Chapter Twenty-Nine: Herb Mutations
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As night fell, Li Liang put down the alchemy book in his hand, picked up the gourd casually, poured two sips of medicinal wine, stood up, and slowly moved his stiff body. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
This set of Danshu is very ancient, and it stands to reason that it should be a treasure, but it can be reduced to the extent that it is eliminated by a third-rate sect, and it can be seen that there should be a lot of people who got it before, most of them have studied it for a long time, and they really can't study it before they give up. Then there were latecomers who continued to study, but nothing came out, and they gradually withdrew from the stage of history.
It has been seven days since Li Liang began to study this set of alchemy books, and he has read the twelve books in their entirety, except for alchemy, there are also annotations on various medicinal materials, and nothing else. Through careful reading and analysis, although Li Liang was still confused about the method of alchemy, he had some understanding.
According to the book, "medicine is the essence of herbs, pill is the qi of heaven and earth, and the pill gathers the aura of heaven and earth, gathers the essence of herbs, and eats it can be bright and immortal, and it can live forever after a long time." Alchemy is actually the extraction of the aura in the immortal grass and immortal medicine, it is a mixture of various medicinal materials, and through the extraction, the essence part that is most suitable for cultivators to take is condensed into a pill.
According to the quality of the elixir, alchemy is divided into five stages: beginner, intermediate, advanced, grandmaster and immortal master, and the alchemists corresponding to these five stages are divided into twelve levels.
The first and second level of the Dan practitioner can only refine the primary and middle grade pills, this kind of pills do not need to consider the injection of spiritual power, nor do they need to add special effects, the requirements for flames and Dan furnaces are also low, and the spiritual energy in the herbs can be extracted and condensed into pills, the focus is on the problem of temperature and heat, which is relatively easy.
Third- and fourth-level alchemists can refine primary-level high-grade and middle-level lower-grade pills, and this kind of pills is more difficult, they need to be injected by alchemists with aura, so as to refine and sublimate the efficacy of the essence in the herbs, and the requirements for flames are also higher, ordinary fires are already difficult to meet the requirements, and they must be civil and military fire or alchemists' Danhuo.
Five or six Dan practitioners can refine middle-grade and high-grade pills, and this level of pills not only has been upgraded to a new level in terms of refining methods, but also has further stringent requirements for medicinal materials, especially medicinal materials of about a hundred years and some natural and earthly treasures, which are basically very difficult to find.
The seventh-level alchemist is a turning point, from the beginning of stepping into the seventh-level alchemist, he will get involved in refining high-grade pills, although it is only high-grade low-grade and middle-grade pills, but as long as these pills are refined, each one will have great magical effects, so whether it is the requirements for flames, the quality of medicinal materials, the hardware requirements of the alchemy's Ding furnace, or the spiritual power injected, the refining techniques, these conditions are very high.
If the Immortal Sect wants to cultivate a first-level alchemist, it will take about ten years or so, and if it is a large sect, it can be achieved in three or five years with full support. However, it would take at least a thousand years to cultivate a seventh-level alchemist, even the top-level super sect. Those natural treasures, the investment of more than 1,000 years of immortal herbs and immortal medicines are countless, and the difficulty can be imagined.
As for the alchemists of level eight and above, they belong to legendary existences.
Li Liang didn't want to become the legendary super alchemist, he just wanted to consume the herbs that were planted too much, just feeding the cow was not a way, nearly a hundred acres of medicinal herbs were a cow, and when to eat it was a head. Of course, Li Liang also thought about eradicating all these planted herbs on a dark and windy night, but it was a pity not to mention the heartache, if it happened to be accidentally discovered by a certain immortal, then this sin would be great, and the guards would steal from themselves, destroy the public property of the Xianmen, and not peel the skin and cramp, and also have to rip the meat and feed the birds. It's really easy to plant, but it's hard!
Beginner alchemy mainly includes the selection of medicinal materials and heating extraction, for most immortal cultivators, the difficulty lies in the first half, after all, not who can have a lot of medicinal materials for refining pills, but for Li Liang, the difficulty is in the second half, the medicinal materials are absolutely sufficient, not to mention what was in the medicine garden before, even what he planted was enough for him to squander for a few years.
The primary alchemy is nothing more than a matter of temperature, heat, time, and steps, according to the different refining pills, starting from the selection of medicinal materials, step by step, when to put the medicinal materials, when to heat, how many degrees to put in the beginning stage, what heat, how many degrees to the middle stage, what heat, how many degrees to close the stage, what heat, etc., it should be almost the same if you master these well, even if you can't make a high-quality best pill, it is unlikely that there will be a waste pill. To put it bluntly, it's just a matter of proficiency. However, it is very difficult to choose medicinal materials, not only to understand the medicinal properties of each medicinal material, but also to know which medicinal materials are the easiest to mix, the most extracted aura, the best effect, they will not cancel each other out, and even produce toxic side effects, etc., which require a lot of experiments, and it is also the most difficult.
