Chapter 262 – Third Level of Jindan

Chapter 262 – Golden Dan Third Layer
Looking at the departing backs of Jiang Chengxuan and his wife, a disciple located beside Daoist Hai Zhen said:

“Master, should we ……?”

As he spoke, this disciple couldn’t help but make a chopping motion.

Daoist Hai Zhen was slightly moved, but in the end, he shook his head.

“If they were just willing to enter my Hai Broken Valley, there might still be that much hope.

But now well ……”

The rest of the words Daoist Hai Zhen did not say, but this disciple beside him already understood.

He couldn’t help but say somewhat unwillingly, “Master, is there really no other way?”

Daoist Hai Zhen sighed and said, “Yun Peng, I know how you feel, it’s hard to see something that might allow you to obtain a JieDan Spirit Item, so it’s inevitable that you can’t let go of it.

But you have to understand that one of the most important points in our cultivation as monks is to keep our eyes open.

Not everyone has something on them that we can just hit on.

If we don’t get it right, there is a chance that we won’t be able to get any ideas, but instead invite trouble for ourselves.”

Hearing these words from his own master, although this disciple named Yun Peng was still a bit unwilling in his heart, he didn’t dare to say anything more, but instead agreed with a respectful expression.

At the same time.

After Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan returned to Mount Taixuan, the two of them entered Jiang Chengxuan’s cave together.

“Husband, do you have any feeling that this person, Daoist Hai Zhen, has just moved certain thoughts towards you and me, in reality?”

Shen Ruyan suddenly looked at Jiang Chengxuan.

Jiang Chengxuan nodded and said, “Good, this person’s mind is impure, in the future, if possible, we should try to deal with this person less.”

As he spoke, Jiang Chengxuan had already taken out the welcoming wood vine that he had just obtained.

Afterwards, he took out the Flying Yellow Grass, as well as some of the rest of the materials used to refine that Huang Ming Dan.

“Ma’am, for this alchemy, you’ll be the main focus, and I’ll be on the sidelines to take over for you.”

Although it was tempting to personally take on the task of refining the Huang Ming Dan.

However, Jiang Chengxuan knew that with his current alchemy, if he were to force his hand, I’m afraid the probability of success would be less than 30%.

Once they failed, it would be unlikely that they would be able to gather the materials to refine the Huang Ming Dan in a short period of time.

So to be on the safe side, Jiang Chengxuan still decided to use Shen Ruyan as the main focus, with him as the secondary.

In this regard, Shen Ruyan naturally wouldn’t have any opinions.

But just as she was about to offer up the Dan furnace and start warming it, Jiang Chengxuan called out to her.

He saw Jiang Chengxuan take out the Rising Dan Cauldron that he had gotten from the system from his own body, and then laughed:

“Ma’am, for this alchemy, you should still use this Dan furnace of mine.

When the time comes, the number of pills that will be formed, I’m afraid it will be a bit more.”

For this Dan Rising Cauldron of Jiang Chengxuan, Shen Ruyan had long since used it not for the first time.

When she had utilized the fourth-stage demonic pills to refine the Jiejindan, she had used this cauldron.

At this moment, when she saw this cauldron, she immediately nodded with a smile.

“Alright, use this Dan furnace to refine pills, and there might really be a surprise later on.”

As she spoke, Shen Ruyan had already triggered the earth fire in this room and began to warm the Dan furnace.

Refining spirit pills above the fourth rank, it took significantly longer than pills of the third rank.

Just the step of melting the medicinal liquid and purifying it, the time was at least half a year or more.

Not to mention the process of condensing and nurturing the pills afterward.

Even if Shen Ruyan’s level of alchemy was to far exceed that of a normal fourth rank.

The one used was still a special alchemy exotic treasure like the Dan Rising Cauldron.

When she had succeeded in refining the Huang Ming Dan, it still took more than a year.

At this time, within that Dan Rising Cauldron.

Five pills that were bright yellow in color were silently floating.

A rich fragrance of the pills was also continuously emanating from that Rising Dan Cauldron.

Shen Ruyan searched for the right moment, and Hurricane struck the Dan Collection Technique.

Just heard a clang.

The top cover of the Ascending Dan Cauldron suddenly opened.

The five Huang Ming Dan, just like that, flew out from within the Dan Furnace, and were filled in by the jade bottle that Shen Ruyan had prepared long in advance.

Jiang Chengxuan, who was beside him, saw this and immediately said with a happy face:
“Actually refining five Huang Ming Dan in one breath, ma’am your alchemy skills are truly superior.”

In his mind, if he could refine three Yellow Bright Dans in this alchemy, then it would be considered to have reached their expectations for this alchemy.

If there were four, then it would be a big profit.

With five, it was already needless to say that it was definitely a great success.

At this time, Shen Ruyan was obviously also very satisfied with the results of her alchemy this time.

