Chapter 49: Alchemy is not easy
Although Xiaoxie has a small collection of books, she looked up and down before opening the jade box. There were a few pieces of jade slips in it, and looking at them, I was very excited, and my own medicine garden could finally come in handy.
She didn't have time to read them carefully, so she asked Xiaolong to copy them one by one. When he was refining Xiaolong, he deliberately put effort into this, and even went to the Ziluo Heavenly Realm to ask Uncle Ming Yan, although he was ridiculed by him for not doing his job.
"It's so simple to copy Jade Jane, and even let a puppet have this function!" That's what Uncle Ming Yan said. But she still let Xiaolong have this function, how slow it is to copy alone, what's wrong with having one more helper.
Xiaolong is like a robot cat, taking out a piece of jade from the pocket of his clothes, which is actually a refinement of benzoin, and the effect is no worse than that of jade jian, because there is no blank jade room, so he 'thinks about change' when he is poor.
Holding the blank jade slip in his left hand and holding the jade slip to be copied in his right hand, a burst of light swept from his right hand to his left hand, like a scan. It didn't take long for Xiaolong to make a successful copy.
Lin Zixin took it and took a look, the effect was very good, no worse than ordinary jade Jane. She asked Xiaolong to copy the remaining jade slips one by one, while she looked at the Danfang under the jade box. Danfang is made of paper, and I don't know what kind of paper it is made of, after so many years, there is no trace of carbonization at all, and the ink on it is still very clear.
Although it was easy for her to memorize these pills, she took out her pen and paper and copied them down with great care. But I was thinking about whether I could install a printing system for Xiaolong, so that he could make copies of the books he saw at any time.
At the bottom level, I saw the pill that Yueli was taking, a very peculiar formula. To say that it is peculiar does not refer to the herbs listed above, now she is not familiar with all kinds of herbs, and only knows a few common medicines to stop bleeding. This paper with Danfang is very unusual, the paper is very thick, with a withered yellow color, and you can see that the paper is not small at a glance. She carefully pulled the edges, but she couldn't pull a bit, strong enough! The most unusual thing is that it is written with red juice, like cinnabar, although it is very old, it is still very fresh, and you can vaguely smell fishy.
Fishy smell! She was stunned, could it be written in blood? She has a sense of smell for the smell of blood that is difficult for ordinary people to perceive.
I don't know any of the herbs on it except for the previous Zelan, so I really don't know how Yueli got it. Zuihou actually reconciled it with the blood of demon beasts.
She smiled, thinking that this blood moon glass could be easily obtained. No wonder you have to take this elixir, although this elixir is not a medicine to improve cultivation, it is also extremely useful. Just like Yueli explained before, you can make a clone for yourself out of thin air, which is almost the same as the main body, and even the breath is the same, which is much more useful in a certain situation. However, taking this medicine has a big side effect, that is, you need to have a particularly strong physical fitness, if otherwise after the effect of the medicine, the residual medicinal qi in the body can make the meridians become disordered, and if you can't control it, it will hurt the root.
"That's why the moon glass will be taken on the night of the full moon, and after the demon's bloodline is activated, the body will be much stronger than that of the monk." She thought this recipe was useful, so she memorized it carefully.
She looked around at the collection, and there were always a lot of good things, especially calligraphy and paintings. The calligraphy and paintings of a thousand years ago can be turned into antiques until now, not to mention the calligraphy and paintings that are specially collected. She doesn't have much research on calligraphy and painting, that is, she can draw a sketch gouache or something, the sadness of modern education! The things of the ancestors have become antiques, and young people who love the new trend do not like this kind of antiques very much.
She took down an ink painting hanging on the wall and looked at it carefully, hoping to discover her own artistic cells from it. The ink painting as a whole is well preserved, and the scrolls are delicately framed; The silk picture is painted with a few brushstrokes to outline an ethereal artistic conception, with clouds and fog, air and water; Purely scenic, but it gives people a feeling of being in the sky.
"It's really a good painting!" Even people like her, who don't know how to paint in ink, feel that this artistic conception is like a fairyland.
"Huh!" Just as she wanted to hang the painting back in its place, she found that there was still a portrait in its place.
The portrait and the ink landscape in her hand appear to have been made by the same person, but she looked through it and found no signature.
"Who is this?"
