Chapter 347: Refining Medicine

"Tiger bones, pungent taste, hot sex, non-toxic. Governing Evil ...... Artemisia sinensis, pungent taste, warm, flat, non-toxic......" In the scavenger's office, the scavenger was like a child who began to study medicine at the age of four or five in ancient times, carrying a herbal medicine introduction and reading aloud, while Mo Lao was sitting next to him, asking other questions from time to time. The office that was supposed to hold all kinds of documents and materials was now a huge medicine cabinet and bookcase, and the books in the bookcase were all related to traditional Chinese medicine.

According to Mo Lao, the first thing the scavenger should do before refining the Tiger Bone Pill is to figure out some simple pharmacological knowledge, not to mention memorizing all the herbal knowledge, at least to master all the knowledge of various medicinal materials needed to refine the pill.

Traditional Chinese medicine is different from Western medicine, and the manufacture of some drugs in Western medicine can be mass-produced as long as there are no problems with the machine and raw materials. It is even possible to use microorganisms to reproduce quickly. But TCM can't do that. For all important formulas of some grades, medicinal materials are one thing, formulas are one thing, and refining is another.

Even if the recipe is right, the ingredients are right. However, in the process of refining, if the heat is not well controlled, or the refining and boiling of certain medicinal materials is not in place. At worst, the refining fails, and at the worst, the elixir that could have strengthened the body may become poison.

There is no shortcut to this, it is necessary to trade the knowledge of various materials step by step, and through a lot of practice to master what kind of heat, this herb and another herb are fused to be a tonic. But under another heat, the fusion of this herb with another herb is poison, and this must be clarified, otherwise even if there is a recipe, don't think about alchemy.

"That's all for the pharmacological knowledge of the ingredients on the formula today, let's practice it, starting with Artemisia annua." A morning was spent in scavenger reading and reciting. If it was previously scavengers on various military terms and data. You can memorize more than a dozen decimal places without making mistakes.

But I can't remember things that I'm not interested in, even if I try to stuff them in my head. But now it's different, and now the development of the scavenger's brain domain has reached 10.1%, which is definitely a genius in the eyes of ordinary people. So the scavenger is now half a day of book memorization and half a day of hands-on practice, transforming what he remembers into something that he can use proficiently.

However, with the increase in brain domain development. The scavenger's hands-on ability has also been taken up a notch. So from time to time, the scavenger will look at his detailed attributes, and it seems that there is a feeling of unbelievable dreaming.

Name: Scavenger

Gender: Male

Prestige: 125111

Age: 0 years, 4 months, 3 days.

Date of birth: October 1, 3576.

Official position: Hua Xia Guo, the first senator of Hope City

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel

Brain domain: 10.1%

Evolution: Step 4

Attribute:

Mental Power: 486, Stamina: 491, Stamina: 493, Speed: 477. Ondol 15%

Force: Beginning of the sixth floor

Exercises: Health preservation

Martial Arts:

[Basic Boxing Technique] Level: F Rank 1 Star, Realm: Xiaocheng +2

[Basic Leg Method] Level: F-level 1 star, Realm: Xiaocheng +2

[Kaishan] Level: F-level 5 stars, Realm: Back to Basics +2

[Pupil of the Night] Level 3: Light of the Night. Level: D-rank 5 stars, Realm: Back to basics +1.

[Ghost Shadow Step] Level: A-level 12 stars, Type 1: Ghost Companion. Realm: Xiaocheng +1.

Point value: 4,000,000/612546.

Equip:

Advanced Hunter Medal (upgradeable accessories, upgrade required items: Blood Python Eye): +20% for all abilities, +3 for all skill levels, +1 for martial arts realm, +20% for internal strength, additional skills: energy drain. Energy Drain: Absorbs the amount of power from the enemy slain. Quality: E5 stars.

Cloak of Blood: Defense +300. +10% for all stats, +10% for internal forces. Martial Arts Realm +1, with Skill: Battle Spirit Guardian. Battle Soul Guard: Collect don't kill souls to condense the guardian light shield, which can resist the full force of the fifth-layer force. Quality: E3 stars.

Python Swallowing Bracelet: Defense +300, All Attributes +30%, Internal Force +30%, Martial Arts +30%. Internal Force +20%, Martial Arts Realm +1, Additional Skill: Mustard Seed Space. Quality: D1 star.

