Chapter 17 The Secret of Sword Cultivation

Liang Yan followed Zhuo Bufan into the cave, walked through the medicine field along the way, and walked through several stone chambers, including maids working in a busy manner. Some stone chambers were even placed with many precious objects, jewels and treasures, and you can tell the beauty of the future at a glance.

Liang Yan said in his heart: "The cave of the elite disciples of the outer sect is indeed surprisingly big. However, Senior Brother Zhuo looks elegant and extraordinary, but he didn't expect to prefer these precious treasures."

Thinking of this, Zhuo Bufan had already led him to a closed stone door. He took out the token at his waist and placed it in a groove on the wall of the stone door. After a moment, a rumbling sound came, and the stone door slowly opened.

As soon as a crack was opened, a strong aroma of medicinal materials came from it. As soon as I smelled it, I was very energetic. When the stone door was completely opened, I saw a half-person-high alchemy furnace in the middle of the room. Although the elixir fire had not yet been born, there were still green smoke rising from the top of the furnace. There were many vermilion wooden frames around the room, and many spiritual materials were neatly placed on it. Most of Liang Yan could not be called a name, but there was sufficient spiritual energy in it, and you could tell that it was extraordinary at a glance.

Liang Yan said in his heart: "I heard that qi-training cultivators cannot refine alchemy through their own alchemy fire, and need to use earth fire. Senior Brother Zhuo has great face, so he actually asked the sect to lure a line of earth fire from the earth fire room for him to the alchemy room in his cave, specifically for his alchemy."

When thinking about this, Zhuo Bufan had already stepped into the alchemy room first, picked and selected from the surrounding wooden racks, selected a few flavours of spiritual and medicinal materials, and took out a few portions of the materials from his storage bag.

After everything was ready, Zhuo Bufan said to Liang Yan: "I would like to ask Junior Brother Liang to arrange the formation now. When I refine it to the critical stage of the Qi Condensation Furnace, I will speak out to remind my junior brother that at that time, I will preside over the formation for me and guard the spiritual energy in the furnace."

Liang Yan nodded, took out the array plate and flag given to him by Senior Brother Zhuo, and began to carve array patterns on the ground and arrange array tools. After half a day of hard work, Liang Yan stood up exhausted and said, "Senior Brother Zhuo, I have already prepared and can inspire this spiritual gathering array at any time."

"Okay!" Zhuo Bufan did not delay and put the prepared materials into the alchemy furnace one by one in proportion. Then he raised his hand to make a magic trick. A bright red flame immediately rose under the alchemy furnace. As Zhuo Bufan's magic tricks were in his hand, the power of the fire was constantly changing.

Liang Yan knew that he needed to concentrate when practicing elixirs and avoid disturbing the situation the most, so he found a random position on the ground, sat cross-legged silently, and started practicing luck.

As time passed by minute by minute, Zhuo Bufan was always sitting upright, his magic tricks kept stopping, and meticulously operating the ground fire to practice the alchemy furnace. Liang Yan couldn't help but admire him secretly, thinking: "This alchemy technique is indeed not something that ordinary people can learn." He was distorted. If he had to master the fire of the alchemy furnace so delicately, he would probably have been a residue if ten furnaces were about to blow up nine furnaces, and the remaining furnace might be left.

I don’t know how long it has passed, but when Liang Yan secretly speculated that it was already night outside, the magic trick in Zhuo Bufan’s hand suddenly changed, and the fire in the alchemy furnace was in full swing. At the same time, he drank: “Junior Brother Liang, it’s now! Quickly stimulate the formation, help me keep my spiritual energy and stabilize the pills!”

Liang Yan was roaring when he heard the sound and immediately stood up to stimulate the formation. At the same time, a strong aroma of medicine in the alchemy furnace overflowed and spread around.

Because Zhuo Bufan's previous notification, Liang Yan knew that this was a sign of the leakage of the elixir spiritual energy, and he couldn't help but get up to the twelve points and concentrate on presiding on the formation. The array flags and array plates in the formation obeyed his orders, and changed constantly. The scattered spiritual energy seemed to encounter an invisible barrier, and was guided by the formation, slowly moving forward in the air with a specific trajectory, and finally returned to the alchemy furnace like a river returning to the sea.

A hint of joy flashed in Zhuo Bufan's eyes, but there was no slight relaxation, but he was more focused on controlling fire and refining alchemy.

After a while, just when Liang Yan was exhausted, Zhuo Bufan suddenly took the magic trick and the fire disappeared in an instant. He reached out and slapped the void, and the elixir furnace exploded, and the cover of the furnace rose into the sky, and a rich fragrance of medicine surged out first, followed by two yellow pills flying out, and finally all fell into Zhuo Bufan's hands.

Liang Yan immediately bowed to Zhuo Bufan and smiled, "Congratulations to Senior Brother Zhuo for practicing this pill!"

"Haha! It's done!" Zhuo Bufan couldn't suppress his joy and smiled.

"Mr. Zhuo has made great contributions to this pill. This is a promised reward, so you can continue." After saying that, he waved his hand and three snow-white pills shot towards Liang Yan. Liang Yan reached out to take it. It was indeed the three spirit-gathering pills that had been before.

After he accepted it with satisfaction, he turned his eyes to the two pills in Zhuo Bufan's hand. He saw that the two pills were small in body, but the size of their fingernails was yellow all over. What was unusual was that they were trembling slightly in Zhuo Bufan's hand at this moment, and they actually made a faint sound of swords!

