MF-novel #381 - Herba Cynanchifoliae
#381 - Herba Cynanchifoliae
The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon's terrible idea made Zhang Chen's heart flutter. If he could really resolve the troubles brought about by the innate Yin and Yang energies, it wouldn't be impossible.
The innate Yin and Yang energies are supreme treasures, extremely precious. Anyone who encounters them would cherish them, but at this moment, that supreme treasure brought endless troubles to Zhang Chen.
"By the way, when did you plant a demon seed in the heart of the Longevity Ancestor?" Zhang Chen asked curiously.
The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon said smugly, "Your question is too narrow. You should ask, 'Which cultivator in this world can escape my poisonous clutches?' Countless years have passed since the Age of Earth, and my traces have long been all over the hearts of all living beings. I have become the embodiment of the law, coexisting with the Dao. I am the supreme Heavenly Demon Dao, the supreme ruler of the Demon Realm."
Zhang Chen was too lazy to pay attention to his narcissism and cautiously instructed, "You must inquire carefully and not make any mistakes. That Longevity Ancestor is very strong. If there is a slight mistake, we will both be unlucky."
"Don't worry, if I met him at a normal time, it would be a little troublesome, but now he is about to fall into tribulation. I, as the ancestor, represent the heavens and earth to test him. This old boy is going to be in big trouble." The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon muttered, "Even if you are willing to help me, it may not be impossible to turn that old boy into a puppet."
Zhang Chen shook his head upon hearing this, "You are dreaming. How could I help the evildoers?"
The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon sneered and stood lazily aside, watching Zhang Chen clear the weeds. After a day, Zhang Chen came to the Sutra Depository and saw that Xu Erniu was already waiting in the pavilion.
"I knew you would come." Xu Erniu put down the book in her hand and looked at Zhang Chen with a smile.
Zhang Chen looked at Xu Erniu and felt a rush of herbal scent. He asked curiously, "I haven't seen you for some days. Your cultivation seems to have improved a lot."
"I've swallowed a lot of spiritual herbs recently, and I've been busy refining pills, so I haven't come to see you." Xu Erniu said, taking out a jade bottle from her arms and handing it to Zhang Chen:
"Zhang Chen, this is a spiritual pill I refined. It can cleanse the marrow, cut the hair, and forge the bones, helping you to strengthen the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit. Take it and try it first. If it doesn't work, I'll refine other pills for you in a while."
Zhang Chen took the jade bottle, which was still slightly warm, which made Zhang Chen feel quite moved.
However, just as Zhang Chen was about to speak, the Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon appeared in Zhang Chen's ear, looking at Xu Erniu opposite with curiosity, "Grass Reversion Pill?"
Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this, but Xu Erniu was right in front of him, so he couldn't ask questions. He could only suppress the doubts in his heart for the time being, and then asked, "Have you seen your father?"
Xu Erniu shook her head, her eyes full of disappointment, "My father is still in seclusion. Master said that my father is experiencing a death tribulation, and it is very difficult to get through it. Only if my cultivation is improved and a spiritual pill is refined can I help my father break through the tribulation."
Speaking of this, Xu Erniu said to Zhang Chen, "Okay, you can take these spiritual pills first, and I will come to see you in a few days."
After Xu Erniu finished speaking, she left the Sutra Depository, leaving Zhang Chen holding the pill bottle, his face full of curiosity, "Are you saying that the pill in this bottle is the Grass Reversion Pill?"
If Zhang Chen remembered correctly, the Grass Reversion Pill also had another name, which was the Ginseng Fruit.
"I'm saying that girl is going to be refined into a Grass Reversion Pill." The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon said.
Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this, his eyes full of horror, "What do you mean by that?"
"The girl's cultivation method is not right. In the end, she will refine herself into a pill. This girl has been plotted against and has become someone else's resource." The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon said.
Zhang Chen clenched the bottle in his hand when he heard this, staring at the Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon with his eyes, "Don't talk nonsense."
"Can my ancestor's eyesight be wrong?" The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon said, "The Grass Reversion Pill method is to swallow all kinds of spiritual herbs in the world and gather all the spiritual herbs in one person, and then nurture them in the human body according to secret methods. At that time, a human medicine will be formed, so it can also be called a human ginseng fruit. Once it is completed, smelling it can live for 48,000 years, and eating one can eliminate thousands of calamities."
Zhang Chen's face turned cold when he heard this, his head buzzing. Xu Erniu's cultivation method was personally taught by the Longevity Ancestor, and the Longevity Ancestor is now preparing to overcome the tribulation...
Zhang Chen took a deep breath, turned his head to look at the Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon, his eyes full of caution, "Are you sure you're not mistaken?"
