Fangxian Heretical Path

Chapter 242 Eliminating Hidden Dangers: Seven Impurities and Six Evils
"The malevolent aura emanating from the Dragon Master..." Fang Shu mused to himself.

Without a doubt, this evil spirit must be a hidden weapon that the Dragon Maiden Immortal wanted to leave on him.

Once he condenses the evil energy of this snake scale, his foundation will contain the aura of the Dragon Maiden Immortal, making it easier for the other party to coerce or manipulate him, leaving him no choice but to obey their orders.

However, if he does not use this item to condense evil spirits, the Dragon Maiden Immortal will eventually notice his disrespect and may resort to other means to control Fang Shu.

Thinking about this, Fang Shu even felt a little fortunate for a moment.

Fortunately, he was still lacking a bit of malevolent energy; otherwise, if the Dragon Maiden Immortal had directly poisoned or cursed him, it would have been even more troublesome, and perhaps his only option would have been to go to the Three Capitals to file a complaint.

After much thought, Fang Shu's mood fluctuated wildly. The good mood he had felt from Er Daiyuan delivering the pill, as well as the master-disciple relationship he had with the Dragon Maiden Immortal, had completely vanished.

He couldn't help but mutter, "It was that cheap senior sister who betrayed you, why are you taking it out on me?"

However, he was only distracted for a moment before he forced himself to calm down, his mind racing as he racked his brains to figure out how to resolve the situation.

The Daoist talisman in his mind was also trembling wildly, constantly monitoring the snake-scale evil energy on his hands.

Several days have passed.

When the serpentine aura spread to Fang Shu's forearm, he finally opened his eyes with a look of surprise and delight.

Using various cultivation manuals such as "Six Desires Yin Sha Method", "Six Internal Organs Nourishing Sha Method", and "Dragon Whale Nourishing Body Method", although he failed to find a way to reverse the flow of this evil energy and disguise it as condensed evil, he did find a method that could thoroughly eliminate its hidden dangers.

Fang Shu silently recited the incantation of the technique: "Use the superior to subdue the inferior, use the soft to overcome the hard, use the filth to control the filth... or use a thousand poisons and a hundred evils, first combine them with the technique, and then use the evil energy after the combination, leaving no hidden dangers."

Thoughts raced through his mind, and he particularly recalled the nameless book he had casually flipped through in the Gu Palace that day.

On that day, the Immortal Longgu only gave Fang Shu a few glances at the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Dao cultivation method, but Fang Shu had already imprinted all the contents of the booklet, along with the key secret texts, into his mind.

Now, he is recalling that incomplete technique and combining it with his past learning to figure out this method of external fusion of evil spirits.

Suddenly, another thought flashed through Fang Shu's mind.

His luck was actually quite good. He was just missing one evil spirit, which saved him from being poisoned or cursed by the Dragon Maiden. And thanks to his "extensive knowledge and strong memory", he was able to combine the book with the incantation in his hand and come up with a solution... It was quite a coincidence.

I didn't think too much about it.

Fang Shu immediately calmed down and took out all the poisonous, evil, malevolent, and filthy things he had in his hands.

His gaze quickly swept over the other objects and landed on the yellow nail.

This nail was forged by him amidst the foul energy of the dragon vein. It was filled with the foul energy of the dragon vein, and because Fang Shu had the same aura as him, he could completely extract the foul energy from this object for his own use.

After harvesting, the Human Yellow Nail doesn't even need to be taken back to the dragon vein to be nurtured. It only needs to be cleansed with other poisonous substances and spiritual medicines to restore the impurity inside.

This is similar to the immortals. After successfully condensing evil and refining qi, the evil qi and qi in their bodies take root. As long as they are not over-harvested, they will not be severed.

Fang Shu thought to himself, "This foul air is from the dragon vein, comparable to the Foundation Establishment stage, and it is nurtured underground, so it can also be considered a kind of malevolent energy."

However, this substance is extremely difficult to melt into the body. Even if he had already melted it into the Human Yellow Nail, the feasibility of using it to condense evil spirits was only about 20% to 30%.

Crucially, once such foul energy is used to condense evil spirits, the foundation will be rejected by the dragon veins of the temple in the future, and the foundation will no longer be able to be built using the dragon veins and earth veins within the temple.

However, this dilemma only flashed through Fang Shu's mind briefly before he dismissed it.

To this day, every time they return to the mountain gate, they are plotted against by the Dragon Maiden Immortal's family. Moreover, in the great battles of the past few years, even the foundation immortals in the temple were not free to do as they pleased and many of them died tragically.

Fang Shu had already made up his mind that he should not "settle down and build a foundation".

Furthermore, it's just that he's rejected by the dragon veins and earth veins; does that stop him from extracting the dragon veins and earth veins from the Five Internal Organs Temple?

Once the thought was formed, Fang Shu no longer hesitated. He stared at his arm, then immediately cut open his flesh and took out both nail-headed arrows.

