third level to carry out punishments on behalf of Heaven."

"The other two schools, Buddhism and Taoism, aim to condense the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit, transform them into a primordial embryo, and nurture the Dharma form and divine body."

"The entire process will take anywhere from a few months to half a year, during which it will involve the power of heaven and earth, causing quite a stir."

Li Cunxiao had been planning to break through to the Grandmaster level for a long time.

The fact that a grandmaster under the age of thirty was too terrifying meant that Li Cunxiao did not intend to join the battlefield between Qin and Liang too early.

Therefore, this breakthrough must be concealed as much as possible to prevent the extraordinary phenomena of heaven and earth from revealing the news.

In this respect, the Dragon Palace Secret Realm can play a significant role.

Today's dragon boats are no longer the dilapidated little vessels that have been sealed away for hundreds of years. Both their internal space and spiritual energy concentration have been greatly enhanced.

At least after Li Cunxiao recently invited Qici to experience it, the latter's evaluation was that he was capable of fulfilling the cultivation needs of a Grandmaster.

If Li Cunxiao encounters any troublesome or unbeatable opponents in the future, he can simply hide in the secret realm and stay there for three to five years before coming out.

Even if you encounter an older master, it's not impossible to outlive them and then emerge from the shadows, relying on your youth.

Thousands of feet in the sky, only a sea of ​​clouds rolls by, and not a single human figure can be seen.

Li Cunxiao's heart stirred, and his figure disappeared from the spot, appearing in the Qianyang Palace the next moment.

As his cultivation level gradually improved, he could now move freely within the secret realm with just a thought, and even change the terrain.

If one breaks through to the Grandmaster level, one might be able to reshape this secret realm in the future, just like creating a universe.

In the blink of an eye, Li Cunxiao's figure disappeared from Qianyang Palace again and appeared in the back garden of the palace.

In an ordinary imperial harem, this place would probably be planted with exotic flowers and rare herbs for people to enjoy.

But this isn't the case here.

Nearly half of the area has been used as a medicinal herb garden, where all sorts of rare and medicinal herbs are distributed.

Different species have different growth habits, and some are even divided into several major categories.

Different categories, the concentration and proportion of the five elements, light and temperature all vary.

Some take root in lava, some sprout in ice, and some are completely immersed in hot springs or some specially prepared medicinal liquid.

If you only look at the first half, this place is like a rich medicinal herb garden, a private little world of an alchemist, maybe a bit larger in scale, but nothing particularly special.

But the back half of the garden is not like that.

Numerous demon organs were soaked in various medicinal liquids, and transparent glass jars filled iron racks of all sizes.

The further you go in, the stranger the things become, and these "specimens" gradually transition from completely inanimate objects to living things.

Even near the rear, a combination of demons and plants began to appear.

They resembled serpents with branches and leaves sprouting from their heads, centipedes with flower buds covering their waists, woody mandrills, and clams that exhaled spores with every breath. The further one went in, the more pronounced the plant-like features became on these demons, and the more bizarre their appearances grew.

If some uninformed江湖人士 (jianghu shishi, a person from the martial arts world) saw this, they might think they had stumbled into the lair of some evil cult.

But the deepest part of the herb garden is quite different.

There are only two trees here.

One is a Bodhi tree, and the other is also a Bodhi tree.

From a distance, neither of the two trees looks particularly unusual.

It is nothing more than its gnarled root system being very thick, its heart-shaped leaves on its branches being emerald green, and between the leaves being round fruits of varying sizes and colors.

With a casual wave of his hand, Li Cunxiao sent a fruit from each of the two trees to fall into his hand.

However, once you actually get your hands on it and take a closer look, you'll be quite surprised.

The fruit in Li Cunxiao's right hand was none other than the Dragon Pearl that he had previously given to Ye Chengxiao and Wei He!

The lifelike dragon, the amber-colored medicine, the pale red skin—it's all exactly the same!
The fruit on the left is significantly smaller. While the former is about the size of a plum or apricot, the latter is only the size of a cherry, and its skin doesn't look like a fruit at all, but rather more like one.
Pills?!
"There are two Dragon Flower Fruit Trees. One produces low-grade pills and Dragon Pearls, while the other produces precious medicines specifically for the Dragon-Riding Straight Path Soldiers."

"Speaking of which, I was able to get inspiration thanks to the demon flesh field that Huang Boren sent me."

Li Cunxiao recalled the difficult process of deduction he had gone through and felt a surge of emotion.

Li Yisheng sent him to Jiannan in the hope that he would use the abundant resources in the Jiannan mountains to regularly transport medicinal resources to the capital and the front lines.

This includes common Qi and Blood Pills and Explosive Qi Pills, as well as some advanced healing elixirs, such as the Fragmentation Pill that can regenerate severed fingers and the Mind-Stabilizing Pill that can help one overcome true inner demons.

To achieve this goal, it was impossible to rely entirely on Li Cunxiao to do it all himself; the imperial court also dispatched more than a dozen alchemists to accompany him.

Even at full capacity, these people's work efficiency can only meet the needs of the imperial court and the current garrison at most.

If Li Cunxiao expands his army, the output of pills produced by these few people alone will be far from sufficient.

This is why Li Yisheng felt comfortable letting him out, because nurturing one's wings takes time.

If Li Cunxiao were to line his own pockets, that would be fine; the approximate extent of his expansion could be calculated by observing the supply of elixirs.

