Chapter 55: The Legend of Dan Master

  As the hundred-million-jin Duanlong Stone was put down, Chu Yang's figure in white clothes disappeared completely from view. Chu Yi couldn't help but feel a sense of melancholy, "Is it three years or five years, or ten years, or even longer? Cultivation is unpredictable, who can know?"

  Returning to the main hall, Duan Qing and the other officials were already standing respectfully on one side, quietly waiting for orders.

  "Duan Qing, Master has already closed his doors, in the future, you will inevitably have more worries on Chun Jun Peak."

  Chu Yi simply handed over the trouble to Duan Qing, saying straightforwardly: "Don't look for me for small matters, report big matters at your discretion. Unless something happens that is beyond your ability to handle, don't disturb my cultivation."

  Chu Yi was dismissive, but Duan Qing was overjoyed. In his opinion, being able to gain the young master's trust was a great affirmation of himself. Moreover, Chu Yi had previously left a good impression on Duan Qing and the other stewards by being generous and never stingy with those under him. Now that Chun Yangzi was in seclusion, the highest authority belonged to Chu Yi, and being able to gain his trust made Duan Qing and the others extremely excited.

  Then he went to the Pure Yang Treasure Vault, which was a vast cave mansion located under the thousand-zhang steep cliff at the east end of Chun Jun Peak, protected by twelve powerful array formations.

  If it weren't for the Array of Turing's Decision, even a True Sovereign Embryo would have gotten into no small trouble by entering rashly. If someone like Chu Yi, an agile period cultivator, dared to force their way in, perhaps just one Protective Manor Grand Array would be enough to make them vanish into nothingness.

  Until he entered the cave, Chu Yi felt that Chunyangzi really treated himself as a successor to his clothes and hat, otherwise he would not have left such a treasure trove for him to take or leave.

  Tens of millions of spirit stones, all kinds of spiritual materials, thousands of them, and even hundreds of high-grade spiritual equipment, more than a dozen top-grade spiritual equipment, as well as two pieces of artifact-level spiritual treasures.

  Apart from this, the most numerous items in the Zhenzong Cave are various kinds of elixirs. Taking the "Three Yang Rebirth Elixir" as an example, roughly calculating, there are more than 10,000 of them. Although no Taoist elixir was found, it's just that the number of various spiritual elixirs is too large, and their quality is all top-notch three-product, with a total value estimated to be around 30-50 million spirit stones.

  Chun Yang Zi Jing's mastery of alchemy is among the top ten in the Wu Shang Xuan Yang Sect, and due to his cultivation of "Wu Mie Jiu Zhuan", he can only continue to impact the Yuan Ying period after achieving great success. This allows Chun Yang Zi Jing to spend a lot of time and energy on alchemy, resulting in many elixirs being stored here.

  "Master said I shouldn't be polite, can't see outsiders!"

  Looking at the various spiritual elixirs piled up like a small mountain in the Dan room, Chu Yu muttered to himself and with a few swift movements, swept nearly a third of the inventory in the Dan room into the Qiankun bag.

  Chu Yi then picked out two top-grade magical instruments and the only two high-grade spiritual instruments from among the many treasures, but didn't take even half a point of spirit stones. With his current value, 100,000 spirit stones really weren't that important to him anymore.

  In the next six months, Chu Yi secluded himself and made a breakthrough to the 9th realm of Lingdong with the support of a large amount of "Three Yang Rebirth Dan", barely touching the bottleneck of the Golden Elixir period.

  But unlike before, this golden elixir's neck is not at all like the foundation-building and refining stages of fusion. The fusion of the refined spirit is dynamic, and only those who have reached this stage can understand the difficulty involved.

  In the face of this unprecedented great bottleneck, nothing external could help Chu Yu. The difficulty of the Golden Elixir's bottleneck was beyond imagination. After more than three months of intense contemplation, Chu Yu finally had an epiphany.

