Lord of Time: From a Five Elements Cultivator to a Master of All Daos

Chapter 142: Cultivating Infants
The two brothers felt heartbroken whenever they thought of the spiritual herbs they had spent in exchange for the elixir from Tie Zhen.

After this trip, the two had a deeper understanding of the preciousness of the elixir.

Especially the two thousand-year-old elixirs that were paid for, which were completely out of stock in Luohe Prefecture and nearby prefectures.

No one would exchange it for Haoyuan Dan, a kind of elixir used for forming elixir. Even the top-grade Haoyuan Dan is far from enough.

Moreover, they had heard from Song Linfang before that using the ten thousand year old elixir to ask the Nascent Soul cultivator to take action made them regret it even more.

If you can ask a Nascent Soul cultivator to help you, maybe you can exchange it for some fourth-tier elixirs related to Condensing Infant.

There is a supreme being at the peak of Jindan stage in the sect, which means he has consumed an opportunity to form Infant Condensation.

How could this not make them sad!
But unfortunately, the Qingmu Sect was running out of spiritual medicine at that time, and needed to practice elixirs to supplement it.

In addition, with external enemies approaching, there was an urgent need to improve the sect's strength. Using spiritual medicine to exchange for elixirs from Tie Zhen was really a helpless act.

This created this situation.

What’s funny is that the two brothers were comparing Wei Zhong with “Tie Zhen”, but they had no idea that they were actually the same person.

Wei Zhong on Qingbo Island was suspended on the top of the formation, his figure obscured by a cloud of mist.

Just now when the two people from Qingmu Sect were taking the elixir, Wei Zhong was observing from the sky.

This is the first time that Wei Zhong has handed this precious elixir to his subordinates. How could he be completely at ease? He needs to keep an eye on it.

Seeing the two people leave, he narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment.

Then he looked at Hu Jinchuan below. He was still a little timid in front of a Jindan cultivator. In addition, the transaction time was too short, and it was difficult to tell whether he could take on such a big task.

But there is still plenty of time and opportunities in the future.

Qingbo Island not only produces third-level elixirs, but also a lot of commonly used second-level elixirs, and their quality is excellent, so they are sought after by individual cultivators and family sects.

This kind of elixir trading happens from time to time.

There are plenty of opportunities for Hu Jinchuan to hone his skills.

In the pavilion below, Hu Jinchuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the two leave.

"Is this matter completed?"

Although he did not hear the island owner's voice, when the nine-colored dragon on his shoulder flew up into the clouds in the sky, Hu Jinchuan probably knew that the matter was over.

He got up and returned to his residence.

Now that he has been entrusted with the important task of being the island master, his strength in the late stage of Qi Refining is no longer enough, and he needs to improve his own cultivation.

When Wei Zhong saw Jiucai flying closer and landing on his shoulder, he also threw a spiritual food pill as a reward.

He rubbed the bird's head and murmured:
"From now on, you and this kid will sell pills for me!"

After saying this, without waiting for his response, Wei Zhong used the cloud-flying technique to escape back to the retreat room in Yunqing Courtyard. He then took another step forward and returned to the cave.

Spiritual stones and elixirs are all external things; only cultivation is the real skill.

This retreat lasted for twelve years in a flash.

Wei Zhong came back to his senses, looked at the cultivation level on the panel, and smiled with satisfaction.

"Finally reached the middle stage of Jindan!"

[Cultivation: Middle stage of Jindan (fourth level, 1%)]

It has only been thirty-eight years since Wei Zhong reached the Jindan stage, and he has grown from a rookie at the beginning of the Jindan stage to a cultivator in the middle stage of the Jindan stage.

With such a speed of cultivation, he would definitely be a leader among those Nascent Soul sects.

"If a top-grade spiritual root is so terrifying, how fast will the cultivation be if it is an earthly spiritual root?"

"Unfortunately, forging earth spirit roots is not an easy task."

During these twelve years, Wei Zhong had his spiritual roots recast twice, but unfortunately the results were minimal.

I can sense that I am getting closer and closer to the Earth Spiritual Root, but there is still a distance, and it will take time to get there."

"It is impossible to succeed in the earth spirit root matter in the short term. We still have to focus on cultivation."

Entering the middle stage of Jindan, Wei Zhong has vaguely felt that the improvement of his cultivation has slowed down. By the time he enters the late stage of Jindan, it will take much more than the thirty-eight years he has spent this time.

What is needed is a longer period of time.

"There are three stages in the Jindan realm, each one is more difficult than the last. It is rare to hear of someone stuck in the early stages of the Jindan realm, most of them are stuck in the middle or late stages, unable to practice, and eventually their lifespan runs out.

This is enough to show how difficult it is to make progress in the next two realms.

But even if it is difficult, I am probably much faster than the average person. This is the confidence brought by the superior spiritual roots and abundant resources. "

After coming out of seclusion, Wei Zhong accepted the news brought by the past twelve years.

