Chapter 44: The Five Elements Mixed Yuan Pagoda, Departure

  The five-line spiritual root is also the most critical material for the Five Elements Creation Tower, and it's not without reason.

  The Wuxing Hunyuan Pagoda can absorb the spiritual energy of all things, transform it into its own use, and has a flawless function. In essence, it uses the ability of the five-element spiritual roots to absorb and transform, while also using the principle of mutual generation and restraint of the five elements.

  Of course, the devouring divine abilities of the demon beasts and the demonic cultivators are also very important.

  These principles of the five elements generating and overcoming each other, as well as devouring each other, are not simple. They are all embodied through talismans. According to legend, when heaven and earth first opened up, talismans appeared in the world. It is said that talismans are the prototypes of all techniques and divine powers, because the great abilities of ancient times were created by sensing talismans and creating the techniques of ancient times.

  Therefore, the ancient methods are mostly obscure and difficult to understand, with incredibly great power.

  The entire body of the Wuxing Hunyuan Pagoda, both inside and out, is to be engraved with all sorts of talismans. The latter half of the Jade Scroll records the types and functions of these talismans, as well as their positions and keys for engraving.

  Wang Chen utilized the aura of creation to comprehend the Dao through talismans. This method allowed Wang Chen to learn many talismanic characters in a subtle and imperceptible way. These characters mostly belonged to the five elements, which were already complex, but compared to the vast and mysterious characters recorded on the Jade Annals, Wang Chen suddenly felt like he had been holding onto only one or two silver coins while pretending to be a rich man.

  "This is absolutely not something that a Jindan period cultivator can understand!" Wang Chen thought to himself, but became even more determined that the symbols above were extremely precious. In fact, it had taken the cultivators great effort to find and comprehend these symbols, with the help of his father's former Daoist friends from the Chuqiao period, as well as many admirable opportunities, before they finally found these symbols.

  The entire Jade Simplified Scripture is about the Five Elements Mixture Yuan Pagoda, except for the first half which introduces and explains its principles. The majority of the content in the latter part consists of dense and intricate symbolic writings.

  To create a Five Elements Creation Pagoda, one needs not only the five attribute spiritual roots of a cultivator but also to understand these hundreds of thousands of talismans.

  Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, devouring, merging, transforming and other properties of runes, it can be said that these runes are all about understanding the Tao, which is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

  Fortunately, Wang Chen had a creative aura. With the help of his creative aura, these texts were not a problem at all, but rather the materials were extremely hard to find!

  He put away the jade slip, and Wang Chen's mind gradually became more determined. The Five Elements Mixed Yuan Tower was a must-have, otherwise his future cultivation would become narrower and harder to progress further. Next was to slowly comprehend the 100,000 symbols on the jade slip and find materials with the five attributes.

  And the higher the level of the five-attribute material, the better. Even if you find the legendary Heaven and Earth's opening, the original five elements of this realm, that would be even better. Of course, this is almost impossible. Wang Chen's ideal was to find a five-attribute material from the Yuan Ying period, which could quickly advance him to the Jin Dan period.

  By the time of the Golden Elixir period, there are 500 years of life and cultivation. To make the Five Elements Mixed Yuan Pagoda further, it's much simpler than directly finding the legendary Five Elements objects.

  With a clear intention, Wang Chen began to focus on his cultivation once again.

  It's just that the task of sorting through Jade Slips every day has changed to comprehending Symbolic Scripts. The five-attribute scripts are fine, whether it's individual scripts or mutually transformative ones, Wang Chen has a foundation in controlling symbols, and with the help of the special effects of the Creative Qi, he easily grasped them all. It's just that the remaining Devouring Attribute scripts have got Wang Chen feeling quite frustrated.

  It's just like a financial worker suddenly becoming a doctor, it's completely inexplicable and makes my head spin.

  Time flew by like this, and it has been two years since the last time Luo Yunzong recruited disciples. Most of the Qi-refining cultivators have gotten to know each other a bit, except for a few like Wang Chen who are rarely seen and whose whereabouts are unknown.

  On this day, another young monk came to the top of the mountain. Wearing a blue robe, he floated like the wind, and although his face was not as handsome as Starry Eyes and Sword Eyebrows, there was a faint sense of self-confidence between his eyebrows that made people surrender.

  Wang Chen arrived at the Executive Pavilion and stopped before it, then turned around and walked in.

  Task Reception

  Wang Chen clasped his hands together in greeting and bowed towards Qian Lao, saying: "Qian Lao!"

  Qian Lao was the one who gave Wang Chen convenience during his foundation-building period, but he is already old and half of his body has been buried in the ground. After that, Wang Chen became Qian Lao's sworn friend, and their relationship was quite harmonious.

  Before that, Wang Chen had come to ask Qian Lao about the problem of Fu Wen, but Qian Lao was not knowledgeable in this area and couldn't help. However, he did give Wang Chen a lot of experience on the bottleneck of cultivation, combined with what he had seen before in the Gong Fa Ge Yu Jian, Wang Chen still gained a lot.

  Qian Lao was delighted to see Wang Chen, but he wasn't too pleased with Wang Chen's courtesy, "We agreed to meet in a secluded place, why be polite between brothers!"

  After finishing speaking, he reached into the storage bag and took out tea utensils. With a pinch of his hand, a small flame appeared under the teapot. A moment later, the faint scent of tea mixed with the taste of spiritual energy rushed into his nostrils.

  Wang Chen didn't stand on ceremony, hastily picked up the teapot and poured a cup for each of them. Then he slowly started drinking. As soon as the spiritual tea entered his mouth, he felt a warm and fragrant breath entering from his mouth, continuously flowing into his belly, and then transforming into strands of spiritual energy, continuously emerging all over his body.

