A Nuo fainted.
Actually, at that moment, the Yan Mo also almost fainted. To be honest, it was just a newborn demon, its spiritual intelligence probably hadn't even been born for less than a year. Its strength was also just so-so. Encountering A Nuo's completely unreasonable method of fighting to the death, it was tormented until it had only one breath left.
Lu Xingzhou angrily grabbed a pile of talismans and pasted them on it with a *pa pa pa* sound. Screams came from the crystal stone: "You humans are the demons! You're all sick!"
Demonic qi floated about, and a black shadow desperately tried to drill out.
Lu Xingzhou took out the half-destroyed Ten Thousand Souls Banner and with a *zhi liu* sound sucked the Yan Mo's soul inside: "I'll deal with you later!"
The air quieted down, leaving only a fire-red crystal stone in A Nuo's hand, tightly grasped and not letting go.
"Yan Huo Zhi Jing." Du Gu Qing Li's eyes were strange: "It's a congenital fire crystal of the same level as Ling Shui Ning Jing."
Lu Xingzhou knew why A Nuo was so desperate. A Nuo's medical knowledge was equally rich. She should have sensed at a glance that this thing had a high probability of being able to refine bones, and it was particularly suitable for his fire-attribute cultivation.
This child was clearly so afraid of fire... clearly so afraid of fire.
Lu Xingzhou silently took A Nuo's pulse to check her condition. His expression became a little strange, and he quickly took out pills and fed them to A Nuo.
A Nuo's little Daoist robe was burned to tatters, but the exposed skin was still crystal clear like snow, without even a hint of a burn. Her fainting at this moment was actually only due to exhaustion and overexertion, and in her overexerted state, she was scared into it by her fear of fire and fear of death...
She was probably scared out of her wits...
"This little thing..." Lu Xingzhou was both touched and amused. He hugged A Nuo in his arms and said in a low voice: "Let's go back."
All three of them looked up. Although they had fallen from here, they couldn't see how to get out from here. At this moment, they had no desire to carefully check. They just walked through the pool water. Lu Xingzhou's wheelchair still had a water avoidance cover...
...
The first snow finally began to flutter.
Lu Xingzhou sat by the pool behind the house, quietly watching the snowflakes fall, fall into the pool, and melt away.
It had been two days since they returned. Lu Xingzhou's divine soul wound had healed after a night's sleep. A Nuo was still sleeping from exhaustion.
Shen Tang had climbed out from that side after finding another wheelchair and returned to Dan Xia Mountain looking somewhat disheveled.
Jin Mingxiu had followed them on the adventure and was "unfortunately sacrificed." She still needed to give a proper explanation to her disciples. After all, Jin Mingxiu, on the surface, had no problems and still had certain prestige in the hearts of the disciples of Tian Xing Sword Sect.
However, both Shen Tang herself and Du Gu Qing Li had sustained serious injuries, which showed that the battle situation was very intense and relatively easy to explain.
Du Gu Qing Li naturally went to protect the injured Shen Tang. That was the first instruction of the human-machine little white hair. So the lively adventure team was again left with only Lu Xingzhou.
He also had no heart to manage those things. He was currently pondering this time's harvest.
The harvest was too great.
These two condensed crystals of water and fire could indeed be used to refine bones. Among them, the Ling Shui Ning Jing was even quite close in shape and size and only needed a slight sacrificial refinement and carving. The Yan Huo Zhi Jing was a block of rhombic crystal stone and needed another sacrificial refinement to change its shape.
The grades of the two treasures were quite high, and they seemed to be able to solve the problems of both legs, but "water and fire are incompatible."
Theoretically, such attributes were very difficult to gather in one person's body and would cause a big conflict. It was safer to choose only one.
But Lu Xingzhou felt there was still an opportunity.
Because this secret realm was fundamentally the image of both water and fire aiding each other. The terrain was like this, the secret realm was like this, the alchemy arrangement was like this... then the essence obtained from it? Could it just be conflicting?