The Zhigang Palace has developed rapidly, and has shown signs of surpassing the Jinguan Pavilion to become the number one sect in Luohe Prefecture, attracting many independent cultivators to join it.

All of this is thanks to the relationship that Zhigang Palace has established with the Wang family, and it is already a Jindan sect with a Nascent Soul background.

Of course, what is more important is the news circulating among the people that Song Linfang is about to condense a baby.

When a Nascent Soul is born from a Jindan sect, it goes without saying how much benefit the sect from which he came will gain.

Many people want to get a piece of the pie.

But Wei Zhong just watched coldly and had no intention of getting involved.

It is still unclear whether Song Linfang has successfully condensed her infant. She has not started to condense her infant for more than ten years. Perhaps she is not confident enough and is still accumulating resources.

Success is easy to say. The Zhigang Palace has transformed into a Yuanying sect and is booming.

The entire sect can enjoy the protection of the Nascent Soul for nearly six or seven hundred years, and their status will change greatly compared to before.

But if it doesn't work,
I'm afraid that the Zhigang Palace will continue to weaken. Without a cultivator in the late Jindan stage to suppress it, how can it compete with the Jinguang Pavilion?

Just relying on the few elders in the palace who are in the early and middle stages of Jindan?
Wei Zhong shook his head in his heart. This Zhigang Palace was completely supported by Song Linfang. If she was not careful, the sect would be in danger of destruction.

"Within ten years, Luohe Prefecture will undergo major changes."

Wei Zhong thought so in his heart.

When he was leaving the retreat, the formation happened to be touched by someone.

Wei Zhong used his spiritual sense to explore and see the person who was touched. He first concealed the fluctuations of his own cultivation level, and then slowly opened the formation.

A figure flew over, revealing the figure of an old man with white eyebrows.

"Fellow Daoist Yan, are you here to take the last share of the elixir? It just so happens that I have a furnace of fourth-grade elixir in my hand."

The visitor was none other than Yan Wanhong, an elder with the surname Yan and a late Jindan stage cultivator under Shan Qin.

Wei Zhong had met the other party once before, on the spirit boat that came to Luohe Mansion, and they had not seen each other for nearly a hundred years.

It was not until the transaction of the fourth-grade elixir was reached with Shan Qin that the other party sent him to be responsible for the elixir transportation task.

In the past few years, Wei Zhong delivered two batches of fourth-level elixirs, including the Blood Ginseng Pill and the Earth Profound Pill that Wei Zhong was most proficient in making, totaling thirteen pills.

Now Wei Zhong only needs to return seven fourth-level elixirs to end the original elixir agreement.

Yan Wanhong cupped his hands:
"That's right. The young lady is very satisfied with the elixir provided by Master Wei. Even Master Jie in the pavilion is amazed."

Now Wei Zhong already knows the source of the alchemy inheritance in his hands, and that is the Master Jie he mentioned.

Wei Zhong later learned that this person was a legendary figure in the Yunji Chamber of Commerce. Not only was he a fourth-level alchemy master who had refined top-grade elixirs several times, but he was also a great cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage. If he had not been obsessed with alchemy, he would have most likely gotten a glimpse of the realm of incarnation.

Unfortunately, as time goes by, the opponent is now nearing the end of his life, and the news of his impending death is circulating throughout the Yunji Chamber of Commerce.

The passing of such people will always be regrettable.

Wei Zhong chatted with him for a while and then took out the elixir he had prepared.

There are seven jade bottles in total, each containing seven elixirs.

Among them are three Blood Ginseng Pills and three Earth Profound Pills, as for the last one.

Yan Wanhong picked up the pill bottles and examined them one by one. When he saw the last pill, he uttered a voice of surprise:
"Is this true?"

Wei Zhong then smiled and replied: "It is the Peiying Pill."

Yan Wanhong made a hissing sound and almost pulled out the white beard on his chin.

My heart is like a rolling wave:

'When I first met Wei Zhong, he was just a small foundation-building cultivator. I had never heard that he was proficient in the art of alchemy.

But a hundred years later, the other party not only made rapid progress in this area, but also became a fourth-level alchemist in one fell swoop.

In just twenty years, he was able to progress from Blood Ginseng Pill to Infant-Nourishing Pill, a precious fourth-level spiritual elixir for cultivation.

It's really shocking!'

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, fellow Daoist. I've refined the elixir several times, but I only made this one infant-nourishing elixir. I'm really unworthy of the inheritance that Senior Jie gave me."

Yan Wanhong didn't know what to say.

Wei Zhong, who is able to refine the elixir Peiying Dan, can be said to be on par with the Yuanying masters in the meeting and has an extraordinary status.

It is difficult to make progress in the Jindan stage, and the same is true for the Yuanying stage.

The Peiying Pill is extremely precious among the fourth-level pills.

"Fellow Daoist Wei is too modest. If Miss and Senior Jie knew about this, I wonder how surprised they would be."

Wei Zhong just smiled and didn't say anything more.

