Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 32 Junior Brother, Please Watch
Seeing the joy in Niu Yi's eyes, the Earth God stroked his beard and chuckled in an old voice:
"Hehe~ If it were before, even if you had mastered the Green Bamboo Scroll, you could have slowly nurtured it on your own. But now that you have the Tiger Roar Stone, you can try to integrate it into the Green Bamboo Scroll and practice it into a Tiger Roar Diagram."

"This step will inevitably be somewhat difficult. After all, the quality of the two is so different. Fortunately, they are both closely related to the aura of the earth veins, so this should be possible."

"Take this gourd of Tiger Roar Mountain's earth vein energy. Take only a strand each time you refine it. This should make it easier for you to refine the Tiger Roar Diagram. Remember not to take too much. After all, it only serves as an initiator. Any more will be useless."

After hearing this, Niu Yi looked at the green gourd that the Earth God took out, took it with pleasure, put the green bamboo scroll aside, and sat down again to drink with the Earth God.

"Thank you, God of Land. I wonder what's happening with Tiger Roar Mountain now?"

"There's some improvement, but it's going to take at least a hundred years to get back to where it was before."

"But I don't have to wait until then. I have another three years. When the dead energy in Tiger Roar Mountain is gone and some birds and beasts appear in the mountain again, I will have fulfilled the order of the Heavenly Court."

"Speaking of which, I have one more thing to trouble the Earth God with. I have some spiritual materials that I have never found. These spiritual materials are needed for making incense. I hope the Earth God can help keep an eye on them."

"Okay, okay, leave it to me."

Niu Yi smiled and named those spiritual materials one by one.

This is also the reason why he is willing to make friends with the landowner of Jindou Mountain sincerely and respect him. The person in front of him knows very well that he has a secret, but he has never had the slightest desire to explore it.

This can be considered a tacit understanding formed between the two of them over the past eight years.

To him, the God of Land of Jindou Mountain is definitely a good teacher and friend.

The God of Land chatted with Niu Yi for a while and then said goodbye and left. The God of Land still had to keep an eye on Huxiao Mountain.

Niu Yi took out two jars of peach blossom wine from the thatched cottage and gave them to the God of Land, then watched him leave.

After the Earth God left, Niu Yi looked at the green bamboo scroll and green gourd spread out on the stone table in front of him, took out the tiger roar stone in his arms, and placed it on the surface of the green bamboo scroll.

Niu Yi opened the green gourd and drew out a wisp of earth energy from it, which fell into the green bamboo scroll, causing the blank surface of the green bamboo scroll to be contaminated with some of the earth energy of Tiger Roar Mountain.

Afterwards, Niu Yi clasped his palm on the Tiger Roar Stone, and golden light and magic power surged, covering the Tiger Roar Stone and the Green Bamboo Scroll.

"Roar----"

Suddenly, a terrifying tiger roar sounded from the Tiger Roar Stone, and the shadow of a white-browed tiger appeared on it, staring at Niu Yi fiercely. At the same time, a resistance force came from Niu Yi's palm.

Niu Yi narrowed his eyes, and the magic power in his hands continued to surge out, suppressing the phantom of the tiger. The magic power continued to surge between the Tiger Roar Stone and the Green Bamboo Scroll, introducing the power in the Tiger Roar Stone into the Green Bamboo Scroll bit by bit.

Although this Tiger Roaring Stone is extremely magical, it is an inanimate object after all. Under the influence of Niu Yi's magic power, the power in it still flowed into the Green Bamboo Scroll bit by bit and was absorbed by the Green Bamboo Scroll.

It was not until a very faint outline of a tiger appeared on the green bamboo scroll and the entire green bamboo scroll became extremely hard like stone that Niu Yi gave up and withdrew his magic power.

"It seems that we have reached our limit, but considering the grade of the Green Bamboo Scroll, it is already extremely difficult to obtain."

Niu Yi looked at the green bamboo scroll in front of him, which was slowly becoming soft again but still flashing with an ochre light. He knew that he had to wait until the green bamboo scroll absorbed all the power of the tiger roar stone before he could integrate and refine it again.

And the Tiger Roaring Stone seemed to have become slightly smaller.

"The Tiger Roar Stone is still too high-grade." Niu Yi shook his head helplessly. "It's another magical weapon that needs a lot of hard work to improve. It will take at least ten years. But once it is completed, the power of this magical weapon will surely be exciting."

"Well, it's just that this way, I have to add one more thing to my daily homework." At night, in Lingtai's state of mind, in the central hall.

“These are the last three.”

Niu Yi looked at the three incense sticks in his hand, with a hint of regret in his tone.

These three incense sticks are the last three incense sticks in the wooden box. He has tried other incense balls and incense cakes, but only this incense stick can produce the white mist and lead him into the alchemy room.

During this period, every time Niu Yi entered the alchemy room, he could see Taoist Guanghui teaching the little boy Guangwu how to make incense.

Every day, Taoist Guanghui would teach Guangwu a new method of making incense, and Niu Yi would watch from the side. Just by watching it once, he would gain an insight and engrave it firmly in his heart.

Taoist Guanghui has definitely come a long way in the art of incense, and has reached a state of simplicity and a return to nature.

He perfectly demonstrated to Guangwu and Niu Yi the steps for refining each kind of spiritual incense and the characteristics of each material.

For example, when Niu Yi first refined the Tongshen incense, after watching Taoist Guanghui refine it, he realized how bad the Tongshen incense he had refined was. It was full of mistakes and was a very low-grade Tongshen incense. The success of the incense was entirely due to luck.

During this period of time, Niu Yi has observed the production methods of more than a dozen spiritual incenses, including Tongshen Incense, Thyme, Pure Water Incense, Safflower Incense, etc., all of which are at the top of the incense spectrum.

In order to try his hand at refining these spiritual incenses, Niu Yi has sent the bull spirits on the mountain and the monkey spirits next door to search for relevant spiritual materials in the area near Jindou Mountain.

I don't know what kind of incense making method Master Guanghui is teaching today.
Niu Yi pondered and lit the three incense sticks in his hand with his magic power. As usual, he came to the tablet, bowed respectfully, and then inserted the incense sticks into the incense burner.

As a familiar white smoke quickly spread, Niu Yi calmly let the white smoke wrap him up and bring himself into the alchemy room again.

"Brother Guanghui, this is today's spiritual material, it's black hair incense."

Guangwu carried a plate of spiritual materials and walked towards Senior Brother Guanghui.

Seeing this, Niu Yi also quickly came forward.

"Haha~ Guangwu, I won't be teaching you about black hair fragrance today. I recently got a piece of century-old jade agarwood by accident. How about refining some jade agarwood fragrance for you?"

"I will listen to Senior Brother Guanghui."

Although Guangwu had an inexplicable feeling that his senior brother seemed a little strange recently, he did not think much about it. He just looked into the alchemy furnace very seriously.

Niu Yi was stunned when he heard this. He looked at Senior Brother Guanghui in front of him with a flickering look in his eyes and bowed respectfully.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Guanghui."

Taoist Guanghui looked gentle and nodded imperceptibly.

Then, Taoist Guanghui waved the whisk in his hand lightly, and saw that the medicine cabinets on the wall opened by themselves, and spiritual materials for refining jade and agarwood incense kept flying out and landed on the tray in front of Taoist Guanghui.

"Junior brother, please watch carefully."

(End of this chapter)