Inquiry about immortality

Chapter 2233 Stone Fire

"I am not qualified to know the whereabouts of the powerful, but it is rumored that the Immortal City formation was built by a powerful person. Daoist friends just need to know that we have the protection of a powerful person above us."

The messenger's tone was full of pride.

The other cultivators agreed with him. The old man surnamed Zhou said with emotion, "Your words make sense, but I don't know when we can see the great master again."

"This is not easy. I have been stationed in Yongtu Immortal City for so many years, but I have never seen the true appearance of the great man. I am afraid that the great man will only show up when the alien race invades."

The messenger pointed to the west and said, "It is rumored that all the powerful ones are in retreat at Lingshan right now."

"Lingshan?"

The old man surnamed Zhou asked.

Qin Sang at the back couldn't help but prick up his ears.

Could it be the sacred mountain of Buddhism?

In this world, Lingshan is located in the West and is a holy place for Buddhism. Master Liaochen once mentioned that he had never had the opportunity to make a pilgrimage to Lingshan and he deeply regretted it.

"That's right! Legend has it that Lingshan is the number one sacred mountain in the world. You can talk directly to the gods on the top of the mountain. There were once ten great celestial witches who stayed at Lingshan to represent the gods and guard the people..."

The messenger told a legend, some of the content of which even the old man surnamed Zhou had never heard of.

The practitioners listened with great interest.

Qin Sang compared the legend with the present world. If the sacred mountain of Buddhism was this mountain, it should be the holy place of the witch clan or the alien clan. He didn't know why it fell into the hands of Buddhism.

He has always wanted to guess which place in the real world the illusion corresponds to.

If this mountain is exactly that mountain, they should be between the Western Land and the Great Zhou. The richest Great Zhou is still the territory of the demon clan.

Entering the Yongtu Immortal City, the messenger pointed at three peaks and said, "These three mountains have no owners yet. You can open caves in the mountains."

All the practitioners expressed their gratitude.

The messenger added: "You cannot enjoy the protection for nothing. You must allocate manpower to shoulder the responsibility of daily patrol. Once the Immortal City encounters danger, you cannot retreat even a little bit!"

"It should be so!" the cultivators said solemnly.

The messenger nodded with satisfaction, "Everyone, don't worry too much. Compared with other immortal cities, our Yongtu Immortal City can be said to be the safest one."

"Oh? What do you mean, fellow Taoist?" the old man surnamed Zhou asked curiously.

The messenger pointed to the east and said, "Because the people who border our Yongtu Fairy City are the Phoenix Clan. Phoenixes are virtuous and not as brutal as other races. Even though the other races are rejecting us humans, if the Phoenix Clan really wants to kill us, with their strength, I'm afraid none of you will be able to make it here alive."

All the monks were suddenly silent, with cold sweat on their backs.

Master Tongshen finally chose a hillside surrounded by bamboo forests, and the master and his disciples were all very satisfied.

The master and his disciples were busy building the temple and pavilion to worship the ancestor.

Master Tongshen called the four people to his side and said, "Follow me for a walk."

The four of them were very happy.

The five masters and apprentices left the bamboo forest and flew slowly along the mountain. It seemed as if they had arrived in the mortal world, where there were crowds of people and it was very lively.

The biggest difference is that there are many more strange-looking aliens here, living happily together with the human race, and there is no racial barrier between them.

Master Tongshen brought them to a place similar to a market and told them, "I am going to buy some things. You can walk around and don't go too far."

Seeing Master Tongshen entering a wooden building, Qin Sang wanted to act on his own, but was grabbed by Qinghong and had to go with them.

Qinghong would occasionally tease him and Miss Shuang, and Qin Sang would remain calm. Miss Shuang's face would even blush, but after all, they were already familiar with each other and were as close as a family, so she would not lose her composure again.

"Will Chief Yuan Xiang and his men be in the city?"

Qin Sang saw two members of the Zhuyan tribe walk out of a shop, ride on a cloud of fire, and fly away.

"The Deep Eyes tribe... that one seems to be from the Shengyu tribe... The mermaid girl is not in the sea, but has ended up here..."

Qin Sang looked around, and every time he saw the Inhumans, he wanted to find familiar items on them, but unfortunately he returned empty-handed every time.

"What are you looking at? So fascinated?"

Qinghong and Miss Shuang followed Qin Sang's line of sight and saw a group of hot and attractive mermaid girls.

"The rumors are true, the women of the mermaid tribe are indeed pretty," Senior Brother Qingyan touched the back of his head and laughed.

"Two perverts!"

Qinghong looked at her with disdain, while Miss Shuang chuckled.

Qin Sang walked quickly to a shop, took a black stone from the shelf in front of the door, bargained for a while and bought it, then said to the three people righteously: "What were you talking about just now?"