She couldn’t help but smile as she glanced at Jiang Chengxuan and said:
“Speaking of which, this time it’s still thanks to your Dan Rising Cauldron.

If it wasn’t for it, I reckon that the best result from this alchemy, I’m afraid that there would only be four Huang Ming Dan.”

At those words, Jiang Chengxuan but shook his head and said:
“You’re being modest, ma’am, even if the Dan Rising Cauldron was better, if it didn’t have your alchemy, it wouldn’t be of any use.”

Speaking at this point, Jiang Chengxuan couldn’t help but change the topic and said:

“In any case, now that you and I have these five Yellow Brightness Dans, taking over, it should be possible for you and I to break through to the third level of the Jindan cultivation.”

Long before this, Shen Ruyan’s cultivation level was already at the same as Jiang Chengxuan’s, reaching the second layer of Jindan.

Now that the two of them, husband and wife, had the Huang Ming Dan, it was estimated that it wouldn’t take long before they could both break through again.

In this regard, Shen Ruyan was obviously very happy as well.

At that moment, she took two out of the five Huang Ming Dan, and then went back to her own cave to prepare for a closed-door breakthrough in her cultivation.

Jiang Chengxuan’s side was the same.

According to the two of them, the probability of a successful breakthrough after taking one Yellow Brightness Pill was probably around fifty percent.

With two, that probability would basically be 70% to 80%.

Basically, there wouldn’t be any problems.

If everything went well, in their hands, they should still have one or two Huang Ming Dan left by then.

At this moment.

Jiang Chengxuan had already adjusted his own state, to a peak.

Then, without the slightest hesitation, he took out a Yellow Brightness Pill and swallowed it.

As soon as the Yellow Brightness Pill was swallowed by Jiang Chengxuan, the entire pill transformed into a stream of pure mana that began to travel through Jiang Chengxuan’s meridians.

Jiang Chengxuan immediately began to operate the Five Elements True Technique, and then guided this mana to converge into his Dantian Qi Sea.

Slowly, the accumulation of mana within Jiang Chengxuan’s body became increasingly thick.

However, it seemed to be a bit short of breaking through to the third level of Jindan.

Without hesitation, he immediately took out another Huang Ming Dan and swallowed it.

Boom!
This time, just after the Huang Ming Dan was swallowed, Jiang Chengxuan immediately felt that the mana in his body violently ushered in a wave of surge.

In just a few moments, his cultivation level had already arrived at the edge of a breakthrough.

Three months later.

Jiang Chengxuan, who was closing his cultivation, suddenly opened his eyes.

At this time, his cultivation had already successfully broken through to the third Jindan layer.

The mana in his body had increased by more than 30% compared to before.

It was even better in terms of mana than some of the late Jindan cultivators with ordinary grade Jindan.

And just as Jiang Chengxuan’s cultivation had made a breakthrough, Jiang Rendao and Shen Yuanlong and the others, who were far over on the frontline, had also sent back a piece of good news.

Just a short while ago, together with the cultivators from the Bishui Sword Pavilion, they had successfully occupied a resource point in Zheng.

A medium-sized purple copper vein.

This metal, purple copper, was the main auxiliary material for refining first and second stage array disks.

It was also the main material for refining all types of metallic magic weapons.

Shen Yuanlong’s side had already had someone specialize in counting it.

Regarding this medium-sized purple copper vein that they had occupied, the overall value was at least several million spirit stones or more.

If it was mined in a planned manner, its final value, I’m afraid, would be even more.

And in this battle, they, the Jiang Clan and the Aqua Sword Pavilion, had also killed three Purple Mansion cultivators from the Zheng State.

Two of them, were even from that Marquis Ding Yuan’s House.

And one of them was Shangguan Sheng, who had once chased and killed Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan, only to be almost killed by the two of them.

This son, as the contemporary Marquis Ding Yuan’s own son, was now killed on the battlefield, which naturally caused the entire Marquis Ding Yuan’s House to be furious.

Seeing Shangguan Maofeng, who was at the same Purple Mansion stage as that Shangguan Sheng, suddenly got up and raised his eyes to the contemporary Marquis of Ding Yuan, Shangguan Yonghao, who was located at the top of the table, and with a serious expression, he opened his mouth:

“Enlighten Second Uncle, I am willing to lead my Ding Yuan Marquis cultivators to head back to the frontline battlefield to avenge the deaths of Sheng Di and his clan members who died at the hands of that Jiang Clan and Bishui Sword Pavilion cultivators!”

Hearing his words, the other two Ding Yuan Marquis Jindan present, Shangguan Yongsheng and Shangguan Yongcheng, couldn’t help but nod secretly in their hearts.

Regardless of the situation at hand, just this attitude of Shangguan Maofeng alone was worthy of affirmation from all of them.

Shangguan Yonghao also nodded slightly at Shangguan Maofeng.

