Junior sister, I really need to control you

Shangguan Ling'er, standing to the side, wore an expression that said, "I knew it."

She looked at Li Yinsheng and couldn't help but whisper, "Yinsheng, this won't do. You can't spoil Xiaoyu like this!"

"Even if you are a True Person with the title of Imperial Decree, and ordinary magic treasures are not very precious to you, you can't just feed them to that Mystic Crystal Mirror piece by piece in the future, can you?"

"How much wealth do you have to squander like this? No, you don't have any wealth at all!"

"Don't worry, Miss Shangguan, I know what I'm doing," Li Yinsheng replied.

Seeing that Li Yinsheng was completely unmoved, Shangguan Ling'er snorted and turned her head away.

However... she remembered that her master had once obtained a rather special spiritual object.

Although it is full of spiritual energy, it has other flaws, so it is not suitable for refining magic weapons. It is tasteless to use but a pity to throw away, so it has been idle until now.

Anyway, that thing is useless if it just sits there collecting dust. Why not go back and ask Master if we can sell it to Yinsheng cheaply?

"Let's just consider it a way to make use of waste," Shangguan Ling'er thought to herself.

Chapter 179 Five Qi Pill

After finding the inheritance of the Mystic Crystal Mirror, Li Yinsheng did not leave, but instead went to another relatively intact house.

"I wonder why this mustard seed space is like this. Could it be that this arrangement is the personal hobby of the great master who left behind the legacy?"

Li Yinsheng pushed open the door and entered, complaining to the three people beside him.

"Perhaps the immortal who left behind this legacy simply had a fondness for ruins?"

"Ruins style? Do you mean the style of your Xuanzhen Temple?" Shangguan Ling'er asked.

Li Yinsheng paused in his steps.

"Miss Shangguan, did you often chat with your martial uncle like this before?" he asked.

“Yes, that’s right,” Shangguan Ling’er said.

"Then your martial uncle must often spar with you, right?" Li Yinsheng asked.

“Occasionally,” Shangguan Ling’er coughed lightly, “but that’s all in the past.”

"I am now on the verge of condensing my Dharma Form. Even if Ningzhi recovers her cultivation, she will not be my match in future sparring sessions!"

Li Yinsheng didn't speak, but led the three of them to the stove in the house and looked at a large black pot embedded in the stove.

He opened the pot lid, and inside lay five gray pills, their surfaces shimmering with a fluorescent glow.

The moment he picked up the pill, the fluorescent light transformed into information that appeared in Li Yinsheng's mind.

He then paused for a moment, slightly taken aback.

These pills are truly top-quality treasures.

Unfortunately, it's not useful yet.

These pills are called Five Qi Pills. If taken normally, they can increase a cultivator's cultivation by more than a hundred years.

Unfortunately, they are all half-finished products now.

According to the records, the Five Elements Pill is an extremely special elixir. It is necessary to refine five pills corresponding to the five elements and consume them all in order to achieve its maximum effect.

If you only take one pill, your cultivation will increase by about ten years at most.

After taking the second pill, one's cultivation will increase by twenty years, plus the previous ten years, for a total of thirty years of cultivation.

Taking the third pill will grant an additional thirty years of cultivation, bringing the total to sixty years.

The fourth and fifth were the same, each containing ten more years of cultivation than the previous one.

In this way, if one can collect one of each of the five elements and consume them, one can increase one's cultivation by about 150 years.

If an ordinary person has this opportunity, it is basically considered a guaranteed promotion to a great person.

Unfortunately, these five gray pills are all semi-finished products. Although the base has been laid, each of them needs to be combined with a large amount of high-quality five-element spiritual herbs before they can be formed into pills.

As for which specific elixirs to use, there is no fixed answer.

As long as the rank is high enough and it is pure enough in one of the five elements, that's fine.

Fortunately, this place is Zhelong Valley. Although finding spiritual herbs that are over a thousand years old is somewhat dependent on luck, spiritual herbs that are three to five hundred years old are not difficult to find.

Of course, even if it is successfully refined, pills of this grade are not easy to refine.

Each of these five stones requires about a year to refine.

However, my junior sister has the talent shared by the Spirit Devouring Fish, so her refining speed will be much faster.

The only thing that worried him was that the Five Qi Pill had a minor side effect—

The Five Elements correspond to the five flavors: sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty. Before the Five Elements Elixir is fully refined, it will affect the corresponding taste sense of the user.

For example, fire corresponds to bitterness. So as long as the fire element pill has not been completely refined, the cultivator will only feel bitterness no matter what he eats.

The same applies to the other four elements: earth corresponds to sweetness, metal to spiciness, wood to sourness, and water to saltiness.

This side effect is negligible for ordinary cultivators, especially since True Immortals don't need to eat.

But if it were my junior sister, the sky would probably fall...

Li Yinsheng stroked his chin, having made up his mind.

When the time comes, the sweet earth-elemental elixir will definitely be given to my junior sister last.

……

half a month later.

After searching the mustard seed space within the Ancient Peach Sacrifice Spirit for a long time without finding anything else, Li Yinsheng and the other three came out.

