Chapter Nineteenth Secret Transmission

  The Huichun Valley at night is extremely quiet.

  Apart from the occasional flicker of lanterns in the Zuozi Hall, everywhere else was quiet and still, with all the disciples of Daluo Island doing their evening lessons in their own rooms. In the distant sky, a few faint glows flashed by, which were the disciples on patrol flying on their swords. Inside Huichun Valley, there was also a group of Daoists wearing apricot-yellow robes patrolling around, checking whether the seals at each critical point were intact.

  Lin Xiao's residence was located in a small maple forest below the high peak of Zhengxi. This small patch of exotic maple trees had red leaves all year round, and naturally emitted a refreshing fragrance that calmed the mind. Lin Xiao fell in love with this maple forest at first sight, and after obtaining Dan Fusheng's agreement, he built his wooden hut in the forest, planting various rare flowers and grasses around it. The outer wall and roof of the hut were also covered with a thin layer of moss, adding a touch of wild charm to its elegance.

  The wooden house was not large, only about a hundred square meters. The outer room had a square table and two long benches, while the inner room had only one wooden bed with a coarse linen mattress on it, without even a thin quilt. At this time, Lin Xiao was sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, his hands tightly grasping a dark red crystal, constantly absorbing the fire spirit energy from the crystal and slowly transforming it into pure yang true yuan.

  In just two years, the spiritual energy within the Resurgence Valley had become even thinner than when Lin Xiao first entered. Even with the 'Spirit Gathering Array' set up by the seniors in the sect, the thin spiritual energy could only support the growth of countless spiritual herbs in the valley. The cultivation of the Da Luo Dan Sect's disciples relied more on the assistance of various spirit stones and elixirs. However, due to the decrease in spiritual energy between heaven and earth, new spirit stones were no longer seen in the spirit stone mines, just like the mid-grade spirit stone Lin Xiao was holding, which had become extremely rare nowadays.

  This piece of Ling Stone was a reward given by Dan Fuxing to Lin Xiao three months ago after he broke through the 8th layer of the True Fire Technique.

  Lin Xiang calculated that with this piece of spiritual stone, he could probably advance the True Fire Technique to the mid-level of the ninth layer. The True Fire Technique would break through the thirteenth layer and form a Golden Elixir, but he still didn't know how much effort it would take to achieve perfection, or how many spiritual stones and elixirs would be consumed. However, thinking about it now, getting another fire-attribute spiritual stone that suited him in the future would probably be even more difficult.

  Because of the long-term consumption of that strange lotus seed, Lin Xiao's true fire in his body became more and more prosperous day by day. The strange spiritual energy contained in the lotus seed continuously nourished Lin Xiao's body, making his foundation stronger than ever. When others practiced their skills, they were all cautious and careful, fearing that if they lost focus for a moment, they would go crazy. But Lin Xiao was different, he could still think wildly while operating the true fire technique, if Dan Fengsheng and other elders of the Great Luo Taoist sect saw Lin Xiao's appearance when practicing his skills, they would probably exclaim "genius, monster" again.

  "Ah..." Lin Xiao suddenly let out a sigh, he finished today's lessons, while recalling the true yuan in his body back to his dantian, he muttered softly: "Medicine was taken away by Master and others, I don't know what happened? Hmm, where is this place so mysterious, Medicine can go but I was blocked at the door?" Thinking of Dan Fusheng and Dan Lingdao's shocked faces when they saw the improved 'Huilindan' that Medicine took with her, Lin Xiao couldn't help but laugh.

  It turned out that Ya'er's modification of the "Huilindan" pill formula was extremely successful. Ya'er only added a dozen or so commonly used medicinal materials to the pill room, and the efficacy of "Huilindan" was increased by 30%. The other four relatively precious medicinal materials were reduced by 20% in usage. Although the addition of a dozen medicinal materials made the new "Huilindan" refining technique slightly more complicated, the reduction in the use of those two precious medicinal materials would increase the profit that Daluo Dan Tao would get from "Huilindan" by more than 30%!

  'Huilindan', this basic auxiliary spiritual dan, is the most used dan medicine by cultivators. For example, Yuanzong, this big customer, has just recruited 25,000 new disciples. Even if each disciple only takes one 'Huilindan' per month, the three percent increase in profit from the new prescription is a staggering figure! That represents tens of thousands of spirit stones and tens of millions of kilograms of precious medicinal materials! Lin Xiao clearly remembers that after Danfeng Daoist detected the new 'Huilindan' dan formula, his 'golden light' shining eyes sparkled.

