Chapter 125 Prepare for a Rainy Day
Time flies.
One day three years later, at noon, Li An gently dug the last hoe along the tunnel entrance that was dozens of meters deep.
A cool breeze came in.
At the end of the tunnel was an ancient well, which was full of coolness.
Li An quietly retreated along the narrow tunnel.
For the sake of secrecy, he dug this tunnel very small, just enough for him to crawl in a shrunken state. After all, if the hole in the ground was too big, it would be bad if someone noticed it.
Of course, this may be very small, Li An was just being vigilant. After all, there were large formations everywhere on the territory of Baihu Mountain. Who would have nothing to do to use their spiritual sense to scan the underground dozens of meters deep?
At present, only Li An knew that the formation had a certain "blind spot" and could make use of it.
With this tunnel, he felt much more at ease.
No matter where you are, it is always right to leave a way to escape for yourself.
Not long after, Li An returned to his house, changed his clothes, and then began to practice.
After taking a step forward, his figure was left with only a residual shadow, like a ghost, unpredictable, and appeared in the garden.
"The 72 steps of the Earthly Evil, have been completed!"
At the same time, his mind moved, and the spiritual power of the wood system was released. Suddenly, more than ten meters away, a blue petal was condensed. The petals fell, and a landscape boulder cracked instantly, exploded with a snap, and turned into powder.
The five-color flower explosion technique has now mastered the "blue flower explosion"!
Moreover, his spiritual power is very powerful. Although it is only in the middle stage of foundation building, it can almost be compared with the late stage of foundation building. If the cold Yin finger, talismans, and formations are added, even if the late stage of foundation building comes, he has the confidence to win.
"In addition, it's time to practice the Qi-watching technique..."
The Qi-watching technique is a unique secret technique that Li An obtained in his previous life. As the name suggests, the formation master can use this technique to detect the movement of the earth's qi veins.
This technique is a mid-level Xuan-level technique, which is of great help to the formation master. Mobilizing the earth veins can greatly enhance the power of the formation.
After he arrived in Tianyang City, he has not been able to practice. Now he is in Baihu Mountain. Through the earth veins, he can observe the movement of Baihu Mountain very well, so as to predict in advance and reduce risks.
Moreover, his spiritual consciousness is stronger than in his previous life, and he will practice the Qi-watching technique faster.
At present, everything is going well. The only flaw is that there is still no progress in the practice of Sanyuan Zhan and Jinzang Jue.
There are three moves in Sanyuan Zhan, and the simplest one is "Chopping Human Yuan", but it is estimated that it will take 20 to 30 years to achieve a small success.
"Jinzang Jue, I have collected some materials..."
He opened the storage bag and took out a small black bottle. There was a pool of white liquid in the bottle, called "Yangtie Liquid", produced from rare iron ore, moistened by earth milk, mixed with earth milk and iron essence, and the grade was between the second and third grades.
Just for this small bottle, Li An spent three thousand spirit stones!
If it weren't for the support of the Treasure Pavilion now... Li An couldn't even hope for the Golden Collection Jue.
He swallowed all the Yangtie Liquid, and then began to refine it-
Refine it all into the kidney.
The main reason is that he had cultivated a kidney in his previous life, so he has more experience in this regard.
The Yangtie Liquid moistened the kidney, and his kidney was gradually strengthened...
...
In a blink of an eye, another thirteen years passed.
Li An has been in Baihu City for twenty-one years, and he is 187 years old.
Xu Qiuhui and Zhang Deyi are also on the verge of the final window of Dan.
The three-grade spiritual medicines for refining Yuanling Dan are finally all gathered.
The three of them met at Li An's residence.
"Green light grass, hidden stone, dragon blood bone... have all been gathered."
Li An took out the three spiritual medicines.
Among the three spiritual medicines, the hidden stone and dragon blood bone were obtained from the Treasure Pavilion at a sky-high price. Xu Qiuhui and Zhang Deyi were very wealthy, but they could hardly get them at one time. Li An had to put in about 60,000 spiritual stones, and his savings were almost exhausted at one time.
Constructing the pill is the real watershed, as difficult as ascending to heaven!
After the pill is formed, you can establish your own sect and dominate one side, which can be called a real strong man.
They can collect them all because the three of them have extraordinary backgrounds. Xu Qiuhui has the help of Baihu Mountain, Zhang Deyi is a second-grade alchemist, and he is also the master of the previous life. Li An is the pavilion master of the Treasure Pavilion, and he also has the experience of the previous life.
There are resources and strength.
Even so, if we count from the time when Xu and Zhang planned to build the foundation, it has been several decades.
If Li An collected the medicines by himself, even if he was the head of the branch of the Treasure Pavilion, he could not afford such consumption. After all, to collect all the spiritual medicines, it would cost about 400,000 spiritual stones!
