Chapter 62: A golden elixir swallowed into the belly
The sky and the earth were as dark as a curtain.
Among the endless Laoxiong Ridge Mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, there is only a single flame on Pingshan Mountain.
It’s like that ancient bottle outside the sky.
Thousands of years later, another immortal ignited the earth wind and fire in the belly of the bottle and smelted the golden elixir of immortality.
It seems to have an indescribable sense of mystery.
Attracting the peeps of countless mountains and wild things.
Nothing more.
Because of the phoenix that pierced the clouds and cracked the rocks before, they did not dare to approach at all. They only dared to hide deep in the forest and watch secretly from a distance.
Of course, there are also mountain bandits and thieves who dominate the mountains.
Why are all the villages in Miao territory not having enough to eat, but they all have high walls and are patrolling day and night with muskets.
The best thing to guard against are warlords and bandits.
As the old saying goes, banditry is like combing soldiers through a grate.
Because of this, the mountain people hate those people deeply.
As soon as they saw the figures of those demon kings, they either launched a row of gunfire, or they rolled up their belongings and fled into the mountains.
All around Bottle Mountain.
There are several bandit forces.
I have long coveted the legendary Yuanren Tomb.
It’s just that they don’t have the ability to move mountains and unload mountains.
After I came here several times and lost dozens of corpses, I no longer dared to mention the matter of stealing the Pingshan treasure.
Nowadays, Chen Yulou is making a lot of noise.
Especially in the middle of the night, the inside and outside of Pingshan Mountain are illuminated by fire as bright as day.
How can they not understand what happened.
Each of them sent a few spies to try to find out.
However.
Chen Yulou had been on guard against all this for a long time.
Before going to the tomb in the morning, an old man from the Chen family was arranged to guard Pingshan with his mountain men.
The name Changsheng Mountain was directly used.
These days, the three words Changsheng Mountain are the golden signboard.
Three Hunan and four rivers, plus the green forests of sixteen provinces, who dares to mess around?
Those who are not afraid of death and still want to fish in troubled waters should be killed directly.
At this moment, deep in Pingshan Mountain.
Hua Ma was running back and forth without even touching the ground.
Continuously greeting the guys on the mountain to carry the utensils.
"Brace yourself, it will be over in a few hours."
"Besides, be careful with your hands. If you break a lamp, you won't be able to afford ten lives if you break it."
"Give way and stop blocking the brothers behind you."
From busy day to now.
His throat was almost hoarse.
But as the current steward of Changsheng Mountain.
Watching the extremely luxurious and priceless artifacts being transported out like flowing water.
The smile on Huamaguai’s face never stopped.
I am already thinking that when this batch of goods is sold, the lives of the brothers on the mountain should be much easier.
In the past few years, those warlords have gone crazy, fighting to the death for their territory.
Coupled with successive years of natural disasters.
Food is several times more expensive than in previous years.
This is still priceless.
More than 100,000 people on the mountain need to eat.
The mountain of pressure almost crushed him.
Not bad.
On this trip to Pingshan, at least I will have enough food and clothing for the next two years.
However, there was a question that had always been hidden in his heart, but he did not dare to ask it.
He has been with the shopkeeper for some years.
As his right-hand man, Huamaguai can actually guess some of his thoughts.
In the past few years, overtly, I have been recruiting strange people and heroes from all over the world, but secretly I have been supporting three or four groups of warlords, large and small.
Chaos has arisen in the world now.
The shopkeeper seems to want to compete with each other one by one.
After all, throughout the ages, the crape myrtle star will always rise in troubled times.
The shopkeeper’s various plans and layouts should be vaguely moving towards that direction.
But I don’t know what happened. In the past six months, he seemed to be a different person. He didn’t see anyone all day long.
I don't care about those things anymore.
Ignore everything on the mountain.
A complete hands-off shopkeeper.
Even before coming to Pingshan, Luo Laowai visited Chenjiazhuang several times, but the shopkeepers avoided him.
He was caught in the middle.
The two ends are not human.
However, Huamaguai is not complaining.
I just can’t figure it out.
