Today's Zhongnan Mountain is full of vigor and excitement. There is no comparison with when Liang Qiufeng worshiped the mountain gate, you must know that at that time, there were only more than 100 disciples of the new generation of Sword Mansion, and now this number has increased several times, and it officially broke through the 1,000 mark the day before yesterday.

And every day, there is still an endless stream of young handsome people who rush to Zhongnan Mountain from all over the wasteland and want to join the Sword Mansion.

There are more people, the popularity is boiling, it seems bustling, and it is no longer quiet and quiet as before.

"I don't know what happened to the little brother and Liu'er over there in Lonely Mountain City......"

In the courtyard, Xiao Xiao was reading a book.

The title of the book is "The Nine Methods of Smelting", and it belongs to the Book of Dan.

The so-called "Book of Pills" is a secret book on how to refine pills. In the Dan book, "The Nine Methods of Smelting" is a very basic thing, an entry level. It mainly introduces some common sense of alchemy, simple concepts and nouns, and lists some of the simplest pills, such as "Juyuan Dan" and the like.

Learning alchemy is a new attempt.

The girl couldn't practice martial arts, and she failed repeatedly in planting, so she was very frustrated. After Liang Qiufeng went to Taicheng to participate in the sect competition, he felt bored, so he started a new attempt, alchemy.

The books were borrowed from the library of the Foreign Mansion, and although he was not a disciple of the Sword Mansion, because of Liang Qiufeng, he enjoyed some special rights, such as borrowing books, as long as he paid a sum of spiritual rice.

In addition to the "Nine Methods of Smelting", there is also a thick book of "Acupuncture and Moxibustion Tips" beside her, which is a medical book.

Since ancient times, it has been said that Danyi does not separate families, so he borrowed both books home to read at once.

Somehow, she read these books with relish.

However, this matter was not told to Liang Qiufeng. I just came to study, but there is no result. There is no need to rush to tell the little brother, secondly, when Liang Qiufeng came back from Taicheng, the Sword Mansion soon encountered a battle, and a catastrophe was coming...... After that, it's even more messy, with countless things to deal with. When the situation is stable, Liang Qiufeng will soon have to go to Gushan City again, and it is too late to say these things.

"Thirty catties of spiritual rice to refine rice pith, two kinds of aster grass five coins, one product of Heyuan dried leaves two taels ......"

What she is looking at now is the Dan Fang about a trick of Ju Yuan Dan. Inexplicably, very practical impulse, eager to try. However, alchemy is not only about raw materials. Fire, as well as Dan furnace are indispensable.

Fire, you can't use ordinary open flames, for example, the fire burned by firewood is impossible to succeed in alchemy, and it must be made with a unique earth fire. and the "human fire" cultivated by individuals.

Human fire is out of reach for the young, and she knows that there is a stone room in the mountain behind the Sword Mansion, communicating underground, and there is fire, but if you want to enter alchemy, you must pay a lot of spiritual rice;

In addition, the necessary tool for alchemy is the Dan furnace. An ordinary Dan furnace. It's commercially available, but it's not too hard to get.

Liang Qiufeng went down the mountain that day and left 500 catties of spiritual rice for the young, which she rarely eats. They are all saving up to stay by their side, and if they take it out to buy a Dan furnace and rent a land and flint room, they can still afford it in a short time.

So. Do you want to give it a try?

"Just give it a try, it's a big deal to lose five hundred catties of spiritual rice......"

The girl was decisive.

Because in her subconscious. She never wants to be a burden to Liang Qiufeng, she really wants to share some of it for Liang Qiufeng. Even if it's just a little bit.

After deciding on this, he immediately went down the mountain to Zhongnan Town, where he bought a small Dan furnace in a utensil shop, and then returned to the mountain to rent a secret room connected to the earth fire.

"What, you want alchemy?"

The disciple of the Sword Mansion who was in charge of guarding the stone room was very strange, and looked up and down: "You are not a disciple of the Sword Mansion, right?" ”

Xiao Xiao shook his head: "No...... May I ask the eldest brother, do I have to be a disciple to enter?"

The disciple said, "The principle stipulates that it is like this, well, you live in the inner mansion, who are you following?"

"Liang Qiufeng, I am his sword servant. ”

Xiao Xiao said, handing over an identity token.

The disciple verified the identity of the token, and a smile appeared on his face: "I see, then there is no problem." However, the price of renting a stone room is expensive, one hundred catties of spiritual rice for an hour. ”

"So expensive?"

He stuck out his tongue when he heard it.

Although I was mentally prepared, this price still exceeded expectations.

The disciple laughed and said, "Have you ever practiced Dan before?"

"No, it's the first time, I want to come and practice my hands. ”

The disciple scratched his head: "Girl, please forgive me for saying that alchemy is not an easy task, and it is difficult to learn without strong financial support." ”

In addition to martial arts, there are refining, alchemy, planting, etc., which are also extremely popular professions, and after learning something, the achievements are also extraordinary.

It's just that these professions are many times more difficult than martial arts. Guidance from famous teachers, resource support, and massive attempts...... And so on, indispensable.

