Chapter 380: Seeking Death and Obstacles, Distinguishing the True and False and Refining the Nine Yang Pill

Qiu Zhen glanced at Gu Qingyuan and said, "No, I saved his life. Do the Five Donors know about this?"

Wufang Zhenren gave a bitter smile and said, "Chongxu has been in my sect for seven years. I know his character very well. How could I not know him?"

"Since you know this, why do you act this way?" Qiuzhen asked.

Wufang Zhenren sighed, "It's all my bad karma. I was not a gentle person in my early years. I was dedicated to exorcising demons and defending the Way. I didn't expect to listen to slander and killed the good lives of an entire village."

The story of the past unfolds slowly. It turns out that the Five Directions Immortals went down the mountain to perform magic. They followed and hunted down an evil Taoist and severely injured him. The evil Taoist had superb escape skills and disappeared without a trace. The Five Directions Immortals could not find him, so they stopped in a village. However, they were deceived and fell into a trap to lure the tiger away from the mountain. As soon as they left, the villagers were killed by the evil Taoists who held a grudge against them.

"When I returned, the village was full of corpses. I found a baby less than three days old in a cellar. It was Chongxu. Later, I entrusted him to a kind family in a nearby village. I didn't expect to meet him again more than ten years later."

Wufang Zhenren sighed, "I stayed at his home back then, and his parents were burdened by me. As soon as I saw the young man's features, I knew that my fate had come, and my evil deeds had come."

"So I accepted him as my disciple and waited for this moment. I didn't expect that Chongxu had developed a stubborn and selfish character since his time in the secular world. I wanted to use this opportunity to improve his character, but now it seems that I was wrong."

“Over the years, that bloody night and the miserable scene have been echoing before my eyes all the time. No matter how much I try to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, I cannot eliminate it in the slightest. It has fostered demons in my heart, made me lose my spirit, and my cultivation has not improved but regressed. This is my calamity.” After saying this, True Man Wufang burst into tears, but he did not dare to close his eyes, for fear of seeing that unspeakable scene again.

"So you just wait for the death to come, and are willing to enter that death?" Gu Qingyuan found it interesting. "You said you want to polish Chongxu's character, but you don't know that it's difficult to change one's nature. He hates you for being unfair!"

"If you want to die in the calamity, why do you entrust the letter to Qiuzhen? What's the logic behind this?"

Wufang Zhenren looked at Gu Qingyuan and was a little puzzled by this uninvited guest. Qiuzhen quickly said, "This is my good friend, whose Taoist name is Qinghong. I heard that you are in trouble, so I came to help you."

"So that's how it is. I would like to thank Wufang here." Zhenren bowed and looked at Qiuzhen. "Although I have a will to die, I cannot let Chongxu be labeled as a traitor to his master and ancestors. Besides, I have already calculated that he is in a calamity and I am trying to help him escape it. I believe that there are already three or five demon cultivators waiting outside this temple. This is my calamity, and it is also Chongxu's calamity."

"You spread the news of the so-called Cicada Shell Pill that can help you ascend to immortality, in order to lure the demon cultivators into the calamity and break the Chongxu calamity. You also called Qiuzhen to clear the beginning and the end for you. Afterwards, the world only knew that the Laozhuang Temple was broken by the demon cultivators, but they didn't know that Chongxu existed. He was wholeheartedly paving the way for his disciple, and he might not appreciate it."

"You can see clearly. Not only did you calculate your own calamity, you also calculated Chongxu's calamity," Gu Qingyuan looked at the alchemy furnace, "Even so, you still want to refine this furnace of precious pills?"

Wufang Zhenren's face looked a little unnatural: "Yes, I practice the Pure Yang Dao, and I am one step away from the Yang God. I also follow the alchemy method. There are countless books on alchemy in my sect. There is a pill called the Nine Yang Pill. There are only two pills in a furnace. It is made from the nine kinds of the most rigid and yang spiritual medicines in the world. It is beneficial to the Yuanshen Dao."

