Chapter 40: Success
In the Dan room, which has always only had a clear fragrance, at this time there are fireworks and flames, and compared to the alchemy of the Great Dan Furnace, the two small tripods placed in the middle are more difficult to control.
Shao Mingqing looked at the flames almost without blinking, he couldn't be too big to rush to the ding, and he couldn't be too small to make the pill difficult to condense.
Xie Roujia, who was sitting on the side, looked at him and had been watching him for a while.
"What are you looking at? I'll work for you, can you wipe your sweat? Shao Mingqing said.
Xie Roujia smiled and got up and picked up a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead, his eyes sweeping back and forth over him.
"This dress means that apart from your master, you are the second largest in Longhu Mountain." She said with a smile.
This is an apricot yellow robe, second only to the red robe of Xuan Zhenzi's national teacher.
On the day they entered the palace, they heard that Xuan Zhenzi had selected Shao Mingqing as Xie Roujia's assistant, and the emperor gave Shao Mingqing the title of Master Tongtian with a stroke of his pen in order to show his encouragement, and rewarded him with a mangyu, a crown and a robe.
For the emperor's reward, Xie Roujia was shocked and smiled bitterly.
A terrible and powerful fate.
"The emperor doesn't think I'm important, it's just that he asks for an auspicious omen." Shao Mingqing thought she was worried about herself and said.
"But this does not bode well." Xie Roujia muttered.
In the previous life, Shao Mingqing was named the Great Master of Tongtian, and then he refined the pill, and as a result, he refined the poison pill.
Shao Mingqing didn't hear her muttering clearly.
"Don't mumble so much useless, now we just have to do a good job in alchemy." He said, shaking his head again, "Pour the water." ”
Xie Roujia smiled and poured tea from the side and brought it over. Because Shao Mingqing wanted to stare at the fire, she fed him one bite at a time with a spoon.
"Go and sleep." Shao Mingqing said.
"I'll help you watch Ding." Xie Roujia said.
"Can you read it?" Shao Mingqing glared at her.
Xie Roujia grinned and sat down next to him.
"I don't understand." She said, "Look at it." ”
It's just that I have to stay up with myself.
Shao Mingqing smiled and didn't drive her away again, and the two sat side by side watching the fire.
"Do you think you can refine it this time?" Xie Roujia asked, rolling up her sleeves, "Why don't you let me cut some blood into it." ”
"Less chaos." Shao Mingqing said, "This time I used phoenix blood stone as a material, and it looks much better than the previous two days, don't make trouble without knowing anything and let me be busy in vain." ”
Xie Roujia smiled and didn't say anything more.
After seven days of smoky fire and night sleep, Shao Mingqing finally said that he was going to get married. Xie Roujiaxing waited excitedly. Shao Mingqing stopped again.
"Actually, I don't know if I can do it this time, I've done it this way before, but I haven't..." he said hesitantly, his hand resting on the box in front of him that contained the fire pills and did not move.
"Don't do it next time. Don't be wordy. Let's open the furnace. Xie Roujia said. Reach out and grab a handful of fireballs from the box and throw them at the fire.
With a bang, blue light burst out of the furnace fire, overturning the two First Emperor Dings. The smoke of gunpowder was rising, and the doors and windows that were impacting were shaking with a burst of brushing.
This movement made people on all sides be alarmed, and they rushed over one after another, looking at the messy Danfang at a loss.
Xie Roujia, whose face was blackened and her clothes were burned, stood up, but Shao Mingqing was still kneeling on the ground, groping by the fallen Dan stove.
"How are you?" Xie Roujia rushed over and asked hurriedly.
Shao Mingqing raised his head with his hands, and his eyes on his blackened face became more and more radiant.
"Look!" He opened his hand, revealing the two round red pills inside, "Practiced into a pill." ”
Without waiting for Xie Roujia to speak, he jumped up and raised the pill in his hand high.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, Jindan Dacheng!"
Only then did the attendants gathered outside react.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, Jindan is complete!"
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, the princess of the county has refined into a golden pill!"
They shouted to the emperor to report the good news.
When the Danfang exploded, Zhou Chengzhen already knew, and when he walked out of the East Palace, Bajin had already run back, and he was still shouting the good news from the attendants.
