Immortal Reincarnation Tribulation

Chapter 175 Buddhist and Taoist Cultivation Methods

"I... my name is Ding Lan. Young master, you should lie down quickly. My father said you have been poisoned and cannot move around, otherwise it will easily spread, which would be troublesome."

The girl blushed slightly, hesitated for a moment, and then said her name. At the same time, she looked anxious and urged Du Fan to hurry up.

"Huh? Your father actually noticed that I was poisoned? Then... how is my body now?" Du Fan was taken aback and asked in surprise.

"Father is a skilled doctor, a well-known physician in the village. These past few days, Father has been giving you antidotes, which is why you woke up ahead of time," Ding Lan said proudly, puffing out her little chest.

"Girl, come out. Don't disturb this young master's rest." Just then, a middle-aged man's voice suddenly came from outside the carriage.

"Okay." Ding Lan pouted, looking a little unhappy, but she still obediently lifted the carriage curtain, glanced at Du Fan, and got out.

"Uncle Ding, thank you for saving my life," Du Fan said solemnly from inside the carriage.

"Haha... Young master, you don't need to be so polite. It is the duty of us doctors to heal the sick and save lives. How could we stand by and watch someone die? The toxins in your body have only been temporarily suppressed by me, so it's best not to move around too much. Once we get back to your residence, I will try to remove the toxins from your body."

A man's cheerful voice came from outside the car, and he gave Du Fan a few words of advice before falling silent.

Upon hearing this, Du Fan smiled slightly and lay down. While closing his eyes to rest, he began to consider his next move.

A few hours later, Ding Lan came into the carriage and brought Du Fan some dry food and water. She chatted with him briefly before leaving again.

From Ding Lan's words, Du Fan learned that the father and daughter found him on their way back from visiting relatives, and that half a month had passed since they rescued him.

The carriage was heading to a fishing village by the sea southeast of where Du Fan's incident had occurred, which was where Ding Lan and her father usually lived.

Upon hearing this, Du Fan's heart skipped a beat, and he asked about the sea monster attack.

Ding Lan seemed a little surprised by Du Fan's question, but she still patiently explained it to him.

It turns out that in other coastal areas, sea monsters do frequently appear and cause large-scale killings of humans, but these sea monsters do not attack the fishing villages where they live.

Because near their fishing village, there is a spiritual stone mine in the cultivation world, which is said to be controlled by a cultivation force called the Netherworld Sect. This sect not only sends a large number of mining slaves to mine the mine, but also sends many masters to guard it.

In this way, while guarding the mine, the sect also helped the nearby fishing villages keep the sea monsters at bay. Over time, the sea monsters stopped attacking the fishing village area.

These fishing villages are arguably the luckiest in the entire eastern coastal area.

When Du Fan heard the name Youming Sect, his eyes flashed almost imperceptibly. Ding Lan didn't understand its meaning, but Du Fan knew that it was a large cultivation sect.

Before arriving in Jizhou, Du Fan had consulted the sect's records and had a general understanding of the cultivation world in Jizhou. This state was naturally incomparable to a cultivation holy land like Zhongzhou, but among the nine states, its overall strength was superior to that of Qingzhou.

The main reason is that there are two large sects in Jizhou. Geographically, these two sects belong to the eastern and western regions respectively. The Netherworld Sect is a large ghost sect located in the eastern region of Jizhou.

"If that's the case, then we're safe for now. In the last battle, besides being poisoned, my own magical power was also greatly depleted. So why don't we go with Uncle Ding and the others? As for what happens next, we can only take it one step at a time."

Du Fan sighed, took out the restrictive jade pendant, and after completing the setup, he swallowed a drop of ginseng essence oil, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to refine it.

Two days later, Du Fan and his two companions arrived at a fishing village, which was where the Ding family, father and daughter, lived.

As soon as Du Fan stepped into the fishing village, he was hit by an extremely strong smell of the sea. Every household had various seafood products drying in their courtyards, just like the fishing villages in his previous life.

They soon arrived at the Ding family's residence. Inside a large courtyard were three mud-brick thatched huts, and a lot of seafood was drying in the yard. It seemed that the Ding family father and daughter lived in relatively good conditions.

At this moment, a middle-aged woman was busy in the courtyard. After Du Fan greeted her, Uncle Ding arranged for him to rest in a room. Not long after, he brought Du Fan a bowl of freshly brewed detoxifying herbs.

After drinking this herb, it seemed to have some effect on neutralizing the toxins in Du Fan's body, which made him very happy.

Originally, Du Fan didn't have high hopes, after all, the person who poisoned him was a cultivator. So, he was quite amazed by Uncle Ding's medical skills.

