Mortal Mage

"Is the Immortal Foundation Building Pill really that rare?"

"As far as I know, the immortal-grade foundation-building pill is only available in the immortal world. If I knew of other ways, I would definitely help you."

"You, an elder of the Sword Sect's Dan Pavilion, can't do anything about it?"

Zhang Mingxuan sat cross-legged on the cushion in the secret room with a worried look on his face. Qingling had told him before that her alchemy skills were just barely usable.

"The foundation-building pill is not only the foundation of your true energy, but also the first step to strengthen your consciousness and consolidate your spiritual roots. It also determines how far you can go on the road of cultivation in the future. And you, a useless... cough cough," Qingling Yuanying paused and corrected; "and with your twelve-element mixed spiritual roots, I'm afraid that ordinary immortal-grade foundation-building pills will not be able to build your foundation. You may need an immortal-grade first-level foundation-building pill after the refinement. While pills are easy to refine, refinement is as difficult as ascending to heaven."

"What is the difference and relationship between grade and refinement?"

"The prescription determines the grade of the elixir, and the alchemist's alchemy skills determine the maximum medicinal power that the elixir can exert. For the same low-grade foundation-building elixir, someone like me can only refine a basic low-grade foundation-building elixir, while Xi Chen from Daoyin Sect can maximize the medicinal power, which is the Nine-transformation Foundation-Building Pill. Although they are both low-grade elixirs, the basic elixir and the Nine-transformation elixir are worlds apart and completely different. If a sect disciple takes an ordinary foundation-building elixir, he can only consolidate his true qi, but if he takes a refined foundation-building elixir, he can not only consolidate his true qi, but also have the effect of expanding the Dantian Qi Sea, so that the body can accommodate more true qi."

After listening to this, Zhang Mingxuan thought for a long time and gradually understood. Then he opened his mouth again and asked the Qingling Yuanying in his Dantian; "Since the alchemist's skills can only determine the number of times the elixir can be refined, then what determines the quality of the elixir?"

"The recipe is different."

Qing Ling responded without thinking, and then continued to talk at a very fast speed; "The low-grade foundation-building pill requires five main herbs, two auxiliary herbs, and as many as a hundred kinds of medicinal guides, and the medicinal guides need to be changed according to the different spiritual roots. Although the low-grade foundation-building pill requires a lot of medicinal materials, they are all common herbs in Cuiyun Continent. The middle-grade foundation-building pill does not need auxiliary herbs, only five main herbs, and no medicinal guides. However, the biggest problem with the middle-grade foundation-building pill is not the skills of the alchemist, but the fact that the growth cycle of these five main herbs is too long. Although the sect has a spiritual plant garden for planting, it is in short supply and it is extremely difficult to pick them in the wild."

“Why not expand cultivation?”

"There are only a few dozen acres of spiritual fields near a spiritual vein, but the spiritual herbs that the sect needs to plant are tens of millions of species. It is impossible to expand unless there are more spiritual veins."

"Besides the Foundation Building Pill, is there any other way?"

Zhang Mingxuan frowned and thought.

"Only the great ancestor of Daoyin Sect can refine the immortal-grade foundation-building pill, but he has been in seclusion for two thousand years. If we calculate based on his cultivation level, he should have passed the calamity and ascended to heaven two hundred years ago. Now he is still holding back and has not come out. It is likely that he has encountered a hurdle in his cultivation. Apart from him, no one in Cuiyun Immortal Realm can refine it."

Zhang Mingxuan shook his head helplessly after hearing this. At first, he had no objection to going to Daoyin Sect to ask for elixir, but after learning that the person who killed Li Xucheng was Daoyin Sect's leader Xi Chen, he and Daoyin Sect became enemies and it was impossible for him to ask for help from his enemy, not to mention that Daoyin Sect would never help him.

"possible……"

Qing Ling sensed that Zhang Mingxuan was uneasy. After thinking for a long time, he continued, "Maybe... there is another way."

"any solution?"

"This method is very dangerous. If you are unwilling to seek the hidden door, then this may be the only way."

The voice is clear and soft.