Not to mention that some spiritual medicines were not willing to be bought by others, so they had to fight for them openly and secretly.
Of course, the spiritual stones Li An paid were not useless. The order of the three people choosing the medicines had changed. Xu Zhang and the others had stepped back, and now Li An had the priority to choose.
"Master Zhang, when can I make the medicine?"
Li An asked.
Xu Qiuhui was also quite anxious, her eyes full of desire.
Zhang Deyi said slowly, "Refine the Yuanling Pill, don't rush."
"First, we need to determine the location of the refinement, and there must be a third-grade spiritual vein to support it. Secondly, I need to recuperate and go all out."
Li An nodded, this was all reasonable. "Regarding the matter of the third-grade spiritual vein, I suggest refining it in the Zuo Pavilion Master's residence. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Xu agrees?"
Zhang Deyi took the initiative to ask Xu Qiuhui again.
Xu Qiuhui knew clearly that in terms of spiritual energy, the best place would of course be to go to Baihu Mountain!
She could also apply for it.
But Zhang Deyi was worried. After all, after going to Baihu Mountain, it would be at the mercy of Baihu Mountain.
"Okay, refine it in the Zuo Pavilion Master's residence,"
She agreed.
Li An nodded silently. Originally, Zhang Deyi would have tried to refine it here even if he hadn't said it. Zhang Deyi was so direct that he saved trouble.
"In addition, I need three years. After three years, my condition should be at its peak. Then I can start refining--"
Zhang Deyi continued.
Li An's heart moved slightly, but he didn't say anything and agreed directly.
The three of them kept the spiritual medicine separately to prevent someone from embezzling it.
After they left. "We must be on guard against Zhang Deyi..."
When Zhang Deyi proposed to refine the elixir in three years, Li An noticed something strange.
Even if he needed to adjust his condition, one year should be enough.
Why three years?
Is he trying to avoid something?
Li An couldn't help but think that according to the current situation of Baihu Mountain, in about three years, Baihu Zhenren might enter the most critical period.
This was what he sensed from the fluctuations of the earth's energy in Baihu Mountain. Baihu Zhenren needed to consolidate his Jindan cultivation. In addition to the elixir, the earth's energy also needed to be mobilized again.
There are two possibilities for deliberately refining the third-grade elixir at the most tense time of Baihu Mountain:
First, Zhang Deyi was very afraid of Baihu Mountain and was afraid that Baihu Mountain would intervene and rob him, which was reasonable.
Second, Zhang Deyi wanted to do something with the elixir himself, so that he could reduce the pressure when he did it.
In any case, Li An felt that he needed to be on guard!
After all, the other party was a person in his previous life who took over his body. Those who could do such a thing as taking over his body were at least Jindan stage cultivators.
After the other party took over the body, the state of the late foundation building was not the most important thing to guard against.
"Spiritual consciousness! Soul!"
This is Zhang Deyi's strongest thing.
"You have to arrange the formation in a targeted way, and collect spiritual consciousness magic tools."
In the following period of time, he carefully refined a second-level formation specifically for spiritual consciousness, and then vigorously collected magic tools to protect spiritual consciousness in the pavilion.
Although Zhang Deyi should not have the courage to take action under the jurisdiction of Baihu Mountain, with the Jindan boss in charge, Li An always thinks of the worst and makes the worst plan.
This way you won't suffer any loss.
"Xu Qiuhui is the same. Facing the Yuanling Pill, who knows if she will join forces with the people of Baihu Mountain to blacken..."
This possibility is relatively small, because Li An is a member of the Treasure Pavilion after all, and Zhang Deyi also has a lot of connections. If he directly blackens them, Baihu Mountain probably won't do such a thing.
In addition, Li An could see that Xu Qiuhui did not have a high status in Baihu Mountain. After all, she entered the sect too late, and the resources for forming pills could not be given to her. If she cooperated with other people in Baihu Mountain to blackmail Li An and others, her own pills would also be at risk in the end.
But people's hearts are unpredictable, so we must be on guard and make full preparations!
It must be arranged in advance. After the pills are formed, if there are any unusual movements in Baihu Mountain, they can immediately take the pills and escape from the tunnel.
The tunnel he dug is quite far away, about eight miles away from here, which can give him a certain amount of room for operation.
For the next period of time, he began to concentrate on preparing for the alchemy two years later.
At the same time, let the people in the Treasure Pavilion pay close attention to the recent movements of Zhang Deyi and Xu Qiuhui.
Xu Qiuhui is fine, and Zhang Deyi seems to be asking his disciples to collect soul-type spiritual medicines, but he himself is in a consolidation state, which is reasonable.
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In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.
The time for alchemy agreed by the three has arrived.