The two walked to the top of the slope and saw two peaks in front of them. The spring of the hot spring was between the two peaks. The big peak towered into the clouds, and the smaller one was more than ten feet high. It was just strange that this

There was not a single grass or tree growing on the small mountain peak, but a large bare rock standing there.

Tianci walked forward and came under the stone peak. He felt a rush of hot air rushing towards his face. When he touched it with his hand, the stone wall turned out to be very hot. He thought to himself, there must be fire underground, so no wonder hot springs would gush out from here.

The Taoist priest led him to the side of the stone peak and saw a row of stone steps carved into the stone wall. Going up the stone steps, there was a hole the size of a pot lid at a height of five or six feet above the ground.

"This is the alchemy furnace that Master opened back then." The Taoist priest pointed at the mountain peak and said.

"When my master encountered an unexpected incident, he told me this matter before he died. He asked me to take good care of this furnace. He said that it would take another sixteen years to complete the work and achieve one of the great achievements of our sect. These sixteen years

For years, I have been guarding this mountain, collecting rare herbs and beast bones day and night, and throwing them into this furnace cave to smelt them in spring and autumn."

"Are you saying that this entire mountain peak is actually an alchemy furnace?" Tianci asked.

"Yes, I heard from Master that back then, Master discovered that there was earth fire here, which lasted for many years, and the mountain was hollow inside, and it was divided into three chambers: upper, middle and lower, including the Danding (reaction chamber) and the Huachi.

The (sublimation chamber) and the condensation chamber (distillation chamber) are natural alchemy furnaces, which are just used for refining the unique Qi elixir passed down by our sect."

I heard the Master tell me about it. This Qi Pill belongs to the inner alchemy, which is an important cultivation method in Taoism. It is a kind of Taoist Qi refining technique (Qigong). Through the cultivation of internal strength, one can sublimate the human body to the limit or achieve immortality.

the goal of.

Those who practice this technique are all profound masters. They use the human body as an alchemy furnace and practice the "five qi in the chest". Finally, they reach extremely advanced internal skills, so they are called "inner elixirs". Many Taoist immortals are good at this aspect.

He has extremely high attainments, but because human life is limited, even a Taoist who has reached the age of seventy will only spend about three or forty years in cultivation in his lifetime.

The master of alchemy mentioned by Taoist Master Buji actually thought of using the fire-warming alchemy furnace naturally formed here, which is similar to the human body, to perform inner and outer elixir refining, and it is not limited by birth, old age, illness and death, and can be passed down from generation to generation.

, extending the limit time for cultivating the inner elixir several times. This idea is really ingenious. This will lead to the cultivation of a qi elixir that contains profound inner power.

"The master dug a hole in the lower part of this stone peak and filled the lower chamber with three elixirs, yellow elixir, red stone resin, cinnabar, realgar, bittern, and alum stone according to the secret recipe passed down exclusively by our sect.

, calamine, sand, mercury frost, mica and other alchemy stones, and then sealed the entrance of the cave. In the middle chamber, another hole was opened, and rare medicinal materials such as jelly grass and tiger bones were put in every spring and autumn. "

Taoist priest Ji pointed at the cave entrance on the stone peak and said.

Buji then led Tianci to the back of the stone peak, and saw a small hole cut out at the foot of the stone peak. Inside the hole was a stone nest, and there was some black liquid gathered in the stone nest, glowing with some oil.

"The gold and stone medicinal materials in the stone peak are fumigated by internal fire, and the sublimated gases gather and condense into drops in the upper chamber of the stone peak. They are then infiltrated and penetrated by the stone body on the dark side of the stone peak, and finally will be in the stone nest.

Gathered inside to form elixir."

Buji said with tears in his eyes again: "Unexpectedly, this year has come to the 100th anniversary of the refinement of the Qi Pill as Master said. I followed the method taught by Master and unveiled the place where the elixir was taken.

After opening it, I found that there was only a handful of black water, and there was no elixir or ointment. Could it be that I made a mistake in the operation and it caused a big problem?"

After hearing what he said, Tianci came closer to the hole and took a closer look. He smelled it and felt that there was a strange fragrance. He put his hand into the hole again, explored the top of the hole, and touched around.

He took out his hand and saw a black mark on the tip of one finger. It looked black and shiny, like an ointment. He put it in front of his nose and smelled it, and there was a strange fragrance.

Tianci thought for a while and said to Taoist Buji: "Can you break open the stone wall above this cave and have a look?"

When Nabuji heard what he said, his eyes lit up and he said, "Yes, you can give it a try." After saying that, he went to the side and picked up a big stone and smashed it on the stone wall above the entrance of the cave.

Boom, boom, boom, he hit it seven or eight times in a row, and saw that only some stone debris fell off the stone wall, leaving a few small pits, but it was actually intact.

Tianci took the stone and tried it a few times, but to no avail. The stone wall looked very hard and could not be easily broken open.

"By the way, I have an idea." Tianci put down the stone and thought for a while before saying.

"I'm going to pick up some firewood, put it on the mountain wall, and let it burn for a while. Then we'll get some water and pour it on the hot stone wall, maybe it can stir up the rock." Tianci said.

"That's all we have to do." Buji replied.

After discussing it, Tianci went to the woods to collect some firewood and put it on the stone wall.

Buji went to collect some branches and dry grass, and weaved them into a big basket. Then he went to the stream to dig some soil and paste it on it to make a big clay pot and put it in the sun to dry.

An hour later, when the clay pot was almost dry, Tianci ignited the firewood, and the fire burned fiercely on the rock wall for a while. When the firewood was almost burned out, Buji filled the mud pot with water in the stream next to it.

A basin of water came over and poured it on the burned stone wall.

Just after hearing a "crack" sound, a burst of green smoke suddenly appeared from the stone wall. When I looked again, I saw that the stone wall had indeed cracked and opened a crack.

After they repeated this three times, the stone wall was already covered with cracks.

Buji picked up the big stone and smashed it against the stone wall. There was a loud bang, and the outer layer of the stone wall was smashed open. Several pieces of gravel fell from the stone wall.

The two people went up to take a look and saw that the outer wall of the stone peak had been broken open and the inner rock was exposed. They saw that the inside of the rock was covered with various fine cracks, extending from top to bottom.

Tianci looked down along the cracks in the stone and saw that the lower cracks were filled with black mud-like substance.

He pointed there for Buji to see and said, "Is this the refined elixir? It seems to have been silted up there."

Buji came up to take a closer look, and suddenly felt a strange fragrance coming to his nostrils. He couldn't help but said with joy: "Yes, it's exactly it, I found it, I found it! Haha...haha..."

After a burst of ecstasy, Buji leaned down and used a thin branch to carefully and slowly pick out the black ointment-like substance from the cracks in the stone bit by bit.

The Buji Taoist priest lay there like this for more than an hour before he finally took out all the elixirs. He kneaded them into a ball, as big as a fist, and was shiny black and exuding a strange brilliance.

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Buji held the pill in his hand, his eyes shining with strange light: "This is the miracle that our sect has created over the past hundred years, the Dingkun Divine Pill!"


Chapter completed!