Chapter 1185 Cold Pond Order
If Qingyang was just an ordinary pharmacist assistant, he would not be able to learn even if he saw it. But Qingyang was once a senior elixir king, with vision and experience. In this process, he could remember and learn a lot. Unconsciously, Qingyang's level of refining the dark pill has improved a lot. Qingyang feels that if he refines the foundation-building dark pill now, even if it does not meet the requirements of the alchemist's disciples, at least he can have a 20% success rate.
Not only that, Qingyang feels that his level of refining elixir will also improve. The unique techniques and experience he has learned these days can not only be used in refining the dark pill, but also help in refining elixir. Qingyang's alchemy skills reached the level of a senior alchemy king very early. Later, due to the limitation of his cultivation, Qingyang's level of refining elixirs has been stagnant, just like encountering a bottleneck during cultivation. However, through this collision and learning with the refining of the dark elixir, he finally has the possibility of improvement. It is estimated that it will not take long before he can try to refine the elixir of the Yuanying level. At this point, he will surpass the limitation of the elixir king and become the legendary elixir king.
As for Ge Dagen, under the support of Qingyang and Guixia Zhenren, two masters of alchemy, his alchemy skills have also improved a lot. In short, the three of them have gained a lot from this retreat.
Guixia Zhenren is not a hard-working person. She has to stop and adjust her state every time she uses a material. She has to rest for a while every time she refines a few pills, so the efficiency of pill refining is not very high. In addition, she prepared a lot of materials. It took her half a year to use up all the materials and refine dozens of pills in total.
Dozens of pills were enough to raise her cultivation from the third level of the Golden Core to the middle level of the Golden Core. So after the materials were used up, Master Guixia decisively ended this retreat and ordered two maids to open the forbidden formation of the alchemy room, and several people left the alchemy room together.
Everything in the alchemy room was naturally left to the subordinates to clean up. Anyway, Master Guixia would never do it. It has been less than half a year since she asked Qingyang and Ge Dagen to help. Finally, she rounded up an integer and gave each of them 90 pieces of dark stones. Maybe because the results of this alchemy were better than expected, Master Guixia was in a good mood and gave each of them a piece of cold pond order.
The so-called cold pond order is a token of a forbidden place in the Ghost Valley. Immortal cultivators holding this token can practice in it for a month, which is very helpful for improving their cultivation.
The entire Ghost Valley is located on a super-large Yin vein. It is a good place for ghost cultivators to practice, but it is useless for immortal cultivators. It is better for people like Qingyang who have sufficient elixirs. For immortal cultivators like Ge Dagen who have no foundation, if they stay in it for a long time, not only will their cultivation not improve at all, but they may even regress. If this problem is not solved, he may never have the opportunity to form an elixir in his life.
Ghost Valley is such a large sect, and there are many immortal cultivators. If you want to maintain the centripetal force of the sect, you have to consider this problem. The Cold Pond Order is one of the solutions.
As the saying goes, things will turn into the opposite when they reach their extremes. The location of the Ghost Valley is a super-large Yin vein, which is filled with dense Yin and dark ghost energy. However, at a certain vein eye in the Ghost Valley, there is an area that goes against the trend. The vein eye is a low-lying area. The area is not large, only about ten miles in radius, but the spiritual energy inside is extremely dense, thickly attached to the depression. From a distance, it looks like a pool of water in the fairy palace. Because it is located at the vein eye of the entire Ghost Valley Yin vein, the temperature of the entire depression is very low, just like winter, so it is named Cold Pond.
So this place was specially confined by the Ghost Valley as a place for the cultivation of the immortal monks under the sect, and the Cold Pond Order is the token for entering and leaving the Cold Pond. Such an important cold pond, of course, not everyone can come casually, and the cold pond order will not be issued casually. Ghost Valley will give corresponding training time every year as an additional benefit according to the level of the immortal cultivators. The lowest-level errand boy will generally be given one month of training time every ten years, and a cold pond order will be issued as a voucher. When using it, just give the cold pond order to the disciples guarding the immortal pond.
Pharmacist assistants like Qingyang and Ge Dagen are only given one month every five years, which is equivalent to one cold pond order every five years. The alchemist disciples above are given one cold pond order every year, and the alchemist guest is given three cold pond orders every year. Only the alchemist worshiper is not restricted by the cold pond order and can enter and exit the cold pond at will.
In addition to the normal issuance, Ghost Valley will occasionally reward disciples with cold pond orders, and allow private transactions, but the cold pond is too small to accommodate too many cultivators at a time, so Ghost Valley will also control the issuance of cold pond orders to prevent too many immortal disciples from practicing in the cold pond at the same time, diluting the spiritual energy in the cold pond and reducing the effect of practice.
Because of this, the Cold Pond Order is extremely popular among the immortal disciples of the Ghost Valley. It is said that the spiritual energy in the Cold Pond is so rich that one month of cultivation in it is equivalent to one year of cultivation outside, which is enough to make up for the time lost before.
In this case, if it is not for the extreme lack of spiritual stones, who would sell the Cold Pond Order related to their future? Therefore, it is usually difficult to buy. If you buy it on the black market, a Cold Pond Order will cost at least two or three hundred spiritual stones. Even so, it is often out of stock and cannot be bought with the Nether Stone. The fact that Master Guixia can give them two Cold Pond Orders in addition to the agreed reward is enough to show how satisfied she is with Qingyang and Ge Dagen's completion of this mission.
At first, Qingyang was a little confused when he received the Cold Pond Order. Only after listening to Ge Dagen's explanation did he know the wonderful use of this thing. One month in there is equivalent to more than one year outside. The speed of cultivation is faster than the speed of using elixirs, almost catching up with the time when he used spirit stones to cultivate.
Thinking of this, Qingyang has made up his mind. After going out, he must find a way to get more Cold Pond Orders. In the future, he will cultivate in that cold pond, even if it costs a lot of spirit stones. Hundreds of spirit stones are very expensive for others, but they are nothing to Qingyang. This kind of cultivation is not a luxury. Can it be compared with direct cultivation with spirit stones? Saving Yu Mengmiao is important, but his own cultivation cannot be delayed.
After giving the reward, the real person Guixia was about to send Qingyang and Ge Dagen out of the Ghost Cloud Cave. Suddenly, three cultivators came outside the door. The one leading the way was the ghost bead who had not appeared for a long time. Behind him were the real people Guiyun and Guihuanzi who had clashed with Qingyang.