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

Chapter 143 Teaching the Dharma
"Grandpa Jie is about to die."

Shan Qin left the dark pavilion with a heavy heart, feeling an uncontrollable panic in her heart.

You should know that the other party is not just a fourth-rank alchemist, but also one of the great Nascent Soul cultivators gathered in the Chamber of Commerce and a pillar of the entire Chamber of Commerce.

Outsiders thought that he could still hold on for a few years, but Shan Qin knew that he was about to die.

Regardless of their identity, their passing is enough to cause a major earthquake.

After leaving, Shan Qin went straight to find his father, Shan Gu, the president of Yunji Chamber of Commerce.

After informing the other party of the details, the latter sighed repeatedly with a hint of regret in his eyes.

"Leave this matter to us!"

After leaving these words, Shan Gu disappeared from the spot, leaving Shan Qin alone, distracted.

A young monk appeared in the dim pavilion.

He was tall and thin, wearing a wide black robe that looked as standard as if it were hanging on a clothesline.

The light from the sky that fell through the well illuminated his face.

His face was fair and elegant, like a teacher in an ordinary private school.

"Brother Shan is here?"

Jie Yuanrui, who was sitting on the rocking chair, opened his eyes and looked at the young Taoist in front of him.

There was a moment of trance in his eyes, as if he had returned to hundreds of years ago when the other person was standing in front of him and talking to him.

"Qin'er was looking for me, so she came to see Brother Jie,"

Shan Gu stared at the other person's old face, with infinite emotion on his face.
"Brother is really going to die?"

Xie Yuanrui was not at all angry at Shan Gu's blunt statement about death. The relationship between the two no longer required such euphemistic words.

"Yes."

"About when?"

"at any time."

"Does Brother Jie have any unfulfilled wishes?"

"No."

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"Brother, how are you going to spend the next period of time?"

After hearing this, Xie Yuanrui fell into silence for a moment, then raised his head and replied:

"I plan to go out for some traveling and visit the alchemist named Wei Zhong."

The other party is about to die, so there is no need to talk about traveling. It is likely that once he leaves this time, he will never come back. Shan Gu knows this very well.

"Does Wei Zhong really have such potential?"

"Of course, the other party is very young, even younger than you and I were when we started the rebellion."

A hint of reminiscence appeared in Xie Yuanrui's eyes.

Wei Zhong, who was practicing far away at the moment, would never have thought that someone would use his youth as one of his advantages.

Since his rebirth, Wei Zhong has been mingling among cultivators in the image of an elderly cultivator, whether it was the Yan family, the Qingmu Sect, or even the subsequent Luohe Mansion.

The image Wei Zhong showed to the outside world was that of an old cultivator who had lived for many years, but now he had a young appearance. However, the wandering cultivators outside all knew that Wei Zhong was a well-deserved old man among the cultivators who had achieved the foundation-building stage and the Jindan stage.

However, Xie Yuanrui thought Wei Zhong was young.

“He has only entered the Jindan realm for less than forty years, and he has already refined a fourth-level elixir, a full hundred years earlier than I did.

Taking into account the other person's life span, he is about three hundred years old, and can live for at least two hundred years. Compared to the two of us old guys, how can he not be considered young?"

Shan Gu, who was present, was over 800 years old, while Jie Yuanrui had lived for over 1,000 years.

In the eyes of the Nascent Soul cultivators, Wei Zhong's age of around 300 years old is indeed young.

Hearing Xie Yuanrui comparing the ages of Wei Zhong and his two Nascent Soul cultivators, Shan Gu couldn't help but frowned:
"How can this person who has just formed a Dan be compared to us Yuanying? I heard from Qin'er that his aptitude is ordinary, and it is very difficult for him to form a Dan, let alone the later Ningying?"

“Haha, it’s just cultivation, you’re still worried that a fourth-level alchemist can’t make it up with pills.

The only problem is breaking through the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul stage. In this regard, don’t you have any targeted treasures in your treasure house?"

Hearing that the other party was plotting against him, Shan Gu's brows furrowed even deeper:

"This person has no intention of returning to our Yunji Chamber of Commerce. I'm afraid he can't bear this opportunity."

"Dan Gu, Dan Gu, you are still as rigid as you were hundreds of years ago.

If you don't choose him, do you think there is any other alchemist in the Chamber of Commerce who is worthy of this opportunity?"

Shan Gu was silent for a moment, then replied:

"I think Du Yun is pretty good."

Xie Yuanrui laughed:
"I don't know about the son of that old man Du Longfeng? It took him more than four hundred years to get to the middle stage of Jindan, and his alchemy skills are only at the third level.

It is not certain that one top-grade pill can be produced each time one is refined, which is far from Wei Zhong's 40% top-grade pill.

