Chapter 63: Ice and Fire Body Refining, How to Use Immortal Herbs Correctly?
At the intersection of the Yin Yang Ice and Fire Eyes, the flames in the Medicine Cauldron reflected on the surrounding mountain walls, dancing and leaping like claws and fangs.
Staring intently at the churning flames in the Medicine Cauldron, Tang Chuan's slightly pale face was covered in sweat, and he looked somewhat weak.
Long periods of alchemy consumed a tremendous amount of spirit power and spiritual force, and since it was Tang Chuan's first time refining medicine, he lacked experience. Thus, he was already feeling fatigued.
"Forget it, I'll rest for a bit."
"After more than a day of experimentation, I can now, through spiritual force, initially extract impurities and harmful substances from medicinal ingredients. It's a small achievement!"
Slowly exhaling a breath of turbid Qi, Tang Chuan stopped his movements. Immediately after, his body, as if drained of strength, slumped onto the cold ground behind him.
He gasped for breath, his chest rising and falling continuously.
Just then, a figure stepped through the air from a distance.
In a few breaths, he appeared before Tang Chuan.
"Oh? Why are you lying on the ground?" Senior Dugu Bo stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at Tang Chuan, a faint smile playing on his lips: "It seems refining medicine has taken quite a toll on you."
Hearing this, Tang Chuan quickly propped himself up with his arms, sat upright, and forced himself to speak with renewed vigor:
"Senior Dugu, why have you come? Is something the matter?"
Dugu Bo nodded, saying with a serious expression:
"I have something urgent to attend to and need to return to Heaven Dou City. I've already arranged things with Dugu Yan; she won't run around, so you can continue refining medicine here with peace of mind."
"Understood." Tang Chuan nodded slightly, then said earnestly: "Senior, rest assured, before you return, I will definitely complete the medicinal pill for regulating your granddaughter's physique."
"Good, I believe you won't disappoint me."
Dugu Bo nodded in satisfaction, then a green light flashed on his body, and he soared into the air. Tapping his toes on the mountain wall, he ascended towards the top of the mountain pass like a large bird.
Just as he was about to leave the mountain pass, he seemed to remember something, and his voice clearly drifted down: "Kid, remember, don't touch those two hot springs. Even I can't withstand their extreme heat and cold for too long. If you touch them, you'll only find death."
Watching Dugu Bo's figure gradually disappear into the mist, a curve slowly formed on Tang Chuan's lips as he thought to himself:
"This old poisoner has finally left."
"Since you're gone, I can now freely execute everything that follows."
Having read the original work, Tang Chuan naturally knew that the spring water of the Yin Yang Ice and Fire Eyes was untouchable.
But what if he absorbed the Blazing Apricot Cabbage and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass? As long as he absorbed these two Immortal Herbs simultaneously, he would be able to enter the spring water of the Yin Yang Ice and Fire Eyes for body refining.
In the original work, it was precisely because Tang San absorbed these two Immortal Herbs and underwent body refining in the Yin Yang Ice and Fire Eyes that his Blue Silver Grass Spirit became impervious to both fire and water.
Such an opportunity? How could Tang Chuan easily let it go?
He slowly walked to the shore beside the milky-white spring water of the Yin Yang Ice and Fire Eyes. Immediately, an intense chill assailed him, as if the air itself had frozen into fine frost crystals.
Amidst the swirling white mist.
Tang Chuan's gaze fell upon a peculiar plant quietly standing in a rock crevice.
This medicinal plant was entirely ice-blue, with eight sharp, blade-like leaves as transparent as ice crystals. Each leaf surface shimmered with cold light, and a faint blue ice mist subtly diffused from them, suppressing the nearby temperature to an alarming degree.
It was precisely the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass recorded in the "Immortal Herb Treasure Record"!
Without the slightest hesitation, Tang Chuan took a deep breath. Then, he took out a gleaming small dagger from his embrace, squatted down, and concentrated for a moment.
Immediately, he wielded the dagger with clean and swift movements.
He deftly cut the root of the Mysterious Ice Grass from the rock crevice.
Cold Qi immediately permeated the air, coating the surrounding medicinal plants with a faint layer of white frost.
After cutting down the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Tang Chuan did not linger in place, nor did he pick it up. Instead, he swiftly ran to the other side of the Yin Yang Ice and Fire Eyes, to the center of the scorching Yang Spring.
To make his actions faster, Tang Chuan even used the flight ability of the Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone, almost instantly arriving before the Blazing Apricot Cabbage.
Since the "Immortal Herb Treasure Record" stated that iron tools should not be used to pluck the Immortal Herb Blazing Apricot Cabbage, as it might affect its medicinal properties, Tang Chuan actually squatted down directly and, extending both hands, began to dig out the Blazing Apricot Cabbage with his bare hands.
In just a moment, his palms were scorched, with skin torn and flesh exposed.
However, fortunately, he possessed the 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone.
The Spirit Bone skill, "Wildfire never burns out, spring wind blows it to life again"—activated.
In an instant, his palms recovered as before, under the continuous blessing of life force.
According to the original work and the records in the "Immortal Herb Treasure Record," both of these Immortal Herbs contain potent toxins. However, if consumed simultaneously, they can counteract each other's poisons, neutralizing their toxicity.
