At dawn, the camp was quiet. There was no sound of cooking pots or preparing tools. Everyone looked anxiously in the direction of Luohun Valley.
Finally a figure appeared.
"It's great that you're back." The uncle said happily, but suddenly he was stunned because he saw that the dark iron umbrella cover Xie Xiaoyu was carrying was in tatters.
Others were also stunned.
"It almost killed me. It's too dangerous." Xie Xiaoyu threw the broken umbrella on the ground: "You should practice at home these days. I'm afraid there won't be peace in the valley, and there may be monsters running out. "
"Are you okay?" Aunt Li asked with concern.
"It's okay, I'm just a little tired. I'm going to take a nap." Xie Xiaoyu took off the bag of grass tied around his waist and threw it to Captain Su: "You can help me process it first and grind it into powder. Then filter out the impurities. There is a box with roots in it. You can try it and see if it survives, that would be great."
Su Mingcheng took the things with bright eyes. At this moment, he was completely convinced by Xie Xiaoyu's magnanimity. If it were him, he would definitely hide it all immediately and tell no one.
He also understood the reason why Xie Xiaoyu didn't care. Even if he knew it was a medicine guide, it would be useless because he didn't know how to make pills. It was Xie Xiaoyu himself who knew how to make pills.
This is the benefit of having a craft close to you.
Captain Su also began to wonder, should he practice a craft?
The three major arts are definitely useless. He has neither the talent for alchemy nor the intention to make weapons. Because he is practicing the true interpretation of sword talismans, making talismans must be practiced, but that's all. He has no time to practice and has no time to practice anything else. Spells and making talismans can't go far together.
After a long time, he discovered that the only things that suited him best were refining poison and cultivating poison.
When he thought of this, he always felt a little uncomfortable. The true sword talisman he practiced was the supreme Taoist method, but other than that, all the things he knew were heretical methods.
Su Mingcheng hung his head and walked away holding a bag of poisonous weeds.
With what Xie Xiaoyu said just now, others no longer need to mine. Li Jinbao and the others each occupied a spiritual cave to meditate and practice Qi. They are young, which is much more advantageous than Lao Bai and Uncle Chao. , they have taken turns practicing in the Lingyan Stone Cave for two months, and their progress has been rapid. They all feel that they are only one breath away from getting started.
"What should I do for breakfast?" Aunt Li looked at her husband in embarrassment.
"Why do you care about all this? It's important." The uncle saw Su Mingcheng messing around, but he couldn't help. He felt extremely anxious and his anger inevitably grew.
"Xiao Li, go and tear the chicken apart, wrap it in rice and shape it into a ball. I don't think any of them are in the mood to eat. If they get hungry after a while, they can fill their stomachs with a few rice balls. It won't waste time." "The old miner looked at those spiritual eye caves with great envy. He had also felt the effects of cultivation in the past two months, but it was far behind others. Even the second son and the actor were far behind him. intercepted, so he knew that he really had no hope.
The camp was silent, and everyone was busy with their own business.
It was almost noon when Xie Xiaoyu came out of the spiritual cave. He had had enough sleep.
Su Mingcheng was sitting not far from the spiritual cave. When he saw him coming out, he immediately handed over a jade bottle.
Xie Xiaoyu took the jade vase, walked to the place where the food was placed, opened the sarong, took two rice balls from it, turned to Aunt Li and said, "This is a good method. Monks practice day and night, and often I feel hungry when I come out. It would be great if there is something ready to eat. "
Aunt Li was so praised that she beamed and said repeatedly: "I will keep doing this from now on."
After thanking Xiaoyu for his hard work, he turned around and returned to the Spirit Cave.
As soon as he entered, he immediately took out the alchemy furnace he got from Zhongyi Hall.
The alchemy furnaces left over from ancient times are very complex, because they are modeled after the human body, and they also have orifices and veins. This alchemy furnace has nine orifices, and it was the top class even at that time.
