The ancient giant bear hiding in the world of immortal cultivation

Chapter 221: The Way to Mending the Sky
"My Lord, do you know the essence of alchemy? What is its purpose?"

Snake Nineteen asked the question calmly, and at this moment he suddenly turned into a teacher.

Wang Wu also tried his best to put aside the various emotional changes that had just been triggered, because Snake Nineteen could deceive him about other things, but could not deceive him about real knowledge, so this was the time for him to supplement his basic knowledge of cultivating immortals and various common sense.

He no longer had to fumble around.

"I personally feel that the essence of alchemy is the process of purifying energy as much as possible. As for the purpose, it should be to make up for one's own shortcomings?"

"You understand it well, but you are still not bold enough. No wonder you can only refine spiritual energy practice pills, because your cognition is limited here."

Snake Nineteen smiled and seemed somewhat satisfied.

"For the human race, the way of alchemy is also called the Heaven-Repairing School. It is not only about replenishing oneself, but also about replenishing the external environment, so that the inside and outside can be in harmony, and the yin and yang can complement each other. There is also a saying that if you are rich, you can help the world, and if you are poor, you can only improve yourself. It is also called the big supplement and the small supplement."

"Among them, the path of great nourishment refers to supplying all living things in the world, making nature harmonious, and all living things grow naturally, forming an orderly, perfect, and healthy circulation system. This circulation itself represents strength, which is a higher level than spiritual energy and energy utilization. Lord, I wonder if you can understand it?"

Wang Wu was dumbfounded. Is there such a thing? Isn't this tonic equivalent to giving away money to the poor, which is a sin?

But this does boost the economy and promote domestic demand... Uh, no, it does boost the immortal cultivation economy and promote domestic demand for spiritual energy, and ultimately form a complete and orderly development cycle in the immortal cultivation world.

It’s like a real national leader, does he care about money?

What they care about is the general trend and the national strength. So, the best and most wonderful thing about this great tonic should be that the entire world of immortal cultivation can form a vast, magnificent, and orderly trend, and then form a higher level of power?
Just like, can an aircraft carrier represent the highest combat power? No.

On the contrary, it is the power of a country with healthy and orderly development, its various soft and hard comprehensive strengths, and its form and trajectory of existence that can represent it. It does not refer specifically to a certain thing, a certain person, or a certain weapon, but the combination of the concept of the country.

By the same token, can a first-class cultivator in the heavenly realm or a first-class demon in the heavenly realm represent the highest combat power in the world of immortal cultivation?

No!

Wait, I'm rough!
Wang Wu suddenly thought of the golden spiritual energy that accompanies the sunlight every day. Isn’t this a great tonic!
I never thought that alchemy could extend to such a high level.

"So, who is giving out the spiritual energy for free when it appears every day?"

Wang Wu asked cautiously.

Snake Nineteen was completely stunned and dazed for a moment, but this time he was definitely not pretending.

It stared at Wang Wu for a long time before shaking its head. "The spiritual energy that is scattered every day is not someone giving out spiritual energy for free. It is the blood of the dragon that is scattered!"

"Dragon blood?"

"Yes, dragon blood! Lord, do you know that there were no snakes in this world? There were only dragons. But once upon a time, at some unknown time, the Dragon Clan's Ascension Path was interrupted, and many dragons degenerated into snakes. The snake clan's goal now is to restart the Dragon Clan's Ascension Path and enslave all races again."

"And the human race's way of repairing the sky is to interrupt the way of ascending dragons indefinitely and permanently."

Snake Nineteen spoke in a very obscure and laborious manner. After it finished speaking, half of its originally black hair turned white.

"Why are you doing this? If you can't say it, then don't say it." Wang Wu was shocked. What kind of taboo was this? Just saying it out would cause him to suffer such a huge backlash.

Snake Nineteen shook his head, "My Lord, please don't do such a meaningless thing. Even if you abuse me, torture me, or even kill me, as long as I have the mark of the Snake Guard, I will be infinitely loyal to you until my death."

"But if there is no Serpent Guard Mark, no matter how good you are to me, no matter if you are willing to die for me or do anything for me, I will discard you without hesitation. I will kill you without blinking an eye and will not feel any guilt for betraying you. Every tribe is different. You must not make the arrogant mistakes of the human race, always thinking that great love can transcend race and blood. It is impossible."

"At least, even if you fall in love with a human cultivator, it is safer than falling in love with a snake spirit or a fox spirit. Snake spirits and fox spirits are the most dangerous and unreliable in the world."

"So if you see that Ah Qing again in the future, don't say anything, just kill it directly."

Wang Wu was speechless, "I'm not in love with Ah Qing."

"Quibbling, this is not something you can decide. This is the temptation of blood, the carnival and adventure of blood. You can't help but want to conquer the other party, first physically, then mentally. We, the snake clan, have this ability. This is a forbidden pleasure, unless you can survive the innate heart demon calamity."

What Snake Nineteen said seemed to make some sense. When Wang Wu saw Ah Qing for the first time, he couldn't help but want to believe it, although this was based on the guarantee of Bear Mom and the support of the Snake Guard's mark.

