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Chapter 232 Moonlight Fills the Cup, Demon-Revealing Mirror!

A private house somewhere in the capital city.

The man, who had been poor for two lifetimes, looked astonished: "Someone's refining a treasure?!"

Having spent two lifetimes together, he opened his eyes, snapping out of his cultivation state: "What's so strange about refining treasures? This is the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, a place where hidden talents abound."

"Have you forgotten the losses we suffered before?"

The two of them used to rely on their supernatural powers to look around and listen everywhere they went.

I've learned my lesson several times in a row.

Fortunately, this is the capital city, and most people don't want to cause trouble.

Moreover, most of the people they encountered were highly respected and virtuous.

They were only given a warning for spying and eavesdropping.

After suffering several setbacks, they learned their lessons.

Never touch the temples and Taoist monasteries in the capital!
And those wealthy and powerful families—they can't be approached easily!

All that's left is to look for gossip and interesting stories in ordinary markets and neighborhoods.

However, their reverence for this divine city grew stronger day by day.

Who knows how many powerful and unapproachable people you might hit if you threw a rock on the street?
"Having been poor for two lifetimes," clicked his tongue and said, "That's Lüdaofang!"

"Having been together for two lifetimes," he asked, bewildered, "What happened to Lüdao Lane again?"

He immediately realized: "Where does Prince Jing live?!"

"Even if it's there, it couldn't be him, could it?"

"Is something like refining magical artifacts something he's capable of?"

"Having been together for two lifetimes," he didn't think this could have anything to do with Xie Lingxin.

Let's put it this way: in the Federation, there are only a handful of cultivators who can refine magical artifacts.

Everyone knows that there are "magical treasures" in the legendary realm, which are not "scientific" and are coveted by everyone.

However, those who can refine magical artifacts are basically as rare as scripture masters.

Even with the Federation's resources, it's impossible to produce magical artifacts on a large scale.

We can only rely on technological means, combined with cultivation methods, to create equipment with similar effects.

Instruments used by the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor the mental world are of this type.

However, although it is possible to create something with similar functions to a magical artifact using technological means, it is generally not something that individuals can use.

Otherwise, the cost or limitations are too great.

True magic weapons are high-end items that only a small number of people or a very lucky few can possess.

Your talent for cultivation is amazing, I admit it, okay?

Refining treasures and cultivating are two different things.

You can't have all the good things, can you?
The idea of ​​being poor for two lifetimes seems a bit absurd.

Even the most extraordinary person has their limits. To have such cultivation at such a young age is no exaggeration to call someone a prodigy.

If someone achieves such success in treasure refining, how can anyone else survive?

He shook his head, no longer dwelling on it, and continued using his supernatural powers to find the "Eight Trigrams"...

……

Lüdao Garden.

Xie Lingxin held the Danhua Cauldron tightly, unable to put it down.

After playing with it for a while, I finally put it next to me, and I kept reaching out to touch it.

He didn't rush to start refining.

He had already spent too much effort and money refining this furnace.

It's clear that alchemy and treasure crafting are not that simple.

We should do some research first, otherwise it's not just a waste of energy, but also a waste of money.

He recalled in his mind the various treasures and elixirs recorded in the "Records of Refining Treasures in the Immortal Abode Palace".

The quantity wasn't large, but it was more than enough for him.

I'm a little unsure where to start.

We can only select a few key items from among them—those that cost the least and whose materials seem to be worth collecting.

As for elixirs...

After reading the book "Ecclesiastes", he decided that he would not try to practice for the time being.

This book discusses some of the mysteries of internal alchemy and external alchemy.

They believed that medicine was used to treat illnesses.

There are three levels of human "illness".

“患” refers to seasonal illness, “老” refers to illness of old age, and “死” refers to illness of the body.

For seasonal illnesses, herbal medicines should be used for treatment.

For physical ailments and age-related illnesses, there are two types of medicine: one is internal alchemy, and the other is external alchemy.

The book says: External alchemy is not unusable. When a person who cultivates the Tao awakens in his later years and his foundation is not very solid, he can use the five metals and eight stones to refine three grades over time. Each grade has three levels, which is called the nine grades. The Dragon and Tiger Great Elixir helps to connect with his true energy and refine his form to live in the world.

