Chapter 54: Thoughts on the Golden Elixir
"But this is just a low-level alchemy method. Although it is worth celebrating, we should not be proud of it and stop moving forward."
After the joy, Lin Chen put away the smile on his face and advised in his heart.
The alchemy method of the five elements is just to extract the required medicinal properties from the spiritual medicine and condense it into a non-toxic gas pill. It is still far from the real alchemy.
In Lin Chen's expectation, the low-level alchemy is to extract the required medicinal properties from the spiritual medicine by various means, so as to achieve perfection, no impurities and no toxicity.
The middle-level alchemy is not limited to spiritual medicine, but collects all things in the world as materials to make pills. And Lin Chen combined the information from his previous life, it can be roughly divided into five categories.
For example, the current mainstream of the immortal cultivation world is the herbal stream that uses the essence of plants and trees as medicine.
There is also the beast pill school that uses the essence of the inner elixir, fur, scales, horns, blood and flesh of hundreds of beasts as medicine, plundering their innate magical powers to perfect themselves, so as to comprehend the legendary great magical power [Fetal Transformation], and reincarnate the most perfect race [Heavenly Man] in the world.
Or use gold and iron ore as medicine to refine a sword pill, temper it with true qi day and night, so that the light of a sword can chill the nineteen states.
There is also the Qi pill school that collects the essence of the sun and moon of heaven and earth, the geomagnetic force, the purple qi of the morning sun, etc., and melts them into a furnace to make pills with the original qi.
Finally, there is the human body pill school that uses humans as medicine, such as the Purple Car River, full-moon babies, boys and girls, etc.
As for the superior pill method, in Lin Chen's view, it is no longer a simple pill refining, but the alchemist is telling his own practice and expounding his own understanding of this world.
Chaos opens up the world, clear and turbid divide the world, and yin and yang derive all things. At this point, the alchemist is no longer practicing pills, but life, it is destiny!
According to Lin Chen's speculation, this level of alchemy has the most obvious manifestation in this world, that is, breaking through from the Jindan stage to the Yuanying stage, and sublimating from flesh and blood life to spiritual creatures!
This change and promotion of the essence of life is already a manifestation of destiny!
"But if I can comprehend this step, I will at least be a Yuanying or even a spirit." Lin Chen laughed at himself, then shook his head and pulled his thoughts back to reality.
"I'd better think about the current matter now."
He looked at the pill stored in the jade in his hand. The pill was green all over, but with a sense of illusion, it was obviously a pure and non-toxic spiritual pill!
Although it is said that if this pill is stored in the soul stone and then placed in the spirit vein, it can continuously assimilate the spiritual energy to enhance the medicinal properties. After decades, it may be possible to complete the practice of the Qi Refining Stage with one use, but obviously, Lin Chen can't wait that long.
"This pill is good, but there is no need to worry about it. It should be used when it is needed." Lin Chen smiled lightly.
He put the jade stone with the pill to his mouth and sucked it gently. Suddenly, the round elixir turned into a ray of elixir gas, flew into Lin Chen's mouth, and fell directly into his dantian along his body.
In the dantian, the three-color mist gently wrapped the elixir gas and directly transformed it into true qi. There was no hindrance in the process, and even the refining step was saved!
"The true qi transformed by this elixir fills about one thousandth of the dantian..." Lin Chen felt it carefully and murmured.
In other words, as long as he persists in collecting clouds and refining elixirs in the morning and evening every day, at most three years, he can naturally advance to the foundation-building stage, become a high-level sect, and enjoy the two hundred years of immortality!
In other words, before the age of twenty-four, he can naturally advance to the foundation-building cultivator and become the youngest person in the history of Qingyun Sect to advance to the foundation-building stage!
"Now the road to the foundation-building stage is clear, so the next step is to consider the practice of foundation-building and the golden elixir stage." Lin Chen rubbed his eyebrows and his eyes moved.
Scientific research, from establishing the subject to experiment, and then to obtaining the results, is a very long process. Lin Chen cannot wait until he reaches the Jindan stage to consider what the mystery is, and must make plans early.
And he must also understand the secrets and purpose of the foundation-building stage.
"The foundation-building practice is also divided into three stages: [Condensation of Liquid], [Refining the Form], and [Purple Mansion]. What's interesting is that these three stages correspond to the human body's [Qi], [Essence], and [Shen]."
"After completing these three stages of practice, the cultivator will gather the essence, Qi, and spirit in the body to condense a flawless golden elixir?"
"I originally thought that the cultivator simply wrote his consciousness into the spiritual energy, but now it seems that the information of [Essence] and [Qi] must be written in, otherwise it cannot be transformed into a spiritual creature, but just a wisp of changing spiritual energy?"