However, according to Uncle Ding, the toxins in Du Fan's body are extremely potent and cannot be completely eliminated in one or two days; it will take at least a week.

Du Fan didn't say anything about this; a week wasn't unacceptable to him.

In the days that followed, aside from drinking a bowl of herbal medicine every day, Du Fan spent most of his time staying indoors, refining ginseng essence oil in his room to restore his magical power.

During this time, something happened that made Du Fan both amused and exasperated. On the second day after he arrived at the Ding family, Ding Lan's mother came to Du Fan's room and subtly inquired about his family background.

At first, Du Fan was completely confused, but in the end, he finally understood that Aunt Ding was actually trying to arrange a marriage between him and Ding Lan...

After a moment of silence, Du Fan immediately stated that he was already engaged and politely declined Aunt Ding's offer.

To his relief, Aunt Ding never mentioned the matter to him again after that.

However, from then on, Ding Lan's gaze towards Du Fan became somewhat unfriendly, her eyes seemingly carrying a resentment that was incongruous with her age. Du Fan felt a headache coming on and simply decided not to step out of the room again.

On the fourth day after arriving at the Ding family, Du Fan's magical power had been restored. Although there were still some toxins in his body, they were no longer a problem. Only then did Du Fan finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Before sorting through the spoils, Du Fan first communicated with the Xuanmu Silkworm. A moment later, Du Fan received some very frustrating news from the Xuanmu Silkworm's feedback.

On the day of the battle with Huiguang and the other three, it was the crucial moment for the Xuanmu Silkworm to advance, but it was forcibly summoned by Du Fan, forcing the silkworm to abandon its advancement.

Therefore, the mulberry leaves that the Xuanmu silkworm ate last time were wasted...

Du Fan was somewhat troubled, but after learning that the Xuanmu Silkworm's failed advancement was not a cause for concern, he breathed a sigh of relief. After a moment's thought, he gave up the idea of ​​feeding the silkworm empty mulberry leaves again.

"Now that we're out in the world, things are unpredictable, and there's always the possibility of battle. As for the Xuanmu Silkworm's advancement, let's wait until we return to Qixia Sect before discussing it," Du Fan thought to himself.

Du Fan collected the Xuanmu Silkworm, and then, with a renewed spirit, began to examine the storage bags of Zhou Kai and the other three.

To his great surprise, the number of spirit stones in the storage bags of these four people was quite astonishing. Each person had more than seven or eight hundred spirit stones, and the four of them together had exceeded three thousand low-grade spirit stones.

This made Du Fan quite gratified. For him, the cost of this fierce battle was quite high. He used three talisman soldiers in succession, each of which was worth more than four hundred spirit stones.

And then there was the time he faced three people attacking him simultaneously, and he threw out a handful of talismans, at least fifty of them, each worth about ten spirit stones. That was equivalent to throwing out more than five hundred spirit stones in an instant.

His magical power is still low, and his mastery of spells and supernatural abilities is limited. Therefore, when faced with fierce battles, he is still at the stage of burning spirit stones. In this battle alone, he has thrown out nearly two thousand spirit stones.

Fortunately, with these spoils as a supplement, we managed to recoup our costs.

Aside from spirit stones, there was nothing else that Du Fan found appealing about Zhou Kai and Xiao Yue. He only glanced at their cultivation techniques, pills, and materials for alchemy and weapon crafting before tossing them into his storage bag.

Immediately afterwards, Du Fan found a small bottle in Hui Guang's storage bag that caught his eye. Inside the bottle were pills, and after examining them, he discovered that they were the same three Cleansing Pills that he had exchanged with the monk Huineng.

Du Fan took out the Cleansing Pill he had previously exchanged, put the four pills into the same small bottle, and then put the small bottle into the Qiankun Ring in his storage bag before continuing his examination.

After a short while, Du Fan held several sets of bamboo slips in his hand, his eyes flashing with horror, and his face showing a hint of lingering fear.

These bamboo slips were still found in the monk Huiguang's storage bag, and the contents of the bamboo slips were several Buddhist and Taoist cultivation methods.

"The Buddha descended to earth, the indestructible body, the immortal body..." Du Fan murmured, his heart filled with shock and a wave of fear.

"Fortunately, I used my trump card against this person back then and killed him with lightning speed. Otherwise, if he had just used one of his techniques, it would have been enough to give me a headache." Du Fan sighed and shook his head to himself.

With Du Fan's innate talent and wisdom, he could roughly judge the power and terror of these techniques after a little study. If his strategy had been slightly off, he would probably be on the run now.