Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

After preparing everything, he called Han Ji, Zhang Jun, and Zhang Yu, telling them that he would be leaving for a few years to take care of something. He instructed the three to listen to Fire Crow Daoist's teachings, diligently cultivate, and not to have wild thoughts.

Having been advised by Fire Crow Daoist, Zhang Yu gradually understood the gatherings and separations of cultivators and did not blame her master.

Before leaving, considering that the next test of the Yin Yang Creation Furnace might be related to the Golden Elephant Fruit, he picked a hundred or so ripe golden fruits and stored them in jade boxes made of high-quality spirit jade.

Only then did he take out the imitation furnace and communicate with it using his divine sense. Immediately, a ball of white light enveloped him, flashed into the sky, and disappeared without a trace.

After a moment of恍惚 (h恍惚: a state of absentmindedness, trance), Zhang Yuanjing reappeared in the magnificent square stone chamber.

The ten-zhang square area was furnished as it always had been. The four skeletons still leaned against the chamber walls, lonely and desolate, silently recounting their misery and loneliness.

In that instant, a thought arose in Zhang Yuanjing's heart: if he successfully passed this level, he would definitely take these four seniors out for burial.

"Candidate entered, the test level is automatically activated, currently level two!" An intent proactively conveyed, "Whether demon beast or cultivator, only by forging a Nine Revolution Golden Pill can one build the foundation of the Yang God and open the path to ascension! The task for the second level is to successfully refine a Molten Gold Tempering Pill. Additional hint: a low-grade pill can only complete the task; medium-grade or higher pills can obtain additional rewards! During the test, the Yin Yang Creation Furnace imitation's teleportation function is disabled!"

Forge a Nine Revolution Golden Pill! This Molten Gold Tempering Pill sounded extraordinary just from its name, exactly the pill he needed. This trip into the Yin Yang Creation Furnace was not in vain!

Just as Zhang Yuanjing was excited, a jade slip appeared in his hand. He picked up the jade slip and lightly touched his forehead. Inside was the pill formula and refining method for the Molten Gold Tempering Pill.

Like the益神丹 (益神丹: Yi Shen Pill - translated as Benefit Spirit Pill), this pill also required three medicinal materials: Golden Elephant Fruit, Skyfire Flowing Gold Grass, and Lapis Lazuli Wood. He couldn't help but rejoice; the Golden Elephant Fruit was indeed needed.

Moreover, the medicinal materials did not include beast blood, beast bones, or minerals—materials that could not be cultivated using the 厚土化生功 (厚土化生功: Thick Earth Creation Art). This reassured him.

The jade slip did not specify the level of these three medicinal materials or how many years they needed to mature.

However, since it was a pill for forging golden cores, it must be a Core Formation realm-level medicinal material. According to the current standards of the cultivation world, it would be a Profound-grade spirit herb. Even a first-rank Profound-grade medicinal material required at least three hundred years to mature.

Among the spirit plants that Zhang Yuanjing had cultivated since forming his core, only the spirit plant used to feed the Origin Stone was at the Profound-grade level.

How many years he could get from one cycle of the art, he couldn't judge, but from the feeling, it was only about ten years. Even if he switched to the current third level of the Thick Earth Creation Art, it would probably be only twenty years.

In other words, it would take at least fifteen years to cultivate a first-rank Profound-grade medicinal material to maturity. And that was just one spirit herb. If he cultivated five portions of each of the two medicinal materials, it would take one hundred and fifty years.

What would be the result if he went out after one hundred and fifty years? If Fire Crow Daoist couldn't break through, he would have turned into a pile of bones. He had given Han Ji, Zhang Yu, and Zhang Jun each a Foundation Establishment Pill, but apart from Zhang Yu, the other two had almost no chance of breaking through with just one Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, since he had chosen to enter the furnace, he had prepared for the worst outcome. Moreover, this result was not too bad.

His gaze was firm. In any case, he had to take this pill formula and these spirit herbs out with him. He had to return to Tianque Mountain!

He looked at the refining method, but felt his scalp tingle.

