Chapter 486: Golden Elixir Avenue
After a quick glance, seeing that there was nothing eye-catching at the scene, Xiao Mian came to Gui Hai and picked him up. However, Xiao Mian did not take Gui Hai away from the Ghost Howl Valley, which was a dangerous place. Instead, he found the place where Bai Lian Zhenjun appeared.
There was a bottomless ghost cave there.
Gritting his teeth, Xiao Mian hugged Gui Hai and jumped into the ghost cave.
After a while, Xiao Mian landed on the ground.
Soon, Xiao Mian found the cave of Bai Lian Zhenjun on one side of the ghost cave.
But Bai Lian Zhenjun was a quasi-Nascent Soul cultivator, so how could his cave not have some access control settings?
That is, Xiao Mian, knowing that Bai Lian Zhenjun had died, dared to go deep into the ghost cave and find the door by following the clues, intending to occupy the magpie's nest.
Bai Lian Zhenjun's corpse refining skills are quite extraordinary, but after all, he is a ghost cultivator, and he is not affiliated with the ghost cultivation sect of the Netherworld Ghost Domain. The gate outside the cave is just a fourth-level defense array. In addition, now that Bai Lian Zhenjun himself is finished, there is no one to hold the array, so Xiao Mian used the Star Magnetic Sword to split the cave.
Anyway, Xiao Mian just wants to live here temporarily, not to really occupy the magpie's nest. If this cave is broken, it's broken. Xiao Mian doesn't care about the two doors!
Thinking of this, Xiao Mian has already entered Bai Lian Zhenjun's cave with Gui Hai in his arms.
After more than a month, Xiao Mian did not leave Bai Lian Zhenjun's cave.
During this month, Xiao Mian meditated and recuperated from the hidden and obvious injuries he suffered in the previous fierce battle, while paying close attention to Gui Hai's situation.
Because of Gui Tou's suggestion, Xiao Mian was observing Gui Hai while observing the Gui Tou knife held tightly by Gui Hai. According to Guitou, when Guihai was held hostage by Mieyuan last time, his soul was eroded by Mieyuan's evil spirit. The dragon soul sealed in the Guitou knife obviously had a special relationship with Guihai. In this case, it voluntarily merged into Guihai's soul to supplement Guihai's soul.
Let's not talk about how the souls of this man and dragon merged, just to say that after the success, Guihai was safe and sound, but the dragon soul was probably annihilated.
Looking at the black Guitou knife, Xiao Mian seemed to see the dragon.
Suddenly, Xiao Mian thought of a secret technique.
When the Ghost Saint asked Xiao Mian for three Wu Leakage Pieces, Xiao Mian said that he would give one to the Ghost Saint for free, but the Ghost Saint Xu Wan was an old senior of the same generation as Wan Zongsheng. How could he take advantage of Xiao Mian, a junior, for nothing? Therefore, the Ghost Saint used a secret technique to exchange the Wu Leakage Piece that Xiao Mian gave him for free, which was - "Merging Souls and Combining Souls"!
The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. Xiao Mian began to use this secret technique on Gui Hai and Gui Tou Dao. After getting this secret technique, Xiao Mian thought about using it when he practiced the "Soul Separation Method" in the future, so he had already practiced it thoroughly.
However, no matter how Xiao Mian performed the spell, after such a long time, Xiao Mian's injuries were completely healed, but Gui Hai still showed no signs of waking up.
Because of Master Jingyin's advice, Xiao Mian dared to stay in the cave of Master Bai Lian for a while. Master Jingyin would not deceive him for no reason.
Now Xiao Mian's injuries have completely recovered, but Gui Hai has not improved at all.
In boredom, Xiao Mian set his sights on the storage magic weapons of Master Bai Lian and Chi Mei, but the two big guys were both quasi-Nascent Soul cultivators, and they had already condensed their own consciousness. Therefore, the string of Buddhist beads and the hairpin both had the mark of consciousness.
Although Bailian Zhenjun and Chi Mei were both dead, the spiritual mark was not something Xiao Mian could break now - unless Xiao Mian concentrated his spiritual consciousness.
After trying to no avail, Xiao Mian searched Bailian Zhenjun's cave.
He searched the ground three feet deep, leaving no grass behind.
However, he got very little. It was unknown whether Bailian Zhenjun hid all the treasures in the string of Buddhist beads, or whether he was originally penniless.
But Xiao Mian was not disappointed at all, but excited.
Because in Bailian Zhenjun's cave, Xiao Mian found something, to be precise, a scripture - the "Shangqing Wuji Sutra" of the Jindan Chapter!
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Xiao Mian's face was normal, but his right hand holding the "Shangqing Wuji Sutra" of the Jindan Chapter trembled slightly unconsciously.
For Xiao Mian now, isn't this a manifestation of extreme excitement?