Mustard Seed Space: An independent xenodimensional space that can store various items, size: 15 cubic meters.

Python boots: made from the scales of the python skull and python. It makes people walk like a green snake passing through the wet grass without leaving a trace. Speed +300, Strength +33, Stamina +22, Internal Force +10%, Step Martial Arts Realm +1, Additional Skills: Cup Bow Snake Shadow (Leave an afterimage in place, duration 3 minutes, attack power is 70% of the main body, and damage taken is doubled.) Equipment Requirement Level: Lieutenant Colonel, Quality: D3 Stars.

With nearly 500 full attributes, the scavenger has endless energy every day, because this time it evolved under the intensification of the fire dragon bloodline. The scavengers who have just completed the fourth step of evolution are physically powerful and somewhat non-human, and their resilience is even more non-human. For example, if you use a dagger to bleed on the palm of the scavenger's hand, the wound will automatically stop bleeding in less than ten seconds, and it will heal quickly if it is no longer attacked within ten minutes, and the wound can be restored within an hour without any medicine.

Although the scavenger didn't know if the legendary creature of the dragon really existed, just a little bit of dragon blood was so good. The scavenger is a little unimaginable to the power of the real existence of the dragon, and that kind of existence is estimated to be absolutely against the sky.

After glancing at his personal details again, the scavenger collected his feelings. Review the knowledge of various medicinal herbs that I memorized in the morning to deepen my memory, and then take out a dry pot and make a stove and start boiling medicine.

It is obviously a bit to let a scavenger who has never been in contact with Chinese medicine before directly alchemize, so everything has to start from scratch. After memorizing the knowledge of pharmacology, the scavenger needs to follow some simple recipes and some herbs, so that he can more intuitively grasp the changes of various properties after the drug is dissolved, and at the same time exercise the most basic mastery of heat.

For the convenience of the scavenger, the fire source of the stove used by the scavenger is the combustion of the mecha energy solution, somewhat similar to a gas stove. However, instead of a wok, a dry pot is used to boil medicines. The stove scavenger added water to it, without using any thermometer.

It's when the water in the pot starts to vaporize. The scavenger stretches out his hand and shakes it less than a centimeter from the surface of the water in the pan, using his palm to sense the temperature of the water in the pan, although this is not as accurate as a thermometer. However, when the medicine is boiled for a while, with the continuous addition of medicinal materials, the temperature in a dry pot will be different due to the different richness of medicinal materials in different regions. It is too cumbersome to rely on a thermometer to measure little by little.

Instead, I practiced the method of sensing the temperature with my hands, and with a slight wave of my palm, I could grasp the temperature of all areas in the entire dry pan. This may seem simple, but it is very applicable, and sometimes it is much more convenient than using an accurate thermometer, and it is easier to grasp the fusion of various medicinal juices in a dry pot.

"It's almost the temperature." After testing the temperature, the scavenger took a herb that had been treated and threw it in. Then continue to wait for the water temperature to rise, when the water in the dry pot starts to tumble. The first herb had melted, and the color of the boiling water had turned pale blue.

Reaching the surface of the water in the dry pot with his palm to feel the temperature of the water, the scavenger threw in three herbs in a row. However, these herbs are no longer grown in plants, but are the roots of a plant. The second is the stalk of the plant, and the third is a treated red fruit.

As the three herbs enter the dry pot, the color of the water in the dry pot begins to change again. At the same time, it began to become a little viscous, and as the flame at the bottom of the pan continued to heat, the temperature in the pan rose rapidly, and a mist of water that was different from normal steam shrouded the top of the pan.

Three minutes later, the scavenger reached over and felt the temperature again, then frowned, as if he was a little uncertain. A trace of internal force poured out of the scavenger's dantian and entered the palm of his right hand. The sensation in his palm became more acute. Feeling the temperature of the potion again, the scavenger's brow furrowed, and then he began to throw herbs into it again.

But this time it's not like throwing a few herbs and stopping for a while. Then throw it inside. Instead, he threw one herb and paused to feel the temperature in the dry pot, and then quickly threw in the second one, so that the scavenger stopped after throwing more than ten kinds of herbs in succession.

