Vol 2 Chapter 15 (1/2)

Volume 2, Chapter 15 – The Letter sent by the Golden Sword, the Rainbow Stonefield Water State

When he read that the moon viewing event would be held on Jade Ornaments Island, Zhang Yan’s complexion suddenly turned subtle.

This Jade Ornaments Island was one of the Six Rivers Four Islands. And he had just basically pushed them into a hole. But they actually turned their head and instead invited him to their island. If he savored this carefully, there should be some other deep intentions within.

To his knowledge, the Six Rivers Four Islands had expelled their entire clansman that had committed the crimes in the first month before the Azure Ocean Sect pursued the matter. He didn’t know as to how much of a price they had to pay to preserve their life. As for the Feng Family, although they still refuted and refused to give in, but in fact, their att.i.tude had long been more temperate, and sooner or later, they would also bow their heads.

As he flipped over the letter paper, he found that the letter had a lot of strange points. The characters and words were gracefully written, they were seemingly carved out from the hands of a female cultivator. Moreover, even though the letter was inviting him to the meeting, however, there was no invitation card for him. Did they wish him to attend the meeting but didn’t want him to go?

He shook his head and threw this letter casually.

In his view, to go or not was not important. There were other things that were more important to do, so he might as well use and save the time to promote his own cultivation base. But before he dealt with it, he still had to solve some small problems first.

To practice the second step of refining the Impure Yin spiritual qi described in the Taiyi Golden Manual, he had to release all of his Pure Yang spiritual qi for each attempt while at the same time directing the heavy Evil Qi from the abyss. Such a method was extremely troublesome and inefficient. He was pondering, could there be other ways to preserve this Evil Qi?

Having contemplated for a long time, a brilliant light flashed through Zhang Yan’s eyes. Zhou Chongju had given him his alchemy methods. Wasn’t there a method in the ‘Inner Opening Arts’ to contain different kinds of qi and contain it in his orifices throughout his body? Wouldn’t it the same as having a natural qi container?

One must know that being able to isolate qi inside and outside the orifices was equal to being able to contain each kind of virulent and poisonous drugs, much less about this intangible-heavy Evil Qi. What was more convenient than having these containers on his body? With this thought, he quickly took out a volume of alchemy book and carefully read it again.

In accordance with the above explanation, these qi openings separately corresponded to the five elements of one’s five senses. Ones could open up at least five openings, and the “Inner Opening Art’s” key practice was entirely laid within the late period of the pills concocting process. The method itself was extremely easy, and he could practice it without the slightest difficulty.

Immediately, he sat down on the jade platform and carried out the method according to the circulation method contained in the book. In less than half a day, his one breath could open up 3 qi openings continuously. Just when he was about to practice again, he found that he was unable to achieve it. This made him realize that it was according to his cultivation base’s limitation, which meant that he had just reached his limit.

This type of heavy Evil Qi was impure, and

after it was extracted out by the pure qi, along with the Golden Fire Blazing Inferno, it slowly sank underground.

At the moment, Zhang Yan released his pure qi as he turned toward the fire crater, and instantly extracted the heavy Evil Qi that was about to sink; he was able to extract half of it. He then inhaled a small strand of qi with his nose while gently circulating it with his qi. He then carefully directed the qi into his qi openings until it entered the orifices. The heavy Evil Qi then steadily sunk down and finally stayed motionless.

Upon seeing that this method was effective, he was becoming more certain as he swallowed all the heavy Evil Qi without hesitation and slowly drew all of it with a moderate speed.

Two hours later, one qi opening was filled with heavy Evil Qi. Zhang Yan carefully scrutinized his body from top to bottom. After confirming that there were neither strangeness nor discomfort in his body, he suddenly felt relaxed as he then decided to fill up another qi opening again. If there was no problem, he planned to fill the third qi opening.

A night had been spent collecting and containing this heavy Evil Qi. As bursts of fine lights in the horizon began to s.h.i.+ne, he had completely filled the three qi openings in his body.

In fact, in accordance to the impure qi needed in the previous heavy Evil Qi’s refinery, the amount of heavy Evil Qi he stored in his qi openings was sufficient for him to breakthrough to the Second Stage. But he had faintly felt that this heavy Evil Qi seemed to have other uses. And in order to be safe, he would rather store a lot and be more prepared.

Having spent the night in labor, his face was still full of spirit as pure qi whirled around his face with not the slightest bit of tiredness drawn on his complexion. At this moment, he heard that someone was shouting outside, “Is Martial Uncle Zhang inside? Is Martial Uncle Zhang inside?”

The voice was quite familiar, Zhang Yan then raised his body and went out. He then saw that the one who was shouting outside his Immortal Cave was the child servant from the Alchemy Pavilion, with a humble and fully focused expression.

Upon seeing Zhang Yan come out, the child servant busily sent respectful greetings as he then stepped forward while pulling his sleeve, “Martial Uncle, Master Ancestor summons you to quickly come!”

What had happened?

Zhang Yan’s expressions became more focused as he then nodded his head and made some preparations. He then followed the child servant on the flying boat and flew straight to the Alchemy Pavilion at lightning speed. In less than an hour, they arrived at the sky above the landma.s.s, but the child servant didn’t pause and instead rapidly drove the flying boat directly to the entrance. After circling through several mountains, at the next moment, they finally saw a fis.h.i.+ng boat that was mooring in the middle of the river.

After he floated down from the flying s.h.i.+p, Zhang Yan walked toward the fis.h.i.+ng boat and was surprised that Zhou Chongju was sitting in the room. His face was cloudy as if it had lost all of its liquid. A slight coldness couldn’t help but cross his heart as he then asked, “Senior Brother, what happened?”

“You came?” Zhou Chongju then pointed to the chair beside him and hinted at Zhang Yan to sit down. But he then stood before he solemnly spoke, “A few days ago, there was a messenger from the Rainbow Stonefield Water State. Six months later, the State’s sovereign—Ji Jiushang—would have a birthday celebration, so they want to organize Alchemists a.s.sembly and compet.i.tion. Therefore, I was asked to send several Pill Concocting Masters. They are also willing to renounce a Sh.e.l.lfish Field to show their sincerity. Since this matter could settle many disputes, the Sect Master also naturally gave his consent.”

The Rainbow Stonefield Water State was actually a clan of Demon cultivators. However, they have tremendous power. The Azure Ocean Sect have waged a war with the Three Anchor Lakes’ Demons for more than 10 years, but this Three Anchor Lakes was nominally only their va.s.sal state.