  If I continue to cultivate in solitude, I will only sink deeper into it. Not to mention breaking through the Golden Elixir's bottleneck, being able to avoid going mad from excessive energy would already be a great stroke of luck.

  Chu Yi finally understood why the proverb "100-year-old golden elixir, 1,000-year-old primordial infant" was so widely spread. It wasn't an exaggeration at all. In fact, those who could cultivate the golden elixir in a hundred years were already extremely talented individuals. There wasn't a single great achiever of the golden elixir who succeeded overnight.

  It has been only five years since Chu Yi started practicing the "Three Elements Blazing Decree" and stepped into the path of refining his true self. For ordinary cultivators, it would be extremely difficult to even reach the foundation-building stage in such a short period of time. However, with the support of his cultivation method and a vast amount of spiritual pills, Chu Yi was able to ascend to the ninth realm of spiritual movement, a realm that many cultivators could only look up to.

  Having thought it through thoroughly, Chu Yi completely let go and stopped cultivating the Shocking Bottle Neck. He took the Jade Scepter that Pure Yangzi had given him before he closed up and devoted himself to studying it.

  Two jade slips recorded the methods of alchemy and equipment refinement, integrating many experiences of Chunyangzi. The method of refining equipment was nothing special, but the method of refining Dan was Chunyangzi's forte, which was detailed and vast, opening up a new world for Chuyi.

  Dan medicine is an indispensable thing for cultivators, whether you are in the pre-heavenly realm or the almighty god, you can't do without dan medicine. According to the records of Yu Jian, on the vast and endless sea, there are tens of millions of scattered cultivators, they don't use spiritual stones as currency for transactions, but instead use dan medicine for buying and selling, from this we can see how important dan medicine is in the minds of cultivators.

  The Xuan Yang Sect has over a million people, and the amount of elixirs consumed every day is simply astronomical. If it weren't for the fact that the sect has a special Dan Pavilion that raises thousands of professional dan makers and sells ordinary spiritual elixirs to its disciples at cost price, I'm afraid eight or nine out of ten people in the sect would have gone bankrupt.

  After all, the refining of Dan medicine is extremely time-consuming and requires meticulous research to achieve success. Naturally, when a spiritual material worth 1,000 spirit stones is refined into a Dan medicine, its price cannot be just 1,000 spirit stones. Doubling the price is absolutely necessary. Some rare and difficult-to-refine medicines are even sold at ten times their cost, and yet they can still attract cultivators to rush in and grab them.

  Therefore, any cultivator who has the talent to refine elixirs is more likely to be recognized and approached by others. In the cultivation world, based on the strength of one's elixir refining techniques and the quality of the elixirs produced, elixir-refining cultivators are divided into four ranks: Master, Sect Master, Great Sect Master, and Elixir Saint.

  Among the nine major sects, the one that is absolutely famous for alchemy is undoubtedly the Dan Ding Sect. According to legend, there are over 3,000 alchemy masters in the Dan Ding Sect, with 600 sect masters, 17 great sect masters, and two Alchemy Saints, one of whom is the current leader of the Dan Ding Sect, Lu Yaozi.

  Due to the existence of this batch of outstanding alchemy masters, Dan Ding Zong has always been the main object of being pulled and discussed among the nine major sects.

  In the records of Yu Jian, Chu Yi learned that his own master had already reached the level of a sect master ten years ago and even touched the threshold of a great sect master.

  Alchemic refinement is no different from cultivation, it's also a painstaking task that requires accumulation over time. Without perseverance, without in-depth research on various spiritual materials, and without the guidance of a wise teacher, wanting to successfully refine alchemy is absolutely a fool's dream.

  Due to the crazy breakthrough of nearly a hundred days, Chu Yi's heart was filled with annoyance that couldn't be dispelled. Although he had thought it through and come up with a solution, this emotion still lingered and couldn't be resolved. At this moment, as he read through the Alchemy Jade Classic, a flash of insight struck him - perhaps alchemy was the best way to dispel his frustration.