Matching of Spiritual Roots and Dharma Lineages

  Ye Qin sat cross-legged, took the Dew Drop Elixir and swallowed it down. Soon he felt a great difference between taking the Spiritual Elixir and taking the Dew Drop Grass.

  When he took the Luoluo grass, the Luoluo grass in his abdomen turned into a strong airflow in an extremely short period of time, like a torrent hitting his meridians, bringing a severe pain. So every day when he took the Luoluo grass, it was a torture, and he dared not take too much each day, for fear of bursting his meridians.

  However, when taking the Dew Drop Elixir, there was no such intense reaction. Instead, there was a warm and gentle feeling in the abdomen, as if the elixir was slowly dissolving inside, like a gentle stream flowing through the body's meridians, finally disappearing into the Mud Pellet.

  The melting and absorption of Jianglu Dan takes a long time, requiring almost half a day to fully absorb its medicinal properties, but it has the advantage of being gentle and prolonged, without causing severe impact on the meridians.

  After spending a good four or five hours meditating, Ye Qin had finally absorbed and transformed all the Ling Dan. He then took a long deep breath, opened his eyes, and suppressed the joy and excitement in his heart.

  Jianglu Dan is indeed a top-grade spiritual elixir for cultivation from the first to third layers of the Qi Refining stage, and it's truly not an ordinary product.

  He calculated that taking one of these finished products, the Dew Drop Pill, would be equivalent to the medicinal effect of five or six stalks of Dew Drop Grass. If he could take two or three pills a day, that would be equivalent to ten to eighteen stalks of Dew Drop Grass, greatly increasing his cultivation speed.

  Ye Qin's only worry now is the elixir yield rate. Almost ten furnaces have been used, but only one has succeeded unexpectedly, with an unusually low elixir yield rate.

  However, this is mainly because his alchemy skills are not proficient enough, and he uses ordinary iron crucibles to refine pills. With time, after greatly improving his proficiency in alchemy, the success rate of refining pills should be able to increase.

  Days spent in such a place, focusing on alchemy, passed by especially quickly, and before he knew it, a month had already come to an end.

  As the saying goes, "Practice makes perfect." After continuous alchemy practice, Ye Qin has become very skilled at firing the furnace and producing elixirs. The finished products account for about 30% of the total output, semi-finished products account for about 30%, and waste pills make up around 40%.

  This is a relatively high elixir production rate among cultivators at the Qi Refining stage. This is also thanks to Ye Qin's Dewdrop Grass and ample financial resources, allowing for continuous elixir refinement, which has yielded such good results.

  According to Nan Tianba, most of the immortal families within the Wu Kingdom would often supply an alchemist with the spiritual grass from their entire family in order to increase the success rate of alchemy. Despite this, many small families' alchemists would only refine a few furnaces or tens of furnaces of elixirs throughout their lives. Nan Tianba, as the head of the Pingzhou Nan family, had refined over a hundred furnaces of spiritual elixirs in his thirty to forty years of life, which was already enough to be considered an old hand at alchemy.

  Ye Qin's monthly elixir production is almost comparable to Nan Tian Bao's decades of work, so how can the elixir production rate not be high?

  Ye Qin's thoughts about Nan Tian Bao were complicated, with mixed feelings of joy and worry.

  Fortunately, he obtained the formula for Xianglu Dan from Lao Gui, and after refining the Ling Dan, his cultivation speed was almost divine. His cultivation base also rose rapidly. In just one month, he completed one-third of the total amount of yuanqi required for the third layer of the Qi Refining stage, completing a cultivation process that would have taken him half a year before.

  Unfortunately, the old ghost's cultivation speed was also fast. The old ghost used the Spirit Eye Technique, Wind Control Technique, and Dew Drop Dan formula as the price to exchange for a month of White Mang from him, and his cultivation speed was also rapidly advancing like crazy.

  He can cultivate faster, and Lao Gui can cultivate more, which is very depressing.

  .......

  "Old ghost, after a month's time, we've almost completed the previous exchange. You must bring out other magic techniques, or else our exchange can't continue, otherwise I'll have to make the Floating Island stop producing White Mang." Ye Qin reminded Nan Tian Bao.

  "Little brat, how did I end up with someone as stingy as you? You won't even take a small loss. As the head of our clan, would I take advantage of a junior like you?" Nan Tianba stopped chasing after Bai Mang in mid-air, his tone showing obvious discontent.

