Douluo Continent: Sword Named Star, Slaying Gods to Prove the Dao

The 465th year of the Tian Dou calendar!

It has been more than two thousand years since then, and Ning Xingchen had underestimated it before.

A book called "The Medicine God's Notes" records the story of a doctor named Li Sizheng, who studied medicinal herbs from a young age and traveled all over the Douluo Continent.

The Medicine God's Notes is somewhat like a diary.

It contains his travel stories across the continent, interspersed with useful records such as prescriptions for pills and medicinal baths, including the method for refining the rare and precious Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma Pill.

The notes even recorded a method for harvesting medicinal herbs using soul power.

This method allows for the harvesting of any medicinal herb, unlike the crude methods used to extract gold and jade, which have many limitations. With this method, one can harvest virtually any medicinal herb in the world.

When a special technique is mastered to its extreme, it can seal off 100% of the medicinal properties of herbs.

Even the most skilled traditional method of extracting gold from jade can only preserve about 90% of the medicinal efficacy.

At the end of the book, Ning Xingchen saw a place name.

Medicine God Valley!

But it was only mentioned briefly, and then nothing more was said. That's how the book ended!

"Damn, this can't be fair!"

Ning Xingchen closed the book, wondering where the Valley of the Medicine God was.

The contents of this nanmu box belong to Grandpa Ningnan, so he must know some information.

After saying that, Ning Xingchen wanted to go find Ning Nan.

But as soon as he got up, Ning Xingchen looked at the book "The Medicine God's Records" again.

He seems to have overlooked something just now.

Ning Xingchen picked up the Medicine God's Record again, weighed the front cover in his hand, and then flipped it over to weigh the back cover.

The weight difference is very obvious! After comparing them, the back cover is clearly heavier.

Logically, the front and back should be about the same, and even if there is a difference, it shouldn't be this obvious.

Is there something inside?

Ning Xingchen took out a small knife and carefully cut it open from the side.

A moment later, Ning Xingchen took out a thin, slightly heavy, pale yellow special paper.

Lay them all out on the table; they're a little smaller than an A3 sheet of paper.

Inside was a map with three large characters written on it: Medicine God Valley!

Is this the map of Medicine God Valley?

It came so easily; I doubt even Grandpa Ningnan noticed.

Ning Xingchen felt grateful to Ning Nan.

He then put the things away and said to Ning Yu in the courtyard, "Sister Ning Yu, do you have any softer snacks? Something suitable for the elderly."

Yes, we have them all!

"And some juice, prepare some for me," Ning Xingchen said.

Half an hour later, although it was getting dark, Ning Xingchen decided to set off for the library to ask Ning Nan.

But before he even reached the library, he heard a crying sound.

"Grandpa Nan, wake up! How could you leave like this!"

"Grandpa Nan!"

Ning Xingchen had a bad feeling and quickly went to the library.

Ning Nan was already lying in the chair, his face kind, and on the table in front of him was the dinner that had just been delivered.

"Greetings, Young Master!" Ning Kong said.

Ning Xingchen had visited several times, and Ning Kong, as one of the two library managers under Ning Nan, naturally knew Ning Xingchen.

"How could Grandpa Nan have passed away so quickly!" Ning Xingchen asked in confusion.

Ning Kong said, "Just half an incense stick's time ago, when I came back from getting food, Grandpa Nan was barely alive. He said he died of old age and that we didn't need to grieve for him."

"He also specifically told me to tell you when you arrived that he had been searching for something since he was young but had never found it. He hoped that you, young master, could find something, and that you must protect the sect and this family in the future!"

As she spoke, large tears welled up in Ning Xingchen's eyes.

"Grandpa Nan, don't worry, I will do everything you said."

Ning Xingchen knelt down and kowtowed three times to Ning Nan as a sign of respect.

Chapter 26 Persuading Ning Dingling to Find the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire

Ning Nan is a long-lived elder in the sect, now he is ninety-eight years old!

Upon learning of this, Ning Dingling also set about giving Ning Nan a grand funeral, and Ning Xingchen even stayed at Ning Nan's grave for three days to express his respect and gratitude.

He will remember those who are good to Ning Xingchen for the rest of his life, and he will never let go of his enemies.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed!

Ning Xingchen cultivated the power of stars at night and trained his soul power during the day. After that, he had another task: to go and disturb the herb garden planted by the sect's physicians.

At first, these doctors really hated this little devil, but later, after Ning Xingchen learned the technique of picking medicinal herbs, all the herbs he picked were of the highest quality.

After seeing that Ning Xingchen's harvesting skills had completely surpassed theirs, these doctors stopped criticizing Ning Xingchen.