For a moment, he hesitated, wondering whether he should chop off the entire arm that was covered in snake scales and malevolent energy.

This makes it easier for him to place it in front of him for operation, and also isolates potential hazards to avoid getting burned.

However, to avoid the Daoist talisman being unable to monitor the object constantly after the arm was separated from his body, he suppressed such thoughts.

Soon, wisps of sinister aura emerged from Fang Shu's arms, like snakes and insects, enveloping his entire body and hissing.

The extremely filthy dragon vein's foul energy also transformed into the form of snakes and insects, intertwining and constantly coiling within it.

A buzzing sound continued to ring out.

Fang Shu sometimes used foul air to isolate the malevolent energy, and sometimes used malevolent energy to suppress foul air, doing the opposite, which was quite exhausting.

After a long period of forging, he would pause, silently reflect, correct any previous mistakes, and then proceed with the fusion of evil spirits.

Seven days and seven nights passed.

Fang Shu was emaciated, having not eaten or drunk anything for days, but his eyes were surprisingly bright.

In his hand, a swirling aura, resembling both a snake and a dragon, seemed to be both the malevolent energy bestowed by the Dragon Maiden Immortal and the foul energy from the dragon vein of Little West Mountain.

This substance is a brand new filth that he combined and refined outside his body!
Fang Shu repeatedly tested the combined evil energy, which could be transformed into snake scale evil energy or dragon vein evil energy at any time. Moreover, the two transformed entities would obey his commands and would no longer be as difficult to control as before.

"Good!" He felt a great sense of relief.

With this item by his side, he can disguise himself when he meets the Dragon Maiden Immortal in the future. Moreover, even though the snake scale evil energy was taken from the other party's body and was restrained by the other party, it has now changed into the shape of his own, and is different from before.

No more hesitation.

Fang Shu made a hand seal, and the evil energy in his hand suddenly dispersed, transforming into countless tiny snakes and insects that densely surrounded his body.

These vile serpents and insects intertwined and coiled, frantically burrowing into his body.

This scene was extremely terrifying, far surpassing all the previous stages of Fang Shu's demon-condensing process.

However, after prior refining, the foul evil in his hands could not be handled recklessly, and in terms of real danger, it was far less than the previous times he had condensed evil.

Fang Shu slightly closed his eyes, his mouth slightly open, and uttered a "Moo".

His aura suddenly surged, dispersing all the snake and insect energy that was biting him. The dispersed evil spirits were then swallowed into his body by the true energy emanating from his body.

One day, two days, three days.

In just three days, Fang Shu's true energy changed again, and its quality increased dramatically.

The bottleneck of true energy within his body, which had already reached sixty-two toads, loosened again, allowing it to continue growing a few more toads.

Inside the cave.

Fang Shu opened his eyes with delight. With a wave of his hand, the true energy within his body surged forth, sometimes transforming into cow hair, sometimes into snakes and insects, changing at will, moving with his thoughts, extremely agile. At this moment, his six internal organs were also being refined by the sixth flavor of evil energy, their texture becoming more solid, conforming to the superior quality described in the Six Internal Organs Nourishing Evil Method.

"Excellent! The matter of condensing evil spirits is now completely successful. I can break through my cultivation and transcend tribulation at any time." Fang Shuxin was overjoyed.

The sixth tribulation of immortals is called Water, Fire, Swords, and War. The minimum threshold for passing this tribulation is that the six internal organs have been cleansed and the true qi has reached sixty toads.

Fang Shu had already met this threshold before he even condensed his sixth flavor of evil energy. For him now, it was even less of a challenge.

However, after some consideration, Fang Shu decided to increase the magical power of the toads before attempting to undergo the sixth tribulation.

After all, the more abundant one's true energy is during the tribulation, the greater the success rate of the tribulation and the greater the benefits gained afterward.

Fang Shu thought to himself, "Cultivating now will save a lot of time for future cultivation."

It should be understood that the further one progresses in cultivation, the more difficult it becomes.

The elixirs used by immortals at lower realms will have significantly reduced effectiveness, or even become useless, for those at higher realms.

In short, the amount of true qi required for a sixth-level immortal to increase by one toad's energy is quite different from that required for a fifth-level immortal to increase by one toad's energy.

Immediately, Fang Shu flipped his hand over.

In his two hands appeared a medicine box and a talisman, respectively.

After assessing the time, he first put away the talisman for the Water and Fire Spirit Chamber.

This time, the process of condensing evil spirits was smooth and uneventful. Even including the time spent combining evil spirits with external ones, it took less than half a month in total.

The Water and Fire Spirit Chamber should be used only when he undergoes his sixth tribulation. Besides, there are still more than half a month before the chamber opens.

However, as Fang Shu examined the medicine box in his hand closely, a few new doubts arose on his face:
"Why does this pill feel so fiery inside, its medicinal properties are somewhat like those of a tiger or wolf?"

It's a kind of intuition, something that seems to come out of nowhere.

