Chapter 59: Chapter 59 Elder Jin Preaches the Tao

The Heaven Mending Cauldron is mainly for offering sacrifices to suppress one’s destiny, and it can also be used to refine elixirs and spiritual artifacts.

Among various spiritual artifacts and magical treasures, pill furnaces are the most difficult to refine, involving many talismans which need combination and optimization.

The complexity and number of talismans involved in a pill furnace far surpass those of a flying sword.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

The earth fire is burning.

Lu Xuanji took out the materials and threw them into the artifact refining furnace, beginning to smelt the materials.

First, the impurities are removed, then the materials are fused into a whole. After a month, they form the prototype of a three-legged round cauldron.

On the round cauldron, spiritual light is shimmering, and the white jade glow undulates on the cauldron walls.

Lu Xuanji activated his divine thought, using spiritual power as a pen, and true essence as ink, to inscribe talismans in the void.

One stroke, two strokes, three strokes… Gradually, talismans resembling dragons and tigers appeared, with strange gleams, drawn with one hundred and three strokes.

Just inscribing one talisman made Lu Xuanji slightly out of breath.

The talisman on the Li Fire Sword is outlined by thirty-six strokes.

The talisman on the Wings of Freedom is outlined by fifty-two strokes.

But on the Heaven Mending Cauldron, the talisman is outlined by one hundred and three strokes, making it far more challenging than the previous two spiritual artifacts.

As Lu Xuanji finished the first talisman on the Heaven Mending Cauldron, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Just inscribing one talisman consumed half of his true essence and one-third of his spiritual power.

He quickly swallowed a Primordial Qi Pill to compensate for his losses and continued outlining and inscribing talismans.

After continuously inscribing three talismans, while attempting the fourth, his spirit seemed exhausted, true qi insufficient, leading to multiple failures, forcing him to abandon the continuous refining.

The Heaven Mending Cauldron absorbed the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, slowly taking shape.

Buzz buzz.

It seemed like the absorption of spiritual energy was fast, as in just a moment, the spiritual energy in the spiritual cave was depleted.

He took out spirit stones to supply the Heaven Mending Cauldron’s absorption.

After continuously absorbing a hundred spirit stones, the Heaven Mending Cauldron finally became sated.

Clatter.

The Heaven Mending Cauldron fell into his hand, causing Lu Xuanji to frown slightly in dissatisfaction.

The Heaven Mending Cauldron only had three talismans, ranked at the lowest level among first-grade spiritual artifacts, much inferior compared to the second-grade Li Fire Sword and Wings of Freedom.

He activated the Heaven Mending Cauldron, beginning the alchemy.

The elixir was the White Sun Pill, mainly using White Sun Rice.

Whoosh whoosh.

In just a moment, the refinement was successful.

He tasted it, finding the flavor rather mediocre, neither good nor bad.

A little disappointed, he still stored it in his dantian.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

Upon entering the dantian, the lid of the Heaven Mending Cauldron opened, and it began to madly absorb Lu Xuanji’s true essence.

“What’s happening?”

Lu Xuanji was slightly bewildered.

Seeming to realize something, he allowed the great cauldron to absorb the true essence.

The true essence within him was being consumed intensely.

When half was absorbed, the Heaven Mending Cauldron’s opening widened, and a gush of true essence sprayed out, entering his dantian and meridians. Although the quantity of this true essence was reduced by more than a layer, its properties were purer, with higher quality.

“The Heaven Mending Cauldron is purifying my true essence.”

“True essence purified to the ninth layer.”

Feeling the change in his true essence, Lu Xuanji was slightly surprised.

He felt like he had stumbled upon a treasure.

Breaking through from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Purple Mansion Realm is not just about increasing the amount of true essence, reaching a certain critical point; it also requires purifying the true essence. Only exceptionally pure true essence can lead to breaking through to the Purple Mansion Realm.

Many cultivators fail to break through to Purple Mansion because they consumed too many elixirs, causing the true essence to become impure and unstable.

Purifying true essence can increase the likelihood of breaking through to the Purple Mansion.

Ignoring other functionalities, this functionality alone was sufficient.

Letting go of distractions, Lu Xuanji activated the Heaven Mending Cauldron, continuously purifying his true essence back and forth.

After a month, not only did his cultivation not improve, but it also fell significantly, retreating from the late stage of the Foundation Establishment first layer to the early stage.

But as his cultivation declined, the quality of his true essence elevated to the eighth layer and seven.

When purified to the eighth layer and seven, the Heaven Mending Cauldron could not continue purifying.

Feeling the purity of the true essence, his combat power not only did not decrease but rather increased significantly, also enhancing the power of some of his spells and divine techniques remarkably.

“The grade of the Heaven Mending Cauldron is still too low. It would be best to raise it to second grade, or even third grade.”

Lu Xuanji pondered.

Clang clang clang!

At this moment, the sound of a bell rang.

Lu Xuanji walked out of the cave mansion, heading towards Purple Sun Mountain.

Golden Ancestor was about to give a lecture.

This was a Golden Core Ancestor about to lecture.

The Golden Core Ancestor is a significant figure in Chu Country, a leader in the Dan Yang Sect, and a ruler in the Cultivation Realm.

Normally, one wouldn’t even get to see a Golden Core Ancestor.

The Golden Core Ancestor is as elusive as the Divine Dragon. Now, however, they are about to give a public lecture, which for mid and low-level cultivators is almost a supreme opportunity.

Soon, he reached the plaza.

At this moment, a woman in white palace attire appeared, exuding the aura of the Purple Mansion, beginning to arrange seating and maintain order. Five Foundation Establishment cultivators walked around, offering comfort and organizing things into an orderly fashion.

After arrangements, Lu Xuanji sat in a certain position.

Afterwards, more cultivators continued to sit down.

Soon, the chaotic venue became quiet and orderly.

Roughly counting, there were thousands of cultivators here to listen to the lecture, with eight Purple Mansion cultivators seated at the front row.

About a stick of incense’s time later, on the Dao platform, a woman appeared abruptly, yet it seemed completely natural.

A blue lotus platform appeared in everyone’s line of sight, and on the lotus platform, a dreamlike woman appeared and spoke, “I am known as Jin Xi, here today to lecture you all.”

“Greetings, Ancestor.”

The crowd respectfully greeted.

Golden Dawn Ancestor accepted it calmly; the grace of imparting Dao justified such a bow.

“Heaven and Earth have talismans; talismans are the patterns of the Great Dao, and talismans are the words of Heaven and Earth.

The Hundred Skills of Cultivation are merely applications of talismans.

An Array Master inscribes talismans on the land and spirit veins, transforming them into deadly attacks; an Alchemist engraves talismans on elixirs, which makes the elixirs more spiritual and medicinal power better absorbed; a Talisman Maker inscribes talismans on jade artifacts or demon beast hides to store power within them, releasing explosively at opportune moments.”

“Cultivators practice divine techniques by condensing talismans in the dantian, combining talismans into lethal great techniques; upon entering the Golden Core stage, talismans must also be inscribed on the Golden Core.”

“At the Nascent Soul Realm, cultivators must attempt to combine different talismans to develop great divine techniques suitable for themselves.”

Golden Dawn Ancestor spoke, not discussing Su Ming’s profound and mysterious subtleties but explaining something understandable, discussing detailed, common sense topics.

The cultivators from great clans listened nonchalantly, but loose cultivators were delighted, feeling the words struck a chord.

Many common sense topics are unknown to loose cultivators.

The content Golden Dawn Ancestor taught was supplementary knowledge for those loose cultivators.