Taichu Yandao: Starting from the Villain

"Is this guy dead?" Lu Xuan was surprised and bent down to check.

The place where he touched was icy cold. Li Tongzhen had no pulse and was dead beyond death.

Lu Xuan let out a long sigh and looked at the bottle on the other person's waist.

He searched for a while but couldn't find the Foundation Establishment Pill, so he had to turn Li Tongzhen over.

At first glance, Li Tongzhen's face was haggard, as if all the blood had been drained out, and his eyes were like copper bells, filled with endless resentment and regret.

"The Infinite Heavenly Venerable!" Lu Xuan sighed.

He searched again, and apart from a few empty bottles, the only thing with some spiritual power was the torn robe.

Could it be that this guy knew there was no hope and had already been abandoned in the vast ocean along the way?

Or maybe he had already taken the elixir during the chase?

Lu Xuan became nervous. He silently recited a spell and pointed a finger at his forehead.

It is said that if one can cultivate the art of spiritual vision to the extreme, one can see through all the illusions in the world.

This technique was not a Qi training technique, and Lu Xuan almost exhausted all his magic power, and could only open his eyes for a moment. But this was enough, and he saw a faint golden light in Li Tong's mouth.

In the world of cultivation, anything that can be called a pill has a characteristic that it melts in the mouth. This is because cultivators have extremely strict time requirements when taking medicine, and it is impossible for it to be slowly digested in the stomach like ordinary medicine.

At this moment, the foundation-building pill in Li Tongzhen's mouth could be contained without being dissolved, which was just a coincidence.

He was already on his deathbed when he came ashore, the fire of life had been extinguished, and without the help of fate, the elixir was finally preserved.

"Lucky!" Lu Xuan raised a smile, and hurriedly bent down to pry open Li Tongzhen's mouth, wrapped the pill with magic power, and slowly took it out.

However, the moment the pill came out, Lu Xuan pinched his nose.

It really is something that came out of a dead person's mouth, and it tastes so sour!

"Dust returns to dust, ashes returns to ashes. If I cannot successfully build the foundation, everything will be in vain." Lu Xuan comforted himself and slowly put the pill into an alchemy bottle.

When the pill fell to the bottom of the bottle, Lu Xuan couldn't help but retched.

After a while, Lu Xuan's stomach gradually calmed down, and he pushed out with his palm, hitting Li Tongzhen's body.

The sand exploded, revealing a deep pit half a person's height.

Lu Xuan walked to Li Tongzhen's side and kicked Li Tongzhen's body into a deep pit with a light kick.

Soon, Lu Xuan finished burying Li Tongzhen. He straightened his sleeves, turned around and ran straight towards Zhao Rui in the distance.

On the golden beach, the sun is shining brightly and the sound of the waves is like a melodious symphony.

When Zhao Rui saw Lu Xuan returning, he immediately jumped into his master's arms like a baby bird.

If ordinary people look at it, this is a beautiful picture, but if a great bodhisattva who has attained enlightenment looks at it, everything is completely different.

The style of the clothes worn by the man in white was completely different from the one worn by the child. The child looked fine, but the man in white looked a little out of place. The man in white must have come from far away.

There is only one big island in the surrounding sea. If the man in white came from far away, he must have come across the sea.

Mortals do not have the ability to cross the sea. If the man in white comes across the sea, he must be a cultivator.

If the man in white is a monk, he must have come for an important matter, otherwise he would not have come to this barren overseas.

If the man in white came for something important, he must have finished it by now, otherwise he would not be so relaxed and at ease.

If the man in white has finished his work, he must be thinking about how to return home. The spiritual energy overseas is thin and it is not a place to stay for long.

All causes and conditions were developing according to the original trajectory, except for the foundation-building pill. The karma that originally entangled Li Tongzhen gradually dissipated, and in the end only a trace of Alaya consciousness remained.

This Alaya consciousness returned to the great void, and after an unknown number of turns, it evolved into a Manas consciousness.

The manas continued to grow and develop, and once again evolved into joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, and desire that engulfed all the scholars in the State of Yan.

As karma rolled in, the man in white, who was about to return, suddenly had a new idea: "Li Tong is really so cunning, maybe he is like Mao Jiang, leaving a trick up his sleeve before dying."

As soon as this idea came to mind, Lu Xuan immediately took out the foundation-building pill and used his magic power to investigate again.

When he took one look, he immediately found something wrong. The originally round pill had become smaller, and the medicinal power was slowly dissipating, with only about 90% remaining.

"Fortunately I checked it..." Lu Xuan was frightened and hurriedly searched his mind for knowledge about alchemy.

He had never studied the Dao of Alchemy before, and after much deliberation, he finally decided to follow Li Tongzhen's ideas and try it out.

Lu Xuan pulled Zhao Rui up and ran straight to Li Tongzhen's grave like the wind.

Sand and gravel were flying everywhere, and poor Li Tongzhen's grave was dug up not long after he was buried.

About a cup of tea later, Lu Xuan was overjoyed as he found an ancient alchemy furnace from Li Tongzhen's body.

"Use the heart as the medium and the body as the guide..." Lu Xuan sat down immediately and tried his previous idea.

After a full quarter of an hour, Lu Xuan opened his eyes with a smile on his face. Li Tong's quenching furnace was really effective and had already stopped the trend of the elixir escaping. However, it would take some effort to restore the elixir.

After some consideration, Lu Xuan said to Zhao Rui who was not far away: "Master and disciple are tired from the journey, let's rest for a few days before setting off again."

