From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 48: Sword Refining
Li Yang looked up at the cliff according to Chi Yanhong's words, and indeed found several coffins on the cliff.

"The Bai people's hanging coffins are made by artificially chiseling a hole in the wall, inserting a wooden pillar as a fulcrum, and placing the coffin on the wooden pillar on the cliff. If you pick up the burial objects that fall off the old coffin, you will have bad luck."

Knowing that these were the things of the dead, Li Yang was no longer curious and strode into the cave.

Seeing the golden toad, Chi Yanhong's face lit up with joy. He held the little fellow in his hands and found that all the wounds on the golden toad's hands had healed. He immediately realized that this was Li Yang's trick.

It has been two months since we left Baiyun Temple in June, and the experiences of the two people in between can be said to be quite legendary.

The two sat on the ground and discussed for a long time.

"You mean their main goal is the Golden Toad?"

"Not just the golden toad, there are also various spiritual creatures." Chi Yanhong shook his head, still feeling a little scared.

"After I found out that the inheritance of Yangjigenfa might be in the Emei Mountain area, I brought the golden toad here."

"After I came out of Baoguo Temple and went up the mountain, I found two men in black using Taoist magic to capture a spirit monkey in the ecological monkey area. I wanted to leave, but the two men seemed to have something that could identify spirit animals, and I found the golden toad."

"Golden Toad refused to accept the defeat and started fighting with the two men. One of them had a bell in his hand and Golden Toad was no match for him. I relied on the talisman to escape with Golden Toad."

Chi Yanhong sighed, with fear still on his face. "The Golden Toad led one person away to save me, and I was chased to the Golden Summit by another person. I had no choice but to jump down."

"Huh? How could you possibly survive such a high cliff?"

Li Yang was a little surprised. If it were an ordinary person, he would have been crushed to pieces on this nearly 700-meter cliff, but Chi Yanhong seemed to be fine.

"Do you still remember the red fruit you gave me? Before coming to Emei, I refined two pills to neutralize the medicinal properties. After I almost broke through, I relied on a few talismans to avoid falling to my death."

When she encountered danger in Baiyun Mountain that day, it was because she did not prepare talismans in advance, otherwise it would not have been so thrilling.

Li Yang then carefully sensed Chi Yanhong's breath and discovered that she had already reached the initial stage of drawing in qi, and her breath was long and thick, and it was obvious that she had made a breakthrough some time ago.

After saying this, Chi Yanhong's eyes turned cold: "Although the opponent's henchmen are very well hidden, I still found some clues."

"They should be a derivative sect from the Tantric Buddhism. They are very powerful. The guy holding the bell has even touched the path to the innate realm."

Suddenly Chi Yanhong changed the subject and said, "I will get this place back sooner or later. Since you are here, let's explore with me to see if there is anything left at the ruins of the Emei Sword Immortal Dharma Lineage."

Li Yang had the same idea, he stood up and began to look around the cave.

The cave was deep and dark because the sun was blocked by clouds. Li Yang summoned the sword qi and released a clear light. He found that there were many stone carvings on the surface of the cave.

Chi Yanhong's heart skipped a beat as he looked at the sword energy spinning in the air. This could be considered an immortal technique.

"I discovered this place by accident. When I arrived here, there was nothing but some Taoist carvings on it."

Li Yang approached the carving, swept away the moss and carefully examined the contents of the stone carving.

There are nine stone carvings in total. The first one shows a dozen Taoists with fluttering sleeves holding various magical instruments, facing a huge black shadow in the clouds, as if they are exorcising demons and monsters.

The second stone carving shows several Taoists descending on a cloud and building a hut to meditate at the bottom of a cliff.

The third stone carving had been weathered and was a little blurred. Li Yang could only vaguely make out a few Taoists sitting opposite each other, puffing out smoke as if they were practicing some martial arts.