Such a good opportunity, given the Chen family’s background and strength.
I dare not say that I am fighting for a big position.
There is still a chance for the three Hunan and four rivers to be mastered, right?
But this kind of thing has always been tacitly understood. Who would say it openly?
Even if he is senior enough, he only dares to criticize a few words in his heart.
If I were to ask him face to face, wouldn’t that mean my brain is soaked in water?
Spitted out a foul breath.
The fog in Huamaguai's eyes slowly dissipated.
No matter what, he is just an errand boy. Whatever the shopkeeper says, he will do whatever he wants.
"Hey, be careful."
"This thing was personally named by the shopkeeper. If it gets broken, you can do it yourself."
Take it out from your waist. The kettle is about to be opened to quench your thirst.
From the corner of my eye, I could see a dozen people pushing a wheel over from a distance.
There is a big cauldron on the car.
There were dozens of ropes wrapped around it.
But the road was not easy to walk, with bumps and ups and downs, as if he would fall at any time, which made the corners of his eyes jump wildly.
Huamaguai didn't even bother to drink water and quickly reminded her loudly.
"Yes."
The thieves heard that it was the shopkeeper's roll call.
How dare you hesitate.
Immediately, two more people were separated and carefully protected on the left and right sides.
Seeing this situation, Huamaguai breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he didn't understand what the use was of bringing back a broken cauldron that burned pills all the way.
But the shopkeeper seems to be particularly concerned about it.
When I left Danjing before, I gave him a few special instructions.
The bronze tripod is actually a tricky thing to store any time.
The rich don’t want it.
Those who have no money cannot afford it.
What’s more, antiques in prosperous times and gold in troubled times.
In these days, no artifact is as valuable as gold and jade.
To put it bluntly, he felt that instead of going to all the trouble to transport this big cauldron back to Xiangyin, it would be better to get some good coffins back.
Golden nanmu, small-leaf rosewood, and mahogany lacquer coffins.
Take it apart and it's all good stuff.
But since the shopkeeper said it, of course he didn't dare to have any objection.
Watching the group of people protecting the alchemy cauldron and walking away, he withdrew his gaze and drank a few mouthfuls of cold water to dispel the heat and quench his thirst.
Then, I seemed to remember something again.
Huama turned around and looked towards the side of Wuliang Hall.
The mist is flowing.
Two figures were faintly reflected.
One is holding a big bow and standing like a spear.
The other one is sitting cross-legged on a rock.
Suddenly it was the two brothers from Banshanmen.
The two people had suddenly left and returned, looking in a hurry.
He is still a little strange.
Thought something was left behind.
But they only said they came down to practice.
Hua Maguai has a white body. Although he has been in the world for many years, he does not understand these Taoist secrets.
After saying hello politely.
The two of them were left alone.
At this moment, I saw Partridge Whistle just sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Unlike the brothers on the mountain, who either stand or practice boxing, opening and closing with amazing momentum, how can they be so quiet like him.
Thinked about it for a while.
Huamaguai was still confused.
I simply shook my head, put my thoughts away, and continued to greet the guys to carry the bright weapons.
Compared with those illusory cultivation methods.
He still feels that a full stomach is more important.
One side of the main hall.
The old foreigner was tense, and his gray-brown eyes were even more solemn.
Fingers clasped tightly around the bowstring.
Looking around like a knife.
He knew that what followed was definitely one of the most important moments in his life for his senior brother.
Although on the way down, the senior brother always said it was a trivial matter and asked him not to be overly nervous.
But swallow the golden elixir.
With the help of its powerful medicinal power, you can enter the country through cultivation in one fell swoop.
Which one of these things is small?
No surprises at all.
So what he has to do is to protect the formation for his senior brother. Even if the mountain collapses, he has to hold on.
Fortunately, it's quiet enough here.
The poisonous substances in the mountain were also surrounded and killed before.
After scanning around to confirm that there was no danger, the old foreigner turned back and looked at his senior brother.
At this moment, his eyes were slightly closed, and he was constantly breathing in and adjusting his breath.