It turned out that when Xiao Mian passed through Fuyun Doucheng, he accidentally got a volume of scriptures, which was the "Taiqing Wuwei Sutra" of the Jindan chapter. In addition to the "Yuqing Wushi Sutra" that he bought from the scholar at the time with a low-grade spirit stone and the "Shangqing Wuji Sutra" he got today, Xiao Mian has collected the "Three Qings" of the Jindan chapter!
In other words, after successfully forming the elixir for several years, Xiao Mian finally got the strongest practice method suitable for his Jindan stage. How could Xiao Mian not be fascinated?
The three volumes of scriptures were lined up by Xiao Mian.
Xiao Mian sat cross-legged and flipped through the books casually, just like an ordinary person reading a questionnaire, reading the three volumes of scriptures one by one, and savoring them carefully. This experience lasted three days and three nights. After three days, Xiao Mian closed the scriptures and closed his eyes.
"Taiqing Wuwei Sutra", "Shangqing Wuji Sutra", "Yuqing Wushi Sutra", the three volumes of scriptures swept through Xiao Mian's mind one by one, but Xiao Mian was confused and couldn't get the point.
Although he had collected all the Three Pure Ones now, he still had no idea how to modify the Three Pure Ones to cultivate the Golden Elixir Realm. Thinking back carefully, the reason why Xiao Mian was able to successfully cultivate the Three Pure Ones was because of a dream.
Xiao Mian still remembers that strange dream and that strange person.
Could it be that in order to practice the "Three Pure Ones Bible" of the Golden Elixir Chapter, he still needs to have a dream, understand the Tao, and meet the mysterious man in white in the dream?
Just as Xiao Mian was thinking about it, he suddenly had an idea.
He stretched out his right hand, and then the dark and ugly strange stone appeared in the palm of Xiao Mian's right hand, floating up and down.
As his right hand was clenched, the fairy stone was held in the palm of Xiao Mian's hand.
At that moment, a feeling of blood thicker than water made Xiao Mian frown slightly, but soon, he was attracted by the scene manifested in the fairy stone.
At this time, the fairy stone was still in chaos, but it was not empty. In addition to the seven souls stationed in the seven orifices by Xiao Mian, there were twelve black silk threads flying back and forth in the chaos, swimming fast or slow.
These twelve black lines were the twelve soul-devouring poisons that Xiao Mian extracted from Bai Caiwei's body and stored in the immortal stone. At first, Xiao Mian would occasionally probe his mind into the immortal stone to observe the movements of these black threads, but these twelve black threads not only did not intend to devour Xiao Mian's soul, but instead ran along their own trajectories day and night, not only were they extremely diligent, but they were also extremely well-behaved.
It's not that Xiao Mian had not observed the running trajectories of these black threads, but he just felt familiar, but he really couldn't remember what was special about these trajectories.
Seeing the running trajectories of these black threads again, Xiao Mian suddenly had an epiphany!
Aren't the running trajectories of these twelve black threads the running routes of the true essence recorded in the "Three Pure Holy Scriptures" in the Golden Elixir Chapter?
The twelve black threads were originally extracted from Bai Caiwei's twelve meridians. The trajectory of each black thread is the true essence running route of the corresponding meridians. Although Xiao Mian has no definite evidence to prove his guess, he instinctively believes that this is the "Three Pure Ones Bible" of the Golden Elixir Chapter!
So, when he hadn't formed the elixir yet, didn't he already get the "Three Pure Ones Bible" of the Golden Elixir Chapter?
It's ridiculous that he was looking for a donkey while riding a donkey, and still wasted several years.
However, Xiao Mian thought about it. If he hadn't got the "Shangqing Wuji Sutra" by chance today, and read the "Three Pure Ones Bible" in its entirety, he might not be able to comprehend the hidden mystery even if he looked at the twelve black lines in the fairy stone for hundreds of years.
As the saying goes, the time has not come, and the secrets cannot be revealed.
Besides, although Xiao Mian's cultivation progress was stagnant because he did not have the "Three Pure Ones Bible" of the Jindan chapter, the polishing over the past few years has made Xiao Mian's true essence three points stronger than that of an average Jindan mid-level cultivator, so it is not a useless effort.
With this in mind, Xiao Mian no longer thought about it.
At this moment, Xiao Mian began to circulate the true essence in his body according to the running trajectory of the twelve black silk threads. At first, he was a little awkward, but soon he got into the groove and became handy.
It was as if the true essence in Xiao Mian's body was supposed to run like this.
After running the true essence according to the new running trajectory for a week, Xiao Mian clearly felt that the total amount of true essence in his body had increased slightly. This kind of immediate effect was definitely not the effect that he could achieve by practicing the "Three Pure Ones Bible" in the foundation-building period before.
At this point, Xiao Mian was completely sure that he had found the right way to practice in the Jindan realm!
At this moment, Xiao Mian circulated the true essence in his body over and over again without stopping.
Time passed like water without knowing it...