"This is the Qi-eating method of cultivation. Eating the wind and drinking the clouds, it is the same as your Yuchan Qi-eating method." Chi Yanhong reminded her at the right time. She must have watched all the stone carvings over and over again in the past few days. The cloud patterns and various clouds in the later stone carvings were getting fainter and fainter. Many Taoists had old faces and wept towards the sky. Even after hundreds of years, the weeping and grief still made Li Yang sigh in front of the stone carvings.

The Tao is gone, the spiritual energy no longer exists. What a desperate reality it was for that generation of practitioners.

The seventh stone carving made Li Yang's heart move. On the mural, there were three divine birds flying around a furnace, and a Taoist was driving the true fire to refine a piece of precious iron. Unfortunately, the spiritual energy declined and the power of Taoism was greatly reduced. The precious iron could not be refined and was then sealed in a mountain by the Taoist.

Li Yang hurriedly took out the piece of iron he got from the mural in Mount Emei from the bag. Sure enough, the shape was exactly the same as the one on the stone carving.

Chi Yanhong took a look and immediately understood what was going on. He couldn't help but sigh at the depth of Li Yang's Taoist affinity.

"You are so lucky, fellow Daoist. This is the material used by the Emei Sword Immortal to refine flying swords. I guess this Taoist has spent a lot of effort to find this treasure. I didn't expect it to be passed to you, fellow Daoist."

Li Yang's face lit up with joy. In modern times, something that could be used by an ancient sword immortal to refine a flying sword must be a priceless treasure. He finally had the materials for refining his innate sword energy.

After quickly reading the nine stone carvings, Li Yang had a preliminary understanding of their meaning. In short, this was a story about a sect that retreated into the mountains to practice, and then their spiritual energy declined and they gradually perished.

But apart from this piece of rare iron, there are no other clues left about the opportunity, which is very puzzling.

Li Yang searched the cave with sword energy in hand, but there were no other objects except some rotten wooden daily necessities.

"Don't look for it anymore. I can't get out of this cliff these days. I've searched the area thoroughly, but there's no chance or item to find."

Seeing that Li Yang couldn't find the opportunity at the bottom of the cliff either, Chi Yanhong sighed. She was extremely excited when she found the ruins of the Sword Immortal, but after searching for several days, she had already become discouraged.

Not to mention the Yangji root method, there is not even a single Taoist book left in this place. One can't help but wonder if those books have been weathered into ashes due to their age.

"Strange. The Taoist lineage places the greatest importance on inheritance. Since these reclusive swordsmen had a premonition that the spiritual energy would be extinguished, they would definitely leave a backup plan. Why would they only leave behind nine murals?"

"Who knows? They probably never thought that spiritual energy would revive hundreds of years later. It's possible that they burned all the Taoist books out of despair."

Chi Yanhong was disheartened. The clue to Yangjigenfa was lost again, and her path of cultivation was still hopeless.

"Now that things have come to this, let's eat first, and then talk about how to get out of this place."

Li Yang still didn't give up, and controlled the sword energy to search around in the cave.

Chi Yanhong smiled bitterly and left him alone, going outside to prepare food.

Twenty minutes later, Li Yang, who had turned over every stone in the cave, reluctantly accepted reality and walked out of the cave. Suddenly, he smelled a strange fragrance. He looked up and saw that Chi Yanhong, the beautiful Taoist nun, was actually... roasting a rabbit? !
"What the hell, fellow Taoist, don't you abstain from meat?"

"When did I say I don't eat meat? I'm not a member of the Quanzhen Sect." Chi Yanhong tore off a rabbit leg and handed it to Li Yang.

"No, you are not from the Quanzhen Southern Sect..." At this point, Li Yang was suddenly stunned, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have never known about Chi Yanhong's lineage.

First, the two root methods of Yin and Yang are related to their lineage, and then this little girl has a variety of talismans from the Tianpeng Sect and Huashan Sect on her body.
These two things have nothing to do with the inner alchemy method of the Quanzhen Southern School.

"Hey, eat first, I'll tell you after you finish eating."

Chi Yanhong smiled and tore off the other rabbit leg.

(End of this chapter)