How can one be qualified to have such an opportunity?
Regardless of other skills, I have absolute authority in alchemy, and Du Yun is absolutely no match for Wei Zhong."

"Brother Jie, are you so sure? Have you ever suspected that this person is deceiving you?"

"Hmph," Xie Yuanrui uttered an unhappy groan.

"Don't judge the skills of alchemists like us with your amateur eyes. From the elixirs I have seen, Wei Zhong's level is only higher than mine, maybe even higher than what he described."

"So, brother, do you think that Wei Zhong is still hiding his strength?"

Xie Yuanrui nodded: "That's probably it."

Until this moment, there was finally a hint of strangeness in Shan Gu's eyes.

"When you and I were independent cultivators, we liked to hide our skills when we did things. It's normal for Wei Zhong, who was an independent cultivator, to hide his shortcomings.

But the talent that the other party revealed is enough to surpass 99% of the alchemy masters."

After thinking for a long time, Shan Gu finally said:
"Brother, are you planning to accept him as your last disciple?"

Xie Yuanrui was trying to gain opportunities for Wei Zhong in this way, and Shan Gu couldn't help but guess so.

"I have some ideas, but considering Wei Zhong's casual personality, I'm afraid he might not be willing to do so."

Xie Yuanrui recalled Shan Qin's description of Wei Zhong and couldn't help but sigh:

"I am an old man who is about to be buried. How can I be qualified to accept such a talented person?

I don’t know when I will die, and I won’t be able to fulfill my duty as a teacher!”

"Brother Jie, you might as well go and persuade him. Otherwise, he doesn't have the status of a disciple, and as the leader of the association, it will be inconvenient for me to explain to the elders in the association."

"Humph, when did Yunji Chamber of Commerce start ranking people based on seniority?

If you hadn't been soft-hearted these years, those old guys wouldn't have been able to get so far.

In my opinion, those people should have been exiled to other prefectures and excluded from the core of the Chamber of Commerce. They are just relying on their seniority to bully others."

The scolding immediately made Shan Gu ashamed.

"After all, they are all fellow Taoists who have laid this foundation together with us."

"Oh, fellow Taoist, only those who are on the same path are friends. Since the other party has developed a different mind, then he is no longer a fellow Taoist, let alone a friend.

I have made up my mind about Wei Zhong's matter, so there is no need to discuss it further. Don't I have to decide who will get the opportunity with my status?"

"Brother Xie has the power," Shan Gu's expression froze, "Forget it, let's do everything according to your wishes." Xie Yuanrui nodded in satisfaction and said:

"Give me a copy of the Divine Attraction Technique that Shan Yatou got from that secret realm."

"This," Shan Gu sighed and took out a jade slip.

The other person is dying, so naturally he is not asking for it for himself.

After reading the jade slip, Xie Yuanrui added:
"Where is the method of refining the spirit engraved in it? Don't try to fool me with such a half-baked thing."

Shan Gu hesitated for a moment and said:
"That soul-refining technique has many drawbacks, and it may hinder cultivation..."

But before he could finish his words, Xie Yuanrui interrupted:
"The extent of the drawbacks should be determined by themselves, so there is no need for us to say more."

Only then did Shan Gu fill in this part of the secret method.

After Xie Yuanrui confirmed that everything was correct, he stood up from the rocking chair, stretched his body, waved his sleeves, and yawned with satisfaction.

Then he looked at the young Taoist in front of him and said, "Brother Shan, let's say goodbye now."

As he spoke, he patted his shoulder, and without waiting for his reply, he stepped out of the pavilion and turned into a green light and disappeared into the distance.

Shan Gu was left alone, standing beside the bamboo rocking chair, watching it rocking, lost in thought...
Qingbo Island,
Wei Zhong was checking the spiritual works on the island among the spiritual fields. Looking at the spiritual plants thriving in them, he nodded with satisfaction.

Arriving at the pavilion on the edge of the cliff, Wei Zhong took out some spiritual wine and tea, and drank leisurely while watching the huge waves on the edge of the cliff.

Jiucai would take various spiritual fruits from the river from time to time and catch several kinds of spiritual fish.

Wei Zhong accepted it with satisfaction and gave it a spiritual food pill as a reward. He then lit up a golden flame and began to roast the spiritual fish.

Suddenly, the formation token on his waist flashed slightly, causing Wei Zhong's expression to change suddenly.

He raised his head and looked forward, and saw a white-haired old man standing in front of his desk.

"You seem to be living a comfortable life," he said, then sat down as if he was familiar with the place, grabbed the spirit fish that Wei Zhong had just grilled, and started to enjoy it with big mouthfuls.

Wei Zhong looked at the scene in astonishment, cupping his hands:
"I don't know, senior?"

The formation token just fluctuated, proving that the person here has a very high level of cultivation, at least a master in the middle or late Nascent Soul stage.