This means that practitioners who use external alchemy often waste many years without achieving anything.

In old age, one may gain some enlightenment, but by then, due to an unstable foundation, the body has already "suffered" from seasonal illnesses and "aged" diseases.

He won't live much longer.

At this point, it's time to use elixirs.

Medicines are classified into three grades and nine levels, totaling nine grades, which can help practitioners treat seasonal and chronic illnesses.

To prolong our fortunes, consolidate our foundation, and seize the last remaining opportunity.

The ninth-grade elixir, called the Dragon-Tiger Great Elixir, not only strengthens the foundation but also helps to replenish true energy, refine the body and live in the world, which means immortality!

External alchemy includes the Dragon and Tiger Elixir.

The inner alchemy also includes dragons and tigers.

This involves the cultivation of the Yang Spirit and the Holy Embryo.

That's why he made a special note of this book.

The so-called Dragon-Tiger Inner Elixir is the heart fire and kidney water, the heart fire being true yang and the kidney water being true yin, just like a mother and child meeting and caring for each other.

The dragon belongs to true yang, and the tiger belongs to true yin. When the dragon and tiger meet, they obtain "the size of millet"!
That is, one's own "golden millet"-like golden elixir, the embryonic form of a sacred fetus.

Once the initial form is complete, if one cultivates it without making any mistakes for a hundred days, the medicinal power can be fully cultivated.

They can be called "Holy Brothers"!
If nurtured for three hundred days, the embryo will be strong.

Three hundred days later, the sacred embryo is fully formed, shaped like a bullet blade, and the color of a vermilion orange. It is called the "inner elixir"!
Also called Golden Elixir or Holy Embryo!
When the sacred embryo is formed, true energy is generated.

It is precisely within the blood and qi that true qi resides. After this, like a dragon nurturing a pearl, the great elixir is formed and the yang spirit emerges, creating a body outside the body, like a cicada shedding its skin.

At this moment, the Yang spirit is truly pure Yang!

It can be called the primordial spirit!

He can remain in the fields forever, his physical form preserved in this world, achieving immortality even after great calamities; he is known as a terrestrial immortal!

Therefore, after reaching the realm of "emerging from the Yang spirit," it is actually a process of nourishing the sacred embryo and the sacred fetus through the "merging of dragon and tiger."

Once the Golden Elixir is formed, that is the fifth level of the Mind, "Nourishing the Holy Embryo"!

He was not sick, he had cultivated innate water and fire, and he also had the nectar and jade dates in the pure bottle.

There is really no reason to waste energy and money on refining elixirs.

"Golden Rooster Tent..."

Xie Lingxin recalled the record of refining treasures, and several of the treasures in it made him extremely envious.

Moreover, some secrets are revealed between the lines.

The records state that this treasure came from Ye Fashan. When a person wears this canopy, they can use the supernatural power of "Zhou Tian Xing Dun" (a type of star escape technique), transforming into starlight and traveling thousands of miles in an instant, reaching no distance.

Ye Fashan once used this tent to invite Empress Wu Zetian to visit the Moon Palace together!

Although the book's account is brief, Xie Lingxin always felt it wasn't that simple.

A trip to the moon palace together?

He knew Ye Fashan; he was a very powerful Taoist priest.

A Taoist master accompanied Wu Zetian to visit the Moon Palace?

They're probably off fighting, aren't they?
Xie Lingxin stroked her chin, pondering to herself.

Wu Zetian went to great lengths to become an empress, and then built the Tongtian Pagoda and the Six Paths of Reincarnation, so that she could be reborn into this world and become an empress again.

She was still an empress with absolute control over the world, and she was immortal.

As a result, he didn't hold the position for long before going into seclusion, which lasted for decades, nearly a century.

He ignored state affairs and allowed those corrupt eunuchs to rise to power.

Free?

It's possible that they used the eunuch as a tool to clear away some minor details.

But is that really the whole story?

No matter what you think, something is wrong.

Is he hiding from someone?

Xie Lingxin thought with a hint of malice.