Who is the author of this set of alchemy books, how did it spread to this Baicaomen There is no way to find out, Li Liang only knows that it is very ancient, so old that the text on it can be traced back to ancient times, if it weren't for the fact that he had seen the relevant books comparing ancient and modern Xianmen characters in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, he thought it was more interesting, and he had studied it specifically, and he couldn't understand the content on it.
Speaking of this, Li Liang also stumbled by mistake, once in the process of talking with Shen Yan, Shen Yan said that the ancients had a bad habit, always like to write their deeds in the immortal book, the older the immortal book, the more complete the deeds of the ancestors are written, unlike the current exercises, simple and practical. The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Li Liang, who often accompanies Xue Qing and Cao Geng to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, is a little moved, others don't like to see the glorious deeds of the ancestors, but he likes it, and it can be used as a collection of stories to pass the time. Therefore, he studied the texts of various periods, and his purpose was to occasionally borrow a few books of ancient immortal arts that were not very important, and not to read the exercises, but only to read the previous stories about introducing his predecessors.
Another feature of this set of books is that there are a large number of annotations, and there are texts from various periods, and there should be many people who have studied it. Judging from the content of the annotations, the main thing is to find out the various medicinal materials that have disappeared in the ancient pill recipes recorded in the replacement book, and occasionally there are some words that make new suggestions for the alchemy method, but from the perspective of time, it should have been a long time ago.
Rubbing his sore neck, Li Liang walked out of the door and came to the courtyard. Looking at the starry sky and breathing in the air with a faint medicinal fragrance, his mind calmed down a lot. As the saying goes, it is difficult to be a good person, it is difficult to be an ordinary good person, but now he has experienced it personally, and being a migrant worker can be so thrilling, how can this be reasonable! When I used to read novels, I always hoped that the protagonist would have all kinds of adventures, and then soared to the top of the world, how could it be so hard for him to live a peaceful and quiet life? Could it be that he should be the emperor's life, and he chose the wrong path, and God was punishing him?
Li Liang shook his head vigorously, tried to put down these messy things, slowly closed his eyes, and started tai chi.
Playing Tai Chi was deliberately learned in the previous life in order to shoot the sycophants of those old leaders of the Agricultural Bureau, of course, it was just learned to be a showmanship, not practical. But in the thirteen years since he came to this world, whenever he encountered troubles, he would play Tai Chi, on the one hand, to calm his mind, on the other hand, to move his body, to relax himself, the effect is very good, which makes him sigh that learning more than one craft is really a clear move.
After two incense sticks, after Tai Chi, Li Liang felt much more comfortable. He slapped the dust off his body and turned around to go back to the house. After a sweep, he saw a purple dew grass in the medicinal herb seedling garden in front of the house swaying gently in the evening breeze, which was very different. This medicinal herb seedling garden was made by Li Liang himself a few years ago, just in front of the house, only about 30 square meters. This is his use of modern seedling technology, fine cultivation of seedlings, until the small seedlings grow to a certain extent, and then transplanted into the field, so that the survival rate of the seedlings is relatively high.
When I got closer, I noticed that the leaves of this purple dew grass were very wide, a little wider than the leaves of other seedlings. Because of the improvement of planting technology and the more professional planting method, the medicinal seedlings here are much stronger than those in the field that are generally self-growing.
In a flash of inspiration, Li Liang suddenly remembered a kind of pill recorded in the pill book, and the medicinal material needed was called purple carrot grass, its shape, characteristics, and medicinal effects were exactly the same as purple dew grass, the only difference was the size of the herb, purple carol grass was a few sizes smaller than purple dew grass. Just like the fruits we eat in modern times, what green gourds, thumb bananas, cherry tomatoes, etc., are actually watermelons, bananas, tomatoes, cultivated in a special way, so that they become bigger, smaller, or change color and shape, it is nothing more than a nice name, and the thing is still the same thing.
If this is the case, then the medicinal materials recorded in the old Danshu should be able to find the corresponding ones now, but the names are different. Thinking of this, Li Liang hurriedly returned to the house and continued to flip through the old books.
In the blink of an eye, another month passed, and Li Liang compared the medicinal materials in the alchemy book with the current medicinal materials, and it was really as he thought, the name of the medicinal materials changed, but the medicinal materials were still the same medicinal materials. In this month, he found a total of more than 930 kinds of medicinal materials that he knew now, but this only accounted for about 10% of the records in this set of alchemy books.
It's strange to say that most of the records in these twelve books are methods of refining basic pills, and the highest-level pills are only suitable for the infant stage, so it always feels that they are not very complete, and it seems that there should be many books.
Among the current pills, there is a basic pill called Juqi Dispersion, all the medicinal materials he needs are planted, and the requirements for the age of medicinal materials are also very relaxed, and the most important medicinal materials are only a few decades of medicinal properties, which makes him very happy, and it is also very strange, such a simple question, why did so many Xianmen seniors not find it before?
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