At this point, the liquid in the pan became thicker, and the scavenger reached out to reduce the flame of the stove a lot. Then he began to stare intently at the dry pot, reaching out every five minutes to feel the temperature of the liquid medicine in the dry pot, and carefully watching the change in the color of the liquid medicine in the dry pot. With the color and temperature of the liquid medicine. Keep turning on the flame under the dry pot.

Slowly, an hour passed, and the water in the pot was half dry. The edge of the pan was constantly tumbling and blistering, but the viscous liquid in the middle of the pan was unusually calm. The color in the pan also fades from the middle to the edges, and the edges are full of water, as if the liquid is so thick that the water is squeezed to the edge of the pan.

After another hour, the edges of the pan fell silent, as if the water had been thoroughly steamed, and in the middle of the hour the scavenger threw in several more herbs. And the palm of the hand is constantly brushing the edge of the liquid medicine in the dry pot. Every time the scavenger brushes his right hand, he will swallow the internal force and fish out some of the residue on the edge of the dry pot.

The residue is much more frivolous than the liquid, so it is at the edge of the dry pan, and it is easy for the scavenger to remove the residue with internal force. As the water is evaporated, the color of the liquid medicine in the entire dry pot begins to blend, and a rich medicinal fragrance wafts out from the dry pot, and the liquid medicine changes from the state of juice to a viscous gelatinous body.

Looking at the color of the liquid medicine in the dry pot and smelling the fragrance of the medicine, the scavenger's tired face showed joy. Although it has only been more than three hours since the pot of medicine has been boiled, even in the face of a fierce battle for three hours, the scavenger will not get tired. But the scavenger did have a tired look on his face.

Because the scavenger needs to check the temperature of the liquid medicine at all times, especially when the herbs are added in the previous part, the order, the temperature, and the fusion of the herbs must not be sloppy at all, which consumes a lot of energy of the scavenger. Boiling a pot of medicine scavengers feels more tiring than fighting a protracted battle.

However, although I was tired, I saw that the ointment I had boiled was about to succeed. However, there was a joy in the scavenger's heart that was different from the victory in the battle, and this joy made the scavenger feel that no matter how tired he was before, it was worth it.

From time to time, I still stretched out my hand to sense the temperature of the ointment in the dry pot, but now I no longer look at the color of the ointment. At this time, the scavenger kept sniffing the fragrance of the medicine, and cooperated with his sense of smell and the touch of the palm of his hand to detect the subtlety of the ointment in the dry pot. If some ointments are found to be partially incompletely fused.

The internal force in the scavenger's palm is no longer to increase the sensitivity of the palm sensation, but to become hot. The incompletely fused ointment is then injected, the part is warmed, and the part of the ointment is completely fused with fine stirring inside.

This is the difference between a pharmacist with force and an ordinary Chinese medicine practitioner. Ordinary Chinese medicine practitioners can only rely on experience to judge whether the ointment is successfully boiled, and some subtle parts cannot be treated. But it is not the same with force, especially the fiery force of the scavenger, which is the best aid when refining ointment.

If an experienced Chinese medicine practitioner can bring the medicinal power of the herbs to 10% when boiling the ointment, it is very good. Then a scavenger with blazing force. It can bring the medicinal power of the herb to 20%, which is just a beginner's utilization. As the scavengers continue to gain more experience, this utilization rate will continue to increase, and even with the help of the force with the attribute of the fire dragon, it is not impossible to reach the legendary 100%.

Don't feel like you can bring out 100% of the medicinal power of herbs and nothing. You must know that the ordinary treasures of the Dao can absorb only a few percent of the medicinal power that can be absorbed directly, and if they can absorb one-tenth of it, that is a situation that will only occur if they are extremely lucky. Therefore, after Mo Lao learned that the scavenger had directly swallowed the three-color golden lotus, he said that the scavenger was a loser.

But even if the scavenger doesn't eat it directly, if he takes back the three-color golden lotus and lets a person like Mo Lao who has force and experience refine the pill. In the case of excellent luck. The pill that was successfully refined also exerted up to one-third of the medicinal power of the three-colored golden lotus.

The more precious the curiosity of the medicinal power, the lower the absorption and utilization rate, and some of the world-shattering creations are very anti-heavenly, and being able to use one percent of the medicinal power is very gratifying luck for stepping on shit. As a result, it is possible to bring out 100% of the rare medicinal power of medicine, and even in legends, it rarely appears.