Lin Chen pondered.
According to what he knows, the practice of the [Condensation of Liquid] stage in the foundation-building is to fill the Dantian with liquid true essence.
[Refining the Body] uses liquid true essence to fuse with blood, refine the whole body, remove impurities in the body, make up for the innate deficiencies, and thus reach the point of a flawless body.
[Purple Palace] uses liquid true essence to penetrate the upper dantian, open up the Niwan Palace, condense the purple palace, and achieve the fusion of spiritual energy and memory.
"With the help of the non-toxic Qi Dan, the practice of the [Condensation of Liquid] stage is not a problem for me. And in my last experiment of true Qi atomization, it seems that because of my experience when I traveled through time, I accidentally condensed the prototype of [Purple Palace]. Even if it is just a prototype, it will be useless for a while, but it will be of great help in the future..."
"As for [Refining the Body], it just so happens that the blood poisoning technique I obtained last time gave me inspiration... Well, in this way, it seems that there is no problem with my practice in the foundation building period, and it seems that I only need to consider the matter of the golden elixir period?"
Lin Chen suddenly found that he seemed to have no problem with the foundation-building period practice.
After all, he has been conducting research on essence, energy and spirit for so many years, which is similar to the foundation-building period practice. This will greatly reduce his practice time, so now he only needs to consider how to go on the golden elixir road.
"Golden elixir, golden elixir, according to the records I saw in the Sutra Library, to impact the golden elixir, the cultivator needs to combine the essence, energy and spirit into one, and master the mysterious [Dao Yun]?"
"What the hell? The essence, energy and spirit are already in the human body, blending with each other and becoming one. Why do they need to be combined into one? And what is [Dao Yun]? Why do these cultivators like to play these word games?!"
Lin Chen frowned deeply.
These mysterious and incomprehensible terms have stuck many cultivators at the peak of the foundation-building period, forcing them to pursue the spirit objects to condense the elixir.
The explanation given by the high-level cultivators is something like "The gate of Xuanpin is the root of heaven and earth..." Anyway, if you understand it, you understand it, and if you don't, there is nothing you can do.
In short, the emphasis is on a mysterious and profound, and to pass on the heart to the heart.
Maybe the disciples of the big sects can understand it, but for Lin Chen, who is a time traveler, it is like a teacher teaching a lot of advanced math formulas in class and then asking you if you know them. It is simply a torture.
"It would be great if we could conduct experiments to explore the mystery, but the experiments involving the golden elixir..."
Lin Chen suddenly remembered the accident in the laboratory last time, and couldn't help but be silent.
Last time, he had created a Foundation Establishment cultivator that was the worst, half-crazy, and even on the verge of death. He had to destroy a layer of underground space and spend countless white phosphorus and kerosene to suppress it. If it was a Golden Core cultivator, even the worst one...
"Forget it, the experiment should be based on safety. Let's think of other ways!" Lin Chen shook his head and removed this idea from his mind without hesitation.
"Maybe I can make my research ideas into a set of skills and spread them out, so that other cultivators can step on mines and improve them for me, and then recycle them, absorb the ideas and wisdom of all living beings, and open up the Golden Core Road for me?" Lin Chen's eyes moved, but then he fell into deep thought.
It's good to do this. After all, a person's wisdom and ideas are limited. No matter how smart he is, there are always things that he hasn't thought about, but collective wisdom is different.
But there are three problems with doing this:
First, Lingnan is too vast. Even if he is promoted to the Foundation Establishment Stage, there is no way to monitor the status of the cultivators who get the skills in real time. And even if there is a problem and it is improved, the other party may not record it.
Second, the Lingnan cultivation world is short of resources. Even with a complete inheritance, there are very few cultivators who can be promoted to the Jindan stage, not to mention that the skills given by Lin Chen are speculative and incomplete. How can you still be promoted to the Jindan stage?
Third, even if you are lucky enough to have a Jindan and improve your research ideas, you will only be a foundation-building cultivator at that time. How can you get the corresponding information from him to explore the mystery of the Jindan?
"This idea is not advisable." Lin Chen stroked his chin and thought carefully, "Maybe, I can lower the requirements. It doesn't have to be a Jindan cultivator. As long as there is an experimental subject who can achieve the unity of the three elements of spirit, energy and spirit, maybe I can also explore the so-called [Daoyun]..."
"If you follow this idea, you don't even need a cultivator, just a mortal. After all, this is much safer." The more Lin Chen thought about it, the more feasible it was.
But there is still a question...
"Mortals can only cultivate qi and blood, internal energy and other things, how can they be involved in the mysteries of the three elements of essence, energy and spirit?"