Immortal Reincarnation Tribulation

Chapter 218 Cat's Eye Grass

Before long, Song Yuanzi returned, this time with a big smile on his face. In his hand, there was a storage bag. He took a few big steps to Du Fan and handed it to him.

Du Fan took it and examined it carefully. He found a jade bottle about the size of two fingers and exactly one hundred sea silk threads in the storage bag.

"These are thirty-two mid-grade spirit stones." Du Fan flicked his wrist and tossed a storage bag to the old man as well.

After a brief inspection, Song Yuanzi felt reassured and said with a smile, "It is truly a blessing to cooperate with a straightforward person like Fellow Daoist Du. I still have a few spiritual fruits here. If you have time, you can taste one or two before you leave."

"Thank you for your kindness, Fellow Daoist Songyuan, but I'm in a hurry to get back. Maybe next time," Du Fan said, seemingly casually touching his storage bag.

Song Yuanzi's eyes narrowed, confirming his earlier guess. His smile widened as he said solicitously, "In that case, I will personally escort Fellow Daoist Du out. Please."

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After leaving Song Yuanzi's shop, Du Fan did not linger and decisively left the market, setting off at full speed towards the village he had just visited.

Several hours later, Du Fan left the village, circled around, and then appeared at the place he had agreed upon with Zhao Chong and the other person.

"I apologize for keeping you waiting, brothers. I am new to the market and have been browsing through many shops out of curiosity, which has caused me to waste a lot of time without realizing it. I am truly ashamed." Du Fan cupped his hands in apology as he approached Zhao Chong and his companion, a hint of embarrassment on his face.

"Brother Du, there's no need for that. It's not easy for me to come to the market, so it's perfectly normal for it to take a little longer. Besides, we just came out and haven't been waiting for too long," Yuan Li said with a smile, waving his hand.

Du Fan smiled at Yuan Li and the other person, and said no more.

Next, they used their movement techniques to speed back towards Langlin Valley.

The journey went smoothly, and on the fourth day, Du Fan and his companions returned to the valley. The three of them exchanged a few words and then went their separate ways.

After returning to his wooden hut, Du Fan sat cross-legged, holding a small bottle filled with ginseng essence oil in his left hand and dragging the Dan Transformation Water he had bought a few days ago at a high cost of spirit stones in his right hand. He hesitated between the two, as if he had a hard time choosing.

"Should I focus on improving my cultivation level first, or research the composition of the Elixir-Melting Water...?"

But the next moment, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of something that had little to do with either of them.

"Since the Elixir-Melting Water can dissolve the impurities within a demon core, it must be something that counters demon beasts. In other words, even a living demon beast would not like something like the Elixir-Melting Water."

However, the most likely reason why the demonic beast disliked it was... the main ingredient of the Elixir-Melting Water!

Du Fan's eyes grew brighter, as if he had grasped something, and his breathing became rapid.

"In this way, as long as we find out the main ingredients of the elixir-dissolving water, and then use some experimental methods, we can find out what counteracts these main ingredients."

This kind of counteracting substance is very likely something that demonic beasts like. If that's the case, then this substance can be smeared on fishing nets to attract demonic beasts, and its effect will definitely be much stronger than fish food.

Du Fan's mind raced as he calculated, eventually arriving at a theoretical result that thrilled him.

"Although this is only a theoretical possibility and the whole experiment is quite complicated, I have a feeling that it can succeed!" Du Fan took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he had already made up his mind.

"Here, it's impossible to accelerate the growth of large quantities of spiritual herbs, but if we're careful, we can still manage to do some scientific research."

I carry many spiritual herbs with me, both in variety and quantity. If I'm lucky, the ingredients for the Elixir-Melting Water, as well as the counteracting substance I deduced, might already be in my Qiankun Ring.

Thinking of this, Du Fan no longer hesitated. He immediately got up and closed the doors and windows of the room. At the same time, he pushed the light screen of the restricted magic tool to its limit. Then he took out a set of experimental equipment, poured the elixir-dissolving water into one of the containers, and began to study the composition of the potion.

Several hours later, Du Fan discovered that studying liquid potions was more complicated than studying solid pills, but for him, this difference in difficulty was negligible.

Two days later, Du Fan finally completed the first step. He had broken down the components of the Elixir-Melting Water, which were now in the form of colorful crystal particles.

Next, Du Fan began to examine each of these crystal particles one by one, and after another day, he analyzed the origin of these crystal particles.

It turns out that the main ingredient of the Elixir-Melting Water is a spiritual liquid called the Three Pure Water. Du Fan had heard of this spiritual liquid before, and it was considered a rather high-grade auxiliary material.