This is also the same recipe, the same material, but some of the pills refined by the pharmacists have excellent effects, while others are the cause of stinky shit. Therefore, it is a person who can make use of the utilization rate of the rare medicinal power of drugs to 50%. Those are all geniuses among geniuses, respected and worshiped by many strong people.

The higher the ancient warrior goes, the more difficult it is to cultivate. It is almost impossible to break through many hurdles and go through many hardships and ups and downs on your own. Therefore, the pill is a necessary auxiliary for the ancient warriors, and the more a pharmacist can give full play to the utilization of the rare medicinal power, the better the medicinal effect of the pill. In particular, some pills with a limit on the number of pills can highlight the value of this utilization rate.

For example, a person can only take an elixir three times, and after three times, the body becomes resistant to the drug. The fourth dose will have no effect. In this case, if one pharmacist can use 50% of the medicinal power of the various materials used to refine this elixir, while the utilization rate of another pharmacist is only 25%.

Then taking the pill refined by the former pharmacist is twice as effective as the latter, although this pill has a limit on the number of times it can be used, but the former is equivalent to taking twice as much pill as the latter, and the martial artist's cultivation, especially at the level, is a thousand miles away. Maybe just a little more potent effect can break through the level. Without that trace, you can only stand still for a lifetime, not to mention the gap between the efficacy of double the medicine. Therefore, the utilization rate of 100% of the medicinal power of the elixir material, if the scavenger can really reach it, is definitely an existence that can be recorded in history.

After combing the ointment from the pan by force, the scavenger wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead. When refining medicine is about to succeed, it is also the easiest time to fall short, so using internal force to remove the flaws in the ointment and increase the probability of success is a very tricky thing, not easier than refining medicine with full concentration.

"It worked!" Retracted his palm and looked at the ointment that was completely integrated in the dry pot without any variegated colors, and the medicinal fragrance that the scavenger smelled in his sense of smell at this time was also integrated, and it was no longer the smell of several herbs, and his face couldn't help but show joy, and he extinguished the flame under the dry pot little by little.

"The temperature was a little worse when the seventh and ninth herbs were thrown in, the thirteenth herb and the seventeenth herb were in the wrong order, and the twenty-first herb was more than half a penny......" Mo Lao, who had been sitting on the side with a medical book in his hand, seemed to be engrossed in reading the book and did not speak, when he showed surprise on the scavenger's face, he pointed out the scavenger's mistake in this alchemy, and it seemed that he didn't pay attention to the scavenger, but in fact, Mo Lao saw every mistake of the scavenger very clearly.

"So many mistakes?" Hearing Mo Lao's narration, the scavenger couldn't help but scratch his head, and the joy of successfully practicing the ointment was diluted a lot.

"There are a lot of mistakes, but they are valuable for beginners." Seeing that the scavenger was a little embarrassed, Mo Lao's face softened, but after relieving himself, he became serious again in a second, and said: "Because you have more blood in your body, you have dragon energy in your force. The dragon is the head of all races, and it is one of the top existences in that era, so you can solve the food you eat in the process of refining medicine with the force of dragon energy.

But this is not a reason for you to make mistakes, you must know that the more advanced the elixir of the Dao, the more difficult it is to refine, even if you have a real fire dragon flame to refine the medicine in the future, it will not be 100% successful. Therefore, these comparable avoidable mistakes must be eradicated. Only with such rigorous accumulation can you go further on this road of heaven. Maximize the force with the blood of the fire dragon. ”

"It's the teacher, I remember." The scavenger stood up and respectfully saluted Mo Lao, looking extremely serious. Although the scavenger is Li Lao's apprentice, during this time, Mo Lao's professor in alchemy, the scavenger has regarded him as a teacher from the bottom of his heart.

"Don't shout the title of teacher too early, and I didn't promise to accept you as an apprentice. Besides, let Old Man Li hear your words, it's time to say that I am playing tricks to rob his apprentice. When will you be able to exert the medicinal power of the alchemy materials to 40%, even if you are nagged by that guy from Old Man Li, I will admit you as an apprentice. Mo Lao said lightly, but a smile on the corner of his mouth already showed that he was very pleased with the scavenger's attitude at this time.

"I'm going to make it happen." The scavenger said firmly. (To be continued......)