Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

"This contains twelve newly created Nine-Turn Elixir formulas, each with its own unique uses. You can experience them for yourself."

As the Sage Taiqing spoke, he glanced at Huanglong with annoyance: "Your master's cultivation in weapon crafting hasn't fallen behind, but in my alchemy, you haven't even refined a single Nine-Turn Golden Pill...!"

Huang Long smiled sheepishly and assured the Sage Taiqing, "After returning to Kunlun, I will diligently cultivate the art of alchemy and live up to the kindness of my senior master in passing on his teachings."

Huanglong probed his primordial spirit into the jade slip, where twelve pill formulas written in the script of the Great Dao seemed to wander back and forth like golden pills within the jade slip.

Each pill formula is incredibly detailed, specifying the required medicinal ingredients, the techniques for refining them, the corresponding energy of heaven and earth, and even the alchemist's understanding of the laws.

"Thank you so much, Master Uncle!" Huang Long bowed deeply in gratitude.

With this formula, he could try to truly improve the foundation of Yuan Lu, Bai Xiao, and others, fulfilling his original promise.

Those who are rooted in this can comprehend the laws and principles of the Great Way, and also benefit immensely from cultivating their own path.

The Sage Taiqing waved his hand: "Don't thank me too soon. I will give you the elixir formula, but you will need to provide the medicinal materials yourself. Moreover, many spiritual herbs have already disappeared in the prehistoric world."

Huanglong's smile remained unchanged as he bowed to the Supreme Saint: "Extinct in the primordial world, but our Grand Master Uncle surely possesses it...!"

Looking at Huanglong's begging expression, the Sage Taiqing felt somewhat helpless. This disciple was becoming less and less like Yuanshi!

"Go to the herb garden and find Xuan Du yourself...!"

Knowing the situation was tactful, Huang Long bowed again and said, "This disciple takes his leave. I hope my senior master will soon refine the divine elixir, so this disciple can come again another day to... cough, to pay my respects!"

"Get lost!" The Sage Taiqing laughed and cursed, then with a flick of his whisk, a gentle force threw the Yellow Dragon out of the Eight Views Palace, and the palace gates immediately closed.

Huang Long got up from the ground, dusted off his Taoist robe, held the jade slip in his hand, and smiled as he headed down the mountain to the medicinal field.

Xuan Du was tending to a nine-leaf lingzhi in the medicinal field when he saw Huang Long walking quickly towards him. He smiled and said, "It seems that you have had quite a harvest, Senior Brother."

Huanglong placed his hand naturally on Xuandu's shoulder. "We have the formula for the pill, but we don't have the medicinal herbs. I heard that my junior brother is now in charge of the herb garden of our senior master."

Xuandu nodded: "Senior brother, come with me!"

With a flick of his sleeve, a black and white interwoven spiritual light appeared from the void, quickly unfolding into a phantom image of a Tai Chi diagram covering an area of ​​several miles.

The yin-yang fish rotated slowly, and the Dao jade spread, seemingly revealing the secrets of the birth and death of heaven and earth.

"open!"

Xuandu unleashed a beam of spiritual light, opening a portal in the center of the Taiji diagram. Inside, light and shadow flowed, obscuring the true form within.

"My master specially created many secret realms within the Taiji Diagram based on the properties of the medicinal herbs, for the purpose of cultivating various medicinal herbs."

Xuan Du explained it as, "First step into the gate."

Huanglong followed closely behind.

The moment you step inside, the world changes.

What lay before me was not the vast world I had imagined, but rather patches of medicinal fields.

Instead, in a black and white void, thousands of light spheres of varying sizes floated, each a small world in itself.

The sphere of light closest to Huanglong was covered with thunderclouds and crackling with lightning. In the center of the world, strange trees stood proudly, drawing upon the boundless power of lightning!

The tree bears thunder-shaped fruits, which are the innate spiritual medicine "Heavenly Thunder Fruit".

Inside a sphere of light on the left is a world of fire, with magma gushing from the ground and divine fire descending from the sky. Clumps of blood-red 'fire lotuses' are growing vigorously in the flames!

On the right, the sphere of light was pure white, and a crystal-clear "Mystic Ice Glazed Flower" was rooted on the top of the glacier, exhaling spiritual energy.

Further away, there are spheres of light where gales howl, spheres of light are filled with poisonous miasma, and spheres of light where golden energy crisscrosses... all of which are planted with strange spiritual herbs of various attributes!