  "What a greedy Master! " Lin Xiao smiled slightly, putting the Fire Spirit Stone into his inner pocket. He muttered to himself: "Fortunately, Master is good at business, otherwise how could he support so many disciples? I heard that in two years, the mountain gate will be opened and Daliu Dan Dao will recruit 1,000 new disciples. This move is really impressive, although not as good as Yuan Zong, but it's still unique among the nearby hundred stars."

  After two years of cultivation, Lin Xiao had already understood that the earth he was on was actually a huge sphere. This is progress.

  He stretched his waist slightly, Lin Xiao pushed open the window on the wall, and looked out of the window. The moon was high in the sky, slightly tilted to the west, and it had just passed midnight.

  He hastily put on a cyan Taoist robe, took down a jade pot and a small jade knife from the bamboo nail on the wall, and rushed out of the wooden house. "Hmmm, almost forgot, today is the day when 'Zi Ye Lan' blooms. If I miss today's harvest, I'll have to wait another three months, or else Hua Dasao will scold me to death?"

  Every disciple of the Da Luo Dan Dao has a small private garden near their residence, where they plant some rare and unusual medicinal herbs according to their own preferences. The 'Zi Ye Lan' in Lin Xiao's garden is a rare flower with extraordinary beauty-enhancing, rejuvenating, and age-reversing effects. This was also planted at the request of Hua Feng'er, as his own residence was a water pavilion that was not suitable for the growth of this 'Zi Ye Lan', and although this flower had little use in cultivation, it was absolutely forbidden to enter the Da Luo Dan Dao's medicine garden.

  "Beauty pills! Hmm, why are these women so concerned about their appearance? They say it's because of Eldest Sister Hua asking for my help, but in reality, if it weren't for Mistress Yu intimidating me from the side, I wouldn't have bothered with this trouble!" As he grumbled to himself, Lin Xiao Fei rushed into the wooden hut's medicinal garden, quickly squatting down on the ground and staring intently at a small patch of pale green orchids in front of him.

  The slender leaves of the orchid are gently swaying in the night breeze, and a dozen or so flower stems are slightly trembling. On top of the stems, thumb-sized, semi-transparent, purple flowers are slowly falling with a wisp of fragrance. 'Popping' sounds, like magic, and on the stems appeared pigeon egg-sized green fruit. The fruit slowly swelled, slowly changed color from green to pale purple, from pale purple to milky red, and finally transformed into a bright, vibrant red.

  With a faintly sour and fragrant scent, Lin Xiao chuckled and swung the small jade knife in his hand, cutting down more than a dozen fruit of the Zi Ye Lan and putting them into the jade pot. If the fruit of the Zi Ye Lan is not harvested within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea after it is ripe, it will dissipate into mist with the wind. Lin Xiao had already missed the harvest date once and was scolded by Hua Feng for half a month without being let off, and was also reprimanded by Dan Xia for nearly half an hour without reason, so this time he did not dare to be late again.

  "Isn't it just the main ingredient for a beauty pill? Is it that important?" Lin Xiao stood up, shaking his head and complaining: "Shifu has already formed a golden elixir for decades, her appearance won't age. Hua Dajie is also only one step away from forming a golden elixir, although she looks older now, but in the future, she can still regain her youthful appearance. What use is this beauty pill to them?"

  Lin Xiao still doesn't understand some of women's fixations at present!

  Sheathing the jade dagger, Lin Xiao turned around to head back to the wooden hut, using his fingers to pick at a silk tassel on the jade flask. Suddenly, someone rushed in from outside the forest, and upon seeing Lin Xiao, they cheered and flung themselves into his arms. Soft jade warmth filled his embrace, and Lin Xiao's hands instinctively wrapped around the person. However, the palm-sized jade flask flew off his fingers, spinning through the air. In Lin Xiao's despairing gaze, the jade flask smashed accurately onto a rock, shattering into powder. As the night wind blew, the dozen or so "Midnight Orchid" fruit inside dispersed as vibrant red mist.

  "Heavens!" Lin Xiao shouted towards the sky: "It's gone again!"