"I may not be able to understand it because of incomplete memories, but I will never be mistaken!" The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon said.
Zhang Chen couldn't sit still when he heard this, and quickly asked from his heart, "Is there a solution?"
The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon smiled, "If it were someone else, they would really only be able to stare blankly. They would be helpless in the face of this kind of thing, but you are different. If you practice the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, you can use the Blood Transformation Divine Blade to extract the medicinal properties of the Grass Reversion Pill and suppress the maturation speed of the Grass Reversion Pill. At that time, the old guy will die under the heavenly tribulation when he overcomes the tribulation, and everything will be simple."
"Cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Blade? How difficult is it to gather eighteen kinds of blood." Zhang Chen said.
"Boy, don't you understand? Where is this? How can the resources of the material world compare with this place? The demon race has pure-blooded great demons. You only need to kill a few of them, and you can naturally refine the Blood Transformation Divine Blade." The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon said.
Zhang Chen's heart fluttered when he heard this: Is there a chance to cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Blade? Really?
He had coveted the Blood Transformation Divine Blade for a long time. If he could cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, wouldn't he be in control of a powerful weapon?
"Of course it's true. Although the times have changed, there are still many pure bloodlines left by innate beings." The Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon said.
"To cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, the first thing to solve is the Yin and Yang energies in my body. Now that the Yin and Yang energies have assimilated my body, even if I get enough blood, it will be difficult to cultivate."
He has now obtained seven kinds of blood, and he is only eleven kinds of blood away from eighteen kinds of blood. In the spiritual world, there may be hope to collect all of them and cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Blade.
The truly powerful thing about the Blood Transformation Divine Blade is that once it is successfully cultivated, as long as you kill someone, it will purify the ancestral blood remaining in the other person's blood. The Blood Transformation Divine Blade is a truly fast-growing killing weapon. Only after it is cultivated will you see its horror.
"What about Xu Erniu? Is it too late to change the cultivation formula now?" Zhang Chen didn't want Xu Erniu to continue cultivating this method, so he asked the Grand Da Zizai Heavenly Demon.
The Great自在Heavenly Demon said upon hearing this, "Why not cultivate it? The Grass Return Pill is a method that directly points to the fruit. Although it has various drawbacks, reaching the realm of great accomplishment is still an unsurpassed method. With a thought, you can control the withering and flourishing of all plants in the world, borrow the power of all plants, and even use it to comprehend the Great Way of Wood, then ascend to another level, master the laws of life, and then master the laws of creation. This is a path to the heavens, but it is easily coveted. However, where can one find peace and stability in the pursuit of longevity?"
"The later stages of this Grass Return Pill method of cultivation become faster and faster. It is a shortcut. The more types of plant energy you absorb, the stronger your foundation becomes, and the faster your cultivation speed becomes. Its cultivation speed is millions of times faster than ordinary cultivators. In the end, you can absorb all the plants in the world into yourself, becoming the emperor of plants, and use this to prove the Great Way. Who would dare to covet it then?" The Great自在Heavenly Demon did not agree with Zhang Chen's words. "The path to longevity is full of bumps and twists. How can humans seize the creation of heaven and earth without tribulations? Only those who rise from tribulations are strong and can constantly seize the fortune of others to complete themselves."
"Moreover, once one becomes a Grass Return Pill, there is no turning back," the Great自在Heavenly Demon sighed softly. "The Return Pill is like a fetus. Either it gives birth to new life from within, breaks the fetal egg, and achieves the Great Way, or it dies in the womb."
Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing this. His fist was clenched tightly in his sleeve, and his eyes were full of coldness. "The Longevity Ancestor deserves to die!"
"That's not right!" Zhang Chen suddenly noticed something was wrong. "What about Xu Erniu's father? Who exactly is her father? Does her father even exist in this Taoist temple?"
"I don't know about that," the Great自在Heavenly Demon shook his head.
Zhang Chen fell into deep thought at this time, constantly sorting out various chaotic clues in his mind, and finally only two questions remained: "First, who exactly is Xu Erniu's father? Is Xu Erniu's father still alive? Second, who is Xu Erniu's mother? Where did Xu Erniu's mother go?"
Xu Erniu's mother said that Xu Erniu's father was a celestial being from Mount Qingcheng. Is the Five庄Temple the only cultivator on Mount Qingcheng?
Various doubts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, and he turned to look at the Great自在Heavenly Demon: "Old man, how many Taoist lineages are there on this Mount Qingcheng?"
"Only this one," the Great自在Heavenly Demon said.
Zhang Chen nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this. If that's the case, then there shouldn't be any problems. Xu Erniu's father should be a cultivator from Mount Qingcheng, but what he's wondering now is, is Xu Erniu's father still alive?