Li Cunxiao was determined to break free from the shackles of Hedong, but if he were to start training alchemists from scratch, it would be too late.
If I were to refine the pills myself, I would inevitably have to sacrifice my cultivation time.

Thus, amidst all these considerations, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Li Cunxiao's mind:

If there aren't enough people, why don't I just go for automation?
Taiyi Zhenren once taught him that alchemy is not about fire and furnaces, but about the creation of heaven and earth.

If we say that an alchemist processes various materials, combining them into one furnace, the final product with a certain fixed medicinal effect is called an elixir.

How could the demon flesh fields that reproduce on grains, and the exotic flowers and herbs that grow by absorbing the different spiritual energy of rain and soil between heaven and earth, not be a kind of elixir?
The reason why alchemists are needed and why there are hundreds of pill formulas is simply because different medicinal materials and different parts of the flesh and blood of different demons have different effects.

These medicinal properties can not be integrated and transformed by simply swallowing them directly; they cannot be fully processed within the stomach of a martial artist.

Moreover, the demon meat fields that reproduce on their own based on grains mostly produce demon meat limited to the third rank and below, and most Huangting martial artists still take pills.

If we could learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and compile the various changes in the alchemy process into a fixed program, and implant it into the combination of demon flesh and spirit herbs, wouldn't we be able to obtain an assembly line that can continuously produce pills as long as resources are invested?

As soon as Li Cunxiao had this idea, he immediately resolved to make it a reality.

To this end, he deduced the Taoist military strategy while simultaneously working on the technique of combining medicinal herbs with demon flesh fields, stumbling along for more than half a year.

It has taken countless hours and immense effort to finally achieve initial success.

"These two Dragon Flower Fruit Trees now possess the ability to automatically refine pills, making them a new type of 'flesh field.' As long as there are sufficient nutrients, they can automatically produce medicinal fruits within a few days to a few months."

"This Dragon Flower Fruit Tree, which is exclusively for Taoist soldiers, currently only produces three kinds of fruits: Bi'an, Chiwen, and Baxia."

"The one facing the Dragon Armor Army and the capital can produce a variety of ordinary pills from the first to the third tier."

"When I go into seclusion, I only need to leave Guangyi and Shuyi a key to enter and exit the secret realm, and they can send the raw materials directly, and the Dragon Flower Fruit Tree will automatically refine pills."

"The malevolent energy in the materials is then transferred to the vajra via the dragon boat, achieving two goals at once."

Li Cunxiao did not deliberately hide his ambitions from his family.

As the saying goes, "one hand cannot clap," and as he grows up, a rift will inevitably develop between him and Hedong. It is acceptable to reveal some secrets to those close to him.

After all, once he breaks through to the Grandmaster level, the next step will be to become a terrestrial immortal.

The further you progress in spiritual practice, the more difficult it becomes. If you want to concentrate, you need to find someone to share some of the tasks.

"Right now, we just need to refine a batch of the high-grade pills that Li Yisheng specifically requested, and then wait for the autumn harvest to be stored and for Master to return from Fuzhou."

"With him in charge, I can go into seclusion with peace of mind."

Since taking charge of the affairs of the two prefectures' agricultural offices, Qici has been very attentive to them.

Besides his cultivation, he frequently traveled between Wenzhou and Fuzhou.

Li Cunxiao's departure from the pass coincided with the abbot's absence; judging by the time, he should return in the next couple of days.

After briefly inspecting the production of the Longhua fruit trees, Li Cunxiao had a sudden thought and returned to the clouds, slowly descending to the military camp.

Unsurprisingly, Wei He and Ye Chengxiao's breakthrough of Huang Ting ignited the soldiers' passion.

While still in mid-air, Li Cunxiao could see from afar that the officers of each camp had surrounded the two of them, their eyes filled with burning desire.

Upon spotting them, the group rushed over and all knelt on one knee.
"Your Excellency holds the power of creation and possesses great supernatural abilities. We are extremely fortunate to serve under your command!"

Okay, okay, after seeing Bao Dan, everyone's feeling repressed, right?
Li Cunxiao chuckled inwardly, knowing that these people were eager to emulate Wei He and Ye Chengxiao's rapid advancement in cultivation.

He didn't point it out, but instead encouraged them:
"The elixir is not valuable; the person is valuable. You have performed your duties faithfully, and I will naturally not be stingy with your rewards."

Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up, and they all exclaimed in unison:
"Through fire and water, no matter what!"

Yes, people’s hearts can be used.

Li Cunxiao was very satisfied. He saw Ye Chengxiao and Wei He stepping forward through the crowd with grateful expressions. Just as he was about to say a few words of encouragement, a messenger with feathers on his shoulder galloped in from afar.

The horses, steaming profusely, resembled cauldrons in the autumn sun. Before the horses even reached the camp, the riders had already leaped and bounded, intending to head straight for the central army, but turning back halfway:

"Report!!!!!"

"One thousand Tibetan barbarians launched a surprise attack on Fuzhou, looting villages."

what?
Upon hearing this, the officers were delighted.

Wei He and his companion were the envy of everyone who obtained the precious elixir. They were just worried about not having any merit, when suddenly the opportunity was delivered right to their doorstep.

However, before everyone could rejoice, the messenger quickly uttered the second half of the sentence:

"Fortunately, Master Qici was in Fuzhou at the time, and in his fury, he took action, and the thieves have now been captured!"

(End of this chapter)