Not far away, Zhao Rui was teasing a turtle. When he heard his master's voice, he immediately said, "Master, I'm hungry."

"Dig down hard and see what you can find." Lu Xuan walked to Zhao Rui's side.

Zhao Rui did as he was told and dug around with his two little hands, and soon he felt the white hard shell.

After the excess sand was cleared away, a nest of neatly stacked turtle eggs appeared in the sand pit.

"Master, there are eggs. How did you guess that? Master is so amazing!"

Lu Xuan laughed and said, "Those are not eggs, they are the eggs laid by turtles. Take some more and we can roast them."

Zhao Rui nodded repeatedly, tied the hem of his robe into a knot, filled his pockets, and said, "Master, look."

"Okay, okay." Lu Xuan praised, looking towards the distant forest, and said, "Let's go to this forest, maybe we can find other game."

"Hurrah!"

The two of them stepped onto the flying swords and after a moment, they entered the dense forest.

At first, there was nothing special about the forest, but as he went deeper, Lu Xuan’s brows gradually furrowed.

The spiritual energy in that forest is extremely abundant. Even in the Tianqing Sect, there are only a few places that can reach this level.

"Could it be the territory of some ferocious beast? Or is some fellow Taoist practicing overseas?" Lu Xuan pondered.

He was cautious along the way, but after flying for a long time, he did not see any ferocious beasts, not even a bird.

Lu Xuan did not give up. He wandered around in the forest and finally found a dwarf goat.

The goat was not panicked when it saw people, and continued to eat the fruit as if Lu Xuan and the others did not exist.

With the flick of his fingers, the sword energy whizzed away and the goat died before it could react.

Zhao Rui covered his eyes with his hands, but Lu Xuan picked up the goat and said, "Heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as straw dogs."

"Master, what is a straw dog? Can it be eaten?"

"You ask too many questions!" Lu Xuan complained in his heart, coughed and said, "You tell me, should we roast it or stew it?"

"Stew it? We don't have a pot, how can we stew it?" Zhao Rui's eyes lit up and the doubt was immediately thrown out of his mind.

"Of course I have a way, teacher. I'll let you see it today." Lu Xuan pulled Zhao Rui up, flew into the air, and ran straight towards a stream.

The stream was gurgling, and Lu Xuan used his fingers as a sword. He lightly scratched the goat's belly and broke open its interior.

Soon, the goat was cut into small pieces and stacked on a large rock.

Lu Xuan found two thick branches, built a frame, and tied up the whole goat skin.

"Watch carefully!" Lu Xuan put his fingers together, chanted a spell, and pointed towards the stream.

A stream of clear water rushed up into the sky like a dragon, circled in the air, and landed on the sheepskin.

"Master is so awesome!" Zhao Rui clapped his hands in applause.

"Bring the fire." Lu Xuan said to the firewood under the shelf again with a smile on his face.

White smoke rose up, and no flames were seen for a long time.

Zhao Rui looked puzzled and asked tentatively: "Master, to make a fire, it seems that we need to use dry firewood?"

"Ahem..." Lu Xuan shook his hands repeatedly and said, "Yes, how could I forget this?" He added, "This place is close to the sea, and the humidity is too high. Yes, it is too high."

"..."

Lu Xuan looked left and right, and finally walked towards a dead tree and shouted, "Don't just stand there, help me collect firewood."

"Oh!" Zhao Rui stood up and said as he walked, "Master, please don't get lost."

"You kid..." Lu Xuan staggered, not knowing whether his disciple did it on purpose or was just speaking without thinking.

A quarter of an hour later, a wisp of smoke rose from the forest.

The smoke was filled with the aroma of meat, which made Zhao Rui drool.

"Master, are you still not well?"

Lu Xuan held a piece of wood in his left hand, and with his right hand, his fingers flew like flying, and in a blink of an eye, he carved out a spoon.

On the stone next to him, two sets of bowls and chopsticks had been prepared.

Lu Xuan blew away the sawdust on the spoon, picked up a wooden bowl, scooped out two turtle eggs and handed them to Zhao Rui, saying, "Come, try these turtle eggs first."

Zhao Rui was almost dying of greed, and immediately brought the turtle eggs to his mouth, eating while saying: "Master... Father, it's... delicious."

The two of them enjoyed the meal with gusto, and soon they had finished most of the game.

After several days of running around, they finally had a full meal, and both the master and the disciple were filled with joy.

Zhao Rui lay on the ground like a kitten, and soon his eyes were drooping.

"Are you full?" Lu Xuan asked with a smile.

"I'm full. I can't be fuller." Zhao Rui touched his round belly.

"There is abundant spiritual energy here. Now that you are full, start practicing according to the mantra I taught you." Zhong Luxuan's face became serious.

Zhao Rui yawned and looked unhappy, but he still did as he was told and started meditating.

But soon, he began to nod his head.

Lu Xuan smiled knowingly and did not blame him. Instead, he recalled many past events in his master's sect.

"We have to hurry back!" Lu Xuan thought, and immediately took out Li Tongzhen's alchemy furnace.

He folded his hands together, placed them on his dantian, took a deep breath and said, "Use the heart as a medium and the body as a guide..."

Lu Xuan had never been exposed to alchemy. Although his previous attempt had stopped the foundation-building pill from dissipating, it was still unknown whether it could be repaired and how long it would take to repair it.

"When the temperature is right, the elixir will be formed. Don't ask where to build the foundation." Lu Xuan sighed, his mind immersed in tempering the elixir.