In the blood mist that filled the sky, Shi Mu's figure flashed out, turned over and landed on the ground.
At this moment, the firelight on his body had already faded away. As soon as his body landed on the ground, he started to shake. It was obvious that he had consumed too much energy.
The Ruyi stick in his hand was thrust into the ground to stabilize his body.
Seeing this, everyone in the Fang family, led by Fang Bozheng, gathered around him. Fang Jingde, who had quick eyesight and quick hands, immediately took out a healing elixir and handed it to Shi Mu.
Shi Mu reached out to take it, and after scanning it with his consciousness, he put it into his mouth.
When the elixir enters the mouth, it turns into a soft force and flows into the body, and the spirit can't help but rise.
"Fellow Daoist Shi, this time you killed the traitor Jin Wugui on behalf of the Fang family. You are a great benefactor to our Fang family. Please accept our respects." Fang Bozheng was full of gratitude and bowed.
Seeing the master of the house like this, Fang Jingde, Fang Jinghai and everyone behind him bowed down and did not dare to show any slights.
After all, if it weren't for Shi Mu this time, I'm afraid the entire Fang family would have been destroyed under Jin Wugui's control. If it were another disciple, he might not even be Jin Wugui's opponent.
"Master Fang, there is no need to be polite. What Shi did this time was just what you and I agreed upon." Shi Mu regained his strength at this moment, put away the wishful stick, and said calmly.
"Fellow Taoist Shi, why don't you go to the fort and rest for a while? I will hold a banquet in the evening to welcome you." Fang Bozheng said.
"Master Fang's kindness, I accept it with my heart, but I still have important matters at home, so I can't stay here longer," Shi Mu said.
"This... in this case, Fang will not keep Fellow Daoist Shi. Fellow Daoist will be here for a moment, and I will go and get the reward." After Fang Bozheng finished speaking, he ordered Fang Jingde and the others to wait here.
, then turned around and walked towards the depths of the castle.
Shi Mu ignored the people around him and sat cross-legged on the spot, closed his eyes and began to regulate his breathing.
In half a cup of tea, Fang Bozheng had already changed his clothes and rushed back neatly dressed, but his ruined face was still as ferocious as before.
He walked up to Shi Mu, flipped his wrist, and a long wooden box with exquisite patterns appeared in his palm.
Shi Mu stood up and reached out to take the wooden box. As soon as he opened it, a strong aroma of elixir hit his nostrils.
Inside the wooden box, there was a herringbone-shaped fire ginseng the size of a palm. It was deep red and covered with ravines like wrinkles on an old man's face. It was exactly what a thousand-year-old fire ginseng should be.
Next to the fire ginseng, there was a black jade slip.
Shi Mu held it in his hand and felt it, and saw that what was recorded inside was indeed a rather mysterious water attribute technique. However, he couldn't check it carefully at the moment. It was expected that Fang Bozheng would never dare to take the fake "
"Ming Shui Jue" to deceive yourself.
"Thank you." Shi Mu closed the wooden box and put it into the storage ring, and everyone in the other party's family cupped their hands and said.
"Fellow Daoist Shi, please wait a moment. These spiritual stones are also from Fang's heart. I hope that Friend Shi will not dislike them." Fang Bozheng handed over a big, round bag in his hand and said.
Shi Mu hesitated for a moment, then reached out to take it and put it into the storage ring.
"If Fellow Taoist Shi comes to this Bibo Star again in the future, he must come to our Fangjiabao so that I can fulfill my friendship as a landlord." Fang Bozheng said with a smile.
"That's for sure, then I'll take my leave now."
After saying that, Shi Mu waved his hand and raised the Green Wing Speedster, which turned into a stream of light and soared into the sky.
He left the Fang family and did not stay any longer on Bibo Star.
One day and one night later, Shi Mu returned to Qinglan Holy Land through the teleportation circle.
Immediately afterwards, he went non-stop to Baizhen Valley and Immortal Medicine Pavilion to purchase all the other auxiliary materials needed to prepare the spiritual liquid. Then he immediately returned to the cave, went straight to the secret room, and locked himself tightly without leaving.
Seven days later, in the secret room of the cave, a whole row of small jade bottles, dozens of them, was placed in front of Shi Mu.
These jade bottles contain the spiritual liquid he prepared.
He picked up a jade bottle and opened the cork. Inside was a bright red liquid with a strange fragrance. He raised his neck and swallowed it with his mouth open.
The entrance of the liquid is like a ray of warm sweet spring, flowing down from the throat. A hot stream reaches the Dantian, and the whole body and limbs feel an indescribable sense of well-being.
He immediately closed his eyes and used all his strength to run the twelfth level of the Red Ape Fire Sutra.
As he muttered words, red light gradually lit up on his body, intertwining and converging, condensing into a hazy spherical shape around his body.
After one day and one night.
On the surface of the hazy sphere on his body, a bright red light band appeared, stretching across it.
Shi Mu slowly opened his eyes, picked up another jade bottle, opened the cork, and drank the spiritual liquid inside again.
After a while, the medicine took effect, and his body became even more red.
Another day and night passed, and another red light band appeared on the hazy sphere on his body.
Shi Mu opened his eyes and picked up the third bottle of spiritual liquid.
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Time passed day by day, and forty-nine days passed in the blink of an eye.
In the secret room at this moment, there were bursts of fire, red flames rolling, the temperature suddenly reached an incredible level, and even the void was filled with twisting ripples.
