Chapter 165 Alchemy Boy

Looking at the old man in front of him, Xiao Lin also had a lot of feelings in his heart. If he could not get a higher-level pill formula and could not build a foundation, perhaps in a few decades, he would become an old man like Baili Wen.

For a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, if he could not build a foundation before the age of 40, then the probability of successfully building a foundation in his lifetime would be extremely small. Of course, although the probability of building a foundation is small, it is not completely hopeless.

But if he has not successfully built a foundation after the age of 60, then the path of cultivation will be completely cut off, even if there are elixirs and magic medicines, it will be useless.

"In a few years, if I still cannot build a foundation, I can only retire from the sect and return to the Immortal City to retire." Baili Wen said with a sigh.

"As long as there is hope, brother, don't give up. After all, everything is possible on the road to immortality." Xiao Lin pondered for a moment before speaking.

"Thank you for your good words, but I have let it go. I will just let it go. But I don't understand why you chose Qingzhu Peak as your place of practice when you just joined the sect?"

"I like quietness, so I chose Qingzhu Peak where there are relatively few people. Is there any problem?" Hearing what the old man Baili said, Xiao Lin's expression froze for a moment and he spoke.

Baili Wen's face suddenly showed a strange look, and after a while he sighed: "It seems that no one has given you any advice since you entered the sect."

Looking at the expression on Xiao Lin's face, Baili Wen smiled bitterly and said: "The family members in the sect are really the same. If I hadn't chosen Qingzhu Peak by mistake, I would not have been stuck at the bottleneck of foundation building for decades."

"Junior brother, you should know that our Dancao Mountain is built on a large spiritual vein."

Seeing Xiao Lin nod, Baili Wen continued: "But although the Qingdan main peak and the eight secondary peaks are built on spiritual veins, there is a huge gap between them."

"The spiritual energy of the Qingdan main peak is the most concentrated, and the rest are the most concentrated. At least twice as much as the eight secondary peaks, so the cultivation speed is fastest on Qingdan Peak. However, we outer disciples are not qualified to cultivate on the main peak of Qingdan. Only the sect leader, several outer elders and a group of core disciples are qualified. Of course, the thirteen Jindan uncles and Tianyi Patriarch are also qualified. "

"As for the eight secondary peaks, the concentration of spiritual energy varies greatly. Among them, Jinxia, ​​Qinghuo and Qijue are the most abundant, followed by Hongluan, Ziye and Yingyuan. The worst are our Qingzhu Peak and Cuishui Peak. "

"Oh? Why is this? Aren't the eight secondary peaks also built on spiritual veins? "Hearing this, Xiao Lin showed a surprised expression on his face and asked.

"It's very simple." Baili Wen pointed to the spiritual field hanging in the air hundreds of feet high and said: "We have hundreds of acres of spiritual fields in Dancao Mountain. Junior brother, you can see that the bottom layer has the largest area. It is planted with some first-level spiritual medicines. This low-level spiritual medicine has a short growth cycle and a large yield. It is mainly used to train the sect's alchemists, and the various spiritual pills refined are mainly provided to those outer disciples in the Qi Refining period."

Xiao Lin nodded. When he received the sect's items, there was a jade bottle with a Yunling Pill in it.

"I think Junior Brother has also received the Yunling Pill issued by the sect. We outer disciples will be issued five low-grade spiritual stones and one Yunling Pill every month. These benefits will be provided until the foundation is established or the age is over 40 years old."

Hearing this, Xiao Lin was speechless. Once the foundation is established, there is naturally no need for low-level spiritual pills such as Yunling Pills. Moreover, if the foundation can be established, the sect will provide higher-level cultivation resources.

However, once the outer disciples are over 40 years old, they will be deprived of sect benefits, which is a bit inhumane. I think in the eyes of the sect, such disciples are not worth training, so they simply stop the sect benefits and let them fend for themselves.

Baili Wen obviously belongs to the latter type of people. He showed a little dissatisfaction on his face, but then turned bitter and continued: "And in the sky above, there are a small number of medium-level spiritual fields, which are planted with second-level spiritual medicines. The second-level spiritual pills refined from these spiritual medicines are mainly supplied to inner disciples, the head of the sect, and the outer elders."

"It is rumored that the spiritual field at the highest point of Qingdan Peak is an extremely rare high-level spiritual field, which is planted with third-level spiritual medicines that are almost extinct in the Tianlu Mountains. However, the inner disciples of that spiritual field are not even qualified to go up and take a look, and the entire spiritual field is covered with extremely powerful restrictions. Even if Even the Jindan Patriarch couldn't crack it. "

After a pause, Baili Wen shook his head and said, "But these spiritual fields are all from our Dancao Mountain's predecessors. They extract the spiritual energy from the underground spiritual veins to consolidate the formations above, and also cultivate spiritual medicines by extracting the spiritual energy from the spiritual veins. Qingdan Mountain is the foundation of our Dancao Mountain, so it is naturally impossible to extract the spiritual veins below it. Therefore, the spiritual energy that maintains the operation of the spiritual fields is extracted from the spiritual veins below Qingzhu Peak and Cuishui Peak. "

Speaking of this, Xiao Lin finally understood. After he came to Qingzhu Peak yesterday, he felt that the spiritual energy here was much thinner than that of the main Qingdan Peak. He didn't care too much.