He looked at Qiuzhen: "I only ask you to protect Chongxu for a while. When the news of the demon sect destroying my Laozhuang Temple spreads, you can take one of the two precious pills, and I will give the remaining one to Chongxu. To be honest, I trust you, and you have a great reputation in the righteous way. The Five Parties really had no choice but to invite you." Qiuzhen was somewhat moved: "Donor, you are talking about entrusting an orphan to me. Are you going to feed the demon with your own body?"

Wufang Zhenren shook his head and said, "This calamity was caused by me. I don't know how many demon cultivators I have disturbed. Those outside are just the vanguards of the calamity. There are probably many more who are also coming here due to the entanglement of cause and effect. I can't survive this calamity."

Gu Qingyuan didn't listen to the words of this person who wanted to die. He didn't distinguish right from wrong. He understood and respected him: "You made the Nine Yang Pill poorly."

Although Wufang Zhenren was determined to live and die, he was a person who practiced alchemy. How could he hear these words? "Fellow Daoist Qinghong, what are you talking about? The origin of my Nine Yang Pills has been carefully studied and it has been carefully scrutinized. I have taken good care of it without distracting myself. It is clearly a furnace of great pills, so how can there be any difference?"

Gu Qingyuan shook his head: "Refine the elixir of life with ginseng, dragon and tiger, and combine yin and yang to make the elixir. It is even more particular. Not to mention the coordination of pharmacology, just the mixing of qi is mysterious. As the saying goes, yin alone cannot grow. You only took nine kinds of extremely yang medicinal materials. How can you make the elixir?"

He looked at the alchemy furnace. The whole quiet room was filled with fragrance and heavy yang energy. "You are not a boy who has just entered the industry. How can you not understand such a simple principle? If you ask me, this furnace of alchemy will be ruined by you. The Nine Yang Pill is not unsuccessful, but the pill formula is flawed. If you force it, it will be a furnace of poisonous pills, useless pills."

True Man Wufang was furious: "You young man, I have been refining pills for hundreds of years, how could I make such a mistake? I have obtained the pill formula a long time ago and have tested it countless times. I will take this opportunity to complete it." His face turned blood red, and he even forgot about Chongxu, who was always on his lips, and was determined to compete with Gu Qingyuan.

"Master, don't worry. I have to have evidence to support my statement. You are concentrating on accumulating Yang Qi and making the precious elixir. You are just following your Laozi and Zhuangzi's method to accumulate Yang Fire and remove the impurities in your soul. Only then will the elixir have miraculous effects."

Gu Qingyuan sniffed the air in the quiet room, which was filled with the wonderful aroma of elixirs. However, this strong aroma could not cover up the foul stench from the Five Directions Immortal's body.

"In my opinion, this recipe is still missing two main ingredients. One is yang, which helps the yang energy of the pill to grow to the top, causing the yang to be the extreme and the yin to be born. The other is yin, which replenishes the newly born yin energy."

Gu Qingyuan said, walking around the alchemy room for a few steps: "As for how to collect the main medicine, this is very particular. The Yang attribute needs the cultivation of a Yang God cultivator to supplement it, and the Yin attribute needs the flesh and blood of a Yin God Taoist."

Seeing the withered body of Wufang Zhenren trembling after his words, Gu Qingyuan flicked his finger and used his magic power to break the restriction, revealing a boy of about thirteen or fourteen years old, who was trapped in the restriction in the quiet room with his eyes closed and almost silent.

“In this way, you can gather the Yang Fire and burn your foul smell to avoid the end of your life. You can also use the method of seizing the Dao to occupy the body of others and take away their foundation to help you make further progress on the road of the Yuanshen!”

Gu Qingyuan happily fiddled with the boy: "As expected, he is very intelligent and has extraordinary talent." He turned his head and looked at Wufang Zhenren: "Look, I am a junior student, am I right about what the alchemy practitioner said?"

(End of this chapter)