Research-Style Cultivation, Starting by Refusing to Be a Furnace – Chapter 48

Ch 48: Pure Yang Talisman

One month later, Wei Xing stood in the cave abode, weeping bitterly, his face pale, cursing the injustice.

Originally, this month, Wei Xing desperately studied the art of talismans, wanting to learn the Corpse Puppet cultivation method as soon as possible to increase his strength.

While consulting talisman techniques, Wei Xing saw a specially listed category—Pure Yang Talismans. The introduction described how they restrain ghosts and spirits, exorcise evil, and when activated, burst forth with a brilliant Pure Yang sunlight, causing all kinds of Yin-Cold ghosts to dissipate, making them a great weapon.

After reading the introduction, Wei Xing exclaimed, “Awesome! I’m impressed!”

“Wait! Ghosts? This world has ghosts?” Wei Xing stammered.

When Wei Xing was on Earth, he was most afraid of people talking about scary ghosts. Now that he knew for the first time that there were ghosts, he was even more terrified. Furthermore, he realized that he had no way to deal with ghosts at all.

If the disciples in this sect really knew how to use ghost techniques, wouldn’t all his efforts be in vain? Thinking of this, Wei Xing became even more eager to refine this Pure Yang Talisman to save his life.

Checking the cultivation requirements again, he found that it could be refined with just Dao Breath entry. The higher the cultivation level, the more powerful the refined Pure Yang Talisman would be. When a Great Expert used this talisman, a hundred ghosts would dissipate.

“This is good, this is good!” Wei Xing was even more excited when he saw this, fantasizing that one day he could command a hundred ghosts, and no one would dare to disobey. When he threw out the talismans, they would all have to obey!

So he buried himself in cultivation for a month, but he couldn’t refine it no matter what. Because the Pure Yang Talisman required a drop of a cultivator’s essence blood, Wei Xing’s essence blood was constantly lost in his constant attempts, and his face was extremely pale.

Finally, Wei Xing found the reason. It turned out that at the end of the Pure Yang Talisman, there was a small line of words that Wei Xing had not noticed.

Now that Wei Xing could not cultivate it, he suspected whether he had missed a step. He carefully checked and compared it, only to find that the line of words read—If you want to refine this talisman, you must maintain an unbroken Original Yang Body.

Seeing this, Wei Xing felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He was stunned. He had already been harvested by the Woman in White, and before that, this body had been harvested countless times.

“I!”

“I!”

Wei Xing finally shouted in despair, “Why am I so unlucky! You evil women deserve to die!”

Looking at the fact that he had been busy for a month for nothing, Wei Xing was unwilling. He buried his head in thought, “Since the final catalyst of the Pure Yang Talisman is Original Yang Essence Blood, can I find something to replace it?”

Wei Xing brainstormed in his mind, recording his ideas, and finally found a few.

“In theory, virgin boy urine is also an Original Yang substance. I’ve always heard that virgin boy urine can ward off evil spirits, so it should work. Replacing the essence blood with virgin boy urine, the effect is estimated to be a little worse. If I use virgin boy urine as a catalyst and make more of these talismans to make up for the weakness of a single Pure Yang Talisman, it’s not impossible,” Wei Xing thought it was feasible.

“Black dog blood is also possible, I’ll try everything,” Wei Xing thought of another point.

Then he went to Qingyuan Prefecture and went to the Li Family’s General Store.

When the Old Man saw Wei Xing coming, he quickly knelt down and said, “Greetings, Immortal.”

Wei Xing was also straightforward, “Old Ma, get up. I need virgin boy urine and black dog blood, the more the better. It must be from virgin boys, remember!”

“Uh,” obviously the Old Man was also a little surprised by this sudden request, and then adjusted, “Yes, Immortal, don’t worry.”

Half a day later, several large basins full of the stench of urine, and a basin of dark red, shiny black dog blood were placed in front of Wei Xing.

“Ugh,” Wei Xing pinched his nose and said, “It really stinks.”

Wei Xing took the virgin boy urine and black dog blood, and also took away the gunpowder and Steel Ingots he had collected recently, gave some pills, and went straight to Qingyuan Temple.

Dan Peak, halfway up the mountain.

Wei Xing sat in the cave abode, took out the virgin boy urine and black dog blood from the Storage Bag, and also took out a pile of talisman paper.

“This Pure Yang Talisman uses the cultivator’s Original Yang Essence Blood as a catalyst to stimulate the talisman and attract the Pure Yang Power in the world. Without the cultivator’s Original Yang Essence Blood, I can use virgin boy urine and black dog blood to stimulate and attract the Pure Yang Power in theory,” Wei Xing analyzed the principle while looking at the Pure Yang Talisman production method in front of him.

“Let’s try it.”

After Wei Xing finished drawing the talisman on the talisman paper, he dripped the virgin boy urine and black dog blood on the talisman, just like how the essence blood was drawn in the talisman method.

After waiting for a long time, there was no reaction.

When the Pure Yang Talisman is successfully refined, there will be a golden light flowing on the surface of the talisman, endlessly, but the one in front of him has no reaction at all.

