42. The Five Realms of the Divine Soul
It wasn’t until evening that the final stroke was finally completed. The fire talisman drawn with just black ink on white paper suddenly burst into flames, with the flames showing a deep red color like blood.
“Success!”
The corner of Yan Zhen’s mouth twitched. Suddenly, he felt bursts of intense pain coming from between his eyebrows, as if a drill had gone in and kept stirring.
“Ah!”
Yan Zhen let out a miserable cry and fell backward, covering his forehead.
Chen Xi was well prepared. She opened her arms and embraced him, saying in a gentle voice, “Endure it, Zhen’er. Circulate the ‘Ancestral Talisman Scripture.’ Imagine your mind and spirit transforming into a fire talisman, breaking open the ancestral aperture between your eyebrows, and use this to guide the birth of spiritual power!”
Yan Zhen, who was familiar with the script, knew what to do, but this was really too painful. It was more painful than 1000-7*(1), so painful that he almost couldn’t think, let alone circulate the cultivation technique.
Refining the Extreme Flame was painful, drawing the Ancestral Talisman was also painful. Everything was painful. He was really fed up with these dog fart settings!
— System!
[At your service, Host.]
— I want to use the trump card (Level 1) to eliminate the pain caused by the birth of spiritual power!
[System received.]
As the voice fell, the novice trump card Yan Zhen initially received transformed into light spots and dispersed. The intense pain between his eyebrows instantly disappeared.
Yan Zhen composed himself and, as the beautiful sect master said, circulated the “Ancestral Talisman Scripture.” He imagined a fiercely burning fire talisman appearing in his spiritual world, which then transformed into a comet trailing a blood-colored flame tail, charging straight towards a certain gap.
He didn’t know how much time had passed. At a certain moment, the space between Yan Zhen’s eyebrows seemed to throb, and then a semi-transparent spiritual flame slowly lit up. His closed eyes also opened at the same time, his gaze as sharp as lightning.
He stretched out his right hand and clenched it fiercely. A burst of gold and silver flames sprouted from his palm, with the flames reaching a height of one foot.
This was a manifestation of not being able to control it, immediately displaying the maximum firepower.
Yan Zhen mobilized his spiritual power and infused it into the flames, gradually reducing the fire output. The floating gold and silver fire in his hand shrank accordingly until it became a small flower that fit perfectly in his palm.
With this level of control, fist and foot techniques and mystic techniques could all reach a meticulous realm, increasing combat power by more than double!
Now, if he were to face Lan Ke, even without using the gold and silver fire, he could still beat the other party until they howled.
With a strong grip, the flames disappeared. The sound of the system’s task completion prompt also rang in his mind. Yan Zhen revealed a hearty smile.
After a week, he finally, finally, finally gave birth to spiritual power. It was really not easy!
At the same time,
“Sect Master, I succeeded!”
“Mm, congratulations, Zhen’er.” Chen Xi smiled. “Using only a week’s time to successfully give birth to spiritual power, as expected of your master’s disciple, impressive.”
Although she had already understood Yan Zhen’s talent in her previous life, she still couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.
As far as she knew, alchemy apprentices needed at least a month to guide their spiritual power out. Those who took longer needed to spend half a year or even a year.
But Yan Zhen only used seven days. No, there was one day when he was in bed, so to be precise, it was only six days!
Logically speaking, his soul was relatively strong, so the difficulty of guiding spiritual power should have been higher.
Even with her guidance and protection, it was still too fast, leaving others far behind.
A little monster indeed.
The more Chen Xi looked at him, the more she liked him tightly. Although she knew that boys at this age didn’t like to be treated like children, she still couldn’t help but touch his head.
— She even wanted to continue hugging him and rubbing against him.
Yan Zhen was already used to the beautiful sect master’s affection. He said shyly, “Sect Master praises me too much. It’s all thanks to Sect Master’s wholehearted guidance and… and helping me eliminate the aftereffects, so I was able to succeed so quickly. Thank you, Sect Master!”
Chen Xi extended her slender jade finger and placed it on his lips. “Silly boy, why do you always have to say thank you between you and me, master and disciple?”