Although the Three Pure Waters are renowned throughout the Nine Provinces, they are extremely rare, which is why Du Fan had never come into contact with them.

Upon further investigation, Du Fan realized that the Three Pure Waters were not original; this spiritual liquid was also refined, and its ingredients included various spiritual materials such as marigold grass, bellflower grass, dust-avoiding grass, and spring water.

However, in addition to the main ingredient, Sanqing Water, the ingredients of Huadan Water also include more than ten kinds of secondary spiritual herbs such as Fusang leaves, Jingfan flowers, and Tianlin grass.

"I didn't expect that the ingredients of a mere bottle of Elixir-Melting Water would be so complex... Oh well, I'm not going to start preparing Elixir-Melting Water right now anyway, I just need to find its main ingredients."

Du Fan sighed, then grasped the key points and continued his research.

After several hours, through his experiments, he was able to confirm that the proportion of peacock grass in the ingredients of the Three Pure Waters was the largest. Therefore, the spiritual herbs that had a restraining effect on demonic beasts were most likely peacock grass.

"The most crucial thing now is to find a medicinal herb that counteracts the marigold!"

Du Fan's eyes flashed, and without further hesitation, he got back to work.

A day later, Du Fan was slightly tired, but his expression was extremely excited. He had finally found something that countered the Peacock Grass, and this spiritual herb just happened to be something he already had: "Cat's Eye Grass"!

This cat's eye grass, in terms of both properties and medicinal effects, is the opposite of the peacock grass. Therefore, this spiritual herb is most likely the favorite of demon beasts. Of course, this is just a theoretical assumption, and even Du Fan is not entirely certain.

Du Fan also prepared some spiritual herbs similar to cat's eye grass as a backup. If cat's eye grass didn't work, he could only try these backup spiritual herbs. However, Du Fan was confident in his calculations.

The problem is that Du Fan only has a few cat's eye grass plants; if he were to divide them into several dozen baits, it would definitely not be enough.

However, he still had quite a few cat's eye grass seeds in his Qiankun Ring. After hesitating for a long time, he finally made up his mind and decided to plant some and then apply special fertilizer to accelerate their growth.

In this way, even if the cat's eye grass only grows for one day, it will have more than three months' worth of medicinal properties. Although it is not enough for alchemy, it is more than enough to be used as fish bait.

Du Fan paced back and forth, looking around the room, before finally fixing his gaze on the wooden bed.

Next, Du Fan carefully planted a row of cat's eye grass under the wooden bed, in a relatively deep spot, and applied some special fertilizer. After doing this, he sat cross-legged back on the wooden bed and began refining ginseng essential oil.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. Du Fan opened his eyes, did a quick calculation in his mind, and hurriedly got out of bed to collect all the cat's eye grass that had been used for more than six months to produce medicinal effects. After cleaning up the traces on the ground, he breathed a long sigh of relief as if he had accomplished a great task.

"It's time to head out to sea for a mission again." Du Fan sighed, his gaze suddenly becoming deep, revealing neither joy nor sorrow.

This time, Du Fan didn't need Zhao Chong and the other two to come looking for him. Instead, he took the initiative to leave the wooden house and went straight to a square where he used to accept missions.

Upon arriving there, Du Fan waited only a moment before Zhao Chong and Yuan Li strode over from a distance.

"Brother Du, you've arrived quite early. Brother Zhao and I just went to your cabin and found you weren't there, so we guessed you might have arrived ahead of time," Yuan Li said, slightly surprised, as he approached.

"I've always felt uneasy about the time I've caused everyone, so I came a little earlier this time," Du Fan said with a slight smile.

"Brother Du, you're too kind. Oh? In just a few days, your cultivation has improved quite a bit. Congratulations!" Zhao Chong's expression shifted as he looked Du Fan up and down, appearing somewhat surprised.

"My cultivation is nothing to speak of. But Brother Zhao, you're only one step away from reaching the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining stage, aren't you?" Du Fan smiled noncommittally and then said calmly.

"Hehe, Brother Du has a good eye. Brother Zhao's cultivation was originally at the peak of the seventh level of Qi Refining. Half a month ago, he bought a few more Qi Refining Pills in the market. After refining them, his cultivation has now faintly touched the threshold of the Great Perfection."

I believe it won't be long before Brother Zhao truly reaches the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining stage. And after a few more years, once Brother Zhao breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, our good days will begin.

Before Zhao Chong could speak, Yuan Li chuckled and interjected, his face beaming with excitement.

Du Fan was taken aback at first, then smiled knowingly, but didn't say anything.

"Brother Yuan, please don't make fun of me. For me, there's still a slim chance of reaching the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, but as for Foundation Establishment, that's something I can't even dream of." Zhao Chong shook his head and smiled bitterly.