Chapter 65: Fang City
Mei Xue, who was born in the Yan clan and has passed the junior pharmacist exam, the most familiar way to make money that he can think of is naturally his old profession - refining elixir.
The world of the seas and mountains is full of spiritual grasses everywhere, but most of the wild spiritual grasses are poisonous, and ordinary people will be fatal if they eat them, and they must be refined into various elixirs by pharmacists to remove toxins and extract medicinal properties.
And the bloodline of the Yan clan is born with the characteristic of affinity with medicinal herbs, which is a kind of magical power that is not considered a supernatural power, which is a special ability inherited from the great ancestor Shennong's clan, and the branch with the most branches and leaves among the twelve earth immortal branches.
Legend has it that the "alchemy" taught by the immortals was also inherited in the direct branch of the descendants of Shennong's ancestors, but that was the secret of the direct descendants of Shennong, and it was never open to the outside world, so those treasures called "elixir" were simply legendary things for mortals.
It is said that because the output of these elixirs is too small, even the top power of the seas and mountains is only a little bit stored in the treasure house as a strategic reserve, and it will never be used until an extraordinary moment. For the general public and ordinary immortal warlocks, all kinds of elixirs extracted from medicinal herbs are common products.
As a result, the pharmacist has become one of the most respected professions besides the fairy sorcerer. In almost every large human settlement, there must be one or two pharmacists from the Yan tribe who are good at cultivating herbs and refining elixirs, and even many times pharmacists will also serve as teachers, teaching the tribal people in those remote areas the knowledge of astronomy and geography.
Mei Xue is such a pharmacist, in his capacity, he is actually qualified to become the chief pharmacist of a village or even a small town, he can hold classes, enjoy the support of one village and one town, be free of taxes for life, and live a worry-free life.
There are not one or two villages and towns in the mountains of Zhuhai that lack pharmacists, and even in Tiantai Mountain, there are no less than ten villages that have sent invitations to Mei Xue, and he has not even passed the formal pharmacist examination at that time, which shows how important the profession of pharmacist is in the minds of the people.
After all, not every Yan clan person can become a pharmacist, having a herb affinity is just a little smoother when cultivating medicinal herbs, and refining elixirs is the biggest difficulty.
Mei Xue was favored by the major villages of Tiantai Mountain precisely because of his ability to skillfully refine a variety of elixirs, and even the teachers of the Tiantai Mountain Junior Immortal Law School praised him, thinking that he would definitely be able to go further on the road of pharmacist.
Mei Xue didn't remember when she began to understand that she had the talent of refining elixir, it seemed that he had been very close to those spirit grass spirit flowers since he was very young, and he could feel the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of these flowers and plants.
Each of the spiritual flowers and spiritual grasses that absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has different spirituality, and the longer the growth year, the more obvious the spirituality it has, and there are even examples of flowers and plants becoming demons in legends.
However, in the end, the flowers and plants that can become demons are only a very small chance that can be almost ignored among the billions of spirit flowers and spirit grasses, most of the spirit flowers and spirit grasses only have simple emotions, they will drink because of the sunshine, they will be listless because of the continuous rain, and they will show more vitality because of the careful care of the cultivators.
If you use the spirit flower spirit grass cultivated by yourself when refining the elixir, then the quality of the elixir will far exceed the spirit flower spirit grass grown in the wild, and the probability of failure will be greatly reduced, which is the biggest reason why every medicine master is an excellent horticulturist.
A pharmacist who doesn't know how to take care of the Linghua Lingcao will not be able to pass the pharmacist exam, and the best elixir refined by the pharmacist must be the Linghua Lingcao cultivated by himself as a material.
It is said that the legendary "alchemy" also follows this principle, and those stories of how you can soar by eating a spirit flower are completely used to deceive children. There is no elixir in this world that can be left untreated, and the longer the year, the more toxic the elixir will be. If you eat a thousand-year-old spirit flower when you see it, you must think that you are not dying fast enough.
Mei Xue walked out of this seaside town and soon found the spirit grass all over the mountains, although they were all low-grade spirit grasses, but it was enough to refine a few flavors of elixir to drive away the cold and refresh the mind.
After collecting a sufficient amount, Mei Xue began to walk to the town's trading market, ready to buy a cheap medicine pod to refine the elixir.
Although it is only a very inconspicuous town on the shores of the Qinglong Mountains and seas, the level of the Fang Market here is far higher than that of the Tiantai Mountain Fang Market that Mei Xue used to visit.
However, no matter where the market is, there will be a common feature -
"Come and see, come and see, the freshly picked hundred-year-old ginseng has been de-toxic, and I have eaten a big supplement!"
"Tiangongfang's newly produced Nine Dragons Moire Ding, your best helper for refining elixir, is now on sale at a bargain!"