Finally, Yan Wanhong finished checking all the fourth-level elixirs, said goodbye to Wei Zhong and left.

The other party was eager to take the elixir back to the Chamber of Commerce, and even declined Wei Zhong's tea invitation.

Wei Zhong watched the other party leave, but in his heart he was thinking about what kind of turmoil the news that he had refined the infant-nourishing elixir would cause in the Chamber of Commerce.

“Now that my cultivation has improved, I should show off more of my alchemy skills.

A fourth-level alchemist who can only refine healing pills and a fourth-level alchemist who can refine elixirs for spiritual practice, but the quantity is different!

If I reveal my Nurturing Pill, I can make the Yunji Chamber of Commerce think carefully about my cultivation, and maybe I can get myself a chance to become a Nascent Soul."

Wei Zhong thought so in his heart.

As for the crisis caused by exposure?
Wei Zhong is currently in the middle stage of the Jindan realm, and with the blessing of the [Taoism of Time], he is comparable to the middle stage of the Yuanying realm. As long as the Yuanying masters of the major forces do not come out, Wei Zhong will not be afraid of any enemy in secret.

"It's not a big problem to expose your alchemy skills, and you can even use it as an explanation of your natural talent. But you have to keep your cultivation level well hidden, because there aren't many people who can cross the early stages of the Dan formation in less than forty years."

Wei Zhong's mind was in turmoil, and he concealed his own cultivation level. Then he nodded with satisfaction and turned around to return to the cave.

Yunzhou City is home to many chambers of commerce.

Yan Wanhong did not dare to delay, and drove the spirit boat back for several days, and then asked to see Shan Qin as soon as possible.

When the elixir in his hand was shown in front of him, the latter was also surprised. After asking Yan Wanhong not to disclose the matter, he took the elixir and went to a pavilion.

"Grandpa Jie!"

Shan Qin knocked on the door and spoke softly.

The door slowly opened, revealing an old figure lying on a rocking chair.

"Shan girl, are you in trouble again?

In recent days, you have been coming to my place more frequently than your father has."

"Grandpa Jie, you're joking. My father was just busy with the Chamber of Commerce affairs, so he was delayed. Qin'er will definitely ask my father to visit Grandpa Jie some other day."

"Haha, don't worry about your old father. Tell me what you want to see me about this time?"

Shan Qin quickly presented the infant-cultivating pill in her hand:

"Grandpa Jie, please look."

The latter controlled his spiritual power to take the elixir in his hand, opened his eyes and examined it carefully, looking at the dark yellow elixir and said casually:
"A fourth-level infant cultivation pill, of average quality, nothing special about it."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Shan Qin in confusion, indicating that she should continue speaking if she had anything else to say.

Shan Qin continued:
"Grandpa Jie, this pill was made by Wei Zhong."

Xie Yuanrui's heart sank and his eyes suddenly narrowed. The powerful Nascent Soul pressure spread throughout the entire hall, making Shan Qin in front of him feel like she was drowning in the deep sea, unable to breathe.

But it only lasted for a moment before slowly dissipating.

The old body regained its former weakness.

"I'm old, really old!"

Xie Yuanrui sighed repeatedly:
"Wei Zhong's talent in alchemy may even be better than mine. What a pity, what a pity!"

He shook his head slowly, leaving Shan Qin confused.

"Is Grandpa Jie regretting that he was not able to accept Wei Zhong as his disciple?"

Xie Yuanrui felt more than just regret about this matter.

In his opinion, although Wei Zhong has an excellent talent in alchemy, his cultivation is far from enough. He has only entered the stage of Jindan for a few decades and is still a long way from the stage of Nascent Soul.

Moreover, Jie Yuanrui knew that the higher the level of the art of alchemy, the more difficult it would be to improve, just like cultivation. If one wanted to improve beyond that, it would require a huge amount of energy and time, which would inevitably affect one's own cultivation.

"I have been stuck in the fourth-level alchemy technique for hundreds of years. How much time will it take for Wei Zhong to do it?"

Xie Yuanrui knew at a glance that Wei Zhong's future was bleak.

'What's more, he is only at the Jindan stage, far from having the long life span of the Yuanying. If he continues to indulge in the Dao of Alchemy, not only will his cultivation level improve slowly, but he will also be hopeless in the Dao of Alchemy.'

Xie Yuanrui looked up at Shan Qin and returned the elixir in his hand to her:

"Wei Zhong can become the pillar of the Yunji Chamber of Commerce after I leave. If your family is generous enough, don't be stingy in investing in him."

Hearing this, Shan Qin was frightened for a moment:

"Grandpa Jie, you?"

The latter showed some relief:
"Haha, I'm getting old. I have no hope of becoming a god and I'm going to die. I estimate that the time will be soon."

Shan Qin's face showed some panic.

Xie Yuanrui had lived in this building for decades, causing everyone in the Chamber of Commerce to believe that he would be able to hold on for another year or so.

But how could Shan Qin have imagined that she would actually hear the words from his mouth as he was about to die.

(End of this chapter)