Chapter 5 The Shadow Domain Beas (1/2)
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Time was like water, and it had been four years since Lyu Liang reached the Virtual Land. According to the time outside, Lyu Liang was already fourteen years old. Compared with the time he first came to the land, he was a little taller and stronger. Of course, the harvest in four years was also huge.
On ordinary days, in addition to practicing the mantra and swordsmanship, Lyu Liang also studied the Hundred Herb Picture from time to time, and at night, he went to the south to use the Devil Qi to train his body.
At the beginning of the second year, the King of Medicine came and still did not give Lyu Liang a glance at all. He just threw him a cloth bag and then said only one word ”recognize.” Lyu Liang understood it and opened the bag, inside was a pile of Spirit Grass. For Lyu Liang, who had already mastered the Hundred Herb Picture, recognizing the grass was an easy and pleasurable task. Even the King of Medicine nodded his head while listening. After that, the King of Medicine left two words ”teachable person” and then drifted away again.
When the Land Spirit learned about it, he sighed, ”You are such a lucky boy! This is the King of Medicine who intended to teach you the methods of refining elixir and distinguishing the herbs! Once you have mastered the skills, you can make pills by yourself. Aided by the pills, your cultivation can be improved much faster.”
Lyu Liang did not dare to delay and went to the north on the same day. Under the two-year guidance of the King of Medicine, Lyu Liang had memorized all the refining and identification methods of various elixirs (from the ordinary elixirs to the rare Daluo Elixirs) by heart, and had some hands-on practice too.
The Alchemy required Primordial Qi to produce the pill fire and the power of the Divine Soul to control and regulate the fire. With Lyu Liang's current cultivation, there was no problem in the refining of the medicinal pills for the Foundation Establishment. However, he had some difficulty in refining the medicinal pills used in the Gold Core stage. Besides, many of the Spirit Grass required for refining medicinal pills were cherished treasures. Even if Lyu Liang had the ability for refining, there might not be herbs to use.
The medicine pills were divided into four grades, which were the lower grade, mid grade, upper grade, and ultimate grade. For the majority of cultivators, getting mid-grade pills was already good enough. The upper grade was unobtainable, and the ultimate grade was basically a legend because the factors affecting the quality of the drug included both the level of the alchemist and the quality of the furnace used for alchemy.
The furnace used by Lyu Liang for practicing on alchemy was bright green in color, and the body surface was engraved with complicated lines. Every time during the alchemy process, these lines would flash five colors of glistening lights. It was not usual at first sight! This had resulted in the quality pills, either the upper grade or the ultimate grade!
”I am guessing that this furnace is the real body of King of Medicine. Oh my god! The furnace will not have reached the immortal standard of magic treasure, won't it !” Although Lyu Liang had never asked the King of Medicine, he knew that this place was built by Senior Dreamless Heavenly Lord to store the furnace, then the quality could only be high!
During the practice of alchemy, what Lyu Liang refined the most was the pills for Foundation Establishment. It was the most useful pill during the Foundation Establishment stage and was currently limited by the level of Lyu Liang. As for Seal-breaking Pill which could help him to break his Mysterious Devil Seal, it was a high-ranking medicinal pill that could only be refined by Nascent Soul cultivator, so Lyu Liang could only be envious of it.
Refining different medicinal pills had different requirements for the Elixir Fire. To familiarize with the manipulation of Elixir Fire, Lyu Liang also refined other medicinal pills that were not helpful for cultivation, but also have some uses. Among them, there were three kinds with specialty, they were Youth-retaining Elixir, Power-recovering Elixir, and Life-prolonging Elixir. With the ingestion of Youth-retaining Elixir, one could keep his appearance unchanged. Root-producing Elixir could create Spiritual Root for mortals or animals without it. Life-prolonging Elixir can extend the life span for another 100 years, regardless of being a mortal or cultivator.
Refining these three kinds of medicinal pills required a kind of Spirit Grass called Hollow Flower, which was also necessary for refining the pills for Foundation Establishment. Foundation Establishment Pill was a precious resource that could upgrade a cultivator's standard. Both its value and efficacy was far beyond these slick pills. Therefore, it was rare to see someone so extravagant like Lyu Liang in the outside world.
When going to the south every night, the man in black would mention a few words on the body reshaping method, and Lyu Liang felt beneficial from it. Out of nowhere, the black cat had pulled out a practice book named ”Kun Peng Skill”, together with two bottles of pills that had an auxiliary effect on the reshaping body, and gave him altogether.
From the eyes of the black cat, Lyu Liang could feel the sense of a family-like concern. Although he had many doubts, he also knew that it was not the time to ask yet. He had to wait, to wait until his strength and mind could withstand all these and then it was the time to ask!
This ”Kun Peng Skill” could upgrade the body techniques, it consisted of a total of nine levels and was left by a powerful person from the Demon Clan. According to the black cat, Lyu Liang was a human and even he had the blood of the Devil Clan, and it was impossible to learn and reach the ultimate standard of the body technique. After all, his body structure was fixed and could not be changed. However, it was still possible to learn to a sixth or seventh level. Especially at the seventh level, one could actually move through space! That was a life-saving skill!
Over the past four years, as for the four aspects, refining Qi, shaping his body, practicing sword technique, and refining elixirs, Lyu Liang had not missed any of them. His obsession with his mother which was planted in his heart filled him up with fighting spirit at all times.
After four years, Lyu Liang's Xuanyuan Mantra had already touched the threshold of Foundation Establishment, and his strength had also been upgraded to the peak of Qi Refining stage. In fact, a year ago, Lyu Liang could already break through to the Foundation Establishment period. However, according to the man in black, it was better not to have too much difference in the levels between the body reshaping and Qi refining, so that in the future, there would be more significant benefits in the simultaneous upgrade to build a perfect immortal-devil body.
For the sword method, the second stroke, Wind-dodging move could already be skillfully swept out. As for the heart-sword style that was felt and realized that night, Lyu Liang also earnestly confounded and consolidated his gains, and now it was more powerful than the Wind-dodging Move.
Because it was a move that he created while missing his mother, Lyu Liang named it as the first style of the Heart Swordsmanship—Mind Sword Essence...
For ”Kun Peng Skill”, Lyu Liang had directly completed the second level, making him a little self-satisfied。
At the end of the fourth year, Lyu Liang went to the Rare Treasure Hall. After all, the Land Spirit had promised him that he could choose a treasure or weapon whenever he reached the middle and peak stage. Judging from the fact that Lyu Liang was currently a poor and broken man, he just couldn't wait to pick. Before that, sword Feiling had already followed Lyu Liang, according to the LandSpirit,, that must be considered a choice already, and even so, Lyu Liang had made a big bargain!
Just as soon as he entered the Rare Treasure Hall, Lyu Liang couldn't move, because the surrounding walls of the hall were engraved with the introduction of all kinds of rare treasures, and the attack, defense, and auxiliary categories were all classified and listed. At the sight of these, Lyu Liang felt refreshing, his eyes red with envy and everything was all over his head! Lyu Liang dumbfoundedly looked at it for five days, and then recorded all the treasures into his sea of consciousness.
It didn't take much time to pick up the treasure. Lyu Liang already had the sword Feiling which was under the attack category. Under the recommendation of Land Spirit, he chose a fascinating set of things, which was indeed for the Qi Refining period, but it was too useful!