Who could possibly subdue this powerful Empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty?

tsk...

My thoughts returned to my baby.

After flipping through the items many times, Xie Lingxin finally managed to select a few treasures—

The Moonlight Everlasting Cup: Made from Kunlun jade marrow, it is placed in the palace to worship the moon goddess. The moon condenses dew, drawing on the moon's essence to transform into jade dew. Drinking it cleanses the marrow and prolongs life.

Demon-Revealing Mirror: Modeled after the Xuanyuan Mirror, it incorporates the true forms of the Four Symbols and Twelve Zodiac Animals, refined with five metals, to reveal the true forms of demons and vanquish evil spirits.

Seven-Jeweled Lotus Throne: Made from the relics of the Buddha from India, cast with gold, silver, tridacna shell, and other seven treasures to create a golden lotus throne. The seven treasures form a protective barrier, dispelling delusion and evil, and are indestructible.

Golden Guard Staff: Forged from the black iron of the East Sea, a treasure of the Ziwei Palace for night patrols. When the staff strikes the earth, it creates a ten-mile-long barrier, a thunderous and impregnable fortress. When thrown into the sky, the earth cracks and mountains collapse, making it indestructible.

Peacock Feather Umbrella: The umbrella canopy is made of five-colored peacock feathers from Lingnan, and the ribs are made of thousand-year-old lightning-struck wood from Zhongnan Mountain. It repels all poisons and is protected by a thousand feathers.

Black Crane Azure Banner: Made from the feathers of black cranes from Sichuan, this banner is woven into silk. Under the azure banner, the black crane creates a protective barrier, untouched by the six senses and unaffected by any dharma.

These six treasures all look incredibly powerful.

It doesn't seem like something from the mortal world at all.

But that's the magic weapon!

In that book of treasure-refining records, these items can only be considered average.

However, the reason he chose it was entirely because it had the effects he wanted, and the refining conditions were relatively "easy" for him to meet.

What he valued most was "a cup always full of moonlight".

Leaving aside the fact that it can cleanse the marrow and prolong life, the Moon Essence Dew is very likely the same as the Moonlight Divine Water.

With this thing, wouldn't he possess a continuous and inexhaustible supply of pure nectar?
Why would anyone need to buy spiritual plants until they go bankrupt?

The last four treasures all possess similar powers.

It can set up barriers, providing amazing defense.

My own life is always the most important thing. I already have the Ruyi Supreme King Sword, but I still want to forge a protective magic weapon first.

As for the Demon-Revealing Mirror, it's simply because it's made of the simplest materials.

It can be made from ordinary metals.

The important thing is the so-called true form of the Four Symbols and Twelve Zodiac Animals.

In essence, it involves visualizing the shapes of turtles, dragons, phoenixes, and tigers, along with the twelve zodiac animals, and casting corresponding mirror patterns.

The so-called true form, of course, means that one must have actually seen these things and be able to visualize their true meaning. In layman's terms, it means that one's form and spirit are both present!

The four symbols and twelve zodiac animals, the dragon is repeated, and one is missing.

Apart from the dragon and phoenix, the others are all quite ordinary.

Back then, I saw the true form of the old Dragon King in the Dragon Palace Dead Zone. Visualizing his true form is not difficult.

The problem lies only in this phoenix...

If you want to refine a demon-revealing mirror, you first need to find out where such a thing is.

As for the remaining four items, he'll decide which one to forge based on which materials are easiest to find...

"Ding dong~"

"Ding dong~"

Just as he was pondering this, someone called out to him.

Chen Lingguan: I don't owe you anything anymore!
Chen Lingguan: Why haven't you come to save me yet?!

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Xie Lingxin was puzzled.

This kid... is he crazy?
Oh right, I sent myself a bunch of SOS messages before, first I was busy dealing with the eunuchs, then I comprehended the Way of Kingship and devoted myself to cultivation, so I completely forgot about this kid...

Xie Lingxin: Are you sick?
Chen Lingguan: I don't owe you anything! I'm not afraid of you!

"..."

Xie Lingxin: Speak properly! Do you believe I'll beat you up?
(End of this chapter)