Longevity begins with alchemy

Chapter 59 Spirit and Evil

At night, Su Yi held a pile of ancient books and was fascinated by them.

Originally, Su Yi was also ill and sought medical treatment in a hurry, hoping to find some information about "thunder-struck wood" in ancient books.

Four of the Five Elements Spiritual Materials have been found, but only the Fire Element Lightning Strike Wood didn't even have a shadow, which made Su Yi anxious.

If things were completely hopeless, then Su Yi would not be too anxious, but the situation where he was just one step away from the enemy would be the most torturous.

Su Yi flipped through the ancient books, not wanting to be discovered by him, although it wasn't about the lightning strike wood.

When I was looking through an ancient book called "Miscellaneous Essentials of Cultivation", there was this description: "Things can be divided into yin and yang, animals can be divided into male and female... Everything is not like this..."

This booklet written by an unknown author records some "conjectures" about cultivation. The above sentence is used to demonstrate the relationship between "spiritual energy and evil spirit".

"Aura" is the most important resource for cultivators here, equivalent to food for cultivators.

The evil spirit and the spiritual energy are born together. From the moment when the spiritual energy is generated in the world, the evil spirit has been generated.

The practice of a monk is to absorb spiritual energy into the body, while strengthening the physical body, mana, and soul, it also continuously strips off the evil energy in the body, and isolates the external evil energy so that it will no longer enter the monk's body.

In other words, practice is the process of continuously "purifying" the "dharma body".

Of course Su Yi doesn't care about theoretical knowledge such as spiritual energy and evil spirits. What he cares about is the next "case".

According to the guess of the anonymous author, what "Sword Pill" absorbs is actually the evil spirit in the world, because the spiritual energy is soft and not aggressive, and only the fierce energy such as evil spirit can be aggressive and is the so-called " Sword energy."

Based on these conjectures, Su Yi came up with a plan to negotiate terms with Old Willow.

As far as he knew, "spiritual" creatures did not have the assistance of martial arts when practicing. They only relied on absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon and practiced naturally through time.

The old willow tree is a spiritual creature, so it must also be troubled by evil spirits.

If the sword pill can absorb the evil spirit, then asking for the lightning strike wood from the old willow tree and then burying the refined sword pill into the willow tree is equivalent to helping it absorb the evil spirit in the body.

Then Su Yi thought that the evil spirit should be the main culprit that caused the thunder tribulation. It was precisely because too much evil spirit accumulated in the body that the thunder tribulation came.

Thinking about it this way, this is equivalent to helping the old willow tree, so it has no reason not to agree.

After figuring this out, Su Yi suddenly felt happy.

Now we just have to wait for the Su family of Jinfeng Valley to reply, and Zhongyuan Tu can be obtained. If we get the lightning strike wood again, we can immediately refine the Five Elements Sword Pills.

Just when Su Yi was feeling complacent, the expression on his face suddenly froze.

It was as if a basin of cold water had been poured on me for three to nine days, and I felt chilly from head to toe.

Because he suddenly thought that if the sword pill absorbed really "evil energy", then if he swallowed the sword pill in the future, wouldn't it be equivalent to actively attracting evil spirits into his body?

The original intention of practicing is to strip away the evil spirit in his body, but now he wants to attract evil spirit into his body, this is not self-destructive future!

Could this be the "huge disadvantage" that Mr. Shen mentioned before?

But Mr. Shen also said, "Swallowing the Five Elements Sword Pills can increase the probability of foundation building. What's going on?"

"How can the same thing develop in two opposite directions and ultimately reach completely opposite results?"

……

In an instant, countless questions surged into Su Yi's mind.He was not that smart and smart, and he knew too little about cultivation knowledge, so he couldn't help but fall into confusion for a while.

"Invite spirits and drive away evil spirits, lead evil spirits..."

Sleepless night!
In the early morning, Su Yi forced himself to temporarily put aside all his thoughts and began to practice the "Tianyan Dao Sutra."

He really wanted to go to Shen Mo right now, so that even if he couldn't get any answers, he could still talk and relieve his worries.

Every time Su Yi felt that he was good again, he would encounter new problems, making him realize his insignificance and letting him know that he was a rookie in cultivation.

But Su Yi also knew that he and Shen Mo were not close friends, so he couldn't go looking for them whenever he encountered a problem, at least not now. It was Shen Mo's working time in the morning, so it was inconvenient to disturb him.

Next, Su Yi practiced the Chang Geng Sword Technique and the Air Armor Shield Technique, and after lunch he also refined several batches of elixirs.

Although he had already refined the Foundation Establishment Pill, he never sent the finished pill to Liang Liping.

As a novice who is refining the second-level elixir for the first time, it is normal to fail several times, but it is abnormal to succeed once.

As for the fact that he revealed the Foundation Establishment Pill in front of the people of the Su family, Su Yi believed that this was a great benefit for the Su family, and they would not leak it at all.

By the time it was almost evening, Su Yiyue had finished touching Shen Mo. After all, he couldn't cope with what he was thinking, so he decided to go to Shenji Pavilion and ask Shen Mo what the connection was between the spiritual energy and the evil energy.

Arriving at Shenji Pavilion, Su Yi saw that Shen Mo was indeed done with his work and was drinking tea leisurely.

If Shen Mo is willing, he can work on his business from morning to night, after all, Shen Mo's skills are resting there.

It's just that Shen Mo is a relatively indifferent person and doesn't care much about business. His efforts in business are only five or six points.

Seeing Su Yi arrive, Shen Mo motioned him to sit down opposite and poured him fragrant tea.

Su Yi was upset and not in the mood to drink tea, but he still forced himself to drink a few cups to calm down.

After two cups of tea, Su Yi asked about the questions about spiritual energy and evil spirits.

"Mr. Shen, I have a question to ask. Cultivation is to introduce spiritual energy into the body to nourish oneself. Do you think this view is correct?"

Shen Mo seemed a little confused as to why Su Yi suddenly thought of asking this, but still nodded, "That's right. Why, are you confused?"

Su Yi said: "I was browsing ancient books recently and saw a description that it turns out that the sword pill absorbs the evil spirits of the world."

"In this way, swallowing sword pills is equivalent to attracting evil spirits into the body, which is naturally not conducive to practice. Is this what you said before, 'the great disadvantage of swallowing sword pills for practice?'"

After hearing this, Shen Mo pondered for a while, and then said: "I didn't know that Jianwan absorbed evil energy before, but if this statement is true, it is really a huge disadvantage!"

"It seems like you really have to think carefully about whether you really want to refine and swallow sword pills to practice."

Shen Mo said this with good intentions. Su Yi hadn't started refining it yet, so there would be no loss if he canceled the plan. For things that he was really unsure of, if he didn't do it, the result might be better than if he did it forcefully.

But Su Yi had a very stubborn temper and refused to give up, so he asked again: "Sir, this spiritual energy and evil energy are things that monks often mention, but they have never seen their true form, nor have they heard of it." People have explained why.”

"You are well-informed, but what explanation do you have for spiritual energy and evil spirits?"

Shen Mo said with a rare smile: "Spiritual energy and baleful energy are generated by the heavens and the earth, they have existed since ancient times, although they are invisible, they are everywhere, so how can there be other explanations."

"However, I have heard a story about spiritual energy and evil spirits. Why don't you tell it to you now?"

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