Zuo Mo opened his eyes, and instantly let out a pained cry. His entire body felt like it had been lightly sliced by a sharp knife, the pain was severe. Was he at home? What time was it now? Zuo Mo struggled to sit up, dizzily shaking his head.

  It seems that I went to Dongbu and bought a lot of things. His gaze fell on the treasure bag on the ground, right? Then what? I went to the free market...

  Zuo Mo's pupils suddenly constricted, he remembered!

  Yin Pearl! It's a Yin Pearl... Those powerful and terrifying cultivators...

  He subconsciously touched himself, although his whole body was in pain, but he was intact and unharmed, with no missing arms or legs. He remembered suddenly fainting, what happened afterwards? How did he return to the Xifeng courtyard?

  He knew nothing, had someone saved himself? This was the first thought that came up in his mind.

  Although he didn't have much experience, he wasn't stupid. The endless stream of signs in the free market made him realize that the value of the Yin Pearl was far greater than he had imagined. These people wouldn't let him go for nothing. He hastily went to rummage through his own treasure bag, and when he saw that the Yin Pearl was still there, he became even more bewildered. After counting carefully, he found that two were missing.

  Something fishy is going on here.

  He suddenly remembered that he could go ask Pu Yao, this guy must know what had happened.

  When Zuo Mo entered the Sea of Consciousness, he was shocked. The endless sea of fire that had been dancing wildly in the past was now withered and weak, the flames were faint, as if they had burned out after being extinguished, and could be extinguished at any time. The top of the head was empty, the two stars did not change at all, like diamonds hanging in the void. And that sword river, also did not change at all, just like usual, half of it was icy crystal tide surging, half of it was water-shaped flames burning.

  How did this happen?

  Suppressing the panic in his heart, Zuo Mo quickly ran towards the location of Pu Yao. He had a strong premonition that something big must have happened!

  When he rushed to the tombstone, he saw the Pu demon on the tombstone and was stunned. The Pu demon's face was pale without a hint of blood color, like a mud sculpture sitting on the tombstone, motionless, with black clouds swirling around him.

  "Ah!" Zuo Mo couldn't bear the fear in his heart and shouted out loud.

  The Pao didn't react, like a white rock sculpture carved out of stone.

  Zuo Mo shouted again several times, but Pu Yao seemed to have not heard him.

  Something must have happened!

  Zuo Mo calmed down and carefully recalled every detail of that day, the Yin Pearl, and connected it to Pu Yao's appearance, what had happened that day was on the tip of his tongue...

  Low-level cultivators are like weeds in the eyes of high-level cultivators. When he saw Xue Yun, he knew it would be difficult to end well and only then did he make up his mind to fight to the death. Even a low-level magic treasure has people killing each other for it, let alone the mysterious Yin Pearl? Most of the Yin Pearls on him are still intact, which means those people have not succeeded.

  Was it really Pu Yao who saved himself?

  Zuo Mo was a bit skeptical - would this demon really be so kind? But this conjecture seemed to be the most reasonable of all.

  But Pao's appearance in front of him was so bleak, Zuo Mo hesitated and wondered if Pao had been injured?

  Looks like it's badly hurt...

  Even when Lian Pu was injured by Xin Yan, he had never been so weak. Staring blankly at the lifeless Lian Pu, Zuo Mo suddenly thought that Lian Pu wouldn't end like this, but for some reason, he forcibly suppressed this thought, which made him feel a little panicked. Wasn't it what he had always hoped for, that Lian Pu would suddenly disappear?

  Looking at the lifeless Pú Yāo, Zuǒ Mò's eyes changed colors uncertainly.

  He closed his eyes for a moment and then opened them again.

  Brother doesn't owe anyone a favor!

  He just told himself it was all for repaying a debt of gratitude.

  For some reason, when he made up his mind, the panic that had been surging in his heart suddenly stopped.

  He glanced up at the stone-like Pú Yāo, took a deep breath, and began to rack his brains to recall every detail of their time together, hoping to find a way to help Pú Yāo.

  He first thought of "Fetal Breathing Cultivation", and the Pú Yāo had been either inducing or forcing him to cultivate "Fetal Breathing Cultivation". Zuǒ Mò remembered very clearly that after he broke through one breath, the fire in his sea of consciousness was much more vigorous than before. Seeing the weak flame that could be extinguished at any time now, Zuǒ Mò felt that this dark red flame must have an inseparable relationship with Pú Yāo.

  Secondly, it's the crystal stone. Pu Yao always needs a lot of crystal stones. Almost all the crystal stones fell into Pu Yao's hands, and Pu Yao's demand for crystal stones was so great that even Lao Mo was surprised. Although Lao Mo didn't know where Pu Yao spent the crystal stones, it was clear that the crystal stones were very important to Pu Yao and might be able to bring him help.

  Then it was the yin energy. The scene of Pu Yao desperately absorbing the yin energy in the Sword Cave was still vivid in Zuo Mo's mind. Zuo Mo thought that for Pu Yao, the yin energy was like a great tonic and should be beneficial.

