A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

"A Brief Introduction to Mingxin Dandao" is actually a beginner's guide to Dandao, written personally by the Daoist Master Mingxin.

It contains a wide variety of records about common elixirs useful to cultivators in the Qi Refining stage, as well as their specific effects, appearance characteristics, and the required medicinal herbs.

Since these are all common low-level pills, there are not many secrets in their formulas and refining methods, and most cultivators know a little about them.

Even the most skilled cook cannot cook without rice. Even if everyone knows how to refine it, without the corresponding spiritual plants, they can only lament their helplessness.

Therefore, whether in the secular world or the cultivation world, those precious spiritual plants and materials are always the focus of people's struggle.

Zhou Ping read the book with great interest, looking at the various miraculous pills with different effects, trying his best to imprint them into his mind.

"The Yellow Dragon Pill can enhance the mana of cultivators in the Qi Refining stage and is suitable for low-level cultivators in the Qi Refining stage to take."

"The materials needed for refining are as follows: the main ingredient is a Huanglong grass that is over fifty years old; the auxiliary ingredients are Qingling flower, jade marrow fungus, and spiritual spring water."

"Refining techniques, purifying the medicinal herbs, grinding the Yellow Dragon Grass into juice..."

After carefully reading it, Zhou Ping memorized it, but he was slightly dissatisfied with its effects.

He has now broken through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, so the effects of the Yellow Dragon Pill might be somewhat useless to him now.

Regardless, its effects should be much better than the martial arts pills he has.

Since breaking through to the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage, Zhou Ping has clearly felt a slowdown in his cultivation speed. Even with high-quality Dragon Beard Pills and Black Scale Pills in hand, his cultivation speed has still noticeably decreased.

After entering the mid-stage of Qi Refining, the requirements for a cultivator's aptitude for advancement in their cultivation level undoubtedly become much higher.

From this perspective, Zhou Ping's cultivation aptitude is really not something to be proud of.

Even after only breaking through to the mid-stage, he could clearly feel the negative impact of his aptitude. Without the support of elixirs, he probably would never be able to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining in his entire life.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ping's initial excitement from acquiring the books vanished instantly, and he once again devoted himself to studying the various prescriptions in the books.

"Golden Marrow Pill, suitable for cultivators in the mid-stage of Qi Refining, can greatly increase the speed of mana cultivation!"

That's it!

Zhou Ping's eyes lit up, and he stared intently at the page containing the prescription.

A short while later, he let out a long sigh and began to think about his next steps.

Golden Spirit Seed requires a hundred years of medicinal aging...

The medicinal age is not a problem, as he has the ability to stimulate the growth of mysterious agarwood, which he can obtain effortlessly.

The main question is where to find the seeds or seedlings of this Golden Spirit Herb. This kind of spiritual herb is not an ordinary commodity. Even the seeds and seedlings have considerable value and are probably hard to find in the mortal world.

It seems I'll have to go to Guiyuan Pavilion again soon. Besides the various main and auxiliary ingredients needed for the Golden Marrow Pill, Zhou Ping hasn't even seen the most important tool for alchemy yet: the alchemy furnace.

Zhou Ping closed the book in his hand, then took out three other books, as well as the secret cultivation method of the Bronze Sheep Temple.

He wanted to learn about the cultivation world as quickly as possible, and also try to cultivate one or two more of the basic low-level spells from the Copper Sheep Temple's cultivation secrets.

Having just experienced the wonders of magic, Zhou Ping was already craving more and more, and his heart was itching to try it.

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Tianyan Town, Chen Family Residence.

After returning from Guiyuan Pavilion, Chen Dafu was exhausted, both physically and mentally, and felt completely drained.

Therefore, after returning to the Chen family, he immediately conveyed Xia Qianchuan's words to the Tongyuan Hall, and then, with his father's tacit approval, returned to his residence.

The thought of the strange methods of the immortals made his heart tremble.

In the blink of an eye, the letter on it turned to ash. That bizarre scene that happened right before his eyes still flashes through his mind.

The crimson flames and scorching heat made him feel the dough burning even in his cool dormitory, filling him with fear.

Chen Dafu was a timid person to begin with, and after this ordeal, he was exhausted and lay down on the soft bed and fell into a deep sleep.

Before she fell asleep, for some reason, the familiar young man she had seen at Guiyuan Pavilion came to mind: an ordinary profile, slightly dark skin, and coarse linen clothes...

In a daze, Chen Dafu found himself in a dense bamboo forest, surrounded by lush bamboo groves and thick mist drifting through the air, making everything around him indistinct.

Beside him, there seemed to be another person, a young man of similar age, and the two were climbing forward together.

Suddenly, a bright green bamboo viper appeared in front of them, hissing and flicking its tongue. Its two cold, deep vertical eyes gleamed with a cold, emerald light, which immediately made them scream in terror.

"Brother Zhou, there's a snake!"

Chen Dafu sat up abruptly from the bed, panting heavily, his whole body already soaked in cold sweat.

After a moment, he raised his sleeve and wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead, but his face still showed some surprise and uncertainty, and his eyes even held a look of disbelief.

"How could it be him?!"

Chen Dafu muttered to himself, raising his hand to slap his fat face hard until he grimaced in pain before stopping.

But his face was still flushed, and he sat on the bed in a daze, looking as if he had seen a ghost.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Chen Dafu finally recovered from his shock. Suppressing his doubts, he got up and sat down in the sandalwood and gold-embroidered chair in the front hall, and suddenly shouted loudly,

"Guards! Bring Uncle Hai here; I have urgent business to discuss with you!"

.......

Zhou Ping put down the book in his hand, stretched lazily, and finally, after studying it so intently that he forgot to eat and drink, he had a general understanding of the basic situation of this cultivation world.

Of course, this cultivation world mainly refers to the cultivation world of the Great Liang Dynasty. In addition, it also includes an overview of the cultivation forces of other countries that border it.

Besides providing a relatively detailed introduction to the cultivation world of the Great Liang, the book only briefly mentions other cultivation forces bordering the Great Liang, with virtually no substantial information recorded.

The Great Liang Dynasty possesses twenty-three prefectures, boasting a vast territory that ranks among the top in the surrounding countries.

The reason why the Great Liang Dynasty was able to possess such a vast territory was precisely because of the cultivation forces located within it.

Legend has it that thousands of years ago, the cultivation world within the territory of Daliang was ruled by a powerful cultivation force. There was only one cultivation sect in the entire Daliang Kingdom, and its strength and prestige were truly rare in the entire history of cultivation in Daliang.

This powerful cultivation force was the predecessor of the five major sects today.

The Mysterious Origin Five Elements Theory.