The refining of this pill was much more complicated than the Benefit Spirit Pill. It required igniting Yang fire to burn the medicinal materials into medicinal liquid within ten breaths. Then, the fire had to be extinguished to let the medicinal liquid cool. Then, Yin fire was used for intermittent tempering, each time for ten breaths, with a one-breath pause in between, for nine consecutive times. Then, Yang fire was used again for continuous tempering for a hundred breaths without interruption. After a hundred breaths, the fire was extinguished again. After cooling, Yin and Yang fires were alternately used for nine times each, each time for three breaths. Finally, both fires were ignited simultaneously until it turned light golden, and it was complete.

So complicated; how many medicinal materials would be enough! He might not be able to refine this Molten Gold Tempering Pill until the end of his lifespan.

Zhang Yuanjing pursed his lips tightly, dispelled the various distracting thoughts in his mind, and quickly calmed his mind.

He was already a Core Formation cultivator, not to be compared to when he was in the Foundation Establishment stage. Even if this Molten Gold Tempering Pill was ten times more difficult to refine than the Benefit Spirit Pill, so what! With his current divine soul, he could complete such a complex refinement!

He quickly walked a few steps and placed the jade slip on the medicine cabinet. As a dazzling white light flashed, a fruit, a grass, and a broken branch appeared on the medicine cabinet.

The fruit was a golden fruit, entirely golden in color, the size of a flat peach, emitting a fragrant aroma. It was the Golden Elephant Fruit, almost the same as the ones he had picked from the tree outside, except this one had a stronger spiritual energy.

The grass was a golden long grass, about three feet tall, a medicinal material with both gold and fire attributes. Golden light flowed on it, occasionally forming a fiery red funnel-shaped vortex of spiritual energy at the top.

Seeing this grass, Zhang Yuanjing's mood immediately lightened. With the height and luxuriance of this grass, it could be divided into at least twenty or more portions of material. This meant that the time for cultivating the medicinal materials could be greatly reduced.

The branch was a white thin branch, only the size of a thumb, a foot or so long. Its cross-section was moist, full of vitality, and fragrant.

According to the pill formula, the medicinal material used in the largest quantity for the Molten Gold Tempering Pill was the Golden Elephant Fruit. One Golden Elephant Fruit could only be used for one portion of material. However, Zhang Yuanjing had a hundred or so golden fruits, so unless his luck was really bad, he didn't have to worry about not having enough of this fruit.

Since there were enough twenty portions of Skyfire Flowing Gold Grass, he could temporarily not cultivate it.

Only an inch or so of Lapis Lazuli Wood was needed to prepare one portion of medicine. A foot-long Lapis Lazuli Wood could be divided into ten portions of medicinal material.

However, there was a hidden worry here, which was that there was only a small piece of Lapis Lazuli Wood, neither a root nor a seed. If it could not be cultivated, then he would only have ten chances. The refining difficulty of the Molten Gold Tempering Pill was at least ten times that of the Benefit Spirit Pill, so the probability of success with ten chances was very slim.

After thinking it over, Zhang Yuanjing ultimately did not dare to take the risk, so he made up his mind, held the broken branch of Lapis Lazuli Wood, sat down to cultivate, and focused on cultivating it with the Thick Earth Creation Art.

However, a full half year passed without any effect. The broken branch neither withered nor grew, and there was no sign of new shoots.

Zhang Yuanjing couldn't help but feel a little frustrated, worried that this limb could not be cultivated. If that were the case, his trip would be dangerous.

He persisted for another half year, but there was still no movement, and feelings of despair gradually arose in his heart.

Just as he was about to lose his composure, when he inspected his dantian one day, he discovered that those golden spiritual energies were coiled around the nascent core, increasingly becoming a burden on the operation of the cultivation technique and the movement of mana. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck his mind. This kind of spiritual energy was the strong vitality released by the germination of seeds. If it were used to cultivate the broken branch, would it have miraculous effects?

With this thought in mind, he immediately circulated the Thick Earth Creation Art, revolving around those golden spiritual energies in his dantian. After several days, he finally refined a wisp from it and guided it towards the broken branch of Lapis Lazuli Wood.

At the instant this spiritual energy entered the broken branch, golden light suddenly flashed on the surface of the broken branch, and the flow of qi appeared inside, though small but clear.

Zhang Yuanjing's heart trembled, knowing that this matter could be done, and a heart that had been hanging finally landed.