From time to time, the sound of ping-ping-pong-pong can be heard on the playground.
A group of people practiced hard there. Not only did they spend the whole afternoon in there, but after dinner, the few boys went to practice again until midnight. In one day, they rolled at least tens of thousands of times. The sky was dark and the ground was dark, and he was covered in mud, not to mention the bruises and scratches on his body.
The next day these people continued to go crazy.
Xie Xiaoyu no longer accompanies them.
Before noon, he returned to his cave.
The materials have already been prepared, and Erzi and the actor are now doing the work.
What he wants to refine is the elixir for nourishing the meridians. The name is very unsophisticated, just called "Da Huan Dan", it's just like something used by people in the world. Perhaps it was for this reason that Zhongyi Tang didn't pay much attention to it, allowing Xie Xiaoyu to take advantage of it.
Compared with detoxification pills, Dahuan Dan is much more troublesome. There are twenty-eight main ingredients and more than thirty kinds of auxiliary ingredients. Each of them is ground into extremely fine powder and placed in a jade box.
Turn on the stove, preheat it, and then add various ingredients bit by bit, but unlike the last time, this time he did not follow the directions on the prescription, but based on his own feelings.
For the past ten days, he had been keeping vigil every day, and when he had nothing to do, he would catch a chicken and make himself a midnight snack.
As he was doing it, he actually discovered some ways.
Everything has its own truth, and the kitchen way is also a way. It is not one of the three thousand avenues, but a side path. But the way of cooking and the way of alchemy are connected.
In the kitchen, the amount of various ingredients in any dish is not fixed. In summer, add more salt, and in winter, add more sweetness. Northerners like big flavors, while southerners like light ones. There is a difference between using high fire and low fire. .
The Ziwu Pregnancy Pill is like cooking slowly over a slow fire. It is different from cooking quickly over a high fire. The ingredients used will naturally be different.
Xie Xiaoyu doesn¡¯t expect to succeed once and for all. Alchemy requires constant attempts. One pill recipe is the result of countless efforts of predecessors.
Screwing on the lid of the furnace, he was just like the last time he refined the detoxification pill, integrating his mind into the pill furnace, inhaling and adjusting his breath along with the pill furnace.
Refining alchemy is a very boring thing. Fortunately, monks are all people who can endure boredom.
Xie Xiaoyu would adjust the knobs on the chassis from time to time, and sometimes add some medicinal materials appropriately. Readjust the proportion of medicinal materials.
He did all this based on his feelings.
Cooking pays attention to a balance of major flavors. Whether it is a combination of five flavors or five distinct flavors, it all focuses on a harmony, and harmony is different from balance. Food must be salty, sweet, sour, or spicy. One flavor is the main one, and all the flavors complement each other. The secret can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.
The same goes for alchemy, except that the taste has changed into medicinal properties, and the medicinal properties are much more complex. Unlike sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty, which are always the same, the medicinal properties can change, maybe from warm to pungent. , or even become hot and dry, and sometimes change from hot to cold, not to mention from beneficial to highly toxic.
The difficulty lies in the word "change".
"The properties of the medicine remain unchanged, but they are only used by the emperor and ministers to assist. It is just a medicine, not an elixir. The properties of the medicine change and then merge into one. This is an elixir."
While Xie Xiaoyu was refining elixirs, he was also confirming his way of cultivation.
Master once said, "The way of alchemy, the way of weapons, the way of talismans, the way of formation and the way of cultivation all lead to the same goal through different paths." He didn't understand it at first, but now he understands.
Although the "Purple Mansion Golden Urn" that I practiced before was not of a high level, it was majestic and completely in line with the principle of the harmony of great flavors.
The "Six Rules" he is currently cultivating is profound and profound. On the surface, it talks about a moment of time, but there is also an eternal secret hidden inside.
Dream bubbles and flashes are all short-lived, born and destroyed in an instant, but soon new dream bubbles and flashes will appear. This can be seen as reincarnation, reciprocation, or eternity.
By extension, decades of time for all living beings are nothing but a dream.
Thinking further, this world also has birth and death. For people in this land, the birth and death of heaven and earth is almost eternity, but for people who jump out of this world, it may only last a little longer. Just a moment.
The more you study "Six Such Methods", the more you feel that it is mellow and lasting, with endless aftertaste. It is definitely a taste that is harmonized to the extreme.
The other technique he practiced was different.
"The True Interpretation of Sword Talisman" is missing a lot of things, and the most fatal thing is that it lacks a main axis. It is like putting a lot of materials in front of you, but there is no recipe.
He planted the natal sword talisman to convert the true energy into sword energy, which was just equivalent to boiling water and adding oil. The food cooked in this way was barely edible, but?It doesn't make much sense to talk about it.
"What's interesting is that the Xuan Ming Yin Sha Enchanting Poison Talisman Sword Gu that he picked up has a hint of harmonious meaning.
If you know you are lacking, you must make up for it.
"The True Explanation of Sword Talisman" must be made complete.
He does not expect to complete "The True Interpretation of Sword Talisman" perfectly. With his current cooking skills, it is absolutely no problem to make a plate of homemade stir-fries, but it will not work if he is asked to have a banquet of dragons and phoenixes.
