Chapter 362 Pill Embryo
Therefore, most practitioners at this level are very cautious and only spend a short period of time every day to cultivate the golden elixir. The rest of the time is just to use magic power to nourish the unfinished elixir embryo, or do other things, such as comprehending magic spells, reading Taoist scriptures, or traveling in the human world.

I have learned the Samadhi True Fire, and I can melt much more jade liquid, lead and mercury every day than ordinary people, but there is still an upper limit. The free time every day is just as much as other practitioners.

This is probably the most leisurely period of time on the path of spiritual practice.

After achieving the Golden Elixir, you will suddenly become busy. You need to cultivate the Yang God. In addition to refining the purple energy every day, you must also diligently refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The Golden Elixir and the Yin God are both the key to cultivating the Yang God.

However, Dong Ye Yu has no idea yet on how to transform the Yin Spirit into the Yang Spirit – after all, he has not yet learned the method to refine the spirit and return to the realm of emptiness.

Just from the description in the Taoist Canon, Patriarch Zhengyang once mentioned the need to shatter the soul and spirit, use the golden elixir as the basis, generate true yang from the void, and then achieve a pure yang god, freely travel between heaven and earth, and reach the realm of “both form and spirit are perfect.”

This is very mysterious. How can a person survive if his soul is shattered?

Dong Ye Yu read it over and over again but still had no clue. Perhaps he would have to wait until he truly reached the Golden Elixir realm before he could gain some understanding.

During the period of cultivating the golden elixir, Dongye Yu used most of his spare time to practice magic spells and supernatural powers. With the help of the annotations and jade slips of his predecessors, the Samadhi True Fire was not difficult to learn, and now he has gotten into the basics.

The rest of the time, he is like now, staying with Miko, Sanae (Ruri), Hiiragi Kagami and the others, and of course, Kaori and Shiori are also there.

That day, Hiiragi Jing said that the two girls insisted on coming over to play, so Higashino Yu took out a Jiao pear to treat them, one quarter of it for each person.

Kaori Shiori had been refining her energy for a few days after eating the pear tree, and she had just entered the stage of refining qi and transforming it into spirit today.

During the day, Dongye Yu explained to them the precautions of the Yin Shen stage and also told them that they must not leave the shrine.

They agreed very well at that time, and the two girls were very well-behaved, but their expressions changed immediately when they saw the sun setting, which was consistent with Dong Ye Yu’s stereotype of them.

The remaining Mitsuki and Sanae each took half – they were mortals, so it would be good for them to eat more.

Maybe one day in the future it will be this little bit of luck that will help them get through a disaster?
As for yourself?

Of course I ate it too, and I ate a whole pill.

Before eating the pear, Dongye Yu looked up the almanac and found that the recent period was auspicious days, so he picked an auspicious day and ate the pear early to refine it.

However, the improvement in magic power and spiritual essence can only be considered mediocre.

Dong Ye Yu calculated based on his current practice speed. If the concentration of spiritual energy in heaven and earth did not change in the future, this one Jiao Pear would only be equivalent to his ten years of hard practice.

To be honest, a little disappointed.

Of course, I would not expect to ascend to heaven immediately after eating the fairy fruit, but it was only enough to equal more than ten years of hard training, which was a bit lame and not worthy of the resounding name of Jiaoli.

Dong Ye Yu was disappointed, but he thought about it carefully and felt that it might be related to the fact that he was a monster.

Monsters at the same level are generally much stronger than mortal practitioners in terms of magic power and fighting skills, but the price is that for every step forward in the monsters’ practice, the spiritual energy they need far exceeds that of humans.

If there were all kinds of elixirs and magic medicines, the monsters’ shortcomings would naturally no longer be shortcomings.

But ordinary monsters are basically beggars from other places in the mountains. They obtain resources by stealing or robbing, and the key is that they don’t have many chances to succeed.

Taking drugs? Don’t even think about it, you can only dream to maintain your life. So most monsters can only use time to accumulate strength, become strong enough to fly bricks – or eat people.

Fortunately, although monsters practice slowly, their lifespan is much longer than that of mortals. This is why monsters who have successfully practiced are either old monsters who have practiced for a thousand years, or old monsters who have practiced for ten thousand years.

The man-eating monsters are relatively young – most of them were slain before they could grow into anything powerful.

As a monster, my experience bar is a bit scary, so of course I need more.
Although this pear did not allow him to ascend to heaven immediately, after refining it, it made the magic power in his dantian full and complete. As long as he looked inward, he could see the shining light, and he had reached the limit of his current realm.

It’s not that eating more will be without effect, it just won’t improve your cultivation. The spiritual energy in your body will become more, but it will mostly increase your lifespan.

I have a long life to begin with, so I don’t need to give up the short life span given by Li.

After spending some time refining the Jiaoli, Dongye Yu no longer refined the spiritual essence of heaven and earth during his subsequent practice.

In addition to the required practice of refining purple qi every morning, the rest of the time is used to practice Samadhi True Fire. At the same time, he also uses himself as the furnace, Samadhi True Fire as firewood, and lead, mercury and jade liquid as raw materials to practice the golden elixir.

Extract lead and add mercury to harmonize the dragon and the tiger.

At midnight, perform “Flying Golden Crystal Behind the Elbow” to move kidney water (lead) upward according to “Jade Liquid Returning Elixir Jue” of Lingbao Bifa.

At noon, guard the “Jianggong Lihuo” to guide the heart fluid (mercury) downward and form “water and fire cinnabar” in Huangting.

After calcining in this way, the Huangting becomes like a furnace for elixir, with heart liquid and jade liquid representing the innate vitality constantly gathering in the Samadhi True Fire.

In the raging red flames, there was already a pill embryo with a hazy pure white halo floating up and down, with golden lines flashing inside and outside. Dong Yeyu had once observed it carefully out of curiosity, and what he gained was extremely mysterious and complicated, which gave him a deeper understanding of the path to immortality.

According to the jade slips, it is the concrete manifestation of the great Dao contained in the human body. Sitting and observing oneself is like looking at a reflection in a mirror. Although it cannot be touched, one can still gain something.

After Dong Yeyu sat in meditation, he checked the condition of the golden elixir embryo. At this time, the golden elixir had not yet taken shape and looked like an egg standing upright.

Everything seemed to be developing in the normal direction. Dongye Yu breathed a sigh of relief and counted the days.

It has been twenty-three days since I started practicing the Golden Elixir.

Generally speaking, the actual smelting time required to achieve the golden elixir will not be too long. It is hard to say for those with poor talent. A mediocre person may need a hundred days or half a year, while a person with good talent can achieve the golden elixir within a hundred days.

If you are fortunate enough to learn the Samadhi True Fire, this time will be greatly shortened.

With the help of Samadhi True Fire, I should be able to make the pill within a month or two, right?
Dong Yeyu felt the speed at which the pill embryo was taking shape and estimated a vague number roughly. Even though he was in an absolutely calm and rational state of meditation, there was still an irrepressible sense of joy rising in his heart.

This is the joy that comes from the instinct of life, the joy for the true sublimation that is about to come.

It was not suitable to remove lead and add mercury at this time, so Dong Ye Yu just took a look at the condition of the pill embryo and then began to practice Samadhi True Fire.

The red flame is only the most basic form of the Samadhi True Fire. Although it has the power to melt steel into water, it is still not enough. To reach the power to burn the sky and boil the sea, it must be cultivated to the level of the invisible glazed flame.

This magical spell is now my main spell, and it has the best cost-effectiveness. It can not only serve as a protective spell, but also help in cultivation, killing two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)