Next to it is a jade box and a wind and cloud wrapper.
The jade box was given to him by the junior sister before he came down.
There is a decades-old wild ginseng in it.
If you take the pill in advance before swallowing it, you can maintain your vitality and temporarily suppress the old injuries and diseases in your body.
No, it will delay the effect of refining the golden elixir.
Hu——
I don’t know how long it will take.
Partridge Whistle finally opened his eyes. Those deep eyes were clear and peaceful, without the deep murderous aura of the past.
The breath is as quiet as well water.
He first glanced at his junior brother in the distance.
The old foreigner, as tall as a pine tree, was still patrolling the surroundings meticulously, not daring to relax at all.
Seeing this, Partridge Whistle couldn’t help but sigh secretly.
His stubbornness and his own are almost the same.
Gently opening the jade box, a seven-leaf old wild ginseng with intact stems suddenly appeared in his sight.
Without a few decades, it would have been impossible to grow to this point.
Leave it outside.
It is definitely a precious medicine that can save your life and rejuvenate your vitality.
But now, it is only used to suppress hidden injuries.
Even he felt extremely luxurious.
Hua Ling is delicate and careful in doing things. She has cut the most medicinal part of the ginseng into slices and put them aside.
He picked up the partridge whistle and swallowed it in one gulp without any hesitation.
In an instant, he felt a majestic but gentle medicinal power slowly dissolving in his meridians.
It is truly a panacea.
Walking around the world for many years, the hidden wounds left in the fights were gradually suppressed by the power of the medicine.
Even the ghost curse in the bloodline.
It seems to have calmed down a lot.
Over the years, Hua Ling also collected a lot of old medicine for him.
But none of them are as useful as this old wild ginseng.
In just a short moment, he suddenly felt like he was back in his teens.
Full of energy and blood, endless energy.
Comfort like never before.
"Golden elixir..."
Partridge Whistle was secretly speechless, but his expression did not reveal much.
He knew how rare and valuable such a treasure was.
You must take advantage of this opportunity and quickly take the golden elixir and meditate, otherwise you will miss the opportunity and all your efforts will be in vain.
Pick up the golden elixir wrapped in the wind and clouds.
Just got it.
He felt as gentle as jade.
Compared with the mildness of Laoshan Ginseng, the medicinal power contained in the golden elixir is much more overbearing.
And it is even more majestic and amazing.
If the former is a gurgling stream, the latter is a vast river.
Holding it in his hand frightened him.
"Success or failure."
"It depends on today!"
Partridge Whistle took a deep breath, no longer hesitated, raised his head and took the golden elixir in one gulp Swallow.
boom!
Almost as soon as it entered my stomach.
The majestic medicinal power in the golden elixir washes away all the veins in the limbs like a great tide.
No.
More like a raging fire.
Partridge Whistle felt like he was a piece of iron ore that had been thrown into a furnace, being devoured by flames and tempered over and over again.
The meridians, flesh and blood of the body were cut off and reconnected repeatedly.
Such pain is no less painful than the outbreak of a ghost curse.
At a certain moment, he even thought about whether there was something wrong with this golden elixir.
But when wisps of weak spiritual energy began to gather in the meridians.
This thought was instantly thrown out of his mind.
Enduring the pain.
Partridge Whistle closed his eyes again and meditated.
There seemed to be a pair of invisible hands in his mind, turning the pages of the Taoist scriptures for him.
Words rise out of thin air.
Finally, it condensed into seven golden characters of 'Xuan Dao Convincing Qi and Building the Foundation Skill'.
The energy sinks into Dantian.
Only the mind is left to practice.
Gradually.
The aura on his body became calmer, blending into the surroundings and becoming part of the Pingshan Mountain.
But if there is someone from the Taoist sect.
You will see it at a glance.
Wisps of subtle spiritual energy from heaven and earth were slowly gathering towards the top of his head from all around Pingshan.
Follow the sword between the eyebrows and enter the hundreds of veins in his limbs.
Eventually fell into the depths of the air sea.
"That's wrong..."
Far away outside, the old foreigner suddenly noticed something, and his heart skipped a beat.