"Is she alright?" Zhou Chengzhen interrupted him and asked.
Bajin nodded hurriedly.
"It's fine." "Both of them were smoked like coal diggers," he said happily. ”
Zhou Chengzhen turned around and went back, and Bajin hurriedly followed.
"Your Highness, aren't you going to take a look?" He asked puzzledly, "It's really a pill." ”
Zhou Chengzhen sneered.
"What's all the fuss, it's that anyone can refine Dan." He said, "I'll go and see it when His Majesty summons me." ”
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Xie Roujia refreshed and changed her clothes, and looked at the two pills that were placed in the porcelain plate with interest.
Shao Ming washed and changed his clothes and walked over.
"It's funny how the bunch of stuff you put in it ended up like this." Xie Roujia couldn't help but say to him.
Shao Mingqing shushed her and looked outside again.
"Of course you do." He said.
After all, she is the one who makes alchemy, so why don't you know how the Dan is refined.
Xie Roujia smiled and stopped talking.
Shao Mingqing stretched out his hand and pinched a pill and looked at it.
"It turns out that the pill that was refined is like this." He said.
Xie Roujia pursed her lips and smiled, remembering that he had said that he had not refined it before, and this was the first time he had done it.
Shao Mingqing sniffed the pill.
"It's like a clear pill." He muttered.
Xie Roujia's eyes lit up.
"Really?" She asked, reaching out to him and taking it, "I'll taste it." ”
Shao Mingqing dodged his hand.
"Don't make a fuss." He laughed.
As he was laughing, the voice of the waiter came from outside the door.
"Princess Jun, please hurry, Your Majesty is going to see Jin Dan."
Shao Mingqing put the pill on the porcelain plate and handed it to Xie Roujia.
"Have you memorized everything you were taught?" He asked in a low voice.
Xie Roujia nodded.
"Remember, don't worry." She laughed. He took the porcelain plate and walked out.
The emperor sat in the study and couldn't wait to take the porcelain plate handed by Xie Roujia, looking at the two pills in it with joy.
The chamberlains on both sides also married.
"It's so beautiful."
"Shine like a phoenix stone."
They were amazed.
The emperor's smile widened.
"It's such a beautiful pill, it was really refined in the First Emperor Ding, just like the previous ones." He said.
"Your Majesty has seen the pill refined by the First Emperor Ding before?" Xie Roujia asked.
The Emperor laughed.
"I heard the Taoist priest who entered the First Emperor Ding describe, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to see it, and today I finally saw the blessing of Princess Tuojun." He said, pinching one up, "I don't know how it works." ”
"Your Majesty can't take it yet, first offer these two pills to the First Emperor Ding, and then take them after fasting for three days." Xie Roujia said. Explain the rules and regulations of taking pills in detail.
The Emperor listened impatiently. Interrupt her with a wave of his hand.
"Then there is Princess Laojun, you will work hard for three more days, and after three days, you will choose a good day and wait for the road." He said.
had already expected that the emperor would not let her go like this, Xie Roujia responded with a salute.
"The courtesy went and invited the First Emperor Ding and His Majesty to offer pills and fast together for three days." She said.
The Emperor smiled and nodded.
"Dan has already been refined. Then let the Archmage go back. Xie Roujia thought of something and said.
I'm afraid that someone will rob me of the credit.
The Emperor laughed. Wave your hand.
"Go, go, go." He said.
When Zhou Chengzhen came over. The princes who are even more filial to be filial have already heard the news, and they are busy watching the first emperor Ding who was sent over in the emperor's study.
The emperor also generously showed them the pill that had been refined, which caused a chorus of exclamation and congratulations.
"Whether it's a big success. After three days, I will know that you will all have a reward. He smiled, with a loving face, "We fathers and sons share the path of eternal life. ”
The princes knelt down and thanked each other, the emperor became more and more happy and ordered a banquet, Zhou Chengzhen excused himself to retire under the pretext of having political affairs, the emperor did not stay, the princes wished that he would never appear again, and watched Zhou Chengzhen walk out.
The night gradually covered the palace, and Zhou Chengzhen stood in front of the high hall.
