Chapter 372: Practicing the Small Five Elements of Escape Technique, Gathering the Poison Pill into the Ninth Turn
In the guest room.
Gu Qingyuan was gathering Qi, but he was not yet at the right temperature to refine Qi, so he had not yet reached the step of refining the spirit. The spirit is the master of the body, so to refine Qi one must first regulate the spirit, and to regulate the spirit one must first recite.
He sat cross-legged, his nose gradually becoming weaker, drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which was then cleansed throughout his body through the major orifices. If he were an ordinary Taoist, after building the foundation and condensing the first magical power, there would be two more stages to go, namely, sensing qi and training qi, and finally responding to the law and refining the spirit.
Sensing Qi and practicing Qi are almost the same. Both involve gathering Qi to cleanse the body, circulating Qi in the small and large circulations, getting rid of turbid Qi, opening the spiritual orifices throughout the body, purifying the magic power, and then condensing the seeds of spells and talismans to enter the stage of refining the spirit.
Gu Qingyuan naturally didn't need to go through so much trouble. After building his foundation in one step, he condensed the purest magic power, and the major orifices in his body opened up automatically. All that was left was to accumulate magic power.
After several months of hard work, he has accumulated some experience and can practice one or two magical powers. After some thought, Gu Qingyuan decided to practice a way of escape first.
The magic power in the Dantian was surging, and the red energy passed through the Great Sun Pure Yang Fire Talisman, slowly refining the quality of the talisman. At the same time, the magic power became more and more powerful.
This is the foundation of magic power. All of Gu Qingyuan's fire magic power is derived from this. He also has the Yangming Golden Flame like the Great Sun True Fire. Now that he wants to learn the art of escape, the Five Elements Escape is naturally the first choice.
The Five Elements Great Escape cannot be learned yet, but the Small Five Elements Escape is just right for use. Gu Qingyuan raised his hand, and a fireball floated in his palm. He did not need the magical book, when he condensed this trace of true fire, the mysteries of the Five Elements in this world were all in his mind.
That bit of yang fire gathered its temperature and collapsed itself. Although there was no rolling heat wave, there was a change in color. The originally golden flame became brighter and smaller.
When it condensed to an imperceptible point, it was already glowing white, and as time went on, it was gradually dyed with strands of blue-purple. Finally, the flame became illusory and unclear, standing there quietly, revealing a somewhat eerie virtual purple.
Gu Qingyuan looked at the flame and explored the microscopic aspect. It was indeed a world made up of Qi. There was no distinction between atomic particles, and the smallest unit in the world was also made up of Qi.
The Great Sun True Fire originally had no color changes. It was because he explored the root and used Qi to stir its origin, increasing the heat and firepower and changing the root. The temperature did go up, but the Great Sun True Fire's magical power did not change at all, because the inner Qi did not change.
"Even without the aid of magical powers, this strong firepower and heat alone can break through many magical weapons and spiritual barriers. The physical properties of this place are really subtle."
Gu Qingyuan waved his hand, and the illusory purple flame turned into golden flame. There are several other kinds of true fire in this world, such as the Samadhi True Fire and the Red Lotus Karma Fire. If he wanted, he could also transform this golden flame into other true fires. However, they were only for show and had no magical powers. He still needed to find a true fire seed to fill it up to make it complete.
With another shake of his hands, the Great Sun True Fire received a spiritual energy supplement and turned into red fire virtue magic power, which then turned into earth virtue, and then gave birth to gold virtue, water virtue, and finally became green wood virtue. The five virtues rotated and formed a dynamic balance according to the principle of mutual generation of the five elements.
After a rotation and returning to the fire virtue magic power, Gu Qingyuan has already obtained the essence of the five elements. This is only a temporary transformation of the five elements. The fire virtue magic power is still in his body. The power of this moment of rotation is enough for him to comprehend the small five elements escape method.
In the Dantian, a great light of the five elements flowed and turned into a five-colored true talisman. The five-colored light reflected each other and became a small five-element escape magic talisman. Once the talisman was completed, the magic power rushed up, patrolling all the way upwards, sending the true talisman into the major orifices of the body, choosing one orifice to integrate into, and the magic was completed.
Gu Qingyuan stood up and touched the edge of the bed. The magic power poured into the spiritual orifice and the real talisman emerged from the ground in the corner of the room the next second. He moved again, submerged in the ground, and appeared from the candlelight on the table. He used the Small Five Elements Escape, according to the theory of the Five Elements, touched the objects of the Five Elements, and flashed out.
