si-mexico Chapter 52 Becoming an Apprentice 5
Chapter 52 Becoming an Apprentice 5
It must be said that the Medicine Ancestor was quite skilled at teaching people. Yingyue and Wensishu, who were originally confused about their alchemy path, both embarked on their own paths.
Yingyue was initially poisoned into bed by her third senior sister, but under the tutelage of the Medicine Ancestor, she discovered that she had a great talent for poison pills.
However, she is different from her third senior sister. Her third senior sister has a rare poison spirit body. The poison pills she refines will gradually adapt to the poison as long as the poison doesn't kill the person. Moreover, she can also extract the poison for her own use.
Yingyue, being a medicinal spirit, was highly favored by medicinal herbs. The Medicine Ancestor passed on to her a body-refining technique that could absorb toxins and enhance her physique.
However, unlike her third senior sister, she had to carefully consider the pills she refined. But at least she managed to refine her own top-grade pills, even though they were poisonous.
I wonder what Elder Yao will think when he finds out, since the mainstream in the cultivation world is still refining pills with beneficial effects. His two female disciples, however, are refining poisonous pills.
Wen Sishu's flames were too intense. The Medicine Ancestor taught him how to control them, and when he could wield his flames like a swing of an arm, he easily refined top-grade elixirs.
Besides swordsmanship, Cheng Jiu also practices formations, talismans, weapon crafting, and alchemy.
The mainstream weapon-refining method on the mainland is the Five Elements Refining Method. Fire elemental energy is explosive and aggressive, water elemental energy is gentle and long-lasting, wood elemental energy is soft and healing, metal elemental energy is sharp and tough, and earth elemental energy is heavy and inclusive.
When forging weapons, one can test the spiritual energy of the materials to forge them, which is a rather cheating and useful method.
Cheng Jiu belongs to the type that is more sensitive to spiritual energy, and can be tempered and forged by different types of spiritual energy.
However, these were still too naive in Cang Jiyue's eyes. In his eyes, every piece of ore had its own purpose; they were not auxiliary materials, but the main ingredients.
To make the most of each piece of ore, one must have a thorough understanding of its characteristics.
Cheng Jiu was forced to start carrying ores, in addition to formations. He didn't necessarily have to become a formation master, but if he didn't know formations, he would be at a disadvantage in some natural formations and duels.
Cang Jiyue's teaching method was also very brutal. The first was to memorize the formation, and the second was to conduct spot checks. How were the spot checks conducted? She was thrown into a set formation, and the learning ended when she came out.
At first, there were two relatively simple formations that were independent of each other. Later, she directly used the formations to set up a chain formation.
Cheng Jiu's brain is so complex that if it splits even slightly, it won't be able to get out. The more he learns, the thicker it becomes, and the more complex the formations become. What used to be something that could be solved in a day now takes at least ten days to half a month to figure out.
Seeing her training, Yingyue and Wensishu felt the utmost sympathy for their junior sister.
After that, she couldn't feel any sympathy anymore and just wanted to hug herself. Cang Jiyue felt that her Daoist partner's little apprentice couldn't be completely ignorant about formations.
What if we encounter an ancient formation someday and can't escape it? Then we'll throw them into the formation as well.
Unlike Cheng Jiu, Cang Jiyue even felt that she had shown great mercy and did not need to completely break the formation like Cheng Jiu. They only needed to use their own methods to escape from the formation.
The difficulty has indeed been reduced considerably, that's true, but neither of these two people has ever studied formations.
So they had no idea how to break it. The key was that this formation was offensive, and the two of them were like birds flying around in a furnace.
Amidst Cang Jiyue's cheerful expression, Wen Sishu took out his alchemy furnace and climbed inside.
Chen Siyuan started to smile happily. No wonder he's his apprentice; he learned this from him!
Cang Jiyue wasn't about to indulge him. She reached out and lifted him up, saying, "What are you doing crawling into the alchemy furnace? Do you expect to hide inside it for the rest of your lives whenever you encounter an ancient magic array?"
