Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 416 Seed
As the 'seed' within Niu Yi's body was activated, a beam of purple-gold spiritual light quickly flew out from Niu Yi's dantian and slowly floated down in front of Niu Yi.

Niu Yi sat cross-legged, silently reciting incantations and forming hand seals, continuously injecting streams of spiritual power into the purple-gold seed.

Soon, the seed, which was constantly emitting purple-gold light, slowly grew larger and finally transformed into a somewhat illusory Chaos Furnace, which landed in front of Niu Yi. As the hand seals in his hands changed again, a dim yellow flame instantly rose from the Chaos Furnace.

Niu Yi smiled when he saw this.

"As expected, my deduction was completely correct."

The Tianbao Jue method uses immortal treasures as meditation diagrams, borrowing them for one's own cultivation. These immortal treasures are often other people's treasures. What kind of immortal treasure's meditation diagram one can visualize depends entirely on one's understanding of that treasure.

Therefore, this Heavenly Treasure Technique is naturally an extremely useless existence. According to the person who left this book, he had cultivated a magic treasure meditation diagram that was 70% complete.

Even so, his cultivation progressed rapidly, and he was extremely formidable in combat.

Furthermore, at the end of the Heavenly Treasure Manual, there is that person's annotation: if the Heavenly Treasure Manual is further improved, a perfect meditative diagram for magic treasures will appear.

But no matter how much you, as an outsider, understand someone else's magic weapon, you can't possibly understand it better than the original owner. And since the original owner already has that immortal magic weapon, why would they need to cultivate your so-called Heavenly Treasure Technique?

Therefore, the so-called perfect, ten-fold magic treasure meditation diagram is almost entirely a figment of imagination.

But Niu Yi himself is different.

He possesses a total of nine natal magic treasures, which are among the top in the Three Realms. These nine magic treasures are intertwined with his life, and no one understands them better than him.

Therefore, what Niu Yi cultivated was the perfect complete Hunyuan Furnace magic treasure meditation diagram of the Heavenly Treasure Technique. The Hunyuan Furnace magic treasure seed condensed from it could also fully unleash the power of the Hunyuan Furnace, but it was weakened by countless times at this moment.

With such a perfect meditation diagram and magic treasure seed, Niu Yi can cultivate at least eight more sets!

However, his cultivation level is still weak at the moment. It would be better for him to focus on cultivating the Hunyuan Furnace Meditation Diagram and improve his cultivation level first, and then slowly cultivate the other eight diagrams.

Moreover, even with the Primordial Chaos Flame weakened countless times, the spiritual energy consumed is still far too much.
Niu Yi sensed that the spiritual energy in his body was rapidly decreasing and would soon be depleted. Without further hesitation, he grabbed the stack of ancient books next to him and threw them into the Hunyuan Furnace.

The dim, yellowish-brown Primordial Qi Fire rose rapidly and silently, quickly engulfing the ancient books that had flown in.

After burning for only a short while, the ancient books turned into wisps of black smoke and disappeared. In the last book, a dark blue ghost head phantom emerged, but as soon as the phantom appeared, it was completely burned into nothingness by the dim yellow flames.

"That ghost-head nail was indeed problematic."

A cold glint flashed in Niu Yi's eyes as he firmly memorized that fleeting aura.

If someone were to actually cultivate this Heavenly Treasure Technique and attempt to comprehend the meditation diagram of the Ghost Head Nail magic weapon, they would surely be controlled by this aura, and their life or death would likely be beyond their control.
The fact that the other party was able to leave such a contingency plan suggests that they are still alive. Although this person did not outwit him, he will definitely recognize them if they meet again in the future.

Niu Yi casually put the Hunyuan Furnace back, glanced back at the earthen bed behind him, where the boy was still soundly asleep, carefree.

Niu Guangze was a simple-minded boy, the kind who never paid attention to anything. He had only worried for a while when Niu Guangze was studying the Heavenly Treasure Technique, but he was relieved after confirming that Niu Guangze was alright. Niu Yi also loved this younger brother very much. This family in this life made him feel the warmth of home that he hadn't felt in a long time.

Since they are destined to be family in this life, he will naturally take good care of them.

Niu Yi returned to the earthen bed, sat cross-legged, and slowly closed his eyes. The meditation diagram of the Hunyuan Furnace quickly appeared in his mind, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth began to be drawn towards Niu Yi's body.
At this moment, Niu Yi was unaware that in the sky, Guanyin Bodhisattva, holding a jade vase, was standing on the clouds, quietly watching this scene.

"The Primordial Chaos is indeed not such a simple existence. Could it be one of my old friends?"

Ten thousand miles away from Linjiang City, in a quiet, deep forest, a roar suddenly rang out!
"Who!!! Who dared to destroy my Heavenly Treasure Technique!!!"

The voice was hoarse and aged, and it shook the mountains and fields like the howl of a demon! But the forest remained deathly silent, without the slightest sound.

Before long, a hunched figure with ashen skin slowly emerged from the forest and headed towards Linjiang City.

Unbeknownst to them, ten days had passed since Niu Yi mastered the Heavenly Treasure Technique, and the Niu family gradually returned to a peaceful life.

At this moment, Niu Yi was grinding medicine and tending the shop at the counter of the pharmacy. Two days ago, he had finished refining two prescriptions recorded in ancient books and handed them to Niu Sanjin. He then explained the effects of the medicine to Niu Sanjin. After hearing this, Niu Sanjin left with the two medicine bottles with some doubt.

In the two days following Niu Sanjin's return that day, he began to leave early and return late, appearing mysterious and very excited.

Niu Yi naturally knew why Niu Sanjin was like this, but seeing his father's excitement, he let it go.

Just then, a figure darted in from outside, looked around, and called out loudly:

"Manager Niu! I've come to get my medicine!"

This man was a middle-aged man who looked to be no more than thirty years old. He was dressed in rather elegant simple clothes. He quickly spotted Niu Yi grinding medicine behind the counter, then stepped forward and said with a smile:

"Young manager, what's wrong? Manager Niu went out to buy goods again, leaving you to mind the shop alone?"

The man only realized something was amiss when he got closer. Looking at the boy, who was almost as tall as him, he exclaimed in surprise:
"Hey little shopkeeper, something's not right with you. It's only been half a month since I last saw you, and you've grown so much! You look about as tall as me now. If I remember correctly, you're only sixteen, right?"

As the man spoke, he held up his hand and compared it to Niu Yi's head.

Niu Yi, however, seemed unfazed, continuing his work with a smile:
"Brother Zhong, are you here to buy heart medication again?"

Upon hearing this, the man lowered his hand and sighed:

"That's right. The old man's condition hasn't been good lately. The intervals between his attacks are getting shorter and shorter. We used up that batch of heart-protecting pills too quickly."

Niu Yi turned around, opened a drawer with the words "Baoxin Pills" written on it in the medicine cabinet behind him, and took out a porcelain bottle of Baoxin Pills.

(End of this chapter)