Unlike the single escape method of entering from fire and exiting from fire, Gu Qingyuan, who understood the true meaning of the five elements, did not need to stick to this. According to the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint, he used his mind to operate his calculation power, and anything within the five elements could be used to escape. After trying a few more times, Gu Qingyuan stopped after consuming a small amount of his mana. His mana was still not strong enough. With my current mana, I can only move for a short time, but I still need to rely on the cloud climbing and cloud-flying techniques for long-distance travel.
'Or, refine a flying magic weapon and use it to fly through the air.'
He was thinking about refining treasures, and the idea of controlling treasures came to his mind. The method of controlling treasures was the most applicable in this world, which could reduce the consumption of mana. There were small ones, such as flying swords and knives, gourds and compasses, each of which was different. There were also more luxurious ones, such as large treasure boats, which could be paraded around the city, looking very grand.
"It's just right. Let's see what Song Xiaochan has accumulated."
After opening the treasure bag given by heaven, Gu Qingyuan shook it a few times. There were a bunch of spiritual materials and ordinary iron, a bunch of jade-colored porcelain bottles, and most of the other things were miscellaneous items.
"As expected, he is a wild cultivator in the mountains and swamps. There are a lot of bits and pieces, but not many of them are useful."
Gu Qingyuan said with regret, while sorting out the small pile of things that could not be told whether they were garbage or spiritual objects.
He didn't need any change of clothes, dried meat or grains, so he burned them all. He opened the porcelain bottles one by one and smelled them. They were all filled with various poisons and drugs, even love pills. There were not many magic power replenishing pills or healing pills, only thirteen pills in two bottles. They were of poor quality, and the poor medicinal properties and crude refining method were shocking.
Gu Qingyuan attracted a large amount of real fire, gathered the furnace of heaven and earth, and refined more than twenty bottles of poison pills. He did not need the help of poison, but the poison pills took up space and it would be a pity to throw them away. They were useless, so he could only refine them again.
He lit the furnace and poured in bottles of pills. He was not worried about the conflict between the medicines. He used the fire to refine the medicinal properties of the elixir and poison pill. His physical body turned into ashes. He put all the pills, big and small, into the furnace, first washed away the turbid air inside, turned them into streams of qi, condensed out pure medicinal power, and adjusted the medicinal properties according to the dragon and tiger qi. They were combined into a pill half the size of a cushion.
Gu Qingyuan raised his hand and injected a series of magical powers into the pill, injecting his magic power into the furnace fire. The furnace fire became more and more vigorous, licking the pill. Every time the golden flame turned a circle, the pill became smaller, which was called one turn.
The scent of plants became stronger and stronger. One sniff of it made my mind clear and bright. I refined the pill over and over again. As more and more magic was incorporated, the pill became smaller and smaller. After nine turns, only a thumb-sized golden pill remained in the furnace. There were nine lines engraved on it. The room was full of fragrance, as if a great medicine had just been born.
Poison is also medicine. It is made by taking advantage of the opportunity of refining spiritual herbs to force out the toxicity in them and turn them into poison pills. The method is the same as that of refining spiritual pills.
Gu Qingyuan took the poison pill and took a look at it. Although it was in the form of a pill, it was actually the result of the accumulation of Qi. The illusion and the dream combined to form a pill. It could be turned into a poison pill, poisonous smoke, or even used as a magic technique.
"It's in pretty good condition. I didn't waste those poison pills."
He thought to himself that this poison pill was very poisonous, but it was not like the poison pills such as the Heartbreak Grass and the Fragrant Three-Step Dian. Instead, Gu Qingyuan removed the medicinal properties and left the natural poison in the pill, and the rest were the medicinal properties of a number of herbs.
If one takes one pill, it can replenish magic power and increase cultivation, which can be said to be like turning bones into flesh and bringing the dead back to life. But if there is someone with bad intentions, as long as Gu Qingyuan thinks about it, the pure medicinal power will turn into a strong poison, slowly decaying the body, destroying the cultivation level, and causing the cultivator to fall to a lower level.
"Medicine is poison, and poison is medicine. This is the principle of pharmacology. Let's call this pill the Nine-Transformation Golden Pill!"
(End of this chapter)