"Your Highness, Shao Mingqing has left the palace and went straight back to Qingyunguan and never went elsewhere." A guard quietly stepped forward and whispered, "Just in Shicai, the king of Dongping County sent King Ding and Princess Ding to the Xishan Courtyard, saying that the princess could not endure the cold and wanted to recuperate in the hot springs of the courtyard. ”
The corners of Zhou Chengzhen's mouth twitched.
Rest? Just avoid trouble.
He looked back, and the palace with the Danfang not far away had gradually disappeared into the night, and Xie Roujia would also fast there for three days.
"Let's go." He said, without looking back, and hurried towards the East Palace.
Three days later, with the greetings of the attendants, the door of the emperor's fasting place was slowly pushed open, although fasting for three days, people seem to be thinner, but the emperor's spirit is getting stronger and stronger.
The emperor went on the futon under the service of two chamberlains, and looked at Xie Roujia, who was standing in front of him to give a salute, and the princes who came early after hearing the news.
"Princess Dongping County, please Dan." He said with a little excitement in his voice.
Xie Roujia responded and walked towards the place where the First Emperor Ding was located, and after a while, he walked out with a porcelain plate on it, and a pill rolled on it.
An attendant stepped forward and bowed down to take it.
The things used by the emperor did not pass through the hands of outsiders, and Xie Roujia also knew this rule, so he handed over the porcelain plate.
The chamberlain turned, but did not take a step.
"Ask Dan." The Emperor said again, his eyes full of excitement.
Zhou Chengzhen, who was standing on the side, stepped forward and looked at Xie Roujia.
"Ask Dan." He also slowly followed, as if to remind and urge the waiter.
The waiter responded with a step, and Zhou Chengzhen looked at the emperor again.
"Your Majesty, is the water used to take the pill different?" He asked.
The Emperor smiled.
"Yes, the frost from the old cypress trees in the Imperial Garden." He said, pointing to the cups on the tables.
The princes couldn't help but look over as he pointed out.
The chamberlain knelt down in front of the case at this time, and carefully placed the porcelain plate on it.
"Your Majesty, please use it." He said with his head bowed.
The emperor reached out and pinched the red pill, and looked at Xie Roujia when he thought of something.
"Is just one enough?" He asked.
"Take this first, and then you can take the others, one day apart." Xie Roujia said.
The emperor nodded, put the pill in his mouth, picked up the cup and sent it down with water.
Zhou Chengzhen and the princes bowed down one after another, and the attendants also knelt down.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty."
"Congratulations to my father, congratulations to my father."
They said in unison.
The Emperor laughed.
"When I run out of pills tomorrow, I will congratulate you again."
Everyone congratulated again, and Xie Roujia also bowed her head and saluted.
The winter days and nights are long, but the emperor always gets up early, and when the sky is still gray, the lights in the dormitory are turned on.
The two chamberlains stood cautiously in front of the bright yellow tent.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's time to get up." They whispered.
I called for a long time and there was no response.
The two chamberlains glanced at each other, and one had the audacity to lift the tent.
"Your Majesty." He raised his voice slightly, "Should..."
His voice stopped abruptly, and his gaze rested on the emperor lying within.
The emperor lay flat, the quilt square, his eyes closed, his face flushed, and he seemed to be still asleep.
"Your Majesty?" He called again, and shifted the lamp in his hand to this direction.
The tent became bright, but the Emperor fell asleep peacefully, motionless, as if he were not breathing.
Not even breathing?!
The two chamberlains suddenly chuckled in their hearts.
"Your Majesty!" They couldn't help but raise their voices and shout.
The emperor still did not respond, and finally one of the chamberlains trembled and stretched out his hand to push, and the man shook with his push, still motionless.
The chamberlain's face suddenly turned pale, his hand trembled and moved up to the emperor's mouth and nose, and when he probed it, he screamed and fell backwards, and the other chamberlain standing on the side was so frightened that his body fell down, and the lamp he was holding in his hand fell on the tent, and the fire suddenly ignited.
"Come, come, come!"
Screams pierced the palace.
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In Qingyun Temple, the jade pestle in the hand of Xuan Zhenzi, who was doing the morning class, made a crisp sound and shattered into two sections in the bowl.
Xuan Zhenzi suddenly raised his head and looked at the statue in the hall in front of him.
"This catastrophe is coming." He muttered.
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