Chronicles of the Green Vine: A Mortal’s Path to Immortality

The establishment of Falling Star City dates back five hundred years.

Five hundred years is nothing to cultivators. The rumors of Falling Star City and the legends learned from Li Changfeng are basically the same.

Five hundred years ago, a meteor fell from the sky, changing the landscape of tens of thousands of miles. It turned a barren land into a spiritual vein, attracting cultivators.

The area within tens of thousands of miles of Falling Star City is also called Falling Star Mountain Range by cultivators. Due to the spiritual vein, the vegetation is lush, and many demon beasts and spiritual herbs have grown.

Demon beasts can be said to be cultivators among beasts. Their fur, scales, and other materials are useful. Not to mention spiritual herbs.

Attracted by these resources, most of the rogue cultivators from several countries near the Falling Star Mountain Range gathered here.

In Falling Star City, ordinary cultivators can work as odd jobs in some shops. This is the easiest way to earn spirit stones, but the spirit stones earned are the least.

There is also a type of cultivator who, in addition to cultivation, is also proficient in hundreds of crafts. The so-called cultivation hundreds of crafts include alchemy, weapon refining, talisman making, formation, etc.

Mastering one of them makes it much easier to earn spirit stones. Cultivators with a skill live the most comfortable lives no matter where they are.

However, the hundreds of crafts of cultivation are vast and diverse, and there are certain requirements for aptitude.

Taking alchemy as an example, in the early stage, a large number of spiritual herbs must be used for practice, exploring the characteristics of spiritual medicines. Ordinary cultivators cannot afford such consumption.

Cultivating an alchemist is time-consuming and laborious, and so are other cultivation hundreds of crafts.

In addition to this, there is a path in Falling Star City where danger and profit coexist: "demon hunting cultivators", hunting demon beasts and exchanging demon beast materials for cultivation resources.

Zhang Ling is not considering these now. After seeing so many cultivators, his strength is only at an average level, and it is difficult to protect himself by hunting demon beasts.

However, he has also planned his future cultivation plan and intends to master alchemy.

He has a mysterious bead that can catalyze spiritual herbs. His consumption in alchemy is basically negligible.

As long as he masters this skill, he will not lack elixirs resources in the future, and he can also exchange elixirs for other resources.

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A few days later, Zhang Ling went to a shop that collected elixirs and sold most of the Yellow Dragon Pills he had accumulated, exchanging them for more than six hundred spirit stones.

Then he went to Guangyuanzhai again.

"Big brother, are you here to read books again?" As soon as he entered the store, the little girl Yan'er greeted him with a smile.

Zhang Ling smiled and looked at the old man behind the counter. He was not here to read books this time.

The old man and the young girl are surnamed Mu and have lived in Falling Star City for many years, running Guangyuanzhai for more than ten years.

There are many books in the shop, and there are also collections of cultivation hundreds of crafts books.

"Old Mu, do you have any books related to alchemy here?" Zhang Ling asked straight to the point.

"Alchemy, yo, little friend, do you want to refine elixirs?" Old Mu looked at him and showed a strange smile. Mu Xiaoyan next to him also leaning on the counter, looking curious.

"Alchemy requires alchemy furnace, spiritual herbs, and underground fire. The cost of one time is very expensive." Mu Xiaoyan curled her lips and muttered.

"Old Mu is laughing, this kid has read a lot of books during this time and has some interest in alchemy. I want to study it."

"Haha, little friend has this ambition. This old man has also collected several alchemy books here. I'll get them." Old Mu scratched his messy white hair and went to the back hall of the shop.

Old Mu also said to Mu Xiaoyan: "Yan'er, pour a cup of spiritual tea for your big brother."

"Oh, grandpa."

Mu Xiaoyan stuck out her tongue and ran out in a hurry.

After a while, she brought a cup of spiritual tea, and Zhang Ling took a sip. The tea was sweet and contained a small amount of spiritual power. He had been reading here for the past few days, and he had drunk a lot of this bitter spiritual tea.

"Big brother, this is for you."

Mu Xiaoyan suddenly spread her hand, and a two-finger-wide white jade片(玉片: piece) appeared in her hand.

This is a jade slip.

There are many ways to record information in the cultivation world. Paper books are just one, and jade slips are also common tools.

Cultivators cultivate spiritual power, and their souls will gradually strengthen.

The soul is more mysterious than the body. Strengthening the soul will make cultivators energetic, strengthen their five senses, and be accompanied by mysterious perception.

This kind of perception is different from the five senses and is more sensitive. It is called divine sense perception by cultivators.

After breaking through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, the cultivator's divine sense can be initially released, generally able to perceive things within two or three a unit of length of the body.

The jade slip is to use divine sense to engrave words on the jade片(玉片: piece) to record information, which can be preserved for a longer time. Viewing jade slips also requires divine sense.