He carefully placed the alchemy furnace inside the stone wall on the right. There was a pit there, which he had specially carved out. This spiritual cave was filled with the energy of Gengjin. Only the inside of the pit was different, filled with the energy of Binghuo.
There is a copper pipe leading down from the inside of the pit and connected to a circle of copper plates at the bottom.
Xie Xiaoyu pressed lightly on the wall, and nine extremely fine lights suddenly shot out from the copper plate, each of which hit exactly one hole of the alchemy furnace.
There is a large sun-fired mirror outside his spiritual cave. The sunlight shines on the mirror, is focused on one point, and then passes through the interior.?Silver-plated copper pipes passed to the bottom.
There are nine knobs on one side of the copper plate, each knob can control the intensity of light along the way.
The most difficult part of alchemy is the control of fire. A skilled alchemist must also be a master of fire control. He has no experience in controlling fire, so he can only find other methods. The method of alchemy he used at this moment was a different one, using a sun-fired mirror to focus light instead of fire. Fire is difficult to regulate, light is much easier.
Turn the knob to the maximum and let the furnace heat.
Seeing that the heat was almost done, he turned down the light a little, and then used a small spoon to put the prepared ingredients into the furnace mouth one by one.
All medicinal materials are ground, impurities are filtered out, and then ground finely, turning into a pile of extremely fine powder. As soon as it enters the furnace, the medicinal powder immediately disperses.
His method of refining elixirs is unique. It is called Ziwu Pregnancy Pill Technique. It uses slow fire to completely evaporate the medicinal power of various materials, let them blend together in the elixir furnace, and naturally condense into elixirs.
Speaking of which, this set of concepts has the same goal as the natural alchemy method of Taoism in ancient times, so when he saw this alchemy furnace, he couldn't wait to take it down.
The preparation of this alchemy technique is cumbersome, the processing of medicinal materials is very troublesome, and there are many restrictions. The furnace must be opened at noon and the elixirs must be collected at midnight. Moreover, the sun must be available, and it cannot be winter. It is time-consuming and long, and you cannot refine too much at one time. , it can be said that there are a lot of shortcomings.
It was a complete accident that he obtained this method of alchemy. When he was in the Sutra Pavilion, he read all kinds of miscellaneous books. One of them was "One Hundred Wonderful Techniques and Wonderful Methods" which recorded many strange things, such as the Yang Sui Mirror. The various uses of "Ziwu Pregnancy Pill", as well as the Ziwu Pregnancy Pill Technique, all come from this strange book.
All the materials were put into the furnace, Xie Xiaoyu screwed on the top lid, and then cast a spell on it.
This method integrates his spiritual consciousness and the alchemy furnace. The method of alchemy in the ancient times is to use the alchemy furnace as a human clone. It also requires breathing in and out, and it also requires breath circulation, but what is breathed out is The power of medicine is what circulates and transports it.
Today¡¯s alchemists have stopped doing this a long time ago, so they can¡¯t use the alchemy furnaces from ancient times. He can use it because he used to take the path of integrating man and machine, and the two have the same purpose.
Time passed little by little, and the light gradually became fainter, and finally disappeared completely. It must have been dark outside.
Xie Xiaoyu didn't realize it at all. He had made elixirs in the past, but he had never been so devoted.
This is because the alchemy furnace is different. He has a close connection with this alchemy furnace and a feeling of being connected. Many principles that he did not understand before have now become clear. They are not only principles related to alchemy, but also A lot of cultivation stuff.
He remembered that his master once said that the path of alchemy, weapon, talisman, formation, and cultivation all lead to the same goal through different paths. He couldn't understand it before, but now he understands.
Xie Xiaoyu was immersed in enlightenment when he suddenly felt a crackling sound inside the alchemy furnace, and the entire alchemy furnace shook slightly.
Those completely mixed medicinal qi suddenly separated from each other, part of them merged together, and then condensed into a group, while the other part separated in all directions.