  "Cut the crap, old ghost. What other tricks do you have up your sleeve? Just bring them all out and be done with it, so I don't have to keep coming back every now and then to remind you."

  "The old man knows many spells, but attacking spells are not possible for you. Considering that you have been faithful for the past month, I will give you six basic auxiliary spells in advance. Let me cultivate for another two months."

  Wind Binding Technique, Quicksand Technique, Entwining Technique, Earth Concealment Technique, Wood Concealment Technique, Water Concealment Technique - a total of six. They are the basic techniques for the four major elemental systems: Wind, Earth, Wood and Water. You, with your Five Elemental Spirit Roots intact, are most suited to cultivate them. Isn't this enough, haha!

  Nan Tian Ba seemed to have thought of something delightful and burst out laughing, haha!

  Ye Qin coldly gazed at Nan Tian Bao, saying: "Old ghost, what are you smiling about? I have all five elements of spiritual roots, isn't that good enough? You only have an earth spiritual root, and I still think it's too little."

  Nan Tian Bao heard Ye Qin's words and floated unsteadily in mid-air, almost tumbling down head over heels.

  "No, no need to be modest. With the five elements spiritual roots all complete, this is a rare talent in the cultivation world, and you can almost learn any type of magic. I'll pass on my magic to you now, remember it well."

  Ye Qin remembered the incantation of six magical spells and his divine consciousness left the Purple Mansion.

  After seeing Ye Qin leave, the originally laughing and staggering Nan Tian Bao suddenly regained his composure, floating in mid-air, staring at Ye Qin's primordial spirit sitting cross-legged on the large stone stele with a cold and sinister smile.

  He taught Ye Qin a bunch of basic auxiliary spells, but didn't have any good intentions.

  It is known that there are eight types of spiritual roots, including the five normal spiritual roots of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, as well as the three variant spiritual roots of wind (fire variation), ice (water variation), and thunder (water-fire variation). The law system also has eight categories, each corresponding to one of the spiritual roots.

  There is a matching problem between Linggen and Fajie.

  Matching: The spiritual root and the law system must match each other, so that the spiritual energy of the system can be sensed in a very short period of time. If they do not match, the difficulty of sensing will increase by tens of times.

  For example, if Tulin goes to learn the basic earth spell, he can feel the existence of the earth spirit in more than ten days. However, if Tulin goes to learn the "basic fire spell", it will take half a year or even nearly a year to produce a response. If Tulin goes to learn the "primary fire spell", it will take more than ten years to produce a weak response, which is extremely difficult.

  That is to say, the basic level of magic, as long as the cultivator is willing to learn, can actually be mastered and used. However, the primary, intermediate, and advanced levels of magic have increasingly higher difficulty in practice, and only cultivators with matching spiritual roots will go on to learn them. A cultivator with a single earth spiritual root would never be foolish enough to cultivate elementary or above level magic outside of the earth system.

  In theory, the range of learnable legal systems, Nan Tianba is actually far inferior to Ye Qin.

  Nan Tianba only has the Earth Spirit Root, and at most has extremely high attainments in the Earth System. In other systems, he is basically extremely limited. On the other hand, Ye Qin has the Five Spirit Roots, but can achieve certain accomplishments in the other eight systems, including even Wind, Ice, and Lightning variant systems.

  But in fact it is not so.

  This also involves another issue of legal system proficiency.

  Proficiency: The more you use the same system of magic, the more skilled your manipulation becomes, and the greater its power will be.

  A cultivator in the Qi Refining stage has a lifespan of only about 100 years. In this short period of time, where would they have so much time and energy to learn eight different systems of magic? Being able to master one system is already quite impressive.

  "Little brat, you say you're so unlucky? You've just started on the path of cultivation and yet you encounter me. I'll give you a whole bunch of basic spells from different systems later, let you practice, let you practice, and make sure you can't even master an elementary-level spell in your entire life! When I cultivate to the 7th or 8th layer of Qi Refining, find a way out of this ghost place, wipe out the Wind family, avenge my blood feud, this Pingzhou will still be under the rule of my Nan family, hahaha!"

  Nan Tian Ba finished his cold smile and slowly flew away from the surface of Ben Ming Yuan Shen Bei, searching every inch of the gray rock crevices on the floating island. It had a feeling that the method to leave this place must be hidden somewhere on this strange floating island. However, where exactly it was, made him rack his brains but couldn't think of it, and could only slowly search for it.