Just as he was about to approve Shangguan Maofeng’s request to fight, a summons suddenly reached him, as well as the other two Ding Yuan Marquis’ Jindan.

When the three of them finished reading the summons in their hands, their faces couldn’t help but become extremely ugly.

Shangguan Yonghao even crushed the summoning jade talisman in his hand, and his voice was suddenly filled with moroseness and coldness as he said:
“Yuanyang Valley has wronged me!”

Originally, just now, the Yuan Yang Valley, the strongest in Zheng, was suddenly sending a message to them, the Ding Yuan Marquis, as well as the remaining two Jindan sects, the Guang Lin Sect and the Qing Yu Sect.

Considering the situation between the five countries at the moment, if they continued to fight like this, it wouldn’t have much of an outcome other than consuming their human race’s strength for nothing.

Therefore, they, Yuan Yang Valley, proposed to negotiate a truce with the three countries on this matter.

This reason, obviously, was just a statement to the outside world.

In fact, with Yuan Yang Valley’s past style, as long as it was profitable, they wouldn’t care so much, and even more unlikely to have such a “noble” consciousness.

Now that they had given such a proposal and decision at first glance, there must be some reason in it that they were not aware of.

Unfortunately, Yuan Yang Valley’s side didn’t intend to say the real reason.

Most importantly, Yuan Yang Valley’s proposal had already been agreed upon by the Guang Lin Sect and Qing Yu Sect.

Even the Shu side, when they had learned that the three families of the Yuanyang Valley intended to want a truce, they had also expressed this intention.

Only they, the Marquis of Ding Yuan, had always been kept in the dark.

It was also the last to receive the news.

Although they also knew that according to the current situation of the five countries, if the war continued, it was already meaningless.

In fact.

At the moment they Zheng Shu two countries joint, raid Yan failed, they initially wanted to take this opportunity, annex part of the three countries territory idea, has been impossible to realize.

But even so, Shangguan Yonghao and the others, still had some difficulty accepting the fact that their own family was the last to receive this news.

“This is to see that the strength of my Ding Yuan Marquis House is weakening year by year, and has somewhat failed to place us in its sights?”

Shangguan Yongsheng spoke with a gloomy face.

In fact.

Right now, this attitude of Yuan Yang Valley towards their Ding Yuan Marquis House was one of the main reasons that made him, as well as Shangguan Yonghao and Shangguan Yongcheng’s faces look unsightly.

“What to do? Big brother, should we agree to their proposal?”

Shangguan Yongcheng turned his head to look at Shangguan Yonghao.

Shangguan Yongsheng, who had just spoken out, as well as Shangguan Maofeng, who was underneath, could not help but also all turn their gazes, towards their generation’s Marquis of Dingyuan, Shangguan Yonghao.

Although this person’s cultivation level, like the current Shangguan Yongsheng, was at the sixth level of Jindan.

However, his insight, as well as foresight, as well as the big picture, was not something that Shangguan Yongsheng, as well as Shangguan Yongcheng, whose cultivation was only at the third Jindan layer, could compare to.

At this moment, when he saw that everyone was looking towards him, Shangguan Yonghao immediately sighed, and said rather helplessly:

“Now that there is a proposal regarding that Yuanyang Valley, both the Guanglin Sect and the Qingyu Sect have already agreed to it.

If my estimation is good, it won’t be long before the three Jindan forces of Shu, I’m afraid that they will also agree to a truce.

At this time, even if you and I want to continue to insist, what’s the use?”

As soon as these words fell, the Shangguan Yongsheng, Shangguan Yongcheng, and even Shangguan Maofeng who were present could not help but fall into silence for a moment.

A few moments later.

Still, he heard Shangguan Yonghao continue, ”Yongsheng, turn around and give me a message back to Yuanyang Valley, just say that their proposal, I, Marquis Dingyuan, have agreed to it.

As for how to negotiate with Liang, Yun, and Yan when the time comes, as well as the time and place, just tell them to turn around and let us know.”

Shangguan Yongsheng opened his mouth, but in the end, he nodded helplessly.

“Yes, big brother!”

Two months later.

Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan both officially left the gate.

At this time, Shen Ruyan, was already the same as Jiang Chengxuan, and had also broken through to the third layer of Jindan.

Moreover, she had only taken a single Huang Ming Dan during this process.

Now in the couple’s hands, there were clearly two Huang Ming Dan left.

In the future, if there was an opportunity, these two Yellow Brightness Pills might be able to allow them to exchange for the treasures they wanted.

Soon.

The couple called for the head of the family, Jiang Renyi, and then they learned from him about some of the battles between the five countries during these times, as well as some of their family’s situation on the frontline.

Just when Jiang Renyi this, still wanted to continue to say something more with the two old ancestors, Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan’s body, suddenly then received a summons from the side of the Bishui Sword Pavilion in unison, saying that there was a very important matter, and hoped that the two of them would go over there immediately.

(End of chapter)