Sword Sect Outer Sect

Chapter 319 Plan
As his body was completely immersed in the spiritual liquid, an indescribable, boundless warmth instantly enveloped Song Yan's limbs and bones.

It was completely different from the feeling of meridians tearing and flesh burning when I was refining my body with demon blood. It was extremely gentle.

However, mildness does not equate to weakness; even diluted many times over, the purity of this power remains astonishing.

Song Yan couldn't help but feel secretly relieved. Fortunately, it had been diluted considerably; otherwise, given his physical strength, although it wouldn't have damaged his meridians, it would have been easy to waste it.

In the blink of an eye, this power began to gently cleanse his body's meridians.

Song Yan dared not delay and immediately began to circulate the nameless incantation.

Pure vitality and wood-elemental spiritual energy have the effect of cleansing the marrow and repairing the meridians.

Over the years, the impurities accumulated in his body from cultivation, along with the residual toxins, were gradually peeled away and evaporated under the rinsing action.

To Song Yan's even greater surprise, extremely faint hissing sounds occasionally emanated from his limbs and bones, followed by wisps of blackish-red gas carrying a foul and fishy smell.

"A malevolent aura..."

Previously, his body had been refined with the blood of a Qilin and the essence of a tiger demon, inevitably resulting in demonic energy seeping into his flesh and bones.

These malevolent energies are like a bone-deep infection, difficult to eradicate. They may not affect cultivation or combat in daily life, but in the long run, they pose a great threat.

He originally planned to ask Sheng Nian for a method to remove the evil energy after the third demon blood body refinement.

Unexpectedly, this body tempering exercise was able to expel the evil energy from the body as well.

Each time the black and red aura was expelled, he felt a lightness all over his body, as if a shackle had been removed.

A sense of purity and clarity began to spread from the inside out.

About twelve hours later, the warm current surging within his body gradually subsided, and Song Yan reluctantly stopped his practice and opened his eyes.

He stood up, the spiritual liquid flowing down his slender and muscular body, revealing his flawless skin underneath.

"call--"

Even with Song Yan's unwavering resolve, he couldn't help but let out a satisfied sigh at this moment.

He lowered his head, raised his hand and clenched it, feeling the astonishing changes within his body.

The meridians seemed to have been widened slightly, and the flow of spiritual energy and sword energy was smoother and without any stagnation.

My flesh and bones felt more comfortable than ever before.

After circulating the Purple Cloud Dao Scripture for a while, I found that I could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth even faster.

"what?"

This change was completely unexpected for Song Yan. With the blessing of the Spirit-Seizing Sword Formation, his original cultivation speed had already approached that of a cultivator with a Heavenly Spirit Root.

I thought this was the limit I could reach in the future, but I didn't expect there was still room for improvement.

Does that mean he might be able to reach the cultivation speed of a Heavenly Spiritual Root?

However, the biggest surprise this time was that all the hidden evil spirits within my body were gone.

Right now, my body feels as if it has been washed by a clear spring, reaching an unprecedented state.

He nodded in satisfaction and processed the medicinal liquid in the cauldron.

This time, because it was Song Yan's experiment, the dosage of the nectar was a bit too much, and some of its medicinal power was wasted.

Song Yan cast a water curtain spell to remove impurities and filth, leaving a clump of residual medicinal liquid.

He then put on a new Taoist robe and stepped into the courtyard.

The inner disciples' cave dwellings actually have an area where spiritual plants can be grown. Although the soil there is not as good as that of a spiritual field, it is fine for growing some spiritual flowers and herbs.

He casually took a spiritual plant seed from the corner of his storage bag, crudely buried it, and then poured some of the remaining medicinal liquid on it.

He didn't even know what kind of seed he had planted.

After doing all this, he returned to his cave and went to cultivate on his own.

Three days later, Song Yan sat cross-legged in the courtyard.

Looking down at the dragon liver melon in his hand, which was at least twenty or thirty years old, he fell into deep thought.

Even a complete novice like myself, who knows nothing about spiritual plants, can accelerate the ripening of spiritual herbs in a simple and crude way. If Liang Feng were to do it...