Three thousand medicinal herb gardens, three thousand different scenes.

Each herb garden was not created solely for the sake of the spiritual herb; the necessary laws were fully condensed within each garden.

Although these medicinal herbs are neither innate nor acquired spiritual roots, each one is extremely unique and contains special effects.

Only a supreme innate treasure like the Taiji Diagram possesses such power; spiritual treasures can only create a single environment!

"This...this is the power of a sage!" Huang Long was shocked. Even though he had traveled extensively throughout the prehistoric world and had a wide range of knowledge, he was still deeply moved at this moment.

His Xuanhuang Realm far surpasses any single world here in every aspect.

But compared to the three thousand worlds, it is worlds apart.

Seeing his expression, Xuandu smiled and said, "Senior brother, there is no need to be surprised. The Taiji Diagram is a supreme innate treasure, containing the universe within it, and is capable of evolving all things. Master already knows that cultivating spiritual herbs is for two reasons: first, for alchemy, and second, to comprehend the way of creation and evolution."

"These worlds may seem independent, but they are actually governed by the Tai Chi diagram. Life, death, prosperity, and decline are all determined by a single thought."

Huang Long sighed deeply, suppressing his astonishment: "My Grandmaster Uncle's magic is beyond measure...!"

Xuan Du nodded, and with a wave of his hand, a jade slip flew to Huang Long's side: "This is a general record of spiritual herbs, detailing the cultivation quantities and conditions for various herbs. Senior Brother, you may pick the herbs you need yourself!"

Upon hearing this, Huang Long's eyes gleamed with golden light: "Good!"

He took the jade slip and immersed his primordial spirit into it. The information inside the jade slip was vast and detailed, categorized into various categories.

Huanglong checked the information and found that, in addition to the spiritual herbs needed for the Nine-Turn Elixir, this opportunity could also be used to increase the foundation of the Xuanhuang Realm.

"The Nine-Aperture Exquisite Fruit...!"

"The Primordial Root of Profound Yellow...!"

"Creation Thunder Vine...!"

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Huanglong followed Xuandu on his escape light, passing through one sphere of light world after another. Whenever Huanglong needed something, Xuandu would stop, open the boundary wall, and enter to collect it.

Huanglong also went in to personally experience the planting environment of various spiritual herbs, so as to conduct a simulated opening in the Xuanhuang Realm.

Every time Huanglong passed through a world, he would take away at least one or more spiritual herbs, rarely missing any!

Xuan Du's brows twitched at the sight, but he did not stop it.

It wasn't that Huanglong was greedy; it was that the medicinal herbs in this garden were too precious, and Huanglong had never seen 70% of them before.

He naturally wouldn't let such a rare opportunity slip by.

After all, he didn't know if he would have another chance to enter this herb garden.

Fortunately, the Xuanhuang Realm is currently evolving and growing, and Huanglong can specially open up special areas for planting these spiritual herbs.

Moreover, with the Three Lights Divine Water and the Nine Heavens Bustling, he was not worried that these spiritual herbs would perish in his hands.

Huanglong left with Xuandu, carrying a bountiful harvest. They entered the medicine garden space of the Taiji Diagram.

However, Huanglong did not leave immediately. Instead, he and Xuandu found a quiet place, brewed a pot of enlightenment tea, and discussed the Dao of Alchemy!

Xuan Du and Huang Long were naturally very open with each other, and Xuan Du recounted his own insights into the essentials of alchemy:

How to communicate with the mind and spirit to activate the medicinal properties? How to grasp the transformation of the Daoist rhythm within the fire, how to draw the Daoist rhythm of heaven and earth into the elixir, and how to enlighten its spirit at the moment of elixir formation...!

Huang Long listened with a smile. He already possessed the alchemical heritage of the Taiqing Saint, and now he was at the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, so he understood many of the essential principles immediately.

The two talked more and more deeply, extending their discussion from the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir to other elixir formulas, and even the connection between alchemy and cultivation, creation and the Way of Heaven.

During a break in their discussion, Huanglong also gifted Xuandu some special innate spiritual herbs that he had obtained during his travels in the prehistoric world.

Xuan Du was overjoyed, as he had never seen many of the medicinal herbs before.

They then communicated with the Tai Chi diagram, created a corresponding new world, and planted it.

Before parting, Huang Long remembered something and asked, "Junior Brother, on this trip I have come to see that humans and witches live together, and the trend of fusion between the witches and humans has taken shape. What are your thoughts on this?"