"You said Ah Qing is dangerous, then what about you, aren't you the same?" "Me?" Snake Nineteen smiled weakly, but was extremely proud.

"Because I know the danger, I will nip it in the bud from the beginning. My lord, don't you think that I have been using this method to make you not fully trust me since we met? This is what a qualified snake guard should do."

"But Ah Qing, I don't know if the training rules of the Snake Guards have been lost or what, how could it make the lord like it? This is a taboo for the Snake Guards! It is not allowed."

"Okay, we have said too much on this issue, my lord. I really don't have much time left. Now let's talk about the great supplement. This road is very difficult. Therefore, even the most outstanding people in the human race, such as Lu Wuchen, cannot truly supplement the world. They can only settle for the second best and supplement the human race itself. As long as the human race itself can become stronger and form a similar small cycle, it can also obtain a small amount of power at that level."

"This is a higher level of practice, a higher dimension of the Tao. For example, the original Bear Demon Emperor and even the Nine Sages of the Great Wilderness actually wanted to follow this path, but they basically all lost."

"Then there is the small supplement, which is to complete oneself. This is not much different from your understanding, my lord. It is also the conventional way of alchemy that the general public can understand."

"Yes, the general public does not know about this way of nourishing the body. My lord, please remember not to tell anyone. Otherwise, this will be the price I will bear at this moment. You only need to understand it in your heart."

At this point, Snake Nineteen suddenly began to breathe heavily. Its once moist skin and delicate face quickly shriveled and aged. Even its voice became hoarse, as eerie and terrifying as a night owl.

But it still maintained a relatively stable speaking speed, and said calmly: "Small supplements, that is, the way of alchemy, its basic core is the Five Elements Spirit Pill. Five refers to the five basic forces that constitute the world. Elements means to hide, contain, and integrate. Together, it is a means of hiding, containing, and integrating the five forces. That's why there is a saying that we should take the spiritual energy of the world, refine the Great Dao Spirit Pill, and make up for our own deficiencies."

"The Five Elements Elixir can be refined separately. For example, the Shenshi Shengji Pill belongs to the Wood Elements. My lord, you can start practicing with a single elixir first, and then practice with all five elements together. The Five Elements Elixir is also divided into grades, with grade nine being the lowest and grade one being the highest. But according to legend, if you can surpass grade one, you will become a Five Elements Golden Elixir, which is the highest level of the Small Nourishing Heaven Elixir Path. There is almost nothing that can surpass it, unless you take the Great Nourishing route, but that is not something we can understand or look up to."

"The Five Elements Pill Formula is as follows, my lord, please listen closely..."

This set of alchemy formulas was so eloquent that it took Snake Nineteen nearly twenty hours to finish it. It even had to pause several times because it was too weak.

By the time it finished repeating the alchemy formula, it was so weak that it could hardly stand. It kept breaking out in cold sweats and had a faint breath of life, as if it would die at any time.

Wang Wu could only pick up Snake Nineteen and try to give it some help, but he actually didn’t know what to do.

He tried to circulate the ice and fire spiritual energy to form an ice and fire amulet in Snake Nineteen's body, but it had little effect.

He tried to breathe life into Snake Nineteen again, but failed as well.

In the end, he could only use the simplest method, which was to feed it some of his own blood. This did work, but after a few seconds, Snake Nineteen himself was poisoned by Wang Wu's blood and was foaming at the mouth and his limbs were twitching.

It just can't bear it...

With no other options left, Wang Wu could only release his companion magic vine and use its slender tentacles to pierce into Snake Nineteen's blood vessels while drilling into its mouth to wash its stomach.

After working hard for a long time and sweating profusely, he finally saved Snake Nineteen's life.

"My Lord, why do you have to do this? I won't be grateful to you..."

Snake Nineteen said weakly that it was still sticking to its own understanding.

Wang Wu was speechless, and said unhappily: "I haven't learned how to refine the Five Elements Elixir yet, so of course I can't let you die so easily."

Snake Nineteen smiled with satisfaction, "I probably only have three years left to live, my lord, you can rest assured. Just don't feed me blood anymore. My lord, your blood is so poisonous, almost comparable to the Five Poisons Spirit of the Ten Thousand Poison Sect. It turns out that my lord still has so many trump cards, my lord can rest assured..."

Wang Wu didn't want to talk. This old snake really left him with a huge psychological trauma. He had no idea whether what it said was true or false.

Similarly, he really couldn't believe the other snake guards, including Ah Qing.

Although he couldn't be so ruthless as to kill all the snake guards, from now on, he would definitely avoid contact with other snake guards.

If I can't afford to offend you, I can afford to hide from you.

"My lord, I need to take a nap. There is a furnace and some spiritual fruits and herbs in the storage bag over there. You can figure out how to refine the Five Elements Spiritual Pill by yourself. When I wake up, you can make the final decision."

After saying that, Snake Nineteen could no longer maintain its human form, and instead transformed into a giant snake, filling the entire secret room, leaving only a small space in the middle for Wang Wu.

(End of this chapter)