"What is this."

I don't know what this little girl is up to. After a few days of contact, Zhang Ling also has some understanding of Mu Xiaoyan.

The little girl looked mysterious, leaned close to Zhang Ling's ear and whispered. "Hehe, this is the Compendium of Spiritual Herb Illustrations. Big brother, if you want to practice alchemy, you will definitely use it."

"Such a precious thing, I don't have extra spirit stones." Zhang Ling touched his chin and shook his head.

"Big brother, you can tell at a glance that you are not an ordinary cultivator. This is the spiritual herb and spiritual plant compendium collected by grandpa, which records the illustrations and medicinal properties of thousands of spiritual herbs. It is very comprehensive." Mu Xiaoyan pouted her mouth, looking like you don't know the value of the goods.

"Only ten spirit stones. If you buy it outside, it will definitely be no less than thirty spirit stones."

Zhang Ling frowned. If it is really as this girl said, the price is indeed more than ten spirit stones.

Seeing the little girl looking like she was afraid of people knowing, Zhang Ling became interested, "I want to look at the information in it first, and if it is true, I will give you ten spirit stones."

"That... okay."

Mu Xiaoyan first looked in the direction her grandfather left, pinched a magic formula in her hand, and a green spiritual power was generated at her fingertips, which turned into a few strange runes and submerged into the jade slip.

"The restriction on it has been lifted. Big brother, don't go back on your word." Mu Xiaoyan grabbed the jade slip, her big eyes looking at Zhang Ling with a serious look.

Zhang Ling couldn't help but find it funny, took the jade slip and pressed it to his forehead to check the information in it.

After a few breaths, he opened his eyes, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart.

"Big brother, you can't regret it once you have read it. Ten spirit stones." Mu Xiaoyan stared at him with her eyes, and stretched out her little hand.

"Okay, ten spirit stones."

The information in the jade slip was the same as what this girl said, and Zhang Ling had no reason to regret it. He took out ten spirit stones.

Seeing the spirit stones, the little girl grabbed the spirit stones in her hand at once and put them into a pink storage bag.

Zhang Ling suddenly said on a whim, "Did you steal the jade slip?"

Mu Xiaoyan was secretly happy, and her face turned red when she heard his words, and she was a little angry, looking like she wanted to eat people.

Zhang Ling was about to say something. Footsteps came from the side, and Old Mu walked in with a box. The little girl winked at him and ignored him.

"I'm old and slow, I've kept you waiting, little friend." Old Mu put the box on the counter and said. "This is a set of elementary alchemy, and it also records the alchemy insights of the predecessors."

There were three books and a yellow jade slip in the box, and Zhang Ling checked them.

"Elementary Alchemy True Explanation, Yanling Fire Control Technique, Danfang Ten Volumes."

The names on the books were clear at a glance. There were basic knowledge of alchemy, fire control techniques, and Danfang Ten Volumes, which recorded ten recipes suitable for Qi Refining stage cultivators.

The information in the jade slip was the alchemy insights of the cultivator. This knowledge was also comprehensive enough for him.

Although there were restrictions on it, only a little information was leaked, but it also allowed Zhang Ling to confirm the authenticity of the things. Being able to take out these things, Guangyuanzhai still has some things.

Zhang Ling was quite satisfied, and then spent two hundred and fifty spirit stones to buy these books.

Elementary Alchemy Technique fifty spirit stones, Alchemy insights one hundred and twenty spirit stones. Fire Control Technique eighty spirit stones. Ten Danfang(丹方: recipes) are complimentary.

After buying these things, Zhang Ling said goodbye and left. To his surprise, Mu Xiaoyan, this little girl, volunteered to escort him out.

After leaving Guangyuanzhai, Zhang Ling went to a shop called Baibaoge and spent more than one hundred spirit stones to buy a low-grade alchemy furnace.

In the following days, Zhang Ling studied alchemy in the inn.

It took several days to see it. Alchemy is not so easy to learn.

First of all, the alchemy steps are complicated. According to the recipe, the medicinal materials must be purified first, which requires a deep understanding of the medicinal properties of the spiritual medicine.

In the process of purification, the control of the flame is also extremely important. Then there is the fusion of various spiritual herb medicinal liquids, and finally the pill formation.

There are still many tricks in it, such as the ratio of medicinal liquid, the control of spiritual fire temperature, and the process of nourishing elixir, which are extremely consuming the cultivator's energy.

These skills are simple to say, but they cannot be mastered without dozens or hundreds of practice.

However, Zhang Ling has decided to practice alchemy and will not back down.

In the following month, he has been studying alchemy and learning the Yanling Fire Control Technique. Although this is a fire control technique, it is a technique for controlling divine sense.

The entire process of alchemy must be accompanied by control of the flame and cannot be interrupted. This requires the cultivator's divine sense to have certain requirements.