Chapter 5 - Marrow Cleansing Pill

　　Failed again! 　　For a long time, Lin Xuan remained silent, although his expression could not be seen to be happy or angry, yet his hands were clenched tightly, his nails were deeply dug into his flesh, and his lips were bitten through. 　　But this condition did not last long, after a few minutes, Lin Xuan took a deep breath and sat down again without a word, continuing to work ...... 　　...... 　　Early in the morning, the sun rose, the beginning of a new day. 　　The Flying Cloud Hall was magnificent, its size catching up with the stadiums of Earth, it was the most important building of the Piaoyun Valley, on the first day of every month, the disciples of the Spiritual Dynamism Stage would gather here to receive what they needed for their cultivation. 　　Despite practicing for most of the night again and only sleeping for less than three hours, Lin Xuan still came to the Flying Cloud Hall on time, in the spacious hall, there were already more than a hundred people standing here in shadow, all of them were Spirit Movement Stage disciples, but every one of them was deeper than Lin Xuan, and his arrival caused a flurry of discussions, and from time to time, there were cold words that cut through the air and came into his ears. 　　"See, that kid is the mortal who has no spiritual roots and still tries to cultivate immortality." 　　"Hmph, he doesn't look good either, it's a waste of pills for such a person to stay in the sect." 　　"Who says it's not, I heard that he's working hard, but how can an ordinary person with no spirit root be compared to us, three years of time, and he's still only stuck at the first level of the Spirit Movement Stage." 　　"Doesn't know the height of heaven, he thinks he, can break the iron law of the cultivation world that has remained unchanged for 10,000 years, mortal cultivation, destined to not achieve anything." 　　...... 　　Ridicule blank stare, but Lin Xuan's expression remained unchanged, just as if it was a mad dog barking, silently came to the back of the group. 　　An ancient bell rang out, the disciples hurriedly stopped talking and stood in line, an old man walked into the main hall with children, each child's hand held a disk, covered with a red cloth, yet there were still bursts of refreshing fragrance emanating from it. 　　"Master Ma!" The disciples bowed and saluted. 　　"Uh-huh." The old man arrogantly tilted his head, his power was not high, only the cultivation of the early stage of Foundation Establishment, but he was in charge of the sect's pharmacy, so it could be said that he had a high position of power. 　　Cultivation in addition to the qualifications and their own efforts, pills are also essential, and can even be said to be very important, cultivation if there are enough pills to take, progress will be much faster, can be said to be a shortcut, however, the materials for refining pills are some precious exotic flowers and herbs, so the sect can only provide very few pills for the disciples. 　　According to the rules, disciples at the Spiritual Movement Stage could receive two marrow cleansing pills per month. 　　Marrow Cleansing Pill, as the name suggests, is able to ease the meridians and cleanse the marrow, dissolve the turbid qi in the body, and catalyze a little bit of spiritual energy, of course, depending on the qualifications of each person, the amount of spiritual energy catalyzed varies greatly, this pill is only effective for disciples at Spiritual Dynamic Stage. 　　After opening the incense hall and paying homage to the grandmaster, all the disciples lined up to receive the elixir from the old man's hand, each one of their faces showing expressions of cherishing and joy. 　　Soon it was Lin Xuan's turn, Elder Ma glanced at him with a look of contempt on his face, took a jade bottle from the disk, poured out two pills from it and threw them in front of him. 　　"Thank you, senior uncle." Before Lin Xuan's words fell, the corner of his eye suddenly jumped, looking at the two pills in his hand, this is ...... a wasted dan? 　　The path of Immortal Cultivation encompassed a multitude of things, feats, artifact making, alchemy, and talisman drawing, to name a few, each of which contained a huge amount of learning. 　　For example, alchemy, in addition to a variety of precious materials, exotic flowers and herbs, but also need to three true fire to refine, while the fire, the dose of auxiliary materials, the opening time, the treasure tripod materials, are related to the success rate of alchemy. 　　Even experienced alchemy masters, there are often times when they miss, will be a pot of heavenly treasures, refined into useless waste Dan. 　　Waste Dan refers to the excessive content of impurities, that kind of pills, eat not only not beneficial to the cultivation, but will damage the body, usually have to bear the pain to throw away. 　　Although like floating cloud valley such a small faction, distributed to the disciples of the elixir, is only inferior, but inferior is also after all a useful elixir, and this waste Dan ...... 　　The other party obviously intends to make things difficult for himself, Lin Xuan's heart flashed a ray of haze, but on the surface, he did not move in the slightest, this surnamed Ma's position is high and powerful, it is very unwise to offend. 　　"Senior uncle you took the wrong one, these two wasted pills, how can I take them?" 　　"What's not to take?" The contempt in Elder Ma's eyes showed through, a neglected low rank disciple was just that, he tilted his head and arrogantly said, "What, not satisfied?" 　　"Anyway, with your qualifications, taking spirit pills would just be a waste, the waste pills might even be just right, how about this, senior uncle I'm not being unreasonable, I'll give you a few more bottles." 　　Saying this, he took two jade bottles from the tray and threw them into Lin Xuan's hands. 　　"Other disciples only have two marrow cleansing pills per person, I'll give you two bottles, how's that, senior uncle is treating you favorably enough!" 　　"Thank you, senior uncle!" 　　Out of Elder Ma's expectation, the dissatisfaction on Lin Xuan's face completely disappeared, he took the elixir and bowed respectfully, retreating. 　　"How come?" Instead, Elder Ma's face was filled with shock, dumbfounded and unable to speak. 　　Waste dan, simply put, is garbage, taking it is simply harmful to cultivation, not to mention two bottles, even if you take more it's worthless, how could Lin Xuan ...... 　　Completely unexpected reaction, originally Ma Elder thought he was so unfair treatment of him, Lin Xuan will make a fuss, and then he can take advantage of the subject, to cure him of the crime of disrespecting the elders, Lin Xuan will be expelled from the division. 　　It wasn't that Elder Ma had a grudge against Lin Xuan, it was that this guy was naturally snobbish and looked down on mortals without spiritual roots, feeling that letting Lin Xuan stay in the sect was simply a disgrace, so he was making every effort to drive him out. 　　The plan can't be said to be seamless, but it's still very well thought out, according to the rules of the sect, lower ranked disciples can receive marrow cleansing dan, but he deliberately made things difficult by replacing it with a waste dan, such unfair treatment, not to mention Lin Xuan, a teenager, even if it's a well-read old fox, it's not necessarily tolerable, as long as he has a seizure, it's possible to take advantage of the situation. 　　However, Lin Xuan, although he has no spiritual roots and is only an ordinary person, his mind is not stupid, he is even very smart, his character is tough, he can tolerate what others can not tolerate, he always thinks twice before he speaks and does things, he is not impulsive, Elder Ma gave the wasted dan, he was indeed angry, but he hid this emotion very well. 　　From Elder Ma's contemptuous eyes, Lin Xuan also saw a hint of teasing, there was a conspiracy, he immediately came to the conclusion that although he didn't know exactly what the conspiracy was, or why he was targeting himself who had no grudges, but these could be investigated later, it was imperative that he didn't fall into the trap. 　　So not only did Lin Xuan not get angry, instead he received the ruined dan with a normal demeanor, and successfully escaped a persecution, Elder Ma's plan failed, and he failed to trap Lin Xuan, but instead, he himself was so angry that he couldn't speak.