He immediately took out the medicine tablet, carefully scraped off some powder from the Earth Origin Pill, and collected the medicinal vapors on it. After mixing them into a ball, he selected a Gu worm and fed the medicine into its body.

After the Gu worms consumed the elixir, all the changes in their internal energy were transmitted to Fang Shu's mind through the connecting divine threads.

After experimenting for a while, Fang Shu took a different Gu worm and continued the same operation.

After two tests, he confirmed that his perception was not an illusion.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking to himself, "The pill is a good pill, but its medicinal properties are too strong, with the suspicion of extracting bone marrow. If I take it lightly, the quality of my spiritual root may be damaged."

It is important to know that spiritual roots are not only related to the speed of cultivation of immortals, but also to the probability of immortals establishing their foundation in the future.

Because of its potent medicinal properties, the side effects on cultivation speed are difficult to detect when this pill is taken, as they are masked by its effects. However, once one reaches the first level of Qi Refining and is ready to establish a foundation, the side effects will become clearly apparent.

Fang Shu used the Taoist talisman to make a calculation.

Taking one Di Yuan Dan pill can increase the magical power of five to ten immortal toads, but it will take at least five years for the effects of the medicine to slowly wear off and for the spiritual root to be restored.

Taking two pills requires ten years; three pills require fifteen years... Four pills will make it difficult for the spiritual root to recover on its own, requiring the use of the finest spiritual medicines for nourishment; reaching five pills will make it difficult to heal with medicine, and the quality of the spiritual root will permanently decline.

As Fang Shu examined it repeatedly, he felt more and more that this Earth Origin Pill seemed to be intended for use by "Dao Soldiers".

However, he did not suspect Erdaiyuan, who had delivered the Earth Origin Pill.

He had already learned about the pill within the temple before it was delivered, and after receiving it, he made a special inquiry about it within the temple.

He knew that this pill was quite valuable, a precious item specially allocated by the Five Internal Organs Temple so as not to delay the disciples in the great battle.

This item can only be exchanged for Taoist cultivation points.

Initially, ordinary Taoist skills could be exchanged, but the temple later divided Taoist skills into ordinary Taoist skills and wartime Taoist skills, making many good items only available for exchange with wartime Taoist skills.

The Earth Origin Pill is one of them.

Furthermore, the Earth Origin Pill was completely sealed with wax and the talisman was intact, indicating that it was clearly obtained directly from the temple and simply handed over to Fang Shu.

"Fellow Daoist Er did not explain the effects of the pill to me, so it seems she is unaware of it either."

Immediately, Fang Shu took out a sound transmission talisman, verbally explained his discovery, and intended to transmit it to Er Daiyuan.

However, after he finished speaking, he pondered for a while, burned the transmission talisman, and instead used a letter to express his sincere gratitude to the other party.

Fang Shu only mentioned one interesting thing about the mortal world in the letter:

"The first picking makes the melons good, the second picking makes the melons sparse, the third picking is still acceptable, the fourth picking will only bring back the vines. The fifth and sixth picking will kill the melon seeds. This should not be easily told to others."

In the letter, they marked it with a symbol that they had agreed upon, and Fang Shu then sent the letter out.

After doing this, he also planned to ask Nardaiyuan in person at their next meeting how many Earth Origin Pills she had taken.

Immediately afterwards, Fang Shu returned to his cave and went into seclusion again.

Although he noticed the side effects of the Earth Origin Pill, he did not put it away. After some thought, he simply changed the method of consuming it.

Instead of swallowing the pill, he fed it to his Gu worms in batches, and then used his innate divine silk to draw the medicinal power from the Gu worms.

With the Gu worms as a barrier, and Fang Shuxiu's Dragon Whale Nourishing Method, the Earth Origin Pill's influence on his spiritual root was already extremely minimal.

However, its medicinal efficacy is also reduced by nearly half, from being able to grow five to ten toads to only being able to grow three to five toads, resulting in a sharp drop in value.

However, the other party said that this matter had little impact.

Because his true energy level could no longer be increased after reaching sixty-five toads, he directly transferred the remaining medicinal power into the half-finished bone nail to nourish the magical artifact.

This is because even if immortals cultivate both the primary and secondary methods, the upper limit of their true energy will not directly increase. In the end, if they can exceed it by a few toads or increase it by a few degrees, it is already quite remarkable.

Less than a month.

Fang Shu's hidden dangers have all disappeared, and with the Six Evils complete and his true energy abundant, he can now directly enter the Six Tribulations.

He opened his eyes, his face beaming with joy.

And after carefully reviewing what he had gained from his seclusion, he was surprised to realize that:
"Huh! My evil energy is first five evils, then two evils, then six evils... Isn't this kind of refinement just right to match the state of the seven emotions and six desires?"

Soon, he belatedly realized that the reason why his divine sense had greatly increased after the condensation of evil energy, and why he had also developed a certain kind of intuition, was related to this!

This discovery brought Fang Shu considerable joy.

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