Chapter 257 Establishing the Path of Qi Pills
He, Xuanqing, is Feng Zichen, possessing the Chaos Pearl and controlling the World Tree.
Not to mention primordial Qi, he lacks neither innate origin.
Therefore, the Creation Bottle seems somewhat superfluous to him.
However, the Creation Bottle is still an innate merit treasure, possessing the ability to suppress fortune.
Furthermore, it is the original treasure of the Way of Currency. When the Creation Pill flourishes in the prehistoric world, it may be able to take another step forward, becoming a high-grade innate treasure, or even a supreme innate treasure, giving birth to innate origin.
In this way, the Creation Bottle will no longer seem superfluous, but a true auxiliary treasure, capable of helping people break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, a rarity in the world.
Currently, the Creation Bottle can produce one Chaos Dao Pill, ten thousand innate Yin-Yang Creation Pills, and one hundred million innate Five Elements Creation Pills every thousand years, equivalent to three Great Luo Golden Immortals, which is quite good.
"Keep it for now!"
Something is better than nothing. Even if I don't need it myself, giving away the Creation Pill from the Creation Bottle as a favor is a good idea.
Putting away the Creation Bottle, Xuan Qing thought for a moment, then suddenly reached out and grabbed at the void. A terrifying aura erupted, displaying the full power of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, forcefully grabbing tens of thousands of strands of innate energy from the void.
"Refine!"
Selecting several strands of innate energy, Xuan Qing cast them into the Great Dao Furnace and began refining them using a special method.
Mysterious runes flew from Xuan Qing's hand, constantly guiding the innate energy, causing them to combine and arrange, forming a mysterious array, generating strange power, and gradually converging into a ball, forming the shape of a pill.
That's right, Xuan Qing was refining pills!
The Dao of Pills was created by the Sage Taiqing.
Because it can help people cultivate, the Dao of Pills immediately swept through the prehistoric world upon its birth, and everyone practiced it.
As everyone knows, pills are made from various kinds of innate spiritual herbs, and collecting them is extremely troublesome. The growth of spiritual herbs requires time.
Every single pill is hard-won.
And innate spiritual herbs, simply put, are another form of innate energy.
Based on this, Xuanqing conceived a bold idea: if innate spiritual herbs can be refined into pills, why can't innate energy, which has the same properties, be refined into pills?
Thus, the scene before us unfolded.
The Three Pure Ones each possess unique strengths: the Supreme Pure One is the ancestor of alchemy, unmatched in the primordial world; the Jade Pure One is a master of weapon crafting, rarely rivaled in the primordial world; the Upper Pure One is a master of formations, unparalleled in the primordial world.
Although Xuanqing is nominally a disciple of the Upper Pure One, he is actually taught by all three, possessing considerable insight into alchemy, weapon crafting, and formation.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have decided to create a separate method beyond traditional alchemy. This clearly demonstrates profound knowledge and unwavering confidence.
With the assistance of the Primordial Dao Bell, Xuanqing (Feng Zichen)'s comprehension is second only to the Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who possesses the Jade Disc of Creation, making him arguably the second greatest in the primordial world.
Even so, Xuanqing wasn't confident that his achievements in alchemy would surpass those of the Taiqing Saint; in weapon crafting, the Yuqing Saint; or in formations, the Shangqing Saint.
Having finally arrived in the Primordial World and possessing knowledge far beyond his time, wouldn't it be a regret if he couldn't become number one in his chosen path?
Therefore, with this mindset, Xuanqing diligently studied the three paths, combining their strengths, and finally forged a new path, developing a method of alchemy using innate spiritual energy.
Since he couldn't surpass the Three Pure Ones, he would build upon their foundations, creating another path—a kind of transcendence in itself. After years of painstaking research into the three paths, Xuanqing gained much more than just the Dao of Qi Elixir. Many other cultivation methods awaited his verification.
Now, using innate Qi to refine elixirs was a way of verifying the Dao of Qi.
Xuanqing's goal is to become the ancestor of all the wandering immortals in the primordial world, thereby gaining supreme rank and immeasurable power.
And to become the ancestor of all wandering immortals, the myriad arts of cultivation, alchemy, array formations, talismans, and artifacts are naturally indispensable.
Xuanqing is currently working diligently towards this goal.
…
"Buzz…"
After a tremor, a golden pill flew out from the Great Dao Furnace, accompanied by a golden halo and emitting a faint fragrance, floating in the air.
This was a first-stage Golden Pill! This was a Golden Pill refined with innate Qi!
The essence of innate Qi was refined using a grand formation, its form was shaped using weapon-refining techniques, and its spirit was finally refined using alchemy techniques.
Thus, the golden, round first-stage Golden Pill before Xuan Qing was created.
According to the Taiqing Pill Scripture, a Golden Pill is formed by creation and is divided into nine stages. The first stage is the lowest, with limited creation, and is used by Celestial Immortal cultivators.
A ninth-stage Golden Pill has endless creation, can bring the dead back to life, and defy fate… There are very few people in the Primordial World who can refine a ninth-stage Golden Pill.
Therefore, the ninth-stage Golden Pill is extremely precious and is a pill used by Great Luo Golden Immortals.
The Golden Pill, refined by Xuanqing, is only a first-stage pill. Any cultivator in the Primordial World who has just entered the path of alchemy can refine one, so it is not a rare item.
However, this first-stage Golden Core was forged with innate Qi, something never before seen in the primordial world.
Therefore, it possessed extraordinary significance, symbolizing the beginning of a new path, imbued with great fortune and merit.
As this first-stage Golden Core was born, the rules of heaven and earth manifested around it, as if embracing and celebrating its birth—a truly wondrous sight.
Even heaven and earth rejoiced at its birth. However, a Golden Core requires nine stages of refinement to achieve its full potential. Only by refining a nine-stage Golden Core can the Dao of Qi Refining be considered complete, qualifying it to appear in the primordial world, becoming one of the many cultivation paths, and enjoying the fortune of heaven and earth.
"Refine again!"
Xuan Qing once more cast the first-stage Golden Core into the Great Dao Furnace, grabbing dozens of streams of innate Qi with his large hand, and began refining the core again.
Several days later, when the furnace fire died down, the Golden Core reappeared, having taken another step forward, advancing from a first-stage Golden Core to a second-stage Golden Core.
"Continue!"
With a wave of his sleeve, Xuan Qing repeated his previous actions, preparing to refine the third-stage Golden Pill.
Several months later, the third-stage Golden Pill was born...
Several years later, the fourth-stage Golden Pill was born...
...
This process was repeated seven times, and the Golden Pill before Xuan Qing had become an eighth-stage Golden Pill, round and golden, accompanied by a five-colored halo, quite extraordinary.
"Success or failure hinges on this!"
Looking at the eighth-stage Golden Pill before him, Xuan Qing flipped his hand, taking out eighty-one streams of innate primordial energy, each with different attributes, and infused them into the Great Dao Furnace.
The Taiqing Saint needed eighty-one kinds of innate spiritual fruits to refine a batch of nine-stage Golden Pills, which, converted into innate energy, were eighty-one streams of primordial energy.
The nine-stage Golden Pill possessed boundless potential and could even affect Great Luo Golden Immortals; therefore, the materials needed for its refinement were naturally extremely precious.
Otherwise, wouldn't the nine-stage Golden Pill be rampant in the primordial world? Generally, anything defying the heavens must have its limitations, and this was indeed the case.
(End of Chapter)