“Why?” Wei Xing was confident that there was no problem with his operation method. It had been a month, and he had long been familiar with drawing the Pure Yang Talisman patterns.

Finally, after excluding the talisman paper and refining method, he discovered a possibility that he had overlooked.

The Yang energy contained in the cultivator’s Original Yang Essence Blood should be far greater than the same amount of virgin boy urine and black dog blood.

“In that case, wouldn’t it be enough for me to use more virgin boy urine?”

After Wei Xing thought of a solution, he immediately soaked the talisman paper with the drawn talisman patterns in virgin boy urine and black dog blood, recording the talisman paper soaked for different times, and then took it out to see the effect, and recorded it.

Finally, it was determined that after soaking in virgin boy urine for six hours and black dog blood for ten hours, the talisman patterns on these talisman papers began to emit a faint yellow light and flowed by themselves.

Seeing that the talisman patterns had a reaction, Wei Xing was overjoyed, but looking at the yellow light, he said, “This is not the golden color mentioned in the book.”

Wei Xing guessed that it might be because of the different raw materials. In short, it would be fine as long as it could be used. Then he slowly dried these Pure Yang Talismans he had refined to remove the moisture, and a Pure Yang Talisman was completed.

“Ugh,” Wei Xing couldn’t bear it after collecting about a hundred talismans and vomited.

Looking at the stack of Pure Yang Talismans he had refined with substitutes in front of him.

Wei Xing couldn’t help but cover his nose and said, “This smell is too strong.”

Then he looked at his hands and complained, “I’m dirty.”

Just as Wei Xing was complaining, a familiar voice came from outside the cave abode, “Xiao Jiu, are you there?”

Wei Xing opened the courtyard gate and found that it was Dan Qi.

Dan Qi was about to go in, but was rushed out by a stench of urine. He pinched his nose and said, “Xiao Jiu, why is your courtyard so smelly?”

Then Dan Qi smelled Wei Xing and couldn’t help but vomit outside the courtyard. After finishing, he asked from a distance, “Xiao Jiu, why are you so smelly too!”

Wei Xing scratched his head embarrassedly and forcibly explained, “That, that, Seventh Senior Brother, I just wanted to learn from mortals and plant some Spirit Vegetables in the courtyard, and tried to pour some artificial fertilizer.”

Dan Qi looked into the courtyard, “Then where are your vegetables?”

“They were stolen. They were still there yesterday, but they’re all gone today! I don’t know who’s so unlucky and stole my vegetables to eat!” Wei Xing could only bite the bullet and make it up, pretending to be angry.

As soon as these words came out, Dan Qi was speechless for a while.

In the awkward atmosphere, neither of them spoke.

After a long time, Dan Qi said, “Hurry up and prepare. Tomorrow is the sect’s apprentice acceptance ceremony. Last time, Weapon Peak presided over the prayer ceremony at the foot of the mountain. This time, it’s our Dan Peak’s turn. You come with me.”

“Change your urine-smelling clothes!” Dan Qi covered his nose and didn’t stay any longer, instructing from afar.

Wei Xing embarrassedly curled his toes and quickly said goodbye, “Got it, Seventh Senior Brother, goodbye Senior Brother.”

The next day, at the foot of Qingyuan Mountain, Dan Qi stood in front of the square with Wei Xing.

Wei Xing looked at the crazy crowd in front of him, no longer feeling lively, but feeling these were terrifying and strange.

Wei Xing’s thoughts recalled the scene when he first came to Qingyuan Temple. It was also the same crowd of people, and he also recalled the matter of refining seeds with Dan Wu, those “Flesh Pills”, which made him feel frightened.

For the sect to sow and harvest, holding these ‘seeds’ tightly in their hands, harvesting them again and again, spending a lifetime as a furnace that cannot survive or die, and finally refining them into ‘seeds’.

Wei Xing found this practice unacceptable and strongly resisted it.

But now he has also become the ‘culprit’ who spread the seeds. Wei Xing stared blankly at the crowd below, numbly saying, “What’s going on?”

Until Dan Qi took out a small White Jade Bottle and scattered the red mist towards the crowd, the crowd below swarmed like goldfish eating food.

As soon as Wei Xing thought of the future children of these mortal women, their fate of becoming “seeds” had been arranged. Before long, several families like Old He would appear, hoping for their children to return, but they did not know that their children had already become consumables for cultivators, died, and entered the next reincarnation.

Wei Xing felt that he couldn’t bear to look at the liveliness outside anymore. Unlike his initial longing, this time he felt that his appearance on this occasion was sinful.

At this moment, the noise outside and Dan Qi’s voice were all left behind by Wei Xing.

The dead eighty-year-old Old He, never waited for his child to come home in his life.

The dead Old Taoist Xuan Yun, was fighting to the death, just to leave a legacy for the Secluded Dao Sect.

The dead Ling Xiao, rescued himself without hesitation.

These innocent and unknowing mortals, full of hope to welcome the arrival of new life, but they are already “Immortal Child” seeds whose life and death are enslaved.

At this moment, he wanted to change all this, to change the distorted world!