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Chapter 194 Lure the snake out of its hole
"The lifespan limit mentioned here refers to the lifespan limit of the golden elixir. This means that after 487 years, the cultivator's golden elixir will begin to disintegrate. After the golden elixir disintegrates, the cultivator's physical body will decay and die."

Niangniang Shiji said, "If the golden elixir had not disintegrated, then you could have continued to live. However, the golden elixir's lifespan is only 500 years. If you cannot cultivate into a Nascent Soul, you can only live 500 years at most. The fact that you can see that you will die after 487 years shows that you have refined the golden elixir well."

She was quite appreciative. Most cultivators who had achieved the Golden Elixir would not live for more than 500 years. Some died at 200, some at 300, and those who could live to over 400 were already considered masters in the Golden Elixir realm.

Chen Shi is twelve years old this year, plus 487 years, his total life span is 499 years.

The fifth turn of the golden elixir has almost reached its limit, which shows that Chen Shi’s golden elixir cultivation is extremely solid. If he continues to cultivate, he will definitely be able to reach the limit of 500.

Chen Shi was still in a daze for a long time, and suddenly said: "My grandfather faked his death to deceive the ghosts, hoping to live a few more years and watch me grow up. Master Kuzhu's golden body locked up his vitality and soul, making it impossible for the ghosts to get close. These powerful beings just want to live a few more years. But even Master Kuzhu only lived for more than 130 years, and he also did something that angered the heavens and the people, such as the demon transformation."

He thought again, if he had refined the golden elixir, he would have a lifespan of nearly 500 years. If these people knew about this, his spiritual heart would probably be shattered.

"It is normal for a Jindan to live 500 years."

Niangniang Shiji said, "The purpose of a cultivator's practice is to achieve longevity and freedom. If you can't achieve longevity and freedom, what's the point of practicing to become an immortal? The purpose of practicing Buddhism is also to free yourself from life and death and transcend reincarnation. Otherwise, why practice Buddhism?"

Chen Shi was in a daze.

But since the end of the True King Era, everyone has been practicing like this.

Even if one cultivates to the Mahayana realm, his lifespan is only a hundred years.

What went wrong from the end of the True King era to the present day, causing the cultivators' realms to rise but their lifespans to not increase?
Is it a problem with the practice?

"Azure! Azure!"

Chen Shi immediately stood up, found Li Tianqing, and said quickly: "I will teach you a technique, you practice it first, and when you have made some achievements, you can see how many years of life you have left!"

Li Tianqing was tired from refining the elixir and was washing clothes by the well. Hearing this, he said, "I already have a cultivation method. My Li family's Six Yin Jade Wheel is the foundation. When I reached the Golden Elixir Realm, I began to practice the methods in the "Nancheng Sect Yi Ji". The clan leader said that I have extraordinary talent, so he passed on the "Nancheng Sect Yi Ji" to me."

"Nancheng Zong Yi Ji" is a set of martial arts left by Li family's ancestor Li Zongyi. It is profound and mysterious, and can only be passed down to the patriarch. The fact that it was passed on to Li Tianqing shows how much the Li family values ​​him.

Chen Shi handed him the Eight Extremes Golden Palace Divine Chapter that he had memorized, and said, "Take a look first."

Li Tianqing wiped the water off his hands, took the book, flipped through a few pages, and let out a light exclamation.

The starting point of the Eight Extremes Golden Palace Divine Chapter is the cultivation method of the Golden Elixir Realm. It is not as refined as the previous methods. However, judging from the method of the Golden Elixir Nine Transformations, the Golden Elixir cultivated is much more profound than the Golden Elixir method recorded in the "Nancheng Zong Yi Ji"!
Li Tianqing gained a lot from this trip to the gathering of scattered people. His understanding of the Golden Core Realm became deeper and deeper. He even noticed the shortcomings in the Li family's skills and planned to make some modifications.

But the scroll of the Eight Extremes Golden Palace Divine Chapter that Chen Shi took out made him realize that no matter how hard he practiced, he could not improve the "Nancheng Sect Yi Ji" to the same level as it!
"Where did you get it?" Li Tianqing asked without raising his head as he flipped through the book.

"Don't ask, just try refining it!" Chen Shi said.

Li Tianqing read on until he saw that this technique had been cultivated to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul, but then it abruptly stopped. He couldn't help but feel disappointed and said, "What a pity, it's just a fragment."

Even though it was just a fragment, it made him realize that this martial art was far superior to the Li family's unique skills.

If he practices, the foundation laid by his Golden Core and Nascent Soul will surely be extremely solid!

Only with a solid foundation can you go further!

While he was thinking about the content of the technique, he was washing clothes. After the clothes were washed and hung out to dry, Li Tianqing had already thoroughly comprehended the technique and began to practice it immediately.

Chen Shi waited for several days, and Li Tianqing made some progress in practicing the Eight Extremes Golden Palace Divine Chapter. He was surprised and said, "I can see my lifespan!"

Chen Shi asked quickly: "How many years do you want to live?"