Qing Hong paused, "Why did you buy this black stone?"

"Of course it is useful," Qin Sang deliberately kept it a secret.

In fact, this stone is not a very precious high-level spiritual material. It is called Huankong Stone and is one of the spiritual materials used in later generations to refine mustard seed magic weapons.

Qin Sang was fed up with the confined space of the mustard seed magic weapon. As a master of weapon refining, he planned to refine one himself.

……

The sky is getting dark.

The five masters and apprentices returned to the bamboo forest. Qin Sang searched for his old friend in vain and only bought some medicinal herbs.

"You all go down."

Master Tongshen dismissed Qing Yan and others, leaving only Qin Sang.

"When I accepted you as my disciple, I never thought that you would be able to form a golden elixir in just a few years. I am not afraid of your arrogance. I believe you are also so confident. I have never heard of someone with your talent before..."

There was also the concept of golden elixir in ancient times, but there was no special division into a realm. Moreover, Qin Sang discovered through communication with others that not all exercises had the step of forming an elixir. For some exercises, the qi sea remained in liquid state and the infant was formed directly.

On the way to Yongtu Fairy City, Master Tongshen specially asked someone to build a fire room for Qin Sang on the Dharma Boat, and spared no effort to support his alchemy practice.

Qin Sang made rapid progress and actually achieved the golden elixir in one fell swoop. Looking back on those years, he didn't realize how much easier it was.

Master Tongshen specifically instructed Qinghong and others not to spread the news, otherwise it would definitely cause an uproar.

"If you take one more step forward, you will have to start choosing a path. With your talent, it won't take too long. I have been hesitating all these years. It's time to make a decision. I have decided to let you practice the chapter on the harmony of water and fire!" Master Tongshen said decisively.

Qin Sang had been waiting for this day for a long time. He bowed and said, "Disciple will obey Master's orders!"

"However, before that, I have to get you something," Master Tongshen changed his tone, "You have also read the chapter on the harmony of water and fire. You should remember that this secret technique requires the simultaneous practice of water and fire. We only have water-based techniques. In addition to practicing a fire-based technique, there is a convenient method in the secret technique to absorb external fire into the body and refine it into internal fire. Then you can use the internal fire and external pills to not only practice water and fire, but also internal and external cultivation. However, this method is extremely dangerous..."

Qin Sang naturally remembered it, and this was one of the reasons why he was so excited.

To absorb external fire into his body, he actually has a better secret technique, which is the "Fire Golden Lotus".

The two secret techniques do not conflict with each other. He can use the "Fire Golden Lotus" to subdue the spiritual fire, and then practice the technique of combining water and fire.

If Qin Sang had not relied on Master Tongshen's support, he would have left his master and practiced on his own long ago.

The only question is, where to find the superior spiritual fire?

From Master Tongshen's tone, he seemed to know the news about the spiritual fire.

"When I got the secret book, I also saw a kind of spiritual fire recorded by the owner of the cave. This fire is called Stone Embryo Fire, which is a kind of strange fire in the world, nurtured in a secret place. When the senior found it, the Stone Embryo Fire was not yet mature. The senior did not take the Stone Embryo Fire by force, but set up restrictions around it, which not only protected the Stone Embryo Fire from external disturbances, but also influenced the Stone Embryo Fire imperceptibly, reducing the backlash when the Stone Embryo Fire was subdued in the future. If I was the first one to get the secret book, the Stone Embryo Fire should still be there, and it should have matured..."

Master Tongshen glanced outside the mountain and said, "I will volunteer to join the guard of the Immortal City and take you to get the spiritual fire when the time is right."

"Disciple, I don't dare!"

Qin Sang said repeatedly, "Master, if you refine that stone fetus fire, you will definitely be able to break through the bottleneck! Master, improving your cultivation is the most important thing. I will have other spiritual fires in the future. Please take back your order, Master!"

Master Tongshen touched Qin Sang's head and found that Qin Sang was no longer the young boy he was back then. He was taller than him. He couldn't help but sighed, "My disciple has grown up! Such a rare fire is hard to come by in a thousand years. It's a waste to use it on me. My disciple is talented and has a promising future. He deserves this fire."

"But……"

"Why, your words are no longer effective?"

Master Tongshen pretended to be angry.

Seeing that Qin Sang was speechless, Master Tongshen waved his hand and said, "You can go down first! Since you know the good intentions of your master, you should practice hard and don't let your master down."

"Yes! I'll take my leave, disciple!"

Qin Sang left the hall.

Master Tongshen immediately opened a fire room for him. Qin Sang walked into the fire room, thinking back to the conversation he had just had with his master. He stroked the warm earth fire furnace and murmured softly, "What a pity it is an illusion."