Yan Zhen quickly covered his mouth with his hand. Chen Xi smiled helplessly. “Since Zhen’er has already given birth to spiritual power, your master can formally teach you the way of alchemy.”
Hearing these words, Yan Zhen hurriedly sat up straight and listened attentively.
“Alchemist is actually a general term. The way of alchemy has five major branches: pill refinement, tool forging, talisman drawing, formation arrangement, and beast taming. You entered the way through fire talismans, so you can continue to learn talisman drawing. But the way of talisman patterns doesn’t help much with cultivation. Your master recommends that you learn pill refinement first. The wonders of pills are endless. They can save people, harm people, and even save oneself. If you can become a high-grade pill refiner, countless cultivators will want to curry favor with you.”
Yan Zhen nodded in agreement. It was like when Yan Lie collapsed at the beginning of the year. The entire city lord’s mansion was helpless, but after the beautiful sect master took action and refined a fourth-grade pill, he was immediately cured, allowing this pillar of the city lord’s mansion to stand up again and lead them to turn the tide!
In a word, divine!
It’s not that the others aren’t good, but they are not as popular as pill refiners. However, the way of pill refinement is also the most difficult. Just identifying medicinal ingredients, understanding medicinal properties, and memorizing prescriptions are already a big threshold.
Although tool forging also has similar thresholds, they are far from being as high as pill refinement.
Of course, if you just want to be a pill refinement tool person, being able to refine a popular first or second-grade pill is enough to enter a factory and receive a high salary.
“Sect Master, I want to learn pill refinement. Please teach me, Sect Master!”
Yan Zhen’s eyes were like a child eager for knowledge. Chen Xi lightly tapped her delicate head. “To learn pill refinement, you first need to meet two conditions yourself. One is to have a cultivation level above a five-star Mystic Disciple, and the other is to have a divine soul cultivation level above the Hidden Realm.”
“Sect Master, what is the Hidden Realm?” Yan Zhen pretended to be ignorant and recited the lines, but he was very clear about this setting in his heart.
The divine soul cultivation had five major realms:
Hidden Realm, Manifest Realm, Secluded Realm, True Realm, and Profound Realm.
The Hidden Realm was Yan Zhen’s current realm. The spiritual flame between his eyebrows was faintly visible.
Manifest Realm, where spiritual power manifested externally and was visible to the naked eye.
Secluded Realm, where the divine soul left the body and could traverse the void and netherworld.
True Realm, where the illusory became real. After death, there was a high possibility of forming a spiritual secret realm.
The Profound Realm was difficult to describe clearly. Even Yan Zhen, who was familiar with the script, didn’t know how the Profound Realm should be described. Anyway, it was profound and extraordinary.
The beautiful sect master was currently only at the half-step Profound Realm. Her ability to transform into a realm spirit state was also related to this.
Chen Xi briefly explained the divine soul realms and continued, “Secondly, you also need a pill cauldron. A good pill cauldron can make your pill refinement twice as effective with half the effort. For beginners, it’s not that particular, but you can’t buy inferior products at least. The third is that you need pill formulas. The pill formulas of each family are kept secret, but you can still buy some common ones on the market, which can be used as negative teaching materials. In addition, you also need a large number of low-grade medicinal ingredients, enough for you to practice with.”
Yan Zhen nodded repeatedly.
“In terms of cultivation, Zhen’er, you are qualified. But you haven’t prepared the tools yet. Go buy a pill cauldron, a few pill formulas, and a batch of low-grade medicinal ingredients tomorrow, and your master will teach you carefully.”
“I understand, Sect Master.”
Chen Xi blinked her eyes and said meaningfully, “There are quite a few things to buy. Is your budget enough, Zhen’er?”
“It’s still enough for now.” After all, Yan Zhen still had the 100 million crystal coins given by the system. The previous 10 million was still mostly left, so he didn’t need to consider the issue of funds for the time being.
Chen Xi didn’t think much of it. The degree to which alchemy burned money was beyond the imagination of ordinary people. According to the way it was in the previous life, he would probably be worried about finding ways to gather money in about a month.
At that time, she would remind him about “how to earn money from the sect master.”
1000-7*(Tokyo Ghoul anime reference)
Leave a Reply