  It seems like the same thing happened last time, when it was time to harvest 'Zi Ye Lan', Yao'er excitedly brought over a bowl of some medicinal soup for Lin Xiao to try. Lin Xiao drank the whole bowl in one gulp and fell into a deep sleep for three days and three nights, naturally missing the timing. This time, the fruit is already in hand, but it's still Yao'er...

  "Medicine Elder Sister! My 'Midnight Orchid'!" Lin Xiao's body trembled as he looked at Medicine's smiling face, and he wailed: "Even if Master Mother scolds me again, I'm not afraid, but being nagged by Flower Elder Sister for half a month will kill me! This time, you have to bear the blame with me! I've already harvested the fruit of 'Midnight Orchid', but now..."

  "Oh? That flower again?" Medicine didn't seem to take this matter to heart, she sneakily looked around in Lin Xiao's arms, then grabbed his ear and dragged him back into the house. "Bang bang bang", Medicine closed the door and windows of the wooden house tightly, then exerted all her strength to set up a three-ring warning seal inside the house.

  "Hurray! It's done!" Yao'er jumped up and down in Lin Xiao's room, then pulled out a purple jade board from her bosom. "Quickly, use the Longqing Jue first layer, fourth layer, sixth layer's method to infuse three strands of true yuan into the jade board, quickly! It's good stuff!" Yao'er forcibly handed the jade board to Lin Xiao, her small face full of joyful smile, her right hand rapidly pinching Lin Xiao's arm, urging him on.

  The purple jade slab has an excellent texture, and the jade is almost semi-transparent. Inside, there are countless layers of purple clouds floating around, surrounded by a circle of bright purple light. When holding the jade in his hand, Lin Xiao felt that the jade was smooth to the touch, but a subtle force seemed to be resisting the palm of his hand, as if it wanted to bounce his fingers off.

  "What's this?" Lin Xiao looked at Yao'er, puzzled as to what this thing was.

  "Idiot!" Yao'er jumped up and slapped Lin Xiao's forehead, which was now a head taller than hers. She snorted in annoyance, furrowing her brow: "Why do you have to be so stubborn? Can't you just follow instructions for once? Do you think I'd harm you? Hurry up and do it, there's great benefits! Huge benefits!" Yao'er's eyes shone with excitement as she suddenly burst into song, bouncing around the cramped wooden hut. Clearly, Yao'er was in an extremely good mood!

  "Huh, you're not going to hurt me? Medicine Master Sister, these past two years, you've already harmed me countless times." Lin Xiao looked at Medicine with a wronged expression, his heart filled with a sour feeling. He thought of the jade vase that Medicine had knocked over again! Heaven, Huafeng was going to go crazy this time! Even Danxia would accompany her in her madness! Lin Xiao's scalp felt numb.

  He let out a sigh, and after recalling the circulation route of the Longqing Jue, Lin Xiao raised a strand of Li Huo True Yuan from his Dan Tian. Following Yao Er's guidance, he circulated it through his body according to the first, fourth, and sixth layers of the Longqing Jue before injecting the three strands of True Yuan into the Jade Slab. Without trying, Lin Xiao discovered that the properties of his Li Huo True Yuan had undergone a subtle change - the scorching fire-type True Yuan now carried a layer of warm, nourishing energy. Lin Xiao was taken aback; could it be that the introductory technique of the Da Luo Dan Dao, the Longqing Jue, had some other mysterious uses that he wasn't aware of?

  However, Lin Xiao had no time to ponder this question. The three true yuan he infused into the jade plate were like three keys with special markings, breaking through the three layers of extremely complex seals within the jade plate and touching a certain flashing core inside. A torrent of information surged into Lin Xiao's mind, almost knocking him unconscious.

  That was a complex and vast database, which contained the identification methods, processing techniques, and refining secrets of tens of thousands of medicinal materials, as well as the insights and experiences of the Daluo Dan Tao ancestors in alchemy. The torrent of information was like a thunderbolt striking Lin Xiang's body, causing him to tremble violently.

  "Hoo!" A loud breath escaped, and Lin Xiao casually tossed aside the jade board, stumbling backward several steps. His eyes still saw countless spiritual incantations and hand seals dancing before him, while his ears seemed to hear thousands of former senior members of the Great Luo Dan Dao whispering various secrets of alchemy in his ear. The last four characters that emerged from the jade board made Lin Xiao's heart skip a beat. Those four golden characters were clearly visible to Lin Xiao - "Great Luo Dan Jing"!

