Chapter 1 The Wedge Seeking Collection

  "Dad, it's not like that. That little Wang was not so obedient just a few days ago. He didn't stay at home all day and mixed with his gang of friends every day. Since the last time he teased the Moon family's daughter and I beat him up, he lay in bed for several days, after getting up, he changed his nature, like a different person." General Wang Zhen Tian, King Yu's father, explained.

  "Alright, no need to say more. I already know all about it, let's talk about something else. The medicinal herbs your father asked me to find, I've brought them all for you. What do you plan to use these herbs for?" Wang Yu's grandfather said, staring at Wang Yu intently.

  "Please listen to my plan, I'm going to refine these medicinal herbs into a Wash Marrow and Cut Bone Pill. With this kind of spiritual medicine refined into a pill, it can improve one's physical constitution. I plan to refine a batch." Wang Yu said respectfully.

  Wang Yu's grandfather hesitated for a moment, "There is actually such a spiritual medicine in the world, why have I never heard of it before."

  "That's natural, it's what I got from my teacher."

  "Respected teacher? Why have I never heard you mention having a master before?"

  "Sun Er's master is a high-ranking Taoist who has transcended worldly desires and rarely ventures into the world. Sun Er only met him by chance, and his master said that Sun Er possesses spiritual roots and is a good candidate for cultivation, so he took Sun Er as his apprentice and taught him the methods of cultivation and some alchemy formulas. That's why Sun Er came to ask his father for spiritual materials." Wang Yu explained.

  "So that's how it is! I wonder how much of that elixir you can cultivate? Can you leave some for our family?" Wang Yu's grandfather said excitedly.

  "This? If there's enough material, refining a few furnaces is no problem."

  "The material is no problem, as much as can be refined."

  "Then please prepare a dan room and sufficient materials for me, Grandson. I'll start refining now."

  Wang Yu walked into the Dan room and saw a large, blue tripod standing upright in the center of the room, surrounded by piles of spiritual materials. Excitedly stroking the tripod, he silently shouted to himself: I, Wang Yu, am back again! Looking at the scattered spiritual materials, Wang Yu quietly counted them, thinking that with this amount, he could probably refine three to five thousand Soul Washing Pills.

  The Dan furnace rose with fire, the fire in the furnace grew stronger and stronger. Wang Yu looked at the time and thought it was almost done. One by one, the spiritual materials were submerged into the large cauldron. After waiting for a moment, he opened the furnace and found only a pile of medicinal residue. Looking at this pile of medicinal residue, Wang Yu felt a mix of emotions, thinking that he had been too impatient. Wang Yu continued to refine with an unchanged expression, failing repeatedly. However, Wang Yu did not give up and finally succeeded in refining the first Xī Suǐ Dān after more than 400 failures.

  Wang Yuxin was overjoyed and held up the elixir, rushing out of the Dan room to report the good news to his father and grandfather who were waiting outside.

  Wang Yu's father questioned, "Can this small pill really improve a person's physique?"

  "If you don't believe me, try it," Wang Yu said confidently.

  Wang Zhen Tian picked up the dan medicine and swallowed it in one gulp, upon seeing this scene, Wang Yu was shocked, "Father, you can't do that! The medicinal properties of the dan medicine are too potent, taking it like this is too dangerous. It needs to be dissolved in water and taken with dragon tongue grass."

  Seeing his father, who had taken the elixir, undergoing a brutal training session, rolling around on the ground in agony, Wang Yu was at a loss for what to do. After about an hour, Wang Zhen Tian lay on the ground, panting heavily, "This elixir is incredible, I feel that many of my internal injuries have disappeared, and my strength has increased greatly, allowing me to advance from Earth Sword Master to Sky Sword Master."

  Seeing that his father was fine, Wang Yu once again entered the Dan room and began his alchemy life.

  A month had passed, and the thin Wang Yu walked out of the Dan room with a jade bottle in his hand that was filled with crystal clear Washing Marrow Dans. Among them were 863 low-grade Washing Marrow Dans, 376 mid-grade Washing Marrow Dans, 118 high-grade Washing Marrow Dans, and three top-grade Washing Marrow Dans. This was Wang Yu's harvest for the past month.

  It turned out that Wang Yu had been making elixirs almost non-stop for a month. He made a batch of elixirs for his family.

  Looking at the handful of these washing marrow dan, Wang Yu was overjoyed, because with these washing marrow dan, Wang Yu had the capital to cultivate.

  But Wang Yu calmed down and thought that the effect of the Extreme Pill was too great, and taking it with his current physical condition would only lead to his death. So Wang Yu didn't rush to take the pill, but instead called over a servant and opened up a prescription for him to gather each of the spiritual materials listed on it, bringing back ten kilograms of each, and also preparing a wooden tub for bathing, boiling water in preparation for further instructions.

  Wang Yu sat cross-legged, silently reciting the Clear Lotus Quiet Mind Mantra in his heart. After a while of quiet meditation in the practice room, everything was ready. Wang Yu took off his clothes and stepped into the medicine vat, where the temperature was extremely high. How could Wang Yu's weak body endure it? He slowly sank to the bottom of the vat.

  Wang Yu thought of the Heavenly Decree Oral Formula, and the faint airflow in his body began to circulate: one cycle... eighteen cycles... forty-eight cycles... eighty-one cycles... two hundred and eighty-eight cycles. The color of the medicinal liquid in the vat gradually changed, slowly becoming colorless, then turning black again. These black substances were all impurities discharged from Wang Yu's body.

  Wang Yu opened his eyes in the medicine vat, with a joyful expression revealed in his eyes.

  Wang Yu stepped out of the medicine cauldron, and the originally pale and thin man became strong and robust, with a radiant complexion, spirited and refreshed, having skin that made women jealous, as delicate and smooth as a baby's, and even more crystal clear in the sunlight. Wang Yu put on a light purple robe and walked out of the practice room, saying: "Where is the person? Quickly prepare a quiet room for Ben Shao, no one is allowed to enter without Ben Shao's orders."

  "Yes, I'll go and take care of it right away."

  Having someone serve you feels different, and you don't have to listen to the master like on the mountain. Wang Yu thought to himself.

  The housekeeper in the mansion led Wang Yu to the best quiet room in the General's Mansion, waved his hand for the housekeeper to retreat, and looked around the quiet room. It was a quiet room of about 20 square meters, with walls made of granite over 10 meters thick. Inside, there was only a stone bed and a tea table with a teapot and a tea bowl on it, which seemed to be left behind by his father when he closed himself in for meditation. Then Wang Yu found the place with the most abundant spiritual energy in the quiet room, sat down cross-legged, and the spiritual energy under the earth surged into him like crazy as he operated the Heaven-Opening Scripture. His body was like a bucket that could never be filled, absorbing it frantically. One day passed, two days passed, three days passed. Wang Yu woke up from his meditation in shock to find himself already at the bottleneck of the third layer of the initial stage of Qi Refining, and when he calculated with his fingers, he found that only three days had passed, which meant one layer per day! This speed was unimaginable even under the best cultivation conditions in his previous life. It was simply faster than riding a rocket!

  Wang Yu felt that this matter was simply too strange, how could the absorption of spiritual energy become so fast? Moreover, the spiritual energy was extremely pure and didn't need to be refined. Wang Yu extended his weak but unusually strong divine sense (in the current stage, almost no one could rival him) and discovered that the underground spiritual energy was dense and fog-like. Further down, spiritual water droplets began to appear. Further down still, Wang Yu's divine sense couldn't penetrate anymore. Withdrawing his divine sense, Wang Yu was shocked in his heart - this place was actually a spiritual vein!