As they left, the spirit of the ancient peach tree withered away.

To Mu Xiaoyu's great disappointment, there were no peaches to eat this time.

Since Li Yinsheng took away both inheritances from the Mustard Seed Space, although Shangguan Ling'er and Elder Yue didn't mind, he still felt that he should make some compensation.

Therefore, in the ten days after he left, apart from some spiritual herbs with high purity of the five elements that could be used to replenish the Five Qi Pill, he gave all the rest of his gains to Elder Yue and Shangguan Ling'er.

However, ten days later, at the strong request of Elder Yue and Shangguan Ling'er, the distribution of the spiritual medicine returned to the previous mode.

After a total of half a month of searching for and refining spiritual herbs, Li Yinsheng realized that something was wrong.

These Five Qi Pills are like five bottomless pits that can never be satisfied!

During this period, he added more than ten five-element spiritual herbs that were hundreds of years old to each pill, but none of them showed any signs of forming a pill.

The only difference is that each of them has some patterns corresponding to its own five elements on its gray surface.

As he walked on the road in search of elixirs, Li Yinsheng held a gray pill with several crimson lines on its surface between his fingers, his brows furrowed.

This Fire Qi Pill is already the one with the highest progress in the formation of the Five Qi Pills, but so far only 30% of it has turned from gray to red.

It's unknown how many more resources would be needed to wait until it turns completely red.

Now he even suspected that the nameless senior who left the Five Qi Pill in the Mustard Seed Space might have seen through the bottomless nature of the Five Qi Pill and thus cut his losses in time.

He had originally planned to collect more precious medicinal herbs in Zhelong Valley so that he wouldn't be short of money when he went to the Yunmeng Merchant Guild to purchase cultivation techniques.

But now it seems that although he has indeed accumulated some good spiritual herbs, it is definitely far from enough to exchange for a human immortal-level body refining technique.

There are only three days left before Zhelong Valley closes.

Three days later, in addition to the annual eclipse miasma, many other miasmas will spread in the Hidden Dragon Valley, and even those who are granted the title of True Person will not be able to stay there for long.

It wasn't until more than a hundred years later, when the miasma in Zhelong Valley temporarily subsided, that it was possible to enter again.

Moreover, even if you brave the poisonous miasma to search in the Hidden Dragon Valley, it will be useless.

For some unknown reason, after this period of time, most of the medicinal herbs in Zhelong Valley would disappear without a trace and become difficult to find.

Li Yinsheng rubbed his temples.

"What's wrong, Yinsheng? You look like you have a headache. Is it because of this Five Qi Pill?" Shangguan Ling'er asked.

Li Yinsheng put away the Fire Qi Pill and shook his head, saying, "That's secondary. What's more of a headache for me is going to the Yunmeng Chamber of Commerce to exchange for a body-refining technique."

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Ling'er subconsciously recalled the "advice" Elder Yu had given to Li Yinsheng.

She quickly replied, "Of the medicinal herbs I gathered on this trip, only a few are useful. I can lend you the rest."

Although she received fewer spiritual herbs due to her lower cultivation level, she didn't need many, so she could give Li Yinsheng about 70-80% of the spiritual herbs she had.

“This… Miss Shangguan, isn’t this far too precious?” Li Yinsheng hesitated.

"Anyway, I won't need it for a while," Shangguan Ling'er shook her head.

"Thank you very much, Miss Shangguan. I will remember this favor," Li Yinsheng said.

Shangguan Ling'er turned her gaze and smiled, "If you want to repay this favor, it's simple. After I condense my Dharma form, come with me to a place."

"Oh, where is Miss Shangguan going?" Li Yinsheng asked with a smile. "I will certainly accompany you."

“Of course I’m going back to my home,” Shangguan Ling’er said with a smile. “My father found out about me secretly teaching martial arts techniques. Although he didn’t blame me, he wants to meet you, the one who learned the family’s ancestral techniques.”

Although she only smiled slightly, her earlobes felt a little hot.

“Since Miss Shangguan has invited me, how could I dare to refuse?” Li Yinsheng said with a smile. “I just don’t know if your father will be satisfied with me then.”

"If a twenty-something-year-old Imperial Title True Man is not satisfied with you, then he must be incredibly arrogant," Shangguan Ling'er said, shaking her head.

“When he was in his twenties, he probably wouldn’t have been able to even get a second glance at you, so how could he look down on you?”

Just as Li Yinsheng was about to say something, his expression suddenly changed slightly, and he looked diagonally forward.

"Senior Sister Yue, let's go take a look over there," Li Yinsheng said seriously.

"What did you find?" Elder Yue asked, turning towards where Li Yinsheng was pointing.

"I don't know if it's just my imagination, but just now at the edge of my consciousness, it seemed like two extremely pure and powerful... demonic energies erupted."

Li Yinsheng frowned and said.

If it were merely demonic energy, he wouldn't have reacted so strongly.

After all, cultivators like spiritual herbs, and so do demons. It's not surprising that some demons infiltrate the area to search for them.

What really caught his attention was that one of the demonic energies seemed to faintly contain the essence of the sun.