  Lin Xiao tilted his head, looking at the already somewhat tired jumping, sitting cross-legged on a long bench pouring a pot of cool tea into his belly one cup after another.

  "Medicine girl sister, is this..." Lin Xiao's lips moved slightly, and he finally asked Medicine a question.

  Yao'er's eyebrows rose, and she gently patted the table with her palm. Her body floated lightly to Lin Xiao's side, and she intimately hugged his arm: "This is the Great Luo Dan Jing! The highest secret scripture of our Great Luo Dan Tao, which includes everything about the Great Luo Dan Tao!" Her face casually rubbed against Lin Xiao's arm, and Yao'er wiped all the tea water from her mouth onto his hand. She smiled proudly: "Shifu and Shizun said that I would need to spend three months' worth of effort to absorb all the records inside. But I only took less than a moment to memorize everything. How about you?"

  Three months, one quarter!

  Lin Xiao thought back to the time it took him to absorb all the information in the Daluo Dan Jing, roughly about an hour or so. He couldn't help but stare at Yao in shock, asking in a low voice: "What's going on? What Master and the others said should be true, with our current cultivation level, we're probably really going to need three months of day and night non-stop contemplation and absorption to memorize all the contents inside...but we..."

  The little girl narrowed her eyes and looked at Lin Xiao with a hint of confusion. However, she soon burst out laughing: "This means you're as clever as me? What's strange about that? Hmm, look, does your master treat you well or not? Got benefits and immediately brought them to you! Yeah, the Great Luo Dan Jing! Hehe, this is something only Master and the others are qualified to comprehend, but this time we got a good deal!"

  The little girl's pale face was right in front of him, with a smile like a newly bloomed orchid, which made Lin Xiao stunned for a moment.

  The medicine child continued to excitedly say: "Master wants me to close the door for three months to comprehend the Great Luo Dan Jing, and then immediately return this jade board. Hehe, I'm going to go into seclusion soon, so I'll come and let you try it too, see if you can remember what's inside. Indeed, little brother is as smart as me!" The medicine child happily patted Lin Xiao's face and said with a sense of righteousness: "I know you stayed in the Dan room of the Wasteland Character to help me, so when I get something good, I'll share it with you, isn't that right, little brother?"

  "Sharing good fortune and sharing adversity", this is a phrase that Lin told Ya'er during his leisure time, telling stories of the good men he met when practicing medicine at Hui Chun Tang. Ya'er, who grew up in Hui Chun Valley since childhood, remembered these rough words firmly. However, she only dared to say them out loud in front of Lin.

  "Ah, yes!" Lin Xiao's heart skipped a beat as he gazed at Yao's beautiful face, and he suddenly felt an inexplicable urge.

  He and Yao'er had experiences of being on the verge of death, but every time it wasn't a pleasant thing, every time he was severely injured to the point of dying, Yao'er hastily gave him medicine to save his life.

  But this time, it's different.

  Lin Xiao knew that this time was completely different.

  He forcibly turned over the medicine boy's body and buried his head in it.

  Under the astonished gaze of Yao Ruoxian, Lin Xiao somewhat awkwardly kissed her.

  Yaoyao rolled her eyes, instinctively holding her breath. A pair of small hands that had been pinching Lin Xiao's soft ribs now gently encircled his waist and patted his back lightly. Yaoyao closed her eyes, seemingly enjoying this intimate contact that made her feel a sweet sensation in her heart, even though she didn't understand it.

  After a long time, their lips parted.

  Lin Xiao took a few steps back, and Yao also took a few steps back. The two young people, who had been holding their breath for so long that their faces were red and their necks were purple, suddenly started panting violently at the same time. Fortunately, as cultivators, they had longer breaths than ordinary people; if it were an ordinary person who held their breath for over a minute while kissing, they would have suffocated to death already.

  The little one stuck out her tongue and licked her red lips, then suddenly tilted her mouth: "Hmph, I haven't had dinner yet. You go help me roast mountain chicken to eat~~~ Ugh, did you have pickled mustard greens steamed buns from the cafeteria for dinner again? The smell of pickled mustard greens is awful!"

  The magical medicine has the ability to shatter all the wonderful atmosphere with just one sentence.

  Lin Xiao's face turned bright red, and he obediently ran out of the wooden house to go hunting for wild chickens in the back mountain.

  While running wildly in the mountain forest, Lin Xiao cursed the steward of the partner's house to hell.