Chapter 116: Another Path

  Refining Dan! Facing Xu Yu's gaze, Li Honghui hesitated for a moment before explaining straightforwardly.

  But his words made Xǔ Yú and Lín Yán both stunned, Alchemy? Does alchemy have something to do with letting the five elements merge into one...?

  Even more, just now when he heard Li Songhui say that there was a way, he thought the other party would mention some kind of rare and precious medicine or a genius treasure, but unexpectedly, it wasn't medicine at all, but alchemy!

  "Hehe, don't be surprised, Brother Xu. This is also something Li knows about you being a martial arts dual cultivator. As for me, I only know a little about the Tao of Martial Arts, just scratching the surface. So if I really had to think about 'how to make the five elements merge into one' from a martial arts perspective, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to do it. But from the perspective of cultivating the truth, I can still come up with some ideas." Li Honghui didn't mind the two men's astonishment and continued to explain directly.

  His words are also true, as for martial arts, he is still an outsider, perhaps there are many ways to solve this problem, but he doesn't know at all.

  But once there's a problem, he can easily consider it from the perspective of Xiuzhen. Of course, this is also thanks to Xu Yu being a martial arts dual cultivator, otherwise he wouldn't have mentioned alchemy.

  "The five elements unite as one. Although I don't know much, the most important thing is to perfectly combine the scattered and independent powers of the five elements. In this regard, I think ordinary objects are hard to achieve such an effect. The key still lies in Brother Xu's own understanding, and those who have the most insight into this are undoubtedly the alchemists. For them, their daily task is to refine the spiritual herbs and medicines filled with the spirits of each element into finished elixirs. Sometimes, they even need to perfectly refine two opposing spiritual objects, such as fire-elemental objects and water-elemental objects, together to produce extraordinary elixirs. In this process, how to combine the elements has its own deepest understanding, and this understanding will definitely be helpful to Brother Xu." As Li Songhui spoke, Xu Yu gradually fell into deep thought.

  It is undeniable that the other party is speaking the truth, and his current difficulty lies in lacking a certain understanding or technique to merge the originally independent Five Elements into one. However, refining the elixir is precisely about enhancing this understanding and skill.

  If he were to perfectly refine the various spiritual objects that were originally mutually opposed or repelled each other into a kind of elixir, then in the process, there would definitely be some loss and enlightenment.

  "Even with this method, I'm afraid it's not easy for anyone to grasp quickly. If someone else were to learn from scratch, without any prior experience with alchemy, just rushing into cultivation, who knows how many years they would waste? After all, the path of alchemy is vast and profound, but Brother Xu... heh heh"

  Just as Xu Yu was deep in thought, Li Honghui suddenly smiled strangely. This method is indeed only suitable for Xu Yu. Others may want to replicate it, but it's probably impossible. After all, in the cultivation world, whether it's alchemy, artifact refinement, or array formation, everything requires day and night cultivation, comprehension, and a huge amount of effort. There is no shortcut to success.

  If someone also wants to improve their cultivation, they will definitely go for it, and with Xiu Yu's ability, he can master the true essence of five innate martial arts in just two days. This kind of talent can only be called a freak. Letting him start anew with alchemy isn't a big deal after all.

  What Li Songhui said earlier is also all true. If you want to achieve the unity of the five elements, ordinary external objects are really difficult to be effective. He simply doesn't know that there are things that can do this. Perhaps the Northern Spirit Platform and the Southern Cave Heaven, those truly blessed lands of immortals, have such treasures, but now they don't even qualify to enter. Unable to rely on external objects, one can only rely on self-cultivation.

  "Brother Xu, you can start from the most basic Dan Dao studies, and refine some basic things, such as taking different medicinal herbs that are filled with spiritual energy of water, fire, wood, earth, and metal, and refining them into healing pills. Once you master the rhythm and feeling of combining these spiritual herbs and medicines perfectly, then try to combine water and wood in a harmonious way, then water and fire in a conflicting way, until finally, if Brother Xu can contain all five elements - water, wood, fire, earth, and metal - into one pill, I estimate that you will have a very deep understanding of how to make the five elements harmonize as one. When you try to combine your internal martial skills later on, it is highly likely that you will succeed."

  "As for the elixir and alchemy, you don't need to worry about it, Brother Xu. Although I, Nanming Island, do not specialize in this field, some basic elixirs can still be refined on our own. Later, I will send a message to the island and ask White Shidi, who has some experience in this area, to come to Linzhou and take you under his wing. In addition, we will also collect various alchemists' notes related to this field for your reference." "Also, regarding spiritual herbs and medicines, Nanming Island will definitely provide strong support for you, Brother Xu. Ordinary spiritual materials are naturally not a concern, even if they are not available, we can purchase them from other islands or sects." After expressing his selfless thoughts once again, Li Songyu then explained his plans one by one.

  But his words, however, moved Xu Yu's heart, even though the other party had approached him with ulterior motives at first. The other party had done everything in their power to help him break through. Looking deeply into Li Tonghui's eyes, Xu Yu smiled and said, "Then thank you, Brother Li."