Many people who choose these professions have to study for more than ten years, or even decades, before they can barely make some achievements before they can become teachers and stand on their own.

However, the disciple of the Sword Mansion in front of him looked at him unmaturely, but she was just a teenage immature girl, and her identity was just a sword servant, and if she wanted to make alchemy, it was definitely a whimsical thing, and there was absolutely no reason to succeed. Out of kindness, I reminded her.

Xiao Xiao thought for a while: "I'll rent it for an hour first." ”

"Well, since you've decided to go in and give it a try, I'm not going to stop you. After you go there and pay the Lingmi, you can come to me to receive the Stone Chamber Token. ”

Soon, he paid Lingmi, received the stone room token, and walked in.

The disciple of the Sword Mansion couldn't help but shake his head when he saw him enter, and muttered, "It's really willing to spend a hundred catties of spiritual rice to buy a lesson......

The fire stone chamber built in the back mountain of Zhongnan Mountain, the earth fire pulled up from the ground is not good in quality, it can only be ranked as inferior, at most it can only refine the pills below the three knots, and the pills of higher grades are not enough to deal with.

Earthfire, famous in terms of resource types, occupies a very important strategic role, and it is difficult to obtain good quality earthfire. However, in the wasteland, due to the lack of various resources, the alchemy refining and other industries have shrunk greatly, and they are declining. Zhongnan Mountain can pull the ground fire, which is quite good.

According to the instructions on the token, find the corresponding stone chamber and open it.

In fact, at this time, there were more than ten stone rooms arranged in two rows, and only one person had to die.

An hour passed quickly, and he walked out with a disappointed face.

The guardian Sword Mansion disciple asked, "Girl, how is your alchemy practice?"

He shook his head and said he had failed.

"Oh. ”

The Sword Mansion disciple sighed indifferently, obviously not surprised by this result at all.

"I'll come back tomorrow. ”

"Ahh

He was quite surprised by his obsession.

One hundred catties of spiritual rice per hour, is not a small amount, if the other party is from a big family, there is a lot of spiritual rice can be squandered, the key is a sword servant, accompany others to practice swords, what net worth savings can be?

This situation is actually very common in the Sword Mansion.

The most representative is Long Xiangtian, Senior Brother Long will change his sword servants every once in a while, and the demand conditions are all young and beautiful women, obviously the drunkard does not mean to drink.

But people are not romantic teenagers, people have the capital of this romance, you and I are willing to love each other, outsiders have nothing to blame, but envy.

The next day, around the same time, Xiao Xiao really appeared, paid a hundred catties of spiritual rice, and went into the stone room to alchemy for an hour.

When the time was up, the girl came out, and the guardian disciple asked, "How is today?"

"It didn't work out. ”

The disciple persuaded: "Girl, I said earlier, alchemy is not so easy to succeed. ”

"I know, but because it's not easy to succeed, I have to try more. As long as every new attempt and progress are made, there will be hope for success. So I'll be back tomorrow. ”

"Coming back?"

The guardian disciple was speechless.

There is nothing wrong with being persistent, but it is unwise to be obsessed.

On the third day, the death came a little earlier than the previous two days. As always, the formalities were completed, and the guardian disciples didn't even bother to say anything about persuasion.

An hour later, the girl's face was black and stained with a lot of charcoal.

The guardian disciple casually asked, "Will you come back tomorrow?"

He replied briskly, "No." ”

"Didn't you say you have to try more to succeed?"

When he said this, the guardian disciple subconsciously felt a little sarcastic. Because in his opinion, his first two kind reminders and well-intentioned persuasions were not taken seriously by the other party.

"That's right. ”

The girl replied crisply, "It's just that I've succeeded, so there's no need to come again." ”

"Uh...... What, it worked?"

The guardian disciple jumped up suddenly, looking stunned on the spot.

……

The horse is as fast as the wind, and the sound of the horse's hooves on the ground is a bit chaotic.

"Yu!"

Approaching the bamboo forest at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, the horse suddenly screamed, its hooves fell softly, and it fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, and it was no longer possible.

Fortunately, the knight saw the opportunity quickly and took off lightly in advance, so that he did not fall.

The knight didn't stop long, and immediately unfolded his body and rushed up the stone steps.

There was a sound of horses' hooves coming from behind, and a person shouted angrily: "Qiu Feng, Qiu Feng wait for me!"

"Yu!"

His horse, which stumbled on its front hoof, fell down, could no longer struggle, and died of exhaustion.

Zhang Jiangshan's face was dusty, and he said with a wry smile: "This trip is day and night, but I am tired of the fat man, at least I have lost ten pounds, and I have lost a lot of money." ”

Complaining in his mouth, he hurriedly left, following closely behind Liang Qiufeng.

On the mountain road at the foot of the mountain, there are many disciples of the Sword Mansion who are responsible for patrolling and guarding, they saw that there was a situation and hurriedly came out to see what was going on, but after recognizing that it was Liang Qiufeng and Zhang Jiangshan, they did not come forward to stop and interrogate, and they were very surprised in their hearts: The two senior brothers, aren't they in Gushan City, why did they hurry back to the mountain?