Zhuo Bufan was in a good mood at this moment. He glanced at Liang Yan's gaze and knew that he was curious. He said, "Do you know what kind of elixir I have refined in this furnace?"

"Haha, I know nothing about alchemy. Please give me advice from Senior Brother Zhuo!"

Zhuo Bufan nodded and said, "Actually, this is a sword raising pill!"

"Sword Raising Pill?" Liang Yan was shocked. This was the first time he heard of this kind of pill.

"It's normal that you haven't heard of it. After all, although there are many sects and hundreds of schools are blooming, there are indeed very few sword cultivators. This sword-raising pill is a pill specially prepared for sword cultivators."

When Liang Yan heard the name, he had already guessed, and confirmed it at this moment, which aroused his interest even more. He couldn't help but ask: "What is the specific effect of this sword raising pill?"

Zhuo Bufan smiled faintly and said, "Junior Brother Liang seems to be quite interested in sword cultivators? Well, I'll tell you." Then he paused and said, "Do you know that our sword cultivators in the Qi Practice Stage are not really sword cultivators, at best they are just cultivators who play swords."

After hearing this, Liang Yan frowned and said in confusion: "I hope to hear it carefully."

"A true sword cultivator is to practice a flying sword to life magic weapon. When facing the enemy, you can hurt the enemy thousands of miles when you go. And our Qi-training cultivators just use spiritual swords as spiritual weapons, and learn some sword techniques, so you can hurt the enemy with a sword."

Liang Yan suddenly said, "In this way, if you want to become a sword cultivator, you need to practice your own natal flying sword?"

"Not bad! But the natal flying sword is a top-notch magic weapon, so it is so difficult to practice. Moreover, if you want to control the magic weapon, you must obtain the Yuan Ju period. Even the foundation-building cultivator can only activate the best spiritual weapon."

Liang Yan was shocked after hearing this, "Wouldn't there be no sword cultivator under Juyuan?"

Zhuo Bufan glanced at him and smiled and said, "Not necessarily. The natal flying sword is a relatively special magic weapon that needs to be cultivated slowly by itself. As long as our cultivators reach the foundation-building level, they can start to incorporate the flying sword he likes into the dantian in their body, and use their own spiritual power to continuously nourish the flying sword until they reach the first level of sword cultivator, and train the flying sword into a sword embryo in their body!"

"This is the first realm." Liang Yan murmured to himself, and then asked, "What realm will be there in the future?"

"Haha, the sword cultivator is an extreme method passed down from ancient times. We have not even reached the first level, so how can we know what happened next? Moreover, it is said that once this sword embryo is cultivated, you cannot use any more harm to the enemy until the next level. You can only find another ordinary flying sword. It can be said that once the sword cultivator reaches the sword embryo stage, his strength will not increase but decline!"

"It seems that this sword cultivator is really hard to climb to the sky," Liang Yan smiled bitterly, "By the way, what is the use of senior brother to refine this sword cultivation pill?"

"This is simple, because we, a sword cultivator, need to incorporate the spiritual sword into our body and nourish the sword embryo. However, the Dantian is the most important place for humans. The sword energy of this spiritual sword is sharp. If you are not careful, you will risk piercing the Dantian and losing all your cultivation. And this sword pill can breed a subtle connection between the master and the flying sword, indirectly nourish the spirituality of the flying sword, and finally achieve a perfect integration with the flying sword. When the flying sword enters the body, you can be sure of your integrity."

"So that's it." Liang Yan suddenly realized: "Thank you, Senior Brother Zhuo for your advice."

Zhuo Bufan waved his hand and smiled, "Don't thank me, I'll have more days to bother Junior Brother Liang in the future. My sword-raising pills need to be taken once a month from now on, and gradually increase my connection with Dingguang Sword. After that, I will refine the pills every month and I will trouble Junior Brother Liang to set up a formation to protect me. As for the reward, the three spirit-gathering pills remain unchanged. What do you think?"

"Haha, Senior Brother Zhuo is so generous, I don't have any reason to refuse. In the future, Senior Brother Zhuo will just call me directly and will definitely help me!"

Liang Yan was secretly happy in his heart. He should know that the erotic disciple only had a spirit gathering pill every six months, and from now on, he can receive three pills every month. This is already a treatment that only external disciples enjoy. It seems that Zhuo Bufan is worthy of being a high-level disciple of the alchemy and is generous in his actions.

"Okay!, Junior Brother Liang is really happy!" Zhuo Bufan looked extremely happy, and took Liang Yan's hand and walked out of the alchemy room. He also ordered the servants to prepare a table of wine and food. He had drunk and talked to Liang Yan that night, but Liang Yan did not refuse. The two of them exchanged cups, which looked like old friends for many years.

By the time Liang Yan came out of Zhuo Bufan's cave, it was already late at night. Although he was drunk, he was not drunk as a cultivator. That night, he did not go to Lingquan Cave to practice, but went straight back to his residence. He directly refined a spirit gathering pill and felt the elixir entering his body. The degree of fit between himself and spiritual energy was slightly improved. Liang Yan's eyes were filled with joy, and then he said to himself: "It seems that this spirit gathering pill is really suitable for people like me who are not qualified."

(End of this chapter)
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