  After thinking for half a day, Zuo Mo summarized three points. Among these three, the most difficult one is to absorb the yin energy, which requires entering the Sword Cave. When Pu Yao was still awake, entering the Sword Cave was just a matter of crystal stones. However, relying on his own strength, wanting to enter the Sword Cave is almost impossible. Until now, only Wei Sheng has entered the Sword Cave in our sect, and no one else has been mentioned, even if Zuo Mo has grasped the Li Shui sword intent and shown good talent, the seniors of the sect will not mention the Sword Cave at all.

  Zuo Mo then shifted his focus onto the first two points, which he thought were more feasible.

  He decided to go to the stone room to meditate and practice "Fetal Breathing", just as he was about to start, he suddenly realized that his reflection in the mirror had not changed back yet. He hastily washed off the disguise on his face, if someone were to burst in at this moment, it would be disastrous.

  Zuo Mo had not been so serious about cultivating the "Fetal Breathing Technique" for a long time. Although he persisted in his daily practice, he hadn't truly put much thought into it. Now that he decided to cultivate seriously, he suddenly discovered many things that weren't clear to him before but were being neglected by him. He couldn't help but feel ashamed and secretly reflect on himself. He was like he had returned to the period of time before breaking through to one breath, desperately studying this abstruse and difficult-to-understand technique.

  People are always like this, when they need time, they will find that time slips away unusually fast, and if they are not careful, it will disappear without a trace.

  After coming back to his senses from meditation, the sky had already darkened. Zuo Mo once again entered the sea of consciousness to take a look and found that the spark was still weak, with no obvious improvement. It seemed that he would need long-term cultivation after all, he thought.

  He quit the Sea of Knowledge and began to sort out the various spiritual medicines he had bought from Dong Fu. These materials were what he had previously tried to use for water refining, earning some crystal stones, but now they came in handy. Before, Zuo Mo's attitude towards water refining was just a try, but now he became exceptionally serious. In his inference, crystal stone was also an important point. He didn't know what help the crystal stone could bring to Pu Yao, but this was one of the few things he could do.

  Zuo Mo couldn't help but smile wryly in his heart. It seemed that making crystal stones was an eternal proposition in his life!

  He cast aside his distractions and began processing the materials according to what Wei Nan had said in the jade slip.

  The method of water refining and fire refining are as different as night and day, many things for Zuo Mo are the first time he has come into contact with. Fortunately, he now also has some foundation in dan making, previously crazily making Golden Crow Pills had also brought him not a little experience. The language used by Wei Nan's jade slip is straightforward and simple, without any pretentiousness, Zuo Mo understands it easily.

  This is also why browsing Wei Nan's Jade Simplified always makes Zuo Mo feel carefree and inadvertently infatuated, while "Fetal Breathing Spiritual Refining" always makes him look like he's dying a thousand deaths.

  The general steps of the water refining method, after repeated deliberation and refinement, are not unfamiliar, although not yet thoroughly mastered. The most peculiar aspect of the water refining method is that it requires the establishment of a "dan fetus". The spiritual elixir is nurtured within the dan fetus, and the process is akin to human pregnancy and childbirth, with extraordinary subtlety.

  Taking the spiritual power of Fa as the thread, various original materials and spiritual herbs as flesh and blood, the refined Dan embryo is the most critical step in the water refining method. It not only directly determines whether or not to give birth to Dan, but any slight change can also lead to the birth of a spiritual Dan with thousands of differences.

  This is also an important reason why the method of water refining is not as popular as the method of fire refining, and its laws are more difficult to explore.

  For Zuo Mo, this was undoubtedly a new challenge. Fortunately, his current cultivation was much deeper than Wei Nan's attempt at water tempering in the past. Wei Nan's records were also extremely detailed, with many key points repeatedly explained without tiring. Moreover, Zuo Mo had an advantage that Wei Nan did not - his divine sense. His divine sense was not comparable to Wei Nan's or even other shixiong in the sect. The wonders of divine sense manipulation played a crucial role in fire tempering.

  With the processed spiritual grass and medicine, he came to the side of the spiritual spring in the stone room. The spring was extremely cold and located near the spiritual vein, so over the years, the spiritual energy contained in the spring water was also rich and dense. Zuomo Shun checked the ice cloud grass that was being raised inside and saw that it was growing well, then put it aside.

  With a steady mind, his left hand suddenly moved like snowflakes flying in all directions.

  Some strange shapes emitting faint light flew out from his hands and merged into the spiritual spring. These faintly lit characters merged into the spiritual spring, attracted to each other, slowly approaching each other.

  Zuo Mo stared with wide eyes, unblinking, his hands moving at a speed that didn't slow down in the slightest.

  As Zuo Mo's finger techniques changed, the micro characters in the Lingspring slowly moved, just like building blocks, and the characters gradually accumulated and reorganized.

  For a whole hour, Zuo Mo's entire body was drenched in sweat, and amidst the rising mist, his eyes didn't dare to move an inch. He continuously changed his finger techniques, but Zuo Mo's ten fingers were numb and weak, he could only grit his teeth and persevere, as any slight carelessness would mean that all his previous efforts would be wasted.

  When the last micro-light character moved in, a stable "fetal frame" was formed. A faint blue light emerged and flowed along the surface of the characters without stopping!

  Zuo Mo didn't dare hesitate, and before he could even wipe away his sweat, he accurately poured various materials that had been prepared earlier into the mixture using a specific technique.

  In an instant, a pale blue spherical dan furnace floated quietly in the spiritual spring.