Chapter 400: Golden Elixir Preaching

Song Qingming was a little surprised to hear that Huang Shengxin would go into seclusion right after he returned, and immediately thought of the reason why he was in such a hurry to go into seclusion.

But before Song Qingming could ask, Huang Shengxin sighed and said directly: "To be honest, Fellow Daoist Song probably knows that my life span is not much. This time, I have planned to close the life and death gate directly after returning. If I can't break through, I will not come out to see people again.

To be ashamed, I have practiced Taoism for more than 200 years in my life. The first half of my life can be said to be smooth sailing. I practiced to the peak of foundation building without experiencing too many setbacks along the way. But when it came to the stage of forming the elixir, I was repeatedly not blessed by the heaven. In the past few decades, I have exhausted all my efforts but still failed to enter.

For us foundation-building cultivators, although we are only one step away from the golden elixir road, it is like the bright moon in the sky, which is out of reach. I don't know how to cross this natural chasm."

Hearing Huang Shengxin suddenly say these heartfelt words, Song Qingming and Huang Shengyue, who were present, were silent for a moment, and didn't know what to say, so they could only look aside.

Even Huang Shengxin, the most gifted and talented cultivator in Qinghe County in the past hundred years, could only say such sad words when facing the Golden Elixir Avenue. How much hope could they have?

The life span of a foundation-building cultivator is no more than 200 years at most. If they cannot form an elixir, even if they live for another hundred years, they will eventually turn into a pile of dust. The cultivators seek the chance of immortality in the end. As their cultivation level increases, Song Qingming also feels that he is yearning for it more and more.

"My two fellow Taoists, I will send you here. I hope you have a good journey!" Looking at the two sword lights disappearing in front of him, Song Qingming turned around and stepped on the flying sword and quickly returned to Tuoyun Mountain.

With the departure of many cultivators who participated in the trade fair, the entire Tuoyun Mountain gradually became quieter from the bustling appearance of the previous few days.

Compared with the auction secretly held by Tiandan League and the smaller-scale trade fairs such as the Bailongshan Conference, the Tuoyunshan Trade Fair held every few decades provides much better security for the monks participating in the trade fair. Basically, no monk will stay in Tuoyunshan for fear of being targeted.

After all, the Tuoyunshan Trade Fair was held by Patriarch Chen himself, and many monks who came to the trade fair were invited by him personally. No matter those greedy independent cultivators or nearby bandit cultivators, generally no one dares to openly attack the monks participating in the trade fair, otherwise it would be a blow to Tuoyunshan's face and make things difficult for Patriarch Chen.

In the northern cultivation world of Weiguo, if you rashly offend a Jindan cultivator like Patriarch Chen, the consequences can be imagined. The Patriarch himself does not need to do it himself. Just his disciples and grandchildren are enough to wipe out a large bandit nest like Yingchao Ridge.

After living in the temporary cave on the mountain for another three days, Song Qingming finally received a notice from the cultivator sent by Feng Yangde that the day for Chen Laozu to give a lecture was coming soon, and the venue was still on the platform on the top of the mountain.

Not only Song Qingming, but all the other cultivators who entered the top ten also cherished this hard-won opportunity to listen to the Jindan Laozu's lecture. When Song Qingming arrived at the top of the mountain, all these foundation-building cultivators came here without omission.

In addition to Song Qingming and other cultivators who participated in the sword-discussing conference, several disciples of Chen Jinliang and some of his more talented disciples and disciples also came here. Everyone sat cross-legged in the open space in the middle of the platform on the top of the mountain.

Not long after, an old man with a white beard like an immortal came on the wind and landed directly in front of everyone.

After Chen Jinliang glanced at the many cultivators who had been waiting here on the open space, he walked directly to a gray cushion placed in front and slowly sat down.

"I haven't talked about Taoism for a long time. This time, I saw many talented cultivators of your young generation at this trade fair, so I suddenly had the idea of ​​opening a forum to preach.

Everyone here today is basically not far from the Jindan stage. I will tell you some of my experiences and insights when I was in the Jindan stage. Of course, what I said are just some of my personal experiences. As for how much you can understand and how much help I can give you in the future, it depends on your luck."

Hearing that what Chen Jinliang was going to say was the Jindan experience that everyone wanted to know the most, everyone present, including Song Qingming, pricked up their ears and dared not make any extra sounds, for fear that they would miss every word that the Jindan ancestor would say next.

Although Chen Jinliang only spoke for half an hour, many cultivators present entered into deep thought on the spot. Until the ancestor got up and left the top of the mountain, many people were still sitting there, recalling some of his experiences in cultivation that he had said not long ago.

When Chen Jinliang entered Taoism at a young age, he had been following an old Taoist in the Qi Refining Stage to practice. Later, his talent for cultivation gradually emerged, and he had the opportunity to become a disciple of a foundation-building cultivator.

Although his master helped him a lot, as a casual foundation-building cultivator of average reputation, his master could not get him a foundation-building pill. Chen Jinliang had to rely on himself to pass the foundation-building stage at the risk of his own life.

The same is true when it comes to Danjie. Although Chen Jinliang had some opportunities after practicing to the ninth level of foundation building and obtained two spiritual objects useful for Danjie, his success in Danjie was mainly due to his own understanding of cultivation.

Unlike the transformation of the cultivator's body and soul required to break through the foundation building, there is no great danger to the cultivator's life when Danjie is formed. Even if the breakthrough fails, at most it will lose some vitality, and it will slowly recover after a period of conditioning.

But compared with the difficulty of the foundation building breakthrough, Danjie is more difficult because there are too few spiritual objects that can assist Danjie. Common third-level spiritual pills such as Yuchen Pill and Xuling Pill can only increase the probability of Danjie by half or ten percent.

Other better third-level spiritual objects that assist Danjie are extremely rare near the Floating Cloud Mountains. Even the large Yuanying sects such as Xiaoyao Sect can hardly take out one or two.

Because of this, when a cultivator breaks through the Golden Core Realm, his reliance on external objects is lower than when he is building a foundation. What affects him more is his understanding of his own cultivation and techniques.

Especially cultivators like Chen Jinliang who can successfully form a golden core as a casual cultivator are basically people with excellent talents in the way of cultivation and their mental perception. His cultivation experience is exactly what Song Qingming and others need most.