The person in the painting has a wide coat with large sleeves, a fluttering robe, and only a hairpin hastily holding the long hair without a crown. Looking at his face again, to paraphrase a vulgar phrase is "If you look like Pan An, your crown is like Song Yu", but who knows what Pan An and Song Yu look like? Just look at it, I feel that the painting is a fairy man, if you throw away its eyes.
How else to say that this painting is from the hand of a master! If the person's appearance and clothing are just incidental, and if you hook it with the pen, then the eyes of the person in the painting are the key strokes that focus on the portrayal. The eyes of the people in the painting are extremely beautiful, narrow but not like the eyes of Danfeng. But she saw an evil nature in his eyes, and she knew from the corner of his eye that this person was the kind of person who was high above and ignored all rules; Bloodthirsty and ruthless, unscrupulous for the sake of the end.
It stands to reason that such a person would not have friends, but who would paint such a picture for him? The charm of the people in the painting, the overall artistic conception is not the kind of person who is not familiar with the other party can be painted.
"This is my ancestor." Yueli's voice appeared in her ears in time.
Lin Zixin turned around and was stunned for a moment. Compared with the two, Yueli has a bit of the appearance of the person in the painting, but the overall temperament is not connected at all. She smiled in her heart, as if relieved, "Fortunately, he doesn't have the evil nature of the person in the painting." ”
"Is this a self-portrait of your ancestors?" She asked the question in her mind.
Judging from the paintings themselves, these two ink paintings are rare and excellent, and the painters will not be unknown.
Yueli first glanced at her and said with a smile: "The ancestor is a demon cultivator, how can he like this kind of vassal and elegant thing." However, after being exiled to Earth, I learned a lot about this. But don't you think it's embarrassing for a demon cultivator to let him paint these? ”
She was slightly stunned, and then glanced at the man in the painting: "I really can't see that he is a real demon." ”
Hang the landscape painting in your hand again, "Fortunately, you didn't inherit the cold-blooded ruthlessness of your ancestors, otherwise, I would have broken off my friendship with you immediately." ”
"How do you know that my ancestors are cold-blooded and ruthless? I'm not a demon, and I'm already very unhappy if I inherit a trace of his blood. After helping Lin Zixin hang up the painting, he said, "Don't tie me with him." ”
"As you can see from the painting, those eyes tell others very bluntly that people who are involved with him will not have a good life."
"I found your spiritual sense to be really powerful!"
"Of course, who am I!" She was a little proud. Said to Yueli: "I'm going back, the jade slip and the Danfang have already been copied, thank you for bringing me to your treasure room." ”
"What kind of treasure room is this, you're going back?" He seemed a little reluctant.
She smiled at him, "So who painted this painting, if there is a sale, it will definitely fetch a sky-high price." She still likes the ink landscape.
"No one knows the origin of the ancestors' things, and I don't know what happened more than a thousand years ago."
They came out of the water pavilion one after the other, and Yueli asked again, "Don't you want to visit my castle more?" ”
"No, I'm very busy, and I have to go back to research all kinds of herbs!"
When she walked to the door, she said again: "I saw that pill and thought it was very interesting, do you have any left?" Send me a pill for research. ”
Yueli shuddered and took out a small bottle, which contained something black and unslick. Reluctantly handed it to her, seemingly a little embarrassed.
"Don't just try it!"
Lin Zixin daxiao very irresponsibly, "This is the pill you refined, the prescription didn't say that Cheng Dan is this color, you dare to eat this color of pill?" ”
"Let's go, don't send it." He straightened his face and turned away, leaving only a dashing back.
The castle steward stood in the distance and watched this scene, muttering to himself, "The eldest young master finally has friends, and our lives are going to be better, what friends!" ”
In the end, Lin Zixin still entrusted the blessing of his driver's eldest brother and arrived home smoothly.
After she got home, she changed back to her daughter, and after the last incident of the rattan sheath, the property quickly sent someone to repair the damage she caused, and the sofa in the garden of the landlord was also replaced with a new one.
"It's better to be comfortable at home!" She lay on the couch without a figure.
After a short rest, watch the copied jade slips. The first is the herb compilation, which introduces all kinds of common herbs, their medicinal properties, how to pick them, and how to deal with them.
"It's a jade slip dedicated to medicinal herbs! There is a division of labor, and if you want to study deeply, you have to find this kind of professional jade slip, I don't know which unlucky alchemist's treasure this is. ”
The so-called loot is what the loser left behind, and it can be seen from the portrait of the big demon that the loser under his command will not have their lives left.
