After resting in place for half an hour, Mo Wuji felt better before he stood up wanting to find a safer place to figure out the situation before speaking.
Mo Wuji trudged along dragging the Dan Furnace for only less than two miles before he saw a torn up corpse. He recognised this person, it was one of the seven Dan Masters.
It was reasonable to say that the strength of a third grade human dan master should be beyond the Pulse Expansion Realm, but Mo Wuji still saw the corpse of a dan master here. It was evident that it was not easy for him to save a small life from the faulty teleportation space in the first place.
Mo Wuji collected the usual items from this Dan Master’s body, and he saw spirit stones amongst this Dan Master’s items. That crystal stone with a rich spiritual qi was something that Mo Wuji had dreamt of before, and now he couldn’t even bring himself to do so. He then found some healing pills to take himself before digging a pit and burying this Dan Master on the spot.
A third grade human dan master, who was also a hefty presence in the Mundane Empire, now died silently in such a place, making Mo Wuji feel even more vulnerable to the fragility of human life in this world.
After taking this Third Grade Human Pill Master’s healing pills, Mo Wuji felt that his cracked bones were healing quickly. He was also sighing in his heart, compared to an epoch-making drug like penicillin, the elixir refined by the dan master could only be described as heaven-defying. Penicillin was even more powerful, but it also needed time to recover. Dan medicines, on the other hand, were basically immediate.
If anyone were to say to him again that western medicines were more effective than Chinese medicines, Mo Wuji would definitely spray him in the face. Dan pills were all made from medicinal herbs, regardless of whether they originated in China or not, in Mo Wuji’s eyes, even if they were Chinese medicines.
After that, Mo Wuji didn’t meet a single living person, not even an ant.
Two days passed one after another, and Mo Wuji’s injuries gradually recovered. Just when he thought that this time, entering the Sword Mountain would be the end of it, and he wouldn’t have any more thoughts, he saw a lush green area.
Mo Wuji almost ran all the way there, even the weight of the heavy Dan furnace was ignored by him.
After more than ten minutes, Mo Wuji stood between this green strewn valley, it was only when he reached here that he realised that Lone Ran wasn’t talking blindly, this place was filled with spirit grass.
Mo Wuji had also read many spirit grass introductions in order to learn alchemy, and he knew a thing or two about all sorts of spirit grasses. However, there were still many spirit grasses here that he couldn’t name, and that kind of vibrancy gave him a sense of satisfaction and pleasure.
Not bad, vibrant.
When Mo Wuji thought of the word vibrant, he suddenly thought of the place he came from just now. If this place was vibrant, then the place he had just walked through was a dead place.
For the same Sword Mountain, why was there a vibrant place of spiritual grass and a barren place where wild grass did not grow?
Mo Wuji settled down, and only then did he realise that something was wrong.
There was something odd at the junction of this vibrant area and the one he had just come from, the spiritual grass seemed to be withering at the edges of this spiritual grass-strewn area.
In an instant, Mo Wuji understood what was going on, the reason why the place he was currently in was vibrant was because the withering spread had not yet come to where he was. With the passage of time, sooner or later, this piece of spirit grass land that he was in would turn into a barren place.
Although Mo Wuji didn’t want the Sword Mountain of the Traceless Sword Sect to turn into a barren land, he had the self-awareness to know that there was nothing he could do about it with his current status as an errand boy disciple. Not to mention, there was no telling what was waiting for him here.
Now that there were so many spirit herbs, the most important thing he needed to do was to collect all of them, and then find a place to practice how spirit herbs were purified.
Large swathes of spirit grass were collected by Mo Wuji, and by the evening, Mo Wuji really couldn’t carry it anymore. Only then did he find a natural cave in a valley to stay in.
After resting for the night, Mo Wuji took out the flame stone he found from that Dan Master and placed it under the Dan Furnace, and started to purify the spirit grass.
Even though there were spirit grasses everywhere, Mo Wuji was still careful when purifying them. He knew that spirit grasses were very precious, if he hadn’t entered the Sword Mountain, he would never have had such a luxury, a mountain of spirit grasses for him to learn about spirit grass purification.
Time passed day by day, Mo Wuji treasured this opportunity very much, purifying different spirit herbs every day. From the failure of purification to purifying 80% of the essence of the spirit grass he took three days, while from purifying 80% of the essence to 90% of the essence, he took eight days.
Then he could no longer advance an inch, and it seemed very, very difficult to purify the spirit grass to more than ninety percent essence.
In spirit herb purification, being able to purify spirit herbs to a few percent essence meant that the purity of the spirit herb was a few percent. Eighty percent essence meant that the purity purified was eighty percent, and ninety percent meant that it was ninety percent.