Song Yan wanted to maximize the effects of the nectar in the jade bottle, so he planned to use part of it to cleanse his physical body and part of it to accelerate the ripening of precious spiritual herbs for alchemy.

However, there are actually many problems here.

The most important point is that the risk of handing over Ganlu to Liang Feng is simply too great.

Leaving aside the possibility that he might be greedy and covet the treasure, Liang Feng is only a Qi Refining Realm cultivator.

Even if he is truly sincere to himself, it is not necessarily safe, because Lanxi Cave has now produced a Golden Core cultivator.

Song Yan couldn't determine the value of the jade bottle treasure in his hand to a Golden Core cultivator. He feared that the strangeness of the nectar would be discovered by the other cultivators in Lanxi Cave, and that the Jiang family patriarch would follow Liang Feng to find him.

After careful consideration, I decided to grow it myself.

Forget it, I won't bother learning about spiritual plants anymore. If they survive, great; if not, I'll move on to the next one.

Only those spiritual plants that are strong enough can survive in my Song Yan's courtyard!
Haha, just kidding.

Let Xu Xiang go to Liang Feng's place for some further study; he's just idling around anyway.

However, now that he had experienced the terrifying ripening power of this sweet dew, his thoughts began to stir.

Among the many unique methods of refining elixirs, there are records of quite a few.

In the past, Song Yan only refined a few ingredients because many of the medicinal materials required for elixirs were not only precious, but also required a very long time to mature.

Since they couldn't even gather all the necessary materials, they naturally didn't even consider it.

However, for now, it seems there's no need to consider the age limit of the medicinal herbs...

A special elixir recorded in the Thousand Elixir Formula flashed through his mind.

Sword-Nourishing Pill.

The Sword Nourishing Pill is a pill taken by sword cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage. Its special feature is that after taking it, the medicinal power can be directly transformed into sword energy, thereby improving cultivation.

Furthermore, the lower one's cultivation level, the better the effect of this elixir.

Currently, I am only at the early stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, so using this pill to assist my cultivation is extremely suitable.

However, the two main ingredients for this pill, Cloud Abyss Sword Bamboo Leaves and Azure Fruit, are not easy-to-obtain spiritual herbs, and they require a very high age.

Song Yan was not an indecisive person, and upon thinking of this, he immediately set off.

He first took the illusory image and left the sect, then went to Lanxi Cave to find Liang Feng.

Lanxidong has been thriving in recent years.

Countless wandering cultivators, upon hearing that a Golden Core cultivator had emerged from this place, would fight tooth and nail to join it.

Looking at it this way, Liang Feng is indeed quite lucky.

However, this also relies on his extremely high level of expertise in cultivating spiritual plants.

When Song Yan arrived, Liang Feng and Hu Qing, a married couple, naturally gave him a warm welcome. The three of them exchanged a few pleasantries and quickly got down to business.

Song Yan casually made up an identity for his illusory appearance, saying that he was a taciturn junior brother.

He was very interested in spiritual plants, so he introduced him here to learn about them from Liang Feng.

Although Liang Feng and his wife couldn't discern the strength of this Fellow Daoist Xu, they readily agreed when Song Yan spoke.

In fact, Xiao Song didn't expect to learn much from the illusion. As long as he could learn some basics, avoid making any fatal mistakes, and prevent the rare spiritual plants from withering, that would be enough.

He politely declined the couple's offer to stay and quickly left Lanxi Cave.

They arrived in a hurry, but on the return trip, they were not in a rush. Instead, they explored all the markets and towns they passed along the way.

They searched far and wide for the two main ingredients: bamboo rice from the Cloud Abyss Sword Bamboo and the spiritual seeds of the Azure Fruit.

The Azure Fruit Spirit Seed is alright; although rare, it does exist.

He even saw a hundred-year-old Azure Fruit in a herbal medicine shop in a large market, but the price was extremely outrageous.

Song Yan didn't consider it for the time being, but instead purchased a small bag of five seeds of the Azure Fruit.

However, the Cloud Abyss Sword Bamboo is something I've never seen anywhere else.