He shook his head, sat cross-legged in front of the stove, took out the Summoning Sky Stone, cut off a part of it, refined it into stone powder, then took out several spiritual materials in succession, tempered them one by one, and then threw them all into the earth fire.

Various spiritual materials rolled in the flames, and the firelight illuminated Qin Sang's cheeks.

Soon, the spiritual material began to gather in the middle, gradually forming the shape of a bracelet, imitating the black bracelet on Qin Sang's hand.

With Qin Sang's ability, refining this kind of treasure doesn't require much energy at all. He was even distracted by thinking about other things.

Seeing that the black bracelet was almost completed, Qin Sang suddenly exclaimed, with a look of surprise on his face, "Failed?"

He summoned the black bracelet in front of him. The shape of the device was complete, but it was not a mustard seed magic device.

"what happened?"

Qin Sang was greatly surprised. He could not even succeed in refining such a magical weapon. Was his fame going to be ruined in an instant?

Fortunately, Qin Sang had prepared enough spiritual materials. He cut off a piece and continued refining. This time he put aside his distracting thoughts and concentrated on it, but he failed again!

Qin Sang realized something was wrong and continued to open the furnace without stopping, but failed again and again.

His expression became more and more serious as he realized something was wrong. Was it a problem with the spiritual material or the illusion?

Everything here is so real, but the simplest refining technique is ineffective.

If I could find the reason, perhaps I could use it to see through the secret of the illusion.

Where is the problem?

Qin Sang grabbed the remaining spiritual materials and examined them over and over again to make sure that he had not made a mistake.

"It can't be a problem with the weapon refining method?"

A thought flashed through Qin Sang’s mind.

This method of refining equipment became very popular in later generations, and ordinary equipment refiners could also learn it. It was such a simple method of refining equipment, but there were so many powerful people in ancient times, and even gods. Is it possible that no one could comprehend it?

Thinking this way may seem far-fetched. From ancient times to the present, not only have various ethnic groups taken turns to become the protagonists of the universe, but the universe itself has also undergone drastic changes?

Qin Sang threw the last piece of Summoning Stone into the furnace for tempering, but as expected, it failed again.

He couldn't help but hesitate. If he continued to delve deeper in this direction, what if the truth had nothing to do with the illusion? It would be a waste of time.

Over the next period of time, Qin Sang tried many worldly methods of refining equipment, but all failed. He always felt that he was missing something crucial that could transform these spiritual materials.

What exactly is this thing?

Qin Sang found that he seemed to have never thought deeply about this problem, because it was a truth recognized by the world, and weapon refiners had long been accustomed to it.

……

The master and his disciples settled down in Yongtu Immortal City.

Qin Sang often left the cave and wandered around looking for "old friends".

Master Tongshen joined the Immortal City Guard as he said.

This is the price they pay for settling in the Immortal City. Just having Master Tongshen is not enough, the sect must send another person, and the eldest brother Qingyan is the best choice.

It is under the protection of his master that Qin Sang can concentrate on his practice.

A year passed in the blink of an eye.

Qin Sang and others have adapted to life in the fairy city.

"Junior brothers and sisters, Master and Senior Brother are back!"

Qin Sang heard Senior Sister Qinghong's excited cry, walked out of the quiet room, and saw two beams of light descending from the sky.

"Master!"

Qing Hong asked with concern, "You didn't encounter any danger this time, did you?"

Master Tongshen joined the Immortal City Guard and was soon tasked with transferring the mortals living outside the Immortal City to the rear of the Immortal City.

In the vast area between the Phoenix Clan’s territory and Yongtu Fairy City, there are countless mortals living.

Although it is determined that the Phoenix Clan will not tolerate the slaughter of mortals, they will definitely be affected if there is a war in the world of immortal cultivation. Although these mortals do not have strong power, they are the fire that continues the bloodline.

"This trip went very smoothly," Master Tongshen looked at Qin Sang, "The breeze follows me."

Qin Sang followed Master Tongshen into the hall, and he had a premonition in his heart, "Master, are we going to get the stone fetus fire?"

"Yes, the master has found out the location! Next time, when I have the opportunity to transfer the mortal's fortune, the master will take you to subdue it. How much have you understood about the chapter on the harmony of water and fire?" asked Master Tongshen.

“I have basically understood what Master taught me,” Qin Sang said.

Master Tongshen said hello and sighed, "It's a pity that the restriction left by the senior has merged with the stone fire and cannot be brought out. It must be refined on the spot. I should have waited until your cultivation level is higher, but I am worried that the Golden Eagle Clan will search the senior's cave and get clues about this fire. It's better to do it sooner rather than later, but you have to take some risks."

"I will never let Master down!"

Qin Sang had already comprehended the chapter on the harmony of water and fire countless times, and with the "Fire Golden Lotus" as a backup, he was naturally full of confidence. (End of this chapter)