Mo Wuji was based on the purification means in that Dan book, and he knew that he could no longer not progress after purifying out ninety per cent. It wasn’t because there was a problem with his purification means, but because his cultivation realm was too low. As long as his cultivation realm went up, his purification of spirit herbs could be taken to another level.
Only being able to purify 90% of the essence, Mo Wuji still thought that compared to that Shi Dan Master, the spirit grass he purified was much purer. In Mo Wuji’s opinion, that Shi Jun’s purification of spirit grass was only 60 to 70% at most.
With his eyes that didn’t even know how to refine pills in the first place, he could tell that the residue of the medicine that Shi Jun had tapped out contained too much residue of spirit herbs, which was simply a waste.
It wasn’t just a waste, the higher the purity of the drug purified, the easier it would be to make pills. Not only is it easier to refine pills, but the colour of the pills produced will also be higher.
Shi Jun’s level of alchemy was further improved, as long as his means of purifying the spirit medicine was not improved, it would be difficult for his alchemy level to progress any further.
Mo Wuji knew that if he wanted to improve his means of purifying spirit medicine again, it would be a long process. He simply stopped practising drug purification and instead started learning alchemy while cultivating. There was an abundance of spiritual qi here, and there was no need to worry about being discovered by others absorbing spiritual qi too furiously. For Mo Wuji, he could cultivate with all of his veins open without any worries.
The alchemy techniques in this Dan book of his were completely different from Shi Jun’s alchemy process, this Dan book of alchemy was all about Dan techniques and hand techniques.
Starting from lighting the flame to clean the furnace, to the moment when the alchemy was finished and the elixir was put away, there were all sorts of hand techniques to go along with it.
Moreover, the Dan Shu theory of alchemy Dan knacks and hand knacks were not fixed, but changed according to the characteristics of the elixir and the characteristics of the spiritual herbs. This is a very high requirement for alchemists, and some alchemists who can’t comprehend it, I’m afraid they can only copy it.
Mo Wuji deeply understood this when he first studied medicines. Anything that was fixed and unchanging did not mean that it stayed in place, but rather, it was always regressing.
Just like the ancient Chinese civilisation in general, how much of it was lost in the dust of history? The reason is that it is fixed. When a master teaches a disciple, even if he does not hide anything, it is difficult for the disciple to surpass the master, and he will certainly regress a little. When the disciple passes on the disciple again, that recedes some more. The blue is better than the blue, and that is for a very small number of people. What’s more, most masters will hide their favourites when they teach their disciples.
Even the best of things, when they recede like this, they end up being lost in history.
Mo Wuji knew that this kind of opportunity was extremely rare, even though he didn’t know how he should go out after a month, and he didn’t have the time to think about that right now. Since the Sovereign had said one month, then there would definitely be no mistake.
There wasn’t this kind of rich cultivation environment after going out, nor could there be this kind of unique alchemy environment. Therefore, Mo Wuji had almost given up his sleeping time, and every day, apart from frantically refining pills, he was frantically cultivating. When he got a little sleepy from refining pills, he immediately started cultivating.
Cultivating and absorbing the spiritual qi of heaven and earth allowed him to maintain his energy with very little sleep.
Although there were not many Dan formulas in the Dan book, each one of them seemed to Mo Wuji to be a very condensed Dan formula. Not only was it suitable for learning how to make pills, it was also extremely useful for cultivators with low cultivation levels.
On the twentieth day in, Mo Wuji successfully refined the first furnace of the First Grade Human Spirit Dan Gathering Spirit Dan. This kind of elixir was provided for cultivators at the Pulse Expansion realm to cultivate with, and the effect was much better than the Qi Condensation Dan. On the twenty-first day in, Mo Wuji successfully refined out the First Grade Human Spirit Pill Rejuvenation Pill. This was for cultivators to replenish their Yuan Qi, and it was just as useful to Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji was in such a frantic condition of cultivating and refining pills that he almost forgot about the passage of time. Until this day when the veins in his entire body sent out vibrations at the same time, and a thick and powerful aura poured down from the top of his head, directly penetrating his entire body. The feeling of transparency and clarity made Mo Wuji wake up from that frantic state.
He knew that he had unconsciously crossed into the third level of Vein Expansion. Since he started cultivating, it took him less than two months to cross into the third layer of Pulse Expansion with a mortal root.
This wasn’t what satisfied him the most, what satisfied him was that in these less than two months, he had still spent very little time cultivating, and had also practised alchemy on the side. Today, he was already a true First Grade Human Dan Master.
Using the Wordless Dan Book and the resources of the Traceless Sword Mountain, he had used nearly a month’s time to cross a height that many people would never be able to cross in a lifetime.
Unfortunately, no matter what, he couldn’t refine a Second Grade Human Spirit Pill.