Some shopkeepers of elixirs had never even heard of this item.

To this end, he even went in circles and made a trip to Jiangxian Pass, but unfortunately, he returned empty-handed as well.

After returning to the mountain gate, I searched the sect contribution point exchange area and the Lingyuanze Market, but as expected, I still found nothing.

Song Yan was truly at his wit's end, so he had no choice but to speak with Manager Zhou of Jubaoge and ask him to keep an eye out for him.

They then returned to the Earth-shaped Cave No. 21.

Even someone as detached as Song Yan felt a slight sense of disappointment at not getting what he wanted this time.

There was no way around it; the description of the Cloud Abyss Sword Bamboo in the Thousand Pill Recipes was simply too tempting.

The material used to refine the Sword Nourishing Pill is merely bamboo leaves. The Cloud Abyss Sword Bamboo, which is over a thousand years old, is itself a top-tier material for refining flying sword-type magical artifacts.

This is a genuine treasure from heaven and earth.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Even for a spirit seed, obtaining such a treasure is not an easy task.

Since we can't get it for the time being, we shouldn't complain and waste time.

After adjusting his mindset, Song Yan returned to his daily cultivation routine.

Whenever he had free time, he would wander around the nearby market and try his luck.

During this period, many things happened in Zongzhong.

One of these incidents involved the group behind Ke Huai, which was eliminated by the combined forces of the Sheyang Sect, Dongyuan Sect, and Xuanjian Mountain Sect.

They were originally a branch of demonic cultivators, and it is unknown when they infiltrated this place.

As for the Qin family, who were implicated, they claimed that Qin Zhifeng was merely an outsider in the clan and had already been expelled from the family.

Because of the reputation and prestige they had built up during the chaos in the Demon Ruins, the Qin family was completely absolved of any involvement in this matter, and no one said much about it.

Another thing is that Li Qingfeng finally established his Dao foundation and became a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

After consolidating his cultivation, Li Pang came to visit and catch up with old friends. Song Yan simply invited several of his friends from the sect, including Gu Qingqing and Li Yi, and set up a banquet in the cave.

They exchanged skills and engaged in friendly competition, brewing tea and discussing philosophy.

The path to immortality is long and arduous, and it is a rare treat to be able to gather with a few close friends, drink and chat, play chess and relax.

This day.

Inside the training room, mist rose and steam billowed as Song Yan slowly rose from inside the bronze medicine cauldron.

He cast a water-based spell to cleanse his body and then put on a Taoist robe.

Now that the great task of ripening the spiritual medicine has been interrupted halfway, he will take out about one-third of the nectar in the small gourd once it has accumulated to more than half, and use it for medicinal baths to refine his body.

As long as you use it on yourself, it's an investment you'll never lose.

As they were tidying up the remaining items, they suddenly noticed someone visiting outside the cave.

Song Yan temporarily closed the training room, walked out of the cave, and came to the courtyard.

The visitor turned out to be Lin Qing.

"Junior Brother Song, how have you been?"

Not knowing why the other party had come to see him, he still welcomed Lin Qing into the cave.

"I see that Senior Brother Lin is radiant. He must have made a breakthrough in his cultivation recently, or he must have had a fortuitous encounter."

"Haha, Junior Brother Song, stop teasing me."

Lin Qing chuckled and took a sip of the spiritual tea brewed by Song Yan.

For some reason, even though he didn't have much interaction with this junior brother Song, his interactions with him always inexplicably gave him a sense of sincerity.

This is extremely rare in the world of cultivation.

After chatting for a while, Lin Qing said, "Junior Brother Song, have you ever heard about Daozi's old home?"

Caught off guard by this question, Song Yan pondered for a moment.

Of course I've heard of that, after all, I was the culprit who caused the treasure map to collapse back in Changping.

"Of course I know. What, Senior Brother Lin Qing, do you have some inside information?"

He hadn't forgotten that this Senior Brother Lin Qing was someone who had been reborn.

"There's no behind-the-scenes information; we just knew it in advance."

