Alchemy and medicine have some similarities, but alchemists and pharmacists may not be able to solve all the difficult and complicated cases.
However, Gu Yao first accepted the body refining technique, because Hu Ting told him that the cultivator's son was injured on top of his injuries after practicing this technique. He was curious, whether it was due to his physique or the defect of the technique itself.
He walked towards the young cultivator who was sitting paralyzed on the recliner and barely saluted him. He looked like he was only in his twenties. His father had already built the foundation, and it could be seen that he was somewhat exhausted recently because of this son.
Gu Yao took his pulse and probed his spiritual sense to carefully check his condition inside. Xu Chen expressed curiosity and observed along.
After seeing it, Gu Yao was amazed. He had never encountered such a situation before: "Have you ever seen this before, senior? Not only the meridians are shrinking, but also the dantian. Although the practice of the technique has stopped, this trend has eased, but from the symptoms, it is only slowing down the speed."
Shrinking to the end, this guy's life is not guaranteed, and now, it is almost the same as being paralyzed.
"I have seen it, but the situation is different from him, although the result is similar. Who gave the conclusion that his physique is not suitable for body refining? You first look at that technique, I suspect the problem is still on this technique." Xu Chen replied.
Gu Yao nodded in his heart and sat aside to read the jade slip that the middle-aged cultivator had brought. There were a lot of people around, and they didn't urge when they saw it. The middle-aged cultivator was anxious, but he had waited for so long, and he was not in a hurry for a while?
The young cultivator looked at Gu Yao with envy in his eyes. Gu Yao was of the same age as him, but he had grown into a person he had to look up to.
Gu Yao used his mind to do two things at once, asking Xu Chen what caused the similar situation before, while looking at the technique in the jade slip.
Xu Chen did not hide it from him, and said the more common situations. The most common one is the Devouring Spirit Gu, this kind of gu worm is often refined by cultivators, lurking in the cultivator's body will devour the spiritual energy in the cultivator's body, especially if it lurks in the meridians and dantian, when the spiritual energy in it is devoured, the meridians and dantian will naturally show signs of shrinking.
Human creativity is endless, so on the basis of the Devouring Spirit Gu, cultivators who are especially good at taking shortcuts, especially evil cultivators, have created a variety of derivative gu worms, even Xu Chen, who has seen a lot of things, does not dare to guarantee that he has seen them all.
When these gu worms break out of the body, it is when the owner of the gu worm recovers them. These gu worms are more nourishing than rare spiritual herbs and pills, and the spiritual energy in the gu worm is fed back to the owner, which can save many years of hard work, especially for some people with poor aptitude, this method is undoubtedly a fast way to rise.
Gu Yao was stunned, he didn't expect that there was such a thing in the world, and it was refined by the cultivators themselves, it sounded too evil, he had never heard of such a thing in his previous life, but in the history of the Gu Clan, it was mentioned that there was a kind of parasite in the Gu Clan, which was similar to this situation, and the powerful ones could even absorb the memory of the host and control the host to hide among the humans.
He scanned the technique roughly, and it seemed that there was no big problem. This body refining technique was a relatively mild one, not an extreme one, but Gu Yao felt that there was something wrong with the technique after reading it.
"Brother Ye, you take a look." Gu Yao handed it to Chi Changye who was next to him. This kind of thing, Chi Changye had seen more than him, and he also passed the content to Xu Chen after reading it.
"This technique is incomplete!"
Almost at the same time, Xu Chen and Chi Changye uttered the same voice, of course the former was only heard by Gu Yao.
"What?" The middle-aged cultivator was stunned, "Is it the problem of the technique and not my son's physique is not suitable for body refining? Then… then isn't it me who harmed my son?"
"This technique looks mild, but it is actually very domineering," Chi Changye's cold voice sounded, "Every stage, the technique requires a very large amount of spiritual energy, when the external supply is insufficient, it will draw from the inside by itself."
"Yes, this kid is right." Xu Chen praised in Gu Yao's sea of knowledge, "This technique is indeed very domineering, how can this little cultivator who is already injured bear it, isn't it just shrinking back the more he cultivates."
The middle-aged cultivator's body swayed a bit, he did not doubt Chi Changye's words, because this result was exactly in line with his son's symptoms, but it was the domineering of the technique that caused it, but their family had ancestral cultivation techniques, no one had touched such a body refining technique, so they did not know what consequences it would bring.
He gave a bitter smile and said, "Chi senior, I don't know what the technique is missing, and whether my son's body can recover?"
"What is missing is naturally the method of providing external replenishment of spiritual energy, nothing more than spiritual herbs, pills and other auxiliary means, without the matching means, this technique should not be touched." So he would not agree to Gu Yao practicing this technique either, otherwise it would also produce similar consequences over time.
"As for recovery? For now, take some targeted pills to replenish it." He didn't know much else, after all he was an amateur, Chi Changye thought without shirking his responsibility.
