"Who can hurt me?"
"Fellow Daoist Chen has been staying in Sanyang City. I'm afraid he doesn't know much about the ruins of Qingmu Sect?" Gu Yang said with a faint smile.
"Well, I don't know much, especially after being in seclusion for the past two months, I know even less. Why don't you let me broaden my horizons, fellow Daoist?" Chen Changsheng nodded with a smile.
"Qingmu Sect is a Nascent Soul Sect with a huge coverage area. Many places are guarded by formations and are very dangerous. Some places even have puppet mechanical beasts that can still operate even after a thousand years. Among the twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators we went to Sanyang City, at least three died at the hands of those puppet beasts!" said Gu Yang.
"Could it be that Fellow Daoist Gu was also injured by those puppet beasts?" Chen Changsheng asked curiously.
puppet!
It is also one of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals!
However, this art is easy to learn but difficult to master, and it requires a lot of materials. It needs spirit stones to drive it, which is a big expense. It can only improve one's own combat power but cannot improve the realm. In Yuezhou, there are very few inheritances. Chen Changsheng has been practicing until now, but he has never seen a puppeteer who practices puppetry.
"Of course not. I was seriously injured by a surprise attack..."
"You should have heard a rumor about me, right?" Gu Yang said softly.
"What Fellow Daoist Gu is talking about is the Dust-Mieting Pill?" Chen Changsheng asked.
"Sure enough, even Fellow Daoist Chen, who cannot leave Sanyang City, knows it. Yes, it is the Dust-Mieting Pill!" Gu Yang nodded slightly.
"The Qingmu Sect is a sect that was established thousands of years ago. Even if there are elixirs in the sect, a thousand years have passed. Could it be that the elixirs have not expired yet?" Chen Changsheng asked in surprise.
Pills don't have an infinite shelf life...
If it is exposed to the air without being used, the spiritual energy will be lost in ten days or half a month, and it will become a useless pill!
Therefore, the elixir must be stored in a special jade bottle.
The jade bottle has the function of isolating spiritual energy, so storing the elixir in a jade bottle can greatly extend the shelf life of the elixir.
Although Chen Changsheng hadn't done any experiments to determine how long the elixir stored in the jade bottle would last, he figured it wouldn't last more than a thousand years...
"Shelf life? Haha, Daoist Fellow, these three words are quite apt. Ordinary elixirs stored in ordinary jade bottles naturally cannot be kept for such a long time. Let alone a thousand years, even a hundred years would turn into a poisonous pill..."
"But that's just an ordinary jade bottle. In the world of immortal cultivation, there are some special instruments used to store elixirs. Not only will they not weaken the effects of the elixirs, they will even have the miraculous effect of increasing the medicinal strength as time goes by!" Gu Yang said with a smile.
"So magical? It can even increase the efficacy of medicine?" Chen Changsheng felt like he had learned something new...
Chen Changsheng had never seen this piece of knowledge in the books left by the Song family.
Obviously, although the Song family has a good foundation, it is ultimately a foundation-building family...
Gu Yang's master is Patriarch Sanyang, so he must have access to much more information than the Song family.
"Of course. In the world of immortal cultivation, there are countless magical skills and secret techniques... Even for the foundation building and even the golden elixir... there are actually other shortcuts... It just costs a lot..." Gu Yang said.
"What? Foundation Building, Golden Core, there's actually a shortcut? Is this true?" Chen Changsheng couldn't help but stare wide-eyed...
Laying the foundation is easy, but is there a shortcut to the Golden Core?
Are you kidding me?
"Haha, of course it's true. I had a great time drinking today, and Brother Chen and I hit it off again. Normally, ordinary foundation builders are not qualified to know such secrets, but Brother Chen is not an outsider, so I will tell you..."
"Brother Chen, do you know how to make fake pills?" Gu Yang smiled and suddenly took a big sip of Peach Blossom Drunk...
"I don't know!" Chen Changsheng shook his head.
"Haha, then fellow Daoist must know about the Little Demon Pill, right?" Gu Yang said with a smile.
"Well, of course I know this. Most of the Qi-cultivating cultivators in Sanyang City come here for the Little Demon Pill!" Chen Changsheng nodded.
"In fact, the so-called external alchemy method requires the use of demon pills. A few second-level demon beasts will have small demon pills, but third-level demons will definitely have real demon pills, similar to the golden pills of us human cultivators!"
"This substance, through a specific method, can be used to replace the cultivator's golden elixir if it is refined by a cultivator who has reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment!"
"Because they use demon elixirs instead of real golden elixirs, they are also called fake elixir cultivators. However, the magical powers of fake elixir cultivators are not much different from those of real golden elixir cultivators, and their lifespan can also reach as much as five hundred years!"
"In other words, as long as one can obtain a third-level demon pill, a foundation-building cultivator can be promoted to a fake pill!" Gu Yang said, with a hint of longing in his eyes...
I have the method, but where can I find the third-level demon pill?
After all, a third-order demon is at the same realm as the Golden Core Ancestor. Who has the ability to kill him?
"There should be some disadvantages, right?" Chen Changsheng asked carefully.
Is it so easy to become a golden elixir?
I always feel like something is wrong...
"Disadvantages? Of course there are disadvantages. Using demon elixirs instead of golden elixirs is, after all, a tricky method. The price you pay is that you will be forever trapped in the early stages of the golden elixir stage, and your cultivation will never be able to improve..."
"However, compared to the benefits of refining the demon pill, this disadvantage is nothing..."
"After all, that's the Golden Core. How many Golden Core cultivators are there in our entire Yuezhou? At most, there are only six Golden Core cultivators in the five major sects plus my master!" Gu Yang said.
"Ah? Six? Each of the five major sects has only one Jindan cultivator?" Chen Changsheng asked in surprise.
"Of course, otherwise how many do you think there are? Is it so easy to find a Jindan master?"
"Even these six golden elixirs are not all real golden elixirs. The one from the Giant Sword Sect uses the fake elixir method!" Gu Yang said with a sneer of disdain.
The most important thing for the five major sects is to ensure inheritance!
Whenever a sect faces a period of transition, they will use their foundational resources. For example, a third-level demon pill is one of their foundational resources. As long as they can refine it successfully, even if they only become fake pill cultivators, they can protect the sect for hundreds of years...
In fact, in Yuezhou, all kinds of golden pills and fake pills are the same...
The land of Yuezhou is relatively barren, and cultivation after entering the Jindan stage is even more difficult. Throughout the ages, countless Jindan cultivators have remained in the early Jindan stage until their death, so there is not much difference...
"Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading. As a disciple of the Three Yang Patriarch, Fellow Daoist Gu knows so many secrets!" Chen Changsheng couldn't help but sigh.
If it weren't for what Gu Yang said, it might have taken him a long time to realize that there was actually a shortcut to forging a golden elixir. It turned out that the golden elixir cultivator from the Giant Sword Sect was actually a fake elixir cultivator...
"It's okay. I just happened to hear Master talk about it..."
"Fellow Daoist Chen, I consider you my true confidant!" Suddenly, Gu Yang said to Chen Changsheng meaningfully...
And Chen Changsheng's heart suddenly choked...
Oh no, I fell into a trap...
Gu Yang said so much to me, it was all premeditated!
This guy, isn't he trying to do something bad to me...