The Taoist inheritance of Bishanmen has long been lost, leaving only a few fragments.
None of the geniuses in the sky have ever stepped into the Qi Refining Pass.
Not to mention him.
Although the old foreigner kept staring around, there was always a qi force pulling the senior brother.
I am just worried that something might happen to my senior brother when he swallows the golden elixir.
Now...
He discovered.
Senior brother's aura suddenly disappeared.
It just disappeared out of thin air.
He suddenly became extremely anxious and looked back suddenly.
However, the senior brother was clearly sitting where he was, and even he could clearly see the rising and falling of the senior brother's breathing between his mouth and nose.
But when he swept away with Qi machine again.
Senior brother’s aura disappeared without a trace again.
"How could this happen?!"
The old foreigner arched his figure, frowned, and wanted to rush forward to check the situation immediately.
But... looking at the senior brother, he seems to be fine.
For a moment, he couldn't help but fell into extreme hesitation.
“If I make a mistake and interrupt my senior brother, wouldn’t all my previous efforts be wasted?”
"No, look again, yes...look again."
The old foreigner murmured in a low voice, talking to himself.
At this moment, he no longer thought about looking around, and his eyes always fell on the partridge whistle.
Thinking if something goes wrong.
Ensure that you can react in the shortest possible time.
The two of them sat and stood.
It seems to be frozen.
Only the surrounding fog is slowly flowing, and the night sky above the mountain is gradually receding.
Unknowingly.
The full moon was covered by clouds and mist, and the stars in the sky disappeared.
The dark sky lit up bit by bit, between green and black.
Huh——
Finally.
A slight breathing sound sounded.
The old foreigner who looked like a stone sculpture was suddenly reborn.
Ignoring his extremely sore body, he just looked expectantly at the figure sitting cross-legged on the bluestone.
Fortunately.
Not long after.
Partridge Whistle slowly opened his eyes.
The gaze is as penetrating as ever.
But in the eyes of old foreigners, it seems to be different from before.
But what is the difference? He couldn't tell for a while,
"Senior...brother?"
"Is it done?"
After being silent for a while, he gently opened his mouth and asked.
Facing the uneasy face of his junior brother.
Partridge Whistle's thoughts were whirling in his mind, and a burst of sadness surged into his heart. After waiting for many years, he finally waited for this day.
Take a deep breath.
Suppress the distracting thoughts in your mind.
A rare smile appeared on his face.
Then he nodded heavily.
“It’s done!!”
The old foreigner, who didn’t dare to breathe, just felt a buzz in his head and went blank.
Surprise, excitement, various emotions are intertwined on the face.
So much so that the whole person seemed to be crazy.
I just kept repeating words like it.
It seemed that his senior brother's ability to step into spiritual practice was countless times more exciting than his own taking this step.
"By the way, senior brother, Hua Ling, Hua Ling doesn't know yet."
"Go tell her quickly."
"She must be waiting too."
The old foreigner suddenly remembered something and shouted loudly at the partridge whistle.
“Okay!”
The two senior brothers were in an unprecedentedly warm mood at this moment.
No delays at all.
Leave the world of mortals all the way, climb out of the mountain top, and head straight to the camp below.
At this time, it was already bright outside, a ray of sunshine broke through the sky, and the mountain, which had been sleeping all night, woke up.
Insects chirp and birds chirp, and all things compete.
A vibrant scene.
But the two of them had no time to care about this. Their only thought was to tell their little junior sister the good news as soon as possible.
Even half an hour of mountain road.
It only took them less than three to five minutes to reach the camp.
However.
I haven’t had time to go to the junior sister’s tent to look for her.
A figure suddenly opened the curtain door and stood there, looking at him with a smile.
Partridge Whistle felt something in his heart and subconsciously looked back.
Just in time to meet Chen Yulou's calm and gentle eyes.
“Collect the essence of the sun and the moon on the outside, refine the Qi of Xiyi on the inside.”
“Congratulations, Brother Tao, for achieving your wish and embarking on the road of spiritual practice!”
( End of chapter)