For these two extremely abnormal Immortal Herbs, trying to refine them first before consuming them was almost impossible. Because with Tang Chuan's current strength, merely approaching and touching them was already very difficult, so how could he possibly rely on refining to remove the impurities and harmful substances within them?
Therefore, the only thing he could do now was to, like Tang San in the original work, directly open his mouth and swallow these two Immortal Herbs simultaneously.
Thinking of this, Tang Chuan extended both hands, and two Blue Silver Grasses shot out like streaks of silk, simultaneously reaching for the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Blazing Apricot Cabbage.
The moment the tips of the Blue Silver Grasses bound these two Immortal Herbs, he exerted force like lightning, pulling both Immortal Herbs towards his position at the same time.
Almost the instant the Blue Silver Grasses delivered the two Immortal Herbs to him, Tang Chuan suddenly reached out and firmly grasped both the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Blazing Apricot Cabbage.
Extreme cold and scorching heat erupted at once, as if two completely opposing extreme forces were tearing wildly at his palms.
Even Tang Chuan, with his strong physique, couldn't help but tremble all over, his face contorted in pain.
"I'll risk it!"
With a low roar, Tang Chuan didn't hesitate. He abruptly opened his mouth and forcefully crammed the two Immortal Herbs into it!
In an instant, the potent medicinal power of the toxins surged like a tide within his body.
Tang Chuan's entire body trembled violently, his face instantly turning alternately crimson and icy blue, as if burning flames and freezing frost were surging through his blood. Hot like magma, cold like a frigid pool, the torment of both ice and fire nearly tore him apart from within!
"Alternating extreme cold and extreme heat?!"
"It's simply a double heaven of ice and fire!"
His pupils slightly contracted, Tang Chuan's face turned somewhat grim, his body convulsed violently, veins bulging, as if he were being roasted between scorching flames and freezing ice.
At this moment, he could still barely control his body. So, he quickly took a deep breath, then with a splash, he jumped into the Yin Yang Ice and Fire Eyes ahead.
Time flowed like water, from morning to night, it was merely the rising and setting of the sun.
By the time Tang Chuan crawled out of the spring water of the Yin Yang Ice and Fire Eyes, his body had undergone tremendous changes.
Water droplets slid down his upper body; every inch of his muscles seemed to have been forged by the tempering of intense flames and the quenching of ice, with distinct lines and an extremely robust appearance.
"My physique is clearly much stronger than before." Slowly clenching his fist, Tang Chuan suddenly swung it forward, and the air subtly produced a faint sonic boom.
He could clearly feel that the blood within his body seemed to be more turbulent and powerful than before, his meridians much wider, and the speed of his spirit power circulation was more than twice as fast as it used to be.
"Not bad. If this is the case, I can choose a higher age limit when absorbing spirit rings in the future."
"I just don't know if the Blue Silver Grass has changed?"
With a thought, he slowly opened his palm, and a Blue Silver Grass quietly emerged from Tang Chuan's palm.
The originally clear blue-gold grass leaves now had faint dark red and ice-blue edges, and a subtle red and blue light glowed faintly in the center of the grass leaves.
"The Blue Silver Grass seems to have become tougher, and it has simultaneously gained fire resistance and water resistance. In the future, when facing Blazing Academy and Tianshui Academy, I won't have to worry about being countered by them at all."
"As for how Tang San will deal with these two Academies? Only heaven knows."
"Perhaps he'll be forced to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer earlier!"
Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl into a slight arc.
"Next..." Turning to look at the cave not far away, Tang Chuan's expression became serious, and he whispered: "I need to quickly refine the medicinal pills to improve Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo's physiques."
Immediately, he went to the medicinal garden beside the Yin Yang Ice and Fire Eyes and began to pluck Immortal Herbs.
These included the Phoenix Cockscomb Crest, the Love-Struck Heartbreak Red, the Beautiful Silk Tulip, the Narcissus Jade Bone, the Autumn Water Dew, the Chrysanthemum, the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, the Snow Silkworm, and many other Immortal Herbs.
After some research, Tang Chuan felt that if he were to directly give an entire Immortal Herb to a specific person, as in the original work, it would be a complete waste of heavenly treasures.
Not to mention that directly consuming it without removing the harmful substances might reduce its efficacy.
The medicinal effect of a single Immortal Herb is extremely terrifying.
For example, the Beautiful Silk Tulip, the medicinal effect of this Immortal Herb is that it can evolve the Spirit. The user could completely divide it into several portions, and then, supplemented with other Immortal Herbs, refine it into a medicinal pill.
This would not only make it easier to absorb but also allow for the acquisition of multiple medicinal effects.
For example, the Chrysanthemum, which is a neutral Immortal Herb. After consumption, it can circulate Qi through the limbs and blood through the eight meridians, helping the consumer cultivate an indestructible body.
If it were refined into a medicinal pill together with the Beautiful Silk Tulip, then the consumer would very likely be able to both evolve their Spirit and cultivate an indestructible body.
If the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, which has a gentle and mellow medicinal property that can strengthen the foundation, nourish the primordial Qi, and remove impurities from the body, were added, then the consumer's cultivation speed could also be improved.
It's somewhat similar to increasing one's innate spirit power Rank.
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