"A fairy stone, this jade disc that records eighteen supreme supernatural powers is you, don't miss it."
Mei Xue looked at the medicine tripod with exquisite workmanship and Nine Dragons flying clouds and fog patterns around it, although the lines were a little fancy, but this workmanship was a genuine workmanship, and there was a treasure in Tiantai Mountain, but it was a pity that he was shy in his pocket, otherwise he really wanted to buy it.
The hundred-year-old ginseng that has been processed is also good, the treatment method is skillful and atmospheric, and there is no loss of a trace of the medicinal properties of the century-old ginseng, this technique is even more clever than Mei Xue's mastery, it is worthy of the Qinglong Mountains of the Holy Land of Immortal Arts, and the level of pharmacists here is also first-class, which makes him, a fledgling junior pharmacist, an eye-opener.
As for the one who sells magical jade plates, he is a special jade plate merchant who is available in all markets. Ordinary people thought that the jade disc really recorded some supreme supernatural powers, but in fact it was just a prop that could repeatedly play all kinds of supernatural powers, and it was a gadget made of defective products in a precious spirit stone called "Lingering Stone".
Mei Xue was also fooled once, and after spending a lot of money to buy it, she found that it was not the case at all, but the material of this jade dish itself is indeed expensive, so it cannot be returned. It is rumored that the black market will also sell some evil jade discs similar to the secret history of the boudoir, which are quite good, and are a pastime that only the rich can afford.
After walking past the exquisitely decorated Tiangong shop and looking at the spiritual medicine store with many processed elixirs, Mei Xue looked left and right for a while, and finally found where she should go.
It is also an indispensable part of every market, where all kinds of antiques, mystery items, and elementary heavenly works are placed, that is, the stall market.
Not everyone can rent a shop in the market with a lot of money, that is a shop that has already made a name for the merchants and craftsmen who are qualified to open a shop, many people can't afford to pay the rent of the shop, and they don't need a whole shop to sell what they have, so these people will be given a corner of the market to set up a stall.
After all, there are more or less genuine goods in the hands of those who can take out things to sell in the market, and they can also make up a lot of popularity for the market, so there are any markets in this kind of corner, and even more than half of some smaller markets are such stalls, which are daily scenery that can be seen everywhere.
Those who will go to these stalls to buy things, partly because they want to pick up leaks, and partly because there are really not many fairy stones in their hands, so they can only buy some second-hand goods and medicinal materials with bad color, Mei Xue is the latter one.
Although there are always stories of someone who found some peerless treasures and rare medicinal herbs in such stalls, in fact, nine out of ten of these stories were made up by the owners of these stalls, and the chance of really picking up a pearl the size of a grain of rice is no higher than finding a colorless pearl the size of a grain of rice in the sea.
Because the budget is pitiful, Mei Xue has been running to this second-hand market from the beginning. After looking at his clothes and turning position, the vendor who shouted louder than the other quickly knew that this was not a novice, and after exchanging a few glances with each other, he quickly gave up the idea of setting up a set.
Soon, however, the vendors were overjoyed because a big live fish appeared!
It was a girl dressed in red, and her temperament was obviously incompatible with this place, presumably because of the stories that the major stalls bragged about and curious to come here to buy things.
This kind of guest is exactly the kind of guest that all stall owners dream of, a big fish that can be slaughtered.
But when they saw the material of the red dress that the girl was wearing, and the vision of her bare feet without leaving any traces, everyone opened their mouths wide.
After looking at it again, the incomplete Hydra crystal hair ornament came into view, as well as the deep glass orb, this, what is this!
What a big fish this is! It's a whale.
That gorgeous fairy clothes! At a glance, you can see that the Dao is the hair ornament of the ancient immortal treasure! That ancient orb that blinded all the vendors!
Where did this famous lady come from, and a piece of the feathers of the fairy clothes on her body may be able to buy the entire market. As for the hair ornament and the orb on it, it's a show-off! Show it off! Everyone can tell at a glance that it is a top-notch treasure, a real rare treasure, a priceless thing.
How could such a big man come to this small place to buy things, isn't it a big merchant with countless seas and mountains on his hook and little finger, and the market is competing for door-to-door delivery? You don't need to come to this kind of place to buy things in person.
To put it mildly, this kind of fang market is not qualified to receive guests of this level at all, and that immortal robe alone is enough to kill thousands of such small fang markets in seconds, which is a real immortal thing, not to mention the hair ornaments and orbs. That wasn't something they could identify at their level, but they knew that the Dao level was unimaginably high.
In the puzzled eyes of everyone, the girl in the red fairy robe looked intently at the young man strolling through the stall looking for bargains, and the surprise and excitement in the transparent red eyes could not be concealed.
Got it! Mei Xue!