Lin Qingyan made a startling statement: "I won't beat around the bush with you. This Daozi's Hometown will eventually appear in the world at the border between the Eastern Wilderness and the Central Region, in Junping Prefecture."

Junping Prefecture?
The map above the Yin-Yang Realm that had appeared in Song Yan's mind came to mind.

Junping Prefecture has a rather special geographical location, bordering the Eastern Wilderness to the south, making it the place closest to the border region.

"What Senior Brother Lin told me was..."

Isn't that obvious enough?

Lin Qing chuckled: "I want to go and test my skills, to exchange techniques with other painting enthusiasts from all over the world. Today I've come to invite Junior Brother Song to come with me. I wonder if Junior Brother is interested?"

"I?"

Song Yan was taken aback, somewhat confused.

It should be noted that among the arts of self-cultivation, he only had some knowledge of chess and calligraphy, and could not even be considered an expert.

As for painting, he knew absolutely nothing.

Even though he had previously obtained a black jade pendant in Changping, he never intended to get involved.

Didn't that descendant of the Wu family from the Central Region say that one's cultivation would be sealed in that ancestral home?

Regardless of background or level of cultivation, the only standard for obtaining a senior's painting is their mastery of the art of painting.

There's no room for luck with this kind of thing.

Song Yan immediately wanted to refuse.

However, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and he remembered something.

That fellow Daoist Boqi in Nuo Realm...didn't he say he was going to Junping Prefecture in two years?

Could it be for this very reason?
Now, he felt a slight urge to try it.

Maybe going out for a walk would be good, just to clear your mind.

Not only will they have the opportunity to glimpse what these geniuses of the Central Region look like beneath their masks, but they will also broaden their horizons.

Moreover, the Central Region is vast and rich in resources. Perhaps on this trip, we can also look for traces of the Cloud Abyss Sword Bamboo Rice in the vicinity.

This is followed by many other benefits.

"Junior Brother Song?"

Lin Qing felt a little uneasy as she looked at Song Yan's pensive expression.

Actually, he called Song Yan for no other reason than so that they could look out for each other.

Although he was given a second chance at life, he didn't consider himself to have any great abilities.

In my previous life, I was so fond of painting that I obtained a piece of black jade at the Qi Refining stage. However, due to the long distance and my own low strength, I ultimately did not go to participate.

However, much of the content about the painting technique was later circulated from the cultivators who participated in it, and I secretly studied it for many years.

This life is different. Not only did he successfully establish his Dao foundation, but he also found a clue to a teleportation array leading to the vicinity of Junping Prefecture among the treasures left behind by his ancestors.

But having never been to the Central Region before, no one could know in advance what kind of dangerous situation might arise.

After much thought, among the cultivators he could persuade, only Song Yan possessed the most terrifying strength.

This person's strength has reached a level where he can escort me to Junping Prefecture.

However, this junior brother Song doesn't seem to have much interest in painting, so he probably won't agree.

To this end, Lin Qing had prepared many excuses in advance and also extended a generous invitation.

To Lin Qing's complete surprise, Song Yan actually nodded and agreed.

"Alright, Senior Brother Lin, when shall we depart?"

Let's bring Xiaohe along too. If we go out to play without her, she'll definitely throw a tantrum.

“We can go earlier, a month later.”

"it is good."

Although Lin Qing was somewhat surprised by how smoothly the invitation went, it was entirely a good thing for her.

"Junior Brother Song."

Lin Qing took out a black jade pendant from his Qiankun bag: "This is the admission certificate for Daozi's Old Garden, but it cannot be transferred. You will probably only be able to watch from the garden and will not be able to participate in the painting competition."

He feared that Song Yan might not know the details and would return to Chu before he arrived.

"No problem."

Mo Jue and Song Yan also had them, but he didn't take them out.

Anyway, he won't participate in any painting competitions.

Are you kidding me?
At that time, there may be many cultivators from the Central Region, Chu Kingdom, Qi Kingdom, and other places attending the ceremony in Daozi's hometown.

I don't want to display my clumsy graffiti in front of all the heroes of the world.

Want face.

(End of this chapter)