Ignoring the girl, Ding Yan walked to the statue and waved his sleeve. Elemental force transformed into wind and swept towards the stone statue above.
"What are you trying to do?" the girl exclaimed.
Just as the Phoenix Qi was about to sweep towards the statue, a translucent wall appeared silently, easily deflecting the force of the wind, and the face of the squatting statue gradually became clear...
The statue had the appearance of a middle-aged scholar, with a firm and stern visage, focused yet lifeless eyes under his sword-like brows, and the black long beard cascading down to his chest, completely motionless.
"By transforming his own mortal body into the statue and sitting on top of the Wheel of Reincarnation, even if someone were to come here, they would not guess that the statue is the old immortal of the Yellow Springs. In the worldly perception, a person's body should be accompanied by a coffin and a grave after passing away. It is precisely due to this fixed mindset that people overlook this inconspicuous little observatory." Ding Yan gazed at the sitting statue, feeling emotional.
The statue was indeed the old immortal of the Yellow Springs!
This scene was deduced by Ding Yan using the technique of deduction.
If not for deduction, Ding Yan probably would not have known that the old immortal of the Yellow Springs had actually transformed his deceased body into a statue and sat atop the observatory.
"Do you know The Grandfather Statue?" the green-clothed girl asked with curiosity.
Ignoring the girl, Ding Yan walked to the alchemy furnace and stretched out his right hand. A potent elemental force silently diffused, turning into a breath and drawing in the three bamboo fragrances originally on the alchemy furnace into his hand.
During the flight, the appearance of the bamboo fragrances gradually changed, and the thin green smoke emitted became increasingly faint. When it fell into Ding Yan's hand, the appearance of the bamboo fragrances had completely faded, turning into a round pill. The originally drifting green smoke also transformed into a rich medicinal scent.
"This is not the Unsoiled Pill." Ding Yan furrowed his brow as he examined the pill.
Although the quality of the pill was excellent, it did not reach the level of the Unsoiled Pill. With Ding Yan's insight, he naturally saw it at a glance.
As Ding Yan observed the pill, a nearly decaying skeleton staggered into the broken section of the interior city, entering from the hole. There was no divine light on the skeleton, no hint of evil Qi, and even the skull on top was swaying, as if it might fall off at any moment.
At the moment the skeleton entered the interior city, within the pitch-black space.
The weird Daoist who killed Xiao Juezizi suddenly trembled, and the momentum on his body became even stronger. Not far from the Daoist, on the rusty remnants of the sword left by Xiao Juezizi after his death, a faint and almost imperceptible halo appeared.
"The Bone-Quelling Sword, this broken sword is actually the Bone-Quelling Sword! When the Bone-Quelling Sword is out, my bones will surely come back to life..." the weird Daoist laughed maniacally.
Above, the pitch-black sky cracked even faster...
Inside the Samsara Pavilion.
The seated deity on the top slightly swayed, and a slight fluctuation appeared in the lifeless eyes of the deity. The index finger of the deity's right hand trembled slightly. However, Ding Yan did not notice this movement.
At this moment, Ding Yan's eyes flickered with Yin and Yang, analyzing the grade of the elixir, and only after a long time did he retract his gaze.
"Although it's not the Dustless Elixir, it is still a rare elixir. Moreover, its effect is to increase cultivation... In my current situation, refining this elixir probably only requires three hours." Ding Yan thought for a moment and immediately decided to refine the elixir.
Three hours is not a long time.
Moreover, Ding Yan's situation is different from other wandering immortals. His state of mind far surpasses his cultivation level. Refining this elixir will directly enhance his cultivation.
In this City of Injustice, danger lurks everywhere. More strength means more security. Besides, Ding Yan's most immediate goal now is to restore his previous cultivation level, in order to eliminate the demon in the City of Injustice. In fact, it is also laying the foundation for future cultivation advancement.
As for the Samsara Pavilion, Ding Yan has already seen most of it during his calculations and is confident that there will be no danger.
Approaching the door, Ding Yan took out three Level 4 runes from the spatial array in his sleeve and lined them up. Then, he placed a dozen Level 2 runes in other places, and with each rune placed, Ding Yan input a little elemental force.
"Formation complete!" Walking to the center, Ding Yan waved his right hand, immediately released a symbol, and imprinted it on the ground.
The runes appeared and the formation was instantly completed.
Given Ding Yan's current mastery level of array formations and with the help of the runes from the spatial array, the formation laid out is definitely unbreakable for an expert at the level of a wandering immortal. Inside the Samsara Pavilion, the green-clothed girl who had been standing by, only saw Ding Yan walking around inside the pavilion, then a flash of green light, and the whole person disappeared into thin air.
"Hey, where did he go?" The girl was surprised, and even walked to the place where Ding Yan disappeared and turned in circles twice.
...
Sitting in the center of the formation, Ding Yan took out the elixir he had extracted from the cauldron and swallowed it.
After the elixir entered his mouth, it instantly turned into a faint green energy, wandering through his meridians. Ding Yan kept his mind stable, and the Qiankun Dao Canon began to operate on its own, beginning to refine the medicinal power. His stagnant cultivation level visibly began to grow at a rapid pace.
If anyone saw Ding Yan's speed of cultivation growth, they would definitely call him crazy.
Because in the cultivation world, no one dares to use the entire medicinal effect of a spiritual elixir solely to increase their cultivation. Those who take these drugs usually suppress their cultivation level to prevent their cultivation from growing too fast, causing a mismatch in their state of mind. There are even many who use most of the medicinal power to temper their bodies, only daring to use a small portion of it to increase their cultivation.
Ding Yan, however, has no such concerns because before his rebirth, he was a Tribulation Crossing cultivator, with a state of mind equivalent to that of seven wandering immortal tribulations.
The medicinal power was gradually refined.
In an instant, Ding Yan's cultivation level broke through the initial stage and gradually advanced to the peak of the middle stage.
At this point, inside Ding Yan's body, the elemental energy became denser, and the central essence began to gather, showing signs of condensing into a Dan.
An hour passed...
A faint smoke rose from Ding Yan's head.
These wisps of smoke were the miscellaneous breath released after Ding Yan refined the elixir. At the same time, within his body, the energy transformed from the elixir flowed like a river, crazily wandering through his meridians. If he wanted to incorporate it into his veins, he could do so with a thought, but Ding Yan did not intend to strengthen his physical body, but rather planned to refine all these elixirs into his Dantian to enhance his cultivation.
Carefully controlling the wandering energy, under the traction of his mind, Ding Yan gradually directed it into his Dantian.
After an hour, Ding Yan's cultivation level went from the initial stage of the middle stage to the peak of the middle stage.
"Not enough..." Ding Yan murmured.
In an instant, a Yin and Yang formed inside Ding Yan's body. At the moment when Yin and Yang took shape, all the meridians in Ding Yan's body disappeared, leaving only a rotating Yin and Yang. Under the influence of Yin and Yang, the energy originally adhering to the meridians was completely drawn into his Dantian.
Buzz!
The moment the energy was drawn into his Dantian, a rotating force erupted, compressing all the chaotic energy into one, merging it with Ding Yan's own energy.
In an instant, Ding Yan's cultivation level advanced further, entering the later stage.