Wei Zhong asked himself if he had ever offended such a high-level cultivator, so how could such a master come to him for no reason?
The person in front of him did not rush to answer, and only wiped his mouth after he had eaten the entire spirit fish:
"Good roast."

Then he pursed his fingers without caring about his image:

"By the way, my last name is Xie."

Wei Zhong was slightly stunned when he heard this:
"Could it be Master Jie Yuanrui from the Yunji Chamber of Commerce?"

"You keep calling me by my name, you are disrespectful to me." Although it was a rebuke, there was no trace of blame in his words.
"Just call me Jie Lao."

Then he grabbed another roasted spirit fish and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Greetings, Master Jie. Do you have any important business to visit my island?"

The other party tasted a bite of the fish, then put it down, waved his sleeves and threw out two jade slips.

When Wei Zhong was still doubting, the other party had already handed the jade slip to him.

Knowing the meaning, Wei Zhong probed with his spiritual sense and became even more confused after checking.

In the jade slip is a set of skills called "Shenyin Jue", which is divided into two parts: controlling puppets and refining the spirit.

The puppet control part describes in detail all the methods of refining puppets from the first to the fifth level, as well as various ways to control puppets.

The other part of refining the spirit was a mantra of no more than a hundred words. When Wei Zhong checked it with his spiritual sense, he did not notice anything unusual.

But as he silently recited the contents in his mind, an inexplicable sense of panic suddenly arose within his consciousness.

He struggled to break free, sweat already on his forehead.

Looking up at the old man in front of him, he had already cooked several spirit fishes, and then he slowly said:
"These two are matching secret methods, obtained from a secret place in Luohe Prefecture here."

"Could it be the place that the Chamber of Commerce and several other Nascent Soul forces jointly developed over the past decade?"

Xie Yuanrui nodded: "This secret method is for you."

Wei Zhong frowned, unable to understand why this secret technique had fallen into his hands.

"Why me?"

“I am very optimistic about your alchemy skills. I have already passed on my own experience in alchemy to you. I don’t have anything else good.

I thought you have talent in both the art of elixirs and weapons, and you might be able to do something in the art of puppetry, so I brought this thing to you."

Wei Zhong was even more confused. This optimistic statement could not support the other party's generous behavior.

After all, this puppet inheritance is too precious. The fifth-level puppet refining method is second only to the "Spring and Autumn Water Refining Art" and "Blood Spirit Sutra" in Wei Zhong's hands.

But before Wei Zhong could ask further questions, the other party said:
"Show me the alchemy."

As he spoke, he took out a handful of spiritual medicines, some of which were thousand-year-old spiritual medicines.

Wei Zhong was impressed by the other party's wealth for a moment.

Xie Yuanrui added: "When refining the Peiying Pill, don't hide your incompetence."

These words made Wei Zhong pause, and then he took out the alchemy furnace, picked up the elixirs on the table, and started to refine the elixir right on the edge of the cliff.

Xie Yuanrui sat quietly by the side, watching Wei Zhong's entire alchemy process.

Less than a day passed and a furnace of elixirs was ready.

Three dark yellow elixirs flew out of the alchemy furnace and were caught by Jie Yuanrui.

"Three inferior ones."

After the other party said this, he fell into silence for a moment, and Wei Zhong could not see any emotion on his face.

After a long time, Xie Yuanrui sighed:
"What a pity!"

Wei Zhong was puzzled, and then he heard the other party continue to say:

"If you had achieved the status of a fourth-level alchemist a hundred years earlier, I would have accepted you as my disciple."

He turned to look at Wei Zhong, a hint of regret in his eyes.

"It's a pity that I'm about to die. Even if I accept you, I won't be able to teach you in person and fulfill my duty as a teacher."

Wei Zhong never expected to hear these words from him, and he felt like he was struck by lightning.

"This legendary fourth-level alchemist, Nascent Soul cultivator, is about to die?"

Wei Zhong couldn't believe it: "Senior..."

The other party didn't say much. He just waved his sleeves and started to teach Wei Zhong the alchemy technique.

Wei Zhong calmed himself down and listened attentively. When he heard something wonderful, he seemed to have an epiphany.

In the pavilion, one person was talking and another was listening, and from time to time there were voices of questions and answers.

After a long while, Xie Yuanrui stopped explaining and drank a cup of cold tea:

"All of these contents are in my jade slip. You can verify them with what I said today in the future."

Wei Zhong nodded, feeling that only a few days had passed, but he had gained more than in the previous two or three years.

"Okay, I'll stop here. It's up to you to figure it out in the future.

In addition, I want to give you a message. Whether it is the way of elixir or the way of weapon, it is not as important as your own cultivation.

Nothing is more important than being alive. Don’t be like me, who has lived out his life with nothing but regrets.”

(End of this chapter)