Shi Feiyang said, "I'll provide the Queen Mother Grass, and I don't even want anything in return, not even the ointment made from it. I have always been interested in the art of alchemy, and I've long heard that the Xuduan Spirit Jade Paste from Wuding Island is uniquely effective. I've always wanted to see it for myself."
Zheng Yuan Gui felt annoyed in his heart but suppressed his anger, "The Xuduan Spirit Jade Paste is a secret teaching of our sect, shared only with direct disciples and no one else."
"In that case, there's nothing I can do," Shi Feiyang said. "That Queen Mother Grass of mine was not easy to obtain. I planned to use it for life-saving purposes during critical moments and cannot just give it away lightly."
Zheng Yuan Gui's face, already unsightly, now looked even worse as he glared at Shi Feiyang, his eyes revealing a fierce light, looking like he might unleash his Flying Sword to kill and seize the treasure at any second.
After holding back for a moment, he finally suppressed his rage, sneered three times at Shi Feiyang, and turned to leave.
Shi Feiyang was not afraid of him and turned back to retreat into the cave, closing the Stone Gate. "Is Xuduan Spirit Jade Paste really a secret of your sect? I find it hard to believe."
He passed through nine Stone Gates and arrived at the spherical training room, where he summoned the Cave Spirit Zither and started to play. Soon after, a devout voice from Xiankong Ancestor came through, "This junior, Lin You from the Lower Realm is here. What teachings does the True Immortal have?"
Using the Cave Spirit Zither, Shi Feiyang spoke, "Recently, I've been organizing Dan Recipes, many of which are ancient ones from thousands of years ago. Many of the ingredients no longer exist. I'd like to ask you, do you understand alchemy and drug-making?"
Xiankong Ancestor humbly replied, "A little bit, a little bit."
Shi Feiyang asked what medicine recipes he knew, and Xiankong Ancestor mentioned a few—Cold Cloud Pill, Two Extremes Pill, Poison Dragon Fragrance, including his most proud creation, the Millennium Xuduan Spirit Jade Paste.
Shi Feiyang asked how the Poison Dragon Fragrance was made. After listening, he said, "I also have a 'Heaven and Earth Harmony Fragrance'. Let me tell you about it."
The Heaven and Earth Harmony Fragrance was his own invention, which naturally Xiankong Ancestor had never heard of. After listening to its description, he was greatly surprised, "This fragrance requires the essence blood from demonic coupling of unique species of turtles and snakes; such ingredients are exceedingly rare. Even if one successfully makes it, how can ordinary people achieve a state with no desires in their hearts? With desires, using this fragrance would lead to their destruction. However, if one truly can maintain an undisturbed state of mind, using this fragrance in cultivation will greatly accelerate progress and yield tremendous benefits."
Shi Feiyang said, "This fragrance is intended for people with top-tier innate talents. Let alone those from minor schools, even many disciples from major Mysterious Sects can't use it."
Xiankong Ancestor regretfully said, "Indeed, only those of the highest caliber are suitable for its use!"
Shi Feiyang then asked him for the recipe of the Millennium Xuduan Paste, which he disclosed without reservation. Although this medicine's formula was precious, the most difficult part was acquiring the Millennium Rejuvenation Grass. In the entire Shushan World, only in the Immortal Mansion beneath Wuding Island could it be found, as nowhere else could the plants age enough.
For instance, in the Purple Cloud Palace of the South Sea, they only had thousand-year Rejuvenation Grass, which could barely manage reattaching severed limbs but the efficacy was much less.
As for the Bone Healing Golden Pill of Poison Dragon Venerable from the Western Demon Cult, it used century-old Rejuvenation Grass. Due to insufficient medical efficacy, many other Spiritual Medicines had to be added to the formula, the final medicinal effect was even worse than that of Purple Cloud Palace's, barely preserving the limb with substantial damage to vitality and Qi, and even then, the reattached limbs couldn't function normally.
After disconnecting from the Spirit Zither communication, Shi Feiyang, holding the recorded Dan Recipes, laughed, "This secret that wasn't to be shared has now fallen into my hands!"
He brought Mo Zhui, who carried the Queen Mother Grass, and asked for some of his saliva and blood.