"Eighty-four years later, my golden elixir collapsed and I died of old age." Li Tianqing said.

Chen Shi opened his eyes wide and stood there blankly.

Eighty-four years, that is to say, after Li Tianqing refines the golden elixir, he can only live to over ninety years old!

But Chen Shi's time was four hundred and eighty-seven years.

There is a difference of more than four hundred years!
"There must be something wrong here..."

All kinds of thoughts raced through Chen Shi's mind. Was there something wrong with the technique that Li Tianqing practiced when he was building his foundation?

What Li Tianqing practiced was either the Tianxin Zhengqi Jue or the Li family's foundation-building technique, which was similar to the techniques practiced by other cultivators.

What Chen Shi practiced to build his foundation was the Three Lights Righteousness Technique.

Could this be the problem?

Probably!

However, Chen Shi has studied the Tianxin Zhengqi Jue. This technique is the foundation-building technique created by his grandfather, so there is absolutely no problem with it!
It is impossible for Grandpa to deliberately leave flaws in the Tianxin Zhengqi Jue so that the life span of the cultivators would not increase. Moreover, Grandpa's own life span is not very long.

Moreover, even the masters of long-established forces like the Thirteen Families and the Da Baoguo Temple only live for a hundred years!

"What exactly is the problem?"

Chen Shi was thinking, and Li Tianqing asked curiously: "Xiao Shi, how many years do you have to live?"

Chen Shi said casually: "Four hundred and eighty-seven years."

Li Tianqing was stunned, as if he didn't hear clearly, and asked quickly: "How much?"

"There are still four hundred and eighty-seven years left." Chen Shi said.

Li Tianqing was stunned, and suddenly realized: "This is impossible! Absolutely impossible! You must have seen it wrong!"

It took him a long time to accept this reality in despair.

"When you are old, I will have been dead for four hundred years." He looked a little sad.

Chen Shi's eyes flickered, and he asked, "Where do you think the problem lies? Why do I live for 500 years, but you only live for 100 years?"

Li Tianqing pondered and said, "Let's list what you have that I don't have. As for the techniques, you practice the Three Lights Righteous Qi Technique, which I don't have."

He first thought of the technique and asked, "What are the three lights?"

"The three lights of the sun, moon and stars."

When Chen Shi said this, his body suddenly shook slightly, and he said in a lost voice, "I understand, I understand! When I first started practicing the Three Lights Righteous Qi Technique, I absorbed starlight!"

Li Tianqing asked in confusion: "Starlight? But there are no stars in the sky..."

"That's right! You can't see the stars with your naked eyes, but they do exist!"

Chen Shi said quickly, "When I activated this technique, I felt the starlight from the sky falling down and merging into my body. Later, I practiced in the temple that emerged from the ground, and sensed the sunlight and moonlight from the ancestral land of Shenzhou. Only then did I gather the three lights and cultivate the holy fetus Dharma body. I have never used the sunlight and moonlight from Xinzhou of Xiniu to practice!"

Li Tianqing walked back and forth. He was knowledgeable and had basically read all the exercises in the Li family's collection, and was familiar with all kinds of cultivation methods.

Among these methods, there are those that draw the essence of the sun, those that draw the essence of the moon, those that draw the energy of the surrounding nature, or those that cultivate one's own positive energy. The most dangerous of these is drawing the essence of the moon. Even if a normal person practices it, it is easy to be infected by the evil energy in the moonlight and become evil.

However, if you cultivate the solar essence, you don't have to worry about this.

"Could it be that there is really something wrong with both the sun and the moon?"

Li Tianqing looked up at the sun and the moon in the sky. Although it was daytime, the moon had already appeared.

It is common sense that dead things may turn into evil spirits under the moonlight.

If one practices with the energy of Taiyin, one will eventually become an evil spirit over time. Not many people know this.

Even the sun has problems!
When Li Tianqing had this thought, he felt that he was being extremely rebellious.

The true God is selfless. He regards his eyes as the sun and the moon. He allows the alternation of day and night in Xiniuzhou, allows crops to grow, and allows humans to survive and reproduce. How can he say that sunlight is poisonous?
"Xiao Shi, can you pass on your Three Lights Righteousness Art to me?"

Li Tianqing hesitated for a moment and said, "I want to verify it. Let's give it a try."

Chen Shi stared into his eyes and said, "Do you want to destroy the golden elixir?"

Li Tianqing hesitated for a moment and nodded.

It takes great courage to destroy the golden elixir and the results of all these years of hard training, but he is determined to destroy the golden elixir and verify it!
"I can pass on the Three Lights Righteousness Art to you."

Chen Shi thought for a moment and said, "But there is no such temple nearby. If there is no temple connected to the ancestral land, you can only gather starlight to practice, which is much slower than entering the ancient temple and gathering three kinds of skylight to practice."

He owns a small temple, in which there are the three lights of the sun, moon and stars, but the small temple can only accommodate spirits, and Li Tianqing has a physical body, so he cannot enter it.