After harvesting all the mature medicinal herbs, Ning Xingchen finally let go of the sect's medicinal garden, but at the same time ordered the sect's physicians that he would be in charge of harvesting all the sect's medicinal herbs from now on.

Practicing picking techniques is also preparation for going to the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

Three months have passed in the blink of an eye!

That night, as the power of the stars gathered within Ning Xingchen's body, his body began to emit a faint starlight.

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change!

"It's done! The first stage of my Starry Sky Sword Body forging prototype is complete!"

"Feeling the changes in his body, Ning Xingchen felt that his strength had increased by at least fifty percent, his physical strength had also increased by fifty percent, and his speed and agility had also improved significantly."

"Is this merely the effect of forging a sword blank? What about when it becomes a true Star Sword Body?"

Ning Xingchen couldn't imagine what kind of existence the Starry Sky Sword Body was in the Douluo Continent.

"No, it's not completely successful yet." Ning Xingchen shook his head, realizing that he still couldn't control the power of the stars.

Forging a sword blank is no easy feat. If it were successful in less than a year, then the Starry Sky Sword Body would be far too easy to create.

As Ning Xingchen pondered, it seemed as if her mind received another piece of information.

It must be some details about the sword-making prototype that came from the Star Sword!

After a while, Ning Xingchen finished digesting the information and said in a low voice, "So this is only the initial stage of sword forging. It can be said to be the early stage of a realm. The sword embryo has just taken shape."

"So right now I'm in the early stages of sword embryo formation. The next step is to continue nurturing the early stages of sword embryo formation with the power of the stars, and then I can complete the stage of forging the sword embryo."

"And we cannot relax even more during the initial stage of nurturing the sword embryo, because the final sword embryo is divided into ordinary, fine and perfect grades. The higher the grade of the sword embryo, the better the Star Sword Body will be."

The process of nurturing a sword embryo is a long one.

Ning Xingchen let out a long sigh to calm his somewhat disappointed mood, and then released the Star Sword to continue absorbing the power of the stars.

He wasn't discouraged, mainly because he had misunderstood before; cultivating the Star Sword Body wasn't that simple!

It was completed in less than a year. The Starry Sky Sword Body was far from easy to forge, but this also demonstrated the power of the Starry Sky Sword Body.

After all, the mere formation of the sword embryo had already improved his physical condition by fifty percent in every aspect. The complete sword embryo would be even stronger, which was something he couldn't ask for.

He is still a month or so away from turning seven, and his soul power has already reached the peak of level sixteen. There will be no problem for him to break through to level seventeen before his birthday.

If Ning Xingchen were a power-attack type Soul Master who cultivated the Star Sword, then his Soul Power should already be at level seventeen.

Support-type martial souls are inherently slower to cultivate than offensive-type ones, as mentioned in the novel and in reality as well.

For example, Dai Mubai reached level 37 at the age of 15, while Oscar, whose talent was even greater than Dai Mubai's, only became a Soul Master at the age of 14.

Ning Fengzhi's talent is no less than Dai Mubai's; he is seventeen years old and at level thirty-seven.

The same soul power, but two years apart.

This is what makes being a support-type Soul Master so difficult.

Cultivating soul power with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul is indeed a bit slow, but it's a different story once you have a Celestial Grade martial soul.

After several months of practice, Ning Xingchen's technique for picking medicinal herbs had become quite proficient. The thousands of medicinal herbs available for him to practice with were not something that an ordinary family could afford.

This is also why Ning Xingchen's progress in cultivating soul power has been slower recently.

Originally, I could spend the whole day cultivating my soul power, but now I only have half a day to cultivate my soul power most of the time.

All of this is worthwhile; obtaining immortal items and increasing soul power is a piece of cake.

Seeing that the time was almost right, Ning Xingchen also prepared soul tools for storing goods and medicinal materials. Various containers for storing medicinal materials had also been made. All that was left was to retrieve the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

morning!

Ning Xingchen deliberately finished absorbing the power of the stars early and came to the courtyard to wait for Ning Dingling and Ning Fengzhi.

Not long after, Ning Dingling came out dressed.

"Xingchen, what are you doing in the yard so early?" Ning Dingling asked, puzzled.

"Sister, do you still remember Grandpa Ningnan who died a few months ago?" Ning Xingchen said solemnly.

Ning Dingling said, "Of course I remember, he was a good brother of our grandfather's generation."

"Have you heard of Grandpa Ning Nan's achievements in medicine?" Ning Xingchen asked.

"This... Grandpa Ning Nan even studied medicine?" Ning Dingling asked in surprise.

"Sister, you can go and investigate."

As they were talking, Ning Fengzhi also came out of the room.

He and Ning Dingling had to go to the sect to handle affairs every day. Although it was much easier than before, they still had to go to the Seven Treasures Hall early every morning. It was a routine matter, just like attending court.