Wen Sishu looked pitifully at the Medicine Ancestor, but when she met her master's smiling eyes, she immediately resigned herself to her fate after all her resistance was in vain.
Yingyue, who had been watching from the sidelines and was about to follow suit, immediately gave up the idea.
The three of them studied diligently for two years. Cheng Jiu really felt like she was being crammed with knowledge. Every day she was either practicing swordsmanship and getting beaten up to learn footwork, or memorizing texts, refining weapons, refining pills, drawing talismans, and then entering formations. She didn't have a single day of rest in those two years.
When spiritual practice became a routine like clocking in and out, she began to feel disgusted.
Fortunately, it was finally over. Looking at the sky, Cheng Jiu suddenly felt like he had been reborn.
Not only her, but Yingyue and Wensishu also felt this way.
In fact, all three of them were really curious about what the Heaven-Mending Pill was used for. After all, according to their master, it could even attract the Great Dao Tribulation Thunder. How heaven-defying must this pill be?
The Medicine Ancestor didn't keep them in suspense: "Actually, we didn't know what it was for before, but Ji Yue knew that this pill could improve one's aptitude."
Later, we arrived in a world devoid of spirits. Although that world lacked spiritual energy, the will of Heaven was extremely domineering. We two unwittingly stumbled into it, only to be trapped by the Heavenly Dao and pay a heavy price to escape.
From this world, we've learned a little. Have you ever heard of the concept of a god?
Cheng Jiu had heard of it, but she couldn't say it. Time travel was her secret. When she heard her master talk about a world without spiritual energy, her heart was pounding.
In other words, one day when her cultivation level is high enough, she will be able to travel through different worlds and return home!
She shouldn't say "go home to visit"! She's very content with her current life. Although there aren't many entertainment facilities, she can cultivate immortality! She's seen that emperors throughout history all wanted to cultivate immortality.
"The pill invented by Ji Yue is a conceptual pill, meaning that the pill does not exist in this world at all. However, Ji Yue, with her understanding of the river of time and the indulgence of the Heavenly Dao, accidentally developed this pill."
"This probability is unprecedented and will never be repeated!" the Medicine Ancestor said calmly.
Those present murmured, "Unprecedented and unparalleled?"
"Moreover, this pill is recognized by the Great Dao. No matter which world we are in, we meet this concept, and our aptitude will not decrease due to the world dimension." The Medicine Ancestor revealed the most terrifying aspect of this pill.
In terms of time and context, taking the Medicine Ancestor as the anchor, there are countless people before him, but none of them can surpass the Medicine Ancestor's talent. Taking Cang Jiyue as the anchor, the talent of everyone after him cannot surpass Cang Jiyue's.
However, regardless of the present, the past, or the future, everything is in progress, meaning it has already happened.
The aptitude of people in the past will not be diminished because of the aptitude of the Medicine Ancestor, and the aptitude of people in the future will not be limited because of Cang Jiyue.
Therefore, the people who serve as these two anchor points will be elevated without limit because of the conceptual qualifications they possess.
It could even be said that one day they truly reach the realm where the Great Dao exists, and then the Great Dao will also be their future or past.
This clearly demonstrates the terrifying power of this elixir, and the three of them were incredibly tempted. Who wouldn't want to consume such a heaven-defying pill?
"Master, what do you think about if we refine this kind of pill..." Yingyue asked, her face full of excitement.
"You'll be struck dead!" The Medicine Ancestor patted Yingyue's head and looked at the three of them: "Give up. Ever since Jiyue refined this pill, it has been on the Great Dao's blacklist. If you dare to refine it, the Great Dao will dare to annihilate you. However, those spiritual herbs outside were left behind by Jiyue, and they are also auxiliary ingredients for refining the Heaven-Mending Pill. If you come to comprehend the future, you might be able to refine your own Heaven-Mending Pill."