  After the meridians everywhere were infiltrated by the green spiritual energy, they slowly increased in intensity.

  "Good tea! Mr. Qian's tea is indeed good tea!" As he spoke, Wang Chen still stared at the teacups without letting go.

  This tea set was introduced by Mr. Qian, it is a fine and exquisite piece of Ruyi ware, a masterpiece in the art of tea, its value is not lower than that of ordinary precious objects. But it's Mr. Qian's treasure. Especially used to brew Mr. Qian's collection of Qingling tea, the effect is even better.

  "Qingling tea has the effect of strengthening the meridians, but it is weak for foundation-building cultivators. However, it is quite effective for energy-gathering cultivators. But only the first few cups are effective, and drinking more is like ordinary tea, at most supplementing a bit of spiritual power!" Qian Lao slowly spoke out the connotation of Qingling tea after tasting it.

  "Qian Lao, you'd better not teach me the art of tea ceremony, I'm learning the art of seal carving, you know that. However, if you give me that piece of Qingling wood, I'd be delighted!" Wang Chen interrupted Qian Lao's trend of continuing to speak, jokingly said.

  Qian Lao glared at Wang Chen, "This kid is getting more and more presumptuous, actually daring to have ideas about my Qingling Wood!" Although he said so, his expression didn't show a hint of anger, clearly the two had a very familiar relationship. "Tea art is also one of the hundred arts of cultivation, it's just that its use is relatively narrow, and extremely difficult to practice!"

  Wang Chen nodded slightly.

  Tea art, as one of the hundred arts of cultivation, also produces a very famous spiritual tea. However, in general, the spiritual tea that cultivators can make is often limited by materials and has little effect on the cultivator. For example, Qian Lao's Qingling Tea was made when Qian Lao accidentally discovered a 500-year-old Qingling tree, took its leaves, and added precious ingredients to create it. However, the effect of this tea is remarkable for those in the Qi Refining stage, but it is almost useless for those in the Foundation Building stage.

  The drawbacks of Ling Cha are not limited to one aspect. Generally, all kinds of Ling Cha have a fatal weakness: the first few cups have an obvious effect, but the subsequent effects become extremely weak. Think about it, a cultivator goes through great difficulties to find the formula and materials for Ling Cha, only to have no effect after drinking a few cups - how frustrating is that!

  The formula of Lingcha is as precious as that of Dan medicine. However, if you don't take tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of grains of Dan medicine, there's no need to consider the issue of drug resistance. Therefore, the practicality of Lingcha technique can't compare with that of Dan medicine at all.

  Even similar elixirs can't compare to it. After all, the demand for elixirs is relatively high, although their speed of restoring spiritual power can't compare to that of medicinal pills, they win out in terms of practicality!

  Therefore, the demand for spiritual liquor is enormous. When time permits, many monks are willing to use cheaper spiritual liquor to restore their spiritual power.

  After chatting with Qian Lao for a while, Wang Chen made his intentions clear and thought about receiving the sect's task.

  "School mission?" Qian Lao was surprised and smiled, "Hehe, kid is really hardworking, what kind of mission do you want to take? I'll definitely satisfy you!"

  Wang Chen smiled slightly bitterly, he wanted to find suitable materials to manufacture the Five Elements Creation Tower, but really didn't know what task to take.

  "Qian Lao, let me take a look at what tasks there are anyway! I'm also unsure which task is suitable!"

  Wang Chen couldn't help but smile wryly and had to force himself to say. Qian Lao didn't make things difficult for him and handed over a jade slip, which Wang Chen took and examined carefully.

  "Take care of Ling Cao, duration 6 months, requires planting experience, contribution value 100 points"

  "Gate patrol, duration one year, requires late-stage Qi training, contribution points 300"

  "Lavender, duration two months, contribution thirty points"

  ………

  One by one, the sect's tasks were completed, but Wang Chen found them to be extremely dull. These tasks were far from his expectations and it was impossible to obtain high-level five-elemental items or Voidstones.

  Helpless, Wang Chen had no choice but to look down and finally found a task at the back.

  "In collaboration with Li family's cultivators from Fuyue City, they eliminated the demonic cultivators. The requirement is one foundation-building cultivator and five late-stage Qi-refining cultivators..."

  The task of annihilating the demonic cultivators is quite difficult, and even the foundation-building cultivators have to take action. It's likely that there are also foundation-building cultivators among the demonic cultivators. Fuyue City, Wang Chen had seen it on the Jade Slate before, where a cultivator once dug up a rare Voidstone in the crystal mine, causing a dispute among the nearby Golden Elixir cultivators.

  Of course, it was ultimately taken away by Yuan Ying Shi.

  Others didn't know the secret, but Wang Chen had seen it on other jade slips. Kong Ming Shi was a rare mineral, and there were very few veins similar to ordinary spiritual stones. Generally, Kong Ming Shi existed as semi-raw ore for crystal mines and maze mines, and the quantity was extremely small.

  There is a crystal mine of extremely high quality near Fuyue City!

  The demon-slaying task may be an opportunity. The Kongming Stone of the Five Elements Creation Tower is not easy to find, and it's impossible to buy one, so you can only go find one yourself.

  Having made up his mind, Wang Chen accepted the task. Qian Lao saw that this task was indeed frowning, although he did not object, but repeatedly reminded Wang Chen to be careful with Mo Xiu.

  Wang Chen humbly accepted Qian Lao's suggestion and turned to leave. The task of annihilating the demonic cultivators was triggered ten days later, so naturally, some preparations had to be made in advance.