Now, according to Baili Wen, it was because the spiritual vein under Qingzhu Peak was constantly draining spiritual energy. This also made him understand why there were so few people on Qingzhu Peak. After all, who doesn't want to practice in a place with abundant spiritual energy?

"Don't we have a Jindan master uncle sitting on the top of Qingzhu Peak?" Xiao Lin once heard the fat-faced inner disciple say that the eight main peaks were all in charge of Jindan ancestors. If the spiritual energy was really so thin, how could this Jindan ancestor be willing to sit on Qingzhu Peak?

"Hey." Hearing this, Baili Wen sneered, and then seemed to feel something was wrong. He looked around and was slightly relieved to make sure that there was no one. He said softly: "The caves of several master uncles are all located on the top of the mountain. There are special passages in the caves, which directly lead to the spiritual veins of this mountain. In addition, there are spirit gathering arrays in the caves of all master uncles, so there is no need to worry about the lack of spiritual power."

Nodding, Xiao Lin finally understood why there were so few people on Qingzhu Peak and Cuishui Peak, but he was not worried. His most important goal at the moment was to find a way to get the recipe of the Five Elements Spirit Pill.

As long as he could refine the Five Elements Spirit Pill, whether the spiritual energy in the place of practice was rich or not would not have much impact on him. Thinking of this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but ponder for a while.

"Brother Baili, our Dancao Mountain is famous for alchemy among the five major sects, but I don't know what to do to become an alchemist? What abilities do you need to have?"

Since he had never seen the recipe for the Five Elements Spiritual Pill in the reward catalog of the Merit Hall, Xiao Lin set his sights on becoming an alchemist. He thought that once he became an alchemist, the sect would always provide him with some recipes for making spiritual pills.

Upon hearing this, Baili Wen showed a little surprise on his face: "Could it be that Junior Brother Xiao can also make pills?"

"When I was practicing in the Immortal City, I made a few furnaces of Yunling Pills, but the success rate was frighteningly low. For this, I spent all my savings for several years." Xiao Lin said with a wry smile and shook his head.

"Junior brother has also refined the Soul-Enriching Pill, which is quite remarkable. Although our Dancao Mountain is famous for refining pills, there are not many alchemists in the sect."

"We have three great alchemists in Dancao Mountain. In addition to the old man Tianyi, there are two more, namely Wu Daozi, the great-grandmaster Wu, and Sun Changsheng, the great-grandmaster Sun."

"These two great-grandmasters can be regarded as representing the two current alchemy schools in our Dancao Mountain."

"Oh, is there any difference between these two schools?" Xiao Lin was surprised.

Looking at Xiao Lin, Baili Wen smiled and said, "In fact, there is no faction in alchemy itself. It's just that Uncle Wu is a casual cultivator, and he is also a true spiritual root cultivator. He also picked the purple spirit flower in the cave trial, and thus received the Dao Order to join our Dancao Mountain."

"Uncle Sun is the great-grandfather of the current head of the Sun family, one of the top ten cultivation families in our Dancao Mountain. Therefore, Uncle Sun can be regarded as representing the power of this lineage of cultivation families."

Xiao Lin's face showed a look of realization when he heard this. It seems that there is indeed a certain gap between the cultivation families and casual cultivators in Dancao Mountain, otherwise there would not be any two-lineage alchemy system.

"Speaking of this, Junior Brother Xiao probably understands it. With Junior Brother Xiao's background as a casual cultivator, even if he passes the alchemy test in the sect, he may not be favored by this Grandmaster Sun and become an alchemist boy. However, he still has great hope of becoming an alchemist boy in the lineage of Grandmaster Wu Daozi."

"Alchemist boy?"

Seeing Xiao Lin's slightly frowned brows, Baili Wen smiled and said, "Haha, since I have nothing to do today, I might as well explain it to you."

"It is unrealistic for an outer disciple of our Dancao Mountain to become a second-level alchemist, unless you can really refine a second-level elixir like the Five Elements Spirit Pill. However, as an outer disciple, the sect simply cannot provide enough Five Elements Spirit Grass for the outer disciples to refine."

"So the outer disciples can only become an alchemist boy of the alchemist, and improve their alchemy skills by refining the Soul-Enriching Pill used by the outer disciples for cultivation. level. If you can build a foundation after this, you will be able to get some alchemy resources and continue to improve your alchemy skills. As long as you can refine the Five Elements Elixir, you can become a formal alchemist. "

"After you have the title of alchemist, your status among the inner disciples of our Dancao Mountain can be greatly improved. Not only will your monthly benefits be twice that of ordinary inner disciples, you may also be able to assist Uncle Wu Daozi in refining some third-level elixirs. If you are favored by Uncle Wu Daozi, you may become a true disciple, which is really a step to heaven. "

"Brother Baili, what conditions do you need to meet to become an alchemy boy?"

"There is an alchemy pavilion halfway up the eight peaks of our Dancao Mountain. You will know what to do when you go there, but I want to remind you that it is not easy to become an alchemy boy. Once you fail the test, you can only participate in the second test three years later. "