Li Tianqing smiled and said, "There are many temples like this in the fifty provinces of Xiniu Xinzhou. I will go find a similar temple that is enough to complete my ascetic practice. I will catch up with you in April next year!"

Chen Shi said in a deep voice: "You have such great courage, I admire you deeply. Tianqing, this is where I am not as good as you, you are already a qualified individual. In this case, I will pass it on to you."

He copied down the Three Lights and Righteousness Art and gave it to Li Tianqing.

Li Tianqing did not leave immediately. He spent another two days refining the remaining soul-returning pills and fulfilling his promise of one hundred furnaces of elixirs. Only then was he ready to set out to look for the ancient lost temple.

Chen Shi saw him off. Before leaving, he took out more than two thousand taels of silver notes and stuffed them into his hands, saying, "You can't go without food and drink these days. Take these silver notes and spend them."

Li Tianqing hesitated for a moment but did not refuse.

Once he found the ancient temple, he would discard the elixir and live in seclusion. By then, he would be afraid that his vitality would be greatly damaged and he would need to buy some elixir to replenish his body. However, the monthly salary from the Li family was not enough, not to mention that the monthly salary from the Li family could not be delivered to him.

He really needed a lot of money.

Chen Shi handed over another jar and said with a smile, "This is a snack I gave you. Don't look at it yet. You can look at it on the way."

Li Tianqing took it. The jar was not heavy and he didn't know what was inside it.

"Xiao Shi, see you in Xijing."

Li Tianqing hugged him, patted his back, and said with a smile, "Next April, there will be the Xijing exam. Don't let me catch up with you!"

Chen Shi patted his back vigorously and said with a smile: "Then you better hurry up. I have been practicing very fast recently. I am afraid that I will be able to achieve Nascent Soul in a short time!"

The two men waved goodbye, and Chen Shi watched him go away. After a long time, he returned to the village.

Li Tianqing activated the magic talisman on his feet, and in a short while, he walked dozens of miles away from Qianyang Mountain.

The journey is long, and he will search everywhere for the truth of immortality.

When he was tired, he stopped to rest and opened the jar that Chen Shi had given him. He saw that the jar was full of soul-returning pills, at least eighty of them.

"This guy……"

Li Tianqing felt warm in his heart.

Chen Shi returned home and practiced for a few more days. The golden elixir turned from yellow to purple and finally became a purple gold elixir!
The sixth transformation of the golden elixir!

At this speed, he would be able to complete the ninth stage of the Golden Elixir and enter the Nascent Soul stage in just one month!
"With the Eight Extremes Golden Palace Divine Chapter, plus Niangniang Shiji as the divine fetus, the cultivation is really too fast!" Chen Shi sighed in his heart.

He packed up the resurrection pills that Li Tianqing had prepared over the past few days, packed up the car, and rushed to the Juxian Tower in Xinxiang County.

When Shao Jing saw him, he said happily, "Brother Chen, you came at the right time. The Resurrection Pill you consigned last time was bought by a customer from the provincial capital. The customer even asked which alchemist made the pill, but I didn't tell him your name. He also said that if there are any more Resurrection Pills in the future, he would take them all."

After saying that, he pushed over a stack of banknotes.

Chen Shi's heart was slightly moved. He accepted the banknote and said, "Do you know who this guest is?"

Shao Jing shook his head: "The power in the provincial capital has been purged twice in just one year, and the governor has been replaced three times. If it were normal times, I would still recognize it, but I don't recognize it now. Count the silver notes, a total of 120,000 taels."

Chen Shi pinched the thickness of the banknote and said with a smile: "No need to check, how can I not trust you?"

This time he consigned the Resurrection Pill, and the price was slightly cheaper than the normal price, 300 taels per pill, and 400 pills were delivered. As for how much Shao Jing sold for each pill, he did not ask.

He originally didn't expect to sell them all at once, but he didn't expect that there would be a rich man with enough money to buy all these resurrection pills!

Chen Shi pushed the remaining 300+ Resurrection Pills in front of Shao Jing and said, "This is the last batch. There will be no more in the future."

Shao Jing felt quite sorry for this, as he had also made a fortune from the resurrection pills that Chen Shi had consigned. If there was no steady supply of the resurrection pills, he would have lost a way to make money.

"I have another house in the provincial capital, why don't you go and take a look?"

Chen Shi put the banknotes in his pocket and suddenly thought of the house given by Governor Xu. Seeing that it was still early, he thought of going to the provincial capital.

He walked out of Juxian Tower and drove to Xinxiang Province.

Soon, the wooden cart left the county town and arrived at the provincial capital post road.

"Woof!" Black Pot barked.

"I know." Chen Shi said lightly.

Behind the wooden cart, several figures followed them intentionally or unintentionally.

"Shao Jing has been selling the Resurrection Pill for so many days, and the young master from Yudu finally found out about it."

Chen Shi didn't look at these people, thinking, "His reach is really far!"

Several birds were flying above the wooden cart, monitoring the movements of the people behind the cart.

His purpose of consigning the Resurrection Pill at Juxian Tower was to lure out this Young Master Yudu!
(End of this chapter)