He can try boiling or steaming it first, that's easy.
The existing Xuan Ming Yin Sha Enchanting Talisman Sword Gu can be regarded as pickled in stinky brine. It tastes weird, but some people like it.
The medicines were mixed together in the furnace, and all the things they had learned in the past were sorted out in their minds, and then pieced together. Xie Xiaoyu began to seek his own way without knowing it.
Time passed little by little, the sun set in the west, the sun set, the light coming from the land suddenly stopped, the temperature of the alchemy furnace slowly dropped, the mixing of various medicines in the furnace was completed, and individual pill seeds gradually emerged.
It¡¯s the scene where chaos begins to emerge and the wilderness begins again. The clear air rises, the turbid air fallsand then there is life.
Having experienced a failure, Xie Xiaoyu did not forget to use the elixir technique again. Suddenly, his heart suddenly moved, and a series of inexplicable final seals were entered.
The originally extremely slow condensation speed suddenly became much faster. Those pills were spinning rapidly, and the surrounding medicinal energy first gathered into a ball and turned into a thick cloud, and then quickly shrank, precipitated, and accumulated.
Seeing this scene, Xie Xiaoyu seemed to have some enlightenment.
When practicing, in order to improve efficiency, the spirit gathering array is always used to gather spiritual energy.
The Ziwu Pregnancy Pill Technique is a natural condensation method. Without this step, it takes a long time.
But where did that set of final seals come from?
Xie Xiaoyu felt extremely confused. He seemed to have some impression, as if he read it from a book, but he was confused and couldn't remember it.
The alchemy furnace vibrated slightly, and after a while, it stopped moving again.
Xie Xiaoyu opened the top of the stove, and with a thunderclap, a dozen dark red rays of light spewed out from the mouth of the stove.
Fortunately, he was well prepared. One hand turned into countless afterimages, and he fished randomly in mid-air. This is the method of splitting light and catching shadows. If you continue to practice it, your mysterious skills will change, and the mysteries are endless.
Not a single bit of the dark red brilliance escaped, all of it was caught in his hands.
Every bit of brilliance is like a pill, as big as a dragon's eye, dark red in color, with a surface like gold and jade, with a hidden treasure light, and dark streaks like clouds.
There are treasure lights and elixir patterns. These elixirs are already of high quality. However, the elixirs are divided into seven grades: first-grade Dao elixir, second-grade Tian elixir, third-grade spiritual elixir, fourth-grade treasure elixir, fifth-grade golden elixir, and sixth-grade purple elixir. , the seventh-grade great elixir. These elixirs can only be considered the lowest elixirs.
Putting all the other elixirs into the jade bottle, Xie Xiaoyu left one elixir that was the best in quality.
This elixir exudes a refreshing fragrance. Its surface is like polished copper, and the dark lines inside are the clearest and well-defined.
He threw the pill into his mouth.
The elixir is different from the powder. The power of the medicine dissipates little by little, flowing along the eight extraordinary meridians. Wherever it goes, the meridians are all moistened by the spring rain and become full of vitality. They originally appeared due to the movement of the sword energy. The damage was quickly healed under the catalysis of the drug.
As the medicine fully dissipated, his body gradually became numb and itchy, and his internal organs still felt like they were being cut.
This is washing the hair and cutting off the marrow.
Xie Xiaoyu has already gone through this step. After getting started, the sect will distribute elixirs that cleanse hair and cut marrow.
The fourth level of "Purple Mansion Golden Urn" also cleanses the hair and cuts the marrow, so as to ease the tendons and change the pulse. Now these reactions are caused by the deposition of toxins in the body. Detox pills can only eliminate most of the toxins, and some residual toxins are still in the body.
The potency of the medicine gradually evaporated, and he began to sweat. The sweat was mixed with traces of stains, but it was much better than when he was detoxifying more than ten days ago.
I don¡¯t know how long it took, but the potency of the medicine finally evaporated. He took another Dahuan Dan and stuffed it into his mouth.
¡°It¡¯s not very useful if you take too much of it. The excess medicinal power can only nourish the meridians and internal organs. He did this just to enjoy the luxurious way of cultivation.
When he was in the mountain gate, he was not one of those proud men, and could not enjoy too many resources. The place he lived in was not very good, and the ration of elixirs was also very limited. He had always dreamed that one day he could take as much elixirs as he wanted.
Now the dream has finally come true.
What does it feel like in his heart that he can't express it? There is a hint of joy, but more??Sad.
Glancing at the jade bottle in his hand, he saw that these elixirs were refined for the uncle and the others.
These guys are actually luckier than me who came from the sect. Thinking of this, Xie Xiaoyu felt a little unbalanced.
Almost instantly, a prescription flashed into his mind.
This prescription only uses a few common herbs, but it can change the medicinal properties of Da Huan Dan, turning the originally gentle Warming Pill into a powerful tiger and wolf medicine. After eating it, the liver and intestines will definitely be severed, and the meridians will be reversed, just like scraping bones and flesh, and like peeling skin and cramps. People will never forget it, and they will have nightmares even when they sleep.