At this moment, he had just woken up from his enlightenment, and was still in a daze. Everything in front of him seemed to be a repeat of the scene when the world first opened, when the turbid air sank, and the clear air rose.
His ears were like thunder flashing, and he suddenly remembered a passage he had seen, "One pill, one day and one earth, one pill, one world, chaos transforms into heaven and earth, and heaven changes in the furnace."
This is the general outline of the Alchemy Sutra. Which one is it specific? He couldn't remember it anymore. He just glanced at it and thought it was a verse, and didn't think much about it.
I don¡¯t know how long it took before he woke up from his trance.
When he thought that there were still pills in the pill furnace, Xie Xiaoyu exclaimed "Ah".
??To collect the elixir, you need to use magic skills. Otherwise, the elixir will not be able to condense into shape. Even if it condenses, it will disperse immediately.
¡°It¡¯s too late to regret it now, this furnace pill is most likely to be ruined.
Fortunately, he didn¡¯t get nothing, at least he understood the true meaning of alchemy.
He smiled bitterly and unscrewed the top cover of the alchemy furnace.
The top cover is still a bit hot to the touch, and as soon as you open it, you can see that the inside is filled with mist, which is the residual medicinal gas.
There is a layer of very fine powder on the bottom of the alchemy furnace.
He took a piece of paper, poured the powder on the paper, and looked at it under the lamp.
The color of the powder is dark red, like cinnabar and toner mixed together.
Picked up a little bit with your finger and licked it.
??????????????????????????????????????????Every trace of the medicinal power melts on the tip of the tongue.
No matter how bad an alchemist is, he must be an expert in tasting medicine. He also starts learning alchemy by tasting medicine. After tasting it, he breathed a sigh of relief. The pill turned into powder, and the potency of the medicine was much weaker, but it was still usable.
He separated out a small pile, rolled it up with pieces of paper, and put it in his mouth.
The medicinal powder is very bitter, but the onset is very fast, which is the characteristic of powder.
Within a moment, he felt itchy all over his body, from his internal organs to the outside. He quickly sat cross-legged and mobilized the sword energy in his body to circulate over and over again, which allowed the medicine to be used more thoroughly.
The itching feeling gradually became heavier at first, and then gradually became lighter, and dark oil kept coming out of the pores.
Feeling that the remaining poison had been eliminated, Xie Xiaoyu opened the cave door and rushed out.
There is a pool in the corner of the camp, surrounded by wooden walls. It is usually used for washing clothes and sometimes for bathing. It's late at night, so there's no need to worry about meeting anyone.
He rushed in and took a painful bath.
The remaining toxins in the body are gone, the body is no longer greasy, and I feel much more comfortable.
Suddenly he raised his head and looked at the sky, then looked down at the ground.
Unconsciously, the whole world was completely different.
The originally motionless stars in the sky began to rotate slowly in his eyes, changing ever so slightly without stopping for a moment. The earth, which usually seemed calm and heavy, suddenly became full of life. There were hundreds of millions of creatures living in every inch of soil, and every day. Many lives are dying at any moment, and many lives are being born at the same time.
The stars move, life and death multiply.
At this moment, he caught a trace of the avenue.
It was also at this moment that he knew that he had finally crossed the obstacle. He had been stagnant at the eighth level of Qi training for more than two years and had not made any progress, but now he had entered the ninth level of Qi training.
The ninth level is a small threshold. It is necessary to sense the world and find the opportunity of the great road. This step is the key. What kind of opportunity of the great road is found determines what kind of achievement. The tenth level is another small threshold, which is to connect the Qi of heaven and earth and transform acquired breath into innate breath. After that, there is a big threshold. You have to communicate with heaven and earth, use your own energy to attract the power of heaven and earth. If you pass it, you will be a real person, with the hope of immortality. If you cannot pass it, you will still be a mortal, and in the end you will be nothing more than a cup of loess.
After a year of stagnation and a year of wasted time, I didn¡¯t expect that after practicing the elixir once, the shackles were actually broken.