Hu Ting and the others had not seen this technique before, after all it was something passed down by someone else's family, so they never thought it would be such a result, and they didn't have any scruples at this time, Chi Changye handed it over, and he also looked at it, as a golden core alchemist, he did see some inconsistencies in the technique, but he didn't have much contact with body refining, not as sharp as Chi Changye.
The middle-aged cultivator finally took a few pills that Gu Yao gave him and left with his son with a bitter smile. Gu Yao could only give a few pills for repairing the meridians and replenishing the spiritual energy, hoping to ease the shrinkage caused by the exhaustion of the spiritual energy in the meridians and dantian, but he couldn't think of any good way to cure it for the time being, including Hu Ting.
The technique was left behind, but no one in the general guild had any interest in it, and even wished to stay away from it.
Gu Yao temporarily stayed and continued to study the technique, while thinking of ways to solve it, Xu Chen did mention a method.
"Didn't you say that there are good gu worms before, do you think that all the gu worms are evil?"
"Are there good ones? The method is on the gu worm? Is it to use the Devouring Spirit Gu in reverse? Wouldn't that require cultivating a Devouring Spirit Gu first?" Gu Yao asked curiously.
Xu Chen smiled and said, "You are clever, you can infer from one example to another. Of course there are good and bad gu worms, there is a medicine gu in the gu master, using the medicine gu to help people cure diseases, not only devouring and harming people. But the reputation of the gu master has always been not very good, so even if there are people in the cultivation world who practice this way, they will hide themselves. And do you think how many cultivators, after knowing that there is such a shortcut, can control themselves not to touch the Devouring Spirit Gu? So, the gu master way mostly goes on the evil path, and there are very few who can stick to their original intention."
"But this kind of medicine gu has always been precious, and it is not easy to get, let alone cultivate. I have only heard of these things, but I don't know how to do it specifically. You don't have to expect the Dan Pavilion, there is no record of this aspect in the Dan Pavilion."
Gu Yao was not disappointed, the existence of the Dan Pavilion was already against the sky, and it would be too greedy to expect it to be all-encompassing.
Gu Yao told Chi Changye what Xu Chen had told him, and Chi Changye had never heard of the gu master way, but he had heard and seen cultivators who cultivated and used bugs to fight, but it sounded a bit different, he could only say that his knowledge was still very limited.
He didn't wait for two days before he proposed to leave. He had one more thing to solve. Hu Ting didn't keep him much, and apologized, "I'm sorry to make you run for nothing this time."
"President, you are too polite, this is not something you can foresee. I also regret that I couldn't help that fellow daoist. It shows that the way of alchemy is still very long, and I have a lot to learn." Because Xu Chen said that, besides using the gu worm in reverse, if his strength advanced a step further, he could refine a pill to help the cultivator solve the problem, and even if his cultivation and alchemy skills were higher and more advanced, even if the meridians and dantian were completely destroyed, he could reshape them. This made Gu Yao feel ambitious.
Hu Ting watched the four of them leave. Now that his grandson had reached the great perfection of foundation building, he could not do much for his grandson except to help prepare for the core formation. And he could foresee that the time they stayed on the Tianlin Continent was getting shorter and shorter, and he felt reluctant in his heart.
But no matter how reluctant he was, he would not stop his grandson's footsteps. Only by leaving here could he continue to pursue his cultivation path. The space of the Tianlin Continent was too small after all.
"I didn't expect him to hide in the Nanmang Mountain Range." The four of them stood on the flying magic tool and looked down at the mountain range below.
The Nanmang Mountain Range was very famous on the Tianlin Continent. There were many mountain ranges that were covered by fog all year round. The fog contained miasma, so ordinary cultivators did not dare to enter easily. But there were also many places with rich spiritual energy inside, where many rare spiritual herbs grew, which were also coveted by cultivators. So there were still many cultivators who went here to look for opportunities.
Gu Yao knew that there were many shops in Dan Ding City that sold spiritual herbs from the Nanmang Mountain Range. Some merchants set up points outside the safe area of the Nanmang Mountain Range and bought the harvests of the cultivators who entered and exited the mountain range.
"Let's go, we'll go in." Chi Changye glanced at the distribution of the mountain range below and drove the flying magic tool into the thick fog.
The situation in the sky was discovered by many cultivators below. Seeing that the flying magic tool went straight in regardless, they immediately discussed.
"Which fool is not afraid of death, do you think this is a place where you can fly in with a flying magic tool? You won't even know how you die later."
"Isn't it possible that they have great strength and have the confidence to break in directly? For example, that senior Chi from the Tianfu Academy, is there any place in this Nanmang Mountain Range that he can't go to?"
"Senior Chi will have the leisure to come to the Nanmang Mountain Range? There is only one senior Chi on this Tianlin Continent, do you really think everyone can do it?"