"It's very strange. If Xu Erniu's father is still alive, why would her mother go to Yangzhou City, thousands of miles away, to give birth to Xu Erniu, and why would she let Xu Erniu wander the streets and become a beggar who almost starved to death?" Zhang Chen couldn't understand. Where are the separated couples?
Unless there is some kind of change in this.
"According to Xu Erniu's age, her father and mother should have met five or six years ago, and then her mother gave birth to Xu Erniu outside Yangzhou City. In other words, as long as I find out what happened five or six years ago, what kind of disturbances or rumors there were, I will definitely be able to find out the truth," Zhang Chen quickly straightened out a line of thought.
"I advise you not to do this, and you can't even ask," the Great自在Heavenly Demon said. "Once you inquire about what happened six or seven years ago and inquire about Xu Erniu's father, you will definitely not be able to hide it from that Longevity Ancestor. Then you will be stirring up a hornet's nest and putting yourself in danger. A person who has lived for tens of thousands of years will be vigilant even with the slightest disturbance, otherwise, he would have died in someone else's scheme long ago."
Hearing the words of the Great自在Heavenly Demon, Zhang Chen scratched his head: "If I don't investigate the truth of the matter, many things will be impossible to start."
"What's the point of worrying so much? Let's first knock that old stick to the ground. When I seize him and turn him into a puppet, what can't we figure out?" The Great自在Heavenly Demon's voice was full of smugness.
The words are rough, but the meaning is correct.
Now that it has been determined that Xu Erniu was plotted against and refined into a Grass Return Pill, then what's the point of worrying so much? First, knock down the Longevity Ancestor.
Zhang Chen put down the entanglement in his heart, took out the pill bottle, and opened his mouth to see drops of small pills like Liuwei Dihuang pills, flashing with a clean, white, crystal-clear, jade-like luster, appearing in Zhang Chen's palm.
Zhang Chen picked up a pill and put it in his mouth. The pill melted as soon as it entered his mouth, and then Zhang Chen felt a heat being born in his stomach. The heat was instantly wiped out and swallowed by the Yin and Yang energies, and it didn't have any effect at all.
"It's not very useful to me, but it's still very good to taste it as a snack," Zhang Chen threw the pills into his mouth casually, like eating beans, and then thought about the matter of quenching and refining the Blood Transformation Divine Saber. If he could cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Saber in the spiritual world, it would be a rare fortune for him.
Time passed quickly, and another month passed. The Great自在Heavenly Demon appeared beside Zhang Chen again: "I have already inquired about the news. That old杂毛's true spirit is sealed in a large hall on the back mountain of the Five庄Temple, but that large hall is guarded by disciples and followers for twelve hours a day. It is not easy to sneak in. If you were not suppressed by the innate Yin and Yang energies, it would not be difficult for you to sneak in, but now that you have lost all your supernatural powers, it is difficult to sneak in."
The Great自在Heavenly Demon also had a headache. There are countless experts in the Five庄Temple. Not to mention the ninth-order Yang God level, there are also many tenth-order, eleventh-order, and twelfth-order experts. Zhang Chen's cultivation is too low, and it is full of crises to do something.
"Does the Five庄Temple have any enemies? If the enemies of the Five庄Temple take the opportunity to attack the Five庄Temple and cause great chaos in the Five庄Temple, will we have a chance to take advantage of the chaos?" Zhang Chen asked.
"The Five庄Temple is one of the top three Daoist lineages in this world. There are only two that can be compared with it. One is: Kunlun, and the other is: Taiping. The Kunlun Temple is ethereal and the number of disciples is extremely small. They follow the path of reversing the innate, reversing into innate beings, and mastering the Great Way of Heaven and Earth. Their strength is the strongest, but they are also the most mysterious. The Taiping Dao does not discriminate between meat and vegetables. There are both demon tribesmen as disciples and human races as disciples. It is a mixed bag, and they cultivate the Great Way of Feng Shui. Their Feng Shui Great Way seizes the creation of heaven and earth and the mysteries of the sun and moon, and has the ability to change the world. If you want to cause great chaos in the Five庄Temple, you can only start with these two Daoist lineages."
Zhang Chen listened to the words of the Great自在Heavenly Demon and became curious about the other two Great Ways.
The Great自在Heavenly Demon said again: "That Taiping Dao may be able to be used. The Taiping Dao cultivates the Great Way of Feng Shui and is good at using the Qi of Feng Shui dragon veins, and the cultivation of the Five庄Temple also needs the Qi of Feng Shui dragon veins. The two are simply natural competitors. If we can provoke a great war between the two sides and fight like dogs, then we can take advantage of the chaos."