Could it not be refined together and still achieve both water and fire aiding each other?
Generally, this was impossible, but since the original owner of this cave mansion could refine pills with this, referencing his things could mostly lead to gains.
Lu Xingzhou took out a jade slip.
The jade slips on that bookshelf were mostly alchemy records and insights, and there were also quite a few pill formulas, all of which were of high grade. These needed to be slowly digested later. There was only one related to cultivation methods, named Yin Yang Ji Yi Gong.
The original owner's embracing the dragon and tiger, harmonizing yin and yang, and both water and fire aiding each other, all could find reference from this cultivation method. This was the core idea of this cultivation method.
But this cultivation method was incomplete. It only had a general outline and a martial scripture.
Yes, the original owner, such a typical Daoist cultivator, a typical alchemist, had a martial scripture as reference material.
This was definitely not the original owner's inheritance. He fundamentally did not plan for anything after death in his own cave mansion, and there was no reason to leave an inheritance for no reason. It could only be that he obtained it from somewhere else and studied it day and night, so he put it on the shelf and often recorded alchemy notes together. Both belonged to the kind of things that were always reviewed and pondered.
And he probably began the subsequent series of operations after obtaining this cultivation method as a reference.
Theoretically, this cultivation method, which emphasized yin and yang, should be a treasure canon for Daoist cultivators, or rather, the dual cultivation of Dao and martial arts itself was the embodiment of yin, but here it was only part of the martial scripture, obviously missing.
Even if it was missing the most essential parts, it was still a proper super-grade cultivation method and would not be inferior to Huang Ji Jing Shi Jing.
So, to simultaneously use the two treasures of water and fire to refine bones, the premise was to first practice this Yin Yang Ji Yi Gong. Only then could water and fire be simultaneously taken care of without conflict. Conversely, after the two treasures successfully refined bones, they could also promote the cultivation of Yin Yang Ji Yi Gong, complementing each other.
Lu Xingzhou's martial arts cultivation on his body was no longer his own family tradition cultivation method. It was also obtained from Yan Luo Hall and was very biased towards assassination and scheming, such as bone-attaching nails... At this time, he did not hesitate and directly scattered his cultivation, without any pity.
Scattering cultivation caused some damage to the meridians and dantian. If one's cultivation was high, scattering cultivation might lead to being crippled. But Lu Xingzhou's mere seventh-grade cultivation had not reached that extent. He felt some minor damage to his meridians and dantian and quickly took a pill to fully recover.
Subsequently, without stopping, he directly followed the instructions of the cultivation method, leading the yin and yang qi of heaven and earth to form his own universe's extreme.
In this Dragon Tiger Mountain, where yin and yang embraced, the advantages were God-given.
Not long after, he felt the yin and yang qi generate from his dantian and rapidly grow and expand. Following the cultivation method's route, he operated several large cycles, and his true qi was surging, directly reaching the edge of the ninth grade.
Although scattering cultivation had drawbacks, the benefits were equally obvious, which was that he had very sufficient experience in cultivation and breakthroughs.
Lu Xingzhou didn't even think. His hands virtually embraced, encircling the taiji. The two qi in his dantian suddenly rotated, gradually changing from invisible gas to observable thin fog.
Visible virtual qi, the mark of qi entry in martial cultivation, that was the ninth grade.
Lu Xingzhou opened his eyes. The quality of this mere ninth-grade true qi already felt no worse than the previous seventh-grade true qi...
He tried to wave a fist towards the rock edge of the pool. Wherever the fist wind passed, the rock surged and was hit out a shallow pit.
This was just the special initial ninth grade... just the fist wind could reach this degree! He didn't even dare to think about this before. A super-grade cultivation method was indeed a super-grade cultivation method. No wonder Shen Tang fought against opponents of the same level as if patting a little friend, like playing.