Mo Zhui's saliva could stick severed limbs back together, and his blood could even bring the dead back to life. However, Shi Feiyang did not want to, every time someone's life was in danger, pull Mo Zhui out for bloodletting. Instead, he wanted to add some other medicines to produce more in one go—using the blood Mo Zhui provided, which could save one person, and after his sacrificial refinement, could save ten, thus sparing Mo Zhui from losing too much primordial qi in the future.
Mo Zhui was, in essence, a plant; limb damage or even a clean break across the waist were not fatal to him, and he did not feel much pain, but it would deplete his primordial qi.
Shi Feiyang conveyed his intentions to Mo Zhui, who, without hesitation, was ready to cut open his arm.
"Hold on! Hold on! Let me do some research first, figure out the recipe, and then you can proceed."
After some calculations, he created a recipe—its base was the Xiankong Ancestor's millennia-aged Xuduan Spirit Jade Paste. He didn't have the millennia-aged Rejuvenation Grass but did have the centennial version. Geng Peng's Qiankun Bag had numerous alchemy ingredients; he planned to perform experiments on limb reattachment between humans and beasts, so having the medication for it was essential. He had obtained a significant quantity of Rejuvenation Grass from Xiankong Ancestor—not the millennia-aged ones, but there was plenty of the centennial type.
In theory, the medicinal efficacy of just the centennial Rejuvenation Grass should have sufficed, but he added seventy other precious Spiritual Medicines and refined it with Dan Fire, brewing a full pot. While Mo Zhui stood by, every two hours he spat saliva into the pot—a whitish thick mist that upon hitting the pot, Shi Feiyang would add Dragon Saliva.
He continued to add Ice Spring Water nine times, then asked Mo Zhui for a cup of blood, pouring it into the mixture and began to intensify the fire to reduce the liquid.
Eventually, a white ointment was formed, filling the cave with a ghostly fragrance.
Inside Geng Peng's Qiankun Bag were many Jade Boxes; some contained various herbs, some sealed Demon Beast limbs, and there were quite a few empty ones. Shi Feiyang filled three large boxes with the ointment.
He named this ointment Queen Mother Dragon Saliva Ointment.
Having successfully created the Spiritual Medicine, he was overjoyed, while outside, Zheng Yuan Gui was still holding back his anger.
Zheng Yuan Gui did not want the Spirit Jade Paste; the Spiritual Medicines in the palace were always sealed off by Xiankong Ancestor's spells. He couldn't access the millennia-aged ones, let alone the centennial ones, and even if he had been given Spiritual Medicines, with his personality and strength, he would not have been able to refine them correctly.
He only wanted to get his hands on the fabled Queen Mother Grass, which could resurrect the dead.
Outside the island was a vast lake called the Heaven and Earth Harmony Sea, home to many strangely shaped and bizarre creatures. Because Zheng Yuan Gui was the second disciple of the Island Master, these creatures, having developed human-like traits, all knew to flatter him, wagging their tails in supplication for rewards.
Among them was a creature, a lecherous Sea Goat, born in the North Sea, grown in the North Sea. During the era when the Emei Sect's Dragon Slayer, Shen Xiu, began a massive slaughter of the Poison Dragon, it sneakedily consumed lots of dragon meat and blood and even swallowed a Dragon Ball, thus gaining spiritual awareness and the power to whip up storms.
It was an extremely lascivious creature, had grown tired of playing with the sea goats, and gradually shifted its interest to humans, giving itself a human name, Li Xin. It had practiced the art of illusion, capable of making people see him as a handsome young man. He seduced the daughter of the Old Man of the Golden Wind from the Iron Plow Mountain's Bottomless Cave, Li Yuyu.
The Old Man of the Golden Wind refused to let matters slide and swore to flay and debone him, grinding him to dust so that his body and soul were destroyed.
Unable to defeat the Old Man of the Golden Wind, nor the Old Man's son, the Scatter Flower Taoist, the lecherous Sea Goat could only flee. Like a headless fly, he ran around in desperation until he encountered Zheng Yuan Gui. Presenting him with a pair of kidneys from a five hundred-year-old Sea Otter Demon and various other pleas, Zheng Yuan Gui gave him guidance to travel through the Xuanming Realm to Wuding Island to seek discipleship. Along the way, Zheng cast spells in secret to assist him, helping him successfully become a disciple of Xiankong Ancestor.
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