  Although he accepted it lightly, in his heart, Xu Yu had already flashed a thought: "If one day, I can really break through and have the qualification to enter the North Spirit Mansion or the South Cave Heaven, then today's favor on Nanming Island will definitely be repaid in full." Hehe, Brother Xu is too polite, these are just trivial matters. Seeing Xu Yu's expression, Li Tonghui was overjoyed and hurriedly smiled and waved his hand.

  Xu Yu didn't say anything, but he also didn't need to spell everything out to be understood. He had already seen the movement of Xu Yu's heart.

  After laughing, Li Songhui then said to Qi Mu "You immediately send someone to the island, tell Bai Shidi, let him fly over to Linzhou immediately." "Yes!" Qi Mu also nodded quickly, and turned around to walk out.

  It wasn't until then that Xǔ Yú smiled and bid farewell to Lǐ Hóng Huī, after all, the remaining things still needed some time to be realized.

  After leaving the Emperor Hotel, Xǔ Yú thought for a moment before following Lín Yán towards the Lin family's direction.

  Even if he is now ignorant of alchemy, it doesn't mean that nothing can be done before the white-robed cultivator from Nanming Island arrives.

  At least he knew that among the storage rings of those many foundation-building monks he had killed before, there were a few jade slips introducing alchemy, as well as some other pill furnaces and spiritual herbs. He just didn't have time to study them carefully before.

  After arriving at the Lin's house, Xu Yu chose a guest room and then took out Ranyu Jian from the storage ring to study carefully. This kind of study was extremely fast, but many contents, he still only knew its surface, not understanding the inner meaning.

  Moreover, there was no pattern left for the alchemy-related things, and after a whole half-day of searching, his head got bigger, but the harvest was really meager.

  "Ah, if spiritual energy could be merged with text, it would be much better. But unfortunately, spiritual energy can't be merged at all. It seems that I can only wait for the white-robed cultivator to arrive and watch him refine his elixir before merging some techniques." He put away the jade slip, his mind still reeling from the vast amount of complex information he had just read. Xǔ Yú was really getting a headache.

  Although complaining, Xu Yu also knew that he was being overly optimistic. Mainly because in the past, no matter what shape he took, he could always rely on his spiritual energy to merge and fuse, which is why such thoughts arose. Furthermore, Xu Yu had even merged a first-rate spiritual energy, experimenting with it, but the result was not unexpected at all. The large amount of text that filled his mind was completely still, without any movement.

  However, when he merged a second-rate spiritual energy, the large amount of text that had been floating in his mind from time to time suddenly seemed to be startled and whirled around, rushing towards Zhong Ziqi.

  Then, all the words were thoroughly absorbed and converged, merging into the sea of consciousness and disappearing. Almost at the same time, his originally muddled brain suddenly became clear.

  Moreover, many places that were unclear before suddenly appeared with a thread of enlightenment. That enlightenment was very clear and transparent, just like an ordinary person thinking about a complex math problem for a long time without any solution, but suddenly, a flash of inspiration came, and the solution path was thought of. Following the twists and turns, the entire problem became clear. In that instant, Xu Yu was directly stunned! Second-grade spiritual energy has such an effect?

  To be honest, he had thought that the second-rate spiritual energy was just a qualitative change of the first-rate spiritual energy, and it only helped him in breaking through the tranquility.

  But unexpectedly, this second-rate spiritual energy, after undergoing a qualitative change, actually had the same effect as first-rate spiritual energy, and even had a qualitative transformation in its ability to merge with patterns. This was what truly made him ecstatic.

  However, these secondary spiritual energies, although they made him suddenly enlightened and quickly understood many of the problems that had been troubling him, were after all originally residual texts in his mind, and were still very disordered.

  So even after recovering from her ordeal, Xǔ Yú still had many places where she couldn't perfectly pass through.

  But that's no longer a problem, taking advantage of the effect of the second-order spiritual energy fusion still being there, he directly took out the jade slip from earlier and quickly started reading it from the beginning. This time, his study had truly achieved an extremely terrifying effect.

  It's almost as if it's at a glance, reading through, with the fusion effect of second-rate spiritual energy, where there are things that aren't clear, pausing for a moment, and then suddenly having an epiphany. Second-rate spiritual energy also has another extremely important characteristic, which is fusion time.

  A first-rate spiritual energy has about ten seconds of fusion time, but a second-rate spiritual energy is nine times that and more. That's a whole one to two minutes!

  One or two minutes is enough for Xǔ Yú to accept a huge amount of textual information!

  As he flipped through the jade slip, various contents and information were almost being absorbed by him in a flowing manner. Moreover, this was no longer just memorizing the words without understanding their meaning, but truly grasping them.

  One or two minutes later, after the spiritual energy fusion effect ended, Xu Yu sat cross-legged on the spot, closed his eyes to think for a while, and when he opened them again, his eyes directly revealed a thread of excited excitement.

  The jade slip in his hand recorded all the basic knowledge of alchemy, and it was extremely vast and broad. Even with his degree, he had only read about one-tenth of the content, but this one-tenth of the content had been thoroughly grasped by him.

  Here is the translation:

  "First update is out, direction is also thinking of sacrificing oneself without breaking, explosive all the way, today's monthly ticket momentum seems to be very good, hehe, everyone please give some encouragement ~, if you want to know what happens next,"