In the center of the secret room, Shi Mu's upper body was sitting cross-legged with his upper body bent. His whole body was covered by forty-nine red light strips, coiled into a spherical shape, with auras flashing on the surface and red flames billowing erratically.
His lips moved and he muttered words, as if he was reciting some kind of incantation. The red light strips on his body slowly flowed with a certain rhythm, which looked a bit weird.
"Condensation!"
Suddenly, he stopped chanting the curse and gave a low drink.
The next moment, those red light strips that were originally flowing slowly suddenly became bright, and turned in direction, accelerating and infiltrating into every part of his body. After flowing along the tendons and veins in his body, they one after another sank into his Dantian.
A layer of crystal red light appeared on Shi Mu's face, and his muscles twitched slightly, as if he was enduring great pain.
Forty-nine red spirit patterns intertwined together at the qi palace in his body's Dantian, forming a faint spherical shape. All the liquid-like true qi was trapped in this red sphere.
These red spirit patterns wander erratically on the surface of the sphere, and every time they travel around, the entire sphere shrinks by one point, the true energy in it becomes denser and viscous, and the speed of the spirit patterns also slows down a bit.
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As time went by, Shi Mu's expression became more and more struggling, and beads of sweat began to pour down from his head, making him look more and more painful.
I don't know how long it has passed, but in the Dantian inside his body, the red ball that was originally about the size of a baby's fist is now only the size of a dragon's eye, but the forty-nine spiritual patterns on the surface now look almost integrated, and the true energy contained in them now appears.
, and also dense to an indescribable degree.
Shi Mu's face suddenly relaxed, and the look of pain disappeared, revealing a look of joy.
"drink"
His eyes suddenly opened, his body glowed with golden light, and he couldn't help but let out a cheerful drink.
As the golden light lit up, the flames on Shi Mu's body surged and jumped, protruding out of the body like a long flame dragon, turning into a flame tornado that coiled and rose around it.
After a few breaths, Shi Mu suddenly opened his mouth wide, and the flame tornado immediately stopped rising, and was swallowed into his belly like a whale sucking water.
At the same time, a red ape statue suddenly rose behind Shi Mu, its surface glowed brightly, and wisps of golden flames faintly emerged from the original red flames.
Shi Mu's face was red at the moment, golden light flashed in his eyes, and the aura on his body was rising steadily.
At this moment, he finally condensed the fake elixir in his dantian and entered the earth-level Dzogchen state!
At this moment, the original qi palace in his dantian has shrunk to a ball the size of a dragon's eye, but the true qi contained in it is already twice as much as before.
When all the firelight subsided, Shi Mu stood up from the ground. The red ape figure behind him had disappeared, and a look of relief appeared on his face.
He had already expected this smooth advancement to the pinnacle of the Earth Rank. After all, everything was in place before, and the only thing missing was the thousand-year-old fire ginseng.
However, this so-called "fake elixir", just like its name, just looks like a pill, and is far from the stable golden elixir of the whole heaven realm.
To truly condense the fake elixir in the Qi Mansion into a golden elixir is absolutely impossible.
If it is not enough, all the previous efforts may be wasted. At worst, the false elixir will collapse and need to be re-condensed. At worst, even the cultivation level will drop.
Thinking of this, Shi Mu couldn't help but frown slightly.
According to the relevant records in the Shengdian Pavilion about advancing to heaven, ordinary martial arts practitioners, if they have sufficient resources, need to retreat for hundreds or even more than hundreds of years. After several failures, during this period, they will condense fake elixirs several times before they can succeed.
There is a possibility of success.
This is one of the reasons why the Holy Land provides a large number of spiritual sites for century-old disciples and requires them to meditate for thousands of years.
After all, accumulating resources also requires a lot of time and cannot be achieved overnight.
When he thought of this, Shi Mu couldn't help but take a long breath.
I can't guarantee that the elixir formation will be successful in one go, so I will need a large amount of spiritual elixirs that are no worse than the thousand-year-old fire ginseng in the future.
Although there are many elixirs in the Immortal Medicine Pavilion, they are often expensive.
Although he got some immortal spiritual stones and spiritual elixirs from the treasures left by the White Ape Ancestor, and he has accumulated a lot of wealth over the years, I am afraid it is still far from enough.
If you want to generate income from the spiritual grass and flowers planted in your own spiritual land, although it will be much more than that of the first-level century-old disciples, you still don't know how many years and months it will take to accumulate.
After much thought, he decided to go to the Wanfa Pavilion to take on some Millennium Disciple missions first. While getting mission rewards, he could also try his luck on the other hand to see if he could encounter opportunities like the Millennium Fire Ginseng.
After thinking about it, Shi Mu opened the stone door of the secret room and walked out.
When he returned to the mansion, he did not see Qi Feng. He only saw some attendants busy with their own tasks. Without Cai'er's play, the mansion was indeed quite deserted.
He strode out of the mansion, his body lit up with red light, turning into a stream of light and flying towards the distance.
Within half a quarter of an hour, Shi Mu's figure reappeared in Tongliufang, in front of a three-story tower building.
He stared at the plaque hanging high on the building, whispered "Bailian Hall" in his mouth, and then strode in.
The decoration in the hall has not changed much from when he first came here many years ago. There are a lot more people talking about trading inside, and it seems that business is quite prosperous.