"If it's feasible, I'll give you the teleportation array diagram."

After Zhang Mingxuan finished speaking, he put his hands on his chest and tried to take out the formation diagram from his storage bag.

"I want to send the array diagram, but it's actually not very useful. I just want to take a look out of curiosity."

"Okay, I'll show you, tell me what to do."

"In fact, the method is very simple. You will understand once you set up the teleportation array."

Zhang Mingxuan was slightly stunned after hearing this. She thought Qingling was playing a trick on him, but then she suddenly realized what was going on and was overjoyed.

"I understand."

"Understood?"

"Well! Tell me the coordinates of the fairyland!"

Zhang Mingxuan squatted on the cushion, sat cross-legged, and said excitedly; "Let's set up a teleportation array back to Canglang first. I want to say goodbye, and then you and I will go to the fairyland." Then "ding ding dang dang" poured out a piece of medium-grade spirit stone, preparing to set up the teleportation array.

"You seem to have forgotten something."

Qing Ling Yuan Ying first reminded him, then sat cross-legged in Zhang Mingxuan's Danqiao, activated his mind method, and introduced the surrounding spiritual energy and the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone into the Yuan Ying through Zhang Mingxuan's body, and reminded him at the same time; "Get married."

As he finished speaking, Qingling Yuanying had already transformed the spiritual energy into water-attributed spiritual power, and began to infuse it into Zhang Mingxuan's whole body through Dantian.

"Go to Canglang to get married, three happy things will come together."

Zhang Mingxuan channeled Qingling's exquisite and surging spiritual power into the spiritual roots in the upper dantian and sea of ​​consciousness through his meridians. The water-attributed spiritual power was then transformed into earth-attributed spiritual power and flowed into his fingertips. He sat cross-legged on the cushion in the center of the secret room, and began to draw spiritual power with the fingertips of both hands, sketching quickly in the room and drawing in the void.

"Okay." Qing Ling naturally understood what "three good things coming together" meant, and her tone was obviously a little happy. Then she felt that Zhang Mingxuan was wasting his spiritual power without any plan, so she quickly changed the subject and advised him, "You are wasting too much spiritual power by converting spiritual roots like this. The spiritual power I give you is only one percent of what it should be. Let me do the layout."

After hearing this, Zhang Mingxuan glanced down and found that the pile of spirit stones that had just fallen to the ground had become dim, but he remembered that the last time Manman set up the formation, this number of spirit stones was probably enough. At the same time, he felt something was wrong.

If the current situation is the case, the consumption of spirit stones will be too huge.

Because he only had six thousand mid-grade spirit stones, the rest were taken away by Shi Manman.

“Why is the consumption so huge?”

Zhang Mingxuan's tone was horrified, and the movements of his hands gradually became slower.

"Bring out the formation diagram, you teach me, and I'll set it up."

Qingling said lightly, wanting to control Zhang Mingxuan's body.

Zhang Mingxuan stared at the dull, mid-grade spirit stones on the ground, did a rough calculation, and frowned. If he didn't take out the formation diagram and let Qingling control his body to set up the formation, then the remaining spirit stones might not be enough to set up the teleportation formation.

Thinking of this, although he hesitated a little, he still took out the teleportation array diagram and held it in his hand.

"what."

Qingling smiled brightly, then controlled Zhang Mingxuan's body, floating cross-legged in the center of the secret room, with the formation jade slip floating in front of him.

"You haven't even understood the basics of cultivation yet you're busy building your foundation. I advise you not to rush."

Qing Ling controlled Zhang Mingxuan's hands and first made a finger gesture, then spread out his arms. The formation jade slips immediately lit up around Zhang Mingxuan, and more than 5,000 formation drawings were projected around him, with every formation vein marked with every detail.

"Wow! Is this the formation you designed? It's so beautiful."

Zhang Mingxuan opened his mouth wide, but a clear sound came out, and he exclaimed in amazement.

At this moment, Zhang Mingxuan's body has been controlled by Qingling. Only his thoughts and ideas are his own. As long as Qingling does not stop, he will not be able to control his body.