Internally, he experienced the yin and yang qi within his body. The qi that was mixed and difficult to distinguish before could now be clearly distinguished into yin and yang, but they intersected and spiraled, somewhat like a DNA chain, spreading to every part of his body.
If the water and fire double crystals were refined into legs, the energy would correspond and could also be distinguished yet unified according to this.
"Master." A Nuo's voice came from behind.
Lu Xingzhou turned his head and saw A Nuo rubbing her sleepy eyes, walking to the edge of the door with a *pudong pudong* sound: "Master, why do I feel your aura has changed a little..."
"Tsk, sensitive little child." Lu Xingzhou turned his wheelchair and opened his arms with a smile: "Give Master a hug."
A Nuo ran over with a smile and directly jumped into Lu Xingzhou's arms with a "ton" sound.
"Hey, be gentle. You're so heavy crashing over, the wheelchair will slide into the pool..."
"Master, you didn't feed me immortal pills again, did you... I clearly felt like I was almost dead. Why am I fine after a night's sleep? Shouldn't I be a black and mushy lump like a roasted sweet potato..."
"..." Lu Xingzhou held her face: "You were originally a roasted sweet potato. Let Master take a brush and brush you white again."
A Nuo scratched her head.
"Don't be like this in the future." Lu Xingzhou pinched her face seriously: "Master doesn't need you to be very powerful and helpful. Master only hopes you are well."
"Not afraid!" A Nuo pinched her little fist: "If it weren't for my fear of fire, I would have beaten it to death with a different attribute. It was just a small demon head..."
Lu Xingzhou said: "Have you ever thought that you are not afraid of fire at all? Although you are wood attribute and are indeed restrained by fire, we have seen wood attribute cultivators, and none of them are afraid of fire like this."
"Ah?"
"Facts prove that this time's Yan Mo couldn't burn you at all, not even scorching your skin."
A Nuo's eyes became like fighting cocks. She herself couldn't understand.
It was clearly an innate fear, how could it not burn?
If she couldn't understand, she just wouldn't think. A Nuo's eyes were bright and clear: "That block of Yan Huo Zhi Jing, is it useful?"
"Yes." Lu Xingzhou rubbed her face: "Refining bones and refining pills have a certain degree of similarity... these two condensed crystals are the main materials. I still need to add some other auxiliary materials, which are relatively simple. I have already let Shen Tang go find them. When the materials are complete, we will start refining."
A Nuo hesitated: "Is your seventh-grade flame enough?"
"My flame is not enough, but the place where you jumped down and got burned is enough. Even the Dragon Tiger Immortal Pill can be refined there, let alone this little thing."
A Nuo grumbled: "That fire couldn't even burn me to death, is it really useful?"
Lu Xingzhou looked at her again, his eyes also showing some contemplation.
Granted, there were factors of the fire avoidance talismans. Those fire avoidance talismans were not self-made. A Nuo had casually taken them from Yan Luo Hall before, and their grade was very high. After the fire avoidance talismans were destroyed, A Nuo just jumped out and faced only the small Yan Mo's fire, which was not comparable.
But even so, being able to stay at the bottom for so long was still very absurd. That heat wave was not something normal cultivators could endure. If it were him, Lu Xingzhou, he was afraid he couldn't stay for a second.
A Nuo said again: "And ah, that Yan Huo Zhi Jing has been in there for a long time and hasn't been burned and melted. Can you change its shape by burning it now?"
Lu Xingzhou impatiently knocked her on the head: "What do you think I let Shen Tang go collect auxiliary materials for? They are things used to melt various high-grade minerals when refining flying swords! This is a sword sect!"
A Nuo hugged her head, her eyes still bright and clear, full of joy.
It wasn't that she truly couldn't think of these things. It was just that her Master's lifelong wish was about to be fulfilled, and she empathized with the gains and losses.
After all, what her Master had sought for ten years was also her A Nuo's ten years.
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PS: The person in the wheelchair is about to take off, asking for a monthly ticket~
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