She decided to start with the most common, known as the simplest pills, and there were quite a few of them in the herb garden anyway. This is the "Bigu Dan", which is known as an apprentice-level elixir.
But to alchemy, you have to have an alchemy furnace, and of course, alchemy masters can refine ordinary pills without other assistance. If it is a high-level elixir, it must have a Di Dan furnace that matches the level of the elixir.
Low-handed apprentices can obediently use the Dan furnace step by step, and if their own true fire is not enough, they can also borrow the fire of heaven and earth as an auxiliary, usually the earth fire. In modern parlance, it's the kind of fire that comes when a volcano erupts. But how could Lin Zixin have the courage to find that kind of fire, fortunately, his own spiritual fire is strong enough.
She searched through all the jade slips and found only a figure of a Dan furnace, and there was no such thing in the things Qingping left her. I had to do it myself according to the graphics, anyway, it was an apprentice-level elixir, and the Dan furnace was generally fine.
Iron can't be used as a material for the Dan furnace, not even an apprentice-level Dan furnace, so she has to use the most primitive method to make the Dan furnace. First of all, I dug up some soil in the garden, and made mud into a Dan furnace with my divine sense, which looked like that. Then use the purple flame to burn slowly, and the divine sense is extremely careful, for fear that the purple flame will make her lose her previous efforts.
But if you're afraid of something, maybe Ziyan doesn't bother to do this kind of hard work without jishu content, and at the moment when Zuihou succeeds, he will turn the Dan furnace into ashes and return to the embrace of the earth.
"It's okay, come again!"
She did it again with the mud, and Ziyan behaved a lot, but the finished product could only be regarded as an earthen pot.
"Come again!"
Or a jar for water.
"Come again!"!
She didn't know how many of these jars had been burned, and there was a lot less soil in the garden, but there were more of them around her.
"Whew!" She breathed a sigh of relief, finally with a decent one.
Knock ding dong, it looks like good quality.
She decided to go all out and try her first alchemy. Quickly took out the herbs he needed, and the ingredients in them were ginseng? She thought that the effect of ginseng might be nutritional. She treats Bigu Dan as a concentrated nutritional pill, as long as the nutrition is enough, people will not be hungry.
Purple Flame appeared in her hand, and she said to the somewhat decadent Purple Flame, "Purple Flame is up to you." ”
Put all kinds of herbs into the Dan furnace in order of quantity. Use your divine sense to guide the purple flame to heat outside the Dan furnace, and draw out a small part of it into the Dan furnace to quench the herbs and refine the essence of the herbs. During this period, each step has a different mudra to control the strength of the fire, and after all the herb essences are extracted, Zuihou controls the fire while controlling the divine consciousness to condense them together to form an elixir, which is the key part, whether it is successful or not.
She used her divine sense to watch the pill inside slowly take shape, extremely happy, and said in her heart: "Sure enough, I have a talent for alchemy!" ”
Keep up the good work, and it's just a little bit of success.
"Bang!" With a bang, she pulled back to reality, and the Dan furnace exploded. Purple Flame burned the pill liquid to ashes along with all the useful and useless liquid in it.
Fortunately, she had set up a simple defensive array, and all the ashes in the Dan furnace pounced on her, and she was really disgraced at this time.
The explosion of the Dan furnace was undoubtedly a blow to her confidence, and all the jade slips did not mention it above, and the furnace would be exploded when refining the Bigu Dan. Even an apprentice can't blow up the furnace, at most it's just a failure.
She lay on the ground full of earthen pots and looked at the starry night sky, raised her hand to summon Purple Flame, and found that Purple Flame did not move at all. The headache was terrible, and it turned out that his spiritual power and divine sense had been exhausted.
"It's a Dan furnace, isn't it?"
She was obviously full of confidence and pride before this!
It's like, "I've definitely had a talent for this, I've always felt that way; It's just that I don't have a chance to try, and if I give it a chance, I'll do my best. "Thoughts. Once you find out that you are not as talented as you imagined, you will feel that the whole Shijie has abandoned him, how can it be different from what you think? Decadent emotions arise spontaneously.
"Do you really have no alchemy talent?"
Before she could realize the emotions emanating from her, she turned her back and closed her eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.